((Except if she's already used the weapon against you... well... Let's just say grabbing it won't be the most pleasant feeling in the world...

@serenity - I know she's waiting, though she didn't want to see the punishment that was taking place, so she'll have to wait a moment while Amelia finishes up. ))

Amelia stood emotionless as she normally did, even despite the ferocity of the demon infront of her and her seemingly dire situation it would make one start to wonder if she even had emotions. Did she feel fear? happines? Regardless, she seemed an immovable force against an unstoppable magical fire. Removing her clove, she unzipped her forearm and pulled the red leather back for she would hate to see it melted to her skin. She could feel the heat surround her, the feeling of her leather heating up her legs to the point of the uncomfortable feeling of skin turning red due to the heat. Her slender fingers extended out into the fire until her whole hand was engulfed and part of her hand. The pain was indeed excruciating and a much different feeling of that of her Agiel. She could see her skin begin to blister and as the fire seemingly consumed her hand.

"And what..." She began to spoke, pulling her eyes away from her burning hand to Hotaru, her face was still as placant as it was before, though her forehead was beginning to perspire due to the heat. "...Where you trying to accomplish?" The flames instantly extinguished themselves out around her, and with her Agiel tight in hand. She used the fox demon's magic back on himself to inflict large amounts of unforeseen pain.

Hotaru made a mistake to use his magic against her, for now not only did she control his fire magic, but his thoughts would no longer hold mystery to them for she would be able to in a way, sense what his thoughts are.

(kk am leaving soon so I might not post all day)

((wow lol lets not grab it then lol))

Hotaru growled when he heard the question that she asked, he couldn’t even see how some one willing would put their hand into his fox fire, then he was taken by surprise when the flames disappeared, in his knowledge it was impossible for that to happen unless another fox demon did it. He growled, and was about to us another power on her but then she used his own power against him, which brought the demon to his knees.

‘How is this even possible?’ he was barely able to think through the agony that the flames inflicted upon his mind, he was burning to death in more ways then one, soon tears began to stream down his face as his body tried to cool it self. ‘She is good.’ his thoughts were short and to the point, but he could never think for very long as he saw his past burn up in his mind’s eye, as he burned up from the very flames he used to get away from people, to get back at people.

When the pain was so unbearable to the point he screamed aloud instead of in his mind, he looked at the woman with hate filled eyes, the flames she used on him were far different from that of his fox fire, it was like there was more behind it then what he had put behind his. ‘I won’t break…..I will break her….’ he was still defiant even though he had been put through more pain then what others think he had been put through.

Once he was able to, he lifted his head up and looked at her with his pain filled eyes, there was hate in them but they were drowned out by the pain. ‘I will not break, honey.’ he thought as he stared her down as best as he could through the pain, he was even having trouble breathing, his skin was oozing some yellow liquid, his hair was burning off. His instinct told him to become a fox and to get out of the flames that were consuming him.

He began to shift but barely, he didn’t even become a whole fox like he wanted to but the half state that he was in when he got caught. ‘Female…..equals mate.’ his thoughts took a strange turn as he curled in on him self, trying to be as small as he could get, but sadly he was still in pain and forgot that he could do something about it, he screamed even more as they started to burn his fur away from him.

"You will break eventually slave." She spoke coldly before extinguishing the fire. Her hand throbbed, but the pain was like a fly trying to bother an ox, irritating but overall not impressive. Bringing her other good hand above her injured, she used her power to regenerate and heal her hand. The pain in healing her hand was almost just as bad as it being burned. She could feel the nerves in her hand sparking back to life and the regeneration of her skin until soon her hand appeared as if nothing had happened to it other than it looked slighly pink due to the new skin that was formed.

Again, the insolent slave Katie shouted out at Amelia. She knew nothing and Amelia would be sure to have her time with the slave later, but for now, she had other matters to attend to.

Amelia was not a big fan of fire injuries, therefore she first, brought down the shackles so that though Hotaru was crumpled up on the ground, she could still fit the shackles around his wrists. Hotaru, towards the end, obviously began to head into a delerious state for his last coherent thought was odd and unusual for the situation meaning his mind was trying to escape the pain of what was happening to him.

Not wanting the fox demon to have hideous burn scars, Amelia instantly took to work on healing his burns with her power. Her hands hovered above his body as a white light seemed to radiate from her hands. She delved her mind into the soul purpose of healing his newly charred skin and fur and just like with the pain of healing her own hand, she could also feel the pain of healing Hotaru though she never showed it. She did, however, had to admit that this demon must've been under extreme painful torture before to be able to endure what she had given him so remarkably well.

