"I'm only gonna ask this once, Minos." Ignus snarled. "Where's Big G?"
They had gathered the rest of the Elementals and now stood angrily before Minos, ready to grill him until he revealed Big G's location.
"Foolish boy. Like I'd ever tell you where I'm holding your most powerful member." Minos said through chomps.
"Alright then." Ignus shrugged. "Davey, sick em'."
He bared his fangs and curled around Minos' mangled body, positioning himself for the torture.
"Ever read Norse Mythology, Minos?" Ignus questioned. "The Midgard Serpent, also known as Davey, was sent to torture the Norse god Loki by dripping poison into his eyes. Davey is pretty familiar with the torture."
"You won't get anything out of me." Minos snarled.
Two drops of poison slid slowly down Davey's polished white fangs and into Minos' eyes.
He thrashed in pain, yelling in terror, and opened his eyes, which were burning red.
"Alright, alright!" He huffed. "Call off your stupid serpent!"
"Nobody calls Davey stupid." Vipress said, growing angry. "C'mon guys, let's go find G."
"What about me?!" Minos complained.
"We'll see how long you last with my 'stupid serpent!' " She called maliciously over her shoulder as she started to fly upstairs.
***
Big G watched as the world of white dissipated and he woke to see the other Elementals standing over him. He blinked a few times, pulling monitoring devices from his forehead, chest, and heart.
"What... where... am I?" He stumbled over the words.
"It's a long story, G." EL said, looking at him with a grin spreading. "A really, really long story."
***
"-And after Vipress had Davey use Minos as a chew toy, we went upstairs and found you hooked up to some sort of hallucination machine..." EL finished the story as they reached the border of Toxiclan. "Hey Vype, where is Davey, anyway?"
"Davey? Oh, he's been here the whole time. He followed us home." Vipress shrugged, and pointed down to the ground where Davey was slithering along below them.
The thing about the Elementals... all of them can fly except Nightshade and Dilithium. Claws became an airbender to accomodate his allies. They noticed that the ground was covered in Demonclan warriors, each of them like black parasites flooding over the clans.
"Hey, we could crash at my place." Vipress offered. "I'm kind of drained...not in that way though...the exhausted kind. Let's just kill demons in the morning."
They slaughtered many demons over a period of ten minutes, enough to get an open path to the bridge which led to the castle.
***
"Remember last time we were here, Ig?" EL asked, playfully nudging Ignus.
"Don't remind me." Ignus grumbled. "I hope we don't see any of that during our stay here."
"You might see more." Vipress teased.
They landed on the bridge and immediately a siren went off, releasing a cloud of poisonous cloud of green vapor from the castle.
"Oh crap oh crap oh crap!" Vipress panicked, running up to the castle and throwing off bricks from the night of the obsidian door.
"Here!" She said, frantically chucking a bunch of gas masks at them. Ignus looked dubiously at his, then chucked it aside.
"Oh crap." Vipress said suddenly. "I have to say the password to get in when the castle is under lockdown."
"What the hell are you waiting for?" Claws demanded through the mask.
"Uh...okay." She pressed a button on the panel.
"nightshade's an ass." She said in a super quiet voice.
"Voice not recognized." A robotic tone replied.
"Ugh." Vipress snarled. "Nightshade's an ass."
"Voice not recognized."
"NIGHTSHADE'S AN ASS, YOU STUPID PANEL!" She raged.
"Voice recognized. Welcome home, Vipress."
She glanced sideways at Nightshade, who was glaring daggers at her.
"Heh heh." She chuckled nervously. "Sorry 'Shade..."
Then she flew inside.
***
El had always been an explorer, and now here awaited a labyrinth of secrets.
"Welcome to Casa de Temptation." Vipress announced. "You can stay as long as you like... or as long as you are tempted."
She pointed right. "Over there's the kitchen. It's fully stocked with all your favorites." She continued. "Spare bedrooms are upstairs, living room is to your left, and my room is strictly off-limits to everyone." She smiled. "Unless, of course, you're invited."
EL took off towards the living room. The rest of the guys headed to the kitchen, all except Ignus. Vipress grabbed his wrist and led him upstairs.
Ignus went along, though he was a bit nervous about what might happen upstairs.
They entered her room and she shut the door quietly. She was levitating about a foot off the ground now, and she floated over to a large black-framed mirror.
"Funny thing about vampires; we don't have a reflection." Vipress explained at Ignus' look of surprise.
"What does it mean?" Ignus asked, looking at his reflection in the mirror.
"It means no one can see me when I do this." She said, holding his head in her hands as she pressed her lips against his. Ignus was surprised at first, then leaned into the kiss.
If you were looking into the mirror, it was an incredibly strange sight.
