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The Paradise's Drama ~Part #2~
The Dragon's Home: Lana, Freya, and Ashley's new home.
Two weeks passed since Lana, Freya, and Ashley were given a new home by Sarah's Gravia Military Company. They were relaxing in Nikolas R. Zahrin's house, and not much was happening since it was peaceful in paradise. Besides the random warnings specifically about the Wyverns attacking outlying villages and cities on Draken'vina. It was nothing unusual, but Nikolas was pleased about something. He was sitting down in the front room of his home, trying to be there for Lana and her eldest daughters.
"Lana, how are you doing today?" Nikolas asked with a slight smile.
Lana gently sighed at hearing Nikolas's voice, and it had been quiet in Nikolas' home for those two weeks. She couldn't be angry with Nikolas but was mainly annoyed that he didn't come to their rescue. Conner helped in his infinite wisdom and kindness in freeing Ashley from a terrible drug on Mars called
Hell Vein. It's a horrible drug that could have caused Ashley to kill her family.
"I'm doing okay, and I must say do you know of a drug called Hell Vein?" Lana asked curiously.
From Lana's facial features, Nikolas could tell that she was scared of something that probably was said to her by Conner. Nikolas heard the drug's name, which irked him insanely, but the drug's distribution throughout Draken'vina has been lowered much. Still, he cracks down on any deals that sell the highly addictive drug that corrupts people who use it to slowly make them psychotic killers until they entirely can't take it anymore by having the final injection injected and they die.
"Yes, I have been wondering why the drug distribution of Hell Vein by a third party has been dropping off as late. The Drug Dealers on this planet have been getting much fewer shipments, and the last drug bust had only enough Hell Vein to kill only a family of four." Nikolas spoke with slight irritation of the hazardous drug. Five Injections of Hell Vein is a death sentence, which means a family of four only had twenty injections.
Lana was shocked that Hell Vein was even on Draken'vina, but the Black Market has a more significant reach than others. She sighed deeply and didn't want to say it, but it was worse.
"I-I almost lost my daughter, Ashley, to the drug. My Ex-Husband freed her from Hell Vein before the 3rd injection. Which would have caused her to do some dreadful things to her sister, then the fourth injection would have done terrible things to me, then the final injection would have killed her. Conner is eradicating the Hell Vein at its source on Mars." Lana said with a shock. However, nothing happened with telling Nikolas this specific thing, almost like Conner wanted her to tell Nikolas this.
Nikolas was shocked at what Lana had said, and Conner saved Ashley from the drug, which means he has the possibly
only cure to Hell Vein and could quickly make a buck. He felt like it would cause people who wanted to be fixed of Hell Vein before the 3rd injection to want to buy Conner's Cure-All.
"Fucking Conner, I can't believe he is doing something I failed to do. To Eradicate the source of that Bastardous drug once and for all. What would Ashley have done to Freya and you? If she was injected a third time or even a fourth." Nikolas said with a sigh at the accomplishments of Conner growing, and he'll look like a savior while consolating his power on Mars. If Mars is the source of Hell Vein and it means Conner knows the ins and outs of the drug and was disgusted with it.
Lana had a feeling Conner was going to be a sore topic for Nikolas, but it seemed like Hell Vein was worse. She sighed slightly and didn't want to say what Ashley would have done, but Nikolas should eradicate the substance on his planet outright.
"You tried to eliminate Hell Vein? The 3rd injection would have caused Ashley to kill Freya, and the fourth would have killed me, then she'll want to end it with the fifth injection. I am grateful for Conner's Experimental Cure working. He even cared enough to save Ashley, which shocked me. I suppose he owed us some kindness after all the torment he put our family and me through. I hate him, but he has done something no one could." Lana said with a smile. She sighed at the terrible effects of Hell Vein but was grateful to Conner, slightly, even though she hates him for telling her the truth about Nikolas.
Hell Vein is even more insidious than Nikolas had first thought, which means the drug is far worse. If it takes only three injections to turn a gentle girl into a monster, those twenty doses could kill more than a family of four. However, the only good news is that Hell Vein is contraband, and the government has told every official to destroy the drug before it grows out of portion. Still, as contraband, its manufacturing base is hard to track down until now.
"Oh damn, that's terrifying. Thank you for this information, Lana. It'll help me to destroy the damned contraband quicker. So, no one will have to suffer underneath addiction's control." Nikolas said. He got up from his seat and wanted to talk to Lana in private about a specific thing.
"Also, another thing, can you come to my office without Ashley or Freya? I need to tell you something important." Nikolas added with a smile. He would want to surprise them later with the news.
Lana was happy to give information on an awful drug that transforms addicted people into monsters. She smiled slightly about the situation and thankfully nodded that it could help Draken'vina get rid of the drug's influence.
