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Kalore barely registered that he was basically free to move as he wished, but there was pain in his whole body making him to not really think about that. As he looked up, though, there was a look of confusion on his face as he was soon seeing his Monty being… no. Once the water was thrown on him, Kalore hissed softly, his body shaking just a bit before he was trying to move, trying to get to where he would be able to help the other man in front of him. There was no way that he was going to allow Lech to do something like this to the person that he cared so much about, but how was he going to help him? The thought was something that was bothering him as he knew that, in this state, Lech could just push him aside and he wouldn’t be able to do anything.

Glancing at the chains, though, Kalore was slowly getting an idea as he was moving so that he was taking them off as silently as he could, thinking about as many prayers and wishes to his Goddess that he could to make sure that the other was going to be okay. Kalore didn’t think that Monty would even want him after everything that had happened, the pain causing his body to almost completely crumble beneath him, but that didn’t matter. He needed to help him and he would.

Whispering softly, Eldin bit his lip as he whispered a quick prayer to the Goddess as he soon was moving around the other, making sure that his movements were slow. Eldin was treating Joker as he would any wild animal, and animals were something that he was good at controlling. The thought reminded him of the times that he would bring certain animals around him and the twins when they would meet up with one another. He had control over things that were natural, and hopefully he could soothe the other like he would any other wild animal. “Joker… Listen to me… Joker?” Whispering his words, he allowed himself to let some of his energy drift a bit, but he wouldn’t be able to do this for too long. He was good, but he wasn’t that good.

Voice deadly, Edward’s grip tightened around him before he slashed down one of his arms, the claws causing the skin to break in a perfect replica of his own scar as he whispered, “I’m showing you what true hell is.” He snarled before forcing the other to free him, soon moving so that he was moving in a way that he could fully watch the other without his cuts opening up completely. In this form, he was causing the other to cut himself, to gouge into his own skin. Raul would be upset with the cruelty, but at the moment his human counterpart wasn’t even in his mind.

Rave was chuckling darkly as he slowly was walking to her, having shadows block the door as they were slowly going up himself; his nude form soon giving way to a form clad in dark pants and a dark long sleeved shirt. “I think you will tell me everything, girl… Now… weren’t you wanting something from me?” Moving to her, he gripped her chin harshly in between two fingers as his shadows stabbed through her hands and feet both, keeping her completely still less she harm herself more. “Now… tell me who it is that’s doing all this and where everyone is. I don’t have all day.”

“Damn them!” Grumbling, Dusk soon was looking around as she made her way to the restaurant that she knew the others were supposed to be in. Now that the Hunters were gone, which Rave so kindly forgot to tell her but Eldin thankfully did, Dusk wasn’t hiding. She didn’t want to hide and she wasn’t going to keep hiding when it wasn’t needed. Instead, the woman was moving into the building, frowning at the locked doors but simply shifting into it. “Hey! Where are you guys?” The place echoed.

Frowning more, Dusk was tense as she was looking around, jumping as she passed the storage room and heard a groan. “What the…?” Her words were soft as she shifted into the room, not wanting her body physical if someone was going to attack her, but soon was gasping as she saw Raul on the ground. Dropping beside him, she soon was touching his cheek before looking around, her eyes wide. “What the hell happened?!” When she looked farther, though, Dusk almost choked. “K-Kyo?” Whispering that, she had to leave Raul to get to Kyoshi, touching his cheek with a shaky hand, whispering again, “What the hell happened?”

“We were… attacked…” Raul was slowly starting to sit up as Dusk moved back to him, helping him up and moving them both closer to Kyoshi. “But… Why?” He shook his head, gritting his teeth in pain as he sighed softly, “I do not know, Miss Dusk.” Looking at the bound Kyoshi, she was biting her lip softly, “What happened to you, Kyoshi?” She hadn’t seen something like this before... ever… and it was worrying her greatly.

