A Viper's Poison
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Thanks for all the reviews of Chapter Twelve!
Tenshisailor: thanks for the review. You pointed out something important, I guess I was pretty skimpy on Seiya and Serena's relationship and it wasn't supposed to be that way so I tried to fix it a little bit in this chapter so it didn't seem like it just dropped off. I've noticed that a lot of people make Raye a power hungry I want to be the leader/princess person too. I mean, it fits when they do it, but the who sailor thing isn't in my story its OCC so I can make her however I want.
Becx: Thanks for the review! Sorry for the slow progression of the romance, I guess I'm not so hot in that department.
Princess of Star: Fanfiction was being weird and double posted it in the chapter. I went back and look at my word document and it only had it once. I noticed that FF has been malfunctioning ever since they did the new updates, but I think its getting better. Thanks for the review!
Shan: Thanks for the review!
Krys: Yeah, fanfiction was being weird, it wasn't supposed to do that.
Midnight: here's some more! Sorry it took so long! Thanks for the review!
Serenaclutz: The Masamune is a great sword which is actual from the Final Fantasy series, it is noted the most for being Sephiroth's weapon in Final Fantasy 7. I forgot to attribute that.
Lit-bit-gish: here is some Serena/Michael clash for you, this chapter is pretty action packed, I hope you enjoy it!
DarkParis: I don't really know about a Darien/Serena/Diamond triangle cause I already had one with Seiya, but I did bring Diamond back for you, sorry its not a love thing, I hope you are not too disappointed.
Moon-Daisuke: Yeah, I messed that up, I forgot I had changed Yaten's real last name from Kou to Williams. That was just a typing mistake on my part. Sorry!
Silver: I don't know who you think the boss is, but he will be revealed next chapter!
Lost and alone: Here's your update, I hope you enjoy and thanks for the review!
Previously on A Viper's Poison:
"What Serena? Would you like me to kill you like I did your mother? She was pathetic really, screaming and begging for me to have mercy. She was such an enjoyable thing tame when I ravished her." He sneered, his dark eyes glinting wickedly. Serena felt her blood boil in her veins as her anger rose, blinding her in rage.
"No Michael, it is you who will die." She said in an unnervingly calm voice. Serena reached behind her and pulled the Masamune from the leather sheath strapped around her back, the exquisite blade singing as it was released from its prison. Serena brandished the sword in a defensive stance before her.
"It is time." She said strongly raising the Masamune high, and then she attacked.
Chapter Thirteen: Tragic Love
Yesterday
Seiya paced in his office, his hands shoved in his pockets his mind submerged in deep thought. It had been forty minutes since Venom had left the United States and Seiya was trying to figure out what had happened to his second in command, Diamond. Papers littered the top of his desk and spilled off the sides in large clumpy piles of documents.
"Diamond was last seen by me the day Serena got the Crystal Empires assignment. He was then seen randomly by his intelligence operatives through out the week up till Darien's capture." Seiya muttered to himself, mulling over the information he had collected.
"Why did he leave? He left no information as to his whereabouts. He knows he cannot just get up and leave me like this, something must've happened to him." Seiya figured.
"Wait, wait, I sent people to check his apartment." Seiya remembered before picking up his office phone and dialing.
"Bridget? Yeah, it's Seiya. Did the report come back in on Diamond's apartment?" he asked.
"Yes Sir, it came in a few minutes ago, they are still at the apartment but they sent an electronic report when they completed their examination." Bridget replied.
"Tell me Bridget, were there any signs of forced entry or struggle within his quarters?" Seiya inquired.
"No Sir, everything was spotless, apparently Diamond is a very neat man." Bridget commented.
"Yes, he always was paranoid about dirt. Tell me then, was there anything out of sorts in the apartment that they found?" Seiya asked.
"The report says that there were barely any clothes left in the closet and that personal bathroom belongings were not present except for unopened items." Bridget reported. Seiya rubbed his fingers across his chin.
"That's not right, Diamond had lots of clothes, he didn't like wearing things twice in the same month." Seiya mused. "He must've packed and left willingly, or he was forced to leave just like Darien."
"That must've been what happened, Diamond wouldn't willingly leave me during a time like this when his information is precious. Why I would never have found out half the things about Crystal Empires if it weren't for his skills, I can hardly believe the stuff he found out with out direct contact with the company." Seiya said to himself then he looked up sharply.
