EP.62|Let’s Go Save Our Loved Ones

It had been just more than a day and the VK’s time was slowly dwindling down. The man had just gone to get the scraps he would serve and cruelly called dinner, so the VK’s were locked away in utter darkness, the only sound coming from the vacuum like hum of the machines and the occasional groans coming from their parched throats.

“Operetta…” Mal groans from the other side of the wall, becoming worried as Operetta had been unconscious for more than an hour.

A strong blow to the head taking her out almost immediately. CJ looks over to Mal with a sad look.

“She's out cold, breathing, but she's gonna be out for awhile,” she says quietly, silently praying to the gods that she wouldn't suffer any permanent damage from getting hit so hard.

Mal nods, understanding that she would just have to wait it out and hope for the best. She hated the fact she couldn't do anything. It made her physically ill.

“What about Zeref?” she asks as she tries to look around. Zeref, farthest away from her compared to the others.

CJ’s face immediately turns dark. “I'm not actually sure. The poor boys getting his magic drained faster than all of us, along with Jasper. If anything, he's breathing so shallow that it's barely noticeable, But he wouldn't let him die...he needs us.., I mean at least until the others get here.”

CJ whispers as tears of pain and worries stream down her quietly worries if they would even be coming.

Knowing that if she voiced this fear that she wouldn't be helping anybody she kept it locked away in her tears. She looks over at Zeref, Jasper and the girls before her eyes snap to a heavily locked door, the man walking through with a bowl of scraps.

“Mmm, I've got dinner for you, little ones,” he purrs as he pushes a piece of hair away from CJ’s face. She wrenches her face away, unable to look into the face of such a monster.

"How dare you touch me!?" she snaps, her anger finally getting the best of her. "You coward! you weren't able to take us on without even putting us asleep, you haven't even told us your name" she hisses, her eyes shooting daggers at him

"I want to know you name before you're too dead to speak," she says with a growl that could rival Carlo’s. The man chuckles, finding her spunk amusing.

“Well, I’m sure you all know me. But if you must know.” The man then took off the hood to reveal none other than.

Milton. Grimm.

“You!” Mal yelled. “Hello to you too princess.” Milton smirked, grabbing Mal’s hair. “How dare you kidnap us! If I weren’t getting my magi drained, I would-” Mal was cut off mid rant.

“You’d what? Beat me up? Kill me? Rip me limb from limb? I’d like to see you try.” Milton cackled as Mal stood up, her body wobbling. Milton kicked Mal back down, causing her to growl.

“You’re so dead.” CJ chuckled making Milton snap his head towards her.

“Excuse me?” Milton growled. “Once Ben gets one look at you and see what you did to Mal, he’s gonna kill you. Do you have any idea how much this girl means to him?!”

“And to make matters worse, for you that is, it’s full moon season. Ben and Carlos are extra edgy this time of year. So messing with them, especially Ben this close to the wedding, is like setting off a ticking time bomb. So, unless you wanna die soon, I’d advise you to let us go.” CJ tugged on the chains that kept her bounded to the all.

“You don't think I know that? You don't think I know it’s Full Moon season? You don't think I know what pushes Ben’s buttons? You don't think I know that this girl means to him?! This girl is like a jewel to him, the one thing out of the entire world he can’t live without.”

“Do you know what having their mate taken away from them dose to an animalistic psyche?!” CJ stood quiet.

“Oh course you don't, their mind it breaks it makes them go crazy, they feel like they failed at life. Losing his wife, and Queen, he’s feeling that but double. Oh woe is me, I don't have my Mal.” Milton mocked.

He chuckles darkly before shoving a scrap of “food” into her mouth, moving on and doing the same to Mal, who decided it would be wiser to stay quiet and try to think of a plan to get out of this situation in one piece.

When he gets over to Operetta, Zeref, and Jasper he grabs their heads and slams them together, causing them to rouse from their sleep and making girls to gasp.

“Come on come on, I can't let you guys starve now can I...well, not yet” he says with a snicker as he shoves more of the scraps down their throats.

Reaching over to Jasper’s machine and turning it back to normal so that he would be back on track with the rest of them.

It would just be too much work to try and put him on any sort of life support before he took any Crystal magi from him and his little girlfriend.

He walks back over to CJ who once again had tears streaming down her cheeks.

He runs the back of his hand along the side of her face bringing it down towards her chest slowly causing her to squeeze her eyes shut.

“DON'T TOUCH HER LIKE THAT!” Mal yells, only being able to tolerate so much. “And just who do you think you're talking to huh?” he asks as he walks up to Mal with an evil smirk.

His hand slowly traces up the curves of her body before stopping at her breasts.

“And to think being in a magazine wouldn't pay off.” he teased as he traced his hot tongue over her collarbone and down in between her cleavage.

“N-No.. please stop it!” Mal groans, struggling to move even an inch away from Milton. “Stop?” he asks amusedly.

“Oh you poor, naive little thing. We haven't even begun yet...you'll all see what I mean eventually, whether its pain or pleasure. I will get my fill.” he growls.

“Carlos..Hunter...Ben...Evie…” Freddie mumbles as she shakes the boys, and Evie, the train ride incapacitating them all.

"Mm. whaddya want, kid," Hunter groans, knowing that Freddie knew better than to wake him up for stupid reasons.

"We're here, come on we can't waste any time!" Freddie says as she picks up her bag and rushes out of her seat, grabbing Carlos’s scarf and Ben’s coat in the process, not seeing the need to grab Hunter since he was already in tow.

“I think she's spending too much time with Mal…” Evie mumbles in a low tone as he watches Ben’s quick nod.

“We're going to the West forest, correct? Doesn't that take a day to reach, minimum?" Ben asks with a knowing tone, bumping into Freddie as she freezes in her tracks.

“It would if I couldn't find out exactly where they were. The guy only gave us a number of steps to follow, but their scent is still in the air so now I can track them even easier.

“That don't help with the fact that it'll take a day to get into that damned forest.” Hunter grumbles a specific red haired ice release magi user on his mind.

“Actually I think I can help with that,” Evie says with a smirk. “I can teleport, but I'll tell you right now that it'll make you sicker than the train ride, hell it might even make Freddie sick,” she says with a shrug.

“I didn't care if we get sick. I need to get to CJ,” Carlos says, surprising everyone, usually he’s the first person to turn down any other mode of transportation other than walking.

“Let's go then,” Evie says. “Link arms and down let go no matter what, you'll turn into crystal if you do and take my word for it. It hurts like a butt cheek on a stick.” Evie frowns, her eyebrows furrowing with what looks like a painful memory.

They all nod, quickly linking arms and staying close. Evie closes her eyes and her hair stands up on end. “Let's go save our mates,” she says with a smirk as everything around them starts to crystalize.