Growling as he saw what state Lech had Monty in, Kalore was slowly standing up, his pace slow and sound silent. Once he was behind the other, a single chain in hand, Kalore’s voice was right in the other’s ear as he whispered, “Oh, Lech… You’ve been such a grand host… I’d love to pay you back…” The voice was heavily accented, the man’s musical voice softer than normal as he said some of the only words that his voice was allowing him to give. Before the other could even react, he had brought his leg around the other’s legs, bringing them back so that he would hyperextend Lech’s legs but he didn’t have enough energy to pop the other’s knee caps out of place. Before the other would fall, though, the chain was around his neck and Kalore was close to him, smirking as his hair covered his face.

“Free him, Lech.” He wouldn’t be able to say too many more words as he was already out of breath from those words, but his grip was firm and steady. Rage and killing intent was in his eyes as his eyes were hidden and he had the other down and in a painful state. If only he wasn’t so exhausted, then he could probably do more, but for now he would keep a steady grip on the other, watching him out of the corner of his blazing green eyes.

Biting his lip, he soon was kneeling in front of the other, making sure to stay out of his reach as his voice was soft, thinking about something that he didn’t even think would work, but… who knew? If he didn’t do something then they were going to lose Joker, and even he knew that. Sighing once more, he was moving so that the stone was changing, certain colors being added with seeds and debris that were around and in the ground until is showed the face of a certain blonde woman that Eldin had seen with Joker all the time. He didn’t know their relation, but… he knew that something was there between them. Other than that connection… the boy had nothing.

A swift death, though, was not something that Edward had in his mind as he was slowly beginning to stand up, forcing himself to simply hold himself together before he would drop to the floor. “What is this? I thought I already told you. It seems that you don’t use your ears, now, do you? Well… if they’re that useless to you…” He smirked as he had the other begin to cut off his own ear, slowly, painfully. The other would torture this man until his demonic side saw that it was a fit enough time to steal whatever blackened soul this man had.

Freezing, Rave listened to the name echo in his ears as he was slowly shaking just a bit, the shadows around him, expanding and causing her more pain, but soon his eyes were closed. The woman was useless to him if she ended up dying of blood loss without telling him what all it was that he needed to know. Taking in another breath, his eyes were almost completely black as he watched the woman in front of him carefully. “You will tell me what this Lech and what this master of yours are planning. You will tell me who they are, what they are, and what it is that they want with me and my people.”

He didn’t realize that he had said his people, but in a way they were; only rave didn’t mean in it in an owning way. Eldin, Kalore, even Raul and Edward and Cassandra for he got them dragged into this, were his people. He was the one that they had been following under for so long and they were supposed to trust. For that reason, they were his people, and the other were part of his team. It was hard for him to not just demand where Gambler was herself. Emotions couldn’t get in the way… not this time.

“Try talking to him.” Leaning up against the wall, clutching her stomach, Cassandra’s eyes were mixing between the violet of Edward’s and the dark brown of Raul’s pained eyes. Dusk watched her, confused, “Where did you..” “Not now.” Growling, she was beside Raul, touching his cheek as she was looking over him, sighing softly. “You and the demon… both harmed… and I feel all of it…” Dusk continued to look confused, but soon she was moving to touch Kyoshi’s cheek, leaning up to kiss him softly. She would ask later. “Kyo? Kyo… Come on…”

Kalore had his hair covering most of his face, but slowly the only thing that was visible on him was his mouth and there was slowly starting to be a smirk on the man’s beautiful face. “He doesn’t’ deserve to live? And what do you deserve?” Bringing his leg back around, he simply pressed it against one of his knees, slowly pulling at the already weak area. “You don’t deserve life, Lech… but… you don’t deserve death.” Pulling it back slower, the man’s voice was getting softer, “You don’t deserve that mercy.”

