Chapter 9 Massacre

Written by: Atikkin

A guttural snap escapes from her lips. With inhuman speed she raced towards the hotel, and grasped her claws within the stone wall. Silently, she began to climb. She hissed whenever she made a small noise. She glanced at each corner, and spotted some of the soldiers becoming rather suspicious of the unknown scratch noises they were hearing. Relena bit her lower lip in frustration. She had not realized that it began to bleed. Quickly, she pushed her body up and went over the edge of the roof.

A soldier turns around and glanced up towards the roof. He thought he heard something. He raised his flashlight, and gazed at the roof top. A shadow moved across the roof. He blinked. He pulled his intercom towards his lips.

"This is Bryant, I'm going to the roof top," He informed. He pulled his rifle close to him as he raced towards the stairs.

Relena paced towards the corner of the roof. She crouched down, placing her elbows on her knees. Her right leg kneeled more than her left. She angled her arms inward that way she can place her hands upon the pavement, so she could keep her balance. Her eyes narrowed at the men and woman below. They watch every corner of the hotel. They even stood towards the diner.

She made a guttural hum in her mouth. Slowly, she began to tap her fingers against the pavement. 'Too many of them, and one of me,' she thought. She raised her right brow, and began to look around for anything that may assist her. From the corner of her multicolored eyes she turns, and glances at the power poles. A smile almost came on her face.

"Bingo," she whispered. She turned around, after she heard something. She sniffed, and caught scent of a human. She stared down at the pavement.

The soldiers climbed the ladder, and pulled his rifle above him. His flashlight went to every corner and structure. He climbed all the way up, and saw no one that looked close to his target. 'What the….' He thought. 'Where the hell….'

'Bryant,' a voice said from the intercom. He pulled his rifle down, and grasped the intercom. He responded quickly to the Sergeant. 'Where the hell are you?'

"At the roof top, sir," Bryant responded.

'Why the hell you are up there? Get your ass down here, right now.'

"Yes, sir," Bryant said. He turns around, and began to climb down the ladder. He didn't know that Relena was watching him from afar. Her demented eyes slowly gazed over the edge. She pulled her body back up to the roof top, and sat. She rests her elbows upon her knees. She bit her tongue. 'Well,' she thought. She turned her stare towards power poles. 'I sure hope its wet enough.'

Daniel gazed at the computer monitors. He knew there was no way that they can see her. She was just like them. They had haunted him for years, and still they would not go away. He thought 'when will it end?'

Daniel tapped his fingers dangerously against the electronic bondages. He had to get out somehow. She would come for them, and she will kill them all. He wasn't sure if she had the same mean streak as they do. However, just by the sound of her moving through the shadows, he was for certain that she would snap and kill just for fun.

One of the soldiers flashed his ray towards the hotel. He thought he had heard something snap. He slowly walks towards the alley way, and noticed a bunch of trash cans pushed in all directions. He blinked rather confused. He recalled seeing them in order. He loaded his weapon, and headed towards them. As he made his way, he noticed a strange odor. It smelled way to awful; he had to cover his nose. 'Jesus Christ,' he thought. 'Did something die here,' he thought.

"Maybe," someone said. The soldier spun around, and greeting someone with a pair of golden eyes. He didn't have time to think……..

"Jackson," one solider said calling through the intercom. When there was no answer, he called again. A look of concern grew upon his face. "All units I've lost contact with Jackson."

"Shit," Daniel hissed. He heard something snap and his right hand was free from the bondage. Daniel smirked. Now he had to fix up the next one before something happens. Daniel suddenly jumped when he heard a scream.

"What was that?" one of the soldiers said. There was no answer from anyone. He grew rather cautious. "This is persona two, does anyone read me over?" He repeats over and over. Still, there is no answer from his team mates. He didn't bother to see a pale face from behind him. A finger taps his shoulders. From there, he really wished he hadn't turned around. Large teeth bit his face right off. Blood smears to the ground, and onto Relena's face. She stares at the soldiers who didn't get a chance to scream. She wipes her mouth from the mouth. She feels something her mouth and spits it out into her hand.

"Gum," she said with a guttural tone following her words. She stares at the corpse, and shrugs throwing the gum away. She stares at the power poles, and slowly turns her gaze towards something….a fire hydrant. She grins. 'Oh yes,' she thought, racing towards it. With a swift move she breaks the hydrant, freeing liquid into the moist ground.

