HellBent's POV*
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I was minding my own business on my day off, standing out on the balcony while smoking my cigarette and puffing out clouds of smoke in between drags. I haven't been one to be nosy in other people's business, well technically that's a lie since I am pretty nosy in other people's business, but not my friends' business. But I couldn't help but notice that there was a lack of D.M.B's presence being around on the set lately. Speaking of which, everyone is out of the house except for me and D.M.B.

I thought about it for a moment before deciding that I might stop by his room, just to check up on how he's doing since I hardly talk to him. I walked down the hall towards where our individual rooms were, stopping in front of his door that had the tag: "D.M.B" written on the door in bold text. I reluctantly reached up to knock on the door. "Hey D.M.B, I was wondering if you'd wanna grab a snack and hang out?" I called through the door, hoping for a response.

"No thank you. I'm working on a project at the moment..." He declined. "Okay, but come down in a bit and join if you want, I think it'd be good for you to get out once and awhile." I shrugged, thinking nothing of it as I went downstairs for something edible from the fridge. I dug around until I found a sandwich sitting on a plate that had a tooth pick sticking out of it with a sign that said: "Pringle's Sandwich, do not touch!"

"Sorry P.T.O, I don't follow your rules." I rolled my eyes at the sign, grabbing the plate anyways and making my way back upstairs towards my room, munching on the sandwich as I slowly climbed the stairs.

But as I got to the top, I felt a chill run down my spine that made my tail twitch. I felt an eerie and unsettling feeling wash over me, making me shiver a little at the feeling suddenly plaguing me. "Sh-Shit, w-why is it s-so d-damn c-c-cold all of the s-sudden?" I growled as my teeth chattered, wrapping my free arm around myself to try and conserve my body heat. "Damn it D.M.B, if you're messing with the heater again for one of your stupid pranks again, turn it back on! You know how easily I get cold!" I groaned, feeling annoyed as my whole lower half felt numb.

"G-Goddamnit! It's s-so c-cold, I can barely feel my limbs anymore! Much less my own ass!!" I growled, stomping my way down the hall to D.M.B's room. But I stop immediately, feeling frozen in place as I saw the walls around his door gradually turning black before my eyes. "D.M.B?! What the hell is going on here!?" I yelled, panic striking me as I saw the walls even starting to crack as if pressure was being applied to them.

The black colouration immediately was retracted back into his room and D.M.B opened his door and faced me. Instantly I noticed that one of his eyes was a solid black, and streaks of the same black colour on the walls covered his arms. "Sorry about that, I told you I'm working on a project. I guess it got a little too far out." He said a little too casually for my liking. "W-what happened to you...!? This is what you've b-been doing!? This.... This is c-crazy!!" Out of instinct, I took a shaky step back, my pupils shrinking in fear and worry.

"What? This? This is nothing... It's just a little bit of black magic...don't worry about it..." The streaks of black disappeared into his arms, but his eye was still pitch black. I was at a loss for words. "Dark...Magic? Don't worry about it...? Don't worry about it!? Aren't you concerned that this might seriously hurt you or someone else, or even possibly cause death!? Please don't tell me you've got some weird shrine in there too!!" The fear coursing through my veins was overpowering and I took a few more steps away till my back hit the wall. "I have a pentagram on the floor and I'm reading a book about demons..." He then looked over at me as I stood terrified and frozen with fear against the opposite hallway wall, a sickening grin now appearing on his face. "Reading a book about demons...."

"Y-you have f-fun w-with that? If y-you would excuse me, I-I'm f-feeling a b-bit parched so I'm gonna go get a glass of water..." I said as I eyed him carefully, watching his every move as I backed down the hallway. D.M.B then swiftly brought out a book and made a gesture with his hands as dark aura suddenly surrounded me, I then saw D.M.B smiling proudly. "What the h-hell D.M.B!? C-cut it out!! Why are you doing this!? Why me!" I yelled, my eyes full of fear as I flailed my arms, my tail flicking around in a panic.

"I'm not going to hurt you...at least, I THINK I'm not going to.....and you're the only demon within the range of Planet Dolan...and you would make a great subject~" D.M.B sang as the dark aura that encased me started to tighten around me, watching as he did nothing to stop it. Soon I started to struggle to breathe as I began to feel lightheaded from the lack of oxygen. "Stop this D.M.B!! I'm not the real demon here, you are!! You're sick, stop it!!" He rolled his eyes at this and the aura loosened around me, allowing air to flow into my lungs easier. "Being rude will get you no where Bent....and you are a demon! A reformed demon! Which is why I need you for a project!" D.M.B smiled, his other eye now turning a solid black as well.

      I was at a loss for words, feeling confused, worried, and even scared, for once fearing the worst to become of me. I wanted to disappear, or at least be anywhere but here right now. D.M.B had smirked. "Aww, what's the matter Bent? Scared of someone as scrawny and weak as I am? Wow, you're more pathetic than my brother...but you seem to care for him more than me, don't you?" D.M.B chuckled at him mentioning his brother, but I was now pissed off as I narrowed my eyes to glare at him. "I am not pathetic!!" I snapped as I now thrashed around to try and break free from the aura that was trapping me.

    "Then why are you acting so scared of me? I'm not that scary, am I?" He looked up at me as I struggled. "How oblivious are you D.M.B!? It's because of this dark magic or whatever you call it! I know what you can do with this, I can be killed in an instance!!!!" I continued to try and claw my way out of the aura trapping me, but I made no progress and just wore myself out. "I already told you that you shouldn't get hurt in this....but if you keep wasting energy like this, you are going to hurt yourself for what I plan to do to you. I'm going to be doing this without raising suspicion, so I'll only be doing research until I can find another tamed demon to experiment on..." He said as he drew out his book again.

"Oh fuck no!" I stop to yell after taking one look at the book in his hands. "What could you possibly do to stop me?" He smirked. "Well go for it, you're all talk!" I glared at him as I went silent and crossed my arms, my tail flicking around as I was feeling annoyed. "I'll take that as permission to go farther than planned~" D.M.B started mumbling something under his breath that soon made white streaks come out of the book in his hands and into the aura surrounding me.

I had no idea what I had gotten myself into, but I knew it just went from bad to worse.