Lane and Kalyste both watched from the doorway, hating to see the sisters in such a state of peril. Kara had yet to wake up, Alex was still unconscious too. When Dharea had told Lucy what had transpired, the Major held no ill will towards her friend. When she was told of why her friend was so furious and then told how Kara had told her to remain away, only for Supergirl to smash any hope of anyone able to open up the training room door, she had nearly fell apart. Her best friends had been forced to endure the darkness alone, trapped by the need to protect the other, no matter the cost.
Maggie and Lena walked over, handing one a coffee and the other an iced tea. Dharea thanked the detective with Lucy thanking the CEO. With all four of them, now watching the Danvers, there were so many questions left unanswered. Time would warrant what they sought, hoped to uncover and understand more. A few rough days, a few nights without the browns and blues of the sisters, had them all on edge.
Kalyste and J'onn had taken to the skies, patrolled and handled everything Supergirl usually would. Lena had been in her lab, looking for other solutions and analyzing the strands from Dhaena's knots. She yearned to uncover how such simple weaves and ropes could both bind, as they are meant to, or change the course of energies through one's body. Lucy and Maggie had been going over evidence, working on the results of the autopsies of the two bodies they had.
"Director Lane." Lucy turned her head and met the nervous expression of an agent who was shaking like a leaf, holding a closed folder out to her. "This..was.."
"I've got it Helen. Thank you." The woman walked away, leaving Lane standing there with what had been given to her in her hand.
"What is it Major?" Sawyer asked, sipping her coffee.
"Not sure. Must be the...result.." Lucy's orbs shivered instantly, her finger clenching to the report in her hand. A heavily breath partnered with one trembling response, had Lena and Dharea looking her way. "Ca….be.." The coffee cup slipped out of her hands, crashing to the floor and spattering their feet in the dark liquid. The trembles worsened through her frame, the report partially crumpled in her grasp. "Neither...are.."
"Let me.." With four lines read on the scrunched up top paper in Lucy's hands, Lena already knew their problems had gone from bad...to worse. The Luthor ran down the hall, shouting for Vasquez. The agent popped out of one of the rooms. "WHO has been in their rooms Susan?! WHO!" Susan looked utterly confused.
"What is.." Before she knew what was going on, her firearm had been removed from it's holster at her belt. "LENA!" Agents were ready to draw their own weapons, but Vasquez kept them from doing so. "Lena..wa..what are..LENA!" Two shot off and agents were running to where they came from. "ARE YOU...oh my god.."
Maggie and Lucy had already drawn their own guns with Dharea's eyes burning darker purples and blues. Lena kept the gun aimed at where both beds were occupied.
"Get. Up. NOW!" She growled then fired a shot at the floor between the beds. "GET UP NOW!"
"But how could they.." Maggie gasped, eyes getting bigger and bigger, when two women sat up and slid off both beds. "Wha.." One whistled and the other chuckled.
"I was curious, how long it would take for humans to figure out that we weren't them. Some species are so much easier to manipulate. All your petty minds, stupid tests. All your blood work and scientific so called geniuses. Implanted thoughts." The one with the look of the agent smiled.
"Manipulate the senses." The blonde that wore Supergirl's face smirked.
"Faaaar too easy. Thank you though, kryptonian daemvyr. I had never drained one of your kind before. Before you ask, that was Alex. Your human males have far too simple of brains, not difficult to shift. Or blind." All guns were on the two imposters but they had yet to wipe their smug grins off their faces. They raised their arms and allowed those around them to slap cuffs over their wrists. "Too ea.."
Maggie shot forward and uppercut the bitch with her fiance's face, knocking the appearance right off. The moment the one she hit dropped to the floor, yellow scaled skin began to show itself. One look over and Sawyer watched the other shifter hit the ground too. She saw the grip of the gun Lena had taken from Susan, knowing that's what she had used as a weapon on the bitch's face. The same yellow scales appeared almost instantly.
"The two in the boxes were a Sinclair alright. Victoria Sinclair. The other one was the shapeshifter." Lena was furious and turned on the other agents immediately. "THEY WERE TAKEN! TAKEN...BY AGENTS! TAKEN!" She threw the gun and began to kick chairs, and scream out all her fury. Maggie began to shout out a slur of rage filled profanities. Lucy was ready to shoot someone and Dharea had already fled the room to take to the skies. They needed to find the Danvers sisters...NOW..
With every ounce of fight left in her, she fought what she had been tied to a chair with. She tried to kick repeatedly at the bindings around her ankles, attempting to loosen them in any way she could. The ropes at her wrists, forearms and upper arms were far too tight to warrant any movement there. She felt the ropes around her waist and when pushing against the ones at her shoulders, she found no give in those as well. Able to move her head at least, she thrashed and shook it, growling as she bit down on what was between her teeth. It didn't help she couldn't see shit, realizing not only was she gagged and bound, but blindfolded too.