The soldiers all race towards the owner of the scream. They appear behind the building and find the corpse. They stare at their deceased comrade. They almost couldn't believe his appearance. It almost seemed as if something grabbed his face and tore everything off, leaving the eyes, and taking the throat.

"Jesus Christ," one soldier said.

"What's in this place?"

"That's a 'who' asshole," a terminal voice warned. The comrades all look up and find someone with eyes filled with amber staring down at them. The stranger held something in her right hand. It appeared to be a wire. The soldiers all follow where the wire had come from.

Relena smiles when she saw the look on their face. "Good night, don't let the bed bugs bite," she said pulling at the wire. With that unknown superior, she manages to get the pole down to the ground, and send the soldiers to oblivion as electricity meets water, and then meets gas from the flames throwers attracted to the rifles the soldiers held. All Relena could do is stare, and then walk away.

Daniel pulls out of his restrainer. That last explosion made his heart stop. By now, all of the soldiers are dead and the one who killed them might come for him. He knows that she's not like the others. She'll kill anyone who may provoke her. She may be human, but he knows the beast that lives underneath the faire skin, the pacifist, and the young girl every one called Relena. Underneath that skin, is a monster that was unable to come out; until now, it will not stop wanting to harm people. First the guns, and then the weak, soon she will have enough skulls to weep, and then just maybe the others might show up.

"That might be what they're doing. Please say that's not the kind of thinking that they're doing,' He said. Daniel rushes out of the office only to greet a rifle hitting him in the face. Daniel groaned feeling his nose bleeding. He stares up at the one who did this to him. Another comrade smirks at him, and growled. He places his dirty boot against Daniel's shoulder.

"And where the fuck, do you think you're going, huh, punk? Did you really think that after this shit would happen, you would walk?" he asks.

"I'd be happier to walk away from here then die with you fucking punks who don't what you'refucking with!" Daniel snaps. He receives yet another hit in the face. The soldier laughs out loud.

"You little fucker; you're not getting out of here alive. Not until, we get what we want."

The soldier's laughter caught her attention. She turns her visions towards him. With a shift, her vision changes, and she could see his interior flesh, and the heat that surrounds his entire body. The man below him seems damaged and harassed by the pain the solider afflicted upon him. There was no telling if the man below might live from the man above. Relena suddenly felt a twitch in the back of her mind. Suddenly, her temper aroused, and then with lightning speed, she races at the soldier who spun around and screamed.

Daniel freaks out seeing the target. He quickly moves away from the so-called woman and the man she is biting to death. Her teeth sank do deep into his neck that he didn't have the strength to grab his rifle and shoot her. He drops it, and starts to gag. Blood flows to the ground, creating a large puddle.

Daniel stares at the gun and then at the woman. He didn't think about touching the weapon. All he did was look away. He pretended that it was none of his business. From that moment, he felt eyes on him. He didn't turn around. If he did, he might piss her off. Strangely, he felt something coming close to him. He turns slightly, and saw nothing. Daniel blinks confused. Where did she go?

Relena starts to run top speed. She didn't know how she became too quick with running. It almost amazed her. If she keeps this up, she might reach the city where these punks might not find her. She gasps, heavily as she stops. She felt something in her body screaming. Slowly, Relena falls to her knees as she takes a deep breath and hurls out yellow ooze.

"Oh, God," she mutters. Relena turns her eyes as her amber eyes shift back into their aqua shade. She felt her temper reaching a minimum and her anxiety lowering. Raising herself off the cold ground, she turns towards the highway and starts to run again. 'Have to get away,' she thought.

Heero, Duo, Millard, and Wufei sat before the entire crowd. They couldn't believe what they were hearing. Millard appears as if he's ready to have a heart attack by all of this. He collapses upon the nearest chair and sat there sulking.

"Are you sure?" Noin said hysterically. Heero only nods his head. Everyone in the room gasps.

"I didn't know what the hell happened, man. All those soldiers were all over the place. There was only one survivor. I just hope she's okay."

"Same here," Wufei said.

"What have you found, Quatre?" Heero asks.

"In here," Quatre said, guiding everyone towards the computer. He sat down and starts to type out the file. "I hacked through the password and stumbled upon multi-files. These files are all same, but according to the system there are about six hundred and fifty files here. I found the first file which had much to do with Relena's birth."

"Is there something wrong with that?" Heero asks.

