Karigoya Yabureme
Chapter 7
By shadows/of/flame

Keira hung her head in shame as the Krimzon Guards started to laugh again.

"Oh... such big words for a widdle baby!" Erol sneered.

Keira rose from her chair, pointing her gun at Erols temple from a distance.

She looked like she had stepped out of hell - various bullet wounds marking her pale skin, blood staining it, and eyes on fire.

"I will save my friends and overthrow you!"

Erol grinned.
"I am the Governer of Haven City! You cannot stop me!"

Keira fired her gun at a Krimzon Guard, starting a bloody and long battle.

Sig started mowing down the Krimzon Guards, while Keira focused on Erol.

Keira fired her gun. Erol dodged the shot. Erol fired his laser. Keira dodged the blast. And so on, and so on, until Sig joined Keiras side.

All the Krimzon Guards were dead.

"Its not over yet! Just because the Krimzon Guard are dead doesn't mean I am going down so easily! I can't die! But you can Keira!"

As Erol was gloating his head off, Keira lended one ear, while she noticed a small unarmoured patch by Erols neck. If she could just shoot without drawing attention to herself, he would be dead in minutes...

Erol continued to gloat about how he was invincible, but Keira was no longer listening. She took aim and fired.

It hit Erol square... nowhere. It didn't hit Erol.

All Keira could do was watch as Sig dove in front of Erol and took the bullet for him.

"Traitor!" Was the first thing to come to Keiras shocked brain as Sig died instantly.

Erol started his maniacal laugh again.
"The stupid brute was working for me all along, and you were too thick and lovestruck to realise! He tampered with your gun so you would fail the mission. When that didn't work, he torched the Underground, held your friends hostage, and gave them to me. It was only a matter of time before you came to their rescue, so Sig lead you to me! And now, I can kill you myself, and all of your friends, so then I can rule Haven City without interference!"

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"Can you hear that?" Jak asked, straining his ears to listen.

"Someones about to get their ass kicked..." Torn muttered. "Thats Erols "I am going to tell you my plan for world domination and then kill you" voice."

0o0o0

Erol burst out into full blown laughter. Keira couldn't believe it.

"You... BASTARD!" she screamed, and shoved him out the glass window.

The two went flying onto the balcony, covered with glass but still alive.

A catfight started - literally, because Erol had metal claws attached to his wrists.

Keira delivered punch after punch, and Erol delivered gouge after gouge.

She pulled out her gun and aimed it at Erols head.

"I have been waiting to do this... for 3 whole years!" she screamed, almost as maniacally as Erol had.

Erol was shaking in pure fear, even wetting his pants in sheer fear of what she was about to do. He went all sincere and sorry on her.

"No... babe... after all we have been through together... you wouldn't really kill me... would you?"

Keira started to chuckle, but the chuckle turned into a blood lined cough.

"I would."

And she pulled the trigger.

0o0o0

Jak heard shattering glass, and then a rather loud girly scream erupting from the throne room area.

"Thats Erols scream! I have heard it before!" Jak announced to everyone.

Torn smirked. "Doesn't it seem a bit too... girly?" he asked.

Jak laughed. "That is Erols laugh all right."

0o0o0

Keira staggered to her feet, slipping on the glass coating the balcony.

She felt in Erols pockets for the keys to the cells, and when she didn't find them, went around every Krimzon Guard corpse and Sigs corpse inside, before staggering to the cells.

Keira had heaps of bad wounds, not to mention glass sticking out of all sorts of places, and she was already convinced she was going to die.

But she needed to save her friends.

She unlocked the door to the main cells, and the stench of death hit her almost immediately.

Torn saw her first.

"Keira!"

She paid no attention to him, unlocking his cell, before doing all the rest.

Everyone was trying to talk to her at once, asking how she had made it there alone, and if Erol was dead, but she ignored them.

"Where are you going?" Jak yelled as Keira headed back to the exit.

"I have a city to save." She replied dully.

She limped out of the room, and now Torn was more worried than ever.

"Her wounds... are that bad... like that... and shes still fighting!" Torn gasped.

"She saved our lives... and you said she wouldn't!" Daxter grinned triumphantly.

Jak blushed. "I... know, and I am ashamed of that. She saved our lives... now its time to return the favour!"

Ashelin smiled. "Lets go!"

The Underground group went to scour the Palace for their weapons, and the weapons were in the throne room.

Written just above Sig and Erols dead bodies, in their blood were the words:

2 traitors were killed here on the 2nd Tuesday of December. Be glad they are dead, for they have caused more pain than love.

"Sig was... Sig was a traitor?" Jak and Daxter exclaimed together.

Torn and Ashelin grabbed everyones equipment, and left the incriminating scene as soon as possible, the corpses and Keiras bloodstained face still stuck fast in their memories.