With a nice full glass of her favorite brew, dark browns marveled over the masterpiece known as Alex Danvers. Her body was exquisite, tone and beautiful. Her resume had been the icing on the cake, plus her skills as a fighter and extensive scientific knowledge. Every single trait, checked off the boxes on the rather long list. The agent was positively perfect. She turned her gaze to the other one in a chair, bound down in the same fashion.
Making her way over, she motioned to her two Maaldorians to push the chair on the platform, further out into a far different sunlight. With the other of her captive collection facing the red sun, she stepped up and removed the blindfold and awaited the reaction. Cerulean and sky blue hues widened in shock, trying to fight the chair she was tied to. Roulette savored this flavor of confusion and fear.
Kara was beyond terrified and worried for what this might mean, knowing exactly where she was. Even worse, was the purr she heard against her ear.
"Shhhhh. Don't want to wake your dear sweet sister do you?" She had a new reason to fight, to get free, hearing what the woman had said. Kara tried to turn her head, see behind her and only then did she realize the chair was turning. Once in place, her eyes locked on the figure in the chair opposite of her. She tried to scream, to kick or do something to make some noise to let her sister know she was there. "She can't hear you my little Super. Kara Zor-El." Kara's eyes flicked to the side, widening at what was on the tray. "Oh gooooood. You see that."
She stepped down and walked over to the intricate carved metal tray one of the Maaldorians held up. With one hand, she removed her newly refilled glass and the other picked up a crystal bowl that held what looked to be a strange white almost cream colored powder. Just to taunt the kryptonian further, she came over showing the blonde both items. She knelt down, took a sip from her glass and purred. "I am going to have my sweet little way...with dear Alexandra."
She thrashed harder, trying to yell through the gag, with a hope for just one moment that she could use her heat vision on the monster that had moved closer to her helpless sister. Kara was ever more terrified, knowing just as well that whatever Roulette had in her hands could tear Alex away from her for good. She had to stop Sinclair. She had to..
Veronica confidently made her way over to the struggling agent. She set the glass down on the tray to her right and kept a hold of the bowl. One wave of her hand and the chair the kryptonian was in was turned back around, with the platform pushed further out into the red sunlight. She looked up slightly and nodded, with the figure behind the one in the chair removing the blindfold from the short haired woman's face. Angry browns met cocky ones, then flung to what Rolette held, instantly turning into a panic of outright alarming horror.
Alex's eyes flicked back and forth, to the bowl then to the browns that the bitch didnt deserve to house. The beautiful browns of her fiance's eyes, were the only brown eyes she wished to look into. Not the ones of some deranged psychopath. She thrashed and fought even harder, uncaring if the roped burned her skin or cut it as long as she got free. She threw her head back and forth, clenching fists and trying to fight back tears. Alex feared what was in front of her face and then the smile Sinclair gave, had her eyes locking on Roulette's. "Mine again...Alexandra."
She took a nice relaxed breath, releasing it slowly and blew the powder right into the agent's face. No matter how much the stunning woman tried to get free, or resist her, there was nothing that Alex Danvers could do. "Mine. This is much stronger than what is on Earth. You belong to me completely now Alexandra. I...own...you." She watched those gorgeous browns shift and pupils dilate. Sinclair removed the gag, knowing there would be no shouts or cursing. She nodded and had both boys of hers untied every rope that kept the agent bound to the chair.
Her mouth felt dry and there was a tingling on her tongue she couldn't place. Everything was blurry but her heart was racing like crazy. Alex felt flushed, all over her body and she hadn't a clue as to why. She couldn't see who was now facing her, trying like hell to get to her. She blinked but it didn't clear the haze to her sight. Nothing made sense, everything seemed clouded. Her head slowly rolled with unfocused hues. There was a touch on her face, warm and soft then it shifted to rough and burning. She spoke, at least she thought she did, unable to hear what she was saying.
One simple command had her mouth watering from the victory. "Good girl. Take it." Sinclair smiled, when what was offered was accepted. She looked directly into a set of terrified unearthly blue eyes, nodding to her boys who had freed the kryptonian from the chair. They forced the blonde to her knees, the wonderful expression of agony partnered with heavy tears, as her arms were held tightly. Under the red sun, she was utterly helpless and still gagged. "Show me that training I want you to use now." Roulette whispered into the agent's ear, kissing her on the side of her face. Still in the chair, now sitting up, eyes that were usually brown seemed nearly amber. Pupils were so large almost taking away what amber was left in her hues. "Such a skilled soldier."
Kara couldn't push up from where she was on her knees. Her arms were held by much stronger hands. She locked her eyes with her sister's own, seeing no familiarity by the look on her face. Tears kept rolling down like rivers. "BANG! BANG!"
She felt two hits to her chest, coughing with hard gargled breaths behind the gag. Her arms were released and she fell forward onto her hands, already upon her knees, Kara was barely able to hold herself up from the strength being drained from her by the grave injuries she sustained. The coughing grew worse, crimson covering what was between her teeth. She couldn't even hear the click of heels.
