A heavily crippled Helos was groaning aloud as be dipped himself repeatedly in what looked like a dark ink. A bath full of that thick, sticky liquid. 
With every dip , parts of his body, repaired itself. He walked out of his revival bath, youthful and vibrant, no longer a crippled man. 
His body charred with the toxicity of his rituals. His body succumbed under the load of the dark forces that Helos ushered to aid his evil missions. 
He walked straight to his room, staring at himself, naked in the mirror, admiring his newly formed skin, touching his wrinkle free facial features. 
Just then something dropped in the background, with a loud thud. 
" Sarah? What is this behavior? How can you drop in like this? "
He turned around to face her, cloaking his private parts with the snap of a finger in a dark leather. 
" It's Midnight... Don't call me by that facade that you force me to put up..... Now hurry up and give me my bottle. I am starving.... I am dying.... "
She did not look like the cute innocent friend that walked around the neighborhood with Sherry around the dump yard. 
She didn't even look like the vibrant companion that shadowed Sherizad, the wolf queen either. 
She looked like a corpse. Her eyes looked hollow. 
And her face was laced with anger. 
" Give it to me.... " she roared as Helos stood there, smirking at her condition. 
" Are you talking about this one? "
He asked mockingly as he conjured up a tiny bottle from thin air. 
"Yes... yes... give it to me... give it to me now..."
she crawled forward like a maniac, trying to snatch the bottle from his hand. 
" Not so fast little kitten. " Helos slammed her head with his left foot, " What took you so long to come back? "
" I was taken hostage by that b*tch... I couldn't... I couldn't... "
" Hostage? " Helos , now pressed down on her chin. 
" What you even mean? You are a werewolf. Did you already start beliveing the lie that you were living? "
His smirk was getting bitter and more sarcastic by the minute. 
Sarah, shoved him off this time with a yell that shook the foundation of the basement. 
She covered her face with her hands and started talking in a voice that definitely did not belong to Sarah, the human. It was Midnight, roaring in her werewolf voice.
 " Don't you think you have exploited me enough? " She slowly sat up and moved her hands from her face. Or whatever was left of her beautiful features. It was a face charred to it's very bone. The tissues and muscles, were all piled up in a bloody mess. Her eyes,were no longer in their socket, dangling out by the end with a few nerves. The jaws were exposed as the lips were no longer there to cover them. It was a sight so repulsive that even Helos had to look the other away. 
" Your darkness gave me a new leash of life, a new identity after the chaos on that great battle. But you took my werewolf powers from me. You made me do all your dirty tricks. You made me shadow my Sherizad, ever since she was reborn, ever since she was little. To be honest, that wasn't even that bad even though you did not allow me to revel who I or she, really was... it was all fine. "
She slowly stood up on her feet and walked towards Helos. 
" But now you are pushing me too hard. Pushing me to the edge to go against my Sherry. Do you think you have that kind of an authority over me, huh? You are trying to maul my individuality... "
But she had to abruptly stop as she fell on the ground , accompanied by a loud thud. Helos had slapped her right across her face. 
" Individuality? "
He grabbed her by her hair and forced her face further down on the floor and spat on her neck. 
" You are nothing but a puppet my little girl. You agreed to follow me unconditionally till the end of the netherworld. You should be grateful, just to be able to breathe in your original body. "
Helos bent down over her. 
" So now, you will decide where your royalty lies, little girl... " the scent of the essence from that dark little bottle was already driving her senses to a point of no return. She needed that at all cost. She needed it even if the sun was to end up the entire earth. 
" Give it to me. " she tried snatching it away from him once more at which, all she received was one more shoved. 
" You know what you have to do... " Helos calmly repeated as he stood up and smirked at her sorry condition. 
" I will. I promise I will do whatever you ask me to do. "
she said, eagerly oogling at the bottle that Helos dangled in his hand. 
" And...? " Helos smiled and urged her on. 
Midnight looked here and there. Then she bit her own self and wiped the blood that pooped out with her finger. She made a sign on the floor with that blood and placed her hand on top of that. 
" I swear my loyalty to you with my very blood. "
A fire lit the very spot as she did so and Midnight yelled again in pain. 
" That's better... " Helos smiled with satisfaction and tossed a drop from that dark bottle as Midnight licked it off from the ground. 
Her body and face started shifting as she closed her eyes with satisfaction. She sat there on her knees, breathing heavily as her features changed swiftly from that of Midnight to those of Sarah, the dear friend of Sherry. 
Finally she opened her eyes and her gaze met that of Helos. 
" You know what you need to be doing... "
Helos turned around and vanished in thin air as Sarah nodded with a slight nod, looking out towards the moon from the window.