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Chapter 8

Fight Dragon- Part 2

Cecilia woke up from her phone buzzing next to her. She looked at the bright screen and blinded tried to see what it was. It was a message from an unknown number.

"Dragon got impatient... we are doing this tonight... they are coming for you... run until you get an other message... -Shou"

The girl flattered her eyes sleepily and reread the text. 'That is bad...'

She unconsciously looked for Izaya next to her on the bed.

"Izaya wake up…. Ah… He is not here..." she noticed that next to her was no one and looking around the apartment which was empty.

"Where did that idiot go at a time like this?" she wondered loudly and pouted. She got worried but then she heard some whispers outside the door.

'They are here already?'

She got up immediately and tiptoed to the door. She peeked through the door's eye and saw some men dressed like soldiers outside her door. She immediately left the door and ran to get dressed. She wore her shoes found a jacket at Izaya's wardrobe, grabbed her bag throwing her phone inside and looked around to find a way out. Hearing them trying to break in by picking up the lock, she ran to the window and slide it open. The cold wind hit her face making her regret her decision to flee through there but hearing, again, the men banging the door she changed her mind. She climbed the window and got out sliding it close again behind her, letting her a very small place to put her legs and her arms. She looked down to see if she would survive the fall.

"No… I will die before I manage to heal… fuck it's freezing out here..." She felt her skin tensed up and her hand's hair raised.

She turned her body so she could face the apartment and took a deep breath. She jumped a little backwards and let her body fall in the empty space, having her arms raised up to catch the window's ledge. She grabbed it successfully. Then she heard the men breaking down the door.

She started to move slowly towards the right side until she reached the end of the ledge. She looked down to spot an other window under her. She let her go and fall to the one under her.

Now she was hanging from the window's ledge under hers when she heard the glass from her apartment sliding open. She quickly climbed and glued her body on the closed window and waited for the men to finish their observing from above.

When they closed the window she got herself hanging again and climbed down one more store until she found a narrow path which was surrounding the building at the seventh store and was leading to the emergency stairs. She walked there quickly, until she found her self on the street. She covered her face with her jacket and got lost into the dark alleys with her heart up to her mouth. She was running like there was no tomorrow. For a split moment she felt like she was in Yogsai-City and she was, once again, running for her dear life.

Once she felt safe again, she got her phone out and waited for any new messages. She was arguing with herself if she should call Izaya to check up on him or not. What if he got caught, or even worse, what if he betrayed them. She couldn't decide. He wasn't a character who was clear with his intentions after all. She said that she didn't mind if he was to betray them but that would hurt her.

Her thoughts were distracted from a new message from Shou.

"Alex and Izaya betrayed us…"

She blinked and laughed nervously. She knew that this situation was too good to be true! Alex got them all involved and kept them alive until now only to get them to Dragon? Fair enough. But Izaya?

"How do you know that?" she asked back. A few minutes of torture passed when he sent her a few pictures. It was a picture of Alex and Izaya speaking outside the twins' building and an other picture of them leaving together with the caption 'Izaya has the ring'. Shou continued with a new message.

"Meet me at the park near the cat cafe. Lets talk first."

Cecilia's lips trembled a little and she stopped walking trying to think of an excuse. It was too complicated. Alex was working for Dragon for years, he helped her escape from Yogsai-City but he came to Ikebukuro with Shou to get the ring. Later he saved Shou and even met with his family. They also got Blue Squares into the game. Then he got her meet with Shou to get Dragon out of the way and now he was with Izaya and the ring, one day before the supposed meeting between all of them. It was too confusing yet a brilliant plan. He made everyone trust him only to strike them. And what about Izaya and the ring? He told her that he didn't have it. What could he possibly gain from teaming up with Dragon? Or his reasons were different? He was a mysterious person and his way of thinking was totally different from the average person.

She put her phone in her bag and walked towards the park.

"Alex you idiot..." she murmured when she stepped her foot into the park and her phone rang again.

"Hello?"

"Lia-nee! Please… we need help…"

"Kururi? What happened?"

"Someone came home and tried to kill us. Mairu shot them both but we are scared… Iza-nii is also in danger… can you help us?"

"Yes… where are you?"

"We are at the cat cafe..."

"Come to the park near it. I am there. I will take you to my house."

