Woven Rings Of Destiny ( Continuation of The Family)

[poohlive]

"I don't get it, you're here, but you're not?"
She seemed tired, as if the question should be obvious. He was getting tired of that look. How in the hell was he supposed to know everything? Why did she have to make him look so stupid.
This was his dream after all.
"The bonding, don't you remember, you drank last night, the tained blood."
Faint memories of puking came to him, the taste so horrible. It was as if he had drank cold blood. Nothing was worse than cold blood.
"We bonded, so what, that doesn't prove why you're here."
"I'm not here, asshole, I thought we went over this."
He gave her a curious look, still unsure of it all.
"I'm not Aria, this isn't me," she leaned forward, looking right at him, their faces inches apart. All of the sudden she changed, and he was looking at himself.
"I'm you," Lance said, "I'm just the smart side of you, the one that has been trying desperately to get you to stop acting like an idiot. You haven't listened to yourself, so..."
Lance changed back into Aria, "I thought I might get some help."
This stupid game was tiring him.
"Whatever."
Aria pouted, "Something wrong Lance, the truth hurt?"
"No, this whole thing is just stupid. Why are we discussing stupid bickering when the quest is out there?"
"Damnit Lance, have you lost sight of everthing already? Don't you even get it anymore? This isn't about the quest, it never has been about the quest, it's always been about you."
He stood up, adament about this, "There are rules we all need to follow. No one knows this except me, and no one is listening to me."
"Lance, the rules have changed. They've changed before your very eyes and you don't even know it. You are bound to the book, no one else."
He was shocked, "No, we are all bound. We are bound to the book, and the magic, and the pages. They need to be cleaned, we need to cleanse ourselves. That's how it's...."
She cut him off, and when she spoke, he didn't know why, but he stopped speaking and listened.
Really listened.
"No, Lance. The rules were the same, a long time ago. At one time everyone needed to be a part of everything, but not anymore. You are bound, the only reason you exist is because of the book, and it doesn't need everyone else's soul anymore. It's you, it's always you."
"But... but..."
"Lance, times change. There is no more rules, and no more telling others how it's going to be. This isn't history, this is the present, and the rules are all changing. There is no one quest, there are a bunch of little quests. Everyone has their own destiny to fulfill, and yours is the book.
"As far as everyone else, they don't need to listen to you, and I'd be surprised if they ever did from now on."
Lance looked at the book. It's lifeless canvas front, moldy and greasy hung before him. He felt weaker because of it, just from looking at it, from it's presence. It fed from him, it devoured his soul, and he knew it was the truth.
The book was his responsibility, and no one elses. He knew nothing, everything he had leanred was nothing more than a drop in the quest. He was wrong.
Lance was wrong.
Aria kneeled against him, her hand touching his face.
"It's ok, when you wake up it'll be over, and soon enough there won't be any more pain. Just hold on a little bit longer."
She kissed him, lips touching for a breif moment and before he knew it, he was coughing.


He was coughing.
All at once he heaved, as blood and bile rose up from him, and fell onto the carpet where the small pool had been forming earlier. Lance held his head high enough so he wouldn't drown as he let go of everythign in his stomach.
Not much was in there, but what was left came out as fast as it could.
Lance moved just far enough so that when he laid down he wouldn't fall back inot his own puke.
He breathed in the cool good air, but it didn't help any. Strained muscles and ancient bones shot pain throughout him. The way he had slept sent shots of pain throughout him, and he couldn't help but let out a terrible groan.
It was a sickening sound, something alien in his ears. He had never felt pain before, never been a victim of it. Pain was something that didn't phase him, it was a reaction of nothing more than synapses though.
The book took away this barrier though, it show through his threshold for pain, and accented everything. It tore at him, devoured him from the inside out, and he was helpless to stop it.
His eyes were fuzzy, and he wasn't sure quite what he saw. A figure above him, maybe two.
"The ring," he remembered something that Aria had whispered to him, "The ring, it helps the pain."
Not for him, his pain would never go away.
Not until the book as destroyed.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I took all my strength to not lose my own dinner.
"Um I.. Gawd!" I turned around from Lance quickly, wondering what the fuck he had eaten?
"Mag's go grab a towel for me please?" I turned back to Lance, he moved some what from where he was but not too far. I bent down, bracing my feet and back, Lifting him was easier than I thought it would be. Hell he didn't weight much of anything.
He tried to protest something but I ignored it, lay him on the couch and wandered into the kitchen.
"Mag's? I'm going to run to the store and get something for breakfast and perhaps something to calm Lance's stomach down." I took a drink of cool water, hoping it would help. I had heard what he mumbled, I heard it clearly, and I wasn't buying into it. I was not going there again, if it helped in healing, why wasn't I healed? I felt the anger grow inside again, my hand trembling as I lowered the glass from my lips and stared out into the street.
The images flashed quicker and quicker inside my mind, melding together and then I heard something? Shaking myself out of it I looked behind me to see what was up when I felt the stinging. Glancing down at my hand, I held half of the glass I had before.
"Shit!" I dropped it into the sink, blood welling up from several cuts. I suckled on my finger trying to stop the flow.
Cursing under my breath, I grabbed a towel and walked back over to lance. Sitting down on the edge of the couch, I wiped off his face with the cool rag and then his mouth. Throwing a blanket over him I rose up and located my wallet.
"I'll be back with some thing hearty to eat." I grabbed my coat and vanished out the door.