"Oh my god." He said softly.
"I'm sorry Sir, I didn't catch that." Bridget said.
"Direct contact with the company. I never figured out how Crystal Empires knew where we were hiding Darien, Serena's apartment is untraceable, there is no way they could have linked it to her. Someone had given them that information." Seiya realized, sinking back into his office chair in shock.
"Sir?" Bridget's questioning voice rang out in the phone.
"He didn't leaving unwillingly, he left on purpose and right after Darien was taken, right after he told them where Darien was." Seiya said still in shock.
"Bridget, I need you to call the airline and tell them I need a plane to fly me to Cairo pronto." Seiya said in a grave voice.
"Sir is everything ok?" Bridget asked in confused concern.
"Diamond betrayed us. I'm going to Cairo to deal with him personally, no one betrays me and gets away with it." Seiya said, vengeance filling his voice as he slammed his fist on the surface on the desk.
"Get me that plane now Bridget." He barked his anger growing.
"Right away Sir." Bridget said her voice flustered.
"You won't get away with this Diamond, you won't. Not even your precious Crystal Empires can stop me from killing you."
The silver doors blocking the way to the missile control room slide open automatically as Mina and Andrew charged through, followed by Amy who held her computer protectively in the crook of her arms. The door had led to a metallic ramp hidden partway by a chest high wall that followed the ramp all the way down. The scientists stopped their work and looked up towards the trio in confusion, wondering who had made such a commotion.
Mina quickly assessed the room, the outer walls of the room was covered with wall size computer screens with complicated control panels. One scientist manned each computer, four computers on each wall, three walls containing computers. Security guards blocked their entrance to the main part of the room, four of them standing at the bottom of the ramp bearing guns. Three other four-man groups of guards were in the room, one group at each computer wall.
"Get down Andrew!" Mina yelled as she dove down behind the wall, grabbing Andrew's wrist and yanking him down with her. She pulled out a small knife from her wrist and stood up quickly, throwing the knife with precise aim at one of the guards at the bottom of the ramp and slicing through his throat. She was rewarded with a round of fire, sparks spitting off the metal wall as red-hot bullets rained on it.
Andrew pulled out his twin guns and leaned his back against the wall, his weapons trained at the bottom of the ramp where the guards where taking shelter around the corner of the ramp. A head peeked over to see where they were and Andrew's quick reflexes took immediate action, twin shots blasting out of the two barrels and embedding in the guard's head, one in the throat and the other in the center of his forehead.
The three could hear the garbled scream of the guard as he choked on the blood filling his throat and fell to the floor in a pool of blood. The two guards left at the bottom yelled in rage at the deaths of their companions and immediately began firing in the direction of the three intruders.
"Cobra can you get a visual of the room and everyone in it?" Mina whispered to the blue haired woman beside her.
"I can try, I need you to distract their fire for me so I can use the computers camera to scan and target everyone's body heat to get their location from now on." Amy whispered back, opening her computer and pulling out a thin plastic camera attached to a pole.
"I can do that." Andrew volunteered. Mina looked at him surprised but nodded her agreement. Andrew crawled down the ramp a couple yards and popped up, targeting the two guards left at the bottom of the ramp. Amy took the distraction to stand up and quickly scan the camera around the room, letting the computer take the time to register and read the temperatures in the room. When she was finished, she slid back down and began typing furiously.
Andrew let out a cry of triumph as the two guards collapsed to the floor from his attack. Mina looked at him proudly until he turned in her direction, summoning her to follow him out. She shook her head and motioned for him to join her back at the top. Complying, Andrew crawled back up the ramp, ducking as shots fired at the top of his head.
"I have an idea." Mina said grabbing his arm and bringing him next to her.
"What is it?" he asked.
"I need you to do something for me though." She said ignoring his question.
"What is it?" Andrew repeated.
"I need you to cover me while I jump down." Mina said.
"What? Are you crazy? There is no way I'm letting you go out there by yourself!" Andrew protested fiercely.
"Andrew may I remind you who the trained assassin is and who the trained cook is?" Mina said impatiently.
"Point taken." Andrew replied sheepishly.
"Now, Cobra got a scan of the room and by using her camera to lock a signal on all the temperatures in the room, she was able to pinpoint where each person in the room is located." Mina said pointing to the computer Amy was holding out.
