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Story Written in Vengeful Blood
Topic Started: Jul 12 2013, 03:50 PM (1,265 Views)
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((This occurs in an alternate universe. Therefore no one actually knows about it; it's just to show where the Blood Queen gets her motivation.))

Under cover of night, she crept silently into the compound where they'd hung his body. Despite the fences and gates, the compound was largely unguarded. Its cameras, all focused on the bloodied body they'd hung in the center, served one purpose: to remind the Imperium's citizens of what happened to people who resisted the Imperium's rule.

Getting inside the compound had been easy; the puzzle was how to reach him and retrieve his body without damaging it further... or killing herself in the process. They'd suspended him from ropes that led to four buildings, leaving her with no easy access route. She would have to get on top of each building... and find a way to free him without smashing him against one of the buildings or the streets between them. Still hidden in the shadows, she cautiously studied the building nearest where she stood. It had an old-fashioned fire escape on its side, but the metal staircase did not reach all the way to the roof, and she didn't want to risk going inside.

The fire escape would have to do. Forgoing the noisy extending ladder, she leaped easily into the air, grabbing hold of the metal and pulling herself up onto it. Moving quickly, she ran up to the last landing and then gazed up at the roof's edge. While it was well within her reach, it was not as easy to grasp as the metal frame of the fire escape had been. Instead, she climbed first onto the rail surrounding the landing, balancing carefully on it for a moment before pulling herself onto the roof. She paused for a moment, looking around to see if she'd been noticed.

No one came running to stop her, so she quietly sneaked across the roof to where the rope was tied off. Rather than taking the time to try to untie the knot, she drew a knife from her hip and sliced through the rope itself, tossing its end out so that it dangled from his wrist. Knowing that the cameras could see her - even if the guards could not - she darted back out of sight and studied the gap between that building and the next. It was small enough that she could jump to it, but once she was finished there she would have to make her way to the ground and move to the other side of the square. She would solve that problem after she cut the second rope on this side.

A running leap carried her easily to the second building, where she nearly collided with a guard she didn't expect to see. Worried that he might see her and alert the others, she quickly silenced him, drawing the sharp knife across his throat. As he dropped into his own pooling blood, she stepped around the fallen body and continued walking to the second rope. She cut it free and released it as gently as possible, but still her lover's body swayed wildly as it dropped and swung toward the other buildings. To her surprise, his body came to rest on the ground, eliminating any more climbing on her part.

She found the second building's antiquated fire escape and lowered herself down to it. Still careful not to draw too much attention, she darted down it and then jumped from its bottom, landing in a crouch and then darting into the main square, in plain view of the cameras and whoever else might be watching. Working gently and quickly, she freed her lover's hands from the ropes. Brushing his hair back from his face, she kissed him and then rose from the ground, hoisting his body over her shoulder and disappearing back into the darkness.
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Obeying the final wishes he'd left with her long before he disappeared, she took him to where they'd hidden one of their shuttles in case they'd ever needed a way to escape the planet, one that the Imperium didn't know about. Today, it would serve that purpose, but only for one of them. She painstakingly strapped him into the pilot's seat and then set its automatic pilot to depart and set course for the sun as soon as she left it. Knowing that she wouldn't see him again, she lingered for a moment, wiping some dried blood from his face. The shuttle's lights revealed more of his injuries... and extensive evidence that he'd been hanging in that courtyard for days longer than she'd thought. Undeterred by it, she gave him one final kiss and then quietly left the shuttle, closing its hatch from outside.

As soon as she was clear, the shuttle lifted off and began to fly away. As she watched it, a phaser beam whizzed by her head and slammed into the shuttle's side, barely rocking it as it ascended. A second beam grazed her side, leaving behind charred cloth and flesh, and she staggered slightly before fleeing into the thicker parts of the forest. She could hear them behind her, cursing and crashing through the trees. But she knew this forest and easily slipped away from them by climbing up into one of the trees, where she waited as they passed underneath the branch she chose for her temporary refuge. She stayed there until the sounds of their progress through the forest faded away to nothing and then jumped back down, tumbling across the leaf-littered ground when her ankle gave way underneath her.

Swearing under her breath, she got back up and doubled back along the path she'd led her pursuers along, turning off it just after where the shuttle had been hidden. Soon a maintained trail appeared under the trees, and she followed it back to her house. The Imperium still didn't know who she was or where she had been living; that was the closest they'd come to actually catching her. While they were pre-occupied in the woods, she was going to find a way off this blasted planet. Now that she'd retrieved her beloved's body, she had no reason to remain on Terra Alpha.

By the time she reached the entrance to her home, she could hear the Imperium guards coming back through the woods. Despite the burning pain over her ribs and her throbbing ankle, she sprinted across the open yard and into the house, which she left dark and unkempt so that it appeared abandoned. The only lights in the house were in the basement... but even they would shine in the night. She had to find Theia and get out before they caught up with her.

"We need to get out of here," she told Theia's interface as soon as she reached the basement. "Now."

The small device made a beeping noise at her, sounding almost strained.

Outside, the sound of an approaching mob grew louder. "Hurry!" she snapped at the device, scooping it up off the table. Theia was enclosed in it and could continue working even if they had to run.

"I am hurrying," Theia snapped back at her, suddenly glowing with a hint of power.

Before she could ask Theia what to expect, the basement door crashed open. Less than a minute later the glow from Theia's case suddenly brightened and together they vanished.


