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Briea blushed lightly as he laughed. She was certain he was laughing at her, at her inane babbling. Not that she could blame him; she'd likely do the same were their situations reversed.
"Yeah," she said, nodding. It's demonic. Sort of. But not quite right. More wild. More magical, if that makes sense. Whatever it is isn't entirely demonic. Possibly not entirely sane either. She shrugged, biting her lower lip nervously.
A loud howl rang out, coming from somewhere to their right. It was followed immediately by a second howl, also to their right, but closer now. Much closer.
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Raze looks to the right. He moves Briea a little ways behind him, so that he could take whatever may be coming their way. He knew Briea could protect herself but he felt an overpowering desire to take all or any pain she may be try to harm her. A warning growl came from his lips in warning to the newcomer to not get to close.
On an impulse, Raze shifted partially to his wolf. His teeth grew sharper and he now had claws instead of nails. His hair became a bit spikey. He upper body grew in size as muscles grew a little more. He barked once at the coming creature.
(Sure I'm cool with her coming in.:))
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Briea smiled as Raze moved between her and the oncoming threat. She could handle herself, though less well in this form. She liked the feeling of being protected, though. It was nice, something she could get used to. Anyways, she was pregnant, so it was only right her mate would want to protect their child. She shivered slightly as he growled, liking the sound a little too much. Oh my, she thought to herself as he partially shifted. He was bigger and stronger in this form, but still attractive to her, even though she could only see his back. It helped that his butt muscles were more defined in this form.
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Tarii sniffed the air once more. Yes, one of her kind was nearby. The smell wasn't quite right, but it was close. There was another demon dog nearby. She howled in happiness once more, not hearing the warning growl that came at almost the same time. She bounded around a corner and came face-to-face with a... something.
She couldn't remember the name for what that was, but he was not what she'd smelled. Wait, yes, he was. Partially. He smelled of dog, but not of demon. Yet she could still smell the scent of demon. Her head darted to one side and she saw another figure standing behind him. It smelled of demon. But not of dog. From the posture of the front creature, she knew he was ready for a fight.
He had captured one of her kind, so she was more than eager to give him one. She snarled and leaped at him, her jaws snapping closed dangerously close to his throat.
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Unexpectedly, Raze had missed the few seconds the creature had came directly at him. Shit! Raze took a quick step back barely avoiding the others bite. He slash at the creature face on reflexes. and took several steps back. He barked and runs at Tarii. He bite at her front leg and slaps at her neck.
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Briea almost screamed when the creature jumped at Raze. She forced herself to swallow the sound so she wouldn't distract him from the fight he now faced.
She wasn't entirely sure what the creature was, but it looked kind of familiar. Like something she might have seen in a book sometime before. With it closer now, she could smell it better. It smelled demonic and... was that fae? possibly, but it also smelled wrong, like there was something the matter with it. Something magical. Maybe a curse?
She racked her brain to try and remember what creature she knew of that belonged to both the demon and fae realms. After a couple of seconds, she remembers: hellhounds! Hellhounds are shapeshifters, one form is demonic, the other is fae but may appear human. This particular one, though, wasn't acting quite right. Was he cursed to stay in one form? That was said to bring madness if the curse lasted long enough. But that could take years, even decades.
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Though Briea didn't know it for sure, she was right. Tarii was trapped in the one form, and had been for nearly fifty years. That would take a toll on anyone's sanity.
Tarii jumped back, narrowly avoiding the creature's claws. His bark made her grin, insomuch as a hellhound can grin. He was taunting her, the fool! She easily avoided his teeth and ducked under his claws as he launched another attack. She rolled and came up on his other side, lunging for his throat once more.
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Missing grabbing her neck, he growled. I must give in fully to my wolf. Raze jumps away from Tarii. He shifted into his wolf. He had white fur that was white as snow and an strange mark that appeared on the center of his forehead. His ears were triangular in shape and they were pointed up in alert. His tail was long and pointed up as he stood there. Without an warning he springs foreward at Tarii. He bite at her legs and took off at a ran. He barked a mocking bark daring her to follow him. He ran at a slow pace to see if she could follow and planned to speed up once she did until he came to a good spot to fight her without worry about Briea.