 

[nightray]

In a dark cold place separated from time and space as we know it lies a being that was throne from the universe by god many millennia ago. This being is as old as god maybe even apart of god the evil part true but still apart of him. No one leaving or dead knows only god do’s and even he has put it out of his mind as being permanently disposed of. Witch was the mistake the being was looking for. Hundreds of years ago he managed to influence the berth of his escape. He sudelly guided this key through its life with out it even knowing of the strings attached to it, strings as fine as hair but stronger then steal. He showed him where the alter is when he was still a chilled and guided the one that bit him.

He had him make friends with some of the strongest to learn and survive. Now the time was right to bring his key to him and to unleash the evil with in the evil that would bring down gods rain and destroy the universe in the proses so the nameless one can reform it in to his owne twisted image and imprison god in his own jail.

On top of the ephaltower a dark ripple appears around Ray engulfing him. The cold that came from that ripple of darkness was enough to freeze every one arund Ray solid a few falling off baleens shattering on impact like they where made of ice.

Ray

I feel the cold surround me pulling me in to it the dark cold burrowing in to my sole. I feel the persons of some thing powerful more powerful then any thing I felt before. I drop to my knees and then to my face groveling in front of the being my will crushed the will that I thought was unbreakable shattered in an instant.

I cringe as a soft cold voice enters my mined. “Ray you are reedy the time is right the book is in your grasp. I shoed you where the alter is take the book and free me from this prison.” I cringe as the voice chuckles in my mined as the evil that was locked away hidden in the depths of my soul rears up with in me unleashed for the first time it socks in to me suddenly the cold of this place seemed only natural as I stand up an evil grins twisting my lips as my eyes look in to the depthless darkness if one could see then they would cringe at the evil brooding in them waiting for its release. The eyes are black with dark shadows seeming to drift in there depths menacing and waiting to enialate.

I throw my head back and laugh with the dark power surging threw me the egzilorion of being free of the good that was forced on me for cover. Even though I didn’t know that this was my true calling I new that I was meant for grate things and hear it was reveled to me at last I’m the destroyer. My smile terns to a grimace even cat could tell I was meant for grate things even though she could tell that they where dark things.

“I will do as you wish my master I will set you free and then we will destroy every thing together.” I yell in to the endless darkness my voice echoing back at me reverberating in my own skull.

 

[The GrandMage]

Joseph

He slipped into darkness. Not in the way one would think. He simply stepped back, and disappeared. It wasn't that people couldn't see him, it was just no one seemed to care. Even himself. He cared only about one thing. He followed Aria at a distance, watching, listening, feeling.

She moved, and he watched, only moving enough to insure she was in his line of sight. And as she grabbed her coat to leave, a sense of panic grew inside him. She was going out? Out into the big world? What if she moved to fast, what if he lost her?

He slid out the door before it's weight could pull it back around, and continued to follow. To protect. To serve. Some would say it was devotion. Others would say it was a complex that had grown through his life. He had always been a protector. And the things he protected always died.