Sinclair knelt down, removing the gag that was stained in the blood of the kryptonian before her. "A taste of weakness, for the club and business you took from me...Kara Zor-El. Supergirl." Veronica brought her hand to the blonde's shoulder and easily pushed her over with the woman falling onto her back, still coughing up what dripped from her lips.
"Al….le...ex..Wa...Wai..A...Aoe..El...Ma..ya..rah." The last of her coughs were struggled words, drowning by the choked blood that filled her mouth and seeped out from her lips.
"Drop what's in your hand Agent Danvers." Roulette's sinister smile was one of pure evil and the cruelest of intentions. The woman did just that and Sinclair walked back over to her, snatching her by the chin to force Alex's gaze to her own. She then held out a green bladed knife, that the agent accepted. "Such a skilled one you are. Show me that fierce side on the kryptonian and cut her slowly. Not too deep. Just...little strokes into her."
Alex walked over, gripping the handle of the knife in just the right angle. She bent down to the one coughing up blood. The hand holding the knife came down and she began to swipe the blade along the kryptonian's body, cutting her. Gargled screams tore from the blonde's lips and Alex continued to drag the knife in several places, marking her little by little. The one she hurt could no longer speak, far too weak to even scream. "Come back here."
She made her way back over and handed Sinclair the bloodied knife. She stood facing the one she had cut, then the woman who ordered her stood at her side and brought lips to her ear. With a rich ominous chuckle, Alex felt words spoken into her ear. "Your hands are stained with an angels blood now. The blood of your dear...sweet...alien..sister." Eyes widened at what was told to her, but before she could say anything or do anything she felt a harsh slap at her face.
Veronica kept the smile over her darker lips, uncaring if the back of her hand stung. One little pet of National City lay bleeding out. One DEO agent now on the floor from the strike she gave her. "Send them both through the transmatter portal." Her boys drug their bodies down the ramp and towards the archway door. Two hard shoves through the vortex by their boots and both sisters vanished from their sight. Roulette walked away laughing with the rest of her boys releasing the charges as the portal exploded, leaving no way to return from where the other end allowed.
She was content on the revenge she had given, sending a video copy of the agent fatally killing Supergirl, to the DEO. By the time they got to checking Alex's blood, what she had given her would be gone. The video only showed Danvers sitting there and taking the gun, then getting up and cutting the woman viciously. Earth's MIGHTIEST Hero...killed by one of their own. It couldn't get any better than that…
All of the DEO stilled. No calls were answered. No one's eyes had left the monitors. The sound of the gunfire had left them all paralyzed, with no will left to move. Watching as each infliction upon the Super, brought their own skin stinging from the very same strikes. Only two had dropped to their knees, only two had screamed. Then there was nothing but ringing in their ears, from two shots far louder than they should have been and the screams of their hero as she lay there defenseless and helpless.
"DIRECTOR!" One voice came over the radios, the coms and speakers. "DIRECTOR! AGENT DANVERS...SUPERGIRL! NEED MORE AGENTS! NEED YOU HERE...NOW!"
J'onn looked up as Dharea flew in from the balcony in haste or sheer unbridled power. They nodded to one another and flew toward where they had heard the agent. Pushing their speeds to the max, both knew that if anyone could help with the Danvers, it was them.
Once they arrived, over twenty agents stood back with guns lowered. Every face held such despair and uncertainty, afraid to move or act. Kalyste rushed forward as did Jones, with both examining the sisters' bodies.
"I've got Alex! GO!" Dharea didn't need to be told twice, gathering the bleeding kryptonian into her arms and resting Kara against her chest, she sped out with one thing in mind...Kara Zor-El was dying..
J'onn headed the same direction, an incoherent mumbling agent in his arms. What she said wasn't normal words and even worse, he had touched her head to attempt to search her mind and found it useless to do so. His best agent and former second in charge, his precious Earth daughter, was immune to his own powers..
"WHAT HAPPENED?!" Amelia wasn't the only one that had finally found the will to move. Lena, Maggie and Lucy were right there with them. Kara's state was beyond the worst Hamilton had ever seen. Alex had foam coming from her mouth and with the aid of Lucy she was vomiting what had been in her stomach. One was flush and sweating, the other pale, almost blue, and far too cold. Maggie kept hold of the bag while one of the nurses searched for a vein, slipping the needle in to start IV fluids. Lena was aiding Amelia, getting an IV bag going for the blonde too.
They all went to work on the sisters, working to clear the kryptonian's airways so she didn't drown from her own blood. The agent was struggling against arms holding her body, bucking with her head thrashing.
"Kalyste." Dharea reluctantly left Kara's side and walked over to J'onn. "I couldn't read Alex's mind." Kalyste felt a sense of dread she had never experienced before. She shivered at the notion and hated that it had come to this.
