Valinton's eyes widened as Damnation suddenly grabbed Doku and threw her against the wall. His hand automatically grabbed the handle of one of his katanas as his glare was full of anger now, "I do not abide to your tone nor do I care of your problems. It's time you learn something Valinton." Once Damnation's hand touched Doku's face, Valinton unsheathed his katana and charged at Damnation. Ethel suddenly saw Valinton charge at Damnation and she acted quickly. She jumped in between the two just in time and unleashed a concussion blast that sent Valinton flying backward and slam into another wall behind him, leaving a crater. She stood there with a determined glare that shot at Valinton, "You will not touch him..." Her voice was stern and serious, her face showed the intent to badly injure Valinton if she needed to. Valinton sat there as he coughed up blood from the blast and the wall hitting him. He slowly stood back up with a rather rage filled glare as he gritted his teeth, showing his sharp canines. He began to charge again and Ethel held her hands out in front of her, focusing on the gravity around Valinton and made it instantly heavier. He then suddenly fell to the ground from the crushing force of gravity and was unable to move no matter how much he tried. Damnation was suddenly in front of him and Valinton looked up at Damnation as he bared his teeth and shot him a glare full of anger, his breathing fast and heavy, "Now listen to me you snake, you are not my equal. I will force this woman to suffer unimaginable psychological pain; enough pain to force her to request her own death. You will obey me. You were there during the disturbance, you are the one who let them get away. You will track him down and bring him to me alive. If you fail, I will enslave her mind to desperation. Do you understand...." Valinton only looked at him, his breathing still heavy and unable to move. He knew that Damnation wasn't bluffing about anything and clenched his fists, "Yes..." He practically hissed the answer as he spoke with gritted teeth. Finally he felt the fouce lift from him and he lied there trying to catch his breath.
Ethel stood there for a moment and then took a step forward, "I-I'll go with you...!" She said, her voice shaking a bit, "I... I can help you with whatever you need... I can fight if you need me to..." She said as she looked at the ground hoping he would accept her offer. "My Lord does not want me to be pregnant, he would have rather had me get an abortion. I lied so far and made my family promise not to say anything. But I fear he will learn soon...I need to leave this place, but I do not know where I could go..." Valinton only stood there silently. He knew where she was going with this and didn't like the idea of it at all... "It will only be two weeks, I promise, afterwards you will not have to worry about me living with you. If you agree to it, that is." Valinton clenched his fist. How could she have the nerve to ask him this right after what she had just told him. She turned around to face her with a rather angry look on his face and suddenly his phone rang a notification. He looked at it and saw that Damnation had texted him with a threat. Valinton angrily flipped his phone closed and gave Doku a look that said he wasn't in the mood for games, "Get your things and hurry to my place. I'm needed at the markets. Stay at my place and we'll discuss things when I get back." He said in a serious tone as he turned around and began walking off. Once he had gotten back to the markets he angrily pushed through the crowds blocking his way to the stage. He had gotten up to where Damnation was and growled, "What is it?" He asked with a glare, "Might I remind you that you're not the only one who's having problems at the moment..."
Xero smiled in relief as Gexln opened his eyes and then almost screamed as he began shrieking. She stood there confused as he began talking about heaven, "Gexln... What're you talking about...?" She asked as she took a step forward toward him. After the explosion on the reality marble, Valinton felt a pain all around his body. He roared as he then reverted to his human form and knelt to the ground screaming. His body then began being ripped apart by what looked like data being erased. Eventually his body had fully disappeared.
