"G- Genya…." Sanemi's lips trembled, his dead brother was standing in front of him, the ship began to face, he felt as though he were standing in the clouds, he could feel the chill of the wind as he stared at his mohawk-headed Younger brother.

Genya was still wearing his purple sleeveless Yukata over his Slayer Corps Uniform, but his face was down. "Nemi..." he repeated again.

"You… but you died!" said Sanemi, "How are you here?"

"I… Died?" Genya looked up at him, and Sanemi's eyes widened in horror.

His brother's face was no longer the same! Pitch black eyes and fangs! Horns growing disgustingly out of his forehead and cheeks!

"How did I die Aniki!?" that thing growled "HOW DID I DIE!?"

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Back in reality, Zenitsu and Giyuu turned in shock to see Sanemi clasping his head in his hands and screaming at the sky! His eyes were as red as blood! The demon's fog had entered through them!

"Shinazugawa!" Giyuu called.

Sanemi did not hear him "THIS AIN'T REAL! THIS AIN'T REAL GODDDAMNIT!"

"I'm not real Aniki?" the Demon Genya questioned? "Is that what you think?" The horns in his face began to grow even more grotesquely out of his body and began to protrude from his back and head as well, foam welled up behind his jagged teeth!

"Was mom not real either?"

"SHUT UP! YOU'RE A FUCKING ILLUSION!"

"All demons go to hell Aniki… ALL demons!"

"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

Genya's form was growing more hideous by the second! "How did I die Aniki? How did I die? HOW DID I DIE?..."

Sanemi's blood-curdling screams made their way to the main deck, just hearing those sounds from the strongest man he knew caused Muichiro to begin to shake.

Zaya turned around to see what it was, forgetting that the demon she had just cut down was not yet dead.

"Look out!" Inosuke cried out, but it was to no avail, Stuhac's body parts reattached themselves, vein-like tendrils reached out and reconnected one part to another, and his right hand produced a revolver Nagant...

-BANG!

Zaya was knocked to the ground as the first 7.62X38 tore through the back of her thigh.

"Tsk tsk tsk, your quite skilled, but have no focus as always Zaya, do svidaniya "

"HOOORAAHHHHHHH!" before he could pull the trigger again to finish her off, he was charged by the boar-headed demon slayer, he fired a round at Inosuke but the beast's instincts were impeccable, he began to dodge before the bullet was even fired!

Stuhac squeezed the trigger to fire the next shot but he was already in Inosuke's reach! His pistol was sliced in half!

"Your mine! Breath of the Beast, third fang: DEVOUR!" Inosuke released two simultaneous horizontal Slashes! Connecting with the stunned demon's neck… and then it vanished.

"INOSUKEEEE!" Muichiro cried out, rushing onto the deck, but it was too late, Stuhac had already appeared behind him, and with a swift slash from Zaya's Sabre now in Solovonov's hand' cut the boarhead's hamstrings.

"Inosuke!" Muichiro cried out again, charging Stuhac with his own sword as Inosuke went down.

"Blood demon art..." Began Stuhac as he pointed the fingers of his left hand at the Mist Pillar; Suddenly Muichiro felt a pain he had never felt before, his body went frigid as lightning coursed through it! It hurt so much and yet he could not even scream! He couldn't even move a muscle in his Diaphragm.

Solovonov watched as the boy fell onto his face, gasping for air as muscular control slowly returned to him.

"I am not amused said Stuhac, turning to Inosuke, "That gun was my favorite toy, you little der'mo !" and with that he stabbed Zaya's Sabre into Inosuke's back! Inosuke screamed in pain! Muichiro screamed in horror! And then the Demon coursed electricity through the sword into the boy's body, causing Inosuke to convulse violently, his boar's head began to smoke!

Muichiro had to do something, Mustering all his strength, he got back to his feet, looking at Solovonov, he felt absolutely terrified! Horrific visions of Kokushibo, and what happened to his body after their fight flashed through his mind, but seeing Inosuke suffering in front of him, he knew what he had to do, he shut it out, gritted his teeth, and charged straight at Stuhac.

"Breath of mist, second form Eight layered mist!"

"Storm of the Baikal.." began the demon spreading his arms, and standing like a conductor before taking a bow at the end of the performance; "Lightning on the lake's surface!"

A spider-web of lightning streaked out from all sides of Stuhac! Muichiro could not get close, "-agh!-" He was zapped with another volt and fell to the deck before he could even make his attack, the second volt of electricity through his body sent him into more violent convulsions, this time was even worse than the last! He tried to break free, he tried to scream! Solovonov just laughed at his pain as the boy bounced across the deck at his feet.

Muichiro completely lost all grasp of time, he didn't even realize when the torture had stopped, he just realized that he was breathing, lying on his face, in a puddle of his own drool.

