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@WeepingLiberty I will not shush. I will not go quietly into the night...I will not vanish without a fight! I'm going to live on! I'm going to survive! Today, i celebrate our independence day!

Name that quote~!

Spells in the Dark: The Shadow Queen (18+ For dark and suggestive themes)

@WeepingLiberty I remember when I disappointed my fans by not posting. Leaving them wondering what would happen next in the intriguing story of the lives of our characters.

No I'm not actually upset. No I'm not actually dissappointed. Yes I still love you all. No I don't want to live lit of fire @Ellion.

Pokemon Chrome

And now you know the crux of Aiden's cooking... GOOD LUCK!

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Location: Route 13, Rest Site

Interacting With: @Shadeflare123 @Sen @MechonRaptor

Aiden didn't miss a beat, whipping up delicious smells and tasty looking foods with almost rehearsed ease. His deft hands still yet a blur as he continued seemingly without any exhaustion spreading on him. All the while he was finishing his dishes and pulling them free of the fire to let them cool on the nearby table. Every so often having to turn around and remind Zorex not to steal the food when he wasn't looking, after all they had friends to eat with now!

It was at that stage that Novis made his return with a small sack of berries that made Aiden finally take a pause in his work to look over the natural bounty that he was brought, "Thanks man! I can use these for tons of things. Just a few more minutes and everything will be ready!" With that said Aiden emptied the pouch and started to lay out the berries, crushing a few and tossing them in a pot of water, while he ground up others to put in a pan, barely over the fire. With those two things working away he returned to pulling off the last bits of the food he started before Novis and Roxy left, setting a veritable feast out on the table behind him. Then as the berries in the water began to boil he tossed it around to make a thin Oren Berry glaze and the berries in the pan a thick Oren Berry jam, taking them both away from the fire to drizzle the glaze on a few of his already made dishes before just placing the Oren Berry jam witht eh food for anybody to use. "And done!" Aiden said proudly, to which Zorex almost jumped at the food. Aiden, almost knowing this would happen plucked the energetic Gible out of the air to pull him back, "Now Zorex, we have guests and they should get first taste!"

Then Aiden sat at the table, eagerly waiting for his friends to taste his art and appearing to look even more eager for their reactions. The thing about Aiden's cooking though... He had a tendency to make edible Heaven for Pokemon, which is why Zorex couldn't sit still and wanted to dig in. And with it's potently delicious smells it was hard to see why not! However, his cooking didn't exactly tend to have the same effect for Trainers... Being... not to tasty for them... In fact it could almost be said that it may be some of the worse Human food ever made by man. Of course it didn't smell or look like it though...

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Sorry @Sen and @Shadeflare123, I've been pretty busy of late but hopefully I'll be able to hop on tomorrow to make a post for you guys. Then you'll get to taste the 'wonder' that is Aiden's cooking. And the best part... Your Pokemon will love it!

Spells in the Dark: The Shadow Queen (18+ For dark and suggestive themes)

@Bright_Ops Keep the joke that's ok.

Spells in the Dark: The Shadow Queen (18+ For dark and suggestive themes)

@Bright_Ops Just as a heads up. There is no door, like the way Lusius' home was burned makes it look like something blew a hole in half of the front wall, part of the right wall, the porch is just gone, and so is the roof over the common room. So Draco could probably see Shai and Lusius as he approached.

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Lusius Mathand

@13org

Lusius was busy moping and hoenstly just feeling horrible about this whole thing. Not that he did anything wrong, btu what had come of it. Maybe that was the worst part too... He only wanted to do good and in his eyes he still did, yet fate and others would deem punishments for him that he didn't deserve. Even with what he saved and still had left it hurt. Why should he be punished for his good deeds? Unless it was a punishment given to him for what he was... Sure Phoebe didn't know but some other force may and it could be striking at him, hurting him.

That was when he heard Shai walk gingerly up behind him, speaking in her soft tones to him. She really did have a beautiful and calming voice, but even that wasn't enough to pull him up from this rut. After all this was her fault just as it was his. In fact if he didn't bring her to his home then that crazy bitch wouldn't have attacked it. At that moment he wanted to reel around and throw all of these misfortunes on her. Rising to his feet he said in an angry tone, "You want to know what happened! You happened! That crazy bitch Phoebe came here for you and did this to kill you!" With those hurtful words said he turned away from her putting a hand on his forehead and pacing around, not wanting to even look at her. Yet as she continued to speak he knew this wasn't her fault... not at all. She couldn't help who she was and she helped him, not only that she helped save Seren's Folly. It was himself that made the mistakes, hurting Shai and making her vulnerable when she was helping him, leading Phoebe to his home, not killing Phoebe when he had the chance...

In that moment he turned to her, "I'm sorry. This isn't your fault. You are not to blame for any of this." Then came the awkward silence, leaving the opened house dead for words until Shai spoke up again, talking about losing possessions and how losing the past may be able to bring a brighter future. In fact that was something he'd never thought about. All his life he let his past haunt and torture him, but he'd never be able to let it go, not even now. He wanted to, but he couldn't do it... not alone. That was when she offered her help. Not with letting go of his past, but with his home, help rebuilding what he lost so that he could move forward instead of wallowing in self pity.

Letting out a pained sigh he walked towards Shai, trying to keep his eyes from drifting anywhere they shouldn't, but her warm smile made his task much easier. She was beautiful, even with a tail... "I would... I uh... I would very much like your help." He confessed, glad to have her on his side, "But uh... Maybe we should find you some clothes first..." He continued awkwardly trying not to come off as a pervert over the whole... being naked thing.