(Ooo this should be fun. Sorry my internet is being bad to me:()
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Tarii easily ducked the grab attempt by the odd-looking being. When he shifts fully, she finally realizes what he is. Some part of her mind does, at any rate. She slid sideways as he bit at her legs on his way by. He barked at her, taunting her. But she didn't care about that. He'd abandoned his demon prisoner, so she went to check on the girl. She slowly moved forwards, trying not to startle the girl.
She sniffed the air as she got closer to the girl. She smelled like dog ((wolf)), just a little. Which meant they'd been intimate. A second sniff, this one just millimeters from the girl's legs told her she was pregnant. Which, to her twisted mind, could only mean one thing: he'd raped and impregnated the girl. Which explained her current terror.
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Briea was a bit concerned that Raze hadn't managed to land any hits on the hellhound. But the hellhound hadn't hit him yet either, so she guessed that was alright. When Raze left her, she expected the hellhound to follow his taunts. She was scared stiff when the thing approached her instead. It sniffed at her a couple of times, the last one far too close for comfort, then turned and took off after Raze.
What the fuck was that?? she wondered. She slowly sank to the ground, shaking slightly. In her sheer terror, she hadn't even attempted to defend herself. She'd never done that before.
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Tarii turned and snarled a challenge at the retreating wolf. Then she bounded after him at top speed, fury fueling her actions. Once she judged herself close enough, she sprang onto his back, mouth open, teeth aimed at the scruff of his neck.
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His mind searched desperately for a way to put himself between Briea and the hellhound. It was then that Raze felt Briea terror and he himself had took step mini steps toward the two. I can jump her if she tried to sink her teeth into Briea. He started to ran toward the two. Just than Tarii turned and charged him. Raze came to a hasty stop and turned in the opposite direction. She was coming for him and he had to get her away from Briea as much as he could. He startled running by due to his loss of speed he was slow at regaining his top speed quick enough.
He hear her feet left the ground and knew she.was now in the air. He tried to speed up but in a matter of seconds he felt Tarii weight on his back. The jump caused him to roll over pulling her with him. He was trying his best to avoid her fangs but that too to no avail. Her fangs pierced his shoulder. He was on the ground with her snapping at him. As she bite more at his neck he kicked at her with as much force as he could to break her hold on him. Once he did, he pounced on her holding her by the neck with his paw at her throat. He bit her ear to get her attention to stop and growled.
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The bite to Tarii's ear just served to enrage her further. She threw off the larger beast with ease, though he took part of her ear with him. She would grow another in a day or two, she knew, so she wasn't that worried about it. She rolled to her feet and shook her head, spraying her blood over several feet of the maze hedges.
She growled and began to circle him, looking for an opening. Once she found one, she would pounce. And end him.
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He circled to the left sizing her up. His red and yellow eyes following her every step. Taking the opportunity to make the move, Raze pounces Tarii. This time however he revered back to his half shift form in mid air. Sitting on Tarii mid section, he used his claws to repeatedly slash at her black body. He was slashing at a rate of two slash per second. The intent to kill filled the air around him.
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Briea gasped as she saw the shape beneath Raze begin to shrink. She stood up to get a better look and screamed. "No! Raze! Stop!" She ran towards him, yelling over and over for him to stop. Unless she was greatly mistaken, he was in a killing rage. She reached for his arm once she reached him, her shoes slipping on the blood now coating the grass.
"Raze! Please stop! Please, baby. You have to stop. You're going to kill her," she said, pleading with him on behalf of the unconscious female below him. "She was cursed. That's why she attacked us. Oh, gods, please don't kill her!" Tears began to stream from her eyes as she tried to reason with her mate. She hoped she could reach him through his rage. That would be the girl's only hope.
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Briea touch combined with her yelling had managed to stop the raging werewolf. Stopping his hand in mis-strike he turns to Briea with a look of confusion. "What are you talking about?" He noticed the panic worry in Briea face. "Kill her?"He looked back down at the unconscious form of Tarii. The pupils of his eyes widen to cover most of his eyes. He jumped back from Tarii making sure he moved Tarii back a bit to keep her from slidinh on the grass.
Frowning, he starts at Tarii while letting go of Briea after making sure she stood upright. "I didn't-" Raze started to say but his words were caught in his throat. He had not known that she was a person. Looking at his bloody hands, an sicking feeling begin to form in his chest the more he thought about the fact that he killed someone. Sure he killed animals but that was for foods. He never killed another before. His eyes returned to the bloody form of Tarii.
