Corday {Annalesia and Hatsu}
 

Revan and Amara have been a part of Corday for a while now. They are at the top of their class in everything from the most basic assassinations to the most complex. After a traumatic death of a previous partner, Revan is forced to partner with Amara and re-learn how to function as a unit rather than alone and Amara must learn to cope with this rather emotionally high strung man. Her only choice is to Figure it out or leave to find another place to hide from her problems.

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What you need to know for this thread:

Aan engelon is it's a hybrid creature that looks like a mix of human and bird. Their technically a branch of elves but their one of the first breeds. They are naturally genderless but as they get older they can change their gender at will, which is very helpful when the population plummets to some hundred or so around the world.

Their wings are efflorescent and every feather looks a lot like a pearl inlay kinda shiny. The have pale to Grey skin tone and very angular faces. Their wings, like Revan, or the other way around, conduct magic but they specialize in offense and know little about defense and healing.

The engelon are powerful fighters, boasting a strong immunity to poisons and physical harm. They also feed from other magics and emotions, their favorite being desire because of how sweet and sharp it is to them.

One of the most dangerous powers they have is the ability to seduce anyone, changing their bodies to reflect what that person most desires and they basically hypnotize with their eyes which look similar to a cat's eye, to create the desired emotions to feed off of.

Revan has some immunity to this engelon's charm because Engelon's can't seduce their own species but everyone else is fair game. Engelon's can also morph to look just like the person someone is already lusting over or in love with, and it used to be common for Engelon's to fool married men and women into sleeping with them simply because the person can't tell the difference once they're captivated by it's eyes.

The gentle mist of rain was soothing to the soul as birds chirped softly outside. Revan's bedroom windows were opened all the way letting the fragrant spring breeze fill the open room. he was drifting because of how peaceful the sounds and smells were but he knew that wasn't true. The truth was that nothing here was as peaceful as it seemed. Revan knew that just twelve minutes ago another runner team had just returned and one of the seven died on the way back. He knew because he had predicted the gruesome death of his companion.

He rolled over so his back faced the window. It had been many years since he had joined Corday but he would never get used to knowing that people were going to die and often times there was nothing he could do about it. If only he had known sooner, he could have flown and stopped the ambush.
"Revan?"

Revan turned around to see Kyoshi Standing against the door frame. He sat up and rubbed his face exhaustedly.
"Hey. How are the runners?" Kyoshi walked further into the room and sat beside Revan.
"I know you knew, so please be honest with me." Revan looked over with his head on his hand.
"I get it, and I realize that things like this happen. Just because I can see into the future doesn't mean I'm capable of saving everyone I see die or suffer in my dreams."
Kyoshi smiled gently and pat Revan's back.
"Well if it makes you feel any better I've got something to take your mind off of all this." Revan sat up and puffed a sigh.
"Okay, I'll bite, what?"
"You've got a new partner."

"No." Revan stood and paced the room a few times before focusing in on Kyoshi.
"The last partner I had was murdered and tortured to LURE ME IN! She was tortured for days before I could get there and by the time I did she was dead!" Kyoshi waited patiently as Revan vented at him. The man had just reasoning for his disapproval and really, Kyoshi questioned the decision himself.

He wondered if this new partner was really worth the possible breakdown of his pupil, and probably his closest companion.
"Revan, it's required, you know this. The only reason you've been without a partner is because of the last incident but the rules stand firm, even for you."
"That doesn't make any sense! I don't need a partner, I'm nearly indestructible, I travel too fast for even the best runners to keep up with me and I rarely ever need to rest. What's the point in a partner if I'm just going to get them killed!"

Kyoshi watched as Revan tried to wade through his overwhelming emotions. He wanted to agree with him so badly but what he was told goes, no matter what. He stood and gently reached out to Revan, enfolding the frazzled man in his arms.

"Revan, they understand this and they've picked the best possible partner for you that they could find. She's supposed to be very intelligent and fast. Her records show only the best and she's never failed a mission yet. Please, just meet her before you decide she will just be a burden." Revan shook a little in Kyoshi's arms and then he relaxed, allowing his arms to slip around the other man's chest.
"I don't know how much longer this is going to take, I promised him that nothing would happen, I wouldn't let it but here I am, loosing my mind trying to block out what I know and see. How am I supposed to be someone's partner if I don't even trust myself to protect them." Kyoshi pet Revan's head and sighed.

"I understand your pain but you'll just have to trudge through. You'll be meeting her in an hour."

