teknoguyver
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, Post subject: Secret Wars: The quest for the crystals of life.

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"we're going after the three crystals of life.the crystals hold the power and life force of the very element they are made from. earth, fire, and sky. all who have tried for them have died before they could even get near them and they were the luckily ones that manged to find them. rumor has it that each crystal is entombed inside a beast or creature of the same type. increasing the power of that beast 10 fold all we have to do is find the beast or creature that the crystal is using as a host, dig the crystal out, bring them to the lost temple of life and we're home free." lantis said as he continue to walk onward.

"so i take it you have a spell or some trick that will let you find them right?" oni asked.

"nope, i got nothing. we'll just have to relay on our wits and skills to hunt them down." lantis said with a smile.
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Posted: Sat Jun 26, Post subject:

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"Don't we have any idea on where to find to them, even a direction in which way to go" said Argyle

"No, nothing to go on" said Lantis as he too had to admit to himself that this was going to be more than tricky, it was all well and good on having teh skills to find them but they at least needed something to point them in the right direction.

"It's possible, just possible he's still alive in this time" said Argyle as he thought out loud.

"Who's alive"

"A vampire, he's going to die in the next few years or maybe it's already happened but there's still a chance he's alive. He could possible help point us in the right direction" Said Argyle as he was remembering where he was.

"So what does this guy do"

Argyle turned to Oni, "He's the keeper of the archives"

"You mean the Vampire Chronicles!!" she said in shock

"No but as you know the ruling vampire councile is going through some things at this time" Argyle said.

Vaughn and Fallen showed they're agreement with a nod, the dis-order of the vampires at this time because of the counciles incompetince allowed the werewolfs to gain an advanatge in the next couple of years to come.

"Well this person is the last of his bloodline, he keeps the library out of duty, it's older and superior to the Chronicles by far. Infact it's this reason that the councile wants it, they decided that such a wealth of information should be they'res and added to they're control in the chronicles and tried to take it by force but there are things in that library no-one should know, thats why his bloodline came into existince so when they came to take it by force after he refused to hand it over he destroyed it and killed himself in the process" ended Argyle.

"No offence but considering the fact that he destroyed the Library to stop the councile obtaining it what makes you think he'll let us in, we're Lycans" said Vaughn as he mentoned to Fallen.

Argyle grinned, "Don't worry about that, we just have to hope he's still around" The vampire though looked up, "From where we are though, it'll be a three days travel and daybreak is coming soon, we need to find shelter"
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, Post subject:

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OOC: Yay, part 2!!

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IC:

Oni looked around the damaged village and spotted something that would be useful to them. It was a carriage with currtains over the windows, perfect for them to use as well, considering it was big.

"We can use that" she said pointing at the carriage.

After a little looking, she managed to find four houses and connected them up to the carriage with a bit of help, and then Vaughn climbed up on to the carraige taking the reins and whip, while the others got inside and secured the curtains to the inside so they wouldnt come open.

Minutes later they were moving at a steady speed, all deep in their own thoughts. Oni's thoughts were focused on their new target, this guy might be able to help them find these crystals, maybe, but he might also be able to help her with a personal matter.

"Maybe I can finally find out the name of the vampire who turned me" she spoke so quietly that the other almost didn't hear her.

"What was that?" Argyle asked.

"Nothing" she sighed.
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, Post subject:

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"All right, I have hide outs all over the world , right now I'm probably somewhere around India so were free to use any of my hide outs around America while were looking for these things."

Razor didn't know what they were looking for, no doubt whatever it was the crystals were using as hosts were supernatural beings. So the best place to start looking for them would be places where supernatural beings were plentiful. But before they went off looking in every corner of the world they needed to check with the keeper of the library. Razor had never met the guy although he had heard of him. Oni seemed to have questions for him, and if he found him he'd probably have few things to ask as well.
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, Post subject:

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lantis turned to look at Argyle. "this coruse of action is better the wondering around aimlessly. i don't see how this will help us found the crystals them selves but the more information he have on them the better our chances and luck will be."

"now if you don't mind i'm going to catch some sleep. after all i still have a lot of power to regain. wake me when we hit the nearest town and i'll see about getting us a room or two to stay in for a few days"

with that lantis layed back in his seat and fell into a deep sleep.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, Post subject:

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Argyle sat back in the carraige chair in at least what in his opinion passed for sleep. It was more like a trance where he was asleep but aware of what was going round him, the body rested but the mind remained aware.

He was considering what they were going to say to the archive keeper, there were times when he would be highly co-operative and others when he would turn everyone away. Some rumers from the few who had ever entered the Library had said the time he spent in there and the books had made him mad or at least stolen some of his sanity. Argyle though knew better, there may be some element of truth to those rumers, maybe even a point of eccentricism but his senses remained undulled in the pit that was the Archive.

The vampire left those thoughts as a scent of fresh air caught his face drafting in from some insiqnificant hole in the carraige somewhere, the air was so much fresher in this time. Unpolluted by mans greed for something he should not have, power. It was some hours ago that they got into this carraige, somewhere in mid day now. If he was right from what he could remembr of this time, from the name of the last town and the fact that they were heading north there should be a small village near them. If they persisted to travel through the night they should make it there by tomorrow.

The one thing Argyle was persistant in his mind was why they were here, the forces after them did cause this, true Lantis had kept them together but there was a reason they were brought here. Was it because they were seen as more vulnerable in this time or was something here for they're opposition to take advantage of against them, the thought of something preparing to attack was on he forefront of the vampires mind but all they could do right now was wait and travel on............................
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Argyle sat back in the carraige chair in at least what in his opinion passed for sleep. It was more like a trance where he was asleep but aware of what was going round him, the body rested but the mind remained aware.

He was considering what they were going to say to the archive keeper, there were times when he would be highly co-operative and others when he would turn everyone away. Some rumers from the few who had ever entered the Library had said the time he spent in there and the books had made him mad or at least stolen some of his sanity. Argyle though knew better, there may be some element of truth to those rumers, maybe even a point of eccentricism but his senses remained undulled in the pit that was the Archive.

The vampire left those thoughts as a scent of fresh air caught his face drafting in from some insiqnificant hole in the carraige somewhere, the air was so much fresher in this time. Unpolluted by mans greed for something he should not have, power. It was some hours ago that they got into this carraige, somewhere in mid day now. If he was right from what he could remembr of this time, from the name of the last town and the fact that they were heading north there should be a small village near them. If they persisted to travel through the night they should make it there by tomorrow.

The one thing Argyle was persistant in his mind was why they were here, the forces after them did cause this, true Lantis had kept them together but there was a reason they were brought here. Was it because they were seen as more vulnerable in this time or was something here for they're opposition to take advantage of against them, the thought of something preparing to attack was on he forefront of the vampires mind but all they could do right now was wait and travel on............................
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, Post subject:

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Vaughn still didn't like this entire situation but it wasn't possible for him to remove himself from it, at the present time. He mused over the events had occured since his entrance into this quest, adventure, whatever it would be called in years to come. He thought about the chaos of the Vampire Councils, and remember the time with a hidden smile.

He'd taken full advantage of this time period and recalled the lives that he'd stripped from the Vampires. He'd taken the lives of many of the council's advisors, friends, family and enjoyed every minute of it. But there was that one female vampire....

He shook his head to clear those thoughts from his mind. She would prove to be greater distraction if he ran into her.

