The Enemy

[U]Duke Manson[/U] [B]Age:[/B] 34 [B]Ability:[/B] Advanced Hemokinesis, as well as [I]'blood-vision'[/I] [B]Appearence:[/B] [URL="http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/084/a/b/Deceitful_smile___So_pure______by_false_saint.jpg"]Duke[/URL] As Duke checked his outfit, Damo walked over with a new looking digital camera. "Come on, we have to get a few shots of you before the big day. We haven't even had a bachelor party for crying out loud!" Duke pasted on a very face smile until the pictures were taken then got his straight face solid again. "I'm not in a very good mood right now." Damo laughed "Yah I wouldn't be either if I were about to tie the knot." "It's not that. my brother, Gabriel. He's still out there somewhere. After that night with Kuma he left immediately. Every month or so I might catch a glimpse of him in the corner of my eye, or feel like he's watching over me." Duke stared into space. "Well that's a good thing right, don't you like your brother?" Damo asked with a confused heir. "You obviously don't know me well enough." Duke laughed to himself a little. "Well whatever, isn't it at least good that we have someone as strong as your brother with our team?" "You obviously don?t know him very well either. Gabriel isn't like anyone you've ever met before. He's...different." Duke's voice had an eerie seriousness to it. Damo looked around the room seriously then burst out laughing. "Duke! We're al [I]different[/I]" he paused and flew his coffee to his hand mentally. "Is he like you? A blood controller?" Duke shook his head "No, like I said, he's different." "He is definitely a witch right?" Damo leaned in curiously. "Most definitely, that's not the issue. The problem is that I've known him my entire life and I don't know the full extent of what he can do. If nothing else he's very good at keeping secrets..." __________________________________________________________________ [U]Gabriel Manson[/U] [B]Age:[/B] 36 [B]Ability:[/B] Gabriel's wings allow him to fly and manoeuvre extremely well at speeds well over Mock 1. This coupled with the need for little if any acceleration time makes Gabriel a very tricky opponent. He also seems to be very fast in general and appears to have experience with just about everything possible. The full limits of his powers are completely a mystery, even to his own younger brother Duke. [B]Appearence:[/B] [URL="http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h235/Egyptian_Angel/Vampires/demondudedrake.jpg"]Gabriel[/URL] [I]"Looks like I've picked the perfect time to make myself noticed."[/I] Gabriel thought to himself with a devilish smirk. As Damo walked down the hall toward his room, he heard the sound of breaking glass coming from it. readying his mind Damo opened the door telekinetically. Jumping through the doorway ready for whatever was there. What threw him off the most was not the mysterious threat standing just in front of his smashed window, rather it was the lack there of. The window was broken but nothing was there. Nothing had been disturbed. Damo was extremely confused but shrugged it off and turned to leave his room. To his surprise, it was then that he was faced with a mysterious stranger. A moderately tall man standing in his doorway with very obvious wings. Damo slid back on his heals into a defensive position. "My my, aren't we jumpy today. Don't worry Damo, I'm not hear to do any damage...yet." Gabriel said calmly. "How do you know my name?" Damo demanded, simultaneously making several of his possessions float to his aid. "I know all about you Damo, I know about Nayomi, Sin, and Duke as well. So sorry, I heard about Louis passing away. Such a shame." Gabriel taunted and urged Damo to make the first move without outwardly asking for it. "OK so you know all about us. But who the hell are you?" Damo brought some objects into the path of his enemy's head hovering just behind the new stranger. "My identity will become known in time. Just do me a favour. Tell the rest of your group I'm watching you all." Damo threw a char toward the back of Gabriel's neck. Gabriel's image glitched and shifted slightly as his wings unfolded quickly. Damo was then hit with a gust of wind and found Gabriel standing behind him. He stopped the chair before he accidentally hit himself and turned to face the winged man. "Did you just teleport??" Damo questioned the winged man to see how dangerous he could be. "No, I simply avoided your attack, very quickly." Gabriel answered. A moment later he extended his wings again, and again his image seemed to flicker ever so slightly. For a fraction of a second Damo caught a glimpse of the man's wings shooting forward, immediately after word Dam was thrown into the wall opposite his doorway by the resulting gust of wind. When he opened his eyes again the man was gone. Duke, Nayomi, and Sin ran down the hall towards Damo. "Dude what happened?!" duke called out as he got to Damo, helping him back to his feet. "Are you ok?" Sin chimed in. "Who did this to you??" Nayomi concluded. Damo too a few deem breaths before answering "Duke, I think I just met your brother. He says he's watching us..." Sorry for huge-ness I got right into it. Oh and sorry if I controlled Damo wrong.