Kururi hanged up and she took her tired sister with her to the park. Cecilia didn't show up to Shou but message him that she would be late without explaining. She didn't want to put in danger the sisters. A few moments later she spotted the sisters and she took them to her house immediately. They were shocked beyond belief and Mairu seemed lost. The manipulator felt sorry for the little girls. For her, death was like a game anymore, but for them was something not so known.

She sat them down, prepared them some hot chocolate and asked for explanations.

"What happened?" she asked in as calmly as she could because time was running against them. Mairu didn't respond. She didn't even look at her. Kururi decided to speak instead.

"Aoba-kun told us about you and your adventure and about the fact that you needed mama's and papa's ring. So we decided to give it to you."

"You had the ring all this time?" Cecilia asked stunned. She didn't expect that.

"Yes. So we called Iza-ni to come and get it tonight. When he left some scary dudes approached him and he left with them. A little later two of them came to out apartment and tried to kill us. Mairu shot them..." she fell quiet and gave a sad glare at her sister.

"Where did you find the gun?"

"Aoba gave it to us for protection..." Kururi said. "Please don't be mad..." she cried.

"I am not mad. I am glad that you two are ok..." the older girl replied softly and hugged them both. They hugged her back weakly. Kururi seemed fine but Mairu was hurt.

"Do you happen to remember how those dudes with Izaya looked like?" she asked them.

"They were all like soldiers. One of them had red hair… he was standing under the light so we could see him better. And those who attacked us were soldiers and their faces were covered..." Kururi answered willingly.

"I am sorry for not being able to protect you Kururi..." Mairu whispered weakly all of a sudden.

"Mairu… you were up against well and hard trained men… with brute force you can't beat those monsters…" Cecilia petted her head with care to ensure her that she was not at fault. Mairu believed her and nodded slowly. Kururi hugged her tightly.

Cecilia kissed them both and got up.

"I am gonna ask a friend to come and take care of you. I have to go."

"Please be careful… and bring Iza-ni back too..." Kururi said sadly.

Cecilia smiled at both of them and left the house while calling Saya. She asked her to go and take care of them without giving any explanation. Saya agreed and Cecilia ran back to the twins' apartment. The door was broken as they said and the corpses of two men were down. She covered them with some towels she found and left for the park to meet with Shou.

With Alex and Izaya

As Izaya was walking with Alex he was studying him from head to toes. He was clearly working for Dragon because he knew too much to be a stranger but what the raven didn't like was his previous statement, that he was working for anyone who was giving him more. Something was wrong. So he decided to start talking with him.

"So? What are you going to do with the ring? Are you going to give it to Dragon?" He asked with a cheerful tone. Alex glared at him in disbelief and shook his head.

"Are you planning on buying time?" He asked him back with a smirk.

"Hm... Maybe... But I am interested in the human behavior and yours is questionable."

"And why is that?"

"You said it your self. You work for those who give you more... Yet you are here trying to take something so valuable and give it away. That is not so smart for someone who wants a lot. Unless you don't know about the power of the ring! Because if you knew you wouldn't give it to someone else! That would be crazy! I mean-"

"I know about the ring's power." Alex interrupted him causing the information-broker to smirk satisfied.

"In your place Izaya I wouldn't smile." Alex continued with a smirk as he felt the other man's smile burning his back.

"And why is that?"

"Why you ask… you have been cornered and yet you continue to act like you don't care."

"I still don't get you..." Izaya said and his head tilled to the side.

"Well see around you. Two of my men are gone. They went to your sisters. They should be dead by now. And the manipulator too."

"You said that you would get her out of my apartment." Izaya ignored his statement about his sisters surprising Alex.

"Yes. Dead. Dragon wants her dead." Alex sang melodically while waving his arms in the air in circles. Izaya stood in silence until one of Alex's men pushed him to walk.

Izaya had the ring into his hand, squeezing it harder. This whole mess was the result of an old dude who didn't want to give up. He hated that he was dancing according to that old man's rhythm. He had to change that rhythm to his own pace.

"Why Dragon wants my sisters dead?" Izaya asked again as calm and collected he could be.

Alex stopped and turned around, gluing his forehead on Izaya's.

"Dragon wants dead anyone who knows about the ring. That includes everyone. You, the manipulator, Shou, the Blue Squares, your sisters… each one of you… you, all, will end up dead!" The redhead's smile was from ear to ear and Izaya could see that he was anticipating for something.

"That includes you, right?" Izaya decided to make him stop smiling.

