Part 31b
By Desiree

Writer's note: As for the deaths of two characters, they 
requested it so I did it. They helped me actually devise 
the death scene and the method of death. And so everyone 
will know, I will be offing a couple of more on the next go 
around at their request.
Des
 
Cyn came around to someone cradling her in their arms and 
pushing her hair from her face. She looked up and saw Eric 
Carr's big brown eyes. She began to cry.  

"Shhh. It's okay. Everything's going to be alright." Eric 
said soothingly. 

Cyn looked up at Eric. "But you were dead. How can you be 
here now? This is impossible."  

"No it's not impossible. I'm alive. Now sit up here and let 
me explain everything."  

Eric helped Cyn off of the floor and onto the edge of the 
bed. He held her close and kissed her. "It's good to see 
you again and be able to touch you. Do you know how many 
times I've watched you, only to wish I could come hold you 
and comfort you?"  

Cyn cried again. 

"Don't cry baby. I need you to listen to me. I want to tell 
you why I had to fake my death and why everything is going 
crazy right now."  

Cyn wiped away her tears and listened to what Eric had to 
say. Eric told her about E.V.I.L. and the mission to 
destroy Kiss. He explained that he had to "die" in order to 
help save everyone. Eric explained about the special 
abilities possessed by her friends and by all of the 
members of Kiss.  

"What abilities," she asked.  

"Well, this might be hard for you to take, but honey you 
have the ability to heal people."  

"Do what? What are you talking about?"  

"For a long time now, you've possessed the ability to heal 
people. I don't know why, but you can. As I said before, 
I've been watching you for a long time and I have noticed 
little people being healed of their illnesses after you 
have touched them. It's not really anything you would 
notice unless you were being watched since the effects are 
instantaneous, but I have seen the healings. I don't 
believe that your ability has fully developed yet, but I 
have someone who can find out. Now come on and I'll take 
you to her. She knows about all of this and she can help." 

*	*	*	*	*	*	*
 
Desiree found her way to Eric Singer's room. Everything 
seemed to be calming down, so maybe she could enjoy the 
rest of the evening. The Kiss Meet and Greet was going to 
be held in just a couple of hours and she wanted to get a 
head start on meeting one member early.  

*	*	*	*	*	*	*
 
"There you are. I need you to come with me right now. I do 
not want to hear any arguments from you." Vinnie took Misha 
by the arm and pulled her down the hall. She didn't utter a 
word because she knew that doing so could harm Gene. Vinnie 
had warned her before that if she didn't help, Gene would 
die and she could never let that happen.  

Misha hated Vinnie for putting her in a situation to where 
she would have to go against Gene to protect him. 
 
Vinnie closed the door and locked it. He pushed Misha into 
the chair and told her not to move. "I want you to hear 
every word I say and do not open your mouth until I am 
finished." Misha crossed her arms over her chest and sat 
back in the chair. She was plotting her moves for how she 
would zap Vinnie if she got the chance. 
 
"When we set up our little arrangement, I was going after 
Gene for two reasons. The first and most obvious was 
because I want my money. He's so damn greedy, he won't give 
me what is rightfully mine and I still intend on getting 
it. The second reason was only fueled by my personal 
dislike of your friend." 
 
"A man approached me back in 1982 and offered to help me 
become the leader of Kiss. All I had to do was join his 
organization. This man offered me fame and money, and after 
a few years of hell brought about by your friend, the 
satisfaction of personally witnessing the downfall of Gene 
Simmons and the entire Kiss Organization. How could I turn 
down such an offer? I mean, after all, I was willing to do 
anything to get my own recognition no matter what I had to 
do to get it."  
 
"Remember my pink phase? I hated that time, but I was told 
by my new agents that if I wanted my music to be heard, I 
had to go along with the style of the day. I looked like a 
pansy. The only satisfaction I got out of that era was that 
Gene looked pretty gay too in his big red spangled coats 
and shiny clothing." 
 
"After a couple of years, Gene called me and asked if I 
wanted to help with the Revenge album. I was positive that 
this would be my chance to get back in with the 
Organization and maybe you demented fans would give me 
another chance. It's not always easy being the butt of 
everyone's jokes. And besides, I was intent on my own 
personal fame and prosperity." 
 
"When Revenge was finished and things did not go as I had 
expected, I left myself open for this other organization to 
completely take over my life. I was pissed and they had the 
solution. All I had to do was sit back and watch everything 
fall into place. I didn't like everything they made me do, 
but I never questioned my orders. That is where you come 
into the picture." 
 
