The Unknown

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-Gertrude attempted to heave Faust's form onto a torture table. She stumbled and fell back a bit, but then she got a stool and managed to get him up there.
She waited to see if the others would come before she started her torturing.

She began singing " Fausty Fausty dirty spy, torture till you bleed and die hee hee hee"

Getting a bit bored, she then began to poke him, ".... Wake up sleepy head" and then jabbed him "wake up!"


-Angel watched as Gert struggled a bit to get the spy on the table, she laughed at Gert's little song. She walked to the other side of the table and looked down at the unconscious Faust.

-Sacromares entered the room and looked around, it was just how it always was, except it was now full of 3 idiots. He walked near Gertrude and lifted Faust with one hand by the throat with ease. "what to do with him", he asked Gertrude, he might as well look like he likes to help little servants.


-Faust began to wake up. His head was throbbing, but he couldn't remember why.
He opened his eyes and they focused into three people that were very familiar. He gradually began to remember what exactly he was doing there.

"Oh damn.." he groaned. He became very anxious at this point.

"Hey...you wonderful followers!" he said in the most strained way in attempt to be friendly, "I was just kidding! I love the Queen! Oh what a most wonderful Queen " he feigned excitement, but his face fell.

He tried again. "Sacromares my dear friend, how lucky I am to have you here, wonderful Sacromares, you know I mean no harm? So why don't you just release me...and I will give you some cookies... oh yes..plenty of cookies for you..."


-He threw Faust away from the table into a wall. Before he could get up he was standing next to him, he grabbed him again from the throat and hoisted him up to his face. He whispered "I am helping you for one reason. You are a valuable ally and a good friend when I return back to Dintas, so I can not loose you to these fools. I can not stop them from torturing you...but I can stop them from killing you. After I will make sure you are released back to your master.", he slapped him against the wall and whispered, "Well what do you say?". He tried to look like he was trying to get information from Faust, he would not let the servants eradicate his only source of information in Dintas.


-Faust knew for some reason that he could not trust Sacromares, but did not have the thought power to dig further into his exact motives. Why would he help me if he is loyal to the Queen?...

He felt though, at this point, it was best not to dwell on it. "Oh bloody hell.." he yelled out, Sac was pretty brutal. He decided to go along with Sacromares plan, as he did not have one of his own, and he kind of wanted to live.

"Alright ..fine" he whispered back. "If you help me, I swear I'll repay you, lots of cookies, and the ones with the innocent souls..."


-Gertrude was feeling very giddy by all this, and started to frolic around the room.

"Oh yay! yay! Torture the wicked Faust Yay! Heeeheee hee"

She stopped her frolicking, attempting to be serious. "Ahem...So Sacromares, what have you learned of him? What secrets? " she asked curiously.


-Angel put both hands on her hips
"Yes Sacroamres, do tell. What have you learned from Faust?"


-"Nothing special, a secret passage into Saralon. Besides that I can't get anything else." he moved, along with Faust, to the table. He threw Faust on it and said "Your turn deer Gertrude...don't hurt him to much we need him alive for his return to Dintas." he walked toward angel and stood next to her.


-Faust gasped as he landed on the table. He was used to beatings, but that didn't make them any more enjoyable.

Faust sneered. " As if she could hurt me that badly...she is the same size as me....I'd like to see her fling me around hee hee" He stopped laughing, and immediately became tense again

He looked towards Sac and Angel, a bit frightened now, and then back to Gertrude " Just kidding..."


-Gertrude scowled, but then replaced her scowl with a smile.

She ran a long red nail down his cheek, drawing blood a little.

"Oh no Sacromares," she said staring at Faust in a blood lusting manner. " I think I will kill him now..."


-Sacromares giant hand shot out and grabbed her hand before she could attack again. "You will listen to me, You can torture him to the bre4ak of death, BUT he will not die. And if he does, I'll make sure to tell Sagura that our only lead to Dintas was killed because of a foolish servants pleasure." He spat it out calmly but sternly, hoping that Gertrude's love with Sagura would stop her


-Angel walked close to Sacromares, taking his hand and pushing him away from Gert.

"Keep your filthy fingers off of her, She is in charge down here, NOT you. so if you want to continue living here, I suggest you learn your place." Angel said with pure hatred in her voice
"Gert, do as you think is best"


-He glared at the brave girl, he was about to tear those little wings off and eat them! But he kept calm, "As you wish dear Angel" he turned to Gertrude, "Remember your choices...Sagura." He left the words hand and stepped away to a nearby wall to inspect the torture devices.


