Secrets

[America]

Zachary was walking out of the casinos in Vegas. Okay, he was actually thrown out. But, whatever. "Stupid underage rule" he mumbled under his breath. He stood up and started exploring the city. He had walked five blocks when heard something unusual two alleys back. Yes, something unusual for Vegas.

He turned around sharply and sprinted towards the noise. As he got closer, he saw flames rising in the air. However, they weren't the flames of a burning building. No, they were magical.

He stopped sprinting and turned the corner. He then saw what was going down. A gang of vampires were attacking two girls. 2 other guys had jumped in to help. But he heard them talk about some kind of bounty. Oh well.

He quickly but silently pulled the hilt of his blade from the belt loop of his jeans. He flipped a trigger on the hilt which caused a silvery liquid to form into the shape of the blade. He walked up silently in the dark when the light from one of the fireballs caught on the blade. It gleamed in the darkness causing three of the vampires to turn towards him.

The Vampire stood there waiting. 4 of them faced the girls, 2 of them faced some weirdo with the katana, 2 of them were hopelessly trying to dodge some dude with a pistol, and two faced Zack. Zack charged forward carrying his blade at a slight angle. The vampires finally got a look of the person wielding the sword. His long black hair and his cold, dark eyes were all that they could see though. But they knew. They knew that he was going to kill them.

He swung his blade and the vampires flinched. The one on the left had a look of pain and confusion in his eyes. The liquid of the blade had gone right through him. Then, all of a sudden, he disintegrated into nothingness.

"My blade is made of a liquid ion. When it's not solid, the ion can go right through you. It's actually not that strong and normally just burns someone causing them to lose focus. But, when it's used on a vampire, it can cause them to disintegrate." Zack answered his unasked question. Then, all of a sudden, the vampire had vanished. Zack had slashed him with the blade.

"Who's next?" Zack asked rhetorically.

((Hey, if SSJ4 Charizard doesn't fix his post, can I have thunder as my element instead?))

[America]

Mish walked along in the silence that was the sleeping rest of Las Vegas. Many sounds could be heard emitted from local casinos, that sort of thing, yet Mish ignored those. It's not like she had much money to ****, anyways.

She paused; there was an intersection. The neon lights, and the dark shadows cut off at the road. Mish sighed, hoping that no one was around. It's moments like these you wish you were something else. She looked around, noting that there was nobody watching at the present time.
She ran straight across the road, and her body left the shadows and lept into the silvery moonlight. At once her form became like that of a foxes', yet with four tails.
Mish gasped; there was movement from out of the corner of her eye - someone had seen her as a fox. She quickly sprinted onto the other side of the road, and when she safely reached the shadows on the other side her fox body disintergrated, leaving her as a young human.

Mish ran, sparing a look behind her shoulder. No one seemed to be following her, yet she kept on running anyway. The lights that illuminated the city soon left her behind, and she rounded a corner into an alleyway, resting against the wall to catch her breath. A commotion at the other side of the alley made her turn her head; her eyes resting on what looked like a fight between many suspicious characters.

She quickly lept into the moonlight, hoping that none of them had seen her human form. There, she looked at the scene. None of them had spotted the fox yet, mainly concentrating on their own lives at risk.
There were two girls in the middle of the battle, and they looked about the age of her human identity. Thinking why in the world them, along with others that looked the same age were there, she concentrated, screwed up her eyes, and made the tips of her tails emit a piercing light.

She looked around as she had done so, trying to see in the light that illuminated the alleyway. She had hoped that that would work, or help one of them out, anyway. It was her 'non-violent' way to attack.
She then retreated to the shadows, and hid behind a garbage can. She would come out and attack if she was needed.

[America]

As Kira just stood there and watched the on going fight, he thought out loud, "I wonder why this all oddly seems like a scene from a cartoon show?" He simply shrugged and continued watching. He suddenly got this feeling like he was in some sort of danger and was compelled to turn around and see what the presence behind him was. As Kira turned around, he was relieved to only find Cortes standing there. "I guess Dan was right. People who're into cults do have a dark and mysterious aurora constantly lingering around them!" Kira joked. Although he's always been good friends with me, there's this thing about him that makes my senses scream "red alert". I wonder why I'm so paranoid around him.

