Ugh! School needs to stop taking my writing time! Seriously I hardly have enough time to type stuff, so it's like I update stories every Saturday or so. So it turns out that this story albeit a bit wild isn't so bad. I may or may not rewrite it or something. But that's for another time, hope ya'll enjoy this chapter. Beware, the word 'red' is used a lot in this chapter.

The scythe stopped a couple inches from Sufferer's face. The adult let out a held in breath of relief as he looked above him. Karkat's eyes seemed to have faded off into their normal yellow color as he moved the weapon from Sufferer's face. His glare never seemed to waver as he jumped off the other. He walked off quite a distance from the other, his back stayed facing to the adult.

"Why? Why did you not you finish me off?"

Karkat scoffed, "I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA. MAYBE I HAVE SOME MERCY AND DON'T FEEL LIKE LOPPING OFF MY DAMN ANCESTOR'S HEAD."

"Mercy will get you killed."

"FUNNY HOW SOMEONE LIKE YOU IS TALKING ABOUT MERCY LIKE THAT."

Said troll tipped his head to the side. Could he show mercy? As far as he knew, Condescension had told him to kill his descendant without mercy and show no hesitation. There was no mention of whom he was before awakening, what he did or said. It was just a simple order, nothing more, nothing less. He was just someone made to kill. So there was a reason why mercy just seemed to not click in his mind.

"I do not understand."

"RIGHT NOW, I FUCKING DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU."

The Sufferer glanced at the floor in deep thought, then looked at the forgotten scythe not too far. Deep inside, he wanted to let this young troll live. But no matter what, Her Imperial Condescension's orders were absolute and he will obey. Karkat Vantas will die. His red eyes looked to the troll whose back was turned to him, and reached for the scythe. Karkat, who was oblivious to what was going on behind him, continued to speak. But he turned at the end of his sentence to get his point across.

"I STILL WONDER WHY YOU ARE TRYING T- SHIT!"

The weapon missed Karkat's throat by a couple centimeters and imbedded itself into a tree. Karkat returned his gaze to Sufferer who had blood lust in his eyes once more. Any remnant of who the Sufferer once was had faded away.

"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?! JUST A SECOND AGO, YOU SEEMED CALM AND SHIT."

"Do not let your guard down when your enemy is near."

Karkat's body was still sore from all the hits and slashes he'd taken. He didn't want to fight anymore, he just wanted the adult to stop and explain why he was alive and wanted to kill him so badly. He dodged the scythe's slices, narrowly escaping a vicious injury at each swipe. He managed to distance himself from the Sufferer. His eyes were kept in a heated glare.

"DAMN IT..."

He prepared himself for the adult's next move, but was shocked by what he did next. He hid his scythe and started to back away into the dark surrounding of the forest.

"HEY! WHERE THE EVER LOVING FUCK ARE YOU GOING?"

"We shall continue this fight another day wriggler."

Karkat growled and started to run at his ancestor.

"LIKE HELL YOU WILL!"

As he got closer, he caught the Sufferer's eyes and noticed how they glowed a deep fuchsia color before fading back to their original bright red shade.

'What the hell?...'

Nothing more came out of his mind as Sufferer lifted a foot and kicked Karkat several feet back. The troll flew straight into a tree with full force. A crack resounded through the cancer's back. Karkat screamed in agony as he hit the leaf covered ground. He coughed and panted slowly, pain in every breath. His eyes slowly wandered back to his ancestor, rage heating from the very depths of the dark pupils.

"Another day wriggler."

He backed away, leaving the poor young troll alone. He grit his teeth and rolled onto his back. He groaned as he felt each muscle twitch in pain. His blood was slowly leaving his body and stained the forest floor around him a candy red. Black was starting to creep into the edges of his eyes, though he struggled to stay awake.

"D-DAMN IT..."

With that final saying, he slipped into unconsciousness.

~.~.~.~.~

Terezi, Equius, Nepeta and now Feferi and Kanaya were now dashing past the her hive. Terezi had seemed calm, but then her nose caught scent of Karkat's delicious candy red blood and it sent her flying off into the woods. Her eyes, though unseeing, frantically wandered through the forest as she looked for her friend. She continued to run and run until she felt something hit her feet, knocking her onto the ground.

She moaned as she lifted herself up, her body froze at the sudden assault of candy red filling her nostrils. Her head quickly snapped to where the scent was extremely strong and felt around for the trace. Her fingers brushed against wet, spiky hair and that's when she finally went to action.

"K4RK4T?! K4RK4T!"

She moved even closer to the troll's body and tried to shake him awake, but immediately stopped when she felt something wet on her hands. She gave her hands a questionable look before moving them closer to her nose and sniffing. She quickly recoiled from the appendages as soon as she caught the whiff.

Red.