"No. I am special. But in your place I wouldn't be worrying about me… how many times do I have to tell you?" his smile left and anger consumed him. He turned to his way again annoyed with Izaya following.

"Special huh?" Izaya whispered and let his insides completely drop heavily. For that one split second he felt nervous. For one second he felt worried for his sisters as they were family. But only for one second.

For Cecilia he was half-half. His mind was telling him that she would be ok as she could repair herself and she won't be in danger, his heart again was asking him a small question. 'What If'.

'What if they catch her…' He left her sleeping. She was exhausted.

'What if she jumps off the window to escape and she actually dies…' The window would be the only escape.

'What if… what if he never sees her again because he will be dead...'

He decided that torturing himself wasn't going to help him. It was meaningless thinking like this in a moment like that. He knew that he would end up dead and the best thing he could do was to enjoy himself. But still… it was bothering him…

"I still don't get you. Why should I worry about them?"

Alex stopped again, his men copied him, and turned to Izaya confused.

"Your sisters, your own blood, and your girlfriend may be dead by now and you don't care?"

"Nope." Izaya gave him a teethfull smile.

"Jesus..."

"Are you really in the right position to call him?" Izaya mocked him. Alex smirked not impressed and returned to his previous way. He had enough with his cheeky ass. He kept wondering what manipulator found on him.

For Izaya, apart from his sudden desire to see Cecilia and his sisters, this whole situation was the most amazing thing that could happen to him at that point. 'Lust' and 'Despair' were two things that when combined they could cause unimaginable damage. He couldn't help but wait until he meets with Dragon to enjoy his way or reaction. Yet he couldn't let them go too far with his sisters and Cecilia. He was responsible for them after all, so he text Shinra to go check on them ASAP, while checking if he was seen by the men around him.

He put the phone away and turned to the redhead. An idea popped into his head.

"Soo… I met Shou the other day. He was big and scary! And for Dragon to send him to kill me and Cecilia must mean that he was trusting him. Am I right?"

Alex snorted displeased with the course of the conversation but didn't respond. Izaya continued.

"And I bet that he was sent to kill Cecilia again, right? I wonder why Dragon asked you to come and get me… oh I know!" Alex raised one eyebrow. "I am weak… that is! Cecilia is by far stronger than me so-"

"Shut up! Shou is also going to get killed tonight like you as he failed to kill you two and then he disappeared. And I am not here because I am weak!" he yelled at the other man.

"I see..." Izaya smiled again and Alex lost it.

"Just shut up! If you say one more word I am gonna torture you until you die- "

"Just tell me how you knew that I had the ring and I will shut up." Izaya cut him calmly. Alex took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.

"The only thing I did was to copy Cecilia's moves. I managed to fool lots of people. Aoba, Shou, Cecilia herself. It feels good surpassing your master... Aoba is good friends with your sisters. He told them about our little situation and that Cecilia would be safer if she had the ring, that was my idea, and they immediately said that they had the ring. Well Aoba told them to give the ring to you first so it could arrive to her safer. And they followed everything! Hahahaha I love it when they follow blindly. And we waited patiently until you show up. But what did you have in your mind? You fell on me and didn't even bother to apologize...I am hurt." Alex mocked him.

Izaya didn't answer. He understood that the guy next to him had managed to fool everyone. They were in a very desperate situation and he was dying to see everyone's expressions when they hear or realize that. It was something to look forward but Cecilia and Shou would be dead on arrival, so he only had Alex and Dragon. Not what he wanted but he could live with that. He smiled to himself.

At the same time with Shinra

Shinra was sitting with his fiance, Celty, in the living room watching TV when he got the message from Izaya. When he read it he jumped up and dragged Clety out of the apartment explaining her on the way what Izaya told him.

"My sisters and Cecilia might be dead. Go to their apartments."was the message saying. Shinra panicked and got furious on Izaya for being such a heartless human being. Celty asked her horse to run as fast as he could to arrive at the apartment of the twins as every second counted and the time they were losing was not coming back.

When they finally arrived, Celty almost flew them all the way to their opened window. Shinra picked inside to check if anyone was there. He faced a mess for a living room and glasses shuttered everywhere along with blood stains on the walls and floor. He jumped in, followed by Celty, and they looked for the two girls. But they only found two men, dressed like soldiers, bathed in their own blood. Shinra examined them both quickly and found out that they had been shot and both dead.

"Where are the girls? According to Izaya they should be here… but the house is empty."

[They may have left to somewhere safe… Where could they possibly go?]