- RENO - Reno thought for a moment and looked back at Chrona, "All I know is that they want something with the antidote.." he said giving him a small shrug. He turned to Isamu, "If we stay together, we shouldn't get hurt unless we really must fight." He then saw the black haired girl stand up. Xero stood up feeling a bit surprised as Reno mentioned the antidote, "The antidote?! What do they want with the antidote?" She then heard Hiro groan in frustration. Hiro turned to the group and glared at Xero, "Obviously they want it for the same reasons everyone else does!" He said as his glare turned to Reno, "What do you want to go to the black markets for anyway..?" Reno huffed at the man that glared at him, "I want to investigate. To see if they really want the antidote for the same reasons everyone does." He then paused in realization of what the man said, "Wait, have you been there before? To the mafia base?" "Maybe... Once or twice.." Hiro said as he finished the pockey that was in his mouth. He pulled out another and pointed it at Reno, "It's run by some... Damnation guy or whatever." He bit the pockey and continued talking, "But don't think getting in there'll be easy. They've got mutant guards all over the place. Spirox Users aren't as trusted there like everywhere else." Valinton suddenly felt a hand grab his but he only continued walking, not saying a word, "W-Wait, Val. Do...not go! I...I know what I said is...horrible...but you must know..." He only ignored her plea and continued on. But he then felt her tugging hos arm and he finally stopped, his back still turned to her, "I am risking my life for this..." Valinton was now silently listening, his head turned ever so slightly in her direction from behind, "This is no simple task...if I truly did not care for anything, I would not have even gotten pregnant, I would have just not gotten drunk with you...but, I really do care...I want somebody to get a cure...and I think you would benefit most from it!" His body tensed. He didn't want something she would make from his dead child. He wanted no part of it now. Valinton finally turned to her with a glare. He was about to speak but then she said, "And I do not know if my Lord will even let me stay here after a week from now..." He flinched after she said that, "What're you talking about...?" He asked sternly. Ethel only sat there for a moment and then looked up at Damnation, "D-Dinner...?" She asked quietly. But Damnation walked out of the room before she could say anything else. She got up and slowly walked out herself to see everyone in a frantic argument, "What happened..?!" She gasped.
Valinton stood there silently in shock as Doku told him everything. He then looked at the ground and turned his back to her with his fists clenched. His voice was full of anger and disgust as he spoke in a low tone, "So everything that's happened... was a lie. It ment nothing." He concluded. Before he would even let Doku do anything, he slowly took out one of his katanas and then turned to point it at Doku's neck, "I should kill you where you stand..." He then looked at her stomach and then pointed the blade at it instead, "Better yet, kill the experiment that's growing inside you..." His eyes had full intentions in doing so. Valinton wished that he could do this but he only had one thing holding him back... He then slowly put the sword back in its sheath and glared at Doku, "However... I made a promise... That is the only thing protecting you right now..." He said quietly then turned around and stormed out of the house. All Ethel could do at the moment was just sit there and let Damnation go through her memories. 'I meant what I said... I would do anything to get who I once knew back...'
Accepted!
Valinton only looked at Doku as she spoke. He saw the determination in her eyes and quietly sighed. He had felt different ever since he woke up the next morning after that night. He had felt happier when Doku was around him and less angry. Plus he rememberd saying that he would protect her. Valinton put a hand up to her face and leaned in to kiss her.
Valinton's body tensed as Doku said those three words. How was he supposed to respond to that when he hardly remembered anything that had happened that night? He only gave her a stern look and looked to the side, "You don't know what you're saying..." He said in a low, quiet voice.
Xero looked up to see a mutant walk up to them, she looked at him confused as he asked them to do him a favor, "Huh? Well it depends on what kind of favor... I mean, we don't even know you." - RENO - "My name is Reno Fawkes," He began. He was beginning to have second thoughts on asking them for help but he was already here, so he would ask anyway, "I've been hearing rumors about an underground mafia group and I wanted to go investigate... But seeing that it would most likely be suicide, I wanted to ask for help in my investigation." Valinton walked in and removed his boots seeing that Doku did it and followed her to her room. He closed the door to her room behind him and stood there leaning against it, thinking. He looked at Doku with questionable eyes, "Who was that..?" He asked, "In the car with us, the one with the fan and giving me looks..?"
Valinton glared at the man as he gave him dirty looks from behind his fan. He gave him a low growl and continued to stare out the window. When they got to Doku's house, he helped Doku out of the vehicle and then began to walk with her toward the house.
