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The hound barked and Shadow looked up.
"Well, there's the gate, boy. Guess it's time to say bye bye." Shadow shook her head and her hair grew longer. Her fingernails became bloodred and her tongue turned black and pointed. Gleaming red eyes looked at the hound, and his matching eyes looked back at her. Shadow reached out a hand, which was now ashy gray instead of white, and pet it.
"Bye," Shadow said. "Now get your doggy a** back to your master, or she'll get mad at me." The hound barked, gained his footing on the bank, then sped off in the opposite direction. Shadow turned to the gate. Big, looming thing it was. Not on the river, but off to the side a bit. A branch of the river flowed towards it; Shadow willed herself to go towards it. She didn't bother messing with the gate. She just let herself go through, or maybe into, it. Her form trickled away as she tried to find this demon...Paymon...

Vladimir watched as Lilia devoured a peice of raw, bloody meat. He had done the same on many an occasion, but he had never thought of his love doing so as well.
'Well, I guess this isn't so bad...' Vladimir smiled and pet Lilia on the head. She turned her face towards his and smiled, bloody teeth poking out from her lips. She wasn't a traditional bloodsucker, that's for sure. She didn't have the 'vampire fangs' like Vladimir. Instead she had rows of small, dagger sharp teeth, much like some demons. Or Shadow...

Shadow felt a presence, so she decided to take on an appealing form. She looked mostly like she had before with the hound: quite the terrifying sight. But now she had taken on a more...appealing appearance. It was the form she would have taken many, many centuries ago when she and Shade were still having relations. She would dominate him most of the time, and she preferred to look scary as well as sexy when doing so.
Shadow easily found Paymon. It was much easier than she had thought it was going to be. And she was not impressed.
He looked much like Daron, but Shadow supposed that most male demons would look the same to her. But he looked a bit more human than Daron. Not as much gore and such. Reminded her a bit of Shade. Even had that same lustful look in his dark silver eyes...
"Hello~" Shadow picked her voice carefully. She chose a deeper, sexier voice than she would have usually picked. She also made sure to concentrate her voice around her throat. No need in letting the gawking demon on to what she was.
"Well, hello to you too," Paymon said. His sharply forked tongue slipped out from his lips and Shadow's only thought was a hope that he didn't try and tickle her with it. She might just lash out at him if he did that...'
"And what is a fine woman such as yourself doing in this hell-hole?" Paymon said, doing a bad job of flirting. Shadow sighed mentally as she realized that yes, all men of all species are the same. Big boobs, big a**, nice face, that's all they need. Pitiful, really...
"Oh, just wandering around...trying to see things I haven't before..." Shadow circled him and tried to tell herself that the only reason she was doing this was to kill the b*****d. But she couldn't help feeling a tad sick. Let's just say Paymon wasn't her type. But then again, she wasn't even sure that this was Paymon. That was the only reason he was still alive.
"Well, it's not safe for a pretty woman like you to be wandering around Hell. Bad things might happen..."
"Is that a threat?"
"Oh, no! Not at all..." But the look in his eyes betrayed his thougths. Shadow resisted the urge to kill him, regardless of whether he was her target or not.
"Kay. As long as it isn't a threat...I don't have too many defenses here..." Shadow circled him again and spotted his happy expression. Shadow felt pleased with herself; she hadn't enchanted someone in a while and felt that she could still do so perfectly. Either that or this demon was simply a horny, desperate b*****d.
"Hmm...how about I get you outta here? It sure is dangerous..."
"Why, that'd be lovely!" Shadow smiled and bounced a little, careful to make sure her feet stayed looking like feet.
"Okay!" He sounded more excited than her. "Let's go!"
"Oh, but I don't even know your name."
"Well, I don't know yours."
Shadow smiled. "Well, I'm Shadow. You?"
"Interesting name. Not a common demon name..." His brow wrinkled as he began to look past her looks.
"You know mine. What's your name?" Shadow said, desperately, though she did her best to hide the desperation.
"Oh, yeah. It's Paymon. But really, Shadow is a weird name for a demon..." Paymon looked at her then stepped back. Shadow had lost all her appealing qualities and now looked just plain scary.
"What?..." Then, the realization hit him. "You're not a demon, are you?"
"Nope~" Shadow sang, her dagger like teeth exposed, her head falling to one side. Not only did she look scary, but she looked completely insane.
"Ha. Well, then you're powerless here. You must be an idiot." Paymon sounded confident, but it was clear that he was a little freaked out.
"Oh, darling~" Shadow sang. "I'm not stupid. I'm just insane. And the mistake was all yours. All I needed was your name."
"Wha?..." Paymon didn't get to do anything more, because Shadow lunged at him, the dagger exposed from wherever she had been hiding it. She plunged it into his heart, and Paymon shrieked, throwing her off. Shadow easily gained her footing while still in the air, then flew towards him. He had turned tail and was fleeing, but Shadow came up behind him and decapitated him. His head fell to the ground and, just to be safe, Shadow tore his heart out. Then she enjoyed herself, rolling around in the blood and body, which she had cut up. When the flesh began to fizzle and pop, Shadow was pretty sure she had killed him dead. Which was pretty much all she had been sent to do.
Shadow pulled a bottle from her pocket then set about her mission. She carefully filled the bottle with as much pure demon blood as she could. She actually almost filled the bottle up. Shadow smiled then carefully hid the bottle where no one would detect it. She grabbed Paymon's head and stashed it with his heart, just in case Kaminari wanted proof. She jumped back into the river and fought the current to get back to where she started.

