Twisted Empire - Episode 103&104

 

TWISTED EMPIRE

Twisted Empire - Episode 103&104

(Her Blade, His Neck )

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by Naomi Cindy B.

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"Why have you been keeping quiet? Why did you develop agoraphobia and stayed indoors for years when you weren't the one who made the call?" Yulia asked after she pulled away from the hug.

"My phone was used, and even if Axel didn't do it, I was gonna do it before I passed out." Four said.

"No! You'd never do that! I know you, Eros. I know how much you love and adore that couple even till now! So don't give me crap about how you'd have done it! You wouldn't have done it! Even if there's just a little space left between your thumb and the dialling icon, I'm sure you'd have stopped. The other time when Vaughn got hurt by the guitar strings, you insisted on taking him to the hospital over that small wound." Yulia said, and Four gave her a small look, dragging his eyes over her own.

                         • Age 10 •

Vaughn sat in the large living room of the DeVille Castle, playing the zither while Four sat in front of him with a jotter, looking at the man and jotting down the points he's catching on how to play the instrument.

"Are you jotting?" Vaughn asked, stopping the play.

"How did you know?" Four looked up.

"I might be blind, but I have sharp ears, and I can hear the way your pen is kissing your jotter." Vaughn explained.

"You have to be the most intelligent blind man I've ever met. You're medically intelligent, artistically you're a painter and a zither player, you're even good at games" Four said respectfully.

"I'm trying in the computer part, too. Now don't call me a wizard." Vaughn smiled, adjusting his black shades.

"You're a wizard, sir." Four replied, and the man laughed shortly.

"Why do you love brown so much?" He suddenly asked.

"How did you know?" Four blinked.

"My wife said it, that you're always on brown." 

"It's a secret, and I'm not telling it to anyone till I grow. Maybe I'll tell my future wife first?" Four shrugged.

"Great, I have a feeling you're a romanticist." Vaughn said.

"I just wanna do normal love, not the exaggerated shit." Four flatly replied.

"Shit? You're too young to curse" Vaughn said.

"What the f+ck? I'm 10!" Four replied, and Vaughn laughed.

"I might get my first car in color brown cos of you." He said.

"That'd be an honor." Four grinned, and Vaughn nodded, his smile still intact.

Four suddenly dropped his jotter and went to the man, giving him a hug.

"Heyy" Vaughn dropped the zither abd hugged him too.

"I just want you to be happy with your wife Rue and your child for the rest of your life. Just live. You're like my second father, so you dare not die anytime soon." Four said.

"Of course. No one's dying, sweet boy." Vaughn chuckled, tightening their hug.

Meanwhile, Rue and Yulia are by the other side of the living room.

Rue is the one doing the painting today, and she's almost done with the galaxy she's painting, but she has paused right now, and she's staring at Vaughn and Four.

Yulia is staring, too.

"They're so sweet and close to each other, I might just cry." Yulia smiled.

"Your son...Four. If he gets hooked with any lady in the future, then the lady is lucky. He's not only handsome, but sweet. Vaughn loves him more than me, always talking about him whenever we're chatting at home." Rue smiled back.

"Any lady? But my son will marry your daughter." Yulia said.

"What!" Rue faced her. "No...I didn't mean it that way. Isn't Four already in a platonic relationship with a girl?" 

"It won't last, they'd probably grow tired of each other before the year ends. You told me a lot about your daughter and how she has refused to let you grow her hair, I love stubborn females, I feel like she'd be the perfect match for him." Yulia pulled out the agreement to bethrotal documents.

"Lady Yulia!" Rue gasped in shock.

"Yunno I lost three babies before Four, right? First one was a girl—Ruby who died after a month. Second one was a boy—Oliver who died after a month too. Third one was Ronnie, a boy who died too before Four came as the fourth one and comforted me by staying, then I had Axel and he stayed too." Yulia narrated.

"Did you find the cause of these dead childs till now?" Rue asked pitifully.

"No, but I was a gin addict back then, and I have a gut feeling that it was the gin from the store. Maybe my babies didn't like gin, but I couldn't stop drinking, and yunno Pedro is mostly at the base, so there was no one to stop me." Yulia sighed.

"I'm so sorry you had to go through all that." Rue said.

"I'm telling you all these cos I want you to know why I really want your daughter for my son. He's my life, and I won't want him to suffer any part of his existence, even his love life." Yulia nodded.

