Bue's cocky look turned to sheer terror, frightening zoey since she was so confident before assuming that whoever just came in was way stronger than her. Then she yelled something that made her blood run cold, "WHERE'S MIKE, D, WHAT'D 'YA DO TO 'IM?!" "D?" Zoey said to herself aloud, "means Darkness...not too long ago D had taken mal and bue into the darkness with him… bue and mal are D's personalities-" "-how could someone else in your mind have his own personalities?" "Everyone has a little bit of darkness in them, well mike's was larger than others and grew progressively because of..certain circumstances and it became a whole other side to his mind and it actually formed into another actual person. Another PERSON in his mind is different from a personality, this side of him was never used...it was just...there so it's anger grew and created more personalities and those personalities are bue, mal, and...D." Zoey just looked down a little sorry she asked. "LOOK OUT!" Just then bue whipped around and hit D in the stomach...that just made him angry and this time he wasn't going to let her run away so he didn't create an opening, bue turned to the mirror and quickly threw her arm down and the mirror went away. Manitoba was about to bang on the glass but then he looked at all the cracks with peeling tape. Just then he came down with a headache and got a little dizzy, "manitoba?" "listen she-...zoey, it's late and tomorrow's monday...and I want to go to school, do me a favor and don't tell mom 'bout this, yeah?" She looked away then back with a sad look and hesitantly nodded, manitoba smiled and staggered to the door with zoey under his arm to help him walk then they heard a sneeze and footsteps running away to behind a corner. "Aw c'mon!" Zoey giggled and manitoba just looked annoyed. They went into mike's room and manitoba, being the gentlemen, put out his sleeping bag and said it'd be ok if she slept in HIS bed and he'd sleep on the floor. She turned as red as her hair and hopped into the bed without a second word unable to face the kind boy. He tipped his hat up and blushed while looking away, they both fell asleep in their clothes.

~In the Darkness~

Bue had just been thrown against a hard stone wall with a big crushing noise….and it wasn't the wall. She had a few broken ribs and had multiple bruises on her arms and legs as she staggered upward and was just barely standing, when D came closer fright came over her face. "I can see you shaking bue, no point in hiding your fear." "Y-you...little…-". He teleported again and landed right in front of bue making her fall back down onto the large pile of rubble. She coughed up some blood on her shirt, D simply grinned viciously, bue shakily lifted her head to look at D. "You shouldn't of given away your core, now you're as weak as an infant!" Bue let her head fall back and she giggled, "what's so funny?" "How 'bout I make 'ya a deal?" "What kinda deal?" Bue paused but then slowly got up, staggering and struggled to face him. "How 'bout...If 'ya give back mal's soul then...I'll give you MY soul...and a kiss as a goodbye present." D blushed but bue remained expressionless while in her mind she snickered. She batted her eyelashes and smiled lovingly as D continued to blush and turn red, he nodded and bue gagged in her mind. She leaned in slowly and D closed his eyes, there was no romantic atmosphere so while D's cold heart thumped bue was just in pain from having to lean forward with broken ribs. Mike woke up at exactly the same time that the two had made reluctant lip contact and mike gasped under his breath as quietly as he could with the most puzzled look on his face, bue noticed and cringed with embarrassment. Then something odd happened, a small light came over bue and as it came down she was healed. This surprised her and D finally let go, the minute he did bue turned around so she wouldn't face him and started wiping her mouth with her shirt and had a sickly green face plastered. She turned back around with a fake warm smile and blush, "it's a shame really, that we can't be together…". Mike saw the look on bue's face right after he kissed her and was surprised at her acting skills, bue's face turned to serious as D really came to. "Now give mal's soul back… you might even get another one." She fake blushed again and 'teehee'd' him as he ran over to mal and started focusing. The glowing orb came out and he gave it back to mal without another word or a second thought. Mal woke up to find D right beside him and he immediately went into a fighting stance, D payed no mind then he saw mike wearing a shocked look and bue who looked like she was about to throw up and he had the look of confusion when D looked over to bue he had an