"I couldn't search Kara's either." Their heads turned and eyes met. She put her hand over the martian's. "There is a plant that grows on the shadow end of our moon...it's toxic to daemvyr and other telepaths. It won't kill us, but...the cure for it.."
"Resided...on Krypton."
"No no no...NO! No...Kara...SUPERGIRL!" Despite her airways being clearer, the kryptonian was far from being out of woods. Her body was growing colder by the minute and even with the sun lamps over her, not one part of her had begun to heal. Her vitals were worsening, the color fading. One look at the numbers on the machine and Amelia feared they were losing Kara, before they could find a solution to the problem.
"MOVE!" Kalyste practically shoved the machines and medics away, using the part of her that was kryptonian to find the bullets residing in the Daughter of Rao's body. Luckily, that was something she could still do and was grateful for. Searching Kara's body had Dharea shaking badly. It wasn't two bullets, it was multiple shards.. "Rao Vokai Zhed..Vokai Khap. Help me..help her please.."
"Kalyste?" Lena's eyes met her own and she could see the pain the fear in them. "Please.."
"Forgive me...forgive me sweet one.." She ripped the mask off of Kara's face and pulled her upright some. Her eyes began to glow in rich waves of purple, shifting darker until every vein along her body began to glow the same color. Those around her backed away and for a moment Alex's eyes looked into hers mouthing 'save her' and Kalyste intended to do just that. She ignored all screams, all shouts not to do what must be done. She kissed the spot between Kara's neck and shoulder then pressed her fangs down, entering her flesh. Two yanks of her body warranted the fear and panic of others. Still, she began to drink from the one she should have taken the first time.
To deny the darkness she had always felt inside her, nearly cost them all their lives. She would not make that mistake again. Unknown to them all, she held a small bottle in her grasp. One flick and the lid was gone. Several screams and what was in it was thrown into Kara's mouth, Kalyste tilted her head back to force her to swallow. She was done denying everything she had fought against. She drank more and with the Aihaz-Eir now in Kara's body, there wasn't any going back.
First, save the Daughter of Rao. Then...save the brave warrior Alexandra. Two sisters that would share one life...hers..
She wished it hadn't come to this, but it had to be done. This was the only place that they would be safe, safe from other forces or one crazy bitch that had nearly killed them all. She kept telling herself...this had to be done. Her choices, their suffering. Her morals to be met, their wounded souls. No more.
Carefully, one after the other, was placed in the master chamber. Two king size four post mahogany carved beds, two figures on each. Their boots and shoes lay by the door. Their weapons placed on the table. Their trackers, coms and phones all destroyed. One final note left for the one that deserved it most and an apology whispered in her ear. It was all she could give to the warrior that would need to be strong for the rest of their agencies.
She hung two crystals, one over one bed and one over the other, removed four empty vials from her pocket and tossed them into the fire. Lastly, she lit candles on the mantle and walked back over to the short auburn haired woman. sighing. She sat down on the edge of the bed, slowly pulling aside one of the warrior's tank straps and let her orbs of rich dark purples begin to glow. No blue was left in them, admiring the mark she had made on the agent. By the monster Roulette, two had been made to not have their thoughts read. However, Sinclair had not counted on learning all of Kalyste's secrets.
Just as Alex had done once, act without thought, Dharea had learned over the years too. Then there was the CEO's immunity and then the reversal. It hadn't taken the kryptonian daemvyr long to figure out what the sisters had been drugged with. Kalyste knew the arts of sciences. The cure that J'onn had hoped to find, she surprisingly had in her possession without knowing it. Now..
"Alexandra.." She watched the stunning creature's eyes come into view, swirls of merlot more than brown. "How do you feel?" She watched as the woman slowly sat up, eyes staying locked on the powerful purple haze of Kalyste's.
"Thirsty." Alex looked to her right and saw whom was beside her. "She is.."
"Healed. She has no memory of that." Dharea noticed the confusion in the agent's eyes. "You don't either." She reached up and ran fingers along the side of Alex's face, warranting eyes to roll back as her breathing grew heavier. "Temptation Alexandra." Kalyste removed her hand but Danvers snatched it. "Your lover."
"Have you.." She nodded. "Good. Both?" Another nod.
"Is that not somethi.."
"I wanted you to. Her body.." Dharea rose and eyebrow. Had Alexandra heard the kryptonian's..
"What is it?"
"Yes. I hear it. I hear more than that." Their eyes met, merlot hues nearly glowing with the same power as Kalyste's. "I hear...theirs."
"All three?" This was something unexpected. 'Would you like to know what else I hear?' "How did.."
"You drank me." Alex reminded her. 'Did you think I hadn't figured out what you did when you first had me and we trained? How my sweet Sawyer was not the first one of us that you took from? How I tasted from you, what you took from me?' Dharea hadn't expected the agent to remember that. Even she had forgotten that. 'Let them rest.' Kalyste nodded and stood up, followed by Danvers. She had dressed the four of them comfortably, but here she was..itching to rip what was on Alex off of her. 'Quit undressing me with your mind Dharea.'
