A/N: Alright, here's the eight chapter. I have nothing to say…
Chapter 8 Worth
The God of Time, Aria and Evia, and Kaileena's expressions all shifted to the balcony where Arlyn just recently jumped. Kaileena quickly glanced at her other two family members, they obviously couldn't see. But Kaileena knew what had gotten Arlyn's attentions. Sadly, he did too.
"What do you see up there?" The God of Time called up as he stood up from his throne.
"Well, well, well." Arlyn ignored his father's words. He walked closer to the Prince and gripped his jaw. "What do we have here? A mortal nonetheless. I assume you are the one that has the whole little Time family on alert, hm?"
The balcony seemed to shake as Arlyn's Dahaka took another attempt at whacking the Prince.
"Stop you stupid beast!" Arlyn bellowed. The creature immediately retracted its tendrils. "Such dumb animals." He stated smoothly. "Father, you really should think about making them smarter!" He called back down the room.
"Boy! Tell me what you see!" He commanded again. Arlyn laughed and suddenly grasped the Prince's neck. He struggled, but Arlyn's grip was astoundingly tight as he lifted the Prince over the balcony. "This! This is what I gaze upon father! This is the pitiful mortal that has you scared out of your mind! He's no powerful warrior, and look! He bleeds just as the rest!"
The Prince gagged fiercely as blood began to erupt from his mouth. The grip Arlyn had on his neck was unfathomable.
"So that's him, eh?" The God of Time let out with a bit of a chuckle. "All these precautions—taken for nothing! Arlyn show that pitiful mortal what it's like to come into the threshold of a god! Drop him!"
"As you wish." Arlyn complied as he let loose his grip. The Prince was almost relieved to breathe clearly again. But his sudden freefall down the throne wiped all relief out of him.
Kaileena's stomach bubbled with indecision. She had to save him, but how could she without her family discovering her as a traitor? Kaileena briefly glanced at Aria, who was watching her intently. Expecting her to save him. Her father, Evia and Arlyn were contrarily occupied with the Prince's plunge. Kaileena had no choice. There was a decision to be made to stay with her family, or her true love, and she vomited at the thought of the former.
"No!" She let out at she pointed her swords at the falling Prince. His body was suddenly incased in a swirl of sand and his descent slowed as if he were being let down on a rope.
"I knew it!" Aria screeched, he her howl soaring through the room like a banshee. "You knew exactly who attacked your temple! You just joined them instead of killing them!"
"Disappointing." She heard her father say. "I always knew that you held this family in contempt, but I never thought you would choose treason over your own flesh and blood."
Kaileena just stared at their shocked faces. Except of course for Aria's; her face was riddled with delight. The whole didn't know how wrong they were. Kaileena completely stayed on their side at first. She had attempted to kill the Prince several times, but he defeated her. Then in return, saved her life from the Dahaka. It was not her first choice to fall in love with him, or to betray her family. She wouldn't have even seen them again if it wasn't for her father's message. Though, in truth, her family disowning her almost felt—right.
The Prince's body slowly landed on the ground in a standing position. Her struggled to keep his balance as the encasement of sands abruptly left him in a massive swoop.
"Look at that!" Evia aimed her finger at the Prince's sword. "He has Kaileena's Dahaka control item! The Water Sword!"
"Kaileena!" Arlyn screamed from his perch. "That weapon is for your defense in case your Dahaka goes mad! How dare you allow that dreadful mortal to carry it! Hath your treason know no bounds!"
"Shut up!" Kaileena screamed at all of them. "Don't act as if you are all one happy deeply connected family! Each and every one of you are sick and twisted! Father, you raped all your female children. And beat your youngest son! Aria and Evia you only truly love each other, and Arlyn…" she turned to her brother who had now jumped from the balcony. "You hate everyone in this family!"
