Shinn was being dragged into the interrogation room again by the order of General Zala, the guards came and roughly started dragging Shinn away while Athrun and Cagalli protested,
"Father stop, he's had enough already." Athrun yelled,
"Would you rather have your pregnant girlfriend tortured?" General Zala gestured toward Cagalli, for a moment Athrun was surprised that his father had found out, "He must have overheard our conversation." Athrun thought, "I'd rather have nobody tortured." Athrun spat back; after that remark, General Zala give Athrun a right uppercut to the gut winding Athrun badly and leaving him on his knees struggling for air,
"Any more remarks like that, I will have all of you tortured to death." General Zala said leaving Athrun wincing in pain.
Shinn was once again chained up to the torture table, with General Zala looking around in his torture kit,
"The pain can end right here, right now. Did you have any part in the siege of Colditz: yes or no?" General Zala asked. However Shinn remained strong and would not give in, especially to a cranky old timer who had nothing better to do that to inflict pain on others. Shinn's reply was dangerous:
"What are you going to do if I say 'no' you old bag?" Shinn spat coldly, General Zala could only laugh,
"You're persistent aren't you?" General Zala continued laughing,
"I'm the one who should be laughing old man." Shinn said, "What happened you old timer? Did you leave your walking stick at home?" Shinn smirked, Shinn then started impersonating the stereotypical old man personality: "On no, look at me, I left my sunglasses at home, I'll just take a nap." Shinn teased. General Zala suddenly stopped laughing,
"I'll give you something to laugh about boy." General Zala grumpily said before leaving Shinn chained up on the table leaving the room. General Zala was clearly unhappy with they way Shinn humiliated him and decided to make him pay,
"Lunamaria!" General Zala called,
"Yes sir." Lunamaria replied,
"There is someone in the interrogation room that needs to be tortured, see to it that you inflict as much pain as possible, but leave him alive so we can torture him again the next day." General Zala ordered,
"Merry Christmas Lunamaria!" Luna grinned at such a chance,
"I'm going to be taking a nap." General Zala said ironically,
"Make sure that the big mouth prisoner in there gets what he deserves." General Zala ordered,
"It will be my pleasure." Lunamaria said strolling over to the interrogation room.
Shinn was still laughing until Lunamaria walked in,
"Oh look, it's the whore from 19th street." Shinn teased,
"That's no way to greet a lady." Lunamaria slapped Shinn, "Too bad a good looking soldier like you will have to suffer now." Lunamaria smiled, "Trust me, I'll savour every last bit of your pain." Lunamaria continued taunting,
"What a whore." Shinn bullied,
"Oh, how cute. Pretty boy is a bad boy." Lunamaria said softly, yet also darkly,
"What do you want?" Shinn said coldly,
"I want to give you pain!" Lunamaria said darkly,
"Just get it over with already daughter of Satan!" Shinn bullied once again,
"With pleasure." Lunamaria laughed.
"Do you know what I did to my sister a few years ago?" Luna asked, Shinn didn't care what she had to say,
"Do I need to know?" Shinn temporarily ignored,
"My sister Meyrin and I, we were working as agents for the PLANT. We both loved to attend these concerts where a great pianist by the name of Nicol played. Now, both Meyrin and I had a crush on this cute guy, one day, it was official that my sister was dating this guy." Lunamaria said,
"So what I did was that I snuck in weapons and bombs into their room while they were making out, I tipped the secret police about an assassination attempt and the two were caught with the bomb and weapons." Lunamaria continued. This time, Shinn was stuck fully in, listening with interest,
"The two were scheduled to be executed, however I was given permission to be able to torture them to death." Lunamaria evilly said,
"So, first, I gave the pianist a quick death, but on the other hand, my sister Meyrin… I never gave her the privilege." Lunamaria said getting out a knife,
"And I tortured my sister day and night for about three days before she died." Lunamaria continued playing about with her knife,
"You really are a daughter of Satan." Shinn said coldly,
"And you're my next victim." Lunamaria said using her blade to cut Shinn's left arm, she then licked the blood off of her blade,
"You psychopathic bitch!" Shinn yelled,
"We'll soon we what you have to say later on." Lunamaria said, commencing with the tortures.
Lunamaria put her knife away, instead she pulled out a set of pliers, Shinn prepared himself mentally to try to deal with the pain to come as best as he could. Luna opened the pliers and gripped onto a bit of Shinn's flesh on his arm, she then squeezed as hard as she could twisting and turning on Shinn's flesh; Shinn screamed loudly, blood started dribbling from the skin. When Luna saw that Shinn had been wounded on his thigh from a bullet wound, she pulled the bandage off; she then put her fingers through the bullet hole clawing and twisting her finger in the whole causing more pain.
