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RP Over AIM ( Still working on)
GunSniper (12:59:09 AM): The change in seasons were becoming more and more obvious with each passing day. Trees Changing colors and the sun sinking away earlier each day. This meant night was longer and earlier. The perfect season for anyone who loved the night life.
Shana balanced perfectly on the limb of a tree and watched the crimson sunset eagerly. Arms folded across her chest as she grew impatent with the sun. Her wings twiched as the shadows of the trees streched further, engulfingthe land.
"Almost almost! Yes yes, good good. Dance is almost here, yes." She whispered to herself. Bouncing a little as she spoke.
iStoleYurVamps (1:08:01 AM): Cold, bleak nights. That was what Joachim loved. The season changed, but the nights remained a consant. Darkness washed overthe land, drowning it in a vast hole of inky blackness, which no being could see past. This darkness was welcomed. It was beloved. It was the time Joachim was at his strongest, his most powerful. He had slept in a cave for the day, and waited for the last streams of twilight to fade, and the inky darkness to rise up. When the final purple lights of twilight faded, and the calm, dense blackness arose, so did Joachim. Climbing from his cave, he brushed the dust and dirt from his clothes. This was his time, the time of darkness. This time of night
GunSniper (1:11:42 AM): Shana darted through the forest as if running from something in a game. Her wings fluttered giving the illusion she was running on air.
Her smile widened as she caught sight of the cave, and another. Dancing was much better with someone else there.
iStoleYurVamps (1:22:06 AM): He wasn't sure he could trust his eyes. This girl was..no. At first glace it looked like she was running in midair, but, on closer inspection, Joachim could make out her glossy wings beating against the night air. He would admit though, she was graceful in her stride. iStoleYurVamps (1:22:55 AM): "Girl, what brings you here?" Joachim said, his voice slightly dark. Who could really blame him though? He hadn't fed, and, he had just woken up.
GunSniper (1:26:01 AM): The fey came to a graceful stop. Allowing her feet to delicately touch the ground toe first. As she looked up to the vampire she fold her arms behind her back.
"Oh, a dance, a ball, a night. It all at once does." She giggled. Her crystal blue eyes studied him from behind the crimson mask. His paleness amused her.
iStoleYurVamps (1:43:23 AM): Joachim pulled on his shirts's cuffs. So, she wanted a dance in the darkness under the moonlight? He smiled as he gave his shirt a quick tug. "I would be delighted to join you Miss..." He gave a low bow, one that you might have seen in a time of old. "I am Joachim, Joachim Armster. Vampire." A light grin bore his fangs to light, testiment to his claim.
GunSniper (1:55:02 AM): She took a step closer to Joachim, her eyes light up as she saw his teeth. Shana thought about how much fun it would be to touch them. -shiny- Her arms unfolded as she thought into it.
"The first seeing of a vampire for me." She giggled and gave a curtsy. Unaware of what a vampire really was.
"Shana." Again she giggled. "Fey." She found it amusing that most confused her with a fairy. And usually she let them go on believing that...
iStoleYurVamps (2:06:56 AM): Fey then? Well, it was to beexpected. Her wings, her demenor, even her very aura felt like that of the fey. Such a lively bunch. So...full of life. A harsh contrast to his undead state. Well, at they very least hse had manners, which was more then the rest of her ilk. Many of them just blew it off or simply were rude buggers. This one...Shana had a bit more class, that was certain. iStoleYurVamps (2:08:18 AM): "Would youcare for a dance Shana?" He held out his right hand, a polite and formal gesture, knowing that to hold his arm out would be too informal for their first dance.
GunSniper (2:08:54 AM): Shana may be very childish, but when it came to dancing she knew how the old balls used to run. And it was her favorite 'game' to imitate them.
"But of course" She accepted the hand delicately with her own. Ready to let him lead the dance.
iStoleYurVamps (2:17:47 AM): Although theyhad no music, the sound of the wind rattling leaves and the gentle clicks of the wild were more then enough to bring forth a melody to Joahim's ears. Taking her hand in his, he was carful to to placeis other hand to low on her hip. However, the high diferance made it impossible from him to do otherwise. iStoleYurVamps (2:18:28 AM): "Lets start with a waltz shall we?" Its was low and simple, the most basic of dnaces, the most classic. And for Joachim, nothing was better then the classics.
GunSniper (2:22:42 AM): Shana's smile widened at the mention of a waltz. Her favorite game. Immedately she adjusted her postition to the proper stance for this dance.
"Lets." This time she spoke without a giggle. They didn't giggle in fancy ball dances, so she held back any giggles that came up and channeled them all through a smile. Her wings twitched as she became excited about this.
No one had been so willing before to play a game like this. Vampires were such nice and playful creatures she concluded.
iStoleYurVamps (2:36:49 AM): She knew the steps perfectly, each on a mirror to his own. An artist of the dance. Her steps were light, quick, graceful. Ah, so many more words could discribe her skill, yet, Joachim felt they would do no justice. "I take it you're familiar with more then just the waltz Miss Shana?" He spun her while he asked, testing her abillity to remain balanced.
GunSniper (2:49:44 AM): Shana enjoyed every moment of this dance. He was just as graceful as she was. Despite the size difference. "Dancing is my game." she let a giggle slip by after the twirl. The twirl was exicuted to the letter. As graceful as she had been through the entire dance. It was as if he controlled her every movement, like a good puppet. "are you knowing how to Tango?"
"Or perhaps Schottische? but it will be different with just two."
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iStoleYurVamps (1:11:01 AM): He grinned, fangs glittering brighter then they had before. "If the dance is your game..." Joachim spun her around, "then the night is mine." A low dip followed the movement. Gradually he changed his temp and rythm. "A tango will suffice I think." The woods seemed to echo his choice, the wind speeding by, the leaving shacking and rattling faster and they did. "The thing is..." he began to quicken, "can you keep up?"
