The Horror steps out of the portal and throws Shiki into a wall, before reaching down and wrapping a hand around my form. Too weak from the toxin injected into my body, I can do nothing as the Horror picks me off the ground and starts to pet me. My eyes slowly open and I look into the creature's eyes. "Who are you and why are you being so nice to me," I ask weakly. The Horror waves a hand Shiki and Tetramis are seized by a hundred shadows. The shadows bind them in dark chains that drains them of their powers. Then the Horror walks forward toward Ziel, with me shivering in its other hand. As he reaches him it bows politely to him and speaks. "Ziel, your dear friend has been poisoned, by what I do not know, but his strength is failing him rapidly. If you desire Prince to remain here with you, I can wrap him in a blanket of my power, that will slow the poison giving you a week instead of a day to find a cure. As for the others I have been ordered to take them into custody, the Master Puppeteer wants them, but if you were to defeat me, the chains that bind them would break and they would be free. He would like you and Prince to come too when you are ready. We Horrors are servants unto his will until he is sealed then we will be free to defend our true lord and master, Prince." With that the Horror waits for his answer.