Heart Of Stone - Episode 25&26

 

HEART OF STONE

Heart Of Stone - Episode 25&26

 (..Sold•To•The•Pit•Of•Hell..)

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[King Mansion]

With restlessness and uneasiness, Liza sat at the edge of the dinning table, eating dinner with a flat face.

Though, the dinner is barely digesting. She's even having problem swallowing it. Her face might say she's nonchalant, but her innermost self knows her better.

Two hours ago, the news of the additional member of the Millions Family broke out. Pearl Millions got revealed to the eyes of everyone, and every single person in this city made fun of the East Palace.

But then an hour ago, another news broke out about the person who released Pearl from where she was locked, and it turned out to be the 150 billion slave... Shayla.

She's gonna get executed at the pinnacle on the arena. In fact, she's already getting tortured by now as far as she knows.

For someone who opened the family secret to the public, the Millions won't let her go easily.

Liza spooned her soup and brought it to her mouth to swallow again, but Kade barged into the house, interrupting her with his loudness.

"I was thinking of tricking you to tell me how to uncover her mark so I'd tell Ryker and he'd kill her for me, but seems the gods are on my side and they don't want me stressing!" He laughed, shifting her food away.

He sat on that table instead.

"I'm sure you heard it, mum. Your slave daughter is getting executed! I heard there's gonna be a live streaming of the execution and I'm gonna go watch with Blaise...care to join us?" He winked.

Liza stood and left the dinning silently, but Kade wouldn't have it, so he followed her, his steps pounding with her own.

"Tell me, do you love her more than me? I'm your only son remember? The one who'd carry the King surname till death!" 

"You're my son, and she is my daughter!" Liza faced her.

"Her human father raped you when you were sick and powerless in the human world! She wasn't supposed to happen! You should have aborted her! She doesn't deserve your damn love!" Kade grabbed her shoulders.

"Yeah, her human father raped me, but it was never her fault! She's just unlucky to be born in this place where rules are toxic! And abort her? I might have been raped, but she is still my child! Execution?" Liza laughed, pushing Kade's grip away from her shoulders.

"No matter how hard the torture is, she won't die! The mark might be gone from her body, but she still carries that warm aura and that's enough to keep her alive in any space, so stop your obsession with getting rid of her. You'll never be able to do that." 

And Liza didn't expect what happened next. Kade's hand flew to her face, giving her a loud hit which left imprints on her face.

Liza fell to the ground, holding her face and looking up at Kade shockingly.

Kade squatted in front of her, lifting his hand to her red cheek to touch, his smile resembling a maniac's.

"You lost all powers just to give birth to her, remember? So watch how you talk to me about her. You might be my mother, but respect boundaries. And now I get it, you lost your powers so it's impossible for you to do the job yourself. You probably hired someone to cover her mark, didn't you?" He muttered, tongue curling in his mouth.

Liza swallowed, and he smiled again, slowly taking his fingers away from her red face.

"There are many people who're good at spells in this city, I just have to gather them and search." He nodded, standing up.

"Blaise is waiting, I should go meet him before the live stream ends. Bye mother!" He blew her a kiss with two fingers then left the house.

Liza stood to her feet, caressing her red face as she walked back to the dinning to sit.

"Endure, Liza. You have to endure if you really want the results you're looking for." She muttered to herself.

"And you, daughter. You must endure too. Only then we can rule Luminaria together. You must live, please..." She clenched her jaws and fists.

--

[East Palace, Arena]

Just like the other time when Blaise's execution was happening, the arena is crowdy again with the clansmen and the main royals.

Shayla has been chained hands up to the pinnacle metals. Her body isn't even on the ground, it's floating in the air, and the chains are suspending her from their claws.

The current state of her legs is the most pitiful. They look obviously crushed as they're dangling with the bones gone, and her blood is trickling down, dropping on the pinnacle and flooding down the arena.

More than a litre left that body already, but her eyes are still slightly opened under her wet lids.

Even her face is bloody with the cuts she got from the chains, and her fingers are shaking above her head.

Granny Jojo isn't in the arena, but Jude is there, and he looks calm as he stood behind his parents.

Lilith is present too, and her smile is the brightest here, no arguments.

The twins had invited Mercury again, and she's scoffing as she awaited the start of the torture.

Xena is present too, behind the pillar. She's crying, and Old Chef had to cover her mouth so she won't give them away.