Whispering that, he had to be right at his ear to be heard as he brought his leg back, hard, bringing his knee back with him. “Free him.” And his voice was gone. And it would stay gone until he was able to get to Eri or someone else that would know what to do. Seeing as there was no one… Kalore didn’t even think about it as he simply watched the man, now below him, with cold and terrifying eyes. He had been pushed too far, and when the man was pushed, there were a lot of things that he could do that people wouldn’t think that he had in him.

Watching the man in front of him, Eldin was biting his lip softly as he nodded some to himself. It seemed like he had done something that was actually of some use. Breathing a soft sigh of relief, he didn’t speak until Joker was at least partially back to normal. “You… You care for her? For Miss… Miss Kitanasa?” The respectful boy was biting his lip softly before he sighed once more, shaking his head some. “We… We need to get out, Joker… I’m sure that once we do… we could go to her work, the Eri’s club, and see her.”

He didn’t know why it was that he was thinking that that would do anything to snap the other out of this, but as he saw with everything else, it was starting to be interesting. It was becoming more and more obvious that the other really did care for this one woman, though Eldin didn’t really know to what extent. But, if caring for Kit got Joker back to normal… Eldin didn’t care as long as he got to live another day.

As the man was begging for mercy, Edward was simply chuckling softly, shaking his head at the other. “Why should I, human?” Smirking once more, he lifted his finger and played with the area that used to hold an ear, laughing loudly as he shook his head. “I don’t want to.” Another smirk and he soon was causing the other to slowly skin himself, not only for his own enjoyment but to also allow Edward some time to recoup. It was going to be hard, but as he glanced around, he saw some things that could be used for stitches and just sighed. He would force the other to stitch him up but… Nah.

“Really now?” Drawling out the words, Rave slowly had the shadows dissipate, but there were others that kept the woman upright. “Tell me who, girl, or I will kill you slowly, keeping you alive until you’re old and gray.” His words were careful, precise, as he didn’t even blink. “Or tell me now and I’ll give you a quick death.”

Smiling softly, Dusk soon was leaning up to touch the other’s cheek, “I know, Kyoshi…” She normally wouldn’t abide by what it was that the other was wanting her to do, but at the moment Dusk figured that he could use the break. “I don’t know how to help, though.” Biting her lip, she slowly was touching around the angel’s form, sighing once more as she leaned up, kissing him softly. “I don’t know the right kind of magic to fix this… Well… I don’t think so…” Kissing him softly again, Dusk had to go onto tip toe, pulling herself with her hands on his shoulders to reach him.

Listening to what was being said, Dusk bit her lip as s he tried to remember the words, nodding slowly before she sighed some. “I… I’ll try.” Going through the words perfectly in her mind, it wasn’t long before she was speaking them, softly, as if scared about what the words would do instead of accepting them as something that will help them. But the words were spoken and she was trusting that they would actually work. If they didn’t… well, then they were all royally screwed and there wouldn’t be anything that they could do about it.

Eldin almost smiled once he felt the other actually speaking instead of snarling, nodding some. “Yeah, it’s me. You… You scared me… badly.” He bit his lip at the state that the other was still in, but he wasn’t going to release him until he knew for a fact that Joker was back to normal. When he was told to go, he was shaking his head, sighing once more. “I can’t go, Joker… not without you.” Biting his lip softly, he gestured around them, shaking his head. “We’re trapped here. I can get us out but… I just don’t know what’s out there… I need help and I think the other’s do as well.” Eldin was still watching him as he sighed. “I don’t know where we even are.”

Frowning more, Rave was listening as the other gave him a name that didn’t make sense to him but was foreboding nonetheless. To have the name of ‘sin’ wasn’t hard to figure out on the other person’s intent. With another flick of his wrist, the shadows were slowly moving up the woman’s body as he was killing her. It wasn’t a quick death like what he had said it would be, but it was quicker than what he was originally planning. He said nothing more, though, as Rave turned his back and walked out of the room, silent.

It took a while for him to stop torturing the other, but as he had the man skinning himself, Edward was sewing himself back up. By the time he was done with that, he had forced the other to give him the pants and coat that he was wearing, soon kicking him into a corner as he made his way out of the room, unable to close the coat due to the wounds, groaning softly as he opened the door, shading his eyes from the bit of light that he was faced with.

