The Kill

Richard sighed a little as he finished the four circles with the chalk, throwing the small white stick away with a scowl. He wasn't really opposed to using tricks to win a fight but it wasn't really something he wanted to do. If there was any indication that a fight with Hades would have been fair, as in if both of them could die, then he'd have taken that option. As it was his research had led him to this point. The research had led him to the conclusion that a person with control of his own soul, along with the spirits of other things, was likely able to actively stop himself from dying by forcing his soul to remain in the body.

He threw his overcoat out of the four circles casually as he began to unbutton his shirt. Once that was unbuttoned as well he threw it to the side, his body covered in blue woad in intricate Celtic patterns. Frowning a little he thought about the irony of a latin spell using Celtic patterns he picked up a hardness, a single knife held in a sheath just under his right arm. Holding his wand tightly in his right hand he looked away from the gate for a few moments before waving his wand in a series of intricate patterns, muttering under his breath. The four circles glowed briefly before they stopped. To him they looked normal and their magic felt normal but they were hidden now, with only him being able to feel them or see them. Taking a deep breath he spun on the spot, firing off a blasting hex that splashed violently against the wards of Malfoy Manor just in front of the main gate, a few feet from the outer most circle. He growled a little more to complete the illusion that he'd wandered up here without a plan,

"MALFOY!" he roared, slamming the wards with another blasting hex, knowing that all it would do was alert the people within the manor to his presence, "YOU AND YOUR LITTLE ORDER! FACE ME YOU COWARDS!"

Hades smiled. "Welcome. Today will just be a casual visit, we need to make sure everything is going to plan. Now..." His head tilted to the side as he felt the push on his defenses. "Please excuse me it seems we have a gate crasher. Father please continue this wont take a minute." He smiled before turning on the spot and left the room.

He left the house taking short bored strides closer to his enemy. "Romain what a lovely surprise." He smiled holding his arms out. "You should have let me know you were coming i would have put down mats so you don't ruin my soil." He smirked rolling up his sleeves.

"Now i'll give you two choices. Leave my property now and live or stay here and die very slowly and painfully? It's your choice. Im feeling... nice." He smiled stepping into the invisible circle.

The second Hades stepped into the fourth circle the ring of chalk exploded in green light, a see-through dome forcing itself into existance while at the same time pushing Hades forwards, within the central circle. By being forced past the third, second and final circles Hades activated the entire trap.

The third circle was like the fourth, outer, circle in that the chalk ring exploded in light. Also, like the fourth circle, the light solidified into a pale silver dome that swirled in thousands of tiny patterns while it sparked dangerously every other second.

The second circle exploded in light, just like the previous two, but this light solidified into five lengths of golden chains, which appeared to come out of the chalk without any support. All of the chains shot out without warning and with incredible speed. One chain wrapped around each of Hades' wrists and ankles, spreading them wide. The final chain wrapped around his neck tightly before pulling back, pulling just enough to distract his focus by giving him the impression of choking to death without actually killing him.

The final circle didn't explode into light but a length of chain did rise, silently, from the chalk before shooting forwards to wrap around Hades. When it wrapped around him the chain displayed it's incorporal properties when some of it's length vanished into his body in binding him, so as to bind his spirit totally as well as his body.

Richard waved on the spot, the sudden and large loss of magic from powering the circles causing him to become momentarily dizzy. Shaking it off, he walked closer to the restrained Hades and drew his knife. With complete emotionless calm he examined the blade,

"Hades Malfoy." he glanced at the man over his knife, "I've come to make good on a promise I made. During a near death experience I promised to be the end of you."

He looked up at Malfoy Manor, knowing that Hades had been rendered completely helpless from his specialised bindings. Patting Hades on the shoulder he moved behind the man slowly,

"You should be proud Hades." he wandered back into view, "You've got a lovely home and you're a very hard person to kill. But we're being rude."

He stood a few yards in front of Hades,

"You have guests." he tilted his head to the side, "These restraints can hold you for as long as I live. And the first two domes? They block all physical, magical and spiritual means of getting to us. I have to say I didn't think it would work but it has. Of course it only worked because you didn't expect me to use a trap but no matter. I say we wait patiently for your guests to come and watch."

