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As he walked down the hallway Malleus thought about the recent past. How he put everyone at NRC to sleep with his overblot, how he realized Lila, Silver, and Sebek would never wake up again….

How he had to kill Yuu and Grim.

As he was lost in his thoughts his body subconsciously brought him to the only room in his castle that made him feel a little bit better. Granted he could open any door down this hallway of his former college and feel a bit better as every one of his ex classmates had their own rooms. Before he got to his favorite room Malleus decided he would check in on everyone and see how they were sleeping.

The first door held a strict redhead and his little group of misfits as they all slept peacefully in their shared room. Ace and Deuce cuddled together on one bed as trey, cater and riddle all lay soundly on their own. The next door held the trio from Savannaclaw. Leona lay sideways on his bed with a seemingly protective arm softly hugging Ruggy. The fae had no idea why Leona would ever dream he could protect his little hyena in this state but again, it's all a dream. Jack laid snoring on a bed opposite of the two.

The room he had put his friends from Octavinelle in had three beds. Each had an occupant, though he had seen Floyd reach for the other two in his sleep. Such a shame he was having a nightmare, surely about losing one or maybe both. The Scarabia room, as he had labeled it, held a softly snoring prince and his servant. He had observed that Jamil's hair had come out of its usual ponytail and braids and made a mental note to fix it later. He walked out of the room and on to the next one.

Going into the room of Pomefiore students had always made him chuckle. It was so obvious who fit into this little sleeping category of fairytales. Vil slept just like a sleeping beauty would. Laying on his back with Hands over his chest. Malleus thought something was missing and clicked his tongue when the answer came to him. He walked over the Vil's bedside table and grabbed flowers out of a vase. He gave in to his amusement and carefully placed the flowers between the hands of the sleeping man. He then turned around to check on the other two. He found epel had a deep frown on his face as he held onto rook for dear life. He shrugged "oh why not" he said to no one as he waved his hand over Epel's forehead. The purple haired boy relaxed and let the frown fall for his face.

'Last but not least' he thought, opening the door to his dearest friends and basically family. All three of his precious people were curled up together on the same big bed. Silver and Sebek both holding onto Lila as if he would disappear if they let go. He smiled softly and gently moved Lila's hair out of his face. He stared at them for a bit, almost regretting what he had done but alas he couldn't change the past. And he wasn't gonna back out now. He finally sighed and walked out the door closing it behind him.

He then started to walk to the last door at the end of the hall. As he reached the door he punched in some numbers on a nearby keypad. With a hiss the door slid open, he walked in and heard the door hiss once more closing behind him.

The room was dark and big. There were no windows and only one door, the door malleus came in from. The walls looked like they would have grime and dirt on them yet if one were to slide their finger across the surface, they'd find their finger still pristine and clean. The only sounds to be heard were the light taps the fae's feet made when he walked and the buzzing sound of something he couldn't quite place.

In the middle of the huge room was a big glass cage. Blue light emitted from the cage and was the only thing that let Malleus see in the room. Malleus didn't mind that though.

Blue was such a lovely color…

As Malleus turned and faced one of the glass walls the blue light started to move. It got closer and closer to the fae, lighting up his features. A hand then pressed against glass and Malleus smiled.

"Good morning my dear"

None other than the sorrowful and frustrated face of Idia Shroud stared back at the smiling fae prince.

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The room was quiet as Idia's eyes widened then scrunched up in anger then disappointment. He turned around and went right back to his bed, sitting on the edge. Everyday when he heard someone come he'd subconsciously get excited and think "finally someone is here to save me" but when he moved forward to let his hair light up who it was, he'd be disappointed to see his captor standing there with a smile.

Malleus was irked by this, as he knew Idia wasn't getting up to greet him, he'd be hoping for someone else! 'it's okay he'll eventually get up to greet me instead of this false hope crap' he thought.

Idia pulled his legs up to his chest at the edge of the bed, looking away from his captor. Yet he flinched when he heard the man walk into his clear prison, seemingly phasing through the glass. Idia still had no idea how he did that, at first he thought it was magic and when he tried it he found out that his powers were subdued due to something in the room.

