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HEY THIS IS JADE - I AM JUST TRYING TO SEE WHO IS STILL ALIVE OUT THERE. EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE LEFT ET BEHIND, AS I HAD DONE. I HOPE SOME OF YOU ARE STILL AROUND. -JADE
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This is an RPG that takes place in current time but theres a catch. You can enter other worlds that are arouind your own. Elina Malacary accidently walks thru and enters one of these worlds and now is stuck in a world of goblins and elves and faires and orcs and dragons and witches and wizards and mages and centurs and mermaides and everything from the darkest of good to the purest of evil. Make your game. Will you help Elina? Will you join the evil forces against her? Will you be a canible? A elf? A mage? A hause elf? A orc? A hobgoblin? A dragon? A animorph? A transporter? You decide...

(Password is Jade. ^_^)

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Story starts here.:

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Elins looks around, and stands up. She rubs her head <WHERE AM I?>.

A woman and a young man appeare in the middle of the area. The woman strokes her thick blonde braide as she and the white haired youg man levitate in the air.
"Who are you?" Askes the woman.

"My name is Elina Malacary."

The woman nodded and stroked her blonde braide. "How did you get here?"

"uhh.. I don't know how I got here. I was wondering around and ended up here."

The woman raised an eyebrow, "Really? Do you have ANY idea what you just did? You have somehow walked accidently into the 7th world. Most people cannot get here even when they know its here. You are either really smart or really stupied. I am Cara. I am a Mord-Sith. That is all you need know about me. This," she said geturing to the young man beside her, "This is Koryn. He's my pet. Koryn is part animorph and part transporter. Hmmm. you are a human. You won't last long out here. Would you wish some help getting to a town? If not we'll just be on our way. Maybe if we're lucky we'll hear you screams as you die. Either way, I do not care. It is up to you."

Koryn takes out a small ball of gold about the size of your fist and proceeds to bat it back in forth in the air.

Suddenly, from the room that Elina had entered, a tall and curvy wonam entered. She had tanned skin, black hair, and haunting blue eyes. Elina,Koryn both stare helplessly at her. "Guys, please leave her alone" she says forlornly to the woman with blonde hair, and the man with white hair.

 The two lowered themselves to the ground and seemed upset. "Jade, must you ALWAYS ruin our fun?"

 "yes" Jade said, "especially when it involves frightening the innocent and helpless."

 "Hello," Jade said to Elina, "I'm Jade, and I'd be more than happy to help you. I'm an elf-sorceress, which is a quite odd combination, seeing as how both races are dying out... nevertheless, I'd still love to help you do whatever it is you want to do."

Elins smiles at Jade. "Thank you."

The blonde woman rolls eyes at Jade and fliks her blonde braide over her shoulder.
"Jade? What are you doing here?"

Koryn (now on the ground) continues playing with his ball in one hand while fixing his white hair with the other.

Elina comes up to Jade and asks "Now what is going to happen?"

Koryn reaches into his pocket and pulls out a giant strawbeery. Yes a strawbeery. Anyway he walks over to Elina and says, "Do you want to help me eat this Strawbeery?"

Just then from out of nowhere, this purple-haired, elf with greens eyes appears.
"A foreigner I see." the elf says as she approaches Elina and the others.
"And who are you?" Elina askes, still eyeing the strawberry.
"My name is Iemara and I am an Elf of the Circle of Elements. I am here to help you since you do not belong in this land. What is your name young one?"
"I'm Elina" she replies as the two girls shake hands.

Cara(the blonde woman) walkes over to the newcomer and says: "no, it's pronounced 'strawbeery. not strawberry. their difrerent. I do not know how though."

"No, it's Strawberry.

"Sure . . . ok. . . um, anyway. . . where were you headed if I may ask?"

A young halfling wearing purple and blue poka-dots walked into the area. "Hi Hi."

Koryn splits strawbeery in half and hand one side to Cara, "Here you go mistress Cara." he said smiling.

Cara smiled and took it. She smiled disturbingly at how the color of the juice matched the blood-red color of her leather.

Koryn smiled and continued playing with his golden ball.

Cara smiles at Elina reasuringly, "I am realy not mean. Cruel, Evil, Violent maybe but not Mean."

Suddenly a large blob of darkness seems to comes from one of the shadows in the corner of the room. The blob then builds up to the figure of a man, but it still excists of total darkness, except for two red eyes.
"Well well well" it says "what do we have here."
he walks over to Elina. "A foreigner, in our kingdom. O this is unfamiliar. And she has no idea how she got here? *the figure laughs loudly* You must be very unlucky or really dumb then girlie. But tell me, now you are here, in the company of so many... friends... what are you going to do about it?"
The eyes narrow in a quite mischievous way.

Cara eyes the strange male newcomer with distrust.

Koryn continues to play with his golden ball.

Halfling smiles and rams herslef into a tree.

Iemara rolls her eyes. "What do you want? We're buisy here."

"I'm trying to find out what kind of garbage has deponated itself in our kingdom" the shadow says.

Elina goes up to the shadow and asks nicely
"What's your name kind sir?"

Cara looks at Elina and askes, "You know, I can kill him if you would like. I certainly wouldn't mind." She smiled evily at the shadow creature.

Koryn takes out a silver ball the same size as the gold ball and play with them both.

Halfling falls to the ground the sits up rubbing her head, "Good new, no damage." she says and then proceeds to trip over Koryn and slid down a hill on her face.

Elina laughs hysterically and stands there confused. Asks Koryn " Ok first you had a gold ball to play with and now you have a silver ball too.? Exactly how many balls do you have to play with?"

Koryn grins at Elina and pulld out: a bronze ball, a crystal ball, a emerald ball, a ruby ball, a amythst ball, a jade ball, a diamond ball, and a black ball that seemed so dark it sucked light in it.
"Thats how many," he says gleefuly.

"O I like the last ball" the dark figure said "And futher, my name could be Shade, Shadow, Dark, Black, Ghost, O Great Master, but please don't use that one, those goblins are enough already, and some even call me a Demon. You just make your pick. I don't really care."

Elina shutterd at all the names he had mentioned. " So..., Demon, what *garbage* were you looking for?"

"Besides the garbage hiding under his own clothes?" Iemara muttered under her breath.
"Don't be rude!" Elina scolded. "That wasn't very nice and besides, I asked him a question." She turned back to Demon awaiting his answer.

"Well, you, to be exact." The shadow answers "You just sudeenly hopped into our kingdom and I wanted to see how you did it, but apperently you just landed in here by accident, which makes you much less interesting for me. But what are you going to do now you're stranded here?"

Elina stepped toward Demon and Says " Not sure exactly." *sighs*
"Do you think you can kill him for me now? She asks Cara.
" Your starting to get bored and besides we all know you want to it shows all over your face. So what do you say, Kill him or let him finish his little speech then make him suffer? It's your choice."
Leans up against a tree and *sighs* wishing she was home with her family back at home.

The shadow laughed "It isn't that easy. But in any case you have clearly shown you're quite murderous for somebody who just got in an entirly new place. Is that how you do things? If you get somewhere new kill everybody that's not immediatly nice? *laughs* Then what do you do when you go meet your boyfriends parents and they aren't nice? Kill them as well?"
The shadowy figure changes his form, he's more like a dwarf now, same height, almost the same body build. Only his head is attached directly on the body and it has two antennas which bow over to his back.
"But if there will be fighting I'll join. *eyes narrow* And so will you."

"I want a piece of this action!" Iemara piped up.

"That is, if there will be any." The shadow says "Though I find it a bit... rude, just to attack somebody because he asks something."

Cara smiles and walks forward three paces untill she is standing next to Elina. "I'll make it easy for you mr 'Oooh look at me i am a dilquent shawod person'. I'll let you attack me first. in fact I won't even move."
She flicks the little piece of thick studded leather hanging from a silver chain around her wrist up into her hand and waits.

Koryn smiles up at the shadow man and says,
"hee, it isan't smart to make mistress Cara made. Nope, no it isan't. Can I have any balls or jewels you might have after she kills you?" smiles sweetly.
"please?"

Half-ling walks up the hill and smiles at everyone,"I ment to do that."
she says as she re-trips over Koryn and falls down the oppisite hill.

Koryn sqeuals and runs over to Cara and sits at her feet staring into the sky wondering what the hell keeps hitting him...

"You may all drop dead or wait till you do. I just want my answer." the shadow replies.

"what answer are you looking for exactly?"
Elina asks confusedly. *whispers a song while waiting for an answer*

"Well, you stumbled into an entirly new realm. What are you going to do about it? I'm sorry I'm just incredible courieus about those things." The shadow answers. "You see, I have this agenda of mine in this realm and I hate it when things interfere, so now I just wanna know what you're going to do. You see, as you just came in, you aren't in the planning."

"I see." Elina says confusedly. She walks over to Koryn *who is playing with his fist size balls* And asks if she can see the amythst one.

"Sure!, Here you go!" Kroyn smiles gleefully
while handing Elina the amythst ball to her.

"Thanks." And studies the ball constantly.

"Is somebody going to answer this guy's question so we can get rid of him and find a ways to send Elina home or are we all going to stand around sounding like parrots repeating ourselves and each other?"

"Finally somebody with brains!" The shadow says.

"Okay, I, and all of YOU are going to help me get her home. We will walk that way," Points down a path that wasn't there before but somehow is there now. "And we will stop at the first town we get to ask for help. Okay? Good." said cara.

"good." Koryn echoes.

"Here's your ball back Koryn I am done with it."
Hands ball to Koryn.

"Than koo." says Koryn as he pets it to see if it is al-right.

"Lets go then." Elina says confidently.

The shadow looks at everybody. "I'm not planning on walking! I'll just see you there... Or not..."
And he disappears in some dark corner.

"Like we care, God dammened frigggin coward that's afraide of girls with braides." Cara mumbles to herself.

Half-ling walks back up the hill again and sits down and holds onto the grass,"Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee ooh butterfly, no wait. There's to many of them. Get them off. Get them offf. nooo." she runs over to Koryn and asks for help and he say," What the hell do you think you're doing? Your gonna get the on ME!"

Koryn runs in circles with Half-ling following him screaming.

Iemara just sighs and shakes her head, wondering what she had voluntarily got herself into.

Cara watches and sighs. "I swear I cant take him anywhere..."

"I heard that" Some voice comes from the shadow in the corner, and then dies of.

Just before they started down the path footsteps took the place of Cara's complaint. A dark figure came walking towards them from the path. It seemed he was holding something.

"Great another creature. Who are You?" asks Cara.

Koryn stops running from half-ling and as she runs into him he says ,"Who are You?" copying Cara.

A dark whispers voice came from the dark figure down the trail” I take offense to that creature remark." The Dark figure says as he keeps on walking.

Cara raises an eyebrow, "Really? Hmmm if I cared I might say sorry but since I don't... Anyway who ARE you?"

Koryn sits and plays with his gold and silver fist sized balls the are fast becoming his trademark.

The Dark figure comes into the light. He was a dark skinned elf that has silver hair and is dressed like a samurai; his hair is in a ponytail like a samurai would. The object he carries shines in a bit of light revealing it to be a katana (Samurai Sword), He put this sword away in his sheath and said as he passes them

Iemara stares at him suspiciously, muttering to herself,"I know you from someone, but where?" The others too engrossed in the newcommer to take notice of what she said.

"My name is no concern of yours"

Cara smiles slightly, "Hmmm... You're all right. Where are you heading?"

"The opposite way of you, depending on who you are.", The Elvin samurai stopped in his tracks and turned towards Cara for an answer.

"Who I am? I am Cara. I am a Mord-Sith. I am trying to get these people together, 'Jade and Elina and Iemara and Shade and Half-ling and Koryn' so that they can help Elina get to the Temple of the Winds. I need to get there myself so that is why I am helping. I need to... 'Talk' with the guy in charge... anyway, If you had three doors to walk thru which would you pick? 'Undefeatable in battle' 'Power over all' Or 'love'?"

Koryn walks over to Samurai and says "Hmmm me thinks that is a special sword. Yep that's what me thinks."

Half-ling says, "Hee hee Koryn you be speakin wrong but me be speakin wrong too so me be guess me can't say much about It." smiles.

"Koryn is right, there is something special about that sword." Iemara agreed, suprised that Koryn could tell.

Koryn is confused and so takes out a pure blue ball that no one saw before and stares into it until he understands and then puts it back.

Cara looks at Samurai waiting for either an answer or some sign of life.

Elina just sits there waiting to get to the Temple of the Winds. Waiting for Cara to give her a sign to go.
*sighs heavily*

"Wait a minute... where did YOU get that sword? I've seen it before..." says Koryn as he thinks about it.

Half-ling pulls out some gum and proceed to blow bubble with it.

Elina stares at the sword long and hard and thinks to herself *that looks familiar*
and continues to look at the sword.

A presence in the shadow, which still lingered there, unnoticed, grinned inside himself. Now he knows where the party's going. But he'll be following them, just to be sure that stupid git wasn't deceiving him.

"I went to great lengths to get this sword. It is one worth that trouble. But anyway, the temple, and you're a Mord-Sith huh? Then I can Guarantee we'll cross paths again.", With that Kezka walked past them and to the next trail away from them.

