《Tartaros》Chapter 22 - Andy

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We really should shut the computers down upstairs. I don't know how they weren't shut down already. It was getting more broken each minute. We shouldn't use the machine at all. You could probably tell, we didn't do that.

Sonia tapped the screen in her hand. I felt weird that I was going to see the real life Bonnie and Clyde. I was also feeling weird about the fact that I had seen Clyde in my own eyes. He didn't match my idea of a romantic lead I had for Clyde in my head. Aging does that to you I guess.

Sonia pressed some sort of button and the room started changing. We were soon in a grand looking house. We were in a living room, where a small child was in the floor, looking at a mad looking man in front of them. "What did you do?" The man screamed. Every time man walked angrily towards the kid, kid crawled backwards.

The child was holding their hands in front of them, shielding themselves from the man. "I'm sorry dad! I'm sorry! I just... I saw the competision and I just though we could get inside the walls if I won. And I would have if you-"

"We are not going to inside the walls! I have said it to you thousands of times!" Man was about to kick the kid before the kid dodged. "You are so selfish. You have put us all in danger just because you wanted to play an engineer. God, I should have never even let you out of the house you-"

While the man was yelling, they hadn't noticed the One wall of the house had a blinking re3d light. Slowly the whole room turned red but the man didn't notice due to being focused on the kid. Man only noticed when a bullet from a rifle had hit the man's neck.

On a doorway next to the man and the boy stood woman in a dress in a black and white stripes and a turtleneck, holding an old timely rifle in her almost delicate looking hands. Her blonde hair was tied to a tight bun with a red bow. Anna.

Anna walked closer to the man she had just shot. She kicked the man down and put her high heel on his throat and the barrel of her gun between his eyes. Woman's eyes were looked empty, even when looking at the terrified eyes of the man he shot. Man wanted to scream but Anna didn't let him.

Woman smiled. "I wanted to see the life leaving your eyes myself. I have hunted you for five years. Now I can finally say goodbye to you, father."

One clean shot was fired. Man went limp. Anna stood up and cleaned herself up. Splatters of blood stained her white dress. When she stood up, she finally saw the kid in the corner of a room, scared out of their mind. She tapped a button on her ear.

"There is a kid. How there could be a kid? You said the house was empty What does it matter that he remarried-" Anna went silent. It was the first time the woman showed emotion in her face. A wave of sadness went over her. She raised her hand towards the kid, trying her best to smile.

"I'm sorry for killing your... our dad."

"Who the hell are you?" The kid screamed. I finally realized that the kid was Milo. Anna looked at place where Man's body was. Suprisingly, there wasn't anything there for me and Sonia to look at.

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"What did you father said was the reason you were running away?" Milo kept looking at the body, shunned.

"He never said anything. I just assumed it was due to work. He works with the black market outside the walls."

"True, she was also escaping daughter who killed his ex-wife and who has become her direct competitor." Anna grabbed Milo's hand and pushed him up. "Anna Henriksson. What should I call you?"

"Why do you need that?"

"Depends on why that douche yelled at you."

Milo looked around. He looked at the place the body was. "I... There was this competision for young inventors."

"Can you do weapons?" Milo looked shocked. "It's your choice. You can ran away now, or you can be my weapons maker. Your choice. If your with me, I will promise no-one will hurt you. Working for me is the safest job outside the walls."

"How do you know I'm not terrible?"

"He wouldn't have yelled at you if you were. No mediocre person is ever been noticed." The energy between the siblings were something I have never witnessed. I felt like I was seeing the world shift, like something in the world changed when Milo grabbed Anna's hand and they walked outside.

Place changed. We were now outside, following Milo and Anna towards a group of people, Tomas right in front of everyone. He looked at Milo and Anna. He wanted to say something, but cowered when he met Anna's gaze. "I thought we were going to kill everyone inside. We were destroying Eklund bloodline."

Anna rolled her eyes. "Plans change. We now have a weapon's maker."

Tomas looked Anna stunned. "We already have weapon's maker."