"Now I need you to guard my back, I'm going to swing down to the right and hit those guards first, I should be covered by the side of the ramp." Mina said pointing to the four guards standing below them to the right.
"Alright, say when." Andrew said reloading his guns. Mina pulled out her black whip and held it loosely in her hand.
"When." She said evenly. Together, Andrew and Mina popped up over the wall of the ramp, Andrew training his guns on the floor, watching for anyone about to fire, and Mina unraveling her whip as she sprung to the top of the wall of the ramp.
Mina pulled her arm back and sent the whip flying, the black leather weapon wrapping itself around a pipe running along the wall. Mina ran to the left along the wall and jumped gracefully off, holding tightly to the whip as she flew in a circle towards the guards on the right. She snapped her wrist and released the whip as she flipped in the air and landed neatly on the floor, propped on one knee, the hand holding the whip at her side. She lunged then against the unsuspecting guards, snapping her whip at the closest one, gashing his hand holding the gun and splitting the skin, the weapon clattering to the floor. Mina rolled to the right and lashed out with her whip again, catching the legs of the next guard and pulling them out from under him. He fell heavily, his head cracking against the marble floor. Mina grabbed the gun that the first guard dropped and whipped around, firing two clean shots, one into each of the remaining guards heads.
The guard still on the floor was whimpering and clutching his bloody hand. Mina lowered the gun to her side and flattened herself against the ramps right wall, no longer in view of the guards across the room who had just realized what happened. The injured guard was slowly trying to slide away with his good hand, but Mina grabbed his foot with her whip and hauled him back towards her as she grinned.
"Eight down, eight more to go."
Seiya walked briskly through the Airport, pushing his way through massive groups of people. He spotted Yaten Williams waiting for him at the terminal exit and continued in his direction, shaking Yaten's hand when he reached him.
"Good to see you again Yaten." Seiya said sincerely.
"You to Seiya." Yaten replied with a smile.
"Can you get me out to them?" Seiya asked immediately getting down to business.
"Right away Sir, I have the car waiting outside. We can leave right now." Yaten said pointing towards the parking lot.
"Good, excellent work Yaten, take me there now and as fast as possible." Seiya ordered and followed Yaten out of the airport to the awaiting hummer.
Life seemed to have stilled, time was moving in slow motion. The beautifully carved Masamune glinted in the hallway lights showing its magnificence as it sailed through the air, cutting the wind with a melodious whistle of death. Serena's face was set in grim determination aligned with a mask of pure hatred as she dashed towards her prey. Michael stood stolid, facing his opponent as he drew two long knives from his black leather boots and brandished them in front of him. He observed Serena as she sped towards him; strands of her silvery hair had come loose from her bun, outlining her smooth face. Her bright aqua eyes were lit with anger and darkening her features, her mouth tight. She looked wild and in that moment, Michael saw her raw beauty.
Tightening his grip on his knives, Michael bent his knees, readying himself to spring into action upon her attack. Serena was bearing down upon Michael, the hallway passing by in a blur of silver. When she reached him, Serena swung the Masamune in a wide arc towards his head, but Michael sprang up his knives held out in front of him and he caught her blade in between his and he twisted it, trying to wrench the Masamune from her grasp causing her to flip over to the right while Serena tried to maintain her grip on the sword's hilt. Serena landed gracefully and the sword slid out of Michael's knives with a high ring of metal grinding, sparks spitting from the sides. Serena attacked again, but Michael kept parrying her blows with his knives. He swept his right hand in front of him and countered another blow before ducking down to jab her in the stomach with his left. Serena leapt back and hit the knife away with another swing from her Masamune causing Michael to fall to the floor with the impact.
Serena raised the sword over her head and brought it down towards Michael's head, but he rolled out of the way and the Masamune embedded itself into the floor with an earth-shattering crack as one coursed through the entire hallway. Serena grunted in annoyance because Michael kept slipping away from her. Michael flipped off the floor to his feet and ran towards Serena before jumping to his knees and sliding across the metal floor towards her, coming up under her sword, capturing is with his knives and with a thrust of power, threw it out of her hands and sailed it across the hallway where it hit the wall and clattered to the floor. Serena was stunned at the sudden loss of her weapon but came to attention when she realized Michael was attacking her again. Quickly she drew her two Sais and was rewarded with a surprised look from Michael when she countered his blades with her own as the four entwined and refused to release.