"But do you see us betraying each other?" Arlyn reversed. "No, now Kaileena." He reached into the inside of his cloak and pulled out and a long golden sword with a green hilt and shimmering rubies in the blade. "It's time for retribution. I'll kill you, and this pitiful mortal that you see to protect!"
Kailleena turned back to her twins siblings, who both had pulled out tridents that matched their outfit colors.
"If it is a fight that you want. Then fine. I will destroy everyone in this family! Prince! Run!"
The Prince needn't have been told twice, before she could she finish her sentence he had bolted out into the main hallway.
"No! Don't let him escape!" Their father pitched into the air in a remarkably deep tone.
"No worries father." Arlyn said. "I'll get him," and with that he followed the Prince out of the throne room. Up near the balcony his Dahaka had already disappeared.
"I never thought you would do anything like this." Evia said sadly. Her brown locks fell over her light-blue clad shoulders. Kaileena recognized true sincerity in her voice. "I know that you never enjoyed being with us. But I honestly thought that, when it came down to it, that you were with us."
"I knew!" Aria spat. "I knew from the very beginning that you were nothing but a shameful speck of dirt in this beautiful golden family. You and your unnatural brother."
"Don't call him that!" Kaileena shot back with her swords outreached. "He was more natural than you could ever be! He had a heart! Unlike you! And how dare you call anyone unnatural? You actually enjoyed the times father molested you!"
Unbeknownst to the three daughters, the God of Time's eyebrows lifted pleasantly upon remembering the nights spent with his eldest daughter.
"What's wrong with enjoying it?" Aria's face was turning red. "It wasn't like we could ever be with other men! So why not enjoy the time! That was the only time I ever felt beautiful!"
"You're despicable! Didn't you ever know that it was wrong?"
"Of course I knew it was wrong! But what choice did I have? Maybe you wouldn't be so screwed up if you had indulged in it a bit."
"I'm screwed up?" Kaileena forced down the urge to laugh. "You are so delusional is almost sad." She turned to Evia, who still had her head down; she thought she heard a sob. "What about you, Evia?"
Evia looked up, seeming surprised. "What? Me? What about me?"
"Don't you ever get tired of following in your elder sister's shadow?"
Evia didn't respond. But had a look in her eye that seemed almost regretful. Aria sensed her sister weakening and spoke for her. "Don't try to sway my sister to your side! Just because she's not a traitor like you!"
"I feel sorry for you, Aria."
"What?"
"I'm just so upset that you can't find the truth in everything that is going on. Father is the bad one, and yet you still take his side. Your sister may have some sense in her, and yet you keep her from doing what is right as well. I truly hate killing, but your death will be something that I won't regret at all."
"Hmph. Whatever you say," she gave a questioning look at her father. Who responded with an approving nod. "Good." She snickered. "Okay, Evia. Let's show this girl who's the real women of this family!"
Evia gave out a solemn nod and raised her trident. Aria repeated the action. The room seemed to darken as two giant whirlwinds ignited behind the twins. Aria let out a yell as pink tendrils erupted from her respective whirlwind, followed by blue ones from Evia's. Soon, the room brightened once again as pink and blue Dahakas emerged from the whirlwinds. Kaileena found the colorful Dahaka of her sisters almost humorous.
The two lowered their tridents as their Dahakas breathed behind them, hungry for death.
Kaileena smirked. "Four against one? That's not fair at all."
"I want to make sure you die. I've waited for this moment for so long! Go!" She screamed, launching her Dahaka's at Kaileena. They reached for her with their tentacles, but Kaileena leapt between them and stabbed Aria's Dahaka in its skull. Evia's Dahaka managed to grab Kaileena just as she finished Aria's, but Kaileena made quick work of hers by letting the Dahaka draw her to it, and then by swinging her sword right through its head at the last minute. Kaileena landed on the ground as the two Dahakas fell onto the ground and disappeared almost instantly.
"You two honestly didn't think that Dahaka would work on me? Aria, you know father instructed us specifically on how to deal with them."
