A/N: In Ch. 87, I forgot to mention that Cirono, the winner of my little mini mystery contest, first appeared in that chapter. Sorry for not saying so before. Anyway, now that Seductia has arrived, what does she have in store for the Clan of Chloe? Let me just say that it's not going to be pleasant.



Chapter Eighty-Eight: Fatal Femme

Seductia laughed again, as Dirkan began holding up his arms and crying out to her, "Seductia, my love, I can't live without you! Say that you'll be mine!"

The jaws of Shalila and Tayla and everyone else who heard dropped as far as they could. Shalila's eyes widened as far as they could, as she stared at her Superior Granden; in the many decades she had known her beloved Namek, he had never been this openly amorous, not even with her. Any sweet words and declarations of love that Dirkan had ever told Shalila had almost always been said to her when they were alone. Dirkan was not known for open verbal declarations of public affection, or even brash displays. He and Shalila had held hands in public, and sometimes they would embrace around others, but they had rarely gone as far as to make out ostentatiously in front of others the way that Bajal and Alora often did. And yet everyone had always been able to sense and feel the strong intensity and deep devotion and affection that Dirkan and Shalila had always held for each other ever since the two warriors had fallen in love.

"Dirkan?" Shalila asked worriedly, trying to take her husband's arm.

"Come to me, my tall emerald hunk of masculinity!" Seductia said in a syrupy, gushing voice that made Shalila sick to her stomach. Dirkan shook Shalila off thoughtlessly, as if she were a fly, as he pushed past her and flew up into the air to meet his new love, or rather infatuation.

"Do you love me, my greenness?" Seductia asked in a purr.

"Yes, I do!" Dirkan cried out happily, seizing Seductia in his large pink and green arms tightly. Seductia ran her arms down Dirkan's muscled, padded arms, tracing the ridges of his jade flesh with slim, creamy fingers. "I have loved you, wanted you all my life! There has never been anyone else!"

Shalila looked at her husband in utter disbelief, and Tayla came to her Nama's side and put an arm around her. Shalila's body trembled, as her granddaughter held her close; she knew that Dirkan was bewitched, but it wasn't a pleasant thing for any woman to see her husband openly declare his love to someone else.

"I-I don't believe this," she whispered shakily to no one in particular.

"That slutzini! How dare she do that to Dirkan and you!" Tayla screamed furiously. Shalila was too much in shock to rebuke her granddaughter, or even inquire as to where or whom Tayla had learned that awful word from. Gorna, whom under normal circumstances would have scolded Tayla for even thinking of saying such a thing, was too stunned by Dirkan's uncharacteristic behavior to say a word.

The young Princess of Chloe shook her small fist at Seductia and yelled furiously, "How dare you take him away from my Nama? You let him go now!"

Seductia laughed again merrily, with the sickening, cloying sweetness of her voice making Tayla wanting to vomit. "Listen to the squab squeak!" She turned to Dirkan and sighed, "What is your name, my love?"

"Dirkan," the Namek warrior responded happily. "A Namek who gives you his eternal sweet devotion!"

"Dirkan, sweetheart, give me a kiss," Seductia ordered, and Dirkan joyously and openly did so, kissing her loudly. Finally, Seductia pushed him away, laughing again, as she ordered, "Now, go shut the brat up for me! Kill her and make her death especially painful for her!"

"With pleasure, my sweet, tempting goddess of love!" Dirkan answered enthusiastically without regret. "How should I destroy her?"

"Any way that you like, just make the end painful for the brat as possible."

Shalila instinctively hovered nearer to Tayla, as a mother would do with her young. It was clear that Dirkan was so possessed by Seductia that he would now think nothing of harming his beloved ward. Gorna and Gracina surrounded their sister; both women were prepared to fight Dirkan to protect her. Tayla looked at Dirkan in utter disbelief, and she felt her sensitive heart break. It was bad enough that her beloved Namek guardian was being passionate with another woman besides her Nama, and the fact that Dirkan would now willingly kill her on Seductia's orders was even worse.

"Nama?" she whispered worriedly. "Will Dirkan really do what she says?" Her dulcet voice shook on every word, and Shalila held her close.

Shalila was afraid to answer her for a few seconds, and then she said to Tayla, "We must be prepared for the worst, dandelion."

Seductia laughed contemptuously at Shalila, Gorna, and Gracina, who were now encircling Tayla. By then, Alora, Bajal, and Lektron had joined them, having heard from Gracina about Dirkan's being under Seductia's spell. She finally told Dirkan, "Now, sweets, go kill the black haired girl and make it painful! Do whatever you like with her! Seeing her die would make me so happy, and you want me to be happy, don't you, my love?"