"Well...that was interesting...Okay everybody let's go." and with that they started off, Cara in front followed by Elina, then cam Iemara and Jade, then Half-ling chewing on herself.

ELSEWHERE

A young woman stared into a crystal ball. She had long wavy red hair and faded green eyes. Her skin ,Lightly tanned, implied that she got out alot. She ran her long slender fingers along the crystal ball looking deep into it.
"MmmHmmm... So ,sister, you're coming for a visit are you? Laran!" she called.
A young man entered the room. As he waited for xia to speak to him he looked around the room. There were beautify tapestries strung about and jewels and things of all sorts.

"Laran, Cara is coming back."
His deep blue eyes widened. "Really?" he asked.
"MmmHmmm. Go and meet her. Make sure she doesn't get her. She's going thru the narrows..."
He ran his finger thru his mahogany colored hair, "The Narrows? Why would she... No1 She isn't going to the temple is she?"
xia nodded.
"Very well," he said as he disappeared from the room

BACK AT THE GROUP

"We'll be at the Narrows soon." said Cara from in front.

the mysterious samurai elf was thinking to himself "I wonder If I should go back there, I don't want loose my sword to them, although, It would be great fun killing all of them, well then. it is risk I'll take", the mysterious elf turned around and sprinted forth catching up to Cara and the group.

"Ahem, I am coming with you, I have some unfinished business in that area."

"alright then lets go." Elina says calmly and starts walking.

Cara raises a eyebrow and nods to him, "Well if you are coming are you going to give us your name or shall we simply refer to you as 'hey you?'"

"Hey you will do fine." The mysterious elf said as he joined them.

Koryn looked with surprise at his mistress as she actually laughed, "Very well." she said as they continued on their way.
Iemara stayed away from the newcommer, not trusting him very much. He gave her an uneasy feeling she couldn't yet explain...

"Why are interested in my sword so much?" Hey you inquired.

Hey you's question was momentarily forgotten as yet another stranger came up the road. As he walked up to then he dusted off his red robes and attempted a friendly smile.

Koryn smiles and says, "Its master Laran its Master Laran."

"oh hi Koryn." said the stranger now known as Laran.

Laran looked about and decided to asked the armed one a question, "Hello, would you happen to know where I might find a one named Cara?"

Cara smiled and called, "Over here Laran."

Laran let out a real smile this time.
"Cara!" he said then looked around self-consciously at the group around him, "Who are all these people?"

Cara shrugged just people.

Laran started walking with them. “Where are we going?"

"Temple of The Winds..." said Koryn as he avoided running into a tree.

Laran nodded.

Hey you listend to them and was less than ammused by Koryn's lack of visibility and halfings antics,

"Who are you?", Hey you asked Laran

"Hey will do fine", Hey you said.

"I am Laran. An old ...friend sort of... well not at first but that was understandable anyway I am Laran. I am a mage of sorts and also a theif if need be. Nice sword. ."

Hey you showed a small sign of anoyance that everyone was so interested in his sword.

"We like swords.." says cara.

Elina stands there bored out of her mind. And still wishes to go home and get out of this mess.
" Of, course you guys like swords." she whispers quietly.

"I want power, this sword gives nearly undefeatable power.", Hey you said looking at Cara.

"Nearly....? Hmmmm I guess a little power is better than non at all I suppose." Said Cara.

"Some of us don't need swords to have undefeatable power." Iemara boasted.

*sighs*
" Are you done talking about swords and power? I would like to get home soon."
*sighs heavily* *I wish I was home* Elina says nicely to Cara and Hey you.

"Whatever,"Hey you said with somthying in his voice.

"Will you quite sighing and complaining? I bet the people yoiu came from are glad to have you gone, say something anything positive or better yet rfrain from speaking unless asked a question you are beginging to annoy me...." said cara with venom in her voice.

Shrugs her shoulders and stands next to a tree and stares into the dark sky.

"Good it's going to rain," said Cara as she pushed Elina infront of her to keep her moving, "Faster you move Elina the faster they move the faster we get there the faster I'm rid of you."

Koryn grinned.

Laran laughed.

Half-ling tweeted.

Iemara said nothing, not very impressed by anyone but Koryn and Laran at this point.

Hey you simply had the same narrow-eyed anoyed evil eyed look as always and wiated for them to leave

"Cara,let me know when we are leaving for the temple of the winds. Ok!?" Elina says with a whisper tone. And sits infront of the tree and falls into a deep slumber.

Two red eyes look from the shadows of the tree to Elina and they narrowed mischievously, like they have done some times before too.

The hairs on Iemara's neck stood on end as she looked at the red eyes, sensing something about was about to happen.

"Stop stareing, Your driveing me mad.", Heyyou said slightly anoyyed but calm and dark as always.

The shadow in the tree wonders who the guy the is talking too and dissappears between the shadows of the leafs.

Laran whisperes somthing only audible by hey you and cara. He tells them silently that he senses somthing close by, but it's not shade, not this time atleast.

Cara nods just slightly and looks without moving her head to see where the intruder might be.

Koryn notices a diference in three members of the party and looks at them wondering what was going on.

Half-ling remained oblivious.

Hey you had the same stone face look and had one griped on his katana ready.

Iemara began to draw her Celestial enegry within her body, preparing for a possible attck, though her outward demeaner did not betray her inward actions.

A dark man in dark clothes walked into the area. He nodded to them and laughed a slightly insane laugh.

"Who are you?" asks Cara getting into a slightly defensive posture. Somthing did not feel right about this man.

"I am a messanger of Cyan. He sends his ragerds Cara." the man said darkly.

"What does he want?" asked Cara her voice filling with anger.

Laran, un-noticed, by the newcomer, moved slowly around behind him, he knew who Cyan was and he new if the man was sent by him then something very bad was about to happen.
Iemara backed away, not wanting to become involved unless she absolutely had too, matters such as these are best left fought against the parties directly involved unless innocents are hurt.

The dark man sneered at her,"His slave of course, did you really think you could escape from him? Here, stand still, I have a surprise for you." and with that the group ,not including Laran and Iemara, were surounded with mirror images of the dark man.
"Wich am I?" he asks as he sent waves of magic at them.

"We dont have time for this." Hey you said in his usual tone putting his right hand on the hilt of the katana.

"You get one chance, then We will kill you."

Cara smiles, "As you wish."

The dark man let out a red wave and aimed it at her. few seconds later all the other images of him disapered and he was on his knees screaming. Cara stood with her arm out and her ageil in her hand, smiling. She turned her hand just a little bot and the man let out an un-earthly scream as tho his very soul was be ripped from his body. Cara stopped for a mo,eny and asked, "where is cyan?"

Hey you let out a deep sigh. "As I thought I'm traveling with moslty weaklings."

Iemara looked at Hey you sharply but said nothing, not wanting to betray herself.

Elina wakes with a start and rubs her eyes and leans against the tree.

"what happened here while I rested?"
she asked couriously.

"Elina shut-up. Now, where is Cyan?"

"I do not know but I can show you where he might be..."

"Sorry, buy if you do not know where he is this very minute then you are of no use to me." Cara said and with that she walked up the dark man put her hand over his chest, turned, and stopped his heart. She walked back, glared at hey you for assuming she's weak, yanked Elina forcing her to stand and dragged her along down the path.

Laran followed silently in the wopods and shadpws around them, knowing that it wasn't over yet.

"Cara let go of me I can walk on my own two feet thank you very much. I would be glad to help you find Cyan otherwise let go!!"
Elina says commandingly.

Cara tightend her grip on Elina and pulled her infront of her. "Look, I am not in a good mood, I have to find cyan and I am NOT going to let any self-centered, stupied, idiotic, complaining, worthless brat stop me, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME? Noe shut up and fucking walk before I get mad." said Cara digging her nails into Elina shoulders before pushing her infront of her and forcing her to walk. "MOVE ALL OF YOU!" said Cara and the group immediatly started moving at a good pace down the path, Laran following in the shadows laughing silently. Iemara looked at Cara slighlty suprised at her treatment of Elina.

Walks down the path at a stady pace and doesn't say another word for the rest of the trip.* Shutting up and will never speak again unless asked to she thinks to herself scared shitless*

Suddenly ,in a swirl of light, a young man with white hair to his shoulders, dark skin and deep blue eyes stood before them, he wore all white.

"Cyan." whispered Cara.

'Not him!' Iemara fumed to herself and silent rage rose within her, her elements struggling to keep the rage incheck. 'How dare he show is face in!'

"You stupied bitch that was favorite scout! You dumb un intelligent arrogant little she-bastard." he screamed at her.

Koryn growled, "No one talks to mistress Cara like that," he said as the whites of his eyes turned blood red and his hair grw to his shoulders, fox ears appeared, and two shining fangs. He growled once more and lunged at Cyan. This to Cyan but surprise and he had a good number of wounds before he cought Koryn. He held him out by the throat.
Cyan smiled at Cara, "You took somthing of mine, I'll take something of yours." He said and with that he crushed Koryns throat killing him, and disapered.
Cara had a readless expression and her eyes were blank. She just stood there, doing nothing, barely even breathing.

Shade came out of the shadow of Koryns dead body. He is in his human form again and he stands about 6 feet tall. The shadow looks around and his eyes narrow again it that nice evil way of his. "It seems you are doing really well with going to that temple of yours. You said you would help Elina. What I'm seeing now is you dragging her along, with force. How, nice of you."
Shade looks at Elina, and a change in the shadows at a place where his outh should be is visible, he appears to be grinning.

Cara turns and starts to tackled shade but Laran grabe her, "It's okay Cara, he doesen't understand that's all, alright? calm down."
Cara nods and he releases her. Cara falls to her knees and looks at the ground with saying anything more. Laran glares at shade but does not say anything.

"How dare you Shade! Have you no compassion at all?" Iemara demanded angrily, still pissed at seeing Cyan again after such a long time.

Half-ling (who was warching from a tree) burts into tears at finding her playmate gone.

Cara's eyes turn hollow and empty. Her face blank. She sucks in a shakey breath, stareing at nothing.

"If you intend to do anything about koryns dying body you should do so quickly, he hasnt completely crossed over yet." Hey you said in a stone cold voice.

Elina stands there scared and frightened. With no further thought she stands next to Half-ling and hugs her to support her with seeing the death of Koryn right in front of her.

"I'am sorry I'am so sorry" She says in a whisper.

Half-ling turns to face her and weeps on her
shoulder.

Laran nods at hey yous' suggestion and kneels next to Koryn spreading his hand over him trying to heal the little fox spirit.
Iemara askes if he needs any help, but declines, slightly insulted by the offer since he was more than capable to it on his own.
Cara turns numbly and looks over at hey you, surprised that he would even care, and then looks at Laran hopfuly to see if he could heal Koryn.

Half-ling sobs, her tears wetting Elina's shirt.

Laran looks over and is surprised that Elina even noticed, then continues healing the young fox spirit.

Elina rubs Half-ling's back and tells her in a whisper,

"Everything's going to be ok. Don't give up hope."

Stands there and continues to let Half-ling cry on her shoulder.

The little fox spirit kick his paws in the air, he woke up barked and curled into a little ball of fluff quivering. When he saw Laran he jumped into his arms and licked his face then looked at Cara and barked.

"Cara, this will only be for a littl, we need to get a potion or he will die. In a few moments he will be a little spirit. we haven't much time." Laran said trying not to upset Cara.

Cara petted Koryn and nodded, "Okay." she said in a whispere.

Half-ling looked at Koryn and when she heard what Laran said she started crying all over again.

Elina rolls her eyes and is happy at the same time for Half-ling. Walks over to Half-ling and says,

"See I told you not to give up hope now lets hope we can get him there in time to bring him fully back ok?"

Half-ling nods and continues to cry.

"Start moveing", hey you said and began walking down the path.

Stands there as "Hey You" continues to go down the path.

"We should start going to get Koryn to safety." Elina says to Cara worriedly and sure.

Without another word Elina goes down the same path then stops and turns around to see that Cara is shaking anger.

" Are you ok? Lets go and get Koryn to his normal self. Come on he will be fine I swear it."

Stands next to Cara with a puzzled look and walks over to Half-ling (still crying) and tells her,

" Stop your crying and lets get moving so you can play with Koryn again ok?"

Half-ling smiles and runs in circles and runs into a tree.

" No damage!"

Falls over and stands up and steps next to Elina and waits for some sign of life or something to happen.

"Cara?"

Cara nods numbly and rises to her feet. Staring off blankly.

Elina stands there confused. And goes over to the big oak tree and sits infront of it and waits for a sign from Cara.

"What's this?" Shade says "Trying to bring a dog back from the dead? You people are pathetic."
And he dissappears again.

Hey you seemed to know exactly where shade was everytime he reappeared before he did it.

Cara glared at the spot Shade disapered from and whispered something under her breathe. She turns and walks down the path with Elina and Half-ling following. Cara turns to Elina and says, "Next chance I get Shade dies." and then continued walking.

Elina nods her head and says in a whisper
"I understand."

Shade looked from a shadow, unseen at grins at hearing the comment, before going away from the place. He would return though...

Elina looks around and says,

"Lets keep going." Suspiously and continues to walk down the same ol' path.