Cecilia sighed as she began to weave her fingers through the silver hair, pulling strands back strategically into a french braid she'd seen used in a mission during her younger years. Amara watched in slight wonder as her trainer pulled hair methodically into a braid that seemed to slither down her head, forming down her back. Cecilia grabbed one of Adonis' feathers from the vase on the desk, weaving it into the braid, "The Masters have decided there have been too many deaths. Assassins are not being stealthy enough. So they had a meeting and decided the assassins would no longer work alone, but instead with a partner. Following that was an incredibly long process of trainers writing reviews on their trainees, and turning them in. From there the Elders read them all, and decided who would work best with who. I guess they decided your abilities matched well with his. Who knows, it may have been partly on personality, which means you might like him..."

Amara tilted an eyebrow up as she looked up at Cecilia through the mirror, "You know I do not like men. They are only an irritant."

"Well, you may not like him, but fact is you have to work with him, and you have to do your part in both leading and following him. Besides," Cecilia's mouth pursed into a scowl as she wished she did not have to deliver the next words, "You two meet in an hour."

"An hour?!" Amara nearly screeched, her hands fisted in her lap.

"Calm, child. There is nothing you nor I can do. It is what it is, and you will carry yourself with grace through it," Cecilia grabbed the ribbon of of the desk, her stealthy fingers tying it around the finished braid.

Jacob scowled as he awoke to the annoying flutter of beats against his face again. About a year ago, it became quite common for him to awaken to such a sensation. Rubbing at his face, he yawned, the female in bed next to him making a muffled sound as she curled up against him. Frowning, her grabbed her arms and slid away from her.

"You need to leave by noon, woman," he opened the door, stepping out naked into the field that surrounded his cottage in Sweden.

Glancing back at the blond in his bed, he made his way to the lake, deciding to only return for food once she had disappeared back to her village. He knew she didn't care him leaving. Every woman he took to bed had not a single regret. Instead, the went back to their village and the rumors flew of the God in the mountains.

Revan fumed as he rushed across his room to get ready, his face a perfect look of frustration.
"That face is rather unbecoming on you." Kyoshi smirked as Revan tossed a boot at him.
"Don't say another word, the next thing that I throw may not be so dull." Kyoshi followed after Revan as he nearly stormed out of his room.
"Why didn't you tell me about this from the beginning?" Kyoshi Shrugged.

"It didn't seem so important. With the way your rushing you might do well to take a sedative." Revan huffed and turned on his instructor.
"Why can't I have you as my partner?" Kyoshi had anticipated the question and he answered as straight forward as he could.
"You know why, it can't be two men because a man can't woo or infiltrate as well as a woman, and women aren't respected enough in most societies for negotiations or interrogate." Revan's eyes narrowed.
"Oh really, I know women who can haggle the price of anything down to almost nothing, who can interrogate and negotiate better than most men, and I also know that there are men who most definitely can woo and infiltrate just as well as any woman." Revan being only an inch shorter than Kyoshi was able to look the man in the eyes and use the full force of his glare.

"I don't want a partner but if it's that necessary then fine, and I will handle it just fine so don't try and monitor me." Revan stormed off and into the dinning hall to grab a bite to eat before going to meet his new partner.

{{AHAHAHA. I LOVED the piercing eyes part. it was SO like my character}}

Adonis let out a screech of warning, his head tilting as his eyes narrowed in on the man. Quietly, Amara stroked her deft fingers through the feathers, weaving a soothing path of circles like the waves of the very oceans her God created. A nurturing wushing sound left her pursed lips as her pupils dilated on the boy. She could see his molecules bouncing in compacted motions, and smelt the overlapping sense of calm. So, he was controlling himself? She wanted to know his thoughts, but decided her best route would be to allow him to reveal it as he wished. If she entered his mind in such a way, and read the chemical ballances, she would understand all of his emotions, revealing too much. Her fear was not of overstepping boundaries, but instead of becoming attached. She had no intentions of creating emotions with this man and his shaggy hair.

Casting a sidways glance at Cecilia, she licked her lips in silence, her hazel eyes then piercin g thruogh the air as it burned a path back to the man's eyes, "So you are my partner then?"

By rising from the table slowly she created a cautious equality, her right eyes watching his molecules to sense the purr of appreciation. Her head tilted up slightly, a wisp of silver hair slithering out of her braid and licking at her face, her hazel eyes narrowing.