-As Gertrude ran her fingers down his cheek, he could only be reminded of how he had done the same thing to Quinn. How funny, I was only torturing her a few hours ago, and now here I am in her position...

He immediately became anxious when Gertrude said that she would kill him. He laughed nervously.

"Oh, dear...Gertrude is it?" he asked her nervously. " yes, dear Gertrude, you don't want to kill me...really it would be no fun...and I could tell you all the secrets of Dintas, oh yes..."

Maybe in a cold day in hell


-"Really? You would tell me all the secrets?" She asked, excited.
Wait a minute.....

"Why should I believe you?" she sneered. Her face fell into a calm expression. "I suppose I really don't want to kill you, well I will, but not right now.....right now I just want to hear you squeal."

She jabbed her finger into his arm.
She called out to the others. " Feel free to take a stab at him, hee hee"


-"Ahhhh! You rotten little---" Faust stopped. He didn't want to piss her off too badly.

It was at this point that Faust had a dawning realization that he was untied.
He suddenly sat up, and with his fingernail, stabbed Gertrude in the arm. "See how you like it!" he cried out, kind of relishing the temporary satisfaction in it.


-Sagura entered her castle from leaving the Lake of Memories Lost, she remembered the interesting talk she had with the boy. sagura didn't know if she could trust him, but for now she had more important things to worry about; Roary's injuries.

Sagura knew Gertrude was done in the Torture Chambers, as she walked down the stairs she heard the screaming of pain from the spy; Faust. That brought a smile to her face.
Upon entering she saw that Angel and Sacromares was there as well. she smirked

"Having a Torture Party are we?" she said standing in the doorway.


-Angel shook her head sighing as Faust fought back with Gert. In a board tone

"Gert you forgot an important detail in torturing people. You have to tie their hands and feet, otherwise...that could happen" she said meaning Faust stabbing her with his nails.


-"Oh yes, quite a lot of fun my Queen!" Gertrude squealed, as she hastily tried to bound Faust up. She used her telekinesis to shove him back down and clamped him in metal restraints.

She smiled triumphantly down on him. " Yeah we even got some information in regards to some secret entrance, ... perhaps you could use it to make a surprise attack on Exarionel" She continued smiling smugly at Faust.


-"Well done Gertrude, I'm impressed. But may i borrow your assistance for a moment?" her voice had a little concern, but she tried to hide it.


-"Is their something wrong my lady?" Sacromares breathed as he took his attention off a certain mace that would work wonders caving in Angel's skull. He never Saw Sagura his Queen stop a torture for 'assistance'. he wondered what it could be....


-"It's nothing really...except I ran into a little problem at the Lake of Memories Lost."


-"Assistance my Queen? Why course, anything I can do to help..."

She traced her finger along Faust's neck this time. " Oh dearest Faust" she mocked
"I had a lot of fun with you.... maybe I will be back to see you later. Have fun.." she smiled devilishly.

She turned to her Queen, a bit disappointed that she could not torture Faust, but this was overruled by her affection for the Queen. "What would you like me to do, m'lady?"


-"I need you to help Roary, He was injured by a man."
Sagura brought her hand up and touched her lion pendant.

"Roary, come forth."
The pendant disappeared and it turned into a large male lion.
His paw was held up, it was broken and he was wheezing." Sagura lightly touched his head.

"Do you think you could help him?" she asked


-"Oh yes, My Queen, I know just what to do!!!" she said excitedly.

She reached up and patted him. " Ohhh you a cute shnookie lion, yes you are, yes you are..." she babied him. " Now don't worry, this wont hurt" she told the lion.

She took out a jar of owl mucus, and gently taking his paw, rubbed it on the wound. She chanted out softly a spell with her dark magic.

Wounds brought by a foe
Vanish in the presence of the strong
If patience and bravery are the traits you show
The healing should not take long

The wound had a florescent pink aura around it.
She took out a vial containing a blue like substance in it. "This will taste pretty awful" she warned, before dumping the contents into his mouth. "I brewed it up this morning, it should work wonders" she smiled affectionately, and stepped back.

"Does that feel better?" she asked him.