"How were you able to open the basement door?" Azura asked the question that has been bothering her, but Shayla stayed quiet, just crying and bleeding there.

"How were you able to break the seal and open the basement door!!" Zeke asked the question louder, but Shayla has no energy in her mouth to reply them. They're still going to kill her if she talks or not, so why not just keep quiet and conserve her energy for the punishment.

"The gun" Zeke ordered, and it was Sadie who threw him a wooden gun which he caught.

"That's the rotten barrel." Old Chef said behind the pillar, and Xena looked at him with her teary eyes.

"Rotten what?"

"It's one of their antiques in the family, and a bullet from it will make your bones rot inside your body till you start smelling. You'll rot from the inside and die. It's wicked than the thunder punishment." Old Chef explained.

Xena gasped in shock and nearly came out of her hiding, but Old Chef dragged her back.

"Are you gonna get us killed too?"

"Leave me alone! She's just too softhearted it's not her fault! She didn't open that door, I'm sure it was the blind Pearl. She already looks like trouble! She's behind everything!" Xena struggled.

Old Chef pulled her away from behind the pillar, then he started dragging her back to the kitchen, leaving the arena with her.

Zeke didn't hold back before pulling the gun trigger three straight times, and the bullets hit Shayla's upper body, all on the chest.

Her face shot up, and blood splurged out of her mouth and nostrils, wetting her dress and face too.

Jude's eyes turned away from the pinnacle. He closed his eyes and was biting himself repeatedly, unable to watch the cruelty.

"Oh...pity. Her legs got crushed already, now her upper body has those bullets inside? Sweet." Mercury laughed, facing Soren.

"Right, Soren?"

Soren didn't reply.

Sadie smirked, shooting Mercury a short glance.

"How were you able to open the door?" Azura asked calmly, taking the gun from Zeke and preparing to release another three bullets into Shayla's body.

The arena atmosphere froze, and the wickedness in the air could kill the weak as it moved with the breeze.

The clansmen and the rest of the east royals are beginning to murmur.

"She has no regards for her life!"

"She's a slave, what were you expecting?"

"Slave? I doubt it. How was she able to open the seal then?"

"That's the question she's refusing to answer, and it's annoying."

"She has to die!"

"Letting someone like her stay at the chamber was senseless from the start, but letting her stay alive? That'd be more stupid."

As Lilith listened to the different takes, she folded her short arms on her chest, her smile broadening.

She was planning to mark her for death before, but now she doesn't even have to stress.

Things are working in her favor.

"How were you able to open the door?" Azura asked again, cocking the gun and preparing to pull.

"I...I..." Shayla started, her mouth severely wet with the blood, so much that it affected her already powerless voice, draining life from it.

"I... dunno" she managed to push out the few words, and Azura pulled the trigger, releasing one more bullet to her belly.

Shayla went limp, arms dragging tight against the chains as her whole body lost essence.

Azura shot the chains next, and as they broke, Shayla fell from the air and landed on the pinnacle.

Her head hit the metal, and she sustained injury over there too, her body so slumped as it lay lifeless in the pool of blood.

"Get her back into the coffin." Zeke ordered. The twins came to do that.

Shayla's body was thrown back into the black doom space, and Lilith was called forward to mark her.

She placed a hand on Shayla's bloody face, and a tiny red mark appeared on her forehead.

"Marked for death, in three days. No matter how much the pains from her rotting flesh is, she won't die till the three days arrive. And not just her body, her soul is dying too. If her soul dies, then there's no hope of reborn for her. Just the right thing." She said.

"Even better" Azura commented.

The coffin was closed, and Zeke was the last to touch it before it vanished.

"Father, where did you send it?" Soren asked.

"Land of the condemned." Zeke replied, and Sadie jumped forward.

"Seriously? How many pain levels is she going to pass through then? Her crushed legs, the bullets on her upper body, her injured head and face, then the mark of death and now land of the condemned? Father I can't love you less." She hugged him, and the man laughed.

"Now, shall we deal with the newly released family member?"

"Of course." She shrugged, leaving with get father.

Soren and Azura didn't move.

"How was the slave able to open the door?" Soren said.

"You're as curious as me, aren't you? But my Zeke doesn't look bothered, and that's somehow. These days, I can't help but think he's keeping things from me." Azura replied.

"What are you planning to do with Lilith?" Soren asked.

"She's joining the family, and she's getting married to Ryker secretly very soon." Azura faced him.

