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2 hours later ...
Skinner sat up carefully, he may have been invisable but that didn't stop the instincts learned over many years kicking in at times. The last thing he remembered was a strange smell nothing after that. Hurridly getting to his feet he hurried into the room that he thought was Zu's. There was no sign that anyone had ever used the room, a noise from one wall, the one nearest to Jekyll's room caused Skinner to press against the nearest wall to watch what happened.
Zu had woken up quickly, due to the enclossed nature of the space she was in the gas was not completely gone so she pushed on the hidden door to try and get some fresh air. She sank to the floor and coughed quietly trying not to draw any attention to hreslef as she knew something had to be going on as her fathers ship did not gas its passengers for no reason.
Skinner didn't recognise the figure who had lurched out the door, she was obviously female and making no effort to hide the fact. She was coughing quietly, once that was over she got to her feet and Skinner could see her face.
"Zu!" he exclaimed louder than was prudent. He had the pleasure of seeing her jump.
"Skinner? Where are you?" she asked.
"By the door" he replied
"Let me get something so at least I can see where the hell you are." Zu said and went into her room and grabbed a spare uniform that Nemo had preasured her into having. "Put this on for now" Skinner was too surprised to argue with her
"Who are you?" he asked at last when he was dressed
"Zu"
"I mean your real name."
"Zuliatol"
"Different."
"My father chose it by the time he left I was used to it."
"Next question then luv who is your father?"
"Nemo, I thought you'd have worked it out after sneaking around like you have been the last couple of days." Zu told him. Skinner blushed, even if she couldn't see him doing so didn't mean he couldn't.
"Why didn't he tell us?"
"He didn't know how you would react, he didn't think it would last for long anyway and you'd never even need to know. My father and I don't have the best relationship in the world. He left when I was ten and we have rarely seen each other since then. He occasionaly tracks me down to see if I'm alright but we never speak for long." Zu told Skinner sadly.
"Ok then luv. What happened earlier were we gassed or summat?"
"On no. Henry." Zu said and hurried out the door.
"What?" Skinner stood still for a moment longer then realising what Zu had already thought bolted out the room. Zu stood in the doorway of Jekyll's room.
"He isn't here, we've got to find him." she said a note of desperation in her voice.
"Calm down luv. He'll be fine." Skinner said walking into the room and checking for some of the doctors formula. "His potions are missin' though so we may have a little bit of trouble."
"He'd better be." she muttered. "Can you go and find my father and the others as we will need their help. I'll go and find Henry I have an idea where he might be. Don't argue, I know ways around this ship that no-one apart from my father does. I can get anywhere without using the passages."
"I presume we'll need Edward on this one then. How do you plan on setting him free with out the formula?"
"I have my ways." Zu said with a grin then slipped off leaving Skinner alone.
"I bet you have" he muttered before stripping the clothes off and walked off.
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The freezer.
Henry Jekyll was on the verge of giving up, he had been concious longer than Skinner or Zu as the room he was in was so cold it was impossible to stay unconcious. He was covered in chains to such an extent he was having trouble standing upright. There was one guard leaning against the wall, if he had any of his formula on him he'd have tried to break out, he didn't so had no idea what to do. As Dorian had once asked him 'what use are you' Henry knew the answer all to well, none at all without Hyde to fall back on.
"Oi who are you?" his guard demanded suddenly. Henry looked up seeing a woman standing near the door.
"A passenger much as you. The only difference being that I am allowed on this ship and you aren't." the woman said calmly.
"Are you one of these freaks, you just appeared out of thin air?"
"No." the woman replied then almost casually punched the man in the stomach, when he was doubled up she kicked him the face. The guard fell over backwards and didn't move. "Incompetant." she muttered. Then turnned to face Henry.
Despite the jeering voice of Hyde far back in his mind Jekyll couldn't help but stare at the woman. "Zu" he said surprised. He had worked out the supposedly male crew man was a woman somedays ago and had supposed that she was some relation of Nemo's. The woman in front of him was stunning, she wore tight fitting blue trousers, he wasn't sure what the name of the type of top she was wearing was but he didn't care, he liked it all the same. It was a dark blue waistcoat with blue sleaves that went to her elbows, the difference was that they were seethrough.