"Of course I do, you needn't worry," Dirkan said in a soothing, caressing voice that he had only used with Shalila. "Consider her dead!"

Tayla panicked when she saw Shalila and the others pull out their swords. "No!" she cried in despair. "You mustn't hurt him, please!"

"Tayla," Gorna said stiffly, trying to keep the tenseness out of her voice. "Dirkan is not himself. He won't hesitate to kill you without a single thought. You must be prepared to fight him as well."

"But what if we kill him?" Tayla cried in distress, no longer thinking rationally. Shalila rested a reassuring hand on Tayla's thin shoulder. She didn't relish fighting Dirkan either, but she saw Gorna's point. It would be foolish to just stand by and possibly die at her husband's hand without a fight.

"Dandelion, Gorna is right. We must do everything we can to keep Dirkan from harming you or anyone else. I don't want to see him hurt anymore than you do, but we can't endanger ourselves, not even me. If Dirkan were in his right mind right now, he would have agreed." Shalila's voice shook, as she said these words. The Superior Gran was trying not to cry, but tears hung over her gray irises.

Dirkan swooped down from the air like a hawk ready to seize a helpless rabbit, and Shalila, who had made the painful choice of confronting him first, flew up to meet him. Dirkan had no qualms about sending his large green fist crashing into his wife's cheek, and Shalila was forced to fight him back quickly, as Dirkan landed blow after blow on her. She knew then that she had to knock him out in order to keep him from harming others, but she could not touch him. Dirkan pummeled and kicked at his own mate, unaware of what he was doing, and after a few minutes, both Superior Gran and Superior Granden pulled out their swords and began fighting that way.

"Out of my way, wench!" Dirkan roared at her, as he tried to stab his own wife in order to get to Tayla. "My love has commanded me to destroy the brat!"

"Dirkan, you are not yourself!" Shalila cried out in vain, as she blocked his blade with her own. "Listen! I am your wife! Tayla is your ward! You are her guardian! You don't want to hurt us, especially her! Please, stop this now!"

Shalila and Dirkan were almost of equal strength now, even at their advanced ages, but Dirkan was now gaining the upper hand on his distressed true love. In his insanity, he fully intended to destroy Shalila in order to get to Tayla and kill her to please Seductia.

While Shalila and Dirkan were battling each other, Seductia cooed sweetly to Gauze, who was openly drooling, as he watched her heavenly body hover about, "Darling, come to me, your sweet Seductia!"

"I would, my love, but I can't fly!" Gauze protested.

"You can now thanks to my powers, so just jump off of the ground," Seductia purred. Gauze did what she asked him, and now he could fly as well as the Astorians. Gauze held his laser gun in his hand, as he stared at his new amour, drooling at her immense beauty. He also had a smaller, concealed laser gun. He was now floating in front of her.

"What is your name, young man?" Seductia asked.

"Private Matias Gauze, my flower," Gauze purred.

"Matias," Seductia said in a loving purr. "Will you do me a favor and shoot that gun of yours at the Astorians, for they are starting to upset me. You don't want me upset, do you?"

"No, my sweet true epitome of femininity, not at all! Which ones do you want me to shoot first?"

"Hmmm…how about the two older ladies protecting that black-haired brat…the brown-haired fat woman and the blond woman?"

"Sure thing, my honeysuckle!" Gauze replied happily.

Gorna, hearing these words, ordered Gracina, Tayla, and the others to go back out into the corridor, and for them to keep anyone else from entering. Gorna was quicker than Gauze was; she fired a medium-sized ki blast at the private's laser gun, shooting it out of his hand before he could fire it. The laser gun fell to the ground with a loud clatter, and before Gauze could fly down to retrieve it, Gorna destroyed it with another ki blast.

"Oh no!" Gauze moaned. He turned to Seductia and cried aloud, "My beauty, I am so sorry!"

Seductia shook her mauve head at him, and then she noticed the concealed gun poking out through Gauze's long shirt, which had been not been tucked in for some time. She then asked Gauze serenely, as Shalila continued to fend off her husband's attacks with her sword, "Is that another gun that you have?"

Gauze looked at her with a slack-happy grin on his face. "Sure is, my queen of grace!"
"Matias, darling, would you do me a favor?"

"Sure, my forever love!"

