Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)
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				Title: <strong>Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ferrousaemyr</strong> on <strong>10-01-2011, 00:07:20</strong>
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				Blood drenched the air with its sweet, enticing taste. The battle had been fierce, and now the ground was littered with bodies dead or near-dead, every inch of strength given to the fight for the future. Few lived still, but somehow the ancient's minions had managed to escape with the girl bearing the radiant fate. In the haze of fighting, they had somehow slipped away from Samael - he suspected that only their vampiric powers had given them the opportunity to escape undetected, yet Samael had been so invested in defeating them as quickly as possible that he may not have noticed them escape. If he had been any slower, all of the Demon Hunters may have died.<br><br>They had attempted to kill him, too, and he had used the other vampires to absorb the crossbow bolts meant for his body. Despite his efforts, they were almost all heavily wounded or dead; the vampires were ready for them, and prepared a trap for the Hunters' "ambush." Still, he had to admire their tenacity. Even though they were mortal, they held against the vampires for some time and downed several of them on their own. Samael was glad he wasn't up against them on his own - he had no doubt they would hunt him as vigorously as they hunted the others. Zeal made it hard to see with clear eyes.<br><br>One of the hunters still stood, though. Bloody scimitar in hand, Samael was prepared for her attacks, but her bow hand had paused. Something like uncertainty was in her; whether it was for how he had fought her enemies, how he dealt no injury to the Hunters, or the sight of her fallen companions, Samael wasn't sure.<br><br>Samael's eyes moved from the Hunter's to the vampire that laid on the ground between them, a lit torch buried in its chest. The handle had impaled its heart by Samael's hand, leaving it frozen and trapped as the fire burned hotly above its chest. Though the vampire couldn't move, the abject terror in its eyes was clear to Samael; it would burn to death if Samael left it there. He didn't have such intentions - at least not yet. This one could yet be useful, after all.<br><br>Finding no assault from the still-living Hunters on the ground, struggling to recoup themselves, and no attack from the one six yards ahead of him, Samael slowly moved to the staked vampire, his gaze fixed to the woman's. Kneeling down next to the vampire, his scimitar still in hand, he waited for her reaction before grabbing the vampire's shoulders, intending to drag him away from the bloody site to 'interrogate' him.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Luella</strong> on <strong>11-01-2011, 14:39:44</strong>
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				<strong>Elena Cirillo</strong><br><br>The air was filled with screams, death was everywhere. Blood stained the land and the air was heavy with clashing bodies, sword against sword. It was a massacre, the war humans have been waiting for. An end to the dark era where the blood suckers rule.<br><br>"Elena! Focus!"&nbsp; The young lady whipped her head as Stephan lunged forward and stabbed the filthy demon hovering behind her. The vampire grabbed his chest weakly and sank to the ground, the agile young man took the liberty to behead him in a single swipe.<br><br>"Thanks..." She muttered, pulling another arrow from the pouch slung over her back and readying it in her bow. Elena aimed the bow through the heads of a vampire lunging towards her, killing it instantly. There were only a few left in the bloodied battlefield. She saw many of her men, wounded and dying from mortal injuries. Bodies of their enemy littered everywhere, body parts scattered around like pieces of rocks. They had fought valiantly, trying to protect the newest member from harm. Her. <br><br>They had made off with the girl, the fight was for naught. The only thing now, was to survive.<br><br>"ELENA!" Stephan yelled. She turned as a huge weight crashed upon her, pinning her to the ground. Elena scrambled around frantically, her hands trying to push the vampire away from her as the monster growled and snapped at her neck. Suddenly, it froze as a small gasp escaped from its lips. Those crimson blazing eyes of his closed as the monster toppled over. <br><br>Elena looked up as Stephen pulled his stained sword away from the body. <br><br>"I TOLD YOU TO FOCUS, ELENA! DON'T...." Something moved behind him as Elena screamed, trying to push him away. But it was too late. Stephen choked as blood trailed down his chin, his eyed glazed over as he looked down on a sharpened pole impaled in his chest. The vampire smirked as he yanked the pole out, Stephen shuddered as his body swayed dangerously.<br><br>"E..lena...."He gasped as he toppled over, leaving her alone in this bloodbath. <br><br><em>no...No....NO!</em><br><br>With a feral scream, Elena snapped up her arrows and threw herself on the murderer, using the sharp edges to stab the demon, over and over again. She saw nothing but red. Red blood of her comrades that died in vain, died to protect her. It was all her fault. She didn't know how many monsters she took down with her arrows. There was only one left standing, he was holding onto the shoulders as he prepared to drag his 'brother' away. <br><br>Elena raised her bow, sliding an arrow as she pulled her arm back, the arrow poised to kill. <br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ferrousaemyr</strong> on <strong>11-01-2011, 22:40:34</strong>
