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The two girls and Elrik were slowly being followed by George as they walked towards Lord Elriks residance. It was a elaborate building, neither Alisha or Persephone had seen anything like it. The two girls walked in and he told them to sit down on the couch. They did so. He got the girls something to drink and sat on the coffee table infront of them. "So, here we are. What now?" he said putting his hands on both of their thighs. This was their new job, and George was standing right there. If they didn't follow the Madams rules they would be punished. Persephone thought.

Terran was resting against a barrel, one of the few things that wasn't destroyed in their battle. The rain pelted him endlessly, but he didn't mind. It was nice to cool down after such a fierce battle. He looked up after a time and saw the strange girl who had come with Sousuke. She was bent over Vaughne's body, poking it, testing the skin, wide-eyed. Sousuke approached her. "Su, what's wrong?" He asked. Tears seemed to flood her eyes, though it was uncertain due to the rain. Sousuke bent down and clapped a hand on her shoulder, but she wriggled free. "You... you guys... killed him... but why?" Sousuke looked at her, thoroughly confused. "Su... he was attacking us. He was endangering my friends. We had to kill him or he would have killed us, and countless others." She shook her head, not seeming to believe or agree with the situation. "I... This doesn't happen. This can't happen. The only time it's right to kill is for survival, for food." She shook her head again as the tears mixed with the rain water. Sousuke then realized something he hadn't seen before on the island. During his stay, none of them were even slightly hostile to one another. There was no violence on that paradise island. The only killing happened to deer and wild boar and fish, and that was for eating. "Su... this killing... I mean... We had to. We killed him, yes, but for survival, you know? We can't eat him, it's a different kind of survival, but surely he would have destroyed us all if we hadn't stopped him. It was necessary." Su finally broke down verbally, began sobbing endlessly, and buried her face in Sousuke's blood-stained chest. Terran felt sorry for her. She must never have seen true violence before now. And they had subjected her to it...

Asuka had taken to sleeping during the day and flying from island to island, searching for her friends. She wasn't sure why, but every since the incident at the mansion, she had become acustomed to the darkness, favoring it greatly over the daytime. She survived by catching random creatures that she could find, mostly fish and small birds. It was becoming a pattern, flying, eating, and sleeping. What suprised her is that she didn't see anyone. Not one living soul. She was beginning to think that she would never see anyone again, until she landed to rest on a smallish crecent moon shaped island. Asuka found a cave to settle down for the day in, but as she entered the cave, her ears picked up odd sounds coming from the back of the cave.

Asuka couldn't figure out what the sound was. All she could do was follow it to find the source. After a bit of searching, she stumbled apon the creator of the sounds. It was a person, a man to be exact. He had pale, almost white hair and skin just as pale. Dark circles surrounded the man's eyes, which were darting around wildly. The man was muttering to himself, not even noticing that Asuka was there. She reached down to shake him out of his delirium, only to find that he was burning up. She quickly dashed outside and found some water. She ripped off of a bit from the bottom of her shirt and dipped it in the cool water. She rushed back to the man and put the cloth on his forhead. She didn't know what else to do, so she knelt down and let the man rest his head in her lap. She did her best to calm him when the hallucinations got bad, but she wasn't sure how long he had been like this, or if he would ever get better...

(ack, sorry for cutting the post short, but the Library computer is about to kick me off... I basically free wrote for this one, didn't really stop to think about much, so I apologize if it's a bit of a rambling mess. More later)

I felt I was dreaming, but I heard someone crying it sounded like a girl. I tried to open my eyes to see, but I fell back unconcious. I felt the ship come to a halt. I heard many voices and feet rushing around. I flet myself being lifted and put on something soft. I started moving in a direction. I heard my friends. I heard strange voices asking where they were hurt at. I woke up barely and saw white coats standing over me. I wondered what was going on but I couldn't quite grasp what was going on. I felt sharp pain in my neck and started to open my eyes. Someone said "knock him out," I smelt something weird and fell back into a dream like state.

I woke up on a bed. The smell around was very sterile. I tired to move, but I hurt. My arm was in a binding of some sort to keep it set. I looked down and most of my body was covered in bandages. I felt my throat and a very large bandage was around it. It felt like it had been stiched up.

A doctor came in and looked at me, "oh your awake."

I nodded gently.

"how you feeling" he said. I moved and winced. He chuckled "I'm sure you still sore. We had to put in over 500 stitches. To tell you the truth it is a complete medical mystery why your even alive. Good thing for you, eh?"
I smiled faintly. He said, "your friends are just down the hall, but I would suggest you just lay there and get some rest."

He left the room probably to see how everyone else is doing.

Sousuke had spent most of his time with Su, now. She hadn't spoken a word since the incident. It was as if she had shattered inside. They had started preparing themselves to get to shore. They where going to find the girls, and the familiers, end of story. Su gave the fox a nod to show that she was going with him. He hugged her once and the looked towards their destination. Nothing was ever going to be the same.

