"Curse it all, Silvereye. They will kill dad if we don't do anything. and if the hunters does not, then the metall box heads will." Fritz cursed and tired to break free from his chains. His hands hurt like nothing he had ever known before, as his hands were burned where the cuffs was. He winced in pain as he tried to get his hands free. Silvereye whined next to him. He was free to move around but his jaws were still locked shut by the rope. The rope was cutting its way into his flesh and he was bleeding a little where the rope was, after struggling for so long to get it off. Still that did not bother him right now, what he was worried with was the fact that Fritz's still healing Harlock clan scar had been riped up, and was bleeding down his cheek. Silvereye whined low again.
Fritz had first been tortured as they would not do as they were told. The hunters had then beat Silvereye up only to warn Fritz to say calm. Yet they had not expected Fritz to jump into the hunter to save Silvereye. The hunter had hit Fritz so hard that he slammed into a wall, the hit ripping up his cut.
If it was not for me that would not happened. Silvereye whined to himself. Fritz looked at him, tears where coming up in his eyes.
"If we had not wandered of, this would have never happened. Dad would not been captured and tortured." Fritz cried silently. Silvereye whined and stroked his head to Fritz hands.
"You are almost right about that kid." A voice suddenly said in both Fritz and Silvereye's head. "The hunters would have come after you and your dad anyway, I am afraid." The voice said. Silvereye stood up and growled at first.
"Who are you?" Fritz asked looking around.
"A friend, your father named me Mind. I am one of Lightingtooth's friends, I am of his clan." The voice said as he scrape on the door with his claws the sound and voice, calming the boy and wolf.
"My father? Is he okey?" Fritz asked, suddenly realizing what Mind had said. At first the voice was silent.
"More or less, From what I heard it sounded like he was in pain, but like with you I can not get in the door, so I don't know how bad it was. Also the hunters came as I left to check on you. He is worried about you." Mind said.
"How do you do that? Speaking inside my head?" The boy asked. The wolf seemed to laugh.
"Its a skill all of our kind has. Then I take it the young one protecting you , has not learned of it?" Mind asked Silvereye.
"He never spoke like that before." Fritz answered, seeing the cub shake his head.
"Think of what you want to say and direct you thougths towards me." Mind said.
"Hmm." The cub said out loud.
"Easy, focos in your head." Mind said calmly.
"Like this?" Silvereye said in his head.
"Hey! I could hear you!" Fritz said shocked.
"Yes, good work, but this time direct your thoughts only to my voice. Your mind speak was to open. Hopefully the hunters did not notice. " Mind said smiling slightly to himself.
"Is this right?" Silvereye asked again. This time Mind could hear his mind was directed to his.
"Good, now try to focus to Fritz as well." Mind smiled on the other side of the door.
"Can you hear me?" Silvereye asked Fritz. Fritz shined up.
"You are doing it. I can hear you." Fritz said glad to hear his friends voice again.
"Good work kid, What is your name?" Mind asked.
"Silvereye, Fritz named me." The cub answered proud, but got confused as he could feel the other ones mind tense up.
"Silver...eye?" The wolf asked confused.
"Yeah, he has one blue eye and one grey one, so I named him Silvereye. What is wrong?" Fritz asked, hearing the wolf so confused.
"Noth.. Nothing. I just knew someone else by that name." Mind said sighing a little.
"Are anyone of you hurt?" Mind asked, shaking his sadness of him.
"Silvereye was beat up and the rope around his jaws are hurting him. He is bleeding." Fritz answered but had no plans to tell Mind about himself.
"Fritz was tortured with the ring, and... His scar is bleeding. They hit him so hard that it ripped open his Harlock scar. It had not healed completely." Silvereye said only to Mind, holding Fritz out of it, as he knew he would not say anything about it himself. Silvereye could hear Mind growl outside the door.
"Right. I promise I will get you out of there. Captain Harlock has been told of the capture. I notified Lighting some time ago. Almost right after your were captured." Mind said growling. Fritz and Silvereye exchanged looks.
"You mean Harlock is on his way?" Fritz asked feeling hope at last.
"Something like that yes. I need to know if the hunters said anything about where we are heading?" Mind asked. It was silent for a little while, as they thought back.
"I only heard them say that it was a human that wanted us, for something." Silvereye whined low.
"I heard something about a man in Arcadia. I am not sure if they spoke of Captain Harlock and his Arcadia or any one else." Fritz said thinking. "I heard him say it as they chained me up, when they were waiting for dad to show up." Fritz said growling as he did. He was clearly angry as he said this.
"Good job you two, you have just given me all the info I need. I will let Lighting know right away. Also I will tell your dad that you are okey Fritz, that will calm the pirate down a bit. He will be gla..." Mind's mind speak was suddenly cut short.