And again, he vowed not to let it happen this time. Again he promised he would do better, do more. And again the fates laughed at him for his stupidity. But he blindly followed on, to do the best he could, until everything slipped away from him. Maybe this time, though, it would be different.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I moved through the crowd, paying no attention to anyone or anything. The words kept entering my mind over and over again, lance had said the ring would help?
Some how I didn't think that was accurate, but why would he lie to me? Granted he has kept secrets but he hasn't lied to me. I had to sort it out, maybe while I was checking out the breakfast cerials??
I entered the store, grabbed a cart and began moving through the isles. Locating this and that, avoiding the junk food Joseph adamently hated. I smiled softly for a moment, thinking about the first time he seen my fridge and his comments to me about 'real food'.
I sighed heavily, weary and tired from all of this. My hand reached down and grazed across the healing scar. Soon it would be gone, all the physical marks left on me would heal in a short time, but would my mind?
I thought again about the ring, it kept nagging my mind over and over until I reached into my pocket and pulled it out. I stood in the frozen foods looking at it. It was warm in my fingers, glowing faintly in the center where my finger would rest. He said it would help, I should give it a try one last time? I slipped it on, gave it no more thought as my doubts were climbing inside my mind.
It was best to just forget it for now and not dwell on it. I made my purchases and walked back to the town home. My mind not so heavy now but perhaps it was because I chose to ignore the dark looming cloud inside my mind?
Entering the house, I called out I was back and walked into the kitchen to start cooking.

 

[nightray]

Ray

The ripple of darkness appears once agene on the ephaltower I step out looking arund at the frozen police men standing arund obviously looking in to the odd deaths that happened hear. I smile evilly at the death surrounding me as the dark ripple disappears taking the cold with it. I move to the railing looking out over the city with new eyes seeing the evil and drinking it in.

I hear the elevator coming back up so I step up on the railing and I step off falling to the ground below not moving a mussel as I fall looking like I’m standing on firm ground then at the last minuet my mussels loosen up as my feet hit the ground sinking in to the dirt one knee touching briefly before I move fast away from the tower.

I laugh as I move in to the shadows of an ally and look back at the people gathered arund the place where my foot prints are sunk in to the ground no one saw me move away. “Puny morils ther not evin wreth spiting on.” I say softly in a dark vois.

I walk threw the alleys feeling at home in the darkness at one point a copal of punks jump out at me swinging chains. I dong them as if they whern’t moving at all. Before they know whets happening I take one and sink my fangs in to his throat drinking deeply until theirs nothing left but a dried up husk.

I let the body drop and I look at his petrified friend a smile on my bloody lips as I say “BOO.” The fritend one jumps and runs as fast as he can away from his nightmares come to life. I laugh wildly as I chaise him appearing ahead of him making him scream loader as he turns and runs. I play with him until I get board with the sport and finely catch him. I lesson to his fluttering hart betting hard in his chest with the fear. I then sink my fangs in to him drawing out his life slowly savoring the fear that I brot to his puny sole.

I let him drop chuckling at the lifeless body the death not affecting me in the least his memories and pain droning in the blackness that is now my mined. I retch down ripping off his shirt and wiping my face off with it. I let the rewind shirt drop to his body as I tern to the house.

I shield my mind from the rest as I pull out my shades to hide my changed eyes. I walk in to the house my poscher obvesly changed more argent and condescending as I walk in to the living room where lance is. I sneer down at him thinking “I will have the book out of you one way or anther.” I chuckle softly then I move to the kitchen where I hear Aria tinkering. I look in at her my eyes moving up and down her body behind the shades wondering how it would feel having her writhing under me kicking and screaming as I fucked her. I chuckle softly thinking maybe I’ll fined out when this is over.

“So what are you cooking dutiful.” I smile an almost normal smile but its different now more mocking. I chuckle as I sense Josghe some where near obviously being his over protective self as normal.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I heard Ray behind me and I turned smiling a little, "Breakfast is cooking." Beautiful? Since when did Ray call me beautiful? He must be more tired than I thought.
"Hope you are hungry, Ray. I am making enough to feed a small army." I smiled, turning back to the stove and flipping the eggs.

