A Dangerous Game

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Time slowed down as the bullet entered the minotaur's shoulder, and Daniel didn't waste a second. Propelling himself intot he air, he sliced the sword through the beast's arm and cut it off from the elbow down. Perfect, that would slow him down.
Angered, the beast continued its attacks, but Daniel now had the upper hand, and he took advantage of it. "Shoulder! Hip! Knee!" he shouted, his sword slicing and dicing seconds after each shot. Finally, the beast fell to its knees, and Daniel smirked. Before it could raise a hand to protect itself, he adjusted his grip on the sword and put all his force into swinging it, cutting off the monster's head in one fell hit. His heavy boot crushed the skull as it fell, and he offered a triumphant grin to his big sister before quickly dispatching a few zombies around them.

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The bullets came seconds after Daniel yelled, distracting the minotaur long enough for Daniel's strikes to land. After a few minutes the beast's head fell, and its body followed. Charlotte visibly relaxed, smiling herself. They did it. She was so relieved that she no longer felt competitiveness with her brother. She had to admit, Daniel was very skilled. Maybe he'd make a decent Nightingale after all.

Suddenly, the ground shook again. Charlotte looked again until noticing something approach Daniel. She looked through her scope, her eyes widening as she saw it. Moving towards Daniel was another minotaur! Charlotte hastily pulled the trigger on the beast, shooting its knees several times to force it down. However, it wouldn't go down without a fight.
Yelling in rage, the monster dug its claws into the dirt and threw itself at Daniel, horns pointed. It was going so fast that Charlotte couldn't keep track. She lowered her gun to scream out his name, but something suddenly happened.
VROOOM!!
There was a blur of movement.
A figure was standing in front of the beast. The minotaur laid suspended in air for a second, as if time had slowed, then red lines showed all over it. it fell to the ground in a pile of bits.

Standing in front of the destroyed monster was Decius, holding out his circular saw, which spun furiously while shooting off the fresh blood. He turned his head to look at Daniel over his shoulder. Despite his wide, twitching smile, his big, red eyes were glowing with absolute hatred.
"Hello I say to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he giggled, though his tone was lower. He turned around to face Daniel, swinging his saw to his side. He took a menacing step forward. "What you have done first is give my grandson a state of near death, and now you are secondly invading the area that is mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Such courage you are showing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He took another step forward then lifted his blade. There was no doubt about it, he wanted to slice Daniel up! Before his arm could go down, though, the sound of a gun firing echoed and a bullet shot through his wrist, taking out his whole hand.
Decius looked down at his decapitated hand then in the area the gun came. His glare was enough to send shudders down Charlotte's spine despite the distance. That was fine. As long as Daniel got away, she'd take any hateful stare. She aimed through her gun to fire another bullet, but instead she watched in horror as Decius' hand reformed quickly. Th-That was so much faster than Cameron and Liam!

 

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The second minotaur wasn't a surprise, but Decius was. Daniel cried out as the scientist appeared, just barely ducking out of the way as his hand was shot. "Hey, we all agreed! Julian getting shot wasn't my fault!" he insisted, jumping [back further towards Charlotte. He glanced upwards. "Julian!! Little help maybe?!" he shouted, reaching back to where Charlotte was. "C'mon, we gotta get out of here while he's still growing," he urged. Suddenly, he wished his father were there.

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Julian didn't respond, didn't show any sign that he was there. Because he wasn't. Partially. He tried to stop Decius from going into the pit, but all he ended up doing was getting injected with a sleeping medicine. Currently he was slumped against the corner of the room, stuck in a deep sleep.