((could turn this into a book?))

Attimasc gave Daron a sideways look, "I wouldn't have put you down as a vamp lover. Interesting, but that raises the question, why would she take any interest in any mortal, other than for, say torment and torture purposes,"

Kaminari caught the head and held it by the hair sniffing it slightly. "Fresh...Lilia might want this. May you have a heart?" she asked, not looking towards the Shadow. Kaminari's hair had darkened from the air in hell, since it was a mix of oxygen and vaparized blood. From her neck back sprouted two wings, and her eyes turned yellow and cat like. From behind her ears, long horns came, and went down to her ankles before ending in a sharp point. Her lips seemed to be fuller, and she grabbed a knife from a table and went to work cutting out the brain. When getting it, she split the brain in half down the natural part and fed each one to her hounds, who ate it up greedyily.


Daron snickered, "Who said I was?" he asked as he finished the last bit of his dinner. Daron shrugged and motioned for the kitchen. "I spend my time in Hell, looking after victims of...unforutnate 'accidents'. Ask Rebecca." At her name, Rebecca stepped from the kitchen. Her skin was a deep tan now, and her hair had change to long and blonde. From her shoulders were claws, and the went down her arms. Her eyes, all four of them, were a bright blue. She was wearing a long skirt, and on both sides, were cuts up to the hip; and a black tube top. She smiled, her forked tongue sneaking from between her lips.

"Welcoming Lizaria, The Seer of the Demons." Daron grumbled, rolling his eyes and sitting down again.

"Kaminari, although the second to strongest Demon in the underworld, knew that the humans above needed more then the mindless pranks from lesser demons. Throughout the years she has tricked and deceived the Preists into thinking she was a beautiful woman or a powerful Goddess. Her true form was the form that all Voodoo woman wanted. Her claws, long and sharp, and her body slim and strong. When she a in her human form, she appeared harmless. But in the real sense, she posions your mind" Rebecca smiled, holding out her hand to Lilia who grabbed it. Then Lilia suddenly appeared on Darons lap, "Every male demon wanted her power, and every Demoness wanted her beauty; even the lost souls, like Lilia's new kind, mimiced her, entrancing the males from the Earth's Surface. Soon, Kaminari had a plan of her own. Create a bigger illusion; big enough to deceive even God himself. God sent down the Guardian Angels to protect The Nameless Woman's children from the burning and 'sinful' acts of the priests. We were, after all, deformed and Satantic. Lilia appeared next to Vlad now and Daron scowled deeply. Lilia blushed a deep red, and picked up the remaining of her dinner, and nibbled on it. "Even the Angels grew foolish of Kaminari's beauty, and fell to her mercy. You'll see them soon; hanging above her Chamber door...quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.' The Miteress of Time had no end to her plan. And soon, the Angel stopped coming and the world fell into chaos." Rebecca smiled.