 

[nightray]

Ray

I chuckle softly as I move up behind her pressing agenst her as I rich over her to get a glass. I let my self grind on her ass abet longer then was proper before taking a glass down and walking over to the fridge. I open it looking at what was available. I sigh thinking I’m going to have to get some real alcohol in this house nothing in her but some bear and a bottle of wine.

I grab the jug of milk knowing that if I took the bear this early aria would start asking questions. I pore my self a glace and then I walk over to the table. I let my eye linger on Arias ass while making it look like I was looking out a window.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I froze in place as Ray moved behind me, his cock pressing firmly into my ass. What the hell was he doing!? Unsure what to do or say, perhaps an accident? Lord he had to know that was not a welcomed thing!? Right?
Just as I was going to say something he moved away from me and to the fridge. Thank god!
"Ray? You alright?" I asked tentively, a little worried at his behavior. Perhaps I was seeing more into this than was intended? I heard Maggie moving around in the living room and called out to her, "Mags! Breakfast is almost ready!" I kept my back to Ray, making sure I didn't say anything to let on he was worrying me.

 

[nightray]

Ray

I smile slightly at Aria’s question saying “of cores I’m alright what would make you think some thing was rung?” I say in a soft voice warmth poring from every ward as if I was the normal Ray. I look over at the door calling “Yes sweetie hart come and eat with use I’ve missed you this morning.”

I look back at Aria to see what her reaction would be to my words. I think she’s still on edge from her rape maybe I can push her over in to insanity and paranoia where she’ll be of little good to there planes.

 

[Shoty98]

Maggie

It took me but a few moments to find a handful of towels I had given one to aria and set out cleaning the floor where Lance had been lying.
A short time later I had finished and taken the towels to the laundry, all but the one that Aria had left draped across Lance's forehead. That one I simply rewet and placed back in it's spot. I didn't know him from Adam but he sure did look like hell.
I sat down by him for a moment a few questions about lastnight raging through my mind. Wanting nothing more than to ask him and demand answers and yet I couldn't bring myself to do it.
A soft sigh of defeat parted my lips and I rose from the couch and wandered into the kitchen behind Ray.
"I'm right here Aria no need to yell. Hi love sleep well?" I leaned in a kissed Ray's lips. Milk? He was drinking Milk? And why was he wearing his sunglasses inside?
I brushed the questions aside and helped Aria finish up the cooking and getting everything set out for the horde. "Aria I am going to round up everyone to eat. You got the rest of this stuff?" I waited for her reply and wandered up the stairs. Peeking into Michael's room I whispered to him and was startled when he had heard me.
"Morning sunshine.." I grinned at him "Mornin' Aunt Maggie" he squeaked out while he rubbed his eyes. "Momma's got breakfast ready kiddo run along downstairs and get some....K?" With his nod I reatreated from the room.
Wandering back down the stairs I made my way to the training room Joseph was no longer there so I made my way down further and knocked on the door where Erika was told to go. "Breakfast!" I called out and listened for a moment.
I didn't hear a sound and wondered What she was up too. Really I didn't care, so I shrugged and walked back to the kitchen and set myself up with a hearty plate and sat down to eat.
"So Aria you gonna fess up about what's eating you."

 

[nightray]

Ray

I smile warmly at Maggie as she walks in looking at my milk strangely. I chuckle inwardly thinking I’m going to have to do some thing about her she’s the one that knows me best and will fined me out first unless I turn her. I site thinking as Maggie goes and rounds up the rest of the family.

I slowly drink my milk watching as Mickey come in to the kitchen. Fallowed by Maggie soon after. I look arund wondering where Joseph is. I look over at Aria a series look coming to my face.

“Aria how could you let him back in to this house after what he did to you.” I watch Aria keeping my real feelings hidden for deep down I applauded the imposter that did that. On the serfes though I just show barley controlled rage at josephs presents in the house.

 

[Shoty98]

Maggie

Bump....hate souble posts *grinz*

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I tensed with the questions Ray was throwing at me.
"Not now Ray and not here.. Micheal hunny? Want some cerial or eggs" He made a face at the mention of eggs so I poured him a bowl and set it down. Pouring milk over it, I couldn't meet Ray's eyes with those shades on but my look was clearly "Shut up!"
"Nothing is wrong with me Maggie, I am peachy keen.. Now get some food.. I need to shower.." I started out of the kitchen, in no mood to go over this now. Not with my son present.