Cara stops when they reach a city full of massacred people.

Shade looks from the window of a house how they arrive. He's in his human-like form again. "Beautiful sight, isn't it?"

Elina looks around the massacred city in shock.

"Poor people what did they do to deserve this?"

Sighs and walks on.

"They said something like screw you to the barbarian chief." Shade says "He didn't like it."
Shade grins and jumps down to the street, walking next to Elina. "So how's your little trip going till sofar?"

Hey you glared over"She is the most annoying thing I have ever wanted to slay.", Hey you said trying to keep from slaying it.

"Wow we can actualy agree on something." said Cara staring into nothing.

Iemara stares at the two with an unreadable expression on her face. 'Man, I can't believe how long it is taking me to break through their energy barriers in order to read the intentions in their heart. This may be more difficult than I first thought. No matter, it doesn't matter since neither of them will sense it since they have little spiritual strength within them.' She leaves them and quickly walks back up the path to check on Koryn's condition.

Elina doesent hear and keeps talking to Shade.

A man stands up from the pile of bodies and says," I am alive! That stupid moronic idiot missed me! I am invincible. Beat that you paece of dirt. yeah! Just come back here and I'll show you yea.... I am good!"

Hey you looked at him annoyed and angrey homocidle look at him. "Excuse me?"

The man looked at him and said "Oh!...Damm it.".

With that Kezka(Hey you) in an instant, actually half of a half of a half of an instant.. he slashed the MORONIC FREAK! in two and blood was flowing and spraing all over the place.

"Now there all dead." , Kezka said with satisfaction

Shade grins and he looks at Kezka, then at Elina again "looks like you have found yourself to be in the company of some perfectly fine example citizens of this kingdom. hehe"

Cara looks a shade and said, "Well, your one to talk." sarcasticly.

BACK UP THE PATH

Laran sat on a tree limb ext to the young fox spirit. Koryn bounced around playfully from branch to branch. Iemara and Jade sat below on a log talking over diferent types of enchantments they used and for what purpose. Laran sighed a little and looked down the path where the other four had gone. He wondered if they would get back in time.

BACK DOWN THE PATH

Cara picked up a rock and through it at a window.

"Why'd you do that?" asked Elina.

"Because I felt like it." said Cara staring off again.

Shade looks at Cara "That could be a reason for me to do things. Elina, little girl, what have you gotten yourself into?"

Confused and in wonder of the question she shrugs her shoulders and says,

"I have no idea what so ever at this point."

"Good point" Shade says "In fact, do you have any idea at all of what you are doing?"

"I doubt it." says Cara as she examines a two-handled sword she pulled out of a random body.

Staring at the ground Elina kicks some dirt around confused.

"Smart girl" Shade says "Running around like a headless chicken trying to get home, without even knowing what you are doing. You know how we call that here? We call it stupid. Does everybody act that way where you come from?"

"Maybe? would you like to go where I live and see for yourself?"

Elina said with a daring tone.

Shade laughed "Well maybe. If I accidently tripped into it, like you did."

Elina glares at him with evil eyes.

whispers to self *he just might with that kind of talk**idiot!!*

A figure covered in black from head to toe walks into the middle of the group, looks at them and stands there for no apparent reason.

Shade looks at the guy, says "Hey that dude stole my color"
and walks right passed him, uninterested.

The stranger in black laughs silently and watches Shade walk away.

Elina stares at the stranger and leans up against a tree confused.

*Who is this person and why is this person here* Thinking to herself.

Shade looks back, seeing the cloaked figure is drawing lots of attention and everybody stops to look at him. Shade shrugs and walks into a dark alley on the left of the road.

The stranger looks over at Elina, smiles and says in a low voice, "I am Jalan why I am here I do not know and where I am going is not any of your buisness." continues standing in the middle of strangers.

Elina just stands there and nods her head.

shade watches from the shadows throught the window of a burned out house. 'this girl from the other kingdom's a magnet for weirdos' he thinks.

Jalan looks at Shade and whisperes so only he can hear, "You've just insulted yourself I thought I'd tell you." Smiles mischeivously.

Shade grins towards the newcomer, in his own way again, not showing any teeth, and sits in the window, flowing into the dark burned background with his shadow body.
'I never said I wasn't one of them. Just saying I'm a stronger one.'

Elina whispers under her breath,
"yeah right!? Like I will believe that in a millon years. Prove it then."

Jalan laughs. (stranger shade dispizes)

For no apparent reason Kezka(Hey you) looks at elina with an ill-tempered look of evil phsycotic murderes homicidle anoyyance of her very presence and the most anoyying fact that she does nothing but complain and never shuts up for the life of her and will die for it. "Foolish wench. Die!!!! You anoyying peice of shit!!!!!", With that Kezka riped his katana from its sheath and and made a clean cut from one side of elina's neck going out the other ridding them of the anoyyance forever.

"MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!|",Kezka was delighted at this.

"I don't need to prove, you just did." Shade says "You guys are a bunch of psycho's..."

Elina lies there barely alive. *twich twich*

Half-Ling starts to cry and runs into a tree and sits there thinking

*why? why? she helped me when Koryn almost died so why? why did he have to kill Elina?*

Starts to cry some more.

Everyone there continued to stay silent while Kezka or *hey you*stands there satisfied to see Elina dead. Or is she dead?
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Random druid walks by...heals Elina...Continues to walk by.
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"Thats not funny!!!!!". Kezka yelled at the anoyyance.

Shade looks with wide-open eyes of surprise at the scene "What the hell is going on here!?"

Elina sits up pops her neck and back, stands up and looks at Kezka with an evil glare and yells,

"What the hell did you think you were doing? I never said a damn thing to you so you give me a glare and kill me? You have lost your damn mind you bastard!!"

Turns and faces her back to him. And walks off and leans up against a tree without another word.

Shade vanishes into a black cloud of smoke and bloows of with the wind, leaving yet again.

Continues to lean against the tree. Elina stares out into the wide open spaces and then looks at the ground angry thinking to self *what the hell did i do to him to drive him mad and to kill me with one clean shot? who brought me back to life*

Without another thought she sits down grabs a stone and throws it out into the unknown.

Then stands up and walks down a long dark path into nowhere but ash and dust of dead bodies that had been killed earlier.

Iemara walks up to Elina, having gotten tired of the chit-chat with the others and left to find the others. "You shouldn't be wandering alone with all these wierdo's in this land."
Elina glares at Iemara angrily. "I'M NOT FRICKIN SAFE WITH THESE DAMN PEOPLE!!!" she explodes. Iemara looks at her blankly, abit taken back.
" . . .?"
Elina quickly retells of how Kezka killed her and some mysterious druid revives her.
"He did WHAT?!?!" Iemara demanded, her face growing red with anger. Elina cowers at as Iemara appears to grow. "Damn good for nothing . . " she beins to storm off to 'talk' to Kezka, then stops. "Light of the world bind you as the path of the Stars revive you."
A beautiful onix-crystal chain appears around Elina's neck. She looks at the necklace startled then at Iemara questioningly. Iemara turns to walk way
"Nothing magic of this world can now kill you. Only normal, physical things can heal you. Can't wipe your ass for you all the time. . ." she said as she disappeared from sight. Following the path, she soon found Kezka.
"What the hell did you do that to Elina for?!" She demanded as she struggled to keep her energy from lashing at him. "We are supposed to be helping her NOT KILLING HER!!! And before you answer you should know that I have placed a celestial protective light around her. Nothing of any type of magic will harm her now! No one, I MEAN NO ONE, can remove it but me since I am one of the only Circle of Elements Elves which remain! Nothing you do can counteract my spells since they contain all 9 elements!" she rambled as Kezka just stared at her coldly. "Of course, you already knew that, didn't you Kezka? You've met one of my kind before have you not?"

Shade appears next to her
"Of course he has, he has seen me, right?"
He grins and looks at her challenging "That's new for you too isn't it?"

Elina stands there and continuously looks at the necklace and wonders if Kezka will try anything to rid of it.

*no chance of him trying to hurt her ever again. Jerk deserves to die. And what was Shade talking about when he said that Kezka has met one of Iemara. I am so confused.* she thinks to herself.

Still standing there confused she listening in on the conversation with Iemara, Shade and Kezka.

"What are you talking about? If you were even close to one of mine I could tell if your exterior energy circle intwining with mine. Yet that is not occuring. Now Kezka, answer my damn question and Shade, don't speak unless spoken to!" She glared at Shade. "If you really have any comprehension of what I am you know the enormity of what I am capable of so DON'T PISS ME OFF!"

"Of course it's not occuring, I'm a shadow! Since when do shadow's have aura's?" Shade says, he really wasn't going to shut up because she told him so. "Let's just keep it down on the fact I stole the powers *evil grin* so my power is just as enormous as yours. And please, do get pissed, it shows a lack of selfdiscipline, that's always fun to look at."
And shade walks away, without sound and he walks past Elina.
'Now she can even be given two nicknames' Shade thinks 'Elina with the shiny necklace and Elina the Near-Dead...'

Iemara was left standing there, red-faced, trying to calm herself down. 'Stupid! How could you let yourself get so worked up?' she cursed herself as she watched to make sure Shade didn't try anything funny with Elina, then turned back to Kezka still awaiting his answer. 'But even as a shadow, how could he have absored the power of one of the Circle of Elements?' she tried to push these questions to the back of her mind, making a mental note to spend more time in spiritual discipline mediation. "Well, I'm still waiting for your damn answer!" she growled at Kezka angrily.
"This is a bit too dramatic for me." he tries to walk away but Iemara grabs his arm, maintaining a firm grip. Kezka is quite suprised and taken back by her strength.
"Answer the damn question asshole." she seeths
Elina gasps and moves back a few feet. "What the hell are you thinking Iemara?! Your gonna get yourself killed!"
"Hardly." Iemara mutters, not breaking eye contact with Kezka. "He couldn't kill me if he tried. Very few can."

Shade was looking from the shadows of a burned out building, a few meters away from Elina. He looks at Iemara and Kezka. Iemara was powerfull that was for sure. He would have to look out for her... he did defeat one of those freaky circle members, but he didn't have full controls over all his power yet. He had to be patient before bragging about it again...

Elina continues to stand there and wonders,

*Are those two going to battle or just stare at each other forever?*

Cara laughs. "Hehe now THAT is funny I am actualy agreeing with a shadow, it does show lack of dicipline. You need to find other ways of releiving your anger, and besides Elins is still alive isn't she? Let it be I personaly thought it very amusing." she says as she pulls Keska and Iemara apart.
"Okay children lets behave our selves shall we?" she says still laughing.

Iemara composed herself then shot Cara a look.
"you should be one to talk about anger and lack of discipline. At least I have a good reason for my anger and acts of violence." She gives Cara a strange look. "What are you doing?"
"Huh?" Cara respons not knowing what Iemara is talking about.
"Your spiritual energy, no not your aura, the spiritual energy within you is . . . changing . . ."


"Is it?" she asks but is not realy asking.

Iemara could see she was getting nowhere so she turned and walked away, dragging Elina with her. "This isn't over Kezka and you know it. You won't be able to hide behind Cara forever. When you grow a backbone let me know so we can talk."
She leads Elina back up the path but keeps away from the others for the time being.
"What was that all about?" Elina asked as sat down under a purple-leaved tree.
". . ." Iemara said nothing as she spaced out. 'Why was Cara's spititual energy changing? What did it mean?'
"Um, Iemara? Hello? EARTH TO IEMARA COME IN IEMARA!!" Elina yelled at her in an attempt to get her attention. Iemara snapped ouit and stared at Elina.
"I think I know why you are here."
Elina looked at her blankly. Iemara got up, pulling Elina up gently and led her back up the path to where the others were. She tells Elina to play with Halfling as she approaches Laran. There was something strange about him. His energy . . . something unnatural was intentionally casting a shadow across his energy
"You are called Laran correct? May I speak with you for a moment?"

Lran looked down to the ground below. "Yes" he said giving her a slight nod.

Elina looks at her necklace and stands there waiting for something to happen.

Kezka still had stone gaze fixed on Iemara. "Next time you do that it'll be more thn a tone faced stare you'll get." .Kezka said threating.

Elina looks up and thinks,
*there they go again. sighs*

"That goes for you to Half-wit.", Kezka stated evily.

Elina looks up and says,

"Excuse me, Kezka do you day something? If you did I must of not heard it."

Turns and plays with a curl in her hair ignoring Kezka. *jerk!*

Dust flew in every direction Only for a moment but it seemed Kezkas hand and whole body moved, but it didnt seem possible. as that happend the longer part of elina's hiar fell off.

Elina saw the piece of hair she was playing with fall to the ground. Looks up and gives Kezka the evilest glare and walks over to him face to face and backhands him.

"what the hell was that for? what did i do to you to deserve this?

Walks off onto a path and never looks back.

While on the path she yells,

"And remember this necklace here around my neck protects me. Just thought I would let you know."

Smiles and continues to walk down the path.

A figure comes walking from between the ashes. It's a man, blood running over his face. His white clothing is cut and ruined, blood marks everywhere. He sees the party and walks over, limping a bit.
"Hello" he said "Could you spare some time for a wounded? I'm bleeding and could use rest. You're the first humans I've seen in 3 days. Would you please help me?"