GunSniper (1:14:24 AM): Shana let another giggle slip by as she caught sight of his shiny teeth. It was too amusing for her to hold back.
"Oh, Waltz and tango, they both are ones I can do most well." She easily and gracefully changed the speed and rythem to match his.
"You are lucky you lead." She chuckled. "I can only go as fact as you."
iStoleYurVamps (1:21:29 AM): She was either kind, or innocent. He hoped it was the former. "Truely? I think I am luck that I have such a skiller partner! So often, rouges have no skill, and just suffle their feat. You my dear..." He pulled her close, not out of intimacy, but the dance itself, "are a true courtisan." He steped back and began the solo portion of the dance. "One that would be fit for the very courts a Avalon itself."
GunSniper (1:35:40 AM): Shana was both kind and innocent. Taking up on his playful, or so she thought, question on keeping up. His words were quite flattering, but again she figured it was all part of the game. He was an expert at this game as she was it seemed.
And with him stepping back she did the same to twirl to the end of the dance, finishing with an unimaginable accuracy.
"Avalon? Is that your home?" she asked while still in the finishing stance.
iStoleYurVamps (1:41:29 AM): He almost tripped. but, years of practice made him land his final step perfectly. "i would think it to be your home. Avalon is the white court, the courth of Oberon, king of the fey. Slyphs are known to a lesser fey, yet they still occupy the white court. Do you mean to say you are exiled..or have you simply never been?"
GunSniper (1:43:58 AM): She relaxed from the stance and begun to think about her past. There was a certain point where everything was hazy. As if there was a wall in her mind set up and would not be broken.
"I..." Shana placed a finger on her lip as she tried to recall anything again. Than removed it before speaking again. "Can't remember that name. So, I have never been."
Was the inaccurate conclusion she came to after a failed memory attempt.
iStoleYurVamps (1:52:21 AM): Joschim's eyes narrowed. "I see. Tell me..." a few steps closed the space between them. "In your mind, can you not recall, or, do you sense that your aren't allowed to recall? If that is the case you could have a glamor on you." Joachim didn't sense any fey magic when he was near Shana. "Are youy sure? I have never met a fey that did npot reside in Avalon." Well, except for Rutger, but, he was an odd one anyway.
GunSniper (1:57:40 AM): "No allowed? " She shook her head. It was like a wall in her memory, but nothing as a force driving her from that memory.
"No, just don't know it." She spoke and looked at Joachim as if she had done something wrong. It felt like it the way questioned her. If Fey were supposed to know this place, why didn't she?
iStoleYurVamps (2:03:35 AM): He didn't really know what to say to that. For a member of the slyph race to have neer been to their homeland..."Its alright then." The look on her face...Joachim sighed. He couldn't help but want to comfort her. "Their is nothing wrong with that. Perhaps your of a diffrent sect of Slyphs." Still..."Anyway, Its not like I can take you to the mounds." They would just drive him away...an maybe her as well...A frown covered his face.
GunSniper (2:12:54 AM): Maybe that was true. Some other kind of race. But than she had no memory of what that could possibly lead to either.
"It's okay. Maybe I can't think of it for a good reason. Maybe it wasn't all that fun." Shana brought up the excuse so that the frustration of trying to dig up memories would go down.
"You, you dance well. Best one I have ever seen. It was very fun to dance with you." She added as an obvious subject change.
iStoleYurVamps (2:20:23 AM): The trees and the wind had gone silent, while Joachim's face softened. He couldn't stay upset when she was so sweet. How could he? "It was a pleasure to dance with you Shana." He gave her a low bow. "Not once has anyone been able to match my skill or speed on the dance floor. Truely, you are a Goddess of the Dance." He took her hand in his and gave it a small kiss. "Would you care to walk through the woods?" He smiled, not showing his fangs this time. "It is a wondorus night."
GunSniper (2:21:58 AM): Shana blushed a bit as he took her hand. Luckily it was well hidden by the mask she wore.
He was rather good at this game!
"It is, night is always best." she declared with a nod.
"A walk is good after a good dance. I will join you." She giggled and moved eagerly around to his side.
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iStoleYurVamps (1:00:56 AM): Another light smile. The wind has died down, yet, it was still present. The light wisps creating a medlody of rattles and shakes in the tree tops. "I am happy to have such plesant company this evening. Usually, I keep to myself." He pushed aside a low hanging branch. "After you."
GunSniper (1:02:49 AM): Shana looked from the branch to Joachim with a smile. And with a thankful bow she moved past the branch gracefully. As she moved her wings fluttered now and than giving the illusion she was walking on air. Something she did now and than for sheer amusement.
"Thank you." She giggled. The dance game was over, so she didn't have to hold it back anymore.
iStoleYurVamps (1:14:50 AM): Her ability to create the illusion was fantasic. Even he, a vampire, could hardly make out her steps. "You're quite welcome Shana." He willed his body to phase into mist as he glided to her side, reforming once he was a few paces ahead of her."Do you have any particular plans this evening?"
GunSniper (1:23:42 AM): She watched in amazement as the misty version of the Vampire walked by. That was nearly as amusing as his teeth.
"Never do." She tapped her chin as she thought about it. "Always play it by night." She smiled as she looked up at him.
iStoleYurVamps (1:31:18 AM): He could sense her amusment...heck it was pretty well written on her face. "Tell me Shana, do you have skill like the one I just preformed?" He eyed her wings. "If not..." His armor began to twist in the shadows, slowly forming wings. "Wecan always go for a nice fly."
GunSniper (1:42:38 AM): Shana paused and looked toward the gaps in trees. "I don't think so... Never have tried it."
She clapped at his armor trick. He was like a birthday present, amusing every new surprise.
"I can do a few things, but I don't show them to anybody. It's a secret dance." She put her hand to her mouth and whispered the last part.
iStoleYurVamps (1:48:14 AM): It took threebeats of his 'wings' to send him to a thick branch above Shana. "Well, I've shown you some of my tricks..." He mocked falling and ended up upside down on the branch. "Will you be so cold as to not show me any of your's?" He grinned fangs flashing. He truely mush have looked like a vampire of lore.