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Ok so lat night I was pretty pissed at teh IC actions taken against Lusius that I kinda, maybe, sorta forgot to include what a normal person would be feeling right now... So I kinda hastily and rather poorly spliced it in for anybody who needs to read my post... such as a waking dragon girl or something. @13org

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Lusius Mathand

@Rune_Alchemist @13org

Lusius was busy chopping firewood, idly listening to Phoebe until she spoke of her parents being killed by witches and how she herself was almost killed by a demon. In truth their stories were close together and that made him have some sympathy for her. He could understand her pain and know what she was feeling, that need for revenge and why she wished to strike at the monsters of this world. Turning to face her, ready to speak with her about their similarities he watched as she reached for her firebombs, pulling the strings. As if dumbstruck he watched her wind back to throw the bombs and as if watching in slow motion he yelled out, "No! Don't!" Running at her to stop her, but it was too late and he watched as the firebombs were thrown over his head, watching in horror as the weapons were hurled at everything he had. Thankfully his windows were shuttered closed to help keep the heat of his fire in which made the firebomb aimed at his window strike and crash against the outside. Regardless that meant the fire washed over the front wall of his home. Again, thankfully the cobble stone chimney kept a portion of the fires away but even then that didn't mean his home was safe. As the second crashed down also on the front of his house, but against the far end of the wall he turned around, throwing the ax away so that he could charge full speed into his home, calling out back to Phoebe, "You fucking whore!"

Ripping open the door he ran inside, grabbing his coat off of the rack he started to pad out the fires, smothering them with his thick and heavy winter coat trying to save his entire life. It was in this moment he was grateful that he made him house flame retardant, planning for his condition should he have another episode. Of course that didn't mean he was safe immediately, but it gave him time. Continuing to wash out the flames he knew he had to do something more to save not only his home but also Shai. Running to the kitchen that was built off of the common room he drew his sword and after opening the cupboard to the water cistern he took a sword at it, letting a heavy clang of metal ring out through the house before taking another swing, and another, and finally on the fourth swing he cut through the metal to let the water spill out, washing through his kitchen and then his common room keeping the low flames out, but before he let it all wash away he grabbed a pail and scooped up a bucket full running over to the door where he began dumping bucket after bucket onto the flames that here licking up the side of his home.

Still progress was slow and despite his quick efforts to staunch the flames they were burning through the front side of his house. Yet still he didn't give up and in a quick moment he took a break from splashing water over the flames to sprint upstairs fearful for Shai's life at this point as the bed was near the front side of the house. Running over to her he reach down picking up the girl and carrying her away from the burning wall and downstairs quickly and running outside. With her safe and outside the building he charged back in, leaving her in the cold open air, but atleast she wasn't in a burning building.

It was at this point that Lusius started to get the flames under control, washing them with water and smothering them with his now ruined coat. With a few more tense minutes he finally had them all out, but at this stage the damage was already done. Almost the entire front wall of his home, including his porch, the roof over it and part of the second floor was burned through, leaving a giant hole in his home.

Taking a minute to himself he paced and fumed, furious with that whore Phoebe. Deep down inside he felt the Burning Man clawing at him, using Lusius' own rage to fuel and influence him. Once agian his skin started to sizzle and crackle, burning with rage and fury for that worthless bitch. She was going to pay and pay dearly... Convicted to end her life he gripped his silver bracelet firmly, unclasping it and turning around to chase after her, but that was when he saw her. Shai was lying there propped up against a tree both unconscious and naked. In that same moment he calmed, she calmed him and he knew that he had to take care of her as she took care of him. Even if she was the cause of this. Slowly he reclasped his brace and the Burning Man was furious! He was so close to escaping, ready to charge into the world and ravage it, burning, destroying, razing, but now! Now he was contained once again. Yet the Burning Man had another plan... the seed of hate was planted... now it needed to be tended so that whent eh time was right, he'd be unleashed onto the world once again.

Lusius went over to Shai, gingerly reaching down to pick her back up, craddling her in his arms once more he took her back inside the now cold building. Even the fire in the fireplace had gone out, leaving them without a heat source, but he'd make due. For now he was just glad that he didn't lose everything... or lose Shai. Taking her back upstairs he was happy to see that while he had a hole in the lower wall, near the bed, the bed remained unburnt. Putting Shai back on the bed and tucking her in once more. Then he went back outside, turning around to look at the damage. In truth it wasn't that bad. His common room was destroyed, his porch was just gone, his wall had a gaping hole in it, his firewood store was present but either so charred or just ashen that it wouldn't be useful. Thankfully his stone fireplace was undamaged, coated in ash, but undamaged. Regardless he paced for a minute before yelling as loud as he could, "Fuck!" Letting his word echo around the forest before he settled down, regaining his composure and returning to his burnt home. He'd have to get started on the repairs soon if it was to be fixed up by the time the first Winter snows start to fall. Picking back up his ax he figured now would be a good time to start removing the charred wood. Heading back down the hallway to his storeroom he picked his saw, hammer, pry bar, and the ax from outside. With his tools in hand he went back to his ruined common room sitting down on a black and charred piece of what was once a beautifully crafted rocking chair. Hanging his head trying to manage his grief. He couldn't help but think of how his last home perished and how his new home, all his worldly possessions, and the last vestige he had that he could call his home was just burned. True he spared some of it, but even then to see a repeat of the fires that are capable to level his home was not something he ever wanted to see again. Work could wait a few hours, for now Lusius just wanted to grieve.