"Hm… I highly doubt they went to Namie... What about Cecilia? Izaya told me that they had a good relationship."

[Let's go to Cecilia too. We need to make sure that she is alive too...]

"Right!"

And they left letting the two dead bodies into the house as later Cecilia passed by and covered them.

By the time they arrived at where Cecilia and Izaya were staying, the whole apartment was a mess too with Cecilia missing too.

With Shou and Cecilia

"And that is what happened with Izaya..." Cecilia told Shou what the twins told her. Shou nodded.

"But that doesn't mean that Izaya is not guilty and that he is not working with Dragon." Shou said concerned.

"True… but I believe that Izaya is not thinking that way..."

"You mean?"

"I mean that Izaya is a guy who loves playing with people's emotions. So I believe that his actions are being influenced by this desire. His desire to observe the human action and reaction."

"So you believe that he is on our side?"

"That, I don't know… but I think that he might cause us problems for his own amusement. That is all..."

"That is not a very good reason to-"

"Um, make me a favor. Ask your friends to go and pick up the corpses. We need to hide them and ask Aoba to not tell the twins that they killed them… it will be too much..." she cut him off. She didn't want to hear the rest of his reasoning. She knew what he was going to say and she was trying to not follow that way of thinking.

Shou nodded and called Aoba. A few minutes later everything was settled and he was back to his position.

"Now tell me what happened..." she asked him.

"When I got back home and I went to sleep. A few hours later I smelt something burning. The house was on fire. I managed to get my brother and his family out and I send them to hide somewhere. I immediately suspected that Dragon was behind it. So I started to ask the neighbors if they saw anyone around and they told me that they saw some dudes dressed like soldiers. They were Dragon's men and the only one who knew where I was living was Alex. I got really angry and then I got a call from Aoba. He was angry and he was screaming at me. Guess why."

"Dragon burned down his hideout?" Cecilia guessed.

"Exactly. Nice one manipulator! I told him about my accident too and he send some of his men to find Alex. Later he send me the pictures I sent you..."

" I see…. So? What now?" she asked. She felt tired and exhausted for some reason. She had been betrayed by friends, family and lovers so many times in the past so one more time wouldn't matter, and Alex's betrayal was anticipated… but what hurt her was Izaya's actions for some reason. She knew Alex for so long, they worked together and he even helped her get out of that sinful city, but his ways when they met again were questionable. But she was still thinking about Izaya.

'What if he…no...' she shook her head violently.

"Cecilia?" Shou asked worried. Her face was white and she started to tremble.

"Alex… There is a possibility that Alex asked me to help Dragon having in mind something else…. He may had all this planned from the beginning." she said with a steady voice.

"That is a possibility… yes… It seems that you can't trust no one these days… no?" he gave her a silly smile. She didn't smile so he dropped his. But she did agreed with his statement.

"Do you believe that Izaya betrayed us?" she asked again.

"Hm… well if yes we will have to kill him too, right?"

"Right..." she said quietly. Her heart skipped a bit. She didn't like it. No. She didn't want Izaya to betray her. She stood in silence. Shou continued.

"Well we have to kill anyone who will come to our way or else they won't stop coming after us, Manipulator."

"Right…." she answered again.

Shou got what was in her mind. Izaya.

"You never learn… Manipulator..." Shou sighed. He knew her. She was trusting people too easily even if she was acting tough and that she doesn't trust anyone.

"You trust people too easily..." He made one more attempt to attract her attention to him. He failed once again.

Cecilia was lost in her thoughts. She had to think of Alex and the reason he had to betray them but she couldn't. Her mind was on Izaya. She didn't want to admit but she really enjoyed the time she had spent with him until then. Especially when she was working for him. She really missed him and she didn't want them to end up like that. She wanted him in her life more… They were friends after all. Right?

"Manipulator!"

"Yes?"

"Snap out of it!"

"Eh? Yes… yes..." she laughed awkwardly. She was hopeless and an idiot...

"Cecilia… I am going to kill them all… not only they killed my men but they even dared to hurt my brother, his family… and you... Are you with me?"

She looked at him with a 'cut-the-crap' expression.

"Ok… my brother and his family only."

"That was better…. Lets go..."

Izaya, in the mean time, followed Alex all the way to Dragon's hotel. According to Alex the hotel was all reserved under Dragon's name so it was empty. Alex leaded the way to the last floor to the suite with eight men behind them. Dragon was sitting on a chair with his servants around him. His men tied Izaya's arms behind his back and made him sit on the ground facing Dragon.

