Hunter pushed herself to her feet, scowling. Chaos raised an eyebrow. "Haven't had enough yet?"
She rolled her eyes, hands on her left side. "Have I ever?"
He snorted. "Can you tell your boyfriend to come out of the shadows?"
"He's not… my boyfriend," she forced out through gritted teeth, before taking a kick at a portion of the wall.
Kye glared at Chaos, then he began moving again. Stopping every so often to try and breathe, at one point even going down to one knee because of the pain. That and he was losing blood from an open wound, and he was seeing spots in his vision. "Yeah, no I like the shadows, they have been my only friends for a few hundred years, and I don't really want to come out. You're a dirt-bag. I don't associate with dirt-bags who can't find their way out of their own ass," Kye let his voice travel around the room, bouncing off the walls and making it sound like he was everywhere at once. That was the best way to keep his actually location hidden.
A chunk of rock fell from the ceiling, and nearly hit Chaos. He ignored it, chuckling an looking around. "Very clever, Caveman. I can see where you got your name."
"When you spend years on end down underground, you tend to learn a little bit of how the cave works. Unless you're like you and you don't try to learn anything," Kye continued moving.
Chaos seemed not to notice the jibe, or, at least, didn't let it affect him. He smiled, showing his teeth, which had been sharpened into points, and sighed, shaking his head. "Kye, Kye, Kye."
"That's my name," Kye replied. He attached a rope to a beam, and began crawling across the ceiling, to the other side of the large room. "You know, there is something you should never let me do. Can you guess what that is?"
"Live?" He snorted. "I know. I plan to change that."
"Mmm, no, not quite the answer I was looking for, but that is also probably correct. No, there is something else that you should never let me start doing," Kye pulled himself into a small crevasse on the ceiling, and took a moment to breath. The pain coursing through his body was almost unbearable, but he kept going. "I've noticed that you seem a little annoyed. That wouldn't happen to be my fault would it?"
Chaos rolled his eyes. "I'm not exactly in the mood for a heart-to-heart talk about my feelings. "Why don't you come down from your little perch so I can kill you."
Kye tightened his grip on the rope and slipped out of the crevasse. He came down and stopped about halfway between the floor and the ceiling. He was facing Chaos, and holding the rope with one arm. "Rule number one about Kye Gathrodir, never let me start talking. And rule number two, don't let me get you talking. Would you like to know what this rope is attached to?"
Chaos sighed. "Probably something stupid. Why don't you let go of it and come closer." Hunter groaned from the ground, her limbs frozen. She had been bitten by the snake, and its poison had flooded her veins, leaving her immobile.
"Mmm, I don't think you want me to do that," Kye grinned. "Unless you want the whole ceiling to come down on top of us."
Chaos scoffed. "Exaggerated threats get you nowhere."
Kye looked at him with a completely straight face. "Do I look like I'm giving an empty threat?" He looked up the rope. "If my weight leaves this rope, the beam that I tied it to shifts just right and hits the anchor beam bringing the whole roof down."
"And you'd do that? Let it go? I'm not stupid, boy. I know you care for my daughter and," he sniffed, "Order. You wouldn't want to kill them, would you?"
"That's the other thing. I can put a force field around them and protect them, while letting the rest of the cave come down on you, and douche wad pickle pants over there," Kye explained. "One of the things about being friends with a demon that's over four million years old." A purple colored ghost appeared floating next to him. "Meet Gelion, the demon that resides within me."
"Hello Chaos," Gelion twisted around and placed itself between chaos and Kye. "As much power as you think you have, can do nothing to my force fields, except make them stronger."
"Anything witty to say to that?" Kye taunted as the demon disappeared again.
"Who says I want to destroy your shields?" Chaos snorted. "Arrogant much? Besides, I no longer need to be here. I have accomplished what I came to do. Good day, Caveman." He snapped his fingers, and He and Hunter vanished in a burst of silver light.
"Dammit!" Kye bit his lip. He loosened his grip and lowered himself to the ground. Then he tied it down and limped over to Order. The other people in the room were looking around in confusion. "Where might he have gone?"
She shrugged. She still looked nervous, but less like a kicked dog than she had when Chaos was there. "Many places," she said. "He would bring her to a place that would hurt us, though. Like the place where we met." She winced, pulling herself to her feet. Then she noticed that he was limping. "What's wrong, boy?"
"Oh, not much, just that practically every single rib in my body is broken, internal bleeding is a thing, I have more bruises than regular skin, my left arm had a nice long gash down it, and Dickbag is still on the loose. And now he has leverage," Kye snapped. "That about some it up?"
Order recoiled like she had been slapped. She moved closer to him and placed her hands on him. He glowed with a white light, and when it disappeared, he was healed. She stepped away. "There. That's all I can do. I wish you luck on your quest."
Kye looked at her for a moment like she was crazy. "My Quest? Was to find and free you. Not fight a giant coo-coo brained psychopath that wants to destroy the planet. You are the one that needs to get it together and fix this."
"Me?" Order raised herself o her full height, though she was still a few inches shorter than Kye. "This isn't my fault. This was his - and Hunter's. She can fix it. I want no part of this."
"You are her mother," Kye replied in a calm voice. "And you are his wife. Stop letting him treat you like an object. If there is Chaos there has to be Order, otherwise the balance is off and things will never fix themselves. This situation needs Order, just as much as it needs a peace negotiator and a destroyer. Now stop with the whole self pity mantra and start helping me figure out where Chaos has taken Hunter."
"Why should I care about balance?" Order asked bitterly. "The world has been fine without it for this long. Why does it need me now? And why should I care about Hunter? She left me."