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"Oh my God! She's alive! How?" She shook her head; the how of it didn't matter. What mattered was keeping her alive. "Stay here. Guard her in case something else comes. I'm going to go find help."
Briea turned back the way they'd came just minutes earlier and sprinted out of the maze. At the entrance, she stopped briefly to try and figure out where to go for help. One of the dorms? No, I doubt a student can handle this. The student center is still open, maybe there will be someone there who can help. She took off running towards the student center. She went inside and straight to reception; the secretary was nice and she was the only other person on campus Briea had met, so she had to hope she'd know what to do.
((This is perfect. It gives me a way to bring in Sam! ^_^ ))
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He turned to Tarii. He walked as far as he dared. He kneel down on the ground looking into her face. His instincts told him to growl another warning growl but he didn't. "Why did you attack?" He avoided looking at his blood hands and her blood body.
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Briea soon returned, followed closely by the angel/werewolf hybrid. "Any change? Is she still alive?"
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"Let me look at her," Sam said, easing around the girl he'd followed here and approaching the fae girl lying in a pool of her own blood. He knelt in the liquid and felt her neck for a pulse. "She's alive. Now, one of you tell me what happened while I figure out what's wrong with her." He couldn't see any cuts or scratches or anything else that would explain all of the blood.
Of course, he had no way of knowing the ones she'd had before transforming had healed upon transformation. The rest were almost completely healed already. She was just weak from blood loss.
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Briea shook her head. Then, realizing he couldn't see her, she spoke up. "No. She was a large dog. A, um, hellhound I think. The tip of her tail was fire and it looked like there was a line of fire going down her back.
"But Raze didn't attack her. She attacked him first."
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Sam frowned. A hellhound? So she was demonic, in part. Damn. He didn't heal demons as a general rule, but he figured he would have to make some exceptions during his time here. "How did she act?"
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"Feral. Crazy."
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Tarii coughed. "Where am I?" she asked, her voice thin and weak.
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Tarii chuckled weakly. "Congrats on the child, by the way." She turned her head and looked at Briea where she stood next to Raze. She gave the pair a small smile.
"I need blood. Human blood. None of you are human."
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"She'll be fine," Sam said. "Her voice is stronger already. And she's complaining. That's generally a good sign."
He ignored Tarii sticking her tongue out at him. She was definitely recovering.
"To answer your question, this place is called the College of Magic. You're welcome to stay while you heal. And, if you want, maybe you could be come a student."
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"Thank you, but I'm sure the Prince will come for me soon. I am one of his guards. I believe I was sent here, stuck in my hellhound form, as punishment. For what?" she asked, then shrugged. "I don't recall. Probably running away because he wouldn't give me my one day off a month." She rolled her eyes. She wasn't really looking forward to going back there.
"Speak of the devil," she said, nodding towards a doorway starting to form behind Sam, the door itself surrounded by light. Any moment now, it would open onto the faerie realm and He would come strolling through to take her home. The bastard.
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"What the hell?" Briea said, looking a the door that seemed to be forming out of thin air. This was unlike any magically-created door she'd ever seen. The outline made of pure light was the weirdest part.
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If you can, look over it and let me know if I should add anything. I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
I'll have to do the kick-in-the-pants message tomorrow (or Wednesday) as I am suddenly exhausted. Damn I hate being sick. And the long-ass recovery from it.))
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Marick Darkfire walked through the door of light. Faery paths led him here. He felt like something was drawing him here, to this place. "Tarii." He whispered. Had he found her? He looked around and saw her on the floor. "What happeneded?!" He demanded.
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Sorry. I thought that was clearer.
Also, Tarii's laying on the ground still. She's too weak from blood loss to get up just yet. You may want to read [or at least scan] from her appearance in post #54 down to see just why that is. ^_^))
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She'd served her punishment after all. Though from his question and tone, she began to doubt he had given her this punishment as his mother had insisted when she brought her here. The bitch. She smiled lightly at the thought - she'd been a literal bitch for the past however many years. Time was hard to track in hellhound form.
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Sam glared at the newcomer. "You should know. You sent her here, didn't you?" The man's whisper of the girl's name made him doubt it. "Some punishment for something or other, or so she claimed."