Seductia laughed, but the syrupy sweetness of her laughter was gone. Instead it hinted entirely of malicious intent, but Gauze could not realize it in his mad devotion to her. She said softly, coolly, "Matias, I want you to point that gun's barrel to your heart."

"Yes, my rose-haired dove, whatever you say." And to Gorna's horror, Gauze happily obeyed the deadly beauty, Seductia's request.

"Stop!" Gorna commanded, as CRP officer, Sergeant Baraki, suddenly pushed past her.
He saw Gauze pointing the gun at himself, and he screamed, "Gauze, no! Don't do it!"

Seductia laughed louder than ever. "Matias, sweetheart, shoot that gun at your heart and kill yourself for me, will you?"

"Whatever you say, my buttercup!" Gauze replied cheerily.

And he did.

"ZIP! WHIRR! SPLAT!"

The room stopped, as everyone stood still in time, even Shalila and Dirkan, as Gauze shot himself through his own heart with his own gun. There was a chilling silence, as Gauze, realizing too late what he had done to himself, died instantly before his slight body fell to the floor, hitting it with a loud, sickening, plunk. Goldenrod-tinted blood was seeping quickly from his chest, as he laid facedown, his eyes forever glazed in a death trance. His mouth was frozen in time, hanging open in horror at his own actions.

"GAUZE!" Sergeant Baraki screamed in agony, as Gorna stood there, unable to move. She, Dirkan, Seductia, Shalila, Cirono, and Baraki were the only ones to witness Gauze's ghastly suicide.

Shalila's small body trembled, as she stared in horror at Gauze's corpse. What kind of woman was this Seductia? She then looked worriedly at Dirkan, whose eyes were still blank and glazed, as he stared indifferently as the dead CRP private.

Seductia's shrill laughter, no longer loving or seductive, rang throughout the corridor at Gauze's untimely demise. After her cruel laughter ceased, she then nonchalantly called to Dirkan, "My green darling, what was your name again?"

"Dirkan, Superior Granden of Astoria, my strawberry-haired angel!" Dirkan told her with that same silly smile on his face that Gauze had once held before his death.

"Dirkan, come to me, my love!" Seductia purred, and Shalila seized Dirkan's arm to prevent him from doing so."

"No, Dirkan!" Shalila screamed desperately. "She'll surely do the same to you that she did to Gauze! Don't go to her, please!"

Dirkan shook Shalila off of his arm hard and shoved her away from him. Seductia laughed again, as Dirkan came rushing to her in the air. The cruel beauty then decided that Dirkan (whom she had heard much of his strength and fighting ability) would make a good ally for her side. Plus, the deadly lass thought that Dirkan was very handsome, even though she could see that he was of advanced years. She decided not to have him destroy himself just yet. Dirkan could prove to be useful, and she could keep him under her spell forever.

Finally, the Namek warrior was face-to-face with Seductia, and she smiled, running her hands along his muscled arms. "Very handsome, you are, Dirkan. I think that I will keep you. But do me a favor, would you, precious?"

"Sure thing, my rose! Anything to make you happy is my pleasure! I live for nothing more than your happiness, my sugar-sweet!"

"Kill that red-haired old wench that you were fighting a minute ago. I weary of her, and there are more important things that I need you to attend to afterwards. Go destroy her immediately."

"Whatever you say, my honeybee! Your wish is my command!" And with that Dirkan flew quickly towards Shalila with the full intent of killing her for Seductia. Shalila knew that she would have no choice now but to fight her beloved husband at full strength.

Dirkan aimed his sword at the Superior Gran, as he flew at her to impale her on his blade. Shalila was ready for him, even though her heart was breaking at his forced betrayal. She would try to defeat Dirkan and put him out for a while. Then she would deal with that deadly wench who dared to turn her own mate against her.

Dirkan tried to stab her repeatedly, but Shalila met his sword attacks blow for blow, to prevent Dirkan from killing her. The fierce Namek then went as far as to try to behead his own wife, but Shalila's Sword of Chloe blocked Dirkan's Light Blade, barely holding it away from her neck. Then Dirkan punched her hard in her stomach with his huge fist, forcing her to crouch down. Shalila tried to fly away from him in order to regain her bearings, but Dirkan seized her by her red-and-gold hair and raised his sword to behead her from behind.

