I awoke nude hanging by my hands and feet dangling. A cloth was tied around my mouth to gag me. The room was a cavern of some sort, dimly lit by torches. Before me was a large throne-like chair surrounded by fire demons everywhere. And on the throne sat a large fire demon with arms the size of my head.

"You're awake." The leader smirked. I could only glare at him, but my body was so battered and strained from being hung that I could barely struggle.

"Oh yes, ungag her." He said, and one of the fire demons that stood on guard next to me moved to untie the cloth.

"Who are you?" I struggled to put together the words.

"I'm disappointed." He tsked, "You don't even recognize the face of the man that murdered your sisters?" My eyes widened. I struggled against the binds even though my limbs were on the verge of breaking.

"Kayan!" I snarled, suddenly reenergized, "I'm going to kill you!" I squeezed what little power I had left out of me and sent ice shards hurtling towards him. He did not even move, but the ice shards instantly vaporized into smoke.

"Oh, you finally remembered." Kayan smirked, walking towards me. I struggled against the binds, but they were ungiving and I was left to glower at him again.

"I like those eyes." Kayan grazed a hand on my cheek. I jerked away from his touch. He was not pleased. His hand struck out so fast that I could not react. It hit my face where he had grazed it earlier with a sharp stinging slap.

"I'm going to ask you a question, and you're going to answer. Is that clear?" He yanked my hair back and I yelped in pain.

"Where is the essence?" He whispered in my ear. I bit down on my lip, holding back the cry that was on the edge of my tongue. He repeated his question, this time yanking my hair back even further. I cried out again, but kept silent. I'll never tell him where it is.

"It seems like you'll need training." Kayan whispered dangerously. He walked over to one of his guards that stood with a tray full of equipment. He picked up a whip and stalked back to me smiling.

"This is how it will go. I will ask you a question, and you will answer. I will tell you to do something, and you'll do it. If you don't, you get punished." Kayan smirked, "We'll see how long you'll last." He drew back the whip and brought it down with a sharp crack. Pain instantly blossomed across my chest as I let out a scream. I felt liquid drip from my body and knew he had drawn blood. The whip came down again on my back and then on my side. I could not help but scream each time.

"Now, again. Where is the essence?" Kayan repeated. I stayed silent, resigning to my fate. The whip came down again.

"Let's try another one. Who is the fire demon that left you in the forest?" Kayan licked along one of the whip lashes that trailed over my breast, lapping up the blood.

I could barely breathe, but I found breath to answer this one, "Over...my dead body." I laughed, my eyelids getting heavier and heavier as my body slowly rejected the pain.

"That's not the answer I'm looking for." Kayan frowned, and the crack of the whip echoed again.

Blood dripped down from numerous lashes and plastered my skin in blood. I could no longer feel the pain of the whip anymore and Kayan could no longer bring screams from my lips. I hung on the verge of consciousness and death.

"My Lord. If you continue, she will die from blood loss." One of his guards finally spoke, noting the puddle of blood beneath me.

"Yes, that will be quite disappointing. She is still unyielding." Kayan pondered.

"Allow me, My Lord. I believe I know just how to tame her." The guard said.

"Do you now, Kuuga?" Kayan smirked, thinking, "Yes, I believe your methods just might work."

"She is all yours." Kayan smiled, and retreated from the room. His subjects followed him like the loyal dogs that they were and I was left alone with the one called Kuuga. He stood in front of me, studying me as if I were a contraption he was trying to figure out.

"No matter," I struggled to speak, "what you do, I will not, tell you."

He was not as easily entertained as his master. He neither smiled nor took joy in what he did. It was as if he was separated from what he was doing. It was unnerving to watch. He released the chains that held me up and I fell to the ground in the puddle of my own blood. I instantly passed out from the pain of the fall ripping at all the lashes.


The next few days, I felt consciousness elude me every now and then, coming into and out of the world like I was passing along a long passageway with windows to reality every now and then. I would get glimpses of the room where I was bound in, or flashes of people as they moved me.

Eventually, I awoke and found that I was bound by my wrists again, but floating in warm water. Looking around gingerly, I realized I was in the middle of a hot spring and the rope was bound to a pole that stood in the center of the spring. Kuuga was the only person around. He sat leaning against a rock near the edges with his eyes closed. I rushed to the pole to see if I could untie the rope.

"Don't bother." Kuuga said from behind. I swiveled around, ready to attack.

"You should be grateful that I brought you to a healing spring. Now stop moving so the spring can do its work." Kuuga continued without even opening his eyes.

"Why did you heal me?" I snarled at him. His eyelids flickered open and he watched me silently.

He was quiet for so long I did not think he would respond, "It was a waste."

"What was a waste?" I probed.

"You." He replied, and closed his eyes again to rest.

"What do you mean?" I asked again. He was silent. I repeated my question. He ignored me still. Angry, I tugged on the rope and stalked over to him. The rope was just long enough for me to growl at him from inches away. He finally opened his eyes. When he saw that I was inches from him, his eyes narrowed. He grabbed my wrists and jerked me against the rock that he had leaned on. The rope came loose on one end and he used it like a leash, yanking my arms above my head again. He bit harshly down on my nipple and caused me to moan from pain and pleasure.

