Playful shouts and giggles echoed quietly in the dark streets of Destiny Island as a certain orange-haired man and a certain black-haired girl traversed the roads, under the dim glow of the street lights above their heads. The two were walking back from a simple date of a movie and a drink, both glad to get away from the tension of The Disorder for a while.

Xenzio took her hand and kissed it. "Did you enjoy yourself, darling?"

"Of course!" Ralexen answered, smiling. "Did you?"

"Any night with you I enjoy immensely." He replied, grinning. The woman smiled sweetly and moved closer to him, cupping his cheeks in her hands and kissing him on the lips.

"I love you, Xenzio." She whispered. He grinned and kissed her back.

"I love you too…"

"Aw, how sweet…"

The couple quickly broke their embrace and looked towards the source of the sound; they watched as four men walked out from an alley. Xenzio protectively moved himself in front of his girlfriend.

Another man snickered. "It's so sweet, I can barely *ucking stand it…"

As they moved into better light, the couple immediately saw the black bandanas.

The names and faces came right after.

"Saix, Roxuld, Sauelex, and Xigbar." The man spat, glaring. "What the hell do you want?"

"Oh, I don't know." Roxuld answered, teasingly. "Perhaps a little chat? A card game? Some *ucking revenge?"

"W-we don't know what you're talking about…" Ralexen stammered, frightened. Xenzio took her hand in his and squeezed it gently, to help calm her down.

"You dudes crossed the line." Xigbar said, taking his group closer to them. "We've always had a problem, but it was on the back burner, for now. But then, ya'll had to go mess with one of our members, and that doesn't sit well with us."

"It doesn't sit well with us at all." Saix snarled quietly, grinning wickedly.

Xenzio gulped harshly. "Look…we're sorry, okay? But we've been out all night. We didn't do anything!"

"Who gives a *uck?" Sauelex snapped. "This ain't a one-on-one kind've thing. If any of you mess with any of us, this becomes a gang-on-gang kind of thing."

Roxuld smirked, cracking his knuckles. "You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us."

"So we're just going to let your stupid gang know that." Xigbar said, grinning madly. "By rearranging your *ucking faces!"

Just then, the one-eyed man punched Xenzio in his face, sending him stumbling back. He would've fallen if Ralexen hadn't steadied him.

"We need to get out of here!" She cried, grabbing his hand and running with him down the street, which suddenly seemed darker before their eyes.

Saix ran after and quickly caught up, cutting them off and punching her in the stomach. She stopped running and almost fell over, but a kick to her face sent her skidding back across the ground.

"Leave her alone!!!" Xenzio shouted, shoving Saix back but to no avail, considering the taller, bulkier man was thrice is size and strength. The smaller man was punched in the face, causing a few teeth and blood to fly out of his mouth.

Roxuld and Sauelex had already jumped on Ralexen, punching and kicking and beating her up. She managed to wriggle out of their grasp and slammed her knee up on the brown-haired man's groin, causing him to keel over in pain. The silver haired man, enraged, kicked her in the stomach with enough force to break a rib. She screamed out in pain as he continued to kick and break more ribs. Xigbar went over and began punching her in the face.

Hearing her screams, Xenzio turned his head to see his girlfriend being seriously outnumbered. Ducking a punch Saix threw at him, he ran towards her and shoved them away, making room to put his body between hers and theirs. As they continued to attack, he used his body to block their blows and kicks from hurting her.

What started out as determination and resolve in his eyes eventually grew to pain and fear. His arms, aching and bruised, were shaking so badly it was very hard for him to keep his body propped up. But he knew that he couldn't let himself fall, for then Ralexen would be targeted again.

"Little *itch is trying to play hero, is that right?" Saix, who by this time had come over to engage in the beating, growled, kicking Xenzio in the head savagely. Blood poured out of a new cut over the man's eye.

"Fine. We'll finish you up first, then go back for your *itch!" Xigbar said, kicking him in the head even harder than his comrade, sending the man stumbling and skidding across the ground away from her. He landed in a heap a few feet away, shaking and trembling and bleeding.

Ralexen could only watch with wide, afraid eyes as the four men skulked over to her boyfriend with malice in their eyes.

Roxuld, having recovered, smirked devilishly. "I'm pretty sure The Disorder will get the message if we mess up your *hitty little face."

"Go ahead, Saix." Sauelex said, grinning wickedly.

The blue haired man pulled out his pocketknife and flipped it open, the blade gleaming under the dull moonlight. He kneeled by the fallen man, holding his head to the ground as he raised his knife.

The woman's eyes grew wider. N-no…Xenzio…!

Finding a little bit of strength within her, she shakily got to her feet, ignoring the intense pain coursing throughout her, and ran at Saix.

"Get away from him!!" She tackled him, having enough force behind her run that she knocked him away before anyone could stop her. While the other members attempted to pull her off, Saix snarled and growled with fierce animosity. Anger clouded his vision, which prevented him from thinking clearly…

…especially as he plunged his knife into her stomach.

Her body froze up, her blood running old, as the piece of sharp metal passed into her.

She stopped moving, stopped struggling, as the rabid man pulled the knife out and stabbed her again.

And again. And again. And again.

He stabbed her, over and over, the fury in his mind blocking out his other senses. He didn't hear his comrades' shocked shouting and curses, telling him to stop. He didn't see Xenzio's horrified and shocked expression. And he didn't feel the wet, sticky blood pouring from his torso.

Until all of that cleared.

Breathing hard, Saix shoved her off of him and stared at her rapidly bleeding form.

"R-Ralexen!!" Xenzio screamed, forcing his body over to hers, as he fell to her knees beside him and cradled her body in his arms gently. She already felt cold.

The Organization members could only stare, mortified.

"Ralexen! Ralexen! Please, sweetheart, love, please hold on!" he cried over and over, pressing his hand over her wounds to try and stop the bleeding. But it did no good; her blood continued to pour out between his fingers. Her body grew colder. She fell limp. Her eyes clouded over, lost their shine, and their life.

She died.

Xenzio sobbed brokenly. "Ralexen!! Ralexen, please, come back! C-come b-b-back…" He hugged her body close to him, crying harder and harder, his whole world destroyed as soon as she breathed her last breath.

The four men couldn't believe this. They never meant to kill anyone…

Unable to speak or act, they ran away as fast as they could, to anywhere, anywhere at all. Just anywhere but right here, at this moment right here.

And they left the couple there, in the street, in their blood, one dead and one dying.

Both were good as dead.

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OMG…this was such a sad chapter to write :(

We're definitely making progress in the storyline…reviews would be really, REALLY appreciated. Thank you.