You may kill us now...
we are all super sorry about the long (extremely long - like month's and month's long, actually it's been almost a year... holy cow do we suck at this...) wait and we promise that we will start uploading more frequently... if we can... Well it will definitely be more frequent than once a year...
I will take blame.... n.n" -nargle
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Akira's POV
I glance up from my sitting position and see Emmie-pooh leading a wolf out a red-gold wolf out of the house.
I raise my eyebrow then realize that it's probably Rae.
All of a sudden, the wolf I have decided is my Rae-bear, barrels towards me, jumping into my lap and starts to lick my face.
"NO! NO RAE STOP!" I cry out as her slobbery tongue starts to give me a wolf bath.
"What are you doing out here?" Emmie-pooh asks me as she holds back her laughter.
Rae hops off of me giving me a goofy, wolfishly grin as I wipe the slobber off of my face.
"ICK. Rae that is sooooo gross!" I complain ignoring Emmie-pooh's question.
"I think it's about time for training. Todd and Maureen should be home soon." Emmie ponders out loud and I see Rae-bear yip and bark in what I think would be excitement.
"I'll go find Ren and Spooky and see if they want to join us." Emmie-pooh says before disappearing back into the house.
I look at Rae who seems to be in an extremely good mood.
"Does it suck that you can't communicate with others like Emmie can?" I ask her and she looks at me confused. "Like telepathically." I clarify and she attempts to nod her doggy head but it doesn't work very well. It just looks like she is trying to do the wave with her head.
She growls loudly and I jump slightly. I hear a deep rumble from her chest and I think she's laughing at me.
"You meanie!" I cry out attempting to swat at her wolfie head. She stands and practically dances out of the way of my hand.
"I'll get you for that!" I tell her, pointing my finger at her and smiling creepily with wide eyes.
I cackle manically but my laughter is cut short when we hear screaming coming from in the house. Ren practically runs out of the door, towards us.
I raise my eyebrows in question and she looks at me.
"Spooky is still in a bad mood." She mutters and Rae looks towards the house as if she wants to go in there and help.
"They'll be fine Rae. Emmie can take care of herself and your Demon friend shouldn't be fried to bad" Ren muses and Rae looks even more worried.
"Lets just go to the training ring. They should be out soon" Ren tells us like a mother would their child. I grin and start bouncing off in the direction of the training ring. I sing the Key of Awesome What makes you Beautiful Parody as I go.
I see Ren rolling her eyes at me from my perpetual vision.
I get to the ring and start to spin around, randomly teleporting myself around the ring as I do. I find a lot of fun in doing this and I start to giggle manically again.
All of a sudden I feel myself fall to the ground on my butt. I see a big wolfie figure on top of me.
"Noooooo! You stopped my teleport spinny thing!" I cry before I teleport and turn over in the air so that I land on top of her.
It kind of sucks sometimes that I can't teleport out of someones grip.
"MEWA HA HA HA!" I yell in her wolfish face before I jump up and start run-teleporting. Sort of what people say Slender man does.
"I am the almighty Akira! You shall bow before me!" I shout out in a crazy voice and grin from ear to ear.
I see Ren die laughing on the ground and I see Rae chasing me around the arena.
I jump up and teleport onto Rae's back as she is running and she falls heavily to the ground with an earth shaking thud.
I jump off of her and turn invisible. Teleporting myself to the other side of the field. I know that with her wolfie nose she'll be able to sniff me out but I am hoping it will take her a bit longer than normal.
Her head whips around looking for me. Almost as if she forgot that she has a dog like nose.
I stifle a giggle at the thought and her head whips in my direction. I see Ren standing up with fire balls in her hands. Like she wants to join in on our fun. I guess this game of tag just got a hell of a lot more interesting.
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Serenity's POV
I stretch out on the chair in the library, knowing that the quiet wouldn't last for very long. In this house quiet wasn't really an option.