" Orihara Izaya! My my! You grew up so much! I haven't seen for so long. If I had a daughter I would definitely marry her to you." Dragon opened his arms welcoming him with a huge smile.
" Dragon. I can't say that I am as happy to see you. But I am flattered." Izaya bowed with his upper half comically and smirked.

Alex stood behind Dragon along with his three servants. Two men stood outside the suite's door, other two at the entrance of the hotel and other five on each floor of the hotel. Now into the room were five guards, three servants, Dragon, Izaya and Alex.

" Izaya I will cut directly to the chase. Give me the ring."
Izaya didn't answer. Dragon waved at Alex who walked towards Izaya. They looked at each other smiling while Alex looked through his clothes to get the ring. Izaya was giggling on purpose to make Alex embarrassed and leave with the ring with a full red face. Izaya enjoyed every bit of it.

Dragon got the ring into his hand and smiled.

" Finally... Now I will be able to get the power I want to."

" I highly doubt it..." Izaya said and waited.

" Why? Because it's cursed?" Dragon asked and laughed.

" And that too. But also because right now the ring is useless."

The room suddenly got quiet and everybody stared at Izaya.

" What do you mean?"Alex asked braking the painful silence.

" I mean that the ring is cursed because you need to uplift the curse." Izaya explained. Alex and Dragon were so confused and doubtful. He couldn't wait to hear their answers. Alex and Dragon looked each other. Alex thought that it was fishy but Dragon believed Izaya.

" And what do the have to do to sift the curse?" He asked. Izaya was holding his laughter but composed himself and cleared his throat.

" That stone is a gift from a soldier to the goodness of love, Aphrodite. Aphrodite accepted and gave it back to him telling him that his love gave it the power to make his wishes come true."

Alex and Dragon were left speechless.

" Well that is a part of the story. According to mythology the soldier was greedy and he even asked to become a god himself. Aphrodite got angry and cursed him that he would be able to get his ring grand only one wish every full moon with the blood of other soldiers. The stronger sacrifices the stronger the ring."

Alex and Dragon didn't speak for a few minutes. Alex found the whole thing incredibly stupid but Dragon didn't.

" So we need strong sacrifices. I see I see." Dargon smiled creepily.

Izaya looked at both of them. The one who looked worried was Alex. Izaya guessed that Alex was like that because the strongest among all was Cecilia who was a siren aka a monster. But Dragon had ordered for her death. Dragon again was feeling relieved.

"Thank god I have so many soldiers with me." he said and turned to his three servants.

"Take all my men and drove them on the roof. And kill them." Dragon announced and his servants nodded as they exited the suit. Izaya was amazed by his idiocy but decided to keep with the act.

Then Alex's phone rang. Alex picked it up and his facial expression changed drastically. His men informed him that they had killed Shou along with his family, the two men who were to kill the twins were missing and that they failed to find Cecilia. Alex hanged up slowly and carefully. His face was dark but he decided to not mention anything.

"Who was it?" Dragon asked him quickly.

"Our man are back. They succeed. Shou, his family, Izaya siblings and the manipulator are all dead." He smiled pressing himself from screaming. Dragon ignored him and turned to Izaya again.

"Hohohohoooo, now tell me Izaya. Your sisters are dead… would you like to join them? The more the sacrifices I guess is also the more power… don't you think, Alex?"

"Eh? Yes… yes..."

Izaya stared quietly Dragon and then Alex. Their attitudes were completely different. Uneasiness was taking over.

Alex was nervous and he knew that he was lying. All those years of experience were a good gift for him at a moment like this. Or he just didn't want to accept that his sisters and Cecilia were all dead. It just couldn't occur to him.

'They are not dead… he is just bluffing.' he kept repeating into his mind but he couldn't believe it either. Someone had to be dead. It was too good all of them to be alive.

" And today it happened to have a full moon, right Izaya?" Dragon said happily making Izaya lost his color and break his train of thoughts. He hadn't thought of that. He cursed himself under his breath and stared at his enemy. He was more than overwhelmed. All this info were too much to handle. Something that hadn't happen before. He shook his head to clear it and placed his eyes on Dragon. Then he noticed.