Settling down into a stone chair, which had been transfigured from the ground with a wave of his wand, Richard raised an eyebrow,

"Would you care for some tea while we wait?"

He nodded standing to take his son's place. "Right lets get down to business." He smiled clapping his hands and rubbing them together. "The phoenix are now aware of our presence and so we need to keep them on guard." He said turning to look at the door wondering what his son could be doing that was taking him so long.

"Excuse me." He smiled and headed for the door, the others slowly following him. Aspen being in the lead.

"Hades?" He shouted as he ran over until the outer circle stopped him from going any further. "Release him this instant." He ordered. He looked over to Hades and thought. Release yourself from your body. We'll get it back.

He frowned fighting the urge to follow Hades and help him out. He sat back in his chair his legs resting on the table top. He smiled jumping to the lead behind Draco and headed outside. He frowned taking in the barriers he probably could jump them but for some reason his powers wouldn't work.

He growled punching the barrier. Aspen? This has to happen. Like shit it does. He growled back i am not going to stand by and watch my brother lose his soul. He paced around the circle thinking.

Stop Jamie. Aspen laughed. What? Stop him doing what? Saving his brother? He shook his head. No way. you give us all these tools to survive and yet you're just going to let him die?

Hades needs to die so he can come back bigger and stronger than before. More people will begin to fear him once they know he has conquered death himself. Now stop Jamie doing something stupid i still need him. And why arent you telling him to stop me? Im the one known for being suicidal.

Aspen you dont have the capability to love so i know you wont do anything stupid. But you will need to bring Hades back in a few days time. Of course.

Oh and Aspen? Make sure you get his body in one piece. Aspen just nodded and stood patiently waiting.

(OOC Satan)

Briony wondered where everyone was going and she followed them out to the gates of Malfoy Manor, there, was something that she had never expected to see. Her heart rate sped up a little bit and she almost ran over to where she thought she saw her husband with Hades, but it couldn't be, he would never be that stupid.

As she got closer her anger rose and her blood chilled, Briony stormed as close as she could get to Richard and she growled at him.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing?! YOU IDIOT! Let him go NOW!"

She screamed and began to pace furiously.

"DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE?! You STUPID STUPID man!

Briony held her hand over her stomach and looked at Richard with hurt in her eyes, how could he forget about her, about Annie, about their new baby? How could he risk all of that for a matter of pride?

Jamie followed Briony when she decided to leave as well. She was one of the more level-headed people so he figured that if it was something she was interested in then it was worth some interest. He wandered down lazily until he saw Hades, trapped in place with golden and etheral chains. His eyes widdened and he rushed to the outer barrier, bouncing off it violently,

"ROMAIN!" he roared loudly, his wand suddenly in his hand, "I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU! LET HIM OUT NOW!"

He gasped as the chains pulled him into place. The last one being the most uncomfortable since it kept his soul grounded. He laughed moving his head trying to free his air waves to speak. "Wow you've been doing some research. If i could, i'd applause you. You are the first to have gotten this far." He croaked trying to pull on the chains but they weren't budging.

He nodded. "I understand but i'll make you a little promise of my own. This... is not the end for me." He smirked. "Follow through with this and your life is going to be a living nightmare."

"Oh i am. Believe me. I'm proud of you for figuring all this out. But it is just a little theatrical though don't you think?" He asked.

"Very clever." He smirked. He shook his head. "Are the guests necessary? It will just complicate things. My father and brothers are in there not to mention your wife. You wont get out alive with them as witnesses." He smirked. "But on your head be it. I will be the source of your death one day."

"No but i would murder for a firewhiskey." He smirked turning to watch as his father ran towards him. "It's not good i can't hear you. It seems Romain here has done his homework and grounded me." He smiled. "Father. Just go back inside. It is just meant to be." He said nodding back towards the house. "Aspen take him away please." He asked catching the familiar look he had when speaking to Satan.

He laughed. "Oh dear someone didn't think about their wife. You see Briony i told you he was no good for you. He was more focused on revenge that he forgot about his wive and child." He smiled shaking his head.

