After the fight Damon had with the SAGE they returned shortly to the underworld.
They felt so enraged that they lost a fight with him, Dracula. Of course they had strengthened themselves and become more powerful than they had ever been but they just still didn't measure up to that demon.
The four of them had decided that hurting his mate for real now would be the only way.
Sebastian's original plan was not to actually hurt her, he just used her to mess with Damon a little bit, get the demon agitated and ready to face him but he had not expected to still be that weak, compared to him.
The rest of them; Gavriel, Admantha and Eleazor felt the same way too. With how much work they had put in and how much help they had gotten to be able to stand against Drac, they just couldn't.
