Family's base

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The ship would fly to the base, landing with ease Merith would be in the cell for a hour before some keeper hybrids would be sent to drag him out. he would be for to go down the prison hallway and was roughly shoved into another spacier cell.



Across from hims a chain being with runes engrave on the shackles sat down boredly, her eyes watching him with curiosity.

She blinked, part of her wanted to say no but she had already flalen back into trained habits here she shakily did, inwardly flinching at any thing that could equeal pain.

"Heny..." Inari spoke again, the lifeless eyes of the mask staring deeply into the prisoner's. "Answer me this, Heny...

"Do you truly, truly love Merith for all he is worth? Do you, from the bottom of your very being, love him?"

Heny was surprise at the question, in truth expecting to feel pain. Without thinking she nodded yes, "Yes.. Yes I do. I don't think I could handle even losing him..."

Inari was silent again, before placing careful hands on Heny's shoulder. "Then please..."

Again, she removed her mask, but this time, clear crystalline tears poured from her eyes and dirtied her face. Her cheeks already were beginning to puff up from the excess and her whites were slightly red as she began to sob uncontrollably, "Please get Merith out of this forsaken place... Please, take you, him, all of them, and leave. I can't bear... To see him like this..." The Keeper's whole body trembled, and she revealed it, that Merith torment had been just as much torture to her, and she could no longer bear it.

Heny fave faultered, before hanging it in shame, "I..I barely escape the last time on my own.." She said softly, "And that was when I was able to do magic.." She softly placed her hand on her stomach, feeling the barely developed pouch there.

"That is why I am going to help." Inari suddenly returned her mask to her face again, covering her tears. She stepped to the side and revealed her own anamcara, a great fox-like creature with the stature of a wolf, but definitely with the features of a nine-tailed fox. However, if that wasn't daunting, its pure size would be, being as large as a small horse as he bent down into the room a bit. "M'Lady." He spoke with a low and soft voice. "The Leash and their squadrons are ready to set the plan into action. All names on the bioship have been accounted for."

Heny held this look of surprise, and gratefulness she let Inara speak.

Inari nodded and took Heny by the hand to get her to walk as she led the woman to Vestia and her anamcara went to personally find Merith. Meanwhile each squadron contained about five regular ghostly fox apparitions, but each one was lead by a member of the elite Leash, their odd hinged jaws locked closed for the moment. They spread out to each cell and dorm, and would work on opening it...

Heny would stumble and struggle to follow, her mind hitting axdaze point of shock.

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The alarms would start to to off..

Ellie struggled to her feet as the cell door opened, looking at the fox creatures in confusion. Then she charged out, screaming like a ruined maniac.

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Asher moved more hesitantly, not sure if this was a trick the Family was playing to make him show his true colors. Then he shrugged and went out to see what was happening, heading toward the cells.

Matt very slowly raised his head as the door opened, a low growl escaping his throat as his first instinct was "kill them."
The alarms rang out, he winced at the sudden sound and thankfully, the shock pulled him from his murderous rage... for now. He slowly staggered to his feet, and tentatively toward the exit and the blissful not oven temperature that was the corridor outside. He collapsed onto his hands and knees, clasping at the collar around his neck as he took deep breaths of cool air, cool glorious air. He never thought he'd be so relieved to be in a soulless hallway.

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Kay frowned at the sudden blaring of alarms and the fox creatures. He tensed, he recognized those things. The Leash... What had they come to murder this time?
he hesitantly peered out of the room, tilting his head.
He looked at the foxes quizically.

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Mourn's attention flitted to the door as it opened, and he was surprised when it was fox spirits, not the usual representatives or keepers.
"What?" he asked flatly. "Why here?"

Both Corvus and Thaila would be surprise.

Thaila would stumble once free, struggling to feel his way out bitterly angered at his body deciding to stop rehealinf his eyes.

Corvus would warily walked out, ignoring this feeling of sickness in him as he tried to remove his collar..

Skye didn't look up, not taking note of her surroundings at this point. She just sat, rocking herself with her eyes closed.

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Shane tilted his head at the foxes arrival before growling at them. "You killed Syren" he stated, recognizing the fox things before trying to attack, even in his human form.

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Moone was too out of things to take note of the foxes. She looked to them but made no move to fight them or to go with them.

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Starr flew at the door to attack whoever was there, a distant recollection of them taking Syren tickling at her memory, though that would only make her focus on the leading one instead of the others.

Merith didn't fully acknowledge the large fox's presence, barely conscious despite the Heretic's Fork on his neck, and felt his bonds and torture devices release as her began to fall, only to be caught by the large fluffy head of the giant vulpine. "Careful, My King," he would hear the anamcara's words softly as his limp body was gently lifted onto his back. "Rest while we walk, My King."