Jalan walks over to mystrey bloody person,"What makes you think we're human?" he asks.

Cara walks over and picks up Elina's cut hair, puts it in a vile and says, "This could be useful later." Smiles evily at Elina.

Half-ling is currently hiding beneath a rock if you care.

Laran studied Iemara as he waited to hear what she wanted.

The blooded man looks at them "Well, you look human. Or at least human like. I'm sorry if you're not and you are insulted. But would you please help a wounded man in need of aid?"

Jalan asks suspiciusly, "What kind of help do you need?"

Cara levitates in the air think about what to do next.

The man looks at Jalan, kinda wondering what that question was all about...
"Well kind sir. I have this wound on my head *points at the blood* and other cuts and bruises all over *points at blooded clothing*. I'm hungry and in need of rest. The place has been crawling with those annoying little goblins lately, you can't take a rest anywhere. I've been walking non stop for 3 days. Could I please stay with your party, for a moments rest? And maybe if your hearts, or your stomachs, can beer it, give a man some food?"

"I have no heart." says Jalan as he hand the stranger a sandiwch and water just, "Just ambition."

"What will you give us?" Kezka stated getting ina evil mood the same in which he killed Elina, he is about to do the same to Iemara.

"You'll be rewarded." The man says against Jalan, and he ignores Kezka.
the man sits down to eat his sandwich and drink his water in peace.

Kezka got in ill-favored look of, well we know. "shut up....." Kezka said evily then in the same manneras he had cut off the hair of Elina he does so to the man making his hair a mere centimeter from his head.

"Someday some punishment will gain in on you if you won't do anything about that temper of yours" The man says to Kezka, and he continues to eat his sandwich.

Iemara sits down beside Laran and stares at Kezka with an emotionaless expression.
"Don't worry Elina, he doesn't have the guts to make another attempt at you so soon, especially since he knows I would just keep reviving you anyway. And don't make promises you can't keep Kezka. Or rather, threats you can't act upon." She turns her attention to the newcommer. "After you have finished I will heal your wounds. If Elina agrees to it, perhaps you may join us if you wish." Turns back to Laran and begins to talk to him in a low voice so the others can't hear.  "You know Cara correct? Could you please tell me about her. I think I may have an idea of why Elina 'accidently' stumbled here."
As Laran and Iemara talked between the two of them, the others were discussing amoungst themselves

"Well consider this a warning Iemara." A pillar of dust exploded behind Kezka but this time he was on the other side of Iemara.

"Well, your much better than one would think.",Kezka said sheathing his sword. Three or four strand of hair from the longer part fell from Iemaras head.

"I geuss I have to watch my self from now on.", Keka said sitting down.

Elina sat down where she was, wanting to get going so she can go home and get away from all these mean people who want to kill her.

The man smiles at Iemara. "So there are still friendly souls then. I would really like joining up. I can be quite usefull when healed."
He finishes his sandwich and looks at all members of the party, while looking his eyes stick a little longer with Elina, but he doesn't say anything to her. he drinks his water and gives the bottle back to Jalan.

Iemara looks at the newcommer suspiciously. 'No, it couldn't be . . .' she thinks to herself. 'He died many years ago and his elemental powers stolen. Still, he looks so much like him . . .' she shook her head. Perhaps her wishful thinking was cloulding her logic and reason.

Jalan takes it and refills it.

Laran nods, "Well, M'Lady, She is a Mord-Sith and she is very well aloof I suppose you might call it. She doesent really trust people. She is, I think, around 19 in human years. She has a great wealth of knoledge simply because her brother taught her alot of things," he lowered his voice even more,"Her brother is...Cyan."

Jalan sits next to the stranger and leands back against a tree, "Need amything else just ask." and with that he closed his eyes.

Cara,still levitating, moves over next to the newcomer, "So... who are you?" she asks.

"Everybody's friend" The man says, with a friendly smile on his face. "Call me Azufel."

Raises eyebrow, "Azufel? I can pronounce that," laughs, "So what are you doing here and how did you get so messed up?" Cara asks.

Jalan opens one eye as he listens to see wether or not Cara was going to kill the newcomer. Closes eye and relaxes when he see's she is only talking.

Cara changes her postion in the air so she is resting her head on her hands and can kick her legs back in forth.

Elina continues to sit and thinks to herself,

*Why do all of these evil people want to kill me for? Is there something they want from me?*

Stands up and leans against an old oak tree and looks out into the unknown.

Azufel says: "Well I was travelling through. Then suddenly the town was on fire and people screaming. I escpaed the flames, but after that those nasty goblins came to plunder. They brought me all these cuts, though I have cut them a bit more."
Azufel grins and looks at his wounds. He searched in the brown leather bag which hung from his shoulder, but apperently couldn't find what he was looking for. "I'm out of bandages as well."

"If Cyan is her brother than why does she get so . . . uptight when he is mentioned? What did he do to her?" Iemara asks as the pieces to the puzzle begin falling into place. She looks over at the newcommer "I will be with you in just a moment."

"You may take your time" Azufel says "I won't die anywhere soon."
he gives a friendly smile and waits patiently, looking around a bit.

"He....well he......," he paused then continued, "He gave her to his friend as a pet."

"Really." asked cara as the newcomer told his story.

Elina sighs. Walks over to the rock where Half-Ling was hiding under. Kicks the rock aside and says,

"You can come out now, nothing bad has happened. Come take a walk with me."

Half-Ling Stands up and walks with Elina down a path not to far from the group.

A tall woman appers just over the hill as she walks down to join the group her silver hair blows in the wind exposing her elven ears. She pulls her long slender fingers thru her hair and smiles revealing pointed teeth. She wears long black leather pants and trench-coat. She blinks and looks around with blueish transparent eyes. She straightens her tank top made of chainmail, walks over, sits down, and glares.

Random villager walks up to the newcomer and says, "You have to help they are going to kill me!"

The elf-vamp turns her head slowly and looks at the random villager, stands, lunges at the random villager, closes her jaws around his throat, tightens, crushing his windpipe, bites down again for good measure making blood spurt staining the ground. Releases, lets the body drop, sits down and causualy licks her finger free of blood then continues to glare.

Cara lets her legs fall down till they reach the ground. She walks over to the newcomer and says, "Well. you'll get along just fine here..."

The elf-vamp nods, "we'll see.."

Cara nods satisfied with this answer and goes back to listening in on other peoples conversations.

Elina turns to see the villager killed by the elf vamp. In shock she turns back around and walks on.

Azufel looks at the vampire with disgust, and something more in his eyes...

Kezka once again got that crazy look about him "Oh Halfling....Heh heh heh." He said slightly insane. in the same way he had cut hair and killed Elina he jolted over to halfing and cut the poor halfing's arm right off.

Half-Ling falls to the ground screaming in pain and holds her right shoulder.

*He took my arm, little bastard*

Continues to sit on the ground and stares at Kezka with evil eyes.

Kezka reatches the arm with some unknown force.

Iemara shakes her head in disgust. "Figures you would pick on someone smaller and weaker than you Kezka!" she mutteres, then turns her attention back to Laran. "Why are you here Laran? Most of us are attempting to help Elina," glares at Kezka as she says this "but now it just seems like some big free-for-all."
She doens't give Laran the chance to respond as she stands up. "You want to get home right Elina?"
Elina nodds her head.
"Then lets get going already." She gently grabs Elina's arm and gives her a firm and steady friendly shove in an attempt to get everyone moving before more. . . interesting people . . . show up.

"Heh heh.",Kezka looked at Iemara with an evil intention.

Elina walks beside Imeara and asks nicely,

"Is there something about Kezka I should know about before he tries to kill me again? Just curious."

She continues to walk and waits paitently for an answer.

Iemara sighs. "Well, it just, there is something not quite right about him. I have a very funny feeling he may have had something to do with the destruction of my people, or else his sword did, or something. His enerdy is in constant flux, usually a very bad sign and I am blocked from reading it, which is also very unusual. I just get very bad readings from him." Iemara shook her head and looked into the distance as she lead Elina on, not really noticing if the others were following or not.

Elina nods and continues to walk down the path with Imeara ahead of the group.

Just as they began to leave there was the faint sound of marching behind them.

As they turned aorund they saw coming through the forest a army of 700 men or 800 were marching.

Kezka looked over at them. "Practice time.", Kezka said evily. HE drew his sword and began walking towards the army.

ELSEWHERE

      The boy peeked from underneath the covers of the silage motor vehicle. With tan fingers he pulled his black mane away of his eyes. The truck stopped and he hastily jumped out and walked into the market. As he walked he saw the venders selling trinkets and rings, bracelets, armbands, necklaces foods, flora and fauna, birds and attire.

When he came to one of the merchants selling clothes he paused and looked at his own. He wore dark green chinos with a opening in the left knee; he also wore a burgundy top and black vest. All of his clothes were soiled. He did not smell like most of the other beggars and poor folk, which was something he prided himself on. He looked at his fingernails; they were unmarked. He smiled to himself and continued thru the bazaar. As he went next to the food venders he grabbed an apple and sunk his teeth into it. He held it in his lips a second then chewed and swallowed. It was an excellent apple. A boy with a mop of sandy hair that reached the underneath of his ears walked over to him. The boy wore a cobalt top with no sleeves, and ripped olive pants much like his own.

“Hullo La'an, ‘eady to git to wu'k?” he asked.
“Hullo Jaime. Yes I guess.” He smiled went he saw the other boy smirk, most people loved to listen to Laran speak; he'd been raised up to last year by his father who was British, his mother had been Egyptian but she had died before he knew her so he got her looks and his fathers way of speaking. Makes since he thought to himself.

The two boys worked at the butchers hauling things for him to his customers, for payment they got three niks every time they worked. Three niks were the equivalent of twenty-five cents. One nik equaled about eight cents. One Xen equaled fifty cents. One Arle equaled one dollar. One Silver equaled ten dollars; he had never seen Silver up close. Today their job was to take twenty pounds of ham and thirty pounds of beef up to the lion inn. As they walked up to the door they heard yelling inside.
“Mister Van?” Laran asked.
“I'll looksie,” said his friend.
“Careful Quinn.” Laran warned. They heard a swish and a grunt. Quinn opened the rasping aged wood door bit-by-bit and looked inside. Quinn's face paled and he swiftly backed away. The door closed with a slam.
“Who's there?” a mans voice demanded from within.
“Laran lets go. Now.”
Laran and Quinn ran back to the yard. Laran felt two hands on his shoulders;
“Where do you think you are going?” asked the voice. Laran and Quinn were spun roughly and found themselves facing a monster of a man. He wore a good quality clothes like he was somebody important. He looked at them and smiled an despicable smile.
“Over here.”
Two men wearing white shirt and pants with a red sash walked over.
“I've caught them.”
The men looked at them, “Them? But they are what…. twelve?”
“Yeah, gone bad quick huh?”
The next thing he knew Laran and Quinn were in a reformatory.

Rio stood out in the sun, eyes closed, feeling the sunlight on her face. The breeze blew back her silvery hair that fell to her waist; her hair went perfectly with the colorless robe she wore. It was a white dress with a kind-of skin over it that had to be held together by a scarlet sash.
“Rio? Rio it is time for you to go collect items for Mr. Shaw.”
Rio opened her icy crystal clear eyes, “Yes May Beth.” She called. Rio walked over to the meadow where in the grass lay two felines; one small white and dark brown with a short tail, the other a black Siamese with a kink in its tail. Rio went to the small one first.
“Kawaii?” she called softly. The animal slowly pulled its head up and then put it down.
“Kawaii, it is time to get up.” she called again slightly louder. The feline opened her sparkling gold eyes. She stretched out and made a chirping sound. Kawaii stood, arched her back, and began cleaning herself.
“That's more like it.” Said Rio cheerily. The newly awakened feline rubbed against Rio purring.
“Hmmmm are we ready to get up now your majesty?”
The cat purred and rolled over on its back playing and being charming to insure Rio didn't get mad with her.
“Well, come on then.” Said Rio and she clapped her hands two times. The feline, cradled in Rio's arms, purred ad cleaned herself.
Rio picked up braided grass basket and headed into the woods. The forest was sweet this morning, the birds were twittering and even Kawaii was running about climbing trees, leaping from branch to limb ahead of Rio.
“What's that you're looking at?” asked Rio. The cat had stopped in the center of the trail and was staring at something. Rio walked over and saw a pool of water.
“That is strange, I've never seen this here before.”
Rio knelt down next to Kawaii and looked into it. She saw herself, Light skin, pale blue eyes, and silver hair. Well that is normal at least, she thought. Then she saw herself again only older and troubled. I wonder what that's about…
Then she saw herself talking to another girl how about the same age, only this girl was stunning she was the most lovely girl Rio had ever seen, the young woman had long raven black hair that was untamed but striking, her eyes were hot brown and her skin fair. 
‘Serena' Rio heard herself say.
‘Hello Rio.' The young girl said in a voice like someone striking gently a crystal glass.
She saw her-older-self walking with the young woman. A bright flicker of light brought he attention to a silver necklace Serena had around her throat.
‘Hey Rio um… so…. How long has it been since…you… you saw your sister?”
“Since she went Vamp you mean?” Rio saw her self ask with contempt. “Not to long.”


