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Post by Zeure on Feb 5, 2012 21:52:49 GMT -5
As the light began to fade from the creatures eyes entirely, Haruka felt something begin to pulse in her stomach. Something creeping across her. The thrum of the room moved in time to the clenching of her hands. She felt dizzy, but her determination kept her hands wrapped around the beast-mans throat. She was exultant, suddenly everything felt right; the joy could never be described to another.
Something in the corner of her eyes moved, but she was too involved with making sure this thing died to pay it any attention. Which is why the sudden grasp around her waist and the subsequent flinging of her body backwards against the wall took her completely by surprise. Something held her there against the wall. She banged her head and her vision blurred for a moment. But in the narrow glimpses that she could get while she was waiting on it to clear completely she saw Rashiru.
Rashiru had her hand outstretched and slightly clenched, as though she was holding something. As Haruka's vision cleared it would become clear to her that it was as if Rashiru was holding her in her hand, as though the invisible thing grasping her waist was a representation of her hand. And much to Haruka's surprise, Rashiru was still smiling at her.
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 6, 2012 3:02:27 GMT -5
Haruka, still in a flurry of a state shook her head slightly as she looked back at Rashiru. Her speed was undoubtedly unmatched and it seemed that even without the collar she was still just as trapped but now back under the horrid gaze of Rashiru. Allowing her muscles to relax, Haruka just simply waited to be released as she stared back into her captor. But she was confused.
"I slay one of your little guard pets and you don't slay me in return.. Why smile at me?"
There was some frustration, her blood still pumped eagerly as her weight rested against the invisible bind she was in. Needless to say she was starting to consider possible tactics when it came to Rashiru if she let her guard down for even a moment. Her hands were still throbbing after robbing the life of the beast-man. It was a terrible, but thrilling sensation.
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Post by Zeure on Feb 6, 2012 3:46:04 GMT -5
"Because, my dear; we have reached a milestone in your breaking. And because I can make more of them. I'm not worried about losing my pets. Especially not to you." She chuckled. That laugh was infuriating to Haruka no matter how many times she heard it.
The invisible bonds that Haruka felt wrapped around her drew her downward to the ground again. It forced her down to her knees. Rashiru raised her other hand up, the one that was not holding Haruka and used it to manipulate the collar back around her neck and sealed it shut. Locking her into place again.
"But with only one left that is not occupied guarding Yun to make sure that he does not escape, you do force my hand today. I had intended a different sort of torture for you this time but...well....the other will just have to do."
She called out into the hall for someone to come. And the other creature that regularly wrangled Haruka came into the room. Rashiru directed it to Haruka and it moved towards her. Haruka lashed out as she had done in the past, but this one seemed ready for it and grabbed her fist as it approached. Faster than she would have believed it to be capable it moved behind her and wrenched her arm that way. Then it grabbed the other arm and held her in place. Rashiru moved over to her and placed a hand on either side of her head.
"How much do you like being you?"
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 6, 2012 3:56:37 GMT -5
Knelt and forced into submission only aggravated Haruka all the more. Her anger didn't feel like she was being broken down, it didn't feel as controlled as Rashiru made it sound. It wasn't like this power wasn't there before, she'd only ever restrained it as bushido instructed.
Rashiru could feel Haruka trembling, her whole form echoed the emotional strength she was going through. The sheer force of it was actually ripping through her muscles and even while her little pet had a hold of Haruka there was still a considerable amount of focus and strain it had to endure to keep her that way.
Haruka tried to shift to look up when she answered her, but she was held in place. "What kind of question is that!?" Baring her teeth, the venom behind her words was overpowering every inhibition in her.
She blinked a few times, gasping at herself. She could see that even she was becoming out of control. A few drops of sweat from her earlier exertion reached Rashiru's hands, not affecting her grip though. Gaining some sense of control back Haruka rested her eyes to calm herself, or at least to attempt to.
"No... no. Rashiru-san, I don't understand what you mean. I can't be anything but who I am. Why do you ask that?"