As he and Cortes turned around to leave, Cortes spotted something trying to hide itself in an alley and dragged Kira over with him to see what it was. "Aww! It's a fox! It's sooo cute!" Kira cooed as he look behind the garbage can. "You're acting all girly again," Cortes whined. As Kira proceeded to try to pick up the fox without startling it, Cortes reminded him the rules he had set for the house, "no animals in the house, remember?" Well,he is right... Kira sighed and left the fox alone. "Fine," he pouted like a child who was refused candy. Cortes took one last glance at the fox and noticed that it had three tails.

[America]

((Right. I updated the beginning post. Zega, I gave you Thunder, but it's all explained in the beginning post.))

"Thanks for the help." Sora said to them in her quiet voice as she pinned one of the Vampires up against the wall. She then incinerated him right on the spot as she made the Vamp spontaniously combust on the spot. It was strange that Sora didn't get a burn, since she was still grasping his neck when he bursted into flames. She looked over at everyone else, seeing that they were doing very well on their own.

A Vampire tried to stab the blonde in the back, but he erupted into flames as soon as he touched her. Sora had a wry smile on her face when his screams of agony stopped. She then watched as they all finished up their own gang members.

Riku had taken down one of hers very quickly. The other one that was attacking her, though, she just knocked him out. Riku then threw the Vamp over to Sora, who caught him expertly. This must be their leader, so they were going to question him. The brunette walked over to Sora and the two watched everyone's fight.

"You do realize that two of them want to take us for the bounty." Riku commented to the blonde, who just nodded her head. Sora's amber eyes were watching the others intensely, and the brunette felt something about them that was, well, familiar.

"They're the same as us." The blonde told her. Riku just nodded, now understanding why they felt familiar.

"We'll have to get away when they start attacking us, you know." Riku replied. Sora just had a ghost of a smile on her face.

"Yeah. I know." She answered. The two then lapsed into silence as they watched the fight.

[America]

"Too easy" Mutio said simply as he fired 10 more rounds and as the 2 vamps hopelessly tried to dodge it, they both got hit. "Way too easy" He muttered, kicking the 2 fallen bodies to see if they were still alive. "Might as well watch the others" He said, leaning back as he watched the other battles with a smile. "These guys are good..." He muttered to himself, watching everyone with interest.

However, the real prize he was after were the 2 that were originally here, Sora and Riku. "I'm so gonna get that bounty" He muttered to himself. He pondered why he hadn't attacked them yet but shrugged it off as he
continued to stare at the 2, ever waiting for a chance to strike them down and bring them in for the bounty. "So tempting" He said outloud, not really caring as he tried to control the urge to strike them down now.

"Gah, gotta control it" He said, toying with the pistol in his hand. HE still smirked as he remembered that day...

++++++++++++Flashback++++++++++
Mutio whistled lightly as he walked around the streets of Las Vegas. He had just gotten kicked out of a stolen apartment and his whole world was crumbling down. He'd lost his house, his job, heck, even his weapons. "what's a guy to do?" Mutio said to himself as he continued to walk. It was very sunny out today, which didn't surprise Mutio much, he expected it to be this sunny, without the news reporter's help.

"Hey you!" A thug said and Mutio sighed as he turned around. "Yes?" Mutio said, looking un-interested. "I want everything you have, now!" The thug said, throwing a wild punch at Mutio. "Why is it this always happens to me?" He said, dodging the punch and giving a punch of his own to the man's gut. "H-How..." The man said before falling. "Hmm, this is interesting" Mutio said, picking up a pistol the guy had dropped.

"How curious he didn't use it..." Mutio said, pocketing the pistol and walking off.
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"Still a funny day if you think about it..." He then muttered to himself, looking to the black sky and wondering if anything in his life would ever change. He shook his head lightly as he looked back to the fierce battles going on between the vampires and the...humans. "Those guys don't seem human..." Mutio said, shrugging as he continued to watch.