annoyed look on his face. "D...are you REALLY going to take my soul when we could be such a great couple..". D's face changed to serious and angered, "as if I care...I wanted the kiss, yes I'll admit it but…-" D looked away then back with a smirk and bue looked frightened again and also confused, "-it'd just be easier to simply have you without the work of truly developing romance...I saw you gag. If you really DO care then you won't mind being mine...and mine ONLY!" Mal, and mike exchanged glances of surprise and terror. Bue stepped back away from him with each step he took toward her while she continuously shook her head scared down to the bone and repeatedly kept saying "no"(try to picture the shadow man's death in The Princess and the Frog). D ignored her feeble plea, still with the same serious and evil look on his face, mal and mike started running toward bue to help her but, without even looking D waved his hand up and it threw them both back against the wall and they were completely helpless as D put his hand onto bue's shoulder. She screamed with agony, the electrocution was much longer than when mal got shocked and the orb slowly came out and the shocking got more painful as did her murderous cry's until D finally had the whole soul in his hands. He turned back around to face mike and mal with a vicious grin with an unconscious bue behind him with cold dead gray eyes. "NO! NO! D DON'T DO IT PLEASE!" D ignored him and put the orb in his body though it seemed to jump in, as if enthusiastically. D turned to them with a sneer and they scowled back, "heh! So...what do 'ya think?" "I think you're sick!" Mike yelled. "I thought you cared about bue!" Mal continued. "I do...I wanted her! And now...she's mine and it's gonna stay that way, I wasn't about to let her get away again!" D began to walk towards mal slowly, alerting mike. "D YOU PROMISED BUE, YOU WOULDN'T TAKE HIS SOUL IF SHE GAVE YOU HER'S!" He turned to look at mike with bored eyes, "mike you idiot!" Mal muffled under his breath, when D looked back toward him he saw a smirk on mal's face. Mal acted as quickly as possible, he imagined a breathing mask for mike in just a split second and mike looked at him in fear of what he might do. D predicted that he would fill the room with water, drowning them both,mal's eyes turned black and D tried to imagine a breathing mask too. There was a pause when D was unable to create the mask, he couldn't tell what mal would do, D tried not to lose his 'cool' but he just wasn't able to keep his frightened face away as he slowly stepped back. Mal looked both serious and sadistic, he turned to face mike who had a look of fear on his face, mal smiled and he wiped a welling tear from his eye as he threw down his arm… "I'm sorry mike, bye…" "MAL! NOOOOO DON'T!" His arm came fully down and mike was thrown back to his side in the board room where the other's were at. He clung to the wall he was thrown out of and sobbed, he fell to his knees feeling helpless. "MIKE! what'cha doin' ova' there c'mere!" He heard an australian accent from behind him and turned around to face manitoba, he had a serious look on his face making mike paranoid. "Mate…, somethin's wrong with the others." "Whaddaya mean?" "Just look..". Manitoba pointed over in the direction of svetlana, vito, and chester and they weren't moving. "What's going on with them?" "I'm not sure-". Mike started to walk over to them until manitoba swiftly stopped him with his arm in front of his chest to block him from going further. "-Look...do you see that?" "See what?" "Look closer…-". Mike gasped when he gazed at them tightly and saw… "-A MIRROR!" Mike ran over to them, manitoba clung onto his shirt so he was dragged over there. When they both got to their friends they saw that they were staring at the moon. Manitoba and mike tried to cover their eyes but they kept on pushing their hands away without losing eye contact. They both put their hands on the mirror and, like changing a channel, They switched it to the darkness and they saw mal and D in the room together and mal had his hand in the air and his fingers were in the position to snap. When he did a mysterious green gas began to slowly fill the room, mal created his own breathing mask just as he became engulfed in the gas and D couldn't see him, when the gas moved away mal had already turned his mask invisible...but D heard his thoughts and laughed psychotically. "You REALLY think I didn't hear that?! You were going to simply mask yourself with the poison gas so I wouldn't be able to see you then make your breathing mask invisible!..