Struggle Across the Tyrannical Dawn

Ares watches Jack's shot go wide. He grins and walks over to where Jack was standing. "Do you really believe her? She isn't the person that you lost, and you know it."

.....He's being too protective of her for it to be just a simple puppy crush. She reminds him of someone. What I just said might take him off guard and give me an opening......

 

Today Diablo gave her a mission. To become a civilian. She would still have his love, but he needed a spy to make sure that no one tried to betray him. So she did. She made friends with a woman. She had a boyfriend who looked similar to Jack. No it was Jack. She sang to the boy and became "friends" with the woman. Then the girlfriend talked about traitorous acts.
"I'm sorry I have to do this," the wicked woman said with an evil laugh.
"What are you..."
She killed her friend and she noticed Jack had watched. First she hypnotized him with her siren abilities and whispered in his ear.
"Diablo killed her," she said, "Diablo is the bad man."
It was to much memory for him to extract. Allan was fighting to keep on extracting, but he couldn't. Allan passed out the images going silent.

 

I creapt forward in the dark and hear the girly man trying to confuse me. "Do you really believe her? She isn't the person that you lost, and you know it." He said, I bit down so I didn't have to reaspond as I approched the area where the shop keeper should be and dropped the darkness around where we stood, keeping it up in the rest of the room, and leveled the gun where he should have been, nothing, then I noticed him on the ground, out cold again. My eyes wide, I lowered the gun to point at his chest, no one could miss from this close. "I told you to stop, I warned you." I said, tears streaming down my face I found it stupid that me who hated being told what to do so much had given an ultimatum, but i hadn't been left with a choise and that made me madder.

 

Ares looks over to where the sound is coming from. "Tell me. What makes you different from the people you hate? You don't like it when people try to control others, but yet you're about to shoot someone for not doing what you told them to do. Also, he's the only one that can free your precious siren. Kill him, and she's trapped here forever. I might be wrong about that, but do you want to take the chance." Ares gives a grin, knowing that he has Jack in checkmate.

 

I let out a shout and aim in the direction of his voice, pulling the trigger, stumble backwards, and for an instant the darkness is gone, but I pull it back up and crawl away. "SHUT UP!" I shout and attempt to come back at the store keeper for another try. "This time i'll kill you." I promised, as I inched towards where he should be.

 

Ares had lowered himself to the floor, when Jack shouted. The shot goes over Ares and would have probably missed anyways. He silently creeps over to the siren. "Lift the illusion, or I burn this place down. Starting with your precious girlfriend. Though I doudt she'll stay with you when this job is over with. So tell me Siren, do you enjoy when your victems scream. Do you enjoy the fear they have when you torture them. I wonder how much fun it'll be to slowly burn you to ashes. Will, your fate is up to your 'boyfriend'".

 

She looked at him with a devious grin, “You’ll be first.” She hissed in a tone only he could hear. The tears came quickly, as she turned to look at Jack. Her body shook as she sobbed uncontrollably.

“P-put the g-gun down. He’s g-got us.”

 

I dropped the darkness but not the illusion, my chaotic mental state feeding my an eratic plan. A perfect image of me stood before him, hand shaking, gun raised above his head, and eyes locked with his, all of the hatred that I felt being put into the illusion. Mean while I stayed on the ground, silent, waiting for the moment when I'd be able to shoot him, to kill him, to finish this game they insisted on playing with me. I held my breath, fearfull that it might give me away, I had to hit him, with this next shot, I had to kill him. I lowered the gun, aimed it at him, and waited. His death now a matter of time.

 

Allan opened his eyes slowly and groggily and was surprised on how come he was to wake up to a gun in his sights. Allan head hurt, the migraine from trying to collect to much information didn't make him want to put up any fight. He really just need some water.
Allan looked at Jack.
"Do you hate killers?" he found himself asking quite calmly.

 

"Jack, where ever you are, if you shoot me, I'll torch this place, with my dying breath. I'll drag both of you to hell with me. You can't win, at best you can tie, which isn't a good option at the moment. Now that that formality is out of the way, I have an idea to settle this. Let Allen touch you. You will see first hand, whether he can do what he claims to do. Then you can decide if you believe him or not. If you agree to my idea, then you have my word that I won't harm her until after the test. Do we have a deal?" Ares stares at the "Jack" infront of him and waits for an answer.

 

Allan raised a hand groggily and he looked at Ares as groggy as he was.
"Please Ares let me fight my own battles," Allan said, "I am the one with the gun in front of...not you."
Allan stared at Jack again.
"Now I'll ask you again, do you hate killers?" Allan said.

 

I stood slowly, the illusion dispersing... mainly. The me he saw was doing exactly what I did but a foot to the right. It'd provide the illusion with sound, but still keep me safly hiden. "I'd rather watch you all die." I promised, gun still aimed. "It's not murder if there's a reason for it." I replied, harshly. "So now it's up to you, leave and you live, stay and you die along with me if nessisary." I said tightening my finger on the trigger. "It's your choice, choise A, or B, or maybe even try a C i havn't thought of." I teased. The moment had returned to the chaos that I lived in, now anything could happen.

 

"Child, do you like weapons?" Allan asked.
Allan looked at Jack in the eyes deeply. Allan's eyes were cold as ice and they had a lot of confidence in them. Allan was not playing any more. He looked at that child with the coldest look. The look that put nightmares into peoples head.
"Do you like this world?" Allan said.

