Rand stared up at Mike, confused. "Are you trying to destroy yourself? That kind of silver will kill you or by the least cripple you where you're walking like an old man. Besides, I can't even get up from this or I'll get shocked immediately like I just found out," Rand explained, then intentionally dropped the syringe on the ground. A year here had been too long. He needed to figure out how to get out.

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Anthony stopped his whistling as he heard something nearby. He looked around, wondering what it was. Moron, making noise in this place, he thought. Anthony got down on the ground, pulling out his dagger. After several minutes of nothing, the hunter slightly relaxed. Was heading back to the town more ideal now? He seemed to be just getting lost from following this stream. His head was cleared now, or at least he assumed it was. He wasn't helping anyone hear and only endangering himself now. Anthony breathed, it was time to go back.

Ryan nodded to Mason before shaking Zhalia's hand. He shivered slightly at the feeling of the scales, not having noticed them until now. Shaking the feeling, he nodded to the both of them, "Of course... supernatural are just like people but with powers, right? Only reason there's more evil supernatural than evil humans is because power corrupts..." He looked between the two, "Or... are there more humans that are evil? I don't know how many supernatural are actually walking around out there..." He frowned slightly before looking to Mason. "How'd you know I wanted to be trained to fight supernatural...?" He raised an eyebrow, amazed, wondering if perhaps mind-reading was an ability that humans could learn, and was taught by the hunters. It would explain quite easily how Mason had known his intentions.

Weiss Schnee said
Vivian watched her. "More? Well you know there are plenty of deer around this area besides the one you just killed off." She said. Noticing the girls eyes had gone animalistic she had no doubts Ani was another supernatural just like her.

Aniela got up from the corpse of once was the deer, she wiped the blood on her hands off on her jeans. "I want more" she walked right past Vivian but stopped. She couldn't give herself away yet. So she turned herself around and shook her head. "Deer is fine. Yes. Thank you for showing me the animals. I am fine now." she said all at once before running at another deer. She took it down and began eating it once more.

Ani got up once again and wiped the blood off her mouth. For the moment her hunger was satisfied. She waved goodbye to Vivian and ran into the forest. She would go back to the town later.

Vivian watched her go off. "Take care of yourself then." She said with a wave as she turned to head back to the village well town. Tho she was curious what her lycan sences picked up from this girl.

Anthony continued down the stream, staying silent now. All he could hear was the water rushing next to him and the light wind sifting through the leaves. Nothing around him stirred, but he stayed vigilant. As he continued down for a little bit longer he could hearing some running in the distance. Drawing his rifle he looked towards the sound, but couldn't see anything through the dense forest. Should he call out? The hunter wasn't sure. Anthony's hand went to his pocket where his ammo was, but decided to refrain from using it until he knew that he was dealing with a threat. Anthony held still, keeping his breaths short. Finally, after a moment he grabbed a rock with his right hand and threw it far away from him down the stream. If whatever made that noise was hunting for something, it should go after the noise, and the hunter would be ready. Anthony saw something emerge from the bushes. He narrowed his eyes and grabbed for his ammo.

Aaron kept going around into the forest, if he was going to find Ani then he was going to need to track her. He walked along what seemed like a fresh trail, kneeling down to the earth he pressed his fingertips against a depression in the soil. These were footprints, they looked new but in truth these tracks could have belonged to anyone. But they couldn't have, the sole of the shoe didn't have the inlaid pattern of anyone he was familiar with. These had to be from Aniela, they just had to, he continued to follow the trail until he found more and more. Each one seemed fresher than the next, he broke into a sprint before he ran into Anthony. "Anthony?! Mason was looking for you..." He told him.

Anthony shook his head as Aaron ran into him. "Huh? Mason?" He asked, then came back to his senses. His dropped rifle was on the ground with a bullet partially in it. Anthony walked over and grabbed it, putting the bullet back in his pocket. "Right, I've lost my way somewhat. Can you show me the way back?" He asked, taking his gaze off Aaron and looking around.

Aaron raised an eyebrow at the way Anthony reacted, as if he hadn't known Mason at all, it was strange but it didn't alarm him as he had k own Anthony went off to think. He was going to pick up the rifle for him but he had grabbed the firearm first, the weird part was that a bullet fell out of the barrel. "Uh yeah, I can give the directions.." Aaron slid his bout across the ground, marking at spot where is footprints backtracked to the base. "Just follow the footprints back and you'll be there...now I'm gonna go." He said as he waved a goodbye to Anthony and treading deeper into the forest.

