☼ Demon Hunters ☼ Destruction of Angels ☼

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- { Príncєss Cαstαnєt-Cσnstαncє Alαznє } -
When life is laid out before you, fight to break free.

Castanet looked over at Griffon once Valentine was out of earshot, "He's cute and he has brains? Why couldn't I be born a demon hunter and not some druid who's supposed to marry for the good of their own kingdom...? And why am I telling this you...? No offense intended. Don't tell him I said that either... Or I might have to resort to hiding in the Otherworld for the rest of my life." She got to her feet, pausing a moment to see if her stomach was going to hurt again and was glad when it didn't. "I mean it, you can't tell anyone... Or I'll turn you into a fluffy kitten or something like that."

- { Trínítч Lσurd Kαnє & ร๏lเtย๔є & Cσuncílσr Dєrчn Crσss } -
Should we live to expectations - Or fight to break them?
Destruction, death and horror!
Sometimes, what's best for others overrules what's best for yourself.

Deryn glanced over at Esme, "I didn't say sick, but she's not listening to me."

Trinity looked over at Esme and Cordell and whined when she saw the laughter that was being held back. "STOP LAUGHING AT ME! It's my birthday and I'm stuck like this and you're all horrible! Hah like heck I'm gonna be human ever again!"

"I didn't tell her that part..." Deryn mumbled. "What do you take me for? An idiot?"

"Um... Yes." Trinity frowned at him, "A complete and utter idiot." She growled at him before hiding back under the table. "She's still not having the files, I can remember eating them. Definitely ate them. Yummy, paper and ink. Okay I didn't eat them, but she's still not having them. Nope, nope nope no no no no no no NO. Oh and if you didn't get the memo, Deryn I'm gonna kill you. Murderrrrrrrr" All the while Trinity was talking, her voice was moving from underneath table to table as she looked for food, before she managed to pull a tablecloth off one of the tables and scamper away from it when the food rained down where she'd been stood. "You don't trust me Esme, you never have done, so I won't trust you."

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- { Príncєss Cαstαnєt-Cσnstαncє Alαznє } -
When life is laid out before you, fight to break free.

Castanet shrugged, "Deryn knows my threats, Laurie is not old enough to get past a simple mind block, and I have no idea who the other Cross is but I doubt they'd care since they don't know me." She slipped her hands in her pockets and bought out a hair tie before pulling her hair back into a ponytail and raising her eyebrows as Griffon started chuckling again, "You're like a kid on a playground who's found out a secret about their friend. I am allowed to fancy anyone I chose, I just can't go out with them unless they want a life of being bored to death by random druid rules."

- { Trínítч Lσurd Kαnє & ร๏lเtย๔є & Cσuncílσr Dєrчn Crσss } -
Should we live to expectations - Or fight to break them?
Destruction, death and horror!
Sometimes, what's best for others overrules what's best for yourself.

"No problem." Deryn replied to Esme, stopping her from leaving since Trinity told him to by thought or she would chop his head off somehow.

Trinity grumbled, biting at Esme's shoes and attempting to pull her outside so Cordell wouldn't overhear. “Me and Damien burnt all records of what happened twenty years ago because the council was idiotic back then. I still don't trust you but I'm going to tell you what happened because you're my cousin and I planned on telling you at some point anyway... I just didn't foresee the fur and kitten ears. We need to go to Horia, it's where I hid the records you're missing... And many other records but you know I'm bad at explaining." She bit Esme's ankle and teleported to the front gardens at Horia, then looked up at Esme before leading the way towards the forest. "Come on cousin, I wanna see you pull a shocked face it'll be hilarious."

[LunaSoul]

- { Arrєn Alαznє } -
Power is the downfall of those too weak to resist.

Arren frowned slightly at how annoying Hakan was, the Lure demon seemed content to ignore everything he said and do what he wanted even though Arren was sure that he was better than Hakan. 'Go find out what Trinity Kane, Caia Grey and Castanet Alazne are up to. Feel free to kill Castanet if you like.' Arren replied though he was tempted to tell Johnathan to jump up and down on the spot until he and Hakan got back.