"No problem, Nikolas. It's better to get rid of it as fast as possible since it's a blight on the Ascendancy." Lana spoke with confidence. She was oddly confused about why Nikolas got up and weirder that he didn't want her to bring Ashley or Freya to his office. It caused her to feel a bit not good because her stomach was turning, but she had lunch today, and it was what Conner told her, that she'd be his ace in the hole. The Greatest spy for him, the one that Nikolas loves dearly, will be his greatest betrayer.
"Sure, Nikolas. I will come with you alone to your office." Lana responded. Lana gets up and follows Nikolas to his office and is worried about exactly what Conner has planned this time around.
Nikolas and Lana enter the Dragon's Office in his house, where he coordinates everything for Draken'vina. When Nikolas closed his door, there was a click sound as if something activated was outright disallowing people from listening from the other side of the shut door. He went to his seat at his desk, and Lana sat in front of his desk, which had comfortable chairs. Nikolas took a few seconds before he wanted to speak since Lana was probably worried about some things.
"Take all the time you need before we get on my plan, The Dragon's Gambit." Nikolas said with a great smile.
Lana enjoyed the comfortable seat that Nikolas had, which he usually had a taste for furniture specifically tailor-made to make their stay as comfortable as possible. She looked up at Nikolas when he said the Dragon's Gambit and sighed at the plan's name.
"Your names for your operations should be named a bit better, Nikolas. But that's why you were the Dragon's Brigade Fleet's Leader, though." Lana said. She was interested in what the gambit was about, but hopefully, it won't hurt their relationship.
Nikolas laughed at Lana's response to his operation called the Dragon's Gambit, but it has a double-dose of a plan. Operation: Regain Eden and the Dragon's Gambit is something he has been planning for some time now, with how badly his goddaughters have been treated by being separated for so long.
"Yeah, it's been a long while since I had any plans in motion since I retired from the military all months ago, it seems. As long as I can take down a snake in the process, I can feel better about myself." Nikolas said with an annoyance toward who is the snake in this case, and that's Conner. He felt as if the bastard was watching him as he spoke with Lana, and it felt weird. It was explicitly the other function of his keeping people from listening on the outside, and it detects if any programs are active inside his office that is recording. There was something from Lana that was going off. He trusted Lana too much to believe she would try to betray that trust.
Lana sighed at him, not telling what it was because the look on his face was a bit more peeved than usual when he spoke about Conner. She felt as if Nikolas knew something about what she had to keep active because of Conner's Ultimatum to her. As long as her family lives, she must protect them by any means necessary, even if it is to break a few hearts.
"S-So, Nikolas, what do you have planned since you are pleased that this will finally take down Conner?" Lana questioned Nikolas. She wanted to protect her family whole heartily.
Nikolas didn't forget the software detecting recording software on Lana, as if she was wired. In this day and age, wired means something different from what it meant in the twenty-first century, but it has a similar value. Whoever is listening on the other side could be anyone.
"Before telling you about my operations, I have to ask. What did Conner tell you about Narvia? I feel like the Hadley Family misinterpreted, Narvia's birthmark. Yes, your father was the man who accidentally murdered Conner's mother, but he was after an entirely awful person in the family. Conner's father, Stuart, but I feel like they could not have gone through these awful crimes if they had learned the truth." Nikolas said. He said the latter part to see if Conner was the one entirely listening because his father told him some things that were off with Stuart. Also, Nikolas wanted to know if Conner told Lana that Narvia was dead because Narvia isn't dead. He knows that specifically because Narvia received his final operation, the Regain Eden. The only reason he knows is that the decrypted message gives him a signal that is encrypted directly to the office they are sitting in right now.
Lana felt awkward in the first place to hear the words coming out of Nikolas' mouth about her father, what exactly Conner told her about Narvia, etc. She sighed deeply and looked at Nikolas with a specific sadness in her eyes.
"Conner said that Narvia was dead, killed in action in the Ascendancy Coalition War. And how do you know about all that also, and what do you mean Misinterpreted?" Lana asked, confused in the word's essence. She had no idea what Nikolas was talking about the birthmark's interpretation. It took her a few minutes to realize that Conner wasn't happy when he learned of Narvia's birthmark and distanced himself from her.
A Flickering a Screen activated behind Lana, which hovered in the Center of the Room, and it transformed into a Digitized Hologram of Conner. Conner looked slightly bit peeved off, not at Lana or Nikolas but himself since he learned the truth about his father and was furious. Stuart wanted the love of his life to die, and all because Stuart's hands could kill Natalie, Conner's Aunt. However, the Misinterpretation made him realize what he saw in the footage of Narvia's interaction with the Maddening One's Prophecies.
