Who let the dogs out?

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::The image came into focus of the main compound in the strange community simply known as The Nexus. It was late into the evening, what most people called the witching hour. The Children were in their houses, protected by the strange symbols on all their walls, however the night air was thick with the sounds of screams. These however were not screams of pain, but of panic and terror. The pain filled screams of Broderick Montgomery the third.

The main house in the compound was large with a large living room where a man sat in a old fashion rocking chair watching a old television set. The television showed clips of the U.W.A. World Title match participants from throughout the week. The chair gently rocked back and forth as Joshua McBride watched with a lifeless chuckle on his lips. The chuckle turned into a gently laugh and that turned into a deeper, more sinister laugh.

They were doing exactly what he wanted them to do. They were a time bomb set to explode. Around the time Bethanys video ended Joshua turned to look at his priestess who had looked out the window when Brody's voice screamed "Please, no....Jez! please!" Joshua looked at Maiko who was staring out the window and watching with her shoulders tensed.

Joshua unwound himself from the chair and crossed the room to lay a single hand on her shoulder. Maiko didn't tense, she simply turned and looked up at the Dark Messiah and smiled.::

Maiko: "Don't you think you should stop them?"

Joshua: "And why should i?"

Maiko: "There is only so much his heart can take, and you are the only one who can go out at night."

::Joshua simply grunted and threw the door open. Maiko stepped back quickly as the shadows themselves seem to flee from the light that shined onto the porch. Joshua walked out through the darkness and the shadows seemed to swirl around him, Like dogs drawn to their master and paying honor to them being with him. He even reached down and seemed to stroke his hand over something about waist high that wasn't even there. Like he was petting a dog that no one could see.

When Joshua finally came around the corner and had a straight shot at the newly build shack he saw the door was open as he had left it and a platinum blond woman was lying on the ground just outside the shack her head beaten in and Brody fighting at his chains to get at her. He had the start of a beard and he was bruised and dirty.

The closer and closer that Joshua came to the shack the woman seemed to vanish into thin air and Brody sank down to his knees tears running down his face. The handheld camera Joshua held in his hand hung down by his side until he grasped Brody by the hair and yanked his head up. Brody's face was one of agony and horror. His eye was swollen shut and his lips were chapped.::

Brody: "....Please....please no more."

Joshua: "But i thought....it wasn't real Mister Montgomery. Isn't that what you told me? That none of it was real?"

Brody: "....Please stop hurting them. Please....."

Joshua: "all you have to do is admit it....and this stops for the night."

Brody: "....."

Joshua: "Say you deserve this Mister Montgomery. Say you have earned this pain."

Brody: "....No."

Joshua: "Fine. So be it."

::From the very mist that seemed to cling to the ground a woman began to form. Forming little by little until a black haired woman of perhaps seventeen was standing in a pale white gown between them. It must have been a trick of the lights, or some kind of green screen photography but Brody's eyes widened and his lip began to tremble.::

Brody: "....Vanessa...."

Joshua: "Goodnight Mister Montgomery."

Brody: "....Joshua Please. Please i am begging you....."

::Joshua laughed under his breath, a cold and demonic sound and turned to walk back toward the compound. As he was rounding the corner a sound broke the silence. A sound like dogs snarling and his handheld camera showed something shadowy hit the newly appeared woman. She screamed in terror and agony as something began to rip at her. The sound of flesh and fabric tearing echoed through the silence, and then he screamed.::

Brody: "....STOP! PLEASE STOP! GOD I'M SORRY! PLEASE HURT ME!"

Joshua: "Too late shit head. Enjoy watching her die."

::The handheld camera shifted back to the shack and saw nothing but Brody struggling against his shackled and chains as the woman began to form again, this time it was a pale blond woman everyone knew as Aerynn Donnelly, or looked a lot like her. Then he rounded the corner.::

Brody: "NO!"

::Joshua chuckled at the sounds behind him. Was it drugs? Some trick lightning? What was happening in this strange place known simply as The Nexus? Only Joshua knew, and he wasn't telling anyone. He crossed the boundary and handed Maiko the camera.::

Joshua: "....Upload this."

Maiko: "As you say M'Lord. What was it tonight?"

Joshua: "....Dogs."

Maiko: "Dogs? I would have thought it would have been assault."

Joshua: "He picks them remember. He isn't afraid of that. It seems....he views himself as the predator. He's the one assaulting these women."

Maiko: "Then Jeszika did begin to fix him?"

Joshua: "Fix him! HA! She almost ruined it all. I will break him my Priestess. He is breaking as we speak. He begs us to hurt him."

Maiko: "Yes My Lord."

::Maiko then choose to shut the camera and the scene faded to darkness on the sound of Joshua McBride's twisted mocking laughter.::