"Joining the family? Mother, are you drunk?" Soren frowned.

"Son, joining the family doesn't always mean joining the family." Azura smiled. "We Millions have a long history of using people and manipulating them, we're just gonna use her too, as usual." 

She left, and Soren followed her.

Jude climbed the pinnacle, squatted and touched Shayla's blood with his fingers. He rubbed it, his jaws clenching again.

"Land of the condemned? That dreadful place."

--

[Palace Prison]

Cheyenne woke up to find herself sitting on the bare ground with her back on the wall, her suit bloodstained and her hair scattered. She's barefoot too.

After she was thrown out of the window earlier, she had lost consciousness, and she's only just waking up right now.

She spranged up, rushing to the thick metal bars to grab them.

She pulled stubbornly, kicking and even slamming her forehead on it, but no amount of powers can make it open. This prison was sealed with Azura's powers too, and so far it's Azura, no one can open it, so how was Shayla able to open the basement door?

That question made her pause, and her eyes went still.

"Is she really not the partner? Who's she if not?" She muttered, getting herself together again.

She resumed slamming her body on the metal bars, and they pierced her skin, giving her huge marks.

She summoned her nails, and when they grew, she went down and attached them to the ground concrete, trying to dig, but she couldn't.

Azura's seal is too strong, and she was thrown back. She tumbled hard.

"Darn it!!!" She grunted, wanting to stubbornly continue, but then the metal bars opened, and Granny Jojo came inside.

"Granny?" Cheyenne stood with heavy breaths.

Jojo looks guilty as she approached her, she couldn't stop it.

"How were you able to lift the seal and enter?" Cheyenne asked.

"Azura is my daughter, and this sealing technique was taught by me during her power training, so yes...I know how to open the seal." Jojo explained.

"You know?" Cheyenne came closer. "And you're aware that your youngest granddaughter was locked up, but you didn't save her?"

"Listen, I was just as selfish as the rest of the family before Ryker came here. When Pearl was born blind, Azura wanted to kill her, but I didn't want to lose a grandchild, so I suggested the lockup cos fighting against Azura would be suicidal, she's younger than me so she's stronger." Jojo explained.

"I guess you're not any different from the rest then. Y'all are sick in this family, and I'm not sorry to say. Now, what have they done to the slave?" Cheyenne asked breathlessly.

"You suddenly like her now?" Jojo looked up.

"Anything that gives Lord Ryker the slightest comfort is mine to protect! She's warm, and she has to stay alive!" Cheyenne snapped.

"She was shot and sent to the land of the condemned." Jojo said.

Cheyenne gasped, eyes popping wide. "Land of the...what!"

--

[Main Castle, Twins Room]

The sound of gloomy qin playing saturated the room, it's dark melody giving the room more sadness to drown in.

Pearl sat on Sadie's bed with the qin in hand, she's the one playing with her eyes widely open.

She's smiling again as her melodies flew out of the instrument, and her fingernails are riding effortlessly on the black strings.

She was about to hit the last note when the twins barged into the room, their anger getting bigger.

"My qin?" Soren scoffed, snatching it from her.

"On my bed?" Sadie added, using her leg to push her away from the bed.

Pearl fell on the ground, and the parents came in.

"You're going back into the basement. We already got disgraced by your revelation, and this disgrace can't continue." Azura said.

"That's right, youngest daughter. You should count yourself lucky that you got to taste outside life for a bit, now it's over." Zeke smiled.

"Is that really necessary?" Jude came inside with pocketed hands.

"Shut up!" Sadie snapped.

"I'm not going back in there, never! Especially now that I have a good-looking reason to stay outside!" Pearl spat, her blind eyes glaring.

"And who gave you the right to say a word you unwanted stain!" Azura snarled.

"My last granddaughter isn't going back to the basement." Jojo said, entering the room.

She took Pearl, hiding her behind herself.

"Mother" Azura spoke.

"You shouldn't do this." Zeke said.

"I said no one is locking her up again. So what if the citizens are disgracing y'all for her existence? Still doesn't change the fact that the Millions family are the rulers of the city, so retract your wings and leave her alone! She'll stay in the chambers with me." Jojo rushed, pulling smiley Pearl out of the room with herself.

"Should we just kill your mother?" Zeke faced Azura.

"You better not think about it, I'll take care of her myself." Azura glared.

The twins left the room together, and they went straight to the servants quarters to get Xena.