"Mind?" Fritz asked seeing Silvereye suddenly tense up as well.
"I am okey. I need to check on your dad. Hold out you two. I promise I will get out of here all three, alive and safe. That I promise on my clan." He said and ran down the hall. His heart racing as he could feel an intense pain coming from his cheek. His neck had been hurting for some time now, but it was not before his cheek started to hurt, he knew the reason for it.
Already I can feel his pain. I have never conected with a human so fast before. Mind thought as he raced down towards where the room where Falco was being held.
"Leader, I know here we are going!" He called out to Lighting again.
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Falco was getting fried with the ring pretty badly, memories of his life were passing by him. Memories of his father telling him of the proud Harlock clan, that they were no longer a part of, his first space trip, his first meting with his wife, the birth of Fritz, the first space battles and his appointment to captain over the Octavian. His leaving the military, fleeing from his home, meting Kai, meting the Harlocks and getting welcomed back to the family, as well as his taking over the Atlantis.
He gasped for air as the currents finally went away again. His skin was badly burned around his neck, and wrists. He sat on his knees, bent over breathing hard, as his hands were still chained behind his back. His body shook from the after currents. He could feel he was not far from passing out from the pain and constant torture. He looked unclear up at his torturers. His lip was bleeding after Kataki had had another fit and had hit him again, as Falco had not showed any signs of fear. This seemed to anger the hunter, and he apparently wanted much to kill Falco for it. His right shoulder had begun to bleed ever so slightly again, as he had been thrown to the ground by the hit, but the hunters did not notice that his suit was getting a little blood red, as the suit was black. Falco coughed in pain as he gasped of air as the ring chocked him. The burn mark on his neck made it even harder to breathe.
"Hehe, seems like he had had enough. Maybe now he will think twice before trying something like that again." Haraise said smiling as he saw how weak Falco was now. Haraise grinned, almost hoping Falco would try to attack them just to get to torture him some more.
"And if not, then we could just put on the screen and torture his son some more. That should keep in in place I think." Hitteki said smiling to his brother. Kataki came up to Falco again and grabbed his hair, pulling Falco's head up, forcing him to look at him.
"I don't like that scar of yours. Looks too little Harlock like. I'll fix that for you." He said smiling, pulling out a knife. Falco's eyes narrowed angry.
"Kataki, what good will that do?" Haraise said looking to his brother, as he held the knife up to Falco's left cheek.
Falco growled and tried to get free, but his body had not strength left after the rounds with the ring, and he could not find the strength to pull free from the hunter's grip. He tried again to get his hands free from the cuffs, but there was no hope even trying as his hands were badly burned and bleeding. Even just moving a little on them, sent screaming pain up in his arms. He cursed angry as he was defenseless.
"Well what if your contractor does not believe he is a relative of Harlock? If it at least looks like he is of Harlock's family, then the chances of we getting our money is bigger, right?" Kataki said, turning to Hitteki. the eldest of the Hunter brothers just lifted his shoulders and nodded.
"I guess it makes sense, and maybe that will keep you from killing him, just yet." Hitteki said. Kataki grinned and forced the knife down on Falco's cheek. Falco growled low, and closed his eyes as the knife went in right under his eye, and cut its way down his cheek, over the scar that he already had there. As Kataki pulled the knife out, he pulled Falco's head farther up to look at his work. Falco growled in pain, as the cut started to bleed.
"Curse it. Now it just got cross shaped. Guess that have to do. It still looks more Harlock like." Kataki mubbeled and let go of Falco's hair. Falco was breathing hard and painfully, he lowered his head, as he could feel the blood ran down his cheek. He lifted his head and looked at Hitteki with ice cold hate in his eyes, his face held in a stone mask.
"hehe, now you do look more Harlock like. Like your son, he too did not scream out in pain, as we let him feel the ring's power. I wonder how long he could keep that up?" Hitteki laughed. Falco's eyes flamed up in hate as he heard that.
"Seems like you did not like the idea of us torturing your son any further. Well then play nice and we will not. Well it also depends on your son, so no promises there." Hitteki laughed as he and his bothers left. Falco struggled to his feet as the door closed.
"Fritz... please be unharmed." He said to himself as he walked up to the window. As he looked to his wound on his face, he wondered about his son's shape now, that he had been tortured as well. He cursed the hunters for using the ring on his son, as well as for hurting him.
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Mind where hiding as the hunters came out from the room. He growled low and worried, as he saw one of them wipe away blood from a knife. He nearly jumped out of his good black skin, as just as the hunters passed where he was hiding, when Lighting's voice cut into his head.
"Good work my friend." Lighting said relived. Mind gasped for air and looked into the hall after the hunters.
"Damn, Lighting. You scared the daylights out of me there. I was nearly discovered there." Mind breathed out relived.
