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Esabel walked through the hallways from the entrance looking like a war victim. Of course, that might have been her usual appearance, the sign of a 'good time' for her, or a bad day. There was no real telling just from her appearance.

No, it was the look in her dark eyes that gave her away. This was a bad day complete with bad news.

She had her arms wrapped around herself, numerous wounds that hadn't closed yet, blood covering half of her face and matting her dark hair on that side, and bloody tears still rolling down her face. But it was the look in her eyes that showed the true horror. She looked haunted, devastated, and totally lost.

This was their resident nutcase. If she looked this bad, most people didn't want to hear what she had to say. Instead, a few guards ran to find Lily, one to find Allistair, another for Morrigan... The news of Esabel's arrival spread through the base like wildfire as well as what she looked like.

Some gathered along her path just to see what she looked like. She was almost a boogeyman for them. 'Don't upset the higher-up's or you'll be given to Esabel' 'You should see what she does to people she likes' was the common refrain. But most people simply avoided her because she gave them the willies on her good days, scared the crap out of them on her bad days.

Some knew her and wanted to see her knocked down a bit. But it backfired when they actually got a good look at her this time. No one should look that haunted or lost, not and still look so alluringly beautiful.

She just kept walking like that, silently crying. Until she started humming something a bit haltingly that the silent crowd could barely hear. One of them identified it as a lullaby that Ren had sung to Esabel once.

But with that starting up, the crowd started dispersing because it was swiftly becoming very obvious that something had snapped in their nutcase and driven her over the edge. None of them wanted to be around for the explosion. Leave that to the people that ran the place. They could take the risk...

One guard, however, knew something that the rest of the crowd had forgotten: Esabel had left with Ren and Gin as well as a few other top fighters and mages. Esabel was the only one to return so far.

Where were Ren and Gin?

As Esabel went further into the Base, the guards at the gates would call for extra men as the spotted six unfamiliar figures approaching. The figures were each about seven and a half feet tall and running at an easy lope. Some of the guards readied to be attacked, as they had no idea who was approaching the Re.

One guard pulled back a bow and let an arrow fly as a warning shot. The approaching men, instead of slowing at the warning, sped up and closed on the entrance swiftly. The guards stationed at the entrance tried to repel the intruders with arrows and spears, but the few projectiles that hit the armored men simply glanced off their bodies. Within moments, the guards lay in puddles and piles of body parts.

Stopping just inside the entrance, the intruding force, just six men, paused and took off their helms. Each man was over seven feet tall, with purplish dark blue skin and sporting red-white hair. Their weapons were brutish and intimidating, the tools of professional warriors.

Entering the compound, the oldest, known by the amount of white in his hair, spoke to another in a strange guttural language. The one he spoke to was his son, and they spoke to each other of the rancid smell of demons and all other manner of being that aligned itself with the Re.

They soon went quiet, catching the scent they'd tracked here. As far as they could tell, it was some sort of young woman, a woman who'd been present at the battle and subsequent devastation that claimed the lives of ten fellow warriors from their Clan. The men would soon find the source of the scent they followed.

The men, known by very few as HellHound Bezerkers, moved through the Base. They were close to the scent of the young woman, but caught the scent of others nearby. A growl rose in the throat of the youngest Bezerker, Kijun. He longed for a battlefield, the joy of open conflict and bloodshed, not this sneaking and killing from the shadows.

Bezerkers were the marauders of the world and everyone who knew what they were either succumbed to death or moved from their path. The Re's guards, however, seemed to get in the way as the WarPack moved closer to Esabel and the answers they sought. Each guard that unknowingly stumbled into their path was dispatched with weapons, fists and teeth.

Rounding a corner, Kijun spotted the source of the Scent they'd been following. The woman was kneeling down in front of a young girl and surrounded by a few guards. Pulling his blades, Mayhem and Madness, from their conjoined sheathes, Kijun rumbled a low growl and began to charge, intending to kill the guards and take the two females for questioning.

A firm hand stopped him and pulled him back. Kijun's father, Thanos, grumbled in their guttural tongue, chastising the youth and telling him to stay quiet and at the back of the Pack. Stepping forward, Thanos called a warning to the guards.

"Give us that woman for questioning and no more of your weak men will die! Defy us and you will all die, you homes burned and your women made into breeding stock!" Thanos had been the Leader of the Pack, the Clan Leader, for almost two thousand years. In that time, he had been seen less and less on the battlefield, allowing his young to prove themselves. When he did make a personal appearance, it meant either a great battle was about to be fought or something had gone wrong.