A terrified Gorna then flew up into the air to save her grandmother from her step-grandfather's finishing move, but Dirkan began firing his eye lasers at her so fast and so accurate that they hit her, scorching her wherever they landed. Gorna screamed, as she continued to try to dodge Dirkan's eye lasers. General Norbrook at this point was now lying down on the ground, huddled into a fat pile, himself trying to dodge Dirkan's eye lasers.

Finally, Dirkan used a mouth blast, again one of his many abilities, to disable Gorna temporarily, shooting her hard in her stomach. Gorna screamed in extreme pain, as she was forced to land on the ground, clutching her stomach. She bent over, and every time, she tried to rise, Dirkan would fire another mouth or eye laser at her.

Meanwhile, Gracina was out in the other corridor, struggling with a writhing, angry Tayla, who wanted to leave to go to help her grandmother. Gracina was holding Tayla tightly around her waist, and the worried girl was pushing and struggling against her sister to get away to help Shalila.

"No, Tayla!" Gracina kept ordering her. "Nama would not want you to endanger yourself!"

"LET ME GO!" Tayla screamed at her, as she kicked and fought to get away. "Nama needs me! Let me go now!"

"Someone help me restrain her!" Gracina shouted to Lektron, Bajal, and Alora, and all three came to help grab Tayla. Gracina continued to hold her around her waist, while Lektron grabbed Tayla under her arms. Alora grabbed one of her kicking legs. Only Bajal did not grab her, for he had Cletos, Arlon, and Lukan in tow. Bendros had joined them, in order to help the others and to see if he could help calm Tayla down.

"Listen, you guys, we've got to help Nama!" Bajal ordered his brothers, and all three of his brothers nodded affirmatively. Gracina, Alora, and Lektron were too busy with a fighting Tayla to try to stop the four men from shoving past them into the other corridor, where Shalila had just kicked Dirkan hard in his shin to force him to release her.

"More prey!" Seductia cried out happily while Dirkan managed to seize Shalila by her hair again, as Bajal led his younger brothers out into the corridor. She then formed two red ki balls in her hands, allowed them to solidify into the spiky objects, and then she shot them at Bajal and Cletos, who barely dodged them. The red ki balls hit the walls, and then they faded away, for the ki spiky balls would not stay solid unless they hit flesh.

Arlon and Lukan tried to fire ki blasts at her, but Seductia quickly put up a ki barrier, similar to the Astorians' Shield Field to deflect the attacks. She then dropped the ki barrier, formed more of her nasty spiky balls and continued to fire them at the four Mantros Chloe brothers with the speed and near-accuracy of an experienced Earth baseball pitcher. The four brothers could barely dodge them, but they did. They were finally forced to crawl on their stomachs in order to avoid her attacks, and Arlon managed to reach Gorna, who was still in pain. They had all seen the pitiful corpse of Gauze, but they tried not to think of his horrific demise, for fear that it would distract them. Cletos muttered a silent prayer for Gauze's soul.

"Get Gorna out of here!" Bajal ordered Arlon.

"No!" Gorna told him. "I am staying! Nama is still in danger!"

"You're injured!" Cletos protested.

"I am staying!" Gorna insisted, and all four of her brothers sighed. There was no point in arguing with her; Cletos wondered why they even tried to argue with her on any ocassion.

"Okay," Bajal told his siblings. "Here's what we do now. I'll go to Dirkan to save Nama, and the rest of you keep that deadly whorici occupied while I do so!"

"Oh, thanks," Arlon joked, as they continued to dodge Seductia's attacks. "Leave us with the fatal femme! I'd sooner take my chances with Dirkan!"

"No, you wouldn't," Lukan scolded him. "Dirkan is just as dangerous right now, as that woman is! Better stay here and do what Bajal says. Bajal, you be careful!"

"Aren't I always?" Bajal asked with a small grin, and the rest of his siblings groaned.

Meanwhile, while Bajal was flying into the air to save his grandmother, Dirkan had seized Shalila's neck and flung his wife into the wall. The Namek raised his sword mid-way into the air, and he charged at her with his blade out to the side, intending to deliver a swift beheading to Shalila.

Shalila held her sword in front of her, blocking Dirkan's blade with her own. Shalila's arms were forced back against the wall with her elbows sticking out, as Dirkan tried to shove her own blade into her neck with his own sword. Shalila's Sword of Chloe was the only thing standing between her neck and Dirkan's Light Blade. Shalila's right hand was holding the hilt of her sword while her left hand was pushing against her own blade. She grunted and panted, trying to keep her own sword from sinking into her neck.

