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Loda walked over to the siren and held her face up, her eyes were still open showing eyes that were froglike in every way but had an odd human gaze to them and the eyes were still colorful, but the cold skin and no pulse proved the siren to be dead. Taking out his knife he cut out her tongue and put it in his mouth, chewing it a bit but when it proved too chewy he just swallowed it.

Arc watched over Loda's shoulder then knelt next to him. "You should eat her raw heart too, but I doubt you're the kind of man to do that even to a siren. After all they are women who's soul had been stolen." He spoke softly, without any mocking or cockiness. Placing a hand on Loda's shoulder he knelt closer so he was whispering into his ear. "Syori is waiting for you. She'd be unhappy about you eating that tongue already. Besides-"

Loda whirled around and snapped at Arc. "I can't fall in love with Syori I had made a promise to someone else and she needs my help!" He yelled and his voice echoed through the cave and bounced back at him, which only strengthened his thoughts. Turning back to the siren he slashed out the heart and swallowed the pieces.

Arc's expression changed from surprise, to hurt and then to not quite hate but a snarling distemper. "You dare to turn from Syori when she's so smitten with you! I should leave you here to die. You're a traitor, using your crew to go to this forsaken fiancee of yours! Damn you!" He shouted and took one clawed hand and struck the cursed traitor's chest deeply and watched as Loda crumpled to the ground before jumping into the pool of water at the bottom of the cave and resurfacing to see the surrounding ocean, climbing up onto the dingy and grabbed Syori's arm, picking up Nina with his other hand. "What are you doing? Is everyone gone mad? Nina is your cat!" He spat venom in his words before cradling Nina in his arm and using his now free hand after releasing Syori's arm to scratch the cat's ears in an attempt to comfort her, and himself. Killing Loda was something he'd regret once the others found out. Actually it was the first person he regretted killing. (or so he thinks.)

Desert's body followed Syori without question but inside his head something else was going on? Desert was struggling as his will to fight was beyond limiltless. The demon inside him only laughed. "You continue to struggle against my will, as Syori's demon servant you should be fully controlled by now." Desert watched as the demon sent out its tentacles to try and stop him. "Tch, then you must not know me. Besides, have you ever met a true demon." The tentacles stopped as the voice could be heard again. "What, do you not see that I am a real demon? You foolish boy, I will break you." Weapons of all shapes and sizes started to go towards Desert. Waiting, Desert's aura behind him began to emerge for the first time in a long time. The weapons stopped as the large shadow of aura grew bigger. "You have not even seen hell yet, demon." Desert's aura looked like a skeleton with sharp teeth and a huge body. As it got bigger it grew more teeth and a even crazier look. The demon inside of Desert stayed silent.

On the outside Desert's entire body stopped moving altogether.

Arc shook his head and rowed back to the ships, searching for Ayane and Pearl. Taking Nina and helping her up first before climbing up himself. "Ayane! Desert and Syori are all acting weird, Loda betrayed us and I killed him! Syori even kicked Nina away." He called out and Pearl raised her head from her resting spot, a coil of ropes. The poor girl was tired enough to not come over.

Loda sat in the cavern, clutching his chest and gasping, coughing up blood. He looked at the bloody siren's corpse, tongue and heart cut out and shivered, he was in no position to leave the cavern not now at least. He shrugged off his vest and bunched it up, putting it to his chest where the slash was and applied a comfortable amount of pressure. He saw the ghost appear in front of him, the one that guarded the first treasure of the series of Samhain. "You have lost your crew to a demon, I suggest you get them back. Take this as a gift, cut off the Siren's hair and place it in front of me." Loda did as told, sawing off her hair and placed the long strands in front the deer like ghost, the hair lay like a long carpet before morphing into branches and spat some fire on to the pile. "These won't burn out until you leave or die. I suggest you roast her flesh." He said pointing his muzzle to the dead siren. "To eat."

Loda thanked the ghost silently and watched him vanish thinking to himself silently. 'How come this ghost always comes when I am alone? I took it's treasure and yet..' Loda's thought got interrupted by a pang of hunger, and he cut up a arm and roast it over the fire, feeling a little grossed out about eating something that looked remotely human, besides Arc did say that she once was a women who's soul was stolen and this one looked young... "Someone help me!" He called out but no one came, although a few lobsters and crabs stirred from inside small crevices along the cave, moving to the closest one Loda put a piece of meat in front of the hole and waited out of view until a cream colored claw reached out and Loda's hand swooped in pulling the crab out and stabbing it in the head, placing it by the fire, close enough to roast.

(Umm we're in South America not Africa. Go and look at a world map.)

Syori kept moving, limping through the woods. Her vision fading in and out yet she did not stop moving. She dragged her bad foot behind her as she moved. Even injured she was fast and silent. Unfortunately she was not silent enough nor fast enough. there was a sharp pain that hit her at the base of her neck. "s**t." She muttered as she saw a group of figures crowd around her.

Desert soon found himself in a small town and was stared at by the locals. "weird place, but it is nice out today." Looking from side-to-side. "Where the heck am I?" A couple people came running up to him pulling out weapons. One of them spoke. "Sir, please come with us." Desert looked at them then the small guns they held. no doubt they where taken from prisoners or people they have killed. "What a stupid thing to say." As soon as Desert turned the other way, a bullet went zooming past his head and cut his cheek. The person repeated himself. "Please come with us." Desert touched the blood on his cheek then looked at the man. "What a idiot."

Ayane was turning the entire ship around when she heard Pearl. 'Damn dog' She went running to where the dog was. When she saw Loda she raised one of her fists then noticed he was already wounded. "So you live. What a pain." She turned around and as she did she tossed him a medical kit. "Fix yourself up, traitor. I will not kill a wounded man."