Ooo…I left you guys hanging last time! Let's see what this will do…

Disclaimer: I do not own Pretear.

Alara jerked out of the chair and tried to run past him to the door, but flew backwards into the wall-hard- when she smacked into an invisible wall. Stunned, she tried to catch her breath as Damius advanced. She struggled to stand. Getting to her knees, she reached behind her and tried to use the wall for balance. Damius had other plans.

"Well, well…" he murmured. He raised a hand in her direction, and Alara found that she couldn't move. Damius stalked towards her. "Now this is what I like." He said with a sneer. "A woman on her knees before me." Alara's eyes flashed. "Take a good look, scumbag. It's probably the only time you'll ever get one."

Black eyes glared in hatred, and he clenched his black-gloved fist tightly. Alara felt as though she was being strangled. She drew a shallow, gasping breath. Damius raised his fist slowly, and Alara was levitated into the air so that she was eye level with him. "Now that hurts, Alara." Alara felt like she was drowning; she couldn't move, couldn't breathe. Her vision started to go fuzzy. 'Please…help me! Sasame, Hayate, someone!' she thought.

Damius' lips twisted into an aweful smirk. "I warned you, witch. If you turned against my lady, you would die. And you're little Knights can't save you now." Alara said nothing. Just as he was about to put the finishing squeeze on her windpipe, Damius heard a voice in his head. 'No, sweet. We need the witch.' Scowling, he dropped Alara to the floor. She began to choke and wheeze, trying to force some oxygen back into her brain.

He amber eyes were bloodshot as she looked up at him from the floor tears streaming down her face. 'The time is now.' Damius heard in his head. He walked ovr to Alara again, who cowered against the wall. "What do you want with me?" she tried to scream, but it came out in a raspy whisper that seared her throat.

Damius roughly lifted Alara to her feet. "Your cooperation." He murmured as he crushed his mouth to hers in a painful kiss. One hand buried itself in her hair to stop her from resisting as he ravaged her mouth, but to her horror, Alara realized that part of hr didn't want him to stop. Some dark force within her was enjoying the sheer power of his force and his kiss.

Furious with herself, Alara shopved the feeling away and somehow managed to get her hands up to grasp his arms. Summoning her strength, she forced electricity to surge throughout his body. With a pained yelp, he released her, but no before backhanding her sharply. He stumbled back, cursing. He waved his hand sharply her way, and a gust of energy has her colliding painfully with the wall again. Alara felt the blood as it trickled from her lip. She jolted her own hand, and this time it was he who went flying. He crashed into the desk with a loud crack. Wood splintered and papers flew everywhere. Alara's diary flew across the room.

With a roar, Damius jumped up, but Alara was no where to be seen. The door, however, was still locked. Damius smirked, wiping blood from his chin. "you're going to pay for that." He whispered silkily. "Come out, come out…"

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At the sound of a large crash, Sasame began to run up the long driveway to the Awayuki Mansion. He slid to a halt in the backyard, where Hayate, Kei, Mannen, Hajime, and Shin were frozen in place. "Did you hear that?" Mannen asked. "Yeah, but what was it?" asked Kei, looking suspiciously around the grounds. "It came from up there!" Hajime said worriedly, pointing towards the large balcony that jutted out from Alara's room. Sasame felt a cold chill go down his spine. He took off at a run towards the house. "Sasame? Wait up!" called Hayate. He and the other knights followed. They crashed through the front door, and up the stairs. The screedched to a halt in front of the Pretear's door.Sasame banged on the door. "Alara? Alara, open the door!" he called.

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Alara felt a thrill go through her at Sasame's voice. Unfortunatly, she let her guard down and became visible once again. Before she realized this, she was pounced on from behind. Damius grabbed her wrists in one hand and imprisoned them above her head, while with the other hand he covered her mouth.

Alara's eyes glowed in hatred, and power surged through her, lighting the gold with an unnatural fire. She kicked with her legs, and the movement unbalanced him. She took the opportunity. Wriggling one hand free, she used every once of energy she had and punched him squarely in the jaw. The blow knocked him back, and before he had a chance to recover, she quickly stood and jolted her hands. Bright white jolts of energy erupted from her fingertips, and with them she lifted Damius off the ground and slammed him into a wall, and held him there, his feet a foot off the ground. He was clearly a little dazed from the blow, and as she increased the power of the lightning, he yelled in pain. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you." She all but purred.

Just as the words left her lips, the door crashed open, revealing six stunned knights.

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Sasame, Hayate, Kei, Mannen, Hajime, and Shin gazed in horror as the scene fully came upon them. The room was a wreck; papers and wood everywhere. The walls were scratched and dented, and in one place was a hole. But by far the worst: Alara, bruised, bloodied, eyes literally glowing gold with hatred, holding-to their eyes- a nearly unconscious, bloody Goh in a lightening grip, hovering over the floor. And from the disbelieving, horrified look in Sasame's amethyst eyes, he'd heard exactly what she'd just said.

Haha! Another cliffie! Please don't hate me; this is where the inspiration left me. But I'll be back soon!