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Drake sighed watching this as he shook his head. "Those two get along like extinguishing fire with fuel. I am going to have to keep close tabs on them I guess." he said having eyed that odd wound.

A soft violin in the distance played a song the melody was soft and yet cold, it filtered down the hallway many had gotten used to the 'phantom violinist'. Most could never find where the music came from. other then from behind a certain wall. Yet this melody seemed upbeat there was a soft sadness to the music and a cold chill to the air followed the music it was a certain lullaby that was called the golden trill.

Only few people could ever play it properly the chill wafted into Tara's room licking at the wound on her arm might be felt. One of the famous violinists that always played this song perfectly was her mother and she was played it as a lullaby to help her sleep specially through trying times. But despite the sadness the one unique way this song had played might remind Tara of how her mother always played it.

But that in it's self could never be played that way by anyone else than Tara's mother. Should she have heard the music it might remind her and possibly make her look to find the source. The way the violin was played there was music sounding like a woman saddened yet happy humming and singing an aria "Ahhhahahhahaaa." but the actual voice did sing while playing though most would never hear the words. But to those who did hear it would hear the song Children of the night sang.

"Come, little children, I'll take thee away, Into a land of enchantment. Come, little children, the time's come to play, Here in my garden of shadows, Follow, sweet children, I'll show thee the way. Through all the pain and the sorrows, Weep not, poor children, for life is this way" but the song never finishes fully out but instead there is soft haunting humming. Though as mentioned before not everyone heard the words.

But the music of that very same song was what eerily played through the halls on a moonlit nights like this. If Tara heard this would she feel as if it was her mother playing it? Would she who had not seen her mother though was told she was found murdered years and years ago leaving only Tara and her father to fend for themselves try to find it?

A few young girls stood in the halls a tray dropping with a clang as the music was heard. "Oh geeze you scared me dropping that." Another young woman said as the first would apologize. "Sorry it's just that phantom music startles me every time I hear it. I had tried to find where such beautiful violining was coming from but there is just a solid wall yet when I listened to the wall it would stop. And I swore I heard a woman sobbing. But when I called out the sobbing would stop and the only thing I heard then was the vibration of the generators running." The girl sat picking the empty metal tray up off the floor.

Drake sighed more shaking his head going to Rastu's room to try lecturing him on playing fair but he wasn't there. "Arg! where is he. I think he knows I am looking to lecture him on playing nice with others.
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On the moon lit streets outside the three walked the grounds towards Darkus's evil fortress prepared to infiltrate with any means needed having gone into the dark tunnels underground the secret entrance to the interrogation cells. "Eew this place reeks. Why do WE have to be the ones to come here. Father said to the master he was at his service not us. Yet we are the ones that are here." The one girl that was trying to lure Fala said in disgust.

The male that joined trying to lure Fala over sighed. "You know fathers not at full power Talia. If he confronted the stronger ones from this place he himself could be captured." He said sighing and looked dropping the body of one of Darkus's guards a few holes on his neck as the lifeless body lay slumped to the ground.
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Sodain started to stir and wake as he groaned seeing the priestess's he shot up in the beat shrieking thinking they was going to try beating him into converting once again specially seeing the one who last he seen her tried just that. "What are you here for. I am not converting no matter what you do to me. No matter if you beat the skin of my very body I won't convert!" He said seeming panicked.

As Tara would do that knock a wall panel next to her hissed and clicked popping open. it seemed it as trigger to reveal the secret opening. The violin music seemed a little louder now because of the crack in the wall opening. If the wall was opened fully there would be a winding staircase amongst dusty and rusty pipes. Light up by a dull emergency lighting for maintenance during a power outage type lighting system. The further she would travel the louder the music would get until there was a door like a jail cell door with iron bars on it. A slot for a tray of food and the looks of this place would indicate not even Drake knew of it's existence.

The door was so old that the lock had been completely worn off, yet in the metal was an odd symbol engraved into the floor at the opening to this giant cell like place. Inside the sound of chains mixed in with the song as well as a deep growling sound but then when the music stopped it sounded like sobbing, Slightly haunting sobbing almost like a young girl sobbing. "Please it's so peaceful please don't stop." Then there was a sigh and the music resumed again.

It seemed there was two people here but it was hard to see. However a sound of the chain moving closer a little in the light of a moon beam a woman in a tattered shimmering dress, The dress that was worn by Tara's mother when she was last seen alive. It looked blood stained somewhat and soon the crimson hair with ice blue tips and streaks in the hair Ice blue eyes shimmering in the moon light as if they sparkled with magic as if ice crystals had been captured never melting inside the eyes.

