CHAPTER 3 :- You are MINE! MINE ALONE!!

"How are you, Dale? Did you have your revenge against your father??"

"Luca?! But how??" Dale unknowingly called out the name.

The mysterious person after removing the mask he were wearing asked with concern on the face

"Are you hurt, Dale??"

"How?! How are you still alive??" Dale asked with a pale complexion on his face.

"Is this how you greet an old comrade, Dale??

You sure have changed a lot since that day. I still remember walking alongside a skinny Dale I used to know. I really miss those days."

After a moment of pause.

"Why did you do betray me, Dale??

Did you got sick of me tagging along with you all the time??" Luca asked with a sad expression on their face.

"I... I...I am so...." Dale couldn't finish his words as grief was eating him from inside.

"I now know everything about you, Dale! EVERYTHING!! Even your most embarrassing secrets. You cannot escape from me anymore. Because you are....." as Luca was talking to Dale. Serena began to regain her consciousness.

"Dale...Dale? Are you there, Dale? What happened?" tired Serena tried to call Dale with her exhausted self.

"I'm here, Serena. Don't worry. I will take you to a clinic now" Dale tried to wake up from the ground while shouting to Serena. But his injured body couldn't wake up.

"Oh, So this is Serena. I heard quite a lot about her too and your relationship with her, Dale." Suddenly Luca's expression changed.

"Everytime that Monster talked about Serena and your crush on her, it made me mad inside!! IT WAS FUCKING PAINFUL!!! EVEN MORE PAINFUL THAN HAVING THIS STUPID CURSE!!

Do you love her that much, Dale??

Was she that important to you, Dale?? More than our comrades?? More than ME?!" raged Luca asks.

"She was just a colleague! She just works with me, that's all! We were nothing more than that." Dale tried to lie to calm down Luca. As he didn't want to drag Serena into his mess.

"Oh?? Okay" Luca turned his back on Dale.

Dale sighed with relief.

'Luca still hasn't changed, Luca is still that timid guy who always believed me. I'm really glad..'

but his relief didn't last long.

"Haha hahaha! Hahahahahahaha!! " Luca began to laugh like a maniac.

He suddenly turned his back towards Dale and pointed his fingers towards Dale.

"Do you believe that I'll fall for such an obvious lie, Dale!?"

"?!" Dale was shocked. Somehow something was different from the Luca he used to know. It seems like he himself wasn't the only one who changed. Luca too changed. Other than the beautiful feminine face, everything about Luca has changed, Luca is more muscular now and is wearing a black combat suit covering the entire body.

"I'm not lying!" Dale tried to cover his lie with another pathetic lie.

"Is that right? Do you go out on dates with total strangers, Dale!?

If yes, then take me out on a date with you too!!" Luca lashed out.

Dale not knowing how to reply, "No, Luca. You misunderstood....."

"No, right?" Luca looked disappointed.

"I knew that was going to be your answer, This Bitch will probably hog all of you for herself, right!?" Luca became mad and suddenly pointed his finger towards Serena.

"Da...Dale? What's happening, Dale?" Weakened Serena tried to face the direction where the noise was coming mumbling.

"If that's the case, I'll just end her right here!!"

"Dale? What is happening? Please help me, Dale!" Serena began to tear up looking at Dale.

"Wait, Luca!! What are you trying to do?!" Dale looked at the person that used to be his dear friend once. Now looking like some kind of monster thirsting for revenge.

"Rot in hell, Bitch!!" Suddenly Luca's pointed finger transformed into a sharp point and they extended instantly impaling Serena's head.

"Da....le?" Serena with a horrified expression dropped down dead. Dale could see the reflection of him on her empty blue dead eyes that were once shined like a diamond.

"Serena? Serena??? SERENA!!!!!

NO, NO, NO, NO!!!" Dale began to cry loudly.

He began to regret his decison to taking her to a date.

'If I hadn't taken her on a date, she would have been alive!! Why? Why did she had to die?! Why? WHY?!!'

"I'm the only one you should've just killed!! Why did all these people have to die?!" Dale began to shout against Luca.

"I'm the one who left you to die! I'm the one who killed all of our comrades! I'm the one who betrayed you! Why did all these people have to die?! WHY?! THEY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY OF THESE!!"

For a split second Dale felt fear in Luca's eyes looking at his own fiery eyes.

After a long pause, Luca wore that same mask with the black 'X' on it and asked Dale

"I could ask the same question for you too, Did all of my comrades deserved to die?"

Luca's this single simple question made Dale shut up. As he knew deep down, he doesn't deserve to talk about what's right and wrong, when he had done the same thing to them too.

"You always talked about justice and what's right and wrong during our time training.

Tell me, what kind of messed up justice you declared on us?" Luca asked.

After a long pause. "I'm sorry, Dale" Luca began to walk away from Dale.

"Wait, What are you doing? Where are you going?! Why not just kill me? Why dont you end it once and for all!?" Dale yelled at Luca.

"I'm going to give the rest of the world, the taste of their own medicine! And don't worry, I'll come back to you later because you are.... you are....

You are MINE! MINE ALONE!!"

Luca faded away from the view. Dale continued to cry looking at the lifeless body of Serena and cursed himself for letting this happen.

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A futuristic-looking lab lit with a bunch of LEDs on the ceiling, filled with Scientists and Researchers. They were all in a state of a surprise after watching what unfolded before the screen. Some of them are disappointed and while few others are satisfied with their research data.

"We failed this time, but at least the data we received this time was very useful. With a little bit more, we can succeed!" The few who were satisfied said.

Suddenly from a room labed 'Clinical Room', the door opened and but out comes a mysterious person drenched in some kind of bodily fluid.

"Damnit! What the fuck was that explosion?! That son of a bitch got me this time! I WILL NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN!"

'Next time, Next time! You are MINE! MINE ALONE!!'

She began to laugh like an animal who was about to dig her fangs into her prey silencing all others in the room

[END OF CHAPTER - 3 ]