"Kämpher…" Zelda cursed her bad luck.

A thin smile flitted across his pale face. "You cannot imagine how much I have planned this moment. Every time your filthy, unfit hands touched Mien Herr, I pictured this moment. I would first kill the thing you betrayed Mien Herr for, like this-" One of his red skinned demons appeared behind Tres and stabbed him. After ripping free the weapon from his back, the demon tossed him in the air a rag doll.

"TRES!!!" She screamed and ran for him. The demon that had injured her love swung out at her and grazed her cheek. Dark blood immediately began flowing from the deep gash but she clasped a hand to it and stumbled on. Arriving at his side, she dropped to her knees and put her arms around his head. There was a five inch hole straight through his chest and he was having trouble functioning.

"Tres! Tres!" tears mixed in with her blood. "Answer me! Please! After all the times you nearly die, this can't be it! This can't be the end!!"

Because she was too focused on him, Isaak walked up to her and gave her a swift kick to the face. Zelda flew backwards and landed a few feet away, stunned by what happened and how powerful the strike was. Black spots floated in her vision and her head throbbed painfully.

The demon appeared in her swaying coal colored eyes before she could comprehend what was going on. Suddenly it used the end of a spear to shove her onto her stomach and whacked her abdomen as she struggled to get up. Her whole torso constricted and she coughed, trying to breathe. Garnet liquid splattered over her quaking hands and the dusty ground. Her pupils contracted in fear and she gasped for breath.

It turned the spear around and thrust it downwards. She felt something foreign tear through her skin and embed itself in her shoulder before being yanked out fiercely and brutally. A raw scream was emitted from her pain-lined mouth. Her vocal cords rasped out her wordless cry and were crushed into submission as the demon knocked her to the ground.

She forced her arms to push her up a little bit. Because of the blood loss and the effects of the venom still in her veins, Kämpher's image jerked around, her eyes unable to stay still. The only thing she was sure of was that he was striding towards her. He stopped in front of her. She prayed that he wouldn't kick her again. He didn't.

His gloved hand lashed out and caught her by the hair. Raising her face up by her hair, he made sure she could somewhat see his eyes. "I'm about to take your entire world from you. Oh, don't worry; you aren't going to die… yet. I'm just going to steal the life away from that machine you love and you're going to watch helplessly."

"N-no…" her voice cracked quietly as he let her go and turned back to Tres. "N-NO!" She said more strongly this time. He stood over Tres and began to lift his hands. She realized in horror what that ability was. "STOP! PLEASE! STOP IT!!!!"

His demon pushed her back down again. She tried to stand but nothing responded. Gritting her teeth she thought, Why?! Why won't be body move? Am… am I going to die? Are we both going to die???…The world slowed down then, as if she suddenly sped up and left them in dust. I don't want to die yet. I don't want to die yet. No… I wouldn't mind dying if it meant that Tres would live. If Tres would live. But… Tres is dying… and I'm lying here, doing nothing. Tres is dying… Tres is dying… Tres… Tres!… TRES!!!!

Insane hatred for Kämpher spilled out of the inner depths of her heart and that rage boiled over, giving her energy like none before. It woke her up. Her will forced her numb body to get up and her eyes blazed with renewed ability to fight. Her gray armor surfaced in a second's notice and she struck her clawed hand at his demon, destroying it, before she went after him.

A yellow, pulsing shield blocked her attack. Small wrinkles crinkled around his eyes as he smirked, "You still resort back to that form? Haven't you learned anything new?"

"I've learned this," Zelda dug her claws into the force field and put all of her strength into breaking it apart.

He scoffed but said nothing, watching and waiting for her to give up. But she didn't. Slowly, it began to crack like a spider web. She shoved her feet into the dirt so she could have some leverage as she pulled. Her forearms burned like someone had set fire to them and she was beginning to become zapped of her strength. Breathing heavily, she let go of the shield and rammed her stone heel at its weakest point.

"What?!" he yelled as his defense broke and he went flying into the sand covered battleground. He turned his face upwards at her as she walked to him calmly. A corner of his bloody mouth uplifted, "So, you're going to kill me to get revenge on your robot?"

The armor plates disappeared under her skin. As normal Zelda she replied, "No. I'm not. Even though many people say it, this statement is true: 'I won't sink to your level'. And I won't be twisted into killing you either. I'm my own free person. Personally, as much as I don't like you- I could never kill you. I could never kill anything. Besides, I don't want another sin burdening my mind, my soul, my heart and my life. But since I can't leave you conscious either…" She clenched her first and sucker punched him as hard as her body would allow.

She turned away from him before his body hit the ground. Racing to Tres, she collapsed next to him and reached for his hand. "Tres… please be alright…" she whispered.

Ion appeared then, a little worse for wear but alive. He crouched down next to them. "What happened?"

"Kämpher did this to him. …Why is there the Rozen Kreus Orden? Why did they have to do this to Tres? Why???" She wept and leaned over her former tovares.

The blonde vampire looked up, "Abel once told me what happened. He told me everything about his brother, why he went evil, what he has done and more. He told me his whole life story. He told me for the purpose of understanding what the real situation was."

Zelda's tears stopped and she met his eyes, "Tell me everything. Now."