"You're my bro's new darling huh?" A new voice echoed through the grand room. "Who said that?!" Kuma demanded. "Duke is such a whiner, I can't let you die. He'd [I]never[/I] shut up!" the voice continued. "I demand you show yourself!" Kuma's screams echoed again "It can't be..." Duke whispered "Gabriel?!" "Survey says...[B]correct![/B]" the voice answered. "Who the heck is Gabriel?!" Damo asked, looking around at the group to see if it was a former member like Reiver. The group me"You're my bro's new darling huh?" A new voice echoed through the grand room. "Who said that?!" Kuma demanded. "Duke is such a whiner, I can't let you die. He'd never shut up!" the voice continued. "I demand you show yourself!" Kuma's screams echoed again "It can't be..." Duke whispered "Gabriel?!" "Survey says...correct!" the voice answered. "Who the heck is Gabriel?!" Damo asked, looking around at the group to see if it was a former member like Reiver. The group members each shrugged as his gaze passed them over. "Aww little Dukey didn't tell you about his big brother?" The voice chuckled. "Big brother?!" Jinx cried out "You have a brother?!" Duke nodded slowly. "Yep..." "I don't care who you are Gabriel I will destroy you all." Kuma boasted grandly. "Now you see" the voice replied "Mom would get pissed if I let you destroy Dukey boy. So I just can't do that." An instant later a black blur blew through the area. Kuma began raising his hand to fire a bolt at it but was too slow and the blur collided with him before he could counter attack. Kuma spun around and fell to his knees. The blur continued on full speed into the shadows again. Seconds later the blur returned flying toward Kuma yet again, this time Kuma got a dark bolt fired off before it hit him. Although the blur simply weaved around the bolt with great speed and crashed through Kuma yet again. Kuma slid back on his heels but did not fall until Damo took advantage of the distraction. A wave of force hit Kuma in the chest a moment before he regained balance, sending him onto his back. Jinx launched a torrent of flames onto him as well. Kuma stood once the attack was over, mildly burnt but any normal human would be disintegrated. the blur blew past Kuma from behind sending him through the air and onto his stomach for a landing. Just in front of JB. JB jumped forward into a triple forward spinning flip and ended it with one outstretched leg hammering into Kuma's back. He let out a small groan of pain, but stood before JB got into another attack. Sin began running toward Kuma to aid him and heal his wounds but the blur flew into him carrying him away again, but dropping him before he became skewered on the wall. As Kuma stood again it was clear his legs were beginning to fail him. Duke caught sight of it and send a flat wave of blood clashing to the back of his knees. Kuma fell down on his knees gripping them in pain. "Come Sin, Help your brother!" Sin ran toward Kuma but on queue the black blur caught and carried him away again. Kuma stood again and violently spun to the ground as Reiku send a powerful vibration through his body. Reiver froze him to the floor. Kuma send a wave of dark force from his body but the blur circled him tearing through the wave repeatedly destroying it. Duke and Damo pounded on Kuma with their abilities. Powerful jet-streams of blood and hard spears of force forced Kuma into making himself a small crater. Jinx was next, creating a horrific tornado of flame centered on Kuma. Reiku send a vibration through the ground causing it to erupt beneath Kuma sending him into the air. JB met him there with a strong vertical drop kick that smashed his rib-cage. Finally Damo threw Kuma into the air, only to be caught by the mysterious black blur which swiftly delivered him to his own spiked wall. Nearly 5 spikes pierced his body. He cried out in pain. Sin tried to some to his aid yet again but this time Damo held him still with his powers. OOC: I didn't want to completely finish it just yet. And I'll give Gabriel's sign up in the next chapter. Black blur =Gabriel if anyone didn't catch that. Also if I missed anyone, sorry m me to edit if you feel it needs a change. PS- I can't right now but I am gunna run it through a spell check within the next few hours. mbers each shrugged as his gaze passed them over. "Aww little Dukey didn't tell you about his big brother?" The voice chuckled. "Big brother?!" Jinx cried out "You have a brother?!" Duke nodded slowly. "Yep..." "I don't care who you are [I]Gabriel[/I] I will destroy you all." Kuma boasted grandly. "Now you see" the voice replied "Mom would get pissed if I let you destroy Dukey boy. So I just can't do that." An instant later a black blur blew through the area. Kuma began raising his hand to fire a bolt at it but was too slow and the blur collided with him before he could counter attack. Kuma spun around and fell to his knees. The blur continued on full speed into the shadows again. Seconds later the blur returned flying toward Kuma yet again, this time Kuma got a dark bolt fired off before it hit him. Although the blur simply weeved around ther bolt with great speed and crashed through Kuma yet again. Kuma slid back on his heels but did not fall until Damo took advantage of the distraction. A wave of force hit Kuma in the chest a moment before he regained balance, sending him onto his back. Jinx launched a torrent of flames onto him aswell. Kuma stood once the attack was over, mildly burnt but any normal human would be dicintagrated. the blur blew past Kuma from behind sending him through the air and onto his stomach for a landing. Just infront of JB. JB jumped forward into a triple forward spinning flip and ended it with one outstreched leg hammering into Kuma's back. He let out a small groan of pain, but stood before JB got into alother attack. Sin began running toward Kuma to aid him and heal his wounds but the blur flew into him carrying him away again, but dropping him before he became scewered on the wall. As Kuma stood again it was clear his legs were begning to fail him. Duke caught sight of it ansd send a flat wave of blood clashing to the back of his knees. Luma fell down on his knees gripping them in pain. "Come Sin, Help your brother!" Sin ran toward Kuma but on que the black blur caught and carried him away again. Kuma stood again and violently spun to the ground as Reiku send a powerful vibration through his body. Riever froze him to the floor. Kuma send a wave of dark force from his body but the blur circled him tearing through the wave repeatedly destroying it. Duke and Damo pounded on Kuma with their abilities. Powerfull jetstreams of blood and hard spears of force forced Kuma into making himself a small crater. Jinx was next, creating a horrific tornado of flame centered on Kuma. Reiku send a vibration through the ground causing it to errupt beneath Kuma sendiing him into the air. JB met him there with a strong virtical drop kick that smashed his rib-cage. Finally Damo threw Kuma into the air, only to be caught by the mysterious black blur which swiftly delivered him to his own spiked wall. Nearly 5 spikes pierced his body. He cried out in pain. Sin tried to some to his aid yet again but this time Damo held him still with his powers. OOC: I didn't want to completely finish it just yet. And I'll give Gabriel's sign up in the next chapter. Black blur = gabriel if anyone didn't catch that. Also if I missed anyone, sorry m me to edit if you feel it needs a change. PS- I can't right now but i am gunna run it through a spell check within the next few hours.

Duke glared at Kuma "You will die for that." he stated with an eerie calm. Duke ran toward Kuma, who answered by sending a dark shock wave back at him. Duke collided with the wave full force and went flying back. Bouncing and rolling on the sharp floor. "Duke!" Damo began running toward Duke but stopped when his arm was held by Reiver. "He does nothing without specific purpose" Reiver explained. "Wait...you mean?" Damo looked over and saw Duke standing, slowly walking toward Kuma. Cuts and gashes decorated his entire body and a thick trail of blood laminated his path. "Kuma doesn't know most of our powers" Damo caught on. "Including Duke's" Reiver added. Duke continued forth, walking sluggishly, watching his team mates being cast a side easily as he was. A red stream covered is path s though e were lying a liquid red carpet in his wake. Cuts and slices all over him consistently poured blood. Kuma laughed as he saw Dukes feeble seeming second approach. "You cut my little brother." Duke said solemnly. Sin looked around, seeing his [I]real[/I] family fighting to get him back. Duke raised his hands and blood from him as well as his blood around the area rose up. "What the?" Kuma asked no one in particular. The floating ocean of blood twisted forward as Duke lowered his arms forward toward Kuma. Expecting to be impaled on his own pointed walls was apparently hoping too much. Kuma was pushed back a little but only a little and quickly countered with a dark wave of energy blasting apart the blood assault. "Damn this'll be tougher than I thought" Duke said to himself as Kuma casually walked forward.

Brando ran after Pride, literally. Pride began turning and stopped on a dime. Brando walked forward cautiously then vanished. "I know about your stealth Brando Baris!" Pride mocked loudly. Brando silently made his approach once within range he leapt toward his prey. With a flick of his wrist a long thin blade shot out and click solidly into place Brando aimed for the neck of his adversary, but Pride moved out of the path with unnatural speed. Brando's dagger missed by centimetres and swiftly slid back into his sleeve an instant later. "Get back here demon." Brando said almost too quietly to be noticed. Pride looked over as Brando reappeared, his hiding in plane sight could only be used for a limited time. "Ha. It appears you are not so stealthy after all." Pride taunted "I on the other hand am very stealthy!" He grinned at his boast and darted down a nearby ally. Brando followed closely in tail, the tail of his coat screaming in the wind. Pride narrowly turned a corner. Brando couldn't have been 3 seconds behind him, and yet Pride was gone... A few days later Brando followed the rumour of 'mysterious' individuals around a small town. After searching it top to bottom he definitely found signs of Pride here. But other sins were powerful in the civilians as well. Stopping it a cafe Brando got a tea with 3 milk and 4 sugar. While he sipped at his piping hot drink, he noticed a few of the other customers gathering. He approached carefully. Once sure they were talking about sins Brando spoke up "I am hunting Pride." he said quietly. The others views jerked towards him. "How long have you been standing there?" one of the girls asked. "Not too long." Brando answered Just long enough to verify my suspicions about your conversation." Brando had a habit and gift for walking up to a person or group and not being noticed for several minutes. "If you are planning to hunt as a group, I wish to join you."