The taller man only walked a few steps to where he was just a foot away from the Ignihyde house warden. Neither said a word for seconds that went on to feel like hours to Idia. His anxiety slowly started to rise in anticipation and fear as to what Malleus wanted this time.

"Stand up,” Malleus ordered.

Idia's eyes scrunched in disdain at being ordered around but found himself following the order in fear of what might happen if he didn't.

The Shroud slowly got up and let his eyes trail on the chain that's been rattling everytime he so much as moved. He glared at it hoping by some miracle that if he stared at it long enough it would suddenly break in two.

"Oh I wish you would stop doing that" he said as he shrugged his shoulders in pretended defeat. "Everyday I walk into this room and when I see you get up I think you're getting up to greet me! But then when you do see me, you get this sour look on your face then " he sighs " you go back to pouting on your bed." His eyebrows pinched together " Honestly Idia when are you going to grow up and stop having this false hope that someone is coming to save you! " Malleus quickly walked back and grabbed Idia's chin, making the shorter stare into Malleus's anger filled eyes " No one is coming for you"

They both stay there for a moment before all anger dissipates from the Fae's face and he goes back to his chipper self. Idia was so furious the tips of his hair started to show red but decided not to let the man get to him ' That's what he wants' Idia thought " he just wants to try and get to me' he took a deep breath.

“What do you want from me?” Idia asked. He looked up at the fae, still glaring in hope that what he wished would happen to the chain would also happen to the man standing before him.

“There’s nothing I could want from you, just your presence is enough,” Malleus smiled. As he tilted his head to the side innocently.

Idia was deeply unsettled by that. He was about to speak in rebuttal but Malleus stopped him. "Well there is one thing but I won't bother you with trivial matters my love" He said with a cheerful tone as he started to pace around the cage. The blue haired male crossed his arms and spoke. "That's bullshit and you know it…." He paused observing the knowing look on Malleus's face "You're just gonna ask the same question again aren't you?" He grunted.

Malleus chuckled "ah nothing gets past you my intelligent flower! Yes! Just become mine,” The Fae prince chirped before turning back to Idia. The other man turned his head away in disinterest as he did the day before but started to think about the sentence again.

“Become yours?” Idia felt like his head spinning, he wasn’t processing information correctly anymore. He did know one thing though, his face scrunched up in anger “You can’t still be serious about that! You know I’ll answer that I’d rather die than do that,” the chained man raised his voice.

“Eh, It doesn’t matter what you want because you don’t have any other option,” The ravenette nodded in reply.

Idia's hand clenched into a fist and just as he charged and was about to punch Malleus, the man laughed and grabbed his arm.

Before his overblot, Idia could say that he could maybe overpower regular Malleus if he worked at it but that was different now. The green eyed man caught his punch easily, his hold on Idia’s wrist kept tightening until it started getting painful.

Idia tried not to make a sound but failed, letting out a whimper as he felt the Fae’s grip tighten painfully around his wrist.

“Say, Idia, won’t you be good and behave yourself?” Malleus asked.

Idia shook his head, he wouldn’t break. The pain didn’t matter, it wasn’t like he had that much motivation to live on anyways.

“Truly, what a shame. Don't worry I'll get something to bandage you up later,” Malleus said smiling down menacingly at the golden eyed man.

When Idia realized he messed up big time he didn’t even have time to plead, though he didn't think he'd do that anyways, when the overbolted prince snapped his arm like it was merely a branch. The crack of his bone resonated through his body like a wave of sound. It felt like it touched his very soul as it hit the tip of his head to his toes.

Idia tried to clench his teeth but the pain was awful and he couldn’t stop the tears that flooded his eyes and the grunts and yells of pain that flew out of his mouth. He fell to the floor, clutching his broken arm in his other hand and sobbed loudly.

“You should’ve just agreed to it, you know?” He asked as he stood over the hunched body.

Idia might’ve agreed had he been any weaker but at the moment, he was too focused on his arm to deny Malleus’s question.

“It’s painful isn’t it?” The fae didn’t hesitate to pull the trembling man onto his lap. The blue haired man whimpered in pain as the movement of his body jerked his arm.

