Chapter Thirty-Three
Dreamer's Paradise
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The smoke cleared and Ariel looked around to see Jason's body engulfed in flames on the bed. Mina was gone. She searched with her eyes for her sister. Mina appeared behind her and placed her in a chokehold position squeezing her windpipe. Mina whispered in Ariel's ear, "Always be aware of your surroundings."
Ariel frowned as she pulled her sister's forearm down and flipped Mina's over. Mina landed on her back on the bed next to Jason's body. She looked up to see an upside down image of her sister's doing a high kick. Mina rolled over before Ariel's leg landed on the bed. Ariel grabbed a dagger out of her jacket pocket and screamed as she launched for Mina. Mina ducked and dodged her attacks as she stepped backwards towards the door. Ariel yelled as she launched for her. Mina grabbed her forearm as they struggled for control with the dagger as Ariel tried to press it towards Mina and Mina pushed it away from her. Mina took Ariel's arm and flipped her over. Ariel landed flat on her face. The dagger slid under the bed.
Mina turned to her sister in a fighting stance. "Being a sailor scout is more than about having powers." Mina saw the opportunity to take the dagger and kill her sister. A part of her detested Ariel and wanted her dead for murdering her husband and mother. The other part sympathized with her and still saw her as her innocent little sister. It was her fault that she was like this.
Ariel struggled to her knees and stood up. She stood in a fighting pose with her fists in front of her. Ariel raced towards Mina. They engaged in hand to hand combat. Mina blocked Ariel's every kick, punch and attack. Mina grabbed Ariel's arms shocking her with her strength and throwing her through the window. People around them looked stunned as they saw the girl. Ariel stood to her feet. She screamed as her eyes turned orange and a golden aura surrounded her. She floated in the air scaring the people. Well, some stopped to snap photographs and recorded a video with their smartphones to post online. A yellow blast of energy erupted from Ariel's hands. The powerful explosion erupted as she blasted the building to smithereens. When the smoke cleared, Ariel smirked. "I guess you were wrong, Mina. Power is everything." Relief washed over Ariel. Patricia. Jason. Mina. They were all dead now. All the people that lied to her and hurt her were dead. They were all rotting in hell now. She disappeared.
Mina hid in the shadows of a building as she watched her sister disappeared.
Raye screamed as she hurled dishes at the doorway. It's been over a month since she had been stuck in this apartment thanks to Dr. Bennett. Raye worried that she was still trapped in that white room and this was all a bad dream. She feared she was still a clone. Dr. Bennett had not returned in over a month and she realized that the people in the other apartments were figments of her imagination. She was going insane in the apartment.
She looked up at the ceiling and spun around. "I know this is not real. Please let me wake up."
She closed her eyes.
She opened them and she was still there. She screamed.
She jumped up from a bed surrounded by darkness. She was wearing a knee-length red dress and her hair was styled in a side bun and she was wearing light makeup. A white door appeared in front of her. The door opened. She walked through it and into a bright light.
She found herself doing the tango with Dr. Bennett dressed nicely in a long tail black tuxedo and black bow tie. They were dancing in the center of a golden hardwood floor surrounded by other couples dressed in expensive gowns and tuxedos. The oval-shaped room was adorned with gold and a large crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling over the center of the room. She looked up at the ceiling and it was decorated with artwork of satanic symbols and the New World Regime written in Latin. She looked down and saw a symbol of a large red dragon. There were a dozen tables for eight on the outskirts of the room, decorated with fine linen, expensive silverware and gourmet food. The guests mingled with one another. Raye smiled when she saw her mother stepped in with her father dressed beautifully in a white evening gown. Raye had not seen her in years and she kissed and mingled with the guests. Raye moved to go over to her parents, but Dr. Bennett pulled her back to him startling her. She tried to move away from him, but he would not let her move as he held her closely in his arms. One hand on her waist and the other was on her shoulder.
He spun her around and Raye looked stunned when a large red stain appeared on her mother's dress. It quickly grew bigger and Raye realized it was blood. Raye cried out, "Momma!" Dr. Bennett grabbed Raye's chin and turned her head back to focus on him. Raye frowned as she looked over her shoulders and saw her mother collapsed to the ground dying. Her father knelt next to her embracing his dead's wife. Raye cried out loud, "Momma! No!" No one heard her and continued to dance, mingle, and drink.
"They cannot hear you." She turned to Dr. Bennett and saw that he was actually speaking to her. She looked through his clear frames into his blue eyes.
Raye asked, "What's the purpose of this? Why are you doing this to me? Am I dead or alive?"
Dr. Bennett said, "Just dance."
Raye pouted but she continued to dance. She saw Mina as a little girl as a younger version of her mother Patricia presented her to the guests. Her father, Patricia's second husband, stood in the center of the room. She handed Mina to the man as he stared at the little girl with lust filled eyes. Patricia pretended not to see the way the man stared at her daughter. She walked off to mingle with the guests.
She saw Dr. Sharon Muzino and a short man with dark hair on her arm. Raye assumed it was Ami's father. Ami's father collapsed to the ground. Raye looked shock when Mina rapidly grew up to age nine with a pregnant belly. Dr. Bennett spun Raye away from him and she saw Darien at a bar drunk. Rick Thornton approached him. He gave Darien a divorce paper. She saw an image of Serena marrying the devil and having sex with him. Serena as Alex looked at her body and saw the imprint of her unborn child's hand pushing against her skin of her stomach. Dr. Bennett spun her back to him. She stilled when the music stopped and she saw an image of a nine-year-old version of herself strolling into the room. Her hair was down and she dressed in a white dress. Her mother's body had disappeared along with Ami's father. Raye walked happily to her father. He picked her up and kissed her cheek. Her eyes became wet as she watched her father bring her younger self over to Mina's father who stared at her inappropriately. Raye said, "I don't want to see this."
