AN: Do not own, just my own characters. Had part of this chapter written already, so it was easy to finish rather quickly. Hope you enjoy it!

italics- are inner thoughts.

Lioth scratched frantically at his neck with his paws, trying to remove the shrinking collar, but the spikes on the collar did more damage to his paws than he did to the collar. Wheezing, Lioth found he couldn't breathe and his vision was darkening; the collar was killing him slowly.

Desperately with his last breath he hissed, "Partner...I sent her to the cat," as Lioth passed out, he didn't see Neuro loosen the collar with a wave of his hand.

Neuro disdainfully stared down at the unconscious demon, fetching the chain; he hooked it to the collar, and with dry amusement watched as the hell-hound shrank down to puppy size. If she is not alive when I find her...I'll destroy you slowly and painfully, Pup.

With the cat....

Krayl was perfectly content to laze away the rest of the day; it's so good to be home. Currently, he was in Hell's forest lounging on one of the trees in his natural form. (If one had to compare the forest to something, just imagine it would be like something you'd picture in a horror film, very creepy.)

After leaving Lioth, Krayl quickly went to go about his own business; first stopping at a demon town that was on the border of the red sand and the black grassland, he wanted to find out what was going on in Hell while he has been gone. Finding nothing of interest, he went home to his forest and chased out the uninvited inhabitants that moved in while was gone.

Now there he was, just dozing on his tree, and it wasn't long till he received an unwelcome surprise.

Ears twitching at the unexpected noise of a portal opening, Krayl cracked open eyes, what's this? Blinking in surprise, he watched the portal a few feet away drop a familiar figure.

Shit...Leaping off his branch, Krayl quickly caught the unconscious girl by her clothes before she fell to her death. Shifting back to his humanoid form, Krayl swore as he took a good look at the girl, it looked like she was having difficulty breathing.

She is not looking too good...how the hell did she get...Krayl spotted the hat on her head and hissed, Lioth, you stupid...Swiping the cap off her head, Krayl tossed it to the ground, Yako's breathing came a little easier, you do not use a demon tool on a human, you idiotic dog. With the state she is in especially, you could have killed her. Krayl eyes widened horror, why you good for nothing...Why on earth did you send her to me! You just signed my death warrant,Krayl knew Lioth was no match for Neuro, and he could imagine the battle between them would be over quickly, too quickly for his likes now.

Shit, this is not good. I need to do something, Glancing down at the girl in arms, he sweated slightly, if she is dead when Neuro finds me....not good. Krayl began pacing, what can I do...what can I do, he glanced down at the girl again; crap...she going into shock, I need to do something now. Krayl grimaced as the solution came to him, If Neuro wasn't going to kill me before, he definitely will now.

Taking a quick look at her neck, he spotted Neuro's mark, it seemed to glare at him as if it knew what he was about to do. Sucking in a deep breath, Krayl lowered his head to the opposite side of Yako's neck, and began to lick a spot gently. Closing his eyes with regret, he bit down, teeth sinking into her flesh. Yako's scream echoed through the entire forest.

In the unconscious realm...

Yako was walking in darkness, she didn't know how she got here but she really didn't care, it was a comforting darkness. She kept walking even if it really didn't seem like she was going anywhere, she figure it would be best to do something rather than just sit there.

So when she saw the light she was quite surprised, I wonder what's over there. As she started to head toward the light, the darkness surrounding her wasn't so comforting anymore. Yako shivered and began to walk quicker.

The air felt heavier and suddenly turned suffocating. I can't breathe..., not wanting to suffocate, she began running to escape. As she got closer to the light, the air seemed to lighten once more.

Glancing back, she noticed that the darkness seemed to be sulking for some reason, as if it could sulk, this is such a weird place, raising an eyebrow in disbelief, she turned towards the light once more, but found she couldn't move.

What? Looking down at her legs she spotted a shadowy hand grabbing one of them, was it preventing her from moving toward the light? Blinking curiously, she kneeled down to look at it closely and poked it with her finger. It twitched and moved down her leg, now it was gripping her ankle.

Looking back at the light, it seemed to be calling her. Frowning, she looked at the hand preventing her from going to it. Well, Mr. Shadowy hand, I'm very sorry, but you are going to have to let me go now, she grabbed the hand by its wrist and yanked it away from her ankle, it was surprisingly weak. The hand tried to grab onto her hand, but she quickly tossed it away from her before it could.

Standing up, she began walking towards the light once more, but was stopped abruptly when more shadowy hands grabbed her. Well, this is annoying, it brought friends. Yako winced as the hands tightened their grip, why are they trying to stop me from going? I don't see what the big deal is, plus the light looks like a happy place.

As if the hands knew what she was thinking, they began to pull her backwards into the darkness. Yako struggled against the hands but found her efforts quite useless. It was then when the mind-blowing pain hit her. What? Why am I in so much pain? Everything hurts. Tears of pain flowed out of her eyes and trickled down her cheeks.

Gritting her teeth, she tried to prevent herself from screaming, but the pain was too much. Through her tears the light seemed to beckon her to go to it, she wanted to cry out that she wanted to, but only screams of pain escaped her lips when she opened her mouth. Collapsing to the ground when the pain became too much for her to stand, she curled up into a fetal position. Lost within her own pain, she didn't notice the hands were trying to drag her back into the darkness, that was once again warm and comforting.

Krayl's POV...

Krayl held the girl's thrashing screaming body still with ease; he was using his aura to heal the girl's wounds through the mark he was placing on her neck. He found out, it was rather painful for a human to take a demon's aura into one's body, if her screams were anything to go by, but to his relief it was working rather well and her wounds were healing.

As for him, he had a monstrous headache and his ears were ringing from all the screaming she was letting off, Thank god, this is almost over. I don't think I can stand this screaming much longer.

When her wounds finally healed and her blood level was no longer so critically low, he stopped feeding his aura through the mark on her neck. Krayl raised his head from her neck and sighed with relief when the screaming finally stopped; I wonder who heard the screaming, my guess practically everyone in Hell.

Carefully, he examined her and found her to be in a restful pain free sleep. As she turned her head in her sleep, to get comfortable was his guess; he spotted his mark that was now on her neck and groaned miserably at the sight, I'm so dead.

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