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				When she finally snapped out of whatever trance had taken her, the Hunter prepared to attack Samael... as he had mostly expected. Releasing the vampire's shoulders, its eyes still on the burning torch embedded in its chest, he remained crouching, coiled and ready to move if those fingers released the tension held in the bowstring.<br><br>His gaze locked with hers, his expression neutral and serious, he spoke simply. "We share the same goal. I have no quarrel with you or your Hunters." Even in the midst of battle, he had refused to raise a hand against the warriors, avoiding and blocking their attacks amidst his own slaying of the monsters. Were it not so, this one would be dead herself.<br><br>Samael continued when she didn't move. "You might want to see to helping the few who yet breathe." Having expended plenty of his own reservoir already, this would have been a perfect opportunity to feed and sate his hunger... if he had such a mind to do it. Though the pulse of blood coursing through the bodies of the Hunters still clinging to life sung in his greedy ears, wanting to be devoured, Samael brushed it off callously. He could sate himself on what remained of this vampire before him.<br><br>Waiting, still, and prepared to move, Samael's eyes never moved from... whispers of the past flickered through the vampire's memory and fetched out the name yelled in her direction - <em>Elena</em>.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Luella</strong> on <strong>14-01-2011, 03:08:07</strong>
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				Elena stood, unfazed as the vampire spoke, his voice as soft as the wind, but as sharp as steel. And his eyes...they were a long, neverending abyss of darkness...pulling her down...further and further in...<br><br><em>"You might want to see to helping the few who yet breathe."</em><br><br>Elene tightened her grip on her bow, her arm still poised and ready. "Silence, demon!" She shouted,her voice strong and unwavering. "What lies you speak..." <br><br>She aimed the silver tipped arrow directly to that vampire's neck, the one still standing...still living. The last among the bloody battlefield. <br><em><br>3...2...1...</em>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ferrousaemyr</strong> on <strong>14-01-2011, 04:15:24</strong>
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				Narrowing his eyes at the hunter's unwavering determination and zealotry, he summoned the power of his blood to the surface. Its effects in his body hadn't yet evaporated, leaving him still stronger, faster; but he didn't have time for foolishness. Every moment put his quarry further and further away from him, and her death was inevitable if the Ancient took her.<br><br>At the snap of the bowstring, Samael swung his scimitar in a circle, shielding his body from the blow as he launched upward, hurtling past the body of the vampire at his feet and toward Elena. Shadows from around the clearing, from the night and their surroundings, swarmed around Samael, obscuring and hiding his location and features as he dashed, his weapon a flurry of slicing steel -<br><br>All to distract her as the shadows split for a fraction of a second, leaving a shadowy obstruction in front of her as he appeared behind her. Coming at her back, his arms were open and nearly silent as he went to grapple her.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Luella</strong> on <strong>14-01-2011, 04:31:57</strong>
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				Elena released the tension on the bowstring, feeling the warm familiar rush of blood as they raced through her muscles, feeling the power lance through her arrow as it shot swiftly across the battlefield towards the vampire. Instinctively, she reached over her pouch and released another arrow, preparing to launch it to the enemy, but what she saw had her blood run cold. <br><br>The vampire was gone, leaving a huge mass of shadows swirling and forming as if it had a life on its own. A second seemed like an eternity as Elena stumbled back in shock. Her Elders did not mention about this! As panic raced through her bloodstream, logic evaded her as her human instincts told her to run, to run as far as she can! <br><br>Elena turned, and tripped over a jagged rock protruding just behind her, wincing as he body slammed unforgivably to the ground, the sixth time today during battle. But this time, no one was left alive to save her. <br><br>Elena's eyes widened as she saw the familiar face of the vampire standing before her, his arms wide open as he prepared to eliminate the flame of her life. Elena squeezed her eyes shut, and braced for the pain.<br><br>Death...should be inevitable now. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ferrousaemyr</strong> on <strong>14-01-2011, 05:22:28</strong>
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				Finding the girl falling before he could grab her, Samael let her hit the ground, shifting away from the impact. Looking down at the settled body, he caught the sight of her despair, her lack of will - fear, perhaps? She could hardly be the Hunter's finest if she would just let him kill her then. Snorting derisively, he snapped downward and snatched her bow away from her. Twisting away from her in a broad arc, letting leverage and force help his already superhuman strength, he flung the weapon a good distance away, toward the East.<br><br>Staring down at her with a mix of curiosity and annoyance, he walked past her and back toward the staked vampire. Samael smirked slightly at the primal fear in the vampire's eyes, frozen and paralyzed by the wooden torch, its fire threatening his existence.<br><br>Casting another look back at the Hunter, Samael crouched again, determined to drag the vampire away.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Luella</strong> on <strong>14-01-2011, 13:22:56</strong>
