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She closed her eyes and tried to relax, "There's no use. Save your energy... What's done is done. You can't get to him."

Nadina pulled the pillow into a tight hug and curled around it crying into it. 'Hang in there Kaos... It'll be over soon.'

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Blood dripped from his face as he struggled to rise to his feet. Ian's eyes, hair, and wings were blood red. His nails were a foot long and he had fangs. It seemed there was no end to the drug that gripped his mind so tightly, and his shaft even harder.

Ian stepped forward and kicked Kaos onto his back, "Was it worth it old man... Was it worth your life?" he asked while lowering himself to Kaos's face, "You can't stop me."

A smile came to his face, "... It would seem that way, But I have merely been trying to wear you out. If it came to my destruction, you wouldn't be standing over me."

Ian's face went red with fury and he crushed his foot into Kaos's throat, "I'll make you eat those words."

Kaos giggled and made a ghost hand stroke the side of his face, 'Then make me eat them...'

Just as Ian went to strike, Kaos vanished and began using a few other skills he managed to acquire throughout the years. Hidden far down in a underground cavern just below the battle he closed his eyes and slipped into his subconscious. The scene just above appeared in his mind. Ian was running about punching and breaking things, ranting about how much of a coward he was for running away.

Kaos smirked and summoned seven ghost hands and five mouths. he hid triggers for them throughout the area and returned. "I am here Ian..." Kaos replied as he stood right before the first invisible trap.

Ian ran full force at him, and he merely stepped aside and tripped Ian, watching him skid to the ground, where he triggered three other hands and a mouth. two hands pulled his arms over his head and one held them, then two more held his legs apart.

"Saphromate is a deadly poison... let's see how much you can take...." Kaos took out a bottle and shoved it in his mouth. It emptied into him and when the bottle was removed Ian screamed in pain. He had already exhausted his magical capabilities, so all Kaos had to do was torture him sexually Until he couldn't move.

As Ian's legs kicked around frantically, another hand activated and the two unoccupied hand stroked up his chest and down through his groin area, to the lower legs, and squeezed lightly on his firm package. The waiting mouth clamped viciously on the side of his neck and sucked and licked the length of his neck, and onto his chest.

Ian began squirming and groaning in pleasurable pain, tears streamed from his face as the hands danced and played with his burning body.

Kaos broke the rest of the seals and allowed the invisible torture to begin. Each hand doing whatever it took to make him beg for a release. Each mouth getting him to a climax but never letting him finish.

Ian cried out in pain, cursing Kaos's name, begging to be released from this horrible place. his body arched and twisted in response to the stimulation.

Kaos stood over Ian's trembling body and vanished all but four hands that pulled his arms and legs away from his body, "Who do you want?"

"No one..." he sobbed between breaths.

"What do you want?"

Ian looked into his cold violet eyes, "death."

'he's been broken...' Kaos closed his eyes and the hands released him.

Ian lay there unable to move from the position he was in, "Please Kaos.... I have no need to return... No desire to... I can't go back to her after what I've done."

"You must."

Ian shook his head slowly, "No, I want you to seal her memory... Make her forget me. Replace me with someone else..."

"And what of your people?"

"Let Zanith take my place... he deserves it more than I ever did..." Ian reached up and grabbed Kaos's hand, "You are a cruel man Kaos... A very cruel man."

He nodded and smiled, "I tend to hide it well, son. rest."

Ian's hand fell from Kaos's and his eyes closed.

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Nadina began violently coughing, and when she brought her head up from the pillow, it was stained in blood, "T-Toole... They'll.... be up.... At the island...... Go." she wheezed holding her throat.

'Nadina.'

her eyes lit up and she smiled, 'Master?'

'You've done well... Now give me my damage.' Kaos erased the spell circle on his forearm and suddenly doubled over in immense pain. "Hell's fire..." he growled, "What did you do to me boy."

Struggling to stay conscious he scooped Ian into his arms and left the twisted realm they had entered.

Kartane Kessaku staggered out of the crackling building bellowing flames for the town below to see. He glanced at the crowd of trembling sniffling half sane half starved children in front of him. "Alright you... There is a new home just outside of Arias for you... A large manor in the field below the floating island. It is well equipped with nurses that specialize in your illnesses..."

He wiped the blood off his face and took a deep breath to inhale the smell of burning flesh as the screams of those Twilite bastards filled the air. Kartane drew a circle around the children and smiled, "Hold tight to each other... It will be over soon..."

He finished the circle and rose his hand in the air as the circle lit up in high black flames and the children vanished.

Kartane turned back to the building, his lips forming into a twisted grin, a cackle building in his gut as it boiled and burst through as an insane howl.

"It's not over yet, you Bastards, I won't die 'til I take you all with me!"

His bloodshot tired eyes met hers and Kartane brushed the side of her ghostly face, "My love..... How could I not?" his reply a bit raspy from the days spent awake, but as sincere as the day he said his vows to her.

Akuma arrived on the scene shortly after Kannah faded from sight and she noted the tall fire demon standing before her, "... Kartane."

Summoning her scythe to her hand she charged the man just to watch him burst into flames and disappear.

"Damn..." she snarled as she skidded to a stop in front of the inferno. Seeing as there was no way to save anyone, even if she wanted to, she decided to make their deaths a bit quicker.

Pushing the sleeves of her kimono back, Akuma lifted her arms and formed an arched barrier around the building. Once complete she pushed her hands to the ground and watched the barrier crush around the building, forcing it to collapse.

Rising to her feet she clapped her hands together to get the dust off, and began a slow walk through the town of Arias. 'Wonder what's going on at the Bebus residence...'