After a moment of thought, Lillith had a better idea to tweak Ivan's nose. After all, Uncle Vlad had told him to keep an eye on her. That means... if she ran off, she would trouble Ivan, and he'd have to follow her and find her. In that case...

Lillith waited for a moment where Ivan was distracted and darted away into the forest. Serves you right, mean ol' Ivan!

She sprinted at her top speed and scrambled up over trees and made rather large leaps around. For moments, she'd release her wings and use them to glide a distance away before hiding them again and ducking away under trees and through the canopy. With luck, she would have lost Ivan, and left a trail he'd have to take a while to figure out. After a while of this, she leapt back to the ground and began to wander, still disguised by her glamour.

***
Aniela sighed a bit, here she was on the run again. At least she hoped she might run into someone this time. Maybe a human, yes, definitely a human. She could just imagine tearing away at his flesh or making him her own toy. She grinned deviously.

The Empousai looked around the area she was now in, not to far from Vivian.. But far enough from the town, wasn't she supposed to be going to the town? "Diáole!" she cursed in Greek. She was lost once again. How could she get lost so fast?

***
Lillith continued to wander for a while longer, before glimpsing a figure in the distance. She ducked behind the trunk of a tree and peeked back out at it. Was it human or supernatural? Was it a group or just one person? Her tactics would have to change depending on all of these factors. So she crept closer for a closer look. If need be, she would climb a tree and try moving through the canopy to avoid detection until she knew more.

***
Aniela looked to the side, to where she had heard movement. She figured it was her imagination, but that was when she heard it again. "Who's there?" she called. She withdrew her sword and held it out in front of her. There was no reason to switch into her true form unless she learned the target was hostile. Her hands gripped the sword so tight her knuckles began turning white. "Again, who is there? "

***
Lillith wasn't too far away by now, and it seemed she hadn't been undetected. It seemed what she had glimpsed was a lone woman. A hunter? The woman drew a sword and called out. Lillith thought quickly, and chose to make a little gasp.

"P-please don't h-hurt me..." she whimpered, as she huddled against a tree trunk. Lillith chose to try to look as pitiful and terrified as possible. This scene should appeal to most female humans. Since she was facing a human, she might as well make sure they let their guard down. Uncle Vlad would be very proud of her if she managed to bring several humans home, after all, but she didn't need to bring them all at once. After all, if she rushed things, or passed up this chance, she might get nothing. So, she would focus on this prey before her.

***
Ani jerked her head to the little girl, she immediately felt something off. She kept her sword pointed at Lillith. "Move, and I will not hesitate to hurt you. Tell me, are you a human?" the Empousai asked. Her dark eyes glinted in the light that shined through a small patch in the trees.

She had slightly relaxed her hand, and she began walking towards the girl, hoping to trap her against the tree. Aniela was worried that this could be an attack from hunters, but why did this seem so off?

***
Damn, this seems to be a clever human. I suppose it is indeed strange to see a human child so far into this forest.

"Wh-What do you m-mean?" Lillith asked as if confused, eyes filled with tears as she let her voice tremble. Her little feet appeared to be covered in old scratches and bruises. The edges of her little white dress seemed to be torn and muddied.

She kept her eyes open, and made sure to look terrified and wary of this stranger with a blade. She huddled at the base of the tree, little arms pressed against her chest. Lillith did her best to keep up her act. If she wasn't careful, this human would realize the truth.

***
Aniela smiled, inside her mouth glinted two white fangs, "I mean.. I will tear you to shreds and then eat your corpse bit by bit." she cooed. She seemed to grow taller as she showed her true form. Her legs shifted into a bronze robotic leg, and the other a brown hairy goat leg. The whites in her eyes were gone as her pupil filled her entire eye, showing nothing but black. All around her head she noticed smoke rise as her brown hair turned into flames.

"Greek legend says that the Empousai is a succumbs and a vampire combined. I eat humans for fun, little girl."

***
As the woman spoke, Lillith suddenly realized she had guessed the identity of her opponent incorrectly. This should make things interesting though. This woman definitely wasn't a human-lover, so... things could be interesting if it turned out she was good at fighting as well. Lillith's eyes widened, and she pretended to be petrified in terror. To add verisimilitude to the act, she allowed her knees to quake and her shoulders shake with silent laughter, though she let none of it show on her expression. Instead it looked like she was shaking in fear. She intended to dodge the incoming attack, as soon as the Empousai made a move.

An Empousai... what an interesting creature...