BACK AT THE GROUP

Cara floated over and put a hand on Kezka's arm. "Wait untill we know if they want to fight us. If they do yay we fight. If they don't yay we fight them anyway it will just be more fun If we see what they want first."

Laran runs and stops Iemara and Elin, "Look" he says and they see the approaching army.

Elina turns around to see the huge army and hides behind Laran. Imeara looks as well and stands her ground.

The army had swords drawn, Kezka took this as a threat and drew his sword and began the onslaught. He caught threw many of the soilders right off the bat. and then simply fought off the rest waiting for Cara do get her share.

Iemara interviened. "Wait you idiot! Let's see what they want first!" She said as she attempted to restrain him by restricting his energy flow to his sword arm, paralyzing it in place. She looks to the soldier whom Kezka was about to slaughter. "What buisness have you? Speak quickly before you join your friends."She commanded to the cowering soldier infront of Kezka.

Kezka easly broke free from the power Iemara had used to restrain him and he cut through the soilder jsut as he was answearing. Kezka continued the slaughter.

Elina crouches behind a tree in fear.

Kezka suddenly jumps from the slaughter turns his eyes towards elina. He charged swinging his Katana scoring a direct hit on Her neck, but, A solund like glass shattering came. Kezka had only broken the barrier, he then went back to teh slaugher.

Elina stands up and in shock she runs to Imeara and tells her what had happened and stands behind her in fear of Kezka's sword.

*he tried to kill me again. what does he want from me now?*

Continues to stand there in fear of Kezka's
sword and of him as well.

Iemara puts the spell over the necklace again, ensuring to make it even stronger this time, although she wasn't sure this was possible. 'How could he break through my barrier? Must be the sword since he is far to weak to be able to manage such a feat.' Kazka contiues with the slaughter.

Suddenly, a being enters the area. " STOP THIS FOOLISHNESS!" she sais. all turn to look at the woman. she stood wearing all black. her short red hair fell shagy to her chin, and she glared around with angry brown eyes.

For a moment Kezka jumped out of the attack and his turned blue instead of red.

Cara walks over to Kezka, "Hold on a minute, relax..." Looks at girl with red hair, "Who are you and what do you want?" she demanded.

Iemara walks up to the newcommer with a strange gleam in her eyes.
"Vespa Ater." she says as she approaches the newcommer. "It has been a long time."
Vespa Ater noddes her head. "Yes too long."
"Why have you come Vespa?"

"I have been watching you people for a while, and i decided to join you on your journey." Vespa said brushing some hair aside, just to have it fall back where it was. " And after watching you, I have the increadable urge to do this." she paused before grabbing Kezka by the collar and draining him of most of his blood. " That done..." She does several odd hand movements and takes a charm from a braclet on her wrist. upon throwing it onto the ground, they were transported to a new place.

Just when they were transported a black hand appears over the charm and the party has just enough time to see Shade was coming along on the ride.

The group looks around and sees they are now a futuristic version of Elina's world. As they stand in the middle of the street, they see futuristic versions of themsleves pass by.
"If we catch a plane we can get to the temple faster and get Elina back to her own time faster."
"But this is my time and world. We don't have a temple in my world." Elina objected
"All worlds hold temples. The people of your world probably just don't know where yours is." Iemara explained, seeing where Vespa was going with this. She smiled at the vamp. "Clever. I'm impressed."

Vespa grinns showing her pointed teath. " and all we have o do is go to the basic location of where the temple is in the other world, and then go to it." she bends over to pick up the charm that lay on the ground from her braclet.

Shade hasn't changed at all. He even seems to be in a better mood, for as far as a shadow can be. With all the buildings there were much more shadows and more transporting possibilities for him.

Azufel now changed into a gothic, black clothing, a silver cross hanging from his neck. He was wearing a long black leather jacket which said 'Fallen Angel' on the back, in red. He was wearing a dark grey muscle shirt and had black skater pants with a chain on the right side. His hair was longer, falling on his shoulders, dyed black.
He looked at Shade "You again. What a coincedence."

Shade looked back and seemed shocked "No way! You were DEAD! I killed you! You fell down dead!! You're not supposed to exist anymore! They took them from you! You can't be back!"

Azufel grinned "I've been send back. I've been back to pay for my deeds and to show they're still mine."

"Now Shade, dont lose your temper.", Kezka stated as usual not talking for a while.

"Oh and that blood sucking thinwasnt so nice...I have infanet blood though so it dont matter.",Kezka said evily.

"Shut up about tempers Kezka. If you choose to stay silent for a long while and then say stupid things, I prefer you don't speak at all." Shade replies to Kezka, but not losing sight of Azufel.

"I suggest you shut up.", Kezka said grining evily.

"Be quiet mortal!" Shade says one last time and he dissapears into Kezka's own shadow. Then he sends a telepathic message to Kezka: 'And don't you use that little sword of you now Kezka, if you kill me now you'll kill your own shadow as well. If there's no shadow it means there's nothing that casts a shadow, in this case you. You'd dissappear into nothing and I'll just be coming out of some other shadow and grin...'

Kezka laughed insanleey. "YOur the most foolish warrior I've ever met.", Kezka sat down waiting for the next encounter still laughing at shades ingnorance.

"that's just because you can't meet yourself." Shade says.

"I am immortal you fool.", Kezka said still laughing at the foolishness that is shade.

"You're also very stupid, shut up." Another bored reply from the shadow.

"Would you two babies stop!?" Azufel says "It's giving me and probably some others as well a headache."

"Azufel is right, Im tired of this bickering.", Kezka stated to shade.

Cara walks over, smack shade sneding him from kezkas shadow, grabs shade before he can disapere and places him in a unbreakable bottle with no shadows. "You are annoying the shit out of me." walks over to Iemara and other person. "Look you to, it was a nice idea but not thought thru, only beings from OUR world can be transported to other worlds, You have Elin in a place a head of her time and her spirit cannot survive here because you cannot have two of the same spirit in one time. Either she will die now or her other spirit will die causing her to die anyway." brings our a black puch, takes some white sand from it in her hand, throws it in the air, "If you sooo badly wish to get to the temple...then I shall take you there.....but you will hate me for it later..." they are all surounded in white light, the net thing they see they are back at the tree where the vamp with silver hair ia sitting. "Now...this way." says Cara poiting to a sign that says 'Temple this way' wich cara knew was there but did not tell anyone she did just because. "Lets go." she says as she looks into the vial with Shade in it smiling evily, as shade squeaks out curses at her that do not work.

Elina feeling a little weak walks down the path to the Temple.

*what the hell is going on oh well.*

Shade despartly tries to push the damn cork of the bottle, but it won't work. He states in his mind he will kill this nuisance that dared to bottle him and that super-ego Kezka would see just how mortal he was. But first this stupid Cara bitch, Kezka lived forever so he had plenty of time for that anyway. they would see the powers of a pure shadow elemental soon enough...

Azufel grinned at the bottled shadow, but pulled his face together pretty soon. He knew Shade could be quite a menace, he had met him before, and he was beaten as well... But he figured it would be best not to tell anybody here.

Iemara looks at Vespa and shakes her head. "they don't know Vespa, but it was a worthy try. Let them do it their own way and see where it leads them."
Vespa nodded her head in agreement, the two following to the rear with Elina. Iemara, although wanted to ensure that Kezka didn't attempt anything funny with Elina or Vespa. Vespa was powerful, but even she had her limits.
"Cara, it may not be the wisests to place Shade in that bottle. You underestimate him and it will only be a matter of time before he breaks free and kills you." She said to Cara telepathically, starting her greatly. Cara looked back to Iemara and only grinned. "He can try!" she called. Iemara just shook her head.
"How do you and Vespa know each other?" Elina asked.
Iemara and Vespa looked at each other and grinned, sharing a special secret which was only known to them and annoying Elina greatly. "We have been friends since before the dawn of your world Elina." was all she said before Iemara looked at Elina sharply and demanded "What's wrong?"
"Huh? I feel a bit weak that's all"
Vespa and Iemara stopped. "When did you start feeling like this?" Iemara demanded, worried that perhaps Kezka had somehow managed to mess around with her protection spell.

"What is wrong?" Azufel asks, hearing the worries and the answer.

"Can we be moving", Kezka said as took the bottle shade was in.

Shade's eyes went so narrow they were hardly visible anymore, then he changes in some black liquid.

Elina falls to her knees and holds her stomach.

She then gets up and walks a few feet and falls back to the ground and leans up against a tree.

*whats wrong with me? why do i feel this pain?* she ponders to herself.

Iemara quickly sits down and begins to meditate with one finger on Elina's head. She drew in a sharp breath. "Dark magic."
Vespa nodded her head in agreement. "Elina, this is very important, when did you first begin feeling like this?"

"About an hour ago. Why? Whats wrong with me?" Elina asks in concern for herself and for her life.

Iemara cursed to herself. "Right around the time Kezka broke the spell around you. That spell was meant to keep form of evil magic, so if an evil spell was cast upon you, you wouldn't have noticed untill now. Tell me exactly what is wrong with you. How you are feeling."

" I have a pain in my chest, and cramps in my sides." Elina says moaning in pain.

Vespa nodded her head. "Yep, dark magic is at work here."

The rest of the group came up to the two, just now realizing what was going on.
"Let's just kill her and rid us all of this problem." Kezka said in that evil voice of his.

Iemara at him coldly. "It's because of you this is happening to Elina! When you somehow broke the previous spell I put over her you allowed any and/or all magic sent towards her to come upon her." she turned her attention back to Elina, who was in alot of pain.
"Elina, I'm going to try and heal you but it may hurt ok?"
Elina nodded her head in understanding, so Iemara began her healing spell. It required a great amount of energy, as the spell was very dark. As she summond her energy, she called to Cara telepathically. 'Release Shade, we need him right now.'
"No" Cara sneered aloud, causing the others to look at her.
"You can kill him for all I care when I am done with him but I need him right now NOW OPEN THE DAMN BOTTLE!" Iemara screamed, causing everyone, including Kezka and Cara. Cara reluctanty opened the bottle and Shade immediately made for an escape, but not before Iemara caught him in her spell. "That which clouds the light dispell into the darkness!"
Black energy lept from Elina and into Shade, causing him to temporarly shudder. Cara siezed the chance and recaptured him in the bottle then glared at Iemara.
"You owe me elfgirl."
Iemara couldn't answer as she fell into Vespa's waiting arms, Elina immediatley feeling better.
"Is she ok?"
Vespa nodded her head. "She'll be fine in about half an hour. The spell was much even for one as experienced and powerful as her."
Kezka got an evil look on his face again, reaching for his sword but one look from Vespa caused him to rethink his actions.

Kezka's thoughts ran as such "Hmm Maybe I should wait to kill this one. It could be a challenge. I doubt it though, we'll see."

"Wow, I can't believe what dark magic can do."

Elina says standing up and stretching her arms out. Her knees feel weak but she is able to stand on her own two feet.

Looks over at Imeara and says,

"Thank you." And leans up against the tree.

Shade was furious. What did these fools think he was? A medicine or something? That Elina had a huge amount of dark magic in here. If he wasn't a shadow they'd have killed him. Luckily because he is a shadow they have strenghtened him. He decided to wait and see in this stupid bottle, though he had already figured a way to get out.

Azufel looks at Iemara "You could just have asked me to do it." He said "I could have done it much easier, and without giving Shade any more power than he already has."

Iemara gasped as she slowly felt her strength beginning to return but knowing she would take a while to return to full strength. She looked at Azufel with confusion, then her eyes widened as she suddenly realized the missing piece of the puzzle towards this person.
"What is your birth name?" She demanded gasping. She already had a feeling she knew the answer, but was afraid to face the truth. Could it possible be him? But he was killed many many years ago . . .
Azufel just looked at her with a grin but said nothing at the moment. He was wondering how long it would take her to realize just who he was.
Iemara's eyes grew wider. "You . . .but you were killed! I saw you die myself at the hands of your dark enemy. The one which only you could see but the rest of us could sense! Your elements were stolen! You can't still be alive if your elements were stolen from you!"
"I've said nothing." he said simply. Kezka glared at him. He knew something about this creature seemed unnatural.
"What's wrong Iemara?" Elina asked confused.
Vespa said something only audible to Iemara, who nodded her head in agreement.
"When was the first time you and Shade met Azufel?"
A shadow came across Azufel's face. "What makes you think we have?"
Iemara's glare was answer enough, Azufel knew better.
"If you don't answer me I will seek my answers from Shade himself!" she threatened.
"If you think I'm letting him out again you really are weak." Cara said coldly.
"Who says I need to speak with him through words of the mouth?" Iemara threatened.

*What is going on here?* Elina thought miserably to herself, now more homesick than ever.

Laran and Azufel looked at eachother, both understanding what she meant by that.
"It would not be wise in your current health Iemara." Laran cautioned.
"If Shade and Azufel are who I think they are then we are all in great danger." she replied.
At this Azufel laughed. "Me? Dangerous?"
Even Cara chuckeled at this. "I think not elfgirl. He is about as weak as they come."
Vespa just smirked. "Stupid creatures. Have you any idea how old Iemara and myself are? We come not even from this world and we were here as it was formed!"
" . . . perhaps the others are right. I mean, you never really know right?" Iemara said suddenly with a change of heart. "I apoligize for my rashness. It is a common trait amoung my people. Of course you are not whom I thought. My apoligesse."