Once both had slipped out of the room and she had shut doors, her backside was pinned up against the wall. "I'm a quick learner Kalyste.." The warrior before her, shouldn't be that strong. Yet, two grabs of her wrists and they were slapped above her head. "Show me...reveal to me."
"Alexandra." She spoke firmly. 'Show me. Reveal to me.' "How can you.."
"As I said...I'm a quick learner." She knew Dharea hadn't expected her to know just how to pull her the way that she had with all of them. Yet here she was, subduing both of Kalyste's wrists with just one of her own. Alex slid two fingers down the side of the kryptonian daemvyr's head, dragging nails over her throat. "Show me Kalyste. Show me."
She tilted her head to the side, revealing that part of her neck to Alex. Dharea was trying to figure out how this was possible, her being daemvyr not Danvers. Yet, here was the agent pulling her like a puppet on a string as if she was the human. Kalyste felt the torrent fires the moment the woman drug her tongue down the side of her throat. Sweet kisses filled with the teasing dark promises, nearly had her knees buckling. There was something though, she knew was stopping Alex. "Tell me Kalyste. Help me."
"You...aren't sure..how to." There it was. "Show me your eyes Alexandra." Her head came back, gaze lifting to Dharea's. Before Danvers could speak, Kalyste had lunged forward crashing their lips together. Alex instantly moaned through it, parting her lips to give herself over to the kryptonian daemvyr. Her grip loosened and with it their positions changed. The agent's back hit the wall, the kiss never broken. It only intensified and with it, she couldn't break the spell brought on by rich wanton arousal. Her body demanded surrender to Kalyste and she listened to it's demand. "Mmmm.."
"Fuck.." Alex felt strike after strike of dark preamble, moaning and throwing her head back. Her wrists were no longer held, her hands were at the side of Dharea's belt. Fangs stroke down the front of her throat. "Ohhhh Kalyste.."
"Is this.." She moved her lips to Alex's ear and purred in it. "..what you wish Alexandra?" Danvers nodded. "Give to me...to the power you feel within you." One nod and Kalyste saw nothing but merlot in eyes that yearned to have..more. "Reach within. Let it take hold." Alex nodded and suddenly a new strength filled her body. She could no longer deny any of it. Her gums warmed and held a strange heat to them. She opened her mouth, revealing the sharp tips. "Learn now. Place your lips along where your mind tells you."
Alex nodded, beyond taken by what she was feeling. She lowered her head and pressed her lips to the spot between Dharea's throat and shoulder. Two hard sucks and the power within took over, as she pressed down and pierced what should have been impenetrable skin. "Take.." Her eyes slipped into darker shades of merlot, then began to emulate the softest glow. Two tugs and Alex felt the sweet rush of warm energy then the taste she once had before. "Relax them. Let them lead you." Kalyste spoke into her ear. The stunning creature was far too quick of a learner. Dharea felt hot yearn by the massage of fangs in her. "Feel it.."
She slipped out and quickly the sharp tips hid themselves. "How do you feel?" She kissed along the other side of Alex's neck, dragging her tongue over her throat. "Tell me." Her newly changed was breathing heavier, purring through soft moans. Her thirsts were doubling in need.
"I...my body..I want more.." 'I want to be taken in ways I shouldn't crave Kalyste. I love Maggie. I want a full life at her side. But.." Alex was having trouble resisting everything. 'Tell me Alexandra.' "I want...you to..rip everything off of me. I want you inside of me. I want more.."
"Go to her. Mark her as I marked you. Seal that bond so no other can break it." She removed her hands from the agent, stepping back to watch Alex's body arch against the wall. There was a different struggle there and Kalyste could see it. Danvers began to show that power in how strongly her hues were glowing. "Show me." They both opened the doors and stepped inside the room, where three bodies began to stir. Alex put her head back smiling by the sweet scent in the air.
"Wha...Alex! Alex?" Maggie pushed herself against the headboard and slid up slowly, with Lena doing the same. Both looked down to see what they were wearing. Sawyer saw the glow in her fiance's eyes and on instinct looked over at Little Danvers, who was sitting up and shivering. "Danvers?" 'Mags...ride or die baby.' The detective's eyes widened. 'Please don't be scared love. I would never harm you.' "How are you doing that?"
"How.." Lena and Maggie watched Kara's head fling back and breaths become ragged with unbridled lust. "..that isn't me. I'm still myself Maggie. Just..upgraded."
"KALYSTE!" Lena growled then gasped as her own head flung back. She reached up and felt a mark on her shoulder. Maggie felt the same and gripped part of the railing on the headboard she sat against."Holy….Ka...lys.."
"That isn't me." Dharea smiled. "Show her." Alex walked toward the bed that both the Luthor and detective resided on. The agent knelt down, watching the look of pure desire in her love's eyes. 'Let me...have you Margarita." Maggie's head tilted to the side.