-". Mal looked surprised and tried thinking of something, I can't just ACT without planning out my strategies! I have to know what I'm gonna do to see if it'll work or not! … "-Now you're thinking of flooding the room with water and mixing it in the gas to create death water! While we're under and I 'supposedly' run out of air, YOU'RE going to use the strength you got from bue's core and use it ALL up to make a portal to mike's side in order to flee!" Mal glared and he snarled with the sharp teeth showing, D started walking closer to mal with a smug face. "You know…, no matter how much you deny it...we ARE a lot alike, my plans have failed in the past and so have yours. We're both a little evil in our own way and we both have skilled determination and if I couldn't read minds...I'm pretty sure YOUR plans would be just as even as mine!" Mal growled at how badly his pride was being struck, his stubbornness kept him still. He realized something quickly, "how come you haven't died yet?! This gas is almost solid, without a mask you-" mal paused in mid sentence when D flew his hand up and a light shined on him but was reflected and shined around him like an orb… "-, a forcefield?!...". D chuckled with a murderous grin on his face which quickly turned to a psychotic laugh that rang through his ears and his eyes glowed his signature deadly crimson, mal was in awe and stepped back in fear until he was against the wall. His arms were spread out and he focused on one of his hands and it created a small light that started to grow bigger, when D saw he just laughed maniacally and raised his hand as high as possible lifting mal into the air slowly he rose to the tall ceiling. "I heard your blunt thoughts...bue's power won't help you now!" He threw his hand down at light speed and mal fell at the same pace until he was launched and hit the ground with huge, painful impact, creating a large blinding dust cloud and a crater. Finally he acted without prediction of D and put his hand to the ground once more, he concentrated with all his might and managed to do everything at once. With one huge blinding flash of light he made D's forcefield disappear within a split second, got rid of his own mask, tied D to the wall behind him and filled the entire room all the way up to the 50ft high ceiling with water mixed with harsh chemicals. Though the water seemed perfectly clear despite the ingredients mixed in, D looked around in fear frantically while mal smirked and he swam to the wall where the small light he had made was starting to go out, he swiftly put his hands to the wall again and the light grew brighter until it created a shape of a rectangle and a knob appeared. He created a small forcefield so that mike's side wouldn't get flooded and he pulled the knob, the door slowly opened until it was large enough to go through fully...before he did...he looked back at D who was now out cold, with that he went through. A millisecond before he closed the door D's head was already up and he had the biggest sly grin on his face and he turned to black mist which was practically invisible with the dark background and he flew out of the small crack. Mal heard something from behind him and whipped his head around just to see a disappearing door and he sighed with relief then he noticed he was in his room. The pictures were gone which got him suspicious but he just brushed it off assuming manitoba must've thrown them away. He ran out of the room and to the board room. When he made it there, he was greeted by mike running to hug him. There was a couple lights along the side of the large room but mostly one big one in the center creating massive shadows of everybody all in different directions because of where they stood, when manitoba saw mal he just froze with a slightly scared look but was replaced by anger, making mal uncomfortable. "Mike...get away from him!" "huh?!" The two questioned, manitoba turned from mike to mal… ", you brought something with you! You need to get out…-" "wh-why?" "-NOW!" Mal didn't say another word as he ran out into the hallway in confusion. When he opened the door to his room to take a nap, the room's lights were out, he tried flipping the light switch a couple times but then he snapped his fingers to make them come on...they didn't. He considered the worst but just thought that he could simply sleep with the lights off like a normal person. Not long after he had gotten into the bed he started hearing noises, it was a small room with little furniture making him worried...he dove under the covers like a baby and just closed his eyes tightly. "I'm just a little traumatized... that's all...right?" He heard a small chuckle and shot up from mike's sleeping bag with the sun shining in his eyes, he looked over and saw zoey sleeping in his bed. There was an annoyed look on his face, despite all he's been through he still holds grudges.