"Do not, ever, provoke me again." He warned, and threw me into the water again away from him. Just when I finally found a footing again to stand, he yanked the rope and I fell towards him again. He caught me by the neck and squeezed, pulling me closer.

"I am much scarier than Lord Kayan will ever be. Never forget that." Kuuga hissed, "You will succumb to me." He dragged me by the arm away from the hot spring and into a bedroom much like the one at Koenma had provided me. He threw me onto the bed. His servants came immediately to wait on him.

"Give me the drug." Kuuga walked towards me. I felt fear that even Kayan could not instill. Kayan could only bring physical pain, but Kuuga felt much crueller.

He tied the rope to the bedpost and forcefully pried my legs apart, tying them each to other bedposts so that I lay spread open before him. By then, tears were streaming down my cheeks as I cursed Kuuga with all my might.

The servant arrived with a syringe and Kuuga took it it gingerly between his fingers. I cried and struggled, fearing what was in that syringe, but Kuuga took no heed and injected the contents into my arm.

My body immediately fell limp from my arm to the rest of my body, but I was fully conscious. "What did you do to me…?" I forced out.

"You'll see." Was his only reply as he left me with the drug slowly taking effect. When he finally came back, I saw in his hand a tripod with a video camera and suddenly, I knew what he was going to do.

"You can't!..." I groaned, straining against my bindings.

"Then you'll tell me where the essence is." Kuuga said pausing his set-up, waiting for me to yield. I bit back my cry and fell silent. That was answer enough for Kuuga. He continued to set up the camera. When he was done, his servant came forward with a tray of different devices. Kuuga picked one and turned to me so I could see what it was. I gasped a sharp intake of breath and tried to struggle, but the drug was completely in control now. It was an aphrodisiac. My body was scorching with need. My eyes were unfocused and my breath rapid and frantic. My mind no longer thought of anything except sex. I wanted the large rod that Kuuga held in his hand. I wanted it inside of me. I wanted it to break me and enter me. I wanted Kuuga, I wanted his hands, his lips, his fingers to take my body and quench my thirst. I wanted him to cool my fire. I moaned from the thought of him.

Kuuga turned to the camera then, both with the rod and me in perfect view, "Enjoy the video of the ice maiden. If you want her back, bring the Winter's Essence to Nightfall Castle. If you don't...well, she'll be having a lot more fun with my friends."

Kuuga finally turned to me and I cried out in need. He rubbed the tip against my soaking opening, teasing me.

"Please, please, please, please!" I moaned, begging for him.

"Good, the drug's finally taking effect." Kuuga suddenly shoved the entire rod deep into me. The pain was instantly covered by pleasure and I screamed in ecstasy as I came in front of the camera by Kuuga's rod. He pumped the rod in and out of me forcefully, and with each thrust, I cried out for him, my hands grasping air as my body clenched and convulsed, bucking to the rocking of his thrusts.

"How does it feel? To have your virginity taken this way?" Kuuga asked with a smirk.

"It feels," I moaned, "good! So good! Oh god! Please! More!" Kuuga finally smiled, and he suddenly stopped thrusting, pulling the rod out of me. I let out a whimper and shook my hips at Kuuga.

"Please Kuuga, please!" I moaned, begging him.

"Then beg." Kuuga smirked.

"Please give it to me..." I whimpered.

"Give what to you?" Kuuga laughed.

"Please give me a big cock..." I mumbled.

"I can't hear you!" Kuuga sneered.

"Please give me a big cock!" I cried loudly.

"Good, very good." Kuuga stripped and pressed his hard pulsating member against my raw, beaten womanhood.

"Now, for a good girl, I'll give you an antidote." Kuuga smirked. He took another syringe and aimed it at my arm again. He entered me the same moment the syringe did and started pumping into me. The antidote surged from my body and immediately chased back the lust. I was suddenly in my head again and very aware of what I had just done. I choked on my tears and screamed in pain that only Kuuga could inflict.

"No! Stop! Please no!" I cried again and again, but Kuuga kept pumping his large member. I struggled against the ropes until my wrists were raw and bloody, but Kuuga kept thrusting away. Helplessly, I screamed out the only name that came to mind, "Hiei!"

Kuuga leered at me, "Is that your boyfriend? I wonder what he'd think after seeing this!" He forced his lips on mine and I bit his lip as hard as I could. He broke away glaring down at me.

"You bitch!" He grabbed me by my neck and squeezed, all the while quickening his pace between my legs. Slowly he choked the life out of me until finally he released his seed within me. He let go of my neck and I fell back to the bed, unable to move anymore.

Helpless tears streamed down my cheeks to clutter down onto the bed that was covered in black diamonds. Kuuga smirked and grabbed a fistful of my hair. He lifted my face up so that the camera could see my face.

"She will get this everyday until you bring the essence." Kuuga smirked, and with that, the camera was cut off.