Dragon was restless. He was anxious. His eyes were wondering around the room and they were always landing on the clock on the wall. He had a huge smile, frozen on his face and when he was giving orders he was speaking faster and faster. Izaya realized that something was after him and he was in a hurry, despaired and lustful. That was and the reason he accepted his ridiculous excuses about the ring and the sacrifices. He was in a hurry because of the full moon. He was doomed. He was doomed to die over a lie. But he at least had managed to take out Dragon's men. Cecilia, if she was alive, now only had to face Dragon and Alex.

"Ok! Time to work. Alex go with the rest to the roof. I will stay here for a while to speak to Izaya..."

Dragon showed him the door. But Alex didn't move. Izaya looked at him confused. Dragon repeated himself.

"Alex! I said leave!"

"Yes… right now..." Alex replied with shaken voice and stood behind Dragon. The older man tried to turned around to see the redhead man but his underling had other plans. He took out a pocket knife and with his free hand he raised Dragon's chin letting Izaya have a clear view of Dragon's neck.

"What are-" Izaya tried to ask but then everything got red. Alex with a cold face, with no emotion, dragged the blade of his pocket knife all the way on Dragon's neck, giving him a clear cut from one side to an other. A fountain of blood bloomed, and the hot, thick, red liquid ran lonely on the Dragon's dead body.

Izaya stared at the blood and then at Alex. His face continued to be expressionless as he wiped his pocket knife on Dragon's clothes. He walked towards Izaya with the pocket knife still in his hand and stood above him as well.

"Is it true that they are dead?" Izaya asked completely shocking Alex.

"Hah… is that your last question? Aren't you going to say anything like 'You were behind them all?' or something like that?" Alex whined like a baby seeking for attention from his parents to praise him. "Well, I will kill you so you will see if they are dead or not all by yourself." Alex finished.

Izaya smirked. "Be my guess then." and Alex stabbed him. He knelt down and pushed the pocket knife into Izaya.

"You… had it...*couch* all… planed..." Izaya managed to say smirking before Alex threw his body on the floor outraged for being played by a near-to-death man. He was so angry that he took Izaya from the back of his jacket and dragged him all the way to the roof. Noted that he took the stairs causing Izaya to bleed faster.

When they finally arrived to the roof they only faced Dragon's three servants and the dead bodies of 18 men. They were all dead and bleeding on the floor.

"Where is Master?" One of the servants asked Alex.

"He is getting ready. Here is the ring and one more victim… we need to start." Alex said emotionless and he gathered the dead bodies in the middle of the roof. Then he added three more and waited. He knew that Cecilia was coming.

Cecilia and Shou were standing outside the hotel. They were smoking their last cigaret and waited to get the courage to get inside.

"Ne… Manipulator… You have feelings for that motherfucker Izaya?" Shou asked his companion.

"Who knows… what I know is that I don't want to lose him… from my life… it's weird the feelings that I have for him… but I don't want to look at them right now… I am not ready yet… so… I don't know… I am sorry..."

"You are sorry? HAHAHAHA….You never change… And if everyone dies… what do you plan on doing?"

"Hah… if no one sees me I will continue my 'quiet' life. If not… I maybe leave the country… Russia is a nice place you know..."

They both laughed when she heard faint screams of agony coming from the hotel.

"I heard screams…" she looked worried at Shou. He nodded and they both threw their cigarets as they ran to the hotel. But their bad luck was following them as the woman behind the counter wouldn't let them enter the hotel. Cecilia took a deep breath and got closer to the woman whispering into her ear.

" You will do as I say. You will tell us where your client is, you will give us the master key and then you will forget about everything as you are leaving the hotel for a sudden emergency at your house. They told you that it flood and you were unable to call for a substitute. Then you will come back, like nothing happened."

The woman nodded and told them that Dragon was at the last floor, she gave them the master key and then left the hotel to nowhere. Shou patted Cecilia's shoulder congratulating her.

"That is a siren for you!"

She took the key and they proceed to the elevator.

"Take this" Shou handed her a gun while in the elevator. She accepted it and blindly put it on her belt. When they heard the sound of the elevator telling them that they arrived at their destination, Shou immediately jumped out with his gun raised. Cecilia stood behind him for a while to realize what was going to happen from now on. She didn't think of anything at the end. She was going blindly.

"Yolo..." she whispered and she jumped out too. She managed to get a glimpse of Shou's back turning at the next corner and followed him.

"This is his room." He said and opened it with his master key. "Slowly..." he said and entered the room with his gun at front. She followed.

