Transcending Time Pg 26

The next day, Kaiba’s men prepared to sweep the apartment. They had tranquilizer guns, to sedate them if they tried to get away.
They picked the lock of the door and stormed in. Atemu and Cerise saw them and the animal took over. They fell to their knees, screaming with pain. Two wings, shaped like bat’s wings broke through their backs, and a tail came with them. They had turned into demons.
Their eyes glazed over and they went into attack mode. They each flew up and hovered above the floor, then attacked a man each, then a shower of darts rained down on them. They screamed and tried to fly out the room, but they threw nets over them. They thrashed and clawed at them, but the tranquilizers took effect quickly. They were knocked out, and transformed back into their human forms. They were carried out and taken to Kaiba’s research lab under a guise of a medical emergency. If the public had heard about them, they would have killed them.
At Kaiba’s lab, they were put in two separate holding rooms. They could see each other through the clear Perspex walls.
“I want testing to begin as soon as possible. If they wake up, those cells might not hold them.” Kaiba said and then the testing began. Kaiba watched as they entered each of their rooms, and the doctors took blood from them. They walked off and began to run their tests on the blood. Next, they did X-rays and everything else they could before they woke up.

Cerise woke up in the hospital bed, and sat up, rubbing her head.
“What happened?” she asked, but no one answered.
She looked next to her and saw that Atemu was in the room next door. She got up and ran to the wall.
“Atem!” she shouted and banged on the wall.
“Atem!” she shouted again.
She looked around the room, and saw that Kaiba and all the others were standing outside. They all stood there, like an audience watching a TV show.
“What are you doing, let us out.” She shouted to them.
They all just stood there, watching them.
“Seto, please... Yugi...” she looked at each of them in turn.
Yugi’s eyes welled up, but he wiped the tears away of his sleeve. She wasn’t getting through to them. Something inside of her snapped and she lost control.
She transformed back into the demon, and flew up, her wings filling the chamber from corner to corner. She scratched at the wall, making deep gashes in it, but she couldn’t break it. She flew up to the wall and rammed it, but she fell back to the ground as it stood strong. She sat up and looked at the gashes in the Perspex. She looked over at Seto, who smiled, seeing his cell would hold up to the abuse they could inflict.
“What is wrong with her, she’s going to hurt herself if she doesn’t calm down.” Joey said.
“I’ll figure this out.” Kaiba said more to himself than anyone else.  
She sat up and looked at them, her friends, how easily they had turned on her and Atemu. This had to be Kaiba’s doing.
“Oh no.” She thought.
Now that Kaiba knew about them, her fear would come true. He would dissect and study them.
“You have no idea what you’ve done, Yugi.” She shouted to him, pulling her legs up to her chest.
“Kaiba is going to kill us.” She said, as she wrapped her wings around her and she started to cry. Her crying made a noise like screeching, like nails on a chalkboard.
“What is that? Tristan shouted, cupping his ears, as did the others.
“It’s her, crying.” Kaiba realized, looking over at her as he covered his ears.
“She’s trying to break the glass.” Yugi realised.
“No, she’s sad.” Joey said.

