Mix and Match

Mix and Match

Disclaimer:
I don't own Dark Crystal or any realted characters.
Kai, Sam, Angel and Lily are my own characters. Take them without permission and I will beat you within an inch of youre life, shower you with 3000 paper cuts, coat your skin with salt and put lemon juice in your eyes.

With that said and done, on with the show!!!

Ps:
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Mix and Match
AJ Angelique

2) Kai

But it seemed as if they had all the time in the world for they were left very much alone in their cage. Seeing as how the dungeons had no windows, they were devoid of natural light and the four merely slept as they wished. Even so, they didn't all sleep at once, once of them would
alway be awake to keep an eye out for their captores. Yet they never saw the ones who lived in the castle as the Garthum stood on guard and mindless human slaves would bring them food and drink. Lily kept an close eye on the meals and noted their similarity to the usual morning, midday and evening meals they had in the village. With this in mind, she was able to keep track of the days as they passed. In the end though, it was on the evening of the third day when they were finally pulled out of the cage. At first, the mindless ones tried to removed and escort them.

But Kai and Sam weren't ones to rollover and play dead as they struggled for freedom. Lily cursed under her breath as she stood as a shiled for the fearful Angel when the Garthum guards came to life and took hold of the two trouble makers by taking a firm hold of their wrists and lifting them abover the ground. Kai strugled to get out which merely caused his wrists to bruise under the pressure of the metalic claws while Sam was really pissed off as she kicked and screamed to be released...but this ended when her foot collided with the metallic chest of the Garthum that held her.

It sounded as if she had hit a giant golden gong as the noise resounded through the enpty halls and it was soon by a series of curses as Sam's foot throbed with pain. Sam glarred in anger at her Garthum and finally kept still and Kai was soon to follow. When it was all over, attention
was finally turned back to Angel and Lily, who were still standing in the cage. The mindless ones approached them but Angel moved closer to Lily who held her like a protective mother with her child.

"No, we'll go peacefully," Lilly said and Angel quickly nodded in agreement. The mindless ones were caught off guard byu this but soon complied as they led the way out of the cage and the two girls followed. So the slaves led the way down the hall as Lily and Angel followed and the
two Garthum followed as they continued to hold Sam and Kai. The walk was long and silent, but they soon reached an rather large and tall room with a skylight. Lily quickly looked around and discerned that it was a dinner ing room of some sorts from the long table with many chairs on the other side of the room. Lily then noticed that one wall, across from the table, was adorned with chains that had shackles attached to them. It was just as she noticed this that she was surprised by two of the slaves. They came up on each side of her and strapped her to the wall with these very same chains. Surprised and frighten, it was only natural that Lily would try to struggle but slowly stopped once her ankles and wrists were engulfed by the cold metal bracelets.

At the same time, Angel was seized by two more slaves who placed her on the wall to Lily's right but just out of arm's length away. Being mute, all that Angel could do was whine like a frighten child as this was done to her. Finally, Sam was released and all four slaves took hold of her and slammed her back into the wall, knocking the wind out of her just long enough to capture her wrists and ankles with the shackles as she was placed at Lily's left. Kai, on the other hand, wasn't placed up on the wall with the girls. He was placed on a large metal table that had shackles built into it. The Garthum threw him onto the table as if he were a mere rag doll and all the quickly locked him down on the table before he had a chance to do anything about it. As soon as everyone was secured, the slaves left by one way and the Garthum another way.

Even so, Kai still tried to struggle but found he was bolted firmly to the table by his wrists, ankles, neck and waist. In the end, Kai gave in to defeat and laid down to catch his breath. Out of the corner of his eye though, he noticed something that had either hadn't been in the room before or he didn't notice before. It was another metal table, but it was smaller and to top covered with a blue cloth that had coppery red stains on it. Being a hunter himself, he knew the stains to be blood.

He didn't have long to contemplate thisugh ugh for he and the girls soon heard voices approaching the room. They looked towards the entrance as a group of shadows first entered the room and they were soon followed by their owners, the Skeksis. They chatted away, briefly glancing at the four humans as they red red the room and made their way to the long table before they sat down in their chairs. If any of us were there in the room, the sceen would resemble the last supper but in a more sinister way, as the emperor sat at the middle of the table and the other Skeksis sat on either side of him.

Once the Skeksis were settled into their seats, their attention finally turned to their "guests". Though their attention rested mainly on the young man strapped to the table, they also eyed the three women chained to the wall. For the past couple of days, they had been watching over the four humans with the aide of a new breed of Crystal Bats. As they watched, they learned what they could about these humans before the emperor, SkekUng, made his final decision as to what was to be done with them. That's when his attention returned to Kai as he and the others grew hungry for dinner.