"Since when do you listen to father?" Aria asked with cynicism in her voice.
"I listened when he said that his best nights were with me and not you." Kaileena let that slip purposely. She knew that would get Aria heated.
"Arrgh! I'll kill you where you stand! Evia, come on!" Both twins assulated Kaileena who blocked each one's attack with one of her swords. Evia followed up with a heavy kick that knocked Kaileena backward. Aria quickly disappeared and reappeared above Kaileena with an attempt to force her trident through her sister's head. But Kaileena quickly avoided the attack by rolling to the side. But not without a small cut in the back of her head.
She regained her footing and flipped to the side when Evia launched at her again.
"Stop running, Kaileena." She said quietly. "I don't want your death to be painful."
Kaileena could've sworn that her sister's eyes glimmered. Obvious signs of tears gathering.
"You don't have to do this, Evia." Kaileena attempted to make clear. "I won't ask you to join me, but you don't have to listen to Aria! For once, make your own choices!"
"What are you saying to her!" Aria gave out another signature yell that was close to breaking the sound barrier. "She won't listen to you! She's loves her real sister!"
"She--!" Kaileena was interrupted by a fierce backhand by Evia, followed by a downward thrust of her trident right into Kaileena's leg.
Kaileena let out a painful shrill of Aria quality as she felt the sharp points pierce her thigh. Her leg flinched as she felt the stinging pain surge through her organs.
"Good!" Aria said as she ran over to join them. "I'll finish her off! See father? Now you know who is really deserving of you!"
But Aria hesitated when she saw Kaileena violently kick upward and knock Evia from her, sending her and the trident toppling backward. They both hit the ground with a slapping thud as Kaileena shot up. Blood tricking from her leg to the ground as she regained her standing.
"Look at you!" Aria screamed again. "You so pompously thought that you could handle two of us! But look at you now! A wound to your leg and the back of your head, and no harm to us whatsoever! I hope you wallow away in hell when we finally finish you! Don't you agree, Evia? Evia? EVIA!"
Aria shrieked as she finally noticed her suddenly silent sister. Kaileena, curious at her sudden refocus of attention, look to her side as well. She let out a whispered, "no," as she saw her.
Apparently, Kaileena's kick had done more damage than she thought. Evia had been knocked back to the floor, and the trident impaled through her chest. Blood dampened her breasts as Aria quickly sped over to her. Tears flinging from her eyes fiercely.
"No! No! Evia!" Her sister's eyes had remained open. "How could this happen! You dying! By a mere fluke no less!" Aria let out a snarl and removed her blood covered sister's trident from her fallen corpse and glared at Kaileena.
"You—you—how could you do this? How!"
"What? It's not my fault!"
"Not your fault! You knocked the trident into her!"
"You very well know that that was an accident! If there was anyone that I wanted to kill it was you! Evia was the only decent one!"
"I know that you arrogant prick! Evia, she was so innocent. She loved all her brothers and sisters, but none of you ever saw fit to return that love! She looked up to Arlyn, who ignored her for his own favorable reasons. She tried to turn to you! But you were always cooped up with that Decquaris! She loved all of you more than she loved me! Do you know why? Because she said that I was defiled! The fact that I was raped by father and that I enjoyed it was deplorable. She thought you better, merely because you at least didn't like it. Don't you wonder how I feel? My own twin! Wish to consult her feelings in others besides me! I hate you, Kaileena! I hate you with every fiber of my soul! You were the favorite of father's! And of my own sister! Now, now I have to be sad in the fact that she was killed by the very one she revered the most."
Kaileena gripped her swords in both anger and guilt. In all honesty she had never much cared for either Evia or Aria, the only reasons for her avoiding both of them as a young child was due to paranoia of them playing some kind of cruel prank on her. She never once thought that Evia efforts for friendship were actually genuine. Now she knows that there were at least three decent siblings.
"I'm sorry, Aria. If that makes you feel better I do apologize. But it is your fault she died."