The noise woke Atemu up with a start. He looking around wildly, and saw her crying at the wall, so tried to break it like she had tried. When nothing was working, so he settled in front of her, and they sat there, with their hands on the wall. He hadn’t even noticed the group, till she pointed them out.
“Mr. Kaiba, the results sir.” The scientist handed him a paper.
Kaiba looked at the blood work, and it looked human, but everything seemed to be on an elevated level. But in their DNA, he could see that there was something extra, an extra genome, that had obviously mutated them into the monsters they saw before them.
“Can you can manufacture a cure from their blood.” He asked the scientist, as he read the results.
“We need more blood for the cure, but yes, we can.” The scientist said.
“Good, start right away. Take as much blood as you need. I want to keep some in reserve, just in case.” Kaiba said to him.
“Sir, there’s more.” The scientist pointed to the paper. It was her blood results, and it was slightly different to Atemu’s.
Kaiba was gob smacked. How could this have happened? Her HCG levels where off the clock, even for a normal test. But they hadn’t been demons for long, he thought.
“Is this real?” Kaiba asked, looking at them and he nodded.
“We ran it twice sir.” He said, to Kaiba.
“Wheeler, when did you and Yugi go see them? When you first noticed their, condition.” he asked joy.
“Two days ago, why?” joey asked.
“And before that, when last did you see them?” Kaiba asked.
“The day he came from Egypt, we met in the park.” Yugi said, looking at the paper in Kaiba’s hand. With all the numbers and medical terms, nothing made sense to him.
“Did he, or she, seem, different then.” Kaiba asked.
“Yeah, come to think of it, they did.” He said, looking around the group.
The others had noticed it too, but they thought it was just them. They were just glad he was back, and in his own body.
“So, they have been this way for at most, four days.” He said, looking at the paper again.
He looked to the scientist again.
“Did you do a DNA comparison?” he asked. He had to know when this had happened.
“Yes, sir. It is the male’s.” He said, looking at the two beasts.
“If we don’t cure them, there are going to be more of these things.” He said looking at the two demons.
“More of them?” Joey asked.
“You have to understand. They are not the same as when they were human, and they are running in survival mode. They aren’t thinking.” Kaiba said, trying to convince himself as well as the others
“Kaiba, just say it.” Joey said.
Kaiba shoved the paper into Joey’s hands.
“At the bottom, Wheeler.” Kaiba said, knowing he wouldn’t find it himself.
“She’s pregnant!” Joey read, before looking up at them.
“Yes. She’s carrying a foetus. It is growing rapidly. If we leave things the way it is, it will be born in +-10 days.” He explained.
“Is it, human?” Yugi asked, looking at them.
“I don’t know, we need to do more tests.” Kaiba said.
“But, those tests, they could kill the baby, right?” Duke said to him.
“That’s just a risk I have to take. We have to get them cured.” Kaiba said, turning around.
“Load the sleeping gas tankers.” He said.
“Are you sure, sir?” the scientist said.
“Can’t we hold them for observation? We won’t get a chance like this again.” He begged Kaiba.
“Fine.” Kaiba said, thinking that he needed more data on these two.
If this happened again, then he would know how to take them down.
“Two days. Then we give them the cure.” He walked out.
“Kaiba,” Yugi called to him. He turned around.
“Was she right, are you going to kill them?” Yugi asked him.
“Not if I can help it.” Kaiba said, walking out.
Yugi had this pit in the bottom of his stomach that told him he had done something wrong, made the wrong choice. But he had to help them, even if they didn’t want that help.
The rest of them stayed there, and watched as their friends tried to talk to each other.

“Atemu, can you hear me?” she asked.
“Yes.” He said.
There was a ventilator in the wall, so they could speak to each other.
“Are you ok?” He asked her and she nodded.
“I must look terrible.” She said.
“No, you make a very eye-catching demon.” He said, they were both still in their demon forms.
“I feel like a balloon.” She said, rubbing her stomach.
“Why?” he asked.
“Oh, I haven’t told you yet.” She said, looking up at him.
“Tell me what?” he asked.
She moved closer to the glass.
“Can’t you sense it?” she asked.
“No, what?”
“Listen for my heart beat.” She said.
He closed his eyes and listened. He opened his eyes in shock.
“Either you have two hearts, or…” he said.
She smiled and nodded feverishly.
“Yes, I’m pregnant.” She smiled and a tear ran down her face. Then he realised what was going on with her appetite.
“That must be why you needed to feed so early. You were eating for two.” He smiled.
“We need to get out of here.” She said, looking around for any weakness in the cell.
The only weakness seemed to be the humans holding the keys to it.
“We can’t break through the glass.” He said to her.
“But if we can get someone to open the door.” she said.
“Like?” he asked.
“Well, you can try with Yugi, and I can try with Kaiba. I think he still loves me.” she said, looking at their audience.
“Look at them, standing there. Looking at us like we’re animals in the zoo.” She said.
“Ignore them. We have to focus on getting out of here.” He said.
“When we get out, we need to leave Domino.” She said to him.
“I know. They will never leave us be.” She said, looking over at Yugi and the others.
“I can’t believe he would betray me like this. After all we’ve been through together.” Atemu said sadly.
“He probably thinks he’s helping. But I know Kaiba better than anyone else. I know what he’s capable of.” She whispered.
“Everything will be ok. We’ll get out of here, and leave. We can go anywhere you want.” He smiled at her.
“Somewhere tropical.” She suggested.
“With palm trees, and a beach.” he smiled.
“Where we can play in the sand, watch out little one grow up. In peace.” she said, touching her little belly.