Cara walks over to Iemara and vespa, slaps them. and says, "You guys are fucking pissing me off. You think you are sooo fucking powerfull and are so arogant I feel like killing myself to get away from you. Now you all fucking assume that I am weak and dumb and do not know what is going on and I do. You ALL know each other AND I know how and I am not weak. You more than obviusly do not know who I am and I am more then cappable of handling all of you at once. I am tired of this I am serperating us into two groups. Group one, Me, Jalan, Laran, Weird but cool vamp-elf chick over there, Shade and Elina. The rest of you can Go to hell for all I care. Come stay whatever but from now on I am in charge." with that a blue ring surounded the ones who were not named and the sank to their knees screaming. "You insolent fools have delayed me long enoughe I have business to sttend to." walks away holding Koryn with Laran, Jalan, Vamp-elf chick person, Shade and Elina following behind.

Blue rings disapere and they are realised, but only by Cara's will.

Azufel looks stunned. He doesn't understand it all anymore... who did Iemara see him for? And who did she think Shade was? And why is that Cara suddenly so pissed. He's here to show he still deserves his old being, but how can he show that if people constantly accuse him and resent him? Azufel goes through his knees, desperate. Cara had Shade, Shade would be more furious than ever now he was bottled. He would kill them all. If Shade could beat him then wouldn't stand a change, no matter how old and powerfull they were. He stood up and decided to follow them, the rings were strong, but he would break them free if it meant he could stop Shade.
He ran after Cara, remaining out of their sight, but making sure he didn't lose them.

Vespa curses. "What the hell did I do? I just got here and was stating a fact!"

Iemara just followed with Vespa, now sulking about being put in her place and having her ego shot down to size. 'Fool. What a fool Cara is! She can heal Koryn herself then! From now on I won't offer any help at all!'
Vespa looks at her sharply. "Grow up Iemara! For someone as old as you, you are still no better than a child!"
Iemara scouled at the remark but knew that Vespa was right, as they followed the group, still concerned for Elina's safety. Kezka grinned and said nothing.

Vespa brooded quietly to herself as hey followed silently. Damn Cara and all her arogance to hell. If she was to fucking closed minded to see that hey were only trying to help. That the hidden identity of Shade and Azufel could lead them to their dooms. she paused then thought. perhaps I was a little to rash when i called them foolish creatures, but it wasnt much more than what Cara did on a daily basis. what a hypocrite she was. Now it was only a matter of breaking the weird blue circles and rescueing Elina and the others who were innocent, before the whole thing was too late. None of them knew who Elina really was, and how important she was to her own world.

"Vespie I can hear your thoughts."

Vamp-elf rises slowly with grace and walks over to Cara. She reaches out a lovley pale arm and grabs hold of Cara arm.
'Excuse me?"

Cara turns,"Yes?"

"I saw you display of power and thought that you might be usefull...quite usefull."

Cara nods listeing, "Yea....who the hell are you?"

"A vampire whats it look like?"

"Smart-ass."

"Alexia, only Alexia. No fuckng nicknames, NOT Al, Not Lex, Not Ia ALEXIA! Got it?"

Nods, "Yea... lets go think evil thoughts."

They walk away speaking of somethinmg sounding suspicously like mass murder...

vespa is behinde a bush thinking ' if you can hear my thoughts, than you should be able to read my intentions. I wasnt on a power trip, i was just pulling a Cara, and i am sorry, i hope you accept us back into the group. tell the blondie that'

Kezka let out a cough and almost fell over lowering his head, when he lifted his head back up it was not Kezka, This Elf had blue eyes not red. and his face was slightly narrower then Kezkas. "Hello, My names Ikena.", The new person that seemed like Kezka yet wasnt said.

Shade looked at what Kezka just pulled of from his bottle and now had the nag to yell he wanted to go out. They wouldn't do that anyway, but he had all reason to!
This Cara just had an enormous anger attack, Elina is so confused she's a potential madwoman, Kezka is a psycho at one moment and changes into another elf the other... Shade shook his head and banged it against the glass of the bottle once. Then the tiny humanoid-in-bottle sat down moody waiting for a good time to get out.

"Im sorry for any trouble Kezka may have given you, We switch off control of this body very hundered years.Ikena stated

Elina still a mad-woman runs into a tree and lies there dazed.

"I am... ok!" still dazed from hitting the tree dead on.

Vespa helps Elina up from the ground as she has fallen out of the reduculous blue circle thingie. " are you ok?'

"Yeah. I think." Elina says still kinda dazed.
Stands up and leans against a tree.

"Thanks."


Cara taps the glass of the bottle "If you want out simply ask." smiles annoyingly.
Cara then points at Alexia "Everybody this is Alexia, Say hi."

"Hi."

"Okay now everybody else say hi."

"Hello Alexia!" Elina says kindly.

"Okay Aleixa is 3,000 years or just about. She is elf-vamp don't ask. Um....She's cool. She's about my height just a wee little shorter. And yea.....Iemara, shadie, Kezka, Vesp hey vespa did you know in itaalion your name means bee? anyway all of you say hi because she is now part of the group."

'Hi Alexia." Vespa says shakeing her hand. she turns to Cara. " really? bee? wow, my name means two things...be in italien, and morning star in Latin....I feel special...so is everyone all in one big happy group again?"

"I dont know whats going on.", Kezkas other side stated.

"What do you think you stupid?" Shade mumbled, both to Vespa and to kezkas alter ego.

Alexia's History (in case you care)

coming to a mind near you...

"Ugh..." Shade has nothing to do now anyway, sitting in a bottle, and can only watch. It became painfull clear to him that these people might be quite strong, they certainly weren't smart... Let alone knowing what they're doing.
'Maybe if they won't let me out it'll even succeed them to bore me to death.' he thought, but went in some sort of meditation after that.

Azufel watched from the top of the building they were standing next to.
'Another party member. The party could well become the most weird ever seen. Let's see now, there's Shade but he's an enemy. O they are so going to suffer his revenge when he is unleased, poor lasses. And kezka, the psycho, but he seems to have multiple personalities... What a mess...'

The History of Alexia
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Born an elf in a royal family. Eldest of 13 children. While growing up she was a kind, generous girl, who happened to be one the most intelligent in her land. As she got older her veiws of the world changed. Her attitude changed. She started practicing magic and not just elven magic but all sorts. She left her home land and started to travel learning all that she could. She eventually started learning the powerful magic she could find. She learned spells, enchantments, curses, and who knows what else. When she reached her 2,000 year birthday a strange vamperic creature came to pay her a visit. That night she became one of the most powerful vampires to ever exist. When the tranformation was complete she dusted her own sire and returned to her kingdom. She found her mother and father and slaughtered the both and being the eldest took the throne. She greeted her brothers and sisters, but threatened them to obey her or die. She then took her eldest brother as her king. About 200 years later she seduced her youngest brother Doreian, who is the youngest of the children, and turned him to be like her. She at the same time turned Arthes and her other brother Eliath. She then turned her eldest sister Arliyn. After that she started turning each and every one of her siblings till they were all turned. She then perfected a spell which abled her and her children to go out into sunlight. She's now on a quest to find her brother she just learned about, to bring him back home. That brings her to where she is now.
(Thought you should know if you care at all)

Ikena prances around happily

Azufel sighs 'And some elven brat vampire who thinks she can just go in and seduce everybody for the sake of power. I'm supposed to kill those instead of protecting them... Let's see, Vespa, the bee morningstar. A powerfull bee, and that Iemara as well... And Cara, bloody mood as well, if Shade comes free she's as good as dead, might need to stop Shade then, though I'm not really sure if I want to... And Elina, a lost little girl. Poor thing, to get hauled in by a party like this, she must be going crazy with everything around her... How bad can one screw things up? Quite far, but this party truely shows multiple people can screw further than one.'
After thinking all thi Azufel walked further over the rooftops, keeping up with the party.

Presently, the group has stopped for, seemingly, their first night of sleep. they all got out their sleeping rolls and prepared for the nights rest. once all was asleep, Vespa crawled up to the bottle with shade in it, stole it from Cara's pack and wandered off to the woods with it.

" hey shade." she said. "I will set you free but only if you make a binding promise to not kill Cara. the promise is binding as in, if you break it, you too will die, u agree?"

Kezka Returns.

Shade laughs "You poor soul, you think I need your help getting out of this? You people seem to overlook everything."
Shade turned liqiud and started drippin through the bottle. When all had dripped out he formed himself out of the black liquid on the ground.
"I'm a shadow, and I can move through shadows. As long as the damned bottle is in the shadow, I can go in and out as I please. And why shouldn't she be killed? Would you be happy if you were locked up in a bottle by some wench that's much weaker than you are? Propose a nice deal and I might think it over."

" um....I dont know, I dont know much about shadows to have known what you can do. How bout, you try to get along with everyone and i will do all i can to ensure you dont get captured again, and if you do, i will get you into another shadow so you can get out."

"Well" Shade says "If I am captured again I can get out myself, so that's a part of the deal I don't really like. But then again, what have you got to offer me? You're one of those Circle people too, aren't you? Like Iemara? Then I already have your powers. The only thing you could give me are your memories of how the world evolved over time, but I have little interest in that."
Shade looks at Vespa, and shakes his head "Allright. I'll try to get along. Just once! If they screw up again, they're dead, and if you're unlucky, you are too."

Elina feeling confused stands there waiting for something to happen.

Iemara and Cara are the only ones that stand a chance against Kezka.

Azufel comes out of an alley, not far from where Shade is standing. He's still watching Shade closely and heard the last few words. He didn't know if Shade would keep his word, he somehow did doubt it.

Shade heard a sound and turned around. "Azufel..."

"Shade..." Azufel replies, half cynically.

"I've already beaten you, so battling you again is a waste of my time. What do you think you can do? Stop me? You couldn't stop me 100 years ago and you still can't. You're even weaker than before." Shade says, taunting.

"We'll see about that Shade. We'll see about that." After those words Azufel turns around and jumps on top of the building he's standing net to in 1 large jump.

"Excuse me Azufel. The names Alexia. If your going to try to insult me do it properly. P.S. yes I can hear your thoughts."
"And besides why do you think I need power? I've got power! You pathetic little fool!"

Don't mess with things you don't understand Azufel replied back and he sat on his knees on the rooftop, emitting a low light.

Alexia rolls her eyes and walks away.

Cara, who was watching, looks at one of them, then the other and mumbles to herself.
"Hm...they hate each other... I bet they have sex or fall in love before this story ends...typical...." leans back and is bored.

Alexia stops, turns back around, slaps Cara with her mind. Cara goes flying off her tree branch and lands right next to Azufel. "Bitch."

Cara sits up, grins, looks at Azufel, grins and says, "Told you..." Laughs and dusts herself off still grinning.


"I want sex...." Vespa stated randomly licking her vampire fangs.

Azufel had a sat on two knees with eyes closed, almost looking like he was praying but then opens his eyes. He looks at Cara and a small smile appears on his face. He didn't think it would go through, but then again, he was almost a mortal now. He hoped it wouldn't be so.

Cara looks at him and smiles an odd smile, "You might want to keep you thoughts quietly to yourself there a bit loud." Laughs and smiles pleasantly, leans against tree that suddenly appeared there and humms an exotic tune to herself.

Elina widdens eyes looks at one to the other and says, "This too much for a little one like me." Sighs and walks away trying to shake images from her mind.

Alexia closes her eyes and whisperes lustly, "My love..." In a wirl of mist a man appeares. The wind blows his shoulder length jet black hair, to reveal his eyes of pure white. He wears low cut tight black leather pants and open trench revealing his bare muscular chest. On it rests a chain with a dragon on it. The black clothing shows off his silver body bringing notice to the blade resting on his hip. "Hello.."

Cara looks up "Oooh.." smiles evily.

Elina rolls her eyes.

Laran coughs and shakes his head. "Oh brother...who made this guy up?"

"Brother dear..." Turn to each other, look deep in each others eyes, and she kisses his cold soft lips and he sorrounds her in his arms.

Cara raises eyebrow. "Oooh...Even better...." smiles and licks lips.

Elina turns and throws up.

Laran's face is red and he looks away.

Elina yells in between gaging "Incest!!!"

Cara nods "Yep...." keeps watching.

"Do I really have to watch this?" Asks Laran.

Elina continues to yell incest between gags.

Cara continues to watch Alexia and her lover make out in aww.

Alexia and her lover fall to the ground and start making dirty love there in front of everyone.

Elina's jaw drops to the ground and turns away and is still gagging. "INCEST"

Vespa throws a charm on the ground and takes everyone there, ecept those who were haveing sex, to a diffrent place so they diddnt have to watch the display.

Cara counters it and everyone stays where they are. "Alexia um...stop before they well...they are glaring at me and making weird movments so yea...."

Alexia snaps her fingers and transports her and her lover to a more private spot just to please everyone.

"See how nice she is?" Says Cara.