I sigh inwardly as I hear motion elsewhere in the house. Trying to tune it out, I close my eyes and press my hands to my forehead. I fall out of my chair as someone shrieks something about some one else being an 'Insensitive, moronic idiot'. Taking my queue I get out of the house, fast.
Akira give me a questioning look as I going the little group.
"Spooky is still in a bad mood." I mutter and what looks to be a wolfed-out Rae looks towards the house as if she wants to go in there and help.
"They'll be fine Rae. Emmie can take care of herself and your Demon friend shouldn't be fried to bad." I say, trying to calm her down. But she only ends up looking more worried.
"Lets just go to the training ring. They should be out soon" I say calmly like I would to a child. Aki grins and starts bouncing off in the direction of the training ring, singing the Key of Awesome What makes you Beautiful Parody very off-key.
I see Rae rolling her eyes at Aki and giggle.
When we get to the training ring Rae and I just stand and watch Aki spin around and teleport for a few minutes. Giggling like a witch as she goes.
Rae, of course, gets bored of this quickly and goes to try and jump on her.
I just stand on the edge of the ring and watch as Aki and Rae start to chase each other around the ring. I laugh a little at the craziness of these two.
I briefly wonder what Em and Spooky are doing but I let that thought go quickly when I see Rae and no Aki. I smile knowing that she turned herself invisible.
I grin and take out my lighter, opening it and taking a fireball in my hand.
As soon as I have fire I can manipulate it and control it, but I can't create it. Which sucks, I'm like the Water-Benders from the TV show Avatar... But with fire.
I close my eyes and focus on Akira thought-pattern, I smirk "There she is" I causally stroll forwards before throwing the the fire-ball near her feet. She reappears several feet away.
"That's cheating!" she shouts.
I shrug "What rules?" I ask her "Last time I checked life had no rules." Rae gives a wolfy nod of agreement. I smile "See! Rae agrees with me!" Aki scowls and disappears again.
I look at Rae and speak with her telepathically "Tag team?"
This was going to be fun.
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Rae's POV
For reasons unknown, Ren wanted to tag team Aki with me, being me I'm not going to comply that easily. For now I'll let it be.
Running on four legs instead of two was a little weird, but faster. Much faster. Chasing Aki around the ring while dodging Ren's fire was fun, but I was also hoping that her fire wouldn't touch my Akira. "Mind if I hop on your back?" Ren asks, running beside me, trying to keep up.
I shook my head no but sadly, that caused me to move my front legs and crash into the mud. Lovely. Oh well, I need to shower anyways. Ren used my crash run to actually get on my back, she wasn't that much extra wight, but due to my many problems I am rather weak.
Getting back up with Ren on my back wasn't much of a problem, but running was a lot of work. If I'm going to be a big dog, I'm going to need to be a bit stronger than this... Oh well.
I honestly feel like I should be in there helping out with spooky right now... All of this is kind of my mess.... Oh shit. I am going to die later. I am going to be shot with a silver bullet. okay, well, as soon as I get Ren off my back there is a bottle hidden out back here calling my name. I swear if I am going to die, I am going to die drunk. Speaking of Ren, I need to lose her soon and make sure she can't hurt my Aki. For a start I should probably tell Akira in some way that I’m actually on her team here, I really don’t feel like taking a hit for something I didn’t do.
I slow down slightly and make an attempt to buck Ren off while not hurting myself. Aki had stopped teleporting around long enough to witness what was taking place, hopefully she would see I'm on her side. After a lot of leg work, I finally did it. Before I managed to slobber all over Ren, there was a commotion in the woods that caught my attention. I was vaguely aware of Akira teleporting over to where Ren was now lying on the ground.
Carefully, I trot over to the forest. I was unsure of what was in there, so I wasn’t going to collide with it head on. Even if that seemed like a better option than being shot, I wasn’t kidding about dying drunk as a skunk. I heard a bang coming from inside the house, should I go back there or should I proceed? Should I stay or should I go?