 

[Shoty98]

Maggie

“Aria how could you let him back in to this house after what he did to you.”

I nearly choked on my food, who was he and what did he do to Aria. Setting my fork down I listened to her scold Ray and looked back and forth between the two. What in the hell was going on? Is the question that swirled in my thoughts.
I surged to my feet as she turned to leave the kitchen and strode over to step in her way.
"Far enough...You are not fine or peachy keen and haven't been for a while." A look of concern passed over my features as I watched her. She was not her normal vibrant self and she didn't have that spark in her eyes.
"Aria it might help to talk about it." I whispered softly. I think I knew the reason why she wasn't saying anything, so I grabbed my plate and stepped back beside her.
"Alright you shower and talk I will eat...that ass whoopin' multiplied my appettite.....Alright?"I giggled a little and followed behind her.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I glanced at Maggie, my temper rising to the surface as I gazed back at Ray.
"Thanks." It was not a genuine thanks but a sarcastic remark directed at his big mouthed self. I turned back to Maggie, saying noting but moving around her.
"Fine, have it your way." She was going to be shocked speachless and wished she didn't ask in the first place. Walking through the livingroom and upstairs, I marched into my room and into my private bath.
Turning on the water and adjusting the temperature I knew Maggie was behind me. Still not deterring from my set course, I started to strip down everything I had on. One by one the bruises came into view as well as the cut across my abs and the nick at my neck as I brushed out my hair.
I heard her gasp and said nothing, and something inside me was twisted enough, I lifted the back of my hair and revealed the purpling skin from the blows I had recieved.
I stepped into the shower and closed the glass doors tightly.
"You wanted to know, so don't interrupt while I am speaking." I stated clearly, I didn't want to say too much so I gave her the run down version.
The shock of seeing Joseph alive, being taken and held as Erika came and went. Some bum showing up, but it was the real joseph not the one holding her. Though she did not know this. Being raped and thrown across the room. Fleeing the scene and Ray coming to her aid. Then skipped to the part she showed up for, how I ran into Joseph again only this time it wasn't him but it was.
"Make any sense at all?" I sure as shit couldn't figure it out, but I had no ideas how to get past it either.

 

[poohlive]

The water trickled down his form. Lance leaned heavilly against the wall, unable to support his own weight standing in one spot for too long. He just held himself there, the water ice cold spraying down at him.
He was still in his clothes, not bothering to shed them. It would have taken too much time and effort. The blouse and sweatpants that Erika had gave to him became wet and added weight as they filled with water.
In a slow and steady fall he crumbled into the tub. Legs bent at an odd angle and his head rested on the back of the tub. The water filled in around him, sending shivers up and down his spine.
He felt the pains, the real pain. Under his clothing bruises appeared, wounds he thought he had only dreamed about became visible. Along his stomach he felt a long gash that didn't want to give up it's pain on him just yet.
Ray wanted the book.
He groaned, trying to turn, but the movement was weak and it came out looking like a weak foal trying to come out of it's mother. In the end he lamented to his head moving from one side to the other.
Ray wanted his weakness.
Lance would gladly give it to him. If he could, if he knew that the pain would go away, he would give it up in a heartbeat. He couldn't though. Ray had his own ring, his own destiny. Lance couldn't give up the book any more than he could take the ring from his finger.
He couldn't think of Ray's weird request though. Demand was the more appropriate word. There was something in his eye too, something that sent chills down his spine, just as the cold water did now.
It was his cut, all of his cuts. All of the pain was not leaving him, it was not regenerating. He had always been so fast at regenerating, always. Cuts disappeared before more than a few drops could spill to the ground.
He looked on his hand, at a splinter that had caught in him when he threw the chair as he fell down. The sliver of wood was gone, but what remained was an inch long cut just below his finger.
The blod had clotted, and now a brown mark was all that was left. It hadn't left him though, it hadn't healed.
None of his wounds had healed.
The book held the answers. The book, the very thing that was feeding off of his soul, the monster that had awoken within him and placed it's cursed mark upon his hand, only a few inches from the splinter held all the answers.
Inside his mind he tried to find out what was wrong. He opened himself up to what had happened between last night and now to change him.
The word came to him, frightening and real. The word that he had vowed never to happen to him. In truth, he had worked his entire life ot find the cure, only to poison the entire world with his selfish curse.
It was lifted.
Lance's curse was gone.
A tear slipped down his cheek as he saw his own strength leave him. The pain that was ripping through his body wasn't just Aria's rape, and it sure as hell wasn't just the book feeding off of his very being.
Most of it came from hiso wn body responding to pain for the first time.
He was no longer a vampire. He was human.
The book, theat cursed book with it's filthy pages had cleansed his body for him. It had taken the tainted blood he had drank so long ago and left him with nothing more than a shallow shell of a human being.
Started where he had left off more than a thousand years ago.
He couldn't be human. He was the strongest, as a vampire he could have beaten anything that they would come across, even Robert. Now, now he wasn othing more than a carrier, baggage for them to move the book to the alter.
He couldn't be mortal, he couldn't.
Another tear slipped down his cheek as he felt age, felt pain, felt mortality for the first time in forever. His mind clenched around the thought, tried desperately to shove it away from him, but it was no use.
It was never any use.
He was human.
God help them all.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I stepped out of the shower, meeting Maggie's red eyes as she gripped her plate in her hands. No words were coming from her lips, I think I shocked her speachless.
I said nothing more, just wrapped myself into a towel and wrapped my hair into another. Drying off, I glanced into the mirror, the burises were fading and the cuts healing. Almost healed now, all I needed was to feed on some blood to heal completely.
"Sorry Mag's, I know it was a bad way to say it.. But I had to get it off of my chest." I didn't really care what she had to say truth be told. There was nothing she could offer me that wouldn't be a slap in the face. Even pity was something I just did not want right now. Not comfort, nothing. I just wanted to finish up this quest and get home and back to a normal life.