Alexia returns without her lover. "Sorry bout that got a little carried away. Anyway...I'm hungry."

Everyone but Cara backs away slowly..."Nice vampie....."

"Not you! And what the hell did you just call me?!"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" Elina runs and hides unsuccesfuly behind Koryn.

Koryn says, "Um.. you happen to be quite a bit bigger then I am I think they can see you..."

"Oh..right..." hides behind Laran.

Laran rolls his eyes.

Cara laughs "Heeheeeheeeheee..."

Alexia is amused. Turns to Cara. "I know what you're thinking. No but another one might suit you." She snaps her fingers again and another tall handsome elf appears. The elf has long blonde hair, bright sky blue eyes, and pale skin. She also brings one of her sisters.

Elina is sitting on a rock holding stomach and rocking back and forth to keep from gagging.

"Go gag somewhere else." Alexia orders

Cara walks over to Elina. unhooking a pouch from her belt. "Here, swallow a handfull of this and you'll feel better. ONLY a handfull." Hands to Elina.

Elina nods, takes pouch, yakes handfull of ground herbs, makes sure is only a handfull, and swallows. "Thanks." she says gratefully wondering why Cara was being nice....

"No it wasn't poison, it realy will help." says Cara as she reties the pouch to her belt.

Shade looks at everything while sitting on a rock. He shakes his head and says: "If I weren't a shadow I would have puked. That was disgusting."

Cara is amused.

Alexia is amused.

Elina looks paler then usual.

Azufel watched the whole scene but his face was indifferent still. Inside his pain was growing though, but at this point he made sure nobody could read his mind.

Alexia randomly looks over, "Are you okay?"
She was sure not to even try to read his mind just so she wouldn't piss him off.

Azufel looks at Alexia. His pain ment he was hating. He hated her. He indeed hated all creatures of evil, but this one was taunting him. He wasn't supposed to hate though, if he ever wanted his feathers back.
"I'm fine." He said, not willing to say anything more. Then he tries to push the hatret and the pain down.

Vespa patts Azufel's shoulder in consolance, hopeing she could make at least one friend. no one here seemed to care about her. It was typical though. no one ever cared about Vespa. " we should keep going."

Azufel was happy with the pat, at least somebody still cared. He nodded "Yes, before we get another scene of something."

The hate was clear to Alexia. She could feel it. She was use to everyone hating her, but this one was different. She wanted to rip his head off to sluaghter him, but at the same time he was untouchable, or it was as if she didn't want to hurt him. She decided to close her mind off to him. To herself she swore never to read his thoughts.
She didn't know why she was doing this, but then again she did.
Alexia slowly walked over to Elina and sat down.

Elina looks over and shrugs.

Alexia stares into oblivion drowning in her deep thoughts.

Shade looked around, his gaze sticked at Cara for a while. He said he wouldn't do anything, even though she didn't quite deserve to live in his eyes. He slightly regretted what he said, but he kept his word. He might be a shadow, he was not without honor, like some here and while thinking that he looked at Alexia. He didn't care if she heard it or not.

Vespa mentaly thanked and honored Shade for his mentality. she agreed with him in a way. but she knew that killing cara would bring the group to a demise. She was to powerful and would probably come back to reign her revenge on everyone.

The group moved out and Vespa fell back beside Azufel. she was curious about the man and wanted to learn more about him.

Cara ,as she walked along a head of the group, wondered why Alexia could possibly like someone who hated her and why she would feel sorrow from it. Cara found no point in love.

Jalan leaped from his tree branch and walked along a little away from everyone else. He wondered what had happened to Cara to make her the way she was. She showed remorse at Koryns 'almost death' yet she found pleaseure in pain and things that are evil. He looked at her and studied her. Lord, what did they do to you? he wondered.

Laran walked along holding Koryn and keeping an eye on everyone in the group. He sensed that anger was circling threw everyone and that someone might get hurt if it continued. He shivered sligtly at the thought that Cara might get hurt, he'd promised her a long time ago that he would never hurt her again and that he would never let anything happen to her. He kept walking silently.

Koryn looked about and then ran ahead ,jumping out of Laran's arms.
when the group caughtup with him he was sitting beside a table.

At the table a red haired woman sat. she wore a gree dress that matched her green eyes and went with her pale skin. She motioned for them to come forward.

Cara saw her and stopped. "Hello Xia." she said tonelessly.

Xia stood up and held Cara "you should show more inthusium for your sister, sister." sais Xia smiling.

Xia had the group sit around her table, she passed out drinks to everyone.

Elina sighed and took her glass and too a sip.

"I wouldn't do that.." said Cara.

"Why?"

"Whats in it?" someone asked.

"Teeth, random body parts, cow dubg..you know the usuall."

Laran quickly spit his drink back into his cup and clawed at his toungue.

Jalan laughed, and downed his in one swig.

Cara smiled and studied him Hmmmm she thought and she did the same.

Jalan looked at her smiled benath his mask. Interesting...

Laran continued clawing at his tongue.

Iemara shrugged. "What the hell" downs her glass.

Elina turned green and looked at her empty cup with dred. She almost threw up.

Jalan kept studing Cara.

Cara looked at Jalan. Hmmm their is something...weird about him..almost
like-able.

Jalans eyes wich noeone could see still studied her.

Almost...thought Cara shivering slightly.

Laran ,thinking he had sufficeintly cleaned his toungue smiled and said akwardly"um..maybe we should..erm..continue on our way.."

Cara laughed and followed the rest of the group as they head along trail again.

Jalan walked along in the shadows, humming tunelessly.

Cara looked for the tree she'd marked that would show them the way to the Temple.

Shade rejected the dungy drink they were offered and now was keeping Jalan company in the shadows, though Jalan didn't know it.

Azufel looks around and sees Vespa again "Why are you walking behind me constantly? You know it's more social if you walk besides somebody."

Vespa blinked. " um...you fasinate me...I am sorry for the intrusion." she stepped beside him. " would you tell me about yourself?" she sipped at a glass of the drink

Jalan spoke silently to himself in a strange language.

Cara found the tree and motioned for everyone to follow her down another path. soon the reached a path leading between two huge boulors. "Okay everybody stay on the pathm if you go off it even an inch to either side you with be stuck in the underworld, no matter what you see stay on the path, it should only take a day and a night to reach the other side and get to the Temple."

Jalan looked up and wondered why Cara bothered telling them about it, she didn't seem to care yet she did. Confusing...

Laran walked along, not like this recent exchange between Jalan and Cara one bit. He knew nothing about Jalan and didn't want him getting close to Cara..not until he knew Jalan could be trusted.

Cara walked into the Narrows first, then Jalan, then Shade, then Elina and Vesp and Azufel, then Iemara, then Koryn and then Keska and finaly Halfling.

"C'mon and remember what I said" whispered Cara.

Kezka appears out of no where, "Im back".

Azufel looks at Vespa "There's so much to tell about me. Where would I start? Let's just say I'm here to pay for a sin. And maybe when I've paid enough I'll be the one I once was."

Iemara shivers and says quietly to herself, "Man, this place really gives me the creeps."

Shade grins "But it such a beautifull path. Such nice scenery, you know, the Underworld and all, right next to you. All those dead people, all the people you once killed coming back trying to haunt you."
He smiles and waves to a dark figure in the shadows outside the path.

Vespa frowned. " what sins? who were you before they happend. what happend to you in the first place...i feel like I should know you"

Cara turns and looks at Jalan, "Why do you weear a mask?" she blurts out.

Jalan, who had been thinking looks at her.
"What? Oh....I don't know. Where I came from I didn't...look right so I wore this and now I suposse I'm used to it."

"What do you look like?"

"Oh..well...Like most other men I should think. I've two eyes and a heart. I have skin and teeth and hair."

"Thats not what I meant."

"I..." he sighed. The truth was Jalan was becoming quite smittin with Cara and coulnd't refuse her. "If you wish to know..." he whispered. He slwoly uraveld his mask until he held it in his hands. This revealed, two eyes like big sapphires, pale flawless skin, and black hair cut jaggedly that brushed his shoulders.

Cara had an odd exprssion on her face. She smiled. "If they thought somthing was wrong with the way you look then they need their eyes checked. You look just fine to me."

Jalan felt his cheeks turn red and he looked down to hide it.

Cara smiled and walked beside Jalan hoping to releave him of his shyness.

Jalan shivered, her walking closer only made him blush more.

Laran glared at the back of Jalans head. He didn't like this at all.

Koryn looked at Laran and Laughed"My master is jealous he is."

Laran stuffted Koryn into his knapsack and continued walking.


Jalan walked silently trying hard not to look at Cara, she was so close he could almost brush her hand...His chheks burned and he was sure she could tell what he was thinking.

Azufel looks at Vespa "You are a curious person."
He smiles "My sin? I killed 4 innocents. Why? Well, basicly, I was decieved by Shade and I was punished for it. Now I'm trying to recieve gratitude again."

" I am not a person, Azufel." Vespa looked distant for a second. her chocolate eyes growing mist, as if she was remembering something she wished not to. she shook her red head, " everyone has done something that they feel regret about. I have killed dossens of innocents, because of my blood lust." she touched her fangs. " some are punished and some not. but you have already recived gratitude. Just by feeling remorse and sorrow for waht you have done. I know...I used to be heartless, untill a fallen angel showed me how to care again."

Azufel looked up interested "A Fallen One? What was the name?"

a mysterious, dark dressed girl named veronica, walks from the underworld in to the narrows. "Thank you, I could only excape the underworld if two people that are pure of heart enter the Narrows at the same moment. Might I join this group?"

Cara turns and looks at the newcomer. "Of course....If you wish..."

Vespa smiled warmly at the new comer. " his name was Corvus. I was a heartless ruthless mercyless vampire, consumed by blood lust untill he showed me how to care and love again. I dont really like to eat people any more. I really feed off of animals." she sighed " I was as bad as it got. killed for the shere pleasure of it. not a day goes by that i dont feel regret. but it is because of that regret, that makes me now a good person. I know that now." vespa now more than over felt attatched to Azufel. she diddnt know why she spouted all that she just did. But she felt safe with him. not only that, but she had the biggest urge to put her hand in his. she put her hands in her coat pockets

Azufel frowns and thinks 'So Corvus still lives... that's a surprise. He was as good as dead when he left...'
Then he looks at Vespa again "Well, at least you did see you were wrong. Some people never get to see that."
One could have thought he casted a very short look at Alexia after that, but you couldn't be sure, he might just have seen some shadw of a dead person. Then he continued:
"And you are right. I did see my mistake and that's quite a thing already. It's also the only reason I was allowed to show I still deserve the older me. Now I have to show I can still do what I used to do, without the power I once had. If I can do that, my banishment will be retreated and I will be free again."

Iemara looked at Vespa and Azufel funny. 'Who woulda thought?'
"You two are gettin pretty warm over there!" she called to the two playfully. 'And Cara and Jalan. . . is this just going to turn into a giant orgy in the end or something? Did seeing those siblings make everyone horny or something?' She looks at Cara and smiles. 'Hope you heard that Cara. Perhaps you'll indulge me later with your thoughts on the topic. You appear to be one of the more intelligent members of the group and I have yet the pleasure of speaking with you.'

"Intelligence is far away in this group." Shade says "You'll find it faster in the darkness." with that referring to the dead beside the path and probably himself as well.

"Now now Shade. Be nice. If you have something intelligent to say, why not enlighten me? I can see the others are still a little cross with my little outburst of weakness earlier. You had said that you had met one of my kind before . . . please tell me about that, as I have not seen one of my kind in centuries."

"O that was very interesting." Shade says "It was some old guy saying he was the o mighty lord of all elements blablabla, and I kinda insulted him. So the guy went all pissed at me and we started fighting. At some point we landed in a rocky canyon somewhere in a high mountain range. That's were we started fighting guerilla style. The guy was so stupid to hide from me in the shadows, so I found he in no time, broke hisn eck and stole his powers before he recovered with his powers."

"You stole his powers?" Iemara repeated suprised. "Right, you had said that a few times. How long ago was this?" she also added suspiciously with a grin "Have you yet mastered how to control those powers?"

"I'm ever learning. I had lots of thinking time in that bottle. The downside of your decisions" Shade grinned "And it has been a while. It was a few years after I defeated Azufel."

On this Azufel looked at Shade with narrowed eyes, but he decided not to fight in his current state, and especially not in the current location. He didn't know what would happen if he stepped into the Underworld now.

Vespa was watching the path feeling a deep melencholly. she missed Corvus greatfully, but she knew she would never really see him again. She was starting to feel detatched. her only real friend in the worlds was Iemara, and currently, Vespa wanted to tackle her and wrestle. she was semi ticked that Iemara made that comment about her and Azufel, all the while, Vespa needed to feel young again. Playing would let that happen. Perhaps she would play a joke on shade. she grinned a wicked fanged smile.

Jalan's cheeks blazed from Iemara's remark.

Cara laughed. "You feelin left out Iemara?"

veronica just sits back a little shy

Azufel looks at the newcomer. "And you, Veronica wasn't it? Have you got a story to tell. How you got in the Underworld for instance..."