Xero had finally charged her attack to full power and gave R a nod. The rip in the sky was glowing brightly with dark energy as well as her body. She looked at Xindai with death being by all means intended for him with this attack. She would finally put an end to him and this twisted mind game he had put everyone in. He would pay for hurting everyone. "ARMAGEDDON!!" As Xero screamed her words, a giant black beam of dark energy shot out of the rip in the sky and exploded once it had contact with the ground. Everything within the radius of the beam was obliterated in an instant. The explosion that was caused by the beam had a shock wave about as big as R's Black Sun. Once the bombarding of Xindai and his castle was finally finished, the castle was nowhere to be seen. All that was left was a giant crater if where it once stood. Xero floated down to the ground, out of breath and exhausted. Her body felt weak, she had used just about every ounce of darkness in her last attack. Xero then weakly looked around to see Gexln on the ground, not moving. Her eyes went wide and she tried to move quickly. Her knees gave out as she approached Gexln and she frantically looked over him. "G-Gexln..?" She shook him a bit to have no response, "Gexln?" She shook his body again a bit harder to still have no responses, "Gexln... please..! Get up!" Xero's eyes began filling with tears, her voice beginning to shake. After Valinton had made impact with the ground, he struggled for a moment to get back up. He saw that the girl was somehow still alive and he bared his teeth in annoyance. Valinton then attempted to give Juliet a flamethrower of black firaga .
Valinton jumped up to dodge the man's sweep but suddenly vines blocked his way to another attack. He growled quite loudly as the two got away and turned to see other mutants eyeing him. He walked over to the impaled body and ripped out his katana and turned back to the crowd, "Let this be a warning to those who do anything stupid around these parts..." He said sternly as he wiped the blood off his katana on a window still. He walked through the crowd and back onto the stage and looked at Doku with an irritated expression, "Let's just get out of here already..." Ethel suddenly felt a hand on her face and instantly fell into a deep sleep. She could see her memories flashing through her mind, as if something was searching through them. Whatever was going on she didn't have any urge to fight it. She felt she had nothing left now that who she once knew had changed so drastically. What she said earlier was true, that she would do literally anything to get back who she once knew.
Valinton stiffened and his eyes went wide as Damnation asked him the rhetorical question if who the father was. Suddenly he saw Doku fall and reacted fast as this masked person pushed her out of the way for his escape. He caught her just before she fell on the ground and shot a glare at the masked man that ran out of the auction hall. Valinton quickly set Doku down and unshethed one of his katanas. He then threw his katana, blade first, at the man and then ran toward him and unsheathed his other katana in attempts to slash at him. Ethel quickly turned around to see Damnation enter the room once again. She had sat there for at least 3 hours trying to comprehend everything. He couldn't have changed.. he was so different now, "Ethel, what is it you seek. I would have expected you to have left by now. Perhaps you believe there is still some of that man still in me?" Ethel just looked up at him silently as tears rolled down her face. She nearly flinched as he bent down closer to her, "I am curious myself. What would you do to get him back I wonder." Ethel looked at him with her eyes filled with little hope. She sat there for a moment trying to think but nothing in particular could come up, "Anything..." She quitly whispered as she looked at the ground.
Hiro turned to Chrona with a glare, "No." He simply said as he turned his head away with a, huff. A very light shade of red could be seen on his face. He looked into one of Xero's bags of junk again and stole a box of pokey and turned his back to the group, ignoring Xero as she complained about him taking them. He popped one in his mouth and ignored everyone else. Xero smiled at Neko and handed her more food, "You're alright too." She said. She then heard Chrona's comment about her and Hiro. Xero's face almost immediately went red after Chrona basically called her and Hiro a married couple. She looked at Hiro then at Chrona and made and awkward smile as she then quickly stuffed her mouth with food and turned away from Hiro, face completely red. She wasn't going to lie, Hiro wasn't a bad looking guy all. But, Chrona's comment was a bit unexpected. Xero sat there awkwardly as her body went stiff, "T-That's stupid Chrona!" She stuttered out her words as her mouth was full and tried hiding the blush. Valinton just stared at the prices Doku wrote down with almost a wide eyed look. Surely no one would buy these slaves due to her pricing... But he didn't bother questioning and just locked the jail cell afterwards. He followed her to the auction hall. Ethel only stood there confused and not sure what to feel about his comment. As he walked out of the room she still just stood there silently. The gravity around her began to feel heavier and heavier, her arms wrapped around herself as she fell to her knees. Ethel was very confused and felt heartbroken, her surroundings soon began being crushed and braking by the increasing gravity. She then realized that her emotions began affecting her abilities and stopped. She still sat there staring at the ground as her eyes began to water. - RENO - Reno walked along the food stands and gazed around for what he was in the mood for. But he had heard of a mafia group holding a meeting somewhere and didn't like the sound of it. He wanted to go investigate, but he didn't want to go alone. For all he knew, it could be riddled with delinquents and other mutants that could kill him. Even if he was speedy with his abilities, that didn't mean he was invincible... He eyed a group of people eating at a picnic table. A black haired girl who ate a lot of junk food, a cat like mutant, and three males. Reno walked over to them cautiously, for he didn't want to alert them. He knew how people didn't like mutants very much around here, "Oy." He said to them, attempting to get their attention, "Mind if I ask you guys a favor? I know, you don't know who I am but I'll explain soon enough."
