RPG To Find the Infection 3: Gods' Game [M-VSL]

[Outlaw]

James tapped into the portal generating powers of the suit, attempting to create a rift in the center of one of the stars and cause it to collapse in on itself. But to no avail. The energy created by the stars was to great compared to that genreated in the portal, and it overrode the portal's own effectiveness.

"Son of a Bitch," he yelled to himself. However, he had little time to dwell on his failure, as the dark energy from the nearby planet began to approach him at incredible sppeds. James' sensors recognized that it wasn't the original energy he had senced, but a new one. James sighed as it approached nearer. It was a small pack of Shadow Warriors, no different from those he had faced befroe. Obviously, whoever was on that planet had moved on, and didn't respect James enough to send him a decent challenge. Frustrated by his plan's apparent failure, James dispathed the warriors with extreme prejudice, tearing their dark bodies appart with his bare hands.

One finished, he desided it would be ebst to get back to the others and check in on their progress. He locked onto the transmitter he had given to Majotte and activated a portal taking him only feet from Majotte's location.

"Hey Majotte. Any progress on this e....Oh Shit!" He exlaimed as he watched Jukunen litterally melt into a puddle of ooze at the hands of a demon. "What in the hell is going on here he asked Majotte, assuming he had seen the entire event unfold.

[Kre]

Even though Suzu was unconsious his energy was still fixing his broken bones. The broken bones finally healed but the fight was still progressing and there were two three new combatnats.

He got up and stood stil thats all he could do. [I]I need more power[/I] he thought.
He started rgaining a little energy, but not nearly enough. He looked over at the three new combatants and the puddle on the dirt.

Blood drippied down his forehead in more then one place. His shirt was nearly torn off.
His pants had holes and were tattered.[I]Good, I'm getting energy back while they fight.[/I] he thought.

20 minutes later he was at full power almost, but they way his body was injured he would probably burn all of it in a minute. He looked in the sky at someone who was yelling for Majotte

Suzu grinned evily.

"I'm ready to fight" He said in a growl instead of his normal voice. This anger seemed to help heal his wounds, not on the outside but it made them stop hurting and they wouldn't slow him down

[Red16]

Seidaku flew towards the grounds of the battle. He looked on at what he had just seen. Jukunen was now a black boiling puddle on the floor. Seidaku looked at the person responsible for the attack.

"Zain?" Seidaku said to the "monster".

Quickly, Seidaku flew to the puddle and began to look at it. A hand reached out of the puddle, but slowly melted back into it.

"I see, the ooze that covers Jukunen stuns the regeneration process," Jukunen's hand came back out, along with some of his arm, "but it wont hold him forever, sooner or later he will come back." Seidaku thought to himself.

Suddenly he got an idea, his brothers can be greatly slowed down by the attack Zain had done. If they could plunge all three of his brothers into that darkness that the ooze had, then it is possible that they could go forth and attack Zennousha.

"Then that is when I'll seal him away..." Seidaku said, already planning his inevitable fate.

Seidaku then remembered how pissed Zain was at him earlier, and slowly began to float back.

"If that is Zain," he thought, "he will try to kill me too. I will watch from afar then." and with that, Seidaku flew once again higher into the planets atmosphere.

"And if anything goes wrong, I blow this damn planet into oblivion, along with Zain."

((OOC: Happy Thanksgiving))

[Makurayami]

Gekido watched as Seidaku flew high into the atmosphere. Gekido longed for his blood, but he couldn't go that high into the atmosphere without running out of breath.

"Doing what you do best, eh?" Gekido sneered as Seidaku flew away. "Running." Gekido then turned to face the other children of Zennousha. Ranma and Kairiki where floating there, a bit stunned at their brother's fate. Ranma looked at Zain, his orange eyes begining to glow, the insand look coming over them. Ranma was releasing his inner chaos.

'Majotte will have to wait for later,' thought Gekido. 'This fool's mine!' With that, Gekido lunged at Ranma. The two met in a flurry of punches, kicks, and blasts, explosions ripping through the air almost every second. Gekido landed a punch on Ranma's face and followed up with a round-house kick. Ranma tumbled backwards, but fired a beam at Gekido as he did. Gekido side-steped the blast, but was singed lightly on the side. Gekido looked down, enraged that he had been touched by this weakling. He slowly pulled his sword out, which had been in its sheath at his waist till now.