"Hohh, what's this?" Solovonov knelt down, and lifted his chin, "So you have the slayer's mark huh? How cool is that? And you are what? 12? 13?" Stuhac paused… "wait a minute, you must be Tokito Muichiro? Yyeeeahhh, I know who you are, your the little one who was turned into a demon weren't you?" Muichiro still could not speak, he just looked up at the demon in fear.

"Yeah, you must be him, someone as young as you with the mark? That means that your 14 or 15, although I must say, you look a lot younger, and to think that almost the same age as I was when I killed my parents" Stuhac laughed.

"This gives me an idea," he said turning to Yushiro, "Since this guy was turned into a demon before, why don't I just turn him into a demon a second time? Then you can produce the Serum, and I'll just take it after you treat him."

Muichiro's eyes widened, he would have rather have heard Solovonov threaten to kill him than that.

"You can't be serious!" cried Yushiro, "You think you'll be able to get me to betray Lady Tamayo's secret for him!?"

"Only one way to find out" laughed Stuhac.

Muichiro tried to run, but his body did not obey him, he was trembling though…

"Please… No... I'm begging you..."

-THWAK!-

"Ehhh!" You knocked him out! Zenitsu cried at Giyuu.

"Obviously," Giyuu answered, "He had been affected by that demon's fog, he was raving uncontrollably, and we have to deal with Stuhac on the main deck, we don't have time to help him right now."

Giyuu looked down at his fallen comrade, a blow from his Katana's hilt had put him to sleep, but his face was still contorted in agony.

"Gen….. ya…." he croaked out weakly.

Giyuu turned, and ran with Zenitsu to where Solovonov was, "Hang in there Shinazugawa… We still need you, you'd better not lose it now!"

"Please no! Don't turn me into a demon again! Anything but that!"

Muichiro was crying, begging desperately, becoming a demon at the hands of upper moon one even if only briefly, was an experience too horrible… too terrifying… he still had nightmares about it! That agonizing week of pains, delirium, and cravings for human flesh, all while his beloved friends were being buried, had Sanemi not stayed with him, he feared he would have died on that hospital bed, He couldn't bear to go through that again! Not again!.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME! PLEASE!"

"Awww, come now" Stuhac cooed mockingly at him, "I got turned into a demon, and I turned out just fine"

Muichiro was full-on sobbing now, he was at the point of hyperventilating.

Solovonov put a foot on his chest and then knelt down onto him, pinning him under his knees.

Grinning while Muichiro cried, Solovonov slit the palm of his right hand.

"Thats nice... " He said, admiring the crimson liquid as it ran down his wrist.

"No, no, no…."

Zaya watched helplessly as the scene unfolded, even Shu Yong looked disturbed by the boy's plight.

Solovonov took Muichiro's jaw in his left hand, and squeezed his cheeks to hold his mouth open, while holding his head in place, and held his right hand over.

"Hehehehe, so are you just going to let this boy die as a mindless demon now? Yushiro!?"

That sickening Metalic taste of vile blood entering Muichiro's mouth made him want to die again, he tried to spit it out, he tried to will himself to vomit, he tried with all his might to fight Stuhac, but he couldn't do anything but choke and gag as Stuhac held him in place, that rancid led trickling down his throat, he could already feel it beginning to affect him.

"Hmmm, I wonder what color those minty eyes of yours will become?" said the demon standing up.

Muichiro was screaming now, his arms and legs thrashed as movement returned to them vexingly too late. He turned himself over and propped himself up on all fours. . "PLEHES! SOMEONE! ANYONE! PLEASE! PLEASE!" please what? Save him? He was beyond saving now. He didn't even know what he was calling for,

Just then, he felt a whirlwind drive Stuhac back away from him! A well-placed slash from Tomioka cut the ropes binding Yushiro, and he rushed over to Muichiro, who had now begun vomiting.

"Thats good, thats good Muichiro" Yushiro encouraged him, patting him on the back.

Muichiro didn't exactly feel better as that poisonous blood left him, his long hair was touching the floor and was now caked in the smelly stuff, he then even began frantically licking a dry part of the deck, desperate to make sure he got all of it out, so that not even a trace would be left on his tongue, until a violent fit of coughing reminded him just how badly he needed water, his throat felt like he had swallowed nothing but thorns, panting painfully, vomit dripping from his hair, his mouth gaping open, in any other moment he might have died of embarrassment for being a Hashira and looking like this, but now was not the time for that, looking up, he saw Zenitsu and Giyuu confronting Solovonov, they had tried to strike him simultaneously, and yet… in each hand, the Demon had caught their blades!

"A red Nichirin sword?" he said admiring Giyuu's blade, now stuck in his right hand, "interesting..."

Notes: Sanemi's turn for angst in the next chapter! and Honestly, of all the OC's I have written so far, Leonid Petrovich Solovonov is probably my favorite! I can't wait to get into his backstory!