Jason some how had managed to get both of them out of there. They were now in a boat with a group of heavily armed people: Cindy Lianne, armed with throwing knifes and daggers; Kaitlyn Colbat, armed with a bow and a leather quiver; Ryan Taylor Colbat, armed with two long swords, and a bunch of Fixation Bowie, BC-41, and Push Daggers.

Ryan and Kaitlyn Colbat, brother and sister, were the people who rescued and trained Jason. She was so happy and relieved when she first found out he was alive, she was crying the whole way from Greece to Italy.

They were just getting out of the boat at Rome when they saw them: a group of people standing on the dock, fully, heavily armed, their faces covered in half masks.

Without seeing their faces, Jason knew who they were: Reggie, Scott, Piper, and Lucy. But who was the fifth person? Hera seemed to know who they all were, she started to cower at the back of the boat.

"Ms. Lianne, so nice of you to bring all of your friends with you. There's five of you and six of us. I wonder if you can name is all. Hm... Can you?" Said the tall man that Jason didn't recognize.

"Reggie, Piper, Lucy, Scott. Who are you? You never did tell me your name. By the way, I'm not sure if you blind or stupid-"

"I'd rather consider my self stupid."

"I'm inclined to think both. But there are even numbers here." She seemed to be regaining confidence "five of us against five of you. That's pretty even, if you ask me." Hera had been slowly making her way closer to the other group, now she stood a few feet away.

"My name is Jack, I refuse to tell even Reggie, my last name. And, as for the fact that there is five of us... Our sixth person refuses to be here as he is not skilled in the art of combat." The man-Jack- sounded confident.

Jason didn't realize it till it was too late. Hera flung herself at Jack. Jason tried to stop her, then he realized two things; one: she had taken a knife from Cindy's belt; two: they were gonna have to fight, to get where they wanted to be.

Hera jabbed the dagger towards Jack. He was quick, but not quick enough. He moved and the sword struck his arm. He cried out in pain and suddenly everyone was in motion. Jack, grabbing for a short sword; Reggie, advancing on Jason, double-edged, long sword in hand; Cindy, two daggers in her hands, fending off Piper; Ryan, a BC-41 in both hands; Kaitlyn drawing back her bow; Scott, digging out a long sword, half jogging towards Hera; Lucy, grabbing something from her pocket, smiling-

It was all a blur. Blood everywhere, the metallic smell of blood in the air, the sound of metal against metal.

As Hera watched, the thing in Lucy's hand pulsed, a bright light flashed, then she blacked out

Hera woke up later, she didn't remember much beyond Scott walking towards her and Lucy grabbing that thing. She blacked out pretty much right after that. Slowly, she got up and looked around. Everyone was passed out. Something was off. She looked around again: Reggie- unconscious- no weaponry

Cindy- unconscious- no weaponry

Everyone was unconscious and without weapons. Lucy, she was gone. That's what was off: Lucy was gone and everyone lacked weapons and we're unconscious.

Hera jolted when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned around.

"Hey, are you alright?" It was Jason.

"Yeah, I'm fine. You? You look like a grizzly attacked you."

"Yeah, but what would a grizzly be doing in Rome?" He said sarcastically.

"Lucy's gone. Guess she betrayed Reggie." Hera laughed with out much humour.

"Yeah, but who was really running the organization. Was it Reggie? Or Lucy? And what did they want?"

"I don't know, Jason, I really don't know."

Cindy was the next to wake up. Then Ryan, then Kaitlyn.

"C'mon, we'd better get going before Reggie or someone from his crew wakes up." Said Kaitlyn, her emerald eyes held fire and long, white hair was blowing in the wind. On most people, white hair would make you look old, but on Kaitlyn, she still looked young, she looked about 25.

They made their way through the streets in a sort of circle formation. Jason and Ryan were at the front, talking in low voices. Kaitlyn at one side, Hera at the other. Cindy was at the back.

It was quiet, eerily quiet, in Rome. Cindy wondered what happened to the part of the city they were walking in now- there was holes in the building walls- houses, factories, warehouses, alike- there was stones and rubble strewn across the streets- it wasn't a pleasant sight.

Jason stopped, all of a sudden, causing Cindy, who was walking backwards, to crash in to him.

"Shh!" He hissed "look, the window, over there!" He whisper-yelled.

They all looked. There was something-someone- in the window.

Lucy Chanel. She didn't get very far, maybe a half hour away from the boarding dock.

Figures, they should've known. Lucy would run at the first sign of danger- betray her own side, even- and hide at the nearest shelter, even if it was a broken down warehouse, infested with termites.

Now was their chance. They had to get to Lucy, before Reggie and his gang did. Who knows, they could've woken up by now.