Dr. Bennett stood behind her and said, "You have to remember."
Young Raye cried shaking her head, "Daddy, I don't want to go."
Her father laughed and reassured his daughter, "It's going to be okay, sweetheart." Raye closed her eyes. Her heart pounded as Dr. Bennett placed a hand on her shoulder as her body tingled from his touch. "Open your eyes." Raye obeyed him. Right before her father handed young Raye over to Mina's father, Patricia took out a gun startling everyone and shot her husband through the skull. He collapsed to the ground. Patricia had saved her by killing her husband. Raye remembered being taken to a fancy party like this once before and met Mina's mother for the first time. After she murdered her husband, Dragon appointed her as her husband's successor. She was now one of the leading members of the New World Regime. Raye watched as her father told a young Patricia that he was campaigning to win an election for a position that he wanted. He was dropping in the polls and the incumbent was expected to be declared the winner. Patricia's eyes met her father's eyes then the younger version of Raye. She looked back at Raye's father and shook her head. They left the party and her father looked shame faced and remained silent the whole ride home. A week later, she sent her to live with her grandfather. He lost the election months later.
Raye cried as Patricia rushed over to her pregnant daughter. Patricia cried as she helped Mina delivered the baby. The baby transformed into Ariel shocking Raye. Ariel walked over to Patricia and kissed her mother's lips. Patricia collapsed to the ground and died. Ariel turned to her sister who was older and pregnant again. Her eyes were wicked and full of hate. She heard a banshee scream as she covered her ears. The door opened a blue light emerged as all the guests at the party stared at the door.
Raye opened her eyes and groaned. She was lying in the middle of a soft king sized bed surrounded by see-through curtains hanging from four large black poles. A maid was drawing the curtains as the sun illuminated the dark room and everything became bright. The room was large and covered with maroon carpet. The antique black furniture was finely carved with a wardrobe closet, writing desk and chair, and a drawer for her clothes. On each side of her bed were two small nightstands with maroon lamps on both sides. The maid was about to walk out of the room.
"Hello." She asked softly wanting to know if she was still dreaming. The maid stopped and smiled acknowledging her.
The maid said happily, "You're finally awake, Miss Hino."
Raye slowly sat up. Her back stiff and cracked as she moved. She asked with groan, "How long have I been asleep?"
The maid said, "You have been asleep for three months." Raye stared at her in disbelief. She smiled at her. "Prince Adam has been watching over you. I will let him know that you have finally awakened."
As the maid touched the door handle to open the door, Raye asked, "Where am I?"
The maid smiled. "You're in Elysian." She walked out of the room closing the door behind her. Raye could not believe it. She had to be dreaming. She pinched herself and it hurt. She slapped her face and it stung. She slowly pulled the covers aside and stepped out of the bed. She was dressed in a blue night gown. Her ebony hair was loose and hanging messy around her. She slowly strolled over the soft carpet to the windows. She looked awe as the magnificent beauty that was Elysian as she stared out the windows of the large golden castle made out of gold and crystal. Every building in the city that surrounded the castle looked like it was covered in gold. Raye pushed opened the windows as she inhaled the fresh air of the clear blue sky. She saw a gigantic ocean with sparkling clear blue water far away in the right and gray mountains in the distance beyond the large forest that went on for miles and miles. The mountains top were so tall their peaks poked through the clouds. The prairielands were green and hilly decorated with every flower God created. Throughout the inner depths of Elysians lie the caves that carved by God himself and were tall, and wide, and deep as their insides dripped with water from the small currents flowing inside of it that led to a nature made waterfall. The forest and gardens was filled with every fruit ever created like apples, peaches, bananas, and lemons. The farmlands were thousands of acres wide and planted with every vegetable and fruit even cotton were growing. The animals of the farmland, forest, and the water were twice the size of their earthly cousins. A herd of wild horses roamed the prairieland. Cows grazed the farms and sheep mingled together as sheep dogs barked and rounded up the sheep. In the far distance beyond the deepest and rockiest depths of Elysian, the dinosaurs walked the land.
Colossal sized Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus ate from thousands of tall trees. The triceratops and elephants drank water from the rivers and oceans. The Tyrannosaurus Rex roamed the lands. Their steps shaking the ground as they searched for prey as he raced towards a group of triceratops as they engaged in battle to the death. A group of raptors with their curved clawed feet races through the grassy plains as dino birds swarmed the sky.
Raye raced towards her door and peeped her head out into the hallway. She saw the hallways were empty. She slowly tiptoed out of the room closing the door behind her. The hallways and floors were large and paved in gold decorated with beautiful flowers and dozens of rooms along each hallway. After walking from some time, she became lost like she was walking in a maze. She strolled into a large room that looked like a gigantic library filled with every book known to man in every language even ancient languages that no longer existed. Raye felt like an ant in the colossal library that filled up towards the ceiling with extremely tall and long ladders leaning against every row of bookshelves.
Raye walked through the floors of the library that seemed to go on forever until she came to the end. Her eyes widen when she saw a gigantic portrait of Endymion hanging from the wall. He looked regal and like Darien but with more power and confidence. His eyes were cold and his face was beautiful but solemn. He was dressed in a golden army and cape and a golden crown on his head. The sword of the Earth pressed upright into the rocky plateau he stood on. The golden crystal embedded in the hilt of the sword shone bright gold.
She heard footsteps and turned to see they belonged to Dr. Bennett, Prince Adam. He was dressed in a blue military style jacket with attached golden insignia of the Earth, black slacks, jacquard sash, a golden military belt around his waist and medal and shiny black dress shoes. He glasses were off his dreamy blue eyes. He looked like a prince for a fairytale.