"You could have been an asset to us, Serena." Michael whispered in her ear as she struggled to release her Sais from his knives.
"I would never have joined you." Serena spat angrily.
"I wouldn't be to sure of that." Michael said a diabolical smile spreading across his face.
"If things had been different, if you hadn't run away, you would have been ours." Michael replied.
"What do you mean?" Serena asked as she struggled with the weapons. Michael just smiled in return as he began to slide his knives out from hers. Serena lifted up her leg and kicked Michael in the stomach causing him to reel back and the knives to be forced to part.
Serena went up to his doubled over form and punched him across the face with the hilt of her Sais eliciting blood from a cut to his temple. Michael threw a low kick and swept her off her feet and Serena landed on her back and slid across the floor. Serena sprang up with another kick of her own, but Michael caught her feet and threw her farther down the hallway. Serena's body felt weary and blood was running from where her head had cracked against the floor making her feel woozy, but through her haze of pain, she saw her sword lying a few feet away. Michael walked over behind her and grabbed her blond bun in his hands and yanked her head off the floor. Serena winced with the pain as her hair threatened to leave its roots. Michael laughed at her torment and moved to slice her throat, but before he could place the knife anywhere near her delicate skin, Serena reached her legs far back and smashed Michael's face with her feet, forcing him back against the wall. Serena rolled over and grabbed her fallen Sais, throwing them at Michael, which caught the edges of his shoulders, pinning him into the wall as they embedded themselves there. Michael cried out in pain, but Serena ignored him as she retrieved her Masamune and walked swiftly towards him.
"This is for my mother and my father." Serena said steely as she raised the Masamune high in the air. Michael glared at her defiantly and raised his head proudly. He whipped out a gun from his waistband and fired at Serena, who was a few feet in front of him, but the pain in his shoulders had weakened him and he couldn't steady the gun. The bullet torpedoed towards Serena and she had little time to react as it sliced through the skin of her left shoulder.
"Serena!" a voice called to her as she was struck. She could barely hear the voice above the white-hot pain screaming in her head. Serena gritted her teeth through the pain and plunged the sword into Michael's heart, the sharp blade sliding through as if cutting water. Michael's cold blue eyes went wide from the pain. His lips moved, but barely any sound came out.
"Your father…" Michael whispered before the light in his eyes disappeared and his body slumped down the wall, only held up against it by the twin Sais embedded in his shoulders.
"Serena!" the voice called again and she could hear the pounding of feet against the floor behind her as she pulled the Masamune out. She felt a little drained and dizzy and she reached out to steady herself, but missed and fell to the floor.
Strong arms encircled her body as she collapsed and brought her against a muscular chest. Hands smoothed the hair away from her face and caressed her cheek.
"Seiya?" Serena said puzzled as she tilted her head and looked at the handsome man holding her.
"It's ok Serena, you are alright." Seiya whispered into her hair. He grabbed her chin and moved her face so she was looking into his eyes. He leaned in and placed a soft kiss on her lips, supporting her head with a hand at the back of her neck. Serena closed her eyes and kissed him back, expecting to feel a jolt or a spark, but nothing happened. It felt wrong. Serena broke the kiss and pushed him away.
"Seiya I can't." she said looking at the floor.
"Serena, I know I haven't really been paying attention to you these past weeks, but it's just been so busy with Darien and all-" Seiya paused. "Darien. It's him isn't it? So it is true." He said his features darkening.
"No, no Seiya, it's not Darien." Serena said hastily in protest. Seiya gave her a doubtful look. "It's just not right Seiya, it doesn't feel right, for me. We aren't meant to be together." Serena said gently as she removed herself from his embrace. Seiya nodded, his face saddened by her rejection, but he stood up and helped her to her feet.
Serena winced as a fresh wave of pain shot through her body. She moved her hand to her shoulder and held in there as if trying to stop the onslaught. Seiya looked at her concerned and moved her hand away revealing a tear in her suit and blood pouring from a wound in her shoulder.
"Serena he shot you." Seiya said in disbelief.
"It's no big deal Seiya, he just grazed me, the bullet didn't go through the skin, and it just skimmed the surface." Serena reasoned.
"Serena you are bleeding heavily." Seiya said concerned as he removed his hand and looked at the blood staining his fingers.