"World War One, Two, and soon to be Three." Daorn smiled, standing, "The Trail of Tears, Hurricances, Ice Ages, Depressions, Droughts, even the Black Plague." he said, holidng his hand out of Lilia who seemed hesitate to take it, but eventually did. Daron took her dinner and smiled, staring into her eyes when finally they turned black with rage. Claws grew from under her real nails. "And when the world couldn't take much more..." Daorn whispered, "Kaminari got a new thought...isn't that right, Lilia?" he snickered as Lilia grabbed her steak and retreated to the corner, eating it rapidly now.

Shadow stared at Kaminari as she changed. Once she was through, Shadow smiled.
"You're pretty~" she sang, the clouds of insanity beginning to thicken in her mind. "Now may I go?" One of the hounds, presumably the one she took with her, came over to Shadow. She pet it without looking at it.
"If you're done with me then please send Attimasc on his errand." Shadow would've asked Kaminari to send her on Attimasc's mission as well, as was her original plan, but her mind wasn't with her at the moment, and that is where plans usually live.

"Grr...." Shadow growled inside Schwarz's mind. "Is my body out of Hell yet?"
"No," Schwarz thought. "You're still down there."
"Infuriating!" Shadow moved her presence from the mind to the eyes. She peered out of Schwarz's eyes. The world was quite different. Blurry. Then, her conciousness smiling, Shadow realized that this must be how regular shadows and everybody else sees the world. Blurry and full of shadows...Shadow could see all the corners of the world and all the little buggers that hid in those shadows. Some of them shadows themselves, others things much, much worse.
"You have terrible vision."
"I'm no Shadow Queen."
"Don't call me that."
"It's what you are."
"But I do deny it." Shadow made a rude noise with her mind and Schwarz sighed. Shadow continuted to gaze out at Kaminari's house through Schwarz's eyes. They were in the woods, just outside the property line. But Schwarz had very good, if blurry to Shadow, vision. They could see inside the window. Shadow had watched and realized that Lilia was now one of Kaminari's children. She should've seen it before.
"Poor Lilia..." Then, thinking about it, Shadow sighed very loudly.
"What is it, my Lady?"
"Lilia doesn't mind this. She remembers her human life, but she also remembers death. She is happy to even be here. Especially with Vlad. But..." Shadow groaned. "Poor Vlady. He doesn't realize it, and I don't think Lilia does either."
"What, my Lady?"
"Lilia can't stay with him."

Vladimir watched as Daron spoke of Kaminari. He had admit to himself that she was very good looking, but he still preferred Lilia.
'Or Shadow...' his mind whispered. He shooed the thought away. He had Lilia now and Shadow had never wanted him. Besides...she had a love, even if she didn't exactly care for him now.
Vladimir watched Lilia carefully. He moved back so that his back was against the couch on which he sat. He watched the demons carefully. The children of Kaminari.
'You know she's one of them now, right?' his mind whispered. Vlad sighed and, in an act of insanity, answered himself.
'Yes. She is one of them. Never to be fully mine again...'

"Hey..." Shade whispered, gazing at his seeing-shadow again. Fille came into the room and sighed when she saw that he was watching the demon mistress's house again.
"You really should stop," Fille said, rubbing Shade's shoulders.
"No, look," he said, pointing. Fille leaned in and stared. Her vision couldn't see it, but Shade could. Because he possessed some of what Shadow had, only with much less power than her. But he could see it.
Fille began to worry. "What is it?"
"Its Schwarz," he said, pointing to a shadow below a tree, right outside the property line of the demon's house.
"Well," Fille said. "Now we know where Shadow's mind went." Fille began to walk away, but Shade sprang up, ending the connection. The seeing shadow scurried away.
"Now where do you think you're going?" Fille said as Shade fixed his appearance and left his room. He walked briskly down the halls of the castle, his hard heels clicking on the floor.
"Where do you think?" he said, grinning, as he jogged up stairs that began black and dark and slowly turned white as they approached a light in the roof. "The human world, of course!" Shade sprung through the light and...
He found himself concealed in the shadows outside the bar where Shadow liked to hang out.
"Here, Shadow-Shadow..." he whispered, his attitude changing completely. "Time to play hide and seek~"

Kaminari shook her head. "Not until I'm sure Daron and Rebecca have finished what they've begun." Kaminari said, slicing one cut across the forhead of the skull and the flesh melted off it into a stone bowl which she set aside. She picked up the skull and the lower jaw and held it out to Kaminari. "A prize, well earned," she smirked slyly, before dropping the skull and walked over to a shelf and ran her fingers across the hundreds of skulls she had sitting there and chuckled darkly, "Dragons..."


