Razor Blade Eyes

This is a chapter

Kaos and a challenge

Blood

Scent of blood

And the end of now

Passing into what is

Violation

Disruption

The rupturing of sanity

And the descent into madness

Exchange

Or death

Brehul experimentation

Gaoru ephemeral nostalgia

Again, this is but a chapter

One small step

One piece to the greater picture

Here we go...

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Razor Blade Eyes

There and Back Again

What's happened to you?
it's obvious you've changed
something deep inside you is probably to blame
must be lonely up there with your head up in the clouds
even though you got there what does your conscience tell you now?

Link felt sick.

The blood-cloth was beginning to affect him. What drops of the vile liquid that had slipped down his throat made him feel worse. The scent of rank blood invaded his nostrils every time he breathed, nausea setting in quickly. His mind began to spin, only making him feel more ill by each passing second.

Then, Veldre entered the room.

Link's blurred eyes darkened, but to his relief, the cloth was removed from his mouth. He drew fresh air into his lungs. The Brehul Lord knelt next to Link, who was pale and just didn't seem well. One elongated finger traced over his cheek. Link winced. The finger receded.

"Are you feeling better today?" The cold voice asked.

"I'll never feel better as long as I am here." Link spat.

"Then I will do my best to make the rest of your life a living hell."

The Brehul Lord hooked one finger around the blue hoop earring in Link's right ear and pulled, turning his victim to face him. Link's eyes widened in fear as Veldre's fangs elongated.

Kaos crept along the piles of bones and burned flesh around the hole descending into the Brehul lair. Her packmates were around her, thirty Lupe-form Gaoru ready to distract Brehul attention so Kaos could get in and rescue the Hero of Time. Two weeks had passed since he had been captured. Kaos has spent that time healing, searching, training and worrying. Though she had not been captured by Brehul herself, she had once been friends with them.

Her pack attacked. In the confusion of Chrnolt Gaoru and swarms of Chrnolt Brehul, Kaos in her Lupe form ran into the lair.

The scent of blood and death was heavy. She soon picked up Link's scent. It was fresh, indicating that he wasn't dead yet. She ran through countless corridors lined with steel plates from discarded armor. She descended deeper and deeper into the hellhole. She rounded the nearest corner and stopped. Slowly, she slinked through the doorway to the room.

Fendri was standing before a cage. Around her were other cages full of corpses. Below this cage was a deep pool of fresh blood. Kaos focused her vision on what was in the cage, but could not see much. She saw two bloody hands resting outside the cage, with chains on the bars keeping them from receding. The figure inside stirred slightly. Then, Fendri spoke.

"Shall we continue today as well?" She asked.

She stepped on a switch and the cage was slowly lowered into the pool, submerging it for thirty seconds. When it reappeared, Kaos had crept closer. Blood cascaded from the cage and from the figure within. The figure moaned and coughed. Fendri laughed.

"Now you're drenched in fresh blood, like a chocolate-coated strawberry for vampires." She said.

Fendri reached one hand inside the bars and grabbed a handful of this person's hair, dragging him by his hair over to her. Kaos almost exposed herself when she saw this person's face.

It was Link.

Fendri pulled him close to the bars before beginning to lick the blood on his face. Link was still dazed, not entirely sure of what was going on around him. Kaos couldn't take this. She shifted Chrnolt and jumped at Fendri, taking her by surprise. This shock allowed Kaos the moment it took for her to rip Fendri's arms from her body. While she was laying there stunned, Kaos turned to the cage.

She tore the thing to bits, freeing Link. She put him on her back and shifted Xendrith. She left the room as quickly as she had come.

There were angered shouts of Brehul as they were panicking. The Gaoru were slowly overpowering them. Kaos quickly ducked into the nearest room to avoid a group of them. But what was in the room was the things nightmares were made of.

There were great glass jars, like tanks almost. There were unnatural aura lights and dead forms in the water inside. Link tightened his hold on Kaos, burying his face in her fur. He whimpered in fear. Kaos slowly took a look around. She stopped upon coming to a tank with something still alive in it.

"Master! Master, is that you?" The thing asked in a weak voice through the jar.

"Who are you! What are you!" Kaos asked.

"Am I dead? I know I am not alive anymore. You must kill me."

"What are you!"

"A Brehul experiment. I was once a man."

"What did they do to you?"

"They tried to give me eternal life. But this is a tortured life."

Kaos closed her eyes and slammed her shoulder into the glass tank. It shattered, and the grim form spilled onto the floor, still alive. Kaos looked away as she crushed the poor creature's head under her paws.

"May you rest in peace." She said solemnly.

"..."

"Link?" Kaos asked the trembling Hylian.

"I remember...being in here...they did...things to me...can we leave?" He asked in an almost terrified voice.

Kaos did just that. She ran out the door and followed her nose, following fresh air. She ran with Link clinging to her back. They had almost hit the exit when Veldre appeared before them.

"Leaving so soon?" He asked with a hellish grin.

"What did you do to him!" Kaos demanded.

"Experiments."

"Don't fuck with me Veldre." Kaos said darkly.

"I simply sampled his blood."

"You lie."

"Of course. The truth..."

"Tell me!" Kaos commanded.

"I broke his legs, restricting escape. I tasted his blood, submerged him in a jar, preformed wicked experiments on him to test his threshold of pain. I used whips, knives, anything that causes pain in any way. I drenched him in blood and had my minions lick him clean. I destroyed your hero."

Veldre stepped aside.

"You may leave if you wish, but I will just come after him again."

"I'll take that chance." Kaos said.

He let her leave with Link. Kaos ran as far as she could before reverting to her Huolf form and collapsing on the grass. She then sat up and cradled the abused boy next to her. Link was silent, curling up not wanting to speak of it. But Kaos pressed the issue.

Veldre had taken some of Link's blood. They then submerged him in one of the tanks to clean him and to observe him when he was theirs. They had tortured him in ways that were almost too vile to describe, suck as driving hooks into his skin and tearing scars into it. They had licked the wounds clean afterwards. Veldre had raped him as well, stripped him of his dignity and his innocence.

Then he had let Fendri take over. She kept him sleepless, tormenting him psychologically by day and that fear kept him awake at night. She had almost succeeded in making him her slave boy. But though he had been broken, he still had the strength to fight back. Link had fought through everything, though his screams and his curses only seemed to fuel the Brehul. He had almost given up when the Gaoru arrived.

Kaos held him like a mother would a child. She eventually coaxed him into sleep, the first rest he had in ages. She guarded him, planning on beginning the healing when he woke.

Though he had gone through hell, he remained delicate and innocent.

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