They wandered aimlessly around the streets. Terran had no clue where to start. I mean, it's not like you can just waltz up to someone and go "Hey, excuse me? Do you know where the black market is? I'm planning on busting it up some to rescue my illegally-taken friends so we can continue training so that one day we can have revenge on the legendary creature that ravaged our entire town." The thought seemed more and more ridiculous to him as he made his way through the town square. As they passed through the square, Terran noticed it got more and more dense. People almost seemed to be flocking to one building that was on the outskirts. Something pulled him to that place, and he motioned the others. They walked on until the crowd got almost too dense to push through. Terran finally got to the front and saw that one side of the building had been blown completely out. Something about the pattern of ruin seemed familiar. And even more so, a man was jumping up and down, in a fashion that seemed.......

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"YOJI!!!"

Terran streaked forward and glomp-tackled the frog Furin. At first he struggled to break free, caught completely by surprise. However, after he realized who it was, he gladly returned the energetic (and very heterosexual) love. The others drew near, all smiling (even Su) and Yoji bounced from person to person, greeting them like a little kid jacked up on a 12-pack of Mountain Dew. "WOWWOWWOWWOWWOWWOWWOW!!! Ithoughtyouguyswerealldeadandyournotandyourherenowandthisisawesomeand..." Terran held up his hand. "YOJI!" He laughed. "You're talking waaaay too fast man. Get a grip and talk quietly." Yoji took a couple calming breaths, smiled, and began again. "I thought you guys were all dead, but you're not! You're here!" Sousuke continued smiling. "How on earth did you manage to survive, Yoji?" Yoji chuckled. "Dude... I'm a frog. I swam all the way here. I've been here for months, and until the other night I was the only splicee around." The others looked at him questioningly. "What?" "The other night. Come on, you guys don't know? Look at the way this wall was destroyed. It's gotta look familiar to you guys..." He paused, then rolled his large eyes when everyone stared at him blankly. "It's Asuka! Her sonic voice attack is what broke this wall!" Terran's eyes lit up. "Then she's OK!" "Of course she's OK. I saw her fly off, I figured she was going off to wherever she lived now, til I saw you guys. Now I guess she went to find you. Only... where is she?" Sousuke's eyes grew sad. He frowned for the first time since they had found Yoji. "We... we don't know. We ran into some pirate/sailors. They stole our familiars and they took all the girls that were with us." Yoji looked confused for a while. "Oh... I see... wait, so there was more than just Asuka with you?" Terran nodded. "She was with us. Same with Artemis, Persephone, and Alisha. Freak was with us, too, for a while, but he disappeared. We figure he's OK, off getting a head-start on looking for the girls, but still..." Everyone just kind of stood for a while, until finally Su spoke for the first time since she stopped crying. "You know... if Asuka was here, maybe this is a good place to start looking for the others..."

As Zander lay there, thinking about his friends, he noticed a shadowy figure standing in his doorway. When Zander finally looked over, the figure moved towards him. He wore a robe, seemingly nothing more, with a hood to cover his face, and he spoke in a smooth silky tone. "Hello... Zander. I know of you. I know you want to see your friends badly. And I've come with an offer. You see, there is an island that is enshrouded in darkness. You know of someone from there. His name was Captain Vaughne." Zander stiffened at hearing this, ready to jump the shadow guy if he so much as took another step towards him. But the shadow spoke on. "Ha ha ha... no need to worry, I'm not one of his lackeys or anything. You see, Zander, I have come because you have summoned me. In your last moments, when you thought you were going to die, you cried out. I heard that cry and have come with an amazing offer. I knew you would live and set out immediately to find you. Here's the deal. The specialty of the Chaos Sanctum is power. And I know you want power. I saw you in the yard just now, pushing yourself harder to try to make yourself stronger. But it's much simpler than that. Sell a portion of your soul to Mortose and you will be granted power." Zander clenched his fist. "I will never sell..." But the shadow cut him off, putting up his hand. "Now now, Zander, hear me out. Vaughne was a fool. He sold all of his soul to Mortose. Only idiots do that. Do as I have done. I only gave him a fraction of it. The more you give him, the more you get, but you don't need the full power. I mean, look at you! You are already part gorilla, and you have Saiki alongside you... whenever you get her back, that is..." Zander was baffled as to how this man knew of Saiki. "My point is, Zander, either you can stay here and heal slowly and miss out on the fun your friends are having, possibly being left behind, or... You can sell part of yourself off, gaining more power, and heal almost instantly. It wouldn't be but another night of sleep before your wounds would close and you could be off. Just... think about it. When you decide, I will be back..." He turned and left the room before Zander could even say anything else.

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((Well as far as I know you're alone. You were sold to a... geisha refinery... an escort service... ah ******** it, no sugar coating, it's a ******** whore house lol. It's up to you if anything ever happened, you can stay until we find you, or you can follow Asuka's lead and escape somehow, but sooner or later you'll meet back up with us, be it of your own posts or my OOC posts))