Aria clenched the two tridents with a vice grip that nearly broke through them upon hearing this. "How dare you! Now you refuse to even take responsibility for her death!"
"No! It was you who forced her to fight! You who never gave a chance to make her points valid! Your sister's death is because of you!"
"Don't you ever say that again! You claim to be the good one in this family as you call it. But you're just as heartless! I'll avenge my sister by finally killing you!"
"No! Evia's death will be avenged in your death!" Kaileena bolted forward and sparks flew as her swords collided with Aria's tridents. Both caught in a brief lock of weapons they pushed at each other till they both finally gave up and jumped away.
Aria did a spin and swung her tridents at Kaileena again, who in turn blocked them with one of her swords. With a heavy thrust she brought the remaining one around and cut Aria deeply in her stomach.
"Ugh! You…!" Aria pitched herself forth once again blocking Kaileena's view as she sent a heeled boot right into her face. Knocking Kaileena backward into a tumble. One of her swords escaped from her hands as he somersaulted along backward along the floor.
Kaileena heard Aria laugh as she quickly jumped forth to grab her other sword. But to no avail as Aria used some sort of sand spell to push the sword even further. Kaileena then felt herself getting thrust into the wall by an invisible force. Her spine crackled as she bashed against it.
"Hahaha! How can you avenge her death when you can't even save your own life! I don't see why father or Evia admired you so much! You're worth nothing! Just a weak, measly little girl who's left in denial about her destiny!"
Kaileena struggled to lift her head up, keeping a firm grip on her last sword best she could.
"W—what do you mean 'denial'?"
"What do I mean? What do I mean!" Aria chuckled again. "I mean that you seem to think that there is something greater for you out there! When sadly, there is nothing! You were born to live without a mother, or without a decent father!"
The God of Time watched, regretful that his favorite child was to be finished.
Aria continued. "You're brother died because he was a sad weakling just like you! And now that man, whoever he is to you, will die just as well. You're worthless, loathsome scum! And you shall remain that way for the rest of your life, and since that is coming to an end…" Aria quieted with a simple muffled laugh.
Something just then erupted into Kaileena. A strange power soared through her soul, a power that she had never before experienced. This power told her that she couldn't give up. For Decquaris, the brother that went mad because he couldn't find himself. For Evia, who lost her life because of loneliness. And her love, who faced his fears often times alone. For all the women her father had raped, for all his victims. For her mother, and the mother of all her corrupted siblings. Kaileena would not be killed. Not today.
With the strength of all her loved ones she leapt forth and tackled her sister. Toppling her to the ground as her hands quickly enclosed Aria's throat. The pink-clothed sister flung her arms widely, but abandoned her weapons as Kaileena's clutch tightened.
Aria brought her hands to Kaileena's with a commendable attempt to loosen the grip they had. But Kaileena's ferocity was relentless. Blood began to spill as her nails dug deeper into her skin.
"St—st—stop!" Aria managed to choke out. "W—what are you doing! Let me go! P—please!"
"NO!" Kaileena screamed as she pushed her nails deeper, finding comfort in touching the veins of her sister's neck.
"You hypocrite!" Aria croaked. "Look at you! You're killing me! Just as father did to his women, and just as that man killed Decquaris and you Dahaka's! And just as you killed Evia! You're no different!"
Kaileena muscles flexed as she tore through her sister's neck with all the strength she could muster. Blood spurted from the remaining body as the dismembered head rolled along the floor.
Kaileena stood and briskly wiped the blood from her hands. "I'M MORE THAN YOU COULD EVER BE! I'LL TRIUMPH OVER ALL AND SHOW YOU MY WORTH!"
A/N: Hmm…that got a little violent. Again, didn't spell check. Deal with it. Also, this chapter was kind of hard for me to write. I don't know why, I think it was the fight scene. So I feel like the quality isn't as good as my other chapters. But if you think otherwise, please tell me. Review.