Akieen Cloud

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="DarkRed"][SIZE="4"]200 A.D.[/SIZE] It was found many centuries ago, before technology had really found its way into our everyday lives. Back when we were the sacrifices on the altar from which it sat upon. The Dark Curse was an entity that consumed and lived off of fear, hate, and turmoil. It would turn villages against one another that had always been friends and make them go to war just for the tortured souls that stayed behind. It wasn?t until half a century later that people found that it had been the beast that had pitted them against one another and began to look for a way to seal the beast, finding documents left behind by other civilizations they realized that the best way to seal the monster was to starve it. No longer did neighboring villages quarrel, no longer did spouses go to sleep angry, and no longer did sibling squabble. Soon they realized that the curse was growing weaker, the last part of the found inscription was chipped away so they did the only thing that they could think of, they held a celebration in congratulations to a new birth in the village. The joy was over whelming for the abomination and it retreated back into slumber waiting for another chance to be discovered and another chance to feed on hatred and grow stronger, and then it would get its revenge on the human race for throwing away its chance for world domination.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"][SIZE="4"]2007[/SIZE] Xero shrugged into her jacket and pushed her feet into her boots, it was October and her favorite time of the year; it was cold and windy but the crisp mornings were always her favorite. She warmed up a cup of hot chocolate and opened her balcony window; she was on the 12th floor and could see as far into the mountains as her eyes let her. The air was clear and the sweet smell of the fall setting in around her made her smile. Sipping her cocoa she groaned as her room bell rang. ?What is it?? ?The Sweepers are being called in for a meeting.? She sighed and shrugged out of her robe on the way back to her bed. ?Fine, fine, I?ll be there momentarily.? The fading footsteps told her the ?bell boy? got it. She got dressed quickly and walked to her door, grabbing her uniform trench coat she threw it on over her uniform and slipped her key card through the slot of her door. ?Have a good day agent Nova.? She gave a fake smile at the mechanic voice and shook her head. ?Whatever.? Her heels clicked noisily down the hall, and the swish of her long hair against the leather coat matched its rhythm steadily. Continuing down the hall she stopped at a bright silver door, slipping her key card through the mechanic voice chirped yet again. ?Welcome agent Nova.? She rolled her eyes and entered the empty room as the door slid open; she was the first one there; but soon not the only one. Sitting in her respective seat at the front of the long table she opened the file and began to read as she waited for the others, the whole time her frown getting deeper and deeper with what she was reading. Sign ups: Name: Xero Ichi Age: Appears 18 due to the chemical, but is 27. Gender: Female Personality: Friendly and talkative she is somewhat of an enigma, she is sarcastic and dependable she is a friend to all of her comrades and makes it her duty to protect them with her life. In battle she is harsh and unforgiving, she fights like a beast and give no mercy to her enemies. Height: 5 ft, 7 in Heritage: Japanese/ American Blood type: AB Weight: 141lbs Appearance: Will put in later Bio: She was an orphan at the age of 3 and was taken in by one of the women in the agency. At the age of 5 she began to train in the agencies facilities and showed signs of being a prodigy. Trained in hand to hand combat, every form that the agency could throw at her, she was then trained in weapons and artillery. She could use any gun and weapon given to her, and could throw a full grown man across the dojo by the time she was 8. When she turned 10 they introduced her to a chemical drug that they gave to all of their specialist known as Sweepers. It increased speed, stamina, strength, every sense a person has; sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. Every fiber of her being was heightened to a new level. Soon they found that along with other like her the drug had another effect on her. She was able to manipulate fire. She was indeed a prodigy like the others before her but she soon became the best, and as the ones before her died off in the missions as they became harder and more severe she prevailed and soon became head of he Sweeper program. She recruited other like her, the best; all with different personalities and all with something to give to her and the agency. Fear: She is Closter phobic. [/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Name- Xera McHassel Age- 22 Sex- Female weapons- She carries a shotgun on her back full of ammo and a couple of belt around her waist that have more ammo for the gun as well. She also carries two scys on her theigs for close combat. Bio- Xera lived in NC for all of her life near the beach, it was quite and nothing seemed to ever happen where she was. She was going to college the day she noticed something wrong with one of her proffesors; he was acting sluggish and tired, unlike him completely. Hearing stories of what was happening across the country she watched him carefully while the other kids made fun of him. She had bent down to her boot to pull out her pocket knife and keep it in her lap when the girl next to her screamed. Looking up she saw that the professor had leaped across the room and was advanceing on one of her best friends, jumping up she ran across the room, her pocket knife in her hand tightly. As the professor grabed Alex she put on a burst of speed and tackled the professor to the ground and slit his throat. Knowing that wouldn't keep him down of long she got the kids out of the room an locked it, it was shortly after that news of the schools bombing to keep the infection down came over the news. Not waiting she went into town grabbed what she could carry and got out of town. Only stopping when she needed supplies. personality- She's sarcastic and hyper at all times, even in the heat of battle. Freindly and kind she has a bite to her as she can also be harsh and crule. Hates things that don't seem fair and will step in even if she has no right to. Pushy at times she means well and has everyone's best intersest in mind. Misc.