Rebecca snickered. "AN ARMY!" She screamed suddenly returning to her true form, her tongue flicking from her lips. "An Army of her Demented Vampires; soon the world will be covered with 'em. And God won't be able to do a thing; he PROMISED her that. CROSSED ON HIS SONS LIFE! ISN'T THAT RIGHT!?" she screamed towards the sky. "Seven Years of Hell." she whispered, and closed her eyes peacefully.

"Little Lilia is the first to be let into the world; she's a..testie if you will. Here until proven defective." He snickered.


Kaminari blinked and suddenly snapped her fingers. The Hell Hounds returned to her instantly, and sat still. A portal opened up behind Shadow and sucked her in, opening next to Vlad. Kaminari appeared in her demon form lounging on the couch, her legs on Vlad's lap. "Hello;" she smiled wickedly as the stone bowl appeared floating above the silver platter from earlier. "Next is Attimasc. He's gotten the hard one." She snickered, melting into a pool of blood on Vlad and coming in front of her Collection of Dragon Skulls. "Poor Dears. Never had a chance..."

Caroline stared at the boy, quite puzzled. Shadow usually associated with European shadows. As for Asian shadows...well, Caroline had never met him, or even knew his name, but she knew that he was bad news. And that he had Asian shadows on his side. But Caroline didn't mention that to the boy. Let sleeping dogs lie...leave unasked questions unanswered...
"Umm...she said she was going home. Her house is that way," she said, pointing. "But she might not be there. Knowing Shadow, she's run off to some random place. I'll check." Caroline spun around thirteen times, chanting Shadow's name and blinking quickly. She stopped without wobbling and blinked three times. Her eyes clouded over and turned white, then black, then a deep violet. She blinked twice more, rubbing her eyes.
"She's not home..." Caroline said, her eyes returning to their original color. "She's..." Caroline thought and tried to grab on to the vision she had seen. Then jerking her head up, white eyes staring at the celing, she shrieked.
"Oh!" she said, patting the boy's hand after calming down. "Sorry if I startled you. The vision was just...strong. Wasn't expecting it. Umm...anyway. It seems as if she's that way," Caroline said, pointing towards the Black Woods. "But be careful," Caroline said, lowering her voice. "The Black Woods are filled with dark beings, both like Shadow and much more powerful than her. Be careful. I wouldn't be surprised if she's on the property of that demon that was here earlier. That was a powerful demon...and Shadow, well, usually attracts trouble. So I warn you. Gaurd you life. And..." Caroline reached out to the boy, her finger already dripping blood. She drew an intricate pentagram, all in blood, on his forehead. Then, smearing her lips with her own blood, she kissed him, quickly whispering a spell. "That should protect you a bit. Don't smear the pentagram; it'll dissapear after it dries." She waved as the boy ran down the stairs.
'Hmm...and I didn't even ask his name. Oh well. Knowing his name would've only helped the spell a teeny bit.'

Shadow thumped onto the couch, landing next to Vlad. Lilia scurried away to hide behind the couch, away from Shadow. Shadow hissed playfully at Lilia. Lilia shrunk away. Vlad looked at Shadow, and Shadow flicked her eyes over to him. Then she noticed Daron.
"Well hello Mister Demon," she said, slithering up to him. Though her torso moved, her feet stayed where they were. "Miss me?"

Vladimir gasped as Shadow appeared next to her. Lilia tensed then scurried away.
'Why is she afraid of Shadow?...' Vladimir shrugged the thought away as he thought about what the demon children had said. First of the demon's army...
Vlad then noticed the demon woman. She was laying out over him. He shrunk away slightly but felt a pull as well.
'She's not that attractive. Must just have an orbit...' Vlad chuckled in his mind but his throat was too closed up to make any sound. Speaking would be difficult, so he'd try and avoid it.
'What is this?' he thought. 'Life was just fine, but suddenly I've been launched into a spiral of insanity! A bunch of new people show up, bringing this crazy demon with them, and suddenly my dead love is a demon child and Shadow is insane again! I don't even want to think about what Shadow and the demon woman aren't telling...and those demon children...ooh, do they creep me out or what.'
Vlad tried not to retch.