'Karkat's hurt!...And...I-I wasn't there to help. What the hell is wrong with me?! Why'd I run?...I-I could've helped him...' She thought.

The sounds of running footsteps soon came closer to her location. Terezi lifted her head sadly, teal tears in her red eyes and 'stared' at the other trolls.

Feferi was in shock, her hands covering her mouth, eyes wide. Nepeta had also repeated this gesture, but clear olive tears were in her eyes.

"K-Karkitty...n-no..."

Equius kept a stoic face but did wince when he saw the bright red spread out beneath the leader. Kanaya gasped as soon as she caught sight of the blood and her motherly instincts activated. She strided over to Terezi and knelt down next to her. Her arms wrapped around the Terezi in a sympathetic gesture as the other cried.

"Equius. If You Will, Please Quickly Assist Us In Escorting Karkat To The Infirmary."

The blue blood nodded and walked to the motionless troll. He carefully and gently lifted Karkat into his arms and started off, back to the lab. His nose wrinkled at the blood that stained his clothes and dripped to the ground.

"His blood is such an unusual shade of red. It's not even on the hemospectrum...Hmm, no wonder he went to such trouble to keep his blood color a secret."

He knew that Karkat was a lowblood, due to his rough, rude behavior. But he never expected the leader to be that low. He was basically a mutant in a way. He glanced behind him to see Nepeta and Terezi walking with their heads low and eyes focused on the floor. It really did bug Equius to see his moirail like this and it bothered him a tad to see the teal blood like that too as she was usually cackling about something.

But now was not the time for laughing or joking. It was serious.

What Equius wanted to know most of all was who did this and why.

Who would go out of their way to injure Karkat so badly? What issues do they carry with the lowblood? Why did they do this?

~.~.~.~.~

"uH, gAMZEE? ARE YOU, uH, sURE THAT YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE SOMETHING'S GOING ON?"

"HeLl NaW mOtHeRfUcKeR. wHaT's bUgGiNg YoU bRo?"

"i JUST GET THE FEELING THAT, uH, wE'RE BEING WATCHED..."

Gamzee looked around the large room that they both sat in. The room, albeit a bit dark and scary, had no one else in it excluding the two in there. The curly haired male shrugged and patted Tavros's metal leg to comfort.

"AiN't SeE nO oNe ArOuNd HeRe...MaYbE iT's AlL iN yOuR mOtHeRfUcKiNg ThInK pAn TaVbRo."

"i THOUGHT IT WAS TOO,,,b-bUT NOT ANYMORE,,,"

Gamzee furrowed his brows in confusion as he continued to glance around the room. The ceiling was high up and hidden in the shadows. His dark eyes glanced around the room as he looked for a clue. But sadly, he found no clue and turned to look at Tavros. The other was looking up at the darkness above with a worried face.

"TaVbRo?"

Said troll finally snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Gamzee with a curious face. The indigo-blood was starting to feel a bit nervous as he watched Tavros fidget with an unknown fear of something or someone.

That someone was there, up above the two young ones, hidden by the cloak of shadows. Their eyes seemed to harden as they stared at Tavros especially. A sharp grin crossed their features as they reached for their weapon.

'Too bad they don't know what's gonna hit them.'

Tavros felt something cold travel down his spine and he finally had enough and quickly stood up, startling the other troll. Concern crossed the skinny troll as he stared up at Tavros.

"tAv-?"

"gAMZEE,,,wE HAVE TO LEAVE NOW,,,"

"Aw BuT bRo, It'S aLl MiRaClEs Up In HeRe...DoN't WaNnA lEaVe JuSt YeT."

An arm propelled itself behind the body in a tossing position .

"gAMZEE I'M SERIOUS!"

The grin got larger as the owner of the weapon chose their target.

"bUt..."

Tavros reached for the gangly troll's arm and pulled him to his feet. He gave the capricorn a small glare before tugging him towards the door. Gamzee only slightly refused, reluctantly choosing to go with the taurus. Neither knew of what was about to happen to them.

"Adios."

With a small chuckle and a heave, the weapon was thrown and it sliced through the air as it aimed for its target.

Tavros turned just in time to see. His eyes widened as he opened his mouth to scream. There was a lance whistling through the air and it was aimed right at his best friend.

"GAMZEE LOOK OUT!"

And scene. Yeah, nothing like a fresh cliffhanger to brighten a day, eh? Anyways, oh my goodness, shit got so real that Tav lost his quiet tone for a bit. Reminded me of KK. Bet ya'll know who the person was who threw the weapon hm? You better know cuz it's easy like that. Maybe.

Who is this assailant?

What's gonna happen to Karkat?

What's gonna happen to Gamzee? You think he'll live or die?

Well you'll find out soon I guess. Expect another update by next Wednesday or so, but until then bye bye~!