OOC: why do I always hafta write the porn? lol Just remember you totally asked for it here. Duke sat up enough to reach for Nayomi's bare hips, feeling another rush every time he touched her. He slowly leaned back again pulling her onto all fours on top of him. "You don't [I]always[/I] hafta be tough, but I can't say I don't like it." he grinned mischievously. Nayomi gently rested a hand on the side of Duke's neck and dipped to kiss him. Her other hand ran over his chest as his explored hers. Duke slipped his tongue into Nayomi's mouth yet again running it over her fangs.[I]'They got me frisky before, and they are even longer now!'[/I] Tasting each other left them both wanting more. Nayomi moved her hand to just beside Duke's neck instead of around it, and began propping herself back up. Duke countered by squeezing her chest gently. The sensation was answered with a moan and her elbow giving out, making her lightly collapse down to Duke's lips again. He smiled as her breath got heavier, her body got hotter, and she got more aggressive. Duke groped her chest a little harder enticing more moans and uncontrollable movements. One of those movements for example was that of her hips. Unnoticed by Nayomi and more than noticed by Duke, she had begun sliding her hips up ad down his crotch shortly after his hands had found her breasts. Duke had gotten very turned on by this point, making Nayomi's rubbing feel very good for both of them. Speaking now mostly in moans and groans. "D-do you w-want more?" Duke stuttered out between deep breaths. Nayomi moaned loudly as she moved her hips over his hard crotch rougher. "Oh god yes!" Duke nodded and took only a few seconds to take off his boxers. "Whatever you want." he replied happily. OOC: HA!

Duke just chuckle to himself a little. "Don't laugh at me!" Nayomi almost shouted pushing him well of the bed. The way he was sitting Duke fell off sideways and side-first onto the floor. "Heh, I wasn't laughing at you." Duke explained as he stood up and dusted himself off. "I was laughing at what that moron Reiver said. "He just met me though, so there's no way he could know the extent of my abilities." Duke paused as he got comfortable on the bed again. "What do you mean?" Nayomi asked a little confused. "I'm immune" Duke said bluntly. "What?! How do you know?!" Nayomi asked urgently, getting on her knees on the bed. "Man you don't know either? You guys honestly think with my control over my blood I could be taken in by some little disease? If my blood itself isn't strong enough to fight it on fair terms. I can completely flush my system and refill my blood by multiplying with one clean cell." Nayomi began thinking and tried to argue but couldn't come up with a flaw in Duke's theories. "But-but you.." she became quiet as Duke slowly lened her back on her bed. "Shh no more tears." Duke said softly as he whiped away one of her remaining tears with his thumb. "Just calm down, and relax."

Sin felt a hand drop on his shoulder. As he turned he saw Duke "You're right kid." He said with a faint smile. "We're all freaks, she's no scarier than any of us." Turning back to the group Duke suddenly had an almost disgusted look on his face. "Maybe healer boy doesn't know what it's like. But I sure as hell remember what it felt like when all the other kids at school ran away from me. I remember the look on my parents face's when they screamed in fear of their own son!" It took all he had to stop himself from crying as he relived memories. Duke's red eyes bore down on Jinx first "Jinx, do you remember how it felt to be isolated, because people were afraid you'd burn them to death?" The steely glare locked onto Damo next "How about you Damo? Did you forget how they screamed the first time you grabbed something like a remote control with your powers instead of your hand?" in began to speak but Duke cut him off "Don't worry kid, I know you remember." Sin smiled and nodded. Duke then leaned in and whispered to Sin alone "We all get an inspirational speech once in a while right?" Duke took a step closer to the door and knocked himself. "Come on Nayomi! If you don't open up I'm gunna eat your pizza!"

[B]Name:[/B] Sloth known to the humans as Apollo [B]Age:[/B] unknown [B]Personality:[/B] Sloth is extremely laid back. He never has the initiative to do anything nor does he want it. He is the embodiment of laziness and does noting unless it poses a direct benefit to himself. This puts him at ends with other sins as he does not wish to go out and spread his sin to others. He is still male however and the easiest way to get him to do anything is to reward him, usually with sex. In battle Sloth does not change his lazy ways he does get around quickly by teleporting but never seems to actually walk anywhere. Simply preferring to jump around contaminating people with extreme sloth. [B]Appearance:[/B] [URL="http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn60/Zenkar_2008/Anime%20Guys/chris.jpg"]Sloth[/URL] [B]Bio:[/B] He is the original sin of Sloth given physical form. For all eternity he is destined to spread his sin in others or spend millennia in that wretched box. [B]Weapon:[/B] Sloth's touch is completely numbing (limited to about one limb, not numbing the entire body at once) , he isn't really one for fighting but when forced, he uses this trait as a weapon in battle. [B]Magic:[/B] The power to amplify his sin in others (Anyone who kisses Sloth, is susceptible to his contamination. Though if he wishes to contaminate another man he can substitute a drink from his gourd.) As well as teleportation. [B]Sin:[/B] Sloth

