Yuki: I stopped in a strange spot last chapter, sorry, this one should be longer.

I don't own MP but I do own Kage, Paris, Kile, and the plot.

Chapter Nine: Punishment

"Kile you haven't fed lately have you?" Paris looked up from petting Kage.

"No I haven't," Kile kept his dark gaze on Kage as if she was a snake; his skin was extremely pale betraying that he had not fed.

"Shall I go get a slave for you to feed off of?" Paris looked concern.

Kage looked up, "Should I go fetch a slave Milady?" the word slave came out as a growl, if Paris noticed she didn't say, but Kile did.

One moment Kile was sitting on the couch across from them the next moment his pale cold hands were wrapped around Kage's neck blocking her air. A wicked smiled crossed he face as he thought about killing the hunter but then he had another idea, "Paris, can I punish your pet? She did growl after all."

Kage tried to beg, "Lady Paris," her beg was cut short by Kile's tightening grip, Paris nodded giving Kile permission, "Just don't kill her, she's new."

Kile moved his one of his arms around Kage's waist, "Come on little human, you know what to do."

She glared at him, he actually expect her to bare her throat to him like it was some type of treat to be fed off of, he growled and used her hair to make her tilt her head so that her throat was exposed. He bit, hard ignoring Kage's slight scream, and he drank loosing himself in her blood color slowly started to return to his skin. Kage was wishing she had a knife on her so she could kill the leech.

He dropped Kage's limp body when he was done, Kage would be fine after a good day's sleep. "Thank you Paris," he wiped the blood from his lips, "Her blood is sweet," he smirked.

Paris laughed, "I take it you and the hunter Kage had a connection."

He nodded, "Yes, she hunted me, until she was stopped by another of our kind." He laughed slightly giving the girl on the ground a kick that she would certainly feel once she woke.

Paris nodded, "How about a game of darts," she smirked and so did Kile an old sibling rivalry.

"Sounds fun," he kicked Kage out of the way. They played until a slight groan was heard they both looked at Kage. Kage sat up slowly glaring at the two vampires, "Milady, what was that for?"

Kile back handed her, "You are a pet, you aren't suppose to ask questions." He turned to looking at the metal tip of his black dart, "Now be a good pet and stay out of the way." He threw his dart.

Paris laughed at Kage, "if I was you my little pet I would stay on Kile's good side, since he does watch you when I take my trips to New Mayhem."

Kage's eyes widened, a vampire that she hunted, watching her? She sighed and leaned against the couch. The vampires continued to play darts, until one rebounded off of the wall with enough straight to break the dart but sent it towards Kage, she jumped unto the couch to avoid it, the couch flipped with the force of her weight (even though she does way much) being thrown against it. The couch hit a table which fell over, on the table there was a carving, the new one that Paris had just finished. Paris picked it up, finding that the corner was chipped.

Paris was furious and so was Kile; Paris stormed over to Kage, "What were you thinking?!" She pulled Kage up by the front of her shirt.

"Sorry Milady, I," she groped around for an excuse, "didn't want to be hit by the shard of the dart. Please forgive me Milady." Kage was shaking.

Kile came up to the pair, "You didn't want to get hit by the shard?" his voice was a lot calmer then Paris's, but then again that meant danger.

Kage screamed as she felt a skinny piece of metal enter her shoulder, the same place her 'v' scar was, the only thing was that it did not stop, Kile kept pushing the dart in until Paris told him to stop. Blood was pouring over the dart and staining Kage's white shirt, she was still whimpering a few minutes later. Paris finally decided to take the dart out no matter how amusing her pet's pain was. Tears started down Kage's face when Paris slowly started to take the dagger out.

"You will be receiving my punishment once I get it set up for you until then go to the room." She was still furious when she tossed the dart back to Kile who was laughing.

"Yes Milady," Kage bowed trying to ignore her pain, she slowly walked to the room.

Awhile later, a little before sunrise, Paris took Kage from the room into a small dark room. There was a little light but something told Kage that light would soon be gone. In the middle of the room there was a cage, a small one, with strong large chains that were connected at the corners then braided together and strung through a pulley.

"Get in Kage," Paris demanded her voice still cross she pushed the girl towards the open cage.

Kage hesitated, she hated small cages, she glanced at Paris and thought she would try once more at begging, "Please Milady, it was an accident." Her beg was cut short with a hard blow across the face.

Kage could taste blood in her mouth as she slowly moved into the cage. Paris glided to a crank that was connected to the braided chains and turned in it. Kage slowly started to lift into the air, swinging slightly. This room was built for having things attached to the cycling, it was high, Kage figured this room had been specially built for misbehaving pets. It was cold and damp, not to mention dark;

"Have a good day Kage." Paris hissed as she extinguished that last of the light walked out and shut the door.

Kage shifted slightly, which in turn made the cage swing slightly; it was barely big enough for Kage to sit Indian style, so she sat with her knees pulled to her chest. She couldn't sit straight so she sat hunched over her knees.

'Jaguar? Are you still in my mind?' she asked hoping the vampire was still monitoring her mind.

'At times, why? What is it Kage?'
Where ever Jaguar was this was one of the times he was in her mind.

'I want out of here.' She growled her shoulder had started bleeding again.

'I can't do that Kage,' He sighed

'Why not?' The hope had left her voice

'She has claim of ownership and if she didn't use that, Kile could use blood claim' His voice sounded tired

'Then, I'm on my own? There isn't a way you can help me like you were going to with Kyomi?'

'No, Paris is kind of like Jeshickah, she is popular with others and if someone was to kill her then they would be dead before they know it. I won't put you through that. All I can say Kage is hope she gets tired of you and sells you. I have to go'
His presence slipped away.

Kage looked up as the door below swung open.

"So Kage, you don't like me as your mistress?" Paris voice echoed through the room.

Kage cursed under her breath Paris must have been in her mind. "I didn't mean it like that Milady." But she was silenced with a strike of Paris's mind.

"You are going to be staying in here until I decide that you are fit to come out." The door was slammed shut again.

Kage sat there hunched over her knees thinking, but when ever she thought something that her mistress thought was inappropriate the thoughts were silenced with pain.

Kage was sitting with her eyes close, it had to have been two nights later but she wasn't sure since she couldn't see a clock or a window. She thought that's what her time was spent doing. She knew she had seen Kile's face somewhere, other then when she hunted him, she couldn't place it. The door below her flung open and her cage started to lower, when the cage hit the ground where she had seen Kile had hit her, he was the third vampire at her mother's slaughter the one licking his fingers clean of her blood.

"Come on out Kage," Paris unlocked the door; Kage crawled out. Paris smiled at her, "If you make anymore major mistakes I will take you to a trainer, understand me?"

Kage nodded looking at the ground, "Yes milady."

Yuki: the end of chapter nine RR please.