"Henry, are you alright?" she asked dashing to his side.
"Could you try and get these chains off me?" he asked.
"I'll try." she said and began to slide them off where she could, when he could move Henry helped her as well until he eventually stood free of all chains.
"Thank you. That was starting to get a little bit heavy." Henry told the woman still unable to stop staring at her.
"Anytime. Are you sure you are alright? I was worried about you when Skinner and I couldn't find you." Zu told him checking him anxously for any visable injury.
"I'm fine. How come you are here?" Henry asked.
"I need your help to get my fathers shipback. To do that though I am going to need Hyde."
"I have none of my formula. I can't change into him without it."
"I think you can. Remember that day in the corridor when you had just returnned to the ship. I found you and you spoke like Hyde, you acted like him. I think that if you try hard enough you can turn into him."
"If you are sure." Henry said dubiously
"I'm sure. Please Henry, Skinner is trying to release the others but they will need Hyde's help."
"Ok." he said at length resigning himself to his fate
"Thank you Henry." she said kissing him on the cheeck. He stared at her in surprise. He'd thought about her in the last few days but hadn't realised she'd thought about him as well.
"Think nothing of it." he said and concentrated. Slowly he began to shift into the form of Edward Hyde, Zu winced as she watched, the last thing to change was the look in Henry's eyes, she hated herself for what she was forcing the man she admired to do but knew there was no other way.
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Skinner slipped along the corridor being careful not to touch anything that would reveal his presence, whoever had taken over the ship obviously hadn't done their homework if they'd forgotten about Rodney Skinner a.k.a the Invisable Man. He guessed that Tom, and Nemo would be in the cells, Skinner remembered where they were after Mina had thrown him in there for a night after he had sneaked into her room. There were two guards by one of the doors, 'I don't need to be a genius to work this one out' Skinner thought to himself before creeping up behind the nearest guard and hitting him on the back of the head as hard as he could, the other guard looked round stupidly before joining his friend on the floor.
Tom and Nemo stood on opposite sides of the door waiting to ambush whoever came through first. The door opened slowly,
"Tom, Nemo don't even try it." Skinners voice said knowing his friends well enough to realise they'd be waiting for him
"Skinner?" Tom asked
"Who were you expecting the tooth fairy?" Skinner asked walking into the room.
"Are you alright? Do you know where Mina and Henry are?" Tom asked anxiously.
"I haven't seen Mina, Zuliatol has gone to rescue the doctor." Skinner said
"Who is Zuliatol?" Tom asked confused
"my daughter, you know her as Zu." Nemo said realising that his secret was out.
"She seems quite capable of looking after herself when she needs to." Skinner told Tom
"Why didn't you tell us?" Tom demanded.
"I'll explain later." Nemo said "For now though we need to find Mina and try to help Jekyll and my daughter."
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"Edward I know you have no reason to like me and neither does Henry at the moment but I need your help." Zu told the creature in front of her
"Why should I help you?" Hyde asked not moving
"If you don't we will all die including Henry Jekyll, you may not like him but without him you wouldn't exist." Zu said calmly
"I know that I need the worm, but I don't need you." Hyde said a crafty look coming into his eyes.
"I can cause you to turn back to Jekyll again before you harmed me. I have also helped Henry to understand you better and he may be able to cause you to turn back to him without any help from me." Zu told the creature. Hyde snarled at her but made no move forward.
"What do you want me to do then?" Hyde asked at length.
"Just to find the person in charge of operations and stop them." Zu told him
"That's it?" Hyde asked suspiciously
"That's it, just fighting, I think you can manage to do that." Zu said with a grin.
"Maybe I can. Where do I need to go?"
"Just follow me."
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Mina Harker hated feeling helpless but there was nothing she could do, she was locked up with no way of getting out. She amy be stronger than a normal human but Neno's ship was well designed and too strong for her to damage. She knew there was no-one near her door as even Jennifer Daniels hadn't managed to convince any of her lackeys to stay near to the vampire. Mina's main worry was that the woman would do something to Tom as she had hinted she would if Mina misbehaved at all. There was a sound outside the door and Mina tensed ready to rip the throat out of the first person inside the door.
