Canaan looked around to see exactly where he had orbed too, he'd had a general fix on powerful energies but not the exact location. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness he quickly realized he was in a basement, and surrounded by large glowing red eyes staring at him...and hissing. These were definitely no ordinary serpents, they had an aura about them that dripped pure evil. As he shifted his feet he both heard and felt the sloshing of water along the floor and a grin split his handsome features.<br/><br/>The young warlock had quite a proficiency for energy based attacks and balls of lightning were a particular favorite of his. He balled his fists and the crackling build up of energy began to light up the basement in periodic flashes, he then opened his palms and released two electrical orbs into the floor and was rewarded with loud shrieking hisses and the smell of barbecued flesh.<br/><br/>Having dealt with his welcoming party Canaan darted up the stairs to the main floor and quickly hit the flight that lead to the third story. As he was running he began to charge up another attack as he had suddenly sensed a new powerful presence appear in the room ahead. He burst through the door, crackling palms at the ready!....His eyes quickly took in the  bat corpses and then over to the man that was the source of the increase of power he had sensed moments earlier.<br/><br/>Then on the floor in front of the man he saw<em>her</em>, he could see from her aura that she was just an ordinary human girl, well ordinary in powers, but in form, in form she was simply exquisite, but,...where then had the source of the energies.....He then saw the brush laying not far from the dazed girl. "That can't be...can it? I thought it was merely an object of legend like so many of the other artifacts I've tried to hunt down..." He muttered this under his breath and then turned his attention back to beautiful woman that seemed somehow at the center of all this. "Hey, is she ok, what in the devils name happened in here?  And how the hell did a mere ordinary mortal end up with<em>THE</em>bloody Brush ?"<br/>