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Chapter 14 - Segment Chapter XIV: Roses of Destruction

A week later, On a Friday November morning. Carolyn sleeps in. Oscar walks outside to his Koi fish pond, sits down on his beach chair, drinking his coffee, and feeding the fish. The phone rings inside the house. He quickly gets up from his chair, runs inside to grab the phone.

"Hello?"

"Oscar, Is Carolyn up?"

"No she's not. Who's this?"

"Don't you recognize my voice already? It's Michele"

"Oh Michele. Nice of you to call but she isn't up right now."

"Get her up."

"I don't want to disturb her, Michele."

"Now!" She yelled.

Oscar sighs, puts the phone on speaker, and walks inside the room to wake up Carolyn. She was gone. He hears the sink water running in the bathroom. Carolyn opens the door, washing her face.

"Morning, Honey."

"Morning Sweetheart." Oscar said. "Michele is on the phone."

"Oh shit..." Carolyn mumbled quietly.

"I heard that, Carol." Michele said.

"I know you did, give me the phone Oscar!"

Oscar gives Carolyn the phone. She grabs it and storms out of the bathroom, angrily. Oscar looks at Carolyn walking out of the room, he follows them.

"What about the Bellagio Conservatory?"

"They're having their Winter wonderland garden decoration opening up today. I need Cassie to destroy it."

"Did someone talked about the murder of Tonopah and the rest of the criminal shit that happened over there?"

"Not particularly but..."

"Then no. I'm not letting Cassie destroy that facility, I want people to have a free winter season without your shenanigans ruining it."

"Who's the mob donna here? Me or you?"

"You're still in prison."

"And who is the mob donna?"

Carolyn sighs, "You are.."

"Right and whatever I say, goes." Michele said. "I run this town, Carolyn. Metro arrested me because they're afraid of me. I want to let them and everyone in Las Vegas know who I am if they fuck with me."

"You got arrested for prositution and attempted murder and still never learned your lesson after that. That's two felony charges."

"And they only caught me for one. So I win." Michele laughs.

"They haven't caught you with the Henderson massacre yet hm?"

"I made a deal with the sheriff in Henderson and he said he won't charge a thing."

Carolyn went silent. Her eyes widened. "Oh no you didn't do what I think you did-"

"Yes, I did and he loved it too."

"Anyways..."

"Right. Just do as I say and destroy the bellagio conservatory, NOW!"

Michele hangs up the phone. Carolyn hangs the phone up and walks towards her room. Oscar stops her.

"Are you alright?" Oscar asks.

"I'm fine, Oscar."

Carolyn tries to walk around him but Oscar steps in front of her.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes now can you please let me go?"

She walks around him, walking to her room.

"Why so you can go and destroy the Conservatory at the Bellagio?" Oscar scoffs. "I don't think so."

Carolyn stops, her eyes widen, she turns around.

"How the hell did you know about that?!"

"I listened to your conversation... Why are you doing this for her?"

"Oscar, why would you listen to a private conversation?! It's private for a reason!"

"Carolyn, you're about to go out there and destroy something that we both created together. Why do you want to destroy it now?!"

"I'm not destroying it."

"You are... you don't realize it, you are being controlled by Michele. Want to know what I see?"

"What?"

"I see a woman that I married 58 years ago being so happy and caring being stripped away from a woman that's a mob donna, has some much anger for this city and making you the victim to her plans. You always told me during my time as a criminal lawyer 'Don't become like your clients' and look at what you're doing? You are becoming just like them." Oscar said. Carolyn stays silent. Her blood boils in anger.

"Why do you care?" she mumbles.

"What?"

"Why do you care?! It shouldn't matter about what Michele and I do. She runs this town and I have to do what she asks me to do."

Carolyn turns around and walks in the room, putting on her vest.

"But you're the mayor?? What do you mean she runs this town?!"

"Yes I am, but the Mafia still runs this town and that's her mafia." Carolyn said, grabbing her clutch and her car keys.

"What the fuck, I thought the mafia was abolished decades ago?"

