I based this drawing from a scene from Helluva boss Striker vs Moxxie at 0:49 except I changed it a bit to fit the events of the story.
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I really wanted to draw what the kidnapping looked like after the key master got their body back, it happens when Dorothy got the left side of her head split open by a group of dangerous bandits who found out that she had a key in her head that unlocked a hidden room in the valley. She had passed out from the injury, Showdown and Penny had found her and ended up bringing her to Doc to see what he could do. When Dorothy came back into consciousness she found that she found that she couldn't see from her left eyes and that the left side of her head was bandaged from her ear to her eye, and she found out from Doc that he had to remove her eye from how much damage her head was in. But as she listened to Doc she found how weak she was because of the impact, it turned out that the bandits managed to rough her up, it resulted in her being too weak to even be able to walk properly. Doc then decided to set up a spare room in mending room/home for her to stay the night, in the meantime Dorothy talked to Showdown and Penny, but the dog-wolf couldn't help but feel nervous about the situation. And as Doc had finally finished setting up the room for Dorothy they noticed that the sun was going down, Showdown and Penny then took their leave and headed back to their homes. Dorothy had quickly settled herself in the room shortly after. She felt worn out and tired, Doc took notice as he watched her settle in and insisted that she have a early night. And so that what she did and Doc left her to settle down while still making sure she was alright, Dorothy had slipped off her grey boot and dark blue gloves to let her fluffy limps air out from the events from that day. Dorothy had then crawled into the soft bed Doc had prepared for her and curled up under the blankets, it had been a while since she had slept in a bed as comfy as this, it helped her to get to sleep quickly. Doc smiled, he then closed the door to give her privacy as well as keeping the room dark enough for her to sleep. Meanwhile, the group of bandits had travelled on horses to get to the hidden room of the valley. They each debated on who would use the key on the door, one of the bigger bandits from the lot decided to do it themself. The big bandit grabbed the key they got from Dorothy's head earlier and went to the door that would lead them to the hidden room, they were quick to slip the key into the key hole of the door and unlock up. The big bandit smirked as they pushed open the door. But, they're smirk dropped when they found only a figure inside of the room, it looked to be a dead body that laid at the back of the room, their clothing seemed to be dirty with dust and bits of rust covering their body. The big bandit grumbled as they turned back toward the rest of the bandits, "well...what's in there?" one of the other bandits spoke, "nothing...all except for a rotten corspe" the big bandit answered. The rest of the group of bandits let out anger groans. But, as they're attention was lead away from the room the seemingly dead puppet that laid on the ground had quickly came to life, the puppet seemed to suddenly become taller and lankier as the rust and dust from the puppet quickly disappear with a magic that the figure had used. "ugh...I knew this would all be for nothing!" one of the other bandits growled, the bandits still not noticing that the puppet in the room stand up and start walking toward the open doorway. The puppet in the room seemed to have extremely sharp teeth with golden yellow cat eyes, the puppet seemed to wickedly smile as they were now half-way toward the door. Then, one of the bandits smirked and chuckled, "well, at least we got to split that mutt's head open, the scream she let out was perfect!" then the other bandits also smiled and laughed, the puppet in the room overhead what they were saying and their smile dropped. "yeah, Dorothy sure was fun to torment" one of the other bigger bandits said with a smirk, but the mention of Dorothy's name in the situation made the figure in the room suddenly become filled with rage and they then made
the rest of the way out of the room, their cat eyes glowing brightly in a sign of anger. Quickly, the puppet pulled the key out from the door with enough forced to shatter it, making a loud sound that caught the bandits' attention. The bandits were quick to pull out their guns and aim them at the puppet from the room. But, as one of the bandit's took their aim on the puppet they saw something about the puppet that made them pause, they then realized who the puppet really was, the bandit's eyes widened in fear as their gun suddenly dropped from their hand. "n-no...it's them!" the now weaponless bandit backed off in fear, the puppet from the room then gave an angry smile. One of the other bandits looked that the weaponless bandit who was cowering in fear, "what are you going on about? who is 'them'?" the bandit asked, raising a brow. The weaponless bandit then looked at the bandit and said, "they're... they're t-the key master!" one of the other big bandits looked back and scowled, "that is physically impossible! the key master died years back and hasn't came back since, this is just