"I am sorry my friend... Are you safe?" Lighting asked, his voice showing worry in it. Mind sighed a little.
"For now. I am not so sure about Falco on the other hand." He answered, cursing as he could smell blood in the hall.
"What do you mean?" Lighting asked quickly, his voice changed in worry and anger.
"I am not sure what they have done... I just saw one of them with a bloody knife, coming out from the room Falco is in. I can still feel the pain coming from him so he is alive, that much I know." Mind growled. Lighting was silent for a long time apparently shocked of the words about the knife.
"... Feel the pain from him? What kind of pain?" Lighting asked silently. His voice had a hint of confusion in it.
"Intense pain in the neck and forepaws and now a sharp pain coming from the left cheek." Mind answered, knowing what his leader was thinking.
"Then Falco is your true master... Only then would you feel pain like that." Lighting said low almost to himself.
"It would seem that way leader, I even felt different when he named me." Mind answered back. He could feel Lighting tense up as he said that.
"Named?" He asked quickly.
"He called me just plain Mind." Mind said back, smiling slightly to himself. He could swear he heard Lighting sighed relived.
"Mind, then... You said ,you know where they are heading?" Lighting cut back to the case.
"Yes, Fritz heard them say a man in Arcadia, and young Silvereye heard that it was a human." Mind said growling low as he did.
"Meaning only one thing... Draghund." Lighting cursed angry and growled.
"Leader... They... Tortured Fritz as well... And from what Silvereye said, his face has a cut that is bleeding. I don't know how bad." Mind said, Lighting froze hearing this.
"Damn, his scar... Lucky I have some good news you can bring them. The Arcadia is waiting for them at Mars, and the Deathshadow and the Atlantis is hot on their trail. They will never get to Earth." Lighting growled angry.
"The Atlantis?" Mind asked a bit confused.
"Falco's pirate ship." Lighting answered calming down a little. Mind growled nearly proudly.
"Had a feeling Falco was a pirate captain of his own, as proudly as he held his head even as he was captured." Mind growled.
"I will inform Harlock, as well as my son Fang. Hold out, it wont be long now before we are there." Lighting said giving Mind more courage to fight.
"Yes leader. I will let them know that help is coming." Mind said as the conversation finished.
Walking silently up to the door, he carefully scraped on the door with his claws.
"Falco? Are you alright?" He could hear Falco turning around.
"Mind?" Falco asked, it was easy for the wolf to hear how painful it was for him to speak.
"It's me. are you hurt? I saw one of the hunters came out with a knife... And I can smell blood." Mind asked worried.
"I am... okey... They just... cut my face... Thats all. Fritz... How are Fritz? Is he... hurt?" Falco gasped painfully. Every breath was painful.
"Easy. For now, just think of what you want to say and focus it towards me. I can hear your voice that way.. Don't force yourself to speak." Mind said worried, feeling how much pain that came from him.
"Fritz.. They tortured Fritz. Is he.." Falco asked in his head.
"Not badly hurt.. Silvereye said that he only got two short rounds with it. They will not hurt him badly yet. Not as long as they can use him to keep you under control." Mind said choosing not to mention the cut for now. He could feel his new master's mind calm down a little.
"Bastards showed how they tortured Fritz to me, just to see my reaction." Falco cursed as a darkness fell over him.
"They tortured you as well, dident they?" Mind asked worried as he sat down outside the door.
"Yeah... Pretty good too." Falco cursed. "If only there was a way of letting Harlock know of this.." Falco thought to himself.
"Captain Harlock already knows. My kind can send thoughts to each other even across the universe, as well as dimensions. I let Lighting know the instant you were captured. I just spoke with Lighting. The hunters will never get to Earth where their contractor awaits you. The Arcadia is waiting for them at Mars, his son's Deathshadow and your Atlantis is closing in on them from behind. It wont be long before they are here." Mind smiled to himself as he could feel Falco's heart flame up in hope.
"Are you... Serious?" Falco gasped out. Mind smiled.
"Death serious. So hold out, Falco, they are coming to get you back." Mind said. He suddenly jumped a bit as he could hear the hunters were returning.
"Curses, they are returning, Falco." Mind growled, he was not sure if he should stay and fight or hide.
"Get to Fritz. Let them know that Harlock is coming. Tell them we'll get out of here." Falco said in his mind. Mind nodded.
"I will do better than that. I'll get Fritz and the cub out of there, and then come for you. I promise. I'll get you out for there, so jut hold on." Mind growled and ran down the hall with anger flaming up in his blood.
"Thank you Mind. I'll wait for you." Falco thought as he stood up again, deciding to not give in to the hunters just yet.
Authors note:
So this was done rader quickly and fast, but I like the way it turned out. As now things a picking up a bit.
Action coming up in the next chapter. Look forward to it.(",)
Feel free to tell me how I did.
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