Chapter 7
Let's Go Home
Yugi looked around the park and saw nothing wrong.
"You can place the barrier down now." Atem stated.
Yugi stopped placing energy into the River's Puzzle and controlled his collapse for he was still holding his unconscious friend. Regan was back in her original clothing and it seemed like the bleeding on her back had stopped after him holding her so tightly.
'Oops I must have been so occupied on trying to hold up the barrier I forgot that I was still holding her.' He thought to Atem, who chuckled softly.
"You know out of all of this DM actually did something good that I am pretty sure was an accident." Atem stated.
"What?" They all asked.
"Well he gave me a permanent body by taking away all millennium magic." As an example he took off his cartouche and he didn't disappear.
"Well then it's a bonus pay for winning the war." Joey stated.
"What did that man mean by Regan not being you daughter?" Kaiba asked.
Yugi turned towards the group that they rescued.
"Kaiba, this is not the time to ask about that, plus he was probably lying!" Téa yelled at him, but he ignored her as usual.
"She... she really isn't my daughter. She was dropped off by my ex saying that he found her on the side of the road. The box had her name and birth date." Jade answered.
Kaiba looked at Mokuba and the two of them nodded to each other. "Does she know this information?"
Jade bit her lip. "No."
There was silence between all of them.
'Well I would love to continue this issue, but I need to get someone to the hospital.' He thought to himself and picked up Regan as he stood up feeling recovered.
He started to walk out of the park and Joey suggested, "Yugi let me carry her; you are already exhaus-"
"No." Yugi interrupted. "She is unconscious because she saved my life. I'll carry her."
Just then a helicopter came out of nowhere and landed next to them with a KC posted on the sliding door. The door opened and Kaiba's head guy Roland and some girl came out to greet Kaiba.
"Mr. Kaiba we have come as you requested, next stop, Domino Hospital."
Everyone boarded the helicopter and it took off. 'Kaiba I wish you told us that you had this planned all along.' Yugi thought in his head as the ground became farther and farther away.
"So this is the apprentice you were talking about?" Kaiba asked breaking the silence.
"Yes sir, this is Alexandria Floe, but prefers to be called Alex." Roland answered.
Yugi looked at Kaiba's new worker. Alex had black and blue hair that wasn't any longer then her jaw line with grey eyes and was wearing a grey suit.
"So what have you learned so far?" Kaiba asked Alex.
"Sir you are very protective of your brother, when it comes to business you get what you want, and today isn't you average day."
"It is when Wheeler's around." Kaiba answered and Joey was going to "hurt" Kaiba, but Téa and Tristan held him down.
"You're apprentice has passed." Kaiba continued and Mokuba nodded smiling. "Welcome to your first day of apprenticeship."
Kaiba took off Regan's duel disk.
"What are you going to do with that?" Atem asked.
"That's for me to know and you to find out."
"Are we almost there yet it's been like ten minutes?" Jade asked before Atem and Kaiba could start an argument.
} Sir we are at the hospital {
"There is your answer and this is your stop."
"What not coming?" Tristan asked as everyone, but the Kaiba brothers and their workers got out.
Kaiba answered by slamming the door shut and the helicopter took off.
"Guess not." Téa answered.
Yugi walked over to the nurses that had a hospital bed ready. Two of the nurses took Regan away and the other two looked after Atem's and his own wounds. When Yugi got back out of the check-up room he found Joey and Tristan pigging out on vending machine food and Tea and Atem telling Jade and Grandpa to go home.
"We can't leave-" Grandpa started as Atem interrupted,
"Yes you can, you both are tired and you don't need to be here." Atem stated.
"What about the hospital fee?" Jade asked.
"Regan has your debt card." Yugi told her.
"She does?"
"It's a very long story that can be explained tomorrow, but please Regan is fine. Just go home safely and share stories." Yugi insisted.
There was a silent argument between him and his grandfather for about a minute then Grandpa gave in.
"Ms. Heartin we should go, Yugi and his friends are very much capable of taking care of each other."
Jade didn't look like she wanted to go, but nodded anyway. "Fine, but please tell me how Yugi is able to take care of people like Dark Matter."
"Oh I will gladly tell you from day one." Grandpa stated cheerfully as they walked off.
"I am so going to regret giving the idea to Grandpa to exchange stories with her." Yugi sighed sitting on a chair beside Joey.
"We all are." Joey stated with chips in his mouth.
They sat and waited and waited and waited which seemed like an hour.
"They have only been gone for four minutes." Tristan stated as the pressure in the hall built.