"I was brought into a meeting with the big guy a few months 
ago and he told me all about you and your friends and how 
all of you would lead to the downfall of my enemy. It was 
finally going to happen. I was so excited and yet a part of 
me felt really bad. Regardless of what all of your friends 
think, I do have feelings. The big guy told me he had an 
operative in the Kiss Organization who was stealing money 
from Gene. They wanted to hit Gene where it would hurt the 
most, his wallet. Well, Gene must have been tipped off 
because you came along. That is when we devised the plan to 
use you as the opening to get to Gene. Only you proved to 
be disastrous to us because you have the same raging 
hormones as your friend. Why can't you people keep it in 
your pants? And once you were marked by Gene, we couldn't 
use you in the way we had initially planned." 
 
"Well what the hell do you want me to do now? You use me 
and make me lie to Gene to help you and now you're saying 
that it was for nothing? You are an asshole and if I could, 
I would fry you right there on the spot with a huge bolt of 
lightening." About that time, a bolt of lightening zapped 
the floor next to Vinnie's left foot. Misha couldn't 
believe her eyes. 

Vinnie jumped away from the lightening bolt before he was 
permanently fried. "Oh shit. The big guy warned all of us 
that you people had some sort of powers. I see yours is 
lightening." Misha looked at Vinnie with a nasty grin on 
her face.  

Now was the time to see if she could control other weather 
phenomenon. She had control over rain and now lightening. 
"This could be fun," Misha thought to herself. 
 
"Okay asshole, prepare to see what I am gonna do to you. 
This will teach you to use me to get back at Gene." Misha 
thought about wind and a fast breeze picked up in the room. 
Vinnie was whipped around and slammed into a wall. A clap 
of thunder sounded and another bolt of lightening sent 
Vinnie running for cover.  
 
"Hold up a damn minute. Will you stop this and let me 
finish what I have to say?" Vinnie ducked back under the 
bed and waited for Misha to calm down.  

Misha saw Vinnie cowering under the bed and decided that 
she was enjoying the sight in front of her, but she would 
be nice and give him a chance to finish explaining 
everything. "Alright, weasel. You have about two minutes to 
finish what you have to say and then I'm gonna zap you 
again. And this time, I am not going to miss." 
 
Vinnie crawled out and stood up. "As I was saying before 
you went nuts, about two weeks ago, I overheard a 
conversation between the big guy and one of his little 
weasel minions. They were laughing at how they had used me 
to get in with the Kiss Organization as a cover to their 
ultimate goals. Seems they are after one of your friends. 
Her name is Raven and they want her bad."  

Misha was stunned. "What the hell do they want Raven for? 
What has she ever done to you or this big guy you keep 
referring to?" 

"That's just it. I didn't hear everything, but what I did 
hear was enough to make me sick. I had to get away from 
those people. I started getting this awful feeling in body 
and all of a sudden, realization hit of what I had been 
doing for all of these years. It was as if I had been freed 
from shackles that had been holding me down for years. At 
first, I only felt relief and then I started to feel 
remorse for everything I had done. Now I would be lying if 
I didn't say that I still want what is due me, but I don't 
have this hatred welled up inside of me any more. And I 
feel this sudden urge to help all of you." 

"I don't believe you. I think you're just full of shit and 
willing to say anything to keep me from zapping you again." 
Misha began to snarl. 

"Please don't do that. If you don't believe me, call Gene. 
He's here. I just left from meeting with him and his slave 
before I grabbed you. And if that doesn't convince you, 
call your friends Holly and Lorie. I rescued them from 
Buttercup today." 
 
Misha looked at Vinnie. What did he mean by Gene's slave? 
He rescued Lorie and Holly? What was going on? And hadn't 
he said something before about her being marked by Gene? 
"You have some more explaining. Who is Gene's slave and who 
is this Buttercup that kidnapped my friends?"  

"Buttercup is the big guy. $hannon is Gene's slave. He 
claimed her by having sex with her during the matrix 
activation and now he has a slave, along with Peter and 
Bruce. I don't know if Ace or Eric Singer have one yet or 
if perhaps the slaves have warned the others to be careful 
before giving themselves up completely and being enslaved. 
I do know that you have been marked and that when the 
matrix activated, you became linked to Gene."  

Misha had a questioning look on her face. "I see you don't 
believe me. Well, when the power surged a little bit ago, 
what happened to you? Where did Gene's face appear on your 
body before disappearing again?" Misha's eyes flew wide 
open. How did he know about that? 

"How the hell did you know that Gene's face appeared for a 
minute? You better start answering my questions." She 
grabbed Vinnie and slapped him. "You better give me answers 
now." 

*	*	*	*	*	*	*

Desiree knocked on Eric Siunger's door. The door opened, 
but no one was there. "What the? How did that door open?"  

"I opened it," came a voice that sounded like Eric's. 

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH." Desiree screamed and ran back into 
the hall. 