***
Ani looked at the girl long and hard. Nothing seemed right, she eventually came to the conclusion that this girl was not a human. She smirked and than began laughing. "You are not human, am I right? If you were you would be screaming your tiny little heart out. Before we go anywhere with this, I happen to know there are a few humans in the area." she talked on, she turned around and began walking away, though she was still completely alert. "If you do feel like fighting, I just hope you could catch up with me." she mused. She enjoyed her powers.

The thought of her human "friends" did not go through her mind at all. She was thinking she could hunt with this girl. She could bring the well deserved terror to those hunters.

***
When the empousai before her laughed, Lillith was startled.

"Heeeey~ I could have been frozen in terror, couldn't I?" Lillith pouted.

"Damn it...! how boring..." Lillith sulked as she kicked the dirt a bit.

"Anyways, if we're going to hunt hunters, we need a plan. Hm... if there's one, I can be the first distraction, you can be the second distraction, and I can take them out. The confusion should allow us to take out a couple of them before they really have their guards up if we meet a group of two or more. However, I need to know how many we're dealing with. If there are too many, it would be better if we took them out bit by bit, after all. I also want to know how they're equipped." Lillith said.

***
Ani snorted when she heard the others reaction. But got onto business. She slid her sword back to where it was supposed to go and began shifting back to her human form. When she was done, she turned around and smiled at the girl. "I know the perfect person to go for. Aaron. This, I hope can bring me some revenge. I will point Aaron out to you later, his brother, Mason, had tried to scare me. He had tried to kill me, even hunt me down. The thing I hate most about him, is that he is immune to my powers of seduction." Ani finished in a dramatic voice. Her brown hair was strewn across her face, "But wait, before anything." she paused and held out her hand. "I am Aniela, it is Greek. As you probably figured from my accent. And I am a Empousai. People love to consider me a succubus, vampire, or werewolf." she chattered, but then stopped.

Why was she giving out all her information to this girl? She wanted to help hunt the humans. That's why.

***
"Someone immune to the voice? Sounds troublesome. Well, I guess we have a target then. I'll assume they're armed with guns and knives. They're probably all humans. Well then, if we're going after one. I'll try to split them up. If we meet them in a group. I'll be a distraction. You attack, than I'll attack. How's that sound?" Lillith suggested.

"Ah, that's right." Lilith added as an afterthought, "Nice to meet you, Ani. I'm Lilith."

***
Ani frowned. "I was thinking, maybe you run towards Aaron, because I do attend to get him. You scream that someone is chasing after you, then that's when I come in. I assume he will be more focused on me so you hit him on the head or something when he is coming for me" she tried.

***
"That's pretty much what I was planning, but there's no guarantee we'll find him alone. If he's alone, we'll definitely do that. Actually, that's probably a good plan for any person that's alone. So it's settled. We have a plan for handling a group, and a plan for handling a single person. Now, all we have to do is find them. If I see a person alone. I'll just start screaming and running off, so let's start at a distance. I take one side, you take another, so we have a better chance of spotting someone." Lillith said.

She began to move in the direction Aniela had come and began to search for signs of humans.

***
Aniela and Lillith moved carefully through the forest, searching for even a glimpse of a human figure. It had been a bit since their last conversation, but as supernaturals, they could keep up a faster pace than a human, and still spot as much as they would have if they had gone at a slower pace. Lillith froze when she saw a human, then began to slowly creep forward. It appeared to be a man. A lone man.

Lillith double checked the surroundings for any sign of others, but saw no signs of them. It seemed she would be able to use her plan soon. Lillith used her glamor to make her appear as if she was crying and make it appear as if there were tears in her eyes. After that, Lillith burst into a sprint at the speed of a little girl and began to scream. "Help me! Help me! A monster's chasing me!"

Aniela took a deep breath, counted to 10, and then chased after Lillith.

Aaron continued to make his way through the forest until a scream stopped him dead in his tracks, it startled him in fact. He looked down to see a small child, a little girl, what was she doing all the way out in the forest? More importantly who was chasing the poor child, he hugged the child, pulled back to place hands on her shoulders in a comforting manner. "You're going to be fine now tell me what king of monster is chasing you?" He asked the little girl, he was doubting she'd know the answer to that but maybe her you g mind could be descriptive. Maybe the child's description wouldn't be needed, he saw Ani chasing her, he instinctively got in front of the little girl, facing against Aniela.

