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Welcome dear guests, to the never-ending night of Wonder land. My name is Maru and I will be your guide. Allow me a moment to draw you a picture of what has happened since your last visit. The young kit reveals a past filled with horrors of great pain and heartbreak. The Omnitrix wielder confesses his undying love to the brutish ex-con. Those feeling are returned, but their moment of happiness was interrupted by a knock at the door. This is all can I see within the confines of my world. Please enjoy the tales that are about to unveil themselves.

'Hi' Animal form thoughts (telepathy)

"Hi" Talking

'Hi' Thoughts


Old Friends, New Enemies

Chapter6: Never-ending Nightmare

Marello continued to sit by himself at the park wondering what the younger dragon prince was doing. Even though Marello knew the reason why he was sent back home, he was getting frustrated not having his lover by him. Though the only thing the two had done was kiss Marello was slowly becoming desperate for his touch. A few minutes passed and Marello decided to get up and go to Kevin's apartment. As he neared the end of the park, a familiar scent filled his senses. Marello stopped in his tracks and panicked for a moment. Once the fear he felt began to left, he started to yell. "Come out you cowardly snake, I'm in no mood to play with you!"

A moment later, from the shadows to his left, a muscular, tall, and silver haired figure walked closer to him. As he walked along the path, the only sound that was heard was the clack of the shoes the man was wearing. "Marello is that anyway to greet an old lover," the voiced asked still holding it charm it did all those years ago.

Marello bared his fangs at the dragon prince and retorted, "To be a lover, you have to love them first. I hate you; you took the only thing that I had left and now I'm going to pay you back for it!" Marello summoned all the energy he needed and began to transformation into his Halfling form. As he finished changing, Marello then noticed the presence of four of Draco's personal guards. "Tell your men to come out and face me. If you think you're going to take me easily your more of a fool than I thought."

Draco smiled as he tilted his head down. He looked back up to Marello and held out his left arm. With a quick snap, the four guards came rushing from their hiding spots and surrounded Marello. "I see that your senses have become stronger. Hmmm, I wonder what happened to the cute little slave boy I had so long ago. Let me guess, the Livenium is out of your system so your body has aged to it appropriate age."

Marello didn't answer the dragon, but took a defensive stance preparing for the guards to attack.

Draco sighed, since he didn't get an answer, but told his guard to capture him without hurting him too much. Without another word, the first guard ran at the fox, and threw a punch at the boy's chest. However Marello caught the guard's fist and quickly used a side step and brought the guard's arm behind his back. The let out a cry of pain as Marello bent the arm upwards. Marello proceed to chop the man in the neck to knock him out, but then the other guards decided to ambush him. Not wanting to be caught, Marello let the fallen could go and pushed off the ground and did a back flip to get behind the guards.

After a successful landing, Marello took an offensive stance and readied himself. The guard wasted no time to face their opponent and charge him about four seconds after the other. Marello was able to dodge the first kick to his side, but was caught by a fist to left side of his face and hit the ground. Feeling the pain throbbing in his face, he got up and went to attack one the guards, however the other two were on him before he got too close to his target. This time Marello was able to dodge the attacks. Kicks and punches flew fast, but ever so often Marello took a blow. He knew they had the advantage of three on one, but he still wasn't going to give in.

Marello decided to try and separate the tag team of three, by aiming a punch at one of them but was stopped by his partner who put Marello in the same position he had put the first guard in. The guard went to knock Marello out, but missed how Marello hit his Plumber badge's center.

At Kevin's apartment, Ben should there staring at the man, but when he mentioned Marello's name, he frowned. "I don't know who you're talking about and if I did I wouldn't tell you," Ben said with his voice simmering with anger. The blonde man looked at Ben with the same expression that Kevin gave him, but the blonde's was far harder to read than Kevin's.

"Look I'm not here to hurt him. I'm just here to find him, if you know anything please tell me." The blonde man's tone was laced with urgency, but before they could continue, Kevin's badge went off and live video of Marello fighting appeared. The three men looked and saw that Marello was outnumbered and had already taken a beating. The blonde turned to leave, but Ben's arm caught him before he could go.

"Your one the guys trying to him back to Kyu, aren't you?" Ben asked the man his question, but only got a nod of the head as an answer. That was all Ben needed before he let the man go and started to use the Omnitrix. As the transformation finished, Ben had turned into Jet Ray and released and power laser blast on the blonde man's back.

The blonde was caught off guard by the attack and flew forward and landed face first into the ground. The blonde snarled at the sneak attack, when he heard the new alien behind him call the other human to get to the park and help Marello. Daemon was going to follow the larger man but, was soon lifted off the ground by strong talons. Daemon struggled to get free but the grip on his arms was too strong to break.

"Let me go you crazed fool, Marello needs me!" Daemon yelled but as far Ben knew the blonde was a distraction from helping Marello. So the brunette took the man to the abandoned manikin factory and dropped him.

