Falling Inside The Black

Part 6

Anti started to chew with his mouth open as he asked Dark casually.  "You want me to get you anything"?  Dark shifted directly behind Anti, reaching around Anti's shoulder to stroke his fingers along Anti's scar possessively.  His voice dropping into a deep primal purr, as he whispered into Anti's ear.  "I just want to watch him suffer".  Anti brushed off Dark's arm, and tossing the rest of Ryan's kidney into the woods as he answered playfully.  "Well, if that is what you want. Watch this".  Anti reached back into the warm folds of Ryan's stomach for a brief moment, before slowly pulling out the large intestine.  Holding up the long bloody squishy sausage-like organ, Anti told Ryan with a chuckle.  "You're lucky. You get to see what your insides look like. Now this organ can kill you if I tug it out".  Laying it out across Ryan's lower half, Anti shifted a little to look back at Dark to ask curiously.  "Care to lend a fist? Can you manage to broke his ribcage without killing him or damaging the organs"?  Dark blinked sarcastically, shooting back dryly.  "Break his ribcage, yes... but without killing him... probably not". 

Anti shrugged carelessly, gesturing to Ryan as he replied genuinely.  "Oh, well. Just bust it. I'll do the rest".  Dark raised a curious eyebrow, but fisted his hand and punched Ryan's ribcage with as much control as he could.  Ryan's body jerked as his ribcage smashed into pieces.  Dark could tell by the way Ryan's eyes closed and by the way the body went limp that he had either killed him, or made him pass out from the pain.  Frustrated, Dark was going to yell at Anti for not making him suffer enough... but Anti was busy.  Anti quickly threw out bits of bone from Ryan's body, making sure that none would puncture any of the organs before slipping his hand in to gently cup Ryan's heart.  Anti could feel Ryan's energy fading like a flickering candle in the wind.  Staying calm and collected, Anti gently sent a weak shock through Ryan's heart.  He wanted to see if he could get him back.  Not for Dark's amusement, but as a test of his own power. 

Dark began to laugh with pure excitement as Ryan began to breath again!  Anti could defibrillate hearts!  He had to admit that opened up a lot more possibilities for torture ideas.  Ryan gasped suddenly, opening his eyes and staring up at Dark with a pleading look in his eyes... but to that Dark simply told him with a snide grin.  "Suffering is all you'll get in this universe".  Anti rolled his eyes at Dark's comment just seconds before electrocuting Ryan's heart with only enough voltage to make him slowly fry from the inside.  Ryan's blood boiled and spilled out from his gut and spewed out of his mouth.  Within less then a minute, he was dead.  Pulling out his hand and uselessly flicking droplets of blood out across the ground, Anti climbed to his feet muttering aloud.  "Well, not that this hasn't been fun... but I've got a fan base to kill".  Dark jumped to his feet and cursed furiously.  The sun was streaming through the trees.  No more shadows.  If Anti took off, he'd never catch him until nightfall.  Running over to grab Anti's wrist tightly, he told him in a dangerously commanding voice.  "Where do you think you're going? 'We' have a fan base to kill! You're not leaving"!  Anti tried to yank his wrist free, but Dark held it so tightly that he was loosing feeling to his hand.  He didn't stop trying though, as he told Dark bitterly.  "That trick isn't going to work on me anymore. Now release me"!

Dark pulled him closer, asking defiantly.  "Or what? You'll shock me? That trick doesn't work on 'me' anymore. Why do you want to leave anyway? What could you do better alone that we can't do better together"?  Anti tried to think of something... anything.  Sighing reluctantly, Anti grumbled out.  "It's not what I can do. It's what I won't feel. Jack may be gone...but from time to time... I swear I can still feel him. It's worst around you".  Dark smirked, telling Anti bluntly.  "What's this? Is Antisepticeye afraid? Afraid of love"?  Anti straightened up, his anger starting to flare up as he snapped back.  "I didn't say that".  Dark quickly gripped Anti's throat, pulling Anti's lips close to his as he sternly whispered back.  "You didn't have too. I can smell it on your skin. So, let's see if I can force Anti back to the surface, shall I".  The idea had completely floored Anti.  Was Jack still alive somehow?  Slowly clawing his way back to the surface?  Anti didn't believe so... but he had altered Jack's behavior without him knowing... could Jack do the same now?  Anti had been so lost in his own head that he didn't see Dark's fist until it was too late! 

Dark's punch hit him high across his cheekbone!  Sending Anti straight for the ground head first.  Anti's vision in his left eye blurred.  The son of a bitch had blinded him in one eye!  Dark took a step back, expecting Anti to lash out at him.  Only Anti slowly pushed up on all fours, and when he shot him a look that screamed hellfire... Dark blinked in confusion.  Anti's left eye wasn't glowing with a green iris like the right one.  It was a solid black and appeared to be bleeding a sickly green color.  Dark only had a split second to ponder if Anti's eyes were his weak points, before Anti smacked his hands together in Dark's direction.  The concussion from the blast, sent Dark flying backward barely missing the trees!  When Dark finally hit the ground, all the air was knocked out of his lungs.  He hadn't really thought his plan through... He was weak in the daytime... Anti was not".  Dark slowly sat up, watching as Anti menacingly strolled toward him.  Green sparks shooting off his body like lightening bolts, his fists clenched and his face as cold as stone.  Dark had to strain to make out what Anti was chanting as he drew closer.  He wasn't one-hundred percent sure... but it sounded like he was repeating the word "Die".  To Be Continued...