The strange glowing light dumped her onto a concrete floor. Still partially blinded from the bright light, she stumbled and sprawled across the hard surface. At first, she thought she was alone... and then she sensed someone close by. Already panicked by the chase she'd taken part in, she struck blindly, scrambling away.
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Zerna was sitting on the cold floor, silently meditating for a moment. He would need to use all his focus if he was to make it work as he intended. It took a few minutes when he knew he could start. “My body is mine to command. And I command it to move my pinky toe.” He said as if he was chanting the words. He focused on the toe with all he had; he focused so hard that he actually started to sweat. He wouldn’t hear anyone unless they actually touch him.
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She'd missed her target, blaming it on the darkness of the basement rather than her own eyes failing her. As she scrambled for her escape, the voice stopped her cold, and she turned toward it, staring. She blinked, trying to clear the light blindness and see the man's face. Certainly she'd imagined what she'd heard...

Slowly, his face came into focus, and she inhaled sharply. He wouldn't be the first clone the Imperium had sent after her - and certainly not the last - but each one gave her pause. Details that weren't quite right... a little too perfect here, a little too flawed there. Only once had she nearly been trapped, realizing at the last minute that he couldn't possibly be 'hers.'

Unwilling to risk another near capture, she pushed aside her emotional attachment to him and tucked Theia's casing under her cape, trading it for the knife that rested there. She crept close to the man, close enough to hear him breathing. Her eyes lingered on his face and then the knife pierced between his ribs. "They'll come for you before you're dead... tell Tiberius he will not fool me again with this stupid trick," she hissed at him, pressing the blade deeper into him.
Edited by Blood Queen, Jul 17 2013, 11:46 AM.
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Zerna drew a deep breath as the sharp pain hit him, his body was in panic from the damage and he couldn't even inhale. He looked down his right side, seeing the edge of the blade implanted to his side, his blood started to run down the sharp blade, he gripped the endge with his left hand, hoping it would stop the blade from going deeper, it cut in to his fingers as he did so, adding to the blood that was forming under the blade. His head became very heavy as it fell backwards and rested on her shoulder. "Why?"
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"You know why," she snarled at him, shoving him away and pulling her blade free of him. "They created you. They sent you after me. And I won't be captured by them, not even by you." She'd meant to leave him alive, but now she had other plans and closed on him again. "This time... I win."
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The removal of the blade only caused him to bleed even more, as the blade was removed, a spray of blood splashed in an arch as the blood on the blade was falling off from the motion of it. Zerna couldn’t breathe properly, his hand on the open wound. “I…” he took a few breaths. “Was born…” his breathing became sporadic as his body struggled to compensate for the blood loss, his organs and muscles screaming for the oxygen that was it was being deprived of.
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"You all say that! 'No, it's really me' and 'I love you' and 'I'll never leave you again', but it's all lies! Every time! And just when I think I've gotten away, they send another one! Never again." He couldn't escape, and her blade easily found his heart and pierced it.
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"I forgive..." he was cut short when the blade struck his heart, his face became that of shock at first. "You..." he added before he actually smiled in his last moment as he let out his last breath in a long sigh.
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She barely heard his last words, so convinced that he was an Imperium clone that his words made little impact, even as she freed her knife from his heart and wiped it clean on the edge of her cape. As she stepped over him to find a way out, she glanced down... and saw that he was smiling at her, even as his life fled from his body. That... that's not right... As she studied his face, his final words came back to her.

I forgive you, he'd said. None of the others had said something so kind. Who was he, she wondered, lingering to look at him. If he wasn't one of the Imperium's clones...

"Oh, God, no..." Realizing what she'd done, she fled across the basement to the exterior door, the one that opened like a hangar. She knew now where she was, but not when... just that it was before the Imperium had taken him. Knowing that she couldn't be found near the property, she forced the hangar door open and disappeared through it.
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Zerna had asked not to be disturbed, but Clio knew from experience that he wouldn't mind if she went downstairs for a few minutes as long as she didn't try to talk to him. Unaware of what had transpired only a moment before, she went down to the basement with a small bowl of fruit and a glass of water, setting them on his desk for when he finished... whatever he was doing. Before going back to the stairs, she glanced over to the open area of the basement, where there was open space.

At first she smiled a little and shook her head, thinking that maybe he'd decided to take a nap. But a second look showed a dark puddle around him... and blood covering his entire torso. "Oh no..." She ran to him, kneeling beside him and pressing her hand over the obvious wound on his chest. He wasn't breathing.

"Don't do this to me. Not again," she pleaded with his still form, checking her pocket with her free hand. The communicator she carried there was missing. "Zerna, come on... wake up. Please wake up."
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Zerna sat up abruply, holding his hand over his chest on both places as he gasped for air. In his panic he pushed Clio away and rolled to his side.
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She squawked in surprise, both from his sudden movement and being physically knocked aside. Not sure exactly what she was seeing, she clambered back over to him and forcibly held him him still as she examined where the knife wounds had been only a moment before. Though he was still covered with blood, only smooth skin greeted her touch. Wondering if this had been some kind of cruel joke, she slapped his shoulder. "You scared the hell out of me!"
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"You scared?! What do you think I feel. I died earlier!" he rubbed his shoulder. "Why do you hit critically injured people!"
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"Because you deserve it, you jerk." The rest of his comments barely registered as her eyes fell on the open hangar door. "Wait... what's going on?"
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