Dark as Love::Hidan::Chapter 8

After they realized that Nathel's contact is possible Pierce, they heard a high red alert. Everyone stopped as they heard from the speakers, "Red Alert! Evacuation! Please proceed to the evacuation facility!"

Wraith turned his head to see the interrogator bring Nathel out of the room while holding her wrist. Apparently, that interrogation will have to wait. Wraith grumbled in frustration as he buried his face in his hand, "Argh, what is it now?"

Odan looked at him as if he was an idiot after he opened the door, "Wraith, this is no time! We have to leave, now!"

"From what! That's what I want to know!" Then he shouted, "Computer, what the hell is going on!"

"We have an alert from the Zeus Cannon to evacuate to avoid a blast from the destination."

"What! They're going to fire that blasted Zeus Canon!" asked Wraith angrily and frantically.

The computer didn't reply then Wraith turned to Hidan and Thanerah, "You two! I need you to get your asses up there to put a stop to Pierce! He has no idea what he is dealing with!"

Odan arched a brow, "You have something to say that we should all know, brother?"

Wraith let out a small exaggerating sigh then confessed, "Dr. Raze told me to now allow Pierce to fire the Zeus Canon because he knew that it is too powerful. It might destroy our world! He has no idea of what he's playing with!"

"How the f**k are we going to get there!" asked Hidan with a shout.

"Use the fast teleportation room! Odan, you know what to do! I'll stay back and try to bring my people out of here before this bastard sends us all to our deaths!"

Odan shouted at the couple, "Follow me!"

Hidan grabbed Thanerah's hand and dragged her out of the room while following Odan to the Teleportation room as the red alert continued. They entered the room and Hidan dragged her to the middle as Odan went to the main computer machine.

Hidan stopped in the middle then advised Thanerah, "Don't feel so f**king surprise when you feel like vomiting when we get up there."

Thanerah arched a brow, "And wha-!"

"All right, good luck!" said Odan after he activated the portal and the couple immediately disappeared in a flash after being blast by a white light from above.

The couple appeared in a dark room after the light disappeared and Thanerah coughed; feeling like to puke. Hidan quickly said to her, "Hold it in, Tha. Hold it in."

"Easy…cough…easy for you to say."

Then Hidan grabbed her hand, "Come on, we got a little talk with Pierce." He ran towards the door and it automatically opened. Hidan looked between the large corridors before he ran to the left while dragging Thanerah with him.

"Do-Do you even know where you are going!" asked Thanerah with a small shout.

Hidan suddenly stopped and she was force to hit his back. He stumbled slightly forward but he didn't turn around to scowl at her for that. He signaled her to be quiet so she did and now could hear Pierce's voice down the hall.

"Finally, it's about time the Council gave me permission to fire the Zeus Cannon."

"I know how much this means to you, but remember that we have kept our bargain and you'll keep yours." Another voice was unknown, unknown to Thanerah. She felt Hidan went entirely tense and he looked surprised.

"Koruko…?"

Thanerah quickly wrapped her arms around his arm as he was going to go in the room to interrupt them, even though they shouldn't. Thanerah softly whispered to him with a plea, "Love, please don't. Not now."

Hidan stared at her with an unknown expression, "But…"

"Not now. We have to stop Pierce first."

"But Tha…Koruko…"

"Hidan, please."

Hidan looked away with a soft groan in frustration and thought, *Sorry little brother, I guess our f**king fight will have to wait…* he made a small vow of that, too.

Koruko said, "So you're going to use the Spirits as the source to fire the Zeus Cannon? I thought you said that Dr. Raze's research was ridiculous."

"It was ridiculous but now I can see it as a source of weapon to destroy the Ukrahs once and for all."

"And what if it destroys more than the Ukrahs?"

"…Sacrifices then must be made if we ever want to have peace."

Hidan took in a sharp small breath; it was now getting déjà vu. Koruko seemed to be surprised because of his voice, "You would even risk the lives of innocents?" he growled softly.

"Yes."

"What if I kill you? I can't allow you to harm the innocents just to meet your objectives. You were granted permission to destroy the Ukrahs alone! Don't drag the innocents in this!"

"Hmm…you're sounding like your older brother now. Aren't the Natoku supposed to be heartless killers?"

"…I am NOT my brother, but I know the demand of the Natoku. We may serve for evil purposes but we know that we can't allow others to harm our religion. Not only you will be risking the innocents, you'll risk the religions as well. Mine, the Jashinists and all the rest. Would you risk having your back haunted by the world?"

"You made a good assumption but I'm willing to take the risk, even with my life to give make our world a better place. A word with no Ukrahs at all? Isn't that what we all want?"

"Yes…but you don't know how much power the Spirits contain. It could either destroy or save the world."