He also thought about Lantis, thus far he'd kept quiet, observed the creature and had taken note of his actions. As with all celestial beings they were far more manipulative then demons or devils. They were far less likely to get their own hands dirty, hence the invention of the mortal hero, to do their dirty work for them, often sacrificing themself in order appease these higher beings.

Vaughn had witnessed the deaths of many heros in order to do the bidding of beings like Lantis, and was sure Lantis was no different then the rest. He would be sure to keep both eyes on Lantis, keeping everyone together like this, to the point where magic was used never implied something beneficial for the adventurers. Lantis was afraid of deserters, or was it that he was afraid of someone questioning his decisions and thus force the group to press on.

He looked down to his blade that rested in his lap, he had a few tricks that may surprise Lantis if he began to act against the best interest of Vaughn and his companions, but only time would tell, until then he would rest and wait to see what came their way next.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, Post subject:

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(ooc: sorry for taking so long. i got put on days, then nights, then weekends all in the same week. anyway heres the next post.)

vornak was standing on the balcony over looking the flaming pits filled with the many tortured mortal souls that were his to damn. to him their was nothing more beautiful then hearing their anguished screams. his favorite were the souls of children that he and his fellow demons tricked into darkness and then killed off when they were of no more use.

however his time of enjoyment was cut short as a vrock came rushing in babbling about news from the surface world. vornak turned to regard the humanoid looking vulture for a second before using a force blast to throw it up against a wall.

" i should kill you now just for interring this chamber and running my enjoyment of the tortured souls below alone. but seeing as you seem to have important news, and it had better be important news, I'll give you a minute to spill before i rip your head off." vornak said in a calm , venom filled voice as he walked toward the pined demon.

the vrock let out a few fearful squawks before telling it's master that the angel and it's followers were going after the three crystals of life and that they were going to an archive run by some old vampire.

vornak was not at all surprised by these turn of events at all. in fact he'd been counting on them. so after setting the vrock aflame with a fire spell and tossing him over the side of the balcony with another force bolt he headed to the throne room. where he called in the balor that was to take the newly departed marilith place.

"i want you to send a group of shadows to attack the town the angel is staying in, but do not kill him. i have other uses for the angel and his new friends." he said as he sat down in his throne.

"and the old man with the archive, my lord?" the balor asked. it's deep, brutish voice reflecting it's strong and bull like nature.

before answering vornak poured himself a glass of blood wine and stared into the glass as if it would tell him what the future held. "Burn it to the ground. i want both the vampire and the whole of the archive destroyed by the passing of two moons and do not forget that you, like every demon here, are replaceable. marilith forgot that and so i had her replaced."

the balor simply bowed it's head and then left the room.
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OOC: Does anyone know what those Japanese carriages are called? You know the ones carried by people instead of horses? What the hell were they called? I can't find any information on them anywhere!! This is the net for crying out loud! I mean sure, 90% of it is porn but the other 10% has to have some good stuff doesn't it?

For now I will call it a carriage though ^_^;

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6000 Years Ago

In was a clear night with the bright moon shining down upon the earth, shining so bright that most of the starts around it were blocked by the light, but it was a bad moon. It didn't glow white, but crimson red with an almost orange aura around it, casting the red glow upon everything like a sea of blood.

A younger Oni - or Princess Sakura as she was known then - stared fearfully at the moon as the slaves carried her carriage through the night, she had been staring fearfully at it for a while now, but then she turned back to the man sitting next to her, a samurai that clutched his long, sheathed katana in one hand.

"Lord Himura, why is the moon bleeding?" she asked puzzled and scared at the same time.

He glanced out the window, seemingly noticing for the first time the glow of the moon, but he seeming unaffected by it.

"It means either blood has been spilt this night, or blood is sure to be spilt before the rise of the sun" he spoke calmly, he then saw the worried look on her face and smiled softly. "Fear not young Princess, I will protect you with my life, it will not be your blood that will be spilt this night."

She didn't say anything, just returned to staring out at the eerie night that hid terrors she couldn't begin to imagine.
Suddenly something swept past the carriage like a shadow and a few secoonds later a scream was heard as one of the horsemen around the carriage had his stomach ripped opened. The men carrying the carriage stopped in fear and one by one, the four horsemen were all killed.

By this time, Himura had lept out of the transport ready to fight, his free hand already on the hilt of his sword, but as he jumped out he saw what appeared to be a shadow feasting upon one of the fallen soldiers.

"What foul creature are you?" he asked.

The shadow stood up and spun around, revealing himself to be wearing a black cloak with the hood up, large clawed hands emerging from the sleeves and blood dripping from the large fangs in its mouth.

"Ah, a samurai, I love the taste of the blood of a warrior" said the creature.

Himura simply drew his sword and with a smile the creature attacked, flying through the air and lashing out at the warrior with its claws, but Himura dropped to the ground, avoiding the razor tipped edges and then went to turn around to attack, even as he did though a clawed hand gabbed him by the throat and lifted him of the ground while slapping the sword out his hand.

"How disappointing" the creature said, its eyes glowing hot red and he went in for the kill.

"NOO!" the creatures head snapped around and he saw young Sakura jumping out of the carriage.

"No Princess, get out of here!" Himura yelled as he struggled with the fearsom grip.

"Oh young meat" the creature licked his lips evilly and started towards her, simply tossing Himura aside without a care in the world.

"No, leave me alone!" Sakura screamed and started to run away, but when she turned around he was in front of her and she bounced off him as she ran straight into him.

"Oh, young one, I am about to bestow a great gift upon you, one that I'm sure you'll love eventually" he said with a cruel laugh, the last thing young Sakura saw, was the lengthing teeth and then the piercing pain in her neck........

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Oni snapped awake in the carriage, awaking in a cold sweat and startling the others around her, her eyes darted back and forth trying to focus.

"Hey Oni, calm down, it was just a dream" one of them said, Oni just looked down at her hands and saw them trembling violently before feeling something wet slide down the side of her cheek. She quickly wiped the tear away, still trying to calm herself, it was only the same dream - no, memory - that she had been having for six thousand years now.

"Christ" she said bitterly, pissed and embarrassed by herself.

"What was that about?" Razor asked.

She looked away, her face burning scarlet. "Just a nightmare" she said quietly.

"About the night you were turned?" he asked again. She didn't reply, but then again, that was all the others really needed to hear.

(Warning Time Advancement!!!)

lantis sat at the small desk in the corner of one of the decent sized rooms he'd manged to get for the group during the day while the vampires were sleeping.

the rooms were the size of college dorm rooms and each one held two beds, a candle light, and a desk.

lantis looked down at the map held bespelled into exsitence and hovered the crystal he'd pulled from his pocket. he watched the crystal move up and down the map, frowning when it never stoped in one place for very long.

with a sigh lantis leaned back in the chair giving up the serach for now. he hoped they made it to the archive soon as all the searching spells he'd tryed, as expected, turned up nothing as to were the life crystals could be found.

the want to find the crystals weren't the only reason he want to get to the archive soon. the other reason was that he could help but feel that bad was going to happen with in the next few days and that the archive would be in the middle of it.

OOC: This RPG isn't going to die yet!!!

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IC:

Oni wasn't sleeping like the others, she couldn't sleep, she was too restless, so instead she resigned herself to practicing her 6000 year old style of martial arts while the others slept, though she was limited to what she could and couldn't do in such a small room.

What she really needed was some blood and booze, she knew that would settle her down somewhat.

