[Pinkie]

Elvara groaned as she became slowly aware of her surroundings. Slowly she began to get a feel for everything around her. Thats when she noticed the hard floor under her left cheek, the bind around her writs that seemed to be bond behind her back. Her legs were free however which she found a little weird. Moving Elvara groaned as she sat up and blinked the blurrieness from her green eyes.

Looking around she realized that she was in a cell. Bars before her and stone walls all around...she had been captured. Taking a deep breath she thought of the moments before this one. She remembered entering the protal, walking through desolate waste lands then...Elvara gasped. The voice...a voice rang to her in the darkness "Awww worthless human.." It sang "Shall we see just what your made of" Elvara cringed at her own thoughts.

Then her eyes opened "Deamons..." she whispered to herself as she thought on it more. Hoards and hoards of them, the waves were never ending. The last cut she rembered she plowed through 52 lesser deamons then...darkness. Thats when the pain in her body made itself knowen. Her left leg throbed from a fractured bone and her head hurt from the blow that knocked her out.

"So your awake..." Elvara stiffened at the silky voice. Looking up to the doors of her cell she saw a shadowy figure though the face was hidden from darkness "And who the hell are you?" She asked and got what she thought was a smirk combined with the grunt that reached her ears "That my dear is the thing I ask of you....what is a female drow doing in a place like this?"

Elvara hissed as she moved a little to straighten her form making herself as nobel as she could "I am Elvara, princess-" there was a laugh that cut her off "Princess....my dear you are no more a princess then the dirt on my feet" Elvara gasped "Intime...you will see a true nobel family...and the one that protects you will bring them upon you like locus to feilds" With that the figure laughed and backed away leaving Elvara to think of his words.

[Rosekitten]

It took a lot of energy to call forth a rip to enter into the demonic realm but he didn't have the time to run all the way to the main portal. Right as he finished his summoning the same voice that was laughing from before seemed to ring in his ears. Taunting him just as before saying that if he entered he would be lost. Riddles the lot of it, this damned being never showing its face and speaking in riddles!

He didn't have a choice he already knew the vast armies that lay in the realm of the demons .. and that they were controlled and listened to every beck and call of their master. He'd have to watch himself he knew very well his own blood could go against him when he stepped foot into this place, and it seemed he was already being watched.. that bothered him more.

If he knew of the threat that the shadowed one had given to Elvara he might have seconded guessed this plan of his. Though he knew for a fact she was in danger, there was no way she wasn't in danger even for someone of her skill numbers would eventually win. Shaking his head to get the voice that was still ringing in his ears to go away he touched the rip before him and vanished from sight as well a the small portal that he had made.

Once on the other side he winced a bit trying to gain his ground as he quickly noticed the change in energy level that coursed through his body. "shit... if I stay here too long.." He breathed out a moment regaining himself a little before he started to walk anywhere. It was odd though.. he expected to have to deal with swarms of beasts as soon as he entered... though oddly the few things he saw move seemed to keep their distance from him.

Something was wrong, he knew this. Even with his blood line he knew that lesser ranked demons didn't respect a half blood. He;d worry about what the hell was going on later. He needed to find Elvara and he had a damn good idea of who had her.. though he wanted to be wrong. If he was right then she was in danger in more then just a physical way... though knowing how demons were if she was captured he already expected her to have no clothing on, if not chained to a wall ... sadly that wasn't the worse of his thoughts as to what the hell they'd do to her with her being mortal.

[Pinkie]

Elvara huffed and groaned hard as her hands were thrusted into the cuffs above her head. Every time was the same thing. They would come in remove her from her cell and take her to an areana forcing her to fight lesser and greater deamons. Leaving her in the middle they gave her one object, usualy a small dagger or knife. On times she was lucky to get a mace or a dull sword. She was greatfull that they healed her before each time though. Other wise what fun would they have?