"Rest and recuperate." Duke answered strongly. "There is no way in hel we can do anything offensive without becoming even more injured. And under no circumstances will I let any of us go kill themselves against some overgrown pit bulls." Duke paused and rubbed the bridge of his nose in stress. He walked over to Nayomi's room where she was slightly regaining consciousness. "Look what you've done to yourself this time. God, your such a glory-hog. Let some of us take a little credit too ok?" Duke laughed to himself with a sad look on his face. Nayomi tried t say something but Duke stopped her "Save your strength. We need you back on your feet soon as possible got it?" He walked over and gently put a hand on her cheek. "We'll have you back to 100% in no time. Just hang in there." After kissing Nayomi's forehead. Duke walked out to where the others were. "OK we need food and water. Reiver do you have any like rations or anything?" "We have canned foods and powdered foods, and water." "Dandy... Any way we can get food that isn't completely tasteless mush?" Sin raised his hand for attention before commenting "I could get you to a super market or something." "Nah, a little more secretive." How about you bring Jinx to a dark alley near the pizza place." Jinx and Sin stared at each other for a moment then Jinx laughed a little. "I mean for pizza! Work with me people." Duke took out a cell phone and called the pizza place with at least one pizza for everyone. Including a "hamburger and jalepeno pepper pizza for Nayomi. Before they left Duke pulled Sin aside. "Listen to me kid, you are the teleporter that is the only reason you are going out ok? We do not walk you to be lost to the wolves. I [I]anything[/I] goes wrong I want you to grab Jinx and get back here pronto. Got it?" Sin nodded silently. "Good, I can't emphasize enough how quickly you should get the hell out. Do not, I repeat, [B]do not[/B]stand up to [B]anyone[/B]. Werewolves can look human if memory serves. Even if you get a bad feeling about someone. The slightest notion you are being followed. Get back here immediately. Do I make myself clear?" "Yes sir." Sin replied quickly. "Good. In, out, no questions, no time." He paused and handed Sin several bills in a clip. "This is more than enough. Put in on the counter, don't hand it to the cashier. Keep any and all strangers at least 10 feet away if at all possible." Sin nodded again. "The team won't recover or fight well if the are starved." "OK Jinx come over here." Jinx did as told d stood next to Sin. As Sin began concentrating Duke spoke up "Wait, wait wait. JB I want you going too. We have no room for error here. I'll sty behind because we need someone who's at full strength to hold down the fort if we're attacked here." the group nodded,. Duke took one last look at his watch "it's been 45 minutes they said about 3, there should be no waiting time. Sin, remember what I told you." Sin gave a subtle nod. "Before you head off, does anyone have any suggestions to the current game plan. I know I'm apparently the leader until Nayomi i back to speed. But we're still a team. And I can make mistakes too. So, go for it, don't be afraid to speak up..." Duke waited for any contributions from the group.

Duke threw on his short and did up his belt in an instant. It took him a minute or two to sober up from the ecstasy but he shook it off pretty quick. He darted down the hallway weaving and rolling past werewolves left, right, and center. Soon enough Duke arrived at the training room. [I]'Ice box.'[/I] he repeated to himself. Using his blood he forced his cuts to reopen and blew out the lock on the door. Rushing in with just enough time to see Damo bleeding and killing another werewolf. "Where the hell is Sin?!" Duke demanded. "I sent him to Louis and Jinx they can protect him." Damo explained roughly ad he continued to lose blood. "You idiot!" Duke cursed loudly. "I thought you cared about Jinx!" "I do!" Damo retorted angrily. "Ya that?s why you focused the brunt of the werewolf attack solely on her right?" "What are you talking about? Louis is with her." Damo explained franticly. Duke walked toward him and put his hand over Damo's chest wound, pumping blood into him. "Louis collapsed remember?! Jinx was heading over there before talking to you, ten bucks says it was to help him walk to the bathroom or something. He's too weak to protect himself right now, let alone Sin and back up for Jinx." As Duke finished refilling Damo, he focused on his white blood cells, using them to close Damo's wound. "Oh god..I didn't-" Damo was cut off by Duke. "Your damn right you didn't! Now we gotta move!" Duke ran out the door towards Louis room. Two turns later Duke and Damo found Reiver. "Believe it or not I'm glad to see you." Duke greeted him lightly. "What the hell are you doing?! Nayomi told me you were protecting Sin!" "I was going to, but he had a better idea." Duke said angrily pointing to Damo. "Where are you going? Nayomi said Sin is in the training room" Reiver tried to run past Duke and Damo but Duke grabbed his arm. "That's what I'm saying, I was there already, Damo sent him to Louis and Jinx so they could protect him." Duke explained as they continued to Louis room. "What were you thinking!?" Reiver almost yelled. "I got it covered already." Duke stopped Reiver before he could rant too. "Use your ice powers. Freeze my blood" Duke ordered. He took more blood from his palms and it took the shape of a cone. Reiver nodded with a smile. "Got it!" the blood froze into a huge icicle, as a werewolf rounded a corner towards them Duke made a throwing motion and launched the spear toward the beast. It skewered his chest and pinned him to a wall. Duke frowned as the wolf began flailing and scrambling to get off the wall. "What I would give to have silver blood." he mumbled "OK Damo go find JB, he'll know where we keep the silver and silver-nitrate if we have any. Reiver you're with me, It doesn't kill the bastards but these blood spikes will at least hold them for a while." The group nodded and headed off to their respective assignments. Duke and Reiver got to Louis room as another werewolf began burning on the floor. Jinx was breathing heavily, clearly tired. "Reinforcements present and accounted for." Duke grinned to Jinx and Nayomi. "Tag you're it" Nayomi smiled back walking into the room with Jinx to meet Sin. "We're up." Duke nodded to Reiver as he made another 5 cones of blood, which were quickly frozen to solid red spikes. "Ha!" Duke shouted as all 5spikes fired off each impaling a different werewolf.

"My turn" Duke said softly as he began biting and chewing on Nayomi's neck. She moaned in reply pushing his mouth harder against her. As he sucked softly on her neck his hands explored the rest of her body. As his hands caressed her chest Nayomi let out another loud moan. Duke grinned giving her neck one final bite before moving down. He kissed her collar bone softly then moved lower and kissed the center of her chest, between her breasts then moved down and kissed just above her belly button then just below. The thoughts o what was to come made Nayomi's heart race. Duke grinned as he heart and felt her body getting excited. He moved lower and kissed her waist line. She moaned softly and couldn't stop her body from instinctively spreading her legs. Duke moved down getting onto his knees just off the bed. Nayomi was still on her back with her knees at the edge of the bed and her legs spread open wide. Duke opened his moth and licked the inside of Nayomi's right thigh, then her left. Both actions caused her to moan and made her body shutter. Finally Duke looked up at Nayomi for permission, she looked down at him and nodded slightly before laying her head back again. Duke smiled softly before dipping his head and licking her between her thighs. Nayomi couldn't hide a loud moan and put her hand on the back of Duke's head. Duke continued licking and kissing her gently, each time forcing out at least a slight moan. "Duke I love you so mu-ohhh!!" Nayomi was cut off by a flow of pleasure rushing from between her legs as Duke's tongue made contact again. Duke paused, allowing Nayomi to catch her breath slightly. "I love you too" he answered with a smile, before pleasuring her more wit his mouth.