He smiled at her instantly relaxing her. He said, "You are a nosy little thing, aren't you?"
Raye asked turning back to the portrait, "Is this Endymion?"
Adam stepped next to her and stared at the portrait. He looked up at it and nodded. "Yes, this is my great ancestor Endymion."
Raye said, "So who are you to Darien?"
Adam said, "Your Darien is my big brother, Abel Endymion Bennett. We believed he died in a car accident over twenty years ago on Earth along with my parents."
"We?"
"My siblings Evelyn and Cain."
"They did not mention you when they spoke."
Adam grinned. "We don't get along. I resided mostly on Earth and hardly ever come here. This life never interested me or Evelyn. It was something that we were born into. My parents perished when I was four. We were sent to an orphanage since we had no known relatives. I was sent to a good family in Japan. You and I were childhood friends." Raye looked at him surprised not remembering him, even though he seemed familiar to her. "Cain and Evelyn found me and wiped my Earth parents and your memories of me to take me away to live with an uncle that I never met to become something that I never wanted to be. I always hated them for that. When I turned eighteen, I left this life and returned to Earth to create a normal life for myself. We reconnected only recently."
Raye said, "You responded to Endymion's presence."
Adam said, "He's my brother. I may not like my siblings, but we love one another and we are all connected to one another. Abel finally received his powers and only recently have we been able to sense his aura."
Raye asked, "What are your powers?"
Adam said, "Every Elysians of the royal bloodline has a power of the four elements like the sailor scouts. Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. Cain is a child of the earth like father. Evelyn can manipulate water. Abel can manipulate the wind like mother. I can manipulate fire like you." He turned to her amused. "I guess that why I instantly connected to you."
Raye turned to him worried. "Am I dead? Is this all a dream?"
Adam asked softly, "What do you want it to be?" He turned to her and looked at her in a way that frightened her. No man had ever looked at her that way before besides Chad. She stepped back as he approached her. He stepped towards her. Her back pressed against the wall. She could run towards her left and dodged him but her legs froze and followed the command of her heart. The hairs on the back of her neck rose. Her body became sensitive and overwhelmed by his presence. Her heart banged against her ribcage. She could not think and felt only the desire to let this man possess her. A man that she did not know existed. A man that she did not know. Yet, her body responded to this stranger. He stood in front of her. His eyes land on her lips. He descended his head towards hers until his lips lightly brushed against hers He lips parted as his pressed his lips against her. She found herself melting into his kiss as she opened her mouth to explore his. He pulled her into his arms as one hand touch her cheek and the other her back. He slowly backed away from her as she felt abandoned. He stared at her afraid as she could hear the beating of his heart too and the goose bumps prickling on his skin. His eyes darkened and he kissed her once more. She moaned against his mouth as she felt hot and alive again. His body felt on fire as she kissed him. She was unaware that fiery flames surrounded them. His eyes turned golden as the flames became larger.
Raye opened her eyes and found herself in an enormous bed covered with dark sheets in a dark room. They were naked and their clothes were scattered throughout the floor. He held onto his body as he slowly entered in her hot, tight core that engulfed him as he smoothly pounded inside of her. Raye moaned in pleasure as she rested her head on his shoulder stroking his skin with her fingers. He moaned in pleasure as he continued to move inside of her. He lost control of his body and senses and something he never felt before entered his body. His thrusts increased as his eyes turned glowed brightly. Her eyes turned red. Flames engulfed their bodies once more but did not burn them. He kissed her lips as if they would extinguish the fire burning inside of him. He always been in control and now he had lost himself inside of her. He wanted her before he knew that love existed. He searched for her throughout the years in other women. He always wondered why his relationships never worked out, why his lovers were never good enough. He fell in love with a girl when he was seven and he never forgotten her. Now, she was in his arms, in his bed, and making love to him. He felt a jealousy to always possess her and never wanted to see her with another man. Maybe that's why he hated the reborn Chad as he watched her memories and a reborn taking away her innocence. Making love to her in a way he always desired since he was thirteen. A golden energy surrounded them as he felt a powerful energy erupted inside both of them. They screamed as they climaxed together and he erupted himself inside of her saturating his seed inside her womb.
She lied limp in his arms as he became overwhelm by regret. What he had done? She moaned in pleasure with a smile on her face as she nuzzled her cheek against his shoulder. She was completely unaware that he had impregnated her with his child.
Alexandra dressed in a blue gown rubbed her pregnant belly. She could feel her baby's hands now much bigger pressing against her stomach. She was only pregnant for two months but looked like she was six months pregnant. Her child was going to be born soon as she smiled down at her stomach. Every night Dragon appeared in her room and filled her insides with his powers. His powers made their child stronger. He kissed her good-night. Sometimes he spent the night with her. Other times he spent the night with one of his thousands of concubines. She did not care. She understood that her husband had an insatiable appetite, and she was not enough to satisfy it. Whenever he called upon her, she came. He did not care that she had other lovers. Her Lunarian blood attracted the other demons like candy and sometimes they ate from her sucking her blood and tasting her lips.
Her husband was not simply the ruler of hell. He ruled over the underworld and the dead. Depending on how a human or beast lived their lives, he decided whether they go to heaven or hell. None of his subjects disobeyed him because he knew their worst nightmares and made them real for all eternity. They entertained him and did his will.