Looking over Monty, there was another spark of anger as Kalore simply pulled the chain tighter, smirking just a bit as he shook his head. He couldn’t talk at the moment, but as brought his leg around to dislocate the other knee, he moved so that the chain would be wrapped around the other’s neck, getting a sick idea of wishing that it was barbed wire. Then they would both have ‘hideous scars’. Moving away from him as he kicked the other away, knowing that the lack of air would cause the other to pass out but not kill him. Sadly.

Instead he soon was kneeling beside Monty, leaning against the wall with a cautious gaze, breathing a bit hard. Kalore’s own body was battered and beaten, having been abused in just about any way that someone could have imagined. He had the contraptions that had been placed on him gone, but there was going to be more than one scar on his body; even more on his mind.

Without his voice, he slowly reached out, touching the other’s cheek as he mouthed out Monty’s name, his hand weak and shaking just a bit from exhaustion. But, he needed to make sure that Monty was at least able to get up and move. Lech wasn’t going to be passed out forever and they needed to find the others before anything else.

Dusk had been surprised by the kiss, but she soon was returning it as she kept close to the other, nodding some as well. “I missed you too, Kyo.” Kissing him again, she soon was rolling her eyes at the nickname. “You’re the old one here, damnitt.” But Raul didn’t care as he nodded some. “I just need this checked out… then I’ll be fine.” He gave another nod as he sighed softly, allowing himself to be lifted by Cassandra, noticing that she was in the same pain as he was in, but more. “Edward…” She shook her head. “He’s… better. It was really bad before but… it’s getting better.”

Biting his lip some, Eldin started to stand up as he nodded some, backing up a bit before he was biting his lip softly. “You’re going to be okay… right?” But as he was speaking, he soon was having the other man released, still biting his lip softly before shaking his head some. “Do you have any idea on where we are?” The fact that he was really the newest one to this area was a bit annoying, seeing as he would have absolutely no clue. Even Edward had probably been near here more often than he had; but in a way he was glad that he hadn’t been where all Edward had been…

Making it out into the hall, Edward had a raised brow as a door opened and the dark haired elf came out. Chuckling softly, he shook his head, “Well well…” Watching him, he noticed that Rave’s eyes were… different. Looking into them, he soon was shivering a bit at the sense that he got from him. The main thing that he could think of was that he was glad that Rave was on their side.

Walking to the other, Rave gave a brief nod, looking him over but frowning at his stomach. “What happened?” Edward shook his head, giving an uncaring gesture to the other. “You don’t want to know, man. Now… let’s go find everyone else and get the f*ck outta here.”

AS Monty flinched away from him, the words from Lech were coming crashing down onto him once more. Kalore knew that none of them were true, that the man was saying them solely to hurt him, but before Monty was looking at him, there was a flash of doubt in his eyes. Maybe it all really was out of pity? Kalore bit his lip softly, backing away slowly before he felt Monty’s hand on him. Watching him, Kalore bit his lip before soon moving to keep close to the other, refusing to break down, but he was tempted to. During the time with Lech, he hadn’t cried, but he had gotten close. Now that they were still in danger, he refused to break down. Now just wasn’t the time. He couldn’t bring himself to move out of Monty’s chest, though, as his body was shaking.

Kalore simply nodded at the other, knowing that he couldn’t trust his voice seeing as he didn’t even have on. Sighing some, he leaned up to the other, but he stopped himself from kissing the other, not knowing if he would even want to be kissed by someone that was basically tainted worse than anything else around. His eyes were pained as the thought flashed through his mind, but he nodded again, helping to wrap himself in the blanket as he bit his lip softly, lips parted to say something but nothing came out and he was sighing again. Mouthing out his words, he looked confused, “What about the others?”