"Time to bring it up a notch," Gekido smirked. He dove at Ranma, juked left, then swung a mighty right-side slash. Ranma, thrown off by the juke, couldn't catch the blade in time. It cut a deep gash in his side, going about five inches into him. He gasped as the blade slid into his flesh.

Gekido brought up his right hand and threw it forward, aiming for Ranma's chest. But Ranma still had some strength left in him. And he was insane. He brought his arms up and caught Gekido's hand. Then then gave it a giant turn, causing Gekido to flip through the air. While in the air, Gekido received a vicous kick in the gut followed by an elbow to the face. He tumbled back, then flapped his wings to steady himself.

Ranma's side was healed and flying in quickly, two beams in his hands. Gekido shifted into a stance, his blood-stained sword held high. As Ranma threw the beams, Gekido swung his sword. There was a giant explosion, then a large dust cloud. But suddenly the dust cloud was blown away, revealing Ranma and Gekido in the middle, two blurs of deadly motion.

[ShagaMage]

Looking down upon the late Jukunen his appetite for the grotesque heightens. He lets his hands take a human shape to grip his saber. Dipping his blade into the slowly reanimating muck he wispers, "your death won't be in vain, after I vanquish your killer, I'm going for you father." He then plunges his saber through the grotesque mass, which makes up Jukunen's current state, to his hand. The muck begins it be absorbed into Vec's body. Vec picks up Jukunen's last peice that he was trying to regenerate, a foot. A long slithering tongue covered in boils trails out of Vec's gaping maw. It rots the flesh from the bone, pulling the festering meat into his fanged mouth. "Oh yes, that is what I was looking for." Flames begin to reath his head and shoulders, that take the shape of horns and thorned wings. Jukunen's three orbs hover around Vec's head confusing him as their former controller. Jukunen's face rises from the much of Vec's chest, screaming as if trapped in umbearable agony.

"You feel that? ZENNOUSHA!? Your son's life force wisp away into me! You are next, and with you, I will take the thrown of power!" he screams into the cosmos, and then scours his surroundings.

Sensing their brother's life force vanish in place of Vec they are both shocked, thinking they were invincible. "GEKIDO, I WILL ALLOW YOU TO JOIN WITH ME FOR NOW, LET US SHED THE BLOOD OF THESE PATHETIC FOOLS!" he says as he augments his left hand into a meat hook, dashes towards Ranma. The Jukunen orbs blast forward towards the insane Ranma as well. Swinging viciously at Ranma with the Saber of the Abyss. Ranma flies out of the way, but the red orb meets his chest.

((Tell me if I have to delete this or not, I didn't know if you had any plans for Jukunen. The idea of reabsorbing the ooze with Jukunen's body within it came to me tonight and seems pretty sweet.))

[Kre]

Suzu looked around and stopped when his gaze had looked up Kairiki.

"Well might as well give it a shot" He said.

He powered up into SSJ3 , his power and speed sky rocketed.

"I should thank you Gekido for this form"He said

He lunged at Kairiki sucker puching him in the face while he was off guard. Agrin came over his face. Kairiki got up and they put out a massive flurry of punches and kicks.
Eventually Suzu drew his sword and stabbed Kairiki.

He yanked the sword out pulling Kairiki toward him, knocking him in the stomach he went into the air. Suzu flew up to him and stomach bashed him to the ground. But he came back up and knocked Suzu in the face followered by a punch to the ribs.

Kairiki was about to headbutt but Suzu grabbed his head and chucked him into the ground.

"Had enough?" he bellowed.

Kairiki layed still unconsious.

He looked up and saw Seidaku. ' hmm' he thought'.

(In this post i just knocke Kairiki out if your kind of confused by it))

[Sandman]

Majotte got up from laying on the ground after he had the wind knocked out of him.

"Agh. How long was I out?"

[i]Long enough for that kid Suzu to regain his strength. Long enough for Vec to join the fight. Long enough for Seidaku to make the scene. Long enough for Jukenen, Kai--[/i]

"Yea. Ok. I get it.." said Majotte as he brought his armor up to his neck, "What did you say about Seidaku?"