"Aha, so you are going to tell Lana that her daughter is, in all actuality, alive? I should have known you had a trick up your sleeve, but I believed the data that Narvia was killed in action. Still, I hate you, Nikolas, but hearing from Shelly, my lovely wife, that her mother and aunt Natalie are still alive in protecting Lana's remaining family, little sister Natasha and her mother, Brittiany." Conner said with slight annoyance. Still, he was planning to take over the entirety of Mars to make his paradise to help the President.
Nikolas and Lana were shocked that Conner showed himself so soon, but it was probably more urgently than usual. Nikolas hadn't suspected Conner would do that, but he didn't like that Conner took the surprise out of his sails.
"You freaking bastard, you used Lana, the love of my life, as a spy for this little game between us? What kind of monster are you?" Nikolas asked intensely. He hated Conner as much as Conner hated him, and their feelings were mutual.
Lana sighed but was entirely speechless about Conner's saying that Narvia was alive. She can't believe what she was hearing, but does this mean that Narvia is back on his top priority or is it something else to happen, and Conner is very set in his ways.
"W-What do you mean that Narvia is alive? What kind of trick is this!? I-I thought you told me she was dead." Lana said to be angry at whoever is planning something with her daughter in a specific way.
Conner's hologram looked directly at Lana, laughed slightly, and looked at Nikolas, and then
showed what happened at the Galactic Bazaar and that Narvia was part of that shitshow. He wanted to see what Nikolas or Lana would say after seeing visual evidence of Narvia's being very much alive.
"I must ask Nikolas whether these plans involved having Narvia kill me? You were doing something that I chose not to, and you were trying to make Narvia into like you. A Broken man who felt no love for the universe all because of our little exchange about you being the one to keep Narvia safe. What's this operation called, Old Dragon?" Conner questioned Nikolas since he could finally see the Dragon for what he was. Nikolas was no other than a con artist deeply scarred by what he called Narvia and hated the blood that flowed in the veins that flowed in Lana, Freya, Ashley, and Narvia. However, the Dragon's Brigade Fleet's reports of taking no prisoners and annihilating retreating fleets were accurate. Still, the one person who had no idea about that was the girl Nikolas was building into a weapon to rid the world of him.
Lana was shocked to see a video feed of her daughter being alive, and she looked so much older than the last time she saw Narvia. She started to cry and precisely heard what Conner said about Nikolas and stared intensely at him.
"N-No, you can't be serious, and why would you do that, Nikolas? Narvia means everything to me. She's the little star in the night sky I thought to see again. And now I have, I am hopeful to see her again." Lana spoke with a worried look on her face.
Nikolas was shocked that Narvia was involved in the Galactic Bazaar clusterfuck. However, when Conner and Lana asked him about what he was doing to Narvia, he frustratedly sighed.
"The Operation: Regain Eden was supposed to kill you, Conner. I had to do everything I wanted to regain something I lost. However, when I spoke to Narvia about her interaction with a specific ghost from the past, Scott. She came up to me and told me everything, and I wanted her to kill the Legacy of Scott's Dynastic Goals, the Prophecies of the Maddening One. I felt sorry that I was hurting Narvia more than I needed to, but it was so she could grow up and learn that not everything is colorful as her mind. I don't know if Narvia will forgive me for what I have done, but I hope she does." Nikolas said he only melded her mind on a singular goal to kill Conner or the Legacy of his Ancestor created.
Conner and Lana audibly gasped about the Dragon's Gambit. Conner felt a bit bad for what ultimatum he gave Lana, but he sighed. The one who destroyed his life that he could have it if he was quicker or wasn't a coward was Nikolas.
"I am disappointed in you. Do you know that you have ruined your life with Lana? All you had to do was not fuck up anything. If you didn't have a plan to groom your goddaughter into a killing machine to end me or my ancestor's legacy, you would be allowed to be married to Lana and be the father that Lana's kids never had. Still, I hate them for what flows in their veins, but I feel sorry. I should have allowed them to live in a different world far from you so they wouldn't be disappointed like I am in you." Conner spoke in a disappointed tone to the Great Dragon of the Dragon's Brigade Fleet. He was one of the people to hold his own against many different fleets, including the 11th. The hologram vanished right after not allowing Nikolas another word on edge-wise. Conner, after all this time, won against Nikolas.
Lana couldn't believe what Conner said to Nikolas and about her and her children that Conner felt sorry for them. The Revelation that Nikolas is as bad or worse than Conner never came across her mind, but she was having a slight mental breakdown by crying in tears. However, there was a hint in Conner's words and tone that Narvia was now on top priority again and that he knew where she'd probably go first.
