Chapter 18

(TRIGGER WARNING MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH, GORE, BLOOD please proceed with caution if any of these topics trigger you DO NOT PROCEED)

(Ace's POV)

I had every right to hate her yet here I am standing before her boss sacrificing myself.

I tried to hate her.

I couldn't bring myself to do it.

How could one hate her?

She betrayed me.

Yet when I tried to hate her all that happened was the way I fell for her more than before as the moments passed.

I wanted to hate her.

But I can't.

Because how could I?

I smiled as I saw her standing there as she lunged towards us her horrified expression breaking my heart as I knew her smile wouldn't be restored.

I couldn't hear anything as the world tuned out.

It all happened as if it was slow motion.

'I love you' I mouthed.

I always will.

Maybe in another life we can be happy.

In another life.

Goodbye Perla.

The world turned black as all our memories flashed before my eyes as the pain from my wounds disappeared.

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(Normal POV)

Rage flowed through her veins, mixed with sadness and agony as her eyes clouded by a dark shadow, the city lights illuminating through them as they glowed a dark red as she glared at her boss.

"I don't need you anymore, everyone knows who you are now" He laughed still facing Ace's corpse.

The smirk on his face making her disgusted as she was blinded with rage, bringing her gun up she suddenly shot him as he turned to her as she pulled the trigger a shocked expression shown on his features.

She walked closer as his body went limp falling to the ground as she continued to shoot him uncontrollably as she soon ran out of amo.

She hysterically laughed loosing sanity as tears streamed down her face.

As she looked over to her right, finding Ace's corpse laying there she walked over as she stopped laughing as the tears uncontrollably streamed down her face, staining her cheeks as she fell to her knees beside him, his blood staining her clothes as she screamed in agony pain.

Grabbing Ace she put his back against her thighs, holding his corpse up as she saw the color draining from his body as she hugged him tightly, tears rolling down her face as she screamed in denial.

Her hands fell to her side dropping Ace's body as she started giggling uncontrollably all while the endless streams of her salty tears streamed down her face.

Getting up she leaned down picking Ace's body, as she stared at his softened features moving the stray strands of his hair out of his face.

She was too late.

She couldn't save him.

Her eyes puffy she slowly yet limply walked out of the office making her way down the hall as she walked over the dead bodies of all the guards.

More guards were to come but all she wanted to do was get Ace's body out as she took the glass elevator to the bottom floor.

The moon sure looked beautiful tonight.

If only she could watch the night sky with Ace one more time.

Walking out the elevator, she made her way to her car as the city lights lit up the dark night streets.

She got in the car placing Ace in the backseat as she looked at herself in the rear view mirror.

She looked horrible, her eyes puffy and red, blood staining her clothes, and cheek.

She brought up the back of her hand wiping the blood as she once again looked at her reflection. Her once lively eyes, dull.

She was disgusted with herself as she drove back to the underground base.

They probably hated her.

She didn't care.

Her life was already over the moment she had been born.

Not everyone was born equal.

And she was a great example of that.

She was cursed.

But he loved her.

For once she felt loved.

Someone loved her.

The love she longed for throughout her life.

She loved him back.

She was lost.

After finally belonging somewhere.

She got lost.

As she pulled up to the small shop, she went through the back door as she carried Ace not daring to look at him, as she would breakdown.

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As she walked through the empty corridors she went to the medical room, also finding it empty as she placed Ace on the bed, putting a blanket over his head as she fell to her knees once again as tears uncontrollably streamed down her face as she clutched her aching chest.

The door suddenly opened.

Footsteps sounded getting closer to Perla as they stopped a few feet away.

Perla looked up.

Edna stood there betrayal etched across her features as tears pricked her puffy eyes.

"I don't hate you" Edna sobbed, hurt at Perla's actions.

"But I can't forgive you, one day I might, maybe tomorrow, maybe in a month or an eternity.

I thought you were my friend,

I truly felt that I fit in around you

You truly are a horrible person" she yelled at Perla, her breath hitching as she bitterly chuckled.

"It's okay though

You'll always be my first friend" she confessed.

"I'll come back to see you, I have to do something" Perla stuttered as she tried to slow her breathing as she got up wiping her tear as she ran to her bunker grabbing guns and daggers as she once again went to the elevator.

She wanted revenge.

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Days passed as no one heard anything from Perla.

Neither had they heard anything from the Fire Dragons.

Every last member was found dead including the boss.

It was Perla's doing as she was now facing Zen.

"I'm sorry I-I didn't mean for anything for this to happen, I didn't know what came over me. I guess I was just jealous of you and Ace be-because I love you, Please forgive me Perla, you understand right? I am your best friend of years after all" Zen cried, stuttering as he begged Perla for forgiveness.

"You truly are pathetic" she sneered.

"My friend of years!?

well my so called friend of year you took everything I had" she yelled

"I finally had the life, the damn life I longed for after being abused for years and you took all of it away!?" she yelled.

"I was happy I was finally loved by someone and I-I loved him back!

He made me feel loved,

As if I owned the world

You took it all away" she yelled her voice cracking as she screamed at him.

"You truly are pathetic, I hope you rot in hell" She venomously sneered giggling as she shot him square in the head as his body fell to the ground his shocked expression still there as he bled out.

Perla walked closer looking down at his body as she finished the last of her gunshots kneeling to the ground as she grabbed her dagger continuously stabbing him as his blood stained her leather suit and face as she soon stopped a satisfied smile on her face.

"Rot in hell you pathetic imbecile of a man"

She sneered stepping over his dead body as she walked out the mansion a smile on her face as she walked over the dead bodies of his guards towards her car.

To be continued~