Ani ran in after Lillith, trying to make herself look as feral as possible. She trained eyes on Aaron and gave a slight smile. "Aaron!" she called over to him. She breathed in once again then bared her fangs. "Aaron, give me the girl, dammit." she cursed. Her hands were balled into fists and her eyes.
She did not move a muscle, she wasn't going to do anything just yet. He had to come close to her, that's when Lillith would have to do her part.

Aaron looked deep into the eyes of Aniela, she didn't seem like anyone he could reason with at the moment, this girl depended on him. "You know I can't do that..." He made sure the girl was behind him before he took cautious steps forward, he was sure he could face Aniela like this without weapons. He didn't want to try to kill her, not while there was still a chance. "Ani, no!" He shouted at her, now between both Ani and the little girl.

(OOC: Please note, I got permission to auto-hit from Stryder)

Lillith took advantage of his distraction, it seemed that he had no intention of killing Aniela. Lillith laughed to herself.

So this is Aaron? How interesting.

Lillith shot forward and struck the back of Aaron's neck. He crumpled at the blow.

"I've still got it." Lillith giggled, as she prodded him a bit with her foot. It seems he had lost consciousness before he even hit the ground.

"I'm glad this Aaron of yours is a hottie. You said you eat humans, correct, Ani? Well, you can't eat this one. He's a hottie and I want to keep him. However, you can come back with me to my Uncle's house. We have plenty of humans for you to eat. In fact, I came out here to hunt for some more humans, because it's so nice to have a fresh supply. What do you say, Ani? Will you give this one to me, and come join my Uncle's house?"

Lillith bent down and threw the human over her shoulder. It looked strange because Lillith still appeared to be a little girl, but at the same time, it seemed she had no difficulty lifting a fully grown man.

Lillith made a mental note to give her new toy a thorough inspection to divest him of any weapons, and of course to admire the new goods as she waited for Aniela's reply.

Ani stood there and watched everything as Lillith took him down, then went to asking Aniela if she wanted to stay at her Uncles house. But then she told her that she couldn't eat Aaron. "Awwh. Hey, I want to have fun with him too..." she pouted but then shook her head. "I'll join you guys, and I will eat the humans there. And I want to play with him to. I don't just eat humans." she told her, returning to her human form.

She cracked her neck and walked over to Lillith. She didn't say anything about the young girl whom was carrying a grown man, two times her size. She brushed it off.

Zayne had returned to the camp after a while of hunting and looked around. 'Mason, where's Aaron?' she asked a bit worried. She didn't feel so good, something was off. That's why she had returned earlier than normal.
Zhalia looked at Zayne. 'He went into the woods, I believe.' she stated. 'Not sure for what though.'
Zayne nodded and moved past Zhalia and Mason, walking into the woods.

(woops, double post)

Cartwright/xAsunawolfx Collab- "Torture" scene post 1
Alfons' eyes shot up to attention when the hissing sound of gas reached his ears. The reverend looked around to find the gas consuming him, fighting his gift of resisting poisons for the time being. He stumbled around, coughing and gasping for fresh air as he tried to escape his ordeal. The internal fighting though was a loss after a long span of time once the silver overwhelmed his energy and willpower. The lycan passed out, waking up later chained down and unable to move freely. He tugged on the chains, even transformed into his stronger lycan form to test the chain's strength but only to discover his attempts were futile. Alfons could already taste his own blood in his mouth, but that concern was pushed aside when his eyes came across a familiar face.

Kaori
“Hey, Alfons…..” Kaori gazed out of the tiny prison cell window- it had thick bars and was only about a hands width wide and was everything compared to the cold brick walls a dungeon would have. The ‘Hey’ wasn't a greeting, but a ‘Look at this, you can’t miss this’ type of hey. Her pointer finger brushed over the bars horizontally, amazed at the most simple site. I’ve taken so much for granted… That thought dawned on her as she, almost painfully, looked at alfons, already conveying how sorry she was going to be after they were done. Was this a sign of growth in maturity? Or maybe a silent cry for help after years of hardships, why had she never let much pain show?

“You were….out for a long time. Very peaceful.... ” She tapped her fingers on the windowsill, adding on something that would sound classic of her. “ Not that i was watching you sleep, dog’s friend.” She walked with a small limp over to the lycan slowly, trying to look like the least of an enemy she was about to become. All of the torture equipment still laid silently, she hadn't glanced at them even when he was unconscious.