"N-No, I-I can't stand this... W-Why did you have to do this to Narvia!? Why! No one in their right mind would do this! W-What were you thinking!? I don't want my daughter to kill her father even though I hate him for what he has done to my daughters and me. Y-You are sick in the head Nikolas Richard Zahrin!" Lana exclaimed while in tears. She gets up from her seat and leaves Nikolas' office in a hurry. However, all she does is go to the room that she sleeps in, cry, and tell her two eldest daughters that Narvia is alive.
Nikolas sighed, but he will live as long as he wanted and wouldn't extinguish himself like the coward Berkeley had done. He called up the Planetary Defense Force on the line.
"The Operation I have been holding in my back pocket is now operational. I want you to relocate Lana, Freya, and Ashley to a safe house on Draken'vina, further away from Drake's incursions. I repeat, no one is allowed to talk to them. Leave them alone, and report back to your posts since we need to prepare for the Gravia Military Company's Full Force to come upon our heads." Nikolas said with an order to fight the last man against the foes of the Gravia Military Company. Also, to make sure the enemy has a special welcome.
The Relocation of Important Persons
Lana was in her room with her two daughters, and they were scared as the entire planet felt like it was on Lockdown. Sirens were going off outside the windows, saying,
The Gravia Military Company will be coming in full force, preparing for a fight. Lana had no idea what was happening and why would a planetary lockdown happen right after that unless it was part of Nikolas' Plan. However, there was no time for thinking when two armed Planetary Guards walked into her room.
"W-What's happening? W-Why are you here?" Lana asked, confused and a bit scared.
The two armed planetary guards weren't holding their weapons but armed to the teeth. The one who started to speak was a female who didn't enjoy all the song and dance of preparing for an utter slaughter.
"We need to relocate you to a safer place on Draken'vina so you and your family will be safe. From the actual fighting between our forces and your Exes Forces. Draken'vina will become a Battleground. Nikolas would not want to go down without a fight, but he wouldn't want the love of his life to die in the combat either. You have extra supplies, and your Scythe has been relocated there, Lana." The Female Planetary Guard said.
Lana blinked slightly at what the female planetary guard said, and the feeling of what those sirens meant came into focus. She starts crying again and outright hates that Draken'vina might become a battleground because the two men are too stubborn to apologize to each other.
"P-Please tell Nikolas to stop by where you are taking us. I-I can't bear the stubborn fools in my life to die because of their stubbornness." Lana said with a sigh. Nikolas and Conner are set in their ways but could tell why Nikolas relocated her Scythe. She is the only one meant to protect herself and her children from the alternative.
The Draken'vina Planetary Guards were nicer to Lana than the Gravia Military Company. They escorted them outside Nikolas's house, which had a convoy of armed soldiers, tanks, and other things, with a personal vehicle to take Lana and her two daughters to the Safehouse on the planet.
"M-Mom, what is happening? W-Why?" Freya asked. She learned that Narvia was alive. However, they were being escorted by an increasingly potent force to accompany them to a safehouse.
Ashley wasn't much better, and she was in tears as much as her mother was. Everything was happening too fast.
"T-This is scary, mother, and why is Godfather doing this? I-I want to be with Narvia, not like this." Ashley said with a defeated tone. She felt as defeated as when Conner freed her from Hell Vein. All for naught, Draken'vina will be turned into a battleground. She wanted a new home for her and Freya to get back on the right foot.
Lana disliked this so much, but she hates Nikolas for his broken promises, which means there is Drama in paradise. She doesn't want to kill him but doesn't want him to die either, she should have married Nikolas, but he was a year younger. Lana could have avoided all of these things if Nikolas was her husband and not Conner.
"Nikolas is stubborn, Conner is stubborn. When you get married, you'll learn it if we live that long to see our loved ones after the smoke is cleared." Lana said with a promise to her daughters. Hopefully, they will live, and hopefully, they will.
After that, they arrived at the Safehouse, which was very far from the capital, but this so-called safe house was a mansion. It somewhat looked like Nikolas' handy work, specifically the name of the home's mailbox, the Zahrin Household. It had two words on the mailbox, Lana and Nikolas. Lana was crying a bit more, but after they entered the mansion, it was a much different estate than they lived on Mars. It had a specific feel, which was more homely and not defended by armed guards. She felt that this was the dream house she dreamt of built to her specifications.
"D-Damn it. W-Why do you have to give me this now? It's everything I wanted in a homely home and not a terrifying prison-like Conner's place was. You fool, I hope Nikolas survives this." Lana said with a sigh. She didn't like what was happening in the world; those sirens were very distant, but she could still hear them.
Additionally, this was before a specific group of individuals landed on Draken'vina to get Lana, Freya, and Ashley with an offer.
