"Has anyone seen Lalna or Rythian?!" Xephos asked worriedly.
"No Xephos, we haven't, now stop asking! I'm sure they are fine" Honeydew retorted, getting sick of his friends constant paranoia. He knew he meant well, but he just worried too much to be healthy.
"Honeydew, this is Rythian and Lalna we're talking about! They've been fighting for years! If they are both missing something is terribly, horribly wrong!" Xephos half yelled, throwing his arms in the air as he did when he was frustrated.
Honeydew groaned, rolling his eyes, resting his diamond pick on his shoulder. "I guess your right... Alright, fine. Let's try Lalna's castle, it's closer"
Rythian hollered in pain as Livid found new ways to torture him in the most painful ways imaginable.
"Oh, I'm sorry, am I hurting you, Rythian, darling?" Livid said, eyes wide with fake concern.
Rythian screamed again, throwing his head back and scrunching up his eyes, unable to resist any of the pain any longer, his will power diminishing.
"Yes! I knew I could break you, you enderborn freak" Livid laughed with his maniacal grin, pulling back his weapon to rest on his once crisp white lab coat.
"LIVID YOU STOP THIS RIGHT NOW!" Lalna screamed so loud Livid jumped back, hands flying to his head and he cursed in pain.
"LALNA LEAVE ME ALONE! Arrrgggh!" Livid screamed again, emerald eyes wide open with fear, anger and pain. "I will be back Rythian! Im out of -uhh- supplies" and with that Livid ran off still holding his head, stumbling multiple times. He even ran into the wall, tripped up the stairs and almost went over the guard rail, much to the mages weak amusment.
"I have to get Xephos... He's the only one who can get to Lalna" Rythian muttered to himself and began summoning all the power he could, once he knew the demon had gone for now. His power was weak, he would have to draw energy from the spaceman, just enough to get a connection, not enough that it would start to kill him. It would have to kill Rythian first.
"Come on we're about half way there" Honeydew told Xephos, who looked ragged from fretting over his friends safety. The spaceman gave a small grateful smile and nod, walking faster.
"Ok good, I think I can see his tower- arrrgggh!" Xephos screamed clutching his head, falling to his knees. Under his closed eyes, the dwarf could seethem flickering from their usual sapphire blue to a bright indigo purple before passing out.
"XEPHOS!?" Honeydew shook his friend but nothing happened. His eyes were still open and glowing even brighter by the second.
Xephos' screams reached his head but calmed when he opened his eyes. He was horrified at the sights he was met with. He saw Rythian tied up on a table, covered in blood, his mask down, horrific scars weakly dancing over his jaw. The image flashed and began to move around the room, up the stairs and out the door. Xephos knew where that room was, Lalna had once shown him. The image flickered again and settled upon the mage once again.
"Rythian! What happened to you!" Xephos called, trying to walk toward the mage, but when he did, Rythian tensed and grunted in pain so he stopped.
All he got was distorted words in response."Livid - taken- Help- Lalna - your help- cant- he can -arrrgggh!"
He saw Rythian scream in pain, his body riding up in an arc, the image went away leaving Xephos in darkness.
"RYTHIAN!" Xephos bolted up screaming. Breathing harshly he looked around for Honeydew who was leaning over him with relief eminent in his eyes.
"Xephos your alright!- wait, your eyes are indigo!" Honeydew exclaimed wide eyed. Xephos ignored him, only one thing on his mind.
"We have to get to the castle now!" Xephos began running, his indigo eyes burning with determination and the dwarf following close behind.
Rythian screamed out in agony as Livid began to slowly kill him. He had apparently grown bored and couldnt think of any other ways to slowly hurt the enderborn, so decided to end the little game.
"Livid stop!" Lalna screamed into livid's mind, but the demon just shook his head and continued.
He had begun to absorb Rythians remaining power by attaching him to a tank programmed to target the gene that regnerates magic, therefore storing it in thise genes. This was causing more screaming, from both Rythian and Lalna. Livid just laughed in triumph and continued.
Minutes later Rythians head fell limp on his side and his clenched fists fell apart.
"Awww Rythian fainted, well I guess I had better wait 'till hes up before I continue, wouldn't want him to miss out on the fun" he sighed disappointedly, switching of the extractor.
"NO! Rythian!" Lalna screamed, banging and kicking and the cage.
"Arrgh. Lalna its too late to save him! So dont bother trying to resist. He'll probably be dead in an hour or so anyway" Livid smirked, begining to walk away.
"Thats it!..."Lalna muttered, his eyes begining to spark with green light and his fingertips grew hot.