Alexandra learnt that the other princes of hell were Satan's other sons and Dragon's youngest son. Beelzebub, the oldest, ruled the north region of the Underworld and guarded the gates of hell. Astaroth, the middle child, ruled the West of the Underworld and was responsible for eternal damnation of the worst offenders throughout time and space. Jeth, one of Dragon's children, ruled the South and controlled the afterlife. Dragon introduced her to his brothers Beelzebub and Astraroth. Neither Belial nor the rest of his siblings were interested in meeting their new queen since she was a descendant of Uno. They looked to be in their fifties with long beards, but they were thousands of years old and extremely powerful, but not as powerful as their youngest brother and their father's favorite, Dragon. Jeth was the youngest. He was considered the Devil's favorite child. He was half demon and half human. His father bedded a mortal woman and she lived in hell with Dragon for many years as his favorite concubine. She died giving birth to Jeth. Against Beelzebub and Astraroth's council, Dragon made Jeth, the boy prince, the ruler of the South at the age of six. Many demons tried to kill the child thinking that he was weak. The boy's eyes were dark and lifeless without remorse. Jeth had the power to kill with only his eyes and burnt many demons to a death who tried to take his throne. He hated to be touched. Anyone who touched the boy prince was instantly set on fire and burnt to death. He was only twelve-year-old as Dragon allowed him to age in earth years. One of Satan's other sons Azazel, the previous ruler of the Southern Regions of Hell was killed and overpowered by a powerful demon with the power of the gods. Dragon avenged his brother. He slaughtered the monster and tossed the creature into the fiery pits of hell to be burnt for all eternity.
The only person Jeth allowed close to him was Alexandra. She made him feel half alive and reminded him of what it was like to have a mother. She was kind to him even though the other demons saw her kindness as a weakness. He sensed that she knew pain and loss like he had as both of their hearts were black and no longer beat. She allowed him to touch her skin. She was surprised that it did not burn her. He commanded her in an arrogant tone to be his mother. She smiled as she curtsied before him and kissed the ruby ring on his finger and told him, "Yes, your highness."
At night, she held him in her arms. His cheek pressed tightly against her soft bosom. He pressed his hand against her stomach and felt his little sister moving inside of his mother. He worried about Alexandra like he never did anyone before. He feared that she would die like his mother did giving birth to him. She always smiled and kissed him good night on his cheeks telling him not to worry. He was forbidden from seeing her at night.
He once disobeyed this order and tried to sneak in her quarters to see her. He stood in the shadows and watched as his father appeared in her room and made love to her. She always complied.
One day, he asked her about her previous life as he sat on his golden throne while she sat on the floor next to him. She told him that she had no recollection of it. When he asked her in an unpleased tone why his father would take her memories away, she surprised him when she informed him that she did not want to remember. He smiled at her telling her that he would be her son now. She laughed as she informed him that she was already his stepmother and carrying his baby sister. That delighted him.
Mina step outside of a taxi as she paid the driver. She took a plane from Jamaica and flew for two days. She then rode the train to arrive in Barcelona. She stood outside of Darien's estate in Barcelona. The estate looked lifeless. The grass was tall and wild. The fountain no longer ran and was covered with dead leaves and bugs floating in the nasty looking water. The flowers were dead and the house looked cold and dreary. Mina stepped up the steps and rang the door. She waited for about twenty minutes before someone opened the door.
An elderly petite woman with a Spanish accent opened the door. Mina looked confused. It was not Marissa. She asked, "Hi, I'm looking for Darien Shields."
The woman said, "I'm sorry but no one by that name lives here."
Mina laughed. "I know he lives here. He's was here only a month ago."
The woman said, "There was a widower who lived here with three small children. He moved out a month ago and dismissed his staff. I am the caretaker of this home."
Mina thanked the woman as the woman closed the door in Mina's face. Darien no longer lived there. He fired his staff and the children were gone also. Where was he?
Darien sat in the sun room of the golden castle in Elysian. The day after his brother left him alone in his study, he moved out of his home and took his children with him to start a new life in Elysian. He offered to take Marissa and Tony with him, but they had families and wanted to remain on Earth with them. Darien respected their decision and left them with a severance package that left them wealthy beyond their means for the rest of their lives. He stopped drinking even though the temptation to drink was still inside of him. He stayed away from women even though he saw the lustful and zealous eyes they tossed him even under the watchful eyes of their husbands and lovers.
His children were amazed as he introduced them to their uncles and aunt. They were amazed to find out that Evelyn had two small daughters and now they had cousins. Evelyn and Adam were still pissed off at him for trying to kill them. Yet, Evelyn fell in love with his children and found her heart warming to her brother.
Adam informed him that Raye was at the castle also to Darien's pleasure. He was happy that she still lived.
Darien walked in on a sleeping Raye who looked peaceful as she slept. The sounds of her soft breathing gave him great pleasure. He left a lingering kiss on her forehead that made Adam slightly jealous. Darien sensed his little brother's jealous and assured him that he was not in love with Raye. He loved her dearly but the only woman that he ever truly loved was Serenity.
Adam listened as Darien started addressing Serena as Serenity and realized that his presence in Elysian was slowly transforming him into Endymion.
Darien was slightly disappointed as he remembered his life as Endymion. He remembered the grandness and magnificence that was his home in another life. He was disappointed that the majority of the Elysians were dead now. There were tens of thousands Elysians in his time. Now, only one hundred existed. Cain informed him that they were all related now since the Elysian marriage and procreated with one another so often that all of them were related somehow. His children were delighted to find out how big their family was and their many new cousins.
Cain and Darien teleported into the center of a grand coliseum where the Parliament, the nobleman of Elysian met, and discussed the running of the kingdom. The Earth King had the final say but he took the council's thoughts into consideration. Darien was amazed as he circled the empty dome shaped coliseum that reminded him of the arena of where Roman gladiators fought to the death during the glory days of Roman's empire. Cain said, "This is where the leaders of Elysian meet and that…" He pointed in front of Darien to a solid golden throne with red cushion embedded inside of it. "That is where you sit once you become the Earth King again."
Darien turned to his brother. He asked amused, "Who has been keeping it warm since I've been gone?"
