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The dragon snorted, a derisive laugh. I heard that, he said telepathically. Be careful your ride doesn't misconstrue that as an insult... I do have a habit of taking erratic flight patterns. Not bothering to wait for siblings reactions, Ialo took off.

Over the years he had done some research, and verified bits and parts of his lineage, and had truly began to grasp the scope of his powers. He would never be as strong as his ancestor Ophiuchus, or Kai, or Colin or any other of the people he had met who were gods or god-killers or served the gods. But as a dragon, he had the potential to deal some serious damage in a battle. The dragon soared mindlessly higher up into the air, circling the school, where they could all see Kai working, before leaning to the right and touring the northern part of the forest.

To the west was a large lake with cliffs overlooking it. Ialo had once gone there with a girl he liked, but she had disappeared. It was okay though. He wasn't interested in romance or relationships, just his work. And living. Living was good, but there had been a few episodes over the past five years where he had gotten into fights, mostly with people who sided with Riser. One memorable battle with with a woman, with multi-colored hair. She had nearly snapped Ialo's spine in half. Not fun.

He began drifting into his thoughts again. His long thin wings, more suitable for overseas flying, tilted them to the right again, and Ialo began a clockwise spiral around the school, circling out. It was a famous search pattern. You all like what you see? Although many parts of the grounds were destroyed five years ago, the others had worked hard to restore it. Ialo had a small pang of guilt, that he didn't help as much. But, the dragon was still proud of his worldwide monitoring system.

By this time, Ialo was completely immersed in his flying. Heck, he could have fallen asleep flying. He'd done that before too.

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The twins were in major panic mode. There was nothing they could do. The magical aura coming from this impostor was so powerful, yet so restrained, that only the only person they knew who came close to such power was the White Serpent, who they hadn't seen in years. Well, Cadwalader had, but he didn't think it was important, so he hadn't told anyone. And it wasn't much of a visit, just a crossing of paths during a trip to India. But back to the point - they were probably going to die, or be cursed and lured into being used as pawns, as had once happened to Ialo.

Cadwalader instinctively went into a defensive position, whereas Cadwgan quickly glanced around, looking for something, anything that could help them. No such luck, the best Cadwgan could come up with was those rusted pipes, that were so corroded that they would likely collapse into a pile of dust at the merest tap. They looked at each other, wearing identical expressions of fear. When the Zephyr impostor melted away, their eyes widened. "Oh, screw this," Cadwgan finally cracked. "I'll just stab myself with a pipe and die of tetanus and blood loss." Nobody was in the mood for laughing.

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The angel ignored Lynda and continued to leave, talking over her shoulder. "Ah, you mean you have no memories of your younger years." The angel finally stopped and turned around. "An aura tells many things. You had many admirers. You were loved. You sinned out of love and fear, but have been forgiven." A breezed moved the angel's bangs, revealing gold pupiless eyes. "I must leave now, there are dark and ominous vibes in the air. If you wish to stay safe, I suggest you forget this encounter, and anything else you may have remembered." She reached out and patted Lynda on the head, sealing away her memory of the false Zephyr and the twins being kidnapped. Hopefully, all Lynda would remember would be a couple of nice boys who came and chatted with her for a while before leaving, and the angel would be but a dream. A gold and white swirling portal opened up, and the angel stepped through. "I wish that we do not cross paths again, child of the moon." She began to disappear, and reemerge between the twins and the imposing entity.

A man in a black suit whit undershirt and blak tie walked out of a large warehouse at the docks, a cigrette clenched between two fingers on his left hand. The man lifted it up and took a long drag from it. He spoke something in rapid manderian then looked at his body guards behind him, Each dressed in a simliar attire and holding a submachine gun each. One lifted a walkie talkie and spoke in manderian again. A black limo pulled around the edge of the Warehouse and stopped infront of the man in the suit with a cigrette. One of the guards opened the door and got in then moved over too the far side, the man in the suit tossed down his cigrette and stomped it out then got in followed by the last bodyguard. The driver shifted into gear then turned and headed for the city streets. At that moment a stack of barrels fell and rolled into the path of the limo. The driver stomped on the brakes and stopped just before the barrels. The driver, passenger who carried a small caliber hand gun, the two body guard and the man all got out, the driver passenger and guards all got too work trying too move the barrels away. They moved the last one and turned around. The man in the suit lay dead on the ground, dead, a shuriken stuck out of the back of his head. The ones with guns cocked them and looked around, the driver headed too the back of the limo too grab a shotgun he kept in it. He opened it up and a swarm of needles shot out and hit the man. He let out a scream of pain as he flailed around trying too toss the needles off. A arrow flew from out of know where and peirced through the man's temple and kept moving until the arrow tip was jutting out the other side of his head right between the eyes, dropping the man. The others froze in terror, two men dead and they hadn't seen who had done it. The passenger dropped his gun, turned too run for his life. But couldn't , shadows crawled up his leg, the man let out screams of fear and tried too bat the shadows away with his hand, the darkness just grabbed his hand and began crawling along it until it covered him completly. The man's body shuddered then fell. The darkness moved away from his body revealing a body that was riddled with fist sized holes. The two guards looked at each other, frozen stiff with fear, which one of them would be next? Each man let out a choke then fell, their torso's fell away from their legs. About ten feet away stood a single man, clothed in old looking robes and a hood pulled over his head, he held a pair of katanas each stained with blood of the freashily fallen men. He flicked the swords and the blood splattered. With swiftness he grabbed all the bodies, removed the needles, shuriken and arrow from the bodies, then tossed them into the limo then drove it back too the wharehouse. He drove it into the warehouse, aound it crates and barrels were stacked up too the roof. The ninja got out and opened a crate, inside lay several assult rifles. The ninja looked around for a moment. He grabbed a jerry can from inside the back of the limo the poured the gas over the weapons then lead it too the limo, He grabbed a small ball with a fuse. He grabbed the fuse and pulled it, smoke came out as something began too burn, then the thing exploded in the man's haqnd igniting the warehouse full of weapons causing a huge fire and expolsions. On top of the warehouse stood a man identical too the one in the blast, the only difference was the one of the roof was real, the one in the explosion was a shadow copy. The man flipped open a cell phone and hit speed dial. "It is done" Was all he said. then ended the call then tossed the cell phone into the fire and vanished. No one would know what really happened, their would be some sort of explination, a freak accident mabye? The news would report on it for a few days, then everyone would forget it and the world would go one. The most important thing, no one would know it had been the work of one man. A Expert assassin, a former teacher, named Kogi "Shino" Tsurugi.