--

[West Palace, Midnight]

Kasia just finished sewing in the cut part of Astor's ear, so she sat tiredly beside him.

The kids are with them in the lobby, including Kade who came here to stay the night.

"I thought you said they'd be streaming Shayla's punishment live." Faye said.

"That's what I heard, but it got cancelled. The Millions Family are probably boiling right now, so they don't even have the time for that." Kade shrugged.

Winona is in one side, crying profusely like she just lost a husband. She's not wiping the tears, so they kept entering her mouth, and she kept licking crazily.

"When is Winona gonna stop crying?" Kade muttered.

"She likes the slave, and now that she's dead, imagine the pains, so let her cry." Faye replied, and Kade nodded.

This bastard sister of his knows how to make trouble. Winona likes her? Sounds sour even to the ears.

Well, she's dead now, so nothing more to worry about.

Blaise is alone in a corner of the lobby, and he's trying to teleport to his room but it's not working.

It's midnight, so it's normal for powers to disappear in this west Palace.

"And you both had to go make trouble with the Granny?" Faye scoffed, facing Astor.

"We wanted to try our heaviest best, but she ended up wounding Astor." Kasia replied.

"She told us to find out why we lose powers at midnight first." Astor said.

"Exactly!" Blaise stood from his corner, surprising everyone.

"Do you both even think? I'm so ashamed to even say I was birthed by Kasia cos the thinking faculty is dry!" 

"Blaise!" Kasia stood.

"You will not talk rudely to your mother!" Astor stood too.

"Oh shut up Astor!" Blaise slammed. "You do not have the smarts like my father! If my father was still alive, he'd have solved this mystery since long ago, but you being with my mother is making her look dumb which she's not! You're nerfing her!"

With her mind, Faye threw the flower vase on the table at Blaise, hitting him on the face and wounding his jawline badly.

Blaise fell back on the chair he stood from, and Kade quickly rushed to hold him so he won't lose consciousness.

"Faye?" Astor and Kasia gasped.

"Faye" Winona wiped her tears and stood, looking at Faye shockingly too.

"Did you forget? Only my father changed his surname to this family surname, not me, so he's the only one carrying the midnight curse with you all, not me!" Faye spat.

She faced Blaise who bleeding already.

"So you better watch how you speak to my father, and stop calling your dog by my name, or I kill that dog and feed you with the raw flesh!" She threatened and went inside.

"That was... insane." Kade chuckled.

Astor and Kasia exchanged glances, and Astor quickly followed Faye upstairs.

Winona and Kasia took Blaise to go take care of him.

--

[City~A Lone Mansion]

The twins chose this place as their sin spot tonight because the owners are on a trip to the human world, so the mansion is unoccupied for now.

They got down from their car in front of the building, they smiled at each other and went to the trunk where they dragged Xena out from.

She's gagged and also blindfolded.

Soren took the lead to the house, plucking the fire extinguisher from the outside wall.

He crashed it to the side window, breaking it down to create the entry space. He threw Xena inside the house then entered too.

Sadie jumped in with them, and in two more minutes, they've already messed up the house.

Loud music blasted as they took turns to stab the couches, break the chandeliers and shatter the plates in the kitchen.

They messed up the clothes in the bedroom wardrobes too, and they broke every drink in the cellar, but they left three bottles which they took one each from.

They were drinking as they came back to the large living room where Xena is on her knees.

Her blindfold and gag are still there, and she looks overly scared as she trembled obviously.

"Cheers!" The twins clinked bottles over the music, and Mercury came in.

"Y'all didn't tell me it was time for the fun! I was missing out!" She shouted, grabbing the third bottle from the ground.

She popped the champagne and drank her fill, then she noticed Xena on the ground.

"What's she... doing here?" She asked, slowly facing the twins.

"Remember what you said earlier about not caring if Soren rapes her? We're manifesting it." Sadie smiled.

The bottle fell from Mercury immediately, and she swallowed.

"Soren, get to work." Sadie ordered, and Soren started unbolting his belt.

Xena shook her head on the ground, swallowing over and over and over as she heard her fate.

She has managed to stay celibate all her life, she can't lose it this way. Not to a monster like Soren.

She could feel him getting closer. She has to do something.

Sadie's eyes stayed on Mercury, and Mercury managed to smile.

"I was serious, there's no big deal." She muttered, shrugging, though she's dying inside.