"Jamie? Calm down okay? I'll be fine." He smiled looking at this brother. "I'm not afraid of death. I've been working along side him for long enough. Promise me you wont do anything stupid once im away? And take care of Arsen for me i'm leaving him in your care." He said looking at his father, Jamie and Aspen. "He doesn't touch him okay?" He said looking towards Rich.

Richard nodded his head in acknowledgement,

"Thank you Hades." he smiled a little, "It took a lot of work. And a lot of old scrolls and books to be fair."

He blinked a few times before smiling slowly,

"I don't particularly care if you do come back Hades." he shrugged a little, "You come back and I won't come after you. I only promised I'd kill you once. After that I don't really care. But if you come after me with intent to kill I'll fight back. After this I plan to take a backseat role in this little 'war' you've been starting. I'm not really tied to either side after all."

Cracking a grin, Richard nodded,

"Of course it's theatrical." he scoffed, "Anyone can do some spells but it takes a showman to make them this exciting."

Richard sighed a little,

"Guests so that they can see you die." he frowned a little, "You paid Cobalt to shoot me Hades. I was shot right in front of Briony. I came back and so will you, after awhile, but it's a bit of poetic justice for me to kill you in front of them."

He raised an eyebrow at Draco's snapped order before turning to Hades,

"I can see where you get it from." he noted dryly before smiling icily back at Draco, "I'm not some house-elf you can boss around Draco. I don't bow to the demands of cowards in the face of war."

Richard closed his eyes briefly as Briony began to shout at him. He knew, on some level, that her arguments were based on truth but this act wasn't really going to change the status quo, not if Hades would come back like he predicted. He sighed a little,

"Briony I'm doing this because I made a promise to do so." he looked back at Hades, "And even if he comes back he deserves to suffer for paying to have me killed. For paying to have me sent away from you."

He blinked a few times at Jamie's outburst before scowling,

"Wow, you have a temper." he rolled his eyes a little, "But you're not the first to say it. Better men than you have said the same thing and I'm the one still alive. So go sit in a corner for a mintue while the big people talk."

Richard looked at Hades with a small frown,

"I always think of my wife thank you very much." he sighed a little, "But I need to fulfil this one promise, even if it will be empty when you come back. Just for my peace of mind. After this I'm going to be a loving house-husband for quite awhile."

He sighed a little,

"This is getting long winded now." he tilted his head to the side, "If it's all the same to you, can we skip to the last part?"

He laughed. "In a fair fight we both know you'd lose. Why else would you have to trap me?" He asked raising an eyebrow. "Oh no i haven't been starting any wars Romain. I just finish them and believe me i will end this little war you think we have. As for the two orders i couldn't care less where you stand because you wont make much difference to either side."

"Well i'm looking forward to the show then. Let's see what you've got." He smirked. "So far i'm starting to get bored. But if you can impress my brother Aspen then you know you've done a good job."

He kinda shrugged against the chains. "I paid him to shoot you yes. But on his terms. It was his decision when and where to kill you. Hell it was even his choice on how to kill you. I wasn't fussy i just wanted you dead." He nodded. "Do what you like whatever makes you happier."

He growled gritting his teeth but said nothing. "Father just leave will you. Please." He smiled shaking his head. "Please!" He laughed.

"Hey! That is two people better than yourself that you have insulted. Now i would appreciate it if you didn't. Surely even you can handle that simple task." He growled. "Of course you do. That's why you are stood there about to kill one of her friends, surrounded by all the people that care about me enough to hunt you down once this process is complete. Which i'm sure even you can work out what that means for her." He said.

"A wife without a husband. A baby without a father and a wife that can do nothing to help you because that brand on her arm prevents her from attacking any member of the Macabre." He laughed. "So did you really think this through? Or were you just so hell bent on revenge you didn't figure that out?" He asked.

He rolled his head. "Oh please do this chain is starting to get uncomfortable and i'm terribly bored." He smiled.