As Daniel got closer to her, Charlotte fired several more bullets to Decius. Every hit he took healed quicker than she could pull the trigger. Was he just that advanced at regenerating or was his anger building up his power?!
"Where do we go?" she shouted when she started running with him. "This entire place is in lockdown!"
She looked over her shoulder to see Decius running towards them, cackling in mad laughter while swing his saw in every direction, striking down nearby creatures. The creatures that weren't nearby made no attempts to get close to them. They recognized Decius enough to know that he was no one they wanted to be around.
Why was he this mad, anyway? Sure he'd be angry about them going into the pit without his permission, but this was a bit excessive! Suddenly, she remembered that talk she had with her mother over the phone. He told her how her father had been shot in the chest and was hospitalized, and in Daniel's attempts to find the person responsible Julian got shot in the head. He was in a coma for several days, and when he came to he was kidnapped by the gang boss that was Father's rival. So that was it. Decius held a deadly grudge against Daniel.

 

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He looked around, trying hard not to panic. Where was there to even go? Julian clearly wasn't going to help, and he didn't want his sister to be caught up in his mistake. He knew why Decius was so angry, but Charlotte didn't deserve this rage. The only reason he was targeting them both was because she was with him. There was only one way he might be able to get her to safety. There was an escape hatch around, most likely, that was how Decius got down. He turned to her. "Follow the walls, get somewhere high up and try to find an escape hatch. I'll distract him, just get somewhere safe," he urged, prying his arm away from hers.
"Now, Char, go!" he shouted, darting closer to Decius before just barely moving out of his way to lure him away from her. "Come on, crazy! Come and get me!" he shouted, baiting himself much like he did at the beginning of the exercise.

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Just as Daniel had predicted, Decius completely ignored Charlotte and went for him. He reached a gloved hand into his lab coat and pulled out three syringes, each filled with a different liquid; one for sleep, one for paralysis, and one for poison. They were similar to the ones Julian used when he was brainwashed. Grinning wildly, he hurled the syringes towards Daniel.
The speed was wild. One of them looked like they would hit Daniel in the head, but right before it could make contact with him a bullet shot the glass, breaking it and sending the contents spilling to the ground, the needle flying elsewhere.
Charlotte sat hunched from the spot Daniel left her, reloading her rifle. "I'm not leaving you to get mauled!" she yelled and fired another bullet into Decius' shoulder. The scientist stumbled then stopped long enough for his wound to heal, then he turned around with a furious smile on his face.

 

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Daniel didn't like his sister. He thought she was rude, entitled, and definitely a terrible role model. But damn it, she was his sister. He wasn't going to let anyone kill her but himself. Pulling his hidden second phone out of his boot, he dialed a familiar number before dropping the phone into his pocket and diving at the monstrous scientist. "Don't you dare hurt my sister!" he shouted angrily, swinging the sword every which way as the cell phone ran out, trying to reach his father.

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Decius charged at Charlotte. She fired once only for the bullet to pass through him harmlessly. She shakily reached for her smoke bomb, but the scientist was already in front of her by then. He laughed maniacally and swung his roaring saw down at her, pressing against the rifle she held up to shield her face last minute. She winced as he pressed down further, the saw digging into her gun as it inched closer to her face. This close, she could see the both dried and fresh blood covering it.
Before hers could be added to the obscure collection, Daniel attacked Decius. The scientist spun around to look at the boy he was so delighted had come to accept his fate. Roughly removing his saw, he swung it like a bat at the blonde. Sometimes it parried the sword, and sometimes the sword sliced at the doctor, only for gaping wounds to reattach themselves.
"So much slicing I will be doing to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he giggled with glee, his swings getting faster and his advances becoming aggressive. With no care for defense, he went completely on the offense.
However, Charlotte jumped on his back. Decius shrieked in surprised only for the rifled to press heavily against his throat, making his cough. He flailed wildly in an attempt to shake the girl off him, but she kept her grip firm.

Meanwhile, a muffled voice yelled Daniel's name over the phone before hanging up.

