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I began to ask her how she knew what I was needing to do but decided to chalk it up as obvious. "Thank you, if I'm gone all night don't wait up." I said while pulling on my overcoat. "See you later." I said as I slipped my gloves on and walked outside.

Once I was outside I let my wolf senses take over. I smiled as I smelt the familiar scent of fornication,"Someones having fun this night." I muttered and quickly made my senses move on. Birds were chirping lightly, and night walkers were prowling the streets. For some reason though I wasn't sure why, I lifted the welcome mat and carved a cross into the wood underneath. "Not sure if it will work but there are more things than just my kind to worry about." Once I was done with that I placed the mat over it and ran towards the area Bethany had mentioned, hopefully I would find it a suitable hunting ground.

I reached the area and looked around; there were alot of animal tracks and I found one herd of deer in a glade not to far off. "This will do fine." I muttered to myself as I began to walk back to Bethany's house.

On my way there I heard a woman scream. Running towards the scream I found a man in an alley trying to tear the woman's clothes off. I walked up behind the man and choughed to get his attention. The man spun around with a look of surprise on his face and took out a knife. "I'm sure you don't want to do that sir." I would have sworn I could hear his brain trying to process why he shouldn't when all of a sudden he lunged at me. I quickly sidestepped him and grabbed the hand holding the knife. "Now I'm not one to be violent but in these situations one must bare some fang." I said allowing my superior strength to let him know that if I wanted I could snap his arm like a dry twig. Looking into his eyes I made sure the moon's light caught my eyes making them glow. "If you ever try this again I will not be so kind." and with my other hand I grabbed the knife by the blade and bent it, silently thanking the moon that is was not silver. I let the man go and just as he was about to run I hit him in the back of the head, knocking him out. I walked over to the cowering figure trying to keep what remained of her clothes on. "Sorry miss on his account. Here take this and go on home." I said while handing her my over coat. The woman grabbed the coat and ran out of the alley, forgetting to even say thank you. Grabbing the man by the back of his collar I dragged him to the police station. I left him on the hood of a police car with his pants down around his ankels and his underwear on his head.

Finally I made it to Bethany's house and upon entering I saw her sleeping amongst a pile of books. I gently lifted her up and carried her to her bedroom; laying her gently on her bed so I wouldn't wake her. "Night miss." I said as I closed her door and went to my bed to sleep.

I took my shirt and shoes off and was about to lay in bed when I heard foot-steps from within Bethany's room. "Must have woken her up." I said as I stood and listened. I heard a mouse scurry within the walls and stop to listen like me. I layed down in the bed and stared at the ceiling.

[I was going to wait when Joshua last slept to let them catch up, but my impatience got the better of me I'm afraid. Right now I think the rp is with in two time frames. I hope we haven't caused to much of a disturbance with the other rpers.]

I smelled the cocoa and resisted going in there and having a drink of the soothing liquid. Slowly but surely I fell asleep and drifted into yet another dream.

He opened his eyes slowly letting them get accustomed to the fire light coming from the campfire. As he looked around he noticed his four traveling companions were sitting around the campfire talking about how they should go about their mission. The vampiric princess Lisa Franstien saw Gabriel wake up and smiled. "Come over here Gabe, warm yourself by the fire." she said patting the log on which she sat. Gabriel walked over and noticed the smirk the half-dragon Alexander Graves was failing to hide. "How long have I been asleep?" he asked the group. The werebear Samual Earthclaw looked up and offered him a water skin as he spoke,"Not long we're within the borders of the Wraith King now, with any luck we should be at his castle by tomorrow night or at least that's what Lisa tells us." The werewolf nodded and took the water skin taking a long draw from it. "What will we do when we get there?" Daniel the only human amongst the group decided to answer this question. "Hopefully with Lisa's royal status and her being a personal friend of the Wraith King, we should be able to just go in and ask for it." Gabriel nodded but asked,"and if he doesn't?" Daniel looked at him and answered,"If he doesn't than we have weapons. I've been blessing them with holy magic so they should be able to do at least some damage to the wraiths." Grabiel handed the water skin back to Samual and stood. Silently a ghostly blade came from behind him and was across his neck. "Come with us to his magesties castle." said a raspy hollow voice. The remaining of the group jumped up at once and found they were surrounded by wraiths. Gabriel pushed the blade from his neck and said,"We'll be happy to comply my ghostly friend." A robed wraith walked up to the group and waved his transparent hands through the air leaving trailes of silver and blue in their wake. All of a sudden a portal appeared in front of them and the he said in a whisper,"You may pass through here to arrive in his magesties throne room." The group nodded and walked through the portal.