"Come! Prepare the dinner, we grow hungry," SkekUng called out. His voice barely had the chance to echo down the hall before two slaves dressed in white aprons and their long hair pulled back hurried into the room. It was obvious by our standard that these were cooks, but Kai and the girls weren't to sure what to make of these slaves as they rushed into the room and took their places on Kai's left and right. In the blink of an eye, the cloth was removed from the smaller table and a fire flared to life as a hole opened in the floor as one of the white cladves ves quicky put together it oit over these five foot high flames. Kai barely registered the sound of the flames as his eyes were glued on the blood stained metal utensils used for carving and preparing meat for eating.

The other slave reached for the nearst knife and proceeded to slice through Kai's tender flesh, which cause him to scream in pain and bring such amusement to the Skeksis. At the same time, Sam found her blood boiling with rage as Lily look on horrified and Angel merely looked away as she closed her eyes and tried to tune out the screams as the sceen brought back bad memories for her. Their reactions only furthur the entertainment of the Skeksis as big chunks of werewere placed out on a large frying pan and mixed with some seasoning as they were stir fried. In a matter of minutes, the peices were cooked and passed along the table as appatizers. But of course, appatizers are never enough in small amounts.

The next thing that was grabbed was a giant clever and it was raised up high in the air. Kai only had time to gasp, fearing it would be lodged in his chest, before it came down with a heavy thud. Kai felt a stinging pain on his left shoulder but it also felt as if his left arm had been freed. A small ray of hope shined at that very moment and Kai took this chance to make his escape...except for one small detail.

Kai looked to his right wrist to free himself but was confussed when he didn't feel his left arm move. He looked to see that it was still on the table and that a puddle of blood was begining to form on his left side. His gaze went higher to his left shoulder and he gasped to see that his left arm had been lopped off in one cleen chop. As the shock began to settle in, his head began to feel dizzy from the sudden lack of blood. Before Kai had time to process what was going on, his other arm was lopped off. The cook then chopped them into smaller parts and passed them off to the other cook to fire them up on the spit.

"Stop it, for of god stop it!" Sam screamed furiouslt as Kai wouldn't speak up for himself out of warrior's pride and shock. Needless to say, her words on on death ears while a few Skeksis looked up at her for only a moment before they turned their attention to the "dinner show" as they munched on smaller portions of food that were ramdomly brought in by other slaves.

Kai couldn't understand why he could still feel his arms even though they weren't there as his head continued to be engulfed by a thick haze and his blood spilled out onto the table and into large glasses that sat underneath the table. As the arm ks sks sizzled on the spit, the cook by Kai checked the glasses and placed them on a tray as he changed them out for empty glasses. Once this was done, the first round of Kai Bloodwine was served to the Skeksis, which they sniffed and tasted as if they tasting the finest wine of the world. At the same time, some of the extra blood was used as a sort of sauce which was brushed onto the arm peices. Just as the arm peices were nearing completion, the cook cake at Kai again with the clever and wafteafter his legs.

Yet instead of hacking the whole limb off at once, the cook went ahead and cut the legs as if they were carrots, thus making mini steaks that were passed off to the other cook and placed onto a grill where they were brushed with a mixture of Kai blood and spices. The Skeksis watched the meat cooking with drooling mouths and they were soon rewarded with arm chunks that were passed along the table. The Skeksis gave off joyful noises as they tore into their meat and seasoned it...or unseasoned it...as they pleased.

As Sam's eyes were glued on Kai being carved up like a Thanksgiving turkey, Lily turned her eyes way and looked at the Skeksis as they ate the cooked peices of Kai and drank his blood. Needless to say, the whole thing made her sick to her stomach and she could feel the acidic bile in her throat. She swallowed the bitter fluid but it left a stinging sensation on her throat and left a vile taste on the back of her tounge. She quickly looked away and tried to focus on something else, anything else to keep her from vomiting. She didn't want to give these creatures the satisfaction of seeing her lose face.

But it wasn't over.

A new knife as grabbed from the instrument table, this one larger than the f and and it was used to slice through Kai's chest. Finally, his senses returned and the man grunted in pain as the fleash was torn back from his chest to reveal his chest bones. This meat was thrown onto the first skillet and the cook continued to carve his way down to Kai's inners. Lily took this moment to divert her eyes as the cook harvested his inners and threw them all into the stomach to make Haggus as Sam shuddered with disgust, having lost her fight a long time ago. Kai began to feel cold and his breath came out in heavy pants, making it sound as if he was having difficulty breathing. When his midsection had been cleaned out, the cook turned his attention back to the chest.