Elvars clothes were toren and wripped revealing more in some places then she cared to say. Her head was hung and her breathing was heavy "You know my knew toy I have a treat for you" A voice rang out from the darkness and she hissed "I want nothing from you but my freedum of death" Elvara knew she was going to die here it was just a matter of time.

This was when she heard the door infront of her open and Elvara had just enough time to gasp as her head was ripped up by her dirty blood stained hair "You will watch what you say....besides" The voice hissed "We all want to see how the final show will be" He said. Elvara didnt have time to ask what he had ment by that when she felt something cold clasp around her neck "What the-" Darkness was her answer.

[Rosekitten]

The whole way was silent, almost dead. The few things that even dared to get close seemed to be higher ranked demons, though they still didn't dare to get within striking range. He paused a moment feeling a odd aura before growling just slightly and picking up his pace. He'd run but he couldn't afford to waste the energy. After a while longer he came to a large set of gates. Of course there was a damned keeper of them.

His ears went back as he was more then annoyed knowing that the area being this empty meant they had to have Elvara. "Password..." the oversized demon hissed out towards Zek. "Tsk, fuck your password! Step aside, thats your only and final warning." Zek seemed more then serious as the voice in his head seemed to taunt him once more saying that the girl was a pretty catch, finally confirming his fears from before.

The guard seemed to laugh and started to say something else though Zek didn't let him as his eyes instantly switched to the blood red color they held when he was beyond pissed. Extending his hand forward a pillar of black fire seemed to engulf the being before him. "I waned you to move, you should listen." The guard wasn't among the highest rank, though most weren't insane enough to want to break into what seemed to be the central hub for the demon that controlled this realm, or at least it looked like it.

Either way he knew Elvara was here, somewhere. He also knew she was probably worse for wear. Though he wasn't about to turn back now.. "Keep your damn laughing... i'll be sure to rip that smirk off your face." He said aloud as the voice chuckled in his head again. He knew that he might not win the fight but still.. he needed to win. Elvara had to finish her quest. Everything else was unimportant.

[Pinkie]

Elvara was in trouble. More so now then what she was in before. Opening her eyes Elvara found herself once again in the arena with cheering deamons all around her. Then the voice from the darkness rang out again "Ladies and gents of all sizes...welcome to the final play" The cheers grew and Elvara looked around. That is when she noticed her clothes had been replaced with all to thin of material. It wrapped around her chest to fall off to one side cascading down in a waterfall of fabric. Tied black cloth shoes and armlets led down to two small sheilds on each wrist.

This is when she noticed the daggers attached to her legs, the axe to her side and the sword on her back. She had all her weapons back but...what was the meaning of this. Elvara then felt a pain in the back of her neck and hunched over in pain "Now for the bonus!" The voice rang out again. This was the first time that Elvara noticed the feel of heavy mettle on her neck.

Elvara screamed out in pain before her eyes dulled and she stood. \Whats going on?' She thought as she reached behind her and pulled out her sword with her right hand before she grabbed two of the daggers in her left 'How is this happening?!' Elvara screamed out in her mind. None of the movements she made did she want to. It seemed the necklace controled her every movement. 'Why what the reason for this...' Though she got her answer as the large double doors before her opened and she took a step forward, and another, before she knew it she was running.

'NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!' Elvara screamed out in her mind as she realized what or who she was running at...it was Zek. It would seem that the doors to the colisum had been invaded by one man. Behind her Elvara heard "Let the match begin!!!" Before the crowd roared and she raised and brought the sword down to a shocked face of Zek.

[Rosekitten]

His eyes were still blood red in color as he noticed Elvara. "Tsk... coward!" He barked before grabbing the blade with one hand stopping it's full blow without flinching at all. "If your going to force me to fight then use someone who isn't defeated already" His eyes narrowed a bit before forcing the blade from Elvara's hands and tossing it into the ground as it stuck there.