"I wonder if the Old Man will have any solid information for us?" she thought quietly.

during the middle of the night when all the towns people had turned in for the night a large bullish figure steped out of the shadows.

its right oversized clawed hand glowed a sickly green color before it faded out. at first it seemed as if nothing had happened, bt then the wind began to pick up. the change in wind speed wasn't much but it was enough to blow out all the carefully lit street lights.

with the clouds moving in to cover the moon, the very night seemed to become alive as the darkness it self begain to take shape and form.

anyone still brave enough to be out at night would have thought nothing of it. just another storm rearing it's ulgy head. ...they couldn't have been more wrong yet right at the same time.

for the shadows had come out to play.

it's work done the bullish figure faded from sight, moving on to it's next target. stoping only to smile as the screams began.

OOC: Come on Mr. Z, Kaiser or Vengence! Post something already!!!

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Oni shot awake, not even realizing she had fallen asleep, upon hearing the wails and screams from outside. She rushed to the window and realized that it was dark outside, when she pulled open the curtain, she could see through the darkness, some people running about, with shadowy creatures attacking them.

"What the fuck are those?!" she wondered, but was already slipping her guns and holsters one before picking up her swords and strapping them on also. She ran off to get the others, a bad feeling creeping into her guts.

OOC: the japanese hand held carriage is a rickshaw (SP? Rikshaw, Ricshaw?)

IC:

Razor noticed the strange shadows attacking the town. Whatever forces were behind the recent events were most likely behind this as well. Razor fired about a dozen bolts of plasma into the shadows causing them to scatter. Several of them darted to the side, Razor pulled out his bokken and swung causing a large shockwave to fly towards them. Two of the shadows were caught in it along with a nearby brick wall which shattered as they impacted on it.

OOC:

What are these shadow guys, more demons of some sort?

OOC: There's information in the Datafile section on them, right at the bottom.

OOC: i have their DF in the data files section.

here the shadows data file.

name: Hell/Dark Shadows
height: n/a
weight: n/a


bio: drak shadows can take the shadow form of anything they want. Hell shadows are nothing more then darkness given life and form. while they have no magic of their own they are capable fighters and even better spies. the only weakness they have is bright light such as sunlight or well lighted rooms..

Powers

Shadow Blast: An orb of black energy that on contact renders it's victom blind.

Black Mist: this fog like mist robs it's victoms of all senses but sight. even then sight is reduesed to mere feet.

Weapons: Dark shadow weld weapons much like those you'd expect a ninja to have. these weapons have ben known to cut through the stengthest of swords and armor with ease. another danger of these weapons is that anyone cut by them is infected with sha-dark and if not cured with in 48 hours will become a shadow themselves.

regen: any wound a shadow receives in battle is instently healed when ever the step in to a shadowly place. lost limbs can turn into new shadows during a fight making even a small group a major threat to any city or town

OOC: I'm still currently baffled by what's going on, but what the hell, that makes it far more entertaining B)

IC:

Vaughn cracked his neck from side to side with sickening precision. He'd been docile for far too long. He felt the rush of anticipation about the coming battle pump through his veins. "Time to warm up..."

Dark movements in the shadows only gave Vaughn a reason to smile. The corners of his lips curled to expose unnaturally long canines that had their own eerie hew like that of the pale moonlight. Once he lowered himself into a crouched position they surged forward like ravenous wraiths of the etheral plane, ready to strip him of his ancient soul.

Vaughn unleashed a furious slash so suddenly from his blade that the first shadowy beast did not notice until afterwards, and found it gravely wounded, and the other shadowy form possibly looking down the bladed tip where Vaughn had stopped it, presumably at its head. Then ina whirlwind cleaved the creature diagonally from left shoulder to to right hip.

"Could've been worse," Vaughn said leaping to his next mob of foes and dispatched them just as easily. "No, actually it couldn't, they aren't much of a challenge I'll be bored within the hour if I'm lucky."

OOC: Has anyone backed up the original thread to this RPG?

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Oni jumped out to the side of one of the Shadows, hit the ground and rolled, while at the same time lashing out with her sword and removing its head from its body. She rolled to her feet and kept running. She looked back to see all the shadows reforming, not into their original selvs, but into seperate forms, creating three or more new shadows for every one they had decapitated.

"Oh thats original" she thought sourly, knowing this changed everything, they couldn't fight them like a normal enemies. "Think, they're only shadows, there has to be a way of hurting and killing them...." she looked up suddenly and saw an oil lamp burning brightly in a store window and it suddenly struck her. "Of course! Light repels darkness!"

She ran up to the window, kicking a shadow in the abdomen as she did. She skidded to a halt infront of the store and punched her fist through in one fluid motion, she pointed her other hand behind her and fired a powerful blast of water that smashed another two shadows backwards as they came up behind her. She grabbed the oil lamp and spun back around and held the lamp in front of her, however it was only enough to keep the things three feet from her and they quickly surrounded her.

She frowned. "Suck light" she hissed and through the lamp at the ground, the oil and fire exploding and dissipating a good half of the shadows around her, she was also quick enough to form a water barrier around herself, protecting her from the flames that were quickly spreading.

the window to lantis's room shattered as lantis jumped out after hearing and then seeing the shadows. his wings poped out and kept him from hitting the aground with only inches to spare.

useing the speed from the fall lantis flew through the flames that were surronding Oni, grabing her by the waist as he pulled up and away.

"i didn't think fire and vampires mixed very well." lantis asked in a smug tone as he left his free hand up over his head. a second later a bolt of lightening shot from the sky to his hand. lantis then brought his hand down and and the the lighten shot down and hit three of the shadows.

with a loud thunder clap and three unearthly howls of pain, lantis and oni set doen in the now cleared area.

" go help the other and what ever you do don't let the touch you." with that lantis headed off.

OCC: Finally, now if only Sparky would hurry up and get his butt back online.

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Just as Lantis headed off a shadow game bounding towards Oni at full speed, she fired a blast of water at it that sent the creature flying back into a group of other shadows.

"And what happens if they do?" she asked him when he stopped and looked at the shadow she had just knocked back.

"You'll become one in two days, if your not cured that is" he replied calmly and then headed off again.

"Oh, well thats reassuring" she said sarcastically

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OOC: Sorry, thats all I have this time

OOC: Well, Sparky's back, I guess this RPG could use some First Aid revival skills :beers:

IC:

Vaughn let out a sigh as he dispatched another. He was growing bored, and rather quickly. He was hoping for an adversary that would require him to transform, and thus far none proved to be that challenging.

He backflipped and spun away from more of them to disappear into an alley and moved with his supernatural speed to gain a vantage point in order to dismember the rest of the surviving horde that had lay chase to him. Though he was concerned whether or not everyone else was having success with these creatures....

OOC: Thoughst hast calleth my name and thoughst shall by granted thy wish.

IC:
Argyle kicked a Shadow as it swiped for him but it crashed into a doorwith the force of his kick. After he got involved with the commotion he tried dismemberment with one of his blades but the peice of this thing he removed started to form into something else. He preferred a bit more room than this to fight an unknown enemy as being trapped in a small place with an unknwon wasn't sound strategy. With this in mind he crashed through a window his skin already alternating to it's different state.

The Vampire landed in a crouch but the Shadows or whatever theywere, were already ontop of him and he flipped backwards getting to his feet. In he street now he saw the store fire and the reasoning hit him one of the others must have got an idea about these things weaknesses and started the fire. It caused an idea to form in his own head. As Another lunged for him he caught it and both went into a tumble but Argyle was having trouble getting a grip on the thing to stop it from attacking him as it was changing shape. argyle knew he had to get loose and drew a knife again though this time he knew not to decapitate but stab what looked like the head, it seemed to work as the thing let go giving him the chance to get to the fire.

