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Getting inside with Rose, Dev waited for her to get off of his back and shifted to his human form without looking at her, not caring that he wasn't wearing a stitch at the moment, "Stick with me. We'll get to Cain, but Snow needs to be the first that we find. She knows this place like no one else and needs our help first," he said softly, "After that, you can let loose all you want, little mage," he added with a feral grin then shifted back to his tiger form. Well, one of them. This one wasn't one of Snow's favorites but the black fur and dark gray stripes would help him blend in better in here. He waited another moment then started to move down one of the hallways, following the pull of his blood that Snow had taken from him.

Wind and Anube moved silently down a different path, following the scent of Blade. Both of them had themselves open to their connection to her; Wind through the unique twin-bond, Anube through the Mark that bound them as Mates.

Desha knew the moment that the ghoul moved off and pulled the energy back into himself, having a feeling he'd need as much of it as he could get before this was over. When it was clear, he accepted Andy's help to get inside the compound with Michael on his other side.

Strangely enough, he actually felt a bit dwarfed by them both. Not that they were that much taller than he was, but they were both certainly more muscular than his athletically lean build. Though Michael was the more muscular of the two, he found that he liked Andy's ready smiles and calm support more than Michael's stoic battle-readiness.

"We should follow Wind and Anube. Dev and Rose are headed for Snow. They can both take care of her easily. Dev will be her blood donor and Rose, as a blood mage, can help him supply enough blood to her to heal any wounds she'll have by now. But I have to get to Blade before she looses the twins," he said softly, "Dancer will be able to take care of Ora if we can get them free, but Blade won't be in a state of mind to do much of anything besides kill if we don't get down there quickly," he added, keeping his voice soft so that he didn't alert any of the ghouls to their presence just yet.

His voice was now starting to show his worry over those three. But he really couldn't help it by now. Ora was so innocent and sweet. Blade was so new to the idea of being a mother. He'd watched both of them grow up, had seen Blade and Wind born. And Dancer... Dancer was his son...

He started them down the likely path that would lead to the cells Kula kept in the deepest part of the compound, but they had to stop and pull into a side tunnel as a group of ghouls headed up to the surface, several of them covered in blood that smelled suspiciously like Snow's. He would have headed in the direction they'd come from if it hadn't been for Andy's hand on his arm preventing him from doing so, making him fight his instincts as a healer to follow through with the plan...

Once the ghouls were gone, Desha let out a soft breath before looking at Andy, "Thank you for that... Sometimes it gets hard to..." he shook his head, not sure how to explain his instincts.

"Come on. We'd better catch up to the others," he said instead and let Michael take the lead, knowing full well that the vampire's nose was probably better than his own.

He held his peace as they followed after Wind and Anube through the tunnels, soon catching up to them. But there was a problem with continuing...

A very large group of ghouls, easily twenty in number, possibly more. And all standing in the next intersection of tunnels.

Wind was shifting impatiently, able to feel that Blade was in trouble and needed them there sooner rather than later. Kula's extra dose of smoke was making her start to cramp, the first signs of miscarriage. He shifted to his human form, his clothes coming with him thankfully, his knee-length dark brown hair spread out around him, "We have got to get past them. Blade's in trouble..." he said very softly, his face showing both his anger over what was being done to his sister and his worry over the babes she carried. Of course, it wasn't helping that he was also getting an echo of his twin's rage...

Desha reached out and put a hand on the younger male's shoulder then did the same for Anube, knowing that the demon was probably getting the full force of Blade's situation through the Mating Mark he bore. He didn't say anything, just looked at Andy and Michael helplessly as he struggled to think of a way to get past the ghouls without alerting Kula to their presence just yet.

He finally got an idea but bit his lip as he considered the ghouls, knowing that the potential solution was something that would drain his energies a great deal. But he couldn't think of anything else to do...

Dev lead the woman through the tunnels, his large feet silent and stealthy. He knew that Rose was close to losing control, knew that he needed to get to Snow before that happened...

They moved down the empty tunnel for a long while, only pausing when a group of ghouls moved through towards the surface, two of them splattered with Snow's blood. But Dev held onto his control, snarling silently until they were past them then continuing to lead Rose down the tunnel, knowing that they were heading the right way.

They rounded a corner and came face to face with three ghouls guarding the room Snow was in. Dev didn't bother to pause, he simply attacked one of the ghouls, knowing that Rose could handle the other two easily. He silently ripped the head off of his ghoul, managing to splatter himself liberally with it's blood in the process.

The things may have no longer been alive, but they weren't exactly dead either. And they had blood flowing through them that Rose could manipulate.

