Lola was discovered by Brook as she was taken to the Medical Ward, but refused medical attention. Despite it being a semi-injury, the Mizuka General had refused to let her injuries dictate her pride as a warrior.
***
Shocked at what they just heard, Shiver and numerous people of the Admission Room, members of the Bloodlust Revelation had attended the Widow Forest and confronted the Avarian Beast of the Amili Bloodline.
"Dammit, Mizuka. You stubborn bitch," Shiver bellowed with her right hand slammed down on the table. "This is exactly why we couldn't trust Lola with the title as Core General."
"How can you fault her for that? It's not like we were aware of it, either. Not to mention the fact that Lola was trying to recuperate herself. Plus, what could you have possibly done that the Core General couldn't, Shiver," Saua, who returned to Globe Government after an hour break for another meeting about the recent assault asked with un an unplesant smile.
"Don't question me. Please don't freaking do that. It's bad enough I told off by the Core General about keeping my damn job," Shiver stated, but just mere seconds after the screen flicked on where the Southern General's face appeared. "And what the hell do you want, Tornado Poison?"
"Hmph, so much for a decent 'hello'," Tornado replied.
"Look, we're in the middle of a meeting and you're interrupting us, so call back a little later," Shiver was about to hang up, but Lola's voice was heard.
"Who the hell said for you to hang up, Shiver?" Lola stepped in and sat down in the chair. "I told him to call you because we have a serious problem."
"Like what, Mizuka? Because you are pretty much on the 'hitman' list," Shiver threatened.
"If you're referring to me being on the list, it will take an ocean-size avalanche for you to take me out the picture. Now, I suggest you shut up and listen to what I need to say," Lola demanded.
Shiver leaned back in the chair with a contempt glare, "Hurry it up. I'm on a tight schedule here and I and I need to--"
"Be patient," Lola finished, even if it wasn't what Shiver was going to say. "Black and his group more important right now. If you think that this is even a joke, I advise you listen to what Tornado and I talked about. I had some of my secret agents hack into your system, and placed wires within the building so I can listen in on your scheming plots."
"You did what?" Shiver's voice slipped very quickly in brute rage. "What's our business to you?"
"Now, you know how it clearly feels when it comes to putting your noses where it don't belong. Now that it's been decided, you can stay the hell out of our way and do your own thing. I never had any sympathy or chances of trusting or respecting your pathetic excuse of leadership. Do something right for the people instead of sugar-coating your innocence and just expose yourself or else I will blackmail you son of a bitches."
All the voices of the Admission Room flew into quiet, white snow. They've been completely sabotaged by the likes of the one of the most powerful women to set foot of this planet.
"OK. What do you wish for us to do, Mizuka," Shiver cried out in embarrassment.
"You are to arrive at the Western Coast Facility within one week. That'll still give us enough time to negotiate our plan if we wish to see another day after we rescue Crystal. And Shiver, try and talk big if you wish, but you better consider that Crystal's apart of the same family as you," Lola avowed. "I wish to hear no excuses of why you can't show up. Black is determined to reanimate Kuronina and will stop at nothing to do so. He'll even sacrafice your family for it; unless you don't care and you're as heartless as you claim to be."
Everyone peered over at Shiver's motionless lips. Her voice couldn't be heard except respecting the General's decision and doing what's asked of her.
"Very well. How soon again will you be waiting until we head to Leserado?" Shiver asked with a choked voice.
"Again, and I'll speak slowly so you can understand English," Lola stated without hesitatant. Her unorthodox character drove one of the administrator's head through the wall. "One week, two days and fifteen hours. That is all."
***
"Now that those assholes have been taken care of, it goes to show that we have a lot on our plate and we must dish out ASAP," Lola quoted while taking a bite of her turkey sandwich and having chips, sour cream dip and a soda can. "Tornado, be sure that you have more some of your soldiers and yourself four miles behind our group."
"Why's that, may I ask?" Tornado seemed concerned about Lola's planning.