Soren better not touch Xena with his thing...he better not...

She gasped when she suddenly felt a sting at the back of her neck, and before she could turn around, the twins made the same gasp sounds.

Bees.

There are bees in the mansion.

They multiplied, stinging venomously till the cruel bullies started screaming, running around the room and trying to get the hives away.

Surprisingly, even their powers seemed to fail them at this point, they could only scream and run, and it's worse cos Sadie has fear of bees.

Xena stood from her knees, removing her gag and blindfold with irregular breathings.

The bees aren't attacking her since she's their summoner anyways. She called them with her mind, thanks to her animal control ability.

She ran out of the mansion, away from the chaos, but before she could get to the sidewalk, she was pulled back, and she screamed when she saw Soren's face.

It's swollen in different places with the beestings, and he the ree swells look hella painful.

Xena quickly went on her knees, begging...

"Please...I just...I just wanted to keep my celibacy intact. I'm so sorry, I know I was wrong but—"

"Run." He cut her off coldly, causing her to blink.

"Run before I change my darn mind!!" He yelled.

Xena stood and ran off without looking back.

Soren hooked his belt back, looking at the mansion. Mercury and Sadie are still screaming inside, his ears are getting loud waves of it.

He has always wanted to stay celibate till death, and he wasn't gonna let Sadie ruin that, so Xena's move worked in his favor too.

He went back into the mansion, casting a spell to wipe the memories of the two girls.

--

[Clouds Castle]

Oddly, Ryker has been curious.

He's far from Luminaria right now, so he's not expecting to hear Shayla's voice as usual, but at least, there should be signs.

His ears should itch from lack of her voice. They do anytime he's far from the palace, so why not now?

Should he have given her the Channeler Shell?

This worry isn't something he does on the norms, but he kept getting the underlaying feeling that something ain't right.

He's sitting alone in his mountainside room, and he has fused the heavenly energy of this place with his own, trying to search for Xena's twin again with the conjunction, but he can't even concentrate a little bit.

"Sage!" He called, and Sage rushed in.

"My Lord?"

"When last did Cheyenne communicate with you?"

"When the say was still bright, she communicated and told me how warm the slave was. That was like twelve hours ago." Sage reported.

Ryker went silent.

"Do you have suspicions?" Sage asked, but Eternus entered with a tray of alcohol before Ryker could answer that.

Sage left the room.

"I still can't believe you actually wounded me during the duel yesterday. Your obsession with blood got thicker." Eternus sighed as he set the tray on the table.

"Since you won't eat, then drink. That's less stressful." 

But that same second, the tray fell from the table cos Ryker actually hit it away. The alcohol wasted away.

"I'm not interested in eating, not interested in using my mouth for anything that's not talking, try to process the words one by one!" Ryker snapped before he knew it.

Eternus didn't even look at the wasted alcohol, his eyes settled on Ryker's livid ones.

"You're angry, why? Is something the case? You were talking peacefully with Sage before I entered." He softly said.

Ryker stood like a giant, but Eternus blocked him.

"What's the reason for this visit in the first place? You won't tell me anything, but you expect me to tell you truths! Why are you pretending not to know where Xena's lifeline is? And why are you still letting Xena suffer in the East Palace kitchen when you have enough power to take her out!"

"That offer landed on her table too many times, but she kept declining. She insisted she's not leaving the kitchen if I do not save her father with her, and you know that's the most impossible thing in my existence. The only thing I owe him is death! If Xena wants to suffer with him, who am I to block that" Ryker declared, still angry.

"Then why are you still in the palace yourself? You'd have escaped if you wanted to. What are you planning?" Eternus asked again.

"Your questions doubled, makes me wonder what you're actually up to." Ryker smirked, and the curiosity on Eternus face slipped.

"It's just curiousness with nothing else at the base!" Eternus said, but that wasn't enough to save him from the slash he received on the chest.

He wasn't fast enough to dodge it, and the hit flung him to the ground where he held his aching chest.

He summoned his sword, but Ryker waved it away. The weapon entered the ground, getting stuck.

Eternus held his chest, looking up at Ryker's livid face.

"You hurt me on purpose during the duel yesterday just to weaken me?"

"Glad you know." Ryker nodded, walking closer with burning gaze. "You shouldn't have lied to me. You've been my confidante for years, and I know your habits. Your eyes are gloomy whenever you're saying the truth, but they're shiny when you tell your pranking lies, like you did yesterday. How dare you lie to me!"