Inari would lead Heny to Vestia's docked station as stealthily as possible and ignored the sirens while another member of the Leash Elite began destroying the inside of the ship's control collar. Slowly the vessel would feel the weight of forced control begin to release.

Vanessa, Lilian, Shock, and finally Quinn immediately began to follow their respective squadron once they explain where they were going, and would do it rather quickly, eager and desperate to release themselves from these bonds.

Sonata and the kids would also be escorted, all of them looking scared but relieved, excluding Sonata, who looked more determined than anything.


The foxes saw Ellie run out and began to follow, striding with grace and ease alongside her, but their paws did not make a single noise on the floor. "This way, this way... this way..." Their voices bounced off of each other as they ran, "To your bioship! Bioship... bioship..." They tried to guide her to where Vestia was docked.

The ones with Asher looked up at him and tilted their head slightly, "Your friends are on their way to the bioship... join them, join them!"


Suddenly as Mattias collapsed on the floor, he'd hear a whirring noise and the sound of something dripping, and he'd feel moisture that quickly dried to dust on his skin as the Leash Elite grabbed at his collar, and a bone like structure manifested from its lips, and it crunched down, shattering the area of the collar it had wrapped its jaws around. The bone fell from their mouth and disintegrated to dust, abandoned as the jaw locked closed again and it stepped back. "We must leave... To the bioship! To the bioship!"

The foxes stared at Kay, and then spoke, "Inari requested that we help free you. We must go to the bioship... To the bioship! To the bioship!" They repeated in unison.

They tried talking with Mourn but soon realized how hopeless that was. Without a sign of emotion they only motioned for him to follow.


The foxes would try to help guide Thalia despite the blindness, whispering directions, "To your left!... Left!..."

Corvus would also be guided but the Leash Elite seemed to stare at the collar expectantly.

The foxes tried to get Skye's attention with a bark sound, before they spoke, "We must leave, we must leave."

The foxes easily dodged Shane, the Leash Elite not opening his mouth as the others spoke. "We are here to help you. Escape! Escape!"

The foxes also barked at Moone, trying to get her attention and repeated the same they had to her sister: "We must leave, we must leave."

The lead Leash Elite went into a defensive crouch and dodged back but prepared itself to fight for its life if need be. The others echoed, "We're not here to fight! Quickly, you must escape!..."

Thaila grunted as he listened to the voices, his legs aching as he had really no clue what was going on.

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Corvus grunted as he tried to remove it, only to feel this painful tinge through out his body. The last two weeks were oddly for him lacking of torment, only to be force fed some type of odd gruel..but now he painfully realize why. "D-damnit.." He coughed, holding his stomach as the Keeper's own plan to torment corvus and heny at once went into action.

Matt stared at the fox for a moment, hands feeling his freed neck. He got to his feet, shaking a little but nodding. "Thalia..." He broke into a run, driven by one thing and one thing only. Find Thalia, find him and make sure he's okay. Hurt anyone who tries to stop us.

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Kay nodded and followed, hesitating as they joined the other "traitors". Seeing Asher, Kay felt a stab of pain in his chest and couldn't quite bring himself to look the android in the eyes.

Mourn bounded after the foxes and into the rest of that small group, grinning ear to ear. "Foxes free you too? Where we going?"

Ellie followed, confused, but willing to take orders from the weird fox creatures for now. "What are you?"

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Asher nodded, utterly baffled, and went with the foxes toward Vestia, joining the other traitors. He looked at Kay for a moment, relieved to see he was alive and relatively unhurt, then looked away, not daring to make eye contact. Oh, this was going to be awful.

Skye flinched at the sudden sound of a bark. Dogs were something to be freared if they caught you when you couldn't fly away. Slowly she raised her head and looked to the foxes, frowing in curiosity when she could focus on them. "Leave?" She asked then tried to stand to follow them.

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"You killed an innocent child, yet you want me to believe you want to help us now?" Shane growled, turning to follow the foxes moves. They could lead him just by having him follow.

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Moone blinked then raised a hand to the collar at her neck "It hurts to leave." She said slowly.

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Starr growled and snapped at the elite, trying to get to it. "You don't want to fight, unless it is an innocent child? Too bad." She growled out. She was not fully herself anymore, still expecting to get shocked at any moment

Thalia was led to Heny, Inari and the ship, where they waited. As Corvus's manic form finally took hold, the foxes stepped back in fright as his newfound energy presence pulsed through the ship, and immediately, Quinn and Vanessa swayed in their step, leaning against the walls and holding their mouths as they caught up to the group. Inari's Guardian carrying Merith paused, looking strained, before walking again. He too, caught up to the group gathering as they headed together to the ship. Many if the foxes looked up at Merith and whispered, "Our king, our king..." but said nothing else as the unholy aura of the Corrupted Blood, much like Merith's Blade, echoed through the chambers.