Bajal flew up behind Dirkan, but he did not watch what was going on behind him, and that would soon to prove a mistake. Seductia wisely took that opportunity to fire another red, spiked ball at Bajal, this time hitting her target. Bajal screamed, as the red ball began embedding itself deep into the nape of his neck. Bajal stopped in mid-air, and then turned around away from Dirkan and towards Seductia. Bajal now had the same glazed stare and goofy, dumb grin on his face.

"Seductia, my love!" he bellowed. "How may I please you?"

Seductia laughed merrily. "Easy! Just kill all the Astorians down below you while Dirkan beheads that annoying old hag!"

"Whatever you say, my pink pearl of perfection!" Bajal enthused, as he flew down towards his siblings, opened his hands and began firing ki blasts at them, which all four of his siblings dodged repeatedly. Bajal then pulled out his sword, intending to slash at them, or even behead them. Gorna, still somewhat in pain, flew up to confront him with her own sword, and she and Bajal fought each other fiercely, clashing swords, the loud clattering of metals ringing through the dark, damp corridor.

Seductia called out to Dirkan, "Dirkan, darling, quit wasting time and cut her head off!"

"Yes, my lovely rose!" And Dirkan began to shove Shalila's blade towards her neck, using his own blade to push her sword. At the same time, he kneed her hard in her stomach to disable her, and Shalila screamed out. Dirkan pushed harder at his wife in order to behead her with her own blade, but Shalila pushed back against him for dear life.

Down below, just at the entrance of the corridor, Tayla was still fighting to get to Nama. She finally realized that she had no choice but to openly kick and hit at those restraining her, and she sent her free foot crashing into Lektron's shin, while she twisted her body to free herself of Gracina's grasp. She then shoved at Alora, and just before Gracina and Lektron could seize her again, Tayla pushed them away from her and ran out into the corridor where the battle was going on with Seductia and Dirkan.

"Tayla, no, come back!" Gracina ordered, running out after her. Lektron and Alora followed her, with Lektron grumbling:

"Tayla's just as hardheaded as Bajal is! Out of those two, I don't know who is more stubborn!"

"It runs in your family," Alora quipped, although she could herself be as thickheaded as Bajal and Tayla.

Shalila saw Tayla flying up into the air after Dirkan, and she cried out, "Tayla, get out of here! Have you gone insane?"

It seemed that Tayla had, for she paid no mind to her Nama, or to Gracina's frantic cries, as she continued to fly at Dirkan. It was her speed that saved Shalila a beheading, for the impulsive, fast young princess turned her feet towards Dirkan's thigh, and she kicked him that thigh hard with both of her little feet, using a blow the strength of a battering ram. Shalila quickly used that opportunity to kick Dirkan in his stomach, and afterwards, she slipped out from under both sword blades, still keeping her sword with her.

"Thank you, child!" Shalila gasped, as Tayla replied with a quick nod.

Shalila and Tayla panted with relief, but before they could fully catch their breaths, Dirkan, who had quickly recovered, charged after Shalila with his blade. It was Tayla who would meet him with her own sword, and she began to fend him off away from her grandmother. Dirkan was trying to get past Tayla in order to kill Shalila, but Tayla's speed was too much for him. With every sword blow that Dirkan delivered, Tayla was able to block. Dirkan fired his eye lasers at the girl, and Tayla barely managed to dodge every one. Shalila then tried to attack her husband from behind, aiming her agile feet towards his kidney areas. She then landed two hard kicks into Dirkan's buttocks, causing him to cry out, as Tayla then hit him hard in the side of his head.

"Tayla!" Shalila cried. "We must try to knock him out! It is the only way that we can assure his safety, as well as ours!"

"Yes, Nama!"

Tayla then slammed her tiny fist onto Dirkan's wrist that held his Light Blade, but that did not cause her Namek guardian enough pain to force him to release it. Shalila was able to force him to drop his sword when she forcibly seized the same arm that was attached to his injured wrist and twist it. Dirkan screamed, as his sword fell from his green hand.

Meanwhile, Cirono had joined Gorna and the others in fending off Bajal, who was firing hand lasers at them. Cirono was adept at deflecting Bajal's hand lasers with his sword, even though he had never had to fight anyone like Bajal in his life. Bajal then forgot about Gorna temporarily, as he and Cirono squared off, clashing swords, the fight between them almost fairly even. Gorna and the others were amazed by this young Calmagian man, who was more than holding his own against their possessed brother.

While the two battles were raging, Seductia began to wonder why Flirtius and Splitz had not come yet. She sat in mid-air in a lotus position, and she called through her scouter to Zarbon:

"Commander Zarbon, are you there?"