- She was in hand to hand combat training since she was 3 and in kick boxing since she was 5 and her finace' that she was seperated from of 5 years was teaching her Ju Jit Su. *Hope this is okay, lemme know if I should change anything. [/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR=navy]Name: Xero [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Age: 21[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Gender: Female[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Physical Description: She's tall and slightly muscular, she has bright brown eyes and very long pink hair that she keeps pulled back in a tight braid that reaches down to her butt. She wears a black sports bra and a pair of white hip huggers. She wears thick black boots and long black gloves that have the finger and knuckle part of them cut out, the gloves reach her upper arms. She has a silver chain around her neck with a small crystal rose charm hanging off of it. She also wheres a pair of expensive sunglasses on top of her head that she lifted and a I-pod nano in her pocket that she also lifted; the headphones an almost constant in her ears as she listens to rock. [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy][URL="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/DuckWhore/anime/PinkHairedGirl.jpg"]Xero[/URL][/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Personality: She is fun loving and out spoken, friendly and talkative but underneath all that she is dangerous and very quick to get a rouse out of if the right things are said. Protective of her friends and those she loves she will give her life for them with out a second thought.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Occupation: She is the leader of a street gang in new york, all the kids in it are younger then her and the older ones go with her on a day to day basis lifting food and things they can sell for food and money for medical supplies to keep the younger ones alive.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Power: She can control water to a small degree not being really polished in what she's doing, so far the only things she has found useful about the power is that she can use a small drop of water to lift a persons wallet with out them realizing it, or to short out a security system. [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]*Hope this is okay, sorry if it seems sloppy, I'm in a splint :animeswea[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Duo held his collar firmly and looked him dead in the eyes and smiled suddenly giving a quick kiss on the cheek. "Your sweet. Why didn't you just tell me? Your not such a bad guy your self." She smiled as he looked confused. "In Duo tounge that means I like you too." She saw him smile and laughed, he seemed so nervous, the again she could be intimadateing at times. She tugged on his shirt sleeve as she walked by him and smiled as he followed her. "Come on, let's go find everyone else." Sorry they're so short, I'm cleaning house in between posts. ^^;;[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Duo looked over his shoulder as he threw the gun and exsplosives down the shoot, she stood back slightly and tapped him. Blinking she backed up as he slmost bumped into her. "Sorry, didn't notice I was that close, you said you wanted to tell me something? Another thing, I know I said it was a good idea to do that, but I just get this strange feeling we'll regret it later...anyway, what did you wanna tell me?" She was slightly shorter then him and had to look up at him, she gave him a smile and leaned on the wall waiting for a reply. "It's nothing really, I kinda forgot anyway." "Yeah right, come on tell me, you've seen for your self I won't bite, tell me please." She looked up at him and gave him her best puppy dog look and blinked prettily. "Please?"[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Duo looked at herself in the small mirror and sighed, she was now in a pair of black cago pants and a grey tack top that showed her stomach slightly. She sighed again and let her hair out and began to brush it when shaun knocked on the door. "Come on in Shaun, I'm decent." He opened the door and she looked up through a small piece of her hair and looked back down. "I know I look terrible with my hair down, it's ridiculus." She blew the hair out of her face and turned to look at him. "But I have to redo it otherwise it's gonna be a mess to deal with." She flipped it back and looked up and him and realized he was stareing. "Shaun, your stareing, I know I look bad but you don't have to make me feel worse." He shook his head and looked at her. "You look like cousin It." She blinked and then laughed out loud, a clear and true laugh, something that alot of the people in school had never heard. "That's funny. I never thought of that." She brushed her hair back and began to braid it, when she was done she tied it off and stood up looking back at him. He was stareing again. "What?" "Nothing." She blushed and looked down at her feet, then at the door. "Well, I think we should probably go, you know go look for the others." She looked up at him waiting for an answer.