Richard rolled his eyes with a small smile,

"And you and I both know that it would never be a fair fight anyway. A fair fight implies that both have the possibility of dying. You've cheated in that regard and you know you couldn't kill me, you're a coward just like your father and his father before him." he patted the restrained Hades on the head, "You've been trying to finish a war based on the ideals of a power-obsessed, half-blood, madman. And you want to reveal our world to the regular humans, something that would end every single one of us. Two years ago I'd wish you luck on your fool's errand and live up in the north pole. But you seem hell-bent on bringing my wife with you on a road that leads to only death. You might not understand this but I care too much to let her follow an arrogant fool like you. I don't care if she kills muggles for her revenge, it's justified. But bringing a genocide upon the wizarding world? I think I have chosen correctly to stand in the way of that."

He flicked Hades on the forehead,

"Patience is a virtue. The show starts when I say it does."

Richard rolled his eyes a little,

"That's right, blame the silently obedient dog. Because that's what Cobalt has become." he sighed and patted Hades' cheek, "You must learn to take responsibility for your actions Hades. It's part of being a man. I know you've not had much practive but it's never too late to give it a try."

He watched Hades curiously for a few moments, tilting his head to the side a little,

"That's really good." he declared eventually, "I almost believed you were capable of emotion and not just copying it from sight and mind-raping people. Oh well. I'll see if they can give you your oscar when you get back."

Richard smiled slowly,

"Mr Malfoy do you have any idea how easy it would be to bring your entire order crashing down? I trapped you Hades. All ill-will aside you're a powerful opponent with some serious paranoia." he shrugged a little, "It would hardly be a challenge to trap the others. Except maybe Aspen. He's hard to pin down so I think I'll fight him head on if I have to."

He laughed openly before patting Hades on the head again,

"Oh I'm not going to die." he smiled happily, "You really think I don't have an escape plan? Come on man, where's the mutual respect of each other's talents? I'm not going to die. I'm going to tear your soul out, burn it through with holy fire, kill your then souless body and leave. And not one of them will be able to stop me."

Richard clapped his hands together,

"Alright!" he rubbed his hands together, "The last part. Then I'm going home to have a bath, dealing with your family always makes me feel dirty. Cowards have that effect on the soldier inside me."

He held his wand up in front of Hades,

"Nichts ist für dich." he chanted as he poked Hades several times in the chest, lightly, as he focused his core, "Nichts war für dich."

Dipping his hand into his pocket he pulled out a handful of ash before throwing it into Hades' face,

"Nichts bleibt von dir." he pressed his wandtip gently against Hades' forehead, "Nichts wartet auf Sie."

He looked into Hades' eyes without emotion,

"Trauern nicht für das, was unvermeidlich ist." he commanded quietly before pushing harshly at Hades' forehead with his wandtip. His wand seemed to sink into Hades' head until a ghostly image of Hades was forcibly ejected from his body, connected by thin threads. Of course the spiritual chains had wrapped Hades' spirit up from head to toe, leaving only a slit for him to look out of without any ability to do anything. Richard carefully cut the thread connecting the soul to the body, effectively killing Hades but keeping his soul from moving on with the chains. He stood in front of Hades' body reaching up to grib the head in both hands before twisting savagely up and to the right at the same time, completely breaking the spine's connection to his skull. He pushed the dead body to the floor,

"Heuchelei, Arroganz, Stolz, Wut, Härte und Ignoranz, das sind die Marken von denen, die mit dämonischen Eigenschaften geboren werden." he commented almost idly as he began to twist his wand intricately in the silent portion of the spell. Once he reached a point he looked up at Hades again, "Sie sind nicht menschlich. brennen Im Feuer der tausend Sonnen."

White fires began at the tips of Hades' toes, burning his impure soul slowly and with the purpose of making the soul hurt for it's crimes as it wasn't going to go to hell. Normally it would be impossible for a spirit to feel pain but this pain was an extension of judgement, something that was working very well at making Hades' spirit writhe in unimaginable pain. The fires spread along the entirity of the spirit, still not burning any of it away as it strove to make Hades pay for his crimes. Richard pointed his wand at Hades passively,

"Du sind hohl." he bowed his head lightly, "Auf Wiedersehen Hades. Wir sehen uns, wenn Sie zurückkommen. Aber es wird nicht das sein Sie"

With a final push of his wand the spirit of Hades Malfoy burst into a thousand pieces, each one being totally consumed by the fire. Richard winced a little, going to one knee at the sudden loss of most of the energy inside his magical core. He let the domes fall down around him and closed his eyes,

"Eins. Zwei. Drei." he opened his eyes with a smille, casting a weak silencing charm on his ears as Cobalt disapparated in front of him. The sound of his disapparation was massive, a soundwave burst from Cobalt that even shattered the windows of Malfoy Manor that were closest to them. Dropping the charm, he heard Cobalt announce something,

"The mark is still stabilizing and is not working fully yet."