"Well it's time to wake up, Oscar." Carolyn said, opening the garage door. "It's still here."

She walks out the door.

Oscar watches her get into her car, driving off. His blood boils in anger, he breathes and closes the door.

Meanwhile at Azenith's house, the group walks downstairs to the living room. Azenith grabs the keys to her car. They all walk out the front door to the car, getting in it. Azenith starts the car up.

"Is Alyssa going to meet us at the Bellagio?" Azenith asks.

"Yeah. but she said later, she had to do something before she met us." Jason said.

"Okay."

"I hope Carolyn doesn't show up and ruin the Conservatory." Dylan said.

"I hope so too but you know her...that isn't a promise made to be kept." Azenith said.

"True," he said. "Man... I don't want to go against my doctor's orders."

"No fear. The felines are here!" she said. "Jason and I can handle Carolyn and her mafia while you don't have to go against your doctor's orders."

"Are you sure you got this? I don't want to see you guys get hurt."

"We're sure." Jason said. "You don't have to worry about us."

"Alrighty."

Azenith backs the car out of the driveway and drives off to the Bellagio. Meanwhile, Cassie and Carolyn walk in the Conservatory. Cassie is at awe with the decor of the flowers.

"Wow! This is so beautiful!" Cassie exclaimed. "What do you think, Madame?"

"It's beautiful." She said, Looking at the decor of the white flowers posing as snow. "Very beautiful."

Cassie looks at Carolyn. "Are you okay?"

Carolyn looks at her. "I'm fine." She backs away from the flowers and starts walking around the observatory. Cassie follows her. Azenith, Jason, and Dylan walk in the conservatory. Alyssa walks in behind them.

"Where's Alyssa?" Jason asks himself. Alyssa taps his shoulder, he turns around and sees Alyssa.

"Hey!"

"Hey guys!" Alyssa said, hugging Jason and Dylan. "How are you guys?"

"We're doing alright." Dylan said, "How's Brian?"

"The doctors said that he's in a coma, recovering from being stabbed in the chest."

"Oh no." Azenith said. "Did they do any surgery to help him recover from his wounds?"

Alyssa looks at her. "Why do you care?" She walks away. Azenith, Jason, and Dylan look at her walking away. The group follows her.

"What the hell is wrong with her? I didn't even do anything to her."

"She's being manipulated under Micheles's dream manipulation tactic." Dylan said. "It's tough to break out of but if we can get her to break out of the manipulation tactic she's in, we might get a chance for Alyssa to see who's the real person that killed her fiance."

"Mmm. I don't know about that?" Jason said.

"What do you mean?"

Jason points to Carolyn and Cassie in the distance. Carolyn looks at the group, They all jump in fear and start hiding from her. She looks back at the flowers. Jason looks at Carolyn.

"I think we're good for now." Jason said, getting up from the floor. Dylan and Azenith get up with him. Alyssa catches them.

"What are you doing?"

"Well uh... We were uh.." Jason studders. Alyssa looks at Carolyn and Cassie.

"Fuck" Alyssa mouthed. She grabs Jason and the group and takes them around the conservatory.

"What are you-"

"We don't have much time, we need to keep an eye on them."

Carolyn sits down on the bench. Cassie keeps looking at the rose garden. The lights flickered, everyone in the conservatory looked around in confusion. The wind blows in the garden. Pink fire circling around creating a void, Michele appears out of the void. The group looks at her. Carolyn looks at her as well.

"Michele. Did they let you out already?" Carolyn laughs getting up from her seat.

"I bribed them to let me out for today. My Parole officer wanted this-"

"OKAY NOT IN PUBLIC PLEASE!"

Michele grabs Carolyn's cheeks, bringing her down to her height.

"Aww... What's the matter? the underdonna getting pent up by my flirting?"

She pushes Michele away, blushing.

"I'm not getting pent up."

"Yes you are~" Michele said, as her two fingers walked up Carolyn's shoulder up to her neck, holding her chin seductively. Carolyn's face turns red from blushing too much. She pushes Michele away from her again forcefully.

"Stop it." she muttered. Michele breathes.

