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 Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:48 pm
Duke appraised the man and then nodded in respect,"Jaden is this he? He looks like he could be your brother. Is he?" He glanced at Jaden questionally before stepping forward and meeting the man himself, " I am currently called Duke but I use to be called Namir Nikolvanti...Have we met?" Thoughts swirled in his mind of so many old memeories it was hard to catch a single on and examine it.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:03 pm
"No we have not." The figure said with a chilling smile, taking the hand offered to him and shaking it. His hand was like ice. "I am I'zale, Jaden's elder brother of three years. It's a pleasure to meet you Namir Nikolvanti. I'm sure my sibling, good as he is has failed to mention me."
"I always fail to mention you." Jaden said gruffly. "And with good reason. You are a worse person than I."
"Perhaps I am to some degree." I'zale said, relinquishing the former alphas hand, still with that same smile. "But then we both never made good humans. Did we."
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:19 pm
Duke took his hand back and looked at it curiosuly. It certainly was colder then it had been before. 'Wow. How interesting is this guy? I also get to see what Jaden woulda looked like without all the scars...Of course Soulvar had similar features but it was different. ' Duke observed the two's reunion silently before agreeing with I'zale," No. I don't think he's ever mentioned having a brother." The more Duke learned about this guy the more he felt hopeful his own brother could be saved. If the guy agreed to help of course.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:36 pm
I'zale entered the apartment and walked around the place as if it was his own and the other two were merely visiting. "My brother is a slightly grumpy character. You pay him no mind for that, though I won't say he's harmless." He turned to his brother and cocked his head slightly. "Did you figure it out yet? Which of you is the orginal?"
"No." Jaden said with no hesitation. "And you will satisfy your curiousity some other time. I've called you here for help and would appreciate it if you stop playing around the moment you walk through the door."
The older brother seemed to dismiss this with a wave of his hand. "A shadow organization leaked information to this nations government concerning immortals and now they hunt you int your own territory." He looked between them both with those blue eyes that constantly seemed alive with activity but no emotion. "I'm well versed in this. Quite a few weapons they've turned against you were of my own creation, impractical as they were I scrapped them and sold the design off. It seems this country enjoys spending excessive amounts of money on things that obsolete."
As he seated himself in an armchair by the couch he looked back at the two of them. "I trust you're not surprised."
"I'm not." Jaden said, seating himself on the couch he liked so much. "You have your hand in almost anything tailored to the nightwalkers. I would have been shocked if you didn't invent things to try and kill us."
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:50 pm
Duke listened amused at the current conversation. So this man is the creators of the weapons? I imagine he and Razu would get along quite well seeing as Razu would enjoy swapping notes on weapons to fight against thier own kind. Duke shrugged," America is a bullying nation. They try to have a finger in every pie available even if it means plunging their economy to another depression. Humans themselves are naturally self-destructive and war mongers. Even with all the anti-war going on. They still war to stop the war." Duke stopped and looked at the newcomer,"Not that you're here to hear my thoughts on human or American ways."
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:56 pm
"Oh on the contrary." The cold one said, still with that knowing smile and the frozen eyes. "Thoughts and opinions are the sustenance that we of intelligence feed from. Smarter and greater than wolves are the Lycanthropes, the perfect species, created from the moon and the earth. The angels and demons are sources of energy and nothing more that expendable creatures while on this plane."
"Please brother, not again with your rants of the beyond." Jaden said, running is clawed fingers over his wolfen ears, both of which I'zale lacked. "We know your control over the planes has advanced further than any others." Resigned now that he had invited this monster to his home to listen to the melody of his voice.
"That is not the point aside. There is more to it." the white wolf said. "The point is the existence of the races.
"Vampires as we understand them are our mortal enemies, but they needn't be so. Just on my way here I cured one of it's most horrific affliction. Though the human is adaptable to both species only ours is the one that continues to breathe. A vampire has become nothing more than a walking corpse with instinct and an appetite. Why should we fear shambling corpses of any sort? They are parasites that feed and can only reproduce by conversion. It's a sick business of them.
As for our humans I have the belief more than just that they are prey as any other animal to the superior species. Humans are entertainment. They feed and devour even more so than the vampires but they should have their way with the world. They are beautifully inventive after all. Able to take our own natural magic and adapting it to their own. It's beautiful some of the things they created, and still create in obscurity. And killing each other, oh beautiful creatures, why do they need us to thin out their numbers? They fight as rivals packs do but with so much more... hate. They delight in pain and suffering, something no other creature should."
At this he paused and smiled to his brother. "Do you suppose we are better or worse than the humans? Or you Nikolvanti-Kun? What are your opinions?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:48 pm
Duke tipped his head his head as he thought over what I'zale spoke," Indeed humans are entertainment and the world would be very empty without them seeing as there are so few of us now." Duke paused and gathered his thoughts before continuing," The thing they need to work on right now is their hate and fear of things they don't know. It is what's causing us trouble right now. Their hate towards each other is quite interesting though."
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:54 pm
"No no... that is not the point." I'zale said with a wave of his hand, caught in the rhythem now that he had a creature that would listen to him without provoking him. "Humans are acceptable creatures the way they are. Take our perfect race for example."
He gestured at his sibling. "We are still effectively animals, everyone of us. The two responses that all animals have when confronted with something new is fear and curiousity. Humans are animals the same as us... but far weaker. And so they respond to these new situations by doing what they think they should do, destroying them. So should we chastise for doing what they have conditioned themselves to do? I should say that we praise them for getting as far as they have."
Jaden rolled his crimson eyes though he was in agreement with his brother. To him humans were simple creatures and easy to dispatch, the fact they put up as much of a fight as they did was something to be admired.