"I understand..." Rue smiled, taking the documents from her.

"I also want a stable relationship for my daughter in the future, too. And Four is a sweet boy, so this is just great. I'll talk to Vaughn after I finish this painting, and we'll sign. The kids don't have to know about it yet, right?" Rue asked.

"Of course, thank you Rue!" Yulia hugged her.

Vaughn has resumed playing the zither right now, but his abrupt gasp made the two of them break the hug.

The zither strings actually gave him a slight cut.

"Mr. Ambrose!" Four gasped, taking the finger that's bleeding slightly.

"Let's get you to the hospital!"

"What! No. It's just a minor cut, why should we go to the hospital?" Vaughn declined.

"But you might get tetanus!" Four protested.

"You think tetanus is that easy to get?" Rue joined them. "You care too much about my husband and I'm jealous"

"Pedro would be the most jealous if he sees his son showering Vaughn with this much attention." Yulia added, and Vaughn laughed heartily with Rue while Yulia chuckled.

Four smiled.

                   • Present Time •

"So you signed the bethrotal documents that same day?" Four asked.

"Of course, I wanted the best love life for you and I know I didn't chose wrong. Now I just need you to take the antidote for your scar and prepare for the war. Get to the training field and join the armies in the preparations. Act nonchalant, and things would go fine. The lives of thousands of citizens is in your hands, so don't jinx it." Yulia tapped him.

"If you jinx this, then you'd be disappointing Pedro up there, and that can't happen. Please, just trust this." Yulia tapped him again.

Slowly, Four brought the small pill out of his pocket. He threw it in his mouth and drank some water to swallow, then he stood.

He took off his uniform shirt, opening the scar to the air as he walked shirtless out of the suite.

Yulia followed him, they marched to the field together.

As expected, the training is on hold as everyone is with their phones, watching the torture show of the four criminals by Usman.

But as Four marched in, they all dropped their phones quickly, and Kash rushed to him.

"Sorry, sir. Even I couldn't concentrate, and they're scared of going to war, yunno ... Usman's human robots." He said.

Four climbed the highest place in the field so he could view the armies from there.

Every single army is present, just that the squad members are in the front except Stormy who has already left the base and Paine who's still unconscious at the clinic.

"You wanna get discharged and go home? You're scared to go to the war? You're wary of the human robots? Then drop your weapons right now, go back to your barracks, pack your luggage and go home." He announced.

Silence was what he got as a response at first, but then some armies started leaving, majorly Privates.

Twenty of them left

There are 700+ armies remaining now, and Four's jaws grinded.

"No more cowards? Then y'all drop your phones, you're not to use that device till after the war. Get on the field and choose a weapon you're more familiar with. You'd get guided by the seniors and me. No slacks, no sleep, no chats. You can only take breaks to eat or use the bathroom." He addressed.

"Yes sir!!" The hundreds of armies replied in a hoarse chorus.

Yulia smiled satisfactorily as the field got busy.

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[Usman Lab]

Teal sat at a corner in the dreamy world, resting her elbows on the table and looking around again.

Looking around is all she has been doing here since she came. If she's not training alone in the gym, then she'd be here gawking.

Her fingers are webbed, and the pregnancy test strip feels heavy in her pocket.

Theo came with the concoction cup which he dropped in front of her.

"From the kitchen. You should take it while it's hot, and you'd bleed out the pregnancy without feeling pains at all." He instructed.

Teal took the cup without replying, and Theo left.

She stared into the porcelain cup, looking at the brown liquid as if gauging it with her eyes.

She lifted it up to her lips, and one minute later, she dropped the cup from her lips and went inside with it.

When she came back outside, the cup is already gone from her. She met Rue by the door.

"Already drank it?" She asked, touching her hair.

Teal nodded.

"How do you feel? The little drop of blood will soon wet your underwear, I suggest you go rest inside." Rue said.

"I'll go inside when I feel funky." Teal replied, and Rue nodded.

"Ma'am, Axel is done." A scientist reported to her.

Rue followed him to Axel's corner where Axel is sitting up in bed. His head is still bandaged.

He looks confused.

"Welcome back to life, Axel DeVille. Your head is officially a control box right now. There's no time to work on the rest of your body, maybe after the war. But for now, you work according to your head says." She said.

Axel nodded, and Rue smiled evilly, stroking his hair.

Teal stayed behind, watching everything.

