Prince Nuada held the small crown piece in the moonlight, admiring its beauty. He was dressed in dark blue pants, a long sleeve shirt the same color, his sword hung on his right side, and his silver hair fell past his shoulders. Behind him stood a nine foot tall ogre named Wink, with a metal left hand. Nuada sighed before he stuffed the crown piece in his belt.

"Come Wink we have a matter we must discuss with my father." He said heading off into a train tunnel.

However when a high pitched scream filled the air Nuada stopped dead in his tracks.

"Filthy creatures…" he muttered making his way over to a dark alleyway where another scream entered the sky. "They even torture each other."

Nuada slowly entered the dark alley listening for any signs of an attack, but the only sounds he heard was laughing and screaming. When he looked he saw something that he did not expect to see. Three young males, all blond, tall, muscular, drunk, and defiantly human. However it wasn't the humans who caught his attention. It was the female trapped between them. She was at least 5'7", extremely thin it looked as if they were starving her to death, gold eyes which were filled with tears, silver hair that fell past her fragile shoulders, dressed in a rag dress that went down to her thighs and barely covered her at all, and she was an elf. He almost couldn't tell by the state she was in though. Her dress had rips and tears everywhere from beatings, her face was swollen and bloody, she had a deep gash under her left eye, just on the cheek bone, blood spilled from wounds that never seemed to end, cigarettes burns covered her right arm, and glass shards were seen lying around her, probably from the empty beer bottles the men had. She was held in place by tight bonds that connected to an escape ladder, her wrists tied above her head and a thin strip of duct tape around her waist and ankles. She struggled with her bonds, desperately trying to escape, while the men howled at the moon.

"Hey…" One blond said stumbling over to her, with his beer bottle in his hand. He looked to be the oldest of the group. The female tried to move away from him as he approached her.

"Hey…you're not trying to escape are you? That's not very nice, we having a lot of fun."

The others behind him burst into laugher. The elf bravely shouted at him in their ancient language, which Nuada interpreted as "Prince Nuada will destroy all of you!" Nuada gasped softly. This woman knows him! A loud slap snapped him back to reality.

"Don't start with your foreign language bitch. We don't want to hear anything from you except your screaming." The male closest to her said burning her with his cigarette. The female cried out and more tears fell from her eyes. The male laughed as he took a swig of his drink.

"Hey man…" said another man, who appeared to be the youngest. The first turned to face him.

"What up man?" he asked

"I know you enjoy her screaming but she might wake the neighbors."

At that exact moment the sound a trash can falling was heard.

"HEL……" the female began to scream but was soon silenced by the first man clamping a hand over her mouth.

"You're right we can't let that happen." He said placing a piece of duct tape over her lips. The woman tried to stop him however the man was able to silence her. Nuada felt rage fill him as he silently drew his sword and looked at Wink. How dare these empty creatures do this to his kind? They were surely suffer dearly for this. A muffled scream once again broke him out of his train of thought. Nuada looked back at the female to see the males had made her their new punching bag.

"Step away from her!" He growled stepping out of the shadows. The men turn to see who the intruder was. The first man laughed and stepped forward.

"What have you come to see us beat the crap out of your girlfriend?" he asked stepping right up to Nuada. Nuada growled lowly before plunging his blade deep into the male's neck. He screamed softly before tumbling to the ground dead. The others gasped loudly. Three of them drew small knives ready to fight while the youngest hid behind the elf with a knife to her throat. The female screamed as she struggled to get the cold metal away from her neck.

"Stop struggling bitch or I cut you open." The male threatened, pushing harder on the blade making blood drip from her neck.

The male looked up to see Nuada standing three feet in front of him. He gave a startled scream when he saw his friends dead on the ground.

"G-get back…" he stammered as he hugged the elf closer to him. "Or I-I'll kill h-her."

Nuada slowly stepped forward.

"I'll give you one chance to release her or you will deeply regret it." He threatened evilly.

"Or what?''

"Wink"

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" The finale human screamed as Wink lifted him into the air and crushed his skull against the brick wall.

Nuada quickly stepped up to the elf and cut her bonds. The female fell forward tumbling fast toward the gravel. She would have hit it very hard if Nuada's arms didn't catch her in time. He removed the gag and tape around her wrists. She immediately grabbed her right arm and hugged it close to her body. She cried harder as the pain finally began unbearable. Nuada quickly removed his shirt and draped it over her shivering body. Nuada reached for her face and she flinched away from him.

"Please don't…" she whispered in their language. "Please don't…."

"I won't harm you…I swear it." Nuada said in return.

He then carefully took her chin in his hand and turned her face toward him. He looked deep into her eyes before gasping when he realized who she was.

"Katana?" he barely whispered.