GunSniper (1:50:00 AM): She watched him with even more amusement. Again she clapped for him as he hung from the tree.
"Oh, for you. Because you are so nice to me." She giggled as he flashed his fangs. How could anyone say no to that face!
Her wings flutters as she took an odd stance. Standing on one foot with the other foot resting perfectly on her knee. Her hands clapped togeather as she closed her eyes and bowed her head.
iStoleYurVamps (1:54:15 AM): He fell. Landing in what looked like a ungrafeful pile of armor and darkness, he used it to transport himself behinf "That is quite impressive. I don't think I can do that myself." he grinned.
Joachim circled back t the front of Shana. "So, shall we walk or, shall we fly?" His 'wings' gave a slight perk when he said fly.
GunSniper (2:00:46 AM): She remained still until he was in front of her. Shana begun a chant that started out very quiet, but seemed to echo several different voices. Her eyes opened suddenly as she moved from the stance to another one than that lead to a very unique and exotic dance. The chanting now sounded like music as she moved rapidly in this strange dance. Her wings fluttered as she danced literal circles around him. Sparkling gold dust lined her path. Every now and than she would move from the circle and redo the starting stance. This was not held very long before she moved again. If Joachim were to look down he would see the grass, wherever golden dust had landed, was beginning to grow taller and taller as she danced. Crimson flowers begun to bud the longer the dance went on.
iStoleYurVamps (2:13:47 AM): Joachim's eyes widened. She..Shana was... a pure blooded fey. A creature that could summon life. The gillering trail smelled of sunshire mixed with morning dew. And the glow...As a vampire, he almost wanted to turn away. The golden dust was like specks of sunlight...yet...they didn't hurt. The chanting...it reminded him of music, yet, Joachim couldn't place from where. He smiled. "You are a gift Shana. A treat." His voice was quite. As if he didn't trust in his own words.
GunSniper (2:16:33 AM): As the dance wound down she moved back to where she had started and in the same position she had started in. This time she clapped her hands once and opened her eyes at the same time. As she did the all the flower buds bloomed in one burst, exploding golden dust all about them.
She waited for the dust to settle before standing on two feet again with a wide smile.
"I am glad you liked it." She giggled. "I don't show anyone my secret dances. Those are the ones I do by myself..."
She picked up one of the crimson flowers and held it up to Joachim. "Please don't tell anyone okay? This is our secret."
iStoleYurVamps (2:23:13 AM): He took the flower and gave her a bow. "I shall keep this night's events a secret to those that would pry. You have my word." The flower reminded him of blood...but that was natural. Its scent was soft though, and not too sharp or sweet. Joachim summoned an ord or darkness and placed the flower inside. "Now, it shall be safe, and will not perish anytime soon." The orb melded back into the darkness. "Tell me Shana, do you not have a dance partner for such things? Or do you not want one?"
GunSniper (2:27:39 AM): Shana watched the orb with curiosity. She had never seen that trick before.
The fact that he gave his word to keep a secret made her smile continue.
"I am supposed to do them by myself... I think. No one else can dance like that."
She wondered what it would be like if she did a duet with someone who could dance the secret dances. There would definitely be a lot more flowers...
She looked down at the path of flowers and tall grass she made. From a birds eye view it created a strange rune that resembled the crimson sun.
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iStoleYurVamps (11:00:30 PM): He stared at her for a second before smiling. His word was his oath. Vampire of not, he had his honor. His pride. "Shana, tell me, these dances...is it possible that i might learn them?"
GunSniper (11:07:24 PM): Shana put her finger to her lip as she circled Joachim. Her head looked up and down as she inspected him.
"I don't know..." She giggled. "It's not a hard one to learn, but you have to have something else."
She stopped infront of him once again and looked up to his face. "It's not just any dance."
iStoleYurVamps (11:14:05 PM): He smirked, confident in his skill. "If I must learn a new magic, tis easy enough." He spun around, his coat tail swrilling. He did not know if he could bring flowers to life but...he did want to learn a new skill.
GunSniper (11:21:18 PM): She clapped at his twirl as it amused her. "It is special, and a good dance. You are good at dancing." She giggled again."But are you that good?" And with a wide grin she took off into the sky leaving a sparkling trail of dust behind her.
iStoleYurVamps (11:23:40 PM): His eyes squinted at the dust. "Like sunshine." he muttered under his breath. Jumping up, his cloak became wing like once more, as he flew after her with ease. "I think I am a excilent dancer."
GunSniper (11:26:44 PM): She looked over her shoulder at his words. "You ARE!" She laughed "Best I have ever seen!"
Than she dove downward back toward the trees at a sharp angle.
iStoleYurVamps (11:28:08 PM): He dove after he, his fangs gleaming. "Where ever you shall go, I will follow..." he sang. The song was old. But, so was he. The trees were thick and narrowly missed getting hit by a branch.
GunSniper (11:31:19 PM): Durring both times she had seen his wings she took note of their size and his. Her's were small and closer to the body making forest flying a tad easier. However she purposly flew in or near lagre gaps in the trees so he could follow.
Shana giggled. It wasn't to hard to follow her due to the dust trail following her every path...
iStoleYurVamps (11:45:57 PM): Diving around two saplings and jumping above a low branch was easy enough, catching Shana was not. Following was the easy part, speeding up and not getting hit...'This is taking to long' His body began to disperse into smalled bats, all of which could easily navigate the branches.
GunSniper (11:48:36 PM): Shana took another sharp angle, only this time upward toward the sky again. The horde of tiny bats startled her at first, but when she realized it was Joachim it amused her more than his last trick! She was beggining to question why he would want to know how to grow flowers with all these neat trick he already knew! And in her amusement she slowed a bit so she could look back at the bats.
iStoleYurVamps (11:52:36 PM): The bats were akin to a hive. One mind, one purpose. They swarmed around Shana, each one peeping. The soon combinded together, and Joachim floated upside down infront of Shana. 'How's that?"