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Duo looked around as they walked through the corridors of the now trashed ship. "You know, you think with the budget this thing had that they would make it more durable." She looked back and Shaun and raised an eye brow as she saw his cheeks flushed. "What?" He blinked and looked up at her and cleared his throat. "Your jeans." She blinked and looked down at her jeans and realized that one of the legs was practicly gone, ripped off up to her upper theigh. "Well shit." She looked at her self in a piece of metal that was laying across the hallway and sighed, she grabed the sword and stabbed it into the other leg of her jeans and started to tear in even with the other on. "There, that's better, I'll find something somewhere soon." She looked back and winked at Shaun then started to move forward when she heard creaking behind her and looked back. "Hey Shaun, watch it!" She ran back and tackled him to the floor as a piece of the ceiling fell where he had once been standing. "Y-You okay?" He nodded and looked around. She moved her leg and blinked. "Shit." "What?" "I'm stuck." She started to wiggle and try to get loose when she felt Shaun's hand on her shoulder. "Don't do that." "Am I hurting you?" "Um...yeah a little." "Baby, deal with it, I'm trying to get loose and get off of you." "Please don't do that." She sighed and placed her forehead on his shoulder. "Are you kidding me?" "Just wait, some one might come and help us." "Yeah and you know what they are going to say? That this looks so wrong." "Trust me I get that." She looked up at him and moved forward till her nose was touching his, her violet eyes gleaming. "I do NOT want to get caught like this, you understand?" "I do, but I think we should wait..." "Shaun, are you saying this because this is hurting you, or because you just want me to stay like this?" He binked as he looked at her. "Forget it." She looked away, her cheeks flushing now. "Look, I'm gonna moved my knee between your legs and get some leverage, okay?" "Uh, yeah." She moved and soon had them out from under the debirs. She brushed herslef off and looked over at him. "Let's just get going." He nodded and followed beside her as they walked through the halls.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Okay, I agree with some things here, but I'm sideing most with Crusader here, also being from WV myself I know that not all "small towns" Are like that, also living in North carolina I know that not all small towns in the south are like that either,some people grow up with parents who were raised the old way and are just ignorant, it's not the town and certainly not the state or county's fault by any means. I grew up in Richlands NC one of the smallest towns i can think of, we were a dot on the map and I can tell you this much, something like that was never tolerated from there, the other thing that I was alittle peeved about was WV is not from the south, south ends at Virginia, WV is considered North, and the only reason that got on my nerves is because of the fact that I may be from WV but I was raised in NC so I have more pride for that then anything. I just wanted to say that I hadn't heard of this so it kinda creeped me out considering that my husband and I know a Megan Williams who is 20 and is black. But I can't see why she would be in WV. So if anyone can please gimma a discription on her that would be helpful cause now we're kina worried about her.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Akemi streched as the dawn blazed through her screen and stood up doing her regular morning streches. She stood up and looked over her shoulder as Haru burst in. "Is it tru-Sorry!" He spun seeing she was still in her sleeping attire, she changed quickly, shaking her head, this wasn't the first time he had done that. Putting her hand on his shoulder he turned and looked at her, his cheeks slightly flushed. "You should learn Haru." "Is it true? Your getting reassighened?" "I asked to be, Scuro will be in charge of you now." "But your all we need." "Perhaps, but the 4th squad needs a captian, and I am the only one qualified for it. I'm sorry Haru, but you'll be fine." She reached forward and borught him to her in a tight hug and sighed. "You can still see me whenever you want you got that?" He nodded and she walked away from him wipeing her eyes as she walked to the 4th squads headquarters.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Akemi sighed and looked at the others. "Right, I'm heading home." She walked back and through the now open portal once through she looked around expecting to see the 4rth squad there ready for injured but remembered that there was no captian for that squad anymore. She sighed and began walking over thoughts running through her head about what to do, as she opened the doors she saw the place was a mess and everyone was argueing. "This place is chaos...they need a captian bad...I have to talk to someone." As she exited she ran into one of her squad. "Scuro, how are you?" "Hmph." She nodded. "That's good to hear, how is the family." "Hmph." "Interesting. I was looking for you Priest. I need to talk to you." His eyes narrowed as he looked at her. "Oh yes, I'm going to take advantage of you." She slipped up beside him and grabed his arm and laughed as he dissappered and reappered beside her. "Look come to my quarters in an hour I have to go talk to the old man." [CENTER]One hour later...[/CENTER] She opened the slide before he even knocked. "Glad you came. I have news for you." She threw her captian patch at him and smiled as he stared at it blinking. "We all know you should have been the captian. I'm taking over the 4th squad, they need some one bad, take care of Haru for me." He looked at the patch, then at her and then back again. "Thank you." He turned and walked out with out another word. "Your welcome." She blew out her lamp and soon fell asleep.