The room was quiet. No one was there expect of Dragon's dead body and lots of blood.

"Oh you gotta be kidding me!" Shou shouted loudly and kicked the floor.

"Damn… Who do you think that did it?" Cecilia asked as she approached Dragon to take a better look at the cause of his death.

"I don't care! I wanted to kill him myself! Now I will have only Alex to kill! That is not fun!" Shou continued to nag irritating the girl.

"Oh shut up! I have news for you! Guess who killed the big guy!"

"WHO?"

"Alex..."

"No… that bastard! Whose side is he with? And where the fuck is he? And how do you know that?" Shou was out of his mind. He was so angry for being played like that he could kill anyone around him. Cecilia walked away from the body and went to the pool of blood in the middle of the room. There he noticed a message.

"Roof… they are at the roof… lets go!" she said and left the room. Shou ran after her and they started to climb the stairs.

"I asked you something!"

"The way of cutting is similar to Alex's. Shut up!"

They arrived at the roof and they saw a pill of corpses, Alex sitting on a chair and a body in front of him.

"Oh my god… Izaya!" Cecilia ran to the raven and turned him around to face her. She took out his pocket knife and cut his ropes.

"So… we met again under… unfortunate… events...*couch*" Izaya commented with his cheeky smile. Only he knew how glad he was seeing her again. Cecilia looked at him sad and saw his wound. She torn her blouse and pressed his wound to stop the bleeding.

"How are my sisters?" he asked next.

"They are fine… at my house with Saya..."

"Manipulator." Shou called her with a concerned tone. She looked where he was pointing at and saw Alex sitting with the ring between his fingers. His face was grave.

"Welcome… Shou… Manipulator… or maybe… Cecilia…" his tone was weird and distant.

"Alex… what are you doing?" Cecilia asked.

"I am trying to free the city! The city you gave up and left!" he snapped at her. She was taken back form what she heard. She couldn't understand.

"What are you saying?"

"You betrayed the city Manipulator! At the beginning I thought that you were right for leaving. You see, you were my friend. You were always right… but I was wrong… The only thing that you were was a heartless bitch! And you show it to me when we met again! You were cold and distant! And I was blaming my self for hurting your feelings..."

"You know very well why I left the city! Don't you dare-"

"You were a coward!"

"I was weak! I couldn't protect my self! I couldn't trust anyone! I trusted you and you betrayed me!"

"I never betrayed you!" Alex snapped at her.

"Yes you did! What nonsense you are speaking of! I-"

"Manipulator! Enough… this guy is not the Alex you knew..." Shou interrupted the nonsense he was seeing being played in front of him. It was unbearable to watch.

"He is mad..." Izaya added making the girl change her view to him. She placed gently her hand on his forehead and took his hair from his eyes.

A metallic sound was heard at the front and an uncomfortable feeling overtook the girl. Then she heard an other metallic sound from behind her. She raised her head and saw the end of a gun pointed at her.

"Alex drop the gun!" Shou warned as he pointed Alex with his gun too.

Cecilia didn't speak and neither moved. She calmly stood at her place waited for Alex to decide his next move. She had already used her voice and her throat was hurting like crazy from all the yelling. She was at her limit so she couldn't order him to drop the gun and surrender. So she waited. At the same time Izaya was studying her.

"I don't care… she needs to die for the freedom of the city… you too Shou… so let me kill you both! With your power the ring will be powerful and I will be able to free the city-"

"This is nonsense! No ring can save that city! That city is as good as dead Alex..." Cecilia spoke.

Her heart was pounding fast and she couldn't stay calm any more.

"You are lying…" he whispered with madness taking him over.

"I am not lying..." she raised the tone of her voice. "The city corrupted us Alex… it's over! That city is the death of us!"

"No! I will save the city!" Alex shook his head closing his eyes with anger refusing to listen.

"ALEX DROP THE GUN OR ELSE I WILL SHOOT YOU!" Shou yelled threatening to kill him on the spot.

"Don't… kill him… arg..." Cecilia managed to say as she grabbed her throat being in incredible pain. Izaya's eyes widened from her actions.

"It's your limit Manipulator! Now shut up and accept your fate!" Alex announced with a hysterical laugh.

"I refuse!"

"Nani?"(Too much JOJO XD)

"I won't accept my fate like this… I will fight it like I always did! You can accept yours, I don't care!" she murmured as lower as she could trying to not damage her vocals more. Alex got distracted for a while letting his arm drop a little.