"Mina luv don't do anything stupid." the familiar voice of Skinner said
"Skinner?"
"Yeah, the cavellry has arrived." Skinner said opening the door. Despite the figure of Skinner who Mina knew was close by she could see two other figures those of Nemo and Tom who grinned at her.
"Tom are you alright?" Mina asked anxiously
"I'm fine, you?"
"Never better. Where is Henry?" Mina asked
"Zu's gone to get him and deal with the bridge." Nemo said a note of pride in his voice
"Henry isn't much use in a fight without Hyde and I doubt that Daniels will let him near that." Mina said bluntly
"Zu had thought of a way round that when I last saw her." Skinner said
"Her!" Mina exclaimed
"I'll explain later." Nemo said. "We need to get to the bridge."
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20 minutes earlier ...
"I'll go first. The worm will never let me out again if I let you get hurt." Hyde said pushing Zu out the way.
"I never knew he cared." Zu muttered not sounding at all upset by the notion.
"You have no idea." Hyde said with a gruff laugh.
The two of them burst onto the bridge to see Jennifer Daniels and what remained of her hired goons facing them.
"Why are you doing this?" Zu asked the older woman
"Because of what your friends did to me."
"Edward have you or Henry ever seen this woman before?" Zu asked
"No" Hyde replied wanting to surge forward and rip into the men pointing automatic weapons at him.
"They killed my father and destroyed my life."
"Edward did?" Zu asked
"The league did. I wanted revenge on this monster beside you as he was the one who killed my father!" Jennifer almost shrieked.
"I can send you to join him if you want." Hyde said quietly sidling forward.
"Edward no!" Zu shouted before he surged into the men in front of him who had no time to open fire.
Edward Hyde lived for the moments like this when he was able to fight and destroy, normally the quiet voice of Henry Jekyll was quiet when he went on the rampage this time however the doctor was shouting at Hyde to protect Zu. Hyde wasn't willing to do that yet, however while he was arguing with the voice inside his head who for once refused to quieten down when Hyde told him to he was distracted from the fight.
Jennifer Daniels saw that the monster was faltering and took the oportunity to sidle round him towards the young woman over to one side who had wisely decided to stay out of Hyde's way when he went beserk. All the young womans attention was focused on the battle in front of her rather than the woman sneaking towards her. Jennifer had no idea who this starnge woman was as she hadn't been viasable when Jennifer had come on board the ship a few days before. The younger woman obviously cared about one side of the monster and Jennifer presumed that the monster cared about her as well.
Zuliatol had all her attention focused on the creature in the middle of the fight not being sure how any injuries inflicted on Hyde would transfer to the more feeble form of Henry Jekyll. She wasn't aware of the woman nearby hefting the chunk of metal and swinging it at Zu's head. She had a second of warnning before it hit her and she had time to call out one word.
"Henry." Zu's voice cut through the fog of Henry Jekyll's brain as he finnished dealing with the thugs, he immediately turnned and saw her crumple to the floor. Without thinking he charged forward and the woman who had been standing triumphantly over the still body of Nemos daughter turnned in horror to face the charging form of Edward Hyde. For the first time in their strange union Jekyll and Hyde were both in complete agreement in wanting to hurt this woman.
"Stay back, if you harm me you will never find the formula you need." The woman said desperately
"We don't need it any longer." Hyde snarled grabbing her arm and hurling her across the room. The slim body of Jennifer Daniels hid the metal wall of the bridge and slip limply to the floor. Jekyll pulled Hyde in short as he went to charge over and continue to tear into the body. In the seconds while the two of them struggled for control of the body a wounded lackys slowly raised himself off the floor and fired upon Hyde.
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A level below the bridge Skinner and the rest of the league heard the inhuman sound of someone in unbareable pain,
"What was that?" Skinner asked
"I have no idea." Tom replied being closest to where Skinner seemed to be
"It was Hyde." Mina said. "He has been badly hurt."
"Henry." Skinner said and from the sound of his footsteps he started to run towards the bridge
"Zuliatol." Nemo said dashing forward as well leaving Tom and Mina to follow.