Eric appeared out of thin air. "Don't scream. I don't want 
everyone to come out here. Now come in." Desiree couldn't 
believe her eyes. She had to be seeing things. Maybe the 
work was getting to her."Sit down and have a drink of 
water. I didn't mean to scare you. I thought you would 
understand. After all, you are the one who told me I had 
special abilities." 
 
Desiree looked up at Eric and took the glass. "Thanks. So I 
take it your ability is to scare the hell out of people?"  

"No. I can go invisible. I can also walk through things. 
It's really cool. Sorta like Patrick Swayze's character in 
Ghost except I'm not dead. Check this out." Eric put his 
hand through the wall. 

"How did you do that?" 

"I'm not really sure. I came back here to wait on you and I 
thought about what you said earlier about all of us in Kiss 
and your group having these abilities. I just asked myself 
what kind of abilities I had and it came to me as if 
someone had whispered them into my ear. I decided to test 
the theory and I concentrated on being invisible and it 
happened. And the coolest part is that I don't leave 
footprints or ghostly images like you see in all of the 
horror flicks. When I go invisible, I am completely there. 
No sign at all of me exists. This might be pretty cool. 
Imagine the crowd at the Alice Cooper concerts when I am 
playing my drum solo and suddenly there is nothing there 
but drumsticks waving in the air. David Copperfield will 
have nothing on me." 
 
Desiree scowled a bit. "Your invisible drum trick might be 
cool, but I have a feeling that there is more to this than 
we know. For some reason, all of you have these abilities 
and all of us from the Girltalk group do too. I think we 
are all connected somehow and I for one need answers. I 
don't know about the rest of you, but I have this nasty 
feeling that something is brewing and I think we should 
brace ourselves. Maybe you and I ought to go find the 
others and see what we can figure out. Maybe with all of us 
together, we can come up with some answers." 

*	*	*	*	*	*	*
 
"James, come quick. Are you getting the same readings as 
me?" Artemus looked at his equipment to make sure there 
were no loose wires or something connected wrong.  

James walked over, shaking his head. "I've already told you 
that I can't make heads nor tails of this equipment you 
concocted from that brain of yours, but my gut tells me 
something is wrong. We need to go investigate." 

*	*	*	*	*	*	*
 
"Where are we? What's going on here?" Dy looked at Calen. 
They both looked around at their surroundings. They saw the 
Sydney Opera House and the look of disbelief on the faces 
of the tourists surrounding them. Calen thought for a 
minute, trying to pick up something. She could hear the 
thoughts of the people around her and they were all 
wondering how the two women appeared out of nowhere. 
 
She concentrated harder. If they suddenly appeared here, 
perhaps someone else she knew was here too. Calen went down 
her list of friends, hearing nothing. But when she thought 
about Gene, she found what she was looking for. In what 
appeared to be a shout, Calen heard Gene's thoughts and his 
concerns over Shannon. He was with the others and they were 
all looking for someone called Buttercup. He obviously had 
Shannon and Gene was mad, scared and a little defeated all 
at once.  

"C'mon Dy. We aren't alone. I don't know how we got to 
Sydney, but Paul and Gene and the others are here too, so 
we need to find them." 

*	*	*	*	*	*	*
 
"Very good. So now three of the originals are here along 
with my little prisoner and now two more. Thank you Friend, 
I hope you don't mind me calling you that. Time Talker is 
just too obvious and I am not ready for your secret to be 
known yet. You have been a good addition to my team. Now be 
a nice minion and check through time again. I need to see 
what the newest plans are so I can be ready." 
 
Buttercup dismissed the Time Talker and turned his 
attentions back to Shannon. 

*	*	*	*	*	*	*
 
Eric and Desiree were walking down a hall when she got the 
feeling to go check on Cyn. Something was wrong. She took 
Eric by the hand and pulled him along behind her. "Slow 
down, woman. What's wrong and why are you almost running?" 

"There's no time for talking. My friend is in trouble and I 
have to go help her." Desiree continued to pull Eric along 
behind her until she reached Cyn's room. Desiree didn't 
wait to knock. Instead, she kicked on the door one good 
time and it popped open. The first thing she saw was Eric 
Carr. Desiree stood there in disbelief, her expression 
matching the one on Eric Singer's face.  

*	*	*	*	*	*	*
 
Gene sensed when Calen hit Sydney. He wondered to himself 
how and why she was here. Paul noticed the questioning look 
on Gene's face and pulled him to the side. Paul didn't want 
to use his abilities to read Gene's mind, so asking him 
outright was the only other way to get an answer. "What's 
wrong man? You look confused." 

"I'm not sure, but Calen is here and I don't think she's 
alone. I don't know how I know, but I can just sense her. 
What do I do? I need to go after Shannon, but what if Calen 
is in trouble too? How can I help both? I can't help one 
and deny the other."
 
