*sigh* GOD! The cold is ALMOST gone, how happy i am! Unfortunetly, i have no idea to write but i shall wing it!!(basing it around the title!)
WHne i finally came to, i was lying on the black leather couch in the lobby of the pleasure dome...the only thing that can to mind is...WHY??!! Let's seeeeee, last thing i remember....hmmmm....OH GOD! i jumped up from the comfy couch only to be over taken by a heavy sense of virtigo...the room spinning and my legs giving out, as i fell to my knees, holding the coffee table for support. I was shacking... the dull curtain of rememberance fell over me as i remembered the bitter tang of Level Zero thrusting it's cold fingers into my mind; toying with it...as if he was a puppet master. Shadows have been dangerous things latley!
Just then i felt someone's warm hand on my left shoulder blade. Shocked, i looked back at the person with wild eyes, struggling once again to control my breathing. Shocked as well, the girl flung back her hand and stared at me, her cheeks red. It was the girl from before...with the blue kimono.
"Eh...um..er, Rune-sama?" She asked incredably softly.
"what is it?" I asked, pulling myself to my feet as well as i could.
She lifter her hand to cover her mouth. "You should eat, you look pale."
I lifted an eyebrow. Um...haven't i always been pale? Whatever. I nodded as she led me to a table which was layed out with food. It was then that i realized that there was just short of chaos in the lobby - the pack members yelling at eachother...and one new wolf that i haddn't seen before. She didn't seem to powerful by the wavelengths of her aura but i couldn't be sure...so i fallowed the girl and sat at the table, wolfing down my food. The girl, which she informed me her name was Mina, giggled as i ate. I glared out of the corner of my eye.
As soon as i finnished, i excused ,myself from Mins'a presence and went out for a walk. I needed to clear my head as best as i could, form a plan on what i was to do, and at some point, get a new weopon. My claws could rip through almost anything, and i had a gun with only four bullets left, but even so, there was a certain precaution to what i needed to do before my 7 days were up.
In the back of my mind...i felt Level Zero growl in a fit of bitter laughter, loving everytime i turn around to find myelf completely useless and helpless against him. i shoved him back, putting up more mental bariers,everyone harder and harder to hold. It's already started... the Slip Of Sanity... I thought. There were a number of things i had heard back at the laboritory when i was being experimented on...and one was that in a red moon eclipse...there was a phase before the Release called the Slip Of Sanity, in which the mind becomes weaker and the senses duller. Dr.Rizen had been an ass and had forced Zero to come out on many occasions...but they had all be held back, at least a little bit, by me.
Forcing the memories out of my mind, i stopped in front of a weopons shop. Now isn't that ironic... i thought, lifting an eyebrow.
I put my hand in my pocket and opened the door with the other hand,the bell ringing on the handle. The old store clerk was reading the weekly newspaper and eyeing me suspiously as i scratched at my chin with the tip of my long fore-claw. Grumbling as her rose, he settled the newspaper down and shuffled over to my.
"What can i do for ya, sunny-boy?" The older man asked gruffly. I eyes him as my white-grey eyes gazed over each weopon linning the walls. They were mostly knives, incrusted with jewls that look like they were rare, pistols, hand -guns, and a few swords, although nothing seemed to be to my liking; they all seemed to...to flashy for me.
"EH?!" The old man said, still looking at me as i held my chin in my hand, careful not to cut the felsh with my nails. "You just gonna admire them or are you gonna buy them?! EH? SO what's it gonna be, boy??!!"
I glared down at him, this so wasn't that i needed right now. SO i finally looked him in the eye. He neary too eight steps back at my gaze. I was aware at what it did to humans, it was a after-effect of the past experiments. His eyes widened and only took a few steps back, his back against the glass counter.
"Don't you have..."- I scrutinized the collection - "Anything worth my while?"
