Ivory watched the world change before her eyes; she watched a protest of angry people fight for their rights, and then saw those same people shoved into space crafts and left for the new government to handle.
Blue had told her that the prisoners were taken beneath the capital. The place had existed outside the public eye.
The couple used the elevator in the white government building that existed in the middle of Times Square to get access into the high security detention facility.
Ivory remained silent as they bypassed security and a vault that scanned Blue's tattoo to grant them access inside. The halls were nothing like the elegant city above. There were no gold, silver, or symbols of unity. What remained were gray walls and white doors that had lock pads on them.
Blue opened a door to a windy staircase and suddenly, the pit in Ivory's stomach grew. The prisoners were in what resembles a medieval dungeon --- chains, cages, and police officers that silently watched them.
The humans inside watched as Blue passed. Some lowered their eyes while others stared with hatred. Ivory noted that some held opposing feelings but sported the same bloody, bruised, and swollen faces.
Ivory peered at the floor; here she was sporting silk robes and the prisoners were robbed of their clothing, dignity, and identity.
Ivory saw Harley and Red in the dark corner.
"Did they speak?" Blue asked them.
"They claim it was all Valen's idea," Harley chuckled.
Harley's presence still scared Ivory to this day.
One prisoner stepped forward but Harley had give him a warning look and he sat back down.
Blue laughed and stepped forward as the humans moved back as far as the prison cell would allow. You're asking yourselves if I call this evolution, or just a mockery of your world. It's both."
Blue stopped.
The guards moved immediately, but Blue raised his hand.
A man gripped the bars.
"You stole our world and renamed it."
Blue looked at him nd grabbed him by the neck.
Ivory saw the evil, demented, and cruel gang leader she forgot had existed.
The others in the cell cried and begged Blue to get him go.
"Humanity has always feared what it does not understand. You speak as if humanity was perfect before my arrival," Blue sneered. "You started wars, droughts, classism, and a doomed government. My race have always been more advanced; you're limited in what you can do, which is why you fight."
Blue turned to Red and nodded over to the lock pad. Red nodded and began to unlock the cell.
Blue turned to a guard. "Get this low life out of my sight," he grabbed Ivory's arm, "Let's go, Ivory."
Blue was not angry because he hated humans. He was angry because he genuinely believed what he was saying.
The prisoners screamed as the guards came in and grabbed the man.
Blue turned to face the man's swollen face. "Your species possesses qualities The Seraphyne value: Adaptability, creativity, emotional complexity, and survival instinct. Those qualities are why humanity continues to exist."
Blue laughed.
"You are potential to a new species that I am creating to ensure that my species adapts and survives forever! You humans think you're perfect and infallible --- you never knew other species existed. You thought you were the best," Blue got in the man's face.
"You think you're a god," the man whispered.
Something changed in Blue's expression.
He stepped forward and struck the prisoner.
The sound echoed through the facility.
Ivory froze.
Blue grabbed the bars.
"You mistake arrogance for certainty." His voice was colder. "The Seraphyne have survived for thousands of years because we understand what lesser civilizations cannot: evolution requires direction. If you refuse, you just become a species unable to reach its potential, and you'll die off."
Blue turned away. "Get this nobody out of my sight."
The guards took the prisoner away.
Ivory said nothing. She couldn't.
Because she had never heard Blue describe humanity so openly before.
Not with hatred. With judgment.
***
Blue walked down the hallway to a white door; he used a code on the lock pad. The door opened, and Blue and Ivory were face-to-face with Valen's bloody and swollen face. He had bruises all over his arms and legs.
Valen had seemed to be asleep or was just exhausted from being in pain. Ivory couldn't tell. He slowly opened his eyes and looked up at Blue, and even gave Ivory a quick glance.
Valen sneered at Blue. "We're still human! We deserve our own future!"
Blue folded his hands behind his back. "The protesters all said they didn't confide or work with you. They all said you randomly came outside and protested. You're facing serious charges."
Valen stared fiercely right into Ivory's eyes. "You're human, too."
Ivory nodded.
Valen looked back at Blue. "Perhaps you scared this young lady into being with you. I'm not bowing down to you."
Blue laughed.
"Blue, you aren't going to beat him, are you?" Ivory asked.
"Red and I will have fun with him after his court trail."
A guard handed Blue a piecer of paper, and Blue crumbled it into a paper ball, and threw it at Valen, who sneered as the ball bounced off his head. He was restrained to the floor vents by chains — his imprisonment had shown that some people refused to bow down to Blue; they thought they were saving humanity. Ivory knew better — they'd be killed in inhuman ways.
Blue then turned around and stormed out.
Ivory stayed behind, and stared down at Valen.
"You don't understand —— what he's capable of doing," Ivory said quietly to Valen.
"You've seen his punishments first hand?" Valen asked.
Ivory remembered the creepy man who beat Swindle H as he followed her back to the base, the wife and son of a man who owed Blue debt, what Blue and Red did to Swindle H, and lastly, the pain Blue inflicted onto Viper.
She also had flashbacks of how Blue forced her to cremate Roxie's body and to murder the wife of the man who had owed Blue money. The past had crept back to her in this very moment, because Blue wore the mask of a calculated calm, and intelligent dragon-human hybrid, but deep down, Ivory felt that The Seraphyne was brainwashed by him and weren't as demented as he was.
Ivory just nodded.
"I'm not going to tell you what to think or say," Ivory began, "just realize that whatever your verdict is, it won't be anything you've ever heard or thought of. Blue's creative in that way," Ivory said.
"Did you want to marry him?" Valen asked.
"Ivory!" Blue hollered.
Ivory looked at Valen and saw that the guards glared at them — some even sent her warning looks, which reminded her of where she stood if she said anything they didnt like.
Ivory sighed and ran off to catch up with Blue, and she knew that a lot more people were going to die. All that meant was that humanity really was dominated, and that Blue and Red would have their old time fun.