"Detective?" Lena watched, unsure why she couldn't move.
"Le….xy...Al..ex.." Kara was struggling from the tug at her mind, attempting to cloud all thoughts. She looked into Dharea's eyes, who brought her hand up and put one finger to her lips. The hero looked back and watched her sister practically roll Maggie.
"Dan...vers.." Her body felt warmer than usual and she felt a pull that was far different than Kalyste's. Sawyer's head was tilted to the side more, a set of fingers scraping up her throat in the process. "Danver...sss.." Lips brushed her ear, a tongue running down the shell of it. "Al..ly.."
"I love you Mags.." Alex whispered in her ear then kissed her neck, down to her shoulder where Dharea's other mark was. "I won't..without your okay." Maggie heard her fiance loud and clear, her head clearing instantly. Lena and Kara's followed suit. She lifted her head to look into the one she wanted to marry, have a house and get a dog with. Grow old with. "I love you."
"Good Alexandra. I figured you could control it better." Three of them flicked their gazes to Kalyste. "I told you, this wasn't to control you all. This way, I can keep the four of you safe. This way...Kara Zor-El will NOT be alone against them." Dharea walked over, then took a seat in one of the chairs at the table across from both beds. "She was dying. Alex didn't need to remember what had happened. However.."
"I do." Blue, brown and green locked onto the merlot of her somewhat brown eyes. "I know..I was drugged. I'm sorry Kir Aoe." For the first time, since awakening, Kara got off the bed and slowly walked over to her big sister. "Khap Nahn Vrrahdh.." Alex felt the tender touch on the side of your face.
"Don't apologize Wai Aoe. I know, it wasn't you sis." Both Danvers sisters jumped into one another's arms.
Maggie and Lena slipped off the bed and walked over to them. Next thing you know, they are all embraced in a group hug. Dharea watched this bond and swore to resist the darkness that plagued her to change them all. She had turned Alex. She had to. They were safe. That's all that mattered..
"Are they sleeping?" Kara whispered with her sister nodding. "They need it." She watched as Alex stood beside her, leaning on the balcony rail as well. "It's beautiful here."
"I agree. Mags was a little more exhausted. Lena looked just as spent." The agent could hear both women far better than Kara ever could. It had her questioning how that was possible.
"Is Kalyste.."
"Even she needs rest too Kar." Alex heard the intriguing tempo of her sister's heart. She watched those cerulean sky blue eyes, that were a tad darker than usual, flick to her own. "Yes?"
"Alex.." Kara knew that her biggest hero was blaming herself for things. 'I don't blame you.' A simple thought heard, meaning more to Alex than she felt she deserved.
"I know. I blame myself." How could she not? Her sister's arms wrapped around her, enjoying the closeness they always shared as she looked up to the night sky filled with stars. Alex smiled when Kara hugged her tighter. "I'm okay Kar." She softly ran her fingers down one of her sister's arms, gently lifting a hand in a way that held no ill will, but came with a dark purpose. Someone slipped into her thoughts, calling for her obedience until it was all she was thinking about.
"I just...I..wha..eh.." Something slipped through her, wrapping around her and constricting the strength out of her. "Le..xy...wha..K..Kir…K...ir..A..Ao.." Kara's head slipped back, unable to get any other sound out of her mouth. Her eyes clouded over, her mind following suit. She knew there had been a sharp sting in her wrist, shifting to what felt like flames igniting inside of her and stroking intimately along her body. Unconsciousness had come on so quickly, before she could even try to fight it.
The glowing merlot filled Alex's orbs while her lips kept their place over her sister's wrist, holding the blonde up by one arm. She was using what sharp incisors she had under Kara's skin, tantalizing her flesh especially where she had bit down. Alex removed her mouth from where she'd marked the kryptonian, lifting her into her arms and carrying Kara into the living room. She lay her sister down on the black sofa, standing over her motionless body for a moment. The agent took a step back to return to the balcony, her face void of emotion. Once she was away from everything and everyone inside, she slipped her hand into the black leather vest she wore with the knots of the daemvyr, pulling out the black knotted chain. 'They're asleep.'
He approached, eyes fueled with amber fires that caused the merlot in hers to darken more. Alex's back arched from his lure of her and she let go of the crystal dangling from the chain, to grab the rail and steady herself. She could feel wave after wave of dark energy consuming her. Everything she had taken from her sister and the others was being drained right out of her being. When his hands slid along her hips and his front pressed against her backside, her body shook from intoxicating preamble. One arm kept her against him as the free hand stroked through her short hair. She felt his fingers curl around those strands and force her head back. Panting suddenly through heavy breaths, her eyes shifted back to to their normal brown that fogged over by his complete control over her.
"Drain and take from them. Take it for me. Take to be stronger than them. Feed on them. Cast them under the power I give you." The ambers darkened more, slipping into blood fires to keep this human slave under his command. 'Your will belongs to me. All of you belongs to me. Drink the energy of the petite one. Do not give her the opportunity to fight you. Drain her, drain them more for me."