[America]

"**** it!" Zack muttered, looking around to see that 3 of the fighters had finished their fight. 'About time they finished' he thought. He watched as the other two fighters take on the few remaining vamps. "I wanted a little more of a challenge. Eh, Oh well." He flipped the trigger on his blade causing it to disapear. However, for some odd reason, it sparked after the liquid disappeared. "That's weird. It's nexer done that before" he finished.

He decided to walk towards the two girls. He wanted to ask them about this 'bounty'. He heard two of the others say something about that and he continued to hear one dude talking about it to himself. He saw that he was playing with what looked like a pistol. Zack decided to grab the hilt of his blade, just in case.

"So...... Nice vamp you got there," Zack commented, reffering to the knocked out vampire they had with them. "Yes, I know they're vampires," he said, reffering to their confused faces. "I also noticed that you like to play with fire," he stated, pointing at Sora. "But, what I don't know, is what this bounty thing is that those two guys were talking about. Mind explaining?" he asked the two. He was toying with the hilt of his blade that he had in the palm of his hand. He wanted to make sure he had a back-up plan just in case they tried something funny.

[America]

"We've been mucking up a huge Vampire Clan's plans on controling this city," Sora said, eyeing the one with a pistol. She didn't really trust that he had a very sane mind at the moment. Riku looked at Zack, calculating him. The brunette made it a habit to examine potential allies/enemies, since her observations might come in handy later.

"They posted the bounty on us so that they could get rid of most of their troubles," Riku finished after studying Zack. She gave him a smile and turned to Sora, a questioning spark in her emerald eyes.

"We should get going," Sora replied to the brunette's silent question. The blonde turned to leave after taking a last glance around the lot.

[America]

"Seriously. That's the thanks we get for helping them out." Zack mumbled under his breath. But he couldn't help being curious. He decided he wanted to know where they were going. He glanced around to see the two remaing fighters finishing up their battles. The dude with the pistol looked deep in thought and was still staring at his pistol. Certain that know one was looking, he darted off into a dark alley way 2 blocks forward and 1 block to the side. He was facing a dead end and their were two buildings surrounding. "Good. There's a metal ladder attached to the building. He climbed up of it quickly but silently.

When he got to the top he creapt low to the roof of the building. He didn't want anyone to see him in the illuminating lights of Las Vegas. When he got to the other side of the building, he pulled the hood of his sweatshirt over his head. This kept people from seeing him very well in the night sky, even with the dim lights from the casinos ahead. He jumped across the tight spaces between the buildings. After he had crossed 4 buildings he saw them. The two girls. He had to know what they were up to. Why were they walking the streets this late anyway? He got across the next 3 buildings when something wierd happened. As he treid to jump to the next building, his shoes clung to the metal railings.

"WTF?" He yelled. "Oh ****," He exclaimed remembering that the two girls where just beneath them. The girls looked up at him. And boy, they looked angry.

[America]

"hmm, should I, or shouldn't I?" Mutio said to himself with a smirk, throwing his pistol in the air and catching it as he quickly followed the 2 females. "I'm still gonna get that bounty, no matter what" He muttered, jumping to the roofs of the buildings. "hmm" He said, noticing someone else up here. He followed that guy, who led him to the 2 girls again. He quickly hid when the guy sweared. "Moron..." He muttered, sighing as he looked down to the ground, then dropping down to it as he aimed with his pistol. "I believe you 2 are the bounty I've been looking for" He then said with a smirk as he landed, pointing his pistol at them.

"now, you can come peacefully, or you can come violently, either way I win" Mutio said, confident he could take all 3 of these fools down without even breaking a sweat. "They look easy to beat" He muttered, surveying his...'opponets', none of them seemed to be especially unique compared to him, so he just continued to smirk as he awaited their answer.

((grr, sorry for the shortness))

[America]

OOC: Awww... a cute fox. ^_^

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Mish sat back and watched the fight with interest; no one she had seen before fought like that, except for the vampires around the place and little cartoon dudes she had seen on TV before she had to sell it.

She looked at the others who weren't fighting. Two of them proceeded to come up to her, one trying to pick her up. Mish squirmed a bit, knowing that if she did, the light filtering down from the buildings around them would surely make her a fox with a human head, unless she had the reflexes to change into a fox fully, without the moonlight's help. Mish tried to sit on her tails, yet she swore that one looked at them weirdly, noticing that she had an unusual number.