"What time is it?" Yugi asked.
"It's one in the morning" Tristan stated in boredom.
"That means we literally battled DM for only an half an hour, which makes no sense."
"Time is different in the Shadow Realm then here." Atem answered.
"Are you teenagers with Ms. Heartin?" A doctor asked from a door down the hall.
"Yes we are." Téa answered.
"You can go in now."
They got up from their chairs and rushed into the room with Joey almost taking out the doctor. They found Regan sleeping on the bed with her hair the same as colour as it had been in the Shadow Realm and her jacket off and her tank top rose to just underneath her chest showing a bandage on her shoulder and a bandage around her stomach. The River's Puzzle and her i Phone and headphones were on the side table.
"So what did you find?" Téa asked the doctor.
"Well minor injuries to the back created by a sharp object like a knife or a sword and a weird group of cuts created by shattering metal. We found some metal pieces in the wound so we removed them." The doctor answered.
"So she's fine?" Tristan asked.
"Yeah, but she didn't wake up for anything so she could be under a lot of stress." The doctor answered as he headed out the room.
"So which one of you was playing in the Shadow Realm?" A woman asked from the door not even thirty seconds after the doctor left.
Yugi turned to see a blond haired woman with violet eyes and wore a white long sleeve shirt and a dark blue pair of shorts.
"Mai! What are you doing here?" Joey asked looking at their old friend.
"I saw Kaiba's helicopter stop on the hospital roof so I came to check it out, but I am wondering who she is and what happened?" Mai answered.
"The real question here is what didn't happen in the last fourteen hours?" Joey answered and told Mai about the day.
"Sounds like you guys had a wonderful day."
"Best one in the last six months." Tristan answered. "We don't do well with normal lives."
Mai walked over to Joey beside Regan's head. "Hey Yugi can you pass me her phone?"
"Why?" Yugi asked giving her the phone anyway.
"Well a girl needs to get up with some sort of beat in the air, without that then there is no point of getting up." Mai answered scrolling through the music and placed an ear bud in Regan's ear. "Well the girl has good taste. Let's play some Hedley."
"Hey Regan it's time to get up." Téa offered.
"Regan, Yugi needs some lessons on how to date." Joey stated joking around.
Yugi felt himself smiling at the fact that he really did need some lessons.
"Oh man, I was dead on." Joey stated as Tristan tried to give him a high five and missed by hitting his face instead.
Yugi ignored their rough housing. "Regan if you lie there, how are you going to prove DM wrong?"
Regan answered with a muffled grumbled.
'I want to try something.' Atem stated in his head.
"What?"
Atem poked her injured shoulder. That got her up with no problem as the ear bud fell out of her ear when she bolted right up.
"Ow. Really can I not get up at my own pace?" Regan asked Atem.
"Is curiosity going to kill the cat?" Atem asked.
Regan grinned. "Not today, I don't think."
Regan tried to move then landed back on the pillow. "Lying here is definitely not going to prove Dark Matter wrong."
"Did you hear what I said?" Joey asked and Regan shook her head.
"Oh just that- Ow! HEY!" Joey started, but Téa punched him in the arm and Mai kicked him. The rest of them tried not laugh.
"So how did I get here and who are you?" Regan asked.
"That's Joey's girlfriend Mai and Yugi carried you with a lift by Kaiba's helicopter." Tristan answered.
Mai looked at Atem. "So you are the pharaoh that everyone talked about."
Atem nodded.
Regan sat up again as the doctor entered the room.
"Oh good you are awake." The doctor said clearing Joey, Mai and Tea out of the way to reach Regan's bed.
"Can | go home now?" Regan asked.
"I guess it would be okay, but if you feel any dizziness come straight back here."
They all nodded and the doctor left. Regan stepped out of the bed and stumbled a bit, but Yugi caught her. She managed to get a good set on gravity and fixed her shirt and looked at the bandage on her shoulder like a bad bug then ripped it off.
"How did that get there?"
Yugi remembered the handles that managed to stay in his pockets. He pulled them out and they did their little aura change.
"The blades shattered when you blasted that aura slash back at Dark Matter and cut your shoulder." Yugi answered then looked at her shoulder. "Well if that isn't weird then I don't know what it, that cut looks like an infinity sign."
"I swear if this is a doing of destiny then I will personally go against them."
"Got something against destiny's work?" Tristan asked.
"Yeah, because that means when all of this is over, a lot of people are going to be dead." Regan answered with a death glare making everyone in the room shudder.
