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Truth is a Whisper; kusai_mikoto~
Topic Started: Jan 29 2010, 04:54 AM (2,702 Views)
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"I'm not sure he's a particular species since I've never seen anything like him in Heaven again. My brother always liked to think that it was the help of some higher power that made him in the first place. But unfortunately he was lost and I haven't been able to find any sort of species that I'm willing to attempt to touch more than a few times. Even the most tolerant plants and animal species succumb eventually."

Celestine opened the door from the balcony into the sitting room and thought about what he couldn't change. Even naturally poisonous things, if they were resistant at first, would eventually wear down and start to deteriorate. His aura and blood were so insidious that even if they did nothing or little harm to start, the moment of contact would create a different balance in the light and dark elements at war in his body and find whatever weakness the organism possessed. There wasn't any such thing as a living creature without some sort of weakness, after all. That was why his mother said that rather than not affecting or negatively affecting someone, the only person Celestine wouldn't kill would be someone to find strength in his blood. It followed that if everything had a weakness it also had strengths so if his blood couldn't be a weakness then it would naturally be the opposite.

As he stepped into the room, the air suddenly changed and his formerly buried senses finally caught the thread that had been nagging him, slowly his his hunger, for quite some time. It was easily ignorable but the sense of dread that accompanied it and the dawn of something like his own powers awakening spurned him into action.

"You're hungry so you should eat. I'm afraid I need to check on something...that has come to my attention/"

Simon was about to speak to Celestine when he entered the room but the man determinedly walked right past him and out the main doors that led to the rest of the mansion. He glanced at Mizu and then Kire uncertainly.

"Wonder what that was about. Maybe he doesn't like to sit while other people eat?"
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And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't;
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road.
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope;
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat.
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" I suppose so..." murmurs Kire, eyes half lidded as he sighs softly to himself. " I've killed my share of plants trying to make up potions after cutting myself...or my aura going haywire when I was younger..." Kire sighs softly, thinking to himself as a gentle smile plays at his lips. " I still would like you too meet the horses...especially my personal one...it doesn't have to be for long...you don't even have to touch her if you feel uncomfortable doing so."

Kire blinks as Celestine heads out, a strange expression on his pale face as he nods. "Do what you must," murmurs Kire softly, a strange smile playing at his lips. " I'll do my best to be here whenever you get back..." Kire moves to sit down at the table, looking over the different foods before him as he smiles. " Looks delicious!"

" I think his senses or something drew him away," murmurs Mizu softly, smiling as Kire tilts his head, the "demon" drinking some juice as he hums happily as Mizu snags a cookie, nibbling on it as he smiles at Simon. " I wonder if I could find someone to make a tracer spell to find Celestines bird..."
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Celestine didn't get lost easily when he was determined to do something. He made his way back to his room without getting lost and opened his door to find there was someone sitting on his bed.

He was a man of indeterminate age, and clearly nonhuman as he was emitting a dangerous aura that sparked like a live wire around his body. He had short black hair, yellow eyes, and wore a long black leather coat. His boots were covered with thick, black muck that he'd ground into the carpet under Celestine's bed.

"I should have known. How long have you been there?" Celestine asked. He was pissed, mostly that he hadn't noticed him sooner. His emotions spilled into his eyes and he looked hard at the figure in his room. They made eye contact and the new man flinched in pain, but didn't look away.

"Since before the time you wandered up here dreaming about meeting someone who's enough of a freak to realize how dangerous it is to keep you alive."

Celestine grabbed for his knife, and the air warped around him as he released more of his power. It was so liberating, when he could feel the contract seal breaking, the chain on his magical energies loosened which made him all the more dangerous, but he could at least feel his powers more.

"You have a nefarious purpose here or else I wouldn't be able to hurt you if I so choose," Celestine said.

The man rolled his eyes. "How long have we known each other?"

"Irrelevant. We've never worked together. There's no way my righteous boss would ever allow someone of your caliber to work for him. Even walking death is preferable to someone who makes contracts with perverts and murderers."

The man smiled again. "See? You do know me."

*****

Simon's chest tightened but he couldn't decipher the reason why. He looked to Kire and then Mizu curiously.
"I guess...maybe that's the reason why Celestine went away? I felt something strange just now."
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And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't;
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road.
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope;
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat.
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Kire sighs, breathing out slowly, his own energy seeming to surge and warp about him for a moment, a strange whispering sound echoing throughout Mizu's room, seeming to come from Kire's bangles. " Well...that's interesting," murmurs Kire, finishing off his glass of juice as he tilts his head in thought, raising a fingertip to his pale lips as he looks around the room for a moment. " I might just have a use for that lovely little concoction of yours Mizu..." Mizu blinks as Kire nibbles on a cookie, eyes falling shut as a smirk pulls at his lips.

" Whatever's here...his energy isn't very welcoming," mutters Mizu softly, as Kire nods, that whispering echoing throughout the room as Mizu rubs his forehead a bit, blinking as soft music starts to play, speaking of Gami's return as Mizu breathes out slowly.

" As my dearest sister would say...a cactus has gotten in with the flowers," murmurs Kire as Mizu giggles as Kire rolls his eyes, finishing his cookie. " Or the palace has been breached...call in the guard..."
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Celestine narrowed his eyes at the intruder after he so charmingly brought up their extended acquaintance. He was always a little too dramatic for Celestine's taste, a fact that made it somewhat tolerable that he couldn't ever spend that much time around him without endangering his life. Of course, that made the brunette only more determined to build up something of a resistance to his aura and he had done it, to a certain extent. Perhaps it was just guts, but Celestine could only hope that he'd get injured enough one day so that he never wanted to look him in the eye again. His life would certainly be quieter.

