Scene 4- Dark Empress (continued)
"Did you tell her?" That was the first thing that Kiba asked Tsume the next morning.
"Not exactly. She thought I was joking with her and she went to sleep before I could explain her situation to her. To tell the truth Kiba, I don't feel right telling her about...you know."
"I understand. I guess…I will have to be the one to tell her." Kiba looked at Tsume and then got up to walk to where Mikayla was resting on her hunches in wolf form. Her small head was in the lap of Cheza, who stroked it as if nothing at all was wrong.
"Cheza? Could you excuse us for a moment? I need to speak with Mikayla." Cheza looked into Kiba's eyes. With his help she stood and walked away silently.
"Kiba?" Mikayla had felt it. "What is wrong, Kiba?"
"Mikayla…come with me." He waited for her to rise, now in human form. Together they walked away from the campsite. He made sure that they were far enough away so that the others couldn't hear him as he tried to easily break the news to her.
"Mikayla…Do you remember last night when Tsume was talking to you?"
"Yeah, so?"
"He was serious. You're not human. Lord Christien…When he scanned or whatever it was he did to your brain…he came across something. Mikayla…you're not human. You're not even wolf. You're a clone made by Sonia." He stopped as he realized her eyes for the first time. Tears brimmed over from her behind silver eyes and down tanned checks.
"I thought Tsume was lying, but now…you. You say the exact same things to me he said. So therefore…they must be true." She wiped away the tears and headed away from him, mumbling. "A clone? Only a clone. I am neither human nor wolf, I am only…a clone." It was than that something inside of her mind fired. She fell to the ground with a scream as something inside began to come alive. She was changing.
"Mikayla! Mikayla!" She could see it as Kiba and the others joined her at her side. She rolled away from their touches. Then she sensed Cheza and like one great big reactor waiting to explode, her temper flared. Her silver eyes instantly transformed in to red and her human body became that of a wolf.
No one noticed it as the UC-19 ships landed and the guards piled out in thousands. No one noticed, that is, until they were surrounded, and Mikayla received a shock to the side by one of them.
"By order of The Dark Empress, Empress Sonia, you are all under arrest," said one of the guards. They couldn't do anything. Mikayla was hauled onto the shoulder of one and they were held at gunpoint, shuffled onto the ship.
Scene 5- The Dance Begins (short chapter)
It had to have been late the next morning when Kiba, Tsume, Hige, and Toboe finally awoke. The night before came rushing back and instant grief tore through each of them. Cheza and Mikayla had been taken while they had been ushered into jail cells. To what cause, they knew not.
"Hige, you woke?"
"Yeah."
"Tsume? Toboe?"
"Yeah. How you doing Kiba?" asked Toboe. Kiba, being the protective person that he was, had tried to save the girls, but it was no good. Instead he ended up with bruises and cuts all over his body. The guards had really ruffed him up.
"I'll be fine once we get Cheza and get out of here."
"What about Mikayla?" asked Toboe. That darn wolf had a heart to big for his own good.
"If she doesn't get out on her own, then that is her problem." Hige on the other hand seemed to only think of himself…and his stomach.
"We'll save her as well Toboe."
"Okay."
"You talk of saving people, but have you figured out how to get us out of this predicament?" Tsume growled out of annoyance.
Silence. Apparently not.
"We'll figure out a way."
"I highly doubt that." A voice came from out of the darkness. "The only way you're getting out of this is if Sonia kills you…or if you kill yourselves." The person came closer and closer and finally they stepped into the light.
A boy. A boy of at least 17. He had black hair, green eyes, and was wearing something that resembled a suite like Cheza's.
"Who are you?" asked Hige. He, once yet again, sounded irritated.
"I…am Setsuna Haven…and I am also your savior."
"Our savior? How?" A dastardly smile appeared across his face.
In another part of the castle, far away from where Kiba and the others were being held, strange things were being done to Mikayla and Cheza. Cheza, once more in the fish tank like case, was attached to all sorts of machines. Mikayla too was in a tank. She was unconscious.
A woman wearing a long black, formfitting dress that had a neckline to her navel, with dark purple, almost black hair, and amethyst eyes stood in the center of all the activity in the room. This woman was the Dark Empress, Empress Sonia.
"Are you ready?" Her voice was mind-blowing. One of those sultry bed room voices.
The guy working the machinery, obviously the head of operations, swallowed and nodded.
"Then began. One hundred percent output. I want her fully functionally, very soon." A smile, the same smile that had appeared on Setsuna Haven's face appeared on her own. Soon…very soon, the Dark Flower would be reawakened and Paradise would be destroyed for good.