☼ Demon Hunters ☼ Destruction of Angels ☼

[LunaSoul]

~Kage Pearce~
Kage yelped this time when he slammed her into the wall. She shifted her arm again to avoide hitting it against the wall and fell silent as he pulled her up, wincing as he just droped her on the roof. She gritted her teeth as he drove her head into the ground,and narrowed her eyes at the mention of the boy, who she knew as Aiden. She didnt say anything, her expression changing back to unreadable. She could feel the strength of her shadows returning with every second, even if it was slow. She closed her eyes briefly as she concentrated then opened them again, her eyes filmed black with her shadows.

Suddenly, Hakan's own shadow shifted and lashed at him, wrapping around both his legs, and yanked them out from under him. Kage rolled away from him, her broken wrist held to her chest. Shadows moved and helped her stand before she fell and moved back to Hakan one her feet were firmly under her. She twisted around, having not rolled far from Hakan, and slammed her booted foot down on his throat, and pressed hard, "Should I just kill you know? I am very tempted to with you threating me several times. Oh and breaking my wrist. That was not cool." Shadows moved around Hakan's arms and pinned them down firmly as she narrowed her black eyes at him.

(Sorry my nook is being stupid and not letting me scroll down and delete the post below XD)

learning both Tre was beginning to feel a little more lenient. The two of them had a lot to think about, after all. Without another word, Caia turned and left, determined now to avoid Damien at all costs.[/quote]

[Ylva Rane]

((Yeah, typing on a nook isn't that fun. Right, nook buddy?))

.* Hakan Lure *.

Hakan grunted as his back hit the ground, startled at the sudden view of the sky. He looked down as his own shadow turned against him with mild interest, his ever expressionless features remaining so. Losing his birth object was one thing, but Hakan had been fighting for years. This was not something that would faze him. Death probably wouldn't even faze him, but since he never died before, Hakan wouldn't know if that was true or not.

Reflexively, Hakan let out a strangled cough as the hunter nearly crushed his throat. His arms, now completely immobile, relaxed when he realized they would be of no further use. He recognized the uselessness of the situation, how pointless it would be to struggle against his bonds. He stared into her black eyes, his own red, demonic gaze as unreadable as hers. She was scared of him, he knew, or she wouldn't have gone through all the effort to constrict him. It was that natural fear and caution that could turn the tides in a battle, as past observations had proven, but Hakan only felt a slight sense of desperation. He wanted the orb back. He needed it back. If he hadn't conquered his emotions so long ago, he might have been overcome with rage by now. It was unusual for a Lure not to react as such when losing their attachment, but in Hakan's mind, a sure sign of control and power was when the emotions remained internal, and not external.

The Pearce girl would not be able to keep this up for long. Using her shadows to support herself as well as tying him down, and manipulating his own shadow to do the same would take a large toll on her energy, especially in her injured state. In fact, as he stared silently at her, he could feel his shadow waver as she focused more on her shadows. So Hakan remained still and didn't respond to her rage-filled words. Answering when a foot was crushing your throat wasn't easy. Breathing under those circumstances was hard enough.

[LunaSoul]

(Its horrible ;A;)

~Kage Pearce~
Kage was silent as she watched him, her foot continuing to add pressure to his throat. The only shadows touching her was the one that had moved around her wrist like a makeshift cast and the ones covering her eyes. The others were either restraining Hakan's arms or back to normal. She moved her hand slightly and a shadow clouded around her palm, and the blue sphere of the Lure demon's appeared. "I wonder what might a Lure do to get it back." She said, looking at Hakan, "and I wonder what you would do if I destroy this right here in front of you." She closed her hand over the orb, shadows surrounding her hand again.

[Ylva Rane]

.* Hakan Lure *.

Hakan narrowed his eyes as she brought out the orb, his desire to get it back increasing dramatically at the sight of it. His feet shifted slightly, testing the continuously weakening shadow bonds. Bringing out only to cover it again... it seemed she didn't actually teleport it anywhere. It was hiding in her shadows. Teasing him with it was... how did she put it... "not cool".

What might a Lure do to get it back? They would drive themselves to the point of death.

With the small amount of air he was allowed to breathe, Hakan's strength was waning. If there was any chance of succes, he would have to act now. In a burst of forced energy, he freed his legs, his shadows receding now that they had nothing to hang on to. He kicked at Kage's back forcing her off him and of balance. His throat free, he gasped for breath, twisting to try and wrench his arm free. That proved more difficult. The hunter was putting more of her power into those bonds.

The orb was here, in the area. It was only surrounded by shadows, so Hakan, if he pushed hard enough, could break through those shadows. It shouldn't too hard. Hakan's full power was more than ten times her power, and that was not an exaggeration. Hakan didn't make exaggerations. Her only chance of winning was to kill him before he used it.