"Because I want Black to be aware of the fact that it's just our army he's going to fight, but in reality, Shizuka and Brook will inflitrate the other surroundings of Leserado. I know that there was a shortcut to get on the top floor. Remember around the time Diamond was there and we had to go and rescue her?"
"Oh, now I see what you're trying to do. You want them to think we're losing, using Black's own trick against him," Tornado assumed.
"Not quite. I have my own way of serving justice. I want to fight him on my own. He will be aware of just me, since Crystal and I have a lot more questions to ask of him," Lola corrected. She then begun to pinpoint when Black will make his move throughout this month, "I know he doesn't like waiting, so we'll be on the move as well. Sending out some people to challenge him with some of our own warriors. I want no one else to get involved in my fight with him."
"Don't you think that sounds a bit too selfish of you?" Tornado asked. "The Avarian Beast of the Aruba won't be reanimated unless he has everything that he needs."
"He does have everything, but you must understand that he needs to decipher the Aruba texture in all six or seven books, if I'm not mistaken, in order for not only the symbols to activated correctly, but also Kuronina must be revealed."
"Why are the books so important?" The Poison General recalled the talk he and Diamond had at least four months before she birthed Crystal. "I've heard from Diamond that she must've torn out some of the pages and placed them somewhere between the Northern and Western Coasts. Hell, if she were alive, she'd been able to locate them in a snap without fail."
"I did hear a conversation like that when I was coming around to visit her more often. Eavesedropping on the conversation," Lola gave a sexy, but cold smile at the canine; slightly making him feeling eased by her charm.
These women of this era sure are nosy. "I was hoping you'd heard us."
Lola's mask snapped into a frown, "You knew I was listening in?"
"Yes, child. I knew that. There was no reason to why you couldn't listen in. You should have came in that day and started speaking your mind as well. Maybe it'd give us an idea on how we can fight back the Bloodlust Revelation."
"That would have been the case, but I had a son to cater to, you know," Lola stated.
"Speaking of your son, you two seem to have start distancing yourselves from each other. That's not what a mother or son should be doing," Tornado lectured.
"I don't want to talk about it. That's not even relevant to the situation we're in right now. I strangely realized my right arm wasn't broken, Crystal tried to attack me earlier, the Globe Government are trying to involve themselves in this shit and say that they're rulers of the world, and we got Shizuka on the shelf for right now. I don't need anymore shit weighing me down."
"Well there's going to come a time when you have no choice but to explain to Hitachi what happened to you that night," Tornado phrased, trying to push the Core General's buttons on intentionally.
Lola sighed while lowering her head, "Tornado. Where were you that night? No one came to my rescue and it felt as if I've been betrayed."
"Well, you weren't betrayed, my dear. I was unconscious, trying to protect you from getting hurt," Tornado removed himself from Lola's presence. "Keeping stuff like that bottled up isn't going to let your past go."
"We'll talk about it later, Tornado. I just want some alone time so I can think about something," Lola stated, lying down on her mattress that Shizuka gave instant allowance to.
"That's f
ine by me. I'll see you in the morning. I'm just glad that you were able to cool down before you and Brook got into it," Tornado smiled before exiting. Lola didn't return the same emotion but instead she lied down.
***
Crystal was located in the small Pillar Room just a floor beneath Dragon Fortress. She's been investing her time on reading all five of the Aruba Booklets. She's been insisting on giving herself more theories to what the Diary Symbols mean, what's their nature, why are they relevant to the Avarian Beast of her family. Trying to guess so many questions while in the process of all the books that half a thousand pages long, the young Aruba can easily maintain herconcentration, thanks to Black's orders that she'd not be disturbed.
It's been nearly three hours and Crystal had just finished the first book of the known titled series; Vengeance Upon Sin. It's been written about the series of evil doers who have tried to enable with other species world-wide to go to battle for the Diary Symbol powers.