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Akemi looked Haru over carefully and exhaled the breath she was holding. Haru was special to her, and he knew it. She had never known a family and he was as close as she had ever gotten and didn't feel like loseing him. "Haru, don't get cocky. He's no push over, just like I said." He nodded as the anacair looked at her and smiled wickedly. "You have some power woman." "And if I do?" "Show it to me. Let me see your power." She smiled and brought Moriko off her shoulder and held it straight. "You guys take a break, I'll fight him for a while." Haru blinked as she dissappered, he had seen her fight once and that was against him, and she had held back. They reappered a few yards away, the anacairs energy against her zanpaktou. She was a captian for a reason and had no problem showing it as her blade split into the deadly whip he'd seen from her practice forms. She spun and brought it down across the front and smiled as she felt it drag. As they stopped for another moment the others saw a patch of his shirt was missing. "Interesting. Your unique, I like that." "Yeah? I like that about me too." She chanaled her energy into her sword and smiled as it split with out hesitation, the small blades flew through the air her will and energy controlling them with no problem. They flew around and then flew at her enemy and she gasped as the blades bounce off of each other and her shoulder ripped open. "Akemi!" "Haru, stay back!" She called the pieces back and formed her blade agian. "Moriko, I do not wish to call you out so soon to show the enemy your true power...what should I do?" "Helpless again are you girl? You should learn to pick your battles better." What do I do?" "You should pull back for the time being, your hurt and even though it does not look it your bleeding way more then you think." She looked down to see her right side covered in blood. Nodding she walked back to the others and tapped Zan's hand. "Tag." She sat beside Haru so he could try to wrap the wound on her shoulder.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Akemi drew Moriko and fell back beside Haru. "Stay close, don't lose sight of me." He nodded once and drew his own sword as well. There was a reason that they were in the same squad, they were both pryos. She closed her eyes and focused her spirit energy. "Call out, Moriko!" Her zanpaktuo grew in length and soon rested on her shoulder as she looked at their enemy. "You know, I kinda think that we should have thought this through alittle? I mean we should probably wait till some back up gets here." Zan looked back at her and shook his head. "We came here for a reason!" "Yeah I get that damnit! I just have this feeling we're gonna get our asses handed to us!" "Quit thinking about that and pay attention!" "Oh fuck...this is not going to go well." Haru looked at her as he released his own zanpaktuo. "What makes you think that Captian?" "Aizen sent him out here alone for a reason correct? What if this guy is no pushover? Anyone ever think of that?" Haru looked at the young man infront of them. "Maybe your imagineing it?" "Haru; when have I ever been wrong about people?" "Well hardly ever, I was an exception." "And that's why your my lutentant. Zan is rushing into this...I have a bad feeling..." "Relax captian. Let's see how this plays out." "Oh, and let another shinigami die? Fuck that Haru!" He blinked and smiled. "Always looking out for other huh?" "Haru, not now. I don't like this." He looked at her and saw her zanpaktuo slowly seperateing into the whip form and knew she was serious.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Akemi flipped her hair back and smiled as she walkled up to Zan. "Hello Captian. Good to see you ready to go." "Akemi, you think you could be less sarcastic and more serious?" "No not really. What about you? You think you can be less serious and more sarcastic?" "Not in me, sorry." She smiled more and shook her head. "Not shocked. So what are we waiting on?" "You weren't briefed by Urahara?" "Didn't really feel like listening to him." "Figures." She laughed and looked around. "Kursaki not here yet?" "You at least heard that no doubt." "Heard what? I just thought that if all of his best capitans are going some where he would want to see them off. Right?" "Well, you have a point. But no he's going with." "Interesting, and what about Aizen? What measures are they taking about him and Ichimaru?" "I'm not sure. I think Matsumoto and her department are staying behind to deal with it." "I heard Zaraki is as well. Him and that little brat that always goes with him." "I think Rukia's brother is as well." "Well as long as we have people here that's all that matters. For all we know that stupid gem of Urahara's has already matured." "We don't know that for sure." "How's the report coming on Tousen?" "Nothing much. Hardly anything really. We have his Shikai and Bankai but nothing extremely helpful." "And Gin?" "Same as always, the only one who knew really anything about him was Matsumoto and she's told all she knows." "Damnit, so, we're in a rock and hard place?" "Basicly." "Any word on their whereabouts?" "None." She leaned on the wall of a near by building and nibbled her bottom lip. "Well, at least we have some defense here and no one that I know or have ever heard of can beat the old man." "I'd becareful what you call him." "He knows I mean it in the best way." "I'm sure." She laughed and looked down, her eyes closed waiting for whoever else was supposed to show up, includeing her lutenant, Haru.