By the time she figures that out, though, it would probably be too late for her.

[Placebo Effect]

((Just causally hugging my laptop now I have it back... *obviously not a weirdo.*))
...........................jacĸѕon eмory & яιѕку мι∂мσσи.
..............."I'm going to spend the rest of my life being annoyed by voices in my head... That I can be sure about." He then laughed, "I honestly doubt I'd end up like Damien, he has unbelievable amounts of patience and I'd have set the school on fire within moments if i had to look after a school full of kids who are being taught to kill things." He stopped when Ethel stopped to help, picking up a book and wondering how Ethel knew where the books were to be able to pick them up. He turned the book over in his hands before dropping it onto the other student's pile of books. He was about to reply to the naive realities comment, but ended up frowning at Ethel's compass instead. "I've figured it out!" Jackson sighed inwardly when he heard Risky's voice inside his head. "Oh really?". In his experience at dealing with the demon, it was best to play along and feign interest in what she had to say. "YUP! She's a goblin!" Jackson shook his head, forgetting to actually think rather than speak, "Stop making silly comments..." He then frowned as Risky started laughing and attempted to cover it up, "Sorry, talking to myself."

aғтer all - a candle can вe eхтιngυιѕнed вy a ѕιмple вreaтн

[LunaSoul]

~Kage Pearce~
Kage yelped when he suddenly kicked her in the back and knocking her off balance. She nearly fell but the shadow thathad shrouded her hand wrapped around her and put her back on balance. The shadows receded back to her hand, surrounding it. The shadows slipped through her fingers to surround the orb, and when she opened her hand, the only thing that remained was the shadows. She turned and looked at Hakan. She slipped her hand into her pocket, her hand closing around the hilt of the dagger Aiden had put in her pocket.

Kage pulled it out watching as Hakan tried to break free of her shadows. "Im sorry to say you wont be getting the orb back." She said and then in a swift movement, she threw the dagger, aiming at the demons head.

[Placebo Effect]

((yay! XD I'm glad I seem normal.))

...........................jacĸѕon eмory & яιѕку мι∂мσσи.
..............."Right... How am I gonna prove that a pyromaniac is useful to society?" Jackson sighed quietly, "Yay... I'm gonna be stuck teaching kids..." he then frowned, "What I don't get is that Damien hates fighting, but he teaches powers in combat? Surely he'd be better off teaching something that didn't have the word 'combat' in it?" he waited for Ethel when she stopped to decorate her shoes, and Risky's curiosity was back once again by the compass fogging up. "Maybe she's an elf!" Jackson frowned slightly, "Since when do elves exist?" Risky paused a second, then answered, "Since they live in your bed!""Sensible answers only please..."
Jackson smiled slightly, "Yes. The voices in my head." He frowned at Ethel's compass, knowing he'd have to ask unless he wanted Risky to continue with the strange and pointless commentary. "Ethel, what's with that compass? There's something weird about it."

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[Ylva Rane]

((To avoid death, or not to avoid death. That is the question... Well, Kage should really get back to the present, so he'll die, but with a bang. GASP! Did I just foreshadow??))

.* Hakan Lure *.

He was almost free, and his mind was already working on connecting with the orb. He could feel the power pulsing as it grew, pushing the shadows out as they formed to its growing size. Hakan glanced briefly at the hunter as she spoke, the hand holding the dagger informing him of her intentions better than she ever could. His head was still a little muddled from lack of oxygen, dysfunctional. If she threw that at the speed she had previously, he probably wouldn't be able to avoid it. Even if he could, the shadows constricting his arms were moving to bind his neck as well. ((Hope you don't mind that I took that liberty.)) Soon, he wouldn't be able to move his head at all, giving her a clear and vulnreable target. He was going to die in a few secons.

If Hakan had any pride, he might have been annoyed that this apprentice hunter, albeit an impressive one, was the one who killed someone as powerful as him. But pride was an emotion, and Hakan no longer was affected by those. His mind already noted his death as a fact, an observation, information to take notice of. It was unavoidable, but... Hakan would be less than satisfied if he simply let it happen.

Now that he was going to die, he could care less about what happened to the orb. When he died, the orb would be utterly useless to him, so its existence was no longer a priority. The Pearce Hunter, on the other hand, was a different story. As she will mature, should she survive what he was planning to do, she could prove a dangerous enemy. Perhaps not as much as Trinity Kane was, but enough that she will be noted down as an actual threat instead of annoyance. In this school, that was definitely a more likely possibility. All teachers at Horia Academy were considered a threat in one way or another.

Pearce... Kage Pearce, wasn't it? She would not kill him and walk away with those meager wounds of hers.

