Torrence broke free of the shadows and absorbed the ones coming at her. It was a suprise when it happened but thats what had happened. She was about to come up to Caedis when she heard something. The sound of a beating drum resounded in the distance. Four steady beats, a pause, and then again. It repeated constantly, now just becoming aware to torrence's ears as though it had been driving into her mind this whole time. No one else seemed aware of it, meaning it was likely a sound from the shadow plain-although Caedis even seemed too preoccupied to notice... or maybe he was just too preoccupied to care. She tried to get it to leave her mind but the noise kept resounding. The beating of the drum started to driving her crazy. She couldnt see anything around her as she covered her ears. Everything just started to get louder. What was this sound that made her cover her ears and try to make it go away? She fell to her knees trying to get the sound out of her head. She was standing not even two feet from Caedis himself but he was too preoccupied with the battle he was in.

It came from the east, the eternal pounding of a single drum. Caedis paid Torrence no heed as he focused on fighting the others.

With Chris' sudden appearance everything seemed to change. As soon as Caedis sent an attack at him, it was no longer her just fighting him, she was fighting for Chris. It was like his reaction to what had happened the previous night was no longer in her mind, like she didn't remember it anymore. Something told her that she wouldn't be able to both block his attack and send one at him, not this time. She wasn't going to risk Chris getting hurt.

The area around Eleanor's arms distorted and the clawed arms went back to normal as she stood up. The tattoos on her back started glowing as an immense pain shot through her. "Stop. Hurting. My. FRIENDS!" She was all she was able to yell before her body doubled over and a barrage of tentacles errupted from her body. The shot out in every direction, save for leaving a gap where Chris was. The shot out long and far, hitting buildings all around her, sending some to the ground.

After a few moments the tentacles retracted back into her and Eleanor fell to her knees, her hands on the ground. Her breathing was heavy, her tattoos were gone at this point. She felt winded after that and she wasn't even sure what had happened.

((jen says you have tape worm lol
You just got raped by your own body))

Torrence finally just succumbed to the drums. It was beating in her head like her own heart beat and she decided to follow it. The sounds resonated on the walls as she got off her knees followed them east. They got louder and louder as she followed the sounds to where they had originated. She didnt know why she was following them. It couldve been a trap or anything but she still wanted to see why they seemed to call to her. Her walk was like a trance as her steps felt like they were dance steps. Light and graceful. She just followed them until she finally reached the destination she sought after.

((i don't know what to post right now i am completely at a lose for actions and words man where is Jen when you need her?))

((O.o Who has tape worm?))

((Eleanor lol))

((... you know... it's really, really tempting to just... hmm... but... oh that would be so mean x.x but Caedis would... and... aahhh, inner conflict))

Caedis took half a step back, startled by the sudden transformation Eleanor launched. One tentacle pierced his shoulder before suddenly his skin crawled with darkness. Several more tentacles came his way but passed right through him. Caedis had crossed himself over to the shadow plain for the moment, and when Eleanor was finished he crossed back with nothing more than an injured shoulder. He gave the girl a smirk, "I commend your attempt, you are trying so very hard" he commented calmly, "but it is time you realized that you all have met your match. I will not be brought down by any of your foolish weapons."

((He has a major weakness, which will be found soon... I swear I'm not god-moding!))

((NOT TAPE WORM!!! Sillies XP Tis tentacle rape XD

...And no clue XP))

((Lol we are having an extremely good laugh))

((I don't know if that's a good thing or not :gonk: ))

((^_^ Well my brain is dying. Goodnight!))

((Night Misite ^^))

((Night misite..... NO WAIT YOU STILL HAVE TO PM ME.... T_T))

((o.O Is there plotting going on?))

((Ishes lol))

Eleanor pulled her head up and looked up at Caedis and tried to listen to what he said. Everything was spinning but she forced herself to stand anyway. "One must fight for those they care about even if it is useless," she said, her breaths coming in gasps. She took a few staggered steps to put herself in between Chris and Caedis and as fell back to her knees her arm tranformed into a shield.

Looking back Eleanor gave Chris a weak smile. "Go, get her out of here, I'll try to hold him off for you," she said, his reaction now back in her mind. She didn't care if he was upset about it, she was going to stay by his side. A tear slid down her cheek as she looked back at Caedis. Using her shield to force herself up, Eleanor stood though it was a shaky stance. "Humans may be weak and rely on weapons, but we fight for each other until the end. No matter what happens to me I will do the same." Her stance was unbalanced to say in the least, the only thing she had to use against Caedis was her shield, she didn't know how to get the weapons to work when she acutally knew what was going on.

Chris looked at Eleanor and growled a little at what she had said. The man had tried to hurt him. Not only had he tried to hurt him but he had tried to hurt Eleanor and cause Eleanor to stab her friend. He wasnt going to stand for this. Especially because Eleanor seemed hurt. He walked up to the girl whose sheild seem to be weighing her down as she tried to keep a good stance. Unfortunately it was shaky.

"Your hurt. You go. Take Lyna and get out of here. Ill take care of this man." Chris was irritated and it showed in his voice as he stood in front of Eleanor. He would protect her like the wolf he was. He always protected them when they were in pain. Besides, this man seemed like he would be a good fight.