[i]He's high in the atmosphere, watching the scene from afar.[/i]

"Hmm. We need to talk, but I can't let the others know that I'm leaving, hell, I can't even let them know about Seidaku..I have an idea." Majotte said as he held out his hand. Less than a minute passed, and a copy of an armored Majotte stood beside him, "This should keep them fooled for awhile."

Majotte then flew off into the distance so no one would notice him when he'd make haste to the sky, at the same time, he'd have the copy Majotte make his way to battle, but hiding in the shadows. Not hiding too well, he wants to make it seem so that Majotte would lure the others in by making it look like he's hiding on them. Majotte thought this through as he headed into the way up into the atmosphere.

[i]You know, odds are good your plan will work.[/i]

"What?"

[i]I've been reading your thoughts[/i].

"Oh, real nice." Majotte replied sarcastically. Soon, he was about to lose his oxygen, so he covered his face with the metal that surrounded his body, which came with oxygen it stores while on ground incase, such an event were to happen. He neared Seidaku, and once close enough, he questioned him about what [i]exactly is happening, and who exactly is he[/i].

[Red16]

Seidaku looked on as Majotte approached him.

"So, you found a way out of the atmosphere." Seidaku said. "I suppose you want to know exactly what is happening. Look down there," he said, pointing. "That weird monster giving off that toxic aura. That is Zain. I dont know how, but he allowed himself to plunge into the depths of his own hell. He is now more powerful, and out of control." Seidaku finished, looking at the others.

"I have no idea who they are, but from what I've seen, Suzu is fighting for a better good, Zain and the other 'toxic' are against Zennousha and his children," Seidaku gave out a sigh, "Unfortunately, that means me as well." He realized that Majotte didn't have a single idea about himself.

"Now I suppose you want to know who the hell I am. Very well." Seidaku said, ready to explain everything as brief as possible.

"I am Seidaku, I was created by Zennousha along with Jukunen, Kairiki, and Ranma, who are my brothers, to destroy everything and resurrect Zennousha into the mortal plane. Somehow when I was sent to destroy earth, I became good-hearted, and fought against my family. I defeated them, and reset the universe, only for all the events to reoccur, creating an infinite loop. Only Zennousha kept his memories, and continued to try. This time however, something new happened. I'm not sure what it truley is, but whatever it was, it helped Zennousha escape. Zennousha claims this to be the last time for these events to happen."

Seidaku then looked on at Majotte. "Also, you and Zain apparently got killed during the battle.."

Seidaku looked into the stars, thought for words to say, then continued. "The one you call Urth is gone, I'm the new 'Urth'. I need to stop Zennousha, and I think I know how, but I'm going to need help..."

"I need you to come with me, if you can, to Zennousha's fortress. It is located in the depths of space, in the darkest corner of the universe." Seidaku said.

"But first, we may need to kill Zain. He is furious with me, and wants to kill me, so incase he tries something, I'm going to blow up this planet. Even if it kills everyone on it. It won't matter whether they die or not if my plan goes correctly as planned." Seidaku explained.

"So, what exactly did you come up here for, besides making me explain everything to you?"

[Kre]

He picked the stunned Kairiki up by the collar.

"I expected more from the child of a god" he said.

He threw the body on the ground. He looked around and saw Vec and Gekido 'playing' with Ranma.' hmm' he thought' My work here is done'.

He powered down but repowered up quickly enough to block a kick from Kairiki.

"You little bitch, just wont stay down will ya?"

"It'll take more to kill me" He replied.

Kairiki threw a punch and Suzu grabbed it he started pushing energy into his hands. Thrusting them out he ripped the arm from Kairiki, but he just regenerated. Suzu dove sucker punching him in the face with a follow up of a round house kick.

"Howd you like them apples?"

[Makurayami]

((Just to tell you Suzu, Kairiki is a bit above a SSJ4 in power-level...))

Gekido smiled as the demon's meat hook ripped through Ranma's chest. Gekido followed up with a black ki blast to his face, sending him flying. Gekido then looked down at the other fight. Kairiki was actually getting beat by that Sayain boy, who had miracusly survived Gekido's onslaught. How he had repaired himself was unkown to Gekido, but one thing was for sure - the boy couldn't hold that form in his current state and Kairiki knew that.

Kairiki had a habit of playing with his prey , Gekido remebered, and obviously he was doing that. The boy didn't seem aware of Kairiki's imortality. All Kairiki seemed to be doing was to let the boy burn off his power while he taught he was winning, then destroy him easily.