Paul thought about the dilemma for a moment and then came 
up with an idea. "What we do is find out where Shannon is 
being kept. Then, we wait for the right time to rescue her 
and while we are waiting, you see if you can find Calen. If 
you want, I can try to contact her with my mind and let her 
know what you are planning." Gene thought about it for a 
minute and realized Paul was right. As soon as they could 
get some more info on Shannon, he could concentrate on 
Calen. 
 
Paul walked over to a quiet spot behind a building and 
thought about Calen. It took him a minute, but he finally 
got through to her. He asked her where she was and how she 
got there. He then told her to wait for them and they would 
be there to get them. He then asked her who was with her. 
Calen told him that she and Dy had just appeared in Sydney 
with no idea of how they got there. Paul assured her that 
they would be okay and told her again to wait for them and 
not to talk to anyone else. Calen promised to do as Paul 
said. Paul walked back to Gene and let him know that he had 
gotten through to Calen. He then told Gene that the women 
had no idea of how they got to Sydney and they were scared. 
 
Calen turned to Dy. "Paul just contacted me. I don't know 
how, but he did. He said that we should stay right here and 
not to talk to anyone. Something is wrong and we are 
somehow right in the middle."
 
"What kind of trouble? Is Paul okay? Did He say how we got 
here?"  

Calen tried to answer Dy's questions, but she didn't really 
have any answers herself. All they could do was wait and 
perhaps Paul or Gene could give them answers. 

It didn't take long for the group to find Shannon's hiding 
place. Gene "felt" his way through Sydney til they found 
Shannon's whereabouts. They talked about the rescue plans 
and decided that the time wasn't right to strike just yet. 
They would have to wait until the opportunity presented 
itself. 
 
After Gene had satisfied his mind that Shannon was unhurt 
for the moment and the rescue plan had been decided, he 
turned his thoughts to Calen. He was still concerned with 
how she and her friend ended up in Sydney. Ace agreed to 
stake out the hiding place and Gene and Paul could find 
Calen. They knew that the person holding Shannon would not 
hurt her yet. He was just using her as a pawn to get to 
someone else. 
 
Paul and Gene headed to the Sydney Opera House.  
 
Calen and Dy were hiding in a corner near the entrance to 
the building. They were beginning to get a little scared 
when Calen saw Gene and Paul. She grabbed Dy by the arm and 
ran to Gene. She threw herself in his arms and kissed him 
as she thanked him for coming to her rescue. Dy stood 
staring at Paul in his tight jeans, trying to get something 
to come out of her mouth. Paul shook her hand as he sized 
her up. She was very pleasing to the eye. Paul decided he 
would have a little fun with this one, but he would make 
sure he prevented the claim situation. He didn't understand 
how Gene was handling his own claim situation. 

Gene knew they needed to get off of the streets since he 
wasn't sure exactly who all was involved in the E.V.I.L. 
Organization. "C'mon. We need to find a place that isn't so 
public. And I don't know about Paul, but I wouldn't mind 
catching up a little with you Calen." Gene took Calen by 
the hand and led the group to a nearby hotel. 
 
When they got into the room, Gene bolted the door shut and 
pulled Calen into his arms. He began to kiss her as his 
hands caressed her body. Dy saw what was happening and 
decided she had to have some too, so she grabbed Paul and 
started kissing him. She ran her hands all over his body, 
caressing his fabulous ass. Gene and Paul both knew what 
was about to happen and stopped the girls. Neither wanted 
to be in a position of claiming the women in their arms.  

Paul and Gene sat the women down on the beds and began to 
explain about claims and links and all of the other little 
situations associated with sex with the men of Kiss. Dy 
began to pout because she was sure her chance to have Paul 
was gone. Since Paul was able to read her thoughts, he 
began to explain that there were ways around the claims, 
given certain conditions. Dy and Calen both agreed to the 
conditions and began to undress. Paul and Gene could not 
resist the temptations in front of them, so they performed 
the needed rituals to prevent claims and climbed into the 
beds with the women.
 
The windows on the room began to fog up as the heat from 
the two couples was building up. Paul looked up at Dy. He 
always did love voluptuous women and Dy definitely fit the 
bill. She was beautiful and sexy. She brought out reactions 
from his body that he had never experienced in his life.
 
Gene was giving Calen everything he had. Calen forgot that 
Dy and Paul were in the next bed. She started screaming 
Gene's name over and over. 
 
Dy and Calen were oblivious to anything except the raw 
sexual power in the room. An electric current unknown to 
the couples was building up in the room. 

Calen and Dy looked Paul and Gene in the eyes and in a 
cloud of noxious gas, spontaneously combusted at the same 
time. Gene and Paul looked at each other in confusion and 
horror as all that was left of the two beautiful young 
women was the lingering fragrances of their perfume….