Nashi collapsed, her body screaming in protest at her attempt to breath. She couldn't move she could barely breath. Apocalypse laughed.
"Ready to talk? Or should I continue?" He asked. Nashi could only lay still, not able to respond. She heard the door open.
"God damn it, Apocalypse!" She heard Angel yell. "What did master tell you about nearly killing them?"
"Got to carried away, Sor, don't take it so personally." Angel growled.
"Don't call me Sor. Just wait until the master hears you nearly killed her, then you'll get it."
"Just bring me the next one" Apocalypse replied sounding agitated. Nashi felt Angel pick her up gently. Nashi's head lolled uselessly. She had never been in so much pain. It was as if someone had liquidized fire and injected into Nashi veins. Now normally that wouldn't have been a problem but this was different. Angel whisked her away back too the prison.
"I'm so sorry kid." Angel whispered. "I didn't know he'd go all out like that, he rarely does." Nashi could only cough in response, but even that sounded weak and pathetic . "It'll only get worse from here so hold on" Nashi felt the dank smell of the prison re-enter her head, and she heard a prison door open, and she was lain down on the floor gently.
"Nashi!" Elise shouted, shock apparent in her tone.
"What did you do too her?!" Drake hissed. Angel sighed.
"Don't get too fired up kid. Your next" Angel replied staring at him.
"Next for what?"
"Interrogation." With that, Drake got up to follow Angel out of the cell. Elise propped Nashi's head up in her lap. Nashi felt a wooden cup touch her bottom lip.
"Come on, Nashi" Elise murmured. "Drink this, clear your throat" Nashi did her best to tilt her head, which allowed the tasteless liquid to enter her mouth. She managed to swallow all of it, and she entered a coughing fit. "What happened to you?"
"Interrogation" Nashi replied, doing her best to sound sarcastic but it came out more like she was losing her voice from all the screaming which wouldn't surprise her. Elise stared at her.
"Drake could hear you screaming" She said. "I thought he was going to tear Angel apart when she brought you back."
"What do you mean? Our magic's negated." Nashi coughed and attempted to sit up, her back screaming in protest.
"Same way your bodies warm down here," Elise shrugged. " It isn't a attacking magic so it still works. That look on his face..." Elise shivered and Nashi guessed it wasn't from the cold in the cell. "He looked completely murderous. He told me he was going to rip Angel's stomach out and feed it to her" What scared Nashi the most was that she could tell Drake hadn't been kidding. He had been completely prepared to kill because of what happened to her.
"He's just protective of me" Nashi managed propping herself up on the wall. Elise gave her a confused look.
"Protective?"
"Ever since we were kids and I was getting picked on he was always there to tell the others kids too go to hell. He's not used to not having to look out for me all the time." Elise nodded. It was a while before Drake reappeared with Angel. He looked a little better off then Nashi, but he still collapsed into the cell, and Elise stood up knowing it was her turn. When they left, Drake and Nashi sat, in painful silence.
"So" Drake coughed turning his head on the ground to look at her. "Was it bad for you too?" Nashi managed a smile.
"Yeah," She replied. " He kept screaming questions at me, but I couldn't hear him clearly." Drake spat blood out of his mouth.
"He was asking about our mission, and where the others were"
"Others?" Nashi asked confused. Drake shrugged.
"I don't know, he kept asking where our backup was, but I told him I had no idea what I was talking about" Drake struggled to his knees, and crawled over next to Nashi. "I think they think we were scouting them out for a battle, not just a job" Nashi vaguely remembered the job they'd taken. She wished Ul, and Simon where here, she missed them terribly. That and her parents and everyone else. Nashi wondered what they thought happened too them. No doubt they'd investigated when they hadn't returned, but Nashi had little hope they'd found this guild house. They trekked pretty deep into the woods so finding them was about as likely as getting a shower.
Unlikely, that is.
Another week passed and Nashi had completely accepted she was going to die in that cell. They're meals had gotten worse, and the torture more severe. Nashi had been hug upside down for two hours and beaten with a steel rod. She'd had her ankle broken and she'd been attacked by wild dogs while tied to a chair. Nashi was done. She sat in her cell eating her pathetic meals waiting for the Grim Reaper to take her away. That or an actual angel to tow her to the heavens above because she couldn't fight back anymore. She had been lying down in the corner of the cell when she heard the door open. Nashi assumed it was Angel taking one of them to Apocalypse, so she ignored it and tried to get to sleep. She knew it was different, however, when she heard deeper voices mumbling and chuckling.
'So which one do ya want?" One voice asked. Another chuckled.
"I don't know, they both seem so tender."
"What the hell do you guys want?" Drake demanded.
"Nothin' to do with you, Fairy" One snarled. "We just wanna take one of your attractive friends here to... talk" Nashi felt her stomach churn. She knew perfectly well by talk they meant something completely different. Nashi curled into a ball trying to seem insignificant. She didn't want to be chosen but she'd feel terrible if Elise was chosen instead.
"How about the one with pink hair?" Nashi almost burst into tears. First starvation and torture, now this? She heard the cell door open and they proceeded inside.
"Stay away from here" Drake threatened. They laughed and she heard Drake get kicked in the face.
"And what are you going to do, stop us?" They got closer but Nashi felt a small, feminine hand be placed on her leg.
"No," Elise growled. "Take me, she needs to rest" Elise had been tortured the least, so she looked pretty good. Nashi wanted to scream in protest, but elected to stay quiet. One man chuckled.
"Oh, so now you wanna protect your friend? Fine, you'll do" Nashi heard Elise get grabbed, rather inappropriately, and dragged away.
I'm sorry Elise" Nashi murmured. "But it was you or me"
"I'm going to kill every last one of them" Drake replied. "Every last one"
About ten or so minutes later, Nashi saw Drake's demeanor change considerably. He looked brooding and angry, staring at the wall. He was clenching and unclenching his fists, doing his best to stay calm.
"What is it?" Nashi asked through a mouthful of stale bread. Drake turned to her, so much rage written on his face it could've made a book.
"I can hear it," He replied. "The things they're doing to her" He turned back to glare at the wall. "Just wait until I cut that off and feed it too you, you assclown..." Nashi's bread tasted like dread, or rather, blood from her chapped lips cracking. Just what had she avoided by pretending to be asleep? Now she hoped Elise would be returned to them in relative safety.
After another 20 minutes, the door to the prison opened, and Elise reappeared, and Nashi wanted to throw up. The rags they'd been forced to wear had rips everywhere, and she was doing her best to clutch them around her naked body. She was thrown into the cell with fits of laughter and another pair of rags to change into.
"She was good enough, I suppose" A man chuckled in the darkness. "Just wait until next time, pinkie, you'll get your share" Then they left, and Elise curled into a ball, clutching her spare rags. Drake crawled over to her.
"Elise...?" He asked, reaching out to touch his friends shoulder but she jerked away at the touch.
"Don't touch me!" Elise screamed. "Stop touching me!" She crawled into the corner and curled into a ball, doing her best to seem insignificant. Nashi could smell the fear, among other things, which made her angry. Drake turned to her.
"We have to get out of here" He said. Nashi nodded, feeling a fire of determination build inside of her.
"Every last one," She replied. "Will know what it means to fuck with Fairy Tail"
Really, really, dark, I know. I wasn't expecting it to sound so bad it words, but it does. I avoiding saying what happened, obviously, but hopefully you guys can piece it together. Review!