Disclaimer: I do not own Angel; the only characters I own are Cassandra, Tonya, Kevin and the blue skinned demon, Ramsa. The name was suggested by a family friend.

Chapter 6

Death and Beaten

Connor ran back to the room, to the people who were waiting for Cassandra to awake. Connor burst through the door and turned to his father.

"Tonya's gone." he panted. Gun and Wes came through the door just after Connor had spoken.

"Has anyone seen Kevin?" asked Gun. Angel, Fred and Cordelia stood up.

"What if Kevin had taken Tonya?" said Fred looking sickly worried.

"Or Tonya could have gone with Kevin." suggested Gun.

"No, there was something about Tonya that makes me believe she wouldn't leave her cousin here without telling us where she's going. Besides Kevin gave off a bad aura and I don't have Lorn's senses." said Wes.

"So the Kevin kidnapped Tonya?" asked Cordelia.

"Thinking so." said Gun.

"Well then I'm going to find her." said Connor trying to head out the door.

"Connor wait. You can't go head rushing into this by your feelings for her. I mean you've only known her for a few hours and besides you don't know where to look." spoke Angel. Angel turned to the others. "I'll go with him. I'll be able to pick up their scents. You four stay here with Lorn and Cassandra. Make sure they are protected." Angel finished what he was saying and then he left with Connor to find Tonya and Kevin. Wes and Gun looked at each other and sighed. Fred closed the door and sat down in her seat. The others followed suit and sat down quietly.

"I hope they find her." said Cordelia.

"Me too." Fred looked more worried than usual. Cordelia joined her on the love sofa and put her arm around Fred's shoulders.

"I think Kevin may be possessed." said Wes ingenuously. All eyes turned to him. "Well think about it. He came here to save his sister's life. Then he begins to act strangely. He had started to act like he didn't want us to save his sister and he then began to act harshly with his cousin. Now he and Tonya are gone. He most likely kidnapped Tonya. For what reason I don't know."

"Wait isn't this disease or what ever contagious?" asked Gun.

"Yeah but Lorn and I put a concealment spell on it so it didn't spread, unless Tonya caught it before hand." explained Wes.

"Then Kevin is really possessed. He has a demon inside of him that wants the deadly blood." Continued Gun. Cordelia and Fred looked at each other in shock. "I'll go contact Angel and warn him." Gun got up and left the room.

Meanwhile in Cassandra's mind; she and Lorn were making very good progress. The demon's body was nearly gone.

"Come on Cassandra, just believe a little harder. Tell yourself you're not afraid." hollered Lorn. Cassandra looked back at the demon. She felt a change in her. She noticed something that she hadn't before. A strength that she never knew existed inside of herself. She stood up and walked over to the weakened demon.

"You have no power over me. You are puny and weak. So get out of my body and stay out!" Cassandra no longer felt afraid of the demon or when the demon was able to kill her. The world around them began to melt away. Cassandra looked at Lorn and she saw him smile.

"You did it." said Lorn and he disappeared back to the waking world. Cassandra looked back where the demon once knelt down in pain. It was no longer there and it caused her smile to widen. 'She had done it.' With that thought in her head, she closed her eyes and woke up in the room where she was hoping to be greeted by her brother and cousin.

Lorn opened his eyes and removed his hands. Cassandra woke up and her body began to change back into what it looked like before she had caught the disease. Everyone stood up and walked over to them.

"You look so much better Cassandra." complimented Fred. Cordelia nodded in agreement.

"So how did you beat the disease?" asked Gun. Lorn filled them all in and finished story with a compliment.

"She did very good, shaky in the beginning, but did way better at the end." He smiled at her while holding her hand in a friendly-good-friend way. Cassandra looked around the room and her face faulted when she couldn't find what she was looking for.

"Where's Kevin and Tonya?" Wes took his turn in filling her in on what had happened.

"So my brother is possessed and he kidnapped our cousin because she might be infected now?" Wes, Gun, Fred and Cordelia nodded.

"Angel and Connor are out searching for them now. Do you know a place where he may have taken her?" asked Cordelia. Cassandra thought for a moment and then it came to her where he may have taken her even though he was possessed.

"When we were kids we used to hang out at the old mausoleum in the cemetery down Creek Avenue. Kinky I know, but it was the coolest place for us. He would have gone there." She told them. Gun and Wes left telling them they were going to help Connor and Angel. Lorn left because he said he had a previous engagement he needed to go to. So the girls were left alone. Cordelia and Fred sat on the bed with Cassandra.

"Connor is smitten with Tonya, so that's basically why he's out there looking for her." said Cordelia, striking up a conversation with her. Cassandra's face lit up.

"That's awesome. If the two go out it would be Tonya's first boyfriend." Cordelia smiled and she, Cassandra and Fred got deeper into the conversation.

Connor's cell phone rang and he picked it up.

"Yes?" he answered. Wes was on the other line. Connor's face lit up and he hung up his cell phone. He then turned to Angel who was staring at him curiously wanting to know why his son's face lit up profoundly.

"Do they have any leads to where they could be?" he asked. Connor answered and they headed towards the cemetery. "So now Tonya is infected and Kevin's possessed. You would think he would have a big enough heart to not be possessed into kidnapping his own cousin." said Angel as they veered onto Creek Avenue. "The cemetery is just down this road."

Tonya woke up and found herself chained to a wall. She looked around and pain struck through her neck. She quickly moved her neck back into its original place, only to cause it to hurt even more.

"Ahh, I see you are awake." an ugly demon with black robes and had sick blue skin. The demon had walked out from the shadows. "My name is Ramsa. I am a demon from the Salyterian dimension. I am the only one of my kind left and I have searched many dimensions for the Zenith Mytianol or in your language Deadly Blood of which you are humbly infected with. I am surprised that this dimension even has people infected with it. I have been to many places and you are the only one with Zenith Mytianol. (AN: Pronunciation of the made up words- ZEEN-ith MY-tea-uh-noel Thought you might like to know it.)Tonya slowly moved her neck to look at the demon better. As she was looking at him she noticed her cousin lying on his back on the wet ground. The demon noticed where she was looking and smirked.

"Kevin! KEVIN!" Tonya screamed his name. but he didn't move.

"He's dead. He won't answer you." said Ramsa calmly walking closer to her. "I can smell your blood." He took a deep breathe of the air and sighed. "The first stage of the Zenith Mytianol will be in effect soon." He turned away and walked over to an alter of candles and what looked like eye balls.

"You...you...bastard. What the hell did you do to my cousin?!"

"I had no use for him after he brought you here. His mind was possessed and he was weak. His body was body was being beaten from the inside out. He was trying to free himself, but he was unable to, in the end he was killing his own body. So when he brought you here, he could no longer take it. So I killed him. He'll make a quite tasty meal though, and so will you. Don't worry I won't eat your eyes, I find all eyes are beautiful and should be saved."

"You....are...a sick fuck." Tonya glared at him, but noticed her eyesight was going blurry. After awhile she couldn't see anything.

"I see your eyesight is finally gone." he said as he walked over to her. "In a few hours the Zenith Mytianol will be in full effect. You're probably wondering why it's working on you much faster. Well, when you were knocked out, I slipped a toxin in your body to speed up the process and it seems to be working like planned." Tonya's face showed the expression of fear. She wanted Cassandra to be with her. Even Connor and the gang. Her mother's face and her aunt's flashed a crossed her mind. They were probably extremely worried about them. It was nearing dusk and they weren't home. Tonya began to cry and in her head she screamed Connor's name. She wanted to be saved.