Sophie opened her eyes slowly, she was still in the train compartment and everyone but Paxton was missing. "Where's everyone else?" Sophie asked with a groggy tone to her voice. Paxton looked at the red-head strangely. "Everyone else?" Paxton inquired, cocking his head to the side.

"Yea, Nicole and Josh and the weird guy who shaved his balls... all them." Sophie said while scratching her head.

Paxton sighed, "Sophie, that was a dream." Sophie sat straight up. "What? No!" She screeched in disbelief and beginning to tear up. Paxton scooted closer to Sophie and held her, she rested on his shoulder as tears rolled down her pale cheeks. "It's gonna be fine, we'll get Josh and go back to America. It'll be ok." Paxton said comfortingly and wrapping his arms around Sophie.

Sophie pulled back and looked at him, her eyes were slightly pink from crying and tears continued to roll down her cheeks.

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The train arrived in Slovakia around 7 o'clock that evening. Sophie and Paxton stepped off together and glanced around. Sophie was extremely hungry but didn't want to delay anything. Her and Paxton pushed onward.

A bit later the two picked up a taxi and were driven into town, Sophie didn't like the driver, there was just this really bad tone about him that made Sophie uncomfortable. Of course, Sophie did not think for a moment this person was not part of Elite Hunting. He had evil written right on his forehead and Sophie knew it. Paxton felt similarly, except for the fact he had been in the same taxi with this man not more than a week ago.

The two got out not to far from the small Slavic town, and walked the rest of the way. Paxton had a determined look on his face as he walked through the town, his eyes fixed on the smokestack that could be seen in the distance. Sophie tried to keep the pace with Paxton who was walking quite fast, but struggled a bit at times.

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The two neared the factory and the second they even go in range of it a strong stench hit them. The area was silent, not even the screams from inside the building could be heard. Paxton pulled open the door and walked in determinedly. Sophie seemed a bit more cautious about being in the factory.

Paxton immediately went down to the basement, as he continued in the screams got louder and more shrill. Paxton forced himself to block them out as he ran through the halls. Sophie trailed behind him, both keeping watch and looking for a weapon that could be used if one of the fuckers tried to grab either one of them.

Eventually Paxton reached the end of the hall and looked in, what he saw was something he would never forget. Despite all the sick, twisted images that had been crammed into his mind this was something else. Inside the room, the top half of Josh's body was at the foot of the door.The skin on his back had been skinned off entirely and his internal organs were strewn around the cell. Paxton didn't look around for anything else, he didn't want to see anything else.

Paxton vomited a bit at the macabre sight, when a laugh broke through the air. "Like him?" A blonde woman, who Paxton presumed was Josh's torturer, said as she walked out from behind the metal door. "I personally think I did a pretty good job with him." She grinned.

The grin sickened Paxton, she just murdered his best friend and she was smiling. "Oh... yea... great." Paxton said nervously and still shaking, not knowing whether or not the woman thought he was an Elite Hunting client or not. She smirked and walked away, bumping Paxton with her shoulder as she did.

He watched her walk away, before moving even the slightest bit. He looked down at Josh's pieced up body and cringed before turning away. He debated for a moment whether he was going to attack the bitch that killed Josh but held himself back. The last thing he needed was and incident like when he was taken by Natalia when he saw Kana.

That one moment would be imprinted in his mind forever there was no escaping it.

Paxton curiously wandered down the hallway. Natalia was still laughing, he looked back at her and raised an eyebrow. Not getting what was so amusing. He turned the corner and saw an American-looking man burning Kana's eye with a blowtorch. Her eye was dangling out of its socket and the area around it was severely burnt.

He turned towards Paxton "Hey buddy, get your own damn room! I paid for this shit!" He hissed, before resuming his work. Paxton looked at Kana with both terror and disgust, he backed up and saw Natalia laughing hysterically at what had just happened. "You whore, you... you, bitch!" Paxton screamed walking toward her.

"Ha! I get a lot of money for you and that makes you my bitch!" Natalia laughed loudy.

Paxton charged toward Natalia, at that moment he really did want to kill her. But at right before he reached her two large guards pulled him away. Paxton squirmed, trying to break free, kicking and knocking over the multiple jars that lined the walls.

Shortly after he was drug into one of the empty cells and handcuffed him to the single chair that was in the cell. Paxton received a painful blow to the stomach before the guards walked out and slammed the door.

Paxton snapped out of his thought for and shuddered at the thought of it all, then it hit him... Where was Sophie?