Entering inside the fire didn't hurt him the way his skin transformed, it was what allowed him to survive against the fire Elemental and he quickly found what he was looking for, another lamp or at least the oil inside it. The vampire smashed the lamp over himself and in the raging store he himself caught light but it was the effect he was after.

Exiting the flaming store he himslf was a raging flaming fiqure and it presented a new Problem for the Shadows

OOC: YAY! Sparky has returned... Now if Blood would only hurry up with the next evolution in BattleCube :bang:

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Oni was firing small water spikes from her hands, twisting and spinning in a gracefui manner as the Shadows came at her, then raising a water sphere around herself that stopped the creatures in their place. However it didn't seem to matter how many she wounded or decaptiated, they just kept coming at her.

She wondered how good these creatures were with pressure, and while keeping a barrier around herself, she raised her hands into the air with eyes closed and concentrated. Above the village a big swirling vortex of water appeared, though to have seen it from the side on, it would only have looked about as thin as a piece of paper.

Suddenly Oni's eye's snapped opened and it looked like her eyes had been replaced with deep pools of water that rippled everynow and then. Then, from the vortex above, columns of water started to shoot out and smash into groups and single Shadows, smashing them into the ground with crushing force.

Rozor began to fire dozens of plasma bolts at the shadows burning them apart since this sort of attack seemed to work the best. He slammed a plasma ball itno a nearby shadow completely burning it apart. Dozens more of the shadows began to come from his left and right surrrounding him.

"Ok you guys, that was a bad idea." Arcs of lightning began to come off his body as Razor levitated into the air on a cusion of ions. Hundreds of lightning bolts began to shoot off his body striking the shadows surrounding him and setting some nearby buildings on fire.

OOC: Hey slackers get your asses posting here, we still got the archive to get to and I happen to like this rpg anyway.

IC:
The flaming nosferastu moved towards a shadow and it semed to fade away as it tried to retreat and it didn't help either when he got up close ad physicle. The shadow was literally defenceless and couldn't stop it's self from getting beat around the place like a lump of dead meat, even the others of it's kind couldn't really get close enough to help it.

Argyle looked round to assess the situation, while he was handling himself fineyRazor was the one taking care of business, his special skill allowed him to simple blast away his opponents at his own Lesuire. The problem now though was that they're position was comprimised and after this was taken care of they would probaly have to make they're way to the Archive as soon as possible.

Elsewhere...........

A gathering of Demons grouped outside a rockface but this rockface was a different texture to the rest of the area on the face of the cliff, it was infact the entrance to the Archive, "Lets do what we came here to do" called the one in charge of the group.

Through the rock face a single figure hidden by the black hooded cloak it wore walked round a completely lightless vast and empty cavern when it suddenly stopped. The keeper of the Archive looked up towards the entrance, this thing could easily tell what was outside and what was coming but it was a serious mis-giving to think they could accomplish they're goal against something like the Archive and the keeper it's self. If they entered they're end was nigh.

OOC:OK just something to hopefully intice you lot to come back based off what Tekno said when he had those demons ordered to try and burn down the Archive.

OOC: Sorry, I didn't realize anyone had posted or I would have posted sooner.

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With Shadows coming at her from the side, Oni started firing blasts of water out of the shield around her and blasting them backwards. She saw Argyle and Razor doing some damages but still they were coming out of the shadows of the buildings by the hand full, and she knew that none of them were going to be able to keep this up forever and they needed to get the Archive, something in her told her they had to get there soon.

"Hey Lantis! You got any tricks to get these little buggers to fuck off?!" she yelled out to him.

lsntis cut down another of the shadows and looked up only to see more coming at him.

"i'm starting to get real tired of this. guess it's time for a little rock and roll." he said sighing to him self. then in a louder voice so that everyone could hear him. " everyone if you not fire proof get the hell out of the open cuse i'm about to heat things up!"

with that let lose a small shockwave of air that sent all the shadows close to him flying. then forming a sheild around himself he summoned a fire ball in one hand and thrust the other deep into the earth. lantis sent some of his power down into the earth and traced a parth threw out the city, he then sent the other have of his power into the small fire ball before slaming in to the ground. when the two opposing energies met they set off a large chain reaction.

the very earth under the city streets spilt and cracked open as a earthquake hit, with in seconds massive flares of hellfire shot up through the openings in the ground engulfing the shadows in a hellstorm of flames.

OOC: Damn it, I need to check the sections before I mark all posts as read

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Oni shot into the air riding a column of water as the ground broke open and the shadows were swallowed up by it and watched as the hellfire rose up out of the ground towards her. When she realized it wasn't stopping she quickly formed a sphere of water around her while at the same time she was consumed by the fire and then darkness.

6000 Years Ago

Oni/Sakura shot up with a sharp intake of breath, her eyes wide and fear and panic racing through her mind as she slowly looked around at her suroundings. She was in a cave, a cold and dark cave that she could see in with perfect sight, despite knowing that she shouldn't be able to.

Then everything came back to her and she touched her trembling hand to her neck, where the creature had bit her. Her neck was still slick with blood, coating her hand with it, btu she didn't feel any puncture wounds.

Almost as if the knowledge had been planted in her mind, she knew what had happened... and what she had become.

"NOOOO!" she screamed out in unrivaled anguish, her scream echoing out throughout the cave and beyond the mountains in which it laid.

Present

Oni laid barely conscious on top of a building, parts of her body charred and other parts of her body scolded. She hadn't been quick enough to form a proper shield agaisnt the flames, she was lucky this was the only damage she sustained, she knew that.

OOC: OK look, I think maybe one of the problems with this rpg is that everybody is waiting for the next story point to come up before they really get into this again so I'll kind of speed things up a bit but really this has a lot of potential still to go.

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Argyle looked round, Lantis trick did the job but everyone was scattered. An attack like that was evidence enough that they're enemy knew where they were and they couldn't hang round. They needed to get they're arses in gear.

the vampire walked over to a water barrel and once again poured it over himself to literally put out the flames tha were on his body but he no longer had any hair or cloths. He grabbed some cloth after smashing through the store window and wiped himself down before going back to his room and inding some cloths that fitted him and picking up his knife belt and arrow gun. As he got back out he saw Oni being seen to be Razor, "Is she alright"

"Yeah, she'll be fine but not everyones fire proof you know" was Razors obvious remark towards his way of dealing with the shadows.

"Maybe, get the carraige, we have to leave. They know where we are now and that makes us vulnerable" said Argyle as he went over some stuff in his head.

"Already on it" was Razors reply as he hocked up the horses to the carraiges.

One thing that was bugging the vampire was how they kept knowing where they were, such an advantage would somehow need to be blocked. It kept them too defencive and pinned down. He went towards the Lupines, "Any wounds"

"Nope" was the almost simultanious reply of Vaughn and Fallen.

"Good, we gotta load up now, we're headed out, where's Lantis"

"Over there" came the answer from Vaughn

Argyle went towards the half demon, half angel being, "Lantis, come on, we can't stay here, we're easy targets right now"

"Yeah I suppose" said the Balance Angel as he made his way to the carraige and thought about what was coming next.

With everyone onboard they started o move out.

Archive........