Cain scoffed. "After father died, one of our cousins took over until Evelyn and I were found at the age of fifteen. We are co-regents but Evelyn is more maternal and has no desire of ruling a kingdom even though she is very powerful. I have reigned over our kingdom as the acting king until a new leader could be found since everyone believed you were dead. Now, that you are alive. This is your kingdom once more. Once you receive your crowd at tomorrow's coronation. You will become Endymion again and the King of the Earth."
Darien asked, "Will I remember my life as Darien?"
Cain nodded. "You were always Endymion, Darien. You were only Endymion called by a different name. You're still be you, only a more powerful version of you." Darien sighed relieved. He did not want to forget who he was or his children, who were currently being spoiled rotten by their Aunt Evelyn.
He felt a heavy weight on his chest and fearful. Tomorrow his life would change forever and also his children's. He will official become the Earth King once more and his children will received their titles as prince and princesses of the Earth.
Darien laughed as he was his thoughts turned back to his siblings who were sitting comfortingly on the cozy sofas of the sun room. A small golden room with sofas and lounge chairs placed all around. They called it the sun room because it was surrounded by windows and was the first room in the palace that the sun's rays touched as it rose from its slumber and a new day begun.
Darien sat on the sofa with his legs kicked up on the coffee table and crossed at the ankles. Evelyn sat on the sofa sideways with her legs tucked under her and her elbow propped up on top of the soft cushion of the sofa and her head tilted sideways on her fist that was rested on the armrest. Her long raven hair brushed against the sofa as her eyes lit up with amusement. Cain sat in a lounge chair next to Evelyn, and Adam sat on the sofa next to Cain stiff and silent as if he was nervous and scared about something. His hands trembled as he drunk his tea that the maid had brought in. The conversation flowed over him.
They were discussing their childhood and telling Darien more about their lives. Darien remembered none of the things they discussed but it amused him to hear their stories.
Darien sipped his tea and said to Evelyn, "So how was mom? How did she look?"
Cain interjected, "As beautiful as Evelyn and very maternal."
Evelyn acted shock that her brother would say such kind words to her. Cain grinned as he sipped his tea.
Cain asked, "But she still helped father co-rule?"
Evelyn rolled her eyes and said, "Wow, you act like my desire to have a simple life being a stay at home mom and having a husband is the worst thing ever like I am disgrace to women everywhere."
Cain pointed out to her, "Mom helped father out."
Evelyn said in disbelief, "Father was ousted out of power because he was a horrible father and king. Mother stayed at home and birthed father's children. She kept his bed warm while father was a sick drunk who beat us, beat mother, and fornicated and then killed himself and mother. We're lucky he did not kill Abel. If Endymion was not the reincarnation of Endymion, the House of Endymion would have fallen a long time ago."
Darien looked up. He was slightly disappointed that his childhood was not perfect. He did not have the perfect mother who happily baked him cookies and kissed his wounds away. His father was abusive and drunk. He fornicated with women and made them all miserable. They were happiest when he was not around. Darien realized that the only trait that he did not have that was his father's was that he was not abusive. Then, it dawned on him how he lashed out at Serena and threatened to kill her lovers. He lashed out at Karen and took her by force sometimes on the kitchen table or in their bed. She always complied just like Serenity did when he was Endymion. He was a monster. He did not hit them or call them out of their names. But was he the monster like his father was, the monster that he saw Endymion become? Endymion never answered Serenity when she asked him if he killed her fiancé, but a part of Darien knew that he did. He made love to all of them in such a way that another man could never satisfy them like he did. Their bodies belong only to him.
He felt a soft hand on his. He looked down and saw Evelyn's hand. He glanced up and saw her smiling at him. She said, "You're not like him Darien. You can control it. You can control the beast inside of you."
Darien said softly, "I don't think I can." Evelyn's smile faded.
Cain interjected, "You can, Endymion. You're not like father. You were full of love. Father was a broken man and he was jealous of you. You defended your loved ones. You defended mother against his attacks. Even when you were seven, there was this big fat kid who wanted to beat up Evelyn and you beat him up at recess and told him that no one messes with my little sister."
Evelyn laughed. "I remembered that." She turned to Darien. "It was before we had our powers and the kid was twice your size. Everyone thought you were going to be pulverized. You became the coolest kid in school that day."
Darien laughed feeling better. Cain arched an eyebrow at Adam who looked pale as a ghost. Cain sighed. He could tell his brother was guilty of doing something stupid. He was a genius and the baby of the family, but he was always sort of the eccentric one. Adam was a scientist and had infiltrated the deepest ranks of the New World Regime. He mainly worked at the government's headquarters office in Japan and gave his siblings much needed insight on the operations of the government and about Dragon since Rick Thornton was Dragon's direct link to the outside world and gave Rick some of his powers to carry out his will. Cain asked slightly annoyed, "What did you do this time?"
Adam opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out. Cain prompted, "Adam!"
Adam jumped staring at Darien directly. "I impregnated Raye with my child."
Cain and Evelyn turned to him and said outrage, "What!"
Darien looked angry at him.
Adam jumped and said, "It was an accident."
Evelyn scolded him. "You have no right. We have control over whether we want children. There are no accidents. You did it on purpose."
Adam cried out trying to defend himself, "I don't know what happen. I can control myself but we kissed in the library and we were on fire. I couldn't burn her or hurt her. Then, we ended up in my bed and my powers activated and lost control of them and I ejaculated inside of her. I don't know what happened. I never lost control of myself before."
Cain said, "You must deeply care about her."
Darien spoke as they turned to him. "You love her. You felt jealous and you wanted to own her and possess her. To trap her and always have a bond with her."
Adam looked astonished at his big brother. "That's exactly how I felt."
