Chapter 13
The binds Shinichi and his bitch of a sister were cutting deep into my wrists. Magically charmed steel soaked in vervain. They knew me all too well. Lucion, Max, and the others were sitting silently in the back of the excruciatingly tacky van. Lucion and I exchanged looks of love and concern before glancing around to the others. Elena was wriggling to get out of the binds she was in her features hardened with anger but her lapis lazuli eyes betrayed her fear and concern for her friends. Bonnie whimpered silently as she watched a very wounded Damon struggle to sit upright. Meredith sat still her grey cat like eyes scanning the van looking for anything to use to her advantage. Sage had his eyes locked on Meredith as if waiting for her to crack, his expression worried and tired. Stefan lay motionless next to Elena a pool of blood underneath him, I could only assume that they'd tried to hurt Elena and he stepped in, I guess he had decided not to feed from Elena anymore for the time being. The van came to a screeching halt and the doors were flung open a pair of black painted fingers grasped my shoulder and pulled me out making me land flat on my ass. "Careful wench. You just might piss off the wrong person." I growled through clenched teeth. That earned me a hard blow across the face. Blood dripped down to the ground from my now wounded mouth but I simply looked up at my assailant Misao with a bright smile before licking the blood from my lips and laughing darkly. I could feel my sanity waver a bit as my rage grew. Misao just tossed her hair and went to retrieve her sleeping brother from the passenger seat with a quick "Hmph." My family watched me with worried eyes apparently afraid of seeing me get hit again. I smirked lightly to ease their fears some but I think at that point I might've terrified them even more. Shinichi stepped out from around the van stretching his fox-like canines showing as he yawned. "So. Shall we?" He asked tilting his head. I nodded with a smile causing him to blink a few times before pulling me to my feet and shoving me forward through the sand. I glanced behind and saw Misao following, with Lucion tightly locked in her grip, unconscious of course there's no way that little twat would've been able to take him while awake. Possibilities of how to get him out of harm's way raced through my mind but I came up with nothing as we trudged through the desert. "Now anything familiar yet Princess?" Shinichi asked with a grin. I snapped my attention back to him and shook my head with a smirk. He was obviously agitated at my amusement and threw me down to the sand his left foot coming to rest on my right leg. "You sure?" He pressed applying pressure to the leg he had pinned I could feel small little cracks forming in the bone and hissed lightly. "I'm sure." I replied calmly my voice unshaken and untainted by the pain radiating through my leg. He growled and stomped down hard a deafening crack erupting into the air from the now shattered bone. I cried out in pain before my cries slowly turned to uncontrollable deep laughs. Shinichi kicked me across the face but the pain only made me laugh harder. At this point Shinichi and Misao were thoroughly confused. Shinichi steeled himself once more. "Let's see if you find this funny." He spat and lashed out towards Lucion's chest claws first. There was a sickening squelching sound as his claws dug deep into flesh. What he heard next was Misao's roar of pain as her brother's hand went through her stomach. Shinichi pulled back utterly terrified and in pain now himself. He had been so wrapped up in torturing me and hurting the one I loved that he hadn't noticed me break the chains that had me bound and grab his sister holding her in front of my form as I shielded Lucion. I let Misao fall to the sand in agony and turned my attention to helping my love regain consciousness. Shinichi charged at me but was quickly caught by the throat and tossed aside. I broke Lucion free from his bindings and gave him a swift kiss on the lips before turning to Shinichi. I took a step forward and crumpled to the sand completely forgetting the fact that one of my legs was completely disabled. Rising to my feet I snapped my leg back into place and walked toward a very frightened Shinichi. My eyes were dark with rage fueled madness as I came closer. I snatched Shinichi up by his tail causing him to yelp and squirm in my grasp. "Now who's the weak one?" I growled in a voice I would rather never hear again. Shinichi just whined and wriggled trying to get free his once venomous eyes filled with complete and utter fear. I was then tackled to the ground, my prey now face down in the sand a few yards away. I growled and hissed and fought but I was pinned and lips crashed down hard on mine. I could feel my mind swim with anger 'How dare you?' but my madness melted away and warmth and electricity began to rush through me my sanity slowly ebbing back to me in blissful pulses. The kiss was broken and Lucion looked down at me worriedly. I smiled gently up at him everything in me tired and achy especially my leg. "Let me take it from here love." He said with another peck upon my lips before rising to his feet. Shinichi and Misao also rose to theirs and charged him together. It was quite entertaining watching them be tossed around like rag dolls as they tried to bring my lover down to his knees. At that moment Artemis started to glow from its resting place on my hip. Misao and Shinichi stopped dead in their tracks and looked toward me. "The key!" Shinichi shouted at the top of his lungs before rushing toward me. As I was no longer insane and I was very much injured trying to escape in time would quite possibly have been torture if weren't for the fact that Shinichi didn't take another step forward. Instead he fell to his knees sand exploding out in little dust clouds as his knees met the earth, I blinked at him confused but all he could managed were strained choked sounds before his top half slid off of his bottom half with a gross squishing sound. Misao howled in pain and anger at her brother's loss before charging at me with all of her might she too got about as close as her sibling before she fell to the sand decapitated and very much dead. Lucion smirked darkly licking the blood from his nails. Something about watching him do that gave me goosebumps, in a good way. Not the I'm terrified or cold kind but the 'Oh my god I want to take you right here.' Kind. He had obviously picked up on that because he laughed and picked me up bridal style carrying me back to the van where the rest of my family was being held captive. By the time we reached the area the van had been parked in however all of the captives from the van were charging as if going to war broken sticks chains and even scraps of metal being used for weapons. In fact as we cleared the top of the last sand dune I was pretty sure I heard Max do some sort of weird war cry. As soon as they saw us their operation came to a screeching halt which left Max knocked over face first into the sand. It didn't take long before we were tackled into a huge dog pile of 'I'm glad you're okays.' And 'What happeneds'. Needless to say I think our family will be just fine and as for the key? That will always remain with me no matter the situation.