Rated for: Violence, language, rape (trying to go for implied but I'll put a warning if it isn't), blood, and all those wonderful things. Beware of short chapters.

I do not own Lunar Knights. I do own the OCs.

Chapter 1: Fade to Black

The wires bit into his wrists, drawing blood every time he tried getting free. These wires had been tightened around his neck awhile ago, so in a way, it was better where it was now. He was awake, but that was a problem. When he was awake, he had the knowledge of the things said and done to him. The bright side was he couldn't hear anyone and figured this was a small chance to escape. Using his knees (his arms had been tied behind his back) and somehow managed to push himself up, and felt a moment of slight happiness. This didn't last long because the ceiling was lower then he thought and bashed his head, falling back down, feeling pain instead as he landed on his back, thus killing his arms. "Ow, ow, ow! Tha--" A hand clamped over his mouth while the other one played around under his shirt before resting on the zipper of his pants. "Does it hurt? Your arms or wrists? Your head? Or I'll just make you wish you couldn't feel it at all..." He squeezed his eyes shut as the zipper was pulled down and a think cloth was shoved into his mouth in place of the hand. "...don't..." The other one started humming in enjoyment. "I really wish I knew what you were thinking..."

"Help..."

The sewers hadn't changed in the past years, Lucian found. Good thing too, or it would be annoying to re-do the map. However, he actually was looking around for someone. His partner, Aaron, had gone to root out an apparent sudden spike in Undead in the sewers.

That had been two days ago.

So Bea, Earnest, and Kay had asked (cornered) Lucian into going to find him. "it's only been two days..." The Dark Swordsman was still thinking that. Aaron, despite not loosing his happy-go-lucky personality, had matured quite a bit into a expert fighter, able to hold his own. Earnest had started to say he was getting as good, if not better, then Trinity had been. Lucian had found that extreamly funny for some reason.

He took a turn, nearing the area when the two of them fought the Poe Twins, where he fought with someone else by his side in such a long time. "When have I been a person for thinking about the past?" He asked out loud. Lucian heard Nero chuckle. "Maybe when you finally opened up to someone?" "...you may be right." Slowly, over time, Lucian had started to open up to others besides Nero. It felt good to do so. Kind of like pushing a heavy rock off your foot. "Bad example."

This was the Poe room and Aaron wasn't there. "Okay, so...there's still the rooms behind the element block I haven't checked..." "Did you try calling him?" Nero asked. Alice had given him another cellphone, which he in turn had given to Aaron. "I tried and got static. Either it's off or some thing's blocking the signal." "Humm...wasn't there supposed to be an Undead spike?" "True..." They had only encountered a hand full of Undead, not the amount that were reported. A nagging voice in his head said 'Trap!'. "Well, he's not here. Let's go to the element block..." Lucian was about to turn around when he was blasted back by a gust of wind. "What the...hell?"

A bird. A giant bird! "Don't...move Lucian. I think it's hungry." It was. Blood red eyes stared hungrily at him from the back wall, barely keeping the bird up from weight. It ruffled its black feathers, trying to figure out whither or not he was worth eating. Now Lucian had gone into suicidal fights before, but he also knew when he couldn't win. This was one of them. "Great...I need Aaron for this..." The Knight would have no trouble with this. He slowly started to inch himself back towards the exit.

"Between life and death, which starts and which ends?"

Lucian nearly whipped around excepted the bird screeched at him so he stayed put. "Who are you?" "Nobody really. By the way, I only can control that bird so much. Try not to make any sudden movements." He growled quietly but knew he had no choice. The Dark Matter coming from the person behind him was as plain as day. "You're Lucian? I hope I got the right person..." "I am. What do you want?" A long sigh of relief. "That's good. There's no sense in scaring a person I don't need. Getting back on track, I want to give you something but don't turn around. The bird will disappear when I leave so take it then." "What is it?" The Q and A was getting a bit annoying but there wasn't much else to do. "A video. You're looking for your friend...Aaron wasn't it?" Lucian twitched a little. "He's on the tape so I suggest you watch it, and before you ask, I don't know where he is but I think this will help." Silence. "I'm leaving." The bird disappeared in a puff of purple smoke and he whipped around. Excluding the tape on the ground, no one was there. "Who...?" "Lucian..." He walked over and picked it up. It was an old cassette tape (VCR). "So, Aaron is in this?" It sounded like trouble. "More over, who was that?" Defiantly trouble. He glanced down the hall leading out. The person was a Vampire, so why would he giving a Vampire Hunter help?

To many 'whys'.

The place to go to next was Sheridan's. The rapid sound of fingers on keyboard signaled that the scientist was pretty much absorbed in his work and Lucian had to raise his voice to be heard. "Sheridan!" The typing slowed down slightly. "Hello Lucian. What can I do for you?" "Do you have a VCR? I want to watch something." "Sure." The clicking started back up again. "It's in the back room. If you wouldn't mind putting on headphones while you watch it." "Alright."

A VCR was an old thing (more advance things exited) and it took Lucian awhile to figure out how it worked. He placed the cassette tape in and put the headphones on before sitting down and hitting the 'play' button. The screen stayed black. "What th-"

"There would be a point to this if you turned on the lights." A mid irritated voice nearly made him jump. The screen lit up as the lights flicked on, reveling one small, bound, form. "...Aaron...!"

Aaron shut his eyes when the lights turned on, nearly blinding him. He heard something click on so he opened his eyes to see what the 'click' was and felt his heart stop when he saw who was standing over him. "Hey, Aaron. Care to start our play date?" The knife glittered off the lights as it was pressed against his neck. "Ahh..."

End Chapter

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