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He rolled his eyes, finding this all to be somewhat tiresome. The outspoken hunter amused him, showing such chasms in the hunter ranks would be sure to get him in trouble later, and did nothing to show the conformity of the hunters. The insults thrown across the room were mostly ignored, but amusing nonetheless.
"I do not know this Mauser person. But I do not fear him. If he tries to kill me or friends of mine, I shall end his existence. But if he attacks Lycans, Tainted, even Humans - why should I care? I don't need help from anybody."
And with that he folded his arms boldly.
It was true though - together, he and Rikku had faced much worse. They had once slammed shut even the gates of chaos. There was not much he feared.

"Why on earth would I want to save someone who wants to drive a bit of wood through my black little heart?" he asks, perplexed.

Tokeru smiled grimly. "If you think I can be easily influenced, you are dead wrong. I honor my debts, and that's all. I also honor my promises. And as to your question, hell no. I don't even know why I was invited, but invited I was. This is a meeting of the minds, and I am free to share my opinions. I am also free to state why you should help save her."

He stood up, holding his scythe. "One of the main reasons you should save her, I will order my shadow stalkers to stand down and ignore your illicit activities for awhile, they will look the other way when seeing them in the streets, and they will temporarily cease raiding your clubs and warehouses. That is my offer. While you may not personally fear us humans, your minions do, and they have the right idea."

He sat back down. "That is my offer, i'm sure Will and Krii will both add something to that effect, either that or I will be dead before this night is over, but I live with the threat of death every day, so i'm not too concerned."

Krii'Ouse thought as words were thrown back and forth. He turned to Rikku with a angered expression, his eyes emanating a red sheen behind his shades. 'Look, leech. I am no mortal. I'm doing all I can to keep Esou from ripping you to shreds in this bar. I'm a Lycan, fool.' He threw down his duster, unstrapped his left shoulder plate, and brandished the Lunite branding.

'I was turned by a malicious group of Lycanthropes back when the Lunite Cult moved into town. Do not underestimate me. I am also no genetic experiment. I have been cursed by these abilities from birth! I was tortured at the hands of Daemons under orders of Astaroth, the daemon my ancestors banished from this realm ages ago, and he wants revenge on my family name.

'It so happens I am the only survivor of the line, which means I'm hunted by the daemons under his power. I've been in worse situations than you think.' He put his shoulder plate back on, and returned his duster to his back.

'Do not idly insult us Hunters. We're more diverse than you think.' He had swapped his gaze between Rikku to Kuro and back a few times during his rant, and looked at Kyrre.

'You would be wise to help us because after he destroys the Hunters, who he finds weak for letting Immortals into our ranks, he'll be coming for you next. If anything, helping us will only help you. Combining our powers will be the only defense we have against Mauser. If we don't help eachother, we'll all be destroyed, and Mauser will have won.

'I'm sure you'd rather let your pride fall for survival. Mauser has more at his disposal than we Hunters do. He has an entire corporation at his disposal, all of them trained to kill us all. He has money, power, manpower, and the means to use all of it.

'If we don't help eachother, we'll be poisoning ourselves. If you let yourself believe you can do it alone, you're singing you're death warrant yourself. Pride cometh before a fall, sir.'

He turned his attention to Myythren, and spoke. 'Mauser, as I said, has power, money, and resources like you wouldn't believe. His corporation is a cover for his true intentions. Archangel Enterprises is the name of the company. They sell technological devices and the like, but behind the closed doors, they're making weapons that will destroy us all.'

He then sensed Kerrigan's thoughts, and her presence. 'My mate informs me that she has information on Mauser that we may want to know.' He turned to the door, his eyes had slowly turned back to their normal white. He walked to the door, opened it, and signalled for Kerrigan to come in.

When Krii mentioned weapons that destroyed them all, Tokeru immediatly thought of the anti-matter he had stored in the chapterhouse, as well as the semi-nuclear weapons inside the base, and fission bombs.

"Hmm, that reminds me, it appears the only thing that seperates me and mauser, is the fact that I don't sell weapons to people. Interesting. I still think my offer is greater than your threat. Maybe try some sweet talk Krii, you might get a better response, and before you go around using your psychic powers to hurt me, or slam me against a wall, remember that i'm here to help, even if i don't seem like it. Lydia saved my life, and I mean to see that I save hers, even if I die."

He looked into Krii's eyes, and his next thoughts were only for the lycan. Through a meditative technique, he only let his thoughts be read by the lycan, anyone else attempting to read it would see tigers and ice cream cones.


((Btw, the weapons i said, don't even exist, he just thinks they do.))
In my experience, immortals rarely care about the fate of hunters, even if it will spell their doom, but what we might be able to do, is use their pride and greed against them. The older ones might not care about the greed part, but if you appeal to their pride, even if it means supplication, it may work. Isn't it worth to beg and swallow your own pride than see lydia die?

Tokeru showed no emotion except for his usual arrogance as he listened to Krii, and responded, the front of tigers and ice cream still the prevailing thoughts in his mind.

Of course something is up, they're goddamn vampires. No good comes from associating with vampires, but I will order my men to lessen their attacks on the vampires if they decide to agree. I may not trust them, but we do need lydia safe, and although I am perfectly willing to barge in there myself guns blazing, there's a chance she might be harmed if I do so. And just so we're clear, I aint so hot on the thought of tainted and lycans helping us either, for all i'm concerned, they can all die, but we will need them, then after we can hunt them down. And i'm speaking on a general term, there are some immortals i trust and have even grown to love, present company excluded for the love part.

'The Shadow Stalkers? Should I of heard of them?' Kuro looked at Tokeru once again 'Oh my, you'll tell your men to ignore what us immortals do, but only for a while, what a great offer' Kuro looked upwards 'But of course, how can we be sure that you would do that even for a while' he then closed his eyes 'You hunters can't be trusted'