Encounter 1: The Assault

Mina?s head jerked up from its customary hanging of chin to chest, her body begun to tremble in fear ? she could feel the energy not far from the Den itself, and quickly had found out that the Den of Shadows was rather void of her Mistress to inform of what had just happened only moments ago. The mane of long white hair just hung there again over the ghoulish undead face and front section of the girl?s body, her wrinkled dry hands clenching out at the chains that were drilled right through the palms of her hands ? the same chains that kept her suspended above the throne in a rather crude crucified arrangement, sending droplets of bad blood and yellow puss to drop down from the old wounds in her hands and down onto Lucy?s empty Throne below.

Tap, tap, tap?

Bare feet had triggered echoes inside of the Den and this only further deepened Mina?s terror.

It was here.

The hanging undead body of Mina now was being lowered by her own chains, feet gently tapping the cold hard stone ground of the Throne Room; the Main Underground Hall, tilting up her blood red eyeballs up towards the doorless arched entrance of the room and came to move towards it like some decrepit old and feeble woman, her hands out in front of her as she walked ? attempting in gaining some form of balance as she walked.

That?s when the voice struck her and rooted her into the floor in unmatched terror.

?So you?re the Clairvoyant, Keeper of the Den of Shadow, and Master of the Black Monk Army, hmmm? Well ? well ? well it?s a shame I had to run into you first?? Henrietta Crystal stood like a shadow against the wall, dominating the entrance with her shrouded presence.

The ex-slave and once beautiful Catgirl prostitute took steps back and turned as ever slowly as her undead meager body would allow it. Whimpering and muttering something ? trying to get away from the being that infiltrated the Den of Shadows without so much of a peep from the Twins. And where were the Twins anyway? They were out looking for the Queen, of course, she did not return from her battle with Scathachians yet and Mina had sent them off to find her ? but where were they? Haven?t they found her yet?

So many questions ran through the Clairvoyants mind, and she had little time to think right now? Her life was at stake. And the only decent thing she could do right now was send out a silent psychic order to the shackles that held the Black Monk Army tightly to the four walls of the large hall.

?? Destroy her!? Mina screeched in out lich-like gasp falling to her knees and soon to her back, inching away now upon the ground. Looking back to see the Black Monks unmoving from the wall ? all their hoods had converged onto the Clairvoyant in an almost questioning manner. ?I said destroy her!?

?No!? The Army spoke in unity deafening Mina?s single voice.

?W-What?? She cast those whitening red eyes across the room, ?You disobey me?? Mina shrieked again, ?You disobey our Queen!??

The shrouded figure at the door just grinned, a long row of spiny sharp teeth gleaming out from the darkness from the candles that were the only source of light within the room itself ? and perhaps, the brightest room in the whole underground complex.
?No, Clairvoyant?? Henrietta took a step forward out from the shadows and into the light, her body still lightly blemished by the old mud of her own grave from where she buried her own husband alive. ?? I am their Queen now!?

Encounter 2: Alone

?So you two are my sister?s little toys? Hm?? A sweet and gentle voice came from the other side of the door, an arm extended out from the wood which grasped Aru?s neck and had cut her comment off and lifted her up and off the ground into the air, struggling for air. It was quite some power for Henrietta to slam her arm through the door without so much as cracking the heavy wooden doors in half!

Mu was stunned and didn?t half expect for this to happen in their own backyard. The black haired Twin dashed forward, making for a break at that arm and trying to pry those fingers off her Sister?s neck that restricted the blood flow to her brain. It would not kill her; hardly so but it would be one unpleasant experience.

The thing behind the door just chuckled, ?Swear your allegiance to me and I will spare your lives, or? Should I say life??

?Let my Sister go!? Mu now tried to bite down on that arm and draw some blood, an attempt into passing her saliva over the wound and to seduce the woman on the other side.

No wince and not even a waver of pain or seduction in that voice, somehow the woman was resisting the extent of Mu's powers. ?I shall take that as a no, then??

The heavy doors bent outwards at the sudden surge of high energies from behind the door, and tossed the heavy doors outwards from its hinges ? taking chunks of stone along with it and sending it and the Twins high into the air and across the clearing like as if they were made of feathers. The ground shook as again those bolts of dark energy sparked and tore through the walls of the Fort?s upper ground level and in another display of power... The front half of the Den?s outer appearance merely detonated into large pebbles and chunks of jagged rocks? Layering the clearing in a topping of dust and ruins and leaving only half of the Den still standing?