"I do not work well with men," her words were closely followed by a slap to her hip from Cecilia, which Amara chose to ignore, her face a stern mask of surveillance. She could choose to be a facade nice person to him, or tell him upfront, and judging by his smell he had the same feelings toward her. Admitting the problem is the first step to resolving it.

Across the world, Jacob had finished bathing in the river, and now lay in the field under the skin, the heat licking away the water from his golden skin. His eyes fluttered closed, the sun causing his eyelashes to beat against his skin like the very beating that woke him each morning. With his eyes closed, he slowed his breathing, attempting to tap into Amara more thoroughly as his daily chore. She had hidden well from him this time, but it was never well enough. His heartbeat raced, his stomach knotting with irritation as his blood spiked in anger, the pressure of something on his shoulder. Wrinkling his eyebrows, he frowned ever- so- slightly. Sometimes she could sense him tapping in, and he could feel their emotions change together, but she seemed to be caught up in something else. The wisp of her braid tickled at his back, nipping at the landscape of muscles. Lately her hair had been in the same style each day, and at night when she took it out he nearly fell at sensation of release. And each night, he would hunt down a woman to contain the flustered emotions. Which country should he get the woman from tonight? Perhaps he'd stay here a while longer...the women here are rather wild in bed.

Amara hesitated, her slender fingers rubbing together before leaving her lap to wrap into his, "I accept your pact, and I will be as honest as I can within my knowledge abilities. I normally do not lie, so there is no worry there."

Cecilia cleared her throat in the background, "If I may interrupt the bonding for a moment?"

She stood from her spot at the end of the table across from them, making her way over as she pulled a rolled parchment out of her cloak, and splayed it across the table, "Kyoshi, your trainer, and i will be making a joint effort in training the two of you simultaneously. Before then, you both have temporarily been revoked of your assassin ranks, because we cannot have the two of you attempting a target if you have not learned each others methods first. When we believe you two are bonded enough in terms of work we will return your status. We, Kyoshi and I, will be ensuring you two learn in intimate detail of each others strengths and weakness, and begin to naturally make up for them on the battlefield."

Amara's nostrils flaired with stench of Cecilia's nervousness, and her own anger, "You cannot revoke my status, nor his. We are both high standing and trained assassins and are well capable of taking down our targets swiftly and stealthily."

Cecilia looked at both of them with grim eyes, "This is not a punishment, we are simply ensuring the safety of our creed, even if it means hard decisions are to be made."

Amara glanced at Revan, her lips pursed, "I will not stand for this."

Jacob ran his fingers through his hair as anger pulsed through his veins, his teeth gritting in pure hatred, his mind racing as he tried to dig deeper into what was causing Amara's anger. If he could decode her emotions, it could lead to her whereabouts, and if he trained hard enough, mythology revealed he could see through her eyes when her defense was down. Shoving off the ground, he pulled out of her mind, the anger too overwhelming as he stormed into his cabin and yanked on his clothes. When he got bombarded with her emotions like that, it made him despise women all the more. Could none control their emotions? Not even a woman created by Gods?

Amara frowned as the wisps of emotion pulled her outside. Her dilated pupils scanned the grounds, Adonis flying higher and scanning the grounds. She sensed the spike in his adrenaline when the falcon located Revan a ways off, and the bird began leading Amara. She raced through the trees and limbs, her body a blur left to whisper in the wind as she outran the speed of light, twigs and branches scratching at her. If her partner was injured the bureau would definitely murder her at a high price. At least, if they could figure out how to kill her that is. A smile pulled at her lips as she thought about Jacob in who knows where feeling the sting of branches and thorns stabbing past his skin, and him unable to do anything about it. Serves him right for stealing her of her sleep, knowing perfectly well what affect he had on her, and how well their bodies would linked. Just to make it worse for him, she ran closer to brush, the little bushes whipping against her legs.

After a few minutes she came into a small clearing, her legs ceasing in an abrupt stop as she quietly watched from the edge of the forest line. Her hair was in a mess, twigs randomly sticking out from it like angry thorns. Her chest rose and fell under the grip of her dress slightly quicker than normal, her adrenaline stinging her veins. Her hazel eyes narrowed as she looked into Revan, reading his molecular levels. The amount of energy surrounding him was astounding, an emotion of sweet release around him. She'd only seen the whir of energy in a few situations. The two most popular were the afterglow of sex, and a magical release. Seeing as there was a circle of charred grass enclosing him, and no one to be seen, and the blood flow through his lower body seemingly normal, she guessed it was the second one.

