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Terran downed another sailor. This was a little too easy for his comfort. Before, rage had flowed through his veins, blinding him to anything but the lust for killing. Now, reason and paranoia seeped in, crowding aside his anger and adrenaline. He looked up at the captain, who seemed to be... changing? No, not quite. His body looked the same, maybe an inch taller, but something... something about his aura had changed drastically. It's like the man they met before was Captain Vaughne, friendly leader of his fisherman boat, and now he was Vaughne, Demon of Destruction. The captain leapt from the crow's nest, landing directly on top of one of his own men, killing him instantly. The captain held no regard for his sailors now. Joe and Chouji took down the last 3 sailors, and everyone turned to look at Vaughne. He grinned from ear to ear, a demonic smile that chilled the souls of those who were looking at his face. "As you may have noticed, my young warriors, I am no human. At least, not anymore. I have moved beyond the realm of humanity. I have visited the island simply known as the Chaos Sanctum (lol meeee!!!) and there I sold my entire soul for this newfound power. No longer must I struggle as a lowly fisherman. I steal what I need. I advanced the Black Market to a level it has never known before. I am one of the most powerful men in all of the Isle De Aurughard, and yet I am hardly even in their books as a citizen, virtually untraceable to all the evil I have wrought. That is the power of the Demon Island, the ferocity of the Chaos Sanctum!" He growled and roared in laughter, and his muslces seemed to vibrate with a dark energy. "Now... let me show you the physical benefits to submitting yourself to Demonocy." He charged forward with speed that rivaled that of Sousuke's.

The two girls looked up at the gigantic man with wide eyes. Then the both turned and looked at one another. What were they to do? They couldn't take on that monster. They sighed and complied, George led them down alleyways and busy streets untill they reached a very fancy resturant. The two girls entered and were greeted kindly by a hostes. They were led into a private dinning room were many men were talking about most likely buisness. They were placed on either side of a very succesfull looking buisness man. He was in a black suit and his hair was jet black and hung straight over one eye. His eyes were a piercing blue that almost seemed unnatural. "Ah you must be the girls that the madam sent me." they both nodded. "You're as pretty as she said. What are your names?" he asked putting his arms around the girls. "Persephone." "Alisha." They said one after the other. "Lovely, I'm Lord Elrik. You may call me Elrik." He seemed nice, though he was a lot older than the girls. Persephone guessed around 40. The dinner was nice and the people were friendly, but it was now time to go back to Lord Elriks place.

((Good battle, Alex, but you're forgetting one thing: You were the only one fighting him, but you weren't the only one there. I've already said that Joe is fiercely loyal to his friends, and you know Terran is a guardian-type character. Neither of them, if anyone else, would have just stood idly by and let you get your a** handed to you. From now on, whenever you post battles, try not to focus on yourself because you're not the only one who's going to be fighting. Involve the other characters, don't be afraid to take other people into your own version of the story))

Terran stood, not really knowing what to do. Zander was getting beaten by this demon. For some reason nobody else moved. Terran didn't know what to do. He couldn't fight that well without Morph acting as his other arm. Then his trigger-moment occurred. The demon grabbed Zander by the throat. He muttered something that couldn't be heard by the others, dropped Zander, and slashed his throat. Something inside Terran just snapped after that. The paranoia that had calmed his raging adrenaline was whisked away in a fresh new wave of ferocity. Terran charged towards Vaughne as Zander fell, seemingly dead, to the deck. Vaughne was facing slightly away from Terran, so Terran leapt, landed on Vaughne's back, and bit down hard into the flesh of his neck. Blood gushed into Terran's mouth, a foul-tasting blood that flooded his senses. It was horrible. If blood had the capability of rotting, then this is what it would be like. Terran stumbled back, shaking his head to clear the haze. Vaughne turned on him. He clasped one hand over the marks in his neck. Then he closed his eyes, concentrated. Terran watched on. The blood seemed to lessen. Then new teeth began to sprout where Zander had punched them out. Vaughne removed his hand and Terran noticed that the teeth-marks were gone. Then Vaughne raised both of his arms, boxing-style, challenging Terran. That's when he realized: BOTH arms. His arm wasn't broken anymore! This demon had massive regenerative powers. Terran's spirit sank deep. They couldn't win this. Then he swore he heard Sousuke's voice. "You can't give up. They're counting on you. I left you in charge. You've already doomed Zander, don't abandon the rest of them." Terran's eyes hardened and he stared the demon straight in the face. The others finally decided that the bullshit was over. They circled slowly around the demon, too. He laughed. "I see you young'uns decided it was your time to die, too. Well then... shall we begin again?"

