It
is now three months into the 14th tournament. The Shuffle Alliance
had searched nearly every inch of Europe in search of the
perpetrator. They had covered all countries except Neo-Sweden.
March
18 FC 64
A hotel in Neo-Italy (Rome) 12:54 A.M.
Domon
sighed softly. The dark haired man looked at his wife who lay asleep
in bed next to him. He bent down kissing her gently on the cheek.
Rain stirred slightly and smiled in her sleep. Domon threw the covers
off and grabbed his clothes off of the floor. He got dressed quickly,
glancing sideways at the clock. He pulled a piece of paper out of the
desk and scribbled a note. He wrapped his cloak around his shoulders
and opened the door, looking back at Rain. "I love you,"
Domon whispered as he walked out making his way past the limits of
the city to where the bud carrier was. He got inside God Gundam
[Burning Gundam]. The mobile trace system initiated, he mounted the
mobile horse Fuun Saiki and took off.
A few hours later Rain
woke up, her ice colored eyes shimmered sadly as she looked around
the room seeing that Domon wasn't there. "Just how he used to
act," she muttered as she noticed the note he left.
Dearest
Rain, I need time to think, to clear my head, you know where I'll be
Love Domon
The location instantly popped into her head,
Guyana... she recalled how he had gone there to master the super mode
years before. She called the other 4 members of the Shuffle Alliance,
and they agreed to meet there in a few days.
March
20th
A hidden warehouse just beyond the Guyana
highlands
Allenby slowly opened her eyes peering into the vast
darkness. She didn't know how she had gotten there, all she
remembered was trying to stay awake afraid that if she fell asleep
she would fall victim to whoever was after her.
She tried to
move but metal bonds held her back, she had been chained to the wall.
She could see nothing, but heard the soft click of human footsteps in
the dark. She heard a familiar malevolent cackle, somewhat like the
one she had hear over the phone that night. One dim light clicked on
illuminating a small circle in front of her. The approaching figure
stepped into the light, thin lips curled into a malicious smirk. His
beady eyes focused on her.
Allenby glared. "Well, if it
isn't the little mermaid himself," she said commenting on the
man's long red hair.
The man reached his hand out wrapping his
fingers around her throat, "You aren't in a position to be
talking like that."
Allenby winced as he tightened his
grip on her neck, "Go ahead and kill me, Michelo."
Michelo
sneered, "Do you think we'd bring you all the way to South
America just to kill you?"
"We?"
Another
figure stepped into the light. It was the corpse-like Gentle
Chapman.
"What do you two want with me?"
Chapman
silently pointed to the far wall of the large warehouse where 4
gigantic figures could be seen: a humanoid figure, a mammoth-like
figure, a bird-like figure and a ball-like figure.
Allenby
gasped, "Th... those are..."
"The four
kings..." Michelo grinned, "we brought you here since you
were the original pilot of Walter Gundam. We need you. We need you to
help us destroy the Shuffle Alliance. It's our revenge, you were one
of us before, join us again."
"Never..." she
growled
"you will... you will come to us..." Michelo
simpered letting go of her throat. He turned to Chapman "Convince
her, there is still one left." He walked over to a table picking
up a vial filled with clear liquid and a syringe before disappearing
into the darkness.
Chapman stepped up to her holding a knife
in his hand. He held the blade to her neck with a maddened smile on
his face. Allenby shut her eyes; she'd prefer death to betraying
Domon. 'But wait...' she thought, 'why would he do this if they need
me alive?' Chapman slid the blade about 1/8 of an inch into her
throat. She cringed trying not to scream, but what struck her as most
astonishing was the fact that she felt no blood trickle from the
wound. "But... but how?"
Chapman held up another
vial of clear liquid. "It's an immortality serum, now that
you've been given it there is nothing left for you but to be immersed
in pain forever... until you join us."