As Daemon fell, he straightened himself out and transferred his energy into his transformation. Soon from his back sprouted strange but beauty wings, along with his hands and feet change to those of a dragon. While he continued to fall, Daemon opened his wings and gave them one good flap. His decent stopped immediately and soon began to flap his wing once more and soared in Ben's direction. Ben was stunned at the guy speed, but didn't stay in the same spot for long as he dodged and fired another laser beam from his tail at the Dragon. Daemon felt the air current change from behind him, and dodged the laser at the last moment and prepared an attack of his own. Taking a deep breath, Daemon closed his fist. He charge at Ben once more but opened his fist to create a fireball. He threw it at Ben, but the Aerophibian, dodged the attack and another laser blast at the dragon Halfling. Wanting to gain the upper hand, Daemon created another fireball and threw it at the beam of energy.

As the two attacks collided, Daemon took off behind the cover of his attack. The explosion of the two attacks gave Daemon the advantage he wanted as he flew through the cloud of smoke. Ben hovered in place wondering whether it was wise to attack through the smoke. However he didn't a chance to decide when another fireball hit him in the chest. While his guard was down, Daemon flew at the Aerophibian, and grabbed it by its arms. Using his superior strength, he threw Ben, with a great deal of strength, into the ground below.

While the two titans fought, Kevin got into his car and sped to the park. By the time he got there, he could tell he had just missed the aliens. However, Kevin did find one a souvenir for his heroic effort. On the ground lay a fallen guard still out from one of Marello's attack he figure. Kevin grabbed the fallen guard and dragged it back to his car. Using a restraint lasso, made of pure energy, Kevin tied the man up and went to find Ben, before he and that blonde hotty, ask Kevin had mentally dubbed, destroyed anything.

Ben was now on the ground moaning in pain as he woke up tied up with a piece of rope. 'Oh great now I've been caught by the enemy and I'm probably gonna' get tortured or something. Damn and I still get to die a virgin,' Ben thought even though he was overreacting. One the dragon noticed his victim was awake he looked over at the young and glared at him. "What reason did you have to attack me? I only wished to prevent the events that have befallen my little kitsune." The blonde said bitterly towards the brunette. Ben was still confused but he blamed it on the crash landing he got from fighting the dragon. Trying to sit up Ben yelled at the dragon prince. (Now when in this situation it's in your best interest to remain calm, but senses this is Benji he yells)

"What do you mean 'what was my reason?' You're with the guys who kidnapped Marello in the first place. I bet you were sent as a distraction for me and Kevin so your friend could take him without any interference. " Daemon still scowled at the boy, had to admit his timing hadn't been the best in his situation. However the dragon wasn't going to admit that. He grabbed Ben by his shirt and pulled him close. Ben glared back at the prince, but remained quiet.

"Look terran; I don't have time to play with you. Marello is in trouble and you're going to help me get him back. If you decide to help me willingly, forgive your attack from before, but if you refuse, I'll roast you alive right here, right now." Daemon's eyes began to bleed red from their normal sapphire color, which made Ben nervous. "Now tell me who do you think I work for?"

Ben gulped still looking at the blood red eyes and nervously, "Draco?"

Daemon snarled, and showed Ben his fangs and le the brunette go. He changed his hand into a dragon's claw and raised it above Ben's head. Ben closed his eyes thinking the dragon was going to finish him off right then and there. Ben waited to the never-ending pain, but soon felt his binds fall. Ben opened one eye and noticed that he was unharmed, and the dragon released him. He looked at the dragon, who was sitting on a rock the entire time and asked him a simple question. "If you're not working for Draco then who are and who do you work for?"

Daemon sighed and started to explain to Ben who he was. "My name is Daemon Regalia, of the Ryu Clan, second son the king. I came to Earth to protect Marello from my brother. I take it you know whom my brother is," Daemon paused for a moment to await Ben's answer. When Ben gave him a simple nod of the head, he continued. "Since my brother was forced to leave the palace, he has become obsessed with bringing Marello back to him. He seems to think that Marello is his personal play toy, and he has gone to great length to try and acquire him again. However I made Marello a promise to love and protect him. My brother is here on earth and those men you saw on you little transmitting device were his personal guard and will do whatever he says. If my brother does what he did to Marello again, I'm afraid I'll lose him totally this time. You should have seen when he was physically healed from Draco's attacks. He was afraid of everyone around him and the only reason he trusted me in the least was because promised him from that day on I would protect him. But I wasn't able to keep my promise this time and that's your fault if you had just listened to me, we could've saved him. Now I have to start from start again and look for him before I lose the only thing in my life I value more than the happiness of my people."

Ben couldn't believe that the man had just told him. Daemon had promised to keep Marello safe, and love him. It was something you thought only existed in fairy tales but now Ben was hearing it with his own two ears. Before he could speak again, he heard the engine of a very familiar Camero. He looked behind him to see Kevin was pulling up to them. Ben stood up and looked into the car and saw someone tied up with an energy lasso and soon found himself confused again. However, Daemon gave a cruel and vicious smile at the person in the vehicle.

