"No, no, NO!!!" Kovu flung himself against the bars of the cage, claws outstretched towards the creatures assaulting the girl in the cell next to him. They remained out of reach, though, and he could do nothing to stop them from grabbing her and vanishing away. The lion remained there for a moment, pressed up against the bars, before finally pulling back and smacking the unyielding metal with a paw, "Damn it!"

He growled in disgust, irritated that he'd been unable to do anything. Maybe there wasn't much that any of them could do, but he'd had to at least try. Someone had to start showing these people that you couldn't just screw up people's lives for no good reason like this.

"I think he got it right when he said this place was hell," Kovu muttered darkly at the question the guy in green posed, nodding over towards Laharl. "Or if not, somewhere trying for a close second."