When they reached the bridge there was no sign of Edward Hyde or Henry Jekyll, the bodies of assorted lackies lay all over the room, Nemo saw the figure he had been looking for and dashed to his daughters side. Tom, Mina and Skinner followed behind him knowing that she could tell them where Jekyll was.
"Zu." Nemo called anxiously.
"Nemo move aside and let me look at her." Mina ordered, Nemo reluctantly moved aside so that the more trainned member of the league could examine his daughter.
"Is she alright?" Skinner asked sounding concerned which for him was unusual.
"She'll be fine, just a bump to the head." Mina said.
"Thank you Mina." Nemo said kneeling by his daughter once more.
"Jennifer is over here." Tom called from over the room, " I think her back is broken, she's dying but we might get some information from her." Mina and Skinner went over to stand by him leaving Nemo alone with his daughter.
"Jennifer, Jennifer." Mina called sharply, the dying womans eyes flickered open and a look of pure hatred flashed across her face.
"You survived how typical." She whispered
"Why did you try to kill us?" Tom asked
"Not you just Jekyll and his monster."
"Why?"
"You have enemies out there that you aren't even aware of. None of you are safe, they are out there and will find you. You have made yourself no friends,everyone who you have killed has a family out there and they aren't happy." Jennifer whispered
"Why did you attack my daughter?" Nemo demanded joing his comrades
"The monster cares about her and I thought it would distract him enough to be killed. My mistake." Jennifers voice grew weaker.
"Where is Dr Jekyll?" Mina asked
"He's dead." Jennifer said laughing to herself, the laugh trailed off and her eyes clossed.
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Edward Hyde crawled into a corner of the freezer, he wasn't sure why he felt safe there but he did, the man who had shot his had been close enough to get bullets through even Hyde's skin which was thicker than normal. As his strength slowly dwindled away he changed back to the figure of Henry Jekyll. Jekyll lay there knowing he should try to attract someones attention, he tried to raise his voice and shout but no sound came out. His eyes slowly flickered close, he hoped Zu was alright, he wished he'd known her name and got to know her better. As the pain began to slowly recead Jekyll was relieved that at last he'd found the answer to the problem of Edward, dying was the only answer, he just wished he wasn't so cold and so alone. He wished ....
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"Henry." Zu said sitting abruptly up.
"He's not here, luv" Skinner said quietly. He had borrowed Mina's coat and was sitting near by.
"Where is he?" Zu asked
"We're not sure." Tom said
"Where's Daniels?"
"Dead. I think Hyde got her." Nemo told his daughter.
"Are you alright?" Mina asked.
"I'll be fine. Where's Henry?" Zu said trying to stand up. " He was here, I don't remember where he went."
"We'll find him luv." Skinner said
"He isn't in his cabin." Tom said having just spoken to a crewman who had been sent to look there.
"Is he in the freezer?" Zu asked
"Why would he be there. Hyde must hate it." Tom said
"Jekyll was much more in control than he seems to have been in the past, it is quite possible he went there to try and contain Edward Hyde again."Zu explainned.
"I'll go and look." Skinner offered getting to his feet.
"Not without me." Zu said determind to find where her friend was
"We'll all go." Nemo said to ward off any arguments.
The four league members and Zu walked down to the freezer, Mina and Skinner were in the front and stopped when they reached the doorway. Mina hurridly ran in and Skinner tried to restrain Zu who tried to follow Mina in.
"You don't want to see luv." he said trying to hide her face in Mina's coat.
"Get off." Zu said stamping on where his foot should be, by his reaction she connected as he let go. Zu looked in the room and saw Mina kneeling by the still form of Henry Jekyll barely recognisable under the blood that covered him.
"Zu stay here." Nemo called as his daughter rushed forward.
"Oh No. Please no." Zu said falling to her knees. "Henry" she called desperately wanting him to answer.
"It's no good he can't hear you." Mina said feeling for a pulse.
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What do you think folks should Henry be dead?
There is going to be one more chapter at least giving explanations to the rest of the league, review and let me know, you never know if you want he could come back.
