Ace woke up to the feeling of wet stone and metal chains. He slowly stirred back to life and looked around the room. "Hey look who's awake." He heard a voice say. Ace looked up at the doorway to see the Crimson Thorn boss leaning against the door frame. "What are you going to do with me?" Ace asked. "Well straight to the point is see. Bypass all the fun… bitch. Anyway I want information." The boss said. "I don't have any." Ace said "No you do have some you just need a little…. Motivation." Ace then muttered something under his breath. "Excuse me what did you say? DO YOU WANT ME TO GUT YOUR ASS LIKE I DID YOUR FRIEND!?" The boss snapped. "What?" Ace asked worrying if he had actually gotten Maya. "Oh I hit a soft spot there huh? Yeah she was a charming thing. Really warm on the inside really… opened up after the first few incisions but hey, corpses don't fight back. HAHAHA" The boss spoke sadistically.
Ace looked away which only seemed to piss off the boss. "Hey look me in the eye." He said. Ace didn't. "HEY LOOK ME IN THE FUCKING EYE!" He yelled and Ace turned to look at him. "You're my bitch. I rule this castle." Ace didn't respond. "Have I failed to entertain you? Is this no longer fun?" The boss asked. "Fuck you." Ace said. "Now if you weren't a little shit maybe I could work that in with a few of the other prisoners. You know how men get when they get depraved." The boss said. "Now speak. Where are the others?" The boss asked. "Others?" Ace played dumb. "We'll have to do this the hard way." The boss said kicking Ace in the right shoulder against the stone.
"Talk." The boss demanded. Ace stayed quiet. He thought "I just have to hold out for the others to come looking for Maya and I." The boss kicked Ace again in the shoulder and still Ace stayed quiet. The boss knelt down and grabbed Ace by the throat and slammed him against the wall. "Listen. I see you're a young man. You've got your whole life ahead of you. I know I've worked up a little bit of a… troubling reputation but you don't have to die here." The boss said. Ace looked up at him and pondered what he'd just said. Ace spit in his face.
"Never mind. I don't think anyone will miss a piece of shit like you." The boss said before getting up and opening the door. "I want everyone to hear this." The boss said before getting a running start and using all the force to kick Ace straight in the face. "AGH FUUUCK!" Ace cried in pain, wanting to hold his face in pain. "The sooner you be a good a little boy the sooner you die." The boss said. He reeled back and hit Ace straight in the jaw with full force.
The boss left the room and came back with a chair which he put in the center of the room and sat down. "Talk." The boss demanded. "Fuck. You." Ace said. The boss got up and spun around in a kick, hitting Ace in the jaw with his boot. The branded stopped this attack which was more of a bad thing than a good thing. "The brand? Oh my god this is perfect! I have a legend in the making as my personal bitch!" The boss said. A person came and stood in the doorway and said. "Shara. A man with a white mask is here to see you discussing about a change of ownership with the skeleton." The person said.
Shara turned back to Ace and said. "Well we'll have to cut this short but I'll be back. In fact, I've enjoyed our moment so much… I want to keep a piece of you to remember this touching bonding time." Shara then took out a wire speculum and grabbing Ace's face. Ace knew exactly what he was going to do and started to fight back. He bit Shara's hand which only pissed him off and Shara grabbed his face and Ace shut his eyes but that didn't work. Shara shoved the speculum inside and pried open his right eye.
Ace's blue eyes fill with fear as Shara then took a scalpel and slowly brought it closer and closer to Ace's eye. Ace tried to writhe away but Shara snapped his fingers and four henchmen came through the door. "Hold him." Shara said. They all held Ace so powerfully that he couldn't move at all and could only watch as Shara brought the scalpel closer and closer. "Aw come on don't look at me with those eyes. I'll cut you down, make you holy, break your mind, you'll join me soon enough.
Shara shoved the scalpel inside, not being gentle and in a quick motion had severed the optic nerve and Ace lost all sight in his right eye. He cried in pain and could see with his left eye, Shara hold it up in his fingers. Shara took a medical bandage and shoved it in the now open eye socket and ripped the speculum away. "Watch him. I'll finish up tomorrow." Shara said as he left the room. The entire night Ace thought this was the end, the others couldn't risk coming for him. He accepted his fate and awaited it in the cold cell.
He was in a state of sleep, the guards outside his cell, when he started to here scraping. He slowly raised his head and looked around, trying to find out where it was coming from. He had to get used to his wounded self, having to look from one eye. He felt his right arm drop and fall to the ground and looked to see the stone, where the cuff, was removed. The stone where the left cuff was fell to the ground and he slowly turned around to see a familiar blade sawing through the stone. "Ace?" Burberry asked. "Help me." Ace said. He needed to get out of here. He wanted to get out of here.
Burberry cut through the stone and opened a small crawl way and Ace crawled out. The bandage was ripped out by one of the guards previously and when he weakly stood up Burberry was shocked. "Ace? What happened?" Burberry asked. "Thorn boss took it." Ace said. Burberry ripped a long strip of cloth from her outfit and made a makeshift eye patch. "Come on. Let's get out of here quickly." Burberry said. "I'll keep an eye out." Ace said with a small smile. "I have half a mind to leave you here for that." Burberry said. "Please no. I'm sorry." Ace said.