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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:14 pm
Angeles smirked as the girl answered then was ashamed of it. Angeles dared herself and patted the girl's shoulder and shook it in a friendly manner to get her to look into her eyes, "you're talking to a vampire," she said simply, "bleeding is our entire palette," she then turned, "alright," she looked up into the, but in actuality was catching scents on the wind. She caught one, but did not make a move.
"This will be very much fun since you want to use your natural weapons," she mused before continuing, "I want you to tell me if you can catch any scents on the wind, tell me everything that you can smell right now," she turned and smiled at the dragon child, finding her amusing, and better company than the other vampire had been within the span of a few seconds.
"Breathe deeply, but shallowly, don't focus on the act of breathing, but simply what it is that you smell."
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:19 pm
"Right." Lilly perked up and stood besides Angeles. She wasnt tall not yet, still only the size of a 7 year old. She looked to Angeles for a bit envious of her height. One day... She'd be tall too.
Lilly nodded and mimicked Angeles, she looked up to the sky and closed her eyes. She breathed in slowly and naturally. "I smell.. the trees... the grass." Lilly stated. "Its going to rain tomorrow morning... i can smell the clouds." Lilly said as she opened an eye. She closed it again and continued smelling the air.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:27 pm
"That's good," said Angeles softly so as not to break the child's concentration, "those are all cold scents," she said looking up at the sky, "look for warm scents, ones that do not soothe, but tantalize, intrigue. Those are your prey, the living things of this world."
She looked at the child again and waited silently, keeping tabs on the animal she had already smelled so that it would not get too far away from them. Behind them Alexandria began to meander closer to them, stopping every so often and eating some grass before continuing and stopping again at her own leisurely pace.
Angeles ignored the horse for now, she was another cold scent: metal, mixed only slightly with the scent of the living, but it was mostly metal. If, however, the horse interfered with the scents that Lilly was picking up, Angeles would send the horse away again. She was downwind though, so Angeles had little to actually worry about.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:49 pm
Lilly nodded again and focused on the warm scents. There was a long silence from the girl, the wind blowing lightly though her crimson and blonde mixed hair. Suddenly her eyes shot open, they were blazing the color of the sun.
"I can smell them... and hear them. Every little creature. The birds to the north. The deer to the south and the blood clouds tracking them. Theres a big creature nearby..." Lilly stated before her eyes went back to their blue color and her head sagged. Lilly shook her head as if coming out of a daze. "What was that?" Lilly questioned.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:00 pm
Angeles smiled as the girl got excited and began reciting off what all she could smell. Angeles folded her arms again with a smile and waited until she was done. When the child looked up at her and asked what had happened Angeles smiled but shrugged, "perhaps it is the dragon in you ready to hunt?"
She chuckled before adding, "the large beast may be Alexandria," she pointed, "but it was the deer that I was thinking we could go after, but we will have to hurry if we want to beat the blood clouds to them," Angeles adjusted her weapons so that she could move in a swift manor. Once she was finished she looked up at Lilly.
"How fast can you go?"
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:04 pm
Lilly shrugged. "I dont know. Id say not fast but ever since the growth spurt... " Lilly shook her head unsure of what she was capable of now. "Start and ill try to keep up if i cant ill think it in my mind to stop. You can read my thoughts like D and Alucard right?" Lilly said as she pointed to her head.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:22 pm
Angeles listened to the child and decided that going at her full speed was not a good idea, she'd go at her half speed, if the child seemed to be doing alright there, they could go faster. However, the child then said something that made Angeles smile and she shook her head.
"No, I cannot read your thoughts or force my own into yours, I could hypnotize you, maybe, if I looked into your eyes but that wouldn't be very helpful to us now would it?" she smiled sincerely before looking towards the deer, "we'll just stick to your original plan with a minor twist, we run together, I'll keep up with you."
She smiled at the child before crouching slightly as if it were a race, "ready," she said in a low tone and a competitive smile, "one, two, three, go!" she then took off, looking to her side to see how Lilly was faring at half her own speed.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:24 pm
Vincent pushed The Beast to it's limits, putting it on overdrive. The turbo thrusters in the back flared to life, further moving the tank ever faster. He was getting afraid of this place already. The vampires did not want to linger here, that was certain. If monsters like that could appear, there was always something bigger. Something to dread more. He still couldn't see well, even with a vampire's night vision. It just didn't work in a place as chaotic as this.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:35 pm
Lilly nodded and giggled she ran after Angeles. She couldnt keep up at first and it looked like she would never catch up. That is until she heard tearing.. Lillys shoes were torn in two and left her feet as her pretty human feet turned into crimson clawed dragon feet. The claws dug into the ground giving Lilly more grip and allowing her to run faster and catch up with Angeles. Lillys wings flapped too and her tail stayed straight behind her.
Alucard could sense that Vincent wasnt seeing all to well. His eyes intensified in their crimson color as he connected minds with Vincent, letting him see what Alucard saw with the aid of Trueshot.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:47 pm
Angeles saw the girl fall behind and started to slow down, until the girl sped right up again and even passed her. Angeles quickly put on more speed with a chuckle in her throat, enjoying the game. She noted the movements of Lilly's body as her wings flapped and her tail stiffened and she hummed in thought.
"It looks like you're trying to fly," she said, whether the child could hear her or not, "If you would like, I'll teach you that later," but for now, she focused on teaching the child to hunt. As they neared the herd Angeles purposefully swerved and caught Lilly, staying behind her as she stopped them both and whispered in her ear.
"Now, we have to be very quiet and sneaky," she said and began to ease forward towards the scent of the deer.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:54 pm
Lilly welcomed the embrace and didnt fight Angeles when she grabbed her and stilled her. Lilly kept quiet and nodded understanding that they would have to be quiet in order to catch their prey. "Right." Lilly said softly.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:18 pm
Vincent stopped short. There was a blob of... what was it? moving, slipping up and in the nearby tunnel. It was a fast sucker. How could anything move like that in a dark place such as this? It seemed to have reacted to the tank's headlights. It didn't reflect any light back. That was the weird part.
"What was that?!"
"Victor, get off my comm."
"Why?"
"You're in my damn lap, now get off! You know I'm not gay."
"Sorry."
Vincent sighed, "Anyway... yes... what the hell was that blob?"
Armageddon started shifting through his own personal memories like files on a hard drive to figure out what the blob was.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:20 pm
"Dont know. Dont care." Alucard commented as he aimed Trueshot and fired at the Blob.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:20 pm
Angeles crept forward, looking back and checking over her shoulder to see if the child was keeping up. She wondered briefly how young she actually was. She then looked forward and paused slightly as she heard a noise. She peeked through some brush and made a movement to get Lilly beside her so that she could also see.
A bachelor group, nothing but bucks. Angeles pointed at them and said in an almost inaudible voice, "choose a target, keep your eyes on only that target, judge his strength, is he sick or injured?"
Angeles' own eyes gazed across the lot of them, watching them graze, a few of them looking up and around, their ears turning towards any noise before dipping their heads to graze again. They were edgy, possibly from the creatures earlier that day.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:24 pm
Lilly hunkered down and focused her attention on the deer. Her eyes did it again, that change to sunlight and her Dragon senses kicked in. "That one... " Lilly whispered as she pointed to it. "He narrowly escaped the first batch of Blood clouds. See his hind quarters are injured... dried blood." Lilly pointed.
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