"So why do you take offense to their intolerance? Did something happen that turns you against them so?" The white man, young in appearance as he was, leaned in towards Duke with a glance of curiousity. "Tell me Nikolvanti-Kun."
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:18 pm
Sibyl climbed in through the window to the place with as much grace as one could when entering casually through a window. She was absolutely primal and graceful the way she moved to the point that it was almost methodical and as if she was more dancing than walking. The female wolf visibly bristled as she entered the apartment for even Sibyl of all creatures could feel the indefinite drop in temperature throughout the building. She was confused by this but she quickly picked up a new scent and assumed the presence was the cause of the aura being exerted.
"Man," Sibyl offered to the stranger that she could only assume was Jaden's brother, "will listen to you most carefully when you offer him something of value or he believes he has something to gain through your words. He is greedy and often only sees with his eyes. Be wary of him for he seeks those who are willing to give to him freely."
She nodded her head respectfully to acknowledge Jaden's brother's presence, "I can only assume you are Jaden's elder brother he has off-handedly mentioned to me a few times in the past." There was something different about him in comparrison to Jaden that went beyond appearance and mannerisms but then again there was something different about her as well. She'd always been different.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:49 pm
Duke looked at I'zale steadily before looking away to stare at the floor." I don't know you well enough to tell you my life story, I'zale-kun." Duke spoke softly as he replied again those confusing memories swirling around like a windstorm. "I agree though that we are similar in reacting with fear and curiosity only we don't try to destroy it. I don't care if people are conditioned to acting out and destroying. They need to stop at some point. I will make them stop somehow, someway." Duke didn't even hear Sibyl as she spoke too lost in the converstaion as he was.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:25 pm
The I'zale sitting in the chair suddenly vanished like mist, an old trick of his. The only indication that he had actually moved as the fact that Jaden's ears turned out of reflex.
The cold individual was directly behind Sibyl now, choosing to leave Duke in his meloncholy musings.
"My dear it is impolite to assume such things." he said musically, though not angrily. "But yes. I am I'zale, your alphas older sibling." In a polite manner he took hold of her hand with his pale frozen one. "And If I may be so bold... you smell wonderful this evening."
Jaden's neck snapped in the direction of his brother to follow his ears. "That's enough." he barked, his claws tensing in aggression at the other male. "Don't torment that girl with any of your passings."
"Oh don't be so rash." I'zale said, not letting go of Sibyls hand even though he didn't seem to change at all, it was like he only had one mood. "You know I feel nothing for women... men, children or the elderly. It is how I am."
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:38 pm
Duke looked up finally out of his past daze," What smell?" Duke sniffed the air but it didn't smell any different. Duke puzzled this over for a fraction more before Duke realized what I'zale was talking about,"Oh. You're talking about that. Thank-fully I don't smell and I can always think clearly even when a female in heat is near." Duke was relieved to have been pulled away from his past. He was starting to get annoyed with himself as he kept getting swept into the past at a single question.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:45 pm
Sibyl's own ears would have twitched had she been in her true form but instead her nose slightly twitched though it wasn't noticeable to the bare eye and required much scrutiny before it'd be detected. When the coldness seemed to gather behind her she turned around to face Jaden's elder brother and stood her ground, clearly no fear though there was a caution about her. "You'll have to forgive and excuse me then, I haven't been domesticated all that well in the ways of social etiquette."
She seemed perfectly fine with him grabbing her hand and it actually remained limp until he made his comment and her lavender eyes shot to amber for a second and her pupils dilated ever so slightly in reaction to his comment. Not only that but more noticeably her hand instantly tensed and it grew heavier as it filled with life again due to the tension. Hearing Jaden bark and noticing his claws tense only made her nervous about this stranger that was shockingly seraphic and shockingly opposite of his brother.
Sibyl seemed to want I'zale to let go of her hand, growing slightly uncomfortable but when he assured Jaden he felt nothing that instantly calmed her down and her arm became limp yet again. Of course, he likely meant that he didn't care at all for anything or anyone and that he was more or less heartless but heartless was something she was fine with. A male that was interested in her because she was in heat was something that she was not fine with and she definitely didn't want to be mounted though I'zale's words seemed true enough.
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:04 pm
"Let go of her hand." Jaden growled at his brother from his couch. This had become a posturing between the two of them again. It always came down to this horrible relationship, the heartless verus the one with too much heart. "I will not have you treating this girl like another one of your models. That's not why I asked you here."
"So we are back down to the business at hand." I'zale said, relinquishing Sibyls hand withouth any seeming care. "Then I suppose you should present to me what you need for us to do." He geastured at the table. "Where are the schematics of the enemies base? That is our first step after all."
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:13 pm
Sibyl cocked her head at Jaden's strange terminology but decided that now probably wasn't the time to inquire about what he meant by the word 'model'. She wasn't sure but she was certain she'd heard it and come across it before but her mind was drawing a blank on the word. She noted the tension between the two brothers and she recalled what the puppy had told her about this I'zale. He was a mass producer and seller of weapons, arms of all sorts and other clever inventions that Sibyl probably couldn't put a formal name to. She remembered how the puppy seemed to regard his brother highly and yet at the same time he seemed slightly afraid of him. Right now, though, Jaden seemed more irritated with his brother than anything.
Seeing as the man that resembled Jaden so much was still standing a little too close for comfort, Sibyl decided to take a seat on the floor and she leaned against the wall, ears perked for what they were going to discuss. She could have added a few things to give I'zale some pointers about the base since she'd been there but she decided that Jaden probably wouldn't appreciate her butting in.
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