***
Black and the rest of the organization have now been busy communicating with one another. He's plotted to having the Three Vile Vixens (Marscilla, Lisa and Thorn's squad group and name) to go and free Mikeru's Akuma Beasts that were created from his own blood and thanks to the DNA of the Amili Avarian Beast.
"That doesn't sound like the type of mission that I would assign myself to, Black," Thorn groaned, leaning her back against the arylide yellow wall. "If I didn't know any better, I say that Lola's been more than persistent in predicting our every move."
"No. I find that woman to be invalid right now. The Globe Government is literally located just thirty-one miles away from Intoxicated Asylum. It'd take some of the soldiers just an hour or two to get there by vehicle. Depending on which vehicle they travel by," Black corrected. "We may be at least at least sixty-nine miles away from it, but if I can channel as much of my energy into the rift that I'll create, you should be there in an instant."
"No wonder. So the amount of force you put on yourself to travel, the more time you'll have to wait before you use your all fifteen stages of your Stareyes, eh?" Charlie concluded, knowing his former rival, he too knew what the Hinura Stareyes are capable of.
"We'll worry about that later. Right now, there are some things that we must get from that place," Black evaded the talk about his powers. "Ladies, you'll be heading for Intoxicated Asylum to free the Akuma Beasts. Mikeru and I had struck a deal."
Lisa seemed concerned, regarding her relative, Mikeru and what her connections are with the Akuma Beasts.
"Black, I would like to speak my piece on something," Lisa rose her arm up.
"Well that's a first. Talk," Black permitted without any sign of grief.
"If we're intending to break into the Asylum by force, don't you think that Mikeru should--" Black interrupted the succubus.
"Lisa. Is that any concern of yours?" Black answered.
"Yes, after all he does have the same fucking last name as me. So I'm making it my concern," Lisa bellowed lightly.
Despite his contempt for the tone in Lisa's voice, Black had let her get a pass and decided to speak his mind in vivid detail.
"That's fine. I'll just get to the point. There's a reason why I can't explain all the details to you, Lisa. It's like I said before we went to claim the Sheruga DNA, there's a chance that I'd extend you the mission to obtain the Black Crystal," Black answered. "Do you understand that, now?"
Lisa's face seemed pale, but filled with excitement. She wanted to scream, but the warm smile was the only thing stopping her from screaming out in joy.
"We all know you want to scream, bitch, so why not get it over--" Predicting what Lisa was attempting to do, Marscilla covered her ears.
In the other room from hearing the succubus' screaming, Crystal bounced in fear.
"Come on, Lisa. You need to stop playing around with yourself and be more serious for once," Marscilla uttered irritatingly. "Will you be willing to keep up with Thorn and myself?"
Flipping the bird at Marscilla, Lisa had done with her eyes narrowed with annoyance.
"I'll take that as a 'no,'" Marscilla replied as she rolled her eyes, adding a smirk and walking into a different direction.
***
Chapter 25 - The Asylum Plot
***
"Mikeru, do you think that it's appropriate for Lisa to accompany these Marscilla and Thorn on this mission?" Black seemed concerned, regarding if he should trust Lisa or not to be assigned to the task.
"That's up to you, Black. I do admit that there was some time ago that Lisa did intervene in the conference meeting with had with the Gurasa Knights and the Heatherago Novas about the Globe Government," Mikeru replied lowly. "Not that it matters to you because you ultimately have your own agenda."
"I'd watch it, now. I do have a tendency of trying to get some information myself regarding the Globe Government as well. Since they don't necessarily know how to quit thumbing their noses in our personal business," Black uttered calmly, but in a sinister way.
"You realize that this is going to be a complete waste of time you trying to have those bitches over there free the Akuma--" Mikeru's throat was pratically contacted by Black's scythe.
