War of the supernaturals II (IC Thread)

[Sean Renaud]

"I need something that stands out. I don't always remember if I parked four spots from the entrance or five." He commented idly. He did recognize the character but only because it had been insanely popular at one point. He'd chosen it the same way he chose them all. Whatever was brightly colored and easy to grab at the gas station.

Kenneth listened. "I don't normally take a lot of time looking into murders or kidnappings. I have all the data compiled of course, but nine times out of ten a murder is just plain old human. I mostly look into bizarre things like supposed animal mutilations, particularly persistent or recent cryptid sightings. Unexplained mass hallucinations."

When the waiter returned Kenneth to ordered in German though much clunkier than hers. The effort he put into it was obvious, as was the fact that he'd been speaking the language for a year or two tops.

"We think they are going to be raising a demon? Well that could be problematic. I haven't encountered one of those yet."

 

[haremfaery]

Bahiya and Kenneth

"We all do. But this... It was hard to see the pattern. The murders were done by humans as far as we can tell and scattered far and wide. Had they restricted themselves to a smaller area, or better yet, just one country, we would have noticed much sooner. Now we don't have much time." She sipped her drink.

"Problematic? You have a gift for understatement, Mr. Langston. Who this group is--this cult, whatever they hope to do, the demon has other plans to be sure. Despite what the lore would have you believe, much more than runes and a circle of salt are needed to contain a demon. That is, if one can be contained at all. Best to stop them before they get started. Who knows what they might call up?"

 

[Sean Renaud]

"Well if the ritual is global no wonder it didn't show up in. . .my. . .routine. . .wait. What?" He wasn't an expert by any means in the occult aspects of the E.M. In fact he was a hold out, he didn't really believe in the hocus pocus mumbo jumbo aspects of it. There were monsters sure, things that could do things he couldn't explain. Just like for years nobody had believed there were squids that could drag men into the sea until the Japanese had caught on a few years back.

Still his limited knowledge told him that a global spell was either laughably absurd or apocalyptic. "Did I hear that properly?"

"I'm not interested in containment. Sufficient bullets should solve it. If the rumors are Damian and . . . her name escapes me defeated a demon just a few weeks back. Damian is a bad ass don't get me wrong. I'm good in hand to hand, that man was a God. But he still insisted on swords. If he got one with a sword I think I can shoot one."

 

[haremfaery]

"Mr. Langston, there are demons and then there are demons. I expect this group is trying to summon an arch-demon, or multiple demons. Did you know that King Solomon summoned demons and enslaved them--bent them to his will, in order to build his temple? Not only that, but he wrote the manual on how he did it. What do you think would happen to our world if some idiots commanded a horde of demons? Or worse, what if they raise them and can't control them? Better to stop this before they even start. If we can."

The waiter brought their food. Bahiya took a few bites as the waiter walked away. "I only hope that they truly are idiots and can only summon a minor demon--in which case, your bullets will be sufficient. However, the care with which they have planned their sacrifices says differently."

 

[Sean Renaud]

"It's basic reading. It's supposedly the basis for the genie or djinni myth. I'm not against stopping them from doing anything, the only reason I wouldn't investigate normally is because basic murder isn't our juristiction." Even without it Kenneth Langston had gotten into his fair share of trouble or what was considered off the record work. "If it's important enough to send you that makes it priority one. I'm just not going to be surprised when it turns out no different from when I was told to get some goat cult. Aside from animal cruelty though it was just dumb kids being dumb kids."

Kenneth took a sip of his wine. "Everything can be killed, if you feel that strongly about it I'll make sure I bring something with a little more kick than usual." He smiled.

 

[haremfaery]

Bah

"This international angle tells me it's more than some dumb kids. I take it then that you are a skeptic even with all you've seen. I suppose that's one way to keep your sanity in this business." She laughed lightly.