"There I am!" Shadow yelled. Schwarz twitched and rubbed her head.
"Don't yell. You're gonna gimme a headache."
"Well then hurry your a** up! Get me back in my body! Before I do something I'll regret! Like flirt some more with that nasty demon child."
Schwarz sighed and inched closer to the property line.
"I can't go now," she cursed.
"WHY NOT!?!?!?"
"The demon is back too. She'll leave in a bit to take Attimasc to Hell."
"Only if his job is in Hell."
"She's a demon. Where else would the job be?"
"She could make him find Atlantis for her," Shadow joked.
"MaMa Shadow..." Schwarz sighed.
"Aww. I haven't been called MaMa Shadow in so long..." Shadow squealed very loudly and Schwarz grabbed her temples.
"What the hell?!?!?"
"Don't call me MaMa Shadow. And you better get me back into my body before crazy me hooks up with that demon boy!" Shadow growled as Schwarz settled down to watch. Then she felt something. Schwarz didn't notice it, so it must've been something only she could feel. She thought hard then...there it was. Someone coming into the real world...

'Shade' Shadow thought. She flinched then the fog clouded her mind once more and the feeling of Shade entering the real world left her.

Daron narrowed his eyes, "Actually, I hadn't. Shadows aren't the creatures you expect to even think about, let alone miss." he said, smirking, "Besides, you scared little Lilia,"

Kaminari glanced towards Kaminari, her smirk fading almost instantly, "Oh my... I hadn't noticed. Her mind is not withen your minds anymore. Too bad...I wonder where it lies-" she cut off, her pupials growing increasingly smaller. "DARON! HIDE THE HOUSE!" She sheirked pulling her daughter towards the couch and flinging her onto Vlad, "Protect the vampire of Insanity," she snapped as she suddenly got light head when Daron hid the house in a abyss of blackness that even Shadows couldn't enter...or exit. As Kaminari got used the sudden change in atmosphere she looked towards Shadow, but narrowed her eyes passed her at the wall. "Oh Shade...you have no right to be thinking on such rash actions. A battles about to break out! The king should retreat back to his world with the mind of his Queen." she hissed.

Rebecca sat on Vlad's laps, holding her fingers to his temples, whispering soft words, everynow and then, flicnhing, but she wouldn't stop until the blackness completely set in. Then she stopped and fell over onto the couch, flinching again. "You haven't a clue how much insanity you would've been in. Worse then Mother and Shadow mixed." she groaned, standing again. "But why veil the house, mother?" she asked softly, hoping it wasn't true.

"Dragon of course. If he knew better he would leave now and let Shadow lie, torn from her mind, here in my house." she said, "if not, I have a few things for his scales...maybe I could get one..." she whispered, walking over to her dragon collection, picking up a soft blue scale, about the size of her fist, and smiled widely. "But he isn't full dragon...So there might still be sense in him. If not, I dare him to try and touch the veil."

"But that would be...impossible, mother!" Rebecca gasped, "and if done, he would grow instantly insane."

"Nope." Kaminari sighed, placing the scale on the shelf, but said no more.

Rebecca looked at Vlad and nodded. "The Vampy'll be okay. Lilia's used to the space movement. It's like we go to a different dimension. Mother-"

"We'll continue on with what we were doing." she snapped, looking towards Attmiasc. She smiled, her appearance going to her human form, only she seemed more...darker then when they first met her. She smiled and pointed to the dagger he had, "You found your weapon, now find something else. I want you to find a gem. Simple isn't it?" she said, snapping her fingers to show a picture in smoke of a ruby, cut to look like a pentagram. "It's name is The Mark. The Mark is not only powerful, but it belongs to the Lord of Lies himself; Satan. Of course...Paymon stole it when the those Sand-Eaters got the idea to make the pyriamids. I suppose you want it a little easier to find. Okay. It's somewhere where the history lies." she smiled as the smoke seemed to blow away by an invisible force.

Rebecca looked at Vlad and smiled, becoming a child, small and meek. Kaminari summoned something and it walked, under the cloth that was concealing it, into the kitchen where it fell over. Daron grabbed Rebecca's hair and pushed out of the way, walking into the kitchen and closing and locking the door behind him.

"My son..." she murmured, summoning the bowl of meat slosh she got earlier for Lilia, who came up to here and took the bowl and went back to her corner, lapping it up hungryily.