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Part Three
Riku and Mai: Pregnancy
Ch. 2
Riku sat around Mai, thinking. They were still getting over learning that Mai was not barren. Mai was in deep thought with her world, how could they be wrong?
“Dr. Jung, can she come home now?” Riku asked.
“Yeah, I’ll get the wheel chair and-”
“No,” Riku had her in his arms, “I’ll carry her.”
“Okay…” Dr. Jung said.
Riku carried Mai down stairs, there their friends were sitting and waiting.
“Mai!” Raven was the first to run up to her.
Mai stared surprised, “Raven?”
“Oh, my baby, you’re going to be a mother!”
Mai, although in Riku’s arms, went to hug Raven. But something was blocking Raven’s other arm from hugging her completely. Mai looked up to see a man with green eyes and brown hair. But the eyes were obviously belonged to someone she knew. Mai was frozen in surprise and shock, she tried to smile and she tried to speak but her eyes were glued and her mouth stuck.
“Doki… Doki?” she finally said.
“Goddess,” Doki nodded his head. “Are you okay? We were worried about you.”
Mai blinked confused and then looked at Raven then at Axel. Axel nodded.
“She’s the one Doki?”
“Yes,” Doki nodded.
Mai smiled, she read Doki’s mind and it was as refreshed as a new cup of water. Doki’s mind was clean of confusion, he was no longer confused about his emotions, he was back to normal, beyond normal, even before the king ruined his life Doki had some emotional confusions but now he was normal, he could think straight and not worry about switching from one emotion to the next and then worry about doing harm to some one.
Mai smiled at Doki, ‘Doki, I’m glad you’re normal and free.’
‘So am I,’ he smiled back, ‘I love her so much, I’m glad I took you up on your offer, now all that stuff I did to you I realize that wasn’t me.’
Mai nodded, in that instant Mai heard two other voices greet her.
“Mai, we’re glad you’re okay, from what Riku told us you were in really bad shape,” Sora said. He smiled his normal warm and goofy smile.
“I’m fine, thank you.”
“That’s good, the last time I saw you were extremely sick,” Kairi said.
Mai smiled, “Yeah, Riku wanted to take me to the hospital but I turned him down more than once, he finally forced me to go.”
“You should really learn to take help, Mai,” Doki said.
Mai looked at him, almost shocked, “Oh…”
“C’mon,” Riku said. “Let’s get home,” Riku held Mai tighter and walked out the door. The others followed behind along with the three guardians.
“Doki,” Raven paused.
“Yes,” Doki stopped with her while the others went a head. Doki looked into her eyes and waited with the utter most attention.
“What is going on? Why did you call Mai ‘Goddess’?”
“Oh… well… I’ll have to show you later.”
Raven studied him for a second. “Are you lying to me?”
“I will never lie to you, unless your life depended on it. Raven, let’s just say now to satisfy you that I’m not from here and neither is Mai.”
Raven gazed at him, “Okay,” she nodded.
They started to drive off. They all drove to Riku’s and Mai’s home. There Mai saw the house.
“What happened?”
Riku held back his tears and gazed at Mai, “I kept the maids away so they wouldn’t see you the way you were. I couldn’t… I couldn’t…” Riku hid his eyes from Mai and Mai gazed with shock and sadness.
Was she really that bad? Did she really hurt him that much? Mai swallowed and touched the side of his face. “I’m sorry,” she said.
Riku nodded as his eyes were hidden. Riku sat Mai down on the couch and a few seconds later the others started to come in. Mai had her head on Riku’s lap and her body was out along the rest of the chair.
Riku stroked her hair as his sadness was made clear to the others.
“Goddess,” Ninja appeared and bowed before her, “Riku,” he bowed to him. “Listen, I can’t leave you,” he shook his head.
“What? Why?”
“Dawn and Dusk will be able to kill you.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Goddess, you can’t tell right now but I can. Your powers are weaker than they were, you can’t summon a blade now if you wanted to. All of your powers are gone.”
“Wait, why?”
“I don’t know, it seems that only your heart is safe, protected, along with your womb. And those are the only thing that I pick up power from. And with that being said I can’t let you be along for too long.”
Mai blinked. She sat up and then stood, she placed her hand over her belly and rubbed it. “You’re telling me that if I die my baby will die as well?”
“That would happen regardless,” Ninja said, “but in your case you couldn’t protect yourself but the baby will be fine from what I can see.”
“Wait… Dawn and Dusk you said?” Doki asked, he narrowed his eyes with anger.
Ninja turned to him and nodded, “Yes, Prince Doki, Dawn and Dusk are seeking to kill her.”
Doki grounded his teeth. “Mai, I can’t leave you, I can’t let these peons hurt you.”
“Doki what’s wrong?” Raven asked.
“Mai… Dawn and Dusk were assigned to kill us… months ago, but when you came here they thought you died, and so they called off the mission but when I brought you back they learned that we were still alive. And they came back to kill us both.”
Mai swallowed.
“And they come to kill anyone involved.” Ninja filled in.
“What?!” Mai looked instantly at Riku. She couldn’t let him die because of her. Mai stared into his eyes and realized more than just fear in herself she also realized that she was bringing harm to her loved one.
Doki looked at Raven, quick to hug her.
“So… they’re going to kill me and anyone who knows about us right?” Mai asked touching her belly again.
“Yes,” Ninja answered.
“Ninja, pass the word on to the other two, they must answer to Riku as they do me,” Mai said.
“Yes, understood,” Ninja bowed he then vanished. When he was gone Mai sighed and sat down on the coach again.
“Rest,” Riku said, he kissed her forehead and stood, “Doki, I need to talk to you.”
“Okay,” Mai nodded, Raven took Riku’s spot and Kairi sat on the other.
Doki nodded to Riku and walked off with Riku. Sora started to go after but Axel took Sora’s shoulder gently, he shook his head against it.
Sora looked at Axel and sighed. He nodded.
Riku sighed as he went into the den, the den was closed off from the living room. Riku closed the door once Doki entered.
“Riku what do you want to talk about?”
“Doki, I need you to do something for me,” Riku squared his shoulders to Doki and gazed him in the eye.