The cook discarded the knife, knowing that it was too flimsy to break through the bones. He used a special device to crack the ribs down down the sternum and used brute strength to pull the bones back to reveal the still beating heart. In the blink of an eye, the cook grabbed a thrid knife and she sliced the heart out before Kai could even protest. Once it was severed, blood spilled out from the veins and arteried and flooded the chest as the still beating heart at it pumped out what blood was still left in it. She held it up so as Kai could watch it and the life slowly fadded from his eyes. The moment that he grew still and his remaining body went limp.

With the spark of life gone, all there was left to do now was to harvest the rest of the body and the whole body was used...save for the teeth and hair which were placed in a box as a macabe suviner of this meal. In the end, SkeUng was the only one allowed to eat the heart and phallus as Chamberlain eyed this from the left end of the table, secretly seething with jealousy. As the last of the body was cooking and the Skeksis feasted flesh, the girls hung on the chains in defeat as they silently mourned for the lose of their childhood friend.

Then, the unthinkable happened.

"Take some of the meat and share it with our guests," SkekUng commanded. The slaves did as they were told and small portions of the Kai meat were placed on small plates and taken over to the three girls.

"You've got to be kidding me," Sam exclaimed.
"Does it look like he's kidding?" Lily asked as she threw the red head a glare while Angel bit her lower lip. Using their fingers, the three slaves each picked up a peice of the cooked meat from the plate and held it up for the girls. Understandably, they didn't want to eat what was once their best friend. Angel merely kept her mouth shut with a deep frown as Sam refused to look at the bloody chunk and glared hatefully at the slave who ate it as Lily tried to keep her stomach at peace. At the same time, the Skeksis watched with antipation for some sort of reaction as they themselves continued to eat, but they soon grew inpatient as nothing happened.

"Eat!" the emperor commanded, empthasising his command by slamming his fist on the table. This was enough to make Angel jump slightly as she quickly opened her mouth and the slave placed the meat in her mouth. Slowly, Angel chewed on the meat as she tried to tried to hide her disgust by not actually looking at anyone. Even so, she could still hear some soft snickers from the table.

Lily jumped a little at the sound of the fist hitting the table and looked over the meat a little before she moved forward and claimed meatmeat with her own mouth. As she chewed on it, she couldn't help but notice its flavor.

"This tastes fowl," Lily comment once she had swallowed the meat.
"Great," Sam said, disgusted.
"No really, this taste like fowl," Lily said, a little pepier this time. Needless to say, Sam wasn't the only one to raise an eyebrow at this. Even though she doubted her friend's sanity at the moment, Sam's curiosity was peaked at the moment and she finally accepted the meat only to scrunch up her nose a bit before she threw a glare at Lily for tricking her and then the Skeksis for making her eat the stuff. Once all three girls had partaken of the grisly meal, there came an uproarus applause from the table. Angel shrinks back at this as Sam's temper flares and Lily is merely curious as to why they are applauding.

But when the applause was over with and the desert was being brought in, some of the Skeksis began to argue over who wad going to get which girl. Sam merely raised an eyebrow at this as a 'what the fuck' look painted itself on her face as Lily couldn'lp blp but groan and roll her eyes.

"They can't be seriously fighting over us...can they?" Sam asked, astonished.
"Yes, they are," Lily said rather blandly as she noted that the Skeksis were to busy bickering to notice their conversation.

All the while, SkekUng was tapping his index finger on the table as his patience began to wear thin as he listened to everyone state who they wanted all the reasons why they should have her. All the while though, he notied that Chamberlain was being unusally quiet in these debates as he kept glancing over at the girls, Angel more so than the others.

"Enough!" he finally shouted and the grew as silent as the grave.
"The flame haired one will belong to me," he said after a moments pause. Several Skeksis began to whine about this but a sharp glare from their emperor was enough to silence them. He didn't blame them though, it was rare when they caught a red head and he wasn't going to lose his chance at this one. Yet as he glanced at his choice, she glared back hatefully at him.

"Slavemaster, you'll take the girl in the mi," S," SkekUng said as he gestured to Lily. The Slavemaster grinned and looked at Lily who looked back in surprise.

"Chamberlain, you can have the quiet one," SkekUng said. Angel snapped her head up as Chamberlain grinned and the other Skeksis gasped as some began to murmur and others protested.

"Are questioning me?" SkekUng demanded angrily as he quickly stood up, nearly knocking his chair over. All arguement ceased and appologies were quickly uttered as SkekUng began to feel a headache forming.

"Slaves, have these three taken to the chambers of their masters," SkekUng said. The slaves bowed and did as they were told, releasing the girls from their chains as SkekUng left the room. As he passed by Chamberlain though, he merely threw the Skeksis a silent glare that made him gulp. As the emperor left the dinning hall, the three girls were taken out another doorway and to their new chambers.

TBC

Next) Angel