Arkain quickly realizes that any contact Cids mind is blocked . He can tell Cid is lost to his hunger and can not control himself. Any future attempt is pointless. He suddenly gets a glimpse of Cid was like when his hunger took over. He sees an image of a village and all the people dead, also most all of their energy gone, sucked out of their body. Fortunately tell they died very quickly. He can see his body glowing from all the energy he stole. He can tell he is not happy about what he did but there was nothing he could do to stop it. Its a horrible image. He shakes his head. can't seem to clear the image from his mind. But his attention quickly shifted to his trap he feels a huge drain on it. As he figured, it went for his energy and its trying to get all of it. He suddenly sees the ravenous beast thats trying to feed on him. It makes him shudder. He can see Cids human soul on a chain that is controlled by the beast. He can see how horribly sad he is. He sees the creature gesture to him and he sadly approach him and with a swing of a spear the connection is lost.<br/>He sighs wishing there was something he could do for him but he knows he has to deal with the beast. Once the creature went for his energy, the trap was sprung. Arkain had the option to free him after he shared some energy with him or hold him and send his energy to a dark realm.   When Cid separated the connection it makes it easy for him to be able to reform himself. Now he is in full control of the situation. Escape is impossible now. The ball is made of a negative energy. It absorbs and negates all  energy that is used to attack the ball, thus making any attack ineffective.<br/>The image that the creature drains from dims a bit but nothing even close to what would be expected. The area surrounding you starts to take on a strange coldness. Its completely void of all color. Touching it will be excruciatingly painful from your energy being drawn away from you. Arkains body reforms back next to the tree where Cids body is. His body glowing from the energy that he is using hold the creature. He debates if he should send the evil creatures energy away but he knows he can't. He can't condemn the human Cid to that too. The only thing to do is to get Tiffa's help and get Cid back in his coin. He focuses on finding her.