BACK IN THE ISLAND, LODGE*

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"Wrong" Roonie rolled his eyes devilishly, throwing the sword at Rook.

The blade flew forward, but before it could get to Rook, he was fast to grab one of his remaining members, blocking himself with the guy.

The sword sliced down the head of the guy, and it joined the other four on the ground before the body fell with a loud thud.

Rook didn't completely escape though cos the sword gave him a cut on the arm too.

His face, clothes and hands are red with the guy's blood, and his eyes are popped in pure terror as the sword returned to the magnet on Roonie's palm again.

The rest of The Titans moved forward to attack, but Rook raised an hand, and they stepped back.

Rue moved forward alone, but Juliet pulled her back fast.

"Are you blind? You don't see what's going on?" She glared.

Rue released herself stubbornly, breathing hard and shaky.

As for Romeo, his eyes are wide behind Rook, and he kept gulping trepidly.

"How you like that?" Hyce said in a playful voice, sitting on the car bonnet.

Axel has a bored look on his face like Roonie.

Rebekah rushed to Pearl's body and tried carrying her up, but Rue blocked her.

"Drop her!" She ordered.

Rebekah placed Pearl on a stone, making sure her back balanced well before standing.

She threw a calve kick at Rue, but Rue avoided it by doing a handstand.

Immediately she got back on her feet, Rebekah's punch met her mouth, and Rue flew to the ground, landing in a colony of ants.

The soldiers of ants shrouded her, biting viciously while she screamed and cursed.

Juliet quickly went to pull her out, and Axel joined Rebekah.

Jointly, they carried Pearl out of the cave, and Roonie took slow calculated steps to Rook who's still looking like he was struck by lightning.

Rook couldn't move till he got to him and brought the phone out of his pocket.

The FaceTime with Master X is still ongoing, and the man is currently smiling callously.

"Good job, son" he muttered, and Roonie clicked red, ending the call.

He threw the phone on the ground and placed his black sneaker on it, crushing it at his feet.

Rook couldn't form a sentence throughout, just staring like he was stripped of his voice and power.

Roonie returned his mask to his face before smirking, looking more ominous.

"This is only just a face reveal. Buy yourself a graveyard before you plan your next attack, cos I'll be fuçking killing you" he muttered, taking a quick look at Rook's bleeding arm before turning his back.

He walked out with the rest of his comrades, and Rook almost dropped on his knees.

Gently, he sat on a stone, staring speechlessly at the bodies on the ground.

"Are we actually gonna take this? Why did you tell us not to attack? We looked stupid!" Rue shouted hotly.

"Fuçking listen to yourself bîtch! They looked deadly! Did you see Banks eyes? Dude was mad as fûck!" Juliet shouted back, and Rue laughed maniacally.

"They were twenty two, and we're thirty!" She spat.

"We're twenty five, five gone" Juliet replied.

"I don't bloody care, we still outnumber them, we could win a make them bow!" Rue insisted.

"Make them bow when Rebekah's punch sent you flying? Try to think with your brain for once, not your pu$$y!" Juliet spat, and Rue slapped her soundly.

Without waiting, Juliet returned the slap, and Rue staggered.

"Don't fûck with me, you think I'm Jeremy?" Juliet snickered.

"Oh you're dead!" Rue made to draw her gun...

"Stop!!!" Romeo's yell came, and the girls retreated, both exhaling hard.

"Rook got poisoned, and this is the best you both could do?" Romeo scoffed, and their eyes widened as they both turned to Rook at once.

His wounded arm is still bleeding, and instead of red, his blood is black.

"Banks's sword" Juliet muttered.

Rook stood and stormed out of the cave, his blood trailing after him.

"Banks!" Romeo went after him with the girls.

"Book me a different flight, I'm returning to Terraverde" he replied.

The rest of the members threw the dead Titans in the open pool and covered it before leaving the cave too.

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BACK IN THE ISLAND, LODGE*

Morgan, Lizzy and Teal couldn't believe their eyes when Pearl was brought back unconscious.

The food feast was about to end when Axel and Rebekah arrived with her, and she was quickly tucked to bed.

Her clothes got changed, and Rebekah started wiping her pale face with warm towel to bring down her high temperature.

"Now I need a full explanation on all of these before I run mad. Banks said she was gonna be staying in throughout, and we all agreed. We were in the island during the food feast when you got a text and excused yourself to use the restroom, but now you came back after one hour with Pearl's unconscious body?" Morgan said impatiently.

"Calm down Morgan" Rebekah replied.