So he left her to the other two and headed inside the next room, giving a feral snarl at the sight of what had been done to Snow. He shifted to his human form and started pulling the stakes from her body, "Rose! Get in here!" he called out sharply, his anger over Snow's condition hot enough that he'd done a partial shift. He was now half human and half white and silver tiger and growling enough that what creatures Kula had in here were cowering away from him.

The brothers looked at each other as they have dealt with these ghouls once before and they remember them not being very smart and always looking for a good meal to fight over.

They nodded to each other, Andy put a soft hand on Desha shoulder letting him know they have a plan and sit tight a moment. Michael looked around in the dark with his vampire eyes and then in a flash he was gone not making one sound.

Andy fallowed his brother movements easily watching him catch rats that roamed around the tunnels, silently breaking there necks and wrapping them all up in a bundle for the ghouls to snack and fight over. Once he cut most of them have there blood fresh to the room. He moved quickly and quietly to one of the tunnels that they did not need to go down too and threw the bundle of rats down the tunnel and disappeared without being seen as he returned to his brothers side. The brothers smile as the noise of the rats being thrown down the tunnel got all there attention and they all moved quickly down the tunnel, about a min later you could hear them fighting over the rats.

Andy pats Desha's shoulder and nods to him, "Alright, lets move before they come back." Andy whispered softly to them.

The brothers joined the group out of hiding seeing them get to the important ones first, as Wind turned to them saying he can't open them, they smirk at him as they knew just what to do, the cages might be covered in magic but it didn't keep them to use there strength as that didn't affect them before.

The brothers go over to the one called Cain's cage and they both grab the bars of the door of the cage, they looked at each other seeing there strength work as one as in one hard tug they ripped the door open letting Wind to deal with Cain's chains as they moved over to Ash's cage.

The brothers look at him and then stop looking at each other a smirk grows on there lips, they could smell him as the Incubus that there lovely niece has been around with. They couldn't help themselves to this opportunity as they looked back at Ash looking him over in that amazing gold outfit of his. "I do have to say brother our little niece has very good taste in men. Don't you agree?" Michael says to Andy as they move to the door of Ash's cage and take a hold of the door, "Your quite right dear brother, I can see why Valick is very jealous now." Andy said playfully back as in one hard tug they ripped open his door.

Cain held out his hands to Wind wordlessly, letting the Demonicus male melt the chains from him before looking at him very seriously, "Where's Rose?" he asked simply, giving a nod when the male explained that she was with Dev getting Snow. Then he turned his attention to getting the chains off of Dancer and Ora, giving the girl a reassuring kiss on her cheek. Like Dancer, he'd grown up with Ora as a younger sister. He might have been older than Dancer by two decades, but he'd been just as close to her and her grandparents as Desha and Dancer had been.

Wind moved then to get rid of Blade's chains while Desha continued to work at healing her then turned to Ash just as the brothers got his cell open.

But Ash shook his head at Wind and grinned at the brothers as he held up his hands, the chains simply dropping from him since he'd picked the locks the moment he'd woken up. He probably looked a bit rumpled, but he was still sexy as hell and knew it, "Well, of course she has good taste... Have you ever tasted her cooking?" he teased the brothers with a wink then blew them both a kiss as he headed for the door, "Thanks for the out boys. I'd love to stay and chat, but I've got a female to kill... You two look after the others and get them out safely and I'll join you when I'm finished..." he told them before turning to meet Blade's rage-filled eyes and winked at her, "Don't worry Sweetheart... She'll beg for me to kill her, I promise you..." he told her simply then left them all behind as he slipped through the halls after Kula.

Once Dancer had his hands free, he raised Ora's chin with one hand so that she met his eyes and gave her a reassuring smile, "The woman who was screaming is getting taken care of right now, I promise you... Now I know you're scared, Sweet, but I need you to trust me now... Just like when I helped you to shift before... Only this time, I'll make all the scary go away... Then we can all go home..." he said softly to her, easily feeling it when she dropped her mental barriers to him. His mind slipped into hers easily, dulling the memories of what had happened to her, soothing her fears and putting her into a light trance. That trance would help them get her out of here without any more fright, enabling her to shift to her smaller fox form so that they would be able to get her out easier. While he was in there, he also made sure that she wouldn't have any nightmares from the experience.

What he did left him stumbling as he stood up, grabbing at the bars of Ora's cell to keep himself upright as Ora's small fox snuggled into his hair on his shoulders, looking more like a fur collar than an actual fox.

Desha spoke up from where he was healing Blade, actually struggling to keep her from miscarrying the twins she carried, "Michael, see to Dancer. He'll be weak after that and will need all the help he can get," he said soothingly then frowned as he attempted to soothe the twins, "Anube, if you don't get her to calm down she's going to lose the babes. You're the dominant in the relationship. Use it!" he ordered the demon male sharply as the green glow surrounding his hands intensified.