Cobalt fired two shots from his Desert Eagle, which had been concealed under his coat, hitting Jamie once in the kneecap and sending another very powerful shot at Aspen's chest. He tapped the side of his gun,

"Portus." he declared before dropping it onto Richard, warping him far away. Cobalt looked back at the assembled Order as he held his hands up in surrender, "I kept a promise and I make no appologies."

"i cannot help it if i am more powerful than you." He said. "Power has to be earned i worked hard to get where i am today. It's not my problem if you weren't smart enough to figure that out for yourself." He shrugged. "I'm not carrying on that fools work. He wanted blood purity. All i want is our freedom i couldn't care less about mugbloods supposedly stealing our powers." He shook his head. "It wont be genocide. If handled correctly and i planned to do just that."

He growled but said nothing about it, he was in any other occasion quite patient, he taught his brother the way of the mind after all and that took weeks.

He smiled shaking his head. "If you had died then by all mean i'd except that was my fault but you didn't, the obedient dog as you call him failed. He failed so there was nothing to accept responsibility for."

"Shut up Romain you know nothing about me. So don't pretend you do." He spat. "I don't need anything from you and i don't mind rape people. It's not something i can stop. Anyway i don't need to explain myself to you."

He chuckled. "You don't think i have back up plans? I thought you were smarter than that. Even if this was the end of me it would be the end of the order. There are plenty of people out there that would just love to take my place. There's four stood right there." He said nodding to beyond the circle. He turned to look at Aspen and Jamie and burst out laughing. "Sorry but those two will not go down without dragging you down with them. They are the best at what they do but you'll find that out if you try to take them on."

"Escape plans don't work now a days. Not when you have friends like we do. I know a man that can track someone down on the other side of the world with nothing but a name to go on. Now that is talent. Life is a long time when you are constantly on the run from those that want to take it away from you. So run, run as far as you can but don't think you can hide. There is not a place Aspen can't get to. No boundaries can stop him."

"Good let's get this show on the road." He said shaking his head. "We are not cowards Romain and you are no soldier." He sighed his face staying emotionless all the time staying like this as Rich followed out his plan. His face did turn to a smile however when he spotted Arsen running towards them. Their new relationship would surely break that of master and apprentice once he died at Richard's hands and he couldn't help but let out a laugh. Romain would have a lot of making up to do.

He'd always felt more comfortable in his spirit self, his body always felt like an extension of him rather than a part of him but now he left nothing. No comfort at all from the man he willingly served. He closed his eyes and embraced the pain before he blacked out gone from the world.

"What's going on Rolo? Where did everyone go?" He asked as he left his bedroom to walk down the stairs.

"They are outside young Master Arsen but i think you should stay here." He said walking in front of Arsen in an attempt to stop him from going any further.

"Why what's going on?" He asked looking out of the already open door to find a gathering just beyond the manor gates. He began to walk up towards them eager to know what was going on when he spotted them. Both Richard and his father stood in the middle alone whilst the others just stood and watched. Panicking he began to run, as fast as he could straight for them this would not end good, it never did when they got together.

He smiled at Hades as he smiled at him but then the lights left his eyes and he heard himself shouting out. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Draco at the sound of his cries turned grabbed him stopping him from going any further.

"There's nothing you can do Arsen. He's gone." He said tears now staining his face as he hugged Arsen trying to calm him down. He fought against Draco trying to escape his clasp to reach his master. "I TRUSTED YOU! I THOUGHT YOU WERE BETTER THAN THE REST!" He cried as tears of his own began to spill and to make matters worse Cobalt appear and shot down his uncle. "STOP IT! GET OFF ME!" He cried still struggling against Draco's arms.