"Alright." She said, brushing off the dust off her clothes. She walks up to Cassie, picking up a rose.

"Cassie. Make sure you kill everyone and destroy this facility at once."

Cassie looks up at her. She chuckles. "You want me to destroy this facility? Come on, this is a beautiful facility that the Bellagio created."

She falls into the roses. "I don't want to destroy it for any reason."

Carolyn nods in agreement. She starts thinking about her and Oscar's conversation. Michele looks at her angrily. She grabs Cassie by her cloak, almost choking her. Alyssa grabs her sword. Jason stops her.

"You better do as I tell you or im going to blow your fucking head off and fucking your husband before I kill him too!"

"W-what?!"

"Michele stop!" Carolyn yells.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP CAROLYN!"

Michele's height grew up to seven feet. Still clenching on to Cassie's cloak.

"Do as I say and if any excuse comes out of your ratchet mouth of yours. My shotgun will be at your head and your husband's head. Got it?"

Cassie losing air, "O-okay"

Michele drops Cassie onto the floor, Carolyn helps Cassie get up. Michele grabs Carolyn forcefully by her arms. Cassie falls onto the ground again.

"Leave her and come on!" Michele yelled. She walks out of the conservatory. Carolyn follows her. Cassie gets up and grabs her sword. The wind blows in the facility, rose petals blow around her. A blonde woman comes into the Conservatory. She looks at Cassie's sword glowing a pinkish color. The wind blows harder causing the flowers and the objects to be picked up and flown around the area, hitting the people in the area. The woman hides behind a wall for cover. Alyssa, Jason, and Azenith grab their weapons.

"Ready?" Jason asks.

"Ready," Azenith and Alyssa said. They all stand up, raising their weapons.

"Let's Claw it!"

Azenith and Jason's weapons glow, changing into their hero form.

"Vegas Fire Transformation!" Alyssa yelled, fire surrounds her body, turning into her hero form.

"Good luck guys!" Dylan said. Azenith, Jason, and Alyssa smiles at him and runs out from their hiding place. Cassie sees Alyssa, Jason, and Azenith running towards her. She grabs her sword and starts charging at them. Alyssa grabs her sword and clashes with Cassie's sword. The fire bursts from her sword. Igniting the flowers near them. Cassie hits Alyssa's sword, making her lose her grip from it. Cassie mounts her sword in the dirt of the flowers, she punches Alyssa in the face. She summons a rose petal chain, grabbing Alyssa, chaining her up. Azenith runs up to Cassie, grabbing her cat katana. Cassie dodges her sword, grabbing her arm, she knees her in her stomach, causing her to cough up blood. She elbows Azenith in the face. She falls onto the ground, she flips herself back up. Her nose is bleeding, smiling. Jason runs up behind Azenith, jumping over her. Jason swings his staff at her jaw. He lands on the ground, kicking Cassie under her chin. She falls over onto the ground. Jason stands up. Azenith and Jason fist bumps each other. Dylan watches behind the wall. The woman sneaks up behind him. Another set of rose chains grabs their necks. They both hisses and meows. Cassie lifts herself up from the ground. She locks them down onto the ground with Alyssa. Cassie gets up from the ground. Walking up to them.

"What are you guys doing here?" Cassie asks. "It's not safe for you guys to be here."

"Saving people from your destruction." Alyssa said. "What are you doing here?"

"Doing a task."

"But why here? This is a beautiful place to destroy. Why Cass?"

Cassie sighs. "I know." she grabs her sword. "But I have a task to do and now you're here, I have to kill you too."

Dylan changes into his hero form and runs off. Cassie raises her sword.

"So... Which one should I kill first?" She looks at Azenith first. She smirks. "What about the snow leopard?"

"Wait!"

"Oh please do." Alyssa muttered.

"ALYSSA!" Jason exclaims. "Kill me instead, Cassie!"

Cassie chuckles. "I'm flattered that you volunteered to be killed first, Fein Cat. Or should I say, Jason!"

