Chapter 5: meanwhile thousands of miles away

Content Warning: death! very descriptive death!

"Ludo stole your wand..." she instantly froze. Unsure if she had heard him right she asked, "what?"

"Well... stealing, but... we're too late to do anything about it now."

"We have to get out back!"

"We?"

"You have to get it back!"

"Fine open up a portal to his castle and I'll find a diplomatic solution with no loss of life... and you'll be my Cannon fodder."

"What happened to no loss of life?"

"I meant my life." She gave an exasperated sigh and opened the portal when they both stepped through they noticed that the castle had gotten an upgrade. Indifference walked right up to the door and kept walking not bothering to open the door as he went right through it. Star peaked in from behind the door only to see Ludo blast off his torso. His two legs remained standing but something changed. While one of the legs turned red, clearly covered in blood, the other was a pristine white as if the blast had blown all of the dirt off of a once white fabric. Ludo laughed menacingly as he has given himself a more threatening exterior. As every monster in the room laughed they completely missed the legs sprouting out and growing their own bodies separate from one another. One seeming to want to keep his suit clean more than anything(white) and the other just itching to attack. He charged them with a scythe in his hand that looked impossible to wield. It had a hammer on the other end and a sharp edge to the back of the pole on the scythe. Like someone failed in their attempts to combine a scythe, a hammer, and a sword. In his left hand, however, he held two guns with his pinky on one trigger and his index finger on the other. Mere centimetres from striking true in his first target the white-suited one pulled back a chain connecting to a spiked choker about his neck. Before he could let it a shout in protest. The wire one pot his hand over his mouth and said, "we have yet to receive our orders. It's one thing to slaughter our enemies at home but if we're not careful we could break this reality altogether." He turned around to a freshly formed indifference who cracked his neck stretched a few times and said, "been a while since I've taken a blow that hard. Since they have no respect for us I say let Malice do as he pleases." The white one shuttered at the thought and soon loosened his grip on the chain the slightest bit and he took to the battlefield. Expertly twirling his awkwardly designed weapon his first move was to crush Ludo's skull but settled for the one he wore when the laughter died down and he dodged the incoming attack. When he had regained his balance he blasted the be foe with a barrage of green light causing him to lose both arms a leg and his head. Countless tendrils immediately took the places of his lost limbs as his appearance was now more monster than man. Ludo gazed with fear penetrating the once confident look he held. Malice regrew his head first and used his skeletal hand to conduct the tendrils as they tore apart any monster who dared to meet his gaze. His first victim was impaled from all angles. The second wasn't quite so lucky as his acidic blood entered one of his wounds catching him to burn from the inside out blood curdling screams only proving to tug a smile into his ever engaged face. The third had every limb torn off and forced down their oesophagus. At the sight, the rest sought retreat only to find the doors barred with the appendages that had struck such fear into their hearts. Even Ludo in his new powerful state cowered beneath his gaze. His hat landed on his head, having been blown away after Ludo's attack. "Please! Spare me! I'll give you anything you want! Just don't hurt me!" Malice's arms and legs had grown back but the tendrils still shot out at certain parts of his back and legs. Raising his scythe and relishing the fear in Ludo's eyes he made an attempt to strike only to be pulled back hard, from the chain around his neck. In three seconds the white-suited one used the chains to your him up and leave him on the floor like castrated livestock. He spoke, "sorry about our trigger happy friend here. We just came because you've taken something of value from that girl over there. *points to door*" Star entered the room trying her hardest not to throw up at the sight of the three mangled corpses. Ludo quickly tossed the wand back to her and said, "I can't believe we wasted all that time and money getting something we'd have to return."

"We're not done yet! Apologise!"

"I'm sorry!"

"For?"

"For stealing the wand?"

"*turns to Star* does he seem sorry to you?"

"No? No. Actually, he didn't sound sorry."

"*Turns back* Ludo?"

"I'm sorry for stealing the wand I'll never do it again!"

"If you have one of your own why would you need another?"

"I wanted to put the two together and be twice as powerful."

"Don't you need the blood of an immortal for that?"

"What?"

"Either way you still have half of her wand"

"No. I've already given up so much if I give you that I'll lose everything."

"Don't care apology not accepted. Malice?" The red suited example of what bondage looked like squirmed and Ludo and his minions screamed. "Here just take the thing" he tossed it to the one in the white suit. He dodged it and Star dove for it catching it in her free hand. She put both wands in one hand and used the other to open a portal. "You're forgiven." She walked through and the three identical tormentors followed suit."