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"] Species: Shinigami Name: Akemi Rank: 9th Division Capitan Appearence: [URL="http://nwn.ufrealms.net/downloads/portraits/keiichi/AnimeGirl-05_lg.jpg"]Akemi[/URL] Personality: Friendly and hyper she is talkative and usually to some annoying but she is known and somewhat loved throughout soul society. She likes to have fun and joke around but when things get serious you can count on her to be straight faced and ready to get down to it. Alliance: soul society Bio: Born into one of the lowest levels of any of the towns in Soul Society she was found by one of the old capitans Kenpachi, he saw her potential strength and took her in and trained her and sent her to the school there. She then became a lutentiant and then soon after a capitan. She was a lower level shinigami when everything went down with Aizen and vowed that she would get stronger and help them bring him in. She looks up to Ichigo and wants to become stronger then him. Zanpakuto: Name- Moriko Appearence- Sealed form: a usual Zanpakuto black sheath and semi long blade. Shikai: The blade grows longer then her body and becomes extremely light with arvings of wolfs all along the blade. When she slashes sharply down it disconnects into pieces and becomes a whip(Similar to Zambimaru) The blade pieces connected by a long, deadly wire and when she transfers her spirit energy into it, it splits and the blades become controllable by themselves. Bankai: A giant black wolf with red eyes and silver tribal marks all over her body and 5 tails. Command words- Call, Rally, Detect. Abilities- The blade can detach from it’s single form and attach the small pieces to the enemies body and buty themselves into the skin, then start to slowly suck the spirit energy out of the person until it starts to dive into their life force. She has some pyro control.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[COLOR=navy][I]How long has it been since I last heard of the wolfs of old? Since I last read from the old scriptures? It seems that with the Blue Moon coming into light as no longer a legend everyone is begining to forget what our ansectors did for us all those centuries ago. It seems that as soon as what seems like a new celebration or threat comes into our lives we forget out founders and leave their memory to squander. [/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Closeing the small book Mari stood up and walked out of her room and out into the main room of her clan den, shakeing her body she sneezed as a loud of dust came from her fur. The den was underground and cozy but the dust and dirt got to even the most patient old wolf in th clan. She rounded the corner and jumped gorlwing as another furry body colided with her's.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"Jake? What the hell are you doing?"[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]He shook himself off and picked up the dead phesant in his mouth.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"Sorry Mar. Ellie is about to have the pups and she really wanted phesant."[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]"Well, looks like you got your self a good hunt."[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]He nodded and walked away, his grey bottle brush tail swishing bak and forth happily. She sighed and walked out of the den and into the moon light. looking up she frowned and shook her head. It had been a full moon for 3 weeks straight now. She perked up her ears as she heard a twig snap and let her eyes look through the dark. She let out a warning howl as a bright flash of light lit through the night and caught her on the shoulder,the pain was so intense she passed out as she heard the heavy, human footsteps.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]She woke up a while later to look around at her demolished home, the den had been burt from the inside out, everyone was gone, either taken but the looks of it, or dead. She growled and stood up letting her anger fuel her need to move. She looked up as the moon hung low in the sky, how long had she been out? The moon was low and full, and blue. continueing to stare at it she blinked as a small flash went across it, a meteor perhaps but it tail on it seemed to light to be something innocent for something of that much destruction. She took a deep breath and headed for the city not to far from her lost home. Perhaps there she could get answers. As she neared the city a light, sweet scent came from within it, like that of lunar flowers but more mellow. She entered through an old tunnel that led through the sewers woundering if she was the only one who could smell this, or to have seen the flash of light.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Sign Ups:[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Human form[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Name: Mari[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Age: 23[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Sex: Female[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Apperance:[URL="http://photobucket.com/mediadetail/?media=http%3A%2F%2Fi169.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu216%2Fraven_arella%2FJewels.jpg&searchTerm=anime%20girl&pageOffset=8"]Click![/URL][/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Wolf form[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Apperance:[URL=http://www.ualberta.ca/~jzgurski/white.jpg]Click![/URL][/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Founder Clan: (Kiba, Tsume, Hige, Toboe, ect) Kiba[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]Bio: Born into the Kiba clan she was somewhat of an outsider, she always looked to the past for her answers and seemed to think that her founder kiba knew all the answers. She firmly belives that the danger of the flower maiden will happen again just this time it'll will be more perilous and more rewarding. [/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]She was raised by an older wolf who died sometime ago leaving many of his throughts to her. This old wolf is where she got alot of her ideas and where her belife in the danger of the blue moons comes from.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]After witnessing the destruction her clan and home she sets off for the city following a strange yet appealing scent and a pull on her heart that she can not identify.