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Post by Zeure on Feb 6, 2012 4:11:20 GMT -5
Rashiru smiled down on her. "Because, dove, I think that it's time I gave you an abject lesson on how powerful the shadowlands can be. How powerful a Maho-Tsukai can be. And you're going to take it and there is not a damned thing you can do about it, little girl."
Rashiru's fingers were digging into Haruka's temples, not enough to make it really painful, but there was a constant and undeniable pressure building up. And just when it seemed that there was no where else for the pressure to go Rashiru bit one of her fingers and made a sigil across Haruka's forehead. Suddenly, Haruka could not feel anything. The pressure was gone, the cold was gone, even the feeling of her knees on the ground was gone. The pain was gone. She felt empty.
Rashiru stood in front of her, and then she saw the beast-man move out from behind her. She wanted to strike at Rashiru since she had been so stupid as to leave herself unguarded. But when she began to form the thoughts that would make her body lash out...nothing happened. She didn't move at all.
"Stand up, Haruka-dear." And she did. Against her will and her wishes she stood up. Rashiru removed the collar from her and she just continued to stand there. "Haruka, follow me, I have a special treat for you and someone else..." Rashiru walked towards the door and Haruka followed her.
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 6, 2012 4:20:59 GMT -5
Haruka felt completely outraged, but baffled. One leg moved after the other as naturally and obediently as if she were following her lord in his home. Her eyes were able to see no differently but no matter how she tried to resist there was simply no shaking the urges that made her body walk compulsively, though her mind was her own.
So many questions flooded her mind but her lips would not so much as twitch to show an inch of protest. As her lack of control became all the more obvious a panic started to set in. Her eyes could twist and take in the scenes before her, but her head would not budge no matter how much she wished to move it.
Haruka could only follow along letting her eyes take in every detail while her mind wondered now more than ever how far Rashiru was going to go and what exactly she had in mind while she was in such a helpless state.
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Post by Zeure on Feb 6, 2012 4:50:36 GMT -5
They walked around the corners of the hallway coming to the chamber that Rashiru had whipped Haruka in. The chamber that she had almost killed Haruka in. She knocked on the door softly, and Haruka could hear a sound that could only be a huge sniff. Then the only other remaining beast-man that Haruka had seen before, the one that had seperated her and Yun. The one that Rashiru had made every indication was guarding Yun every hour of every day pulled the door open so that Rashiru, Haruka and the other creature could enter.
Inside the "whipping room", the first thing that caught Haruka's attention is that Yun was chained up in the center of the room, already having been divested of all clothing. He hung there, in the chains, gagged and staring daggers into Rashiru. Until he saw Haruka. His eyes softened and he made sounds that could only be him talking to her. Then he noticed the mark on her forehead... and he began flailing in the chains and shouting at Rashiru. Though none of his words could come out clearly because of the very tight gag in his mouth.
"Haruka, pick up the whip that I used on you the other day."
Haruka moved over to the rack and picked up the single tailed whip that she had felt the sting of only a day ago.
"Haruka, stand where I stood when I whipped you and strike him across the chest with the whip."
Haruka moved over to where Rashiru had stood before, it was eerily etched into her memory. Then there was a sudden crack, a heavy sound that Rashiru had never caused the whip to issue forth. Apparently, Haruka was stronger than Rashiru; and the sound of the whip and Yun's flesh gave the proof. A trickle of blood began running downs Yun's flesh from where the whip had struck. It was a small start, but it would only get worse with continued strikes.
"Haruka, strike him across the stomach..."
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 6, 2012 4:59:20 GMT -5
Haruka's eyes could barely focus, the sheer notion of doing such harm to Yun, in spite of the spell her eyes started to water as her eyes were all that could express the sheer horror of the order given to her. The process was absolutely maddening. Her arm arced, muscles tensed and without so much as a moment's hesitation the thick fibers of the whip ripped through his tender stomach flesh.
By the Kami... why can't I stop!? No... YUN! Make it stop, MAKE IT STOP!
Haruka kept rebelling as her whole being wanted to fight the control, but it all seemed useless as the blood poured down Yun's front and formed a puddle on the floor beneath him. No doubt Rashiru was only going to continue to force her to do this. Her mind started screaming as she was unable to pull even her gaze from the situation, even her lids had fallen under the sway of the maho forcing her to bear witness to her own cruelty.