Before Eleanor could say anything he lunged towards Caedis, shifting into his wolf form in the middle of it, claws drawn. He was going to tear this man apart if it was the last thing he did. It sounded good and it would get some of his tension from what he had done with Eleanor the night before out. Well at least the tension that came afterwards making him think he was raped. It sounded better in his head than it did out of it.

Eleanor's eyes widened at Chris' sudden change in persona. She knew he wasn't happy about any of this but at least it made her think that he wasn't as upset as he let on earlier. At least for now, she would find out later. Rather than sticking around and seeing if this change was permanent or not. She backed up quickly as she watched Chris lunge at Caedis.

Her arm transformed back as she scooped Lyna up as best as she could as she stummbled back towards the forest. She kept watching the fight though. She was scared for Chris, if anything happened to him she didn't know what she was going to do.

Lyna was light, but after whatever she had done, the girl felt so much heavier. She had made it to the edge of the forest before she fell onto her bottom, tired. She pulled the girl closer to her to at least keep her safe but her breathing was heavy again. She didn't have the strength to walk on her own let alone carry someone with her.

((and now we wait lol))

((Haha yup XP))

Lyna sat up and held her stomach, it was hurtting and felt like well someone had gutted her. She looked down where her hand was at and saw that her hand was covered in blood. She quickly pulled her jacket off and ripped the rest of her shirt off to get a clearer look at it. She used what remained of her shirt to clean the blood away, there was nothing there, no wound, nothing, she was completely healed and nothing was left behind. She looked behind her at Eleanor, she seemed......tired, she looked at her kind of funny before she spoke to her. "Did he fix Torrence? Is her mind back?" she asked hopefully, she had died just like he wantted and she hopped that he kept his end of the deal even though she knew that was not what was most likely going to happen.

Torrence had followed the drum beats. The beating drums had taken her this way and that as if it was set on the most winding course ever. How could that be you ask? Well she wasnt exactly able to walk through walls you see so she had to go around all these buildings until she finally figured out that she was going in circles around the same building. Why was that? Was there another passage way that led to the source of the beating drums that were ever so loud? Loud enough for her not to hear her own thoughts. Finally she spotted it. It was the employees entrance area. She had passed it so many times not thinking that that would be the place where the drums were but it was.

As Torrence walked down the dead end she spotted something. Something floating in a bed of shadows that seemed to be the source of the beating drums. She enveloped her own hands in shadows in order to retrieve what she could only see the outline of. When she grabbed hold of the object, she was amazed at what she had found. It was a book. A book that she thought could be useful to her. She wasnt going to open or read it. That might have been dangerous and she had heard enough stories like hocus pocus where a light would be shot out of it to reveal her location. Or of Harry Potter where the books screamed at the fact that they were open. Screamed in pain. No she wasnt going to open the book just yet. Not until she knew that it might be safe.

Now that the drum beats were gone she was able to think a little clearer. She started to make her way back to her friends, moving the book from one hand to the next. It was so light as it moved. It made her have quite a nagging erge to read it. It was pulling her towards it but she just kept walking. Finally when she was around the area, she couldnt resist the temptation to open it and start reading. Leaning up against the wall, she took the book in her left hand and opened it to the first page.

((Psssssssst, I should get blacklisted for leaving and plotting with Daeman35. :P))

The book was small, light and well used. The cover had been worn down over the years and it's pages were thinned. It was not ancient, but most certainly a few years old. The first number of pages were written in a strange language although the end of each entry seemed to finish with the same Symbol. Further into the book, there was suddenly an entry in English however, they seemed to progress in English as well.
"To Book,
I learn language new. Speak better than write. Practice need. He no read. Speak only. I secret now he no know."

"Dear book,
Kayedis is worse getting. All want many things he can no do. Want safe from him, want him be great hero. I think he be sad if emotion no lost. He once great man. Now he only fear giving. Gift change him."

"Dear novel,
Spell Caedis, not Kayedis. He is lost. I can not find him. Someone showed how to get to shadow earth and now he is not come back for three days. If he gone any more, they call him dead. I want brother back. Back home, back to when he care about me."

"Dear Diary,
Caedis used to be just an annoying big brother but now he is a monster. A monster with all our people backing him up. Even mother and father do no see what he has become but I do. Our emotions should be controlled, but never lost like his! Not if it turns us to monsters. His time in the shadow plain has made him even more terrifying, I do not think anyone can stop him now."

"Dear Diary,
He is going to kill all humans. The leaders are even allowing it! The only hope for these people is if someone else can act faster to eliminate their threat to us. I must stop these experiments before my brother gets the chance."

"Dear Diary,
Shadows... he controls Shadows. They aren't darkness and they aren't light, they're a combination of the two. Without a source of pure light, or a source of pure darkness, would Caedis be able to have his shadows? Is that even possible to do?"

"Dear Diary,
Melik.


Love, Zeta"

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Caedis sent tendrils of shadow, rising from the ground to seize Chris and pull him to the earth. He eyed the transformed wolf, "You are a mutt, half wolf half human and all around... only half bad" he smirked a little, "I will give you a chance. Join me in destroying this race, or die with them." He stood tall, his foreboding gaze waiting for Chris' answer as he prepared to either release the creature or begin to crush him in shadows.