Arkain stands there not sure what was going to happen next. To his surprise, the kitsune simply walks over and says hes going to remmove the shards. He did not expect it to go this easily. He watches in amazement as he hands glow and turn to latex and he watches the shards be drawn out of her and fall down to the ground. He quickly sees that Reiku can move. He drops to the ground and hugs her tightly close to him. "I thought I lost you. I never gave up hope. I was not going to let them have you."  He watches the kitsune stand up then fall to the ground. " Ohh God, NO!" He knows what has happened, the kitsune has used all is magic up. Now the hive is going to take him and hes got to something to help him. He has an idea. "Reiku, I have to help the kitsune. I need the demons help to do this." He lets you go and looks at the demon. "Demon, I need your help, please. I need you to put up a mental barrier to prevent the hive from getting control of him. He used the last of his energy getting the shards out of Reiku. You have to do it now." He walks over to the kitsune. He kneels down and picks up the kitsune and holds him in his arms and hugs him. "Thank you for helping Reiku. I can't let your sacrifice be all for nothing. I may not be able to save your physical body but I can save your mortal soul from rotting down in the lower levels forever like the others. You are not the only one who has their own powerful magic. If I try to explain how, it will take too much time. And you will probably try to stop me. You are going to have to trust me that I know what I am doing. I sware to you that I will not harm you and what I am going to do will not hurt." He looks at the demon to see if the barrier is up then he hugs him a bit closer and rubs his back warmly and holds him tighter against him.