Striking while the iron's hot (Chelle and Ink)

The rise and fall of the melodic symphony sung its flawless rhythm into the ears of an equally captivating beauty. With eyes closed and body completely taken over by the sensually rhythmic pulse of Tchaikovsky's Swan lake a young ballerina twirled around on the tips of her blushing toes. The pale lithe body freely flowed against the warm sunlight that crept through an open window, ignoring everything else yay was happening in her bedroom and allowing the playful classism to take hold of her dazzling display of dance. Lilia Ivanov was confiding in her oldest friend, letting his music take her body through the fluid motions of a dance form she had come to love and what many people believed she had mastered. Although this exercise was not merely to relax her mind but to warm up her body, for both her and her guardian were about to be thrust on a mission together and face a multitude of unknown foes that Dominus deemed a threat.

The song was reaching it's crescendo and just as the speed began to build up in a dazzling pirouette she was practicing she felt a brush of air caress her skin, alerting her to the presence of Skyler. The white haired woman was geared up with her flashy new toys and the petite teenager blinked with an impressed gaze at the firearm, shuffling in her place as the urgency in Skyler's words hit her. Salt was on his way, the distant throb of the helicopter was the like the sickening heartbeat of a creature prowling in the fields nearby. Even though she now had Skyler she still could not shake the suffocating fear she experienced whenever that man was near her. "Okay..." she mumbled, brushing sandy hair out of her eyes as she hurriedly went over to the bottom of her wardrobe and slipped on her flats. Unlike other supers who wear specially made outfits Lilia simply wore her typical pure white ballet outfit...why wear armor when she was the armor?

Stretching her stockings back up her thin legs so that they didn't crease Lilia looked up and followed a solemn looking Skyler. The girl meekly followed her protector as Salt came rushing through the door, screaming in English with his angry voice and bad words. Lilia quite literally clung to the back of Skyler as the man let his mouth tear into the atmosphere, immediately ordering them to go outside into the waiting chopper. The ballerina scurried after the older woman only squeaking in pain as she felt the hard smack of Salts hand against her bottom...even when he was in a rush the disgusting man still had time to defile her rights, but she could not complain due to the urgency of the situation. No sooner had she hopped into the large black helicopter did it instantly lift off causing her to flinch in her spot from the sudden liftoff.

The chopper ride was indeed much quicker than she thought it would be, less time to be near the horrid man and his perverted gaze. "If you fail this I'm gonna wreck you so bad...and your mistress is going to help me.." Salt hissed, recoiling from his previous attempt of rouching Skyler...might as well attack the meek one he thought. It seemed he still believed both women were mistress and slave and the gut wrenching stares from his beady eyes made the girl shudder in her spot. But that was how things were for a good fifteen minutes and the instance the helicopter hit the ground she quickly unbuckled her seatbelt and scampered after Skyler not wanting to stay bear Franklin Salters anymore than it was healthy.

The scene was devastating...she had quite literally landed in the ruins of a once great city. Topple buildings and debris littered the scarred earth and the distinct smell of smoke and gunpowder filled her nose. Stray bullets zoomed overhead and cries of terror and pain created a macabre chorus that only made the current situation worse. Skyler was effortlessly taking down any visible threat, subduing them with her deadly aim and athletic prowess. Lilia on the other hand had since transformed into her diamond form, the glistening translucent skin was an exceedingly beautiful yet strange sight to behold in the current carnage that wracked the surrounding streets. Bullets bounced off her like children's toys and shrapnel from nearby explosions were but dust against her skin.

She was leaping over burnt bodies and fallen beams, cringing whenever her innocent eyes laid upon particularly gruesome sights. Her shining body sparkle in the late afternoon light, it wasn't the most subtle power but it got the job done...in a awe inspiring fashion. She was a dainty juggernaut; an unstoppable force of nature that was stood at the shoulders of an average woman. She did not exactly understand twit mission but lilia knew she had to come out of it not fearing for her life and safety, the mere thought of failing was almost as sickening as the thought of Salt and his various fetishes. Lilia was going to live up to the name of Dominus' blood diamond...even if she hated the title with a passion..

Dashing forward and leaping over a toppled fence Lilia had unwittingly sprinted into the heart of violence...what looked to be a school. The red brick buildings were now plagued by death and violence and what was originally a safe haven for children to learn was turned into a killing field. The lifeless bodies of innocents scoured the blood stained concrete and if Lilia were not in her current form she would have cleared out her stomach from the sheer horror on display. The corpse of a young girl lay in a pool of crimson, her limbs splayed out in an awkward fashion..it was if she had been torn apart by gunfire. Bullet holes riddles her body, eyes still open in terror and mouth agape with lifeblood trickling from the pale open lips.

