The Real Villian

Year: 4055; Day: 267

{Song of the chapter: Defeated - Bad Suns}
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My wrists rubbed uncomfortably against the metal bands holding them. The room was empty and dark. With the walls dark purple, the room had a dim luminous glow of red. I couldn't move a single muscle in my body, everything was banded down with tight metal. The chair wasn't too luxurious, either.

"Hello?" I called out for the googolianth time. It was one thing to poison and kidnap someone, but a completely other to just leave them there, clueless and alone.

A small shuffle emitted from a corner behind me. I strained against my bands some more. News flash-- they were still holding strong.

"Kara Xiver." The low, muffled voice was right behind me-- nearly whispering in my ear.

My heart rate sped up. I hadn't heard that name aloud in over fifty days.

"W-who are you?" My voice, irritatingly enough, came out shaky and was accompanied with a low whimper. Confidence! I scolded myself. Breath in power, exhale stupidity.

Footsteps made their way around me. The lighting was much too dark to see who it was. The dark silhouette loomed over me.

"Doesn't matter," he said. The person was male, I could tell from the rough and deepness of his voice, but it was muffled bad distorted. My gut had an uncanny feeling I knew this person, and that he was an old pudgy man who was salty about change.

I took slow breaths to calm my inundating nerves. "What do you want?"

"Assuming I don't decide to kill you, I would like you to resign your position as Queen."

I pursed my lips. "Look, Greon, I'm ninety-nine percent sure that this is you. I'm not giving up."

"Then you will die and all this struggle will be worth nothing."

My lips curved down. That was actually quite true. All my sacrifices, all my worries, they'd be for nothing if I died right there. With a deep sigh, I said, "What do you want me to do?"

The distorted voice chuckled. "Giving up so soon?" he asked. "Who knew all it would take is threatening the Queen's life? How selfish are you, Kara?"

My jaw clenched as I stared icily at the dark figure. "How did you find out my name?"

The shadow shrugged. "It was quite easy. I paid a visit to one of your friends, the one in prison. He told me everything."

Lake?

"Really? He probably fed you lies." I coughed and mumbled under my breath, "Aside from my name, of course."

The silhouette strode closer to me and my chair. "I don't think so. Want to know a secret, Kara?"

"Strangly enough, I don't think I do."

His face leaned in so close to mine, I could feel his hot breath on my nose, I thought with a small wince. "The boy loved you, but you broke his heart. Now you're paying for it. Want to know where your brother is?"

In the top secret basement where he should be? I thought, yet oddly enough I didn't think that was the case.

"Do I even need to ask? He's here," I mumbled with pain etching at my voice.

The figure snorted. "You're quite the clever one, Kara."

"Please, for the love of the entire galaxy, stop using my name."

"And why would I see fit to your demands?"

Though the room was dingy and stygian, and he couldn't possibly see me, I rolled my eyes. "Because I'm a guest, obviously," I said with my voice dripping in sarcasm.

The man chuckled lightly. "Anyways, back to my point. You will do what I say, or you and your brother will die."

"And what is it that you say?"

There was a slight pause. "I don't ask that much of you, honestly," he said. "I just need you to get ahold of your city. Stop the protests and follow the laws. It's not too hard, and I'm deeply disappointed by the fact that we had to go through this whole debunkle for such a simple fundamental."

"I don't want to do that though," I whispered to myself more than him.

It was an entirely unfair predicament. If I went through with his demands, all my ceding, all my adversity, it would be worth nothing. There was no reason for me to be Queen if I wasn't going to change anything.

Yet, if I died, I still wouldn't be able to do anything. All the ceding and adversity I caused others would just be... cipher.

"Well, you must, or you and the boy die."

Javi. My heart was pounding erratically. It had been so long since I had seen my brother. How did Greon manage to find him? How did Lake manage to know where he was? My eyes narrowed at the imminent shadow.

"How did you know where my brother was?"

"That sickly lover boy told me."

My eyes narrowed imperceptibly more. "Why does that seem unlikely? Oh, right-- probably because I never told that 'sickly lover boy' about my brother'." I strangled against the manacles. "Tell me where you really found that information," I snarled.

Greon paused. The silence carried heavily on me, it was proving my doubts right. Lake hadn't betrayed me.

"You sure are a smart girl," he shattered the silence with a low murmer. "Too bad you have an aggravating personality."

"Tell me, you plumpy old man, or so help m--"

"Where the I got the information is not important," he snapped.

I huffed and blew a shadowed strand of hair out of my face. The darkness was driving me to insanity, everything was shadows and aybsses. "It kind of is," I grumbled. I continued under my breath, "I need to know whom to never trust again."

"Look, do you want to leave alive or not?" he asked.

"What do you think?" My voice held an acerbic and sarcastic tone to it.

"All you have to do is do what I say."

"Fine."

He paused. "You've agreed?"

I rolled my eyes and took a few steady breaths to calm my boiling anger. "Yes. Fine. I'll do it. Just... Leave my brother alone. Also, leave that sickly teenage boy alone, too."

The figure snickered. "If you care so much about them, why was your brother abandoned in a basement? And that boy is in prison? Also, from what I know, there's another girl in prison too whom you care about greatly. Unfortunately, I never got the chance to meet her."

"Too bad. She's a catch," I mumbled, ignoring his questions. Truthfully, I didn't have answers for them anyway.

"I've noticed that you've avoided my questions, Queen. I knew you weren't as perfect as you seem. Just a selfish, greedy girl."

"Just let me leave now," I said. My words were exhausted, enervated, and beat.

A small, yet still audible sigh breathed from his mouth. "Okay."

Tears were brimming my eyes. I did my best to blink them away, but it didn't help. A warm trickle followed down my cheek.

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-K xx