"I didn't hire you to give me a lecture, Koruko. I hire you to get the Spirits to me. You kidnapped Dr. Razes daughter to blackmail him to give you the Spirits and it worked. I also hired someone from the inside to distract the Jashinist from knowing of my permission of the Council. It was doing quite nicely…until now."

"What?"

"She has been caught, damn worthless b**ch. Can't she just shoot herself before being interrogated? That would have helped a lot…" he grumbled the last part in annoyance. Thanerah heard a seat being pushed back, "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to eliminate the Ukrahs once and for all."

"…Are you certain that it will wipe out only Ukrahs?"

Footsteps stopped and then there was a small moment of pure silence, until Pierce said. "No. There will be lives taken, but it's a worth the sacrifices to have a better life for the world. You could consider these…sacrifices to your beloved God."

Hidan couldn't take it anymore and managed to escape Thanerah's grasp. He walked into the room while feeling his blood on fire and immediately pulled his weapon out of his back. "You're not going to fire the f**king Zeus Cannon, Pierce!"

Pierce seemed to be surprise but Koruko; he seemed to be the opposite. He looked calm and was looking at his older brother emotionless. Pierce noticed that and asked him, "You knew he was here!"

"I already felt his presence when he got teleported here from Jontha. And tell your wife to come out as well, it's pointless."

Thanerah didn't need to be told to come out, so she did and stood by her husband's side. She glared at Pierce and growled, "You've got yourself many enemies, Pierce. How dare you choose Dr. Raze's fate?"

Pierce surprised expression immediately disappeared and slightly scoffed, "I don't give a damn about the old man but I thought it was time for him to be…diminished. He was in my way so I took the opportunity of the Natoku to wipe him out. I'm being generous for using Dr. Raze's research as my source of power to destroy the Ukrahs." He waved the container of Spirits in his hands.

Thanerah growled and could feel like biting his head off. "You're not going to leave this place alive…" she threatened him with a small growl of a wolf.

"Hmf, how loyal of you to the dead." He sarcastically complimented her.

Thanerah was going to charge at him but Hidan hold her back while putting an arm in front of her, "No Tha, he's mine. I've wanted to kick his ass ever since that f**king day."

"Tch, the past is the past. Learn to move on."

"Easy said than done, asshole." Hidan turned his attention to his little brother, "Koruko, you were working with him all this time?"

"I'm not working with him, he hired us."

"And do you know that he could wipe out the world with the Spirits!" asked Thanerah as she shouted.

The three men looked surprised of her outburst and Koruko asked with narrowed eyes, "What do you mean?"

"I've studied how powerful the Spirits are without Dr. Raze knowing. I was just curious. I discovered that the Spirits are too powerful; it could harm Ukrahs and anything else alive! It can cure a patient with Ukrah particles but if there's too much, then it leads to death." She turned to Pierce, "What you're doing is only adding the destruction of the Spirits! You're not going to help everyone! You're going to kill them all!"

Pierce smirked, "That's the idea…" he finally confessed with a mumble and wicked in his eyes.

The three stared at him surprisingly and Hidan asked with a glare, "What the f**k are you really planning?"

"It's time for the world to change. It's time for a new era. The old was already forgotten a long time ago and it should have ended at that point. The religions are useless to us now. Why not start a new beginning?"

"Were you planning to tell me this!" asked Koruko while glaring at Pierce as well.

"I'm telling you now, aren't I? Don't you think it's about time to start a new beginning?"

"Did you f**king go through if you did! What would you do? Make yourself King!"

"Perhaps…"

"You're f**king insane, you know that?"

Thanerah joined in the argument, "You can't just decide to end the world! You'll be taking many innocents!"

"It's worth it!"

Koruko's Krystol spread on his arm as red glowing lines were travelling on his skin, "Then you need to die. I'm not going to let you destroy our world."

Hidan joined in, "Let me join in, I need to give him a piece of my mind from many years ago."

Koruko glanced at his older brother, the one he sworn to make him suffer but this time it's entirely different. "This time, we're truce but only this time."

Hidan slightly glared at him but said, "Fine."

Pierce smirked at them then suddenly snapped his fingers, "I don't think so." Door hatches were suddenly opened and it revealed to be bodyguard robots. Pierce turned his back to them, "Kill them."

"Pierce!" shouted both Hidan and Koruko in one voice, but Pierce immediately was being rise by a platform beneath him and he disappeared in an open hatch ceiling and it was closed behind him.

"Shit…" Hidan cursed under his breath and glared at the bodyguard robots as his wife got to their side.

"Any ideas?" asked Thanerah as her Kyrstol spread on her arm.

"Destroy and stop that f**ker."

"Good enough for me." Agreed Koruko before the three charged towards the armed robots.