The S.T.F. Files, Book 4: DIATON

You Promised Me

The dark figure spoke once more, "disobey me again and you'll all end up like her." It then disappeared leaving nothing behind. However, somehow it reminded me of Rilla.

"Hai-YA!" Aly slammed down on Time, finishing him off. She had previously finished Nature off with the help of Cleo and Damien. We won against Nature and Time—or well, Aly won. Aly stood still with Time's head in a headlock, "I told you it was my fight."

Dimitri walked over and hugged and kissed her. All the typical after battle-stuff. They finally made up. It was so nice to see them together again. Oh, how I missed them being together. It’s just not the same when they fight.

The other two guardians were taken care of by Cleo and Damien, with the help of Nada taking out Dimitri's Psycho-ex for the second time.

Now that they were all taken care of, I ran over to Riza, lifting her from the heap on the floor.

I don’t know why but I ended up shouting at her, "Riza...Riza! Are you okay?!"

She managed to open her eyes and cough up blood in my face. She noticed quickly but couldn't do anything. She started coughing again, faced my pants. Better than my face I guess. Her hair was matted and her clothes stained. She went through a wall, but I didn’t think it would do this much damage…she must have been thrown hard. I held her up in my grasp before she fell limp. She somehow managed to half pick herself up with my help and guidance.

"'Feel… like crap..." She managed to somehow make out. She was becoming cold real fast; however, she did whatever she could to smile.

"Cleo!" I shouted.

Cleo ran through the hole in the wall, rather than the doorway, and slid to her knees by us. "Cleo’s here to help!" Cleo tried using her powers, but almost nothing happened. Was Riza too hurt?

Dimitri and Aly walked over. Dimitri didn't look thrilled, "that's because that was Destiny. Riza fought Destiny. We can't heal Destiny's wounds."

“But it felt like Rilla. You can’t tell me that wasn’t Rilla!”

Aly dropped right down next to me, "Riza..."

"...Tired..." Riza choked out.

I shake my head, "no no no you can't be tired! You just were calling people Amateurs about a minute ago!"

Riza managed to smile and say a few final words before she fell completely limp and unconscious, “’Gretto…I…love…you.”

“Riza I’m going to get you help right now!”

The door to the apartment broke down and was flooded with men. Dimitri was shouting at them, but they didn't seem to get the clue with so many people in the place injured and afraid.

"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Aly shouted finally. Everyone got silent. You could only hear breathing. Everyone was too afraid of what Aly may do next. She did slay Nature and Time single-handed. They were distracted, but that was all part of the battle.

I looked up to Aly, "do something! Riza!"

Aly glared at Dimitri, "tell 'em Riza needs help!"

Dimitri translated and soon I found us all running across the streets to the base hospital. Escorted even. They wanted to take Riza from me. I just couldn't let them. She was everything to me—to us.

When we arrived they took Riza from me and laid her out on a stretcher. I tried to run after them but was stopped.

"Riza!"

Cleo

"Cleo couldn't do anything...Cleo failed..." I cried. We all were crowding the waiting room. We looked like a crazy band of misfits. None of us really looked like we belonged together. We had different clothes—different styles—all looked different. Half of us spoke several different languages.