Clearing his head of thoughts of the boy, Gekido turned his attention back to Ranma. He had survived, or course, and was starting to regenerate his chest. Gekido flapped his wings and shot off at him, readying his sword. He teleported behind him, but received a kick in the chest. Ranma followed with a series of punches. He landed about three before Gekido threw the end of his pummel into Ranma's face. He then aimed his sword upwards in a vicous upwards slice. Ranma fell apart, his two pieces of body falling to the ground.

"NOW DEMON! FILL THE GOD CHILD WITH YOUR TOXIN!!" Gekido roared as the two pieces of Ranma fell to the ground.

[Kre]

((I thought we were about even))

Kairiki got up.

"not bad" he said dusting himself off.

Suzu waited for an attack, but one didnt happen.

"Kid, I like you ans for that I'll spare ya once" He replied

Suzu thought and had to agree he was losing power and fast. He powered down an continued watching the fight as Gekidi and Vec slicied him in half. He sat down on the ground amused by the fight.

[Outlaw]

James' sensors had picked up everything Seidaku had just told Majotte. It was only because he was listening to the two that he hadn't joined in the fight yet. But now he had heard everything he needed. He rocketed up from the ground, the thrusters in his boots leaving a dark burn mark on the ground below him. Within seconds he had reached Seidaku and Majotte. Just as he arrived, Seidaku was asking, "So, what exactly did you come up here for, besides making me explain everything to you?"

But James didn't give Majotte a chance to answer yet. "If you need someone who can breathe in space, I'm your man. But I need to help out Zain first. Just give me a few minutes." Not waiting for an answer, James launched himself down towards the battle.

He flew with incredible speeds, barreling towards the battle with reckless abandon. By the time he reached the fighters, he had broken the sound barrier four time over. With all his speed and power, he barreled his right sholder into the amused looking Kairiki, who was floating away from a young man he had never seen before. Kairiki's body was send hurtlying to the ground, his crash landing creating a massive crater.

A quick glance at Kairiki's former combatant showed a low energy reading, though there still seemed to be a massive aura of energy slowing fading away around his body. James determined the man was fine and turned is attention towards Zain's demonic from. He flew toward his old friend, hoping there was someway to return him to his humanoid form.

"Zain, what has happened to you?!" He called out, hoping to get an intellegant responce.

[Kre]

" Fool, thats not Zain he has transformed now into Gekido." Suzu answered" And if you dont stay away hell kill you"

He looked over at Kairiki who had just gotten up.

"Uhh... when do the hits stop coming?" he moaned.

Suzu gave a chuckle it's as if it was kill Kairiki day he was probablt thinking even thought he couldn't die.

"Who are you?" Suzu asked.

[Red16]

Seidaku looked on at the battle, and looked on at Zain. He began to think about how Zain was in the past.

"I can't stand watching a great fighter such as yourself fall to the darkness in such a pitiful way. I'm sorry Zain, but now you will die..." Seidaku said to himself.

Quickly, Seidaku swiftly stretched out his hand toward the planet, and began to add more power to the surface. The gravity on the planet began to change rapidly. The planet began to glow a hot red color, volcanic lava began to spurt out from cracks in the planet.

"There! The planet's core has been destroyed. In a few moments, that planet will be gone, along with anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in the blast. Forgive me Zain..." Seidaku said. He quickly flew out of the blast range and into space yet again, now heading towards Zennousha's holy grounds.

"I hope you are ready father..."

[Makurayami]

"WHAT!" Gekido yelled as he realized the planet was about to explode. He looked around, trying despartly to think of an idea. He could fly away - but no, he coulnd't breath in space. The demon could breath in space - but he was just a temporary battle alley, he probably didn't have a way to let Gekido breath in space anyways. But James - he could help somehow.

"James, I hunger not for your blood, so we are still on good terms," Gekido said to James as he turned to him. He then turned his eyes on James. "Please, companion, use your new-found teleporting abilities to get us off this doomed boulder of a planet." Gekido grabbed Jame's mechanical arm, grasping it and nodding to him to show he was ready to tag along as he was transported.

[Sandman]

Majotte seen Seidaku blast off into space, "Nice to know he cares." Majotte thought as he was still putting the pieces together. He then looked back down as Zain caught James' arm.