Her eyes caught Theo at the other side of the lab. He's sitting on a stool, rubbing the necklace on his neck absentmindedly.

When his eyes met with Teal's, he looked away and left the stool.

Teal went inside—into the big luxurious room she was given.

She paced around for a long minute, thinking hard leaving the room, staring up at the light bulbs.

There are different sizes and they're all fluorescent.

Even the smallest light here is on. The lightning is in excess, and they never flicker at all no matter the power consumption from the lab.

She went down the hall—to the power house of the lab.

--

[Jason's House, 4 Days Later]

Jason has accommodated both Gem and Xanthe since the start of this turbulence.

Thankfully, his house is hidden well, so there are no reporters.

Xanthe and Gem get questioned by the cops daily though, but the cops are smart enough to do it low-key so they won't alert the crazy reporters.

The interrogating cops left not long ago, and both Gem and Xanthe returned to the bedroom.

"How was it?" Jason asked, dropping his cup of groundnut.

"Light, just ok. They weren't too persistent with questions." Xanthe replied, sitting beside him.

Gem sat opposite them, looking better than she looked when she just came out of the annex 

At least she's now wearing clean, pretty clothes and her hair is well kept. Her skin is still rough, but if she's consistent with the skin care routine, it'd be back to normal soon. And thanks to the halo vial from Uncle Paul, her mental health is improving.

"Why is the television not on? Today is the sixth day, the last day of the soap opera. The four criminals are gonna die today and I'd love to watch Empress's cries." Gem said.

Jason got down from the bed.

"But tommorow is the war, and I'm so fuckin worried especially now that Usman has Teal. I'm not in the mood to watch Usman's soap opera, maybe I can watch the rerun If my General is ok after the war." He replied, leaving the room.

"I'll watch alone then, I'm optimistic." Gem shrugged, putting on the TV.

She went to sit beside Xanthe, but Xanthe stood.

"I'll be right back," he nodded at her, rushing out of the room to meet Jason outside.

"Hey, Jason!" He hollered. 

Jason turned around by the door. "Why are you here? I told you to spend as much time as you can with her. She obviously missed you." 

Xanthe came closer and gently took his left hand.

With a blank face, Jason looked at the contact, then at his face.

"We're still close, right? Like we were before." He said.

"Of course" Jason pushed his forehead with a finger. "Soft boy."

Xanthe smiled, and before Jason knew it, he already hugged him.

Jason hesitated, but he eventually hugged him back, tightly.

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[Torture Media]

The state of the four criminals at the moment could only be described as life—and-death.

They're far from life and are drawing closer to death every minute. Today being their last day makes it worse.

They're all slumped on their hanging chairs, barely breathing and heads knocking out of their bodies.

Their bodies are near purple with the bruises and cuts and chain scratches.

There are metals on their laps like nails, and there's another metal on their back which crossed over the chair backrest to their backbone then their inner flesh.

Another one is on their forelegs which connected it to the chair legs, so one could say there are nails on every important bones in their bodies except their heads.

Their blood already painted the chairs red, and their skins gummed to their clothes already. The smell of their blood is rotten since they've been bleeding since six days ago without stop, and their hair is already pulling—hair loss as a result of stress and torture.

Today, Rue is below the chairs, standing on a podium like a judge, wearing all white like an angel.

She's holding a small microphone which carried her voice around the torture house.

"As the last day, we should at least give the viewers their money's worth, don't you think?" She spoke, looking up at the chairs.

"I've always known you're a bîtch, I shouldn't have only messed with your womb, I should have messed with your life instead" Empress said, her voice lacking life.

Rue stayed silent.

"What? Surprised I'm talking? You'll kill me anyways, so I'm just gonna pour out my thoughts." Empress said again, and a single small spike ball was released from her head angle.

If fell on her head, peeling off a part of her skull to her face and bathing her in more blood.

Empress cried loudly, unable to even struggle with the pains. She could only move her broken head.

The other criminals were starting to shiver in fear on their chairs again.

"I must say, your powder is potent. I mean... I'm a medical guru, but I still wasn't able to get the antidote or create one. I give you 50 for that." Rue smiled sickly, moving her face to Katerina.

"So it was you... The one who colluded with Four to make the call, cos you wanted Spyros for yourself alone? A man I wasn't a bit interested in?" She sneered.

"I...I was stupid...I really was... stupid." Katerina stuttered.