Thank you so much for everybody who has reviewed my story so far you have no idea how much that cheered me up.
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2 hours later ...
Skinner sat up carefully, he may have been invisable but that didn't stop the instincts learned over many years kicking in at times. The last thing he remembered was a strange smell nothing after that. Hurridly getting to his feet he hurried into the room that he thought was Zu's. There was no sign that anyone had ever used the room, a noise from one wall, the one nearest to Jekyll's room caused Skinner to press against the nearest wall to watch what happened.
Zu had woken up quickly, due to the enclossed nature of the space she was in the gas was not completely gone so she pushed on the hidden door to try and get some fresh air. She sank to the floor and coughed quietly trying not to draw any attention to hreslef as she knew something had to be going on as her fathers ship did not gas its passengers for no reason.
Skinner didn't recognise the figure who had lurched out the door, she was obviously female and making no effort to hide the fact. She was coughing quietly, once that was over she got to her feet and Skinner could see her face.
"Zu!" he exclaimed louder than was prudent. He had the pleasure of seeing her jump.
"Skinner? Where are you?" she asked.
"By the door" he replied
"Let me get something so at least I can see where the hell you are." Zu said and went into her room and grabbed a spare uniform that Nemo had preasured her into having. "Put this on for now" Skinner was too surprised to argue with her
"Who are you?" he asked at last when he was dressed
"Zu"
"I mean your real name."
"Zuliatol"
"Different."
"My father chose it by the time he left I was used to it."
"Next question then luv who is your father?"
"Nemo, I thought you'd have worked it out after sneaking around like you have been the last couple of days." Zu told him. Skinner blushed, even if she couldn't see him doing so didn't mean he couldn't.
"Why didn't he tell us?"
"He didn't know how you would react, he didn't think it would last for long anyway and you'd never even need to know. My father and I don't have the best relationship in the world. He left when I was ten and we have rarely seen each other since then. He occasionaly tracks me down to see if I'm alright but we never speak for long." Zu told Skinner sadly.
"Ok then luv. What happened earlier were we gassed or summat?"
"On no. Henry." Zu said and hurried out the door.
"What?" Skinner stood still for a moment longer then realising what Zu had already thought bolted out the room. Zu stood in the doorway of Jekyll's room.
"He isn't here, we've got to find him." she said a note of desperation in her voice.
"Calm down luv. He'll be fine." Skinner said walking into the room and checking for some of the doctors formula. "His potions are missin' though so we may have a little bit of trouble."
"He'd better be." she muttered. "Can you go and find my father and the others as we will need their help. I'll go and find Henry I have an idea where he might be. Don't argue, I know ways around this ship that no-one apart from my father does. I can get anywhere without using the passages."
"I presume we'll need Edward on this one then. How do you plan on setting him free with out the formula?"
"I have my ways." Zu said with a grin then slipped off leaving Skinner alone.
"I bet you have" he muttered before stripping the clothes off and walked off.
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The freezer.
Henry Jekyll was on the verge of giving up, he had been concious longer than Skinner or Zu as the room he was in was so cold it was impossible to stay unconcious. He was covered in chains to such an extent he was having trouble standing upright. There was one guard leaning against the wall, if he had any of his formula on him he'd have tried to break out, he didn't so had no idea what to do. As Dorian had once asked him 'what use are you' Henry knew the answer all to well, none at all without Hyde to fall back on.
"Oi who are you?" his guard demanded suddenly. Henry looked up seeing a woman standing near the door.
"A passenger much as you. The only difference being that I am allowed on this ship and you aren't." the woman said calmly.
"Are you one of these freaks, you just appeared out of thin air?"
"No." the woman replied then almost casually punched the man in the stomach, when he was doubled up she kicked him the face. The guard fell over backwards and didn't move. "Incompetant." she muttered. Then turnned to face Henry.
Despite the jeering voice of Hyde far back in his mind Jekyll couldn't help but stare at the woman. "Zu" he said surprised. He had worked out the supposedly male crew man was a woman somedays ago and had supposed that she was some relation of Nemo's. The woman in front of him was stunning, she wore tight fitting blue trousers, he wasn't sure what the name of the type of top she was wearing was but he didn't care, he liked it all the same. It was a dark blue waistcoat with blue sleaves that went to her elbows, the difference was that they were seethrough.
