The mergeverse

Back to hell

{Cozbi's POV (1st person):}

Me and Tavnora found a castle, which we assumed was likely where they had gone to. Tavnora had stayed closer to the back of the castle, and I decided to go near the front entrance. I just walked around a the area a bit, waiting for Tavnora to come get me to do something else.

However, I noticed someone walk out of the castle after a few moments, and after a bit of inspection, I realized it was exactly who I had been looking for. He had bandages covering his eyes, which gave me the chance to sneak up on him.

I quietly walked up behind him, summoning a large red knife in my hand. "Well well well, who do we have here? The escaped newbie?"

{Dagger's POV (1st person):}

I had simply gone outside to try and get a bit of fresh air, and suddenly I hear a voice behind me and I quickly turn around to face it. Even if I couldn't see anything, it was still instinct to look towards talking and other sounds.

"Who the hell are you and what do you want from me?" I said, trying to show as little weakness towards this person as I could. I didn't recognize his voice, so my immediate reaction was to treat this person as a threat until they could prove they weren't. "I was sent by an.. old friend of yours I'll say. Said you got out and told me to come find ya, so I did."

I knew he meant Anthony right away. "I'm not going back to that damn lab." I heard him hum a bit, before hearing something swinging against the wind. How I heard it, I don't know, my senses had kept getting a lot stronger, even my eyesight without the bandages on. "Too bad you ain't gettin' a choice."

I quickly moved away, and I heard a slight thunk from where I assumed some kind of attack had landed. I had to rely on my hearing for this fight, as there wasn't a moment for me to take the bandages off my eyes. The person swung another attack at me, and I dodged it again, grabbing their wrist and twisting it down. I heard him wince a bit and could feel him drop the weapon.

I kept a hold on his wrist, and felt around for the weapon on the ground, before finding it and kicking it away. I figured it had been a magic related item, but kicking it away for now still gave me an advantage.

I grabbed onto his forearm with my free hand, swiftly tossing him onto the ground and holding him down with my foot. I used this moment to take the bandages off so I could see, pretty much just ripping them with my claws and tossing them to the side. And what I saw was another vessel.

"The fuck?" I said, honestly offended that this dude was even fighting me. We were basically the same in a sense, why the hell was this guy on the side I had to be against. He tried getting up, but I held my foot down harder on his chest, causing him to wince again. "Nice try. But I'm not going back."

{Cozbi's POV (First person):}

God this kid was strong. Especially with how wounded he looked. There was a massive scratch across his face that was looking like a mix of blood and whatever the black stuff on his arms and legs was. I had no idea what the scientists had injected him with, but I was honestly worried. Also, the fact that this kid was able to knock me down while basically blind?? Did he have heightened senses or something?

I kept trying to push away, but he was somehow still stronger than me and I couldn't get up. "Look kid, the lab needs you back, this isn't something that's gonna be negotiable." I said, trying to hide how much pain this kid was actually causing me. Like goddamn, the pressure on my chest made me feel like I was gonna just explode or something. It was not very pleasant.

I noticed my knife was actually still close. I tried reaching for it, but the other vessel noticed and kicked me away from it. God that made the pain worse. However, I had still managed to despawn the knife, and re-summoned it, causing Dagger to step back a bit to not get hit.

I got up, glaring at this kid. I was genuinely pissed at this point. I just wanted to get my job done and get over with it. I stepped closer, swinging at him but he continued to step away, making this way more difficult than it needed to be. But at this point, I didn't care if I needed to knock this kid out to do it, I was getting him back to the lab.

I kept swinging at him, hoping to land at least one attack on him, but I couldn't. I got close again, but when I tried swinging at him, I felt him grab my wrist. Again. However, this time I could feel his claws digging into my wrists. "God fucking-! Let go damnit!" I yelled, trying to pull away from his grip.

I got away finally, but it had left a pretty bad wound. I figured I'd deal with that later. I had better things to do. I said screw it to the weapons, and decided this was matter for hand-to-hand combat instead.

And holy fuck was this kid good at that. Sure, it was a difficult fight, but I eventually got him knocked out against a tree, my own breaths heavy. Fucking finally.. 

I noticed Tavnora walking over, seemingly a bit impressed. "Brutal fight huh? Maybe you will be more useful than I thought." 

"Rude, I am very useful thank you very much."

"Yeah yeah, anyways how exactly do you plan on transporting him? It's not a smart idea to just leave him here. We can always come back for the one I'm looking for now that we have their location." I look down at the now knocked out Dagger. I wasn't sure exactly how I was supposed to get him back to our universe now. "You're coming with me? Why? Wouldn't it just be easier to just get the one you're looking for while here?"

She nodded. "Yeah, but I've decided I kind of want to see how the lab you're from is run and stuff. See how same or different it is from the one in this universe." That seemed reasonable, but that still didn't help my issue of transport. "Could you maybe like, carry him in your tentacles or something? That seems like the easiest option."

They thought for a bit before agreeing, though a bit reluctant to do so.

...

We got to the lab, and brought Dagger in to Mr. Anthony. He brought us over to the room he was to be put in and Tavnora set him down. Once she did, Anthony unclipped the broken chains from Dagger's wrists, and reclipped new ones, which had been just put in after he broke the other ones.

Anthony let me show Tavnora around the lab, showing her how stuff work and what we do with subjects and stuff. The injections, the fights, the shock collars, all of it.

{Ending this here, and from this chapter on, unless there's something actually important, im not gonna be doing the end things anymore because i think at this point yall understand everything because i basically just repeat myself each time.}