Chapter 24

Ok I'm updating today because I'm going to the beach on Friday and tomorrows Thanksgiving so I wouldn't have any time to update. I hope you like this chapter. Enjoy!

Paine was in a cage in a silent room with an unconscious Wakka who was moaning and groaning in pain. He opened his eyes, his vision was still a little fuzzy but it cleared within a minute. He looked up to see Paine sitting down with her knees up and her arms crossed looking out of the cage. She glanced over at Wakka.

"Your finally awake," she said, her voice bouncing off the soundless walls.

"What happened?" Wakka groaned almost inaudible.

"I don't know," Paine shrugged.

"What do you mean you don't know?" Wakka asking sitting up with one final moan.

"Look, all I remember is charging at Shuyin and there was a lot of pain and then…black," Paine explained.

"Oh," Wakka sighed.

"Um…could you take me down from this wall?" Yuna asked a masked man.

"No," the masked man replied.

"Uh, Why?" Yuna asked impatiently loosing all feeling in her hands and arms as her blood made a mad dash down through her fingers into her hand and down through her arms.

"Cause I need to do…this," he flicked on the switch.

Yuna howled in agony, the masked man chuckled.

"How does that feel?" he questioned.

Yuna's eyes were as big as softballs and she was breathing heavily.

"That's what I thought," he chuckled evilly, "Here, let me help you a little bit more."

The masked man switched the electrical voltage from 50 to 70, and flicked the switch on again. Yuna screamed at the top of her lungs. After a couple minutes went by the masked man finally turned off the electrical voltage. Yuna could feel herself being welcomed by unconsciousness. She struggled to keep her eyes open, her vision blackening with every passing minute. The masked man came towards her. He lifted her chin up so that she was looking him straight in the eyes.

"You lasted longer than anyone I've ever tortured…impressive," the masked man said looking deeply at her, "You only have maybe a couple of seconds left…lets see how I can help."

The masked man walked over to a table with various colored vials on it. He picked up a purple one and headed back towards Yuna.

"This acid will help you along the way," the masked man lifted her head back up and poured the purple substance into her mouth.

"T-T-Tidus," Yuna whispered after the masked man gave her the purple substance.

The masked man came over to Yuna with a key and unlocked her from the wall, letting her fall face first on to the ground. Merely one second after he did Yuna started going ballistic. She scratched at her skin trying to easy the pain but all that she left was bloody gashes all over her face and body.

"TIDUS!" Yuna shrieked finally allowing herself to pass out, letting the pain ease her mind.

The masked man snapped his fingers calling two of his goons over, "Make a fire and a tub of water with ice cubes, and make sure that you put pliers and metal shoes over the fire."

The masked man snapped his fingers again and the two goons got busy obeying their masters' command. He went over to the door exiting the room. He turned around and locked the door with hiscode '229458'

Someone walked into the room where Paine and Wakka were still waiting in side the cage. Paine heard a slight snore come from the other side of the cage, she rolled her eyes and looked over her shoulder and saw, "Tidus?"

"Hey," Tidus casually greeted.

"How did you get out of your cage?" Paine questioned.

"Luck," Tidus simply replied.

Once Tidus picked the lock on Wakka and Paine's cage, Lulu walked in. Paine walked over to Wakka and slapped him in the back of the head waking him up abruptly. He looked up and saw Lulu and immediately jumped up.

"Lu!" Wakka cheered as he ran towards her and gave her a deep passionate kiss.

"Okay well if you two are done we need to go fi-" Tidus was cut off when Kimahri walked in.

"We need to find Yuna and Rikku," Tidus informed Wakka, Lulu, Paine and Kimahri.

"I heard screams not that long ago," Lulu stated, "It sounded like Yuna."

Tidus just looked at Lulu and darted out of the room and started turning left and right down halls when he passed by a wall with an enormous window on it. Tidus peered in and saw Yuna's bloody and motionless body on the floor. When everyone else caught up they too looked inside and were devastated by the picture they saw.

"Okay we need to split up, Wakka and Lulu: you go look for Rikku," Tidus said giving commands to the group, "Paine and Kimahri: you stay with me and help me get in there."