Mish shook off the feeling of insecurity as the fight near her finished, and she saw piles of ashe on the ground. Wait a tic... She hadn't seen any matches. She shook that off, too. You're a four-tailed fox. Do you expect your life to be normal?

Mish walked out of the alleyway. Being very interested on the whole 'bounty' thing that she heard, and also wanting to know more abou the ashes, she followed the two girls who were at the centre of the fight that erupted moments ago.

She walked across to the other side of the road, noting that a few people saw her fox tails. She ran, unknowing, and hid in another alleyway a few blocks away.
She panted, and sat in the shadows that formed from the odd-coloured building next to her. She then noticed that a few of the others were on the other side of the street.
Hiding, and wondering why she was for the second time in about ten minutes, she watched them.

[America]

((Great, I'm away from the forums for half a day, and all the fightings finished...))

Eido waited till the two teenage girls disappeared, and then the gun - carrying bounty hunter and the man who carried that strange blade, before allowing his wings to unfurl. He figured that silently following them via air travel was the quickest and easiest way to follow them without arousing attention. Leaping into the air, Eido swept towards the direction of the others, keeping to the shadows at all times.

The teenagers had been followed by the man who had the strange blade, who had led the bounty hunter to the girls. Typical, thought Eido, an idiot who follows a bigger idiot. And two teenagers who have a nasty reputation with the vampires of the area. Just my luck to get mixed with the wrong crowd...

Settling down to watch the action, Eido saw the blade - wielder slip, fall, then swear loudly alerting everyone in the vicinity to his presence. Then, the bounty hunter ambushed the trio, leaping down to take them all by surprise. "How very stupid," whispered Eido quietly. "None of these fools seemed to realise that they would be followed. Except the teenage girls. That's rather amusing. Isn't that right, Ignis?" Eido whispered again, before turning his head sideways to see the crouched figure of a teenager.

"Hey. How did you know I was there?" asked the startled Ignis, suprised that he had been found so quickly.
"I'm part vampire. What do you expect, friend?" Eido said, amused at his friend's startled outlook.
"Fair point. I think we should get down there, though. That bounty hunter looks to have the upper hand." Ignis said, before readying himself to jump.
"Either way, we should sort things out down there," agreed Eido, before readying himself as well.

Then, the pair of them lept from the building top, landing behind the bounty hunter with apparent ease...
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Lesser Element Character

Name: Ignis Fatuus
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Race: Loup Garou (Like from "Blood and Chocolate" - great film)
Element: Moonlight

Appearance: Ignis, while in human form, has silvery - coloured eyes. His hair is straight and medium length. It is slightly spiked at the fringe, the colour of his hair being black. He is 5'9" in height, and has silvery tinted caucasian skin.

Ignis usually wears a light grey T - shirt, with the picture of a black wolf head on the front. On the back of the shirt, there is an inscription which reads 'Wolfman' printed in silver. He wears black tracksuit trousers, which have the inscription of 'Dusk Wolf in blood red along the trouser leg. He wears black trainers. Finally, he wears a silver fang on a pendent, which also has a mysterious silver rune on it as well.

Wolf Form: http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa201/Y...u/BlackWolf.png

Personality: Ignis is quick thinking, rash, bold and can be obnoxious. However, he is also caring, compassionate and smart if times need him to be that way. He can usually be found with Eido, giving people a view of their relationship with Eido as a much older person then Ignis. Ignis has many friends, both human and loup garou, and many wolves also know him as a friend. This has allowed Ignis to gain many people's trust and he has shared much knowledge he has with others. However, whenever possible, Ignis prefers to research about other 'supernatural' species, to gain a greater knowledge of their strengths, weaknesses and general desires.

History: N/A (Will be revealed at some point.)

Secret: His loyalty to Eido is more than it seems - Ignis considers Eido to be his mentor and master. This priviledge allows Eido to give Ignis commands, as well as having Ignis save Eido from things that can potentially kill him.

Other: - Has two knives stored on his person, which he uses for quick combat.