GunSniper (11:54:42 PM): Shana curled up as the bats swarmed her, than gradually uncurled as he spoke.
"Wow! Very good!" The look in her eyes gave away her amazement.
iStoleYurVamps (11:58:19 PM): He grinned, floatin g back down to the earth. "Sop will you teach me, or must i complete another task?"
GunSniper (12:01:07 AM): She followed him willingly back to the ground. He hands locked together as she tried to think of another game. It was so amazing to her, Joachim's tricks, that she was having a hard time thinking of new games to play with him.
"Oh.... if, if I do will you show me more tricks?" She hesitated.
iStoleYurVamps (12:02:10 AM): He smirks, sitting himself on an inviable seat. "Of course, Tit for tat after all.
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GunSniper (1:11:07 AM): Shana really did want to see more of his tricks, but she was still very weary of showing him her secret dance.
"Well... okay I'll show you just a little bit of it okay. And maybe I will show you the rest later." She smiled and looked up at the vampire, hopeful that this was good for him too.
iStoleYurVamps (1:12:42 AM): He smiled. "That is fine with me." She wanted to keep her secrets, but, so did he. It was tit-for-tat after all. "So what comes first?"
GunSniper (1:16:46 AM): She took that same stance as before. Standing on one foot with the other foot resting on the knee. Hands pressed togeather.
"First you have to consentrate on life... One foot on the ground, this is your channel." She giggle and opened an eye to look at Joachim. Making sure he was doing the same thing.
iStoleYurVamps (1:19:14 AM): He mirrored her movements, going so far to match her speed and finger placement. "Life?" He closed his eyes and thought of life. For him, life was something to be paired with death. So....He naturall began to focuse of life ending.
GunSniper (1:23:38 AM): "yes, life. Just keep focusing on that..." Shana had no thought of death. Life was life right? Meaning things were alive. So her nieve mind worked. "Next you have to move fast otehrwise it won't work... you ready?"
iStoleYurVamps (1:28:41 AM): Joachim opened his eyes. His trademark grin appaered. "I was born ready." He didn't think she'd get the joke, or pun, but, it was true, he was ready.
GunSniper (1:32:59 AM): Shana, at hearing that was very exited! This "vampire" is so talented he was ready to dance at the time of birth! She felt fortunate to have been able to meet him! And ofcourse she had no idea that vampres were never born. "Good good! Now remember to let your life do the talking. Focuse hard on life. That is the first rule" And with that she re-did atleast half of the dance she had done before. She had ourposely left out a ot of teh other tricks to get this towork at it's best, but what she told him was basic enough atleast someting very little would grow. Or so she tought....
iStoleYurVamps (1:37:03 AM): He grinned, his eyes a deep blue. Each move was memorized. Engraved into his brian. Taking a deep breath, he began. With each step he thought of life. The lives of those he had killed, the ones he had seen die right before his eyes. Each step, each spin, he could feel life, or, rather death come from his body. And when it was over Joachim looked back...."Gods." he stepped back. What had he done.
GunSniper (1:46:34 AM): Shana stopped with a tail of flowers and green grass where she had been dancing. She first caught the look on Joachim's face. The fact he did not look pleased confused her. "What's wr-" She stopped mid sentence to see a tail of blood, dead and dry grass, and what looked to be boney fingers growing up from the soil. Her eyes widened in shock and her mouth ajar. Anywhere he had crossed paths with her dance the flowers were begginging to wilt and die.
iStoleYurVamps (1:54:15 AM): His breath became raged, his eyes burned to red. He kicked the earth, scattering the bones and dead plants about. He said nothing, but only began to kick at his farce of life.
GunSniper (1:58:48 AM): At first Shana was ready to run away from his anger fit. Her wings twitched as she looked at a clearing in the trees which would be a good escape route. But before her legs and wings could carry her away another feeling held her in place.
She walked over to Jochiem and tried to place a soft hand on his arm.
"I-it's okay. maybe it's because I didn't teach you everything yet.... b-but your dance was unique... you o-own skill see. I-I couldn't do that...." She stuttered on some words out of fear. Anger was something she greatly feared.
iStoleYurVamps (2:01:27 AM): He sighed, and pused her hand away. "T'was a foolish thought. A vampire...creating life. I am dead. Nothing about me brings life." He chuckled. "Such is my fate."
He bowed to Shana. "I am sorry you saw me like that. It is rare I loose such control."
His face was blank. He wanted to learn the rest but...would she evn teach him?
"Will you teach me the end someday?"
GunSniper (2:05:07 AM): Shana's hands immediately withdrew and locked with each other. Resting underneath her chin. He was right there? Dead things were not supposed to be walking... She decided to avoid the question as it seemed to upset him.
"Only if I get to see more of your tricks." She smiled and giggled, hoping to cheer him up.
iStoleYurVamps (2:07:15 AM): He let a breath he didn't notice he had been holding. "I am happy that you will teach such a..." he looked to a white finger bone. "Poor student. Now, what might you like to see?"
GunSniper (2:11:37 AM): Shana folded her arms across her chest. "You are not..." She protested with a huff. "No one has ever been able to even dance the same steps."
So with her argument aside she thought of what she would like to see him do. It was hard to think of how to pick just one. At this point she was thuroly convinced that he could do anything, but make things grow when he danced.
"Anything!" She finnaly said. "I just want to see a good trick." She giggled.
iStoleYurVamps (2:13:58 AM): Joachim let his fang glint as he gave Shana his best grin. "How can I say no to a face like that?" Sitting himself down, he closed his eyes and began to reach into the earth. To him it acted like water, moving like a fluid around his hand. With a smirk, he pulled his arm out. In his hand, was a gleaming sword, a bat and skull on the hilt.
