Once again the grainy skipping security footage comes on the screen. Showing nothing but inside the cell belonging to Kiera Kartharsies. Instantly she is seen moving around the cell. Quickly moving. Seemingly bouncing off the walls. Her hair strung out too. There seems to be scratches up and down her bare arms. The point of view suddenly changes to a color camera inside the walls of the cell. And she is bouncing back and forth. Forward and back. And yes there are long scratches going in all directions on her arms.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“AHHHHHH!!”
Her scream reverberates throughout the room and seemingly down the hallway it has a different sound than her screams that have been heard before. She stops her constant movement and looks at the cell door. She then suddenly bolts at it and the sound of her entire body slapping against the steel is heard. She wobbles back into frame.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“I wanted it. I needed to be out there more. I hate this place. AHHHHHHH!!!”
Her scream again reverberates throughout the space. The frame shook a bit. She then jumps up on her bed. She hits the wall and slowly slides down the wall to a ball-like position on the bed. Her knees to her chest with her small, scratched up arms around her knees.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“What happened? What did I do wrong this time? I was on my way for that amazingly shiny trinket. I wanted it so badly. Then suddenly it was all gone. I was beaten. Then that psychotic Doctor guy took me into his torture chamber thing. AHHHHHHHH!!”
More reverberation and vibration throughout the room and down the hall.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“I missed seeing and talking to Jordyn. I miss having that freedom to work and train outside of these walls. Fuck this place. I hate everyone here.”
She rocks back and forth.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“But what about Sin? What about Nikki?”
Her voice suddenly changed. She is whispering now. The sound is barely heard.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“Oh that’s fucking right, they hate me. They abandoned me. They didn’t care what was happening to me on the inside. AHHHHHHH!!”
Her voice changes back to a normal tone and screams more.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“But they might actually care? I may be seeing them through my paranoid lens?”
Again her voice returns to the quiet whisper.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“Maybe it was Sin’s fear, her paranoia that overtook her that night when she attacked me unprovoked?”
More whispering as her rocking continues, he arms squeezing her knees tightly.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“Fuck her. Fuck Nikki. I don’t fucking need them. I did what I have done successfully in the fight therapy sessions was all on me. I did it. I accomplished those wins and victories on my own. Yeah Sin helped one time, but that was it.”
Her voice returns to a normal, somewhat tensed tone. Almost as though she is talking through gritted teeth.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“I didn’t need her then. I don’t fucking need her now. Nikki bailed as soon as that moronic dude started giving her attention. Now she is out and at that one place that owns this place.”
More gritted teeth speak, after she speaks the last syllable, her hands come to her face with a hard smack and she drags her fingernails down each side of her face.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“It makes me wonder if Jordyn really likes me? Makes me wonder if anyone that I have come into contact with in this god forsaken place means what they say, or is it all just strategic talk? Talk to get them to the top of the world in this fucking place?”
Where her fingernails drug down her face, faint lines of red begin to reveal themselves.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“Does Miss Paige mean what she has told me? I am scared she is going to be just like all the rest of the females of my past. Deny that I have the issues I have? Dismiss how I feel about certain things? Hell Sin did. She tossed aside my past, basically using my candid, and confidential trust in her, against me. What do I have against her?”
As she speaks more, she hugs her knees tightly again. She even sniffles a little as though she has a running nose, then it is seen a gleam of a tear slowly moving it’s way down her cheek, mixing with the blood.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“AHHHHHH!! Stop feeling picked on. This is exactly why you became abandoned and tossed aside. You are fucking weak Kiera. Stop with this emotional breakdown shit.”
She rocks back and forth on the edge of her bed against the wall. Tucking her chin below her knees.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“But this is who I am. I am kind. Gentle and a little bit nervous around people.”
The soft whispers come back right before she lifts her head, her arms become unbound from her knees and shins. As her legs begin to straighten out, her nails drag on her thighs.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“It is KiKi’s turn to take over. You go back to that dark room you emerged from Kiera. It is my time. My opportunity to prove to the world that this body isn’t like what you have given to them. I am the warrior, you are the child. Let me take charge. Actually fuck that, I am taking charge.”
The voice is different. It is filled with anger, anguish and pure rage. It is literally like Kiera is two different people within one human body.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“Kiera, you sit back and watch what I can do. I will go get us that shiny trinket. You can live off the success I bring to us, but it will be me that goes into that ring thing and demolish whoever is put against us.”
Kiera brings her knees slowly back up.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“I overheard that the next person we have to go against in the fight therapy session is Sin. It is the long awaited fight for that shiny Underground trinket.”