It all happened so fast Duke was speechless. "I uhh" he swallowed heavily in his throat, his cheeks turning red. Nayomi giggled and walked into her room. He followed intently. as he walked in Nayomi was standing just to the side of er doorway and closed the door behind him. He didn't have time to turn around before she hugged him from behind and removed his shirt. Once his shirt was safely on the floor Nayomi let him turn around though her lips were pressed against his before he could say anything. Nayomi pushed him back slowly and he fell slightly as the back of his knees met the edge of her bed. Duke could only look forward in awe as Nayomi walked over to him and crawled onto him. As thei bodies mt there was a rush of adrenaline in each of them. As Nayomi's bare form pressed against his own Duke found it harder and harder to think straight. Tasting her tongue on his he could do little more than move where she wanted him to. Like wise Nayomi got more and more excited every time Duke adjusted his hips, and she felt the bulge in his pants rub against her. As she slid her tongue dow Duke's throat for about the twelfth time Nayomi undid Duke's belt, he moaned a little in protest to the idea. But as Nayomi began sliding her body up and down the moan formed more into a pleasure full beg for more, which was quickly delivered. OOC: Knuckles girl, how dare you take advantage of Duke like that?! lol

Duke rounded the corner letting Nayomi walk into him. "Duke I-" he put his index finger on her lips. "Shhh" Duke moved his finger to give her a quick kiss "Sorry" he whispered as he walked toward the training room. "I may o may not spar with Reiver, but either way I wanna stay sharp." Upon entering the training room it looked mostly like large gymnasium. White walls and a white floor made it look surprisingly blank, though slits and panels along both the floor and walls made it clear it would get more interesting once the actual training had begun. "Training program 66.6 Duke Manson voice authorization." Duke said n a loud voice. A computer voice replied. "Authorization verified recognised, welcome Duke." Duke took out a knife and cut into his palms from one side to another then from between his middle finger and ring finger to the base of his palm. A moment later panels began opening and clay disks shot out both in random directions and at Duke. Who quickly reacted shooting them down with streams of blood from his palms. Duke thrust his palms forth firing a steam of blood from them, either directly hitting his targets or further directing the blood in mid air to flank the targets. Reiver walked in shortly after the program began. An instant after he was inside a clay disk whirled toward him. He turned in time to see it shatter against the wall via one of Duke's streams. By now sprays of blood laced white the floor and walls. Almost making it seem as though the program was tearing Duke to shreds, though upon closer inspection it was obvious the scenario was quite the opposite. What do you want?" Duke asked quickly not breaking off his training. "I still want to train against you." Reiver replied. "Training simulation off." Duke called out, the computer answered by stopping the program. "I won't go easy on you. You know that right?" Duke told Reiver as he got into a battle stance. "I know I'll give you the same courtesy." he replied confidently. Duke lowered his head and mumbled something to himself that Reiver couldn't make out. When he looked up again his eyes were the same terrifying slits as Nayomi's. Though they were not yellow, but bright red looking blood shot with black veins. Duke pushed forward with his right hand and pulled back with his left. Reiver stared at Duke intently waiting for blood to pour out, but it didn't. His focus on Duke distracted Reiver from noticing the stream flowing up from the floor just in front of him. It struck his right shoulder hard, simultaneous with a stream formed from the blood on the wall behind him. That stream hammered Reiver?s left shoulder. the combined assault left Reiver spinning to the wall behind him about 4 feet off to the right. He hit the wall with a hard thud and fell to his knees. As Reiver stood again he glanced at Duke just in time to notice the couch sized river splashing toward him. With no time to move, nor his legs with enough energy to react, Reiver braced himself with his arms. The river collided with his arms directly, as it had been aimed at his chest, and crashed Reiver into the wall behind him yet again. This time he fell to all fours and began coughing as his lungs were able to take in air again. This gave Duke enough time t make a dramatic jumping spin, arms out-stretched carrying a large flowing blood stream behind them. A Duke landed the stream broke itself against Reiver?s side sending him almost 15 feet through the air and sliding another 5 on the soaking red floor. "Can't say I didn't warn you." Duke boasted as he raised his arms, controlling the blood to revert to it's orbiting rings around his chest. The blood was flattened out into several disks that slowly spun around Duke's chest. Duke raised one hand pointing two fingers into the sky, then dropped them toward Reiver in a signal to advance. Obeying one of the blood disks straightened and hammered Reiver into a different section of the wall. The remaining rings spaced out from Duke farther to compensate and as Duke raised is arm again the first shot returned taking it's place on the inside now.

As Duke walked down the hallway towards Jinx' room h thought to himself [I]'Hmm Damo was acting really weird, I gotta figure out what's in the kitchen.'[/I].Before he could knock on her door, it opened on it's own and she almost walked into him. "Whoa Jinx, be careful." "Sorry Duke, I have to go help Louis." She said hurriedly as she walked around him. "Oh wait, Damo said he had somethin talk with you about, sounded important." "OK I'll go see him after I meet with Louis." with that she walked around a corner off to Louis' room. "Shitty, I'm sensing a love triangle." Duke laughed to himself. [I]'Now for some food. With any luck Nayomi will still be in the kitchen and won't think I wondered off.'[/I] Duke backtracked toward the kitchen. Walking past Damo's room, he paused to knock a few times and called in? Don?t worry dude she'll probably be here in a couple minutes." After that Duke continued to the kitchen and walked in a Nayomi sat down wearing an apron as a shirt, to eat with Reiver. "Am I interrupting something?" Duke asked cautiously. Reiver took breath and was about to speak when Nayomi cut in first "Not at all, come have a seat." She smiled kindly and pulled out the chair next to her at the table. Duke smiled back and walked over to the fridge. "Be there in a sec, I'm not really hungry but I could go for a drink so...ah here we go." Duke stood out from behind the fridge door smiling and brandishing one of the last cans of coke. After closing the fridge Duke strolled over and fell back into the chair Nayomi had pulled out. "Nice shirt." He said smoothly, as he balanced his chair on it's two back legs to look up and down Nayomi's almost completely bare back. He knew their was something that had happened between the two others at the table. But he still had the taste of Nayomi's tongue in his mouth and above that trusted her. So he needn't have shown any signs of worry or jealousy. Reiver on the other hand was slightly more troubled with Duke's appearance. And wore clearly frustrated look on his face ad Duke looked his ex-wife up and down with hungry eyes. "Must you stare?" Reiver asked with a tone of discomfort lining his voice. "Got a problem dude?" Duke retorted standing up offensively while casually still taking drinks from his coke. "As a mater of fact-" Reiver began to raise his voice but was yet again cut short by Nayomi. "Come on boys, play nice." She said tugging at Duke's hand to sit down again. He did as asked and smirked rashly as Reiver spoke again. "I have a grand idea." He said with note of self indulgence. "Alert the media.." Duke mumbled to himself. After a mean look from Reiver, he continued. "Why don't we have a little training match? To get to know each other a little better. When does your team usually start training?" "Usually after I'm done my coke." Duke laughed. "Very well. Then once your done your [I]coke[/I] We should get the team together and have a good work out. "If you say so." Duke grinned, spinning his coke can to gauge how much he had left. "Could take me a while though. And not all of our team members are exactly ready for a 'good work out' if you know what I mean." Duke thought of how badly of a condition Louis and Damo were in specifically, also taking into account Damo had to have his chat with Jinx shortly. OOC: If I played Reiver a little off pm me about it. I just a little inner rivalry might be interesting.