-Roary growled a little as Gertrude came close to him,
*Roary Be brave, she's going to help you.*

*Yes Sagura* he spoke telepathically to her

he let her near his injured paw, it felt better after she chanted. But the liquid she made him drink was terrible. He shook his head sticking out his tongue, he didn't like the taste one bit. He growled at Gertrude.

"Roary" sagura said sternly
and he sat on the ground looking at the floor


-"Aww that's quite alright...."

Gertrude took out a hour glass from inside her robes. She seemed to be very resourceful in that way.

She turned the hour glass over and waited a few minutes. The pink aura seemed to have faded at this point.

"Alright he should be feeling better, but he should really take it easy for a couple of days, especially on his paw." she smiled


-Sagura smiled and petted her pets head.
"Thank you Gertrude"

She looked down at her lovable lion
"What do you say to Gertrude"

he growled which meant 'Thank You' but he didn't enjoy being nice to her
"Now I must be off, and let you get back to your lovely Torture Party." She turned to Roary

"Return" and he returned to her neck as the silver lion pendant

"Goodbye" she turned to the door, but stopped, her back to them

"Oh and Sacromares...If I find out your helping this little spy...then I will have you demoted to a ghost so quickly you're head would spin...Roary has Telepathy." she said with a smirk as she left the room heading up the stairs to her bedroom chamber


-Gertrude bowed " Glad I could be of assistance my Queen" she said pleasantly.
Gertrude glared at Sacromares, a bit horrified. She was a bit stunned, failing to take notice of his and Faust's conversation when he was thrashing him about

" Why would the Queen say a thing like that? Are you helping him?..."


-"Oh no, all I want is to keep him alive. I can't catch the fool Ex if I don't have a spy on him. But if he does betray us, I will be glad enough to crush his head with that mace." He pointed to the giant weapon laying one the table of torture devices. "Now lets continue..or you continue." he went back to inspecting the tools.


-"Of course that's what it is. You are too loyal to Sagura to ever betray her, by helping the spy." Angel spoke
she said not really convinced, she didn't know if Sacromares could be trusted yet.


-Faust was disgusted with Sacromares. *How could he say those things about Master? Why is he loyal to that nasty Queen?*...He knew it was partly an act, that he Faust was some sort of ally, and that he should be lucky that Sac was willing to get him out of this....so he put up a front.

"Who says I'm going to tell you any secrets?" he shouted at them all.

He looked to Gertrude, scowling, and then smiling wickedly "How are you going to torture me? By shoving some of your horrible soul doughnuts down my throat?" he lied, he was quite jealous of the compliments about them, but he wanted to make her feel bad "Oh yes, I heard...." he said trying quickly to think of the lie"..... in th-the kitchen p-people saying ......that they weren't any g-good" he choked, trying to cover it up with a cough, and resumed "....hee hee hee maybe I should teach you how to make soul cookies!" he said smugly.


-Angel giggled when Faust insulted Gert's doughnuts.
"Faust...I'm afraid you made a very big mistake when you insulted her doughnuts"

*Gert won't stand for that* she laughed.


-Gertrude stood aghast at Faust's remark. Then she looked like she was about to cry. *It's not true! Nobody would say that!* but she wasn't sure. Angrily, she went over to the torture devices Sac was inspecting, and took the mace, " Sorry, Sac, I think it is my turn..." and before Faust could react, she swung the mace hitting Faust in the leg. By the sound of it, she could have shattered a few bones. "Next time it really will be your face!!" she yelled.

She bit her lip, still furious. How could he say that? It's not true, really...She paused. Gertrude then drew herself together, recalling Faust's comment about his own soul cookies. She looked coldly at him, and snorted. "You make soul cookies? ah ha there's the rub.." she smiled evilly "you're just jealous of my soul doughnuts. There is no way in hell that your cookies could be better than my doughnuts, we in Zaqqum know where to get the purest, innocent souls..." she devilishly smiled, " I think that you are just trying to cover up the fact that you are a lame cook."


-*Ooo, Meow. Watch out folks. the she-devil is angry*
angel thought to herself, loving this little soap opera that was going on


-Faust gasped, tears stinging his eyes, he didn't know which hurt more, the mace or Gertrude's comeback. He glowers at all of them, clutching his leg, and then focuses his attention on Gert.

"My cookies are good!" he said in between gasps. " And..I am ..not a lame cook!" he said almost growling. "What the hell would you know? You haven't even tried my cookies!!" he said hotly. "At least I have proof that your doughnuts are how shall we say? lame... that's right, go ask the chefs in the kitchen ..." he lied, and knew that this would somehow backfire.