As the soft words escape her lips, her knees begin to shake then suddenly shoot out in front of her.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“Good, it is about time I get to unleash some hell on that woman. She deserves to be beaten. Destroyed. Even tortured before I take her trinket.”
KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“But she really didn’t mean…”
KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“Shut UP KIERA!”
Kiera is now arguing with herself. As her name being yelled out echoes throughout the space, she slides to the other edge of her bed, placing her feet flatly on the cold grey floor.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“I told you Kiera, it is my time now. You’ve had your time. Remember back when you were young and your dad person came into your room repeatedly and did things that no real man should do to a little girl? Actually don’t respond. Just remember that I took over then and sent him to hell where he rightfully belonged. Allow me to unleash the rage we both feel that you seem to deny exists upon Sin. She deserves it Kiera. You know it, as do I…”
The deep, hoarse and rage filled voice is suddenly cut off as Kiera’s knees start coming up to her chest again.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“But she really didn’t mean it.”
KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“But she did Kiera. She was willing to snatch the life from you in that instant, thank god I blew out when I did, or we both wouldn’t be here right now. Why did she do that? All because we glanced over at that shiny belt that will be ours after this next fight. There is no therapy involved. It will simply be the absolute dismantling of the psychotic one known as Sin. I will make sure I make her look worse than she looked against her little boy toy…”
KIKI KARHTARSIES:
“...He beat me…”
KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“I know he fucking beat you. You were too weak to take him down like he needed to be. That is why I will be doing the fighting this time around. To make sure you are not hurt too bad and Sin is taken to hell where she needs to live for a minute or seven. Just go to sleep Kiera. I’ve got this…”
The more stern, angry, filled with rage voice that emanates from the young woman has seemed to take full control as she stands. She moves to the desk and picks up a piece of paper.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“An Ancient Way Deathmatch huh? That’s what they decided to put Sin and Kiera in hmm? Interesting.”
She then rips the paper into shreds and confetti, then tosses it above her head. The blood on her face has dried, as has the tears.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“It isn’t going to be the little innocent Kiera, Sin will be facing this next show. No. She will have to contend with KiKi. The one that cares not about others’ feelings. No, I only care about one thing and that is the safety and well being of Kiera. I have always been the only one that has cared about that. Everybody in her life hurt her. Abused her. Even fucking abandoned her. Hell that girl that she was seeing, got a good taste of her pussy, then bailed. I have never left her. I never abandoned her. I supported her when she needed it. I helped her when the one person she confided in attacked her and wanted her to die. It was me that was there. Kiera has needed no one but me and that is why I will be the savior of this woman before the rest of the world totally destroys her.”
Kiera or KiKi, turns to the color camera and a sadistic smile grows upon her face. Her eyes seemingly black. Dark. Filled with a rage that has never been seen from this young woman, ever.KIKI KARTHARSIES:
“Time to rest my dear Kiera. Allow me to do what I do best. Hurt. Mame. Spill blood. You don’t have the stomach for it. I do however. Honey. Glass. Hand wraps. All in a good day’s work.”
With that being said, Kiera or KiKi walk out of frame and return to the grainy security footage in the hallway. She looks up with those dark, devious black eyes, smiles again and then turns away and vanishes down the hall.------------============------------
“Kiera has seen the last bit of light she will need to see for a while. She is taking a back seat as they say to me as I do the work that is needed to be done. She is too weak and kind hearted to inflict the damage needed to end Sin’s reign as the Underground trinket holder. It is my time to rejoice in the glory of being victorious in the fight therapy ring thing. I am all about fighting. Biting down and gritting these pearly whites and pushing through the pain the body feels. Pushing through the onslaught that could be coming from the enemy. Sin is that enemy. That foe. I, KiKi, will take these small wrapped fists, covered in the succulent and sweet honey, then engrossed with glass shards. The perfect weapon to make Sin’s pretty face as ugly as she is on the inside. This is not what anyone will expect of Kiera. Because it will not be her. These shots they give her are astoundingly strong. Shit maybe I should fought back some. Shit. What else do I need to cover in this thought sequence? Glass shards. Done. Wrapped hands? Done. Sweet and succulent honey? All done. Fuck it, I will let these meds overwhelm me. Maybe I can dream of the blood that will be dripping from my fists and out of Sin’s face. Sit back and enjoy the show Kiera. Allow your KiKi take you to that promised land that you once were at. You need me for this. Don’t resist… I can’t resist...”