 

[The GrandMage]

Joseph

He waited until Maggie and Aria were gone. He was tore between feelings. He cast a last glance at Ray, and the right side of his face jumped in an odd little twitch. He quickly hurried after the two women, sitting beside the door outside the room, back against the wall, staring at the ceiling.

His face gave more odd little twitches at random intervals. He needed his sword. Had to ask for his sword. Had to get his sword. Had to protect. Needed his sword. Fragile boundries were in place and Ray,...he'd watched from just outside the room, fists clenched, and had noticed subtle diferences.

He shook. He was drawing attention to himself again, he noticed. It didn't matter. It would be best to be noticed. Be noticed to others. To Lance, to Erika,...and to Ray. His eyes began to move. He was catching up a little paranoia now. He suspected everyone, except Maggie. Even himself, he kept at a distance. But he wasn't sure if that was because of himself, or her.

His eye darted around, and he permitted himself a little sigh. Aria,...MICHEAL! He stood up quickly, his eyes darting around again. He started to walk away, but turned back, and fidgeted, torn by indecision. He sat back down, fidgeting now as he looked around. What to do, oh what to do!

 

[nightray]

Ray

I smile slightly as I watch the girls leave the room to discus things. I look at Joseph as he glances at me strangly his chick twitching slightly. I watch him leave I raise an eyebrow I wonder what his problem is. I shake my head filing it away in my mind for future referents but it doesn’t concern me at the moment.

I look down at Mickey watching him eat. “So are you enjoying the food little one.” I smile warmly as I let tendrils of my mind enter his letting dark images flow in to him.

Mickey looks up smiling nodding his head. “Yes its very good uncial Ray.” I pat the top of his head thinking “He want get much sleep tonight and neither will Aria.” I chuckle as I sip the milk grimacing inwardly.

I stand and pore the rest of the milk down the drain before moving in to the living room once agene. I look arund not seeing Lance I let my mind search for him finding him in a bath. But theirs some thing deferent about his mined now that I didn’t notes before. I begin to chuckle evilly as I realize he is no longer a vampire his human once agene. I walk to the training room shaking my head thinking this is going to be easer then I thought.

I pick up a long two handed sword in one and swinging it arund easily. I then step in to the dance of death moving faster and more surly then I ever moved before I let the dark power flood my veins reviling in it. I move with a blinding speed that I had not been able to attain until now with more grace that I could have done before the nameless one broat me home and set me free. All a mortal would beadle to see in the room would be the occasional glimmer of light coming from the blade as it moves threw the air making a hye pitched weaseling noise that only other vampires and dogs could hear.