"Hey you look like Kaiba with that stare." Joey teased making everyone in the room including the glaring girl laugh.
Yugi gave her the handles after Regan had gathered her things and placed the River's Puzzle around her neck.
The handles glowed brightly in her hands. She placed them both in one hand and turned to everyone. "Thank you."
"Why are you thanking us you're the one that helped save our lives so we should be thanking you?" Tristan stated.
"Because you stayed by my bedside, I really don't like hospital's they scare the hell out of me. Also for trying to tell me that Dark Matter is gone, but I know he isn't I can still sense his presence on this planet."
Everyone looked in different directions.
"Well we aren't allowing him to get what he wants, he is not raising Zorc and he is certainly not getting you." Yugi answered beside her.
"Already Huns, I'm heading back to my hotel, it's like a quarter to one, if anyone wants a ride all aboard." Mai told everyone.
They followed Mai and Joey out to the front desk. Regan went up to the operator and was about to pull out her mother's bank card when the operator objected. "Kaiba Corp paid for your stay so have a good night and stay out of trouble."
"See I told you Kaiba is acting strange." Joey stated.
"Maybe, but let's go home." Regan stated as she hoped into the back of Mai's convertible.
Yugi and Téa sat down beside her and Tristan and Atem sat on the trunk with legs in between them, while Joey and Mai sat comfortably in the front seats. They weren't worried about anything because there aren't any cops out in that area at 1:20 and their drive was only a two minute drive.
They arrived in front of Yugi's house. Yugi, Atem and Regan got off and out of the vehicle. "See you guys tomorrow." Yugi said to them as Tristan sat in Yugi's spot.
Regan heard the shop door open and close and turned around to see her mother and Grandpa outside of the door of Yugi's home. Mom ran by Yugi and squeezed her daughter half to death.
"Um, nice to see you too Mom, but you're killing me." Regan answered the hug in pain.
Mom looked at Regan and poked her bad shoulder. Regan gritted her teeth to keep herself from screaming.
"What is was that for?" Regan semi yelled.
"It's your birthday now. 1:23 am, so happy birthday." Mom answered happily.
"That is not funny." Regan whined.
"Hey, what is rich boy doing here?" Joey asked.
Everyone turned around to look at the new arrival. Seto was coming down the street with a woman in a suit and Mokuba.
"Mokuba and Alex are with him too, I wonder what they want." Tristan asked as they stopped in front of Yugi and Regan.
"I figured you wouldn't be in there very long." Seto said to her. "Mokuba insisted that we get you a birthday gift because you're birthday started out like hell." Seto stated and waved to Mokuba to come, who was holding a box.
"Hey Jade can you come here for a moment?" Joey called from the convertible.
"Yes?" Mom asked behind her.
Mokuba walked up to her and gave her the box.
'This is ridicules, he is like thirteen and the same he is as tall as Me.' she thought to herself as she took the box.
She heard Mom walk up to the front and watched her place her hand of Seto's forehead. Seto face looked between shock and 'What is she doing?'
"Nope he doesn't have a fever. Sorry Joey." Mom told Joey and backed away from Seto and stopped beside Regan.
"I am not asking." Yugi stated as Regan shook her head.
She opened the box, handing the box to her mother as she took out the item. It was a customized duel disk. It was white with a green outline, yellow arrows and purple card placers that were outlined in red. The life point gauge was blue.
"Wow, this is amazing. Thank you."
"We are glad that you like it and take care of it." Mokuba told her as Alex got a phone call.
She closed her phone then whispered something in Seto's ear.
"Mokuba lets go." He said and gave her mother a funny look like she had done something wrong. Seto turned around and headed back to his limo.
"I wonder why he is in a rush." Regan asked.
"Somebody is probably trying to mess with his company again." Atem answered as the limo drove away.
"Well we have to split like Kaiba, so see you tomorrow or in a few hours." Téa told them.
Regan turned to the car. "Yea, good night."
They waved good bye and the car drove down the street and turned out of sight.
"Your hair is still in different colours, I wonder if it will come out." Mom asked playing with Regan's hair.
"I doubt it." Regan mumbled and turned to the three guys left on the street.
"See you later."
"Yeah". Atem said and Yugi just nodded.
"Come and visit anytime." Grandpa told them.
Regan nodded and waved goodbye as her mother and Regan walked across the street and into their home.
"You better get to sleep you have school in the morning." Mom told her as she flopped onto the sofa.
"Hey, why is there a dragonfly dagger in my counter-" Mom started, but Regan didn't hear the rest as she fell asleep.