Dev felt relief when Rose came in and started to use her abilities on him to help him produce more blood, her magic making his veins feel like they were burning but accepted the pain. He held Snow to his neck as she healed, already able to feel her burns healing against his skin. He knew she'd bear a few more scars, but they'd be faint this time.

When she finally pulled away from him and Rose pulled her magic away, he went dizzy for a moment but his rage over what had been done to Snow soon returned and cured that. He put one hand to Snow's cheek and gave her his wickedly teasing smile, "There now... that's better... You'll have to wait for clothes, my cold beauty, 'cause we have to meet up with the others now before Kula gets here. Besides, I think if we don't get Rose to Cain soon, she's going to go ballistic..." he said simply and helped her off of the table, taking her hand in his as he lead her and Rose to the doorway. They slipped out and down a side tunnel right before Kula headed down the tunnel from the opposite direction with Ash not that far behind her.

He passed both women a feral grin, "Ash can take care of her. Snow, lead us to the cells," he said simply, using a hand to guide Rose without being obvious about it. Luckily, it didn't take them long to get there with Snow leading them and Cain headed straight for Rose, folding his arms around her with a wordless relieved sound then kissing the daylights out of her.

Meanwhile, Ash followed Kula into the room where she'd held Snow and grinned when he heard her angry scream, "You should have known better, Sweetheart... Now about my earlier offer... Since I've gone through so much to get to you, would you dare deny me now?" he purred to her as he shifted to his fully demonic Incubus form, knowing she wouldn't be able to resist him like that as he walked towards her and wrapped his arms around her, his mouth hovering over hers teasingly, "Should we start with a kiss?" he whispered to her, his voice pure seduction.

Snow hasted for she knew right now she need blood badly and could end up draining him and she did not want that. She did want to live for she wanted to be with him but she did not want to drain him. Opening her sore lips her fangs grow large as she bite down on his neck and started to drink his blood. She whimpered for it tasted good and the blood on her lips healed them but she was still worried about him. The first things on her to heal besides her lips were the holes in her wrist and ankles before going to her skin.

Rosabel Marcellus

After they passed the first two ghouls, Rose loosened her knife in its scabbard, and shook about a pinch of the bone meal she had brought with her into her left hand. While they continued to walk, she opened up that small cut on her left thumb and worked it into a thick paste. If her gut was right, she should be able to reprogram a ghoul if she managed to smear it on the roof of their mouth with the right word. Their forehead would be easier, but that would be a bit too obvious…

Rose drew her knife as they neared the ghouls guarding the room Snow was assumedly in, judging by Dev’s decision to simply rip off the head of one and charge in. One immediately lunged at her, mouth first. Without a single shred of hesitation, Rose stuck her fingers as far into its mouth as they would go and deposited the paste. Her magic held its mouth open for an instant, but withdrew once her fingers were safe from its teeth. She slammed her palm into forehead and muttered Succedo! (Submit!) The ghoul went limp, and slumped to the floor on its knees. Well that worked for her. She was about to the the same for the other one, but Dev’s yell, she simply slashed it’s throat to the vertebrae. A move which resulted in her being splatted in it’s slightly congealed blood. Eh. She’d been covered in worse. Seemingly of it’s own accord, her experiment partially uncoiled itself to assimilate all of the viable blood splattered onto her. There wasn't much, blood doesn’t stay fresh for too terribly long.

Rose entered the room just in time to see Dev cut through the thread on Snow’s lips and then Snow drinking, and healing as the blood flowed into her. There was no way Dev had enough blood in him to completely heal her, at his prompting, Rose stimulated his red bone marrow, with a warning that this could potentially give him leukemia. Although it was unlikely, it never hurt to give a warning.

When Snow was able to stand, Rose wordlessly stuffed her salt-shaker of bone marrow and compact into her bodice, took off her splatted blazer and put it on Snow. A small smile finally broke through the expressionless mask Rose had been wearing.

When Snow led them to where the others were at, Rose discreetly snapped her fingers at the still-kneeling ghoul. It obediently stood up and followed her about five steps behind them, a new, smaller and simplified mark the shape of a certain tattoo blooming in the center of it's forehead. Rose decided to name him "Morty", he might be useful later.

The moment she saw Cain, the rampant magic around her quieted and she let herself be wrapped up in his kiss. Eventually she remembered that there were other people around, and eased the kiss to a stop. Rose turned away from him for a moment to say to the others By the way, the ghoul over there with the fancy dolie on it's face is mine. Please don't kill him, he's my first try at anything relating to necromancy, and he shouldn't bite unless I say so for now on. Then she turned back to Cain and continued to kiss him.

There were not enough words to describe her relief right now.