A/N: WARNING! Rather graphic and violet themes ahead, read at your own risk, don't say that I didn't warn you if you feel horrid after reading this…No one ever said that it was crucial that you had to read it.

Musical Harp
Chapter II: Lara's Situation

"Let go of me!" Lara wailed as she struggled to get out of the grasp of two large men.

"Shut up!" One of them ordered obviously annoyed.

As she was pulled along against her will, her dress caught onto something stick out of the ground causing a large chunk to be torn out of it.

"You bastard, you ripped my new dress!" Lara screamed in anger as she kicked once of the guys with her high-heeled foot.

The heel of her shoe smacked the man right in the back of the leg causing him to grab it in pain.

"You little bitch!" He roared as he lunged at Lara.

She shrieked out in fear, before an arm appeared in front of her.

"We need her alive" a smooth voice said.

"M-master Hiwatari!" the large man cowered in fear, forgetting about the pain at the back of his leg.

Lara shoved the boy's arm away from her.

"You smell bad" She commented inappropriately.

The boy glared at her, he appeared to be her age, maybe a little older with two-tone hair and violet eyes, and two blue shark fin like stripes on both sides of his cheeks.

"Is that how you treat people who just saved your stinking life?" The boy grunted.

"Well it depends…If they smell bad, then yes; take a bloody bath!" Lara shrieked.

Causing the 3 males to wince at the pitch of Lara's voice.

"For your information, we bandits can't bathe as frequently as you 'commoners' can…actually most of us don't bathe at all most the time" one of the men informed Lara.

"Did you just call me a commoner?!" Lara roared angrily.

The two-toned hair teen sighed, she sure was a moody girl…

Eventually Lara had been complaining so loudly that she eventually lost her voice to the relief of the 3 bandits.

Lara's hair had also fallen out of its oh-so-perfect braid, so she was now fussing about the state of her medium-blue hair which clung onto the fabric of her dress down to her lower torso.

"Argh, and I thought she was annoying with her voice…" One of the large men grumbled.

"Why did we have to take this one anyway?" the other large man questioned.

"Because apparently the other one got away or somethin', trust Slanty and one-eye to lose a possible prisoner" the first man half-mumbled.

"Heh" the other man snickered.

For a long time there was merely silence, not quite comfortable, not quite awkward.

"Uh, Master Kai, where are we going?" one of the men asked as he stopped, realising he had no idea where they were heading to.

"Don't you remember Gob? When we get the girl we were supposed ta take her back to Master Boris" the large man answered for him.

"Oh right Munch, now I remember" the man known as Gob responded as he continued walking.

"Idiots" Muttered Kai as they ventured on.

They walked for a very long time until they finally reached a dark, smoke filled town.

Lara had been none-too happy to have had to walk all the way here but she did not have the voice to complain.

"Well, here we are, Lurakoes, or as everyone else calls it…Bandit Town" Munch spoke, pride in his voice.

Lara held her nose in disgust of the smell here, it was indescribable, it was like a horrible smell of burning flesh mixed with many other unidentifiable smells, but the locals were all used to it, this is what a bandit filled town was supposed to smell like.

'Ugh, why couldn't they have taken Lyra instead, she just loves places like this, but no she had to go and run away!' Lara thought to herself.

She was too busy thinking to herself about everything that disgusted her about her younger sister that she hadn't noticed that they had entered a large torn two story building.

It was only when two bandit guards spoke that she realised, and by then they were deep within the torn property.

"You may enter!" They two bandit guards yelled in unison as the two rusted doors were pulled open.

Kai entered first followed by Gob and Munch with Lara being pulled along the arm.

"Master Boris" Gob and Munch greeted as they bowed, while Kai just stood there staring emotionlessly at the man across the room sitting on a stack of crates.

"You've really got to learn to bow Kai, your grandfather wouldn't be happy" the man known as Boris commented with an evil smirk upon his face.

Kai just glared at him.

Boris got down from the crates and walked over to Lara, where she glared daggers at him.

"Ah, what do we have here?" Boris questioned, the same evil smirk remaining on his face.

Boris grabbed her by the chin and brought her face closer staring straight into her eyes.

Lara squirmed in fear at the frightening stare of the evil man.

"Gob, Munch, go outside and take this girl with you, I have personal things to discuss with Kai" Boris demanded as he smiled hideously towards Kai.

"Yes Master Boris" Munch replied as he and Gob took Lara out of the room.

When the two doors slammed shut Boris turned back to Kai.

"You insolent piece of crap!" He roared as he struck Kai across the face sending him to the ground.

But he did not react to this pain he simply kept him face blank.

"No wonder your grandfather doesn't want you, you're useless you can't even complete a such simple mission like this one!" Boris bellowed.

Kai said nothing in his own defence, as he knew from past experience that it would only result in more abuse.

"Well you know what…" Boris began as he took Kai by his right arm and pulling him up forcefully before throwing him against a corner of the room.

Boris still had hold of Kai's arm, he grinned madly as he pulled out a rusting pocket knife from his pocket.

"You see this blade?" Boris asked Kai crazily.

Kai didn't respond, just stared up at the evil man blankly.

"Well, let's say it was the bar on a meter…and let's say that your arm here is the measurements" Boris explained before he pressed the knife against the top of Kai's arm and slowly slid it straight down to his wrist, the tip of the blade had broken off and was now imbedded inside Kai's flesh.

Kai growled under his breath, but he would not give in to the pain, he refused to let this vile man see him in pain.

Boris grinned like the madman he was.

"That's how bad you're doing at the moment, and your grandfather most definitely is not satisfied…" Boris told Kai as he threw his now bleeding arm down.

"Take the girl to Bandit Capital, and don't fail this time!" Boris roared as he ripped open the door and shoved Kai out of the room.

Gob and Munch stared at him, while Lara just glared at the sight of him.

"What happ-" Gob began to wonder, but was cut off.

"None of your business" Came Kai's cold response as he grabbed Lara and pulled her along leave Gob and Munch behind.

Lara stared in utter disgust at the bloody that flowed down Kai's arm and onto her sleeve.

She really badly wanted to scream, but her voice was still not present.

End of Chapter 2 Once again not my fault if you're not feeling so good after reading all this, I did warn you do don't go flaming your ass off about it to me, I won't care...