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"Just water thank you." Alexia said happily.
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"Gladly" Acheron replied as he pulled another glass out from under the table and poured himself and Alexia water. after putting the water back in the fridge he returned to the table placing a glass in front of her and his in front of him.
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Alexia smiled at this. "Same but it was quite funny when you hurt your food."
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"Wow," She said in response to Acheron's age. "I didn't realize he was actually that old." She began to laugh, "I hope I look that good when I'm that age!" Araceli watched as Darious went behind the small staircase and then placed his hand on it, creating another doorway. "Do you know where this passageway leads?" She asked more curious by the minute.
"Makes sense why my senses are off. Unknown places to a Vampire can make them a little confused what's in the area exactly." He nodded to her about there possibly being a large, messy fight. He was always up for that and grinned quickly before continuing out into the hallway. "Down the corridor and the staircase I'm sure." He said as he moved in that direction, he picked up traces of magic on the air of the castle. "Seems that your little Acheron has been toying with something." He suppressed a shudder as he began to descend the large staircase. "Just direct me where to go lady for the time being till I get my surrounding down." He was able to adapt quite quickly, which was always a blessing for him unlike some other very unfortunate creatures. |
Darious looked back over his shoulder at her. "No clue at all, shell we try it?"
"no one really knows, he like to keep it hidden, but come on i think his age show by the way he talks half the time." Laughing he pushed the door inwards and it slid to the left and disappeared into the wall. "I dont remember it doing that?" he said frowning again. Acheron couldn't help but laugh, "I think your only of the only beings that can really make me laugh, strange it is." raising the glass to his lips he told a sip of the water before placing infront o him again. "What shell we do now?" Vexous nodded and quietly and quickly told him the quickest way down to the main hall. "Darious and the human are under us, Acheron's still in the kitchen with that thing, and there's a couple of other people in the living area, so i say we head for the living area first, that should cause the others to come to us, hopefully." She was having fun being carried by him. |
Alexia shrugged but smiled, of all the people she can make him laugh when in fact she hadn't laughed at all within the few years she had been an angel. "I think you should decide."
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Araceli gave a small nod her eyes focused on the doorway, "I'm too curious now." She said as he touched it and commented on Acheron's age again. Laughing she said, "Oh, I think I'd agree with that from the small bits I got from him, he has a different way of speaking indeed."
Seeing Darious she suggested to him, "Maybe it has been a long while since you used this one?" Taking a step closer she peered through the doorway and into darkness. "Um, I think we may need some sort of light source here." She said pointing into the room as she turned her head to look at her companion. Vincent nodded his head in understanding as she he began to walk down the long hallway and to the stairs that led down to another corridor with multiple rooms. Locating the main living area was easy. "You have many inhabitants then I take it." His ears picked up sounds of some living and the scent of different beings. "We'll need to deal with what we can before those two find us." He said softly, his face turned slightly for no one else to hear but only her. |
Acheron looked as though he was deep in thought. "I did want to check out an old Sorcerers hideout, maybe find some clues to the missing people in town, and the killings of our horses, What would you say miss? would you like to accompany an old soul on a quest?" She smiled over at her, he'd been thinking about going himself but he didn't know if he could handle such a thing, there's so many booby traps and weird creatures down there.
Darious grabbed a small touch that was hanging on the side of the wall. "Got a light?" he asked. "I only have power over wind and water, not fire." laughing he took a step inside to see if there was anything in there that could be lit. "hmmmm well this place is just to dam old, ya think it'd be lined with some kind of light, ya know like in the movie's." "Thats the plan love." Vexous told him back. Rounding a corner they were close to were people were, yet they couldn't see them yet, she whispered to him then. "And Action!" she joked and she flung her head back and closed her eyes pretending she was unconensce. |
"Ah, a torch is a start." She smiled briefly at Darious before frowning slightly. "Mm, no. I have no way to start a fire. Anything that I have on me that probably would be able to is all water logged thanks to our brief swim." She shrugged her shoulders and let out a small sigh. Looking around she saw a lit torch down the way that was mounted to the wall. "We can always use one of those to light our little torch though." She said pointing to the lit torch. "Kind of weird that this is one of the only torches that I saw lit in this area. Must mean that someone has been through here recently right?" She looked back at Darious with an inquisitive expression.