"And you... Spyros..." Rue moved to him.

"I'm...I'm sorry ....I'm so sorry. Please have mercy. Please!!!" Spyros screamed, and that seemed to anger Rue cos she released a spike ball to his head too. His face and skull peeled just like Empress's, and the peeled part fell off.

White appeared first, then blood. Spyros began wailing, his cries swallowing Empress's own.

"And here comes the obsessed who still couldn't let go even after he became president. But look at us now, even your presidential office couldn't save you. The cops have no idea where this place is, and no one will find it till I'm done! That's how much power I wield." Rue muttered.

It was Prof Kai next. The old man is worse than the three of them since he's already so frail.

"Rue...." He said with so much guilt, so much regrets.

"Vaughn liked you so much, but you chose money over loyalty, and that's fine, I understand you. Not all men are men, some are meant to be useless fossils like you, and that's why you'd die uselessly." Rue sighed, turning away from him.

She faced the cameras.

"You just witnessed the last speeches of everyone, shall we move to the last programme?" She smiled, pressing a button on the wall.

The big sharp spikes on the ground moved faster, coming for them with murderous glints.

"No!! No please!!! Please have mercy!!!"

"Spare us!! Spare us!!"

"You'll get anything you want! Anything at all!!"

"Don't do this!!! Don't!!!"

"Please!!! I know I did bad but don't be like this!!!"

"Spare us!!!!"

"Rue!!!!"

The closer the spikes got, the louder their pleads got.

They're all pleading except Prof Kai who have obviously resigned to fate.

"Rue!!!!!!!!!!!" Spyros screamed his last.

And that was really the last sound in that building before the spikes finally got to them, entering their chairs and penetrating into their bodies, puncturing their bones and bursting their lungs, stabbing their hearts.

Brutal wouldn't be enough to describe the scene, cos one more minute, their hearts are already out on display on their shredded chests.

The spikes grinded their flesh with their bones, and they became flat with the chair, their blood filtering out to the metals.

Satisfied, Rue pressed another button on the wall.

She left the building, and a countdown started on that wall.

The moment is reached 00:00, the building blew up in ashes.

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[Next Day ~ D-Day, Military Base]

As early as 7am, everyone's ready.

This is just like the other time in Boma. It might be a city war, but they're using horses since they'd be too much for cars.

They're not wearing combat uniforms, they're wearing new war uniforms—colour black, and the black helmets.

Their preparations showed in the way they're climbing the horses with readiness, each on their own throne.

It's a 70/30 situation. Their chances of life is shorter than the death chance, given the fact that they're going there to face human robots.

But maybe they're not very scared of death anyways. Maybe they're ready to guide the country with their lives.

Yulia, Four and Kash were the last to climb their horses, and Yulia exchanged glances with Four, giving him a look that says... "Make sure you come back alive"

And then they galloped out of the base, the hoofs of their horses so loud as it thudded on the road.

The cantonment is dry, and the streets is even more dry cos there's a curfew today.

No one is supposed to come out, everyone stayed indoors.

No school, no church, no mosque.

Nothing. Every building is closed.

As Four led the squad with the rest of the squad and the entire army, he closed his head out on any other thought, focusing on the task ahead.

They travelled ten streets away from the cantonment before they arrived at UNN College street since Four has suspicions that Rue is gonna make it her next attack location.

Everything started from the school anyways, and he's really right cos when they arrived at the street, Usman's people appeared from the opposite end.

There are just 100+ human robots behind her, but the confidence in Rue's eyes is insane as if she's so sure of victory today.

She's on horses with her robots too as if they planned this with the base. She's in the front with three more people...

Axel...

Theo...

And Teal.

Four's hands slacked on his horse reins the moment he saw Teal who looks soulless beside Rue.

And Rook swallowed emptiness when he saw Theo's heartless figure.

Yulia knew immediately she saw Axel that something has changed in him. He's staring into space like a programmed dummy doll.

The two opponents stopped at a time, leaving just a small space between them.

"The four main criminals are already gone. It's only fair if I send the fifth one to join them, and if y'all have decided to die with him, who am I to say no?" Rue smiled.

"Your arrogance is tall, but you aren't. I can't believe I once signed an agreement document to get our kids married, Rue." Yulia smirked.

"And that same son made the call that killed my husband! We used to adore him, but he killed that adoration!" Rue spat.