one of those stringless puppet! now get over yourself and stop being such a baby!", the puppet from the room narrowed their eyes. "so...you think I'm just 'stringless', huh? would a 'stringless' be able to talk?" the bandits then turned to the puppet, surprised at how the puppet suddenly spoke. Suddenly, the puppet took a few steps forward without any trouble "would a 'stringless' be able to walk like this?", the bandits then held their guns up shakily at the puppet. The weaponless bandit shook and backed away from the others and went into the direction of where the horses were, the puppet saw this and their smile widened, "would a 'stringless' be able to do this?" suddenly, the puppet snapped their fingers and a loud sound like chain crashing against the ground was heard behind the bandits. They then heard the frightened cry of their horses behind them, the weaponless bandit turned to the horses to see them scatter and run from the area. "n-no, our horses!" the weaponless bandit said and the others turned back to see the horses were gone. The bandits then turned toward the puppet again who was now closer to them, this caused the bandits to jolt and hold their guns back up at the puppet, the bandits then could see the puppets face properly. One side of the puppet's face was covered with a mask while the other side seemed to had pointy bumps that were all over the open side of the puppet's face. They then recognized the mask and realized that...the weaponless bandit was right, it really was them, the key master. They also found that the key master was also inhumanly tall compared to all of them, making the bandits now shake as they stared at the key master. Then, the weaponless bandit decided to make a run for it, the key master saw and they suddenly disappeared. The bandit's were then confused and fearful at where the key master went. The weaponless bandit then saw the key master suddenly reappear in front of them, they let out a yell of fear as the key master suddenly grabbed them by their neck and lifted them off the ground. The other bandits then turned behind them to see the event unfold as the bandit in the key master's arm now trembled in fear, the key master then leaned in towards the fearful bandit. The key master's eyes then glowed before they're mouth opened to reveal their sharp teeth, the key master then began to inhaled but...it wasn't the air, the bandit scream as they felt their life drain before them, the key master was sucking the soul from they're body. After a few moments, the bandit screams faded and the bandit's body was left motionless, the bandit's eyes were now completely blacked out, the key master then chuckled before dropping the now motionless bandit down. The other bandit made scared sounds as the key master stared down at them. "tell me...do you think that I'm a stringless?" the bandits looked at each other before looking at key master again. The key master then snarled and lunged toward the bandits, "DO
YA?", the bandits whimpered and shook their heads, too afraid to speak. With a chuckle, the key master began to prowl around the bandits, the bandits shook in their boots as they tried to not lose sight of the large puppet. Then suddenly with a swift motion, the key master summoned chains that tripped the bandits, making them each fall on their rears as the guns dropped from their hands. Quickly the key master swept up the guns and broke them apart without much effort, showing how much strength they really had. The key master then walked towards the bandits and towered over the lot of them. "w-wait! can't we talk this through? I mean...we could help you out with what you need" one of the bandit spoke with a nervous smile, trying to see if they could get out of the situation they were in. Another bandit spoke up, "yeah, we could get you anything, like money, alcohol, stuff like that." The key master looked down at the bandits, seeing them trying to bargain with them, it was rather amusing to watch the bandits struggle to find excuses. But, the bigger puppet didn't care about any of things the bandits tried to offer them, all they wanted was the bandits to suffers for their earlier actions on Dorothy. "Do you really think that your petty little offers are going to save you? heh, I find that quite funny, your all trying to dig your way out the predicament you got yourselves into. But, I don't think you realize the mistake you all had made, so let me make it clear to the lot of you." Then, in a trice, the ground around the bandits began to shake before they felt something snapped around each of their wrists, ankles and necks, they looked to see that chains had come up from the ground around them and now had them all chained in place. Then, the key master suddenly used their magic on the key in their hand to turn the key into a long scythe-like weapon. The bandits tried to struggle against the chains as they saw the scythe in the big puppet's hands, "you had messed with someone that you shouldn't have messed with, you messed with her, you messed with my little pup. You all could've done something else that would've left you danger free, but no...you had to do the one thing that pushed me over, you had to hurt her, you had to hurt...my... DoRoThY. And for that...you will all pay with your LIVES!" the bandits then each let out a loud scream as