"I'll be fine. We need to catch up with Raye." Serena informed him as she collected her Sais letting Michael's body slide to the floor, leaving bright red trails of blood smeared against the wall.
"Raye? You left her alone?" Seiya said unknown concern filling his voice.
"Well she's with Lita." Serena said looking at Seiya suspiciously.
"We should go catch up with them, Diamond may have found them." Seiya decided, pulling Serena in the direction he thought Raye and Lita went.
"Uh, Seiya, the other way." Serena said stopping and pointing the opposite direction. "And what is this about Diamond?" She asked curiously.
"I'll tell you later." He said over his shoulder as he dragged her down the hallway.
Mina looked ahead as she was pressed against the wall and noticed that the wall across from her was made completely of glass and she spied the nuclear weapon in another room next to the control room. She peered around the corner and was rewarded with a rain shower of bullets. She slammed herself back against the wall, her chest heaving as she gathered much needed air. Her hands fingered the gun in one hand and the whip in the other.
"Copperhead." Amy's voice called to her. Mina looked down at her communicator and saw an image of Amy projected there.
"Yeah?" Mina asked.
"It would seem you are a little trapped down there according to my computer, I'm sending Andrew to help you out." Amy reported. Mina just nodded her head and waited tensely for a sign of Andrew. A few minutes later she heard shouts and the spraying of bullets. She looked around the edge and saw Andrew jump off the ramp wall and land on the floor before rolling to his left. Mina used the distraction to run out from the right and she did a series of front handsprings flipping towards the next set of guards and she shot at them as she rotated around, hitting them in various places. By the time she reached them, two were dead and the other two wounded.
Mina smiled wickedly and cracked her whip before her causing the two guards to scatter and run away from her. Andrew however was merciless and cleanly shot both of them in the head and they slumped to the ground as Andrew joined Mina. He threw her an exhilarated grin before grabbing her arm and pulling her away from the sight of the last four guards as they began to shoot at the pair. Andrew kept Mina behind him with his left hand as he fired at the guards with his right, shooting one in the leg and another in the throat. Mina reached around Andrew's body and threw two daggers towards the guards and sliced cleanly through two of their throats. Andrew walked over to the injured guards and kicked away their guns before collecting the guns of the dead guards. He placed the pile of guns in the center of the room where Mina stood.
"If you cooperate with us, we will let you live. If you refuse, you will be killed." Mina stated evenly as she looked at the frightened scientists who had fled to the corners of the room. They nodded their agreement, their eyes wide with fear.
"Cobra, you can come down now." Mina called to Amy while Andrew herded the scientists into one group, sitting them in front of the ramp wall.
"Good work Copperhead, Andrew." Amy complimented them as she walked down the ramp, computer in hand. She immediately walked to one of the mainframe computers and plugged in her own, connecting it to Crystal Empires' mainframe.
"What exactly are you going to do Cobra?" Mina asked curiously as she watched Amy type furiously, bringing up many different screens on the computer.
"I'm trying to locate the launch sequence of the missile so I can disable it and then I'm going to spread a virus through the computer to destroy all their research." Amy explained as she continued to search through files hidden in the computer.
"Yeah, that's above my head." Mina said shaking her head and walking back to Andrew. He smiled at her and then gathered into his arms, holding her tightly in his muscular arms. Mina stiffened at his unexpected touched, but relaxed and leaned back against his broad chest as she eyed the scientists, her hands gripping the whip as she twirled it in lazy circles in front of them, teasing them. Andrew placed an affectionate kiss of the top of her head as he rubbed her arms.
"I got it!" Amy shouted happily. Mina and Andrew grinned at each other as the busy sound on continual clicking finally stopped and Amy danced around in her seat.
Amy typed in various codes, the computer beeping as it accepted and declined different attempts. Amy never gave up but continued to work on the sequences, determined to disarm the missile. She breathed a sigh of relief when she figured out the pass code and was allowed access into the missile mainframe. She stared at the missile's complex structure in awe.
"This is truly amazing." Amy said in a soft voice as she scrolled through the files. She quickly found the operations sequence and disarmed the missile, destroying all links to the system and any way to arm and release the missile. Quickly she downloaded a worm into the mainframe computer and watched as it ate its way through the system completely destroying every file.