The foxes all began leading the group to Vestia.


The foxes nodded to Skye, motioning her to follow. "To the bioship, to the bioship..."

The Elite looked at Moone before stepping forward and dipping her head, "I may remove it." He oddly spoke alone this time.

The ones dodging Shane did just that, using his angry attacks to lead him to Vestia.

The Elite fighting Starr, meanwhile, gracefully bounced back again, trying to do the same as the ones with Shane.

Skye shakily followed the foxes, glancing around and using the wall to stay upright. "Where is my sister? I cannot leave without Moone." She said then looked back to the foxes around her.

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Moone simply let her hand drop, watchimg and waiting for the collar to be removed. Not that she could move much on her own anyway.

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Shane didn't notice being led as he followed the foxes. He did pause and stand in place, blinking at the rest when they reached Vestia and the group. He momentarily forgot the foxes, just glad to see the group before he headed for them. He didn't understand what was going on now.

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Starr followed for a little while before stopping to claw at the collar around her neck. She so wanted access to her magic again to truly fight these foxes.

Matt ran, the foxes leading him to Vestia. Any mooks who tried to stop him didn't last long.

The first group of three he encountered he paused, tilted his head and smiled horribly, sharp teeth bared. He raised both hands and they rapidly realized he didn't have a shock collar on. One started to back away, the other two opened fire with their stun guns but Matt ran at them, screaming as his parched water elemental sought out any source of water it could find, literally wrenching the molecules from the guard's bodies. The two shooting fell, desiccated, their blood little more than dust in their veins.
That nasty gleam was back in Matt's eyes as he rounded on the third guard. They stared up at him in terror, begging for mercy but Matt had none to give. He reached out, tearing the water from this guard too.

Now he felt a little better. He stepped over the final corpse and kept moving. Find Thalia, find Thalia...

He seemed oblivious to anything else. Anyone who got in his way was either frozen or impaled with ice spears as he moved, an engine of complete destruction leaving a wake of corpses in his path.
A few did manage to shoot him, he'd gotten so used to being electrocuted though he barely reacted. He'd just pick himself up and keep moving.

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Kay followed after the foxes, Mourn trailing close behind.
The cyborg looked back at Asher and tilted his head.
"Robot still on our side?" he asked.

Ellie stayed behind Matt, cheering him on until they reached Vestia. She was very glad that he was one of the good guys; he was kind of scary like this.

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"I'm not on the Family's side," Asher said tiredly, "Although I may need to let you look at my brain to convince anybody of that."

Mourn nodded. "Robot scary without laws." He smiled lopsidedly. "He mad?" He pointed at Kay who paused, took a deep breath and glared back at them both. They realized he could hear them right?

Mourn shrugged. "Still mad, yes." He decided.

"This can wait till we're back on the ship" Kay snapped, startling himself as the necklace spoke for him. Damn this thing.

Mourn was oblivious of course.
He grinned at Shane. "Dragon!"

Asher looked at Kay in amazement, noting his lips didn't move as he spoke, then ducked his head and stayed quiet. Yeah, he was going to try and not anger Kay any more than he already had, if he could help it.

Corvus let out a deep, feral growl as all he felt was hunger. He body mass changed in shape, becoming more demonic as he started to stalk for his food, a hunger tearing at him. He followed the riches smell of magics, nearly drooling at the though.

Heny grasped her hearts, gasping as she felt the connection shatter, "N-no...no!" She screamed, shaking her head trying to deny what she felt. "H-he can't..they wouldn't..."

Thaila could hear and once more mentally sense them but couldnt really see to figure who was all there, "M-matt..?"

The foxes nodded to Skye, "Everyone on the bioship is coming."

The Elite jumped up onto a nearby table and suddenly opened his jaw, the liquefied bone material dripping out a bit and turning into dust as he latched himself around the band and crunched down, destroying it.

The LEash Elite hesitated as it stared at Starr for only a moment before lashing forward and releasing his jaw as well, latching on her collar and crunching downwards.

Matt, with Ellie trailing behind and completely unnoticed by him, reached Vestia and pretty much ran to pick Thalia up off his feet and hold him close, really not wanting to let him go.. at all.. ever.
"Oh gods... " Yeah Thalia was a mess, and Matt had been forced to watch him die over and over. He clung to him, tears streaming down his face.

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Kay scowled at Asher, but really he was more annoyed at this necklace than Asher's reaction. He grit his teeth, nodded to shane and indicated they should GO before guards came.

Mourn scurried ahead to scout for any guards, he was kinda itching to maim someone.