After the group walked through the portal Gabriel noticed a lone figure upon the throne in front of them, closer inspection showed that the figure wasn't even touching the throne he was hovering slightly over it. Lisa walked in front of the group and bowed, motioning for the others to follow. The group bowed, and when the figure spoke it shocked them out. "Stand. Lisa....is that you? Oh how've you grown into such a beautful young lady, is that human your thrall? No...there's no bite marks upon him." Then the figure chuckled as he saw the young woman blush. Lisa forced her embarrassment down as she forced herself to speak. "My Lord this is Daniel a priest of the ancients, Gabriel champion and son of the werewolf king, Samual warrior of the Earthclaw clan, and Alexander the son of Marrel the Bronze and Geth slayer of the Black Dragon Horde." The figure's robe moved as he nodded his ethereal head. "So you have come for the golden circlet to put together the Crown of the Ancients, have you not?" Lisa nodded. "Very well, you shall have the circlet if one of you can best my champion, the Wraith Knight Cain." Lisa looked horrified when Gabriel walked forward to stand next to her. "I accept your challenge my Lord."

The group watched from the side lines as their friend, now in werewolf form and covered in armor, strolled out of the archway holding his sword in his right hand. Then the horns blared and in strolled a robed figure clad in some of the most gruesome armor the group had ever seen. The Wraith Knight Cain drew his ethereal sword and pulled his hood back revealing a face under leather constraints and a spiked collar at the base of his neck. "You're Cain?" Gabriel asked hoping that he hadn't gone over his head. "Yes, that is my champion The Wraith Knight Cain." The king said as he drifted through the wall. "The match is simple if you can even touch my champion then you win. But if you die you obviously lose." Gabriel nodded towards the king and took a stance. "When do we begin." he asked after a few moments. "Why my boy the match has already started." came the Wraith King's reply. All of a sudden he felt the hair on the back of his neck rise and he jumped forward dodging the thin almost transparent blade that came from behind him. He looked back at the knight that was in front of him but saw that it was fading. "An illusion..." he thought as he looked around looking for the real Knight. Gabriel then jumped in the air over the blade that came swinging for his middle and brought his own blade down to knock the offending blade away. The look of surprise on his face when his blade made no contact at all was priceless. Daniel jumped up "That's not fair! Gabriel can't even hit the blade of the sword Cain wields much less the knight himself!" The group could hear a wicked chuckle from behind the crowned hood of the Wraith King. Gabriel ran and dodged continueing attacks by the knight but each time he tried to parry his blade touched nothing. Then he stopped and stood closing his eyes. Just as the ethereal blade of the knight came from behind to cleave his head in two it stopped just above his head. Gabriel's blade was sticking through the Wraith King's middle where he threw it. "Well Cain, do I win?" The illusion of the Wraith Knight vanished as the Wraith King applauded and drew the blade from his middle. "You have won the circlet may your travels return the lost moon to us one night." The Wraith King said as he drew his hood back.

I sat up in my bed with cold sweat dripping off my brow. Lookig to the moon it was covered by clouds and for some reason I felt extremely alone. "Must be the cocoa withdrawles." I jokingly said as I layed back down and went back to sleep.

I heard the howl and within seconds I was out of bed running to where I heard Bethany scream. "Whats wrong?!" I asked looking out the window seeing a brief shadow round the corner. Through the scent of the fear and panic I could smell something extremely familiar.....what was it......werewolf! I looked at Bethany with fear in her eyes, and a butchers knife in her hands. I calmed myself before I spoke. "Bethany hand me the knife and tell me what happened."

I smelled blood and looked down "Bethany you're bleeding!" I exclaimed and picked her up off the broken glass. I set her on the table and began to pick up the glass. "Can you tell me what it looked like?" I asked. I was already pretty sure of what it was but wanted to make sure. I also picked up a dish towel and began to wipe the blood off the floor. "When I'm done with this I'll take a look at your feet, just please stay there."