 

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The teen grit his teeth as the chainsaw managed to graze his skin, the blood easily pouring from the wound on his side. But he didn't care, he had to protect Charlotte. Unfortunately, his sister wouldn't just lay back and be a damsel, and she was on Decius' back in the blink of an eye. God. He pitied the man who ended up with her. She was going to insist on wearing the tux at the wedding.
"Damn it!" he cursed before swinging the sword at Decius, narrowly avoiding the chainsaw but managing to go under and slice at his wrist in an attempt to get him to drop the weapon.

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Decius snarled as his wrist was sliced, a wound so deep that the bone was visible. He didn't seem to mind the pain, however. In fact, he was laughing at it; cackling in delight. He only had his immortality, no special moves except summoning his saw, but what good would that do if his hand couldn't work at the moment? Oh, but immortality could be a weapon in itself! As the saw fell to the ground he lifted his arm and squeezed his wrist, grinning at the pain that shuddered down his spine. Blood spurt out of his wound, gushing out like a water fountain and spraying Charlotte in the eyes.
She winced as she was suddenly blinded and dropped her rifle out of pure instinct. Decius took advantage of the few seconds of freedom and used it to grab her and shove her in front of him to shield him from Daniel's rampage. "Such delight I am feeling!!!!!!!!!!!!" the doctor giggled. He let go of the girl long enough to wrap his arm around her throat in a tight headlock. She coughed and began to reach for a handgun, but before she could even touch her blazer she saw the dripping tip of a syringe needle out of the corner of her eye. Decius's wrist wasn't completely healed yet, but he was willing to take the pain of holding something if it meant seeing the boy suffer.
"A choice I am having for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he hummed in a sing-song tone. His cheerfulness despite being surrounded by blood and terrifying creatures was always eerie. "Are you wanting to do the act of killing the one you call your sister????????????????? Or is me killing her the option you are wanting instead?????????????"

 

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The teen wasn't sure of what to do. It took everything in him just to calm down and not cry out for mercy. He wasn't ready for a battle like this, he wasn't trained! He'd never fought an immortal before. What could he do? Well, he had to think fast. What were his assets? He was fast, thanks to Decius' formula, and incredibly strong. He had to do something crazy and unexpected. He had to save his sister. So he was fast and strong, but what could he-
Time seemed to freeze. Daniel cleared his mind and started to move, his body doing all the thinking for him. "If anyone's going to kill that b-tch, it's gonna be me," he grunted through grit teeth, raising the sword to slice through her neck. But the deadly cut never came to the girl. At worst, she was grazed by the chainsaw that her brother had scooped up and started to wield wildly against the scientist. He swung it here and there, trying hard not to get her, but cutting it through the air and aiming only to strike the crazed immortal. His moves were all over the place, his eyes wide with rage, and for a second, he looked just as insane as Decius.

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Decius tried to inject Charlotte with the toxin, but his already wounded wrist was sliced through by his own saw, and he watched in small optimism as his hand fell to the ground.
It was a bloody mess.
Cut after cut, blood gushed out in messy sprays, drenching all three of them. Decius howled in laughter as he was maimed, the pain registering in his mind as ticklish delight. He knew he couldn't regenerate fast enough, and though it infuriated him, he still reveled in the moment. They were locked in here with him. They could fight him as much as they wanted, come up with as many plans as they could and slices him up to their hearts' content. But he'd keep coming back. He was immortal, and they weren't. If starvation didn't get them, if his zombies didn't reach them, then he would. And if they did he would take pleasure in watching them struggle to survive. So he laughed. He laughed at the battle he lost but the war he'd win.