Alex arched back even more, as a soft moaning purr left her rather dry lips. She licked them as he licked up the side of her neck and sucked along the shell of her ear. 'Drain the halfling. Keep her in her dream state so you can have the others.'
"Mmmm...ohhhh yes. Yes Dante.." Alex's eyes rolled further back and she dropped to her knees. She wasn't even aware of how far gone her mind and body were. One hand slid up to the chain around her neck and ran a finger over a crystal far different than the one Kalyste had slipped over the two beds. Her other hand went to her pocket and pulled out a tinier one, standing up to walk back inside. She would crush what was given to her over one of the candles Dharea burned for herself.
She had a job to do. Her soul be damned..
"Dan...v...Al..ly...wh..a..are..tire.." The detective's voice gradually weakened, until only her breaths and heartbeat were heard.
"Le..x..sh..shit..this...nnno..Al..e..Ka..ra.." The Luthor struggled to remain conscious but could do nothing against the power he held over his puppet.
"Delicious. Mmmm…" Her beautiful sinister purr filled his pleased ears. Blood wasn't what she drank, but their life force through each body of unique energies. Every ounce she drank in, he siphoned from her hungering body until she was consumed in desperate need. His need.
He hovered above the mansion of Kalyste's, surprised she had taken the four females so far from where they called home. She was a fool. A foolish mistake. Her mother had been the disgrace of some degenerate planet. That side of her tarnished all daemvyrian kind. She would pay for the mistakes of siding with more than just Krypton's lost ashes. Turning such a prize had been her downfall. Dante would enjoy taking everything from his dear half sister.
"Your failures Dharea. MY feast.."
There had been utter chaos after Lane had woken up to a note over her, stuffing it in her pocket while she barked out orders. With a few careful strides and a growl, she was left to her own space. Lucy demanded that J'onn keep in touch with her about any news. After screaming at a couple of other agents, she was on her bike and heading back to her place. Once inside, she quickly locked everything up and went to her office without a window. Quickly she slipped a set of gloves on, pulling the note from her pocket and carefully opened it. Her eyes widened at what she read.
Lucy,
I understand the convictions you hold for these four. Rest assured they are safe. I have felt another presence similar to mine. I tell you this because I trust you. You are a soldier yes, but you are a leader and one I admire. I contemplated taking you with me as well. I offer that to you when you are ready. I had no other choice in the actions I took to save both of these precious Danvers sisters. I do hope you offer me forgiveness in the future. There are dangers that will come and some that will cause greater loss to man and Earth.
I needed to come to this planet to protect the House of El. My mother of Krypton was a great friend to Alura, Kara Zor-El's mother. She was betrayed and sentenced, after being forced into paralysis at the judicator's hand then sent to Fort Rozz. I still, to this day, do not understand why. My father swore vengeance on all of Krypton, but before this act could take place that home was destroyed.
My father allowed me to learn everything of their culture, then one night I was brought a note of his apparent death in a war with another moon. I chose not to stay where I had the opportunity to flourish. I chose to come to Earth, to learn your planet's ways and languages. I came to understand why this home to many of all kinds, became the talk of the galaxy. I had watched when Supergirl emerged and kept hidden until I was needed. I have been watching this planet's mightiest hero for quite some time.
My apologies for not being able to assist when the Daxamite invasion came. I had to leave Earth to tend to matters that I would rather not discuss. Perhaps I have inherited this conscious habit that Kara Zor-El uses to blend into this society. Regardless, my actions have meaning and they may seem darker to many of your predecessors and current soldiers, but they are with reason. Fire and fury will come. I shall not sit idly on the sidelines and allow this danger to destroy a home I rather enjoy.
There has been a presence that has lingered in both the DEO and Kieran's own confines. If it is the one I fear and hope not to be, you will need everything I have listed below this letter. Build this weapon and look to the wall facing the sunrise in Lena's abode. Look to the East, follow the marks. You will see a glyph. I have left something only for you. It is for you and only you. Lucy, such a courageous warrior you are. Stand tall, be their leader and act with what you are given. I have left you something that is around your wrist. That, will be your greatest protector. Keep it on at all times.
I can hear your struggle from where I am. I have memorized your heartbeat. Show this courage I know you possess. When you are ready...call for me..
Dharea Kalyste Jor-En
Lucy set the letter down, taking off the gloves and nodding. She removed her jacket and immediately saw the glistening silver bracelet. It had knots similar to the ones she had seen before, yet different and somehow she knew there was strength in this. The rune looking glyphs held something that she couldn't explain, but Lucy knew they were important. She looked back at the letter and looked below it. There was nothing there.
"How am I.." She noticed the glyphs on her bracelet turning gold. "Got it." Lucy grabbed a candle, lit it and let it burn some. "I understand Kalyste." Once enough wax had melted, she held the candle at an angle over the letter, below the signature. The moment it dripped over that area, an entire list became visible. There wasn't any wax on the paper but more glyphs. Lucy looked at them, then at her bracelet and back at the list.