"Chee… Alex… just fuck off already!" And with that Shou shot him at his leg causing him to fall on the ground cursing Shou.

"Yeah yeah… shut up..." Shou walked to him and pointed his gun on his head while taking the gun from Alex's hand. He turned him around and locked his hands behind his back making him unable to move anymore.

Cecilia breathed again and smiled at Izaya who kept staring at her. She moved her head asking him what was wrong. He just smiled and closed his eyes.

"Nothing…." he said and then they heard Alex laughing again.

"Its over!" he said. "I failed… now we all have to die here..."

"Eh? What do you mean? Explain your self!" Shou immediately asked him. Alex smiled and told him that Dragon had planted bombs to all over the building. When sun would come out the hotel will be only pieces of junk and dust. Everyone lost their color. Cecilia got up immediately and tried to get Izaya on her back.

"What are you doing?" Shou asked her.

"I… am… getting… out… of…. Here…. Take… Alex… and … go..." she said spelling each word. Shou nodded and knocked out Alex so he could move him easily. Cecilia glared at him but focused on Izaya who was still bleeding.

She got him on her back and they left the roof as soon as possible. By the time they left the hotel, the sun was up and the hotel collapsed into pieces with their past as Alex promised them.

Cecilia was walking first with Izaya on her back, Shou was following, dragging Alex with him. They arrived at Cecilia's house shortly after. They were all exhausted emotionally and Izaya was at the verge of losing all his blood. On their way he lost consciousness making Cecilia freak out and run the rest of the way.

When they entered the house they saw Shinra, Celty and Saya sitting around the kitchen table, with a bottle of whisk. Cecilia let carefully Izaya on one of her couches and went towards the table. Shinra left the table to go to Izaya as Cecilia took Saya's glass and drank the crystal clear liquid from it. She felt it burn her insides as it was finding his way down to her stomach but she felt better. Her nerves calmed down and she was now able to think straight. She turned to Saya.

"How are the kids?"

"They are sleeping at the guest room… what happened to you four?"

"You should all go and get some rest… we will talk tomorrow… Shou tied up Alex somewhere… his legs too… I don't want blood on my floor..." she said tiredly making everyone look at her like she was an alien. She was cold and heartless. She was the old Manipulator Saya knew.

Shou tied up Alex's hands and legs and let him on the second couch. Shinra bandaged Izaya's wound and looked at Cecilia for further orders.

"Shou you will sleep on the couch next to Alex's to keep an eye on him, but please don't kill him. Celty would you move Izaya to my room? Also Shira, that idiot has a bullet on his leg..."

Celty nodded, took Izaya and moved him as carefully as she could upstairs while Shinra took care of Alex's leg, tied it up to stop any further bleeding and went upstairs to see Izaya too.

Cecilia saw Alex being lost and she sighed heavily.

She was tired. She was feeling like something was missing… maybe it was the fact that she didn't manage to kill Dragon herself. But he was dead. She was free… for real this time. She should have been happy and full of hope for the future. Dreams that maybe… maybe will become true…

But she wasn't feeling anything. She was empty and all she wanted was to sleep.

"Cecilia! What happened?" Saya asked again.

"I don't know… the only thing I know is that Dragon is dead… Alex is a traitor and now I should be happy for being free but I am not, that is what happened! Something else?" Cecilia answered, took a new glass from the counter and sat at the table. Took the bottle in front of her and pure the whisk inside the glass.

"Want some ice?" Shou asked. She nodded. He placed some ice cubes into her glass, repeated for his glass and filled it with whisk too as he sat next to her. Saya kept watching them trying to make them talk but she knew that it was hopeless. Their nerves were at their limits. One wrong move and everything was over.

Then Shinra and Celty got down. Saya got up and approached them quickly.

"Izaya will be fine. He didn't lose so much blood and the wound wasn't that deep to cause problems to any internal organs. And looking at you I bet that you won't speak tonight huh?" he asked and Saya pushed them out of the house.

"We will come tomorrow Cecilia… we need to talk..." she said and she left closing the door behind her.

Now into the house was Cecilia and Shou at the table drinking, Alex asleep on the couch, the twins sleeping in the guest room and Izaya sleeping in Cecilia's bedroom.

The night was long and the bottles left empty by the next morning a lot.

OK! And Dragon is out! RIP!

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Everything is welcomed!

I hope you have a good day! ^_^

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