He got anry then. "So? Just cuz ur askin for 'em, dosen't mean i'm going to give 'em up!" I fixed him with my gaze again, trying to work my power against him; although it was exceedingly difficult because i was also trying to hold up the mental barriers. Level Zero's smoke was already leacking through...
"Alrighty, sunny-boy," The man said in reluctant defeat. He scurried through a door in back.
Then it accured to me that i was threatening a man who ran a weopon's shop. My composure fell as i redied myself for anything that came back out of that door.
But just as i was about to pounce on the man as he came back out with a big black velvet box, he sushed me, putting the box on the counter and then scurring around, turning out the lights and pulling down the curtains, looking suspiously out the door as he finally flipped the "Sorry we're closed" sign.
I brought my attention to the box. "Now boy!" The man said as he pointed an old finger in my face. "These are the most dangerous weopons i have ever set my old eye on...i have never sold them to anyone. Hell, if anyone would ever buy 'em! These things are cursed steal, boy. Cured steal, yes they are." He didn't look into my eyes, for if he did, this would have taken much, much, much longer.
He unlached the lached on the case, opening up the lid carefully, shacking.
AS i looked down into the case, a wave of terrible force few into the energy around me.I could feel something incredably powerful... more than the Pack Leader's aura, and matching the force of Level Zero almost to a point where it was exact. Ther, layed out in the box...where two long-nosed guns, one black, one white. Odd words, in a wrtting i didn't know were circling the noses, shinny silver crosses dangling from chains at the end of the handle. They were amazing things...and i realized that these guns...really where cursed.
"You see..." Said the man, jumping away as if they had burned him. "No one has ever been able to touch them...not even when i received them sixty years ago. Thier called, the Pepermint Sticks."
Pepermint sticks? Lame...but fitting. Interseting, it was and at that moment i was drawn to them like a moth to a flame. I couldn't help myself as i picked them up, weighing thier weight as surprised as they were extreamly light in my palms.
"Take them boy....they brng nothing but desaster to all. I won't even charge ya!" Then he disappeared into the back room again.
Feeling extreamly satisfied, i gingerly shoved them into my belt...returning to the the Pack.
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As i retturned, A door suddenly flung open nest to me near the stairs and Johnny, covered in black sticky oil, soot, and something that i didn't want to know, came bursting through. He looked mad, and tiered. "Oh hey, Rune, What 'cha doin'??" He asked, brightening up the slightest bit.
I slowed for only a moment to say, "Going yo my room to strap myself up in a straight-jacket!" The continued up the stairs.
"Never a dull moment is it?" I heard Johnny mumble as i chuckled softly to myself.
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YAY! so i fixed the name in there after all! Good! I hope you liked it...
Rune gots new toys: which i picure as the two guns Alucard uses in Hellsing.
Dunno why, i just do..
--V.B (Akira)
"I don't have time to answer all of your questions" Autumn growled at me "If you want to, come on and we'll go find them. If you don't go back to your clan or what ever you called it." She pushed past me and started to walk away. I stared at her retreating back for a few seconds before coming to my senses and jogging after her. I would be killed for giving such an oppertunity up.
"This Rouen guy" I started, repeating the name I had heard earlier "Is he the leader of Cerbrus?" She had mentioned the pack name earlier. It stirred a memory of something I had been told when I was a new werewolf. They had been a great pack. Strong and nearly unbeatable. But something had happened and they fell. Now, apperently, they were reforming and again gaining strength.
"Yes, one of them" She replied gruffly, she seemed really p*ssed that I was again asking question. I felt it was wise to remain silent.
We were walking towards a place that ws a little granduer. Great! i thought to myself, sarcastically They're staying at a hore house. We hadn't been walking very long but the question had been waitng to be asked couldn't stay in any longer.
"Cerbrus has more then one head?" I gave in. Autumn glared at me for daring to ask another question. Ususally I wasn't so d*amned curious!
"Yes" she said. She didn't elaborate.
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Lyall: finally gettting somewhere!