[B]Name:[/B] Brando Baris [B]Age:[/B] 24 [B]Personality:[/B] A very quiet loner, keeps to himself and avoids drawing attention to himself. Never wishing to stand out Brando believes himself to be just another guy in the crowd. [B]Appearance:[/B] [URL="http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn60/Zenkar_2008/Anime%20Guys/guy127.jpg"]Brando[/URL] [B]Bio:[/B] Brando grew up in Ontario Canada, he was harshly bullied as a child, and beaten by his father. In every year of schooling he had never had more than one good friend and never less than 8 or 9 bullies who pushed him around. This environment gave Brando he personality complex he has today, not believing he is anything special and almost wanting to be ignored as one of a thousand strangers. [B]Weapon:[/B] Hidden daggers, throwing knives; and a wrist mounted switch blade, loaded with a 1' long, ½" thick blade capable of sliding in and out from his inner forearm mechanically. [B]Magic:[/B] Stealth magic [B]Sin:[/B] He is the fighter of Pride. Hope this is good. Need any changes just PM me.

Duke got back on his bed, more comfortably, on all fours over Nayomi. "I love you too" He said softly as he leaned in to kiss her again. Nayomi went to say something but Duke cut her off with another kiss, this time with some tongue, and a quiet moan. "Do I really taste that good?" Nayomi said while giggling a little and blushing more than ever. Duke just smiled and gave her another kiss. "I'll take that as a yes." said Nayomi giggling again. She put a hand on his hip and the other on the side of his neck, making it easier to demand more kisses. Duke yet again dipped down to met Nayomi's lips with his, he usually went up again after a moment or two, but Nayomi's [I]grip[/I] on his neck prevented him from doing so this time. She held him down by his neck forcing him to support himself on his elbows. After about 20 seconds of straight kissing, and much tasting of each other's mouths Nayomi finally let Duke up for a moment. "Whoa" Duke said excitedly. Nayomi just blushed in response. Duke was a little uncomfortable on his knees and elbows, and decided to let his weight down, on top on Nayomi. As their bodies met they both felt each others heart beats quicken. Duke lowered his head but this time went past Nayomi's lips, his mouth found her neck a second before she could seem confused and he began softly licking and sucking on her. OOC: sorry for short post,didn't know exactly how crazy you wanted to get here.

Duke thought long and hard about the situation. "'I'm sorry Duke, I love him'...'He was with me first'...'I can't be with you'.." Duke ran over some things in his mind that he expected Nayomi to tell him. After a short while of laying in his bed thinking Duke heard Reiver go into Nayomi's room. He heard the phrase 'I love you' several times before putting his head phones on to block out the noise. Soon falling asleep. It wasn't long after that that Nayomi knocked on Duke's door, his head phones still shielding him from noise , and thus kept him asleep. Nayomi got through the locked door with ease ad quietly walked over to Dukes bed, laying down next to him and resting her head on his chest. [I]'What the..?'[/I] Duke raised his head to find Nayomi laying on him with her eyes close. "Oh, it's you." Duke said quietly. He shifted but only a little, to get closer to Nayomi, before putting his arms around her. He thought it might be difficult to get an arm under her without waking or disturbing her, but realised she had done the work for him when she laid down. Smiling slightly to himself Duke carefully reached down without moving much and grabbed his black quilt. Pulling it over both of them h felt Nayomi shift a little. "Shhh it's just me. And I'm not going anywhere." he said comfortingly as he hugged her closer.

Duke walked in the door of the mansion and headed straight to his room. He could feel the strange looks of others passing over him as he silently and intensely locked himself away. He opened a drawer and took out several black towels. As he wiped the blood off of himself he noticed the scars all over him. About three quarters of them were for battle purposes, opening a wound to draw out his blood. Ages ago he cut himself for a different reason, long story sold separately, it was during one of those 'sessions' that he discovered his abilities. He moved the towel over his neck and felt it sting slightly. Duke didn't remember taking any shots to the neck so he checked the mirror in his room. Just a small red mark, from where Nayomi had bit him with her fangs. He groaned to himself angrily. [I]'I can't let it get to me'[/I] he thought to himself[I] 'OK well I can't just ignore it, but I can pretend it isn't getting to me. For the good of the team.'[/I] He laid in is bed, looking over the harsh marks on his shoulder and forearms. He could force his blood to become more lucid or make it coagulate faster quickening how fast his wounds healed. Though it wasn't instant regeneration he would be good as new by mid-day tomorrow. [I]'Aww what am I gunna do.'[/I] he continued thinking to himself [I]'We both like her, as far as I know she likes me, and I [B]know[/B] she likes him. Geez this could suck allot.'[/I] Duke continued thinking to himself ignoring any noises he heard, whether it be talking doors or even knocking on his own.

[B]Name:[/B] Zumei 'The Silent Shadow' Kri-tsu [B]Age:[/B] 22 [B]Personality:[/B] Often serious and rarely jokes. Zumei seems to be almost ignorant to the world around him, this is only because he is slightly single minded and has trouble moving on from a task before it's completed to it's fullest. One other noticeable trait is his extreme dislike of other panther folk. He still blames the main group for the expulsion and death of his comrades. [B]Appearance:[/B] Zumei- [URL="http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b219/neoninja2/ninjacatboy.jpg"]view 1[/URL], [URL="http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc85/Son_Daichi_Goten_Naruto/NinjaNeko.jpg"]view 2[/URL] human-panther [B]Weapon:[/B] shuriken, and a [URL="http://www.geocities.jp/samurai_garage50/samurai_garage/kusarigama.jpg"]Kusarigama[/URL] click 4 pic [B]Abilities:[/B] [I]Silence-[/I] Using his skills in ninjutsu Zumei in very skilled in keeping himself quiet. [I]Balance-[/I] Zumei's tail gives him great balance. [I]Artist's touch-[/I] Zumei is a trained killer, mastering the art of assassination as well and several martial arts. [B]Bio:[/B] Long ago there lived a poud race of human panther hybrids. Though not all was peaceful in this race. And at one time a small group was expelled fro the remainder of the group. The ones expelled were punished so, because of their forbidden teachings. The art of the kill, assassination, and pride in their work. This group of dark killers were dampen he view of the panther human race as well as the view of all half bred humans all over the world. Since they became expelled most of the group died off. Over the years almost all of the members either dead or mysteriously vanished. To this day the only known of surviving member is Zumai. P.S. I hope it isn't a problem I have a panther character aswell. I tried making him pretty different from Bravie, and I think it'll put some intersting character clashes. PM me if it's too much.