Four choose not to talk, his eyes are still on Teal, with focus.

"Four was threatened by Katerina! He was burned with a poisoned iron to make him give in, but he didn't even give in. It was all Axel, and even with that fact, he still stayed guilty for years, developed agoraphobia and stayed indoors, what else do you have to say!" Yulia defended.

"Well too bad I don't care. The call came from his phone, and I heard his voice! He's joining the other criminals!" Rue insisted.

"You disgust me," Kash muttered on his horse.

"Fine..." Four finally spoke, voice firm as he drew his spear.

Rue's eyes lifted when she saw the change.

Four actually had all the weapons in the weaponry changed. Spears, guns, explosives, nuclear weapons, knives and everything.

And the new supplies came from the artillery at Kalynda. Uncle Paul supplied everything himself.

"We fight till shadows crawl. Fight till the last army standing. We fight till red covers the green, till sweat mixes with blood!" Four continued.

"Attack!!!!!"

And that was it.

The start of the war.

The beginning of the battle.

The armies attacked the human robots first, and it was a bloody beginning as the robots can't be killed since they're half metals.

The only targetable place in their bodies is the necks; it's free of metal, but to even hit their necks is a problem cos they're so damn fast.

Within five minutes, the bodies of over twenty armies dropped on the field like animals.

The war isn't favoring them at all, and the use of nuclear weapons isn't helping shit.

Shannon and Brent and several other armies set the bomb cart, sending the sling to the human robots camp, but the robots replied with a more powerful weapon.

Their counterattack was heavy, and the moment their explosion happened, it threw Shannon and Brent far away from the field.

They both landed like dead bodies, and their heads rammed into stones, their blood spilled.

Four jumped down from his horse, his adrenaline on a rush as he leaned on the horse, avoiding a stab.

He threw his spear forward, hacking the head of that robot and killing him completely.

That was the first robot to die.

But Four was stabbed from behind immediately, and he paused for a second.

They must be thinking his scar is still a weakness, but he surprised them and pulled himself out of the knife he was stabbed with.

He climbed his horse back, and from there, he swung his spear twice, throwing it down at that robot.

He ran, so the spear missed him, but it met another robot instead, hacking his head too.

He went down the bloody field like the first one, but those were the only ones Four could kill, cos Rue came for him immediately.

She jumped on the horse with him, making two people on the horse.

She roundhouse kicked him on the chest, and Four tumbled, but he didn't lose his stance.

He swung himself down from the horse and landed on his feet. Rue followed him.

As for Yulia, she's warring with Axel, and she wasn't wrong about him. His strength has grown more than it was, and he's mercilessly stabbing her.

Yulia has three stabs on her arm already, and tears in her eyes.

"I should have stopped after Four stayed. I shouldn't have bothered birthing you. You're a mistake that shouldn't have happened." She muttered, and Axel stabbed her again.

"Yulia!!!" Four yelled from his side, wanting to come for her, but Rue stabbed him, too.

"Eros!!!" Yulia screamed back, standing to go for him.

Axel kicked her back, and she fell face-first to the bloody field, but she was fast to turn on her back, raising her spear.

So when Axel came for her again, the weapon hooked his neck.

"I shouldn't have birthed you, you monster without a left kidney!!!" She shrieked, pulling his head away from his neck with her spear.

An explosive landed not far from her, and the ground cracked, the explosion throwing her to another part of the field.

She thudded on a pile of stones, barely moving a finger as her eyes are closed, and her wounds are bleeding.

Rook and Theo are warring it, too, and as tough as the war is, Theo is smiling, blocking every hit from Theo who's crying.

"Falling for you was my biggest mistake, ever. I swear." Rook muttered, bending back to avoid a hit from him.

"I'm glad you finally know." Theo smiled again.

"F+ckin fake!!!" Rook cried, stabbing Theo's shoulder with his knife.

Theo remained there, unmoved.

Rook withdrew the knife, and he was about to stab that shoulder again when Theo grabbed his hand with the knife and directed it to his own neck, stabbing himself.

Rook went cold, and his eyes widened.

"I was never fake with you, Theo. Be it my feelings, or story. I was indeed raped, but it was done by bandits. My dad was indeed made to sleep with my sis, and my family were killed. I'd have been killed too, but Usman's men saved me. I joined Usman's lab cos she owns my life anyways, and I pledged to serve her with my whole life which I've been doing. I was never fake with you, Rookie." Theo muttered, smiling despite the blood pouring from his stabbed neck.