Once everyone knew there job they set off in different directions. Tidus was looking for a door knob or some type of handle on the door that led into the room where Yuna was. Paine simply rolled her eyes and pointed to the pad to the far right of the door.

"You think this will help?" Paine sarcastically asked.

Tidus scratched the back of his head smiled and then laughed at his stupid mistake of not noticing the pad before. He walked over to the pad, "Do you have any idea what thecode might be?"

"Not a clue," Paine replied leaning up against the wall. Kimahri just nodded 'no.'

"Well you could at least help me out!" Tidus exclaimed, "The love of my life is in there dieing and all you can do is lean up against a wall and nod!"

Paine glared at him; she walked over and started pressing random numbers. After the one millionth time, she finally got it, she pressed '229458'

Tidus bolted into the room and picked Yuna up in his arms. He couldn't believe how many marks were on her body. She was twitching from the electrical surge that was still pulsing through her body.

"Oh Yuna, what have they done to you?" Tidus whispered moving little pieces of hair off her wounded face.

"Tidus we don't have time for this we need to help Wakka and Lulu find Rikku!" Paine yelled at Tidus to hurry up.

Tidus picked Yuna up and ran out the door, "Don't worry Yuna, we'll get you some help soon."

The masked man came to another door and punched in another password '963587.' The door glided up as the masked man walked into his next victims' room. The door shut tight behind him.

"Hey!" Rikku greeted from the wall, "Could you get me down from here, please?"

The masked man smirked and snapped his fingers. His two goons came out and got Rikku down from the wall. Instead of putting her on the floor, which Rikku was hoping that they would, they put her on a wooden table and tied her down with rope.

"Get me the pliers," the masked man ordered.

"What do you need pliers for?" Rikku asked curious of what he was going to do to her.

"You'll see," he modestly answered.

The two goons came in with the pliers, "Lets see how long you last, your friend lasted very long."

The masked man walked over to her and grabbed a piece of skin from her stomach. He opened the pliers and squeezed on them with all his might. Rikku's screeched echoed through out the halls. Rikku could hear the sound of her own flesh sizzling from the hot pliers, that was making quite a hole in her stomach. He finally pulled the pliers away. Rikku kept whimpering, tearscascading down her pale face.

"Bring me the metal shoes and while your at it put a rod over the fire," the masked man whispered into his goons ears. The goons were gone for a few minutes and came back with the metal shoes.

"Are you ready for round 2?" the masked man asked.

Through her teary eyesight she could see a glow of red. She could feel the heat getting closer and closer to her feet. The masked man finally had them on, Rikku screamed till she just cried and screamed at the same time.

"Please make it stop, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!" Rikku pleaded.

The shoes were on for quite sometime as the masked man sat in his chair enjoying every minute of it. The masked man got to his feet and took the metal shoes off. He handed the shoes off to his goons; the goons took them away and brought back the rod.

"Bring in the tub of water," he spoke to his goons taking the rod out of their hands and walking back over to Rikku.

"Please don't…please…please," she begged.

The masked man rose his hands up in the air with the rod still in hand. He came back down and the rod went right into Rikku's stomach. Rikku bawled and screeched as she felt her insides go up in flames. The goons brought in the tub; the masked man strolled over to the tub and stuck his hand in it. He quickly withdrew, and nodded pleasantly to the work of his goons.

He walked back over the Rikku and pulled out the rod. He motioned his goons to untie the weak and frail Al Bhed. The goons did so and put her into the tub of freezing water. Her blood mixed with the water making the water go red. Rikku sighed in relief but the feeling of relief quickly subsided as the freezing temperatures started to take their toll on her.

"Guys where are you? I…need help!" Rikku's mind thought as she whimpered, but the thought quickly went away as she couldn't think of anything because of the pain she was in and the freezing temperatures.

I hope you liked it! It took me awhile to do this chapter. I'm sorry for any fans of Rikku and Yuna! Sorry I put them through that! Don't be mad at me! Well I won't say any more but just please review...you can even flame me if you want jusy please review!

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