This time, something was wrong. Ten of his Bezerkers had been at the battle where Gin had set off his device, and now the HellHounds were owed blood payment for the loss of their men. The Bezerkers were a neutral faction in the conflict, due to neither side hiring them or even knowing of their existence. Regardless, Thanos' men had perished in he devastation resulting from the battle. He brought this WarPack to collect information about what had happened, and to receive payment for the loss of his men. If neither would be found, Thanos intended to decimate the Re and leave the faction little more than broken bodies and crumbling architecture.

Esabel raised one hand and surrounded Lily in bands of dark energy that contained her but didn't bind her, just kept anyone else from getting hurt, "Lily's gonna run the Re 'til they come back to us, so's you gotta think 'bout that. Esabel's got them," she said in that strangely calm and lost voice.

Her hand shifted towards one of the more 'growly' HellHounds and her dark energy moved again. This time it surrounded Kijun for a moment then faded to reveal a puppy.

This was a totally adorable, cuddle-able, 'aww' inspiring puppy. Complete with big brown eyes and soft chocolate fur. And the most adorable 'yippy' bark imaginable.

In one brief moment Thanos was looking on his priceless heir now turned into a Chihuahua puppy.

Esabel shifted to scoop the puppy up by the scruff and turned her dark eyes onto the leader of the beasts and offered him a smile that was more than insane as she staggered to her feet with the puppy now snuggled up against her bloody and clawed up chest as it licked away at her skin happily.

She approached the leader and offered the puppy to him even as it whimpered at being pulled away from her skin and the blood that covered it, "You got's two choices, big man... You can take what Esabel says and just deal with it or you can keep your precious little boy as a cute little puppy then watch the rest of your hounds turn into the same... Lily's all Esabel's got left for family. Esabel might tell you what all happened and she might not. All depends on how Esabel feels. And Esabel just lost almost all her whole family in one second. So's you's gonna have to play alot nicer or Esabel's gonna have to get mean right back," she said to him, her voice going a bit deader yet slightly more insane with each word she spoke to him.

Then she gave him a smile that had the rest of the guards scattering for a hiding place. Which should have been a warning to the Hellhounds...

That smile held more insanity in it than all of the hounds possessed in combination and showed that she was very close to snapping, "In case you wanna know what it means when Esabel gets mean, I'll show you. Just so you know," she added with a slightly hysterical up-lift to her voice as she gestured negligently to one of the fleeing guards without turning away from the large male.

That simple gesture made the guard explode. Literally. In a spray of blood, guts, and body parts that was as graphic an explanation as possible. It also made her point very nicely.

"Now then. Esabel's sister Lily's gonna be the new leader until Renny-Lady and Daddy-Gin come back. That means she's gonna need really really good bodyguards to keep her safe and keep Esabel happy. You wanna know more stuff, you're gonna have to be a good puppy-person," she finished then handed him the chihuahua and turned back to Lily.

As she approached her sister, Kijun returned to his previous form right in his father's hand and the bands around Lily disappeared as Esabel took her arm and started pulling her towards Ren and Gin's rooms, "Come on Lily, Esabel needs to hear someone screaming. If'n it's you, that's fine. Esabel'll just listen. If'n it's someone else, that's fine too. But ifn' it's Esabel, you might wanna hide," she finished that bit with a slightly hysterical giggle that showed her sister that she was ready to go over the edge of insanity instead of just walking that edge.

She didn't even address the issue of the numerous wounds she had from the fight that had gone on before the disappearances, or what she'd just done with the Hellhounds, or what she'd declared about Lily's new status... In short, she just kept moving so she wouldn't have to think about anything...

Kijun grunted and uttered a few words of his Clans deep rumbling language. Most would have heard nothing but guttural giberish, but the gist of what he said was him introducing himself as Kijun Moonkiller.

The Bezerker followed them and listened to their conversation. He needed to find a way to gain the two women's trust so that he could learn what had happened on that battlefield. Kijun was confused for a moment when they mentioned playing and screaming, but soon inferred that they meant to torture someone. The women also mentioned how everyone ran away, besides himself of course.

Grunting a rumbling sigh, Kijun stretched his back and fell to all fours with a loud grinding noise. He rapidly changed into a massive beast that looked like a mix between a Direwolf and a bear and loped off, with his nose raised. A few moments later he arrived beside Esabel, dragging two pompous looking Demons who were struggling to escape the HellHound.

If Esabel paid attention to Kijun's expressions, he'd seem to have a slight smirk on his mug. No doubt, he'd earn some sort of reaction by fetching some 'playthings' for Esabel and Lily. Kijun would drag the doomed men along with him to wherever the ladies planned to go.