Your eyes open. You are in a room and the first thing you smell is rotten fish. You blink, where are you? You try to move but your wrists are restrained. Wait, you are standing? You look up to see your arms are outstretched over your head as your wrists are in a strange singular cuff that looks similar to the Cancer symbol. Chains are connected from the ceiling to the cuffs. You are trapped. Your feet are bare against the cold wet floor, and your shirt and shorts have been taken off. You feel exposed in this enclosed room.
You look around and start to notice this room is outlined with barred cells. It looks like a jail and you are chained in the middle, "Hello?" you say squinting at the door at the end of the room that is bound to be the exit. You walk forward but the cuffs restrain you. You pull with your demonic strength, "LET ME OUT OF HERE!" but you can only hear the chains clanking together.
"Dave! Dave are you here! Is anyone here!?" you cry. The entire room is dim, the only source of light is the tiny rectangular window on the door.
"Help.." you whimper, looking down at the purple tiled floor.
"I am here." a voice purrs in one of the jail cells. Your head shoots up, startled.
"Who are you?" was all you can think.
A short woman, presses her head against the bars next to you. The light catching some of her features. Her eyes reflect an olive green color that matches with her coat that is as long as her. Her skin is tan and her shirt is black as well as her pants. As the girl holds the bars with her hands you can see she wears fingerless gloves. You can't see much behind her. The cage she is in looks more secluded and dark than where you are now.
"I am Nepeta." she answers, her lips curved up slightly which only reminds you of a cat, "What are you in here for?" she points at you. You notice how sharp her nails look as she points at you.
You hesitate at first, but what the hell, "For being born. You know, interspecies relationship that leads to a mutant child. What about you?" you try facing Nepeta to make yourself look approachable, but of course the chains hold you back.
"I got caught." she says, her smile turning into a frown, "You see, uh. I helped creatures be with who they love. It's my job to smuggle them to Earth when the portal opens. If the portal doesn't open, I put them in hiding." she explains. Wow, that must mean you two are on the same side.
"I'm sorry mew got in trouble. Mew seem like a nice guy." Her smile comes back as she tips her head to the side. Nepeta seems like a nice girl. Maybe she can help you out? If she could she probably would have broken out right now. You sigh.
"What's your name?" Nepeta asks.
"Karkat." you answer.
"Nepeta gasps. She asks Karkat if she can call him Karkitty?" she narrates herself in third person.
Your brows furrow, "Uh.. No? Fuck no."
"Okay Karkitty." she giggles.
"I said no!" the chains jingle like bells.
You hear sobbing on the other side of the room, the voice sounds familiar, "Jake?" you say.
"Karkat?" Jake is at the furthest cell on the left. His face pressed between two bars to show his red face. Snot trails under his nose as he sniffs, "Gadzooks, Karkat. It's so good to see you." He wipes his wet face, "I uh, do you think the Gay Bar will save us?" he hiccups, "I have been taken by a really scary creature. I thought he was Dirk but… Oh god." Jake starts crying again. You groan.
"Jake! We are trapped here! What's the fucking point of crying right now?"
"It's just-" Jake sniffs, "What if we die? I don't want to die!"
"I won't let that happen." you say, "Not to you. Or Nepeta over here." god you hope you are right. It doesn't help with Jake's crying fit though. Now you need to figure out how to get out of here? Your sickles are nowhere to be seen, well of course. Why keep an enemy armed?
Karkat growls as he pulls against the cuffs. Of course nothing works. He jumps in the air. Nope. He pulls himself up to see any weak spots. Nothing. Karkat growls, so close to having a temper tantrum.
"Let me out!" he yells.
The front door creaks open and Jake whimpers in the background. You see a very tall lady who barely fit in the room.
"Ah, the mutant child. I have been waiting to see you." she grins, her hand holding a trident that's as large as her. You have to be an idiot to not know who she is.
Her Imperious Condescension holds your chin up with the point of her trident, "You look just like your father. You are more alike than you may think. She these iron cuffs?" she points at the strange cuffs that hold your arms up, "These were the same cuffs that helped kill your father." she taps the cuffs and all of a sudden they turn red. They feel warm, no. They are getting hotter.
Her Imperious grins,"You will die exactly like he did. Slowly, and painfully, until all you feel in every part of your body is pain."