How's it going you guys? It is me, THE MAN IMAGINATION (echos)! I know that I have not written any stories since the Christmas season, but I am here to give you an Ardent shipping story and a Vanish Shipping story. Kinda like a one side story switching to the other. Autobot00001 will be helping me throughout this story, so brace yourselves. Anyways, here you go.

DISCLAIMER!
I OWN NOTHING! I only own the OC's in the story!

In a small town called Domino, there were people walking in the streets on a cold spring day. However, riding throughout the streets of Domino in his motorcycle was a young man in his black jacket wearing a protective helmet was none other than Tristan Taylor. He was riding all the way to his job as a supervisor at Kaiba Corp. As he got to the building, he parked his car at the rear part of the building.

Tristan parked his bike in the employee parking lot as he rushed inside to chime in so he wouldn't be late. In his job description, he was never late to work until that morning he woke up late and didn't have any time to eat at all.

FLASHBACK

It was 7:30 am and Tristan was fast asleep in his bed along with his wife, Serenity. She had long auburn hair and brown eyes that were glowing. Serenity was the first to wake up as she saw the time on her clock that said 7:32 am and knew that she woke up late.

"(gasp) Tristan, wake up! We're going to be late for work!" Serenity shook Tristan as he was waking up all groggy and then saw the time on the clock. Tristan woke up in complete shock seeing he woke up late as well.

"Aw man! We're gonna be late! Why didn't this clock ring at 7:00 am.?" Tristan saw the problem and he saw that the alarm was turned off. Tristan face palmed himself as he forgot to turn it back on before he went to bed. As he got up, Tristan rushed into the bathroom with towel and all to take a quick shower.

Tristan took a quick shower as Serenity was also getting ready for work since she also woke up late as well. Serenity put on a red silk top with a brown short skirt as Tristan put on his brown suit and black tie as he was rushing towards the door with a piece of toast in his mouth.

"Tristan wait!" Serenity shouted to him.

"What it is?" Tristan said to her.

"You forgot something." Tristan took a minute what he was forgetting before he was about to head to work. Tristan finally figured it out and it was a kiss good-bye.

"Yeah, I almost forgot." Tristan calm down a bit as he leaned into his wife for a passionate kiss. He held her as their bodies pressed together. Tristan broke the kiss as he left out the door along with his briefcase.

"I'm gonna take my motorcycle. I'll see you tonight." he said as he put on his helmet.

"Have a good day at work Tristan. I love you."

"I love you too, Serenity and you have a good day too." Tristan started his motorcycle and drove off to his job. Serenity watched as he drove away. Serenity grabbed her purse and keys to their blue Honda as she drove to her job.

END FLASHBACK

As Tristan rushed to get inside, he saw the clock and he was about to be late. Tristan sprinted to his station as he was about to be late. Tristan grabbed his ticket and clocked in just in time. About a few seconds before he would be marked late. Tristan sighed in relief as he made it in time. Tristan took a few seconds to catch his breath from all that running.

As Tristan was heading to his station, someone else from another part of the building was watching him. It was his boss, the blue-eyed brown-haired, Seto Kaiba. Kaiba was checking his employees stations to see if anyone was slacking off or was trying to ditch work. He saw Tristan clock in before he was late and saw him head to his station in the manufacturing area. Tristan was working as a supervisor in there as he keeps an eye on his team's work.

"Hmm... The guy is lucky he made it on time or I would have fired him on the spot. I better get to my part of work so I can keep up with my rival companies." Kaiba walked up to the elevator as he headed straight to the top floor.

As Tristan made it to his work station, he got in his locker to grab his clipboard and hard-hat since his work station is the manufacturing area. He saw the other employees working hard on making new duel discs and other contraptions that Kaiba put in the blueprints to make improvements. Tristan kept an eye out on anything and everyone to see if anything went wrong or not. As he was writing down progress on his clipboard, a young man with black hair tied in a ponytail and green eyes walked up to him. It was his best friend and rival, Duke Devlin.

"Hey Tristan, what up?" he said.

"Nothing, I was almost late to work this morning because last night, Serenity and I were having sex, but lately she has acted pretty weird for these past several weeks." Said Tristan.

"What do you mean?" Duke asked.

"Well, I can't say. It all started about a month and a half ago when we did it and ever since then we took a break on the sex. About a month after, she started feeling hot and couldn't go to work. And now today, she has been a bit moody when we woke up late. We didn't have sex for that long and last night we got rid of all that tension and had sex. I put my..."

Duke paused Tristan right there since he might get in trouble. "Dude, I don't think you should say that kind of stuff around here. We might get into trouble and that there are cameras around every corner."

Tristan looked at his surroundings and saw a few cameras nearby and had to change the subject. "Sorry. Point is that next week is our one year anniversary and I wanted to get her something nice, but I need to make sure I have enough money to pay for her gift. After the rent's paid and the bills are paid too, I might be able to afford it."

"That's great Tristan. And I'll help you out in any way possible." Tristan really appreciated Duke's help and accepted his help on getting Serenity the perfect gift.

MEANWHILE

Serenity was making her way to her job inside of the mall as she works in a genuine clothing store. Serenity makes it to her job, but her boss was in the front inspecting for any mistakes from her and the other employees in the store. He spots her and see her walk in out of breath.