Lunamaria then brought out a cane, exposed Shinn's feet to bare flesh, she started whipping the soles as hard as she possibly could. This method was extremely painful, the next several minutes was only the sound of whipping and screaming. Lunamaria was enjoying herself and taking pleasure for other people's pain, "Aren't we having fun?" Luna laughed having the time of her life. She continued whipping Shinn's foot until the entire foot was drenched in blood. Lunamaria then started the painful process of whipping and screaming again with the other foot. The foot whipping stopped almost an hour later.
However, Lunamaria was far from over. She grabbed the pliers and laughed in sight of it. She gripped Shinn's toenail and yanked hard, tearing out the first toenail as Shinn screamed. He wanted the pain to end; he wished that Stellar was holding his hand in a beach somewhere in Hawaii instead of being in a miserable place lying helplessly in a torture chamber. Lunamaria used wooden skewers to get under the toenails so that the pliers could get a grip on the toenails, toenail after toenail, scream after scream; another half an hour passed before all his toenails were all torn off. Blood soaked Shinn's entire feet and yet Lunamaria was not finished.
Shinn was slowly passing out. Lunamaria got out a leaden whip and ran her fingers through it. Luna targeted Shinn's chest and stomach area stinging and leaving blood trailing all over his stomach, Shinn could do nothing but scream as the pain was excruciating and unbearable. Shinn thought he would spend his last moment in pain, dying and being tortured in a God forsaken torture chamber, "Stellar!" Shinn barely gasped out,
"Oh, how sweet." Luna said, "Calling out to your girlfriend isn't going to help you." Luna said continuing to whip Shinn. Several minutes later, Shinn completely passed out.
However passing out was still not enough for him to avoid further torture. Lunamaria poured a bucket of water, bringing Shinn conscious again, "Don't pass out of me now my little toy." Luna said before continuing with the torture. Shinn wondered when the torture would finally end, he now wished that General Zala was his torturer, in fact he was wishing that he wasn't tortured at all. All that was heard was painful screaming and all that could be seen was blood; Shinn's blood. However, Lunamaria still continued with no regard to human life,
"This is fun!" Lunamaria said cheerfully while stinging Shinn with the leaden whip, what she enjoyed most was inflicting pain and hearing Shinn scream. The blood aroused seemed to arouse her and yet she was not finished.
Shinn was once again subject with more torture and this time by electric shock. Shinn was wired up with a car battery. Lunamaria turned the switch on the battery as electricity jolted and zapped Shinn, the water made the electric shock even worse. Shinn was now weaker than ever. He was being tortured for hours by a relentless and cold hearted Lunamaria that naturally loved to torture. Shinn was now at his limit, Lunamaria would have continued torturing Shinn further had it not been for General Zala who stepped in after his short power nap,
"Lunamaria, quit it. I wanted you to torture him, not to torture him to death; you are to leave ME with torturing MY victims to death." General Zala scolded at Lunamaria who paid little attention to him,
"Now take this prisoner back, you can start by cleaning him up." General Zala ordered, Lunamaria didn't reply and merely snorted gracefully at General Zala.
"Don't give me that attitude and do as you're told!" General Zala shouted.
After a while, Shinn was dragged back to the prisoner room by the guards. Shinn was much weaker than before and couldn't even crawl forward. Athrun and Cagalli were shocked by the least; shocked was just an understatement. Shinn couldn't talk much, the first thing he said to Athrun and Cagalli after his ordeal: the only thing he could say: "Got any water?" Shinn very weakly asked, hardly able to speak before he fainted from pain and exhaustion. Athrun and Cagalli could only watch, shocked, "My God!" Athrun was only able to reply, someone intervened:
"Doesn't look like he's going to make it, he's lost too much blood." General Zala said without sympathy,
"What did you do to him?" Athrun asked infuriated,
"It wasn't me, it was somebody else." General Zala said,
"What do you want father?" Athrun asked,
"I want both of you to suffer." he said,
"But since I don't want to harm that innocent child of yours, I have no choice but to spare your life for now." General Zala pointed at Cagalli, "For now, Athrun, you will suffer." General Zala said,
"Guards, take him to the interrogation room." General Zala ordered pointing to Athrun,
"No please! Don't hurt him!" Cagalli begged in tears,
"Silence!" General Zala shouted, with all the commotion Shinn suddenly woke up, "Wait." General Zala said to the guards,
"I have a better idea." General Zala said staring at Shinn, "I won't make you suffer just yet Athrun, I'll deal with another matter first." General Zala said,
"Guards. Take this boy back to the interrogation room." General Zala ordered pointing at Shinn. Shinn feared for his life once again,
"No! No! No! Please! No more!" Shinn pleaded weakly while he was being dragged by the guards, seeing Shinn so desperate and almost sobbing for his life flared Athrun up. Athrun dashed towards his father punching him with a quick stroke. The guards dropped Shinn and used their rifle butts to club Athrun to the ground. General Zala got up furious; he grabbed Athrun and dragged him away while Shinn was left to stay and Cagalli still begging.
