21 They may take our Lives! But they will never, take our FREEDOM!

Opening the door to my theatre, I have to fight down the feeling of 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 that wells up.

No matter how much fun it is, now is not the time, not with the Heroes closing in.

It's unfortunate really, I was having so much fun with little Tear too.

Well, once we get set up somewhere else the fun can continue.

For now, all I really need to do is break her enough that she won't be a hassle to move.

But that's fine too, since I don't need to hold back.

She'll heal, after all.

As I get closer, I take a moment to observe how much she's changed in these ten days.

For one, we had to change her clothes after I got a little too.. 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺, so now she's just wearing a simple, ripped and worn black T-shirt and white shorts.

But more than that, there are two other noticeable changes.

For one, at some point, her toes and fingers started growing back with black nails. I don't really understand why, but the nails seem to be sharper and sturdier, so I assume it's some kind of minor adaptation.

The other major change is her 𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳. It's now white, like mine.

Oh how happy it makes me. To see such visual evidence of my art.

Truly you are a gem Tear. A diamond in the rough.

All I have to do is break you first, then I will make you shine.

With your power and mine combined... 𝘰𝘩𝘩𝘩 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦~.

Ahhh~ stop getting distracted.

Business first, pleasure can come later.

"Listen up, Tear. The Heroes are coming soon, so I'm afraid our time here has come to an end. It's time to go 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦."

She doesn't respond, but that's expected really.

She hasn't been very responsive these days, simply sitting there with her head bowed.

It's not as fun, but at least it shows that she is nearly broken enough to be introduced to the rest of the family.

Finally standing in front of her, I use my power, ballooning my arm to three times it's normal size, and raise it high.

"I'm going to break every bone in one move to make this quick!"

However, right as I prepare to crush her into a pancake, something unexpected happens.

She 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴.

Not the pained, insane laugh from when the centipede was first put in her head, but a genuine, mirthful, 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩.

It was so unexpected that I ended up freezing, only broken from my reverie when she looks up at me.

Only, her look simply makes me more confused.

Because she is 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨.

A happy, genuine and 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 smile. Like some gap-toothed child who just got offered a whole candy store.

It's so disconnected to the situation that words fail me.

Tear does not have the same problem as she opens her mouth.

"What a laugh."

Her tone. It takes me a moment to understand it, it's so foreign to me.

Condescending.

Insulting.

𝘔𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨!

No one has dared mock me in years!

My thumb draws to my forefinger.

𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬.

It infuriates me! So much that I feel anger burning through my veins like a hot fire.

"What a pathetic man you are.~"

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦!

With rage fuelling me, I bring my enlarged hand down on her, intending to crush her into a paste.

𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘮!

A cloud of dust explodes up from the impact.

However, right as I'm thinking that it didn't feel right, Tear comes flying out of the dust cloud in a blur.

She flips over my body, catching the chains around her arms over my throat as she stands on my back.

I feel her mouth brush up against my ear as she whispers her words.

"Thank you."

Before I can process that, I fall forward from the force of her pushing off of my back, breaking her chains against my throat to no effect.

I take a second to understand everything that just happened and when I do I turn to face where Tear now stands, wiping some blood from her mouth.

That brings my attention to the familiar feeling of my regeneration kicking in and I bring a hand to my ear, only to feel blood and bubbling flesh.

"You bit me!" I can't help but call out in shock.

"Yeah", she smiles, "and you taste vile~ like daddy issues and disappointment.~"

My thumb reaches out again, for my middle finger this time.

𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬.

She finishes speaking and I feel my rage becoming apocalyptic in its intensity.

Both of my arms swell out, becoming larger and stronger as I charge down the bitch that dared to 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘦 me.

With a scream of rage, I send my fist crashing down on her, but she jumps over it, going for an axe kick, like a fool.

Both of my arms shrink down to normal before she reaches me and when she does, I grab her leg and lock it down.

"You're mine!" I yell.

But before I can even do anything, she 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 her whole body, breaking and bending the leg in my hands like a Twizzler as she uses it to gain momentum in her spin to deliver a devastating kick with her other foot straight to my head.

𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘮.

Another cloud of dust is kicked up where I impact the wall.

With rage burning in my ears and starting to drown out my thoughts, I watch as her leg snaps around until it is back in place, as if nothing ever happened.

"What? Did you think that after everything you put me through, something like 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 hurts?~"

Her words push me over the edge as logical thought leaves me.

"I'll kill you! I'll kill you! 𝙄'𝙇𝙇 𝙆𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙔𝙊𝙐!!"

...

𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬.

I shudder at the feeling of pain and pleasure that comes from breaking my own finger like that.

It's funny.

I spent so long in that chair, feeling like I was going insane.

Yet now, here I am, standing perfectly calm while Jason screams bloody murder at me.

Out of the dust cloud he comes, both of his arms enlarged to gross proportions.

I also notice the fact that his ear seems to have already grown back.

