Avira's Prov:

Music was playing... The soft melody seemed to fill my body, floating me along a endless river of different textures, soft drums and violins that held me so effortless... Discovering I could open my eyes I found myself in a ball room, dark mysterious masked figures waltzed around the softly dim lit room, on the stage stood the band playing and a tall figure which I guessed to be a man, he seemed to be dressed in complete black and wearing a red mask as he sang gently... As I heard the man sing my mind only clouded more... soon I too was swept up in the dancing of this odd yet addictive dream...

"Hold me close... Sway me more..."

I was passed from partner to partner, never once stopping.

"like a flower in the breeze, bend with me... Sway with me..."

Looking up, the ceiling swirled and turned, almost as if it were mist moving as one with us as we floated like lilies in water..

"Other dancers may be on the floor... But my eyes will see only you..."

I looked back down to my new partner, only to notice I was now in the arms of the red masked man, he span me; holding me close as we danced on.

"Only you have that magic technique, when we sway I go weak..."

Butterflies went crazy in my stomach, what was happening?...Those eyes...They seem so familiar.

"Stay with me... Sway with me... Hold me close... Sway me more..."

So... Cold... so... Cruel.

"Make me feel as only you know how... Sway me smooth... sway me now..."

Suddenly it clicked, I knew those eyes! Zack! Flash backs came fast as I remembered watching Zero leave in his search for food, falling from the tree, the feeling of the injection as I was drugged with Devils desire... This wasn't a dream! This was devils desire, a prison of my own minds making!

Mentally smacking myself I knew I had to get out of here, somehow... I looked back at the dancing figures, then at the singing man I now thought only as Zack. His earlier charm and compelling intoxicating nature now nothing but empty, rough, and harsh.

"Zack?... Where am I?...this isn't a dream, is it? Did you drug me? Why?..." The man that was but wasn't Zack grinned a unnaturally wide grin, full of pearly white teeth "hush Avira... Let us sway... Give in little bird... Give into the music... All is well, your safe... Dance with me Avira, dance with me forever..." his voice was seductive as he spoke, I felt my body reluctantly starting to relax against my own wishes, his soft words tickling my ear.

I screamed in my head at myself to get a grip, I had to fight!

The pull... It was so strong... So compelling... Soothing my tired human soul... I felt my body submitting, completely betraying me to the sinful music... Lost in the man's deep bottomless star filled eyes, a single tear ran down my cheek.

I knew I had to get out, I had to fight this! Summoning all the power I had, all my strength, my sheer will to survive! I forced my eyes to close, shutting out the music best I could and concentrating with all my might, I forced myself to ignore the seductive pull of the music... the dancing I know will be endless if I were to give in, a prisoner to my own mind for the rest of eternity..."I will never give in, never! NO!" Releasing all my rage I'd bottled over the years, all my pain, all the will I had inside myself, I let it all go as I shouted that single measly 'no'

Suddenly zacks smile turned into to a nasty sneer as everyone was thrown away from me, the music still going but growing dimmer by the second as I stood my ground. I wasn't going to WAIT to be rescued! This isn't some romantic novel where the man comes to save the damsel in distress!

"I am Avira! I may be a orphan, a human... I may not have parents or much to offer but I will NEVER bow to scum like you!" Overflowing with this strange sudden power inside of me, I raised my palm to face Zack as he suddenly leaps in attack towards me, snarling like the monster I always knew him to be inside. "This is MY mind! You will abide by MY will and no other! I will not be your puppet now or in the next life!" The room span as it was suddenly filled with a piercing purple light. I was just able to give a small smug satisfied smile as the cries of my enemy fill my ears before once again, I was met with nothingness... Once again, I was dead to this world and falling into the hollow empty blackness of unconsciousness.

Zero's Prov:

I could sense something was wrong straight away. A feeling of dread settled making my fur stand on end as I prowled the shadows in my leopard form, it sure was handy for getting around in the human realm. Well, long as I was careful not to be seen... After all, it isn't every day one see's a leopard in a town now was it. I wasn't here to make trouble, unfortunately it was just my luck that trouble seemed to have a certain liking to me. Climbing a near by tree I lounged on a sturdy branch watching all below as well as of that around me, cautious as ever.

I just couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong... Everything seemed great, my human was hungry and it was only right to fetch her some food more to her liking... She obviously didn't care for mine. Honestly, I didn't either. Demons can eat all things a human can but it is really the emotion, the spirit and soul, that we get a real kick out of. Feelings of fear, hatred and sorrow were the most appealing. Personally I put down our destructive violent loathing nature to this very fact... We just can't resist negative emotions when presented with such, so who can really blame us for wanting to make more? Though naturally some demons take it a little to far... And positive emotions while not as satisfying would surely service.

Closing my eyes I focused hard, ah... Sweet sweet anguish... Someone was most definitely in trouble... Scared almost... But not without hope. Something seemed oddly familiar about their energy, something foreign... And something of my own... Avira! She must be in danger, it was the only conclusion I could come to for her to feel such a way.

I silently leaped from the tree to the soft ground, shifting back to my demonic form just as my feet landed firmly on the floor. "I don't understand... You were safe when I left you. What has happened Avira?" With a heavy sigh, I set off in a run in what I knew was my humans direction, her emotions guiding me without fault. I had to save her, she was my human after all... My friend.