Gabriel sighed. "I fail to see how the fact that he prevented you from saving the life of your assigned human could make you turn so easily." Ikko smirked. "Remember when Silvera died the first time?" Gabriel's eyes widened and he turned to Ikko desperately. "Gah! N-No one needs to know about that!!"
Ikko laughed and patted his head. "He made you sit and watch like the good angel you are, only for the soul to be eaten anyway. What a sight it was, couldn't stop crying this one." I looked at them playfully teasing surprised at both Gabriel crying when I died, and how desperate he was to shut Ikko up. Ikko laughed again putting an arm around Gabriel's shoulders. "That's the reason you healed us isn't it? Can't bare to see your darling in pain anymore?" By this point Gabriel's face was entirely red. "Stop being so uncool!"
I heard Sythyon growl and his tail wrapped around my waist pulling me towards him. "Whoa!" He glared at them obviously annoyed at what that conversation turned into. He didn't have to say anything for them to knock it off, and Gabriel looked away still embarrassed and a little melancholy. Ikko spoke again this time serious. "Get it now?" Gabriel rolled his eyes. "Whatever traitor."
Sythyon sighed. "Why am I in a room with two angels?" Arine then turned his head to me worried. "Wait, where's Cienar?" Ikko looked to him then to me realizing that we hadn't returned with Cienar as well.
I tried my best to be as strong as possible answering him. "Lothor tricked us and is making Cienar take him to Atlantis. I'm going to find them and bring him back as quickly as I can." Arine and Ikko spoke in unison. "What??!!" I swallowed still unsure of what to do. "A-And I don't want to put you two in anymore trouble, so I want you to return home where it's safe."
Arine gasped. "What?! You can't just send us home! Cienar's our friend too, and we want to help save him! We're coming with you!" Ikko raised an eyebrow. "Right. Think about it, the only reason we got in trouble in the first place was because you weren't there. If you leave us alone again who knows what we'll do next."
I was torn. I wanted them there with me, but I know I would die for sure if I saw them get hurt again. "But you just got healed-!" Ikko interrupted me. "Yeah. Pretty quickly too, so we could help you. Gabriel even gave me some souls so I am at my best right now. Look, the way I see it is that you need all the help you can get." I hesitated for a moment before Sythyon tilted his head next to me. "You can trust them."
I thought about it then smiled a little. "Alright. We'll all go. Let's hurry, we don't have a moment to lose!" Gabriel looked out the door to the other prison cells. "I don't know if this is important, but the red haired demon out there disappeared into smoke awhile ago." I gasped and ran up to the door. I looked outside and saw that the cell where Sythyon had teleported the guards to was missing someone. Dagger was gone.
"No doubt that Lothor took Dagger with him when he disappeared." I turned back to Sythyon. "Do you know how we'll be able to find them?" He nodded. "I can track their scent and predict where they're going. And now that I'm in this form it will be much easier to do so."
I raised an eyebrow. "Oh yeah, um, how long exactly are you going to stay in that form...? Just curious..." Sythyon didn't hesitate to answer me. "Probably awhile. It took a lot of anger to get me into this form. And as you could probably guess, it's going to take a lot of relaxing to get me out of it."
I thought for a moment. "Yeah, relaxing isn't really an option right now. Are you going to be okay?" Sythyon smiled at my worry.
"Being in this form takes a lot out of me, but I can manage to stay like this until after we save your friend. Though I'll warn you now, my behavior is going to change wildly the longer I'm in complete demon form." I blinked. "Change? How?" Sythyon's smile changed into a smirk, and he lowered to my height leaning in to whisper in my ear. "I'm a complete demon right now. Once my fit of rage is over my body is only going to let me think of release. And by release, I mean releasing inside of you."
"Eep!" My face turned completely red, and I was so embarrassed I barely heard Ikko yelling across the room. "Hey! Don't you dare!" Arine blinked. "Right. Angels have good hearing don't they?" Gabriel looked annoyed too but he was more controlled than Ikko was. "D-Did you forget already?"
Sythyon smiled back at them. "I wasn't attempting to hide it. I just like getting close to her." My blush reddened as he said that, and he kept his face inches apart from mine. "We should go now before I can't hold myself back anymore." He looked at my lips a split second before he passed me and walked out into the hall. Ikko and Arine walked up to me, Ikko was especially annoyed. "Lucky bastard..." He said under his breath, Arine still confused as ever.
I snapped back and shook off my blush. "O-Okay! No time for talk, Gabriel, are you going-?" I cut myself off turning to the back of the room where I last saw Gabriel. "Huh? Where did he go?" He was nowhere to be seen now. Ikko answered me. "Probably couldn't take seeing you with someone else. Don't mind him, he'll get over it."
Arine raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, but will you?" Ikko glared at him. "I'm protective over my friend, okay?!" Arine gave him an unamused look. "Yeah, that's definitely the reason you said lucky bastard." Ikko was about to argue again when I took both of their arms and pulled them quickly with me down the hallway. "Shut up you two! Cienar needs our help!"
*
Meanwhile:
Cienar sits near the helm of the ship that he was taken on after Lother left him in that room of his fortress. It was almost sunrise. Light started to fade the stars above him as he controlled the current of the water below the ship, guiding it to the place Lothor had forced him to take them. His hands are tied in front of him and he had been dressed in a dark blue silk kimono since the vines that used to cover him were cut off.
He stared in front of him concentrated on the flow of the water, trying to ignore the thought of what will happen once they reach Atlantis. Footsteps came from beside him and got closer. Cienar didn't bother looking up, already knowing that it was Lothor.
Lothor smiled and kneeled down next to him. "It's really impressive that you're able to control the course of an entire ship like that. I wonder what other things you're capable of." Lothor cupped Cienar's cheek with his palm turning his face to him. Cienar looked away in annoyance. "I'm concentrating." Lothor's smile disappeared as Cienar turned away to face forward again. Without another thought, Lothor ran his tongue up Cienar's cheek making him jump. "A-Ah-! Hey!"