Valinton stood there silently and defeated as he leaned his face into Doku's palm. He was a man of his word, and since he said that he would protect Doku, then he would do just that. He would even protect her from Damnation. Valinton nodded to Doku's saying of going some place more private later. "Just start the auction.."
Xero grinned from ear to ear and began leading the group to the food stands while carrying Neko. Once they got there she, put down Neko and began to fill up bag after bag full of junk food and sweets. Surprisingly she had enough money for it all once she payed... Xero then sat down at a large picnic table and started scavenging through what she had just bought. She found a large chocolate bar and began eating it, "Jesus Christ, are you wishing for diabetes or something?" Xero heard a familiar voice say to her and turned around to see Hiro. She then frowned a bit at his comment, "I'm a picky person..." Hiro sat down next to her and then began looking through her food bags, "Uh, can I help you? Get your own food!" Xero said as she pulled the bags away from.him. Hiro only gave her a rather disgusted look, "There is literally nothing but cheese puffs, chocolate, candy, and more junk in there! How are you not a walking sack of diabetes?" Xero growled as she gnawed on her chocolate bar and glared at Hiro, "Fast metabolism. I don't know." She said avoiding the question. Valinton only stood there unfazed as Doku jabbed her finger into his chest. He almost simply rolled his eyes until she mentioned that he had said mutants were sterile, "What? Doku, I hardly remember anything of what I said; Not to mention almost everything is a blur now. We were both intoxicated, how could I've possibly known what I was saying?" He defended. Valinton flinched as Doku knelt over in pain but what she said next caught him a bit off guard. When she spoke of him saying that he would protect her, he mentally winced. That part he did remember... Sh*t. Valinton couldn't think of anything else to say after that comeback Doku made. He could only stand there looking at her with half lidded eyes, "I do not...wish for this child...to grow without a father..." Valinton felt a pain in his chest as he heard Doku mutter those words. His fists clenched tightly as he heard another voice from the slaves speak, "How could you be so heartless to not take care of your own child? Do you not understand the fear a child has when both parents are around?" Valinton shot a death glare at the young female mutant in the jail cell as he slowly walked over to her. He stuck his hand through the cage and grabbed the girl's neck and slowly began to tighten his grip, "This is not your place to speak..." He said in a dangerous tone of voice. He let go of her and slowly walked over to Doku again, his eyes hidden behind his bangs and shadow. Ethel looked up at Damnation with a rather sad look in her eyes, "I've looked... Everywhere for you..." She managed to quietly say. She took a step forward toward Damnation and then once more and hugged him tightly. Ethel felt her heart racing and was happy that she had finally found him, "Why did you leave...?" She muttered.
Valinton tensed up as Doku spoke of the child kicking and when she took his hand. She was getting attached; not only to the child but with him as well. He only closed his eyes then sighed with a small growl and a frown, "Doku." Valinton began, his voice stern, "Whatever you're thinking this leads to, it isn't going to work." He gave her a rather harsh expression as he spoke, "I want no part of it."