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"I think she smelled the child when she sniffed me up close," Briea whispered to Raze. "Hellhounds have a really good sense of smell. Possibly the best in the world."
She took a step back when the door opened and a man stepped through. He wasn't acting anything like she'd expected. She'd figured, from Tarii's words, that he'd just barge in and take her away, probably without saying a word. Maybe glaring at them all before he left, but that's about all she expected. The Prince's whisper of Tarii's name had shocked her. He sounded like he didn't know she was here. How had that happened?
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"How long have I been gone, Highness?" Tarii asked. She knew it had been a long time, maybe even decades, but not how long.
((Fifty-ish years.))
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Lura wrote: ""I got my ass kicked," Tarii said in answer to the Prince's question. "I, uh, bit off more than I could chew when I attacked that werewolf," she nodded towards Raze and Briea where they stood sever..."((I feel like I'm playing his personality wrong already...I'm suppose to be here to punish you? i'm a bit lost here.))
He frowned, "Fifty....maybe sixty years?" He looked at the others, "Werewolves?" He asked. Interesting.. He offered her his hand, "Here, let me help you up." He smiled softly at her, why was he being so nice? Was it because he hasn't seen her in some time?
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Iesha (In east shade house at...) wrote: "(So do you want to edit Kris before I post?)"((Edit? Did I miss something or do something wrong?))
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Iesha (In east shade house at...) wrote: "(No you made it seem like you wanted to fix something...)"((No, not really. You go ahead and post. I'm going to read over the posts so I get the flow of what's going on.))
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When Briea whispered to him, he nodded his head but kept his eyes on the newcomer. I should have guessed that much. She's like a cousin to me-just more demon in nature. His eyes darted between the two creatures who started to speak to each other. He watched the newcomer walk over to Tarii and offered to help her stand. "This should be interesting" He muttered more to himself as he watched them.
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((She was sent here as a punishment. Supposedly by the Prince himself, but to go along with your post better, maybe not. I changed it up a bit so that his mother brought her here, saying that the Prince had decided on this as her punishment.
He's acting like he has a soft spot for her, which is right. And, who knows, he could have changed in the time she was gone. Play him however you want to play him, Kris. Change his personality if you want. Just be sure to go and edit it on his profile if you do.))
Lura wrote: "Sexy~The~T.A.R.D.I.S. wrote: "...((I feel like I'm playing his personality wrong already...I'm suppose to be here to punish you? i'm a bit lost here.))..."((She was sent here as a punishment. Sup..."
((Okay.))
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He frowned, "Fifty....maybe sixty years?" He looked at the others, "Werewolves?" He asked. Interesting.. He offered her his hand, "Here, let me help you up." He smiled softly at her, why was he being so nice? Was it because he hasn't seen her in some time? "
Tarii blinked. Twice. He's being nice? To me? "Thank you," she murmured, slipping her hand into his. She was pretty sure she couldn't stand on her own at the moment. She still hadn't fed to replace all the blood she'd lost.
She slowly sat up, groaning softly as her head started to spin. "I don't think I can stand."
Lura wrote: "Sexy~The~T.A.R.D.I.S. wrote: "...He frowned, "Fifty....maybe sixty years?" He looked at the others, "Werewolves?" He asked. Interesting.. He offered her his hand, "Here, let me help you up." He s..."
((I hope it's okay f we go with the mother sending her here.))
He sighed, "I....could......carry you?" He said, half heartedly, "So, tell me, where are we, why are you here and why did these wolves attack you?" From his tone, it was obvious that he already disliked the werewolf. He frowned, "I've been searching for my bodyguard since she vanished."
Why is she babbling? Raze stopped walking to turn to Briea. He folds his arms over his chest. A smile spreaded over his lips as he started to laugh at her rambling finding it amusing that she was trying to explain to him. He had took her rambling as being nervous. He wasn't aware of the deminic presence that seemed to loom around,, but he did catch an foul odor. He stopped laughing and turned around feeling a over powering desire to guard Briea from any oncoming threat, rather a threat was present of not.
"You smell that Bri? " Raze took a step closer to Briea. He knew he would continue onward at a caution pace. I smell a presence but I don't know what it is. It smells similar to you but you smell a lot better. He added the last part to get a smile out of Briea as he didn't explain his laughter earlier because he smelled the other ordor.