"Let's be clear on something, Poison. I have clearly strategize the way in how I would kill you or Yumiko, or even the both of you in cold-blood, but that's when I started to realize that I struck a deal with some of the Akuma Beasts are that in prison," Black leaned his sword even closer with his mind in the set of assassination. "Now, there a reason why I never wasted my time freeing any of your relatives from that rat-hole."
"And why's that may I-- I-- I ask?" Mikeru seemed sweaty, triggered by horror as the courage was stripped from his heart..
"Because I was interesting in the atmosphere and what I would like to do with it in the near future. It goes to show that there were certain puzzle pieces that I wanted to clearly avoid because I don't trust you, Yumiko or half of the people that have served as the Bloodlust Revelation's guinea pigs."
In Mikeru's perspective, Black's reasoning seemed too unorthodox, but he wasn't brave enough to speak any further, with the weapon thirsty for his blood once the Reaper decapitated his skull from the shoulders.
"I understand, Black," Mikeru's legs trembled, nearly humiated by the monster who knew that the Amili Beast remembered his place. "So what you're saying is that if you have your three members break into the Asylum, steal the Black Crystal, which is about as low as you'll go as a criminalized organization, the Amili Beast will have no choice but to obey your every command until you decide to cast it out, huh?"
"You're a lot smarter than you appear to be," Black insulted the Akuma Beast's intelligence without fail or remorse. "Be mindful that I do a lot for those that work underneath myself and the rest of Bloodlust Revelation. Also, take this for instance, if only there's a possibilty that there's cancer infecting your people because of the Globe Government, I'm going to need the Amili Avarian Beast's DNA and powers in order to reverse it. The Black Crystal is what can decide the climax of those who were physically illed by the decease that Globe Government had bestowed upon your people."
"Now I get what you mean," Mikeru couldn't compete with Black's knowledge about the Akuma Beast's traits and what they've been through.
"Black," Crystal's voice suddenly came through. "I'm done with all five of them. I must speak with you about the blanked out pages you and the others were mentioning."
Black turned his head in the other direction and sheathed the scythe back onto his back. He managed to calm himself once more before he thought killing those around, hence ruining his plan to revive Kuronina.
"I'll be there in a few moments, Crystal. Don't leave that room until I say so," Black seemed bewildered by Crystal's accomplishment and what she had done in a short time. How in the hell can a girl like her read all those pages in all those books in just four hours? Reading over five-hundred words in that time seemed unfeasible to him.
Crstal, re-entering the room she
walked out of, grew tensed that there was more to than mere words that she's been reading for over three hours straight.
It feels like these booklets were only meant to be apart of reviving Kuronina, Crystal thought to herself. Oh, well, I'll just have to let Black figure the rest out, since he said I'm the final puzzle piece to Kuronina's wisdom and reincarnation.
Lisa and the other two members were on their way to head for Intoxicated Asylum. Prepared in their Bloodlust Revelation attire, the one who was more excited and enthusiastic about this specific mission was Marscilla, but she never showed it toward Thorn because it would give her the wrong idea.
"Do what you need to do. Thorn simultaneously exposes herself in the flashlights, Marscilla and Lisa will break into the Asylum and Thorn will meet up behind them after at least two or three floors of the guards being killed right off the bat. There are sixteen prison guards per floor, six Gurasa Knights assisting them, Yumiko which is why I may send you in. Unfortunately for you, I can't trust you in turning your back on the girls," Black gawked at Yumiko and then at his associates. "Now, Thorn. You are a member of the Poison Bloodline, so you should be able to get through with ease, but at the same time, they'd be dead by the time you get inside."
"Now, here's my problem, Black," Charlie found an objection in Black's planning. "Say that you were to be in that mutt's shoes, you deliberately have her get caught red-handed by a huge spotlight when you know what they're going to get spotted regardless."
"That won't be necessary to you because you're not on this mission with them," Black stated.
"Well, don't make it seem too obvious if they fuck up this time, then you were more foolish enough to even call yourself a leader, Black Hinura," Charlie echoed his arch-rival's full name through the Leserado Balcony.
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