[i]He's vital to the plan[/i]

"Yea.." Majotte said as his armor went off his face. He rushed down to the ground as quick as he can, and grabbed Zain's massive hand, feeling the heat that was emitting from his energy. Majotte's thoughts about Zain rapidly went through his head, all the things that have happened, and all the things that had yet to happen.

[i]Do it[/i]

Majotte then pushed James back, and grabbed him before he can regain his stance, and he zoomed off into space pulling James with him.

"James..If you're not ready to breath in space, be ready. We need to make some distance, [i]and[/i] catch up to Seidaku!"

[Outlaw]

James looked up at Majotte as he was dragged along, than back at the demonic Zain. He was torn between helping Zain, the man who had brought him into this war, and Majotte, the only person who seemed to still be the same man he was when they started. It was time for him to make a choice between the two. James pulled his armored arm away from Majotte's iron tight grip, using his thrusters to stop just outside the planet's atmosphere. Staring up at the suprised Majotte, James opened a portal around himself, sending him back down to the planet's surface.

Once there, he openned yet another portal, but this time he did not enter it. "Alright Zain, I need to help Majotte, but I still owe you one. So take this portal, It'll bring you too a nearby planet with enough oxygen for you to survive. Once we find this Zen-bastard, I'll come back for you." Before Zain could respond, James rocketed himself back up into the atmosphere to Majotte.

"Alright," he said, "Lets go. I'll follow you."

As the two flew off into space, James looked back at Zain and the portal. And out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a dark figure approaching the portal from the other side. Figuring Zain could handle himself, James continued to follow Majotte, trying desperatly to catch up with Seidaku.

[Sandman]

[i]You do know what he did, right?[/i]

"No, not really. I don't even care, as long as what needs to be done gets done." Majotte said as they continued to fly through space.

[i]Oh, well you really should care. He provided a portal for Zain to get off the planet and to somewhere safe.[/i]

Majotte immediately haulted on the spot. Completely speechless, he just turned around, looked at James, and said, "Did you..Did you just make a portal for Zain? The kind of portal that would...Allow him, to get off the planet safely? [i]Along[/i] with that monster that accompanies him!?" Majotte said as the tension in his voice began to rise along with his power.

[Kre]

All Suzu could think about was gettin to that portal. He powered up to SSJ3 and zoomed towards it. It started getting smaller. He used all his might to increase his speed.

"I'm gonna make it..." He yelled with excitement.

He noticed Gekido out of the corner of his eye he didnt know weather he would knock him out of the way or not.

"Just a little more..." He said.

He zoomed right through the poratl not noticing if Gekido made it.

"That was close" He said as he passed through the portal.

[ShagaMage]

I will teleport you from this planet." Vec shouts to Gekido as a look of betrayal washed across his face. "I have the power to do it, just give me the rest of my POWER!" When he says this he stretches out his hands.

Before Zain begins to make a descision a large fissure erupts from the ground. Lava spews upwards in a wave of molten stone and flame. The ground shoot from its depths pillars of diamond and molten crystal. He just remember what Gekido had done before Seidaku had interupted them, layed Ranma upon a platter.

He looked down to see nothing in place of the bisected parts of his nemisis. Just the two large beams blast into his chest, passing through to almost the other side, but instead inflating his back into two bulbous orbs of black, as he poured energy into hi like water into a balloon. He promptly swiped his arm between the beams, severing it completely, and breaking off the power flow, sending them around his body. The energy already with bloated within him, he expelled it with his flexing chest, and it sent the wave of ki back to its owner. The spherical wave caught his feet as he began to blast skyward away from the ki. With his desintegrated legs, he could not hold off the flurry of blows that Vec through his ways, large fists planted home, and his meat hook hand drove itself into his side. He injected a small portion of his oozing mass into Ranma's body. His body was effected quickly, as large pustuals formed upon his face, as he speech began to blur with his screams.

He begins to absorb his opponents fleshs, as his lashed his long ghastly tongue acrossed the wound. He sank his teeth deeply into it sensing that this child would not add to his power, it had to be Gekido.

"Now, will you grant me back my power, or will you join in this planet's suffering?" He said as Ranma's bloody flesh slid down his cruel smiling fascade.

[Outlaw]

James could sense the anger in Majotte's voice, and he didn't like it. He knew what he did was right.

