Relentless

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"she'll have to sleep some time" He said quietly, rotating his neck which resulted in a series of clicks and cracks, sounding as if he had just woken up, but of course he had been awake since they got back in to the car "however, maybe I should sit back there with her to keep her awake?"

[Xiomara]

Somewhere in the distance she hears Erebus yelling for her to wake up, and when she turned she standing in the foyer of her old home. Her father is waiting right before her, he holds his palm out even though there is nothing on it. Then he slaps her hard across the face and grabs her shoulder, shaking and shaking and screaming at her. Her hair is flying and she’s started to cry. Xio hasn’t given up. She fights back and charges forward, slamming him into the wall against the staircase. There’s a ceramic pitcher on the dresser beside them. She smashes it against the side of his head, making him roar and let go. Xiomara runs for the door, her legs so small they can barely carry her the distance. Elias tackles Xiomara and has her by the back of the legs. She’s fallen onto the floor of the foyer.

Her mother comes out of the kitchen holding the knife. Xiomara is face down on the floor, terrified but not nearly scared enough. “EREBUS! EREBUS WAKE ME UP!” As Xiomara continues to struggle to escape, not just from Elias’s grip, but from everything in this stifling house, from this life like a weight around her shoulder, dragging her down and planting her in the dirt, her mother bends over her with a kitchen knife and nothing but anger in her eyes. “You killed Kabeiros out of jealousy, consumed his tiny body and his soul… Now you will know what it is to die.” Stupid anger, baseless anger, and then the blade is at her throat, dragging across skin and opening a deep red line. Too deep mama, too deep! are the wild thoughts screaming through Xiomara’s head as she screams until she can’t scream anymore, her blood pooling on the floor.

Back inside the car there is a thin red line manifesting on Xiomara’s neck, throughout the nightmare she begins to jerk as if having a seizure but now she is lying far too still and her breath is coming slower and slower by the second. If Erebus doesn’t wake her up soon, there will be no chance of reviving her at all.

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Shaking her hard nothing happened, at least not until the cut passed across her throat. Shoving his hand up and over it he held back any blood that tried to get out. “Xiomara!” he was screaming at her now knowing just how bad this was going to get before he would be able to get her out.
Letting go of her he moved out of the car and round to the back, opening the door he caught Xiomara up in his arms, lying her down gently.
“Daton hold her neck don't let it bleed any more” he said urgently as he now stepped back away from the two of them.

There was only one thing he could think of doing and in any other situation he would not be stupid enough to try it, not in his wildest dreams but he had no choice.
Turning his back to the two of them the essence of him formed in a black flame upon his chest, Xio had seen some of it before but he was about to use all of it which would actually kill his body, should he return to late to it the damage as with a human deprived with oxygen would be to much.

Growling against his own will he forces it out of him, his body falling face down upon the floor, the flame balling up so it could easily be inhaled by Xiomara.
Once in her body it soon found her mind, planting Erebus within it now able to search her out with his own eyes.
“Xiomara!?”

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As Daton didn't have any cloth on him he ended up using his hands... really hoping there were no passers by because it would look like he was strangling someone, not the best thing for someone to see. "I hope this gets resolved quickly, we don't need to be in the op.... and I'm talking to myself again" He muttered and would have rolled his eyes... if he had any.

[Xiomara]

Behind her she heard a thud, waiting in the darkness for the next set of tortures to begin had her rocking back and forth. Head lifted from being pressed against her knees and swallowing hard she calls back towards the familiar voice. Though her voice is raspy, the vocal chords ruined for the most part from the damage of the first nightmare. She wasn't sure which had been worst, dying or watching herself bleed to death, redness soaking down into the house and saturating her birthday dress.

The Xiomara in the nightmare couldn't have been more than 7 pr 8, though the grown woman was sitting in the middle of nowhere, slapped in the face with many things she wished not to remember. "Erebus? I'm over here!" This death world was unlike any other, she was not in her body but within the blade of her athame, and the way the acoustics worked her voice bounced off invisible dark walls. Of course this wasn't going to be easy.

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He ran to where he could hear her, he couldn't see her so he just stood infront of where the sound had come from, he would stop anything that wanted to get past him. Voodoo freak or not, flames rocketed from him in a threatening display the black flames where his eyes should be, two blade of fire sprouting from his hands.
"Xio how the fuck do we get out of here?"
He wasnt sure if he caused damage it would physically hurt her.

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"while both of you can't talk, you are both gonna behave form now on and not nearly die, yes?" He muttered, mainly talking to himself at this point, but after a few moments he had an idea, using a gift he rarely had cause to use, telepathy, and hopefully is all went well his slightly annoying voice would pop in to xio's head... trying to a calming influence, and otherwise annoy what else was in there.

[Xiomara]

The place where Erebus stands suddenly shifts, its a small bedroom and she's pressed into the corner, beside a dresser. Up just a little farther, one can see the white hem of her skirt, below her knees. Her feet start to move, taking short, shuffling strides towards him. She comes so close, just outside of his reach then closes the distance and stands before him. Her eyes are her own, the expression on her face is the same as it always has been. It's like she knows who Erebus is. Like she remembers. Shudders run through her, and she flickers, like an image from an old film strip.

Xiomara blinks. When she looks at Erebus again, her eyes are red with blood. A ripple of pain passes through her jaw as phantom cuts open and close across her chest, grotesque flowers of red blooming and disappearing down her arms. "G...get me out.... of here..." she screams, hoping Erebus can grab onto her before she disappears again. Through it all she could barely hear Daton's voice and she mentally latched onto it, tracing its path back out to the physical world and out of this hellhole. "Hurry Erebus..... he's coming!" Her eyes are wide and frightened and she's beginning to flicker again, the cut on her throat yawning at him each time her head jerks. A grotesque and twisted smile of jagged flesh.

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She moved right out infront of him asking him to save her, the image that projected before him made his body feel tense wanting to recoil away from what was happening he launched forward instead his promise ringing ever loud in his ears.
Grabbing onto the mess of a body he clung to it tightly his flames seeking her, he made sure they would not burn her flesh but only her's.
Wrapping her up in an imbrace of fire he started to look around frantically for a way out.
"Where do I go?" he shouted seeing nothing before him.

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His voice, which by this time sounded rather innocent, almost child like kept ringing out in this strange, hellish place, a much needed link between this place and the physical realm where Daton still was. Still keeping Xio's bleeding to a minimum while trying to keep Erebus warm and the three of them hidden... this was a major drain on his already wrecked mind, but he would continue till both were back with him.