Angel Monarch

Its been 3 days since Faith had left for the mission. No one was idle during that time, Sera and Bea made sure of that.

They released the information about the upcoming attack on The Hold and began the recruiting process. They asked anyone who wants to participate to report to Moe. 400 people reported, all of them wanted but they refused the too young and too old people.

Moe's hands were full with the training, he even promoted a lot of veterans to help him. They were making great progress.

Meanwhile Bea and Sera trained the Evolved. All of them were getting better, but without having more knowledge, they didn't know what to train for exactly.

But that was yesterday. In the morning news arrived about Faith. She actually managed to come back alive. Sadly she did suffer some damage, but managed to survive.

Sera hurried towards the infirmary. Bea was training with the others, they were always training or planning. They didn't even have time for each other since their date.

'And there's still so much to do.'

Arriving into the infirmary Sera found Faith sleeping. She was awake for three full days so it's understandable. She also got healed by Witchdoctor, Faith had a couple of wounds but they looked worse than they actually were.

Sera made herself comfortable and watched Faith sleeping. As if sensing Her Lady, she opened her eyes and they instantly focused on Sera.

"Saint Seraphine! It's good that you are here, I put together a report on my Watch! I can send it to you..."

Before she could continue Sera cut in.

"We'll worry about the report later. First tell me, how you doing? I heard you got injured."

Faith's face softened from pure devotion and turned into appreciation.

"Thank you My Lady, for asking. I'm actually doing well, at least physically. Mentally, I won't feel at rest until we rescue does people. There condition is so much worse than we thought."

The smile from Sera's face disappeared without a trace and determination took its place.

"We haven't been idle either, and when we are done with the training there won't be a hundred people attacking, but 5 hundred."

Sera's mouth twisted into a cruel smile as she said it. Meanwhile Faith's reaction was quite hilarious, she was very surprised.

"That many people joined?"

"Actually, there was more, but we had to turn away some because of age."

Faith nodded understanding what she meant.

"So what's next?"

Sera smiled. "If you are up for it, we should begin reading your report with the others. Are you ready?"

Faith said without hesitation.

"Always, My Lady!"

With that done they quickly gathered the others and went to The Bunker's core. A big room with a large round table, their new conference room. It even had multiple screens on the walls which they could use to project images.

All of them took their place except Faith, who went to everyone and touched her Watch to theirs. This way she sent everyone her report.

They quickly looked through it, meanwhile Clockwork brought up multiple maps on the screens. There was the map of The Hold, the map of the power station, prison, the river entrance, the fighting pits and of course the headquarters.

They even had exact guard placements and times of movement. Sera turned towards Faith, she was sitting next to her.

"You really put together an amazing report. This will make our job much easier, thank you." She said with a bright smile and the others nodded their approval.

Sera continued reading the report. Everyone wanted to read through it before the discussions began. After a couple of minutes she reached the part with the diary and her head snapped towards Bea and Lucy.

'They at least could have told us their connection with Nightmare.'

Bea and Lucy didn't notice her stare, so she called them out.

"I think you two should explain us a few things. Or do you disagree?" Sera was quite furious, she thought they had no secrets between her and Bea. Seems like it was a one sided thought.

Finally Bea looked up with a neutral face, but seeing Sera's anger her face turned worried.

"Love, what do you mean?"

Sera slammed her fist into the table and stood pointing at Bea. Her anger was quite obvious for everyone at this point.

"Don't fucking 'Love' me! I want to know what your relationship was with Nightmare! And don't you dare try to lie! You too Lucy!"

Bea and Lucy both went pale, they looked at each other and sighed. The others were very confused except Faith, who looked at Bea and Lucy with contempt.

'She dislikes liars just like me, good. At least there is one person I can trust.'

Everyone quickly found what Sera saw in the report. This time Bea looked at Sera with sadness in her eyes. She didn't care though her trust was broken and by the person she loved the most.

"I... I'm sorry we didn't tell you... We kept it a secret beca..."

Sera cut in, her voice was emotionless. "I don't care about your excuses. It doesn't matter now anyway. Just tell us the whole truth now, so we can move on to making a plan."

Bea was very hurt by these words, she knew that something broke between her and Sera. Lucy recovered faster though.

"It's true what you read, I'm Nightmare's sister, Bea was his lover and Hellfire was his best friend. Bea and Nightmare were actually together before the Fall. I loved my brother truly, he helped me get my first kill, he was a good person. Reaching Havel changed him though."

She took a deep breath and held in her tears.

"As your read something happened to his mind. Maybe it was some monster or something else, but he began to have these headaches. He was losing focus more often and his mind came close to breaking, maybe it even broke. The only thing keeping him from losing himself was Bea, until even she wasn't enough."

Lucy was actually crying now.

"We tried to make him better, but he was becoming more evil each day. We instead decided to escape him as all of you know. Hellfire didn't manage to get out, he is probably dead. That is the whole truth."

Everyone stayed silent for a long while, until Sera spoke, still emotionless.

"Lets begin."

And with just two words hours of planning began. After they were done with the outline, most people left the room. Only three were still sitting in their chairs, Faith on Sera's left and Bea on her right.

They were in silence until Sera spoke. "Faith, wait for me outside."

"Yes, My Lady!" She said while bowing, then looked at Bea with dislike and left the room.

Bea didn't waste time after the door closed. She reached for Sera's hand, but she quickly pulled away and turned towards Bea.

"Sera! You have to understand, I loved Nightmare for years! I can't just act like that never happened!" Bea's eyes were watery.

Sera actually began laughing, but not because of happiness.

"You are a fucking idiot, if you think I care about your past relationships! I don't give a flying fuck about Nightmare or your feelings towards him! My only problem is, you felt you can't trust me with this information! Why is that the case 'My Love'?" Her voice were full of betrayal and anger.

Bea opened and closed her mouth multiple times, but no words came out.

"You have 5 seconds to answer!" Sera shouted, there were tears streaming down her face.

Five seconds passed in silence, then at the sixth a door opening and slamming could be heard.