"Let's light this sucker." She said taking the unlit torch from Darious' hands and walking over to the lit one. There she held up the unlit stump waiting for it to catch fire. "Ha!" She cried out once it sparked and sputtered to life before lowering it and rejoining Darious. "Alright, let's go then. I really want to see what this room, or uh, corridor was for then." She was beginning to feel like a child exploring a castle, the irony in that was that this was a castle that they were exploring. He stifled a small laugh as she claimed 'action' and put on the 'distressed maiden facade'. Rounding the last corner to the living area he paused in the doorway with Vexous in his arms who he noted was able to make herself remarkably light on top of it all. Just a small group of people sat in the living area talking softly about one thing or another, they turned their heads to look and see as he entered with Vexous in his arms. "My goodness." A woman gasped with her hands held to cover her mouth as she eyed the couple. "What's happened to her? Is she alright now? We all heard what had happened to the lady but we were not sure what to do and what became of her." Vincent eyed the woman and realized his expression was more harsh looking then intended, he smelled hybrid blood of this woman and it reeked to him to no end. It bothered him, unsure what she was exactly. Probably dog. He never really had much liking for dogs. Wolves were another story though. "I found her unconscious in the forest near the village. I believe she passed out from loss of a lot of blood, the poor lady was a mess when I came across her. There were two pursuing her. Almost killed her, I think they went a bit too far with trying to capture her. It was a woman with dark blonde hair and a man... A spirit I believe." He formulated a quick false cover for himself, intending to make it seem that Vexous had been righted and that the woman and spirit that pursued her were the real culprits. Perhaps if he turned everyone else against the two, things wouldn't need to be as messy as Vexous had originally intended. Well, at least not for Vincent and Vexous. ((since we're lacking extras, I just made a few for us to interact with. Hope that that's alright. n.n )) |
Alexia smiled and nodded.
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Vexous lay still in his arms not wanting to wake up just yet.
Nice story, rather convincing if you ask me. she commented on His words. awww way to go, make them out to be the bad guys, i dought Acheron would have told anyone else what at really happened. she was tempted to open her eyes, but figured it'd be to early. Acheron smiled as he stood up, "come on then we should head over there as soon as possible!?"walking out of the kitchen he entered the hall to grab his coat. lifting it off the rack he could see the scene behind it. dropping his coat he ran for the man who was holding his Master. "My Lady, My Lady are you alright!." cupping her face in his hands he looked down at her. "she's so pale." the worst thoughts ran through his mind. "is she dead?". he eyes became watery and he could stop one single tear from falling. Vexous laid as still as a board, but when something warm and wet hit her face she was alittle shocked. He's...he's crying for me...why? ((perfectly okay)) |
"Thought it'd be a good cover story. Thank you love." He sent back to her as the female and her two males that she was with looked on at Vexous in sympathy. "Seems to me that these three are buying it. That was easier than I had thought." He added mentally to her as he continued to watch their reactions and answered any questions that they had. He found that he was repeating himself quite a bit. "Not too bright these ones are they?" he mused mentally to Vexous, the question being rhetorical.