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GunSniper (12:59:09 AM): The change in seasons were becoming more and more obvious with each passing day. Trees Changing colors and the sun sinking away earlier each day. This meant night was longer and earlier. The perfect season for anyone who loved the night life.
Shana balanced perfectly on the limb of a tree and watched the crimson sunset eagerly. Arms folded across her chest as she grew impatent with the sun. Her wings twiched as the shadows of the trees streched further, engulfingthe land.
"Almost almost! Yes yes, good good. Dance is almost here, yes." She whispered to herself. Bouncing a little as she spoke.
iStoleYurVamps (1:08:01 AM): Cold, bleak nights. That was what Joachim loved. The season changed, but the nights remained a consant. Darkness washed overthe land, drowning it in a vast hole of inky blackness, which no being could see past. This darkness was welcomed. It was beloved. It was the time Joachim was at his strongest, his most powerful. He had slept in a cave for the day, and waited for the last streams of twilight to fade, and the inky darkness to rise up. When the final purple lights of twilight faded, and the calm, dense blackness arose, so did Joachim. Climbing from his cave, he brushed the dust and dirt from his clothes. This was his time, the time of darkness. This time of night
GunSniper (1:11:42 AM): Shana darted through the forest as if running from something in a game. Her wings fluttered giving the illusion she was running on air.
Her smile widened as she caught sight of the cave, and another. Dancing was much better with someone else there.
iStoleYurVamps (1:22:06 AM): He wasn't sure he could trust his eyes. This girl was..no. At first glace it looked like she was running in midair, but, on closer inspection, Joachim could make out her glossy wings beating against the night air. He would admit though, she was graceful in her stride. iStoleYurVamps (1:22:55 AM): "Girl, what brings you here?" Joachim said, his voice slightly dark. Who could really blame him though? He hadn't fed, and, he had just woken up.
GunSniper (1:26:01 AM): The fey came to a graceful stop. Allowing her feet to delicately touch the ground toe first. As she looked up to the vampire she fold her arms behind her back.
"Oh, a dance, a ball, a night. It all at once does." She giggled. Her crystal blue eyes studied him from behind the crimson mask. His paleness amused her.
iStoleYurVamps (1:43:23 AM): Joachim pulled on his shirts's cuffs. So, she wanted a dance in the darkness under the moonlight? He smiled as he gave his shirt a quick tug. "I would be delighted to join you Miss..." He gave a low bow, one that you might have seen in a time of old. "I am Joachim, Joachim Armster. Vampire." A light grin bore his fangs to light, testiment to his claim.
GunSniper (1:55:02 AM): She took a step closer to Joachim, her eyes light up as she saw his teeth. Shana thought about how much fun it would be to touch them. -shiny- Her arms unfolded as she thought into it.
"The first seeing of a vampire for me." She giggled and gave a curtsy. Unaware of what a vampire really was.
"Shana." Again she giggled. "Fey." She found it amusing that most confused her with a fairy. And usually she let them go on believing that...
iStoleYurVamps (2:06:56 AM): Fey then? Well, it was to beexpected. Her wings, her demenor, even her very aura felt like that of the fey. Such a lively bunch. So...full of life. A harsh contrast to his undead state. Well, at they very least hse had manners, which was more then the rest of her ilk. Many of them just blew it off or simply were rude buggers. This one...Shana had a bit more class, that was certain. iStoleYurVamps (2:08:18 AM): "Would youcare for a dance Shana?" He held out his right hand, a polite and formal gesture, knowing that to hold his arm out would be too informal for their first dance.
GunSniper (2:08:54 AM): Shana may be very childish, but when it came to dancing she knew how the old balls used to run. And it was her favorite 'game' to imitate them.
"But of course" She accepted the hand delicately with her own. Ready to let him lead the dance.
iStoleYurVamps (2:17:47 AM): Although theyhad no music, the sound of the wind rattling leaves and the gentle clicks of the wild were more then enough to bring forth a melody to Joahim's ears. Taking her hand in his, he was carful to to placeis other hand to low on her hip. However, the high diferance made it impossible from him to do otherwise. iStoleYurVamps (2:18:28 AM): "Lets start with a waltz shall we?" Its was low and simple, the most basic of dnaces, the most classic. And for Joachim, nothing was better then the classics.
GunSniper (2:22:42 AM): Shana's smile widened at the mention of a waltz. Her favorite game. Immedately she adjusted her postition to the proper stance for this dance.
"Lets." This time she spoke without a giggle. They didn't giggle in fancy ball dances, so she held back any giggles that came up and channeled them all through a smile. Her wings twitched as she became excited about this.
No one had been so willing before to play a game like this. Vampires were such nice and playful creatures she concluded.
iStoleYurVamps (2:36:49 AM): She knew the steps perfectly, each on a mirror to his own. An artist of the dance. Her steps were light, quick, graceful. Ah, so many more words could discribe her skill, yet, Joachim felt they would do no justice. "I take it you're familiar with more then just the waltz Miss Shana?" He spun her while he asked, testing her abillity to remain balanced.
GunSniper (2:49:44 AM): Shana enjoyed every moment of this dance. He was just as graceful as she was. Despite the size difference. "Dancing is my game." she let a giggle slip by after the twirl. The twirl was exicuted to the letter. As graceful as she had been through the entire dance. It was as if he controlled her every movement, like a good puppet. "are you knowing how to Tango?"
"Or perhaps Schottische? but it will be different with just two."
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iStoleYurVamps (1:11:01 AM): He grinned, fangs glittering brighter then they had before. "If the dance is your game..." Joachim spun her around, "then the night is mine." A low dip followed the movement. Gradually he changed his temp and rythm. "A tango will suffice I think." The woods seemed to echo his choice, the wind speeding by, the leaving shacking and rattling faster and they did. "The thing is..." he began to quicken, "can you keep up?"