A violin that had a special decoration on it a heart shaped jeweled necklace in ice blue diamonds, with fire red rubies which in the shimmering like could be seen the name 'Tara' in the middle. Perhaps it was something Tara herself did and likely got a scolding fore ruining her mothers expensive violin. Yet the jewels when it was played had added a slight calming chime to the music that played no matter what was played. The bow looking tattered and about to completely break slowly lifted to the strings that looked to have been repaired several times over already.

The music slowly started to play again but then the bow had all it could take snapping the face that was pale like snow flinched as the snow like coloring got a tinge of dark crimson to it as a string snapping as well cut a slight line on the cheek as it bled. Yet the woman fell to her knees one drip of blood falling down hitting her dress. before the cut started sealing as if there was never a cut to begin with. Tried to fix the violin as the sobbing sound of the girl darkened. "What are you doing!? I asked you not to stop now play that song again!" a strange hissing like a giant serpent hissing and slithering around before a mutated like creature looking like a snake lunged close enough towards the woman before a set of large chains snagged and tightened the snake how ever looked to hold strands of human hair off the top of it's head.

"I can't play it anymore that string that broke I can not fix it anymore. Not without a new set of strings and the bow it's self can not be repaired anymore either after an eternity of lulling you to sleep to spare my own life so maybe I could see my daughter one last time. But no one has come, no one but you a great devouring monster I am the last of those who keep you locked away here.

No one, no supplies, no shift change, no back up nothing has come though I have sent repeated cries for help. We may very well be the only forms of life in this world left. I so believe this to be the case now I did truly die that day Rastu bit me when my illness surged forth back into strength on my way to the last recital I was to play, After I got into an argument with my daughter over ruining my violin but she just wanted me to remember her when I was away from home." The woman playing the violin said this as a red tear rolled down her cheek turning to ice falling and making a twinkling chime sound before it started to melt.

"He promised he would ensure my illness never took me from my daughter but I truly believe he lied and devoured my soul sending me into hell because there has been no one that answered my calls." She added before she looked to the thing. "I don't care anymore it has been so long that I have been here to keep you asleep with my music she would have grown up had kids, passed away and turned to dust by now as would the next 150 generations of her family line. I don't care anymore just end it so that maybe before my soul is sent to th eternal torture part of hell I might be able to see my Tarabell and tell her I am sorry I never returned and that her gift was precious and that I was sorry for telling her she ruined this violin, Which only after playing it with this addition of hers was it truly a masterpiece worth the label of priceless." She said crying softly as two more tears rolled down staining her cheeks as the froze but they glowed shimmering freezing in mid fall.

One burst into fire forming into a sword as the large mutated serpent lunged snapping a chain the sword of fire which was known her father was able to craft flew and cut the head of the beast off slaying it. Why after all this time did this happen now. A soft flame of foot prints walked from the door Tara might be at had she walked down and witnessed this. The other tear shifted into a golden key dropping to the floor in front of the woman. The key was just like the one used on the chains she was shackled with. The woman looking around not seeing anything or anyone at this moment picked it up.

The fiery foot prints spread into words. "Go to her Tarabell the door lost it's lock eons ago. She is your mother but she is like Rastu but she only let him do this so she could remain with you. It is after all what he promised her." the flames then faded it seemed her father might had who always believed Tara's mother was alive out there some place and died searching.
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The three walked on in the tunnels with grace one tried picking the lock breaking the last lock pick they had and grew frustrated as the young girl and boy bickered about it the third would have taken the key ring she picked off the guard unlocking the door and opening it as a sweet toned voice "Now children what have I told you about several times before? When you eat someone that guards a place like this to see if they carry keys to save time." She said giggling and both glared to the other.

But the bickering had alerted the other guards. Once the door was opened shots rang out through the cells in great number even all the way to where Yui was being held. The woman that used the keys moved in a flash through the group of guards flashes of crimson and blackness flittered around. When she stopped a black spectral like scythe arm dripping with blood held up as she licked the blood from it. the guns stopped firing and the bodies fell dead cut to pieces.