Of course this didn't stop the mind controlled girl, she was still trying to lash out with the daggers in her other hand and then after failing with those she quickly went about trying to use the axe as well. Disarming her seemed to be almost nothing to Zek as he grabbed the collar and held her by it for a moment. "Rather surprised, I thought you were going to force my own father to fight me. No instead you try to make a mortal do it?" He shook his head a little before forcing Elvara against a wall as a black chain connected the collar to the wall. "Even you should know that such a thing wouldn't work...."

All the times she had seen Zek fight he never once showed any of these powers, yet he just disarmed her of 4 weapons and forced her into submission, well submission as far as the collar would let her anyway.

[Pinkie]

Elvara's body jerked and pulled against the chain until finaly she stopped all movements. Rasiing a hand she muttered in her native tongue. This is when the shadow chain around her neck melted and changed to that of a snake that coiled down her neck to reach out and hiss at Zek. This is when the voice from the darkness rang out again "Oh my....how is it you guessed the final event before its even upon us?" The voice said "The woman is just for fun"

With that Elvara screamed before falling to her knees hands holding eather side of her head "You maybe no match for a mortal...what of a deamon..." The voice said again only to laugh as Elvara stood. Though she was not the same. Curled black horns wrapped down and around her pointed ears to rest upon dark cheeks. Long finger nails grew to sharp points and once green eyes bled red "Stage two" The voice rang and the crowd cheered as she charged all the while her screams reached deaf ears.

[Rosekitten]

"Guess? tsk you used the same damn tricks on my father. How the hell were they hard to guess?" He seemed past annoyed at this point. "Stop with the damned tricks and fight me!" He growled, though it didn't get him the answer he wished it had gotten him. No instead it caused him to follow the noise behind him as he noticed Elvara again. He didn't want to fight her, no matter what he did to her, she was still Elvara inside. This idiot was trying to force him to kill her and he knew it.

When she charged forward he closed his eyes for a second before opening them again as a flaming wall disrupted her charge forward. Even in her controlled state she wasn't blind enough to walk through fire. "So the demon princes have fallen this far? They don't even want to kill the half blood that is tainting their family tree?" He laughed a little he needed to find a way to get this damned demon to come out and fight him, and then save Elvara at the same time.

"oh how the mighty have fallen..." He chuckled a little before avoiding a swift attack from Elvara only to show his true form in the same breath. His skin was the same though it was covered in red markings and symbols. The horns she had seen so long ago for a brief second were fully visible now and his eyes remained crimson red. At the same time his aura seemed to bypass anything she had probably felt from him before as he stopped holding back any of of his powers.

He needed a plan, anything would do. But he couldn't break the control over her, even with this power that he finally allowed to show he couldn't. But maybe he could buy enough time till the other got bored and finally decided to show himself. just to weaken the other enough would set Elvara free, she could go finish her quest.

[Pinkie]

"Oh how we have fallen he says" The voice once again rang out before a male took a step out from the shadows. He had short white hair that stood up and pointed to the tip. Two curled golden horns hung from his temples and bright red eyes looked at Zek with a glint of mirth. "I must say....your feelings for this mortal is amusing" As he spoke he reached forward to wrap a silky pale hand around the neck of Elvara that now stood before him.

Smiling the deamon moved his head forward resting his chin on Elvaras right shoulder peering out at Zek before him "Oh how this worl works" The male said with a smile "She comes all this way to find one thing...I give it to her and this is the thanks you give me?" He said as his fingers brushed the collar around her neck.

[Rosekitten]

He clenched his teeth a little seeing the other so close to her, let alone her very life was pretty much in his palm. "Something you'll never know.. " He hissed at the other's words when he said feelings were amusing or the ones he had for this girl. He never let his eyes leave the demon standing behind Elvara, he wanted her away from him. To damn if she was controlled or not anything was safer with her away from him.