[/COLOR]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]This coming from someone who has been on both sides I think it is based partially on atraction to apperances but more so on personalitys and copatability. Think back in high school for those of us who are no longer in that time period. The jocks dated the cheerleaders and the band geeks dated the out casts freshman year, but as we all got older are looks changed and so did out personalitys, eventually you would see a football player date a bandgeek and a cheerleader date an outcast. Simply because things change, people change and so do their out looks on life. Your superficial when your young and in school cause without knowing it your following the criteria of the school life being with who matches your clique or whatever. Not saying all schools are the same, my school barely had cliques, we had cheerleaders date the trouble makers and hell I'm a band geek that married a football player. So I mean every one has a diffrent opinion and a diffrent out look. No one is wrong in what they've said, we all have our own looks on it and it's slightly pointless to keep argueing the point of who is right or what it right in dateing. As I always say, a person can never help who they love. It never picks the person you were always dreaming of, but as you get to know the person that was picked for you you realize that maybe it was for the best. I myself never saw myself settleing down and haveing kids and I'm going on my one year anniversay with my husband. Life's funny that way, unexpected and irrational. Nothing is ever when it seems to be anymore, things just aren't based on outwark apperance anymore. And for those of you who think it is all about sex, that's not true either, and no one can say I'm a virgin and dont know what I'm talking about. I'm married with one child and pregnant with my second at this very moment. To some it is alot, to others it's not. For me it's on a diffrent level. It's somethng that I don't really like to share. I've had one lover in my entire life and that's my husband and I want to keep it that way. It's not based on our looks or our sex life. My relationship is strictly kept alive on how well me and my husband get along and how well we go together. All I'm trying to say is to some looks are important, those of us who think that the guy wth a good looking girl or girl with a good looking guy is just lucky, it's of basis, maybe the other just isn't as shallow to look at strictly apperances like all of society thinks we should. Whew, that's my $2.00 on it.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Ezra strched as the other two looked at her, she met Drew's eyes and frowned. "What?" "I have a few questions to ask you woman." "The name is Ezra, and what kind of questions?" "What exactly is your blood line, you unlike any half breed I've ever met." "Not sure if I should say thank you or take ofense, I'll choose later, right now I have to go talk to Reily about a few things." "Your staying quite close to him, is there behind it?" She spun on him growling loudly. "There is no such think as that. I worl alone and I will always be alone, you got that Shade?" He frowned at that and let her walk away. "Stupid girl." Getting to the lobby she wrinkled her nose, a familiar smell lingering in the air. "Damn witch has already been here it smells like." She dropped down into the seat that was across from Reily and leaned back into it looking around. "I need to ask you something." "Shoot." "Do you think it wise to go around looking as you do, your on a million wanted posters and your keeping your apperance the same?" "What's it to you? Aren't you in the same boat as me?" "I'm coloring my hair tonight, I think you should follow suit and do same." "I don't think so, there are a couple of eneimies I would like to find me." "Your insane. You have the highest bounty on your head damnit." "And you have the second place, your well know for killing your own kind." "I am no vampire damnit, they are not my kin and I have no afillieation with them at all except to kill them and leave the ash behind." "You hate them then?" "With every fiber in my being." "You mind me asking why?" "I grew up with out a a mother, she was bitten and killed an hour before I was born resulting in her death, later when my father figured out what I am, he kicked me out of the family, I was 8. I've lived alone ever since then." "So why do you hate them exactly?" "Don't be a jackass, they took everything from me, I would have had a normal family if they hadn't attacked my mother, I would have been normal, not contradicted where ever I go. Being a human or a pure breed, you all get through the world alot easier then me. I'm shunned by the pure breeds for my human blood and shuned by your kind for my unpure blood. It's never good enough that I'm neither or. I'll never be avccpeted anywhere I go." She looked away from him for a moment and for a split second he thought he could see some emotion in her face, an insight to her but as soon as he thought he veiwed it it was gone and the shell was back in place. "Look all I wanted to do was warn you that going around looking like a man on a wanted poster isn't the best idea in the world; but do what you want, I don't care." She looked around and saw him frown. "What?" "The mark under your chin? Did you get injured in any fight?" She ran her finger across the old scar, he voice soft and empty. "No, this is from my past, my home town as a matter of fact...after I finished my training with Tsatsuke I went home to let everyone know I was a hunter, nowadays the most honored and well paying job in the world. I was banished from ever going back and just to let me know they were serious, they hung me from the tree in my dad's front yard, he had become the mayor in my absance and he led the punishment. Hanging me there for as long as they could with out me dying on them, I think I lost consiousness at least a dozen times, the rope bit into my neck and would have sliced my throat if a fellow