GunSniper (1:14:24 AM): Shana let another giggle slip by as she caught sight of his shiny teeth. It was too amusing for her to hold back.
"Oh, Waltz and tango, they both are ones I can do most well." She easily and gracefully changed the speed and rythem to match his.
"You are lucky you lead." She chuckled. "I can only go as fact as you."
iStoleYurVamps (1:21:29 AM): She was either kind, or innocent. He hoped it was the former. "Truely? I think I am luck that I have such a skiller partner! So often, rouges have no skill, and just suffle their feat. You my dear..." He pulled her close, not out of intimacy, but the dance itself, "are a true courtisan." He steped back and began the solo portion of the dance. "One that would be fit for the very courts a Avalon itself."
GunSniper (1:35:40 AM): Shana was both kind and innocent. Taking up on his playful, or so she thought, question on keeping up. His words were quite flattering, but again she figured it was all part of the game. He was an expert at this game as she was it seemed.
And with him stepping back she did the same to twirl to the end of the dance, finishing with an unimaginable accuracy.
"Avalon? Is that your home?" she asked while still in the finishing stance.
iStoleYurVamps (1:41:29 AM): He almost tripped. but, years of practice made him land his final step perfectly. "i would think it to be your home. Avalon is the white court, the courth of Oberon, king of the fey. Slyphs are known to a lesser fey, yet they still occupy the white court. Do you mean to say you are exiled..or have you simply never been?"
GunSniper (1:43:58 AM): She relaxed from the stance and begun to think about her past. There was a certain point where everything was hazy. As if there was a wall in her mind set up and would not be broken.
"I..." Shana placed a finger on her lip as she tried to recall anything again. Than removed it before speaking again. "Can't remember that name. So, I have never been."
Was the inaccurate conclusion she came to after a failed memory attempt.
iStoleYurVamps (1:52:21 AM): Joschim's eyes narrowed. "I see. Tell me..." a few steps closed the space between them. "In your mind, can you not recall, or, do you sense that your aren't allowed to recall? If that is the case you could have a glamor on you." Joachim didn't sense any fey magic when he was near Shana. "Are youy sure? I have never met a fey that did npot reside in Avalon." Well, except for Rutger, but, he was an odd one anyway.
GunSniper (1:57:40 AM): "No allowed? " She shook her head. It was like a wall in her memory, but nothing as a force driving her from that memory.
"No, just don't know it." She spoke and looked at Joachim as if she had done something wrong. It felt like it the way questioned her. If Fey were supposed to know this place, why didn't she?
iStoleYurVamps (2:03:35 AM): He didn't really know what to say to that. For a member of the slyph race to have neer been to their homeland..."Its alright then." The look on her face...Joachim sighed. He couldn't help but want to comfort her. "Their is nothing wrong with that. Perhaps your of a diffrent sect of Slyphs." Still..."Anyway, Its not like I can take you to the mounds." They would just drive him away...an maybe her as well...A frown covered his face.
GunSniper (2:12:54 AM): Maybe that was true. Some other kind of race. But than she had no memory of what that could possibly lead to either.
"It's okay. Maybe I can't think of it for a good reason. Maybe it wasn't all that fun." Shana brought up the excuse so that the frustration of trying to dig up memories would go down.
"You, you dance well. Best one I have ever seen. It was very fun to dance with you." She added as an obvious subject change.
iStoleYurVamps (2:20:23 AM): The trees and the wind had gone silent, while Joachim's face softened. He couldn't stay upset when she was so sweet. How could he? "It was a pleasure to dance with you Shana." He gave her a low bow. "Not once has anyone been able to match my skill or speed on the dance floor. Truely, you are a Goddess of the Dance." He took her hand in his and gave it a small kiss. "Would you care to walk through the woods?" He smiled, not showing his fangs this time. "It is a wondorus night."
GunSniper (2:21:58 AM): Shana blushed a bit as he took her hand. Luckily it was well hidden by the mask she wore.
He was rather good at this game!
"It is, night is always best." she declared with a nod.
"A walk is good after a good dance. I will join you." She giggled and moved eagerly around to his side.
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iStoleYurVamps (1:00:56 AM): Another light smile. The wind has died down, yet, it was still present. The light wisps creating a medlody of rattles and shakes in the tree tops. "I am happy to have such plesant company this evening. Usually, I keep to myself." He pushed aside a low hanging branch. "After you."
GunSniper (1:02:49 AM): Shana looked from the branch to Joachim with a smile. And with a thankful bow she moved past the branch gracefully. As she moved her wings fluttered now and than giving the illusion she was walking on air. Something she did now and than for sheer amusement.
"Thank you." She giggled. The dance game was over, so she didn't have to hold it back anymore.
iStoleYurVamps (1:14:50 AM): Her ability to create the illusion was fantasic. Even he, a vampire, could hardly make out her steps. "You're quite welcome Shana." He willed his body to phase into mist as he glided to her side, reforming once he was a few paces ahead of her."Do you have any particular plans this evening?"
GunSniper (1:23:42 AM): She watched in amazement as the misty version of the Vampire walked by. That was nearly as amusing as his teeth.
"Never do." She tapped her chin as she thought about it. "Always play it by night." She smiled as she looked up at him.
iStoleYurVamps (1:31:18 AM): He could sense her amusment...heck it was pretty well written on her face. "Tell me Shana, do you have skill like the one I just preformed?" He eyed her wings. "If not..." His armor began to twist in the shadows, slowly forming wings. "Wecan always go for a nice fly."
GunSniper (1:42:38 AM): Shana paused and looked toward the gaps in trees. "I don't think so... Never have tried it."
She clapped at his armor trick. He was like a birthday present, amusing every new surprise.
"I can do a few things, but I don't show them to anybody. It's a secret dance." She put her hand to her mouth and whispered the last part.
iStoleYurVamps (1:48:14 AM): It took threebeats of his 'wings' to send him to a thick branch above Shana. "Well, I've shown you some of my tricks..." He mocked falling and ended up upside down on the branch. "Will you be so cold as to not show me any of your's?" He grinned fangs flashing. He truely mush have looked like a vampire of lore.