Darien looked Adam directly in the eyes. "I love Raye. She is very special to me. She'll probably kill you when she wakes up." Adam gulped. He knew it was true because Raye was short-tempered and used to beat him up when they were children. Darien smirked along with his other siblings trying to hold back their laughter.
"Shit! Please don't tell me I said that out loud."
They all nodded at him before bursting into laughter. Adam turned red. Darien's anger resided but looked sternly at his little brother, "You will do the right thing and you will marry her. You will give her the good life that she and your unborn child deserve or I will kill you myself." Adam looked at Darien hoping that he was joking about the killing part. But there was no laughter or amusement in his eyes. He tried to read his thoughts but they were blank. Adam freaked out. He was actually going to kill him if he did not do right by Raye. He read about how King Damien, Endymion's father, killed his brother and how mad Endymion was. He saw how crazy Darien was.
He gulped. "Yes, your majesty." Inside Darien was amused by the matter. He was happy that Raye finally found someone who loved her the way that he never could. It surprised him more that the man was his little brother and he knew Raye before he did. He even stole her first kiss.
Evelyn said glancing at her watch, "Well, I have to leave and pick the girls' up from ballet practice. Joe is out of time on business." Joe was her husband. He was financial advisor at a local bank in Los Angeles.
Cain glanced at his watch. "I have a business lunch." Evelyn tossed him looking say, I bet you do.
Adam said, "I have to find another job since my big brothers killed all my employers." Darien smiled as Adam was only teasing him. But he seriously had to find another job since Cain and Darien had assassinated all the members of the New World Regime.
Cain turned to Darien. "Are you going to be fine? We'll return tonight for the ball. All of the other Elysians will be there, and the maids and butlers will help dress your children."
Darien nodded with a smile. "I'll be fine. I will go check on the kids." He watched as one by one his siblings disappeared returning to their respective lives on Earth. Evelyn was a stay at home mom. Cain was the CEO of an international company and Adam was a scientist.
Adam quit his job working at a research lab for the Tomoe family for four years after Cain approached him one day and asked him to apply for a job with the government and become a spy. Adam thought Cain was crazy since it had been eight years since they last spoke to one another, but Cain reminded him that he was an Elysian, whether he wanted to be or not. They were responsible for protecting the Earth. Adam gave up his comfortable, decent paying job to start from the bottom and work his way up for the government until they trusted him and allow him clearance to participate in their reborn process. Adam bonded with Rick instantly when he read his mind and saw that he was a misogynist who had a poor relationship with women starting with his mother. Adam told him that he felt the same way as they sat at a bar together objectifying some of the most powerful women in the world, who thought they were superior. Adam did not actually feel this way, but Rick liked that Adam understood his cause and quickly promoted Adam to the point where Adam became an advisor to him.
Raye woke up hours later with a moan under the covers. She looked around and saw that she was naked in a strange room. It took her a minute to realize where she was. She was on Elysian and in Adam's chambers. She felt relaxed and the lower part of her body was sore. She remembered making love to Adam and how intense it was. She flushed. She remembered him erupting inside of her and they did not use protection. He wanted to, but she did not as they quickly reappeared in his room undressing one another. She wanted to get pregnant. She wanted to experience the joys that Lita and Serena felt. She could have protected herself from getting pregnant but she had no desire to. She had given up on herself since she had no ambition in life and her life at the temple was over. She was lonely and wanted someone to love her, even if Adam told her that he did not want a child. She smiled as she touched her stomach. She already knew she was pregnant. She read his thoughts and sensed his fear. In a minute from now, she was going to get the desire to puke. She always knew that he was going to propose to her tonight at the ball. She felt back on the sheets and smiled.
Mina was exhausted. She disguised herself in a baseball cap and dark glasses so that people did not recognize her. Ariel thought she was dead. Jason's body was blown up in the explosion. His mother and siblings still had no clue that their son and brother were dead. Thanks to Ariel, she had no body to give him a proper burial. The only thing that was keeping her alive was that Ariel believed she was dead. No one could recognize her or else Ariel would hunt her down until she was dead. She had no powers. She spent the last of her money travelling from Jamaica to Barcelona to only find Darien no longer lived there. All her money, clothes, and identification cards were destroyed in the explosion. She could not communicate with Ami or Lita since she did not her powers. Ami was off somewhere with Eddie. Ever since Eddie received his medical award, Ami and Eddie have been very secretive. She informed the girls that Eddie knew their identities and left it at that. Lita and Mina assumed that they just had to accept that this man they hardly knew and only seen a couple of times knew their identities. Lita and Andrew were off traveling somewhere with their kids while their house was under renovation.
Mina walked along the side of the road into town. She wished that she had let the taxi driver wait, but she was so assured that Darien was going to be there to help her with her problems and it had backfired. She tried to call out to him in the middle of nowhere but he did not hear her. She walked for two miles in the middle of nowhere before she saw another person. One of the local villagers passed by and was nice enough to let her catch a ride into town on the back of his truck with hogs that smelled horrible. Mina thanked him as he dropped her off in the middle of town.
Mina coughed covering her mouth when the smoke from the old pickup truck got into her system.
Cain sat across a table in a beautiful Spanish restaurant in Barcelona. He was meeting a blind date set up by one of his friends. He forgot her name, but he was pissed that she was five minutes late. Tardiness was a major turn off to him. He had not dated in five years and his friends questioned his sexuality and called him ennui because all they ever saw him doing was work and more work. He was always serious and hardly ever had fun. His family meant everything to him.