In the midst of Daniel's frenzy, a silhouette moved behind him at a fast pace. Before he'd get the chance to even turn around, it lurched out and pulled him into a headlock with one long arm, the other keeping a painfully tight grip on the hand holding the saw.
"That's enough!" Fredrich's deep voice boomed. He held Daniel close with a grip almost challenging the boy to struggle so he could break a bone. The look on his face was not a relieved or comforting one. Despite his stoic expression, his eyes were narrowed and his jaw was clenched. He was pissed.
A figure moved past him to go to the scientist, who was reduced to a bloody log. Both his arms were sliced off, and it looked like it went from hands to forearms then finally the arms; his stomach was severely gashed in several places, a few of his organs were exposed; a large slice was on his face, almost having split it in two; he was completely red from all the blood that sprayed him, yet he smiled cheerfully and laughed. How he was still conscious was anyone's guess.
Cameron watched Charlotte move towards her family before gently lifting his father up and heaving him over his shoulder. He turned to look at the two bloody teens. He offered no reply, no smile. His own tolerance was reaching its limit. Daniel had caused his son to nearly die and forget his family, and now he snuck into the lab just to attack his own father?
Cameron turned to walk away in angered silence. He feared the monster inside him would come out if he as dared as opened his mouth. Fredrich didn't blame him.

 

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The moment his father had a grip on him, Daniel nearly collapsed. He released the chainsaw, eyes closing as his head drooped. It was as if all energy had finally been leeched from him, and he could no longer remain standing on his own. He hardly noticed his sister coming closer to him, severely shaken from the battle he had never wanted to enter into. He was bleeding from several cuts on his body, a rather deep one on his side from Decius' flailing earlier, and he was only human. He was close to blacking out. The last thing he heard before falling into darkness was the sound of Liam turning on all of the lights in the arena, pressing a button to call back the zombies and glaring not at the two Waltz children, but at his father in law.

"Did you see what he did to my son?" asked Liam, his boy propped up in a chair and head tilted to the side. Liam had already examined the entrance wound, his medical training easily picking out the needle-point. This wasn't Daniel's M.O. He knew Decius had done this. "Your father injected him again. He's not coming back here, Cameron, I've had enough. When the children recover, we're all going to have a long talk, the Waltzes and the Wests, and decide whether or not the boys are allowed to see each other again. But for now, you're staying here with Decius until you can rein him back in. Don't come home until he understands he's not allowed anywhere near Julian without one of us there to supervise." Walking back over to the sleeping teen, Liam lifted him up over his shoulder and started out the door to take him home. He was going to have one hell of a headache when he woke up.

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"It's only a tranquilizer, Liam. Stop treating it like a poison!" Cameron snapped. "It's not even his strongest one. He loves Julian just as much as we do, that's why he went crazy. Those two knew this would happen too, that's why they snuck in!" He sighed through his nose as Liam stormed off with Julian in tow. He was on the losing side of this argument. It wasn't like he was arguing that what his dad did was right, he was just trying to keep him from being so demonized.
Rubbing the back of his neck, he turned his head to look at his father, who was sleeping (yet still smiling) on a bed. A couple of his experiments were monitoring him to make sure he regenerated right. That was a hell of a lot of damage. He'll be back to his old self by the time he's healed, Cameron thought. With his dad back to being Rieux, he'd be more level-headed and willing to listen to reason.

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"Explain."
It was one word, but it held a heavy anger to it. Fredrich stood in front of his kids, their wounds wrapped up and the blood cleaned off. He had a gloved hand rubbing his chin as he awaited some kind of answer, standing in the kitchen and his eyes aimed at them like prison searchlights.
When no reply came, his thunderous voice boomed, "Well?!"

 

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Daniel kept his eyes straight and at his father, trying to decide what to say. For once, Ellery wasn't on his side, standing just behind Fredrich with his arms crossed and just as angry. Of course, he'd been petrified the moment he saw them and took to caring for their wounds as he'd been taught by Fredrich all those years ago, but now he was just as, if not a little less angry than his husband.
Wincing at the thunder, he licked his dry lips, then opened his mouth to speak very quietly. "I-it was supposed to be a challenge. I told Charlotte that she couldn't beat me, and she took the bait, so Julian set it up for us to use the arena to see who was the better assassin." He didn't say it was anyone's fault and especially didn't reveal that it was all Julian's idea, but he tried to make it sound like it was more his fault than Charlotte's.

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