"Ryker .. " Eternus stood, but he fell back to the ground, his weakness spreading to his legs.

"Is she, or is she not the partner? You only have to answer yes or no. Is someone hiding the mark? You only have to answer yes or no to that too, or I'll have to be the first demigod to kill a seer!" Ryker demanded, all softness going into extinction.

"My Lord!" Sage rushed inside, breathing hard and heavy.

Ryker's eyes flicked to him, and Cheyenne entered behind him, panting and sweating.

Merely seeing the bloodstain on her suit, Ryker knew everything is wrong. 

"I had to find my way here. She was taken after she let Pearl out of the basement, Azura condemned her legs with her thunder, she was shot with the rot barrel, she injured her head and Lilith also marked her before she was sealed in a coffin and sent to the land of the condemned." Cheyenne explained without breathing.

"Land of the condemned?" Ryker muttered, getting robbed of all existing patience.

Cheyenne took a deep breath, and Ryker stepped back.

"Stay here with him, you both. He's not supposed to be able to stand before I return." He said.

"Are you going to go to the land of the condemned?" Sage came closer fearfully. "That place holds a darkness blood can't quench, and you know it. Even the powerful tyrant supreme who entered to seek power some centuries ago...he lost his soul completely and hasn't returned. You can't take that risk. Also, we all know you need the pass from Zeke to enter, and he'll never release it."

"How dare you compare me to a foolish tyrant supreme?" Ryker rolled eyes arrogantly.

"My Lord, it's very ris—"

"Hold your peace, Sage. Trust him." Cheyenne cut him off, and Sage swallowed.

"Watch him." Ryker said, then he vanished by the door.

--

[Luminaria, East Palace]

The palace is silent as it's 2am presently, so everyone is asleep including the servants and slaves, but the lights are brightly on in every corridor and halls.

Faint footsteps pressed on the sleek floors of the main castle lobby as a pair of clean bare legs marched silently till it arrived at the long staircase which it climbed.

A barrel hung from the hand of the person, smelling like death.

The walk was intentional, but with obvious hint of lethal darkness.

The space between the two feet at each step is measured, and it stayed as ominous as that till he arrived on top of the stairs.

The first door he opened was the twins room.

It opened with a swing, and he wasn't surprised to see them on their separate beds, sleeping soundly.

He cocked the gun, slid his finger under the trigger and pulled twice, targeting the twins legs.

Deafening cries of agony fell out of their mouths, the venom of the bullets waking them up from their beauty sleeps.

Blood covered their sheets in seconds, and they fell off the bed, lifting the room temperature with their cries.

With satisfaction, he left the room, going down Jude's room, but Jude isn't there, so he moved to the chamber.

The twins cries accompanied him till he got there.

Granny Jojo and Pearl are sleeping, curled up like a happy grandmother and grandaughter in bed.

Jojo sensed the presence, so she shot up in bed, her eyes coming wide under the lights.

"Ryker, it's not what you think. I couldn't fight for her because —"

"Shhh" Ryker hushed her, blasting the bullet into her own leg too.

Her cries wake Pearl up, and the moment she sat up blindly, Ryker gifted her her own bullet.

Jojo and Pearl's blood mixed on the sheets just like the twins, and Ryker's toe ring glowed, happy to witness the blood and tears.

"Ryker!!!" Azura and Zeke barged into the chamber, and when they saw he had shot Jojo and Pearl too, they looked traumatized.

Where did he even get that barrel gun from?

"Mother!!" Azura shouted.

"I like that you love death so much, enough to court it! You don't need Xena anymore? Is that it? How the hell did you even enter the castle without my notice! I'd notice the entrance of the smallest ant even during my sleep." Zeke spat, both in shock and surprise.

"I like that you love underestimating me so much, and it's so beautiful to watch." Ryker groaned, keeping the gun intact and that frosty face.

"But I don't have that storytime in hand as at now. Drop the pass to the land of the condemned, or I take your blood too. And don't think this is your barrel gun. That rot one is your foolish version, but this one sucks blood. I'm sure you see my toe ring shinning, meaning it's sucking. Drop the pass, or everyone I shot dies in five short minutes!" Ryker spat.

"Ryker Morozov!" Azura yelled.

"Correct. You don't take my only warmness and expect me to sit still like a moron!!!" Ryker growled...

"The pass, or everyone dies."

TBC.

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