"Very," Quatre said. "She doesn't have a birth certificate."

"What…" Millard said. "That's ridiculous. I can go in and go through the files and-"

"No, no, Millard. That's a false ID. Apparently, someone had access to the federal government and brought up a single file of a deceased individual and replaced it with Relena's name."

"Maybe that somebody had some serious power to order something like that," Duo said.

"There's something else," Trowa said. "When we looked into Relena's DNA, we noticed these captions from the doctor's mention that they have injecting mercury sulfide and major amounts of hemoglobin."

"Mercury," Duo said. "Wait a minute, time out, what the hell do you mean mercury? Hemoglobin I can probably understand, but Mercury?"

"Hemoglobin is serious. Anemic patients need extra amounts of hemoglobin," Wufei said.

"But Relena is not anemic," Duo said.

"Were they trying to poison her?" Heero said.

"No, they were experimenting," Trowa said. "They were testing her immune system, and apparently, Relena had not died from such overdoses of Mercury being shucked down her body."

"That's impossible," Wufei said.

"My words exactly," Quatre said.

"What about those other files?" Noin asks.

"I'm having trouble getting through those," Quatre said.

"Let me," Heero said. Quatre moves away from the chair and Heero takes over the computer.

"From the mean time we should be concentrating on this Keyes fellow and figure out what the hell is going on here," Wufei said.

"Yeah, that guy is really annoying. He really has something hiding up his sleeve. I mean how did he know where Relena was?"

The room went completely silent. Heero actually spun around. "He did know."

"But how….?" Wufei said.

Suddenly someone's cell phone rang. Duo dug into his pocket and brought his out. He puts the phone to his ear. "Hello," he said rather cautiously. No one else had his phone number besides Hilde, and the rest of his comrades.

"Master Duo," an old voice said. Duo immediately recognized that tone.

"Pagan," Duo said. Everyone stares at him with disbelief.

"Give me the phone," Noin said. She starts to jump right for him. Duo puts a hand up to keep her away. Everyone tries to pull her back as she keeps repeating herself.

"You got a lot of explaining to do, old man," Duo said.

"Yes, I know, but not here. Meet me at the diner near the hospital."

"The now 'blown up' hospital, you mean?"

"Yes, that's the one. Please, don't allow Millard and Noin to follow. I just want to see you and Mr. Yui."

"All right, fine, then," Duo said hanging up. He growls.

"Where is he?" Millard snaps.

"Chill, the scum's going to talk. He just wants me to come over along with Heero."

"Me," Heero echoes.

"Yes, you," Duo said.

"Fine," Heero said. He gets up. "Quatre take over again."

"I'm on it."

"Let's go," Heero said grabbing his coat.

"Heero," Noin said.

"I'll get whatever information I have. Whatever is going on, Pagan just might be the one to know about it," Heero said before he walks out the door.

Heero and Duo wait patiently at the smalltable.Duo is the one who apparently is stubborn and too ill-willed to keep a wait. Heero tells him patiently to relax while keeping his arms crossed.

"Oh, damn this to hell," Duo said.

"I hate waiting for his guy as much as you do, but we have to know what's going on," Heero said.

"Fine," Duo said. An old woman came passing by to the boys. She sits down at their table and faces them. "Hey lady, there are people sitting here?"

"I know that Master Duo," said the woman. She said it a manner which gave a familiar feeling to both men. They knew exactly who it was underneath all that make up.

"Pagan is that you?" Duo said.

"Yes, it is. I had to do this to protect myself."

"Cross-dressing," Heero said. "It must be a critical situation."

"An extremely critical situation, Master Yui; I am afraid that after I had spilled my secret to the military, I know my life is in grave danger."

"What do you mean?" Duo said.

" I gave away a secret that I wasn't supposed to reveal to the government. The others who knew about this operation are probably dead after what I had told them about Relena."

"What about Relena? What's going on, old man?" Heero said in a cruel tone, which made Duo practically jump out of the seat. He gulps. 'Damn, Hell hath no fury over Heero's wrath,' he thought.

"You don't understand. The Cinq Kingdom has a dark secret. Lord Peacecraft was too afraid to even mention anything about it after the crash."

"What crash are you talking about?" Duo said.

"You have the genetic files coming from the hospital, yes?"

"How did you know about that?" Duo said.