Just as Ryan signalled for them to go inside, Kaitlyn screamed. Everyone whirled around. Reggie stood with a hand over Kaitlyn's mouth, the other hand held a gun. A gun pointed at Jason.

"Where's Lucy?" There was a look of rage on his face "where is she?!" He demanded.

When no one answered, he turned the gun so the barrel was resting in the hollow of Kaitlyn's temple.

"She ran away, when we were all unconscious. I swear. We don't know where she is." It was Ryan who spoke.

"I'm not sure what your word is worth. Since you and Kate left me and Leo, your own brother, to drown. Remember that Ryan: the boats engine failed, we couldn't slow down or turn. We crashed. Leo and I almost drowned. Oh, but you didn't care, you were to busy training Jason here, who couldn't use a weapon to save his life." Jack said. Jason's cheeks were flushed with anger.

"If rather not talk about it." Ryan said quietly, his black curls were pasted to his forehead.

"You just admitted to not caring. You could care less if we drowned." Tension was brewing between the two, and it was brewing fast.

"It's not that we didn't care. Our organization was created to help those in need and save those in danger. How were we supposed to know, much less, get to you, if you you were in danger?"

"You could of at least tried. Reggie saved us. We were chocking on water for three days!" He was almost yelling.

At that moment, there was a loud wailing noise, coming from the top floor of the warehouse.

All at once, everyone burst into the warehouse and ran.

Somewhere along the lines they got split up. Cindy, Reggie, Jason, and Scott took the east side stairs- Jack, Piper, Ryan, and Kaitlyn took the west- Hera took the fire escape.

As Hera climbed, she felt the bars give out. She screamed, the bars wouldn't hold out much longer. She reached for the next bar, but it was no use, it was just out of range.

The bar snapped off and she fell, two stories, to the ground. She closed her eyes.

Just before she hit, someone caught her.

"Who are you?" She said as he put her down.

"The names Leo." The man-Leo-said. He had curling black hair and pale green eyes.

Hera's eyes widened. Leo was the one who preferred not to fight. He specialized in technology. Slowly, she backed up.

Leo reached out for her arm and she turned around, broke into a run, and threw the doors open. She ran up a set of stairs, unsure of where she was going.

Hera had run into the warehouse, so Leo ran after her. He wasn't sure which staircase she took, so he randomly chose the one on the left. He continued running at top speed until he saw her. But, she wasn't alone.

Lucy had Hera pinned against the wall. Right now, she was wishing someone would show up. Anyone, even if it was Reggie or Scott. Black spots dotted her vision, and her hearing had started to falter. The reason she was able to tell when someone showed up, is because Lucy's grip had faltered and she turned her head to the side. Hera took this as an opportunity, she brought her fist up and slammed it into Lucy's jaw. She cried out in pain and her grip loosened, just enough for her to slip passed her arms. She spun around to Lucy's back, just as Lucy turned around. While she was turning Hera kicked out. Her foot connected with Lucy's rib cage and Hera thought she heard a crack.

"Bitch." Lucy wheezed.

"I never claimed otherwise." She retorted and kicked out again. This time Lucy screamed, as Hera's booted foot connected with her already-dislocated jaw.

Leo watched as Hera kicked out again and again until Lucy fell unconscious. Then she turned to face Leo, her blue eyes blazing.

He stood there shocked at how she could have such a mean-streak in her. He was so distant, that he didn't realize she had collapsed until he heard her knees hit the marble floors. She started coughing up blood.

Jason seen a man standing at the end of a hallway, beyond that, Hera, coughing up blood, and Lucy, lying unconscious on the marble floor.

As the seen sunk in, Jason ran to Hera's side.

"Who did this to you?" He asked, panicking.

"Lucy." She whimpered and coughed again. She brought a hand to her mouth, it came away streaked with red.

"C'mon, we have to get you to Kaitlyn. She can help you." He tried not to let panic show in his voice.

They found Kaitlyn in a room, what must have been the packaging component, recognizable only by the conveyor belts and stray boxes.

"I've helped her the best I can. Whether she's going to be able to make it... I don't know. Now, Hera, can you tell us what happened?" She said in a soft voice, her emerald eyes filled with concern.

"The fire escape- the bars broke, Leo caught me. I ran from him and caught up to Lucy. She forced some kind of liquid down my throat, it got a purple tint when it caught the light. Leo came into the room, it distracted her and- and I-" her voice started wavering " I punched her jaw and then kicked her ribs. I shattered at least two ribs. Then I kicked her dislocated jaw. She was motionless, not even breathing to show she was alive." There were tears in Hera's eyes.

"Who's Leo?" Asked Jason.