Malleus started to pet Idia's hair and he would've slapped his hand away and called him a degrading asshole if it weren't for the hot searing pain shooting up his arm.

Tears continued to run down his face and onto his lap as he cried. He tried focusing on the hand on his head instead of his arm but that proved to be to difficult for Idia "i- it hurts…" he whimpered into Malleus's chest

"Ohh I know sweetie" The black haired man hushed Idia in a way that would've made him feel inferior and aggravated. It felt like the fae was hushing a child rather than a grown man.

" You should've behaved then hmm??" He talked as if scolding a toddler as he suddenly grabbed Idia's arm, Idia screamed in pain "Stop! It hurts! It hurts!!" He cried out as Malleus hushed him again "oh shush I need to pop it back into place dear! If I don't it might not heal right. And we can't have that can we"

Idia finally gave into the pain "No please stop! Please! I'll do anything!" He begged "It's too late for that" Malleus sighed.

Idia couldn't think straight. There where so many things going on around him he felt like he was gonna go crazy. He was overstimulated. Oh how he wished he could go back to when he would be able to sit with Ortho in his room and just cry about everything to his little brother. And Ortho would just hug him and tell him "everything is gonna be alright nii-san"

But he couldn't have that anymore, hell he doesn't even know where his brother is.

"This is going to hurt but don’t say you didn’t bring it upon yourself,” Malleus muttered as Idia came back to his senses.

Malleus's other arm circled around his torso to grab his wrist, Idia shook in his hold.

“Please, don’t!” Idia’s voice was a pitch higher.

“Ill bring you some painkillers later if you're good" The fae whispered as if that were supposed to help his nerves calm down.

Idia was pleading as a cascade of tears fell from his eyes. Malleus ignored his pleas and snapped his bone back in place with a crack.

The last thing Idia remembered before passing out was Malleus kissing his cheek softly and cuddling him "goodnight"

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Idia awoke with a screaming headache and he felt as if his arm was on fire. He slowly opened his eyes to show he was still in that godforsaken glass cage.

His eyes roamed until it fell on his arm. It was wrapped in a bandage with a piece of metal holding it straight. It hurt like hell and he would have given anything for some heavy duty pain killers right about now.

He laid there, not even trying to get up as he thought about how he possibly could have ended up in this situation.

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It was a typical day at NRC. The shroud brothers where on a walk as Ortho insisted that Idia get some sun. "Ortho you know I have no desire to be out and about today I have to get on with my online friends for a match in.." he looked down at his phone "less than an hour!?"

Idia looked at his brother in panic. Ortho sighed " ugh fine I guess you can go play your match but if you don't tell me when you're done I'm gonna be mad!" The little robot crossed his arms and huffed. Idia smiled and pulled Ortho into a hug " aww how could I possibly make my adorable little brother mad! I promise I text you when I'm done so we can go get cake or something"

Ortho instantly lit up "cake! Really!? Okay fine go go!" He started to push Idia away as the eldest laughed and waved goodbye.

As he was running back to his dorm he got a feeling that he shouldn't have left Ortho.

That was his first mistake….

As he finally felt the soft cushions of his headphones fall on his ears he was getting pumped up. ' two matches and boom top tier this month' he thought to himself as he picked up his controller.

About and hour later after he had just finished his last game he went to pick up his phone to text his little brother. Suddenly everything around him started to shake. 'an earthquake?' he thought 'no that's not possible'

His eyes widened as he thought of Ortho "shit!" He ran out of his room and down the hall till he reached the entrance.

He finally made it outside where he stared at the school in horror. There stood NRC covered in thorns. Gray clouds hid the sun from view as he looked around urgently.

He suddenly felt a chill run up his spine as he glanced up to see an overbolted house warden floating above him. He wanted to run. He wanted to hide but he need to find Ortho first. Yet… he couldn't move.

He was frozen in fear as two glowing green eyes stared into his bright golden ones. He shook in fear as Malleus gazed down upon him with a malicious grin.

"There you are"

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A tear slipped down his cheek as he thought of his little brother. He missed him so much. He had no idea where Ortho was and he had no way of finding out.