Duke could still see Nayomi, though only barely. He was still seeing in blood and she hadn't had much left. He considered calling to Louis, then thought to himself [I]'I dot need him for this, I can do [B]this[/B] on my own.'[/I] Duke cut open his palm with one of the x-acto knives. Then proceeded to flow his blood through Nayomi's body. He didn't know her blood type, but Duke had a rare gene that made his blood compatible with all other types. As Duke's blood filled Nayomi's body her feral side subsided. Her lack of blood and imanent death had triggered a defence mechanism in her mind. Allowing her most basic, and in this case feral, instincts to take over. Duke still had control of his blood even as it went into Nayomi, he lost more and more control as it fused and mixed with her blood. Though the little control he did have, he used to stop her from bleeding out again. Duke spoke into the com-link "Come in, Come in, mayday. We have a man...we have a woman down, it's Nayomi. I need any medics to come to my position A.S.A.P. ...Follow the screams?over" With that Duke, while maintaining his control over Nayomi's bleeding, began killing the remaining cultists in the most painful ways he could come up with. He harnessed his blood into powerful steams, and began throwing cultists into corners, through doorways, or often half in through the door half into the wall next to it. He even went so far as to use the current move he used to crack an innocents neck, to twist the cultists' arms and legs into snapping. Screams of agony and pain surrounded the area. Looking down at Nayomi he felt his heart sink "Just hang on, help is on the way."

Duke writhed on the ground, his eyes were burning and as soon as Nayomi had killed Jin his eyes went red and blinded him. The room began to shake but he couldn't see what was going on. "I've got to focus!" Duke said to himself. He concentrated on his vision, or lack there of. The more he focussed the clearer his sight became. Though still it only hues of red. "God damn it!!" Duke berated himself as he heard screams and confusion. Then it happened. He passed the barrier. Reached the check point. Attained the next level. His eyes remained red, but his pupils returned as predatory slits, and his eyes became blood shot with black veins. His sight returned, though he could still identify colours everything seemed to have a red tint. Duke first noticed the biggest change when he looked at Damo, and 'Damo' isn't exactly what he saw. Not exactly, He could define Damo' body as a black outline of itself, but the only true detail was his blood. Duke could see Damo's veins and his heart, his arms, legs, brain, hands. He could see all of Damo's body by the lay out of his veins and where his blood flowed. Duke blinked a few ties and his vision didn't change. He stood up and looked at Jinx, he knew it was her by the feminine shape of the vein lay out and the temperature of her blood. "This is different." Duke told himself as he looked around for other people. He saw the group of cultists though they were all crowding together he could still clearly define where one system ended and another began. He took a few steps to the right to avoid the heat of Jinx body, and looked for the crowd again. There was now a wall in the way but he could still make out vague outlines, and if he tried hard enough the people became almost completely visible. He could see the form of a wolf' veins in the crowd, it had to be Nayomi. As Damo moved around behind him Duke noticed he didn't need to be looking at Damo to know where he was. The same went for the others, he could pinpoint their location. He could [I]feel[/I] where there blood was, and where it was going. The it came to him, Duke knew what was going on. He had always been conscious of where his blood was, and what it was doing. It must be that now, Duke had become [I]aware[/I] of the blood in others as well. Since Jinx lost focus the fire wall had dissipated, and rather than let his team mates get ton to shreds by vengeful cultists Duke decided to take action. First a single man ran into the room Duke immediately memorized his blood lay out and reacted accordingly. A solid blow directly to the man's jugular vein and a quick kick to the carotid artery in his left leg disrupted the man's blood flow enough to send him to the ground coughing badly. Dukes eyes became wide as he scanned the rest. He could see when their blood provided their muscles with oxygen to work faster, he could see their hart speeding up when they were about to attack, he could see it all. Duke reached into his pocket and grabbed out an x-acto knife, working quickly he made a quick incision to the coughing man's jugular sending him to the ground completely bleeding to death. Duke felt someone coming from behind, someone he wasn't familiar with, though it could have been a team mate who he had yet to truly [I]see[/I] .So Duke refrained from attacking blindly, so to speak. His suspicions were confirmed when he was the man, clearly not one of his own and wielding a large sword, the man swung at Dukes neck. Reacting as soon as he saw the man' muscles tighten to bring up the sword, Duke evaded the blow, and managed to slice open the man's left triceps making his left arm too painful to use. Duke's knives were specially ordered, made of surgical steel with the blade's edge measuring less than a hundredth of a millimetre thick, it cut through human flesh like a hot knife through butter. The cultist was resilient and continued to fight minus one arm. He swung with a right hook, Duke ducked it and cut open the man's side, with his vision aiding him Duke managed to nick another artery. The man fell to the ground bleeding profusely. Duke reached into his other pocket and retrieved his second scalpel replica "Who's next?" he taunted rashly scanning the fanatic's bodies for arteries, large veins and general weak points. OOC: PM me if you think it's too much.

"Pathetic" said the cultist as he pulled the dagger out of Damo's leg. Nayomi was silently happy Damo had passed out, at least they didn't torture him when he couldn't answer. "Well the shrimp may have fallen asleep but you're still awake aren't you honey? Nayomi tried to play dead but the cultist tested her with the dagger. Driving it into her already wounded shoulder. She whimpered as quietly as she could, but still revealed her wakefulness. "See? You are awake. So are you going to talk this time?" Nayomi just growled. "You'll talk, they always talk." Before Jin could make another incision, the door behind him swung open. 3 accompanying cultists ran to the opening to find out what happened but they were immediately incinerated by a flash of fire. [I]'Jinx! I'm so glad you're here!'[/I] Nayomi thought, but was took weak to say. Jin wasn't as rash as the others. Hw waited until Jinx entered the room then caught her by surprise from behind the door. He darted from behind her baring his torture dagger. Jinx turned quickly but not quickly enough. The dagger came crashing down, but an instant before it sank itself into Jinx' chest, Duke tackled the cult leader from the side. They rolled around on the ground wrestling over the dagger. "Get then outta here!" Duke shouted. "Duke, you're here too?" this time Nayomi managed a pained whisper, but fortunately it was enough for Duke to hear. "Of coarse I'm here, we all are. Arrgh" Duke paused to roll over top of Jin. "Speaking of which" Duke whistled loudly again. "Hey guys, they're in here!! The gang should be here in no time." "It's pointless struggling!" Jin said as he got on top again. "We will make it to Eden, and nothing you can d will stop us!" Jin managed to force the dagger down enough to push it into Dukes shoulder. "Ha soon the poison will spread through your system and you're powers will be subdued." "And how exactly will this poison spread?" Duke answered with a cocky tone. "It's in your blood now, soon your very own heart will pump it through your entire body!" Jin laughed as he waited for the poison that had been suppressing Damo and Nayomi's powers to take effect on Duke as well. "Sorry, my blood doesn't work that way." Jin gave Duke a confused look. "Here, I?ll show you." as Duke spoke blood began floating out of his wound. It formed a small disk and spun toward Jin's neck. "Ahh so that's your power." Jin said smoothly as he skilfully jumped up and out of the way of the blood disk. Duke countered the dodge with a blood shot. Aiming quickly he launched forth his 2 fingers and blood shot from is stab wound towards the cult leader's left knee. Jin swiftly side-stepped causing the blood shot to miss. [I]" Damn he's good"[/I] Duke thought to himself. By now Jinx had Damo and Nayomi untied. "The prisoners are escaping! Innocents, get in here!" Jin cried out as he saw Jinx helping both Nayomi and Damo to stand. "I hope Louis can do his job." Duke mumbled to himself "Remember our objective!" Louis said via com link." "speak of the devil" Duke chuckled as he stood. Louis continued "Retrieving Nayomi and Damo is our only objective right now. We aren't here to defeat every member of this damn cult. As soon as we can get them out safe, do so! We'll re-group and come up with a new plan, just get them out safely." The group nodded in unison as they heard the message. It would be tricky to steal some prisoners out of the heart of their enemies lair. Duke went over to the third prisoner Kendra, and carried her over his not bleeding shoulder. "This must be that team mate Reiku was talking about." Jinx nodded as she helped Nayomi walk. "Damn Damo is still out, where the hell is he team, we need someone to help carry him too." Jinx would have answered had she not been forcing Jin out of the room and covering the door with a fiery barrier. "Just tell us when your at the door k guys?" Duke said over the com link, while Jinx kept the cultists out.