Kevin pulled up next to them and shut off his car. As he got out, he was surprised to see that Ben looked pretty much ok and the blonde guy wasn't dead. "Okay Ben, don't get mad I went to the park and Marello was already gone, but did find this dude knocked. I take it Marello got him. So I figured we could force him to talk, but he's still out." The brute spoke to Ben hoping he wouldn't be punished for not getting there in time.

Ben sighed at that face but agreed with Kevin that the hostage would be useful, however Daemon told them Draco never cared for his minions so as a hostage he was useless but more than likely the man knew where he brother was hiding. The three agreed to work together for the time being and proceeded to "gently" wake there guest.

The man came to after a few quick whacks to the head and looked at Kevin's face without his helmet. "Listen and listen closely, I want you to tell me where your boss is hidin' his scalely ass." While Kevin's voice was menacing, the guard stared at him with an unreadable expression. Kevin growled a little and tried again. "I ain't playin' wit' you, tell me what I wanna know or you'll face blondey behind me, and trust me he won't stop hurting you till your dead or worse." The guard happened to look over the terran's shoulder and notice Prince Daemon was glaring directly at him. Ben and Kevin noticed the guard start to sweat instantly, and took this as a good sign.

"Remember if anything happens to Marello while we're here talking to you, the prince may take his aggression out on you so it's your choice," Ben said mater-of-factly. The guard pulped and proceeded to tell them where his master had built his current residence. Daemon stood up and walked over to the guard and told him that if he was correct, he'd get to live. Once the three located Draco's residence, Ben and Kevin looked as if they were shocked. The house Draco was living in was a normal ranch style home that sat at the edge of a cliff.

"Ok so how are we goin' get to the stupid house anyway? " Kevin asked sense the house was located on the other side of the world. Daemon smirked as he turned his wrist to reveal silver band with a green button on it. He pressed the small button and waited. Ben looked over at Kevin with a confused look on his face when he a loud boom. He jumped at the noise and clung to Kevin for protection. Kevin didn't mind the attention so he whispered to Ben it was okay and that he would protect him. Daemon's smirk grew a bit more but he was faced away from the couple so they didn't know he heard every word.

After a moment Ben looked up and saw the newest model and the Galaxy Speeder. The ship itself is one of the most advanced ships in the galaxy, but also very expensive. Daemon told them to hurry up and get in the tractor beam before the ship took off. Ben and Kevin followed the older man and were swept off their feet as they walked into the beam. Once inside the ship Ben could only stare in awe at all the equipment that lined the ship. Kevin followed in the example of the younger teen and went towards the first shelf of Alien weaponry. He reached for one, but a firm hand, placed on his shoulder, stopped him.

Daemon spoke with a serious tone. "Don't mess with the weaponry on this ship unless told to do so. Many of these were hard to come by." Kevin agreed with the man and asked where he and would be sitting. Daemon walked over to the control console and placed his hand on the holo-control system. Then seats soon started to form from the floor and allowed Ben and Kevin to sit next to one another. Daemon sat in the driver's seat, so to speak, and set the coordinates of Draco's home. The computer soon sounded off with, "Flight time at legal speed 30 minutes, but doubling speed will allow us to reach destination in 15 minutes is this acceptable?" 'HELL NO!!! I want to get there now Marello is in danger the longer he's with my brother," the younger dragon thought, but told the computer it was fine. The ship turned and soon took off at a blinding speed.

While the boys were on their way to Marello, said teen was just waking up from last blow he took from fighting Draco's guards. Marello slowly sat up, but was still feeling out of sorts. He glanced over the room and noticed how the room was decorated. Gold and burgundy lined the room in an elegant manner. The walls were painted burgundy while many other items in the room were made of gold. Marello had to admit the room was stunning but, when he remembered who the room belonged to, his admiration of the room vanished. Marello crawled off the bed and walked around the room till he found a door. He reached to touch the knob, but something told him not to bother it. He stopped and looked around till he found and pillow sitting on one of the chair sitting next to him. He reached for the pillow and threw it at the door knob. As the pillow hit the knob, it burst into flames. 'Great if I touch the knob I'm gonna get shocked to death,' the young fox thought as he paced in the room. The room had many windows, but it seemed whatever he was protecting the door was on the windows as well. He sighed as he walked back to the bed. It was then he noticed that he was no longer wearing his normal clothes. He was now wearing the attire of a slave on Kyu. Painful memories began to flood Marello's mind and this only brought tears to the boy's eyes. Marello was once again a slave to Draco but, this time Marello was definitely going to fight back. He then heard the sound of the door creaking opening then closing, and lay back on the bed pretending to be knocked out still.


Okay so that's that I'm finished with this chapter….you don't know I went thru to get this up today….I stayed up late…ignored a few the small amount of friends I do have…but it was worth it…Okay so I hope everyone enjoyed and I would really like you all to review….The next chapter maybe the last,,,im not sure just yet…well TTFN