The last demon sent to kill the Archive keeper and burn down the Archive it's self backed away. They got in so easily but, but after that. They were demons, but this thing was a true monster, "What are you........................."

"You need not worry about that now, you will soon join the rest of those you came here with" said the keeper as he advanced though how the remains of the ones here came here with were no where to be seen.

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With no sound heard nor splash of blood the demons remains also were no where to be found, with this taken care of the keeper walked steadily rowards the broken entrance of the Archive the stone smashed and laying everywhere, but it began to repair it's self peice by peice rebuilding the door until it was once again whole.

"You are slow in your arrival Argyle" were the words that drifted from the hooded fiqures mouth and then the great stone doors newly placed back together began to slide over until they were closed once again.

Some time later.........

The group would have taken almost three days to get here but they had been riding day and night, rotating between Lycan in the day as driver and vampire at night so each could sleep a bit and had not stopped except to replace the horses which had become exhausted, unable to take the strain of they're demands, not vampire nor werewolf had eaten but they had made time. It would only be another day, day and and night maybe before they were at they're destination

OOC: Finally, some story development

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Oni finally came to, her body having healed the damage caused by the hell fire, the burns had disappeared from her body and the exhaustion was replaced with a deep hunger, she needed to feed soon. She looked around and found she was still in the cariage with the others, minus Fallen, who must of been driving. Both Vaughn and Lantis were asleep, though Vaughn snore's filled the whole cariage.

"You feelin ok?" Razor asked, helping her sit up.

"Yeah, I'll be fine, just thirsty and hungry. Only one I can help myself with" she replied as she materalized some water into her cupped hands and drank it as if she was drinking saki, something she would have really liked to have gotten her hands on.

"You were twitching a lot in your sleep, we were starting to think there was something wrong. What was it, bad dreams or something?" Argyle asked.

"More like nightmares" she replied quietly. "I keep, dreaming back to the day I was turned and the events that followed soon after."

"Who turned you?" Razor asked.

"I wish I knew" she said. "He turned me and abandoned me in a cave, high in the mountains, which I was stuck in for days, barely any shadows to hide in when it was day and I only had the very few bats to eat that came in for shelter sometimes. I eventually gathered enough strength and got myself out of there. But by the time I had figured out what I had been turned into, I had nothing to go back to. My family believed me to be dead and when I returned from beyond the grave, they drove me away, thinking I was a monster possessing their deaughter's body" she said bitterly, then she sighed. "I've been searching for the one that turned me so I can destroy him as he desstroyed the former me, only problem is I know only two things about him."

"Which would be?" Razor asked.

She was silent for a moment, then looked at both of them. "I think he's the first."

"Hmmm...you knew the first...I might be able to tell you a little information, I'm not sure how useful it is since I never met him in person." Razor said.

"Anything could be of help." Oni said

"The person who turned me says she knew him."

Over 4000 years ago in China

Razor decapitated the last of a group of Shaolin monks he had been fighting, it had been a tough battle , there had been thirty of them and they were all pretty skilled. Back then Razor worked as a mercenary, back then his name was Leilong.

He cleaned off his sword and was about to leave when he heard someone say "Your not too bad, you have alot of potential." He turned to see a Chinese woman, but she had unusual looking hair, it was silver colored, the same color that Razors was now. He whipped his sword around to take her head off, but before the blade reached her head it had completely melted. Suddenly an aura of heat surrounded her body forcing him back, the earth around her feet seemed to melt.

"What are you?"

"I'm called Phoenix. I've been following you and several others with potential for awhile. I want to make an offer to you, you want to be stronger don't you, you always have been seeking more powerful opponents to test your abilities against." she turned to look at the dead monks "You must have trained very hard to be able to defeat them....it's really to bad, humans work so hard for so little. For me, I wouldn't even have to lift a finger to defeat them."

To prove her point she opened her mouth and issued forth a blast of white fire. A large boulder was caught in the blast, when she closed her mouth, it looked as if a huge bite had been taken out of the rock, as the molten hole smoked.

"Do you want power like mine? If you do I can give it to you."

Back in the present

"Well, anyway I wasn't about to turn down an offer like that."

"What does that have to do with the first?"

"I'm getting to it..."

Back in the flashback

A little while after becoming a vampire.

"This is nice and all....but I think there's something you havent told me, whats in this for you?"

"I have my reasons, lets just say awhile later I might ask you a favor."

"If I can defeat you, your going to tell me right now!"

"Sounds like fun, that's why I like you better then the others. Your not afraid of me." Razor attacked forming wind cutter blades around his fingers, but Phoenix was able to evade all his strikes, with a jet of fire Phoenix shot into the air landing on top of a wall, behind her back she fired a white ball of fire directly into the ground. The fire ball shot up and hit Razor in the back burning into him and throwing him into the wall. Phoenix's special ability was that she was a super pyrokinetic. Her pyrokinetic abilites excelled beyond those of any other vampire rivaling those of a fire elemental.

Razor slowly got up smoldering from the attack "Looks like you lose, you should always be prepared for the unexpected." Phoenix picked him up and took him somewhere to clean off his burns.

As she wiped off his wounds Razor asked "So who was it who turned you?"

"That's for me to know and for you to find out."

"Your pretty old arent you? How old are you?"

"Thousands of years. Lets just say that there were no others of our kind before my father."

"Your father?"

Back in the present

"She was always using ambiguous statements like that, I assume she meant he was the one who turned her, since to my knowledge vampires have no way of conceiving of offspring naturally." Razor said.

"She would always be hinting that some day she would come back and ask me for some favor, but I never heard of her again."

OOC: Nice Mr. Z, very Nice ^_^ now its time to do something that I meant to do last night but forgot ^_^;

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Oni just sat there with her head resting in her palm, thinking thoughtfully, "You say her name was Phoenix huh?" she asked quietly.

"Yeah" he nodded.

"I've heard about her before, but like the first she is a mysterious character, except for the fact that people know she's a woman there is nothing known about her. Though I've heard she's just a little crazy and tends to exagerate" she replied, scratching the side of her cheek. She then sighed. "Yah know, I once heard a theory that the First is probably one of the oldest living beings on the planet, and that perhaps he has the power over all elements due to his extreme age, and thats why all us other vampires always have a signle kinetic type power as it originally started with the first. He probably knows more abilties then all of us put together. He'd be a tough bastard to fight regardless, I'm not even sure if I can beat him even if I do find him."

"You probably wouldn't be able to" Argyle said calmly.

Oni just nodded slightly, though that didn't mean she wasn't going to give up, it didn't matter to her if she died or survived fighting, both would probably be a victory. Suddenly her sensors picked up and she sensed something outside was following them. it was strange, but not unfamiliar, she knew what it was.

"Hey listen, when we get to the Archive, I'm not going to be able to go in straight away. So if either of you can try to find some information on the first while you're in there,, then that would really help" she said calmly, resting back against the soft seat.

"Why won't you be able to go in?" Argyle asked with arched eye brow.

"Because I have other matters to attend to. Lets just leave it at that for now" she said.

"Hey, Oni, you never told us what your special ability was" Razor pointed out.

Without turning her head to face him, she vanished from sight. "Oh, I can turn invisible."

"And you Argyle, your ability is being fire proof. I remmebr that fire elemental only blacked you and you walked away fine" Oni asked with curiosity.

"Not directly, I can change the texture of my skin, comparable to steel armour plating. Fire proof is just a useful addition aswell as being able to walk in day light for about twenty minutes" said the vampire and he continued with his sun.

