I was unusually empty, most of the places they went where flooded with guards. It wasn't empty for long before Lady Devilish herself appeared in front of them. She wore a plain, but skimpy, black dress and her blood red hair descended to her waist. She did not look amused.
Following her was Dr.Dismay. He looked just as crazy and deranged as ever.
"Gumdrop and lollypop, nice of you to stop by and watch us devour the rainforest!" he managed a small, evil chuckle.
"Why are you doing this?" Julius asked. "Why are you killing all those people and destroying the rainforest?"
"That's for us to know, and for you to never find out," Lady Devilish laughed and walked away, again followed by Dr.Dismay.
"We will find out and we will stop you!" Delilah cried after them and started towards them.
"Good luck," Lady Devilish said and before they knew it there were Dr.Dismay's Nurse and about twenty interns coming at them pretty fast.
By the time they had defeated all of the interns and Nurse, Dr.Dismay and Lady Devilish were long gone.
"Come on they can't be far," Julius said walking over to Delilah. "Let's go find them." Surely they didn't think the nurse and her interns could stop Delilah and Julius, most likely the best spy team in the world. It had barley winded them.
As they walked around trying to find Lady Devilish and Dr.Dismay, they could hear what sounded like whining.
"Where is that sound coming from?"
"I don't know; but let's go find out." Delilah and Julius went in the direction of the sound and came to a prison cell. The cell was filled with Pygmies, the native people who live in the forest. They all looked severely beaten and injured.
"We have to help them," Julius said. "Bobby pin?"
Delilah handed him a bobby pin and he began to pick the first of seven locks. The locks got increasingly hard as he neared the end, but Julius managed to get all of them off.
"Ni enyi vyema? Sisi ni hapa katika msaada enyi," (English translation: are you okay? We are here to help you.)
"Katu, sisi ni hobela atilika na chapa wa sisi wana fa. Anisi enyi sharti hobe kutoka hapa," (English translation: no, we are badly injured and many of us have died. Please you must get us out of here!)
"Ongozana mimi," (English translation: follow me.) Delilah led them out and Julius called for back up to air lift the Pygmies out. Right now their only back up was the regional police and all they could do was get the Pygmies to safety. They also took Nurse and the interns into custody.
"I'll keep looking, you wait for the police and we will join up inside."
"Okay," Delilah replied as Julius ran back inside.
It wasn't to long before the police showed up and air lifted the thirty or forty Baka Pygmies away. Delilah had tried asking them if they knew anything but they would not answer for reasons of their own. Delilah went back inside and began her search. Within ten minutes she found Julius again. They where now on the second of four floors and still no sign of Dr.Dismay or Lady Devilish.
On the third floor they saw what looked like another prison cell but the security was so tight that they could not open the door.
The last floor. They hoped that Dr.Dismay and Lady Devilish where on this floor. They came to a room with the door open and there they saw Dr.Dismay and Lady Devilish huddled over some blue prints.
"Lady Devilish and Dr.Dismay, its over," Delilah said advancing into the room.
"Dear child, it's just the beginning," Lady Devilish laughed.
"What are you planning?" Julius asked.
"Well if you must know than I'll tell you; many of the plants of the rainforest are poisonous. Poisonous enough to exterminate everyone in the Academy, and probably everyone in the world! We would have the whole world to ourselves, and not even Delilah and Julius will stop us," Dr.Dismay joined Lady Devilish in a maniacal laugh.
"Good bye Goodie and Two shoes!" Dr.Dismay said and put on a gas mask, then thru a gas bomb filled with the poisons plant gasses at Delilah and Julius. Delilah and Julius felt weak and fell to the floor not yet unconscious.
"Delilah."
"Yeah Julius."
"I love you," he managed to whisper.
"I love you too," Delilah said and then went unconscious.
Dr.Dismay was almost sure they where dead; almost. But instead of shooting them, he took them into the deepest parts of the rainforest and left them there, so if his poison didn't work, nature would take care of it. He separated them, just for fun. Delilah was now fifty kilometres or so away from Julius. He took all of their gadgets and left them to rot.
To be continued