The lights went out from the facility. A blue glow flashes towards Cassie's face. The disc hits her face while it spins. The disc flew back to Dylan, walking up behind Jason, Azenith, and Alyssa. Cassie touches her face and feels her nose broken and bleeding.

"Lance Cinema. Is that you?!" Cassie chuckles. "I haven't seen you in a minute, how are you?!"

"I don't want to talk to you, Cassie."

"Why not?"

"You betrayed my trust when you decided to join Michele and her mafia. I warned you not to join, she's looking for people to manipulate and destroy Vegas for her own gain." Dylan said. "Look at what she's doing to you now. You have the most recent power all over Vegas and she saw your power and took that opportunity to make something out of it."

"Carolyn is taking over it right now. Michele is in prison."

"It isn't about Carolyn, Cas."

Jason, Azenith, and Alyssa's eyes widen in shock. Cassie's eyes widened.

"Carolyn is being forced out of her will by Michele to join her as her mafia underdog. She's being abused mentally and physically because of her."

"That can't be true. I never saw her physically harm Carolyn. Just yell at her."

Dylan looks at Cassie closer. He sees her cloak stretched out and her neck red from Michele almost choking her.

"Cassie. She's even abusing you. Look at your cloak. It's stretched out and your neck is red."

Cassie covers her neck with her cloak hood. She makes another rose chain, directing it to Dylan's neck. Dylan swings his disc at the rose chain, cutting it. Cassie makes more chains, he cuts them. He swings his disc towards her. Cassie flips over the disc. She grabs her sword and flies down towards Dylan. He grabs the sword quickly. Almost cutting his head. His strength grabbing the sword cripples his muscles. He groans in pain. Alyssa breaks the chains, she grabs her sword and carefully clashes Cassie's sword away from Dylan. Alyssa kicks her away from him. She cuts the rose chains from Azenith and Jason. They clawed the rose chain from their necks.

"Go NOW!" Alyssa yelled.

"Right"

Jason and Azenith run towards Cassie. Azenith punches her in the stomach. Jason swings his cat cane under her chin, launching her body up towards the ceiling. Azenith and Jason fist bumps each other and launches themselves with her. Azenith grabs her Cat Cane, grabbing the holster, releasing her sword. Water surrounds the blade. She proceeds to cut Cassie, The water begins the freeze around Cassie. Jason summons his claws and starts scratching Cassie with Azenith. They both back away from her. Cassie bleeding from the scratches from her body and face. The ice from the blade starts to cut into her. Cassie moans in pain. Azenith puts her sword back in the holster, slowly while falling back to the ground. Cassie's eyes widened.

"Shit..."

She looks at the sky, the moon rises in the sky. She smiles and disappears. Azenith clicks her sword in the holster. The ice explodes. Azenith and Jason land on the floor. The group covers themselves from the ice smoke blowing in the facility. The smoke clears. Cassie is gone.

"What the fuck?!" Azenith and Jason yelled.

"Where did she go?!" Alyssa said.

The lights went out. The group jumped in fear. The wind blows around them. The moon shines through the windows in the Observatory. Azenith looks around and backs into a person. She pats them down and feels a furry tail. Jason hugs Azenith. She froze and screamed. He covers her mouth.

"It's okay. It's me." Jason whispered in her ear. Azenith nods. He releases his hand off her mouth. Silence roamed in the facility. Cassie appears behind Alyssa. Hitting her in back of her head. She drops down to the ground. Dylan turns on the light on his disc. He shines the light on Alyssa's cold body. He shines the light on Cassie. She punches his face, breaking his nose, blood flows out when he lands on the floor. Azenith and Jason turned around and saw Dylan and Alyssa on the ground.

"Shit.." They thought. Cassie appears behind them.

"Say good night, kitties!" Cassie said, hitting Jason in the stomach and in the face. Sending him flying towards a wall. He groans in pain. Cassie makes a rose chain grabbing Azenith by the neck. Kneeing her in the stomach and throwing her towards the wall with Jason. A cold front comes into the facility.

"Let me finish them off, Cass!"

A mysterious voice said. Cassie turns around and smiles.

"Perfect timing, Ice Wrath Dragon of Vegas."