Zark entered through the portal and ended up in a dark corridor. He looked back to ensure the portal would be open when he returned. It was quiet except for the ceiling, where something in red was dropping down on the ground. He put his hand out to taste the red drop, noticing it was blood. The whole situation didn't make sense because he was here to get someone, but he started to doubt if he was in the right place. As he walked through the corridor with what looked like blood smothered in the walls, it made him think he may be in an isolated area shut off from the rest of the world. Small lights were flickering on the ceiling. The corridor was quite a distance to walk, with blood from handprints also showing up on the walls after walking for a while.
After a few minutes of walking, the corridor ended with only one door on the right side. Suddenly, a noise came from the same direction as the portal; someone was running and making loud sounds from a distance. Zark lit up his right hand with a black-blue fire and waited as the sound came closer and closer to him. Sandra showed up from the shadows with blood drops around her jacket, and the tension inside Zark, who was ready for battle, disappeared.
"What are you doing here, Sandra?" Zark expressed his frustration because he could have attacked her.
Sandra was out of breath and had to bend down to catch her breath with a finger in the air as if this was a moment of pause for them. Zark waited for her to explain why she had followed him.
"I thought you needed help!"
Zark was stunned by the reply because he was stronger than her, and she insisted on running through a corridor with blood dripping from the ceiling with handprints of blood filling up the walls through the corridor. He couldn't understand because this wasn't directly an everyday assignment.
"I don't think you understand, Sandra! I am here on a rescue mission; we are not here to stir up a fight, and I know you like to stir up fights with everyone to test your skills." He tried to explain to her.
Sandra shook her head in denial.
"I promise I will not start anything. I will only follow you." She tried explaining to Zark with a big smile.
Zark didn't want to argue and waved her off, even if he knew she would follow him anyway. He opened the door and walked through it, ending in what looked like a mansion. There were gold-plated chairs around, and the tables were all covered in gold. There were even fresh flowers around as if someone was there, but nobody was in sight. His eyes were on the stairways to the second floor, which looked like they were in what looked like the central area. A light push was made on Zark from behind as Sandra opened her mouth in awe of the big mansion and the rich environment. When he looked back, he noticed they had gone through a wall; Zark needed to be sure, so he put his hands towards the wall, and it went through, making sure the open space was there when they returned.
"If I find a gold spoon, can I take it home?" Sandra whispered with her eyes lit up.
Zark nodded and waved to her to return behind him again. Sandra quickly hurried and stood behind him. He slowly and quietly started to go up the stairs when Sandra fell on her leg, but she managed to stop the fall on the stairs. He looked back at her as she smirked like she had achieved something by not making a loud sound.
When they reached the top of the stairs, the walls suddenly changed from the beautiful yellow colors and turned into blood, and a flood of blood started to run down the wall. Zark was worried that maybe whoever was here knew they had entered the mansion because of the blood. There was a sound from a distance, and as they followed it to a double door, they noticed it was a baby's cries. The baby kept crying, and both put their ears towards the doors to check if they could hear other voices.
"STOP MOVING AROUND!" A female voice screamed out as the cries from the baby continued.
Zark took a couple of steps back as Sandra moved to the side, and he leaped towards the door, throwing his whole body as it cracked down with him trying to make a proper roll, but he lost balance, falling without keeping his balance. Sandra ran inside the room after him, noticing that Zark knew the doors had guards inside, which made her open her mouth in awe. Zark quickly got up, and both stared around the gigantic room while Sandra tried to count how many enemies there were with excitement. Zark's expression was another matter. A woman in a blue dress covered in glitter was looking at them with a knife in her hand and a baby crying under her on the table, which made it look like she was going to kill the baby.
"Stop counting the enemies, Sandra!" Zark whispered.
The enemies turned around, staring at both of them with red eyes and some growling, but they were humans, well, most probably dead humans.
"I think there are around 50 demons or humans, or maybe they just use red lenses!" Sandra whispered.
"Remember when I said not to stir something up? Well, I will allow you to go all out here. I go to the right, and you to the left. Remember that the mission is to save the baby." Zark whispered.
"Wait a minute, I am on the right side and you to the left. Why are we switching?" Sandra whispered, Zark staring at her, not believing she couldn't be serious, as Zark's tactic was to confuse them.
"KILL THEM!" The woman in the dress yelled out.
Sandra quickly moved to the left as Zark moved to the right. With a high jump from Sandra in the air, her right foot turned into the yellow fire as she struck one of the demons. It was like slow motion as the demons flew toward the ones behind with lightning speed like a bowling ball through other demons and hit the wall, crushing all the bones. The woman on the pillar noticed this from all the blood splattering on the wall. She took out her gold-plated sword, which turned into fire as she prepared for battle.
Zark threw out four threads, grabbing the legs of a couple of demons as he pulled it so several of them fell to the ground and quickly switched to black fire as it looked like he was holding on to two batons with black fire on them and the woman screamed out in the air as she recognized him.
"TRISTO!" She screamed out and went down from the pillar of death and started to move towards Zark.
Every hit from Zark on the other demons made them catch black fire, with their souls getting dragged down beneath the ground back to Hell. Zark did not notice that the woman was coming fast as they approached each other. At the exact moment when she was going to strike Zark, a demon body flew between them and hit the wall, with the splatter of blood hitting the woman's dress. Zark was pissed off at Sandra because the body almost hit him.
"LOOK WHERE YOU KICK THE BODIES, THAT ALMOST HIT ME!". Zark screamed at Sandra as she put out her tongue, taunting him.
The woman screamed out in the air of all the blood in her dress as she started to flow in the air, and the sword began to float around, hitting all her servants. Zark rolled when the sword flew towards him. Sandra reached the pillar and grabbed the baby, who suddenly went quiet in her arms. She quickly went down and ran towards the door with the baby as the sword flew towards her. Zark threw one of his batons, hitting it to the wall. The woman kept floating in the air, following Sandra as Zark tried to back away to the door to keep an eye on the flying woman.
"My most trusty servant entered a human without killing it. How could you betray your Queen and change sides? You were special and the only one who would have made a great leader to lead the other Krat. Instead, you escaped and joined the enemy. THE ENEMY!!!! HOW DARE YOU, TRISTO?" She screamed out, with a yellow aura gushing out of her body, and Zark knew she was speaking with the other one.
Zark blinked as his eyes changed to red color, and he answered:
"You enslaved us. I found someone worthy to call family. You are not worthy, Samantha!" The voice spoke through Zarks body.
Samantha's eyes turned blue as the walls in the room started to crack, and Zark realized it was time to run. The Witch kept floating after Zark, who jumped directly from the second floor, not realizing he jumped onto a table, and immediately felt pain in his right foot. Samantha was floating down with the sword, coming towards Zark. He rolled to the side and saw the whole sword plunge through the floor, which widened Zark's eyes as the sword moved faster than before. He saw that Sandra was waiting for him by the wall when suddenly a knife went through the wall, stabbing Sandra's stomach with blood quickly covering the shining floor with a shocked Zark staring in disbelief.
"NO!" He screamed out as Sandra slowly moved away and sat down on the wall when several demons came through the wall.
His body caught black fire as he quickly went up, running toward Sandra. It changed color, so half the body was burning blue fire. Samantha got caught off guard as Zark pulled out two thick ropes long enough to reach her in the air with two different burning colors on them. Samantha thought it was ropes, but that was wrong. Zark had just pulled out two whips inherited from his mother, Trissa Van Polan.