Adonis quietly perched on her shoulder, his wings closing in around him, his feathers slightly fizzled in anticipation of the man, and the uncomfortable heat surrounding him. The falcon scooted closer to her head, the warmth of his side tickling her cheek protectively.

Jacob's lips pulled into a scowl as he was attacked by a flurry of stings to his body, the wind getting knocked out of him as it became harder to breathe. Closing his eyes, his soul reached out to Amara's, intertwining and swirling like two clouds sinking deliciously into each other. A whir of emotions bombarded him as he tapped into her, the stings more real, the wind licking at his face. Then it all stopped. his eyebrows furrowed as he focused, a wet drop grazing down his cheek. Dew? Rain? Water of some sort, close to something that sting when you run through...the smell is outdoors..as the thoughts connected he bolted for his map, his hand flying over the sheet as he narrowed down all areas that had forests or national parks of some sort. A grin peeked across his face, "You have finally made an error, Amara."

{{I loved the adonis glaring from all the way over there. and the hesitant emotion :) }}

Amara's face was as bank as she could force it to be, tilted downwards and to the right slightly as an eyebrow perched up in curiosity. When he moved closer, her calf twitched instinctively, one of her hands resting on her thigh, her fingers brushing alone the cold murmur of her blade, begging for her to give it attention. She stayed in place, her eyes narrowing slightly at his approach, her eyes trying to gauge his reasoning. Her nostrils flared as she smelled his emotions, her eyelids fluttering as she read his intentions through his adrenaline levels. Deciding his intentions were well, she allowed her feet to move her closer. Her genetic coding told her to be cautious of this new concept, but her curiosity drove her further. Adonis pecked at her ear in warning, his wings flapping. If he were to ever get used to Revan, she had to make the first step. She stepped out of the moist forest into the sunlight of the opening, her pupils closing in defense against the sun. Men were not to be trusted easily...

Her plump lips pursed as her jaw clenched, looked at him carefully through her eyelashes. She did not expect him to attack, but she was no longer sure what his abilities would drive him to do. It seemed by the frantic emotions as he fled the room that he could not control when this occurred.

"You would think this would be an obvious thing to warn a new partner of, yet you did not. A partner needs to know if you randomly break down, incapable of controlling yourself in such a way. If this were to happen during a mission, we both surely would have died," her words scorned him, but her hazel eyes continued in a studious gaze.

My post -
{{sorry about that, I went and removed it... I was trying to define more what he can do but that led to too much, sorry.}}

He looked at her for a while then turned his face to the sky.
"Most everything I can do is because of the genetic modifications." Revan's wings tucked close to his body and he looked almost like a massive black bird.
Revan and Adonis both turned their heads as something in the fringe of the trees rustled. Kyoshi held up his hands and smirked at the mess of chaired ground.
"I see you've survived. You ready for training?"

Revan gave him a confused and irritated look.
"I just blew a massive crater in the ground and you act like that's normal." Kyoshi just shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.
"With you, it is. So who's up for a little mission?"

Amara's hazel eyes turned to Kyoshi as her feet began to move one in front of the other. Her gold sandals making barely a sound in the massive forest, she sniffed quietly, Kyoshi's scent of eagerness tickling at her nostrils like a teasing feather. She rubbed at it with irritation, angry with herself for not noticing Kyoshi coming from farther away. As an assassin she shouldn't allow distractions, but she could admit that the new information on Revan had left her quite vulnerable in her state of confusion and curiosity.

The walk back to the grounds was long and quiet, Amara casting glances at Revan each time she sensed him looking at her. She felt for sure he had been glancing at her, but she never turned her gaze quick enough to catch him in the act. Adonis, however, had not taken his eyes off of the two. She was careful, holding branches certain ways as to protect her falcon from the thorny whips.

Entering the grounds, her eyes flew to Kyoshi in expectation, Adonis's jittery molecules driving her crazy with anticipation. Now she was glad she had brought her blade. A twist gnawed at her stomach as her hazel gaze dropped to his tucked in black wings, wondering how to make up for his advantage with her own. Would she even have to fight him?

"We'll start with a simple hand to hand combat fight, no weapons," he looked between the two, "and no killing each other."

Cecilia came up behind him, "Learn each others techniques, focus on the movements of your partner," she paused, "their breathing, their emotions and very existence. Anything and everything; focus on it "