That makes me smile.

After all, I haven't eaten anything since I got here.

I am very, 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 hungry.

With his enlarged arms on the ground like a gorilla, he uses them to propel his body at me.

Once he gets close enough, one of his arms slams down in a move that even I can tell is telegraphed.

I simply leap backwards, just out of reach.

His strike makes the ground shake as the entire room rumbles from the force of his blow.

I idly think to myself how he certainly seems stronger. But he's not the only one.

I'm only noticing it now, as I am dodging his obvious blows.

But ignoring the weakness from my hunger, my body feels stronger than ever.

I jump over another blow and land a clean kick on his face that doesn't really seem to effect him.

I suppose it's like that saying, 'broken bones heal stronger'.

Well, my bones have been broken plenty of times now.

Jason goes for an overhead strike and I slide underneath it, bringing my fist forward, I throw the best punch of my life right into his stomach.

He barely flinches.

With me being so close, I can't avoid when he grabs me, wrapping my body fully in his massive hands.

I feel my bones being crushed before I feel like I'm flying as he throws me across the room.

𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘮!

I impact the wall and immediately crater it, causing yet another cloud of dust to well up.

My body heals the next moment and I walk out of the dust, smiling at Jason's face, frothing with anger as it is.

It makes me smile.

More than that, I can feel my body waking up, the flesh of Jason's that I ate proving to be enough stimulation to wake it up from whatever drug he injected me with.

"Well now.~" I say, bringing my thumb to my middle finger.

𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬.

My lower back bubbles, and with a feeling akin to stretching an atrophied muscle, my tails finally free themselves once again.

"I believe it's my turn?~"

From swaying behind me, thicker and more solid than I remember them but just as long and flexible, my tails, pulsing with red blood and shades of purple, snap forward, pointing to Jason like a pair of flesh spears.

No more words are spoken.

No more words need to be spoken.

We both charge at each other, two forces refusing to yield.

Deciding to use my range to my advantage, I leap into the air before we meet and send a tail whipping out at his face.

He blocks the first with his left and the second with his right, however right as I reach the peak of my leap and start falling, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 tail bursts out of my back and impales the ground, keeping me aloft.

Rather than wasting time thinking about the fact that I can apparently grow more tails, I instead make use of the opportunity to keep harassing Jason, bringing my other two tails back around for another strike.

This repeated for another few blows before I bring both of my tails up high at the same time, bringing them both down at once in a crushing force.

𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘮.

I drop down, putting my feet back on the ground as I observe the new dust cloud.

The next moment I have to jump backwards, bringing my tails up in front of me as a shield as Jason bursts forth, swinging a wild punch.

The force of the punch joins that of my jump as I get sent a good distance backwards, but Jason is already on me again before I can do anything, leaving me only the option of blocking again.

I have to fold my tails over themselves so that they can properly function as a shield against him, but even then his hits send me sliding back once more.

My tails take a few more punches before I find an opportunity to counter.

Jason sends another telegraphed punch for my head, except this time, I drop my shield and duck low, sliding underneath his extended arm before I brace my body on the ground and launch my tails up and into his arm as a singular spear.

They pierce clean through, splitting his arm in half and making him call out in pain and rage.

I dodge his other arm as it tries to retaliate by jumping over it, joining my tails in the air, where I do a front flip to build up my momentum and send all three tails crashing down onto Jason in what can only be the single hardest strike I have ever dealt.

Jason 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 into the ground and as I touch down, I see him lying there, twitching as his arm bubbles and regenerates.

Heh.

My smile truly starts to strain my face as I walk closer to him, one of my tails idly lashing out to pierce through his still whole arm, pinning it to the ground.

His scream of pain makes me laugh.

"Hahahahahaha! What's wrong, Ja~son? Does it hurt~?"

My other two tails dig in through his legs, letting them join his arm.

"AAAHHHH!!" His screams make me so 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 that I just take a moment to revel in them.

"𝘈𝘩𝘩𝘯𝘯𝘯~ Jason.~~"

Once again I bring my thumb to my forefinger, needing a release for all this 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨.

𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬.

Climbing on top of Jason, I straddle him, splaying both of my hands on his bare back.

Then I start to squeeze, then, 𝘐 pull.

"AAAHHHHHH" He screams as his flesh is ripped from his body and deposited straight into my waiting mouth.

𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨.

I reach for another bite.

"Tell me Jason."

I grab his flesh.

"What is.. one thousand.. minus seven?"

I 𝘗𝘶𝘭𝘭.

And this time.

This time, Jason 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴.

𝘈𝘢𝘩𝘩𝘩𝘯𝘯𝘯𝘯.~~

Yesss.~

Leaning close, so close that my lips brush sensually against his fully regrown ear, I give it a 'light' nibble, whispering in a low, sultry voice as my excitement gets the better of me.

"Scream for me Jason~"

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A/N: He~llo! Dear readers!

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