He was a busy man and there were tons of things that he could be doing right now. It was the first time that he dated since he lost his wife. He smiled to himself in the busy restaurant as he remembered her. He found himself doing that a lot when he had moments alone to himself. He was very busy running the family company and then running the kingdom simultaneously. He lived a double life as Cain Bennett, CEO of Bennett Industries and as Prince Alexander of the Earth, ruler of the Elysians. He also was the responsible big brother to his siblings and constantly looked after them and helped them solve their problems whether it was Adam getting arrested for shoplifting or Evelyn getting beat up by her abusive and controlling college boyfriend that reminded him too much of their father to comfort him.
He sighed as time stopped around him and everything became silent as he thought about her. He could still see her soulful brown eyes and pretty face and long curly black hair that always fell perfectly into place. He remembered her laughter and her smile. She always saw the best in everyone even him.
He first encountered her eleven years ago in college. He was meeting one of his friends at a local bar where most of the college kids hung out at. A girl band was performing punk rock music on the stage that no one was really paying attention to. Cain brushed through the crowd until he saw his friend Danny waving at him. He sat down at the table removing his coat. Danny had already ordered a round of beer for the guys. Danny had a thing for the drummer in the group on stage, but she would not go out with him unless her girlfriend Annabella came. Cain frowned knowing where this conversation was heading. Danny begged him as Cain repeatedly told him no. When Danny promised to do his laundry for a year, he knew that Danny was serious about the girl. Cain turned to the stage and looked at the lead singer.
With her long jet black hair and long bangs that stopped above her soulful brown eyes and gothic makeup and clothes, Annabella Jenkins was the leader singer of misandry punk rock group. Their music was a mixture of angry Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" and Meredith Brook's "Bitch". She never smiled and was always angry about something like discrimination, the tearing down of historical landmarks, or men being sexist. She was the type of manic who would rouse up students and chained herself to the doors of buildings in protest. She was a radical feminist and believed that men were the cause of all the world's problems. She was completely undateable and talked nonstop about war, politics, and anti-feminist behavior. Guys didn't want to date her because she always wrote an angry song about them when they dumped her like Taylor Swift. At least Taylor Swift's songs had a nice melody. Hers were always behind hard metal music where she screamed her lungs out at the mike. He was surprised she had not lost her voice yet.
They once got into a debate in the debate class they took together during freshman year about feminism. She was arguing the affirmative and he was arguing the opposition. It was not because he wanted to, but it was his assignment. She always spoke passionately about things and when she heard the aloofness in his tone that caused her to become extremely angry as she belittled him and they got into a shouting match in front of the class. Cain had to leave out the class that day before he lost control and killed the skinny little twit. He received a zero for the assignment and damaged his nearly perfect overall grade point average. He hated her ever since. Now, Danny wanted him to go on a double date with her.
Cain chose the movies so he would not have to listen to her talk. She complained about the outrageous prices of the movie theater. She complained about how commercialized everything had become. She whispered to him throughout the entire movie how the movie was sexist and depicted women as bimbos in skimpy little outfits and they constantly needed men to save them. When they stopped at a fast food joint on the way back to campus, she talked about how grotesque it was for them to eat cow and how America was becoming the fat food nation. When he dropped her off at her dorm while Danny and her friend made out in the back seat, she complained about how dark the campus was at night. He rolled his eyes taking it as a cue to escort her to her dorm. She talked about the statistic of sexual assaults on college campus. He never spoke to her once that entire night and she talked enough for the both of them. As soon as she entered the safety of her dorm lobby, he teleported. She turned around and saw he was gone.
A few days later, Danny asked him to go on a double date again. Cain shouted, "Hell no!" and slammed the door in Danny's face. Danny held up two tickets to the Lakers vs. Celtics game and told him that he had two tickets to the game. Damn it! He thought. The Lakers were Abel and Cain's favorite team as children. It was the only thing they agreed upon. Watching a Lakers game reminded him of staying up at night with his big brother watching the game. He opened the door, took the tickets and slammed the door shut. Danny looked shocked scratching the back of his head. He was only planning to give him one of the tickets.
Their next date was at a fancy restaurant. He never showed up because he had to bail his brother out of jail for shoplifting at the mall. He was hanging out with the wrong crowd. Throughout his school years, people thought Adam was retarded and autistic. His teachers wanted to place him in special education and diagnosed him with autism because he was quiet and hated class participation. He was so shy and introverted that he rather received a zero than speak in front of a class. He was socially awkward and it was hard for him to make friends. Even the losers at school did not want to befriend him. Cain argued along with his equally eccentric uncle that nothing was wrong with his brother. It was later revealed that Adam was a genius with an extremely high IQ.
Cain grounded a rebellious Adam, who promised him that he was leaving this family as soon as he turned eighteen. Adam never forgave his uncle and siblings for taking him away from Japan at age seven and erasing his adoptive parents' memories of him. Cain came to school the next day and noticed that everyone was staring and laughing at him. He later learnt that Annabella had written an angry song about him titled "Cain is an Ass". In the song, she called him an ass, a dog, a loser, and a chauvinist ass who stands up girls and thinks he's the bomb when he's really an ass. She was smart enough to put it to a catchy beat. Cain grew furious and prayed to Uno to give him the strength not to kill this mortal girl. For over a week, he listened as people randomly sung the hook of the song to him and even the local radio station was playing the song. He walked home to his two storied home that his uncle left them before he passed away the year before. Cain shared the home with his brother and sister. He almost killed his sister when she started singing the song to him.
He went to the bar that night and Annabella was performing. He could feel her eyes following him through the bar as she sung her song. His friends burst into laughter when he walked towards the table. Danny waved at the drummer who was now his girlfriend. Annabella watched as a sexy redhead approached his table wearing a tight shirt and daisy dukes barely covering her butt cheeks. She started flirting with Cain. He smiled at her and Cain offered her a seat. He motioned for the waitress to get her anything she liked. Annabella became angry.