"What would I do with twenty minutes in daylight" Oni thought loud.

"The sun rise" said Argyle passively.

"What?"

"I watch the sunrise sometimes, when you see it come over the horison and the light hits your face.............I can't remember any before I was changed though, not any of them"

"Good choice.........." said Oni.

"Oni, the first if thats who he is, you can't kill him. There's something you don't know. A long time ago, even before the war, much farther back. The vampire and Lycan races weren't seperate, they were one. If he's the first, he's still going to have traces of this in his body aswell as the primal vampires who came after the seperation, his abilities would far exceed any living or undead being today. If you try to kill him, he'll crush you like nothing the same way you kill a fly" Argyle called

Oni just froze at this revelation, as did Razor and the others. This was something they had never heard before, "And how exactly do you know this"

"Because", Argyle started, "Before the Archive keeper was the Archive keeper there was someone else that could have been stuck in that Library for the rest of his days and he decided it wasn't for him" Argyle stopped talking as he turned his face towards Oni, "And who do you think this person was............."

Before anyone could call up answer the vampie started again totally changing the topic, "If memory's right there should be a town close by and it's only going to take us a small bit of time to get to the Archive from there, we should stop for something to eat and change the horses, they're getting too exhausted again"

OOC: Come on people, lets keep it coming

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"Why don't we just eat the horses?" Vaughn suggested, having woken from his sleep during the conversation..

"Sounds like a plan to me" Oni agreed then looked at Lantis who was rolling his eyes. "Seeing as our resident Balance Angel doesn't like us feeding on humans" she pointed out in an almost sarcastic kind of way.

"you know you could just sell the horses for new ones. ones we could ride on horse back the rest of the way. besides one horse should be enough to feed everyone for now." lantis said as he sat up.

the last attack had drained him far worse the he had thought it would. that could mean a number of things and none of them were good.

all this talk about the first had been interesting to listen to but hardly any of it was new to lantis. well.. the indivdual(sp) stroies were new but not the names and the rumors.

the air around lantis seemed more relaxed then the last time he remembered it being. the need to get to the archive wasn't so strong anymore but none the less their was still a need.

"i'm going to releave fallen. no doudt he's in need of a rest." lantis said as he stood up and started for the door. however before he could take more then a step he fell to tthe ground, with a dull heavy thud, out cold.

"Eat the horses if you like but whats going to pull the carraige we ned to stay out of daylight, I'm going into town for someone or two" said Argyle as he hopped out the carraige.

"What do you think your doing, Lantis asked us to just eat the horses" one of the others called

Argyle stopped and looked back with a deep look that lacked of patiance, "If the Lycans want to eat the horses then they can go ahead, they'll get some good choice meat from them but animal blood doesn't really cut it for us and I'm not wanting to get caught weakened by those things that are after us. I know Lantis doesn't want us feeding on people but he's not stupid that he won't understand the position we're in. It looks like some of you are staying here, so watch him and I'l be back soon. When we get to the Archive he can be properly taken care of there"

Argyle turned back to the forest and walked in until he turned into a bat and took off towards the town where his sustainance was and someone waited to die...........

OOC: Edited to help fix continuety.

OOC: Kaiser, your going to have to post sooner or later....

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Oni helped Lantis and Razor helped get Lantis's unconscious form back in the carriage, and laid him in the middle of seats. Oni then turned back to look where Argyle flew off to and sighed irritably.

"He's right of course, we need to feed, though in all honestly we should have at least grabbed one person each back at the inn and fed on them. I haven't fed since we slaughtered those villagers, even then I fed very little" she said then she looked at Razor. "You coming or not?" she asked.

He looked at lantis for a second and then shrugged before nodding. "Should we go bat?" he asked.

"You can, personally, I never cared for the little ugly bastards" she said, transforming into a wolf as she walked, then when fully transformed - into a pure white wold - she started running, kicking up snow as she ran.

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OOC: Post also edited to fix continuity errors

OOC: Oh I'll post don't worry B)

IC:

Vaughn, who had eaten more non human flesh then most of his kind knew that to keep him in top fighting form would have to consume human flesh. The occasional elk, deer, or moose was good, but human flesh is what kept him energized, besides it had a unique coppery taste to their blood that he found most appealing.

"Animal flesh is no subsitute for the flesh that my kind was born to thrive upon. Though I only intend to kill humans that are asking to end their lives. Nobody misses the thief or the town drunkard. Besides, a human intoxicated with ale tastes rather good, like bread made with rum."

With that he stalked outside and moments later threw his clothing back into the carriage. A bone chilling howl filled the air as he sprinted off in full werewolf form, using his acute sense of smell to hunt down his next couple meals.

thanks for the changes.

Argyle sat on a roof with one leg up beside im to rest his arm on while the other was on in front and he lent back with his other hand. There were some people in the town streets but not many, a family was heading home. Mother and father and two children however they weren't something he fancied, Argyle maybe cold-hearted and emotionless sometimes but he had never feed on Children or parents. It was the only thing he would never do.

He looked round some more, there was a women closing a shop late night, healthy and attractive, she would probaly taste well. Down the street was some man and his friends drinking themselves into a stuper, easy pickings. Those were the particulars, among them where some random poeple who just happened to be out. Nothing that really caught his interest apart from that women but he'd go down and loo round, maybe there was an inn or something around. Just then he caught the sent of something and turned, behind him in all it's glory was a massive Lycan. Even to Argyle this one was huge but he already knew who it was, the scent showed Vaughn for who he really is, "Sorry friend but I'm already covering this area" was all he said from one hunter to another and walked off to get the inn he spotted that was close by.

He openned the door and went in going to the bar and ordered a drink, he flicked out a coin to the innn keeper that he had collected while in the lat town and went to sit down. Normally he wouldn't have bothered paying and just manipulated him but there were a lot of people beside him.

He sat there and waited for a while for something to show it's self.

OOC: Come on Z, you too Kaiser

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Oni walked calmly through the snow and quietly slipped into the town going unnoticed, her pur white fur blending in with the snow and masking her from people far away, but hey yellow eyes gave her away to any body who happened to get a good look. Luckily there was hardly anyone out on the town to worry about that happening.

She sniffed the air and instantly she smelt Vaughn and decided to stay out of the part he was hunting in. She didnt trust him enough. Silently she slipped into an alley and transformed back to her human form. She then walked out of the alley and headed to the alley across the street, she sensed Arygle was in there, and it made her wonder what he was up to.

She walked through the door and walked over to where he was.

Argyle saw Oni appraoch him nd the women beside him walked away as he told her to. Oni pulled a seat up, "Hmmm,what was that about, she looks like she would be nice"

"She's got a kid", said Argyle as he kept looking round

"And you regularly check for that in those you get an interest in, so your not so heartless afterall, so what you up to in here" said Oni starting the chat.

"Just don't tell Lantis, he'll think I've gone soft", Oni had a small grin, this was the first time she had ever heard him talk like he could at least jest, Argyle was one of those ones that just couldn't relax sometimes in her opinion, "I was actually just having a seat as well, getting a minutes silence is comforting soemtimes, especially when it's a break from some of the stuff we got recently"

"I believe that", said Oni, "So see anything you like"

"I might" said the vampire looking at her.

"I didn't mean that way" she said appreciating the comment

"I know you didn't but to answer your question not really, there isn't much I'm exactly interested in her but give it time" he said leaning back.

