Chapter 1

"Kill him!!!!"

"Don't be kind. Just kill that piece of sh*t."

"They don't deserve it the easy way."

"Look at your right, Aza."

"It should be one direct kill."

"I killed that moron too."

"Guys, LOWER DOWN YOUR HEADS RIGHT NOW!!!"

"Ok, so we have to be more than extra careful. They got many bombs and arm weapons. Don't get a single shot on your body. I want all of us to win this battle without any blood loss from our team. Got it?!"

"YES, Aza. We shall win with no injuries." They all shouted simultaneously.

"Livi, be careful. Their defense is good."

"Don't worry Ines, I'll show them what's a real

attack."

"Diana, I saw one to your right. The angle is 77° from your right eye side corner." Serene told Diana through her ear piece.

"And the time I have to finish this is only 0.01 if we want us to survive."

"Otherwise we will die and no one will ever find our dead bodies."

"Finally we won, Aza. Your last shot was enough to kill their boss." The girls applauded Aza for her perfect aim.

Putting off their night glasses aside, they yelled, "This demands for a group hug and a small victory dance, girls."

"Wohoooooo…."

Dancing to their heart's content, they stopped and the group hugged.

"We won, girls. As always we proved to be undefeatable."

"We are the best of bestest, Serene. We would have lost it if it wasn't for Aza killing the boss in a limited time."

"I know, I am the G.O.A.T, Greatest Of All Time. Without me, you girls wouldn't have come this long." Aza praised herself though it didn't sound like praise or appreciation. It was simply narcissism.

The girls shook their heads.

Untying the safety belt of her helmet Serene looked at her before she said, "Ines, see this cheeky little girl."

"No she isn't cheeky but she is narcissistic too." Diana stated.

While Livia thanked Serene for reminding them, "Yeah, how could we forget to add 'narcissistic'. The word itself was invented for her. She is the sole owner, Thanks Dia."

Sticking her pink tongue out like a small kid, in an arrogant tone Aza confessed, "High time that you all small brained people realise who is your Majesty here.."

"Oh, yeah?" Ines looked at Aza as she twisted her ears not too harshly.

"Oww..Oww… Ines, please leave my precious ears. They are very sensitive. They will turn crimson red soon if you don't leave them now. Then you will be called a criminal."

"Huh… Why would she be called a criminal?"

Serene asked with a questioning gaze. Others nodded their heads with coordination.

They looked at the girl who was currently acting like the most innocent and harmless kitten.

It looked like the regular high school drama shows on television where the innocent and introverted female lead was being bullied by the evil girls. Here the female lead was Aza while her friends became the so-called evil and Cinderella's cousin-like characters.

Diana couldn't control the curiosity in herself, "I want to know the great Aza's logic behind that statement."

"Firstly, Ines should leave my innocent ears. Please… It's hurting.." Big tear drops began to run down her naturally pinkish cheeks.

Her demure looked so fearful and defenseless.

Her crystal clears eyes full of tears. Her reddish tip small nose. Silently shaking shoulders made her look very vulnerable.

At this point, anyone's heart, even the million year old frozen heart, would have melted.

Flicking her forehead lightly, Ines patted her head, "Aza, stop your, 'Damsel in Distress' act. These tears are real yet fake both at the same time. We should register your name for acting auditions. We will send this clip of yours.

Yet we know the results. They will ask her to come and audition live with the script. However, she would start to give her own edits in the script. Different side views of a sane story."

"She would even ask to remove all the romantic scenes in the movie. Making it female oriented. Whereas people, mostly girls, love to watch movies which have tons and tons of cheesy characters and nonsensical romantic scenes. Aza is a practical and logical girl. She had loved science since her birth. As always she would manage to connect and understand things in a scientific way."

"Acting requires the use of the heart too and according to her, the heart is an organ used for maintenance of our body.

It was hard for her to understand other people's intentions in the beginning of her childhood."

Clapping her hands in excitement, Diana reckoned, "You guys remember the first day of our playschool?" Others nodded their heads.

"Our homeroom teacher has asked the children to mingle among and make new friends. While we five had found one corner and began to chat. A cute little guy came to Aza. He had asked if she could become his friend. When she had asked him why he wanted to be friends with her. He had replied back because she was the most beautiful girl in the class.

Then he had his hand held out for a friendly handshake. Aza took her own sweet time to think about the sudden offer of becoming a friend. She had told him, "If you want to be my friend, just as I am beautiful. Then you should become my parent's friend. She was the one who gave birth to me. Though it wasn't her alone. My daddy had contributed equally. Also everyone around me would say that I have 50 - 50 from both of them. So later when they come, you can ask them.

One more thing, I have enough friends. I don't need more. Either way Daddy and big brother have warned me to stay away from boys. They say other boys are evil. I shouldn't trust them."

All of us were more mature than our age. Therefore it was easy to understand her words for us but that guy had to suffer from the GREAT AZA. And the next day…."

Livia immediately cut in, "No no no…. Why are you all making my innocent Aza sound like a villain here? That guy wasn't cute at first. He didn't have manners. He was bullying a girl before we came inside the class. I had heard and saw him pushing other kids harshly when we were told to play as we waited for our parents to come. The one who was pushed got a cut on his forehead. He didn't even apologize for pushing him..."

As Livia continued to blabber, they left her and gathered in a circle, "We are still in the enemy's base. We should go now. I am not sure if they would call for reinforcement. I have a suggestion." Serene showed her worries.

"What suggestion Serene?" Livia asked from her behind with her high pitched voice. It was enough to scare away all the ghosts and night lurkers. Yet none of them reacted to her attempt to scare them.

As Livia had given all her focus on venting out the past frustration over that innocent looking bully kid.

Since she didn't have sharp eyesight like an eagle and rabbit ears. They were successful in moving away from her listening range.

They knew Livia's weaknesses. Everytime she began to talk about something, she would get so lost in talking that she would space out.

Hence, Aza had motioned them to move away from Livia.

Serene told them about her idea, "That we should plant the TXR dynamite here before we leave. It would be so magical to look at the ground when the dynamite would burst off."

Silence fell over.