The second Kage moved to throw the blade, Hakan poured everything he had left into his connection with the orb. The Lure council had been experimenting with the technique, upset that their power could only be used if they were touching its source. When taken away, they were left completely vulnerable, especially if their physical capabilities were dismal. Hakan had been one of the first chosen to participate in the experiments, and one of the first to show results. So far, the most any demon has been able to draw out was a fourth of their normal abilities. It might not be enough to kill this Kage Pearce, but it should put her out of commision for a while.

The dagger reached Hakan just as the blue orb blew away the shadows surrounding it, and exploded with all the force Hakan's power could muster, shattering it in pieces. The shockwave was immense, crushing the roof beneath the two of them, and from the explosion there was a burst of pure, blue light.

Then both the orb and its master were no more.

[Placebo Effect]

...........................jacĸѕon eмory & яιѕку мι∂мσσи.
..............."There is one problem with hidden bases... They are hidden." He pushed open the door to Damien's classroom when Ethel had finished the comment about him, "Possibly... Hey you know that bit about Damien not fighting, his neck and shoulder are bandaged up. Would've been funny to see that fight..." He slipped inside the classroom and held open the door for Ethel to follow him inside. "Seats over here Ethel," it wasn't hard to find empty seats in an almost empty classroom, it seemed most students were either in the infirmary or hadn't bothered getting out of bed. He pulled two chairs out from under the desk and sat in the one furthest from the wall. "You seem used to giving that answer about your compass I think?"

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...........................∂aмιen ѕтave.
............... It didn't really seem like anyone else was going to turn up for lesson after Jackson and Ethel turned up (Damien was actually surprised Ethel had turned up), so Damien figured it would be a good plan to actually start the class. He just had no idea what he was going to teach. Maybe he should've thought about that instead of reading his book. Well, he hadn't even been reading his book, he'd been worrying about Trinity once again, since he thought she was still asleep... And not that she was causing trouble in the Otherworld. But, before he could sink back into worrying thoughts, he figured a lesson plan would be good in times like this. Just a shame he didn't have one.

Damien was pretty useless at thinking up a plan in a short period of time, and continued flipping through his book as if he were reading it. It was pretty useful for him then, that his angelic half was sorting out the plan for him.

He closed the book, stuck it in a drawer and then actually acknowledged that half of the class had bothered with turning up. "Has anyone here ever tried using their powers with someone from a different family? For example, a fire Emory can create a fire that will then cast shadows if other objects block it's light, therefore strengthening Pearce family powers, or a Kane member can teleport a Thorn member's weapons straight into the target? Has anyone got any other ideas on mixing powers?"

ѕєєιиg мσяє нєαяιиg мσяє - ιѕ тнαт яєαℓℓу ℓινιиg мσяє؟

...........................caѕтaneт alazne & тrιnιтy ℓσυя∂ кane
...............“Where are we actually heading?” Trinity looked over at Casta as she asked. She didn’t mind where they were going, she just wanted to know.

Casta carried on driving and turned to Trinity with an apologetic look on her face, “ I was watching what happened at Horia and one of your friends died before the lockdown was put up.”

Trinity looked across at Casta alarmed, “Who? What happened?” She was racking through her brains to figure out who she had and hadn’t seen after the lock down had been put up. “Tell me now!”

“Angela.”

Trinity sighed quietly, and she immediately sank back into looking weak and fragile again. “Anything we can do?”

Castanet nodded, “Yes, I was lucky. I managed to anchor her soul before she died fully. It means we can bring her back as an
anomaly. I had to wait for her brother to send her body off to the Thorn family graves but it didn’t take long to bring her over here after that. I was going to call you and bring her back then, since she’d probably try to kill me if I bought her back... You know, snake things and all. I left her in the abandoned Lure houses we cleared out a few months back when I came to fetch you.”

Trinity looked generally happy that Angela could be saved; she nodded and watched as a bunch of seemingly abandoned houses began to appear on the horizon. She reached down and pulled a sword free from its sheath as she noticed the demons roaming around, learning that a friend needed to be saved from death had put the fight back into her.

wнen lιғe ιѕ laιd oυт вeғore yoυ, ғιgнт тo вreaĸ ғree.

ѕнoυld we ℓινe тo eхрeтαтιonѕ or ғιgнт тo вreaĸ тнeм?

[LunaSoul]

(Very big boomboom... poor Damien... the unsurance company gonna kill him XD)

~Kage Pearce~
Kage felt the shadows around the sphere suddenly be forced away. She looked at it in her hand and her eyes widened as it regestered what was happening. Her shadows felt the power in that moment and she had no time to react and turn into shadows. As it exploded, she could feel the shockwave and the shards of it pierce her skin. She felt the roof crumble under them, but the shockwave was to much for her to handle. Th elast rhing she remembered was the feel of shadows surounding her and the feel of falling before her world faded into darkness.

(I feel bad... you did that beautiful post, and i do this crappy paragraph one |D *sigh* i apologize.... ill post it when its back inthe future in a few minutes :3)