Awe hell, the house has booze. Plus I have no clue what's out there, for all I know it was a serial rapist demon. Or even worse… Someone from the organisation.
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Ember's POV
"I'll go find Ren and Spooky and see if they want to join us." I tell Aki and Rae after leading a now wolfie Rae out to the garden's. Aki will take care of her for now and as long as she has someone around she should be fine. Heading back into the house I see, or rather feel a really daunting presence behind me. I move out of the way just before a ball of black flame hits me in the back.
"You, you," I splutter out as I whirl around to see an extremely pissed off demon behind me. "You insensitive, moronic idiot!" I shriek at him. Angered by his sheer idiocy to attempt to get me, ME of all people. “What the hell dude?” I ask him angrily and he sneers.
“You kept me away from my mate” He growls, guttural, sounding almost as if something was constricting him from speaking properly. “You do not, EVER, keep a demon from his mate.” He growls again as his hand bursts into the dark black demon flame again. The flame almost looks more like a ball of energy than it does fire. My lips pull back from my teeth as I let myself fall into a crouch on the ground, avoid his next throw.
I hear a faint ‘SHWOOM, CRACK’ as the ball flies over my head and hits the wall behind me. Okay, now I am officially pissed off.
“And you, you do not, EVER, piss off a sorceress shifter.” I growl, jumping towards him with the grace of a cat. Mid flight I go half and half form, slashing at him as soon as I get close enough to do so.
He cries out as huge gashes appear on his chest and start to ooze. However whatever they are oozing is SOOOO not blood. It's black and thick and completely gross.
Note to self: Never, ever, EVER bite Spooky, EVER!
He growls and lunges but I jump out of his way, and he falls to the floor, his face smashing into the tile. There is a loud shattering sound as the tile his face hit smashes into pieces.
I start to giggle until he looks up at me, his face the epitome of horrendous. There are cuts oozing that black stuff, that I'm thinking is demon blood, all over his face. His eyes are black as coal and his lips are pulled back in a snarl, his teeth pointed silver glinting against the dark set of his lips.
I guess I'm getting my training after all.
I push myself up to my feet and turn, sprinting my way up the stairs and to the landing, leading the shouting Spooky out into the garden. Just as I enter the confines of the garden, all of a sudden I feel a sharp, painful tug to my tail. Shrieking I whirl around and slash, hoping I hit something vital to keep him from coming after me.
I hear him groan and I glance back as I run seeing him holding his man junk while curled up on the ground.
'good' I think to myself. That's what he gets for getting angry at me when I helped his mate.
After a few minutes of curving through the maze of flowers I finally stop and crouch down, catching my breath. I let out a little sigh of relief right before I hear the rumbling steps of the demon I had been running from. He rounds the corner and immediately spots me. He sneers viciously.
"Hahaha, I got you now." He mutters and I fling my hands up in front of me.
'scântei și flacără' I mutter under my breath. Sparks shoot from my fingertips, hitting an extremely surprised Spooky square in the chest.
His mouth flops open and closed twice before he simply just falls to the ground, temporarily paralyzed.
"Hahahahaha" I laugh to myself as I stand carefully, brushing myself off. "Not so tough and scary now are you huh? A big bad demon bested by a tiny, petite, sorceress shifter. HAH!" I laugh then turn to see that we had aquired ourselves a crowd.
Ren seems to be looking on in what I would call complete and utter boredom. Aki on the other hand is smiling and clapping a bit while bouncing on the balls of her feet and Rae, well Rae's face showed her absolute horror as she stares at her mate who is currently on the ground. Completely conscious might I add, but still on the ground.
"He's fine, just a little, uh... caught up right now." I start, my voice getting a little quieter as my sentence wears on. "Oopsies" I add before shoving my way through my crowd of friends and speeding towards the doors that lead inside.
That was definitely not what I had had in my mind when I said that we should train.
I hear the sound of engines pulling into the house and I make my way down the stairs. I reach the landing just as I hear Todd swear.