"I have the name of a man not far outside Munich who seems to be involved. We should investigate him as our next order of business, I think." Bahiya was looking forward to wrapping this up as quickly as possible and then taking a few days of R&R here in Munich. With Kenneth.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Amir paused momementarily mulling over the question Melea asked. "Yeah that probably wouldn't go very well." If this. . .whatever the fuck it was they were chasing was hostile anything that sounded like come out could very easily push it from hanging back into outright attacking. "Please come out, we don't want to hurt anybody." He raised his hands and took another step back. "I mean really." Right then he was really wishing he'd made good on that joke to raid a local firearm shop from top to bottom. It was a lot easier to stand your ground against scary monsters with a grenade launcher.

"Look we're the good guys." Amir said. "But the bad guys will be here and we don't know how long we have to spare."

 

[Sean Renaud]

"How di-" Kenneth was going to ask how they even put together an international string of murders but then decided that he didn't really need to know. He had focused most of his attention on combat training and knew the lore just well enough to identify the most common on sight. If they were aligning themselves to the leylines during the Hunter's Moon or some such foolishness he knew just enough to nod and get the gist.

"Agreed, if you know where we can get some information then lead the way."

 

[kizkiz]

Ahnah, Melea, Amir

Ahnah considered the words spoken and the actions of the pair. She lacked the sophistication to realize that humans often lured their prey in with sweet words and daggers behind their backs. Instead, in her world a rival either ran forward to rip your throat out or fled not to bother you. Since they hadn't done either, she let out the wind in a slow gust that pushed debris against the wall and could be felt outside, but it was wasn't the gale force blast it could have been.

She veered into her mostly human form and stalked out. Her eyes were feral but intelligent. "How friend? What do?"

 

[haremfaery]

Bahiya and Kenneth

((LOL, I can hear all this in the actor's voice and leylines for the win ))

So Kenneth really wasn't a believer. Not that belief had anything to do with it. Bahiya smiled ruefully, it was very possible that he would be a believer by the time this was all finished.

"There are more things in heaven and earth..." She quoted quietly to herself, then louder to Kenneth. "There is a man just outside Munich. Whether he is the next victim or one of the perpetrators, we do not know. All we know is that the signs point to him as the key. I have an address. Shall we go?"

It was a "secret" known by many in the higher echelons that the EM employed some of the same "people" they were hunting. Particularly those with precognition and other mental gifts. These people for the most part were all too human in appearance unlike the abominations like werewolves and vampires.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I don't doubt that." He replied.

Once they were outside Kenneth started to hand her the keys then stopped. There were several conflicting reasons why ranging from she was a woman and probably didn't want to drive, she didn't know her way around Munich to him wanting to take care of her. Ultimately he settled on she's the boss and the boss doesn't drive, she gets driven and let it rest.

Getting out of Munich was a chore of busy streets and seemingly chaotic intersections. More time was spent reaching the edge of the grand city than it was on the fairly open country road right beyond it's borders so they made good time after that.

"It should be just up the way."
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[Stalzyn]

Lyden and Arabelle : the mansion

It was like the fantasy god Zeus was hurling thunder bolts across the sky. He felt her walls tighten around his shaft, her breathing rising rapidly as her mountainous dam broke. She arched her back and threw her head backwards, eyes rolling in their sockets as she came.
To Lyden it was much worse, pleasurably worst. He froze in ecstatic rigidity as he climaxed. The goddess above him had driven his desires over the edge and far beyond. When he felt her tighten around his shaft, it was too much to hold back any longer. He so much wanted to. Yet with all his willpower and experience granted only from age he was as always powerless under her. His orgasm shook him so hard his teeth rattled and he nearly collapsed when the final wave subsided.
She slumped down on him, her face muzzling in his neck. Lyden wrapped an arm round her waist while the other caressed her long red hair. Light from the warm morning sun greedily slipped into the room through the open window. It rays fell on the two sweaty lovers casting a gold-like glow to their sheen skins. She brought her head up and sighed, satisfaction twinkling in her eyes.
"Did you extend my orgasm as well, or was that all me.... and your cock?"

Lyden just gazed into her eyes, unable to answer. "You cannot possibly imagine how I feel anytime we're together." He thought.
Then remembering that they were connected in both body and mind, leaned forward slowly and kissed her. "I love you." He poured out then gently rolled her to the side.