Duke paced in front of the group, he had been doing so for nearly an hour, mumbling to himself. "Plans, plans, plans, plans, plans..." His hands were in his pockets fiddling with the x-acto knives in each of them. He seemed to stare blindly as he walked 5 feet then turned on a dime and walked over the exact 5 foot strip over an over. "We've gotta save them." He finally said out loud. "Really? I was just going to go get a pizza." Jinx said with a hit of both sarcasm nd anger in her voice "Of coarse we have to save them!" Duke and Jinx held stared for a minute before Duke finally broke eye contact. "Im sorry, I just-" "I know." Jinx cut him off "It's ok, we know you're angry." Duke nodded and went back to pacing. Reiku had been talking with Louis about the sewer system and the best way to find out where the cult had it's HQ. Using some of the objects left behind from the fight, including: a robe, blood of the men, blood of Nayomi, and one of Damo's shirt's from the Mansion. Louis found he could formulate a locator spell. And so he did. The ancient texts of the spell flashing in his mind. a bright red light appeared in the middle of the group. "We are the only ones who can see it." Louis ensured "So they won't see us coming." "That means we have the element of surprise." Reiku added. A moment later the light made a bee line toward a nearby manhole to the sewer. The light was odd in the fact that it left a strange laser-like trail behind itself, which lingered almost 20 seconds. This was so the group wouldn't have trouble following the light if it turned corner or a similar obstacle got in the way. "Man what I would give to have Damo here right now." Duke said with a strain a he and Louis lifted the manhole from it's place and grudgingly slit it aside. one by one the group funnelled down into the sewer. Lead by the magical locater light. After a very long hour and a half of wondering through sewer pipes after a flying light. The locater finally changed, it wet from the usual bright red to a yellow colour, and got slightly brighter. With it the trail became thicker and easier to follow. "We're getting close, get ready." said Louis in a deathly serious tone. OOC: Hey all, sorry if I played sme pple wrong. Just pm me if I did anything drastically off. I figured I'd give you guys (and girls) a good cliff hanger ending so someone else could lead us into the next [I]chapter[/I] as it were.

Duke looked over Nayomi' lacerated body and was almost brought to tears. His arms still bled like rivers but flesh wounds were nothing to him. He looked up and looked around the area, then let out a whistle which echoed around the area. "Louis!!" Duke shouted "Get the fuck over here!!" His methods were questionable as it attracted other cultists as well. Duke quickly dispatched of them using his blood shots. One got close enough to actually attack and Duke threw his palm forth, a stream of blood crashed into the man's face before Duke sapped his palm against the ground, causing the river of red to crack the man's skull into the pavement as well. His eyes began getting red once more. "Nayomi I might go blind for a little while, I'll be fine, you just hang on ok?" Duke said as he hugged her gently. "Nayomi, I'm here for you." Duke heard footsteps coming from all around. His blood rose up forming several incredibly fast spinning rings around them both. A cultist tried to cut through the rings but upon contact with the highest one his blade was thrown off to the side. He touched a ring and his hand was immediately worn away and his skin torn raw. He pulled back and went after another member of the group. As Louis approached he could also not get within reach of the couple. "Duke? Nayomi?" Louis called into them. Duke opened his solid red eyes. All he could see was bright red. He snapped his fingers and instantly the rings of blood stopped spinning and splashed to the ground. Duke gently let Nayomi to the ground and waved his arms vaguely looking for Louis. Louis grabbed Duke's arm and got a look of slight shock on his face "Duke your eyes are-" "Help her..." Duke interrupted. His blood now pouring onto Louis' hands. "Duke, you-your arms are-" He tried to let Duke know of his condition in case he got the injuries post blindness. But once again was interrupted. "Help her!" Duke nearly shouted "She's badly injured, I'll be fine. Use some healing magic, or call upon good spirits, or get a bloody medical kit! Just do something to help her!" Duke ordered his elder. Louis heard the passion in Dukes voice as the poor guy blindly pointed at Nayomi, while clutching Louis' sleeve. He let go to kneel and felt around the ground for a moment before finding Nayomi again "Everything will be aright, I promise." Duke said hopefully. OOC: oh ya I'm a sucker for the drama, sorry lol

Duke' heart nearly stopped when h heard Nayomi scream. He darted toward her but leaned back and nearly fell over as an enormous hammer missed his head by only an inch or 2. "Holy shit!" Duke exclaimed looking at the huge man behind the hammer. He looked to Nayomi and noticed how feral se was becoming. "Oh this could suck" Duke told himself remembering the last time she went feral like that. He blinked and rubbed his eyes some more. His sight was starting to return to him. Duke thought quickly for a moment then tried getting closer to the giant man. A barely missed hammer swing and rolling dodge later, and Duke was face to stomach with the large man. "What are they feeding you dude?!" Duke asked hypothetically as he dodged the hammer yet again. The man's focus was clearly on Nayomi, which didn't sit well with Duke. He flipped one of the sickles around to a backhand style and stabbed it into the giant's thigh. The huge brute simply frowned and continued his onslaught. Duke checked on Nayomi, becoming more animalistic ever more. He ran over to her ducking the hammer then jumping it to get to her. "Nayomi!" he called out "chill!" She gave no visible or audible notice that she heard him. "Damn it! Still too far" Duke got within a few feet over her before talking again. "Come on Nayomi, you can control this. Think about it, you're stronger than that, don't let it control you." This time she answered him, but not in the way he'd prefer, more of an offensive growl while baring her teeth. "Yah, this could definitely suck a lot...Nayomi! Him, that guy, over there! Uhh get him!" Duke scrambled to handle the situation as best he could.[I] 'If I can't control he animal side, maybe I can at least direct it at our enemies.'[/I] Duke thought to himself. While trying to kept a careful eye on hi ravenous team mate and potential girlfriend.