A New Face On An Old Evil
By: Chantrea
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Mia hugged her knees and buried her head against them. That had only been the beginning. Since then she had
had more conferences with the evil one, Mirth. She had gone with out food and water and she didn't even want to
see a mirror. She heard footsteps and saw the Dark General Thoth coming toward her cell. Thoth was Mirth's right
hand man and half brother. He was just as twisted as his Mirth and maybe even a little more so. The man, or thing
as she preferred to call him, that was in charge of her capture wad Lucifer, but he had angered Mirth yesterday
and was now in the cell next to hers. Mia now knew why Lady Kayura had always said there was always room for advancement
in the Dynasty.
'Alone,' Mia thought, 'that's what I am. I tired, weary, scared, and above all alone.' Mia sighed as she leaned
back against the dungeon wall and started to cry. What did these people want with her? And why? She was so confused
and as the days had passes by any glimmer of hope of being rescued that she had was vanishing. She sighed as her
mind replayed her kidnap, six days ago....
It was around noon and Mia was inside busily working on a mid term paper when she heard a noise. Thinking that
it was just her imagination running away with her she went back to her work. The guys were all in the living room
doing the typical thing that all macho males did on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, watching football. Mia had never
liked football, in fact she'd whether take a basket weaving course at the YMCA then be reduced to watching a bunch
of males trying to run as far as they could before they were tackled by other males at least three times their
size. The fact that Ryo was in there also didn't help. Mia frowned at the thought of Ryo. In her opinion he should
have been left in the Dynasty with Badamon as his only friend. Men were scum, especially cute ones with black hair
and blue eyes. If she could only get a hold of that Maurie girl…. Not that long ago Mia had discovered that Ryo
had been cheating on her with some college girl that was in one of Mia's classes at school. She was, or had been,
a former friend of Mia's, but sharing her boyfriend was not Mia's ideal of a friendly jester.
The noise came again and Mia looked up. She was about to scream but a hand was put over her mouth in prevention.
There on the couch in front of her sat an armored man. He had long black hair and eyes so hazel in color that they
almost seemed to be glowing red. All around her were soldiers. The man looked at her and smiled.
"Hello Magma," he turned to face his men, "take her away and do so quietly, I don't want to alarm
the others in the house. When you get to the castle immediately take her to his majesty and await further orders.
I shall be behind shortly but first I have other things to do. Make sure she is unarmed."
He smiled again and disappeared. Mia later learned that he was Lucifer, one of Mirth's most prestigious warriors.
Mia was taken to a small dark room. It was triangular in shape and the walls were covered with armor helmets,
skulls still inside. In the center of a room there was a chair. On either side you could see the glowing eyes of
some ferocious animal, both of which were almost completely encased in the darkness. The very evil essence of the
place could be felt, almost to the point that it suffocated you and hurt to breath. On the throne sat a figure,
which judging from its voice was of a masculine type. All you could see was the out line of its body, which looked
very much like a mortal.
"I see that Lucifer did not fail me," the voice was deep and extremely dark, but you could hear the
happiness in it, he was pleased, "You Magma have two choices, one give me your armor and die quickly, or two
don't give me your armor and watch your fellow warriors die first."
"I do not know what you are talking about," she said in fear, "I am not Magma, and I am not a warrior."
"Really, and what my dear are you? A butterfly?" He nodded to his soldiers and one of them took a blade
to Mia's throat.
"I am a simple mortal," by now she was crying, this pleased the man, and he laughed.
"If you say so, take her to the dungeon. Maybe you need some time to think 'mortal' but keep in mind my threat
for I am not joking and soon your head shall be added to my collection just like the others will be," he laughed
at her as she was taken out of the room.
"You," Thoth said coldly as he unlocked her cell, "come with me. Lord Mirth would like to have
a little chat with you."
Mia grudgingly got to her feet, her strength had faded immensely and she knew she had little time left. She crossed
her arms and followed Thoth up the dungeon stairs. As she walked through what seemed endless corridors she prepared
herself for the endless pain that she received when ever she had a "chat" with Mirth. They still had
her confused with this Magma person and if Mia ever got out of this mess she was going to hunt Magma down and repay
her for this lovely treat.
"We are here," Mia noticed that she was in front of a different door. The door was opened and she entered
a room filled with weapons. Mia had a feeling that they were going to be used on her.
"Good day my lady," Mirth said with an evil grin, "do you like my collection?"
This was the first time that Mia was able to actually see the man. He was tall and had mossy green hair that was
very short and curly. His skin was a dark blue color and he wore a long flowing cape over his armor. Mia sighed,
she was going to die, what else did she have to lose?
"I like it very much, might I test one and slit your throat?"
"Ah, a warrior is in you yet. Now my dear Magma my patience grows weary have you thought of your answer yet?
For I can't wait to destroy your friends, think of the fun it will be, hmm maybe I'll have you kill them. How does
that sound Magma?"
Mia took a deep breath, "I am not Magma, nor was I ever Magma, nor will I ever be Magma, you are seriously
disturbed, and you couldn't kill the Ronin Warriors even if you had the Inferno Armor!"
"The Ronin what?"