"Good! Good!" Sousuke's encouraging cry rang out through the ship. Vaughne rose up from the splintered deck. He was no longer smiling, but he still seemed to have a decent amount of strength, even after a full assault. Joe swung again, but the captain backhanded him out of the way with little effort. Sousuke took his battle stance. "Keep up the teamwork, guys. Don't stop the assault. If we give him even a few seconds, he can heal. We need to beat him down until he doesn't have the energy to move"

((OK... just understand that in normal circumstances, Terran wouldn't have let you take him on by yourself, even if you wanted to. Keep posting!)) mrgreen

Mistress Scarlet clamped a collar around Asuka's neck as they were walking to the next room. From the feel of it, Asuka concluded that it was made of metal. She scrabbled to take it off but the Mistress stayed her hand. "I wouldn't do that if I were you. This collar is designed to prevent you from using that pretty little scream of yours." Asuka was taken aback that the Mistress knew about her power, but Scarlet didn't seem to notice and kept talking. "If you do try your super scream, the collar will trigger and 'boom.' But don't worry, we set the trigger for a very high frequency, so you won't set it off by accident. Don't try to deactivate the collar either, or you will meet the same fate. Now enter this room. Your first client awaits."

Asuka obediantly walked into yet another room, this one bare except for a large bed in the middle and a various small tables scattered throughout the space. Black satiny sheets adorned the bed and candles of varing sizes sat lit on the tables.
Mistress Scarlet shut the door and immediately Asuka heard someone step out of the shadows behind her. Before she had time to react, a large hand shoved her forward onto the bed. She quickly flipped onto her back, into as good of a battle position as she could come up with in her current situation. The man's large hand came hurtling at her face, the impact sending her sprawling onto the bed. He giggled meliciously.
"Ye really are a pertty lil thing ain't cha? Poppa's gonna have fun with you!" The fat sweaty man grabbed Asuka's wrists with one hand and ripped off the small bikini bottom with the other. She looked down and was horrified to see that the man was naked. This made her double her efforts to escape, but the man simply outweighed her.

Asuka began to hyperventilate and her pupils dialated and became slits. The color of her irises became that of glowing Hellfire, the color flowed from the irises to color the whites as well. The man didn't notice this, nor did he notice Asuka's fangs and claws growing longer.

The man was about to enter Asuka (anyone else feel kind of awkward here? xd ) but she sat up suddenly and bit his neck, hard. The blood flowed into Asuka's mouth and she drank deeply. The man twitched a couple of times and then lay still. Asuka bust out of the door, attracting the attention of the guards that were holding sentry for the room. She casually ripped off her collar and shoved it down one of the guard's throats. The collar beeped once, twice, then exploded, coating the walls, and the other guard with blood. Asuka broke into the first room she had been in (the one she changed clothes in) and grabbed her clothes. She slid everything on, keeping the boots, and sonic screamed the wall. It exploded outward, making a nice exit. She flew out into the inky darkness. She flew for a short time, but she began to feel drained. She landed and promptly passed out.

When Asuka came to, she was curled up in a ball on a small island. The metallic taste of blood filled her mouth, but she couldn't remember anything about what had happened at the House of the Night-Blooming Flower. She just had a deeply disturbed feeling.
"What the hell happened to me?" she asked herself aloud.

I rose solembly to my feet. I took in breath and them breathed out, they air was beautiful. He layed his head back as rain poured to his face washing the blodd from it. He thought to himself "the rain heals and washes things away." He felt reborn something new. Something somehow stronger, even with his body wracked with pain and anguish. He looked toward his friends and his enemy. Everything was so distant, but so real. Zander walked/limped to the scene of the battle. Everyone was surrounding Vaughne. Zander smiled, everyone was hurt but none too serious,he had made it in time to be with his friends. Zander walked up behind Terran. Everyone looked and saw him. They all looked like they had seen a ghost. Terran whirled around and grabbed ahold of Zander just before his body wanted to give out. As Terran held him up with his shoulder, Zander whispered into his ear,because that his all he could get out with his slashed throat. "Terran please forgive me for my selfish ways. As brother to brother I must tell you I have been weak, I have lost to myself in many battles. Bt I will repent for it. I will show you and myself what I am made of. I will think of other before myself. I will try with all my heart to regain your trust nad that of the others." Zander coughed a little and spouted a little blood. Zander stood once again facing the demon. It's eyes narrowed, "what are you some kind of ghost? Look at you, you can barely stand. Why do you fight on when you are nothing but a corpse?

Zander tilted his head back and felt the rain and looked back again toward the monster. His voice barely audible but struck with profound meaning. "I have found something worth living for and sins to be repented for. I have found something more than me.

So I ask you as you have me, why do you fight with no purpose, just an empty shell of a being? Why do you hate?

This enraged the demon, he cursed at Zander and the others. So filled with hate and lost to his own arrogance. Zander knew this man, like he known his old self, just a husk.

Zander looked at the demon once again. "If you yield, we may spare your life, but if you do not we will hold no such bargain."

The demon screamed in rage, *pride I thought to myself* I was barely standing my arms and legs were shaking, but my will kept me going. The demon screamed "I don't care how mant times aI have to kill you, just DIIIEEE!!!" After that he charged. I pitied him for I knew what it was like. Before he could even get to me evreyone was on him. He was done. Everyone was holding him and keeping him tightly secured. Vaughne was defiant, even in the end. Terran stood over the evil creature. I looked down, I knew what was going to happen, Vaughne was finally going to get was going to reap what he had sown. In my mind I wished him a more peaceful afterlife. Maybe in death he could find peace. I felt pity for him. I looked up at Terran just at the last moment to watch.