Cosmo Youngblood blinked.

He floated a foot off of the ground, a swirling mass of red mist solidifying beneath the soles of his heeled boots.

"Heh." He smirked at a really cool and inappropriate joke he thought about just then. "I'm so fucking twisted..."

Ember Magnus was not far away. She crested the rise of a hill and looked out onto the light-bathed landscape. Her lips curled in distaste.

It had no right being that pretty. Where were the swamps? The festering pits of dead animals and fly infested grottos?

She had to find her target and get out of this sparkling, sylvan forest as soon as possible.

Cosmo Youngblood came to a slow halt in the beautiful shade of one of the many trees. With a great flourish of blood, he leapt down to the ground and stood with his hands on his hips. He glanced about, haughtily, smugly smirking.

His shoulders immediately slumped as his hands fell away, a great breath escaping his lungs. Finally alone, he thought to himself. A small bunny peaked out from around the tree, and Cosmo caught sight of it.

"Hey there wittle rabbit..." The blood mage bent down slowly, and started making cute sounds at it.

"Ugh," Ember said, edging carefully around a patch of flowers. The smell was cloying and sickly sweet. She glanced down at the crystal hanging from her wrist by a thin strip of leather. It was tugging her forward, guiding her deeper into the forest. He was close ...

With her staff in the other hand, she pushed forward through the trees, annoyed by their beautiful autumnal colours.

The bunny twitched it's furry little ball of a tail, impossibly floppy ears slowly laying back. It took a hop towards Cosmo. This elicited a small squeal from the evil blood mage.

"That's it. You want some..." He trailed off. All he had with him was blood. "Oh..."

He looked saddened by this realization. Even here, in his favorite place, with it's sickeningly sweet floral scents and blindingly bright sunshine, he remembered that he was just a blood mage. No furry creature could ever love a blood mage.

Ember saw the bunny before she saw the bloodmage. She was just starting to consider burning the entire forest to the ground when it suddenly opened into a clearing. The bunny and its fluffy tail blocked her way. She glowered darkly at it.

"Stupid creature," she muttered. "Shoo."

Then her eye caught the brightly coloured, caped, doll-faced man behind it. He was beautiful in a gothic kind of way, which explained why Ember took an immediate dislike to him.

"You," she said, raising her staff. "I've been hunting you for many days and nights, blood mage. Prepare to meet your end."

Cosmo sprang to his feet and a swirling line of blood writhed foward, forming into a totally cool scythe in his hands.

"What? Hunting? Me? Heh!" Cosmo smirked very meanly, trying his best to be unmoved. If only the bunny would get out of the way, before it got hurt. "I am Cosmo Youngblood, the Red Demon, the Bloody Saint, the Lord of Edges!"

Cosmo swung his scythe and chopped clean through the nearest tree, though it hurt his heart. "Flee now, mortal! Ha-ha!"