Just then a drunk burst into the tavern screaming and stagering, "I swear I saw it, a vampire it tried to get me"

Oni turned to Argyle who looked like he didn't care, "Have we been made"

"No, we're just close to the Archve so this town has alwas had a few things happen here but they just got used to it and started to iqnore it, eventually it stopped completely apart from the drunks who think they've seen things, there probaly hasn't been a real vampire here in a 100 years"

"Oh, so he's just drunk" said Oni.

"Yup" Argyle said without a care as the man staggered round and hit the bar and looked at the inn keeper, "Plz give me something, to steady me"

The keeper looked like this had happened to him more than once, "No, you've had so much already you've passed steady back into shaky, have some decency and go home"

The drunk got up from the bar and staggered towards the two vampires falling almsot to lean on hte table, "help me, it's other there, it tried to get me"

Argyle had enouh and pushed the man back so he flew from the table and hit the floor, "You wouldn't recoqnise a vampire if it jumped up and bite you on the end of your fucking dick"

Oni made note that he hadn't used enough strength that the peole here would think he was anything but a normal human just pissed off but at the same time burst into a silent fit of laughter at the comment aswell as half the inn.

The large beastial form of Vaughn stalked quietly through the grunge of the alleyways. His long feral ears swivelled as he heard a distinctive female shriek. Vaughnt took in his surroundings and made an incredible leap to the adjacent building, causing a massive thud upon the rooftop as his clawed feet and hands dug into the tiling and began to race towards the sounds of the impending wails of terror.

Moments later he froze as his yellow eyes beheld a group of men ravaging a young girl no older then fifteen. Vaughn's feral wolf lips parted in a smile. This is exactly what he'd been hoping for. Slowly he drew closer along the rooftop, his muscles rippled with each closing step. There were five humans, four men, one girl. He quickly took in his surroundings and tactically played out the most likely scenario. The alleyway was a dead end, he presumed this is how they cornered the girl, and this is how he would corner them.


He jumped down and landed with a harsh shockwave twenty feet from the mob. The miniature quake caused the mob to freeze and turn around, only to see nothing but shadows. A few began to feel nervous and wanted to get out of the alleyway, but their ringleader was decidely too busy to take notice as the girl continued to wail away. This section of the twon was known for this behaviour, and the neighbours said nothing, for fear of their own daughters, only now, a massive jet black and silver beast with ominious yellow eyes and bright fangs was about to change the balance of power....

with a start lantis awoke to nothing more then a short sharp pain in his chest. placeing a hand over his heart, he took a few short breaths until the pain lifted.

*whats wrong with me? by my very nature i can't get sick or suffer from any kind of mortal illness?* lantis thought to him self.

suddenly his eyes widened as a thought hit him, but lantis pushed it to the side. such a thing was not unheard of among his kind but it was still impossable as lantis was still young in his duties.

looking around he found himself to be alone in the carriage but the smell of a fire told him that someone was still close by. steping out side he found Razor tending to the fire and a small deer strung up by its hind legs to a near by tree. it's blood was driping into a bowl layed out beneath it.

"a light snack until the other come back from their hunts" Razor said in way of an answer to lantis questioning look.

"look i'm fine now go hunt. you all most be hunrgy as all hell after putting up with me for so long. i'll going to see about heading into town for some food of my own. i can't remember the last time i ate anything." lantis said doing his best to hid the fact that his arms and legs were shaking slightly.

OOC: This RPG is going to get mighty interesting soon

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Oni calmly downed a glass of whisky as she scanned the room at the crowd, someone had led the drunk man away, probably take him home or dump him in an alley, if he was lucky it would be the former as Vaughn would find him easily and kill him within seconds.

She turned and noticed a look in Argyle's eyes, a distant look, it was as if he wasn't so much watching one in the present time, but looking back on his past. She knew that look all too well, she knew she had the same look sometimes.

"Penny for your thoughts?" she asked him without turning around, putting her glass back on the counter and signaled for the bar tender to fill it up, but then she got a better idea and just took the bottle when he was close enough, startling him somewhat. "Trust me, you don't want to get between me and this bottle, unless you want to end up in a trash can with your legs up around your head" she warned.

The man looked at Argyle who turned back to face him. "She'll do it, she's very unstable, can't go an hour with a bottle of booze" he said serious. The man, now a little more then afraid backed off.

"So like I said, penny for yah thoughts?" she asked again, taking a swig of the drink, then offered him some but he just held up his half full glass and shook his head.

"I was just thinking about days long past" he said quietly. "Mostly about the war and everything that happened during those days.. these days.."

Oni nodded silently. "Yeah, the High Council asks you to some pretty fucked up things don't they, not that you really start to think about it until after you've carried out your orders. I know I've done some things I'm not proud of, but it just really didn't hit me until long after I had done it, but...."

"But, we get over them" Argyle finished off for her.

"Yeah" she nodded, thinking about things she hadn't thought about, or tried not to think about for a few centuries. "I did something really horrible, when I was first turned, I've never been able to get over it though, I don't think I want to let myself get over it."

"You can't dwell on the past, it'll kill you" Argyle said emotionlessly.

Oni just stared into nothingness for a moment, then said with a amused but sad tone. "Yes, it will....."

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At that moment, at the edge of the other side of town a large black horse, a rider cloaked in a black cloak atop of it, came walking along the street, looking like a horse from hell, snorting hot air from its nostrils which formed into mist in the freezing air. The people still out doors saw this creature that couldn't have been a normal horse and quickly pressed themselves against a building, or ducked into an alley to avoid it.

For the air a deep blue colored Falcon dropped out of the air and landed on the rider's shoulder and chirped in its master's ear.

"Good job, Talon, good job" the rider said in a cold and dangerous voice and continued on.

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In the mean time, Oni had finished the bottle of Whisky and put the bottle back on the counter.

"Well, thats enough relaxing, its time to feed" she said quietly to Argyle.

"Indeed" he nodded.

Oni spotted her prey, a man and whore heading up the stairs to a vacant room no doubt. They would do nicely, no one would miss the drunk and only the men that saw her regularly would miss the girl.

"Don't get this bloody" she said as she shrugged off her leather over coat and handed it to Argyle, and before he had a chance to protest, she followed after the two, wearking her black pants and tight tank top, she would fit right in. No body even tried to stop her once as she headed to the room she saw the two go into, though she did attract quiet a few stares, making her wonder how much money she could earn before sun up. Finally she got to the room and and tested the lock, of course it was locked, but bit of strenght was all it took to open it without anyone noticing. She was met with a shock though. The whore was bent over the man, teeth sunken into his neck and blood covering her chest. "You have got to be shitting me" Oni growled in frustration.

"What do you want pretty?" the vampire whore asked.

"Well, I was going to feed on you and that thing in your arms but it looks like you beat me to the punch, didn't you?" Oni said sarcastically.

"Oh, so you're a vampire are you sweety?" asked the whore.

"Sweety?" Oni frowned. "I'm much older then you kid, now are you going to share or am I going to have to give you a spanking?"

"Sounds like fun" the Whore said. "Name's Tammy by the way."

"Oni" she replied.

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Seconds later the whore and Oni smashed through the wooden safety rail and fell onto a table, the legs giving away instantly. Oni punched the woman in the face twice and then stuck a claw in her side causing her to cry in pain. Rolling on top Oni proceeded to punch and claw at her, hissing and snarling like a rabid animal.

People backed away as the two fought, Argyle just stood at the bar watching, silently drinking from his glass, a smile on his face as the two women went at it.