((She knew nothing? > . < Wow, shes a bitch. ))

((LoL I suppose so... it's not her fault slaves are acting out D: If you were all obedient and respectful, there'd be no problem :] ))

((O.o Who wouldn't act out if you were watching that? ))

With one last painful moment, the healing the Hotaru was finished. Amelia looked over the crazed slave and realized that the shock of her being able to control his magic must've overwhelmed the demon. Anything she did right now would fall on death ears. Instead, she needed to give the slave some time to recooperate and gather his wits.

Unhooking Hotaru's restraints, she dragged him over to his previous holding cage and threw him in. She didn't even bother to hold his magic for she was already using his own magic against him by setting a sort of boundry for him. Standing aside, she left the cage door wide open.

"If you make it outside, you may have your freedom." Amelia stated, and she meant what she said. Hotaru may have not been in his right mind at the moment, but she figured the chance at freedom would at least give him motivation for his mind to come back to reality.

Though, any attempt by Hotaru to leave his cage would mean more pain than he could ever imagine. So much pain in fact that if he were to even be able to withstand being even just a few seconds outside his cage, Amelia would be impressed... Of course, he might end up begging her to take him back inside his cage due to being immobile from the sheer pain that would weigh him down.

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((I'm going to be sporatic today... my summer class started and I'm inbetween studying and about to take a nap... I'm soo sleepy O.O ))

((i will post when i can but my niece is stilling me away at the moment lol so love yall be back as soon as i can lol))

When Ella saw that the mistress was finished with the boy she began scooting away to the back of her cage again, eager to distance herself from the girl who had spoken out. Her heart almost stopped when the mistress turned in their direction and began walking, sure that this girl next to her was going to be made to scream next.

But the mistress only turned and shoved the fox boy back into his cage and Ella could just hear her voice as she spoke to the injured slave, although she couldn't make out any words. Ella breathed a quick sigh of relief even though she knew that the inevitable had only been postponed.

((Will post tomorrow... have to go to bed))

Rituska lead Maetheryn down to the cellar where the slaves were held.

"Here, my Lord." He gave a slight bow as he motioned for Maetheryn to enter into the slaves corridors. Ristuka could go to his Mistress for whom Roarke had told Ritsuka that she wished to see him.

Before her, he saw her in the midst of training a slave. He was all to familiar with what her cruel side was like and even the pure agonizing torture she was about to put the fox demon through, however Amelia was so much more than that. His dark eyes trailed down to see that she firmly held the Agiel in her hand and it couldn't help but bring a sense of sadness to Ritsuka to see her holding the weapon so tightly.

"You beckoned for me Mistress?" Ritsuka stood tall and to most, he seemed to defy her by refusing to cower in the face of the scowl that was upon her face, however once Amelia realized who it was, she instantly let go of her Agiel and let it dangle around her wrist. Her attention was no longer needed to be focused on the fox demon for she had complete and utter confidence that no matter how much the fox demon tried, he would not be able to make it out even one inch of his cage very successfully.

The smile that she only gave Ritsuka graced her features, though only for a moment, and her violet eyes took on a warm glow.

"Ritsuka, please attend to Elle, I'd like her to help upstairs." Despite the gruesome tasks that Amelia had been put to, Elle had remained obedient and silent and Amelia felt the girl deserved to have some time away from her cage for being so well behaved.

"As you wish, Mistress." Ritsuka gave a slight bow before heading over to greet Elle at her cage. Meanwhile, Amelia went to check on Hotaru.

Ritsuka came to the front of Elle's cage, then motioned for one of the guards to open up the cage with just the tilt of his head. With the cage open, Ritsuka extended out his hand to help Elle out of the cage.

"Come, Mistress Amelia requires your attention elsewhere." Ritsuka was a hard human to read, though he was more than meets the eye for he had the capabilities of a wizard, though he did not know much in the way of his powers.

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Seeing that the majority of the gruesome punishment was over and the punishment room was washed down, Roarke went to gather the Mistress that was currently admiring the roses within the oasis garden. He purposefully walked towards her and gave a slight bow as a sign of respect.

"You may come down to see the slaves now, if you wish."

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Hotaru started singing as she threw into the cage, he heard what she said to him, and he could even feel the magic that she was weaving as a better cage for him. At this point he really did seem crazy but the more that he wasn’t getting hurt the more he was getting back into his right mind but he wasn’t about to let her know that he was sane again.