"You are five minutes late for work Serenity, that is going to come out of your paycheck." he said.

Serenity bows her head to him and apologizes. "I'm sorry about that sir. My husband and I woke up late and were in a rush to get to work."

"No matter, just get to your station now before I fire you."

"Yes sir Gozaburo. As you wish." Serenity did what he said and headed to the back to put on her uniform and name tag. She put on her red button up blazer and headed to her station.

As most of the girls know, Gozaburo Kaiba has run a management of a clothing store so that both men and women can try on the fashion that he has lined up from his hired stylists. But what the male employees didn't know about Gozaburo or anyone else outside of the store is that he sexually harass the female employees and sometimes forces them to have sex with him inside of his office with the door locked. Gozaburo made sure that the sounds coming from his office would be sound proof with a specialized door.

As Gozaburo passes by Serenity, he smacked her from behind and she did not like it even though that he knew she was a married woman. Gozaburo notices the ring on her finger and he knows that. But, in his head, he wanted to have Serenity all to himself. Serenity went to the back room of the store to get into her blazer and name tag.

A few hours passed and as she was about to get back to her station from her lunch break, she felt a huge ache in her stomach and rushed immediately towards the bathroom and went towards the stalls. She opened up one and emptied her stomach.

Following from behind was one of her coworkers and close friend, Mai Valentine who was freshening up her face and makeup. As she finished up, Serenity walked out of one of the stalls and started rinsing out her mouth.

"Serenity, you don't look so good. You feeling okay?" Mai asked her.

"Yeah, I think it's some sort of stomach virus I think is going around." Mai saw the look in her eye and she knew Serenity was lying. Mai felt her forehead and she was hot.

"Hun, you're burning up. Why did you even come to work today?"

"Because next week is mine and Tristan's wedding anniversary and I want to get him something nice. On my way over here, I saw these leather suit that he might like, but it might cost too much money. That's why I came to work. To work extra hours to get my pay."

Mai was always a good friend to Serenity ever since she and her started working for Gozaburo. Mai had to do something for her.

"Serenity, you need to go home. Tristan may not have seen through your sick face, but I did. We are going to Gozaburo and tell him that you aren't feeling well. Come on!"

Mai took Serenity's hand and took her to see Gozaburo in his office. Mai banged her fist hard on his door as Gozaburo was in his office with a female coworker as he and her were in the middle of having sex. Gozaburo heard the large banging on his door as he had gotten up from the floor and heard it. Both of them got up from the floor and put on their clothes as fast as possible. Gozaburo put his blazer back on and his coworker fixed her hair as she put her hair in a ponytail as it was before. She put her clothes back on and looked the same as she was before and stormed out. Looking at the woman who ran out of Gozaburo's office, Mai and Serenity looked at their boss.

"Well, what do you two want? Come in and close the door behind you." The girls did what he said and walked up to him. "This better be important because I was in the middle of a discussion with one of our employees." Gozaburo grabbed a cigar from his drawer in the desk.

"Sir, Serenity is sick and she needs to go home." Mai said in anger.

"Humph, I need to see some proof before I let any of my employees leave home on a sick day."

Serenity stepped in front of his desk and went up to him as Mai said. "Feel her forehead!"

Gozaburo felt her forehead and his hand felt like he was about to get third-degree burns. "Good Lord, you're burning up! Alright fine. Mai, you just take her home and then come back to work." Gozaburo turned to Serenity "And as for you, I expect you to be feeling better in two days because i have no choice but to give you a day off tomorrow less you will get my other employees sick."

Serenity and Mai bowed to Gozaburo "Thank you sir." They said in unison as they left his office. Mai took Serenity and left the mall. Mai and Serenity went into Mai's sports car and drove back to her house.

"Just try to get some rest, hun and I'll see you in a few days." said Mai.

"Thanks Mai, you really are a true friend." Serenity exited the vehicle as she went inside the house.

As she went inside the house, that feeling she felt earlier came back as she rushed into the bathroom and started to throw up again.

LATER THAT NIGHT

It was 6:30 p.m. and Tristan was riding on his motorcycle back home. As he was riding home, he saw a jewelery store and what he saw that could be the best gift for Serenity. It was a golden necklace with an emerald color diamond as the centerpiece. Tristan stopped and parked his motorcycle for a minute and took a long look at the display.

"That is the perfect gift for Serenity." Tristan checked his wallet and he was a little short on the cash. "Well, I am sorta low on funds, but I will come up with the money. Somehow."

Tristan rode off and headed straight back home to see his wife, Serenity. Tristan parked his motorcycle inside the garage and walked inside of the house to find his wife in bed already.

"Serenity, are you feeling alright?" Tristan felt her head as he put his hand on his head. "Oh man, your head is burning up. Hold on, let me make you something to cool you down."

Tristan went down to the kitchen to brew up some soup for her as she saw him leave.

"(Sigh...) I love that man. He's always there for me." Serenity said to herself and started thinking to herself.

'I don't know if I am or not. I better head to the market tomorrow and see for myself.'

Okay, so the first chapter may not have been much, but is something that will keep you on edge. But, the question I think everyone wants to know, do you think Serenity is what she think she is? And how will Tristan think if she is or not. But, next chapter, we will have the Vanishshipping story started. Until then, leave your reviews and I shall be back with the next chapter. See You Next Time!