"Yeah, yeah I did. Look, I owe Zain my life, even if he is freakin insane now." James boldly stated, getting right in Majotte's face. "But that portal leads to a dessolate planet way out in the middle of nowhere. One of that Zen-bastards kids saw to that. So if we make it through this, I can help him recover from whatever happened to him. And if not, well, than he's stuck on a dead planet, and can't do any harm. Alright!? Is that good enought for you!? Now lets get going, like you said, we got allota ground to cover."

[Sandman]

"You know, I couldn't really care less if it was Zain in particular, but for godsakes! Please tell me that you weren't aware of Ranma...Fuck, were you even aware of that monster, Vec!?" Majotte said as his power began to moderate.

He looked down towards the planet the left, still in sight, "Zain's not stupid. Whether he's somewhere deep inside that monster, if he needs to live, he'll do what he has to do. Something tells me that he tried to convince you with words of friendsh--"

[i]Take it easy, currently, he's the only one around you who's willing to stay on your side.[/i]

"Man, this is bullshit. If Zain gets back on my road, you'll be next on the list." Majotte said as he flew in Seidaku's direction in a level of speed that's just below the amount of speed he once used to transport through timelines.

[Makurayami]

"I will give you your power back, demon, but right now we need to get out of here!" Gekido shouted. He quickly teleported behind the demon, shoved him into the portal and flew in behind him. He made it just in time, the portal sealed and the planet blew up a mere split-second after he was in the portal.

Gekido's vision slowly cleared as he found himself laying on the ground. He flapped his large black wings and brought himself back to his feet. Looking around he saw that the boy, Suzu, was on the ground next to him. The demon was already up, looking a bit angry at Gekido.

"Before we engage in useless bloodshed, let me first explain. We didn't have enough time to transfer power, so I got you into the portal. That took us here. Now that we are here, I will give you your power, but hear me out.

"I propose a partnership between you and me. Together we could take down the remaining Zennousha child, no doubt he's still alive no doubt, and he's the strongest one. Then we could even take on Zennousha, my power and your demonic ooze combined could destroy him. And after that, we would have Majotte and Seidaku to despose of, James stays though, I owe him. But of course, then there are planets that are ours for the taking. Oh, think of the fun.

Eigther way, I'll give you your power back, but you still owe me a transportation. Don't forget your words on Char. But what do you say to our alliance. Hmmm? Oh, and I'm Gekido - speak it with respect. What is your proper name anyways, demon?"

EDIT: ((I was just informed that Red will be out for four days or so, computer trouble. So, try to take it easy, don't make it too much work for him to catch up on.))

[ShagaMage]

A grave smile traces its way across his oozing face. He wipes a part of the late Ranma's torso from his gaping maw of needle like teeth. He agreed with his Shar and Gekido on this, senseless bloodshed was not needed, and Kairiki was still out there. He smiled as he looks at his shoulders, two familiar faces had risen in the muck, Ranma's and Jukunen's.

"I feel a part of me missing," he says with a horrifying rasp. "Kairiki, is the one I long to have suffering within me. Yes, I am quite sure that I will ally myself with you Gekido. I am Sal'es Vec, and my Demon Lord that anchors with me is Shar Korukawa. This seems most prosperous for us both."

((Will edit more in, my dad is kicking me off for a while.))

[Makurayami]

A smile crossed Gekido's lips, which broke into a sinster grin, his fanged teeth revealing themselves. He held out his hand a summoned the demon's ooze that was still inside of him. While the ooze gave Shar and Sal'es powers, it was just an extra house guest in Gekido's body. The reason he had taken it in the first place was to merely incapacitate Shar for Gekido to get control of the situation. But now it was time to turn the toxic slime back over to its owner.

The ooze came out of his many pores in his hand, small strands all floating up to form a medium-sized ball of muck which floated slightly above Gekido's hand. He held out his hand to Sal'es.

"Here is your power, Sal'es. Once you have asorbed it fully, we should be off to find Kairiki. Then to Zennousha." Gekido looked down at the boy on the ground. "Oh, but what about the boy here? Should we just leave him here on this desolate waste land? Or bring him along?" Memories of Suzu trying to fight Gekido swirled into his mind. "Or maybe it's just better to leave him here, to make him pay for what he attempted to do to me back on Char."