A/N: And so here is another chapter! I know I left kind of a cliff hanger in the last chapter, so I apologize. So here's the next chapter. By the way, I don't own any characters from LXG. Just Isa, Alma, Peter McGregor, and Desmond are mine.
Chapter 3
Mina stepped in front, "Isa! Can you hear me?" The new woman smiled,
"Of course she can hear you...but she can't answer you." The League observed the woman. She had long white hair and violet eyes. She wore a black, leather corset with matching wrist bands, and pants. She had large, black wings that were the same as the ones angels were constantly envisioned to have. The League didn't know what to think of the woman, but Skinner was the only one who, as always, spoke his mind,
"Who or what the hell are you? The winged figure smirked,
"Like I said, my name is Alma. Alma de Muerte, I am a demon." Sawyer dived for his gun, but Alma shot the gun away with an energy blast,
"I don't think so." Sawyer glared at her,
"Demons aren't to be trusted, how do we know you're not like the other demons we have been fighting since our last mission?" Alma crossed her arms as she sighed,
"I don't know...I guess...if you can't trust me, then you'll have to trust Isa." Mina smoothed out a wrinkle on her dress,
"How did you and Isa come to share the same body?" Alma shrugged,
"I don't know, I guess it has something to do with that necklace she's wearing...Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to let Isa take over for a while. If you should need anything, tell Isa and she'll know where to find me." Suddenly, Alma crumpled to the ground moaning in pain as she clutched her body. She was screaming for the pain to stop over and over again. Her white hair turned black and her eyes went from purple to green. She began shaking,
"What is wrong with me?" Captain Nemo helped her up,
"Alma de Muerte is sharing your body with you. She said it has something to with that necklace," He poinited to it, "Where did you get it?" She unconciously let her hand clasp the pendant.
"Why Nigel...Oh my God!" She wildly looking around, "I've got to go look for him, he too was turned to stone! Captain, please turn this-thing around!" Nemo looked sadly at her,
"I am afraid that we cannot do that. We must move ahead with our mission." The invisible man walked over to her,
"Love, I'm afraid this isn't going to be easy...When I found you in a store in London, I saw another statue that was smashed to pieces. I think it was Nigel..." Isa's eyes widened in shock,
"You're lying. I know he's alive we just got to find him!" Mina walked forward and stopped her. Isa tried to fight her off as she grew hysterical, letting the tears fall and sobs tear through her soul. She knew she shouldn't be acting this way for the loss of a perfect stranger, but Nigel did so many things for her and now she would never be able to thank him.
"Let me go! I've got to find him...You can't stop me!" She fought harder and harder. There were shouts and orders being barked but Isa couldn't understand them. Suddenly she felt something stinging in her left arm. She looked over at the source and saw that Jekyll had injected her with a needle. She felt her head start spinning, and slowly she stopped resisting, "Dr. ...Jekyll...what...did...you...?" Darkness claimed her and her body slumped in Mina's arms. Sawyer looked over at Jekyll,
"What did you give her?"
"A sedative. She should be fine in a couple hours. But let's get her into a bed so that she can rest properly." Nemo nodded and took Isa's limp form from Mina and carried her down to an empty room. The captain laid her on the bed and turned around to see that Jekyll was standing at the door way. The captain sighed,
"Poor child. She's obviously gone through a lot. Although I must say, that I am a little worried about Alma being on the ship." Jekyll nodded,
"I see your point. Alma seems to be more dangerous than Edward could ever be. She could be useful for the League. That is if we can convince her."
Good luck with that one Henry. Edward told Jekyll. The doctor ignored the comment from his alter ego as the captain nodded,
"Perhaps, Isa can convince her. Alma would have to listen to her." He glanced at her,
"How long does the sedative last?" Jekyll glanced at his pocket watch,
"She should wake up in a couple of hours." He looked at Isa whose hair cascaded off the side of the bed. Captain Nemo broke the silence,
"Come," he whispered, "Let's leave her to her sleep." The two men walked out of Isa's room and joined the others. Mina, Skinner, and Sawyer were sitting at the table. Nemo and Jekyll joined them at the table. There was silence as they all tried to let what happened today sink in. Mina finally broke the silence,
"I think we should let Isa and Alma into the League." Sawyer smirked,
"You just want another woman around so you don't feel out of place." Mina glared at her lover,
"That's not true lover, I think that she and Alma would be powerful assets to us." Skinner, still wearing his face paint so that the others could see him, frowned,
"I don't know...Can we actually trust Alma? I was looking through a Spanish dictionary and Alma de Muerte literally translates to 'Soul of Death'. I don't know about you, but I have a hard time trust anyone with a last name that means death." The guys murmured their agreement. Mina stayed silent until an idea came to her head,
"How about this, when she wakes up we can ask her some questions so that we can get to know her. Then you'll see that she can be trusted."