 

Her face turned angry, her eyes losing their luster quickly. She looked up at Jack with a growl.

“Put the gun down Jack.” She growled, “I’m not who you think you are, and something is blinding you from the obviousness of that! I’m not waiting for this to end painfully for me because you’re being a stupid kid. What do you have to gain from this?”

She looked at the bookkeeper, “Let me go.”

 

I had been about to pull the trigger, the fool stairing intencly at my illusionary double, then she spoke. Her words cutting deep into my chest, the illusion dispersing, the gun falling form my grasp, "No." I said softly, not wanting to hear her words. Her personality had changed, her tone was different. She wasn't who I had thought, that girl is long dead.

"No." I said again, dropping to my knees by the gun. I put my head down and felt tears flowing down my face. I hide myself from the world going invisible again. Some where in my depresion I found the awnser to his question. "No, I don't hate the world, I hate controlling people like you." I said through my tears, though I didn't move. All three of them, minipulators, controlers, what freedom could be won here, none.

 

Ares looks over towards where the voice is coming from. "You can hate me and Allen if you want, but we are no different than you. We are simply using everything we got to change the world for the greater good. If you can't persuade others, then you have no hope and creating a rebellion. That is the simply truth. I'm sorry that you had to learn it under these conditions."

 

She ignored Jack’s movements as her mind melded back to were it once had been. It was no longer tainted by the rebels, she was back to her old self. She rather missed it. She only wished to be back home, now knowing more then she wanted to about these scum.

“How long do I have to stay in this… trap?” she hissed at Ares, “You’ve no reason to keep me trapped. You’ve learned what you need to know, have you not?”

 

For the first time Allan reached for somebody. He grabbed the boy and hugged him like a brother or father. Even if the child was invisible Allan found himself able to find the boy.
He embraced him softly.
"I hate control as well...I understand what you are trying to say," Allan paused, "I'm sorry if it appeared I was trying to control you, but sometimes what seems like control is someone trying to keep you safe...I wanted you to be safe because you are such a good kid...you're not a bad kid as you like to put off as."
Allan looked at the woman and smiled at her.
"I hope you understand what you are doing," Allan said.
Allan released the pages and let the woman go. He had no intentions of hurting a woman, but Jack had to learn something from all of this.

 

As the siren starts the leave, Ares grabs her arm and burns a mark into it. "I'll be keeping an eye on you and your master." He releases her. He walks over to Allen and Jack are. He kneels down and gives the boy a pat on the shoulder. He turns towards Allen and says "She'll be back, with an army. So, if your magic can't keep this place safe, then we need a new place for the night."

 

Allan looked at Ares.
"There is another place that I know of...and it isn't magic...its the residual energy my grandfather left behind," Allan said.
Allan looked at Ares.
"I guess its just three against an army...how are we going to create a rebellion with three people?" Allan said.

 

She scrambled up quickly, grabbing for her gun. She held it pointed out, her hand on the trigger. She never took her eyes off them as she walked towards the stairs. She needed to get out of there, and quickly. She looked at the mark on her arm, and eyed him angrily. She wanted nothing more then to make them suffer, to scream as high-pitched as she could. To the point where ears would bleed and men went to tears. She wouldn’t though, she’d come back.

“It was…nice.” She said with a scowl, “We’ll have to meet again, soon.”

Her eyes shot towards Jack, “You know, no matter what you may think. It’s nice to feel loved. If you live to see another day, you’d better get over her and find another. It’s not worth crying over.”

She quickly fled the building, and headed back to her true home. Her smile never left, and her step came out in a giddy hop.

((Since no one gave me a chance to answer This happened before I left ))

 

Ares gives a small laugh. "I'm suprised that your grandfather didn't tell you this. Their greatest weapon is their aura of invincibility. The people see the soldiers and leaders as being god-like beings. So they are too afraid to rebel. All we have to show, is that they can be beaten or killed and the people will rise up."

......Also, I have the feeling that Tantalizer will return soon enough....

 

It took me a moment to shake the man off, I stood, looked eye to eye with the man in the dress, and swung at him. "I said no one hurt her." I said, not careing if I hit or missed. Not carring if my feelings had been minipulated or not. They were real enough for me, and the dress man had to go and burn her before she left. "What gives you the right to burn her! You are as bad if not worse." I say, and snatch my gun from the ground.

I look down at Allen. "I won't fall for more of your tricks." I promised him with a glare. "Lets get out of here before we all end up dead." I said and headed for the stairs. No matter what, I still had someone I needed to kill, and these guys may get me close enough to kill him.

 

Ares jumps back to avoid the punch. "So you would protect those that oppress you. You truly are a kid aren't you? We are at war with them. Do you not understand that. So tell me, the next time we see her, are you going to protect her then as well? I swear, you're so wrapped up in anarchy, that you don't even know how to work in a team."

 

"You should really stop trying your little mind games and just follow me, or stay here and die, I don't really care much about which you choose." I said darkly and looked at the shop keeper. "Actually, you should probably lead the way seeming how I have no idea where I'm going." I added and leaned against the wall to wait for them to get moving, I could always turn invisible if it came down to it, they on the other hand couldn't. Again I didn't care much if they decided to waist their lives.