In a flash Lyden was up and buckling his belt. His eyes darted around the room and then fell back on the bed. On Arabelle. She laid on her side, her head resting on her palms weighted on her elbow. Lyden had to will himself to remove gaze from her wet dripping snatch
"Remind me next time to put my shirt into the wardrobe, I'm certainly not that tall" Lyden jokingly said pointing up at his black T-shirt floating amidst other house furniture.
Arabelle had little control of her powers when in the throes of ecstasy. Sometimes her scream is accompanied with crackling lightning, other times the mansion receive a blackout and times like this, stuffs refuse to obey gravity.

"Oh come on Baby doll, my shoe too?" He asked catching sight of his shoe hanging on the window frame.

 

[Stalzyn]

La Casandra casino: Munich

The casino was empty, hauntingly silent. La Casandra was never empty, not even in the dead of the night. There was always business, always. Three women in red robe stood round a circle where a solitaire table once stood. In the middle of the ash circle was a little blonde kid, the boy probably thirteen or fourteen laid horizontally, facing the ceiling. His eyes were shut but his pupils were obviously moving in their sockets.
The three raised their hands towards the boy and chanted in an ancient tongue, one sounding like Artex and Latin mixed together. Their hands started glowing a deep red the more they chanted. As their pitch increased, the kid gradually lifted off the ground, defying all laws of physics.. and just as they reached their crescendo, the body burst into a thousand bits. Like a nuclear bomb had been in the boy's digestive tract.
Strangely enough the scattered flesh and blood never left the circumference of the circle.
"Just one more left and I'll great lord will be revived again. Sisters let us prepare to journey to America. To New York. The prophecy points that the mixed human is there." The apparent leader said in heavy German accent.

The trio turned towards the exit, they walked majestically pass the crowd of people who was under their stun spell. As they stepped out of La Casandra, the spell wore of and the noise came back followed by incessant screams as they noticed the guts and blood.

 

[haremfaery]

"You cannot possibly imagine how I feel anytime we're together." Lyden thought.

"Ah, Beloved, but I can." When our minds are connected as they are often, I can feel what you are feeling overlaid upon my own. It can be disconcerting but what a rush to fuck and be fucked at the same time.

Arabelle laughed lightly and used her magic to set things right in the room. "There. It's not like I do it on purpose and you know it."

She stood up and padded to the bathroom to clean up then returned and began dressing again.

"So...we go to Munich and do what? Crush the evil cult and be back home for breakfast?" She stepped into his arms and kissed him.

 

[Stalzyn]

After all documents have been checked and all protocols observed, the pair boarded the plane.
Inside, Arabelle sat close to the window while Lyden sat by her side. In less than a minute, he scanned everyone on the plane twice and finding no supernatural or suspicious human that might be a hunter, he relaxed back into his seat. Arabelle must have sensed how tensed he was, she gently placed her hand on his, entwined her fingers in his and smiled reassuringly. Lyden smiled back then closed his eyes in an effort to relax.
So their flight won't be jaded and uneventful, he created a mental world of a garden and drew her into it. He was on his back, shirtless and facing the growing cloud who were now chasing the evening sun. The leaves rustled and danced in the cool on-shore breeze coming from the vast ocean at the east.
Arabelle materialized sitting on a rock. Wearing a blue Victorian era silk gown that stops at her thighs.
Displaying luscious flesh to Lyden's hungry eyes.
"Do you remember this spot?" He asked sitting up, "You used to come here every sundown, away from your wicked stepmother."

 

[haremfaery]

Bahiya and Kenneth in Prof Kurt Romanov's office, outside Munich

When they pulled up the drive and parked in front of the ivy-covered brick building, Bahiya toyed with the idea of waiting while Kenneth opened her door for her, but she was afraid that rather than asserting her dominance, it would simply indicate that she was old-fashioned. Besides, Kenneth didn't seem to be disputing her authority in this case.

She thought the campus was a cliche of the hallowed halls of learning. Cap and gowned professors walked from building to building, knots of students sat under trees discussing Great Ideas.

Inside, the building was hushed. They passed classrooms and professors' offices until they came to a door stenciled with "Prof. Kurt Romanov." Taped on the wall by the door was a class schedule and his office hours.