"Henry, are you alright?" she asked dashing to his side.
"Could you try and get these chains off me?" he asked.
"I'll try." she said and began to slide them off where she could, when he could move Henry helped her as well until he eventually stood free of all chains.
"Thank you. That was starting to get a little bit heavy." Henry told the woman still unable to stop staring at her.
"Anytime. Are you sure you are alright? I was worried about you when Skinner and I couldn't find you." Zu told him checking him anxously for any visable injury.
"I'm fine. How come you are here?" Henry asked.
"I need your help to get my fathers shipback. To do that though I am going to need Hyde."
"I have none of my formula. I can't change into him without it."
"I think you can. Remember that day in the corridor when you had just returnned to the ship. I found you and you spoke like Hyde, you acted like him. I think that if you try hard enough you can turn into him."
"If you are sure." Henry said dubiously
"I'm sure. Please Henry, Skinner is trying to release the others but they will need Hyde's help."
"Ok." he said at length resigning himself to his fate
"Thank you Henry." she said kissing him on the cheeck. He stared at her in surprise. He'd thought about her in the last few days but hadn't realised she'd thought about him as well.
"Think nothing of it." he said and concentrated. Slowly he began to shift into the form of Edward Hyde, Zu winced as she watched, the last thing to change was the look in Henry's eyes, she hated herself for what she was forcing the man she admired to do but knew there was no other way.
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Skinner slipped along the corridor being careful not to touch anything that would reveal his presence, whoever had taken over the ship obviously hadn't done their homework if they'd forgotten about Rodney Skinner a.k.a the Invisable Man. He guessed that Tom, and Nemo would be in the cells, Skinner remembered where they were after Mina had thrown him in there for a night after he had sneaked into her room. There were two guards by one of the doors, 'I don't need to be a genius to work this one out' Skinner thought to himself before creeping up behind the nearest guard and hitting him on the back of the head as hard as he could, the other guard looked round stupidly before joining his friend on the floor.
Tom and Nemo stood on opposite sides of the door waiting to ambush whoever came through first. The door opened slowly,
"Tom, Nemo don't even try it." Skinners voice said knowing his friends well enough to realise they'd be waiting for him
"Skinner?" Tom asked
"Who were you expecting the tooth fairy?" Skinner asked walking into the room.
"Are you alright? Do you know where Mina and Henry are?" Tom asked anxiously.
"I haven't seen Mina, Zuliatol has gone to rescue the doctor." Skinner said
"Who is Zuliatol?" Tom asked confused
"my daughter, you know her as Zu." Nemo said realising that his secret was out.
"She seems quite capable of looking after herself when she needs to." Skinner told Tom
"Why didn't you tell us?" Tom demanded.
"I'll explain later." Nemo said "For now though we need to find Mina and try to help Jekyll and my daughter."
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"Edward I know you have no reason to like me and neither does Henry at the moment but I need your help." Zu told the creature in front of her
"Why should I help you?" Hyde asked not moving
"If you don't we will all die including Henry Jekyll, you may not like him but without him you wouldn't exist." Zu said calmly
"I know that I need the worm, but I don't need you." Hyde said a crafty look coming into his eyes.
"I can cause you to turn back to Jekyll again before you harmed me. I have also helped Henry to understand you better and he may be able to cause you to turn back to him without any help from me." Zu told the creature. Hyde snarled at her but made no move forward.
"What do you want me to do then?" Hyde asked at length.
"Just to find the person in charge of operations and stop them." Zu told him
"That's it?" Hyde asked suspiciously
"That's it, just fighting, I think you can manage to do that." Zu said with a grin.
"Maybe I can. Where do I need to go?"
"Just follow me."
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Mina Harker hated feeling helpless but there was nothing she could do, she was locked up with no way of getting out. She amy be stronger than a normal human but Neno's ship was well designed and too strong for her to damage. She knew there was no-one near her door as even Jennifer Daniels hadn't managed to convince any of her lackeys to stay near to the vampire. Mina's main worry was that the woman would do something to Tom as she had hinted she would if Mina misbehaved at all. There was a sound outside the door and Mina tensed ready to rip the throat out of the first person inside the door.