hunter passing through hadn't saved me; he thought I was human...thought that maybe I had stolen something...I thanked him greatly and traveled with him till he died of old age, he not once sent me away during that entire time when he learned what I was, what I am... and I lived still barely looking like a 18 year old. I've been alone ever since. No use getting attached to someone that will die before you have the chance to turn old like them...there's no point." She was stareing into the morning fire, the flames refecting in her eyes and he swore that they were overbright, as if she were holding back tears. "Well that was a long time ago. It's not like that anymore." She rubbed the scar under her neck. "You'd be surprised how much it's the same as it was back then." She stood up and dropped a picture into the open book in his lap. A pictre of a young girl unmistakeably her and a young man. "I owe your great grandfather my life Reily. He was a good man." She walked away before he could say anything else, she had given him insight to why she was the way she was. He looked down at the picture in his book and looked at Ezra there, her eyes were bright violet and her smile was large as she stood there wraped in the young man's big arm. Her cheeks flushed and her hand resting on his on her shoulder. Anyone could tell that they had been close. [/FONT][/COLOR]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Ezra ran her tounge over her fangs and smiled grimly. 'A witch, how interesting...think I'll look into this.' She stood up from the bar where she was causally eatting sunflower seeds and walked out following Eva till she sat down at a small cafe' not to far that had tables outside so the people could smoke if they wanted. Ezra took a deep breath and sat down as eva did. "Can I help you?" "Your a witch correct?" "Perhaps, depends on whoes asking." "My name is Ezra, I'm slightly well known around here." "Your a hunter." It wasn't a question, no doubt about that but Ezra shrugged none the less. "I'm not hunting right now. I have a question to ask you." "I can't promise I'll answer hunter." "Fair enough, What exactly do you want with Reily?" "What's it to you?" "Just woundering." She smiled showing her fangs, Eva frowned. "You are vampire, yet you hunt them? Why do you kill your own kind?" "They aren't my kind witch-" "Eva" "Whatever, I'm neither human nor vampire." "A half breed. I'm disgusted to have you near me, a half breed hunter, shamful." "Full of retorts are we? I don't much like you either Eva, but I don't let your breed effect me talking to you now do I?" Eva slanted her eyes and clamped her mouth shut giveing Ezra a dirty look. "Listen all I want to know is do you intend to harm Reily or the other hunters?" "Others?" "Yes or no lady." "Not unless they start trouble." "Their men, not stupid." "I thought all men were stupid." Ezra let out a dry laugh as she stood up. "Some are diffrent." Eva shook her head. "None are diffrent." Ezra looked at her and winked. "See you around Eva the Witch." She put her hands in her pocket and walked back to the hotel and went to her room only to hear Drew and Reily argueig about someone getting shot in the arm. She walked over to the room and leaned on the wall. "Do you idiots ever shut up?" They looked at her in momentary shock.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Ezra streched laquidly and yawned as she looked out the dirty window, she kept thinking back to the club and the feeling that had come over her; something unknown and frightening. She then thought to the tender at the front desk, asking if she was a hunter, this place wasn't the easiest place to get into unless you were some kind of creature, she looked up as there was a knock on her door. "Enter at your risk." She had a hand on her colt 45 and had it aimed at the door, it cracked open and she saw a red glove that made her smile. "Is ti safe?" "Dependes on the news you bring Atsuma." The young man chuckled as he entered and sat down at the foot of her bed, he looked at her and it was apprarent that he was a werewolf. Silver eyes and hair, classic trademarks of the breed. "Well I have news from the runners." "And?" "Well your on their wanted list, one of the largest." "Really? How much?" "$40,000, your about ten under some guynamed Reily." "Interesting, what else?" "Seems there are a few new enemies to worry about, two vampires known as Jeff and Jay." Her eyes widened a fraction. "What was that name again?" "Jeff?" "NO, the other one." "Jay, don't worry, I've looked at all the files, your not related, your brother Jay died a century ago Ez." "Good; anything else?" "Your working with a Shade, and your blood test came out negative." "Irreversible?" "I'm sorry Ez, it's in your genes." "Only because my mom was careless. She was bitten the night I was born." "You can't blame her forever Ez" She sighed and stood up. "I'm going to the bar for a drink, I'll talk to you later, your more then welcome to stay here and rest, it's a long way to Japan from here." "True, I might take you up on that. See ya." She opened her door and shut it non to quietly as she walked down to the bar to get a drink and think on what she was just told.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Ezra kneeled down on the dance floor her breathing heavy and uneven, she loved hunting and usually reveled in the excitement of it; but tonight it had been diffrent, she had felt a hunger for cornage that she never recalled haveing before in her life. She looked at the mangeled and mauled bodies of the vampires she had taken out with her sword and felt a satisfaction rise in her that was not her own either. 