The S.T.F. Files, Book 4: DIATON

You Promised Me

Alagretto

"No Aly. You musn't do this. I can't watch you get hurt." Riza walked right up to Nature, "how could you even dare to fight my friends when they have never done anything against you? You’re sick, filthy, psycho bitch!"

"You took away my home, my family, you hurt my friends, and now you've hurt me. That is it! That was the last straw. When you hurt my boyfriend's sister and my best friend, you've gone way too far!" I've never seen those two so mad. All the sudden the room bursts into complete chaos and fighting remises. It was too hard telling who was friend and who was foe. I once almost took off Katelyn's head.

That is, until time froze. Everyone was frozen in the room. Nobody could move.

Riza's eyes flashed around with fear. It looked like she was having a panic attack while being frozen there. I wanted to comfort her, however I couldn't even move. Everyone's eyes did the talking. Riza was just thrilled to be against Nature again. Aly looked ready to claw someone's head off—and then some.

A voice soon boomed through the room, echoing off the walls and shaking the room, "Who dares offset destiny and fate and using powers I bestowed upon the Guardians?" A figure steps out of the shadows of the room. We couldn't make out who it was, however they had glowing eyes. We were all released to bow down to whoever it was. We all were forced to bow—all except Riza that is. She was still frozen. After we bowed, I quickly ran to get Riza. She was released into my arms.

"I assumed my message was clear enough the first time through, however it seems you all are much more naïve and stupider than I thought. Nature and Time, your duty is coming to an end. You have very little time left before you both will be replaced. You best prepare your realms before they are destroyed from this new reaction. Miss Riza as they call you; your duty is to take on Nature and Time alone. No one else must touch them but you and your brother. With that, Charza is mine." They reached out their hand and Charza was ripped from Alicia's hands and flew through the air right into this crazy person's hand. He then glared at Riza. I could feel myself starting to sweat. Riza tightened her grip on me. "And Miss Riza, those scars were burnt in your skin for a reason. Pity you shall disobey. Thus forth" they extended his other hand and shot Riza back, out of my grasp and into the wall. She fell to the floor coughing, and in utter pain for there were tears strolling down her face.

"Geeze, can't y'all stop destroying my apartment?" Dimitri rubbed his head. "I didn't wanna come back here, and I thought Nada took care of my psycho-ex."

"I took care of neither of your psycho-ex's, if you still count Riza at that." Nada wasn't wearing a shirt and looked like he just crawled out of a coffin. His eyes looked like he was about ready to lose it. Alicia was wearing his hoodie. Wonder how she managed that.

"Melodramatic, now aren't we?" The dark figure sounded as if they were cocky. March reloaded and unlocked. "You all talk too much—"

"I don't know who you are..." Riza somehow managed to stand on her own and wipe the blood from her nose, "but I know one thing, and that is I HATE YOU!" She managed to sprint up to the shaded figure, catching them off guard. Riza took a good swing at them, wounding their left side, before they threw her off. She flew backwards landing on her feet, smirking, "amateur." Then she ran right back again.

Whoever it was, they were prepared more for her this time. While Riza managed to dodge the first of their attacks, and counter-act their attack, they were able to attack her and slam her back through the wall into the wall of the bedroom. She slammed into the wall; then fell into the flat-screen TV, knocking both it and herself of the table it was on onto the floor. She didn't get up that time. Blood started to fill the floor beneath her though.