the key master brought the scythe across each of their bodies, over and over, tearing them apart and ripping their souls from their bodies before consuming them one by one. The key master then felt a serge of power run through them as they took a deep breath in and out. The key master then out a loud cackle as they looked down at the deep bandits below them. "It's great to be me again!", the key master then used magic on the scythe which turned it back into a key again before tucking the key away in their cloak. The key master then smiled, it was then that a possessive side of the key master came out as they thought about Dorothy once more. To touch her again and hold her against them, to feel the soft fur on her cheek as they touched her face, they wanted her oh so badly. They knew exactly where to find her, they knew she was still alive from the bandit's attack as they knew the an injury like how she suffer wouldn't be enough to kill her. But, it also meant that it would make her a lot weaker than saw was. "now, for my little pup~" they snapped their fingers, getting rid of the chains from the bandits before disappearing, going to find Dorothy. The night went on, Dorothy was in a deep sleep on the bed of the spare room of Doc's mending home. She happily snuggled into the blankets where it was warm and soft. But, she was so sound asleep that she failed to hear the sound of a figure creeping around the room, they had locked the door of the room and hid the key. The figure then went towards Dorothy as she slept, the figure brought a hand to the dog-wolf's cheek and gently caressed her face. The figure looked her lovingly, a toothy grin on their face, they knew she was in a deep
sleep. Quickly, the figure pulled the blankets off Dorothy's top half before grabbing her wrists and summoned something into their hands, they were metal fist mitts with a lock on each mitt to keep the mitts connected together like handcuffs. The figure was quickly to put the fist mitts on Dorothy's hands, locking her hands and wrists inside of mitts and putting a spell on them so she couldn't use her own magic to break the mitts. The figure then covered the blankets back over Dorothy to make it look like nothing had happened. The figure then crept around the other side of the bed and leaned in toward her fluffy ear, they chuckled in her ear softly, making Dorothy shiver in her sleep. "Dorothy~ wake up, Dorothy~ Dorothy~", the dog-wolf whimpered as the figure whispered in her ear which made her starting to slowly wake from her deep sleep, the figure then chuckled in her ear again, causing her to wake up in a frightened state. She sat up and turn toward where she heard the figure whisper in her ear but...she saw nothing, she looked around the room to see if there was anyone in the room with her, she couldn't see anyone there. She sighed and pulled herself to sit at the edge of the bed, "hmm...maybe it was just in my dream...or in my head?" Dorothy said to herself, she then went to rub her head with a hand only to feel her arms move at the same time, she become confused and tried to move her fingers only to find that they were tightly confined within something. "huh?" she looked down at her hands and her eye widened, she saw the metal fist mitts over her hands and wrists. Fear welled up inside her as she stood up and tried to break the cuffs with her magic only to find that it didn't work, she gasped seeing that they were magic proof. She then tried multiple times to break the cuffs only for it to fail for her and she let out a huff. Dorothy whimpered, "how is this happening? why can't I get them off?!", Dorothy then heard a deep chuckled behind her that she heard before. "heh, I find it so cute how your trying so hard to break them~", quickly Dorothy turned around and saw the key master behind her. She saw that they were no longer the ghost she saw them as before but they were now a tall, lanky puppet with golden cat eyes, she looked up at them and backed off. "h-how...are you..." she then saw them pull something out from their cloak, she looked at it closely and saw that it was the key that was in her head when the bandits had split her head open. Dorothy shook, "no...n-no..." the key master looked down at her with a smirk before putting the key away and leaning down toward her. "I knew you would you would react like this when you saw me again, so I cuffed your hands to stop you from even being able to do anything~ not even to defend yourself~" the key master purred as they looked down at her. Dorothy then quickly turned toward the door and try to turn the knob even with the cuffs over her hands only to find that the knob wouldn't turn, meaning it was locked. "oh, and just if case you tried to get away, I locked the door to stop you from being able to leave~", in a panic Dorothy slammed herself against the door as hard as she could, "HELP! DOC! DOC!!!" Dorothy cried out loudly, trying to call for Carver. She continued to try this over and over until she felt her body going weak, she continued to cry out Carver's name in hopes that he would come to her aid. The Key Master smiled wickedly and went toward Dorothy, knowing that she was becoming weak, they swiftly wrapping their arms around her and pulling her back, she screamed while squirming in the key master's hold. "CARVER! PLEASE! CARVER! CAR-MMMH!" suddenly the key master brought their hand to Dorothy muzzle tightly, clasping over her mouth and nose. Dorothy let out muffled screams as she continued to struggle against the key master's hold. She then began stomping her feet against the ground as she tried to make as much noises as possible, the taller puppet knew that Doc would be alerted to Dorothy's sounds eventually. The key master then briskly pulled