He growled and crouched down not liking the way his brother was being mocked. He gritted his teeth his eyes never leaving contact with Hades body since that was his target. "You could certainly try Romain but it will only be fun for me. You will just be booking yourself a one way ticket to hell and believe me Luc does not like you one bit so you can be sure that your afterlife will be the worse." He smiled running his tongue over his fangs as his tattoos began to burn because of the name he hated.

"My bad Satan doesn't like you." He smiled tilting his head to the side as a new message came to him. "The boy has the ring. Get the body out of the way then get the boy to safety, i have plans for him in the future that doesn't include him dying." It whispered to him which Aspen replied to with a nod.

"Damn straight we will find you and when we do you'll be begging for death and i will kindly deny you that privilege. Doesn't that sound like fun? I can't wait. What do you think brother 2, 3 days or a week before we start the hunt?" He asked turning to look at Jamie. "I don't think i can wait till the weeks up. That's such a long time."

His eyes narrowed as his brothers neck was snapped. "ARSEN GET BACK IN THE HOUSE NOW!" He cried hearing his feet running towards them but still his eyes remained on the body.

He growled looking down at his chest once the bullet had passed through, there was no need to avoid it, it wouldn't kill him anyway. "Always with the bullets." He mutter to himself before accioing the bullet out of his chest. He waited a few seconds for the hole to start healing it's self before he jumped landing just behind Cobalt sticking a knive to the back of his kidney then leant forwards to whisper in his ear. "You're lucky i have work to do overwise that little girl of yours will be an orphan once more. Just like Arsen." He spat pulling the knife out before leaning over to take hold of Hades robes and jumping them both to his cave.

Once he was sure Hades would be fine he jumped back to help his brother. "ARSEN CALM DOWN NOW!" He cried leaning over Jamie. "You alright? Why don't you join us again brother? He's waiting for you and he's willing to forgive your moment of weakness." He said looking down to Jamies leg. "I'll be right back don't go anywhere." He smiled before jumping to Draco and Arsen and taking hold of Arsen by the arm. "Let him go Draco i've got him." He said then jumped them both to the manors basement.

He knelt down in front of Arsen keeping hold of the tops of his arms. "Listen to me Arsen. This is VERY important okay. Now did Hades give you a ring?" He asked and recieved a nod from Arsen. "Right where is it? Do you have it on you?" He asked shaking Arsen a little. "Come one this is important this could mean the difference between life and death for a lot of us... thanks now stay here i'll be back soon okay." He smiled taking the ring from around Arsen's neck once he had shown it to him.

He jumped back outside to Draco and held his hand out. "Give me the power of the order." He said simply to a confused Draco. "You have minutes maybe seconds to hand everything over to me or overload your head with power you can't control." He explained and nodded as Draco gave him his hand and a few seconds his head was filled with the minds of the other members of the order. "Good. Right we're all ready to go. want me to heal that?" He asked Jamie his fangs extending so they poked out of his top lip more than ever.

Cobalt raised an eyebrow and phased out of existance as Aspen's knife first broke the skin, leaving it to harmlessly sail through him as his power acted on instinct. He turned to Aspen with a small frown,

"You might be hard to kill Aspen..." he smiled faintly, "But I'm harder."

He rolled his eyes a little and put his intangible hands into his intangible pockets, looking over the rest of the Order that had been assembled. His eyes locked with Briony,

"Briony. Richard wanted me to give you a message." he shrugged, "I forget the precise wording, it was all flowery and lovey, but basically he said he'd be home in time for dinner. Something about lasagne. Not sure how you two can eat that stuff personally but oh well."

He waved at the rest of the Order,

"I've paid my life debt by dropping one portkey and shooting two people." he smiled a little, "Call me if you have the money for a hit. Otherwise you people can stay the fuck away from me. Mark or no, you don't have any claim over me. Toodles."

With that he disapparated again, with another mammoth 'Crack!'.

Jamie watched as both Richard and Cobalt disappeared before growling in the back of his throat. He glared up at Aspen,

"I've got a message for you to give my old boss Brother." he spat a little bit of blood onto the ground, "It's easy to remember. 'Fuck you'."