"I figured you'd find out about it. The hospital was all a set up. If Relena had suddenly gained this feverish behavior of violence and murder, they would immediately capture her, or worse….. They would kill her."

"What is happening to Relena and what kind of situation is this?" Heero demanded in a slow, malicious tone.

"Relena…..is changing. Since she was a little girl, she had always been furious. Madame Peacecraft almost couldn't control her," Pagan said before he dug out a piece of paper. "These are the passwords to the evidence you have collected."

"Pagan," Duo said.

"I am all ready a dead man. I only ran away because if I did stay I would endanger everyone's lives. Relena especially since she is the reason the federal government is doing this." Heero and Duo stare at each other.

"The feds," Duo said. 'I knew those dogs had something to do with this. Even that asshole, Keyes, has guilt written all over him.'

"What do you they have to do with this?" Heero said.

"Well," Pagan said. "I haven't been there when that time had happened, but I could tell you what happened to Relena. When she was born, she had suffered through multiple seizures. No one could understand how they started. The doctors indicate that she may have Down syndrome, but she didn't. There were no symptoms in that small body. When she starts to grow, she had this mild temper which frightened the queen. I almost thought she was angered at all of us. But then came that day when Madame Peacecraft just gave out."

"Relena had a temper when she was a kid?" Duo said.

"There was a reason for it, but the psychologists never gave the right diagnoses for it. King Peacecraft and his wife always looked up to their son, but they never held or touched their daughter. Millard and Relena almost seemed to connect as friends. Strange, how she never bonded with her mother or her father, yet she bonds with her brother."

"What is going on?"

"I can't say for sure. But those discs you have found will tell you everything. Right now, I think Relena is going through stages in which may corrupt her poor body. Soon, it won't be the same. She'll be different."

"Different," Duo said. He grew a sour gaze. He didn't like the sound 'different.' Heero didn't even like the sound of that. He leans towards Pagan with a death stare. Pagan nearly leaped out of his make-up.

"And just what do you mean about different, Pagan? What is going on with Relena? And why aren't you giving us straight answers?"

"I wish I could tell you everything that I do know…"

Suddenly Heero lashes his arm out around the butler's scarf. "You'll tell us everything you know. What the hell is going on here? What's happening to Relena?"

Pagan made a quick gulp. He raises his arms up in surrender to Heero's request. He grasps both his hand and leans towards them to whisper.

"When Relena when young, I noticed that she grew rather distance from her family. She never socialized with anyone. She almost acted as if everyone around her was an enemy. The psychologists even indicated that she didn't wish to sit around with them. Madam Peacecraft grew ill one day, and then dies a few months later before the invasion of the Cinq Kingdom. Before her death she gave full custody of Relena to the Darlian family."

"How did she die?" Duo asks.

"If I recall, Madame Peacecraft had a long history of heart disease. Her body couldn't resist the stress she had been suffering through, and it just gave up on her. When she died, Relena had shown no hint of emotion. It's almost as if she wasn't even there in that room, but somewhere else. I haven't the idea to what she had been thinking; however, I could tell that behind those eyes, deep within them, she didn't care what happened to her mother. Millard questioned his father and all it all ended with the same answer 'I don't know.'"

"What was Relena doing that drove her mother insane?"

"I don't know. Relena and her Mother were usually alone along with her father. Millard most of the time spend with the machinery, never bothering his mother and father while they try to reason with his young sister."

"You make it sound like Relena was a real problem?"

"You don't' understand, Master Duo. She was a problem. Those mood swings were uncontrollable. She snapped at anyone who drew close to her. Even when someone wanted to comfort her, she'd shove them away from her."

"Did she ever do this to Millard?"

"No. Strangely, she always respected her brother's presence."

Heero gazes at Pagan. He had a terrifying look on his face. "What's the wrong?" Heero asks.

"……I never thought that Madam Peacecraft died from the pressure of stress. I think something else happened. I think….that when they were alone…."

"What are you talking about?" Duo said.

Quatre just stares at the screen. His eyes almost fallen out of his eyes. He couldn't take much of this. He heard the door fly and out came Heero and Duo. Dry blood is upon them. Quatre jumps out of his chair as Trowa leaps out of the couch.

"What the hell happened?" Trowa said.

"Pagan," Duo said. "He's been shot."

Cliff-hanger…..

Sorry it took so long. Until next time, ladies and gents, and I'll have a longer chapter.

Chapter 10 Dreams