There was almost nothing in there. No furniture, no soundproof. Nothing. It looked like an ordinary empty room. At least a peeling wallpaper would be nice improvement!

There was a person chained in the middle of the room, sitting on a rough concrete floor.

He had a dark hair with faded red stripes in it and it overgrown so badly, if was falling onto his nose. He was facing down, kneeling under some heavy chains wrapped all over his body. Under that he was wearing a stained straitjacket with a stripes holding his legs bended in forever kneeling position. He has been blindfolded. A pair of glasses were carefully folded and placed near him on the floor.

"Hello," called Sam into the intercom.

He heard her and raised his head following the voice.

She repeated everything she said to Pewds about catastrophes and the Lady in black with Anti and then she outlined him the short plan of the rescue.

He leaned his head back and smiled and started to rock from left to right. The chains were rattling around him, holding him in place with a big metal irons recessed in the concrete floor.

"Me?" his voice was raspy, but it had a hint of a smooth aura in it, "I don't want to help you, you pathetic hooman!"

Pewds was easy to convince, but this guy will be a tougher candy. Then she remembered Anti. He was talking about this one too before! And now she had an ace in her sleeve.

"She is hurting innocent animals too, not just ordinary humans you know?" she asked as it was just an innocent question while she was carefully watching his reaction.

He did not disappoint her. Just when she ended that sentence, he strained the chains trying to break them but failed.

"I can help you stop her, she is mean. I know what she can do, I saw her actions. Killing an innocent pets like it was a daily routine. Breaking necks of birds, skinning cats, drowning dogs..." she stopped when he looked disturbed enough. His straightjacket was strained so much she could see the veins on his hands under the fabric.

"So...can you help us?" she asked finally.

"If Pewds is going, I am going too.You said you are Antis friend? Just friend? I must have a serious conversation with you after all of this."

Sam smiled and Aaron unlocked his chamber. She came in and started to unlock his chains. They looked fragile, but wow they were heavy as all hell! No doubt he was leaning so much under this heavy stuff.

She helped him to shook off all chains and started to undo the belts on his straitjacket. Suddenly Dark turned his head and whispered to her ear, "you don't know who you are playing with, m'Lady. This is a serious problem and it is way over your head. Let us go and we can do what we can do best to get out of here. I can take you with me if you ask me to." his voice was like a pure honey when he talked.

She felt her knees buckling over his voice, it was so smooth, so nice to listen, but it was probably one of his powers Anti forgot to mention before. She looked at him. He was still blindfolded.

"Dear Dark, I know exactly what I am doing and you will help us to stop her, or I will make you kill one animal a day, just for fun."

Her cold dead voice surprised not just Dark but her too. From that time Dark was silent still until she unzipped all the parts and helped him off the straightjacket.

Under it he was wearing a black tank top and a black boxers. He got up and stretched every muscle. There were red marks on his body where he had to have hands crossed and where he dig his nails into his own ribs and arms.

He was shorter than she thought, but buffed more than anyone. He reached to his eyes. Aaron next to the door made a silent gasp trying to warn Sam but it was too late anyway. He just closed his eyes tightly trying not to open them even a little.

Dark ripped the cloth covering his eyes and looked at her. Sam was staring into the deep dark eyes of his. They were somehow deeper than they seemed. She felt like floating in a space. His eyes had those little sparks inside them, too far to reach but you still wanted to reach up and touch them. His body started to emit a soft black smoke covering both of them. She raised her hand in an abortive attempt to touch those sparks.

Dark made a one step closer to her. He clenched her shoulders trying to lure her under his power. Those sparks turned red and floated closer. Sam smiled, she always liked the space.

He opened his mouth and showed two sets of tiny spiky teeth ready to tear her neck apart.

Aaron peeked through his fingers and yelped when he saw them, then he quickly covered his eyes again.

A loud smack echoed through the empty room.

Aaron was brave enough to open one eye. He saw Dark leaning back and holding his face while Sam was yelling at him like he was some kind of an annoying kid from neighborhood.

"And if you try this again, I will pluck those nice eyes of yours out and I force you to juggle with them for the rest of your life!" she had to be hard acting with them. And it seemed like it was working well. Dark blinked in shock and his eyes got to their normal human size and they got a nice brown colour. He picked up his glasses and put them on.

Sam leaded Dark out to the lobby and reunited with Pewds waiting there.

Both friends looked at each other and shook hands for a second.

"So," asked Dark while stretching his fingers with a loud crunch, "where do we start?"