Anna looked around and shot her gun towards the crowd. Me and Sonia jumped when a man fell to the ground, gunshot right in his head. "Not anymore." Anna smiled sarcastically. "Tell the kid where he should go. I'm going to go being Bonnie Darling."

Anna walked away towards camera's behind the big group. When people gave space to Anna, I could see two masked figures holding up gasoline, ready to give it someone. That someone was probably Anna. Tomas stared at young Milo. He looked like he wanted to kill him. Just plain and simple.

Before Tomas or Milo could say anything, scene changed. We were in front of a entrance that was decorated with flowers. Osiria Rose stood opposite of the door, surrounded by hundreds of other people in an arch surrounding Milo, now few years older. Camera's floated around them.

"Milo Henriksson, the trespasser. You are not authorized member of the Tartaros family." As Osiria spoke, I noticed fidgeting Anna next to Osiria. She looked like she wanted to run to Milo but Tomas had a tight grip on her hand. "Audience has liked your personality but due to fairness of our situation, you are to be banished from Tartaros."

"No he isn't", a voice I knew well screamed among the crowd. Evalyn run from the crowd, Serena right behind her. I saw dad and mom that tried to hold her to stop but couldn't. Evalyn ran between Milo and Osiria. Her eyes were glued into the host.

"You are going to get banished. Please, don't do this." Milo's voice was weak. Serena grabbed Milo's hand.

"We are not letting you die dude." Evalyn laughed.

"No one is going to die. Milo will be escorted back to outside the walls." Osiria said smiling widely.

"With all due respect Osiria Rose, you can stop bullshitting. We are here to be used and then killed. That dome in the middle of the city? They are trying to clone us to sell our copies as best friends to idiots inside the walls, but they are so idiotic they can't create how we react to things so they are making us do things so they have our brain waves." I could here mumbling all around me. Every person who looked like they were a citizen and not some sort of guard looked uncertain about Evalyn's words.I was... stunned, but when I thought about it, why did these thing before me existed. It was a possible reason that they were trying to sell people's brain waves to the highest bidder.

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"It's insulting that you make us some sort of villain because you do not agree me." Osiria looked at the camera's all around her floating around. She leaned in to talk to a man next to him who was holding a old looking gun.

"I'm not insulting you. If I was, I'd say your makeup looks like my niece made it." Audience laughed. Serena hit Evalyn on the shoulder but her smile was proud. Everyone around Osiria Rose laughed except dad, who looked at his sister worrying, shaking his head lightly. My suprisingly laughed, but quickly hid her smile.

"Even if you don't agree with us, you must agree that this whole place, we are actively working towards acception from people who will not ever give us that. We can not accept that. We have to fight", Serena said. Milo nodded with her every word. The mumbling started getting louder. Dozens of people nodded their heads, agreeing with the trio.

"Get them! They are actively trying to start a riot." Osiria ordered the men around her.

"So many of you were clients or worked for me and my sister. Will you believe goverment bastards or loyal friends", Milo screamed while the guards started to get closer to them.

"Okay friends, I guess we are going to fight. Don't die." Evalyn hit the guard closest to her in the chest and grabbed gun in his hand. She shot three more guards in the chest. That made everything go into chaos. Half of the audience started attacking the guards and other half tried to make other people stop. There was blood everywhere when the guards started the gunfire and everyone who wasn't stopping the guards, were dying from their shots.

Only ones that weren't moving were Osiria, Tomas and Anna. When the chaos started to get really bloody, Anna started to laugh. "Was this the Utopia you wanted? You could have gotten this if we had stayed criminal bosses."

"Stop laughing", Tomas said between his teeth.

"What are you going to do? Tartaros is dead."

Osiria didn't like that. She marched forward, ordering camera's to follow her every move. She dodged every other citizen of Tartaros and went to Evalyn. Evalyn didn't notice the camera's but just looked at Osiria.

"Stop this right now", Osiria said in a kind voice but she hid a tiny pistol from the camera's, "You started this madness so you can stop this, if you want your family to survive."

Evalyn smiled and pointed the gun in her hand towards Osiria. "Leave this town, then we talk."