She knocked on the door, "Professor Romanov? It's Bahiya Cherkas to talk to you about the matter my ... agency contacted you about. So sorry about my late arrival. Traffic getting out of the city, you know."

 

[haremfaery]

((I haven't seen the orig Arabelle post anything, so until she does, I guess I will continue. I don't want to see this thread stall or die out.

Seems she is working on a post. So I am bowing out as Arabelle.))

 

[Sean Renaud]

Amir

Amir blinked for a moment listening to the broken English. If he hadn't been halfway to panicking he might have laughed. "How do we do what?" He asked. There was another notable pause as he played the words back in his head.

"Look we need to leave before the bad Men in Black come." Amir said taking another step back. The monster didn't look poised to attack but he certainly didn't want to be too close encase things changed suddenly.

"Is she one of you?" He asked Melea. He was still figuring out how all the different monster types worked.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Kenneth Langston was a step too slow to open the door for her, but not too slow to close it behind her and then fall into step just a half step behind her. If she had been a male, or simply less attractive the distance would have been ideal. He was far enough behind Bahiya that he wasn't going to trip over her if she suddenly stopped or changed direction. At the same time he was close enough to yank her out of the way if a threat arose. Not that he anticipated one here, there were better places to ambush them for starters.

The downside of that closeness was he couldn't really soak in her beauty without it being obvious. So he didn't, or rather he focused his attention on her silken hair and just accepted what was.

Kenneth removed his fedora when she knocked holding it close to his chest. Close to the porcelain weapon and waited calmly. He suddenly wished he'd asked her level of skill in the field. She certainly looked like she was more comfortable with a pen than a sword but he knew that appearances were deceiving in this business.

When she mentioned the traffic as their reason he had to force his eyes not to roll back in his head. Right, traffic. Storm of the century keeping you in the air for twenty minutes had nothing to do with it. Of course he maintained his silence and even if she had looked back she would only have seen the slightest tightening of his full lips.

Besides it wasn't honesty he prided himself on. It was punctuality.

 

[Stalzyn]

Romanov was a little taken aback when he heard the knock. And then the voice.
"Do come in." he said finally finding his voice. As the two agents walked in, Romanov rounded the table and hastened to the door. After making sure that it was locked twice he went back to his table and brought out from the shelf a tiny gadget almost the size of an egg.
Romanov placed it on the center of the table... it spanned for some seconds then stood erect on it point. Romanov turned gaze from the oval device to his two visitors.
"The Organization sent only the two of you?" Asked the old man doubt and anxiety clearly glistening in his tune. Do they know the magnitude of what is about to happen? Must they take every thing so lightly? Romanov couldn't help but ponder.

 

[Sweetandsexy3]

"Not really..." Arabelle said getting up "Doesn't seem like a memory I would want to remember. Usually when your running away from something you just want to forget..." She sat down next to him and tucked a few strands of hair behind her ear "Do you ever wonder if it's better that I can barely remember my old life, lives?"

 

[Stalzyn]

Lyden sat up and brought his palm to her cheek. "It's like you're asking if its better to forget what once hurt you. One should not forget the monsters he encountered on Brooklyin street. Knowledge of your past life might be stressful and hurting at the start...but trust me, it gives you strength to move into the future."

 

[Sweetandsexy3]

"I just want to put the past behind me. I want to be able to move on with my life with you. This one, that's happening right now." Arabelle said " Don't you think it's time for us to create some new memories?"

 

[Sean Renaud]

"Other agents are performing their duties already. Two of us should be sufficient to hear your information." Kenneth replied casually.

His eyes only remained on Romanov for a few seconds before going to the rest of the room. Bahiya would be more than adequate at information gathering so he was already casing the situation. Entrances, possible cover, obvious weapons of opportunity,oddities in the decor.

Kenneth was a man who fought monsters for a living and the first step to not being murdered was to already have a plan before a fight started.

 

[Stalzyn]

"Two of you?" Romanov asked not sure he heard clearly. Maybe he meant there were many more parked outside. The look he got from the lady told him how serious they were. "Very well, then. So have you been able to decipher the patterns?" He asked as he browsed the shelves.