GunSniper (1:50:00 AM): She watched him with even more amusement. Again she clapped for him as he hung from the tree.
"Oh, for you. Because you are so nice to me." She giggled as he flashed his fangs. How could anyone say no to that face!
Her wings flutters as she took an odd stance. Standing on one foot with the other foot resting perfectly on her knee. Her hands clapped togeather as she closed her eyes and bowed her head.
iStoleYurVamps (1:54:15 AM): He fell. Landing in what looked like a ungrafeful pile of armor and darkness, he used it to transport himself behinf "That is quite impressive. I don't think I can do that myself." he grinned.
Joachim circled back t the front of Shana. "So, shall we walk or, shall we fly?" His 'wings' gave a slight perk when he said fly.
GunSniper (2:00:46 AM): She remained still until he was in front of her. Shana begun a chant that started out very quiet, but seemed to echo several different voices. Her eyes opened suddenly as she moved from the stance to another one than that lead to a very unique and exotic dance. The chanting now sounded like music as she moved rapidly in this strange dance. Her wings fluttered as she danced literal circles around him. Sparkling gold dust lined her path. Every now and than she would move from the circle and redo the starting stance. This was not held very long before she moved again. If Joachim were to look down he would see the grass, wherever golden dust had landed, was beginning to grow taller and taller as she danced. Crimson flowers begun to bud the longer the dance went on.
iStoleYurVamps (2:13:47 AM): Joachim's eyes widened. She..Shana was... a pure blooded fey. A creature that could summon life. The gillering trail smelled of sunshire mixed with morning dew. And the glow...As a vampire, he almost wanted to turn away. The golden dust was like specks of sunlight...yet...they didn't hurt. The chanting...it reminded him of music, yet, Joachim couldn't place from where. He smiled. "You are a gift Shana. A treat." His voice was quite. As if he didn't trust in his own words.
GunSniper (2:16:33 AM): As the dance wound down she moved back to where she had started and in the same position she had started in. This time she clapped her hands once and opened her eyes at the same time. As she did the all the flower buds bloomed in one burst, exploding golden dust all about them.
She waited for the dust to settle before standing on two feet again with a wide smile.
"I am glad you liked it." She giggled. "I don't show anyone my secret dances. Those are the ones I do by myself..."
She picked up one of the crimson flowers and held it up to Joachim. "Please don't tell anyone okay? This is our secret."
iStoleYurVamps (2:23:13 AM): He took the flower and gave her a bow. "I shall keep this night's events a secret to those that would pry. You have my word." The flower reminded him of blood...but that was natural. Its scent was soft though, and not too sharp or sweet. Joachim summoned an ord or darkness and placed the flower inside. "Now, it shall be safe, and will not perish anytime soon." The orb melded back into the darkness. "Tell me Shana, do you not have a dance partner for such things? Or do you not want one?"
GunSniper (2:27:39 AM): Shana watched the orb with curiosity. She had never seen that trick before.
The fact that he gave his word to keep a secret made her smile continue.
"I am supposed to do them by myself... I think. No one else can dance like that."
She wondered what it would be like if she did a duet with someone who could dance the secret dances. There would definitely be a lot more flowers...
She looked down at the path of flowers and tall grass she made. From a birds eye view it created a strange rune that resembled the crimson sun.
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iStoleYurVamps (11:00:30 PM): He stared at her for a second before smiling. His word was his oath. Vampire of not, he had his honor. His pride. "Shana, tell me, these dances...is it possible that i might learn them?"
GunSniper (11:07:24 PM): Shana put her finger to her lip as she circled Joachim. Her head looked up and down as she inspected him.
"I don't know..." She giggled. "It's not a hard one to learn, but you have to have something else."
She stopped infront of him once again and looked up to his face. "It's not just any dance."
iStoleYurVamps (11:14:05 PM): He smirked, confident in his skill. "If I must learn a new magic, tis easy enough." He spun around, his coat tail swrilling. He did not know if he could bring flowers to life but...he did want to learn a new skill.
GunSniper (11:21:18 PM): She clapped at his twirl as it amused her. "It is special, and a good dance. You are good at dancing." She giggled again."But are you that good?" And with a wide grin she took off into the sky leaving a sparkling trail of dust behind her.
iStoleYurVamps (11:23:40 PM): His eyes squinted at the dust. "Like sunshine." he muttered under his breath. Jumping up, his cloak became wing like once more, as he flew after her with ease. "I think I am a excilent dancer."
GunSniper (11:26:44 PM): She looked over her shoulder at his words. "You ARE!" She laughed "Best I have ever seen!"
Than she dove downward back toward the trees at a sharp angle.
iStoleYurVamps (11:28:08 PM): He dove after he, his fangs gleaming. "Where ever you shall go, I will follow..." he sang. The song was old. But, so was he. The trees were thick and narrowly missed getting hit by a branch.
GunSniper (11:31:19 PM): Durring both times she had seen his wings she took note of their size and his. Her's were small and closer to the body making forest flying a tad easier. However she purposly flew in or near lagre gaps in the trees so he could follow.
Shana giggled. It wasn't to hard to follow her due to the dust trail following her every path...
iStoleYurVamps (11:45:57 PM): Diving around two saplings and jumping above a low branch was easy enough, catching Shana was not. Following was the easy part, speeding up and not getting hit...'This is taking to long' His body began to disperse into smalled bats, all of which could easily navigate the branches.
GunSniper (11:48:36 PM): Shana took another sharp angle, only this time upward toward the sky again. The horde of tiny bats startled her at first, but when she realized it was Joachim it amused her more than his last trick! She was beggining to question why he would want to know how to grow flowers with all these neat trick he already knew! And in her amusement she slowed a bit so she could look back at the bats.
iStoleYurVamps (11:52:36 PM): The bats were akin to a hive. One mind, one purpose. They swarmed around Shana, each one peeping. The soon combinded together, and Joachim floated upside down infront of Shana. 'How's that?"