[America]

((OOC: So everyone knows. Zack did not slip and fall. When he tried to jump to the next building, His shoes clung to the side of the building because of the electrical powers he has no idea he has. It's called static electricity. He cursed not because he slipped or because he was an idiot. He was kinda preoccupied with the fact that he was standing straight up on the SIDE of a building.))

"Okay, I know you two are pissed, but right now I've got a bigger problem. I'm mean, I'm clinging to the side of a freakin' building." With that, he dropped to the ground. "Wait, what!?" He stood up, quickly becoming aware of his surroundings. "Okay," he whispered to the two girls, "I'm guessing it's the psycho with the pistol?" The girls nodded very slightly to answer his question. "This is gonna be easy, he whispered. Just stand still. No sudden movements. This is gonna be fun," he finished.

With that, we silently walked behind the girls and pulled out the hilt of his blade. He then lunged into the air, and flipped the trigger of the blade causing the liquid ion to form. With that the dude fired his pistol at Zack. Zack's sword however deflected the bullet with ease. The bullet hit the sword, which Zack had at an angle, and it bounced towards the ground harmlessly.

"I choose the hard way," Zack said. With a smirk, he held his blade in both of his hands. He took a half-step forward and lowered his blade a bit to about knee-height. He was in a basic fighting stance when holding a blade.

'Hopefully he doesn't know magic like the other two girls' he mumbled. That's when it hit him. That's why his blade sparked back at the battlesite with the vamps. That's why his shoes clung like static to the side of that building. He had the power of electricity. And with that, the tip of his blade sparked and he felt a jolt of electricity running through his body. "Sweet!"

[America]

"We choose the hard way," Sora replied as Riku stomped on the ground. It didn't appear to do anything, but the two of them were smirking. Suddenly, the ground below the bounty hunter turned to quick sand. The earth hardened, though, once he sank up to his knees. Riku had a sweet smile on her face as she turned to Zack. Sora had her attention on the ones behind the bounty hunter.

"Thank you for the help," The brunette said to him.

((Shortness virus! O_o))

[America]

 Mutio smirked as the tempature around him began to drop rapidly. "Hehe" He said as ice shards blasted everywhere from underneath him. Apparently, he had just frozen the earth around him then made the ice shatter everywhere. "You are not the only ones with powers I see" He said, smirking as he aimed again and shot, this time ice trailed along with the bullet and the bullet itself had ice on it. "I still remember when I First learned of my powers ya know" Mutio said jokingly.

Then he dashed up to the male who had just appeared out of no where, while his bullet headed towards the girls. "Still choose the hard way?" He said, noticing the electricity jumping off of the guy's sword. "no match for ice" Mutio said, as the tempatures started to drop again.

((gah, Ryuuto, you sure you're not contagious?))

[America]

Zack waited for the psycho to get closer to him. This was going to be harder than he thought because of his ice powers. The plus side is that he now had electrical powers. This would complement his speed perfectly. "You know what? I still choose the hard way," Zack said as the guy approached. Zack then quickly jumped in the air, higher than most people could. He was about as high as the building. Static was generating around him due to all of the roof lights and the lights coming from all of the billbords (sp?). He used this to his advantage.

"I hope you like the dark!" Zack exclaimed. With that, all of the lights went out. There was no light located within miles. Now they were truly in a dark alley. With that he surged toward the heat which was most likely the girl who could control fire. He landed at the ground to here two voices breathing heavily. He started to generate some electricity so he could see a bit. The light from the sparks should allow him to see a bit. He opened up his left hand and created a ball of electricity. Then he saw it. There was ice everywhere. He turned around to see that the girls legs were incased in ice and they couldn't move. One was trying to melt the ice and was succeeding when more ice incased it somehow. Zack turned around to see the dude.

"I guess it's just us?" Zack said pulling out his blade again. For some reason it was different. Electricity was generating from it and lit up the entire area. This time he got in a different stance. He stood with his right leg in front of his left. He was leaning as much of his weight as possible on his left leg. He held his blade in both hands and at waist-height. This would help him jump out of the way if needed. "Finally I get a challenge," he said smirking at the same time. The two girls were now facing them some how. He saw the brunette smile at him and for some reason, it helped him relax a bit.