Blood seeped profusely from wounds that refused to heal, bruises covered her body in a strangely beautiful pattern of black and blue. Her red hair was ripped out in several places leaving patches of baldness where hair used to be. Her sleek body was muscle, nothing on her held an ounce of fat except for her chest, and even then there was muscle underlying her breasts. She walked onto the black marley floor, men shouted and whooped from their seats in the auditorium. Colors blurred together, faces distorted from distance and the lights that shined in her eyes brightly. A medium height man with dark brown hair that was cut close to his skull stood at a podium that had a microphone attached to it. The words he yelled out were unintelligable but apparently the crowd could hear him because the yelled louder at what he said.

Several men stepped onto the stage and stood beside her. The first man was short and thin, light brown hair and a scarred face. The man standing next to him was tall, around five feet and eleven inches. He was lean, but there was muscle mass hiding behind his gentle facade. But it was the third man who stood out the most to her. He was tall, very tall, he appeared to be all muscle. He had long dirty blonde hair that fell slightly past his shoulders but was pulled into a loose ponytail. His body was blemish free, no scars, no birth marks, no scratches or bruises. Perfect.

The man standing at the podium started to yell louder. Single words started to stand out to her as she listened closer. His voice was gruff but not low, and certainly not high.

"Who will get the lovely lady..." The man's voice faded out as light started shining in her eyes.

"Lovely lady who?" She mumbled.

"What tha hell are ya talkin' bout frail?" Sabretooth's gruff voice brought Dezra back to reality from her dreaming state. She glanced at him, golden eyes shining.

"Nothing, just a dream." Or was it? Dezra had been having these dreams reaccuringly these past several days she'd had Sabretooth staying at her home. Sometimes she could understand words, other times everything was so distorted it was a bunch of jibberish. She yelped when the blonde man pressed a wet rag against a deep cut that was still bleeding from her beating. He mumbled something that was too quiet for her to hear from his position behind her. "What did you say?"

"I'm sorry." Confusion wormed it's way into her mind, her face was showing it clearly.

"Why are you sorry?" Dezra asked him. She glanced back at Sabretooth to be greeted by his beautiful blue eyes.

"'Cause if I had just accepted Wraith's offer, ya wouldn't be hurt none." Dezra was touched by his care but she pushed the sentimental feelings aside.

"Sabretooth, I don't want you to do anything against your will, and if it means I'm going to get beat up for it, that's fine. I truly do not care." Sabretooth was shocked if nothing else, his eyes had widened and his mouth was agape. "From where I come from, getting beat up is nothing."

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Blood flew across the room from the newly formed slash in the red headed woman's stomach. The ax that had cut into her was dripping with her blood, covering up the crimson stains from the other beatings it had accomplished. The stocky woman dressed in dull brown and red armor reached out and pulled the bleeding woman's head up so she could look into her eyes.

"This is why we do not hesitate." The armored woman stated. Her voice was high and screechy, several gutteral noises followed her sentence. The bleeding woman could only nod her affirmative from the floor where she had collapsed to once she was released.

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"Dez, hello? Dez?" Victor waved his hand in front of the red headed woman's face with no response. One minute she was talking to him about her life's customs the next she had faded off, her golden eyes were unfocused and she was staring off into the distance. "Dezra? What's wrong?" He muttered.

"Huh? Oh sorry!" Dezra awoke from her dreamlike state, golden eyes turned towards his blue ones. "Something wrong?" She asked him. Victor cocked an eyebrow at her question.

"I was about ta ask ya that, ya've been starin' off inta tha distance and ya weren't respondin' ta me." She looked shocked from his allegation.

"I had no idea! I was just thinking." She replied. Victor growled low in his throat.

"Well next time don't think so deep."

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Jade Backdraft did not scare easily. She was called the bravest of the bunch by her mother, while her siblings always laughed and agreed. So when her gold eyes were wide with fear and she was biting her lower lip, her siblings could only watch in horror as their own fear started to grow.

"Please no." The red haired girl whispered in her hushed plea, the needle in the doctor's hand was long and sharp, some sort of blue liquid was dripping out of the end. "Oh God no." She continued to plead as he neared. Her brother Taris started yelling at them to hurt him instead of Jade but they kept nearing her. "Nooooo!" She yelled out as the needle plunged into her throat. Her yells ceased at contact, her eyes were empty while her facial expression was blank. Her brothers and sisters held their breaths as they watched her cringe from the pain.

Suddenly a scream tore free from her punctured throat. It was a pained scream, you could feel Jade's hurt pulsing through the air from it. The doctor removed the needle from her neck and blood began to seep out of the hole he had made. Grabbing a cotton swob he pressed it to the hole while Jade continued to scream out her agony.

"Oh God! Make... it... stop!" She wheezed in between gasps for breath. Taris wanted to rip the doctor's throat out from what he did to his sister, but seeing as how he was restrained he could only watch as they continued their torture.

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Victoria Backdraft was a simple minded and beautiful girl. Worrying was something she did not do, she left that to her brother Taris while she remained in blissful ignorance of the world around her. Yet even she could not deny the fear in her heart at watching her sister Jade being tortured. At her side her blonde haired brother Taris was yelling at the doctors, cursing them for the things they were doing, and begging them to stop hurting Jade and to instead hurt him.

Tory, as she called herself, began to cry when Jade screamed in agony from the needle the doctor had shoved into her throat. Her sobs were not missed by the other doctor's in the room, most of them dismissed them while one male doctor in particular took an interest in her tears. He was not an ugly man, in fact if the circumstances were different he'd be considered gorgeous in Tory's book, but seeing as how he was an evil doctor changed her outlook a lot. He had jet black hair that was gelled back so it didn't get in his face and he had piercing green eyes that stared into the depths of her own blue eyes.

Tory's sobs grew more fierce and started to shake her body from the trembles, her blonde curls bounced around her in ambandon. The male doctor walked up to her, his green eyes took in her appearance and seemed to eat her alive. Suddenly the blonde girl could feel something probing her mind, pressing against her mental shields harshly. And then, he was inside her mind. Panic started to flood her mind at the thought of her privacy being invaded, but his presence was not frightening, in fact it was calming.

"My name is Johnathon, I'm not an enemy, I'm going to get you and your family out of here, I promise." He told her mentally. Tory wanted to respond but with that said he retreated from her mind. From the outside no one could tell he'd been inside her mind, no expressions were changed, no voices spoke, just silence except for Jade's calming screams. Normally Victoria would've been freaking out terribly by now especially with a man inside of her head, but instead she was silent. No tears, no screams not even a whimper. She was utterly silent.

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(A/N) Hello everybody! I know I know, it took me a LONG time to update. I've just been really busy and stuff. I shall apologize. I'm going to keep the story mainly focused on Sabretooth and Dezra but I wanted everyone to see what was happening with the captured kids and stuff. For those of you who read Fireworks and White Tigers you might've recognized Johnathon, yes, you know who I'm talking about! He's going to play a very special part in this story. Hope yall enjoyed the chapter but please, review! L8r! -Sabeybaby