He didn’t even look at her, more off into the distance, he knew she was still there, he could smell her, and his tail twitched a little before he moved towards the entrance of his cage. He was still singing his song as he looked around at everyone but the woman that had tossed him into the cage. He stuck his hand out of the cage, getting shocked by what ever it was that she had done to the cage, that was when he looked at her, he didn’t understand if she meant outside with the trees or outside of his cage.

He pulled his hand back in after it got shocked, he flexed it and turned it over as he continued to sing his little crazy song again. He seemed to disappear in a puff of smoke as he turned into his fox form, he then went to the back of his cage, taking every thing in before he shot out of the cage, when he was foot from the entrance to his cage, and he collapsed to the ground.

He was still singing that stupid song in his head as he was in agonizing pain; it was unbearable to his little body, he placed his front paws over his ears, he then seemed like he was howling in pain, it was something so high pitched it hurt his ears, then it was like he was wearing a shock collar. He was collapsed on the floor a foot away from his cage, only because he did a run and jump out of it, now it was like he was dying for his actions, he even started to try and move away from the cage as much as he could, moving slowly, an inch at a time.

((the music vedio----->> YouTube - DR: demento-funny farm))

Amelia was impressed the fox made it thus far which was probably due to him going slightly out of his mind, but he wouldn't make it any further before the agonizing pain made him want to do whatever it took to stop the pain... and that would mean returning back to his cage. Though the agonizing sounds coming from the fox demon tempted Amelia to shut him up, but she figured it served as a warning to other slaves to not disobey her.

Leaving the demon be, she walked passed him for she had the link and figured that if he passed out from the pain or could not bring himself to move, she'd know about it and deal with the situation when it arose. As of right now, the demon was still singing that same song over and over again in his head and so Amelia didn't want to pay to much attention to the demon's thought.

Now, she would address Katie... Standing before Katie's cage, Amelia looked down upon the insolent slave.

"Is there something you wish to say, slave?" Amelia spoke coldly, her fist gripping the Agiel tightly.

At that moment, Ritsuka looked away to see the spectacle of the fox demon and saw that Amelia went on to address another slave, but what he noticed the most was that she still had a death grip on her Agiel. Instant sadness hinted in Ritsuka's eyes and he slightly bowed his head as he awaited for Elle to join him.

Amelia coldly examined Katie, her steel gaze betraying nothing of her thoughts.

"Very well then, I know your true character now." Was all Amelia simply said and she turned away to address more important matters.

Alexa sat in her cage watching. She was in her panther form so she was nearly invisible expect for her crimson eyes. For now she would observe before attempted anything that will get her punished. Movement caught her attention. The fox demon had try to escape his cage. Watching him struggle and in pain made her feel sorry for him, but there was nothing she could do to help him. Her gaze turned back to Amelia. What a cruel women. It would be nice to see someone take her down a few notches. Maybe make her into a slave and see how she likes it. At the thought a cat smirk crossed her face.

((I'm off to bed))

Ella looked at the man in front of her cage with slight apprehension. Cautiously, she crawled out of the cage and straightened up, the sweet feeling of finally being able to straighten her legs cutting through her general fear. Behind her, she heard the mistress (Amelia, if she heard the man correctly?) address the female slave who spoke out. But Ella didn't look back, not wishing to see whatever the mistress had in store for the girl. Instead so focused on the guards and the man who had released her. She didn't know what Amelia had in store for her but grimly decided that whatever it was, even if it was punishment (For what? It didn't matter. Some masters don't need a reason), she wouldn't get anywhere by trying to fight or run away. Amelia had already proved that twice today.

"This way." Ritsuka took Elle up out of the slave area to the main floor of the mansion. The home was very elegantly designed which was no suprise considering the Mistress of the household. The place pratically looked untouched, which it had been for the past several weeks considering up until a few days ago, only Ritsuka and Mistress Amelia were living in the household.

Leading her to one of the closets, he turned around to finally address her and what the Mistress is expecting.

"You may have been let out of your cage, but you will be required to do work in exchange. If at any point you decide you no longer want to do the tasks required of you, then you may retire to your cage." With that, Ritsuka, reached up and pulled out a black and white maid uniform and handed it to Elle and placed a duster on top.

"This is what you will wear while you perform your duties, the first of which will be dusting."

The mansion was going to be uponed up as a bread and breakfast soon and the place needed to be prepared and slaves trained in order to keep the business in working order.