Oni was knocked backwards as Tammy put her off balance, but she wasn't on the floor long, already shooting into the air with a hand spring and landing on another table in a crouch.

"Come get some bitch" she said, her teeth lengthening. Tammy lunuched at her but before she had the chance to react, Oni unsheathed her sword and removed her head, the two halves distintergrading in mid air. Oni then sheathed her sword and jumped off the table, everyone staring at her in shock and what had been the most popular whore in the town. She looked at them, then without warning Oni grabbed a nearby young man - he was in his early twenties - and sunk her teeth into his neck, sucking the blood into her body. Within minutes, she had drained him and then lets his body drop to the ground, and looked at everyone else with a wicked smile. "Whose next?"

Before long the whole inn was in a panic, everyone rushing to get out, the whole time, Argyle just looked at her with an amused grin.

"What?" she asked.

"You certainly have a way with people, creatures of the night and humans alike" he said and threw her jacket back at her.

"That's why I'm a Death Dealer" she gave him a toothy smile, which were of course stained with blood.. Then suddenly a cold wave washed over her and she let out a gasp and thought with slight horror. "He's here"

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OOC: Sparky, Kaiser, do not engage this new characters, this is an important part of Oni's character development, you can look, but don't touch. The fight will be in the next post and its going to course some mayhem.

Argyle was slightly amused at both Oni's behavior but also the fact there was a vampire whore in town, the fact that a true blue vampire really was in fucking town surprised him. He turned anyway to look and instantly knew what was going to happen, there were about five people left in the inn and anymore it would be considered a serious waste of life and a mega blood bath but this could be taken care of, he put his class down and moved fast to intercept the first person at the door. It was the women who had the kid, with a sharp hit she was knocked unconcious and he layed her on the floor.

The next went to run out the back and Argyle flicked out a knife and launched it in what was almost one simutanious move impaling the man in the back of his right knee crippling him. The next one was a man who was more or less hiding and trying to take cover, as Argyle moved passed him he thought he could slip out the back but the vampires moved leg out behind him swiftly kicking the man in the head knocking him out cold.

A man and a women where what was left, she picked up a bottle and smashed it on the counter and swung it at him thinking she had a chance though before sheeven knew what was happening her arm was broken as the elbow was forced backwards and the glass bottle in her hand fell as he caught it and hurled it with enough force to embed it's self in the side of the only man left standing whoproptly hit the floor while he was already chewing ou the side of the womens throat leaving her feet to dangle helplessly below her. For a vampire to drain someone of blood takes less time than first thought unless it wanted to draw the experience out but for this women it was over in an instant and her body dropped. He stepped over her uncaringly and moved to the man with the bottle in his side, "Your pain will be gone soon enough" was the last words the man heard and bared extended teeth were the last things he saw...............

Soon too the man who had been impaled through the back of the knee was dead and Argyle wipped the knife on the body's cloths before putting it back in his belt. He looked up at Oni who seemed to be in a state of shock, "Are you ok, whats the matter"

"Nothing, I, I'm fine" she said before throwing her coat back on and marching out. Argyle didn't like this, something spooked her and he himself could have swore he felt something, it just disappeared too fast for him to get it's bearings. He'd need to check it out but first he needed to clean up here.

The vampire tossed the dead body's with ease to the other side of the bar out of view of the windows and then closed the windows themselves along with hte doors and got the two people he left unconcious. It didn't take him but a second to bring them round one after the other and looked at them in the eye's, his own eyes flashing amber, "Hey you ok, you got knocked out in that fight. The place is a mess"

"The fight" said the inn keeper being the man he kicked unconcious, "Yeah, your ok but the place got wreaked, you'll need to clean it up right now, take the garbage and broken peices outside and burn them, both of you, clean the place of spilled drink and go home, you won't remember anyway, strong hit to the head"

The inn keeper and women got up and while the inn keeper dragged the bodies outside to be burned under the illusion that they were just peices of broken furniture the women began to clean the drink which was really just spilled blood everywhere.

When they got home tonight, they'd wake up and only a fight happening and having to tidy up, the inn keeper will remember he has to make repairs and that'll be the end of it.

OOC: I'll try my best Riven B)

IC:

As the mob nervously returned to their gang raping they slowly began to regain their confidence, the man that served as a look out for the mob felt a shiver run up his spine. Cautiously he looked back at his buddies, muttered about not getting any for the next few minutes, then turned back to the entrance of the alleyway. Before his eyes was a massive broad chest of Vaughn. With terror stealing his voice he trembled and looked up to see the feral Vaughn's elongated snout, lips pulled back exposing all of his razor sharp fangs, his upper and lower canines were dripping saliva that pattered on the man's shoe, that was also soaked in his own urine.

In a doomed attempt to protect himself he raised both his arms in a cross pattern above his head just as Vaughn's massive jaws open and surged forward in a fatal bite that crushed his defensive arm stance and continued to bite down on the man's head, crushing it with a single snap of his jaws.

Blood and brain matter sprayed across Vaughn's chest as he quickly stripped away the muscle tissue and fat and devoured it, quietly he snapped every large bone in his body and sucked out the nutrious marrow lapping it up with his tongue.

All that remained of the scout was a pile of ravenously chewed bones and torn clothing along with inedible organs such as his urinary tract, stomach, and intenstines.

Vaughn crept closer towards the next victim, one of the mob, who was patiently waiting for his fellow buddy to finish sodimizing her so he could have a go. He was so transfixed on her screams of being violated that he didn't notice Vaughn stand up on his hind legs and reach back with his right clawed paw which had the raw strength of a grizzly bear in both size and power. As he chuckled at one of the girl's loudest screams Vaughn brought down his clawed hand with horrific force, his clawed fingers cutting through flesh and severed his spinal cord in four different segements from his upper cervical spine near his thorax region, killing him instantly. The man slumped forward and Vaughn caught him by the back of the throat with his teeth and dragged him away and devoured him quickly. There were still three more men raping the young woman and sooner or later they would run out of steam and notice their fellow rapist and their scout were missing in action.

The bestial werewolf licked his lips with his bloodstained tongue and prowled foward again, ears flapped back against his head as he came up behind the man that was raping her, while the other two were forcing oral sex and sodimizing her, with a swift horizontal snap of his jaws he gripped the man around the throat and tore it off and quickly clawed his body backward and devoured it just as the other two men felt hot blood splash across their bodies and saw it sprinkle across the naked girl.

"What the fu-" The ringleader of the mob cursed as he shoved the girl off him and tried to pull up his pants as Vaughn spat away the chewed up femur of his dead brother. Vaughn lashed out and cleaved the other man in half with his left paw and kicked the ringleader with his right hind leg shattering his ribs and splitting open the back of his skull when he struck the hard rock wall of the alley's dead end.

Vaughn made short work of the two dying men, tearing out their vocal chords and shaking their bodies like rag dolls. Within minutes all that remained alive in the dank alley was the girl, still gasping for breath and vomitting up what she'd been forced to swallow. The massive obsidian and silver werewolf trotted around the woman sniffing. She looked even more frightened as Vaughn slowly circled her, she reeked of male bodily fluids, forcing Vaughn to snort violently to try and shift the scent to something less grotesque.

Vaughn noted the tattoo, above her left collar bone, a sex slave marking. Vaughn felt no pity for her, it was the profession she had chose, with his hunger satisfied for the time being he disappeared into the shadows, heading back to the carriage to dress and rearm himself.