"Mina..." Sawyer protested, "I don't think it's such a-"
"Wise decision?" Mina completed the sentence for him, "Why not Tom? What are you afraid of?"
"You wanna know what I'm afraid of?" Sawyer practically shouted, "I'm afraid that we'll get betrayed. Remember Dorian Gray, Mina? He's the one who betrayed us and ultimately cost us the one person who could effectively lead the League. Allan Quartermain is dead because we trusted the wrong person!" There was a harsh silence as everyone let Sawyer's outburst sink in. Perhaps he was right...maybe Isa and Alma shouldn' t be trusted.
"Ohhh..." Was the first thing that came from Isa's lips as she woke up. Slowly, she got up to a sitting position in her bed. Then, she stood up and walked over to the mirror.
"Hey, there sleepyhead!" Isa looked up at the mirror. Sure enough Alma was there, smirking at her.
"What happened?" Alma played with a strand of her hair,
"Well, you had a panic attack and Dr. Jekyll gave you a sedative. That was two hours ago." Isa looked at a clock and saw that it was six o' clock. Her stomach growled,
"I hope dinner's is being served soon." She smiled at her alter ego but it soon faded, "Alma, can I trust you?" The demon shrugged,
"I don't know love, it's up to you." Isa sighed,
"I really want to. But how do I know if you won't try to harm me or the others aboard the ship?"
"It's simple. If you die, then I can't survive without you. And you have my word that I won't harm any of them." Isa nodded,
"Very well, I'll believe you. Come on, let's see if dinner is ready." Isa quickly fixed her hair and walked out the door. She walked down the halls of the Nautilus admiring it's beauty. She walked around until a crew member came up to her,
"Ahh..Miss de la Estrella, Captain Nemo ordered me to check up on you to see if you were awake. Since you are indeed awake, then I shall escort you to the meeting room." Isa smiled,
"Thank you." He lead her down the halls and finally they came up to a room at that seemed to be at the front of the Nautilus. The man knocked on the door.
"Yes?" The man entered with Isa following him,
"Captain, Miss de la Estrella is awake." Captain Nemo pulled out a chair for Isa,
"Thank you Aheeb." The man bowed and and left the room. Captain Nemo escorted Isa to the chair and pushed it in for her when she sat down,
"I trust that you are feeling better Miss de la Estrella?" The young woman nodded,
"Yes thank you Captain. But I'd perfer if everyone called me Isa." She smiled but it slowly vanished, "I was told that you wanted to see me?" Sawyer jumped in,
"Yeah, we want you to join the league. But honestly we don't know if we can trust you or Alma." Mina's eyes widened at Sawyer's harshness,
"Tom!" Isa shook her head,
"It's fine Mina, he has a right to be blunt. I know what all of you do is dangerous, and therefore you can't trust anyone so easily. I read in a newspaper three years ago that you lost someone very dear to the group due to the betrayal of another member." She sighed as she tried to get her nerves to settle down, "That's why I'm going to tell you everything about myself." She smiled as she looked off into the distance, "I grew up in a poor part of Spain. Violence was an everyday event there. Soldier's would come there to control us, but there was always a soul who objected and fought back but then it escalated to a riot in the streets." She laughed, "I remember once when I was four, my father said something insulting, 'Damn soldiers. Bastards won't even let you piss in your own toilet without ruffing you up." My father was a miner. He worked long hours. from five in the morning to nine at night. He died when I was five...in a mining accident. The cave he and twelve other workers were working in caved in. No one survived. My mother, distraught and with no education, prostituted herself so that I could continue going to school. She did this for twelve years until she grew sick and died. I was seventeen and alone. I had no one. I lived in the house by myself for three years. I looked for jobs but since I had no family to support, the men and women who did, got the jobs. I often thought about prostitution, but I thought too highly of myself." She laughed bitterly, "I had to resort to stealing food to stay alive. Finally a couple of days ago, I had enough. You could say I went temporarily insane. I burned down my father's house and ran away from the town I had come to resent. I saw a plane down at the docks and I hid in it. It was Nigel's and he took good care of me. He gave me this necklace," She pointed to the one she was wearing when we went on a business trip in Ireland and next thing I know I'm transformed into stone." She rubbed her temples, "Then I find myself on this submarine and that I have an alter ego which happens to be a demon. I hate to say it but I actually believe that she is on our side. She says that if anything happens to me, that she could not survive. But...I just think you have to see for yourself." She smiled. There, she had told them her whole life in a very simplistic way. She wanted them to trust her. She wanted to be in this group, she wanted to feel like she belonged to something that was bigger than her. Skinner smirked,
