The drive to the place where Tiara had asked her to meet up was tense and silent, but Lan's gaze fixed on the road ahead, her thoughts on what she'd be expecting from her meeting with Serpens after five years. After what felt like an eternity, she arrived at the White town center, a secluded location nestled in a outskirts of Draketown. "So why did you ask me to meet you here?" Lan asked, as Tiara approached her. The neighborhood was indeed very quiet and enough to raise her suspicions."Just come with me, Lan. It's not safe out here." Tiara said, gesturing for Lan to come with her.Lan hesitated for some minutes, but then, she had come too far to leave without meeting Serpens. And even if she wasn't really giving Tiara the trust she was demanding from her, she followed her all the same.They soon arrived at the place where Tiara had Serpens. "Come in," She said, as the door swung open.Lan quietly stepped inside the house, her eyes scanning the entire place. She couldn't help the f
The trio took the underground and escaped through the backside garage. George and his men searched the entire place but couldn't find them."Shit!" He exclaimed. "She got away again."Tiara took a moment to catch her breath, leaning against Serpens who was still not getting what was happening."What the hell is going on here? Why did you call me down here in the first place if you knew you were being chased?" Lan's voice rose angrily.Tiara's eyes were wide with fear, darting around the garage, fearing that George and his men had followed them. "I'm really sorry," she replied, but we can't stay here. We really need to go now." She said, her voice tinged with urgency."What have you done that has made those guys come after you?" Lan pressed further, demanding an answer from her."I'll explain everything later, but for now, we really need to leave. Our lives are in danger," she managed to say.Understanding the danger that loomed near, Lan had to quit the interrogation. "Alright let's g
Lan didn't return home until the following morning. But while she was laying there in her bed, she couldn't shake off the feeling of unease that gnawed within her. She imagined how things could have been if the war with the dragons didn't break out in Draketown five years ago. Still in deep thoughts, she decided she'd meet the other Serpens who had come from the past, believing that he would recognise her. She was still very much in love with Serpens and now hoping she'd stand a chance of being with him, she's being met with disappointment.She was still struggling to sleep when she noticed Tiara approaching her. "Can't sleep, too?" Tiara said, causing her to sit up."I can't, you too?" Lan asked."I've not been able to sleep at night for a couple of months now, knowing that Jack is after my life. I spend most of my nights keeping awake and looking out for when the next trouble will come. It's a really tough life you know," Tiara expressed her deepest fears.Lan couldn't help but ad
Winter was welcomed into the conference room, his face devoid of any form of smile. Jack was ready to introduce him to the rest of the team and to make them acquainted with his role in his plan to rewrite history and make a name for himself.His dragonic powers have fully been activated after staying dormant for five years. Jack's upscale technological devices had helped in charging him up and granting him dragonic force 100. It was the highest level of dragonic power activation and with that, Winter would be unstoppable."Ladies and gentlemen, this is Winter Lee," Jack said, introducing him to the rest of the team members. "He's a major part of this plan and he'll be leading the launch. Every one of our army of dragonic creatures was built from his DNA. He leads the attack and we take over the city."There was a brief applause from the few people who were present. Xin had not yet arrived, having been held back by traffic. She had left the house a bit late and had no idea that Winter
Xin tried to fight back as the security guards pulled her forcefully from the conference room. Everything had happened so fast that she was still finding it difficult to believe that she's been busted and only God knows exactly what Jack would do to her now."Let me go," her shrill voice echoed through the hallway, but the guards were relentless and merciless in their forceful pull.As she struggled against their grip, they dragged her deeper into the facility's labyrinthine corridors. The fluorescent lights above flickered, casting eerie shadows on the walls.The air was thick with the scent of disinfectant and something else, something metallic. "You're not going anywhere," one of the guards sneered, his voice dripping with malice, as he shoved her into the Mercury Cell.The door slammed shut behind her, the sound echoing off the cold metal walls. She was left in the darkness, the only sound was her ragged breathing. The cell was small, with walls lined with steel plates and a singl
Serpens waited all day for Xin to arrive from work until night fell upon him. He knew it was unlike Xin to want to work overtime time at work and not inform him. He decided to put a call through to her and find out from her if she was still coming home that night or would stay till the following morning.Everything they needed to leave was already in place and all that was left was the SFX-chip which was the reason Xin had gone for work that morning."Hello," the voice at the other end replied. It wasn't Xin's voice, and that got Serpens really worried."Can I speak with Xin please?" Serpens requested politely, until the voice at the other end became more recognisable to him. It was the voice of his nemesis, Winter."Nice to hear from you again, Serpens." Winter laughed."Winter!" Serpens exclaimed, as the realization dawned upon him that Xin was in trouble."What happened to Xin? What did you do to her?" Serpens asked all in one breath."Hahahaha" Winter continued to laugh. "You mean
Serpens, having nowhere else to go, now that he was being sought after, decided to put a call through to Tiara as she was the only person whom he could trust in the future aside Xin and Jeremy.He had first of all contemplated calling Rose, but realizing that he was now Jack Brynner's daughter, made him discard the thought. From his dinner meeting with her, the last time, he could tell that the Rose he knew from his timeline who was still probably in the hospital battling for her life was different from that Rose he had met in the future.Not only had she become more sophisticated, it was like she had lost touch with her gentleness, the most outstanding quality he had loved about her.Things in the future were really looking different from the way they were in the past. From where he had come from, Tiara wouldn't have been an option to call upon, considering how she had broken his heart and had betrayed her trust. But at that very moment, Tiara was his only bacon of hope.Dialing her
As Tiara continued her explanation of the entire situation to Serpens, it became clear to him the dangers they had now found themselves in. The reason for all of their time travel was to find the seaweed that would enable them to breathe underwater and all of that was what had brought them to the future. But now it appears as if all hope is lost."So what do we do now?" Serpens asked, his confusion evident in his voice. "How do we save Xin?""I don't know Serpens but if I'm not wrong, there's one place Jack would likely lock her up in?" Tiara replied."And where could that be?" Serpens' brow furrowed."It's the mercury cell," Tiara replied."What's a mercury cell?" Serpens asked, his curiosity piqued."It's the most deadly cell ever made by man. The cell environment is made of advanced technology inbuilt in such a way that it slowly sucks life out of the prisoner, giving him or her just twenty four just to live. If twenty four hours elapses and the prisoner is not granted freedom, it'