Annabella walked along the dark streets to the campus that was only a few minutes away from the club. It was ten o'clock at night and her friends were already gone with their boyfriends. They asked her to join them, but she declined not wanting to be the fifth wheel. They offered to cancel their plans and she happily told them that she was okay and had homework to do anyway. The streets were pitch black as Annabella heard her footsteps behind her as she walked along the wet pavement. She looked around to check to see if anyone was behind her, but she saw no one. She walked quickly hoping to make it to her dorm. She was getting creep out as the wind blew around her and chilled her skin. She rubbed her arms together. She began to sprint to make it to the campus faster. She gasped when she turned around and saw a masked man dressed in black chasing after her.
Annabella screamed for help as the man started to run faster. She ran onto the campus as he caught up with her. He tossed her to the ground as she cried and struggled to fight him off of her. She kicked and screamed for help. No one was around. She tried to get out her pepper spray but he slapped it to ground. He slapped her hard against the cheek as he straddled her. He placed a gun to her temple and called her a man hating dyke as he punched her in the face. She cried for him to stop it as he unbuckled his pants telling her that she needed to a man to screw her. For a moment, she thought it was Cain until the man started speaking and she realized that it was not Cain's voice. She remembered he left out earlier with the redhead.
Suddenly out of nowhere, Cain appeared with a rope in his hands. His eyes met Annabella's eyes as he took the rope and wrapped it around the captor's neck choking him. The attacker struggled pushing the rope off of him as he dropped the gun on the ground. He got the better of Cain and tossed him over him. Cain landed in a knelt position like a runner and raced towards the man again. They started to box as Cain ducked and dodged his attacks. When the attacker tried to step towards Cain, he heard the gun click. He turned to see a bruised and badly beaten Annabella standing up holding the gun with both hands and pointing it directly at her attacker. The attacker held his hands up.
Cain turned to Annabella, she was shaken up. Her eyes were swollen, cheeks bruised, and lips was bleeding. He felt sorry for her. He stayed with her until the police came and arrested the attacker who was a serial rapist targeting female college students who looked like loners or were alone. Annabella sat on the back of the ambulance and the paramedic checked her out with a blanket wrapped around her. They took her to the hospital. Cain rode along with her in the back of the ambulance. She was shocked when she saw him holding her hand and stroking her hand in soothing manner with his thumb. She looked at him not trying to read too much into the gesture. She was not his type. The doctors snitched her up and four hours later, she was discharged. The morning news broadcasted her as a hero the next day on how she stopped a serial rapist that had assaulted nineteen other females at college campuses and universities throughout the city. She wanted to include Cain since he saved her, but he told her he did not want any spotlight and gave her all the credit. Being Annabella, she used her fifteen minutes of fame as a platform to talk about sexual assault and campus safety. The university president apologized and promised to improve the safety of its young college students at night. A week later, the campus was better lit, an armed night security guard was hired, and campus police call boxes were installed throughout the campus grounds.
Cain did not remember exactly when he fell in love with her. But they became inseparable and suddenly her chatter did not become seemed so annoying. He liked that she was so informed and stood up for what she believed in. He was surprised to learn that she was a Lakers fan and had as much passion for the game as he did. Their next date was to the Lakers' game with the tickets Danny gave him. He did not mind going watch chick flicks with her or even when she used his razor to shave her legs when she slept over. He watched a change in her also. Her music became less man hating and more about female empowerment. They talked about many things and began to agree to disagree. He introduced her to his siblings and she was amazed at how he looked after his family and ran a household at only the age of nineteen. He was extremely mature for his age and not the douche she thought he was. She learnt about the loss of his parents and his older brother. How he was an orphan and how he fights to keep his family together even though they were falling apart. She watched him one year after they met as he used his powers to save a busload of school children from falling off a bridge during an earthquake. He told her about Elysians. She took him to meet her parents, who were indeed hippies. She comforted him when he found a note on Adam's bed a few days after Adam's eighteenth birthday stating that he was gone and never coming back.
For six years they were happy together and built a life together. She went to law school to become an environmental lawyer, while he turned his family small business into an billion dollar corporation and moved them to New York shortly after leaving Evelyn the family home. Annabella died in a multi-car accident because a teenager looked down for a split second to text his mom that he was on his way home. She died instantly. The funny thing was that he did not sense her death. It was a normal day at the office and when he arrived home, he called out to her but she did not respond. He then saw a beeping red light on the answering machine from the police needing to talk to him in regards to his wife. It was at that moment. He knew that she was dead.
Cain glanced at his watch. Ten minutes had passed and his blind date had still not arrived. The waiter was asking if he wanted more coffee. He politely declined and asked for the check. After leaving the bill, he passed a brunette with short brown hair in a black forming fitting dress. Whether she was the woman he was waiting for, he'll never know. He walked out the restaurant into the warm and lively streets of Barcelona.
Mina saw a man across the street that fit Darien's profile without paying attention to the traffic sign saying don't walk. She walked across the pavement and was instantly hit by a bus and rolled underneath the vehicle. Cain turned around to see a bus coming to a screeching halt. He saw a body on the ground and rushed across the pavement barely dodging getting hit himself. He stopped and joined the growing crowd who circled the body. Some people panicked and called the police. Others snapped photographs and recorded it. Cain looked disgusted at how detached society had become.
He glanced down and saw that the woman looked familiar. He heard someone say Mina Aino, the actress.
Mina looked up. Her ribs crushed. Her arms and legs bent backwards. Her body involuntarily jerked. She saw her life flash before her eyes and she thought about her unborn child that would never come to be. She saw a white light and Jason standing in the crowd dressed in all white. He was staring down at her with the blinding sunlight making him look bronzed. He smiled at her as he reached down to touch her hand.