The knife is still in his neck, blood wetting the necklace, down to his chest. There are tears in his eyes right now, and he's already on his knees.

"Theo...dore..." Rook muttered, feeling much colder.

"I love you too." Theo smiled, and his eyes snapped shut at once, then he fell on his face.

"Theodore!!!!!!!!"

Kash, Morgan and April are standing back to back on another part of the field, and they're not even dealing with fights.

They're dealing with the explosives, and the ground they're standing on is already cracked.

One wrong move, they all get swallowed.

"At the count of 3" Kash said, and they both nodded.

"1...2...3!"

They jumped, but Morgan made sure to hold on to Kash, so they both fell in good places.

April is on her own, and another explosive hit her spot the moment she landed.

She was flung again, to another part of the field.

"April!!" Kash and Morgan chorused cos her body was going to the pile of stones, and if she lands with that force, she's gonna break her neck.

Before April could reach the pile, she was taken by safe arms, and she landed on a different spot.

Her breaths were heavy and still fearful as she opened her eyes to see who took her. She could smell hospital from the person.

It's Paine, and he's smiling.

"Paine?" She whispered, crying.

On a very different side of the field, Teal stood alone, looking at the timer she's holding.

On the left hand, she's holding a switch, and her eyes are going 360 over the field every now and then.

Her eyes stopped on Four who's currently fighting through his teeth with Rue, and she grew more impatient.

She has to press this button at the right time, else she's gonna f+ck things up.

The human robots power comes from the lab lights, and that's why the power is always on 24/7, so to disable their controls, she has to turn off the lights when the currents go low by a watt.

She was shaking visibly, but her fingers aren't shaking as she watched Four and Rue.

Rue is madly strong, and Four is taking her well, but Teal knows it won't last cos Rue's stamina is creepy.

Four fell back on the horse, and Rue took the spear.

She was already bringing it down to Four's chest for a stab when Teal finally detected a slim low current.

She pressed the switch with her, automatically turning off the lab lights from here.

Every single robot on the field fell on their faces instantly, and the spear fell from Rue.

The explosives stopped coming, and there was calm for a minute before Rue detected what was going on.

Every standing member of the army turned to face Teal, and Four sat up on the horse too, his body dripping with blood.

"Teal..." He whispered.

"You betrayed me?" Rue jumped down from the horse.

"I stayed with you in your disgusting lab for days only to find out your weakness, not because I loved it there. And you know you're not the only one with this brainy head, I have one too, so I visited your power house when I noticed there was excessive lightning in the building, and I was right, cos I saw the fuse. You power your robots with light energy. I might not have electronic knowledge, but my husband studied electric engineering in school, so I might have read some of his journals. I connected the lab energy to this switch. It's your fault for trusting me." Teal explained, hate overtaking her big red eyes.

"I am your mother!!!!" Rue howled, coming for her.

"No you're not! And you only just proved that! Dad might have pretended to be blind, but he would never harm anyone to revenge. You took the lives of thousands of people in this city already, I hate you!!!! More than anything existing!! They made you evil, but you overdid it, and it's unacceptable." Teal muttered.

Rue bursted into laughter, so loud and unsettling. Psychotic.

But it was very short.

She drew a gun from under her shirt, and Teal immediately figured out who it's for.

She did a mad run to Four as Rue stretched the gun at him, but the armies were fast too.

Rue shot the gun, and the armies shot at the same time.

Their bullets hit Rue's body at the same time, destroying her completely.

But at the same time, Rue's bullet flew to Four's direction.

However, Teal stood in the way, and the bullet hit her instead..on the back.

She was already holding her pregnancy test strip when she fell on Four, and his red, wide eyes brought out tears for the first time since he was born.

The test strip fell from Teal, and her mouth opened...

"I'm...I'm yours. And I ...."

"I love you, so f+ckin much." Four cut her off, confessing first as his tears entered his mouth, his arms tightening around her blood-soaked body.

Her smile was small but beautiful after she heard that, and then all colour drained from her face.

Her lids closed, her lips closed, too. Her neck went limp, her blood soaked his legs, and her body turned dead cold. 

Wind carried the pregnancy test strip far away.

Four's mouth opened, and his scream was sickeningly insane...

"TEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TEAL!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

TBC.

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