"Ember! What the hell happened to the kitchen?" He ask's me, anger clear in his eyes.
"Um... long story or short answer?" I ask him and he glares at me, his eyes like solid ice. "Okay, Okay, well IaccidentallychangedinfrontofRaeandshekindawolfedout" I say in one big sentence before I take a much needed breathe and start again on the next part. "soIhadtohelpbutkickedeveryoneelseoutandSpookygotmadatmesohekindasortaattackedmewithdemonfireandIkindasortaknockedathimbackandnowhessortaparalysedinthegarden" I finish and take a deep breath. Maureen looks at me odd.
"Um, Todd, did you catch any of that?" She asks and he shakes his head. Clearly I need to speak slower.
"Um, well, um... I accidentally changed in front of Rae and she kinda wolfed out so I had to help but I kicked everyone else out and Spooky got mad at me so he kinda sorta attacked me with demon fire and I kinda sorta knocked at him back and now hes sorta paralyzed in the garden." I repeat myself slower. Maureen gasps and Todd's eyes go wide. "I'm sorry." I add, my head falling forwards in shame.
"I told you not to show anyone!" Todd shouts and I can feel the tear's forming in my eyes.
"I know, I tried, but Lana..." I try to defend myself but Todd wont listen.
"How can I know that you are in control and can live on your own when you can't even follow one specific rule? One rule! It's not that hard!" He adds and I shake my head, he's not going to listen to me.
'vosstanavlivat' I mutter under my breath and let the room restore itself. The tile uncracking and the walls uncharring. Then I turn and walk towards the door that will lead me to the back yard.
"Where do you think you're going young lady?" Todd yells out after me, but I just close the back door and leave the house.
He's right. If I can't even control my temper when Lana is taunting me how will I ever be able to survive on my own without constant watch? I couldn't even follow one of Todd's only rules. Why was I such a failure?
I walk towards the woods, my head bent low, not paying any attention to my surroundings until I hear the unmistakable crack of a twig coming from the forest. My head snaps up as I look into the dark denseness. Oh god, what could that be? Nobody is ever in that forest... we barely go in there ourselves.
I slow my pace to a crawl and quickly jump up onto a branch of the tree nearest to me. Crawling carefully and quietly from tree to tree, like a squirrel, I finally come up to a group of about a dozen or so people. About seven males and five females.
"When are we going in?" I hear a female voice ask and I hear a man cough slightly as if to tell her to shut up.
"We wait until nightfall Raina." a mans gruff voice responds and another man sighs loudly.
"You think anyone has noticed we're here yet?" Another man ask's. This one sounds younger.
"No, no one would have noticed. They were training, quite loudly might I add, and now they're all in the house." A really high pitched female voice answers.
My eyebrows furrow together in confusion, what is going on here?
"Their powers though." Another woman states with an almost motherly like fondness. "So powerful and pure. They are almost more than we had hoped for." She adds.
"Lana what time do they usually go to sleep?" The first man I'd heard speak asks and then I hear Lana's tell tale voice answer from the group.
"If we go in a little after one they should all be asleep in bed." She responds and I finally realise what is going on. Lana sold us out to the Organisation. They were here to recollect the things they had lost. They were here, for us.
I scramble backwards, hurrying home as fast as I could.
As soon as I enter the door I'm screaming.
"THEY'RE HERE! THE ORGANISATION THEY'RE IN THE WOODS" I start shrieking, almost hysterical. I sink to my knee's then, almost as if my legs gave way, incapable of holding me up any longer.
"Oh my god what?" Maureen asks running all the way down the stairs only to see me on my knees on the floor, my face covered by my hands.
"Lana sold us out. They're out there right now waiting until tonight to strike." I whisper horrified as every single person in the house finally comes down, their gazes resting on me. Rae finally human again is clutching onto Spooky for dear life. Maureen and Todd are sharing a look. Aki's eyes are filled with terror and Ren looks as if she is about to be sick.
"They're here." I mutter again. "They're here."