"Yes, I am here. How are things going?'

"Terrific! I have that big Namek called Dirkan under my spell, plus some Astorie man they keep calling Bajal. But where are Flirtius and Splitz?"

"Flirtius and Splitz are on their way now, and-hey, did you say that you had Dirkan under your command?"

"Yes, Commander."

Zarbon's end of his scouter channel was silent for a few moments. "Seductia, there is a new change of plans."

"And what's that, my Commander?"

"I want you to leave immediately, taking Dirkan and that one called Bajal with you. I know that you have the ability to instantly teleport yourself and others with you. I have fought against both Dirkan and Bajal before, and with those two on our side the chances of us winning and seizing Princess Tayla will increase."

Seductia watched the battle commence between Shalila, Tayla, and Dirkan, and she had heard Shalila call Tayla out by name. Seductia smiled to herself, for she knew then that the stubborn girl was the Tayla Chloe that Frieza had sent his soldiers after. "Good idea, Commander, but I have another one that I would like to add. How about if I arrange for both Dirkan and Bajal to capture Tayla and bring her to you."

"I like that plan! You are very intelligent, Seductia, possibly the best student that Diamonique has trained yet! You are truly Top Elite material, and if your plan works, I will definitely see that you make it into Top Elite."

"Thank you, Commander," Seductia purred happily. "I promise that I won't fail you. Signing off now." And with that, she and Zarbon cut off communication.

She then called out sweetly to Bajal and Dirkan, "Dirkan, Bajal, darlings, we are going on a little trip! New orders: grab the black-haired brat known as Tayla and bring her to me immediately! We are leaving this place at once! Knock her out, if you have to!"

"Yes, my sweet goddess!" Bajal responded.

"Anything for you, my heart!" Dirkan told her.

Dirkan and Bajal stopped battling their opponents right away, and they both flew up after Tayla. Gorna, Cirono, Cletos, Arlon, and Lukan flew after Bajal, and Shalila blocked Dirkan's path. Shalila and Dirkan once again began to fight with their swords. While Dirkan was distracted, Bajal flew up behind Tayla, and before the girl could react, Bajal sent his fist crashing into the back of Tayla's head. Tayla was now suddenly disoriented and stunned. She fought to prevent herself from passing out.

Gracina, Alora, and Lektron flew up into the air to save Tayla from Bajal, but Dirkan began to fire his eye and mouth lasers at them, keeping them at bay. Alora and Lektron tried to keep the Namek distracted; they would have used Mirror Shield on him, but doing so would endanger Shalila's life. Gracina left them, still dodging Dirkan's eye lasers to reach Tayla. Tayla was becoming dizzy, and she could no longer keep her mind on things, especially when Bajal hit her in her head a second time. Tayla's eyes slammed shut like a steel trap, as her slim body began to slowly descend.

Gracina soared up to her falling sister, and she grabbed Tayla in her arms. She would have succeeded in getting Tayla away from the fighting, had not Bajal slammed his fist into her golden head. Before Gracina could react, Bajal shoved his fist into her beautiful face, hitting her turquoise eye and disorienting her. Bajal then sent a final blow to the back of Gracina's head, and he grabbed both of his sisters. Bajal then threw Gracina away from him, flinging his sister into a wall, where she hit her head again. Gracina was now completely unconscious.

When Seductia saw this, she declared, "All right, men, it's time to go! TELEFADE!" The maniacal maiden held out her hands in front of her with the palms facing outright and straight. Because Dirkan and Bajal still had the red balls in their necks, she could teleport them to anywhere, anyplace on a planet at a time. And if Dirkan or Bajal were holding anyone, the person or persons being held were teleported as well.

Before everyone's horrified eyes, Seductia began to fade away into thin air, along with Dirkan, and then Bajal, who was still holding Tayla in his arms. Shalila flew after Bajal in order to stop him from fading away, but she was too late. Seductia, Dirkan, Bajal, and now even Tayla were gone, as if they were never there to begin with.

"TAYLA!" Shalila screamed in horror. "DIRKAN, BAJAL!"

"NO! NOT THEM!" everyone else cried.

"No," Shalila whispered, as tears began to flow freely down her pale cheeks. "Not my husband, not Bajal, and not my little dandelion. Why? WHY?"

The Superior Gran's heartbreaking screams echoed throughout the corridor.

"Dirkan, Bajal, TAYLA!"