"Mina luv don't do anything stupid." the familiar voice of Skinner said
"Skinner?"
"Yeah, the cavellry has arrived." Skinner said opening the door. Despite the figure of Skinner who Mina knew was close by she could see two other figures those of Nemo and Tom who grinned at her.
"Tom are you alright?" Mina asked anxiously
"I'm fine, you?"
"Never better. Where is Henry?" Mina asked
"Zu's gone to get him and deal with the bridge." Nemo said a note of pride in his voice
"Henry isn't much use in a fight without Hyde and I doubt that Daniels will let him near that." Mina said bluntly
"Zu had thought of a way round that when I last saw her." Skinner said
"Her!" Mina exclaimed
"I'll explain later." Nemo said. "We need to get to the bridge."
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20 minutes earlier ...
"I'll go first. The worm will never let me out again if I let you get hurt." Hyde said pushing Zu out the way.
"I never knew he cared." Zu muttered not sounding at all upset by the notion.
"You have no idea." Hyde said with a gruff laugh.
The two of them burst onto the bridge to see Jennifer Daniels and what remained of her hired goons facing them.
"Why are you doing this?" Zu asked the older woman
"Because of what your friends did to me."
"Edward have you or Henry ever seen this woman before?" Zu asked
"No" Hyde replied wanting to surge forward and rip into the men pointing automatic weapons at him.
"They killed my father and destroyed my life."
"Edward did?" Zu asked
"The league did. I wanted revenge on this monster beside you as he was the one who killed my father!" Jennifer almost shrieked.
"I can send you to join him if you want." Hyde said quietly sidling forward.
"Edward no!" Zu shouted before he surged into the men in front of him who had no time to open fire.
Edward Hyde lived for the moments like this when he was able to fight and destroy, normally the quiet voice of Henry Jekyll was quiet when he went on the rampage this time however the doctor was shouting at Hyde to protect Zu. Hyde wasn't willing to do that yet, however while he was arguing with the voice inside his head who for once refused to quieten down when Hyde told him to he was distracted from the fight.
Jennifer Daniels saw that the monster was faltering and took the oportunity to sidle round him towards the young woman over to one side who had wisely decided to stay out of Hyde's way when he went beserk. All the young womans attention was focused on the battle in front of her rather than the woman sneaking towards her. Jennifer had no idea who this starnge woman was as she hadn't been viasable when Jennifer had come on board the ship a few days before. The younger woman obviously cared about one side of the monster and Jennifer presumed that the monster cared about her as well.
Zuliatol had all her attention focused on the creature in the middle of the fight not being sure how any injuries inflicted on Hyde would transfer to the more feeble form of Henry Jekyll. She wasn't aware of the woman nearby hefting the chunk of metal and swinging it at Zu's head. She had a second of warnning before it hit her and she had time to call out one word.
"Henry." Zu's voice cut through the fog of Henry Jekyll's brain as he finnished dealing with the thugs, he immediately turnned and saw her crumple to the floor. Without thinking he charged forward and the woman who had been standing triumphantly over the still body of Nemos daughter turnned in horror to face the charging form of Edward Hyde. For the first time in their strange union Jekyll and Hyde were both in complete agreement in wanting to hurt this woman.
"Stay back, if you harm me you will never find the formula you need." The woman said desperately
"We don't need it any longer." Hyde snarled grabbing her arm and hurling her across the room. The slim body of Jennifer Daniels hid the metal wall of the bridge and slip limply to the floor. Jekyll pulled Hyde in short as he went to charge over and continue to tear into the body. In the seconds while the two of them struggled for control of the body a wounded lackys slowly raised himself off the floor and fired upon Hyde.
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A level below the bridge Skinner and the rest of the league heard the inhuman sound of someone in unbareable pain,
"What was that?" Skinner asked
"I have no idea." Tom replied being closest to where Skinner seemed to be
"It was Hyde." Mina said. "He has been badly hurt."