"Tsk..if she has what she wants let her leave... you seem to think that demons can control everything. You and I both know thats not true." The other seemed amused by this little 'chat' "You should know better then anyone a demons sole purpose is to become stronger, to prove that they are the strongest being.. demons were only created in this world to counter balance the angelic creatures." This was all true, if you went and followed the lore they had no purpose aside to cause the mortal realm trouble, sometimes thinning the numbers and then the angelics would descend and fix things once more.

"Leave her out of this and fight me!" He growled at him taking a step forward, but he stopped himself at that knowing he was in no position to push his luck. "You want think your so damn powerful, then lets see it. While we're at it release her and let her go back to her realm.... " He smirked a little noticing the others glare change a little. "Oh wait you know what will happen then... she'll have all three relics, any demons on the surface world will be destroyed and this will in turn have a effect on the power down here as well."

"Legends say that the power will shift in balance and that the royal line will fall. Are you scared of that?" He laughed a little knowing if he talked enough the other would lash out at him, he might not release Elvara right away but it'd get her at least out of the fight for a short while. Though he just said a few things that would cause Elvara to second guess her using the relics. But as far as she knew he could have just been bluffing. If she asked him he'd say he was bluffing. Even if it were all true.

[Pinkie]

The male stopped for a second the smirk upon his lips slowly decending and turning into a stern line "I will let her go..." He said though the corners of his lips turned up once more "Oh yes...I will let her go" With that he moved his arm forward his right claws gouging through her chest. Elvaras eyes widened a little as a light cough sprung forth with a little splatter of blood.

"...zek..." was the only thing that left Elvara's lips as she fell forward. Nothing was herd within the arena but the thunk of her body hitting the dusty ground before them. The male raised his hand and licked the dark crimson blood from his hand with a sinister smile "There...I let her go"

[Rosekitten]

He didn't move at first, he should have seen that coming. Fuck thinking things could be done like they could in the mortal realm. Though this was all it took to push him over the edge, it was probably better Elvara was out or mostly out of it for this as his eyes switched in color to black and the aura that was normally not visible made itself known. "You'll regret each day you breath...." Seeing as he couldn't kill the prince he knew of other methods to make the other pay for what he had done, but it needed to be done quickly.

Vanishing a second he appeared in front of the other before grabbing his throat and holding it there as the claws on his hand extended and a second set of horns appeared. "Did you forget what blood line I am from? You might be a damned pure blood, but your also weak compared to most of the royal line. Being so far away from the kings true blood.. how does it feel?" The other went to strike and do some sort of spell to Zek though nothing seemed to phase him at the present moment.

"Y-your ... just a half-" He didn't let the prince finish that sentence. "Your lucky I can't kill you... I swear I would find the most painful way to do so right before displaying your corpse." He growled his words as his hand tightened on the others neck. All of the markings that were along his arms and face glowed by this point as he hissed out a few more words. "You'll get to enjoy this pain for the rest of eternity.. no one here will save you." He smirked a little before vanishing again with the prince he was holding.

Appearing near a wall he slammed the others body into it before moving back a foot as he raised a hand towards him and hissed out a few words in a demonic tongue. black bindings seemed to appear strapping every possible moving part of the prince's body to the wall. "don't bother trying to fight it, it's a ability that you'll never have... they are called the shackles of the damned. Their purpose is to lock away demons for eternity.. though seeing as your immortal it'll just rip your very soul apart every time it reattached to your body."

He never bothered to listen to the others words as he left him there, that was plenty good enough. The bindings over all were to banish demons but in a place where demons can't die... yeah this was as good as he could do.

Walking over to Elvara he moved her gently before pulling her close to him after he had knelt down to her. "idiot.. what were you thinking? What if I didn't find you.. " It was rather odd seeing Zek look hurt about such a thing but he had failed to do the one thing he said he'd do and that was protect her. Though being in this realm had a advantage as he moved to place a hand over where the gash through her chest was. His eyes weren't the solid black anymore, though they did retain the red color instead of returning to the blue they were normally.

