Beyond dragged Near down a long hallway. "This isn't the way back to the room with my cage. Where are you taking me?"

"Oh, to the kitchen."

"I'm guessing you're going to feed me since I haven't eaten in a day."

"You'll find out soon enough." Beyond gave Near a really happy and messed up smile after he said this. Near started to panic a little about why Beyond was taking him to the kitchen. After a while, Beyond stopped at the door that led to the kitchen and dragged Near in. Near noticed a huge assortment of extremely sharp knifes that where on the wall off to the side next to a large metal table. He figured that this could not bode well. "So, I guess you're a bit curious as to why I brought you to the kitchen." Said Beyond "well, it just so happens that I've run out of food. In fact, that is the very reason that I could not feed any of you yesterday. It was because I didn't have enough food for you guys and myself."

"So you want me to help you go shopping for some more food?" said Near, hoping that that was the reason.

"No." when Near heard this, his blood ran cold. He realized exactly what Beyond was planning to do with him. "You see," Beyond continued "the building that we are in is an abandoned underground base in the middle of nowhere. I cannot go out to buy food because there are no stores even remotely close to this place. I also cannot go out and find food because I do not know which plants are edible around this place and I know for a fact that very few of the animals are not."

"D-don't! Please don't!" said Near, begging futilely for his life. Beyond picked him up and held him down on the metal table. Near started thrashing about trying to get away, but Beyond was too strong for him.

"I'm sorry Nate, but you're the only source of food there is." Beyond grabbed a knife that looked like it would be used in a slaughter house off of the rack with one hand while he was still using his other hand to hold Near down. First, Beyond cut into Near's abdomen ripping his shirt and cutting his flesh just barely missing any organs. Near screamed so loud that, if anyone had been in the room five doors down, they would have heard him. Bright red blood trickled out from where Beyond had cut Near. Then, Beyond cut Near's stomach out and removed it from his abdomen, still dripping with all the blood that had gotten on to it. the screams grew louder. Near lay there in immense pain staring as Beyond put the stomach in a metal bowl that was on a counter in the middle of the room. Then, Beyond came back to him and cut the rest of the boy up, bit by bit. Every time beyond removed another piece of him (Beyond was removing things in a way that kept Near alive until the last possible second), Near's screams grew louder, until Mello and Matt could hear him cry out in pain. Near got to the verge of death. He wanted to say his last words, but Beyond had already removed his vocal chords rendering him unable to speak. So instead, he said them in his mind. The words "Mello….I always loved you." Went through his head as the last bit of life he had left his mutilated body.

Beyond put some of the newly acquired meat from the boy he had just slaughtered into the freezer and roasted the rest of it. He had surely gotten a lot of meat from his prey and since Beyond was, after all, a good cook, he wanted to make it the best quality he could. This wasn't just for the other two in the cages, this was also for him. 'Cooking really is fun' thought Beyond as he put the food on a plate and walked down the hallway to feed the two boys left in the cages their companion.