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				Elena watched, her eyes in huge horrified orbs as the vampire grabbed her bow and flung it far, far away. It was only a small speck in the air and then it vanished...gone forevermore. She was powerless without her bow...<br><br><em>NO! </em> <br><br>Her precious bow, carved from the finest material ever made, bequeathed by her father and blessed by the Elders. And he just flung it away like some cheap stick? Anger raged and boiled in her blood, her pulse hammered as Elena wrenched herself to her feet, glaring points of fire from her eyes as she narrowed them at the vampire. <br><br>Oh, he is <em>NOT</em> getting away with this. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ferrousaemyr</strong> on <strong>15-01-2011, 04:00:07</strong>
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				Samael gazed at the Hunter with a burning irritation in his eyes. Every second was precious, and she was wasting them without hesitation. There was <em>work</em> to be done, work that could not wait, work that was more important than any of the lives here.<br><br>Reaching to his belt, he pulled out two throwing knives, holding them in front of him by the tips of their blades. "Are you having trouble <em>listening</em>, Hunter? Your comrades are bleeding to death, I have to interrogate this vampire, and Ceoula -" the girl destined and kidnapped - "is being carried off to a horrific fate that will doom this land."<br><br>Extending his arm away from him, the two blades were ready to be pitched into the air with a flick of his wrist. "Do I need to knock you unconscious and let your friends die to get you to stop <em>wasting our time</em>?" Genuine anger scathed at the woman from his dark countenance. Samael had no sympathy for blind zealotry and its many ills, and this was far from the best of moments to try his patience.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Luella</strong> on <strong>15-01-2011, 08:28:19</strong>
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				Elena hesitated, straying her eyes to the bodies on the ground and back to the vampire before her. She knew, even if she were to help them...death was still waiting for them. She had sworn, with all the other Hunters, to carry on the mission, not matter what the cost. <br><br>Ceoula...the little baby, the child they had promised to bring back...Elena straightened, fixing a determined stare at the man...a defiant glare. She was the last of the Hunters, and she was hell bent to bring the girl back...even if it was to pair up with that unholy demon.<br><br>"I want to help. Let me come with you, vampire." 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ferrousaemyr</strong> on <strong>15-01-2011, 09:38:03</strong>
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				Watching the Hunter for a long moment, he threw the two knives, each landing at the feet of a Hunter not too far from him. "I can smell those two still fighting for life. Tend to their wounds while I take care of this," his thumb gestured to the vampire at his feet, "and they may yet live, though they won't be of any more use in this battle."<br><br>Not removing his sight from the woman, he resumed dragging the vampire off into the bushes, where he could conduct his interrogation out of sight, the torch already burnt through halfway.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Daylight's End (Anael - Luella)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Luella</strong> on <strong>16-01-2011, 05:55:19</strong>
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				Elena winced as the blades pierced the earth with a sharp thud, barely inches away from the feet of the two fallen Hunters just a few steps away from her. She kept her gaze at the vampire, watching him drag off another one of his kind before rushing towards her nearest comrade in battle.<br><br>"Shh...I'm here..," Elena whispered, sliding to her knees before the groaning young man, she had seen him before but yet, they were still almost strangers to each other. His wounds were not a fatal, a stake just under his collarbone. He would live... Elena twisted around, trying to look for a piece of cloth amidst the bloodied field. She reached out and tore a strip from the tunic of a fallen body. Turning back to the man, she grasped his hands, leaning in towards him.<br><br>"I'm going to pull the stake out and then bandage your wound. You're going to be okay...." She whispered, her eyes shining in determination and strength. The young man nodded, clenching his teeth. <br><br>"Do it..." He gasped and squeezed his eyes shut. Elena nodded and placed her hands on the protruding end of the stake...and yanked. Screams tore out from the man's chest as he flailed around, Elena took this chance and quickly tied the cloth around his underarms, securing it into a knot. Embracing him into a tight hug, she waited as his struggles ceased, her lips constantly muttering soft words of "it's okay...it's okay...".<br><br>Pulling away from him, she cupped his cheek, stroking away the tears. <br><br>"I have to help another hunter. Both of you must make your way back to the village and warn the others. A war is coming, and we lost." Elena said and pulled herself up from the ground. Fingers wound their way to her hand as Elena paused and turned. <br><br>"Thank you..,"said the young man, as he squeezed her hand gratefully. Elena smiled and nodded, heading towards another of her fallen hunter to aid in his wounds. 
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