~Johnathan Cross~
Johnathan listened to Arren, and was almost glad that he had given him permission to kill Castanet. He was silent a moment, 'Alright, and I hope you know Arren that I'll be on the Council island for some reason they all seem to be there. And that's where all the, you know, councilors are. If it hasn't changed much considering who's councilor and who's not, most will question where I've been. Not my fault if someone figures out where I've been. And Hakan, if you have anything to say, It'll have to wait I'm about to pass out.' With that, he cut the connection and grimaced, rubbing his temples. He sat there for a few minutes before pushing himself up to his feet. He went back to where Laurie lay, nearly falling at a couple spots either from tripping or lightheadedness. He crouched by her and placed a hand lightly on her forehead. A soft glow appeared as he stole energy from her. Not all, but most. If she did wake up while he was away, she wasn't getting far from the room, let alone use her powers. Then again, he didn't know how well she could use all the power she had gained after the year. He sighed inwardly as he felt reenergized and stood, heading back over to the door and closing it behind him.

He soon found himself in the Council tunnels, walking silent with his hands stuffed in his pockets. The only sound he made was the soft clinking of his hooked swords. His head was down as he thought, walking the tunnels without thinking about it. He had surprisingly walked down them a lot more than he expected to the point he pretty much memorized how much he should walk before turning. He was actually wondering how ones that recognized him would react to seeing him after he was presumably dead the past year. He had to keep himself hidden from everyone and not one time did it cross his mind on how anyone would react to seeing him. He didn’t know if it was because of the mind control but it just didn’t.

Johnathan looked up, blinking his eyes as they adjusted to the light. He hadn’t realized he had come out of the tunnels, having been following tugging in his mind absently. He looked around, slightly confused at the carnival things. ‘I’m hoping that this is temporary… since when did the council island have a carnival? Well, I wouldn’t be complaining though…. It does look like fun.’ He gave a small shake of his head and continued to follow the tug in his mind which was leading him to the first person he had decided to ‘find out what they were doing’; Castanet. As he continued, he then registered another mind near hers. He just shrugged to himself and soon he saw Castanet and who he recognized as Councilor Griffon Wings with her.

He debated whether or not if he should just approach them or not. Arren didn’t say he had to be all sneaky, just find out what they were doing. And standing by and watching to figure it out wasn’t a skill he had. And it just wasn’t his personality. So with a quiet intake of breath, he approached them, “Hello Griffon, funny seeing you here." He said, almost casually as if he hadn’t been gone at all. He turned his head to look at Castanet, both his expression and voice going neutral, “Castanet.”

(I got a lot of muse apparently....)

[Ylva Rane]

.* Caia Grey *.

Caia froze and her face reddened a little, her feelings wiring themselves in mismatched ways. Again, she couldn't understand why a simple sentence left her hanging out on a line. This wasn't normal, and it was a little uncomfortable... but, though she was struggling to admit it, pleasant. Which was new. A lot of this was new. And sudden. The thought of getting to the bottom of it arose in her mind, but it was immediately dismissed. "I... why would you say that?" She said slowly, pulling out another splinter, and continued pulling them out as she talked. "That wasn't what I meant at all. So, yeah. Rachel's a good choice. She's an angel and all, and pretty good at taking care of people. You like to going to Lii anyway, and she is posing as our head nurse at school, so she's always around and has all the things she needs to take care of someone's injuries. You get a person with all the knowledge required, plus you get the convenient, ever present help. That's great. Well done. Make sure you thank her and all that. No need to go around forgetting manners."

She was rambling. Of course she was rambling. Why not ramble? It only made things so much easier to handle. Right. Of course. ...At least her sarcastic thoughts were still intact and functional.

.* I want to protect, so I will dirty my hands for you *.

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- { Dαmíєn Stαvє & ร๏lคςє } -
Hearing more, seeing more, is that really living more?
By that sin fell the angels.

Damien winced when another splinter was pulled from his back, and glanced back at Caia, frowning a little when she started rambling, "Caia, you're treating me like a child again..." He didn't really need to be reminded to remember to say please and thankyou, nor did he really need to be told 'well done' simply for going to the infirmary. "It would be great if you stopped that..." He found himself looking at Caia for longer than he really needed to, before he turned away from her again. Remembering back to when Caia had told him she wouldn't consider him an adult until he bested Angela in combat he added; "I'm not going to fight any of your class to prove that, end of, violence doesn't decide whether people are grown ups or not."

- { Angєlα Décès } -
A bullet to the heart is no way to live.