Lilia stood frozen, amidst the debris and the ricocheting bullets she could not take her eyes of the little girl whose mangled body stared with a lifeless gaze into the young agent's soul. Of all the horrific things the Russian had experienced staring at the dead body of a child was all too much, no torture could compare to the utter devastation felt for an innocent life lost amidst the wars plaguing America. Lilia slowly walked over the charred earth and pools of blood, dropping on her knees next to the dead child. Her shimmering body covered the corpse in a ethereal glow, as if Lilia was an angel there to protect the little girl. Reaching over the girl's face Lilia tenderly closed her eyes with her glistening fingers...the mere feeling of the dead cold flesh made it all the more horrific.

There was nothing the young agent could do, she could not bring people back to life nor could she reverse time to stop this terrible death. Her diamond form made her incapable of tears but Lilia felt a bubbling anger rise up in the pit of her stomach, a pure white rage that stemmed from her utter grief of witnessing death cradle a child much younger than her. Her shimmering pale blue crystal physiology slowly began to transform into a deeper red, the core of her body radiated with a crimson energy that slowly filled her translucent body until only the tips of her fingers and feet were the original pale blue shimmering colour.

Wrath permeated through her slender form and no sooner had she snapped her head to her left to did she hurl a rain of red shrapnel at three gangsters aiming their weapons at her. She leaped upwards, spinning in the air as she released an indestructible rain of red diamond shards on anyone foolish enough to attack her. The display was deadly as it was beautiful and the glistening red figure she had become darted across the blood soaked field, not leaving anyone who dared stand in her way alive. She skewered, decapitated, eviscerated and riddled her opposition's bodies with shrapnel that tore flesh and bone apart. She was attacking blindly, she now knew how Shayla felt when she was out on the field, although Lilia was not doing this for the thrill of the fight..she was avenging the death of a child caught up in the despicable wars that these men created.

No sooner had she entered a building did she sprint after Skyler, dashing passed her guardian as she slammed into a boy. She cared not for his cries of help nor his tears or feeble attempts at getting her off him. She was going to cleanse the area of all atrocities that resulted in that child's death. She slapped him, her diamond skin smashing into his cheekbone probably dislocating more than one area of his face and when she was about to plunge her spiked fist into his neck she heard a voice screeching across the hallway. Someone was calling out to her, screaming her name and telling her to stop. "NO!" she yelled, not caring for whoever was telling her to halt her bloody crusade. Her voice screeched much louder than ever before, the gentle, demure Lilia had transformed into a being whose indestructible blood boiled with wrath that had never graced the petite ballerina before.

She was going to kill this man and there was no way of stopping her..

Lilia's pure and somewhat justified fury encouraged every swing of her arm, every attack that would seek to eliminate all evil that haunted the decrepit school. The ballerina was blindly swinging, her usual grace and refinement all but lost in the rage filled attack directed at the boy. She had to avenge the little girl and by the time Lilia had opened her eyes, expecting to see the bloody mangled corpse of the young man all that was in front of her was Skyler, her beautfiul guardian. A sharp gasp escaped Lilia's lips as her senses finally returned, Skyler's soft gentle voice was calling out to her...her lips were cut and bruised from Lilia's blind assault. The girl's legs buckled from underneath her small frame causing the teenager to crumple to her knees in absolute shock, "Oh no...", she whispered in a barely audible voice. Surely Skyler would hate her now that she's committed such atrocities, what woman would ever take back a raging blood stained freak of nature?

Lilia shook her head, she looked dazed and confused..staring at the dripping crimson that was slicked over her equally red form. "...blood..", she mumbled with eyes wide in absolute horror. Her lips trembled and a desperate whimper escaped her lips as her body slowly resorted back to its vulnerable human skin. Her rise and falls of her terrified breaths became quicker, lower lip trembling as all the sheer and utter rage that had spread throughout her body a few moments earlier quickly evolved into wave of tears and pained sobs. She had hurt Skyler and there was no way that she could forgive herself, was this her gaurdian's blood on her hands? She asked herself, desperately trying to scrape the metallic smelling liquid off he pale skin.

Lilia was no longer in blood diamond mode...she was now a mere girl, frightened and absolutely traumatized from the sheer horror of her actions. Heavy, hot tears streaked down her smooth pale face, hurtling towards the ground only to get mixed in with the blood that stained it. She gazed around with eyes glazed over with tears. Gunfire still chattered away outside, causing the poor girl to flinch and shudder with every explosion and before she knew it she had scrambled back onto her feet and dashed Ito a nearby room, painful sobs escaping her lips as she proceeded to curl up underneath a table. Waiting for her world to come spiraling back down..