The scene began to really pick up as he heard a familiar male's voice and turned in time to see Acheron. He was a bit surprised to see the magician crying over Vexous, for he had assumed that this man was as vile and evil as his own father. "She's alright Acheron." Assured the lady that had done most of the talking already. "This young man saved her." Her eyes flickered over Vincent's briefly with a small hint of admiration and interest in them. "Though I think you'd be best to keep that Darious and whoever his new lady is off these grounds!" The woman was getting more animated now as she began to rely the tale to Acheron. Vincent didn't have to utter another single word as the three began to push their opinions onto the poor man. Vincent watched Acheron carefully, but not to closely to make himself look strangely obvious of something amiss. |
Whipping the tear away from Vexous face Acheron smile. "Thank the heaven's if anything had happened to her, i would have killed myself. He ran a hand through her long blue/purple hair before looking up at the man who was carrying her.
"i saw the village go up in flames, did she start that?" he asked the man. This guys no ordinary guy, he has an essence of power around him. "how did you know to bring her here?" he asked, "if she was unconscious when you found her." he frowned at the man. somethings not right, Darious and Araceli would have been back by now, unless...his thoughts trailed off as Darious's name was mentioned out loud. "she must have been bound then, good, but where are they..?" |
Vincent frowned in response to the inquiry about the village going up in flames. "I actually have no idea who did that exactly, I arrived in time to find your lady here in need. Those two seemed ready to kill her." Vincent shook his head slowly and looked back to Vexous' face before returning his icy gaze back to Acheron's. "As for finding the castle, well it isn't very hard to miss considering how big of a structure it is. A most impressive one at that!" He said as he offered a charming smile to Acheron. He was trying hard to be careful with his words and did not want to complicate the story any further. "Binding?" He asked finally. "What is that? And why would such a thing be necessary." He brushed off the question Acheron asked of him about Araceli and Darious and asked two of his own in return.
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"she went a little mad, you could say, i dont know if she'd like me to go into the details or not, so i wont say much, only that it has to do with the ladies past." sorrow caked his eyes and he remembered the first time they'd met.
As a small child Acheron used to run around his fathers work place, one evening he'd wondered into the area that he'd later find out was called the holding cell, there were many creatures in there, a baby dragon, wolfs, people and of of all Vexous, she was beautiful, at the time she had long black her and pale white skin, so looked human and she smiled and chatted with Acheron many of times. but things didn't stay that way fro long. "Father why did you do it, to her of all people, you made her hate even me, because i'm your son." he mumbled to himself. "Anyway i think it better we that you put her down, on the couch should be fine." "Araceli was only trying to bring the loving side of her back to the surface, i guess it would look like her trying to kill the lady, but she needed to be stabbed with something made of of pure silver in order for the spell to work." |
Vincent's eyes widened in mock surprise at the story of Vexous going mad. He heard Acheron mumble about her hating him but thought best not to push since he seemed so obliged to keep his lady's secrets concerning their past.
"Probably a good idea." Vincent nodded his head and moved slowly to one of the couches in the room. He chose the rich red velvet one, and gently set her down on her back. Withdrawing slowly and back into his full height, his eyes still on Vexous' still form. "To stab someone with pure silver is not my idea of bringing someone's 'loving side' back." He commented, his gaze shifting to Acheron's then. "So Araceli is the name of the lady then?" He asked. |
Acheron dodged most of his questions. "Yes Araceli, i sent her after Vexous in a hope to bring her back, to her old self. it takes a lot for her caring side i guess you could call it to be buried deep enough inside her for it to not come out." sighing he looked down at her. "In that state she really is a Vampire to be feared, he should have never tampered with her mind!." he was over the sorrow and anger was taking over.
"i'm going to the place where this all started maybe then i can finish it all." Vexous opened her eyes, ad looked around her, there were a few people she didn't really know that were sitting in the room. humans hey. she thought. once she heard that Acheron wanted to go back there, she came up with the best idea. It's the perfect place to finish him off! |
Unaware that Acheron had been talking about the place that had bound Vexous had been here till he mentioned 'finishing it'. He heard Vexous exclaim mentally that this would be the place to go. Vincent's gaze shifted onto Vexous as she stirred for the people and began her own performance. "Are you alright my lady?" He asked her with the feigned concern over her "condition".