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Post by Zeure on Feb 6, 2012 5:10:56 GMT -5
"He is just not as tough as you were, Haruka. If you keep striking him so hard he will pass out or die, dear. Who knew you were so cruel to the one you claimed to love? Tsk Tsk."
Rashiru cackled at this. She thought herself very funny indeed. Rashiru walked over to Yun and raised his face up to look at her in the eyes.
"This is all that love is worth, boy. Before the power of the shadowlands all forces will fall."
She walked over to Haruka and put a hand on her shoulder, then, leaving it on her she moved around to her back. She spoke into her ear softly.
"And before the might of the shadowlands your struggles are useless. No matter how long you fight against me you will eventually fall. No matter how long it takes, you will succumb to me."
She took a few steps back from Haruka and laughed a couple of more times.
"Across the legs this time, I think. Haruka, strike him across the legs."
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 6, 2012 5:23:39 GMT -5
Rashiru's words seemed to become nothing to Haruka as she was far too focused on the excruciating pain she was putting Yun through. Her body maneuvered on its own as she stood somewhat to the side of him, a better vantage point to strike the front and the back of his legs and to have the whip wrap around his leg and constrict while it struck.
The blows came just as mercilessly as before with a focused precision. Each strike ripping pain through Yun's body and forcing Haruka to watch as every part of him twisted and suffered under her strikes. Again, more blood striped his body. The whip became so saturated with Yun's blood that when she swung it back for another strike a sliver of blood painted the walls with her speed, only further adding to the horror of the room.
Her mind, petrified kept begging, screaming at nothing. I don't want this! Anything but this! Yun I'm sorry!
But Rashiru had not given an instruction on how many strikes to take, so ever obedient her arms kept swinging no matter how much it hurt just to watch, no matter how much Haruka wished it could stop. The tears now pouring down her face.
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Post by Zeure on Feb 6, 2012 5:33:45 GMT -5
"Haruka, dear, you must stop now. My my, I never said to strike him more than once. You have such a fury in you. And you're taking it out on this man. Truly one of the saddest things that I have ever seen. Using Yun as your means to express your anger."
Laughter split the air around them as Rashiru lost control over herself. She was slapping her thigh she was enjoying herself so much. Bent over, laughing like a lunatic.
Yun's eyes were clenched shut. He at least had the benefit of there being something in his mouth that he could bite down on. There were tears of pain streaming down his face from all the abuse that he had taken at Haruka's hands. He was slumped forward in the chains, not standing on his own at all. The skin around his wrists and ankles looked red and wounded from all the struggling that he had been doing and all the movement that the whip was forcing him in to. For a moment his eyes opened and he looked pleadingly at Haruka. He was in so much pain. But he knew that it would get him no where, and he closed his eyes again.
"Haruka, dear, it looks as though he is getting worn out. This time, I think, we should wake him up a bit. Strike him across his face, once, really sharp. Make it sting, I want to see him bleed some more."
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 6, 2012 5:48:55 GMT -5
Not.. another scar...... Yun..
Her body reacted just as Rashiru commanded, in spite of the unspoken and fruitless protests from both Yun and her own heart, her arm lifted once more with a firm grip on the leather of the whip.
Haruka's eyes started to fidget as her mind continued to go wild, blinking as the tears kept coming. The voice in her head, the only voice she could have had descended into senseless feral screams of resistance. Her whole mind fought against the thought, focusing all her rage, all her malice, all her love, all her hope, and all of her desire on one thing alone. The energy of her desire came out in one word in her mind, a scream that would shatter anyone who heard it.
STOP!
Haruka could feel her eyes squeeze shut. The sound of a breath drawn in echoed in her ears. But no scream, no whimper, not even a groan from Yun.
Had she lost all sense of hearing, had she gone mad?