Jumping as Joker was annihilating the door, Eldin was blinking some as he spoke calmly, “I um… I could have just removed the door…” but he figured that this was as good of a way as any for the man to get his beast out. Once the door was gone, though, his eyes widened as he saw Rave and Edward standing there; one of them looking curious but the other looking highly amused. Snickering, the demon shook his head but knew better than to get anywhere near Joker, same with Rave. “Huh… I guess this is a better call on the sound than what I was thinking it was…” He grinned as Eldin looked shocked, “S-Sir rave! Mr. Edward!” The demon twitched a bit at the mister in his name, but he just shrugged some, sighing before he looked at Rave. “Why do you get ‘sir’ and I get ‘mister’?”

Cassandra nodded before she was moving around to be able to find something that would work as a bind for the other man. “Could you carry him, angel?” It wasn’t a disrespectful name, but the woman just didn’t remember his name. Dusk sighed softly before stepping forward, “I’ll check around to find something that might help. Kyoshi… help them? Once we decide where to go, I can just shift Raul and I there so that he’s not moved as much.”

Hands up in defense, Edward was trying hard not to grin at the other as he soon was following the other, just trusting Joker to find someone to get rid of or something. Well, that’s what his excuse would be. Honestly, he just wanted to see the other kill someone in this state. He could tell that it would be a bloody mess, and that was something that the other was interested in. But as he was moving, though, he was frowning as he looked around, “Wait… Where is everyone else?” He glanced over at the others as Rave was sighing softly, his eyes slowly turning back to normal.

“I don’t know.” The elf didn’t like saying that, but as they were moving farther away, he could tell that there was something off. The group was moving away from where Kalore and Monty were, but soon enough they were getting to where they would be able to get out, Rave always listening to try to hear something that would be of some use to him. He couldn’t hear anything, though, and that was worrying him more than anything else that had happened yet. “I don’t hear her…”

Eldin glanced over at him, biting his lip until he focused on Edward, noticing the marks on him, “We need to just get out so that we can regroup, right?” He watched as Rave nodded, but he was also noticing that the other was looking around some, worry etched onto his features. The man had no idea where gambler was, and that wasn’t something that he was liking... at all. But at the moment, they had to worry about themselves. They were of no use to the others if they ended up dead somewhere.

Latched onto the demon, Kalore was shaking as the adrenaline from trying to defend Monty was fading fast from him. Now that he was left there - - silent without his voice and the pain crashing down on him now that he had nothing else to think about - - Kalore’s eyes were wide. He didn’t know what it was that he was going to do, but he knew that at the moment there was nothing more that he wanted to do other than just curl up into a ball and ignore the world. Without his voice, there was no sound from him as his breath was coming in choked gasps, trying hard to not just break down while they were still in some danger. It wouldn’t help at all, but… he was having trouble not losing it there with Monty.

Kalore was still shaking and shivering, but he soon was nodding as well, sighing softly. He tried to ignore what it was that was going on with his body, trying to ignore the pain so that he would be able to point them into the direction of the sounds that he was hearing. Without mouthing out anything, he tried to stand but couldn’t walk very well, sighing some before he was leaning against the other, pointing out the door.

Once they got there, he had the demon stop as he tilted his head to the side, a look of confusion on his face as he heard the sounds of violence, but then he heard the sound of someone snickering rather loudly; someone trying hard not to laugh out loud. Pointing in the direction of the others, he didn’t even poke his head out of the blanket covering, simply keeping quiet and hiding himself away from the others and anything around.

Watching the other ripping the others to shreds, Eldin paled and had his back turned, breathing hard before he shook his head. “W-What… What is he doing?” Edward was grinning, “Looks like he’s feeding… not a bad idea, if ya ask me.” Glaring at the other, Rave was sighing softly before he gently took Eldin, keeping him close. “We need to get out of here… Joker, do you know how to get out?” he wasn’t telling the other to stop, knowing that the man needed to get his beast out soon for risk of them being the ones that were attacked.