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Acheron looked once again at the new comer. "Destroy that place once and for all, and well as get some answers."
Acheron turned to vexous at the same moment Vincent did. "My lady, how do you feel?" Vexous made a sound as tho she had a bad headache. "I fell a little dizzy but i think i'm okay Acheron, What of you, i did kinda drain you dry?" she asked looking away as if ashamed. Now we only need him to take us there. Acheron was a little thrown back by what she said. "my Lady believe be i've been through worse, i was more concerned about your well being!" |
Alexia ran after him and started to wonder what happened. She stayed close to Acheron with fear someone would try to hurt him or her.
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Vincent nodded in understanding to Acheron's explanation about where he was talking about.
After they had their response from Vexous, Vincent let the two converse further. She was the one who was to convince him at this point if they were to take him down. He waited patiently for any means to help her push Acheron further. It was then he noticed the small female, again she came to stay by Acheron's side like a good little watch dog. He studied her features closer now since they were only a few feet from one another at this point. |
Alexia, i think it's time we got going, the sooner this is done the better for all of us." he exclaimed. Looking down at Vexous once again he smiled faintly at her. "i'm happy your back my Lady, the castle hasn't quiet been right without you."
Vexous's eyes slid over the girl who had just run up to Acheron, odd girl indeed, i cant figure out what she is, i've never felt anything like it, Vincent? Vexous help back her frown and looked up at Acheron again thinking it best to ignore the little thing for now. "wait your not going there are you? you cant, you mustn't, anything could have been left there." pushing herself up on the chair she focused herself to sit up."if you insist on going then i'm coming to! there's no way i'm letting you do it alone!". Acheron's mouth dropped. "but My Lady you are in no condition to fight, let alone stand, i cant put you in anymore danger, i couldn't forgive myself." Vexous shock her head at him. "Who's the Lady and Master of this castle, you have no right to tell me what to do!...... beside we'll bring Vince along he can be my muscle, that is of course if he wants to?" looking over towards Vincent she smiled at him. Acheron wouldn't say no to his Mistress, he couldn't. "Very well but on if Vincent does come!" he replied also looking towards Vincent, |
Alexia made sure she was close to Vexous if she was needed. She realized that she met alot to Acheron so she was glad to help her. She wondered what had happened to the poor chica.
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Darious couldn't help but smile and let out a small laugh as Araceli was surprised. "i didn't know this place still had then, i dont know why but i feel like Indiana Jones right now, all i need is the whip and that silly old hat." he nodded to himself in thought. "i think i'd look alright as a cow boy." following beside Araceli he looked around at the art works that were engraved on the walls. "beautiful isn't it?"
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Vincent's eyes had looked the young girl once over again before returning to Vexous' face. "Careful of her. She isn't a pureblood that is for certain. I believe she is a 'Tainted One'. Or so they called it in my country. She is familiar to me though. I believe I have seen her face somewhere before. Unless I am mistaken." He was still wary of these two together, the son of a magician and a tainted child.
He smiled down at Vexous, "My lady I wouldn't allow to go unless I accompanied you as well." Looking to Acheron then he asked, "Then shall we? I can carry the lady once again if it makes it easier for you." He offered on behalf of his gentleman image. "Well Darious, I believe you could make your own image with your own signature item and pull it off better." She blushed then before adding, "Of course you'd be making me incredibly jealous since you'd have quite a few lady fans after you. I'd have to fight for you then." She laughed nervously before clearing her throat. Looking at the walls now, she stepped more closely to one. They were magnificent! The artwork was intricate and so vibrant, even for years of being sealed away with layers of dust in the air. The room was large and seemed to have a strange vibration to the air of it. "What is this place? Feels... Strange." She said turning around now so she could look at the walls behind her. She realized that it was a giant mural put together in this room. "The time that these people put into this place." She breathed in astonishment from what she could see. "I wish we had more light in here. I wish I could see the work more clearly." |
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