Haruka forced her eyes back open as she looked up. The whip was still in her hand. Her hand remained raised, shaking with a violent force. But somehow, she stopped herself. She actually stopped the abuse. However she couldn't will herself to drop the thing or move anything more than that. Utterly stunned Haruka couldn't help but stare at her own hand, coated in Yun's blood.
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Post by Zeure on Feb 6, 2012 6:03:14 GMT -5
As the whip stopped in mid air and hung there for several seconds, Rashiru finally split the silence. "Oh ho ho. Haruka, my my, child. It has been some time since I saw someone with the strength of will to disobey one of my commands with that sigil on their brow. You are such an astonishing specimen."
Yun's eyes had remained closed from before. And after a few more seconds of Haruka's hand shaking in defiance, the notion came to both her and to Rashiru that Yun had actually passed out from the pain and the exertion. Rashiru moved to stand along side Haruka and made a gesture for her to lower the whip, which she obeyed. Rashiru moved forward towards Yun and inspected the damage that he had sustained so far.
"So much pain inflicted on this one by you, Haruka. I'm almost without words. Heheh. Almost. Put the whip back on the rack dear, I think we are done with this for today. We seem to have lost the attention of our target; and I would hate for him to be killed by you."
Haruka obeyed her commands and placed the whip back upon the holder for it. She turned and looked at Rashiru, awaiting her next command. Rashiru moved over to the door and told her to follow her, which she did. Rashiru led her back to the cell that she had spent so much time occupying and wrapped the collar back around her neck. Some more water was brought to her and Rashiru poured it into her mouth for her. After she had determined that Haruka had plenty to drink, she put splashed some in Haruka's face and walked out of the room. The water warped the sigil and broke the spell on her.
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 6, 2012 6:15:02 GMT -5
Finally, slowly regaining the feeling of pain that shot through her form her senses quickly reclaimed what they had lost to the mark on her body. Her muscles spasmed and all she could do was skitter backwards hard against the stone wall, even continuing to scramble until she could finally stop herself.
Haruka then started trembling like nothing before. She'd been cold, she'd been terrified, she'd been wounded nearly to a deadly degree, and yet this was unlike any of those times. Grabbing her legs she curled up in the fetal position as she cowered in the corner, terrified of herself.
It was then of all times that she found her voice once again. Her eyes wrenched wide having seen all that she was capable of, she couldn't help the sound that her body sent lurching forth through her system. Rashiru might have heard many screams from physical torture and the like, but nothing of this magnitude from Haruka. She screamed as though she were dying, as if the blade was in her chest just then. Her whole form was revolted at what she had done and her outcry rang out through the halls of her prison and beyond.
Her screams would last until she had no more breath to give. Shaking still hysterically and completely unaware of the amazing achievement she'd done to spite the maho, Haruka could only collapse in a heap on the floor still trembling until she passed out. Even then in her blacked out state her body twitched in reflex completing the shattered appearance of the once samurai-ko.
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Post by Zeure on Feb 6, 2012 6:53:43 GMT -5
Several hours passed while Haruka was unconcious, maybe an entire day, she had become completely unaware of the passing of time for quite a while now. But eventually she was awoken, but not of her own volition. Something was happening outside her door. There was a commotion and some scuffling. She began to come to, had lifted her upper torso up on one arm when the door burst open, flying off of it's hinges as Rashiru came crashing through it, having been flung through it. Rashiru's body hit the far wall with a sickening cracking thump. She looked terrible and blood was pouring from several wounds she had sustained. She was lifted into the air, much the same way that Haruka had been just a little while ago. Except that Rashiru was being lifted by her neck and there were visible lines of flesh being displaced as if a firm grip was around her throat.
Haruka's eyes saw all this and then she looked for the source. Which is when she noticed that in the door way was Yun. He had his hand up mimicking the choking motion that he was using on Rashiru. His green eyes burned with the taint power coursing through him. He had a few cuts on his arms from where he had used the power of his blood to fuel the maho he was casting. He used his free hand to toss a key to Haruka. She would recognize it as the key to her collar.
Yun looked over at her and there was a coldness to his eyes, something mean and hateful. In a commanding tone, Yun said "Haruka, open your collar! We are leaving now!"
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