There was a strange noise and then titanium panels came down and covered the glass holding rooms.
“Now we have some privacy.” He said.

That night, Kaiba couldn’t sleep, so he went to go see them. He poured a glass of whiskey, switched on the lights, and lifted the titanium panels. He saw that the two of them had pushed the beds up to the dividing wall and were sleeping like that. Cerise sensed him coming in so she opened her eyes and sat up. She looked right at him. He took a sip of his whiskey. She got up and walked to the door and called him.
“Seto, can you hear me?” she shouted.
He walked down the stairs and up to the door. Up to her.
“Seto, you have to help me.” she begged.
“I am, can’t you see that.” He said to her.
He felt sorry for her, begging like this. It was unlike her.
“I can’t stay in here, I’ll go crazy.” She said, tapping on the Perspex.
“You have to, so we can help you.” He reasoned, more with himself.
“I can’t control it, it’s like someone flips a switch.” She cried, looking at the floor in shame.
“But I’ll try harder. If you let us go, you’ll never see us again. It’ll be like this never happened. Please, Seto.” She begged him.
He sipped on his whiskey, and watched her trying to persuade him.
“We have a cure. You will be back to your old self soon.” He said, turning around.
“No, please don’t go. I need you.” She shouted.
She knew that if her plan A didn’t work, she would throw herself at him, that always got him going.
He stopped and turned to look at her.
“What did you say?” he said.
“Seto, I still love you.” She said.
He turned around and walked back to the door.
“No one can make me feel the way you do, touch me the way you do.” She put her hand up against the wall. He put his up against it too.
“But I thought you were with him.” He said, looking over at Atemu, who was sleeping in his bed.
“I was, but look what he’s done to me. He’s condemned me to hell.” She said softly.
“Seto, I still love you. Please take me back.” She begged him.
“I was a fool to leave you, please. Please.” She begged.
It seemed so real, that even Atemu thought she was telling the truth. He didn’t know what type of mother she would be, but if this was anything to go by, she would do anything to keep her babies, their babies, safe.
“I couldn’t take the heat before but now I can. And now I can keep up with you. I can make you happy.” She said softly.
“Your energy levels are off the charts.” He said.
“Just open the door, and I can show you.” She said.
He looked at her and thought how satisfying this would all be when they came out on the other side, having stolen her back from Atemu. If he was the one raising Atemu’s child and not him. She could be his again.
He took out his access card and held it up to the access machine.
“That’s it, just a little further.” She said, looking at his hand.
He looked up at her and the prospect of getting out gave her a sparkle to her eye. He came to his senses soon.
“How dumb do you think I am?” he asked.
She looked back at him quickly.
“No Seto, please…” she begged him.
“I want you, now.” she scratched the Perspex with her nails.
“Do you really think I can’t see through you?” he added.
“You want me to open the door so you can get out.” He added lowering his card.
“You thought you would get out of here, overpower me, which you can now, and free him.” He said, looking over at Atemu.
“Were you going to kill me, too, or was that his job?” he asked her.
“Kaiba, please, I need to get out of here.” She begged him feverishly.
“You’re going to kill my baby.” she pleaded.
“Baby? There is no baby, only something I can’t have running around.” He walked away.
“No, please!” she banged on the door.
He walked up to the platform, and pressed the button that lowered the panels agian.
“No, Seto!” she shouted.

After the panels were down and she could not longer hear Kaiba’s heart beating, she slunk back to bed and sat with her back to Atemu.
“He didn’t fall for it, Atem.” She said when everything was quiet.
“I’ll try with Yugi.” He said.
“Come sleep, you have to rest.” He said.
She crawled back into bed and fell asleep.