Lilia's bottom lip quivered as she felt gentle hands wipe away the tears that stained her youthful complexion, she just wanted to hug the woman and escape from all the violenc and terror, yet such a thing would prove particularly challenging with Dominus just outside the door. The very fact that Skyler just said that she loved her like a daughter sent a whole flood of renewed moisture pouring out of her eyes. Love was a foreign word, she had not heard the simple yet powerful four letter word grace her presence and the very fact thy it was directed at her felt like she had been ran over by a train...the feeling was so strange, her affection and innocent loyalty was finally returned by another human being and the years of isolation and doubt had finally washed away in overwhelming relief as Skyler 'screamed' at her.

Sniffling away the emotions that profusely flooded from her being, the petite agent nodded her head and followed her guardian as they walked out to see all the troopers and their particularly sickening boss waiting around...prodding the boy she beat up earlier. "Don't you just love it when a woman screams..", Salt chuckled, resulting in the men present to also chortle underneath the layers of armour. The ballerina could feel eyes on her, the perverse stares and snide comments were a common occurrence whenever she was around the Theta squad...but knowing that Skyler was there made the lewd remarks a bit less intimidating.

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The ride on the helicopter was tense, merely waiting for Blacksmith to wake up seemingly took forever as they soared above the countryside in the dead of night. Lilia was nestled between Skyler and the very end of row of black chairs, hidden from the seated trooper's view. Lilia clung onto Skyler, not daring to let go since she was in such a close proximity to Salt. No one was going to notice anyways..the men were too preoccupied to see the pale slender fingers wrapped around the older woman's elbow, even if they did Lilia was sure some excuse would be made for their apparent Dominant/submissive relationship. Her pristine white outit was creased, not only that but pools of blood were now drying up on the white material...the metallic scent filling te girl's nostrils with a particularly sickening smell. Hopefully it wasn't going to be a permanent stain..she thought to herself, trying to take her mind off her current loation and who was present.

"Oh look the little dickwad is finally waking up..", Salt chuckled, rubbing his palms together as he propped his flask back into his pocket, "If he didn't wake up in the next five minutes I would have gotten the little slut to give him our good morning presents..You remember those don't you boys?" he cackled, closing his fist in front of his mouth and pushing his tongue against his cheek, it was quite obvious as to what he was implying and the vulgar action only caused the young agent to shudder from disgust. "Maybe once we get back to base she can give us some well deserved relief!" he drawled, licking his lips in an exaggerated manner..completely ignoring the fact that Skyler was present. Lilia muffled a gag from the very thought of committing such a foul act on this group of men and her grip on the older woman's arm only tightened even more.

"Ahwells..let's get this idiot up and see if he's not a vegetable.."

Lilia huddled behind Skyler's form, her head peaking just behind the silvery haired woman's hourglass shape as she watched wide eyed at the boy who was waving around his weapon. the young agent gasped silently as the young man attempted to intimidate the people present and for the most part she was merely surprised that he was still capable of moving after her violent assault on his body. She tugged on Skylers sleeve, worried that the woman was going to get hurt by the raving lunatic and also a bit stressed that he was goin to injure himself as well. She was hidden in the corner, away from his desperate attempts of subduing Dominus and the people present; if she wasn't so guilt ridden over beating him within an inch of his life she would have attempted to calm him down, not only was he vastly outnumbered by a whole plethora of talented killers but he just embarrassed himself, forgetting to take the safety off.

Salt burst into a fit of giggles, to the point that he was weezing like a the chain smoker he was; the unshaven face was now a beetroot colour and any attempts of stifling his amusement was only overridden by more cackles. "Shit! You are one funny little fuck aren't you!", the greasy man said in between breaths, slapping the boy over the shoulder. Wiping away some moisture from his eyes Salt continued to snicker under his breath, "We're taking him in for evaluation if you must know...his power is the best shit ever and big boss man said he'll be helpful...that is if he remembers to get rid of the safety first.." another round of belching laughter escaped his mouth, drowning the entire room in disturbing fits of giggles and laughter.

Lilia only caught a few words in the brief exchange, was the boy she relentlessly beat up going to join Dominus? Why would they want such a sad boy? The sadness hidden from public view but easily discernable to a girl who knew pain all too well.

"Ohyeah..the slut has also been ordered to ward C...some dicknerds want to check on her.." Salt grinned, glancing at the girl only briefly with a devious glint in his eye.