He looked down at his leg for a moment before acting, pushing two fingers into the bullet wound harshly. Turning a scream into an angry roar, he moved his fingers around inside the wound before pulling the bullet out and throwing it to the side. He stood up, ignoring how massive amounts of blood ran down his leg. Shaking his head at Aspen's offer he marched up to Draco and Aspen. Still growling loudly he looked both of them in the eyes a second,

"Richard Romain is mine." he looked at both of them, "Do you understand me? I will find him. I will kill him. ALONE! He dies by my hand! He feels no pain but by my hand! Fuck what Lucy says! He's mine!"

He couldn't help but laugh. "I highly doubt that Smith. A bullet to the chest didn't even phase me, i'm pretty sure that would slow you down." He smiled turning his back to him as he moved to remove his brother from the scene. "I get hurt if i want to get hurt. It's on my terms not yours."

He chuckled shaking his head, he had no idea why Hades kept him around when he had him. At least he got the job done. "Always so touchy." He frowned shaking his head as he returned to Jamie.

He growled. "For fucks sake Jamie. You're such an idiot." He spat gasping a little as his tattoos burnt. "I'm sick and tired of taking your pain. You got yourself into this mess its about time you sucked it up and faced the consequences. We're sick of it." He growled pushing Jamie away as his fang grew at the thought of quenching his thirst.

He shook his head. "Who died and made you Satan? I don't listen to your orders brother, not anymore. I don't follow cowards." He spat turning around to walk away. "Call me when you're fun again, otherwise stay the fuck away from me. I hate being serious but i'm in charge now and someones got to bring our brother back." He snapped jumping back to his underground cave.

Jamie growled, his wand pointed at his leg to heal the wound,

"Why am I an idiot? Because I've gotten rid of a giant source of fucking pain?" he scowled at his brother as he finished healing, "Who the fuck asked you to take the pain? You take the pain because you're still tied to a sinking ship! There is no mess for me anymore brother! I got out of my mess. I got a life. I got a woman who loves me. You think you're better than me when you're living a half-life? Fuck you Aspen!"

He scowled a little more at his brother,

"Hades died. Or were you too busy being the bitch of the devil to notice?" he spat at Aspen's feet, "You're the coward. It's easy to run to the arms of satan. It's fucking simple to lose yourself in blood and insanity."

He pushed away from his brother,

"When you're ready to be a man and not some fucking lap dog I'll talk to you." he scowled, "Consider this my resignation. Fuck you and your little club."

Drawing his wand he slashed, cutting his left forearm off and thus cutting the physical link that the mark needed to join with his mind. His arm closed it's wound with another wave of his wand before he diapparated away.

He turned back around to face his brother, tempted to bring out one of his knives but even then that wouldn't be good enough. "No one i don't have a choice. I don't ask for it im not stupid you know. I'm actually a lot smarter than you if you remember." He spat.

He growled. "No because you've pushed that source of pain onto your brothers. That's why. You saved yourself and now we're paying for it. But that's all fine because you've found the one you love. Your lifes perfect now right? It fucking better be." He growled.

"Do that again if you dare." He growled flicking his wrist so a knife sprang into his hand, no one spat at him. "Fuck you. I don't see you helping to bring him back. Whilst you were throwing a paddy. I was planning out his return. It's like being back at school all over again i'snt it? Me and Hades watching as you make a prat of yourself again. And people think i'm the dumb one." He smirked shaking his head.

He growled. "Who's running? There's nothing left here on this earth for me. I have nothing to gain by leaving him, so i wont. I'm not like you and never will be." He growled gritting his teeth. "You think i have a choice? That i like having to hide from my partner everynight? Because let's face it no one's going to want to have a partner like me. I'm a liability."

He shook his head it took everything he had to not jump over there and rip his throat out. "You think that's taken you out of the order? Do you think Hades is that stupid? He works with the mind for fucks sake we run on our heads not the tattoos. They are just an extention. So you've just wasted a perfectly good arm for no reason because i can still feel your mind." He laughed tapping the side of his head. "You'll have to kill me to be free."