"Please.." He muttered under his breath knowing it was a long shot to try and heal her, but his powers were a lot stronger then they were in their normal realm. After a moment a soft light started to glow from his hand and seemed to seep into her wounded chest. He could use all of his energy so long as he left enough to get them out of here, he just needed to heal the majority of the gash.. she just needed to live and he didn't even know if this would work or if she were alive still.

[Pinkie]

Elvara's mind was lost in a world of darkness though the moment she heard a soft voice ring out she struggled to break free from her own chains, though something was preventing this. Was she dying? All she really remembered was a pain in her chest then darkness. Now the more she thought of it the pain in her chest was slowly being replaced with warmth.

Slowly Elvara blinked blurred eyes to half mass. Seeing Zek before her she smiled softly. Not wanting to speak she moved her head lightly to turn it the rest of the way to face in his chest. As soon as he head moved she was out again but still breathing and alive.

[Rosekitten]

She was alive at the least, even if she needed rest he hardly cared. They had what they had ventured all this way for so what did it matter. After a few more moments he made sure the wound was sealed up and any major damage was healed. Everything else could take its time in healing. Moving a little he stood and let her lay on the ground as he went about what he did before to summon a small portal to get them out of here, sure he could walk all the way to the gate but this would put them closer to the castle so she could rest.

After he was finished with calling forth the portal he moved to pick her up gentle and stepped through it. It closed just like the other though he was lucky there was a tree near them as he stumbled a little and leaned against it. The amount of energy her had used made itself known then and there.

Regaining himself a little he moved to start walking again and towards the castle. Though the guards that met them at the gate quickly showed the way to the medical wing so she could be further checked out. After she was on a bed and a few healers were tending to her he was finally allowed to breath a little easier. Though this was short lived as Vaden seemed to come from no where, word had gotten to the king and it seemed Vaden was talking with him at the present time.

The king was probably worried about his daughter and Vaden went straight to half scolding Zek for being reckless. "You could have killed yourself! Or her, what would you have done if you had lost it." The old man sighed a little before shaking his head. "Reckless.. but I can't say anything because you still saved her." Even with releasing his full form he managed to hold himself together to save her.

They talked about a few other things but Vaden knew that Zek had neglected to tell Elvara the most important thing of it all. The odds were Zek wouldn't live through the ritual if she performed it. He knew why he didn't say anything though, he wanted her to go through with it and not second guess her actions.

[Pinkie]

It took a day or two before Elvara was ready enough to preform the ritual. At this very moment she was getting everything ready. Candles placed rightly, symbols drawen darkly and the objects placed within the right spots. It was just a matter of waiting for the moon to be in the right place before she could start.

Elvara stood there and stared at the objects before her. The quest was almost complete but she had a feeling of dread she could not explain. Turning she noticed Zek standing behind her leaned up on the with crossed arms and a far off look.

Walking towards him she gave him a little smile and leaned up placing soft lips on the males before her before she pulled back "Why the long face? Its almost over" She said in a tired voice not knowing just how over it was close to being.

[Rosekitten]

He could almost laugh at her words, over indeed. He caught a look from Vaden, probably over hearing what she had asked him. Though he wasn't about to tell her, after it was complete ... she could know then. She couldn't reverse the ritual then and he'd rather know that demons couldn't get here instead of her caring about one life.

"Eh.. nothing. Just thinking is all." Noticing the look she gave him he smirked a little. "Going to be boring after all of this is said and through, I'll have to find some new form of entertainment." He laughed a little when she glared at him. He could guess what she thought he meant by that, but she'd be wrong.

It was almost sad really, Vaden knew Zek was just putting forth the best effort he could to not show her anything was wrong or really on his mind. But she was right.. this would all be over soon. He really just wanted to hold her and enjoy just that moment. Though if he pulled something like that he knew she'd think something was up then.