<font color=red>And had her heart not been as black and cold as her soul, his plea could have affected her. But her heart had long since been warm and she just sneered yet again.

" We do not have time for these games, Pretender, not when there is blood yet to be spilt. Make up your minds or let us be on our way."

Lupercus grinned.

"Then come, shed some blood with me..."

<font color=red>A tiny smile creapt onto her crimson lips.

" Well... when you put it that way, how can we say no?"

Tevarii turned back to Lupercus - Pinhead, and smiled devilishly.

Lupercus smiled thiny with satisfaction, then turned on his heel. The tower of bones was almost complete, as was the slaughter, but still there was some sport to be had. Sprinting down an alley he saw a family cowering. Roaring at them, they broke into a run in an attempt to escape.

Laughing to himself he lept up onto the roof of a building as they turned out of the alley and into a nearby street. He ran along the roof tops for a moment, before launching himself into the air and towards the fleeing family. As he landed he heard the satisfying crack as he hit feet first the father, the family still running. With a snarl, he sliced off his head.

One by one, you shall fall. Then down will come baby, cradle and all...

<font color=red>Tevarii watched as Lupercus removed the father's head from his neck, and chuckled. She was somewhat disappointed. The father's pain had been minimal, almost not there, for he didn't even scream.

And the screams were the best part.

Dark eyes followed the rest of the fleeing family, time seemingly slowing all around her. Tevarii closed those dark orbs, pulling the dark emotions and powers that saturated the city to her. She held her hand out before her, palm up, and willed that power to congeal into a cohesive sphere of swirling black fire hovering just above her hand.

" Catch." With the dark force propelling it even faster, Tevarii threw the fire at the eldest of the family's children - a teenaged son.

In seconds the flames had engulfed him, his hands battering against his body in an attempt to extinguish the fire. It burned at his clothes, his flesh, and there was nothing he could do to put of that fire. His family, panick stricken, did not even falter in their flight as he fell to the streets. His screams echoed deliciously, the flames growing bigger and blacker with every passing moment.

Minutes later he finally passed out from the pain, the flames having ravaged most of his body, Tevarii smiled, letting the boy's screams reverberate in her ears, knowing that the dark flames would not extinguish until there was nothing left of the boy beside a pile of ash.

Lupercus grinned as the boy burst into those impure flames, his screams echoing around the streets for miles. Determined not to be shown up, he sprinted after the fleeing family and vaulted over the burning body, straight through the rising flames. As he chased, he felt his speed build up as he propelled himself down the street through the Force, easily gaining. As he got closer he began to laugh, a strong yet chilling laugh that caused the family to look over their shoulder as one at the howling banshee who followed them. They screamed with terror before speeding up, trying with all their hearts to pull away.

Still laughing, he closed on the closest family member, the mother. With a choking snarl his sabres were reactivated and with a viciousness bourne of insanity, precisely sliced her hamstrings off. As she tripped and began to fall, Lupercus' other sabre stabbed in, straight through her back. Lupercus jerked back, sending her upright as blood streamed from her chest and legs. She tried to scream but nothing came out such was the intensity of her terror and pain. As the coup de gras Lupercus smiled, his other sabre coming in deactivated and pointed point blank into her head. It activated and she fell limp, pain and terror gone from her mind.

<font color=red>Impressive, but nothing she had not seen before. In fact, nothing she had witnessed here today was anything new to her. Tevarii had long ago envissioned the ways in which she could kill those that stood in her way or opposed her, and the Cenobites were not very creative. Even this new persona of Lupercus' was not very imaginative.

With a sigh, she once again called on the dark energies that surrounded the planet and sent a ball of black fire soaring down the street to engulf the youngest of the remaining two children. Even the girls high shrills did little to lift her mood.

A sigh escaped her lips again and she watched Lupercus continue the chase.

" Bored now..."

Lupercus continued to sprint after the remaining child when suddenly something on the wind caught his attention. It was a single phrase.

Bored now...

Lupercus pulled himself to a halt and clicked his fingers as he did so. As the remaining child ran past a dark alley, two Cenobites lept upon it. It was morbid to watch, had Lupercus been watching. Lupercus was back in control, for the moment, and he remembered that phrase. When he saw her he smiled.

"Can you feel the love?"

<font color=red>She arched an eyebrow, intrigued at the subtle change she felt in the Hapan Prince. The energies she felt eminating from him were not as chaotic, but more centralized and coherant. It would appear as though 'Lupercus' was once more in control.

She allowed a small, lecherous smile play across her lips as she made her way down the street toward him. She moved slowly, purposefully, like a predator stalking its prey. Never loosing eye contact with him she neared him, the palm of her hand reaching out to press against his chest when she stood before him.

" Love, our dear Lupercus, has nothing to do with it..."

Even beneath the fabric of his tunic, the skin beneath her touch began to burn as she focussed her hatred into him. Tevarii took another step, pressing against him as she leaned in, her lips hovering a hairs breath away from his.

When she spoke again, her voice was low and husky, beconning to him with more than just her words.

" ... only pure, unadaulterated Hate. Dark, powerful, all consuming Hate. The truest of all emotions, the fuel which feeds the flames of our desires. Hate, the thing which binds us to you. Always, you are ours as we are yours."

Lupercus smiled thinly as one of the Cenobites that was apart of his chosen approached him.

We are ready. The population has been killed entirely.

Lupercus nodded and turned back to Tevarii.

"Indeed, and such is the purity of my hate that a planet has been purged in its honour."

Lupercus grinned and looked deep into the eyes of the woman he held, looking deeping into her soul. Reaching up he lightly stroked her face, blood still pouring out of his chest wound. Reaching in he kissed her fully, his entire body getting involved. The kiss was filled with passion, hate, lust and anger spilling over into the kiss.