Lane reached for a pen and a separate piece of paper. Her eyes studied what was upon the unique parchment, writing down what she began to understand on the blank one. Before she knew it, the pen dropped from her fingers and she looked over gasping. "Holy.." Dharea had indeed left her everything she needed and more. First things first, get to Lena's home and retrieve what Kalyste had hidden just...for her..
Her entire body felt like it was burning, opening her eyes only to be completely blinded by the sun. She tried to get away from it but felt tight bindings all over her body. Dharea attempted to look away, but everywhere her eyes moved there was nothing but painful light. A song of daemvyr tradition was hummed and Kalyste knew who was there with her.
"Come out you mons.." Several thuds rang through her ears and with it, her heart began to race. "DANTE!"
"Delicious morsels sister. I turned one on the others and watched their fall from a pathetic grace." The blinding sun suddenly stopped with two snaps of his fingers. Shades rolled down the windows and with them closing off the sunlight, the bright reflections on the mirrors ended. Instead, candles filled the room. Kalyste knew those candles. It wasn't the glistening flames that first caught her attention. She could see the knotted ropes that had her tied to the post. Then she saw his burning amber orbs between two of the mirrors and snarled. "Coward!"
"Look down sis." Dharea feared what she would find, terror rippling through her accompanied by absolute rage. The kryptonian, CEO and detective were laying on the floor. All three were bound with knotted ropes and Kalyste already knew with what. "Your toys were fun." She watched him walk around one of the mirrors then gasped at who was beside him. "Soooo fun."
His auburn hair was shorter than she remembered, with eyes far stronger in their rich powerful glow. He still held himself up like he was high and mighty. His vest, that belonged to their father, had knots like what she was bound with and what the women she swore to protect were tied with. Dripping from the sinister smile on his lips, was a slight crimson trail. Her eyes locked on who was in his arms, until he let them go. When the brave warrior's body fell to the floor, Dharea's eyes burned brighter and she thrashed against her bindings. "She was….tasty. Far too easy to manipulate and control. Far too easy...to turn on them."
Dante knelt down, turning the agent's head so his sister could see how many bite marks he had made on just her neck. He smiled, locking eyes with his sister as he brought his head down to the human's upper leg, pulled it away from the other and licked at the last mark he had made on the short haired slave. Every appetite satiated by his devilish control over Alex. "She tasted better when I tied her down and she screamed Master."
"BASTARD!" Kalyste began to curse in several languages and with her fury he just took his time running a tongue all over the human's body. Then, he stood up and walked over her to make his way before his sister. "I will kill.."
"She did such a WONDERFUL job, don't you agree? One little slaver's powder and she was a walking zombie doll with beautiful strings." Dharea's eyes shivered with the rest of her body following suit. "That greedy brat wasn't difficult to control either. Sweet...Vegas." The shivers turned into full on tremors with no end to them in sight.
"You...helped her." Dante put his head back and released his sickening laughter.
"The Puppet Master...I made dance." He snatched his sister by the chin. "Vegas has such FUN things." 'Roulette was taught to play by me. I had this sweet slave the moment both were kicked into the portal. I was the agent that found them and called for help to the rest of the stupid soldiers." Dante held up his hand and showed her his ring. "Made my thoughts and scent human to you dear little sister."
"Dante..let them go. Please...let them go." Kalyste felt the hand leave her face, only for him to walk over and grab one of Alex's ankles. He spread the agent's legs and she saw just how badly Dante had marked her. "What have you done?! SHE HAS A FIANCE! A LOVE DANTE! A SOULMATE!"
"Do you think I care? I had her...hold her down, when I bit her. Her pretty little officer tried to fight the hold on her wrists. Little slave kept her pinned...JUST...for...me. I just bit the bitch that cursed at me screamed and spat at me. I bit the side of her body, hard and painfully until she howled her agony. Then I held her down and made my slave lick the mark clean."
Dharea was going to let all of them tear him to pieces. "You failed father's wishes." Dante backhanded her so brutally that darkness took hold of her almost instantly. She didn't even know she had been released, until her body hit the floor. His laughter was the last thing she heard, along with the screams of the agent as she begged not to be touched anymore.
The sweet slave had been fun while she lasted. Dante had bitten her once more on her wrist, then tore it some as it continued to bleed. He stood up and walked away with all the shades wide open. The five of them lay helpless, too weak to aid in the other's wounds. The kryptonian member of the House of El had a wicked bite on her shoulder, torn like her sister's and bled just the same. Kalyste lay face down, drained of all strength. The detective's body was on it's side, littered like her lover's, with violent marks from Dante's fangs. The CEO was on her back, puncture wounds down her arms and legs.
Dharea hoped and prayed to Rao that Lucy would be the one to find them, before it was too late. Before darkness kept them ALL prisoner forever..