"Finished." Amy turned towards her two companions grinning.
"Excellent Cobra." Mina said before switching on her communicator.
"Viper, it's Copperhead, Mission completed." Mina said confidently into her communicator as Serena's image appeared before her.
"Good job guys. We still have not recovered the package, but Seiya and I are currently en route to intercept Coral and Python who are in pursuit of package." Serena explained as she ran in front of Seiya.
"Seiya? What's he doing here?" Mina asked confused.
"I'll tell you later Copperhead, stand by until rendezvous time. We'll be in touch, Viper out." Serena said as she closed the link.
"Well guys, we just stay here until further notice." Mina said as she turned off the communicator.
"Great, I always loved babysitting." Andrew said sarcastically as he twirled his guns and glared at the scientists.
"Viper will call us if she needs us." Amy said reassuringly as she joined them.
"I guess there's nothing left to do except wait." Mina said as she joined Andrew.
"I can think of something to do." Andrew said wiggling his eyebrows.
"Andrew!" Mina said horrified as she smacked him playfully. Amy rolled her eyes as Andrew cried out in mock pain and grabbed his arm. It was going to be a long wait.
Serena and Seiya crept cautiously down the hallway eyes peeled for a disturbance or trace of Raye and Lita. Serena paused at the corner of the hallway and looked down, noticing a couple guards standing in front of a locked door. A hand suddenly grabbed her shoulder causing her to gasp, but another hand covered her mouth preventing any noise from escaping. She struggled against her captor and notice Seiya was in the same situation.
"Viper stop, it's me." A familiar voice commanded causing Serena to still. The person released their hold and Serena turned around to study the two and narrowed her eyes when she didn't recognize them. She pulled out her Sais and held them in front of her threateningly.
"Viper wait." The voice said and reached towards its arm and fiddled with something. Soon the image melted away and revealed Raye. The other did the same and soon Lita appeared. Serena breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at the two and noted the silver bracelets on their wrists.
"Don't do that." Serena said with a grin. "I'm glad you two are ok." She added.
"What happened to you?" Lita said in concern when she noted Serena's injury.
"It's nothing really, Michael just did a little damage, that's all." Serena said waving it off. "Did you find Darien?"
"We think he's in that guarded room, we were just about to see if we could breech it with our disguises when we saw you two." Lita said before turning to Seiya.
"What are you doing here?" she asked suspiciously.
"Long story, no time to explain." Seiya answered.
"Right, we're just going to have to do a full scale attack, a surprise. It's four and four, even odds so it's nothing we can't handle." Serena said as she peered around the corner again.
"I don't have any problem with that." Lita said eagerly.
"How are we going to get into the room?" Raye asked.
"Michael had a card that I am assuming has access to all levels and doors." Serena said pulling out a key card she had jacked from her dead opponent.
The women each reactivated their hologram disguises, changing their appearances to that of beautifully exotic women. They stepped out from behind the wall, giggling and pointing to the troop of guards in front of the door who in return stared back flabbergasted at them. Serena walked up to one of the men and leaned her body fully against him, running her fingers down the side of his face as he gulped at her touch. She smiled sweetly before tightening her hands around his neck and breaking it with a smooth flick of her wrist. Two other guards dropped dead beside her due to Raye and Lita's talents. The last guard realized the threat and grabbed onto Raye's wrist, catching her bracelet and swinging her down. Raye flew to the floor from the guard's assault and his fingers caught the edge of the bracelet, forcing it to slide off, taking pieces of Raye's flesh with it and the bracelet slid across the floor and landed at the top of a pair of black shoes.
Raye looked up, her disguise gone, into the face of a sullen Diamond in whose hands was a struggling Darien.
"Well well well, if it isn't the wonder women." Diamond sneered as he flicked a knife to Darien's neck, causing him to still. Darien in turn stared at Raye in confusion.
"Diamond what are you doing?" Lita asked horrified when she saw Diamond.
"Only what is necessary." He responded. He stepped back through the archway of the now opened door and walked back in the room, pulling Darien in with him.
"Seize them and bring them to me." Diamond ordered a group of men who came out of the door and grabbed each of the girls and Seiya. They struggled and it took three men each to hold them down and they stripped them of their bracelets. The door closed behind them cutting off their view of Darien.