'What's happening to me...?' She stood and clentched her hands tight and winced, looking down she saw her nails were long and sharp almost like claws. She blinked and hid them in her pockets. Looking up as the others came from the back she sighed and walked out onto the street where it was raining now, she felt as if she couold feel the rain wash away all the blood that was crusting into her shirt and drieing onto her skin. She looked up at the dark sky and felt her throat tighten as if she was about to cry and shook it off. Putting her hand over her heart she felt it slowing down and sighed. She took a step off the curb and started heading for a hotel not to far from the where she was, she wanted sleep.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Ezra pulled her sword out and began to dance to the music more and more swinging the sword with her cutting down the vampires as she danced, the area she was inhabiting was becomeing more and more clear, the vampires arund her falling and turning to dust from the silver of her sword, she spun around and slshed downward on a vampire looking up and meeting Drews eyes, she saw him frown as he saw her eyes were no longer the cool silver violet that they usually were, they were yellow, a deep dark yellow as in the pictures of old evils that had not exsisted for centuries. She looked anamalistic, her fangs longer and her nails like claws she was injoying the slaughter and he could see it in her eyes. She turned away from him and continued to dance to the music and swing her sword expertly killing the vampires around her and the ones that had the nerve to come near her. She licked her lips and smiled crulely and went on continueing her slaughter.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Lie looked up as the moutain at the end of town begane to send off what looked like beams of light. She frowned and felt the wind pick up but as she looked up she noticed that it was only near her, she heard a small voice on the wind and realized that it was only her hearing it at the moment for none of the villagers seemed to take notice in it. She looked around and fet her heart swell with something that felt like pride or maybe purpose. She looked back to the moutain and sighed, she knew she had to go there but she wasn't the most thrilled about it. Picking up her sword she began to treck her way to the moutain and felt like she wasn't the only one. Sorry it's short, son's sick.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]She knew that the reason she was here as well was the nightclub he was refering to. "I'll meet you there." She left the money on the table and walked out, feeling the ground viberate she knew the club wasn't that far away and followed the noise till she got there she put on her sunglasses and enteredthe club as a techno song came on. The bounce looked at her but as she smiled he saw her fangs and allowed her in she took a few steps and took off the shades and went to the bar. "I'll have taquilla." "We only carry Bloody Mary's" She bit her lip and nodded. She looked at the thick liquid placed in front of her and felt a unsastified hunger well up in her chest. 'Damnit, the last thing I need is this kind of temptation placed infront of me. Shit I'm in the last predicament I need to be in.' She took the drink and smiled as she tilted it up to her lips, not drinking just make it look like it. The smell alone made her want it but she held back. She put it down and wiped her lips gently and stood up going to the floor to start danceing. Not seeing them she felt that maybe they had been talking about diffrent clubs when she heard a vampire couple talking. "You hear about the night club on St. Anthonys?" "Hears hunters got it. You think we're next?" "Possibly." She smiled to her self figureing that the other three were on their way.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Mycella frowned and stood up, ignoreing when Nanashi reached for her arm, she stalked forward and pushed Diego against the window. Her hands steaming from the heat there. "You want to kill yourself that's fine and dandy, but don't risk our lives trying to get a thrill you got that?" "Who made you my master Cella?" "I'm your superiror and you will do as I say. Next stunt you pull that puts this team in danger I'll roast you alive you got that?" She spun around her hair flieing behind her as she went back to her seat and flopped down into her seat takeing a deep breath she closed her eyes and tried to get some sleep her self, something felt weird though. She opened her eyes and looked over at Nanashi. "What?" He shook his head and closed his visible eye and she saw that the question on if he wanted to say something was gone and nothing more was to be asked. She heaved a sigh and slowly drifted to sleep.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Navy"]Mycella forwned as Zane walked away, she made a move to stand up but felt a hand on her arm. Looking down she saw Nanashi holding her there, she pulled slightly but he would not reliquish his hold on her arm. He shook his head and released her as she sat back down. He looked over at her giving her a 'If he wanted you to know he would have told you' look. She heaved a sigh and looked away, she looked down at her arm where he had grabbed her, the heat from his hand stll lingering there. She blinked and realized she was think of it to much and looked up as the others boarded the plane, a few moments later the rumble of the engine was heard and the plane took off, she sighed and looked up as the general stood. "Listen up everyone, there are two bathrooms on the plane, you are allowed to use both, one has a shower the other has well, the usual. Keep the going to a minamal and remember, no hogging them." Sitting back down he chanced a glace back at Mycella and Nanashi his wife looked at him. "You don't think he'll ever be the way he was when he left?" "If he opened to Mycella like he did when he first came to us, I'm sure of it." She shook her head and sighed. "Whatever dear." He laughed and leaned back ready to take a much needed nap. Mycella yawned and sneezed suddenly, blinking she looked around woundering who could be talking about her.[/COLOR][/FONT]