"Now come along children we have to find the one we was sent here for." She said as yellowish white hair was seen under her hood as she spun the ring of keys on her finger of that human arm she had on the other side of her body. "I said move it you two NOW! or you won't share in the grand feast your father has planned!" her voice getting a strong britannian accent when she was upset but her tone stayed cold and calm the was it could turn blood to ice just about. The other two jumped racing after her as she turned whistling moving down the passageway.
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Sodain looked to the girl looking down touching the pendant blinking at how it looked now sighing. "I see well then thank you I was not aware I only felt as if I was about to explode into a fireball then I felt ice cold chill on me and passed out. I was not aware that all had happened." He said looking down sighing.

Sodain nodded a bit listening and sighed. "Hopefully Phen will let me love who I want not someone he wants because they could be his long lost lover among the goddesses." He said softly sleepily and laid back turning on his side to go back to sleep.
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The two raced catching up jaws dropped at the other one taking out over 100 guards in a few seconds a guard screams in terror running past, away from the direction of the gunshots the guard gets tackled by two figures in black cloaks biting into the guard just barely out of sight the blood curdling screams of the male guard echo. As a third stops in front of the cell turning to look at Yui and spoke softly. "Ah there you are Yui, Darn I was hoping there was more fun to be had when we came to rescue you Oh well stay perfectly still." She said moving her right arm showing it like the scythe blade claw hand of a phantom.

Swinging her arm at the bars they sparked a few times then fell away into piles of rings and then in the blink of an eye was standing eye level as if levitated up off the floor with Yui a dark grin crossed her lips then swinging her right arm at Yui there was a screaming high pich sound as his legs and hands got free of all shadow bindings and she put her humanoid arm around him lowering to the floor. Alarms sounded deep inside the cells and in the army barracks showing a jail break. on the screens "You two take him and start back home, what is coming will be here soon and you can not fight him. Your job is to return him to hq." she said and the two whine

"Aww but we want fun too mom." She looked her face and part of one yellowish red eye glared at them making the boy and girl jump scared. "You are to protect Yui, There will be peons standing in your way to take out yet. But one strong like me and your father is heading here. HE is MINE to play with you three get back to HQ NOW!" then she looked to Yui "Make sure your not followed these two can be not as careful as they should be." She said then tore her robe off dressing Yui in it. "Go." She said so coldly her breath was seen on the air that came out her mouth as she moved her head popping her neck a few times and stood waiting.

The two others which looked close to the same age ordering the two around jumped pulling Yui with them heading back the way they came from.
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The woman looked in horror as she seen Tara gasping crying. "why are you in hell your innocent I taught you to remain true to your heart and pure. Why are you here in hell?" She asked not realizing she was still in the living world.

The girl smirked letting it hit her or made it seem to but something would be off there was no resistance. to the force could he have just vaporized her? did she somehow avoid it as fast as it happened? suddenly the men around screamed 5 split in half falling dead. The woman appearing in the middle of them giggling. "Oh my you missed me im over here." she said in a mocking britannian accent to see if he would react without thinking and vaporize his own men.

The two stopped shoving Yui into a slender alcove twisting ice flying out from one hand then with a spiral of fire around it the other hand would throw a solid flow of fire which had ice spiral around it to help keep the focus strong. one freezed the floor while the other fused a door shut making it super hot. Then grabbing Yui they all ran again.
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Sodain slept nothing awkward happening.

The young girl laughed dancing out of the way of his attacks seemingly easy enough. "Oh now if I let it all out I would not be having so much fun." She laughed and as a large slab of heave stone fell towards her she punched it shattering it into large stones and jumped about kicking them sending them flying into people in the way if Tyron dodged them and a peon was trying to shoot her it would plow into the peon leaving a bloody mess.

She was letting herself have a bit of good fun but then stopped dead in one spot closinging her eyes "Yes my master. Understood." She said sighing and as lightning closed in she held out her hand the lightning somehow drawn to it as seemed to absorb it as she grinned devilishly. "All that raw power you have it has to be delicious but unfortunately my master Rastu of the white hand tells me I must end this now so you get your wish You want to see what I am truly capable of? Well here is a taste." She said grinning and black lightning shot from her hand easily traveling using his own as she get drawing it from him preventing him from stopping the flow as her lighting full of agonized screams and wails of howling pain from people.

If he some how did get to break away stopping the drawing of his electric powers she was able to do her lightning would cease as well as her power was to absorb and redirect a variated power mutated by the phantom powers she held in her showing of the black blood like energy flowing where her one arm cut off in a battle long ago regrew into this which she could also use as a wing to fly if needed.

