A young woman with brown hair and a white doctor's coat approached the coughing bunny near the entrance to the mines. Pulling out her gear, she greeted the rabbit and began a checkup.
"About time you got here doc, couple'a rashes have been appearing on ma ears." The rabbit leant down, and the doctor quickly examined them with a frown.
"You haven't been using the cream for your ear infection have you?" At the doctor's words, the bunny shook his head, wincing as she pulled gently on one of the ears.
"Start using it twice a day, that should clear up the infection. And try not to scratch it." The bunny nodded grimly, and accepted his fate. The doctor began packing up her utensils, and turned to head back to Eldestein. However, before she could take a step a flash of light appeared and a bulky man in a purple cloak materialised, putting away a yellow stone. On his back was a large potato sack.
"This is a rare occurrence ain't it?" Baroq, for of course it was him, glanced to the rabbit as it spoke and then to the doctor.
"I've got a 'battery' for the scientist." Baroq held out the bag, letting it swing slightly. The rabbit took it with a nod, and motioned to the door.
"I'll see to it it's sent down the chute to his battery storage." Both glanced to the doctor, who realised she had overstayed her welcome and nodded in goodbye before heading calmly back to Edelstein. Baroq pulled out his teleport rock again, and waved goodbye to the rabbit. The rabbit turned and left his post for a brief moment to enter and slip the bag through a small chute near the door. Finished that, he returned to his post.
Blaise felt the entire journey down, and landed hard on the concrete, blind and scared. He had no idea where he was, only that he had been handed to a different guy to be given to some scientist to be used as a battery. What that meant went over his head, and it was some time before he managed to calm his fears and have a listen to his surroundings.
Footsteps were coming closer, and stopped close by. Blaise felt himself be picked up, and them untying the top of the bag before dumping him unceremoniously on the floor. Blinking his eyes open as they pushed him into a chair and looked him over, he gazed at his surroundings.
Blaise was in some sort of deep cave, machinery lined up through the cavern, above him was the hole he had come through. The first thing he noticed was the white-haired man with glasses that was holding a bear in one hand. His other hand was slipped into a pocket, and he was smiling at Blaise. There were also two bunny brute's nearby, ready to hold him down should he try to escape.
"Lets see now…" The white-haired man pulled out a device with a gauge on it. When he pointed it at Blaise, it swung from the left side to close to the end of the right side. The man smiled, and put the device away.
"Prepare a seat, this guy is going towards the battery." The white haired man leaned in as one of the bunny brute's pulled out some sort of doctor chair and attached various plugs to it. Flicking a switch the chair buzzed to life, the machine it was connected to turned on as well. Two large tanks of a purple fluid rested on top, and to the side of the machine was a second contraption with the purple fluid glowing brightly. The glowing fluid was slowly being sucked into a larger tank.
"You're in luck boy, you don't become one of my experiments, and instead will come to help the Black Wings in their goal of bringing back the Black Mage. You should be proud." The old man's words chilled Blaise as he realised just what he had gotten himself into. He leaned away from the scientist, and tried to get out of his bindings. The bunnies were quick to grab him with an iron grip, and they transferred him to the chair they had set up, strapping him in.
"Tell those in hell that Gelimer sent you." The white haired man named Gelimer walked over to a switch, ignoring the struggles of Blaise as he tried to get free. Pulling the switch, Blaise felt pain lace through his body, and cried out as it ripped through him. The world around him turned black, and his cries soon faded away as all his energy was drained, and it was a struggle to stay awake.
"Hah….Hah…" Blaise rasped in darkness, unable to see the world around him as he felt himself growing weaker and weaker.
"Hah…*cough*" Blood splattered from his mouth, and his eyes began to slowly close. Blaise tried to hold onto a coherent thought, but even his mind fell blank in time. It was all he could do to breathe. Eventually, that too stopped. Everything went dark, and Blaise fell unconscious.
Suddenly, a flicker of light appeared in Blaise's mind, and he felt a shift in the darkness that had almost overcome him. As it grew, Blaise reached out to touch it, and felt fire blaze down his body. His silent cry to the darkness above him went unanswered, and the orb of light grew about him, growing more and more hot. Blaise couldn't stand it, and he almost wished for the darkness he had been in before.
And then the pain abruptly vanished, and he returned to reality with an explosion. Blaise watched as the air around him grew into a blazing inferno, melting anything nearby and freeing him. Gelimer quickly fled the room, locking the door and leaving the bunny brutes in the room. They charged at Blaise, and his hand rose unbidden to shoot a double lightning bolt at them, knocking them unconscious.
"Hah…Hah…" Blaise was gasping for breath, and his only desire was escaping. He barely noticed the blood dripping from his mouth as he made his way to the opening that had come through to get here. Blaise looked up, and suddenly he was flying up the chute, ending up in the entrance to some mine. A few people glanced to him before trying to attack him, but suddenly the air around him chilled, and they all froze in place.
"*cough*" Blaise dragged himself outside, and looked straight ahead. There was a town, if he could just make his way there, he might be safe. Without thinking about it, his body prepared to teleport him. Unbidden, a form dived for him, pushing him forward and breaking his concentration. It was one of the people who had been inside. The teleport spell activated, and everything around him shifted into that of a quiet park.
Blaise collapsed to the ground, and coughed up more blood, his vision fading. The park had a fountain and some pink flowers with yellow centres. He tried to hold onto consciousness, but it continued to grow darker around him. As he fell unconscious, hurt and in a serious condition, he didn't notice a pale white-haired person with bat wings gently bend down and frown at him.