"Fine, I will. Just no more bloodshed." Osiria sounded pleading, but she pointed her hidden gun towards Milo and was ready to shoot. Without hesitation, Evalyn shot five bullets into Osiria's torso and neck. Osiria fell to the ground. Her scream of pain made everyone else stop the fighting.

"Run", Evalyn said in a demanding voice. Every single guard or person who looked like they worked in Tartaros ran towards the giant entrance and left.

"You really deserve to be named after a monster, Medusa." Osiria said before passing out from the blood loss. I looked at Sonia. She looked like she was going to throw up.

Scene started to change again. Gorgos, my parents and Anna's parents were around a table. I could hear a sound of fighting outside the small room they were in. Mom looked more stressed I have ever seen her. She looked at a giant sycthe in front of her. Gorgos looked sad. Evalyn was holding her swords, Serena anxiously touched her rings.

"Why do you have something like that anyways?" Evalyn looked at Anna, who was staring at Milo with a stern gaze.

"After I killed my father, I wanted to make sure my family had a way out, that made sure we were going to take as many people on the way too." Anna took out a small tube. "Bomb that can destroy so much and can be only accessed by my family, is amazing tool when in a corner, like this situation."

Milo looked at Anna and Tomas. "So you are blowing each other up together."

Before Tomas could answer Anna grabbed his hand. "We are dying for love. What is better than that?" Anna looked at Tomas tightened her grip. Tomas looked terrified.

"What about Sonia?" Milo said.

Anna looked at her brother and smiled. For the first time she looked genuine. "I'm sorry I have to make this sacrifice. I hope she will understand me when she's older. " I looked at Sonia. She looked her mother's mouth tightly.

Anna stood up, Tomas following her steps. Anna walked closer to Evalyn. "You don't have to do this. I will figure out something."

Anna smiled and kissed the girl's forehead. "Take care of my brother, dear. You will make a great leader."

The scene changed again. Anna and Tomas were in the top of the wall of Tartaros. Anna was putting a rope tight around the edge so they could go to the other side where an giant hoard of soldiers were flooding in Tartaros. Suprisingly, when Tomas tried to grab into the rope, Anna grabbed Tomas's hand. Small ring appeared around Tomas's hand.

"What are you doing?" Tomas's hand was like glued to the wall's railing.

"You were always so against Milo but he was the best inventor I have ever met. He even made metal handcuffs." Anna spoke so nonchalantly while Tomas was in a panic. "I was thinking about it and you were right. You don't have to do this. You don't deserve heros death."

"What are you ever saying?"

"If this wasn't clear already, I calculated a place where if I explode myself and you are here, you will most likely stay alive, but live with the most excruciating pain." Anna smiled happily. Sonia fell back in shock. Thankfully I catched her.

"Why? I don't understand..."

Anna raised Tomas's chin with her finger. "Maybe you were just right. Maybe I am a monster."

At that moment Anna glitched. She was a young girl for a second. Her hair was as wild as Sonia's and she looked weak and timid. "Please stop, I am not a monster. Please. Please!"

Girl's scream was so loud I had to cover my ears. When I looked back at Anna, she was an adult again. She put the rope around her and was ready to jump. Tomas tried to gtrab her. "Please, Anna. Anna I love you. We can be a family. I do whatever you want."

Anna laughed loudly. "I feel sorry for the person who has to take care of you for the rest of your life." Then, she jumped.

Me and Sonia ran to the edge of the wall. Anna looked like she was floating down to the ground. When she had ground beneath her feet. She ran to a proper spot and bowed. All the soldier around her looked confused.

"My dear soldiers. My name is Anna Henriksson, you might know me as Bonnie Darling, the most dangerous woman outside the walls. While there isn't camera's around me, I want to say I'm glad you are witnessing something never seen before in a history of my gruesome life." Anna raised her hands, the tube in one of her hands. She looked liked she was watching at us, even tough she probably looked at Tomas. "Bonnie Darling is making her own legacy."

She pushed the button. And then...

She was gone.

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