"Well, love. You went through a lot didn't you?" Isa smiled,
"Oh, Skinner it could have been a whole lot worse." Sawyer sighed,
"I'm sorry Isa, I didn't mean to be-"
"Oh Mr. Sawyer, there is nothing to be sorry for. I'd be less trusting if I had lost someone to betrayal." Saywer smiled,
"I'd say that there is no need to be so formal with each other. Especially since we're on the same team." Isa smiled,
"I agree Tom." Skinner wrapped an arm around her neck,
"I think you and I are going to get along perfectly with each other" Isa laughed,
"I think we are too," She saw his eyes widened at her agreement, "Except, not in the way you're expecting." The rest of the team laughed at Isa's trick. Then the door opened as the same crewman who came to retrieve Isa stepped in,
"Captain, ladies and gentlemen...Dinner is served." The six of them followed the team as he lead them to the dining table." Dr. Jekyll sat next to Isa, while Skinner sat on the other side of her. With Captain Nemo at the head of the table and Mina and Sawyer sat on the other side of him. The League talked and joked about many things but mostly they wanted to get to know their newest member better,
Isa, what are your dreams?" Mina asked the young woman. Isa smiled,
"Well, my mother told me that when I was two I had told her that I wanted to be a doctor. I kept that dream alive until I was four. I went to the doctor because it was time for my yearly check up. Well then it came time for me to get a vaccine. But when I saw that three inch needle I ran out to the street in nothing but my diaper." Everyone laughed as they imagined Isa in that predicament. She too laughed because it was the only thing that could keep her from crying. Those times had been so much easier. She wished that everything could change. "Honestly, now I just want to find a good husband and have many children with him." She blushed. The rest of the time, they talked about each other and how they were brought into the league. After an hour and a half, their stomachs were full and they all excused themselves from the table. Mina and Tom went to his room while Captain Nemo went to check on his crew. Skinner wandered around the ship. Isa went over to the ship's parlor and sat in one of the chairs. She looked around. Who would have thought that she would end up here. She laughed at the irony. She then stared off into space as she reflected on the conversation the league had at dinner. There she had learn that Mina was a vampire, Dr. Jekyll had an evil side to him named Edward Hyde, and that Skinner had succeeded at an experiment that was not reversable. The sound of footsteps announced that she wasn't alone anymore.She turned around and saw the good doctor, "Hello Dr. Jekyll."
"Hello, Miss de la Estrella." He smiled an enchanting smile, "Am I bothering you?" Isa shook her head,
"Of course not! I was just thinking about different things." She smiled back at him. She looked at the doctor. He was rather attractive but his face had lines and despite his immaculate appearance. She decided to break the silence between them, "Do you know where our next stop is?"
"We're heading off towards India. We've gotten a message saying that the demon population is multiplying. So we're going to see if there is anyway we can stop it. Mr. Sawyer believes that India maybe the origin of the demons. We should arrive there in about five days." Isa looked at him,
"Five days? We're far away from India. Wouldn't this trip take at least two weeks?" Dr. Jekyll,
"Don't tell that to Captain Nemo. He'd think you'd be underestimating his beloved Nautilus." Isa chuckled.
"Indeed." Dr. Jekyll nodded. The two of them sat for the next few hours talking about anything that occurred to them.
A/N: So how was that? Hopefully it didn't bore you to death. So I know people aren't reviewing, but I know people are reading the story! How about sending me some reviews? They would be greatly appreciate them!