"DIAMOND!" Serena screamed as she was pressed firmly against the floor. "You come back here!" She was rewarded by a smack across the face from a leering guard. Serena spat at him and thrashed about against the men who held her down, but they just hit her again.
The men then roughly grabbed the four of them by the neck and hauled them to their feet, pushing them in the direction of the door. It opened allowing them access and they walked in to find Diamond holding Darien in the center of the room.
"Diamond, why did you do it? Why did you betray us?" Raye asked confused as she stared at one of her former leaders and trainers.
"Money, glory, power. Why else would anyone do it?" Diamond said laughing.
"You were one of us, you were our friend, our mentor." Lita protested still in denial.
"You didn't need me. Seiya had developed his own little organization, took total control. He rooted me out, left me to the simple jobs while he took charge." Diamond said bitterly glaring at Seiya.
"It wasn't supposed to be that way Diamond, you should have said something, and I would have fixed it." Seiya replied.
"You sold our secrets to Crystal Empires, you led them to me and to Darien." Serena said angrily.
"I did and now I do not need him anymore." Diamond said, pulling out a gun and placing it to Darien's temple.
"Diamond, you don't want to do that." Serena protested when she saw the situation.
"Oh I think I do. We have no use for him anymore, the missile is complete." Diamond said haughtily.
"One of ours disarmed it, it is no longer operational, and you need him to fix it." Raye protested eyeing her brother.
"You think that is the only way to launch the missile? Think again. It is only the most practical way and guarantees a higher success rate. There are other options." Diamond said laughing mockingly at them. He pulled Darien with him as he went to the silver desk near the center of the room and flipped open the lid to a metal box sitting on the top. Diamond grinned evilly as he showed them the box, which contained a large red button.
"Here comes the revolution." Diamond said loudly as he lowered his finger and pressed the red button.
Amy, Andrew and Mina were sitting quietly, warily watching the group of scientists, all bored out of their minds. Suddenly a great rumbling occurred that threatened to knock them to the floor.
"What is that?" Mina asked alarmed as she looked around.
"It is the missile Miss." One of the scientists spoke up.
"It can't be, I disabled it." Amy said in disbelief.
"There is an emergency switch kept in the main office." The scientist replied as he pointed to the right where the wall was covered in glass panel by the ramp. Amy, Andrew and Mina ran over to the wall and peered through the glass.
The missile had gone from dull hunk of metal to full of life. Lights and buttons flared to color as the missile began to turn on and light up. The ground began to tremble as the facility lifted itself out of the sand into the air and they watched helpless as the roof opened up and the missile rose to launching position.
"No." Mina whispered pressing her head against the glass in defeat. The engine ignited under the missile, a blaze of white hot fire and with an ear cracking roar, the missile launched climbing higher into the sky until it was out of sight.
"We are in big trouble." Amy said grimly as they watched the missile fade into the distance.
"I guess you were wrong." Diamond said laughing as they listened to the sound of the missile taking off and saw it launch through a window.
"I guess this means I will not be needing you after all." Diamond decided and pressed the trigger to the gun held to Darien's temple. A loud crack sliced through the room, as the bullet was released and sped towards Darien's head, ripping into his flesh, blowing a hole into his head splattering blood and brain around the room.
"Darien!" Serena cried, shaking off the guards and running towards his fallen form. She picked his limp body up in her arms and looked at his mutilated face, the top of his head blown half off, his blue eyes staring up at her lifeless, his mouth frozen open in a silent scream. Serena felt warm trails of tears trickled down her face in a silver stream, curving down the sides of her lips and dropping onto Darien's shirt.
That's when she knew, that's when she finally realized it. A fierce shot of pain raged through her body, piercing her heart and soul when she realized he was dead. She screamed in agony as she held his body close to her broken heart. She loved him and she had realized it too late, Darien was taken from her. Rage filled her soul and hatred seized her heart and she looked up at Diamond with such coldness and anger, he was taken aback and fear crept in him.
"I am going to kill you Diamond." She said her voice thick with hatred and pain. Nothing mattered anymore, she didn't care if she died trying to fight surround by twelve men holding guns, the one thing that she realized mattered most in her life was dead.
That would be the end of chapter thirteen, sorry for the delay, I was having a really entertaining week and wasn't around much to write. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, I'll probably be getting a lot of hate mail, but don't be too hasty in your criticism, there is still one more chapter left. Please please please review!!
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