If it wasn't for Athrun, Shinn would have been tortured to death, however, now it was Athrun's turn to feel his father's wrath again. Athrun was horrified to see so much blood on and around the torture table; blood that once belonged to Shinn. Athrun struggled all that he could trying to resist the guards' power over him. Athrun resisted for minutes kicking and punching all he could until… *BANG*. General Zala shot Athrun on his right arm. The bullet wound felt like hot wire cutting deep into his arm. Athrun's entire right arm felt numb and could not move it more that a couple of inches upwards. The guards were this time able to overpower Athrun and chain him up to the table. Just as Athrun was about to suffer in the hands of his own father… *knock knock*,
"Come in." General Zala authorized, Rey entered with a message,
"Sir, the enemy sent more negotiators; they said that they want to negotiate for the remaining prisoners." Rey reported,
"I'll be right out." General Zala said, General Zala then looked into the eyes of his son in hatred, "You will suffer for you betrayal Athrun…. Just wait." General Zala said before leaving the room.
Several minutes later, General Zala returned. Rey was keen to know what was going on:
"What did they offer sir?" Rey asked,
"They asked for all three prisoners in exchange for everyone to lay down their weapons while half of us are taken as prisoner, while the other half is released back into civilization." General Zala said,
"I assume that you rejected the offer?" Rey asked,
"I rejected, but they told me that they'd be back for more lucrative offers." General Zala said in satisfaction,
"And that will give us more time." Rey said,
"No one can assault this place without endangering the hostages, not even the best army in the world… that's why they won't attack, they'll try bargaining the prisoners out." General Zala concluded, "Oh and I have some unfinished business to take care of." General Zala said making his way to the interrogation room.
General Zala left Athrun in minor agony, the bullet needed to be removed. General Zala only just remembered the bullet wound that he had caused,
"I almost forgot about that wound Athrun." General Zala said, "Why don't we try to get it out now?" General Zala evilly smiled. However, Athrun knew what was coming. Athrun's father roughly grabbed onto Athrun's right arm and tore into his flesh splitting the skin apart, blood pouring out as Patrick Zala pulls the bullet out, all Athrun could do is scream in pain. General Zala continued talking, "I saw you almost everyday sleeping with that whore of a girl." General Zala said, "And you were enjoying every second of it too." General Zala continued.
Electric shock discharges were applied to Athrun for more than ten minutes before General Zala stopped. General Zala then unchained Athrun and then started beating Athrun, stomping on every limb, beating Athrun like a punching bag. But before Athrun could be taken back, General Zala took out his pistol and shot Athrun in the right chest. Athrun was bleeding badly and the wound seemed fatal. But General Zala deliberately shot away from any vital organs to leave Athrun fighting for his life while slowly bleeding away.
Cagalli was upset; she was no medic but she dealt with Athrun's wound as best as she could. She ripped her clothing and wrapped it around Athrun's wound. His face was pale and blood continued to run down. Cagalli was now left in tears as she could only watch Athrun slowly fade away. She tried to slow the bleeding by applying pressure on the wound and tried to keep Athrun as warm as possible. She just wished that they would be rescued and that Athrun would survive; although the chances seemed to be a million against one. Cagalli managed to significantly slow down Athrun's bleeding, but she didn't know how long he had left to survive.
Cagalli stayed up all night looking after both Athrun and Shinn… mostly Athrun. The morning light was beginning to fill the windows. Cagalli still held onto Athrun.
The Colonel communicated with his troops on the phone: "Commence with the assault! I repeat commence with the assault!" the Colonel shouted into the phone, at once, rattles of machineguns and rifle fire were heard and then came a slight low frequency whizzing noise… almost immediately…
Next chapter, one of the main characters will die, I promise you… stay tuned.