Dorothy back and away from the door before lowering themself down and forcing Dorothy's feet off the ground, pressing her closer to them so they had more leverage on her. Dorothy was left helplessly struggling against the key master's grip, they were so much bigger and stronger than her so her struggling now did nothing to help her at all. Dorothy then looked down at the fist mitts on her hands, she knew this would be her last hope as she tried to swing them up into the key master's face. She almost was able to hit them so she tried once again but with more force to hit the key master, but...they had seen what she tried to do the first time and dodged her hit, not being phased too much by this. The key master then let out a small, breathy laugh at her attempt to hit them. "heh, smart move~ I should have thought you would've done that, but now it'll be so much easier for me!" Dorothy then went to try and hit them again with the fist mitts only to find that they felt heavy, so heavy that she couldn't even lift her arms. She looked down at them to see a magic aura around the mitts, the key master was using a spell on the mitts where then forced the metal mitts on Dorothy's lap and keep them stuck in place on her lap. Dorothy continued to let out muffled screams while still trying to struggle against the key master. The key master knew Dorothy couldn't do much now so they leaned down close to her face, "shh...don't worry, little pup~ I'll make sure your safe and SoUnD~" they're eyes glowed as they stared down at Dorothy possessively, Dorothy let out a muffled cry as she looked at them, tears forming in her eyes. Dorothy knew now that Doc wouldn't able to hear her now making her muffled scream turned into muffled sobs as she had become weak in the the key master's hold. "that's it~ good little pup~" they said as Dorothy began to stop struggling, she had gave up trying to fight them now, she stopped struggling and just shook in the key master's hold. The taller puppet felt the dog-wolf's tear hit they're hand. They looked down at her and they're smile dropped for a moment seeing her cry, they then brought they're other hand to her face, using they're thumb to wipe her tears away, "aww, little pup...it's ok, don't cry..." they then saw her hiccup a few more tears. The key master then brought Dorothy closer to them, they're hold on her was more loving now as they suddenly changed her position and held her bridal style now. They then saw that Dorothy's eye was closed now and her body laid limply in their arms, she had become unconscious the key master holding they're hand to her muzzle. They then released her muzzled and stood up with Dorothy in their arms. They then went in the middle of the room before the key master had disappeared with Dorothy and to they're mansion. They took her to their bed and placed her down onto it, the bed was surprisingly clean despite not being used for a long time. The tall puppet then pulled the blankets over her to keep her warm. They then took off their cloak, putting it up on the coat rack in the room before sitting on a chair in the room near the bed, they smiled before falling asleep in the chair. In the morning, Doc had woken up from his sleep and once he got himself ready for the day he had gone to check on Dorothy. But, when he did he found that the door was locked, he thought that he must've accidently locked it and went to go find the key when he found it was nowhere to be seen. He then instead found the spare key and unlocked the door only to find that Dorothy was nowhere to be seen. He then saw her gloves and boot still in the room, he then found something on the ground, they were dents in the ground along with big bootprints on the ground. Doc had then realized that she had been kidnapped, and the only one he could think of who wouldn't done it was faceless since doc thought Faceless may have teleported to get to her. Showdown and Penny had come to see Doc and Dorothy a little bit later on, Doc had explained what happened and it was quickly spread throughout the whole valley,
that faceless had kidnapped her. But, when Faceless had been taken in to be question he had no idea that Dorothy was even kidnapped in the first place. But, this wasn't good enough for the townsfolk and folks even tried to get him arrested. This had gone one for two to three days until faceless had enough and he went to search for her himself. Faceless had eventually found out who had actually kidnapped Dorothy and was extremely shocked and surprised, he used to be friends with the key master years back until they fell out with each other once the key master had turned evil. Faceless had then thought of a plan to rescue Dorothy from the key master and bring her back to town. Although, it would be difficult for him to do so since the key master was just as strong as he was and maybe even more than Faceless, but, that wasn't going to stop faceless easily.