And her right eye also had a vapor of this energy flowing out once it opened which for this fight now it opened revealing the thing she really was. And she left out a lough cackling psychotic laugh arching her back then moving slapping the floor as large arches of reddish black energy flowed like snakes at the speed of lightning. As peons would be hit they would be torn apart even their blood and all shreds of them even the weapons and clothing vanished into this mass shooting out from her right phantom like reaper arm.

She seemed to be consumed herself as the main mass that would follow trying to hit Tyron if he fled would take the form similar to a dog but it would hold millions of what appeared to be eyes and able to split into 5 directions spreading through consuming all life in the path of the beast like mass of energy. The beasts snarled and howled eerily as it echoed to Yui and the the two with him they stopped looking back eyes huge with pure terror.

Then looking to each other "s**t she loosed the hounds of hell" the male picking Yui up and bolted carrying him in his shoulder One of the hounds burst through the door of ice running right towards them a few soldiers as they was dragged into the mass through the door screamed being consumed by it. The boy and girl leapt up out of the way once they broke out of the tunnel having taken to the air it kept running soom 4 others right after it then soon they all merged into one mass turning back into the girl who laughed insanely. Then raced off into the night.

"Come on brother lets get home hurry." The girl said really scared and he nodded. "s**t she took that form it really must have been a strong fight if she had to resort to that." He said flying into the shadows with Yui to the closest entry to the base near by watching to make sure the cost was clear. They made their way into towards the entry to the base cautiously.

The black phantom girl recalls all the hounds she summoned getting away and runs off into the woods not sure if Tyron would follow her, once they three got back and as Yui had went to report the boy and girl race off to find Rastu "Father!" They say fearful looks on their faces as he looked to them looking bored.

"What has you so work up younglings?" He said sighing and the rambled on really fast as he followed along thinking "Hmm I see So your mother went to have fun and forgot to invite me with such fun hmm. I shall deal with it." he said slowly standing walking out through the wall to leave the base.

Drake was in his office doing paperwork. Then he was yelling at the team he sent to remind Yui to report, and tried to rescue him on their own without being ordered to. "YOU! had no right, no orders to try to rescue Yui if he was found to be captured he is high skill more then all of you put together. And if HE was captured as skilled as he is you would NEVER! stand a chance to rescue and fight your ways out. It would take 500 of each of you to even make up 1/8th as much skill as Yui has in his little finger! So when you thought you would get a bonus by trying to rescue him, you would have failed, given reason to narrow the search to find this base, or talked when tortured where we would not be safe, Your foolish rash actions would have risked the lives of us all here. Yet you think I would have been proud? HA you dilute yourselves greatly!" Drake was screaming at them chewing the out good.

Tara's mother limped out with help of Tara carrying her violin and bow a passing nurse seen the injured or weakened woman Tara carried and brought a wheelchair for her then would insist the woman who was Tara's mother seek medical help and a place to rest.

Darkus stood up furious and stormed out screaming at the top of his lungs as well as shooting shadow energy at Tyron "Stop that this instant Tyron or I will be forced to make you stop!" He said and if Tyron refused to he would surround Tyron in shadows compressing and discharging all his electric energy to force him back to a human state and shackled Tyron in chains to block all Tyron's powers.

Drake looked to them his eyes seemed to glow oddly. "Oh so you thought you could show you could do it hmm? then what would you have done against this?" He said slamming a odd pulsating crystal onto his desk as it shattered the dust floating into the air refracting light turning into a sort of screen showing half the fortress falling apart and the dragon of lightning rampaging. "Had you gone you would have had to face this so you tell me how would you have dealt with this hmm?" Drake said as his eyes seemed to glow it showed the video.
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Rastu went appearing to walk out of the wall huffing eyeing a group of guards ignoring them as he walked on towards the woods to look for his minion.
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Tara's mother thought the nurse a bit shocked hearing Tara calling this woman mother. "Well I really would like my violin and the bow fixed." trying to change the subject about food it has been forever since she ate food, she couldn't remember the last time she had ate.
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Darkus took and summoned a shadow whip but flicking it a odd way made it turn kinda into a staff of some king that was long. swinging it hitting Tyron in the back a few times as he spoke one word -whack- another word -whack- and so on. "And just what more would you destroy in the rampage to chase to try killing that girl you fought with? And who do you think is going to rebuild this place YOU tore down hmm? I sure as hell am not. You want to use your powers freely again? Then rebuild this all on your own and I will take into consideration to return them to your use. Until this place is rebuilt though Tyron you will not e having them able to use." Darkus said narrowing his eyes onto Tyron.