“D-Daniels alive…. Is Kain?” She suddenly said after some time of being frozen at the table side. Finally she’d let reality soak in, washing over her like waves of a wave pool.”That girl back at the hotel ...tortured and did things at her own leisure. To the hell with it if someone else planned it. I remember when Daniel had to torture me, while you were asleep. Odd how it comes back much more sweetly than it did back then; i wanted to say i hated him. Never knew i’d be suffering the same fate as him, torturing because someone else said so. His vampire impulses never did overcome him… But the fact that he had to hurt me looked like it tore him to pieces. Enough about everyone else, how have you been holding up?”She cocked her head to the side, placing her arms on the table as she watched Alfons intensely, lowering her voice to barely a whisper.

“Reverend, i thought you of all might know..….What is love?”

Lillith grinned mischievously at Aniela, when the empousai expressed a desire to play with the new toy. "Oh, we will have plenty of fun with him." she replied.

She looked at the ground around them, but it seemed moss and stones and grass hid most of their footprints. It would be better to escape and leave as few traces as possible. It would be terrible if the rest of the humans followed the trail and were alerted of the danger. She eyed the occasional light footprint that marked the human's way here. At least it would look like he'd crossed into a rockier area, which would explain the lack of footprints. This somewhat rockier denser area didn't end for a while. With enough time, though, the humans would figure out that something was wrong if they came looking for him. If they brought dogs with them... Well, speculation was useless. It would be best to leave now while they had their prey.

Lillith began to run. As she had done before, she hopped around, climbed trees, and chose a very indirect method for reaching Vlad's complex. When she could, she'd leap up and glide a very short distance in a different direction to put a bit of distance between her footprints. When she could, she stuck to travelling through the tree tops, and ran on rocky ground. This trail should be very difficult to follow for a human, and beside that, it was completely different from the path she had taken before. She refused to allow any pursuers to find her without exerting a great deal of effort. If they managed to find Vlad's complex, she wanted them tired. Thinking about her trail, Lillith thought to herself that it wasn't really as good as she wanted it. She would have to think up ways to complicate it more. After all, her end goal was to make herself impossible to track on foot. If she could find a way to avoid leaving any trail, that would be good. She couldn't rely on her powers of flight for everything.

She continued on this way, until she wound up in front of Vlad's complex. Reaching out, she took Aniela's hand, and led her through the gate.

"We're in the complex now, Ani. I'll take you to meet my Uncle." Lillith said quietly.

These words should be enough to let Ani see through part of the glamour. If she hadn't done this, it wouldn't work. The glamour affected all the senses. So there would be no sign at all of the complex. The only way in was to be brought in, and the only way to see through the glamour, would be to be told by someone inside.

Lillith gave Aniela time to take in her surroundings. When Aniela was ready, they would head into the building itself together. The gate itself had already closed behind them.

rusty4297 said
Ryan nodded to Mason before shaking Zhalia's hand. He shivered slightly at the feeling of the scales, not having noticed them until now. Shaking the feeling, he nodded to the both of them, "Of course... supernatural are just like people but with powers, right? Only reason there's more evil supernatural than evil humans is because power corrupts..." He looked between the two, "Or... are there more humans that are evil? I don't know how many supernatural are actually walking around out there..." He frowned slightly before looking to Mason. "How'd you know I wanted to be trained to fight supernatural...?" He raised an eyebrow, amazed, wondering if perhaps mind-reading was an ability that humans could learn, and was taught by the hunters. It would explain quite easily how Mason had known his intentions.

Mason noticed Ryan's shiver in reaction to Zhalia, he wasn't immediately offended or anything like that, he knew that Ryan was knew to this sort of thing. He had a vague understanding of supernatural beings, them being human wasn't always the case but he was kind of right. "No, not always, they are either not human or born different because of a parent or....they get turned." He said to Ryan, hopefully he'd understand, okay maybe not, this kid had a mouth on him. This would definitely take some trying. "Uh, we'll get to the evil supernatural beings part later..." Mason assured him, hopefully he was more knowledgeable after becoming a hunter but who knew how long it would take to make him into a hunter. "I had an idea that you did...just an educated guess.." He said to him with a half smile.

Ryan nodded to Mason, listening to what was told. He glanced to the newcomer, seeing that Zhalia was acting friendly to her. He figured they knew who was friendly and simply returned his attention to Mason, nodding. "Alright then... What do we start with?" He glanced around the area, hoping not to see any ancient texts or large books of material he would have to read to become a hunter. He would have to be knowledgeable about the supernatural, yes, but he was simply hopeful that it wouldn't be something that would take years or anything of that sort.