During the middle of the night, a human-shaped shadow could barely be seen walking in the dim moonlight. The creature hid in the shadows of trees, buildings, and anything else it could find. But the creature was still noticed as it passed the house of a certain blonde girl.
"Who's there?!" Dina shouted at the creature as she grabbed a large knife from the kitchen and walked outside. The creature turned to face her, revealing its identity. "Molly?" Dina asked. Molly responded by pulling out a blowgun and shooting a dart into Dina's right shoulder. Luckily, it was just a tranquilizer, but Dina instantly dropped to the ground, knocked out by the powerful drug. The knife landed a few feet away from her, so it would be out of her reach even if she were to recover anytime soon.
She'll probably be out for a few hours now… Molly thought. But even though she could see and think, she couldn't control her actions. The mysterious creature in her head had taken control of her body once again. And she had a bad feeling about where it was taking her.
Molly continued sneaking around, tranquilizing the few people that tried to stop her, until she reached her destination. She walked up to the swampy area that surrounded Raijiar's ship. A few guards walked over to her with their weapons ready, but she didn't make any effort to resist them. She said something in a language that she didn't understand. It was clearly the mysterious creature that was controlling her body that was talking for her. The mutants lowered their weapons and escorted her through the ship to a room she hadn't been to before.
And waiting inside was a creature she hoped she'd never see again. The worst part was that as soon as she was inside the room, the creature in her head returned control to her. She was forced to face the monster that had put that creature in her head on her own. He walked over to her. She tried to turn around to run, but he grabbed her from behind and pulled her back to him.
"Not sssho tough without your friendsssh, are you?" Maltoic hissed. "Melissssha, wass it?"
"I prefer Molly, You creep." She said through gritted teeth. "So what do you want? To finish me off for what happened last time? To send me to Raijiar as a meal? Or to throw me in the slave yards like you did with Todd?"
"None of the above, you little pessst." He replied. "I jusssht want sssome information."
"What kind of information?" she asked. "The password to my computer? The stats of my vivosaurs? What kinds of weapons I have at home?"
"You talk too much." Maltoic said. "Ssssho unlesssssh you want me to take your voice away again, I ssshuggesht you ssshut your mouth… I merely want sssshome information on your friendssss."
"And if I refuse?" Molly asked.
Maltoic growled and pointed to a large vat of clear gel in the corner of the room. She realized it was the same substance that was on the guards' knives when they invaded the ship.
"So you're trying to tell me that if I don't tell you all about my friends, you'll throw me in a vat of acid?" Molly asked, sounding more amused than scared.
"Don't pusssh your luck, little girl…" Maltoic hissed. "Thissh acid is more powerful than it looksssh. Shteel issh the only thing it can't disssholve…"
She was about to say something, but that's when she remembered what had happened to Jonathan when he was stabbed. The knife had that same acid on it. It had dissolved the entire internal structure of his arm, telling Molly that he really wasn't kidding. Molly actually felt a slight tinge of fear, but she hid it fairly well. Maltoic, however, still sensed it.
"That'sss what I thought…" He said with a slight chuckle. "Sssso… About that information…"
"If you think I'll sell out my friends, you're insane." Molly said. In response to this, Maltoic grabbed her left arm and pulled a knife with the acid on it from one of the other mutants near him. He touched the blade to her arm, allowing the acid to make contact with her skin. She winced at first, but then had to bite back a scream as the acid began to dissolve her flesh. Maltoic grinned and put a small amount of another strange liquid on the wound, neutralizing the acid. Molly was breathing heavily, trying to catch her breath. Tears were streaming down her face now.
"Shtill going to refusshe?" He asked as he brought the blade close to her arm again.
"What do you want to know…?" She asked after she managed to catch her breath.
"Their weaknesssshesssh would be ussssheful..." Maltoic hissed as he put the knife on a table nearby.
"I don't know enough about Dunal, Dina, Todd, Rupert, or Pauleen to tell you anything." Molly said. "Jasmine is pretty much immobilized right now. Her legs are useless, so she can't walk. Also, loud noises can make her go deaf. Her ears are very sensitive. She has no way to shield herself from attacks, but her guns can't be blocked or broken. However, they have a brief cool-down period if they overheat. As for Jonathan, he's right-handed, so having his right arm disabled is a major weakness for him. He has wings that he controls with his mind, but you won't be able to break them with impacts, chemicals, or explosives. However, spears, knives, and bullets can pierce them. He can't fly if they're damaged. The auto-repair will fix them in as little as a minute, but that's his main weakness. His wings are his shield. He also has limits on his ammo, unlike Jasmine. The effective range of his handguns is 80 yards for both. For his hunting revolver, it's 200 yards. He has a sniper rifle that he has to assemble before he can use it. His record time for setting it up is two minutes exactly. He can shoot someone up to approximately three miles away with it with little difficulty. If he misses, it's almost always on purpose. He's an expert sniper, but he's not good at melee combat. Is that enough info for you?"
Maltoic grinned, showing off stolen and broken teeth. He threw her at the acid barrel, making some of it spill on one of his subordinates. The poor monster screamed as the gel ate away at his flesh, eventually killing him. He fell on top of Molly. The acid had managed to neutralize itself by the time he had been killed by it, but his weight easily started to crush her.
Molly managed to stay conscious, despite the painful blow to her head, but she could barely breathe due to the weight of the creature on top of her. After a few seconds, she managed to roll him off of her. She gasped for air. The pain in her chest as she breathed told her that a few of her ribs were probably broken, and she was sure she had a concussion from being thrown at the barrel.
Maltoic laughed, wings fluttering a bit. "Isssh a bad break, isshn't it?" He took a step towards her. "Need help, little hatchling?" He scoffed again.
"Like I need help from a freak like you…" She mumbled as she shakily stood up. "I should knock you out right now."
He scoffed again. "And I to you, sssshhtupid girl. I ssshhould kill you, eatsssh you. You would taste good." He licked his lips, leaning forward until his nose touched hers.
"If your stupid guards weren't here, you'd be out cold right now." She said, pushing him back. "You're lucky I don't have enough darts to tranquilize all of you. And you're really lucky I don't have my gun with me."
He smiled. "Ah, yessshh, the gun and the tranquilisshhher darts. Shhtupid." He held up the crushed gun she had used before and its ammunition. "Thissshh gun and dartshh?" He tossed them into the acid, where they were dissolved in less than a second.
"Yeah, but I have more, you know..." She replied as she watched her weapons get destroyed
His grin vanished. He growled, barring his teeth. "...I have what I wanted. Go, before I ssshhend you off to the slave yards."
"Gladly." She said before walking out of the room.
She headed home, ignoring the people she passed and trying to ignore her pain as much as possible. When she got home, she bandaged up her wounds, took some painkillers, and went to sleep. Her thoughts and the pain would have kept her awake if she hadn't taken the medication, but she managed to get a decent amount of sleep anyways.