Just then he heard the hiss of the door opening, bringing in the man who broke his arm. Then it hit him.

He did have a way of finding out. He shook his head 'no I'm not doing that' he thought as he forced the idea out of his head.

He sat up not even bothering to get on his feet as Malleus walked into the glass box. "My my! You were out for some time Idia are you feeling okay?" Idia cringed at how he said his name yet he decided not to speak.

Malleus looked at him and cocked his head to the side "aww not talking hmm?" He then smiled to himself as he walked over the shroud. Idia flinched as the man stood right over him, still not saying a word he looked away in irritation.

The fae stared at Idia for a few moments until he suddenly grabbed his injured arm, squeezing it and pulling a painful scream out of the flame haired boy. When he let go a moment later, Idia immediately grabbed his shoulder trying to keep his arm from pounding pain through it. Though it was unsuccessful.

"Oh no! Such a shame your arm is hurting again. Would you like some pain killers?" He said as he held up his two hands. One had a glass of water and the other, three small pills. Idia lost all sense to go against this man as he nodded his head urgently, just wanting the pain to go away.

"What do we say Idia??" Malleus smiled down at him. Idia decided to give in "P-Please?"

The fae then started to laugh "oh? That's the first nice word I've heard come out of your mouth in a while my love! But sadly…" Malleus looked at the pills in sadness " I don't think you deserve it yet" Malleus then incinerated the pills and dropped the glass of water, it broke into shards and spread across the floor. One of them even cut Idia's cheek.

The hurt boy stared in horror as Malleus destroyed the only thing that could take away the pain in his arm.

Malleus chuckled as tears started to swell up in Idia's eyes. He then wiped away one that had finally fallen down his cheek once again "don't be sad just behave and I'll give you anything you want!"

He watched the shroud cry for a bit until he rolled his eyes and walked away and put the door.

Idia continued to cry for what felt like hours. He just wanted to go home. He wanted to walk in the hallways and see everyone again. He wanted all the pain that was burdening him to go away, whether that pain was emotional or physical. He just wanted to die.

This whole scene kept playing over and over everyday for the next few days. Or maybe it was weeks…months maybe? Idia couldn't tell. During those months the light had eventually died from Idia's eyes. He'd finally given up.

Malleus walked into the room expecting the silent treatment again yet what surprised him was what was waiting for him in that said room. There inside the glass box he found his little captive kneeling down near the edge of the clear wall.

He looked down curiously as he stepped into the cage, and before he could speak his pet spoke first.

"Good morning Malleus" a soft voice came from below the fae.

Malleus stared for a few minutes before it clicked in his mind. His frown turned into a malicious shit eating grin "oh finally… FINALLY!" He grabbed Idia by his throat and lifted him up to his level. "You've finally broken!" He let out a victorious laugh as soft chocking sounds emerged from the shrouds mouth.

He dragged Idia's body over the the bed and slammed him down. Towering over him as he started into those empty eyes of his new lover "I'm going to enjoy this so much" he smiled.

Suddenly Idia's striped shirt and black pants were ripped off his body as Malleus's lips attacked Idia's neck. Hickey's and bites started to cover the shroud's neck and chest as tears rolled down onto the sheets below Idia.

"Oh don't cry my love. You'll enjoy this! I promise" he whispered into Idia's ear as he pushed in dry. It hurt. Idia heard an ear blistering scream as his body rocked back and forth with Malleus's thrusts.

As the fae's cock hit deep inside him he felt the thrusts getting smoother. He felt something drip down his hole. "Oh no! You're bleeding? Does that mean this is your first time?!" Malleus cheered happily as he continued to pound into the pets hole.

Idia had then realized the one screaming was him.

Idia laid there as his body was deprived of all pureness and dignity and was replaced with depravity and shamefulness. Idia could never face his brother of any of his friends ever again after this.

The rest of Idia's night was filled with pain and forced pleasure as Malleus took his virginity from him. Finally the fae had collapsed onto of Idia as he stared up at the ceiling until he had eventually fell asleep wishing he wouldn't wake up this time.

In a different room a certain person's ear twitched in response to a loud scream. His eyebrows furrowed and his arms tightened around another body.