Jack flexed his fingers and toes idly, reconciling with the fact that he couldn't move. He felt like a bit of a circus animal, what with everyone's eyes watching his every action.

Joseph's bawling had petered off into sporadic hiccups and sniffles. Sean and James remained silent although the latter would coo soothingly in Joe direction whenever he seemed like he would begin to weep again. The whole situation seemed so desperate; crying and sitting quietly seemed about the only appropriate things to do. What else could they do? There were no windows and no doors leading to the outside. In addition to that, The Woman...was utilizing some sort of black magic to keep them all compliant to some degree. Who would willingly submit to this…depravity?

"How are you doing?" Jack lifted his head and looked over at Joseph then at James. He offered the male a strained smile before lowering his head again. "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you." James mumbled sadly while Joe forced a smile on... sad and pitiful.

"It's not your fault, good man. It's my own for not taking you at the words."

James crawled towards the bars of his holding place and grabbed them, staring out at Jack. "I'm sorry that I acted like I did. It's just that…nobody here is allowed out of this room unless we're playing hide and seek."

So this was a game.

Joe went on to explain the rules and conditions: The woman now known as Eun Ha first released the five men she held captive and gave them a predetermined amount of time to run through the house to look for either a hiding place or an exit. Apparently, she never came after them right away. But she always found them.

"where are the others? Only three of you are here...?" The moment the words escaped Spicer's lips there was a loud scream from the left hand corner from above Jack; fucking loud scream too! "Looks like Shin Won has been caught." Sean whispered in tone that Jack could not Identify.

"She's saving you for last," James whispered to Jack when the clicking of Eun Ha's heels couldn't be heard any longer. Jack writhed when he glimpsed polished black heels over a pair of dainty white feet. The figure she dragged behind her cursed and snarled and howled, completely consumed by his fury. Eun Ha took the violently flailing man towards the red formula room and unceremoniously tossed him inside.

His body hit the back wall and sent the discordant thud of flesh striking concrete echoing through the area. Eun Ha glanced at Jack and then left for the staircase again without saying a word.

Jack opened his mouth to scream at the female but was interrupted by Shin Won screams and banging on the walls of his cell with his open palms. Shin's hair was light brown and cut short, his tan skin covered in cuts and bruises along with his clothes torn in every place. "Shin Won, calm down, please." James growled.

"I was so close, James Ravi! So close! I was almost outta' this hell hole. D'you know what it feels like to taste freedom and then have some bitch just take it away?"

"Everyone that resides within these cells knows what it's like, Shin Won." The snarl that entered Sean's tone made the fuming Shin Won calm down immediately. Jack struggled against his restraints, whimpering as he whispered. "I don't know what I've done to be treated like this."

"Nobody here does." Joe replied.

Jack heard a grunt from the staircase. A young man with messy black hair tumbled down the stone steps with Eun Ha coming down after it. She harshly kicked the male into the room while clutching her own stomach. She gripped a rag doll tightly in her left hand, sinking her nails into the worn fabric. The male on the ground hissed and curled into himself but other than that made no other motion.

Eun Ha slammed the rag doll into the table beside Jack's Voodoo Doll and grabbed a tuft of the male's black hair, throwing him into the cell with the fogged class. She didn't even bother tying him up and from what Spicer could see; the man was in so much pain that it didn't matter.

Everyone had stopped moving. Jack couldn't even hear the sound of breathing. He dared to lift his head and glance at the new male. The Black haired man stared ahead evenly at the exasperated woman pacing circles around the table. When her palms slammed down flat against the table's surface, causing scissors, needles, and pins to fall to the ground with a loud din of metallic pitter-patter, his expression remained uniform.

Jack counted in his head, Joe, James, Sean, Shin Won...that means this new guy was the fifth one. They had all been caught... game over... "Sean, do you know what Brian did to me?"

"No." was a blunt answer.

"He kicked me in the stomach." Sean glanced in the direction of Brian's cell.

"What do you want me to do about it?"

"Make a decision. Either he can receive full punishment, or I can punish you all." The woman replied with a cruel tone.

Jack would have spoke up but, his fear kept him in check. It was a loaded decision with dreadful consequences either way; Sean could sacrifice Brian for the good of the many or decide to divide the pain evenly between all of them. Jack wanted to be spared from Eun Ha's wrath. He had no idea what she was capable of and he didn't intend to find out. He only prayed that Sean wouldn't be one of those, "All for one and one for all" kind of people. Like those Stupid Xiaolin Losers... but, truthfully he was really missing them... and Chase. Did they miss him? Of course not... no one ever cared enough for him to even think about his stupid little face.

"It would make sense for you to punish us all, but…I'm the eldest. I take full responsibility for what Brian did." James spoke up on behalf of Sean. So James was older? He looked so Young? Years have done well on him.

"That's idiotic; you're taking a punishment for the actions of a grown man," Jack interjected. His outburst surprised him; if James took the full punishment, then nobody else would be subjected to Eun Ha's anger. But, Jack couldn't stand the thought of James bearing the burden on his own. He really disliked those all for one, one for all types. "You shouldn't put yourself up for retribution like that." He added quickly.

With that being said another shock came to the room; "I'll take Responsibility!" Joe shouted and soon after they all were yelling at Eun Ha. The woman looked a cross of Annoyed and Surprised. Without warning, she drove a stake into the red fabric, causing a unified groan of anguish to tear the throats of the six captive men raw. Jack clutched at his chest and fell to the ground where he arched off the ground, clawing at the cold stone below him until his nails splintered.

He felt the stab again, not knowing if he or Joe, who had fallen to the ground in a writhing heap, was screaming the loudest. The sensation kept coming in waves of agony and respite; piercing and dulling pain spreading from the heart to the tips of the fingers. Jack couldn't form coherent sentences or make any sounds other than shrieks and moans through his labored breath.

A small foot slipped underneath Jack's torso and flipped him onto his back. Even that small change in position made the male grasp at his aching chest. Saliva ran down his chin and the sides of his mouth. Joseph gasped for breath in his cell, his hands desperately clinging to the metal bars that confined him. Sean and James where panting and clenching there teeth in pain while Shin Won sobbed through his agonized moans, but clear as dat they could hear Brian's chanting, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, forgive me, I'm sorry…" The mood in the area became so weighted so quickly. The boys wallowed in a thick fog filled with fear, pain, uncertainty, and woe.

No matter how strong some of the boys tried to act, they still cried out for benevolence when Eun Ha began stabbing the doll in the stomach again and again. Jack felt like he was drowning in the undertow of a livid sea. Nobody would save him. Nobody could. They were all trapped, being tortured like animals…