"Reggie's hired tracker." They all whirled to see Piper standing in the door way. "I didn't want to trust him," she was saying "but he said we were all trapped. There was no way any of us could escape. But then Jason came, he helped Hera escape. I started to have hope, maybe we weren't trapped after all." Her violet eyes widened, there was the blade of a sword protruding from her chest. She collapsed to the floor, Reggie stood behind her.

"Hera, never thought you- you of all people- would have the gut to kill someone." He had a menacing smile plastered on his face. "Never thought I would get to kill you." He brought his blade up-

Ryan jumped in front of Hera. The sword hit Ryan in his left shoulder. He cried out in pain as Reggie brought the sword up again.

As quick as Ryan could move with his injured shoulder, he got up and flung himself at Reggie. Reggie toppled over, Ryan on top of him, a knife at his throat.

On instinct, Reggie dropped his weapon and threw his hands up, above his head. Ryan turned his head to the side, confused at why he would surrender.

Ryan's eyes widened as he saw what was going on. In one swift motion, Reggie snatched up his sword, levelled it with Ryan's chest, and pushed.

Ryan didn't have enough time to move. The sword had already punctured his chest. Kaitlyn got up from where she was sitting, grabbed a knife from its scabbard, ran over to where Reggie was in the process of killing Ryan, and stabbed him between the shoulder blades, all in one second.

"How could you do it, though," after they had finished cleaning up their wounds and managed to save Ryan's life, they went to find a safe spot they could rest for awhile. "I mean, I get he was a jerk, but your a girl. Aren't you not supposed to have any kind of blood lust?" Ryan seemed pretty healthy, considering he just about lost his life.

"I don't know. I was just thinking that he was going to kill you. My brother. You almost died back there, and you're questioning me, how could I have saved you? Because I'm a girl. Sometimes, Ryan, you have to be ruthless to save the ones you love." Kaitlyn said, staring at nothing in particular.

"Leo is still out there, and Jack, not to mention, Scott." Said Cindy, she shuddered.

Jason awoke later that night, by the sound of screaming. He sat bolt upright and looked around. It was too dark to see any thing, he knew, but it was instinct.

He got up and turned on the sight before him made him want to gag: Cindy was on the floor clawing at her eyes, the hilt of a sword protruding from her chest. Suddenly, she went still.

Jason raised his eyes to see the intruders face. He made as if to move forward, then stopped as he recognized the woman.

"Jason, it's been so long, don't you think?" Janus Wreith stood over Cindy's limp form, her hazel eyes showing only slight amusement. Her flaming red hair was in a braid running down her back. She was wearing a too-big-grey-jumpsuit, it was a wonder she didn't trip on it.

Hera heard people, loud, in the room. As her eyes adjusted they also started welling with tears. Cindy was crumpled on the ground, Janus Wreith standing over her, walking to Jason.

Hera ran to Cindy's side, check for a pulse, and came up with nothing. No, she thought she can't be dead. Though she knew that wasn't true. Of course she'd be dead. Where they were they were in a lot of danger. They should've been on alert, taking turns guarding. Now, Cindy was dead because they hadn't thought of that.

"Hera, glad to see you're here. You see, I'm here to finish what Reggie started: find Jason. You must understand, Hera, he's a danger to us all. He nearly killed Scott and Leo." Janus said in her usual, cheerful voice.

"Where are they?" Kaitlyn demanded, going to stand beside Jason and Hera.

"Where are who?" Janus said, turning to face Kaitlyn.

"Scott, Leo, and Jack." Retorted Hera, as she glared at Janus.

"Oh, Scott's dead. He was just dead weight anyway. As for Leo, I thought I'd bring him here, see how Ryan and Kate deal with him. After all, he is their brother." She said with a smirk that said she knew something they didn't. "Oh! I almost forgot. Raymond!" She called. Who the hell is Raymond, thought Jason. "Raymond Johnson! I think it's time you showed your face to our friends here." Just then, Jack stepped out from behind a partially closed door.

"Lucy wasn't the only one to betray us," he said, as a way of greeting. "So did Reggie. He killed my sister. Piper." No one moved, they were too shocked. How couldn't hey have known? The resemblance was eerie; same curling brown hair; same violet eyes; the same hint of an accent. Piper was better at hiding her accent though.

Janus broke the silence. "Now as for our business with Jason... He has some information we need. And Hera, you were the biggest part, you were central. But, you see, we weren't expecting you to fight back quite as hard. With out you, Jason never would have came to us." Jason had gone rigid all over as she spoke.

"What information?" Hera demanded. If Jason knew something she didn't, it was gonna come out now.

"The combinations. For the bomb." Kaitlyn and Ryan shuddered. She was the only one who didn't know.

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