And now, walking through the chaos to the two unmoving bodies of the Twins was Henrietta, her fingers teasing those rising nipples upon the small of her breasts in a sickening pleasure for the two?s pain. They were both spaced evenly from each other, on the ground face first ? Mu and Aru were stirring but unable to move to their feet. Something was holding them down.

?Does it hurt?? Henrietta moaned, straddling to sit atop the small of Aru?s back, staring on over to Mu who watched on helplessly? ?Does it hurt seeing your Sister like this, Mu?? The woman drew back her hand forming a rather crude point with her fingers and then pushed down deep into the flesh of Aru?s back, who screamed out a banshee?s death-wail. Her fingers pushed between the ribs until they cracked from place, curling her fingers around the Twin?s spleen, yanking it out till it did not cling to her no more, tossing it before Mu?s fallen body ? just before her face, allowing her to see what may befall her.

??S-sis? Ter?? Tears fell down Mu?s cheeks, pooling below her head.

A heart followed, beating, slowing before Mu?s lips and then?
Stopped.

Then some intestines?

Followed by several large chunks of her liver?

Aru?s screams to Mu were that clich? ?like nails being dragged across the blackboard? and despite the clich?, it worked, and now she forced herself to her feet as Henrietta wandered away, the mysterious woman thinking to herself silently of what to do with them and what method should she adopt to finish them.
But the Twins were undead so how could she dispose of them? Of course she knew! She was toying with them and was enjoying this way too much to end it so quickly?

?Sister!? Mu turned Aru over as she fell to her knees, cradling her Sister?s head and to stare hard in those wide eyes and almost deathly-paled face, but Mu knew that this would be a momentary problem ? her Sister would regenerate, the Twins always did, right? ?Speak to me?? Another light shake of her body offered into stirring her from the pain.

?Mu??

?Come on, let?s kick her ass, Sister?? Mu smiled, lightly touching the bruised cheeks of Aru's face tenderly with a single free hand.

?Yeah? Heh? Help me up.?

?Yes, Sister?? Mu went about leaning up her Sister despite the heavy bleeding from the small hole in her back, the ribs pushing themselves out through skin from the inside out at various places upon on her torso.

Aru?s body jerked and tensed and her head recoiled back ? the neck snapped and her head just hung over her back like a towel draped over a shoulder, being internally dismembered from her neck? The half pentagram scar upon the forehead was blown wide open pretty much from a wound close to that of a blast from a shotgun. It had splattered out the contents of her skull from a larger hole in the back of her head out behind her in a long arch of a pink mushy tissue and shards of bone.

Mu? Sat there? Stunned and her lip quivered as the half of her own being was blown away right before her. This woman knew their weakness? That meant that Mu may too exit this world in the same fashion of her now dead Sister. She dropped her Sister?s body that was slumped against her shoulder, hands moving to her priestess?s headdress and tossing that to the side with her crawling backwards from the body.

?Aru??

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?Aru? Sister?!? A wince as she moved over her Sister?s corpse hands grasping the bloodless cheeks of Aru?s internally decapitated head, adjusting it sharply to look at her eyes without so much of a batter of eyelashes at the sickening sounds she created, ?No? I am not complete? My link? Me? Incomplete? My? Sis?Ter??

Henrietta turned to stare at the sad scene unfolding before her, still teasing her nipples in slow circular motions around the hard nub of pleasure, the shadow arm that had dealt the blow slithering back into her form.

Mu?s eyes burned with tears, they fell down her cheeks without friction. ?You can?t be dead?? Mu smiled forcibly and gripped her Sister?s hands, pulling her up to lean again, and again she slumped into a different position on the floor. ?Stop? Acting, wake up!?

?Wake up! Sister! I love you! Don?t leave me!?

?I?m alone? Your voice in my head? Is gone!?

?Ha! No! Can?t be true ? can?t be true! I am not alone!?

?Alone?!

?I am not alone!? Mu broke down into a fit of howling cries.

How could one fathom such an idea? Aru and Mu, both of the same being and both two halves of one personality? Now only one.
How could anyone feel the loss of loosing yourself and your own closest companion, the person who knows you more than any other being in life itself.

You.

She.

Aru.

Mu was alone and would not leave her Sister?s side, she continued to urge her to stand and as much as she tried Aru was not moving or even responding to Mu's crying.

She was dead.

?I love you! Sister! Don?t leave me! Don?t leave me! Please! I love you! I love you! ARU!?