The Reign of Lily Black

"Shall we...?"

When Malin and Gemini finally arrive, they quietly enter the Great Council Hall, where they notice Gabriel quietly tapping his finger on the table.

His dark gaze catches them off guard as the leaders of a group of mafias and organizations from other countries retreat.

"You didn't show up, Gabriel," Gemini replies, stepping closer to the man.

Gabriel spreads his arms and asks, "Why do you care? Did you miss me that much?"

Gemini pulls away from the man and says, "I think I'm starting to understand why Lily dumped you."

Gabriel grunts quietly and asks, "What do you want?"

Gemini glares angrily and walks away from him, and Malin says, "You really have no power over anything, Gabriel."

Gabriel turns his gaze to their retreating figures and mutters, "The day is still long, Ganthron. Anything can happen."

Just as Malin finishes his conversation with Gabriel, Lily and her companions get out of the car.

Dante comes and escorts Lily to the door and hands her a small bracelet and says, "Pull over the gemstones in the middle if you need to get out of here, okay?"

"I promise," Lily replies, kissing Dante on the cheek.

Dante walks away from the girl and Shadow says as he steps next to Lily, "Eww, but cute."

"It's the Italian way of showing each other that.. we care."

"The same is true in France, Nadja," replies Marc, slapping Shadow.

Lily shakes her head to herself and Kro says, "Come on, I'll help you with that wound."

"Actually..." Lily starts to say.

"I can help her," says Vassili suddenly, staring everyone with a questioning expression: "Why is everyone looking at me like that..?"

Shadow nods quietly and says, "He's right, bro," and looks down, adding, "...Besides, I'd join you in no time."

Marc nods and looks at Irina and asks, "Maybe you need my help?"

But at that Vassili looks up and says sternly: "Irina can do it herself. And if she does need any... she'll ask you-know-who."

Kro looks at Marc and says, "Well....that definitely set some boundaries now."

Irina looks at the boy and says: "Leave Marc alone. He has my permission."

Vasili bites his lip, and Irina steps closer to him and says, "It doesn't change anything, okay? I'm still with you, yes?'

Vassili huffs in response and Irina smiles at him and kisses him gently on the cheek while walking quietly over to Lily and Shadow.

Lily looks at Kro and they walk to the man who leads them all to separate rooms and then locks them in there.

Lily quietly stands at the table and begins to comb her hair quietly, but stops when she hears a soft knock on the door.

She opens the door and quietly slips into the dresser an off-the-shoulder black skin-tight blouse and skin-tight black leather pants and small heeled boots and says, "You may leave."

She nods quietly, and as soon as the door opens, Lily tries to go out, but she puts her hand in hers and says, "You can't go out yet."

"Oh yeah" Lily replies and kicks her in the stomach and grabs her room key from her pocket and walks quietly down the dark hallway until she bumps into a black figure grabbing her knife at lightning speed.

Lily takes a few steps ahead of her, but is pushed against the wall and asked, "Who are you?"

But Lily doesn't answer her and quietly tries to fix her standoff when suddenly a scream is heard: "Hey, let her go!"

No answer. Lily turns to the direction of the voice and notices Irina walking closer to the image and whipping her head against it, her hair flying over her shoulder and asking, "It's not as hard as you thought, huh?"

Lily quietly steps away from the wall and asks, "How did you get out of your room?"

Irina raises an eyebrow and asks, "What do you mean, how did I get out of my room? I came from the door."

Lily grumbles to herself and asks, "So does that mean.. I was the only one?"

Irina shrugs her shoulders and answers: "I was assaulted in the meantime. They tried to lock you in your room. I wonder what the others fell victim to."

Lily shakes her head and then suddenly notices a girl with a darker skin tone walking towards her and asks, "Excuse me, but we were asked to gather somewhere. Could you help us?'

The woman turns to the girl from her height and asks: "Who are you?"

"My name is....wait, is this a trick?" Lily starts to say.

The girl shakes her head and says, "My name is Rani - Akita Wang. But I'm best known as Akita."

Lily nods quietly and Akita says, "Come on, I'll show you the way...er, whoever you are."

"Lily Black." Lily replies looking at the girl.

Akita looks at him in astonishment and says, "It's you, then... The Lily Black. A pleasure."

""The Lily Black?"" Lily asks, raising an eyebrow, but by the time she tries to look for Akita again, the girl has disappeared from her side.

Irina walks back to Lily and sees Kro waiting for the girl by the door and mutters, "I'm going to see where Vassili is."

Lily nods quietly and turns to Kro, watching him pull her by the stomach and say, "You're gorgeous."

Lily sighs quietly and says, "We have to go. We don't want others to have to wait for us."

Kro nods and they step into the great hall where everyone is already waiting for them.

Lily senses his eyes on her and quietly slides her hand across the table to her seat and asks, "Shall we begin?"

Everyone else looks at Lily until Shadow suddenly walks up to the table and all the rulers sit down at their desks.

And the meeting begins.