Iemara raises her eyebrow at Cara. "Why would I feel left out? I have my own . . . form of amusement, though non can see him . . ." she trails off deep in thought and also waiting to hear Veronica's answer.
Vespa huggles Iemara's arm as she too waits for an answer

Alexia glances at Azufel then quickly looked away. She admited to herself that she loved him but she was also surrounded with hate. Barely anyone even knew she existed. She was just there. She seemed invisable. She understood why no one aknowledge her though. She glanced at him again. "Stop it." she whispered to herself.

Cara brought Veronic up to the fron of the line with her. "Hi." she smiled.

Laran walked forward and stood next to Cara and Veroncia making sure he was inbetween them and Jalan. "Hi I am Laran." he said smiling.

Cara smilied at Laran, "Yea he's okay."

Cara motioned Alexia forward. "This is who you talk to if your feeling horny at the moment." she said laughing.

"Excuse me!"
"Uh-uh-um-uh-um...." she stuttered "Nice to know." turns and blushes.

Elina clears her throat.

Iemara walks up. "Hey. I'm Iemara." shakes hands.

Alexia continues to blush. She smacks herself.

Vespa apeared at Alexia's side sencing suddenly that she felt much like how vespa felt all the time. " tell me Alexia, did you do that stunt with your brother because you needed atention?" she whispers

veronica says "well its complicated to explain...cara knows how about her tell you" then she turns around and looks at cara....

Shade laughs "You didn't accidently fall in did you? Elina here did. She isn't very smart."
He keeps laughing, especially when he sees another victim of him in the shadows trying to yell at him.

Alexia looks at Vespa and responds, "I'm not sure. Maybe."

Vespa knodds. " I feel the same way Alexia." she licks her fangs. " being a vampire doesnt put you on the top favorite people list...what are you?"

Cara smiles at Iemara, "Well it wasn't really an accident I pushed her, Foxx and Gemstone in the underworld. I was having a anger moment." Cara turns to Veronica
"Where are they?"

A girl came out of the underworld just a few feet in front of the group. Her skin was paler then death, not a trace of color flawed it. Her eyes were like coal, deep and dark. Her raven black hair becomes her; it was thick and fell down her back in luscious curls. She wore a black dress, the top rested just above her breasts and the bottom skimmed just below her buttocks. Fishnet stockings came up out of sexy black high-heels. Even her lips, which were big and blooming, were white. She turned and her gaze rested on Cara.

A man came out of the underworld the girl had just come. His skin was the pale color, his lips just has full and just as pale. His eyes, tho dark, were not the same coal color; they instead were a limestone green. His hair was a soft yellow; long and thick, tied loosely round the middle of the length. He wore a black shirt with no sleeves. His pants were leather and black as well. His gaze in turn rested upon Cara.

Cara looked up and saw the two standing there.

Laran saw them and his eyes turned dark with hate as they rested upon the man.

Cara smiled and ran to the man.

The pale man hugged her and swung her around. They came to a stop and Cara smiled again. “Foxx! Oh my God.”

He smiled, “yea we're back.”

Cara's gaze turned to the pale woman. “Gemstone.”

They hugged and laughed and smiled.

“Everybody these are some friends of mine…. Gemstone and Foxx.”

Gemstone and Foxx gave slight smiles to everyone.

“So, Gem. How have you been?” asked Laran.

“You know…the lovely three keep ya busy.” She said with a truly evil smile as she walked down the path with Cara.

“The…. lovely three?” asked Jalan.

“Money, Sex and Power.”

“Oh…”

The group followed after them. The sun was at rest and the hours of darkness were upon them.

“We should be there soon if we keep going. Now I must tell you this, because it is night. No matter what you do, do not sleep. They can come out of the underworld at night, they can capture you in your sleep.”

Jalan watched everyone.

Laran's anger was growing, not only did he have to deal with Jalan but now he had to deal with Foxx too. His only thought was they'd better back off...

Cara, Alexia, vespa, Veronica, and Gemstone walked in a group chatting and occasinolly arguing.

Koryn skiiped about making faces at the people in the underworld.

Iemara walked up beside Laran. "Why are you so jelous Laran? Any why are those three still close if Cara pushed them into the Underworld?"

Azufel looked around "Don't mind to go to sleep, I'll keep watch tonight."
He started emitting a white light which even pushed away the actual border of the Underworld a little. He smiled friendly and said: "I can keep that up for quite a while."
He walked in the middle of the group, so everybody stood in the white aura.

Except for Shade. Shade seemd to dislike the light, a lot. He went back and stood outside the aura, looking at Azufel with anger. He knew Shade did'n't like the light, it was almost a challenge. At least a showing that he wasn't completly helpless and could take Shade on any time. Shade grumbled and walked on.

"Hi Jalan" Alexia says in a flirty voice.

veroncia asks cara "who was that goodlooking guy?"

As the others drifted to respective spots in the parieter of the light sourse, Vespa gravitated to the center of it. to Azufel. SHe was ashamed to say that in a very small period of time she had grown quite smitten with him. She sat close to him, drawing her leather trenchcoat around her body. "hey." she murmered leaning into his arm.

Alexia sharply turns and glares at Vespa. Then looks away. She walks up to Jalan and stands next to him ocassionaly glancing at him.

Cara walks over to Azufel and Vespa. "So, How are you two?" She smiles nicly.

Alexia glares at Cara then trys to block all thoughts of Azufel from her mind.

Rolls eyes. "Cool it Alexia."

Alexia ignores Cara

Elina stares out into space and sighs wishing for the two of them to stop before they try and kill each other.

Vespa's eyes narrowed. " fine cara how about yourself?" she was looking beyond cara though glareing at Alexia.

"Hello." Azufel said back to Vespa's greeting, but soon shut up as she was being talked to by other people.

As night fell, the dark shadows from the underworld started coming out of their black hideout. Human shaped figures roamed around the aura, but they didn't dare come within the light. They did bother Shade a lot though. When Shade had enough of it, and that was pretty soon, he grabbed one dead by the neck and tossed him into the aura. As the dark figure entered the light he first seemed like he had been during life. An old man with a friendly face, but his body started dying in air. His flesh rotted away with amazing speed, but without stench, untill only a skeleton remained. The skeleton exploded into bonedust before it reached the ground though, and only a pile of greyish ash was left of him. After this the dead didn't bother Shade anymore.

Azufel coughed, the cloud of bonedust had hit him right in the face. He shook his hand and wiped of the bonedust from his clothes. He looked at Shade annoyed, but stayed where he was. He was the one who spread the aura and he would never forgive himself if somebody was taken away because he had moved a meter.

Shade knew Azufel's position and the fact he couldn't move much, but also remembered his promise to Vespa earlier that day. He shrugged and started a nighty expedition, in which many dead would die again, just for his fun.

Jalan's cheeks flushed. "Hi, Alexia.."

Cara smiled, "Good. Sorry I've been in a bad mood, it's just I get alittle apset when 'old friends' show up and start killing people."

Vespa shook the dust from her hair and leaned close to Azufel whispering. " I am sorry Azufel." she paused What she was saying was obviously dificult for her. For she had loved before, only to have it fall into doom. " But In this short time...." her voice was bearly a whisper. " I have fallen into a deep love for you."

Azufel looks at Vespa, partly surprised, partly just very content with it.
"That's okay, love is good. There's only 1 thing above it, friendship. You've already got that from me. I guess love can come along with it."
He smiled friendly towards her and lay his head against hers.

Tears swell up in Alexia eyes. She tries to blink them away but they just keep coming. "Love hurts." She whispered to Jalan.
She closes her eyes and turns away from Azufel.
She sits down and looks up at Jalan. "Do you hate me Jalan and wish I didn't exist? Because he obviously does."

Azufel heard the words about him, but he couldn't stop them. He couldn't move or anything. And he couldn't deny the fact Alexia had disgusted him, multiple times. The scene with her brother, her history. He had lived for so long, but all of the sudden now everybody started to like him? It was strange. He shook his head. This was why friendship was above love: love had a hurting side as well. he didn't even know if he loved Vespa the same way she loved him. He was sopposed to love everybody, how in heaven's name could one possibly jump out above the others? And she was a vampire as well... but she does regret her deeds... Azufel thought that is worth a lot as well...
Ugh... if Shade hadn't lured him into that damned conspiracy of betrayal he wouldn't have such a hard time now. Vespa needed somebody to love and care for her, he'd be there for her. But Alexia needed somebody as well, how could he give them both what they wanted without created a hatred and competition for him between the two?
Being a fallen one is hard Azufel thought I can understand why most don't survive it now...

Vespa smiled at Azufel's respence, then stiffend. " you wont ever hurt me will you? I have been hurt far to much...promise me you wont hurt me..." she diddnt want to seem so weak. but she did, despite her will. she looked into his eyes in question.

"I don't hate you." said Jalan.

Laran was standing with his back to the underworld watching....a shadow came and surounded him and stole him into the underworld as he let half a scream.

Cara watched in horror and ran to where he was.

Jalan caught her as she whent bye, "No. Cara, you can't you'll be stuch there to."

"Let me go!" she screamed as she tried topull away.

He turn her around and brought her face close to his, "There is not anything you can do. He's gone."

Cara fell to her knees and cried, "It's my fault, I should have watched what was happening."

Jalan knelt beside her and took her face in his hands. "Listen.to me. It is not your fault. Do not be sad. Someone as beautiful as you has now right to be sad. I get him back for if only to see you smile. I promise." and with that he walked into the underworld after Laran.

Cara watched and felt her face where he had touched her...

Azufel shook his head at what Vespa said "No, I won't hurt you. I promise."
But then he looked shocked at Laran being taken away by the darkness, and Jalan going after them. There were ways to survive the Underworld, but they didn't use any of them. Azufel feared for the worst. Maybe one day he'd search for them, but not now.
'Perhaps, if they are very lucky, they can come back on their own... He thought, shook his head again and he lay his head against Vespa's again to comfort her. At least he could help somebody.

Dawn set in, and the golden lines of the sun shone into the canyon they were walked through from the side to which they were heading. The dead moved away into their darkness again, but there was no sign of Jalan or Laran. Shade did appear again though, happy by the looks of it. A night of killing the dead once more had obviously done him well...

Shade walked towards the group again. He seemed different, though you couldn't really see a difference. It was morel ike a feeling around him, and nobody could tell if it was good or bad either. Shade seemed quite happy though, so it probably was a good change for him.
"Had a good night sleep? Hehe... hey, where are the two loverboys? Laran and Jalan I believe?"

Azufel looked at Shade, he couldn't figure out what changed about him. Then he shook his head "The dead got them."

Shade's pure black face showed another weak color change, the only way that could make you see he was grinning. "The dead took them. Even under your protective aura, Azufel? And I see you've taken their place as lover."
With this he pointed at Vespa, who had fallen asleep against Azufel.

Sighing, Azufel's face clearly showed his patience with Shade was ending. "Laran sat too far towards the edge of my aura, he was pulled in. Jalan went to retrieve him."
He didn't say anything about Shade's remark on Vespa.

Shade was getting happier with each bit of news. "We won't see them again then. Who would have thought there are still people stupid enough to walk into the Underworld freely? O I haven't had a beginning of the day as good as this one in ages."

Iemara looked off into the distance, hoping Laran and Jalan would come back soon. She had thought about offering to go help retreive them, but decided against it. If they didn't return by sundown she would go. She looked at vespa and Azufel.
'Love is for the weak. the weak do not survive. it is nothing but an illusion, it does not exist.' she looked down at the ground trying to supress the memories, then looked at Elina. "How are you doing Elina?"

Azufel stares ahead. "It depends on how you look at it. In the end we'll all be on our own indeed. Untill that moment love can be a strong ally."

Iemara shook her head. "For some perhaps, but for most it is nothing but a weakness. It has no place in life except to destroy those whom have the unfortunant of encountering it."

" I have loved many times before. and have lost all whom I loved. all of which died natural deaths, save for three....However I was not weakend by these deaths, these losses of love, but strengthend. Love is what binds us. Hate tears us apart." Vespa had woken up and spoke bitterly of the topic to her dear friend Iemara. " besides. I love you also, however, not in a sexual way. you cannot say that the love of companions, sexual or not is a weakness. It makes the group stronger, closser nit."

"That is true, for I love you as well vespa but as a sister. That form of love is not what I speak for that form of love does not hurt. I speak of the form of love inwhich two souls become intwined, separated only by pain or hate. that form of love has no place in life."

"Your mind will change when you fall in love yourself dear. Its one of the most enriching experiences you can have." she was quiet then wondering where Jalan and Laran went. However she did notice that Shade looked quite smug. he must have done something to them. she would have to speak to him.

Alexia saw what happened and over heard their conversation. She thought to herself, 'I should make myself useful.' She gets up and runs after Jalan.

Azufel looked up sad. Alexia went as well. The group had grown quite thinner in 1 night... He overheard the love conversation, only to come to the conclusion people had bad experiences and good experiences with it. As expected. He sighed and wondered if they would be leaving towards the Temple. Whatever they were going to do there.

Cara walks over and sits next to Iemara, Vespa and Azufel.

Shade watched over everything. Now Alexia was plunging herself into the underworld as well! Maybe cara would commit suicide in a little while as well, that would be a good laugh.

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