I move threw the dance no wasted move every motion had a perppes and was précis to with in a hairs breath. Every kick and thrust perfectly synchronized.

As I move threw the forms I let my mined drift threw the house keeping every one out but still being able to sense them to know where they are.

I let my mined slip in to Aria’s like a thief in the night not being able to probe to deeply with out alerting hell I wouldn't be able to get this far normally but her mined is in turmoil right now. I let a thought drift from my mined in to hers as if it was her own.

“How do I know Joseph didn’t trick me some how and this one is the one that raped me he is fallowing me every where.”

I let my mined pull out of hers carefully so as not to give my self away. I smile thinking “That should set her up nicely for what comes next.”

I then stop what I’m doing “Maggie my love would you come to me when your down talking to Aria, I need some own to spar with.” I say mentally to Maggie keeping my mind clear of any hints of the darkness that might alert her to my change.

I then begin moving agene as fast as ever waiting for Maggie to come to me.

 

[The GrandMage]

Joseph

He heard the sound. It slipped through walls, floors, and his ears were alerted to it. He stood up quickly again, and his twitch jumped, becoming regular as he left the doorway. His eyes were different, deep, showing deep into a pit. A pit that offered no way out.

His twitch jumped as he strode resolutely forward, coming to a stop before the door. He opened the door, letting it slide open. He cocked his head to the side, his twitch jumping as he watched Ray.

"I'll gut you like a pig."

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I paused as a thought invaded my mind, doubt rising to the surface of my mind? Why and why now? This didn't make any sense what so ever!
I paused in drying off and turned back to Maggie, words escaped my brain on what I was feeling so I went back to drying off.
Joseph? Could he mask the real images in his mind? Could he feed me something unreal to guard his ass?
No! My mind knew, Joseph never had the ability to use his mind to 'speak' to me like Ray did. I was just tired and thinking of Irrational things.

 

[nightray]

Ray

I stop as I hear Joseph’s words I felt him coming but ignored him. I tern my head to him the sunglasses gleaming in the light hiding my changed eyes. I raise an eyebrow “So you wish to spare with my friend.” I smile my old smile that no one could mistake as odd. I tern fully to him watching his face twitching.

I let a concerned look come over my face saying “Are you all rite Joseph you see agitated for some reason. With out take my eye’s off of him I walk over to the weapons rack putting up the long sword and taking down two katonus. I toss one to him smiling waiting for him to make the first move.

“If he truly tries to attack me to kill me he’ll play right in to my hands it wouldn’t take much more to convince Aria that this is still the imposter.” My smile broadens though theirs no menus in it just the smile of along time friend waiting to spare.

 

[The GrandMage]

Joseph

His arm snapped out, snatching the weapon from midair, walking the weapong through his fingers as he stared at Ray. It was not a threat. It was a statement. No tint of emotion. Cold, hard. His neck straightened with an audible pop. The twitch jumped again, and his grinned in a way that could only be described as insane.

"Ah-ah. I'm not here to spar, I'm here to tell you to back off." His twitch jumped again. "I saw you. You think I don't know everything you do, you little pissant!? She's mine! Touch her again, and I'll snap you like the twig you are. You think you're strong, but you're pathetic."

He sneered, and let the hilt duck and move through his fingers, tossing it lightly back from hand to hand. It gained speed quickly, blurring with speed. He drew his chin up, exposing his neck as he grinned again, showing the level of mental deterioration, his eyes angled downward to watch him.

His hands stopped, and the hilt went forward, the blade impaling itself in the floor, barely enough to keep the hilt up. He turned, laughing out loud, showing his unprotected back as he walked out.

 

[nightray]

Ray

I smile as I watch Joseph walk out the door after warning me. I shake my head walking over to the sword he put in the floor. I yank it out easily looking at the edge for any damage. I then walk back to where I got it putting it back. I twirl the sword still in my hand like Joseph did mocking him as a soft laugh comes out from between my lips.

I walk back to the center of the room moving to one stance standing as still as a stone standing on the ball of one foot with the other razed half way to my knee the sword reversed over my head. I stand like this with out moving waiting for Maggie to come spar with me so I can start turning her.