"And you know what?" he spat out, "I wont tell you a single thing, no matter how painful the torture is, oh yes, which I must say has been pretty mediocre so far..." he said, inwardly wincing at his very painful leg.


- Angel watched them fight back and forth

"I wish I had some popcorn..this is getting good." she whispered so no one really


- Gertrude glared at Faust. *My doughnuts are not lame!! Nobody would ever say that...Ah ha!* She had an idea. "I'll be right back" She left the torture chambers for a for a few minutes to return with the chefs from the kitchen. She was smiling.

"Go ahead tell him" she said smugly.

One of the chefs spoke up, looking coldly upon Faust, "Gertrude's soul doughnuts are phenomenal and you're a stupid prat to say otherwise. Nobody is good enough here to say otherwise." The chefs then left.

Gertrude smiled down on Faust, "You little liar!!!"

"You're quite right, I have been a little soft on you" she said, gritting her teeth, "but perhaps now is the right time for me to fix your face..." she said picking up the mace, and advancing on Faust.


- Faust reproachfully watched the chefs leave. Figures she'd bring the bloody chefs in here to show me up...

Faust sighed, growing tired, until she started advancing on him. He looked upon her wide eyed, tensing up. "Hee hee" he laughed nervously. "Oh dear ....Gertrude, I was just kidding, we were just having a row, right? Oh yes, that's all it was. Did I say mediocre? I mean no I didn't, you probably heard that, but what I really said was..." *what rhymes with mediocre?* "You're a pretty choker" he flushed, probably thinking that that was worse.
He did find her pretty, but really, her love of the Queen really did not make her his type.
*But wait! Maybe that might work, maybe she'll go easy on me.... *
"Yes, a pretty choker..." he smiled


- Sacromares laughed at the fight with the two foolish demons. He then heard Angel's remark, "You are as foolish as them, " He laughed louder.

He then noticed Gertrude advance, "Remember dear Gertrude don't give a fatal wound or I'll have to cave in your head with that mace."


- Gertrude gushed at Faust's remark. "Oh a pretty choker, oh stop" she giggled.

She paused, returning to her senses. "Hey! Wait a minute!..." she scowled, "I'm not falling for your tricks, oh no, you can forget it..." she came up to Faust raising the mace.

At that point, Sacromares gave his two cents. She scowled at him, lowering the mace, but thinking about it, turning back to Faust, she said " Alright that's it. No more games. You tell me something of value right now, or I'll do it!" she said seriously, threatening him with the weapon.


- Faust gazed into her face, trying to analyze her intentions. They seemed to be in some sort of time freeze, the seconds going by agonizingly. She seemed pretty keen to do it.

"Alright, I'll tell you something... but I don't know, maybe your Queen would have some interest."

He sighed. He didn't really want to say anything, even though it shouldn't have concerned him. A guilty feeling entered the pit of his stomach. He decided to tell her about the situation with Quinn.

"Alright, the thing is... when your Queen came to Magicoz, I don't know if she was aware that the Empress of Magicoz, her name is Quinn, was being tortured by my Master. My Master brought her there, with his talents, and I got to torture her!" he smiled, but then resumed the story "Well I didn't know exactly what happened, but I saw her party leave,(I was partly frozen) and she looked to be heavily injured....heavily burned......" Faust felt sick, he didn't want to tell her this part, though he should have been relishing the moment, "Well the thing is, the Empress right now would probably be weak......if your Queen had any interest in that"


- Angel watched back and forth between the two.
*Like two peas in a pod*
she glared at Sacroamres when he made the remark about her.


- Gertrude listened to Faust's story, looking at him intently. She waited a few seconds after he finished, then smiled.

"Well dear Fausty, that's quite the information, oh yes, I think my Queen would find that very useful..." she did not consider that he was lying, it made sense that an evil mind would want to get back at the Empress.

*Ugh, did I just think him evil?*

"Perhaps I won't kill you after all..." she smiled, impressed by his information, and strategic mind, then shook her head. " I mean, maybe I will, we'll see..." she tried putting back up her torture master front.


-Angel looked at Gert, and she could have sworn she saw a litle twinkle in her eye.


-Faust cocked an eyebrow and grinned at Gertrude. Even to him, she was transparent.
*Oh yeah, I still got a way with the ladies*


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