Me: Well what do you expect you have to meet the rest of them first!
Lyall: ...
Me: *hits Lyall with dictonary for being stupid*
Lyall: OW!
Me: ^__^
"Why are you here? Who are you? and why are you fighting?"
"Why do you care?" I retorted.
She shrugged. "I don't, my clan leader does. I was ordered to find out about you guys and I don't like spying plus you would probably smell me if I attempted so I figured a direct approach was better." I nodded. I would have taken it as a treat finding someone following me. I guess I should at least introduce myself.
"I'm Autumn, leader of the Pack of Storms. I had business here and I was fighting because I felt like it." She seemed a little annoyed that I had avoided most of the questions but they were basically true...
"That other werewolf...Where is he?" She asked.
"Ah how the h*ll should I know?" I said and shrugged. "Just found out Cerberus was here...But I'm sure I could track him if I really wanted to."
"Are you going to go find him then?" She asked. I didn't have time to answer all of these questions! How long before Rouen and his pack moved out and then I would be back to trying to track him...
"I don't have time to answer all of your questions!" I growled. "If you want to, come on and we'll go find them. If you don't go back to your clan or what ever you called it." I said and pushed past her and followed the scent.
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~Autumn
<~/Poochy/~>
Poochy: Your so rude! *hits Autumn over the head with a rolled up piece of paper*
Autumn: I'm rude!? @_@' At least I don't go around hitting people over the head...
~Ai~
So i waited for my punishment. I kept glancing at Ame. He was furious! He wanted to know what i had to do, and Rouen and Britton kept whispering about it. Maybe he thought they were going to make me a little male hore? Hehe yeah right! I would drop them and run off before that ever happened! But then again it would be a good way to p*ss Ame off. I think he was making Britton nervous. He told Rouen to tell Ame to knock it off, pfft like he could control Ame! He only managed to delay the comming storm. I wasnt really worried. I mean i did destroy the room. I deserved to make up for it. I knew that whatever Britton threw at me would be a challenge, and i couldnt wait! He walked us to another room and introduced me to my new job. I would be cleaning! The whole place the old fashioned way! Ame tried to but in. He wanted to help me. He was really getting on Brittons last nerve. He really did need to chill out. I mean come on! Ive been through worse! They were having some sort of discussion, but then Britton continued on. I pulled back towards Ame. "Hey! Will you chill out! I think your making him nervous!" He looked down at me. "I dont like the thought of you having to do all of this! Its too much! I dont understand why i cant help you!" I growled, which took him by surprise! "When are you gonna get it through your head that i dont need protected! Im 17 for Godsakes! Ive done pretty well taking care of myself without your help these last few years! You have no idea what ive done! So please Ame chill out! Im not a stupid damsel in distress! Im a young male werewolf! I think i can handle a few chores, and pay back MY DEBT!" He shut down then. I could tell i must have hit a cord. His eyes went blank and he fully retreated into himself. I sighed. He was just so...so stubborn! I smiled. But im the same as him.
~Ame~
I had shut down. I knew Ai and Britton were right. I needed to quit trying to protect Ai like he was some defenseless child. I knew more than he thought i did. I knew about the countless battles he had gone through. All the hate that other wolves had showered upon him for being bitten. All the packs he had been kicked out of. I had been there. Watching in the shadows. It hurt to watch, but i couldnt help it. He hated me. But still, to see his beaten body laying in a alley bothered me still. That was one of the times he had caught me. I was worried that he was dead so i approached him. He bolted upright and stared me down. His yellow eyes glowing with hatred. It was raining and i could see that he was badly injured, but he still attempted to fight me. He was so stubborn. I had backed off and watched from a distance as he got up and continued to walk to the next city. He didnt want my help then, and he didnt want it now. I guess i would just have to endure this. He had no idea how hard this is going to be for me.
~Whaaa i have to end it now! Then bells going to ring! But... at least i got to post! Yayyyy! ^^