Ialo blinked and sighed, hen pulled back so that the dragon was flying behind and slightly above Danni and Zap. The way the girl talked to the rug, she must have given it some sort of intelligence, most likely through an animation spell. Ialo telepathically contacted Ambrose and Lia. Your sister is very pretty when she's happy, he noted. I wonder why a free spirit like hers is practicing dark magic? He could tell after a few minutes, what magic each of the siblings preferred.

And though the children were seated on his back so he couldn't see them, he could sense the relationship between them. I myself prefer weather-based magic, it requires the least concentration on my part. I'm lazy~ The last sentence ended in a sing-song note, as Ialo was in an incredibly cheery mood from flying, much like Danni.

((Yes I mean manderian chinese, and yes it takes place on a Chinese dock. As well incase you didn't get it, the dead guys were part of a black market weapons ring, if you remember in the orginal Rp I had Kogi mention that Assassins kill too insure peace throught out the world))

Koji took too the street, pulling off his gear as he ran, too normal eyes he was a blur of cloth and metal, with no identifying features or marks visable. He ran too a alleyway and tossed all his gear into a duffle bag on the back of a high end motocycle. Underneath he wore a casual business type suit, He took a helmet and slid it over his head, He pushed the visor up and took out his actual cellphone. As he powered it up a small holographic pad came into veiw, He took out a stylus and began tapping the keyboard.He scrolled throught the messeges and opened it, He scrolled throught it and found his new instructions, He smiled abit at them. He was heading home for alittle RandR. He tucked the phone away and got on the bike then started it up. He reved the engine then kicked off, tearing out of the alleyway then onto the streets, moving double the legal speed limit heading too the airport. "Play MP.3 file, I'm alive" He said, The small music player in his helmet by blasting a metal rock song into his ears. He pulled back and popped a wheelie, just for the hell of it. His suit cloat wipped around him from the wind. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw the emergency response teams, heading too the explosion.

010, once judging the Chinese explosion of non-magical origin (but definitely NOT accidental) noticed a figure moving vey fast, very far away from the explosion. It locked in as the puzzle pieces clicked. The behemoth lenses of the telescope adjusted, and zoomed in on the figure. It snapped several pictures, then zoomed in even further to lock onto the figure's cell phone. It was tucked away. No matter. The satellite manage to hack the phone, and e-mailed one of the digital photos to the cell phone. No words were needed. 010 now had partial information on file. It pulled all traces of itself from the phone. Good luck trying to hack it back.

Kogi made it too the airport without incident. He drove his bike right onto the runway behind a large unmarked plane, whoes primary use was paradrops too troops, a large door in the back opened up, creating a ramp, A man stood at the door ushering in Kogi with rapid waves of his hand. Kogi did a quick wheelie then pushed the throttle too it's farthest . "MP3 off" He said and the music cut. He hit the ramp and got airbourne in the plane, he messed up the landing and skid out, His bike went spinning into a pile of crates followed shortly by Kogi. The door closed and kogi stood up and took his helmet. "Well that landing wasn't the ten I was going for" He said, smiling abit. He went over too a cot made for medical treatment and layed down. He fell asleep, He expected too wake up once he was back in japanese airspace. OR rather he had expected too. His cellphone went off. He took it out and saw he had a new message, curious, he wasn't expecting anything. He opened it and was shockedtoo see himself, as well the sender was labeled anomnious. "hakkingu ... watashi ha fan no motte iruto omou" He said in japanese and showed the image too the man who was stationed at a computer. The man took the cellphone and looked at the image then laughed. "doushite misuta^ ya nazo wo minogashi teiruto omoi masuga" The man hooked the cell up too the computer and began running a trace on the sender. "nanimo" kogi sat up. "What do you mean nothing? I thought you were the best we had?" Kogi said angery. He grabbed his cell phone. Who are you and why do you have a picture of me? He typed then sent the message.Not realizing he had sent a message too a machine.

Ella sat on a bench thanking of the past years. She thought of Lance, the man she married and kill because she had no control over her vampire side. "Don't worry Lance Our take good care of our son." She smiled and rubbed her belly. She was now seven months. She is very big and she starting to waddle like a duck. She stood up slowly and began to walk. A smiled was on her face remembering all the friends and family that is helping her at the moment. "May the gods bless them all." Then she began to think about all the people she hasn't seen in a long time. "I wonder if everyone's ok?" She asked looking to the sky. Then the baby kick and Ella looked down. "Hey that hurts silly." She smiled and then realized how is she going to teach the child how to control it's wanting for blood. 'Oh, please let my healing powers protect it from becoming a vampire.' She thought sadly. "Please let me keep this child, please." She stopped and thought of something happy to change her mood.