GunSniper (11:54:42 PM): Shana curled up as the bats swarmed her, than gradually uncurled as he spoke.
"Wow! Very good!" The look in her eyes gave away her amazement.
iStoleYurVamps (11:58:19 PM): He grinned, floatin g back down to the earth. "Sop will you teach me, or must i complete another task?"
GunSniper (12:01:07 AM): She followed him willingly back to the ground. He hands locked together as she tried to think of another game. It was so amazing to her, Joachim's tricks, that she was having a hard time thinking of new games to play with him.
"Oh.... if, if I do will you show me more tricks?" She hesitated.
iStoleYurVamps (12:02:10 AM): He smirks, sitting himself on an inviable seat. "Of course, Tit for tat after all.
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GunSniper (1:11:07 AM): Shana really did want to see more of his tricks, but she was still very weary of showing him her secret dance.
"Well... okay I'll show you just a little bit of it okay. And maybe I will show you the rest later." She smiled and looked up at the vampire, hopeful that this was good for him too.
iStoleYurVamps (1:12:42 AM): He smiled. "That is fine with me." She wanted to keep her secrets, but, so did he. It was tit-for-tat after all. "So what comes first?"
GunSniper (1:16:46 AM): She took that same stance as before. Standing on one foot with the other foot resting on the knee. Hands pressed togeather.
"First you have to consentrate on life... One foot on the ground, this is your channel." She giggle and opened an eye to look at Joachim. Making sure he was doing the same thing.
iStoleYurVamps (1:19:14 AM): He mirrored her movements, going so far to match her speed and finger placement. "Life?" He closed his eyes and thought of life. For him, life was something to be paired with death. So....He naturall began to focuse of life ending.
GunSniper (1:23:38 AM): "yes, life. Just keep focusing on that..." Shana had no thought of death. Life was life right? Meaning things were alive. So her nieve mind worked. "Next you have to move fast otehrwise it won't work... you ready?"
iStoleYurVamps (1:28:41 AM): Joachim opened his eyes. His trademark grin appaered. "I was born ready." He didn't think she'd get the joke, or pun, but, it was true, he was ready.
GunSniper (1:32:59 AM): Shana, at hearing that was very exited! This "vampire" is so talented he was ready to dance at the time of birth! She felt fortunate to have been able to meet him! And ofcourse she had no idea that vampres were never born. "Good good! Now remember to let your life do the talking. Focuse hard on life. That is the first rule" And with that she re-did atleast half of the dance she had done before. She had ourposely left out a ot of teh other tricks to get this towork at it's best, but what she told him was basic enough atleast someting very little would grow. Or so she tought....
iStoleYurVamps (1:37:03 AM): He grinned, his eyes a deep blue. Each move was memorized. Engraved into his brian. Taking a deep breath, he began. With each step he thought of life. The lives of those he had killed, the ones he had seen die right before his eyes. Each step, each spin, he could feel life, or, rather death come from his body. And when it was over Joachim looked back...."Gods." he stepped back. What had he done.
GunSniper (1:46:34 AM): Shana stopped with a tail of flowers and green grass where she had been dancing. She first caught the look on Joachim's face. The fact he did not look pleased confused her. "What's wr-" She stopped mid sentence to see a tail of blood, dead and dry grass, and what looked to be boney fingers growing up from the soil. Her eyes widened in shock and her mouth ajar. Anywhere he had crossed paths with her dance the flowers were begginging to wilt and die.
iStoleYurVamps (1:54:15 AM): His breath became raged, his eyes burned to red. He kicked the earth, scattering the bones and dead plants about. He said nothing, but only began to kick at his farce of life.
GunSniper (1:58:48 AM): At first Shana was ready to run away from his anger fit. Her wings twitched as she looked at a clearing in the trees which would be a good escape route. But before her legs and wings could carry her away another feeling held her in place.
She walked over to Jochiem and tried to place a soft hand on his arm.
"I-it's okay. maybe it's because I didn't teach you everything yet.... b-but your dance was unique... you o-own skill see. I-I couldn't do that...." She stuttered on some words out of fear. Anger was something she greatly feared.
iStoleYurVamps (2:01:27 AM): He sighed, and pused her hand away. "T'was a foolish thought. A vampire...creating life. I am dead. Nothing about me brings life." He chuckled. "Such is my fate."
He bowed to Shana. "I am sorry you saw me like that. It is rare I loose such control."
His face was blank. He wanted to learn the rest but...would she evn teach him?
"Will you teach me the end someday?"
GunSniper (2:05:07 AM): Shana's hands immediately withdrew and locked with each other. Resting underneath her chin. He was right there? Dead things were not supposed to be walking... She decided to avoid the question as it seemed to upset him.
"Only if I get to see more of your tricks." She smiled and giggled, hoping to cheer him up.
iStoleYurVamps (2:07:15 AM): He let a breath he didn't notice he had been holding. "I am happy that you will teach such a..." he looked to a white finger bone. "Poor student. Now, what might you like to see?"
GunSniper (2:11:37 AM): Shana folded her arms across her chest. "You are not..." She protested with a huff. "No one has ever been able to even dance the same steps."
So with her argument aside she thought of what she would like to see him do. It was hard to think of how to pick just one. At this point she was thuroly convinced that he could do anything, but make things grow when he danced.
"Anything!" She finnaly said. "I just want to see a good trick." She giggled.
iStoleYurVamps (2:13:58 AM): Joachim let his fang glint as he gave Shana his best grin. "How can I say no to a face like that?" Sitting himself down, he closed his eyes and began to reach into the earth. To him it acted like water, moving like a fluid around his hand. With a smirk, he pulled his arm out. In his hand, was a gleaming sword, a bat and skull on the hilt.