"Henry." Skinner said and from the sound of his footsteps he started to run towards the bridge
"Zuliatol." Nemo said dashing forward as well leaving Tom and Mina to follow.
When they reached the bridge there was no sign of Edward Hyde or Henry Jekyll, the bodies of assorted lackies lay all over the room, Nemo saw the figure he had been looking for and dashed to his daughters side. Tom, Mina and Skinner followed behind him knowing that she could tell them where Jekyll was.
"Zu." Nemo called anxiously.
"Nemo move aside and let me look at her." Mina ordered, Nemo reluctantly moved aside so that the more trainned member of the league could examine his daughter.
"Is she alright?" Skinner asked sounding concerned which for him was unusual.
"She'll be fine, just a bump to the head." Mina said.
"Thank you Mina." Nemo said kneeling by his daughter once more.
"Jennifer is over here." Tom called from over the room, " I think her back is broken, she's dying but we might get some information from her." Mina and Skinner went over to stand by him leaving Nemo alone with his daughter.
"Jennifer, Jennifer." Mina called sharply, the dying womans eyes flickered open and a look of pure hatred flashed across her face.
"You survived how typical." She whispered
"Why did you try to kill us?" Tom asked
"Not you just Jekyll and his monster."
"Why?"
"You have enemies out there that you aren't even aware of. None of you are safe, they are out there and will find you. You have made yourself no friends,everyone who you have killed has a family out there and they aren't happy." Jennifer whispered
"Why did you attack my daughter?" Nemo demanded joing his comrades
"The monster cares about her and I thought it would distract him enough to be killed. My mistake." Jennifers voice grew weaker.
"Where is Dr Jekyll?" Mina asked
"He's dead." Jennifer said laughing to herself, the laugh trailed off and her eyes clossed.
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Edward Hyde crawled into a corner of the freezer, he wasn't sure why he felt safe there but he did, the man who had shot his had been close enough to get bullets through even Hyde's skin which was thicker than normal. As his strength slowly dwindled away he changed back to the figure of Henry Jekyll. Jekyll lay there knowing he should try to attract someones attention, he tried to raise his voice and shout but no sound came out. His eyes slowly flickered close, he hoped Zu was alright, he wished he'd known her name and got to know her better. As the pain began to slowly recead Jekyll was relieved that at last he'd found the answer to the problem of Edward, dying was the only answer, he just wished he wasn't so cold and so alone. He wished ....
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"Henry." Zu said sitting abruptly up.
"He's not here, luv" Skinner said quietly. He had borrowed Mina's coat and was sitting near by.
"Where is he?" Zu asked
"We're not sure." Tom said
"Where's Daniels?"
"Dead. I think Hyde got her." Nemo told his daughter.
"Are you alright?" Mina asked.
"I'll be fine. Where's Henry?" Zu said trying to stand up. " He was here, I don't remember where he went."
"We'll find him luv." Skinner said
"He isn't in his cabin." Tom said having just spoken to a crewman who had been sent to look there.
"Is he in the freezer?" Zu asked
"Why would he be there. Hyde must hate it." Tom said
"Jekyll was much more in control than he seems to have been in the past, it is quite possible he went there to try and contain Edward Hyde again."Zu explainned.
"I'll go and look." Skinner offered getting to his feet.
"Not without me." Zu said determind to find where her friend was
"We'll all go." Nemo said to ward off any arguments.
The four league members and Zu walked down to the freezer, Mina and Skinner were in the front and stopped when they reached the doorway. Mina hurridly ran in and Skinner tried to restrain Zu who tried to follow Mina in.
"You don't want to see luv." he said trying to hide her face in Mina's coat.
"Get off." Zu said stamping on where his foot should be, by his reaction she connected as he let go. Zu looked in the room and saw Mina kneeling by the still form of Henry Jekyll barely recognisable under the blood that covered him.
"Zu stay here." Nemo called as his daughter rushed forward.
"Oh No. Please no." Zu said falling to her knees. "Henry" she called desperately wanting him to answer.
"It's no good he can't hear you." Mina said feeling for a pulse.
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What do you think folks should Henry be dead?
There is going to be one more chapter at least giving explanations to the rest of the league, review and let me know, you never know if you want he could come back.