Angela messed up her friend's hair and ducked down to look under tent flaps for sign of the power control teacher. She slipped into one tent for a few moments, returning with two plates of cake. She passed one plate to Kage and continued to look around for the power control teacher, casually leaning against a tent when she saw the Kane and Cross councilors disappear into a tent. She could hear Trinity yelling from inside and she frowned, looking down under a tent flap and then standing up and grinning at Kage, whispering under her breath, "In this one. What's the plan?"

[Ylva Rane]

.* Caia Grey *.

"Huh?" Caia stared at the back of Damien's head in confusion, wondering what brought on that remark before she too remembered what she said days ago about him beating Angela. She forgot about that, and she sighed a little. "Look, it's not like I'm trying to change you, Damien." That would be impossible anyway. "I just think that it's for your own good to know how to fight in case of emergencies. Maybe you wouldn't get so bashed up, like in your battles with Solitude, if you knew how to protect yourself." Geez, but he acted like she wanted to knock the pacifist out of him. Was it wrong to be concerned about another person?

.* I want to protect, so I will dirty my hands for you *.

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- { Dαmíєn Stαvє & ร๏lคςє } -
Hearing more, seeing more, is that really living more?
By that sin fell the angels.

"My brother would say you're a good influence." Damien mumbled, pulling his shirt back onto his shoulders and buttoning it up, not really bothered that Caia may or may not have finished. "Violence is something I do not like in the slightest, if demon hunters want peace between them and demons, why doesn't everyone just stop fighting?" He got to his feet and retrieved his jacket from the floor, pulling it on with a shrug of his shoulders. "I'm perfectly capable of protecting myself. I just... Don't really see myself as worth saving." He slipped his gun out of his pocket and held it up, "See, in case of Solitude emergencies."

[Ylva Rane]

.* Caia Grey *.

Caia frowned when he pulled back on his shirt and stood, but didn't really do anything about it. She was almost done, too. To be honest, she thought if hunters just stopped fighting, they would all get massacred. She doubted most of the demons would want to stop fighting, so they would happily attack. But she doubted saying that would do anything, except spark some sort of argument, so she remained silent. Even when he said he was capable of protecting himself, which made her want to roll her eyes.

"Excuse me?" Caia finally said and her head snapped up. Slowly she got to her feet, glaring up at Damien. "Did you just say you weren't worth saving? Or am I mistaken, in which case I would like to know what you really said."

.* I want to protect, so I will dirty my hands for you *.

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- { Dαmíєn Stαvє & ร๏lคςє } -
Hearing more, seeing more, is that really living more?
By that sin fell the angels.

Damien slipped the gun back into his pocket and frowned a little at Caia when she started glaring at him. "Am I not allowed to consider my existence pointless now? So first I have to learn to fight even though I've made it pretty clear that I don't want to. Now I'm not entitled to my own opinions? I'm a pointless head teacher since paperwork is better off as a pillow and I hate the subject I teach, my own family members disowned me, the only thing I'm good for is winding up the council and getting Deryn to wipe certain memories of Trinity's - which I really shouldn't do since it's mean and I hate myself for it but I do it anyway so she can celebrate her birthday without knowing that she killed her family on this day... I hate birthdays... I always get into arguments. Sorry."

[Ylva Rane]

.* Caia Grey *.

Caia could feel a sort of anger inside her, but surprisingly enough, it didn't effect the temperature at all. "Apology not accepted." Her fingers curled and uncurled. "You're saying it for the wrong reason. Sure, you don't teach you class very often and you abandon your paperwork quite frequently. Your family disowned you for no reason, you get on the Council's nerves, and you wipe Trinity's memories to keep her bottomless depression while you remember every bit of it. You get into a ton of arguments! All of that is true, but THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT YOU!" Caia yelled the last few words, feeling that if she didn't, she was going to burst at the seams. "Even someone as prejudiced as I am, who isn't a very good judge of character, can look around and see that! Why can't someone as smart and observant as you not see it."

It was taking all of her willpower not to push him, slap him, or anything of the sort. "I'm going to tell you exactly what I told Trinity. What you are saying, how you are acting, is an outright insult to everyone who cares about you! Everyone who thinks that your existence is important and ifar from pointless! Everyone who can see your worth! So tell me, Damien! What should you be apologizing for?"

.* I want to protect, so I will dirty my hands for you *.