Chapter 11

I couldn't believe it! 'Shun's kissing Syphile.' I tried to absorb the fact, but I just can't seem to accept it. My heart, just feels… broken. Shun stared at my direction, and that's when I noticed that his irises are dilated. It only lasted for a second before it returned to normal and back to dilation again. But why is it like that in such bright light?

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I can see in the corner of my eye that Alice is getting jealous, and a little angry, of what she is seeing. Seeing her 'main squeeze' passionately kissing someone else is really… annoying.

I broke the kiss and made Shun look at her direction before changing my control over him. A spell if you wouldn't mind. Now that Masquerade and Dezyn are the only ones missing in this set, I proceeded to enter the final phase of my plan.

The door broke open as Masquerade chased my confidant. I hastily motioned for Dezyn to come near me and he obediently followed. I can see in Masquerade's facial expression that he's not pleased in what I'm doing. But guess what? I don't care what they think. I've been planning this for years. The brawlers can't stop me, and neither can Masquerade.

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"Alice, what's wrong?"He asked

"I just saw Shun… Kissing Syphile" She managed to say before breaking down in tear.

"What! He vowed that he would keep you out of harm's way. But he himself brought it to you!"

"What… are you… trying…t-to say?"

"Shun and I made a pact that we would protect you. But that pact doubled as a contest. He would be with you, while I remain in the shadows."

"I had enough of this!"I screamed "Shun! *chuckle *Go, attack."

My puppet submissively followed my command and ran straight into the pair. Masquerade grabbed Alice and dodged out of the way. I could hear Alice saying "Please, don't hurt him"

Shun readied for another attack. But this time, he threw a right punch at Masquerade. Masquerade tried to block the attack but ended up receiving Shun's left jab. Masquerade countered by doing a roundhouse kick and it painfully connected at Shun's arm. He endured the pain and grabbed the leg that struck him. He spun round and round until he was fast enough and threw Masquerade into a wall. If my former master fails to respond to this move, it would spell a whole new world of suffering for him cause the momentum and the impact is strong enough to make him pass through several walls in the mansion.

My attention drifted away as Dezyn growled at this and I commanded him to calm down. I also managed to hear Alice scream "Stop it!"I resumed my focus on the battle just in time.

Masquerade managed to gracefully align and plant his feet into the wall and launched himself towards Shun while aiming a punch. The punch hit and was able to literally knock Shun into his sense before he fainted beside Alice.

"Bravo! Bravo Masquerade. You never rusted a bit against humans… But we will see whether it fairs against Dezyn."

"Why are you doing this?" Alice demanded

"Why? Because I. HATE. ALL OF YOU! Specially you Alice! If you hadn't been 'him'" I yelled as I pointed Masquerade "I wouldn't be doing this!"

"Shouldn't you be thanking her instead? If she wasn't there when negative energy blasted into this world, I wouldn't have come to life." Masquerade declared

"True" Dezyn countered "But SHE could have easily called YOU here."

"There's no use. They'll never understand. You now have permission to do whatever you want to those two; and afterwards, the others too, Dezyn" I announced

He roared in delight. "Another bunch of victims? Why not. I'm sure THEY are 'RIPE' for the taking.*laugh* If you get what I mean."

"I won't let you!" Masquerade said.

Dezyn crouched and prepared to pounce.

I looked into the chambers and saw that everyone was already awake. Good. They'll be able to see what's going to happen to their Alice.

The battle between Dezyn and Masquerade already began as I look at them.

Masquerade assaulted Dezyn with a fury of punches and kicks, and all are in vain. Dezyn successfully dodged and blocked everything Masquerade threw at him. Now, it's Dezyn's time to attack, and he began by running towards Alice. Masquerade, as expected, stood between them. Dezyn smirked as he vanished in a blur of black light, and the next thing they knew was Masquerade flying upwards. He too was in shock of what just occurred. He tried to search for his opponent on the ground. And he saw Dezyn jump towards him. He tried to go into a defensive stance by crossing his arms in front of his chest. What he never expected was that his opponent would appear and pummel him from behind.

I looked at the chambers again and saw Dan furiously pounding the glass chamber. I laughed at their demise. Their fates are sealed. I resumed my focus at the battle and was astonished to see Dezyn face flat on the ground. How did that happen?

Dezyn immediately got up and angrily growled at the figures in front of him. What?! Shun's already back to his feet. I wasn't expecting this. How was he able to recover that fast?

"Looks like my ninja trainings are paying off" He said

"We'll talk about what happened later. For now, let's finish him off" Masquerade said as he addressed the last part to Dezyn.

"Looks like I'm going to fight these two." Dezyn said "Now, now. This will be fun"

'*scoff* Like those two would stand a chance 'I thought

I silently sneaked passed the battle grounds and made my way towards Alice. I could see the 'prisoners' furiously trying to get Shun and Masquerade's attention to defend Alice from me. They need no to worry. I'm not going to attack Alice, yet. Once I was behind Alice, I hid in the shadows and waited for the fight to finish.

I was utterly dismayed by what Dezyn was showing in this part of the battle. Unmistakably, he was losing to these human. But how? Then, another of Mark's quotes repeated in my mind.

'People tend to grow strong when they must protect someone that matters to them '

In anger, I clenched my hands into fists. This wasn't in my plans!

Dezyn flew backwards going to our direction. That's when a phoenix necklace flew away from him. He landed on his back as Masquerade approached him and Shun examined the necklace. He gasped in shock at what he just discovered. Masquerade held Dezyn by the collar and was about to deliver the 'coup de grace' when he asked the never ending question. "Any Last Words?"

"The so –called righteous think that the dark have no hold on them, but that is just wishful thinking. When the Darkness call, the mighty obey" Dezyn responded under his hooded coat.

"What was that supposed to mean?" Masquerade asked

Dezyn's coat slowly vanished like the wind blowing off a dark aura.

I moved behind Alice. Even though the experiment was a failure, I'm still getting my revenge.

Everyone was shocked as they saw who was under the coat. They never expected Dezyn to be their friend. The one they knew by the name: Mark

End chapter 11: Dezyn (Alice/ Syphile)

Seityrn: Yes, it was a tribute to our 'oh so loved'Episode 38 of Bakugan Battle Brawlers.

I still have no ownage of Bakugan here. *sigh*