"You never answered my question. What is your current contract? It's interfering with my mission or else my murderous intent toward you would only be in my head, not manifesting as my powers."

The man pretend to be shocked. He waved his hands and got to his feet slowly. The mark of his contract was apparent then, etched into the visible skin right above where his coat was loosely zipped.

"So you really don't know. I guess that's why you wouldn't even look for me. He must be even better than I am."

"'He'?" Celestine asked.

"Well if you don't know then I won't ruin the surprise. But it's true enough to say that I've technically made a contract with one Reginald Caldwell to protect him and carry out a few extra duties in my off time,."

Celestine smiled and a small blade of wind cut the man's cheek. His honey-colored blood rolled down his cheek but he hadn't flinched.

"You know how I feel about perverts, Van."

He shrugged in return, bringing up his tanned hand to wipe at the blood with his slender fingers.
"I don't always get to pick my own assignments. I owed a demon a favor. And don't cut me again just because that doesn't satisfy you. Even I make friends with demons sometimes."

"So you're here to warn me? That's awfully charitable of you," Celestine replied. He didn't intend it but his powers were always slippery at first. Another cut etched itself into Van's skin, this time in the form of a giant gash that ripped open his coat's sleeve.

"Why would I do that? I'm just checking out any security threats and a walking plague definitely counts. I'm here now to make sure you go find some other targets to play with until my contract is complete."

"I refuse."

It was Van's turn to smile then. He reached into his coat and produced a wicked armored set of claws that he slipped over his fingerless gloves with ease.

"Sorry, sunshine. That's not an answer I can accept. Now how about you be a good abomination and let me cut your heart out?"

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Simon got to his feet when he felt the energy surge. It made his hair stand on end, but he didn't want to pursue the measure of it. It was too strong, especially for someone like him who had just started to notice his own powers. Instead, he moved beside Mizu and put his hand on his arm , hoping that contact with him would help calm the vibrations that were starting to make his chest hurt.

"Call the guards? What do you mean?"
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And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't;
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road.
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope;
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat.
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" Well in a situation like this...the guards would be...well...in MOST situations the guard is ME," states Kire, rising to his feet, that strange whispering continuing to seem to dance around him as Kire's eyes seem to glow. " Silence...I know, I know, I know...shut up." Mizu blinks, watching Kire as the demon wanders toward the door of his room, shadows seeming to gather and dance just at the edges of Kire's steps as he tilts his head in thought for a moment.
" Don't you two worry kiddo's...just a little tift between us adults." With that Kire disappears in a mixed flash of deep purple and silver light, the flash of metal being seen as he draws his sword just a second before he disappears.

" Great...now I'll have to worry about more holes," murmurs Mizu, rubbing his forehead as he sighs, looking around his room as he groans. " And he STOLE the room shadows!" Indeed normally where things would be casting shadows there weren't any at all, except for one corner where it was obvious the strongest link to Gami's realm was. " That energy really doesn't put me at ease..."

Kire sighs, apppearing in a spiraling, warping flash of purple and silver in the middle of Celestine's room, strange shadows seeming to dance and swirl around him as his eyes glow. " Well, it seems the walls have been breached," purrs Kire, holding his sword as his wings flutter, a strange smirk playing at his lips as he watches the one with claws as he raises a pale eyebrow. " Well aren't you just the biggest annoyance..."
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Celestine's dagger darted between his hands so quickly that all could be seen was a flash of red as he considered the situation. Van had his claws out, which meant that he was serious. The backlash would likely kill him then if he didn't fully adhere to the terms of his contract or else he wouldn't dare tangle with Celestine when he could access so much of his power. But that was obvious just by the extent to which he was free at the moment. Van wasn't a target, no, but he was a threat and an essential tie to his target.

"Do you really want to fight?" He asked as Van twitched. A spark of his energy darted out toward Celestine but that was unwise considering electricity was one of the one's he had eaten. It did no damage when he brought up a shield of the same element. He merely absorbed the energy.

"You are....but using your magic, unless you're using light, is a bad decision when it comes to tangling with me. You've learned this lesson before."

They both halted when an unfamiliar energy entered the room and Kire suddenly appeared. Van's eyes widened and he muttered a curse under his breath. Celestine watched Kire with a slightly amused, slightly surprised smile on his face.

"Oh my. I thought you were eating. But I guess that Van is a bit too big of an irritation to keep you downstairs..."

Van seemed to guess well that the situation wasn't in his favor. He reached out and Celestine brought up his weapon in defense of a blow, but he didn't expect that Van had a different goal in mind. He grabbed his wrist with his clawed hand and bit back a scream when the blade over his index finger tore at the fabric that covered Celestine's wrist, drawing blood that immediately trickled down. He turned Celestine's wrist so as to not get a drop of it on himself and looked to Kire threateningly.

"Stay back."

"Oh, that'd hurt you more than it would me," Celestine said, and as a warning he started to flick his captured arm to the side, sending out drops of his blood toward Van. They didn't hit but he got the general idea.

*****

"He can...use shadows? What sort of being did you say he was again?" Simon asked, easing up now that he had something to distract him.
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And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't;
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road.
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope;
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat.
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Kire blinks at Van a smirk playing at his lips as he moves forward slowly, that strange whispering echoing around him as he raises a silver-gray eyebrow, watching Van as he giggles. " Oh no, unfortunately deary that's not going to hurt me," murmurs Kire, raising his sword, the blade glowing as a few drops of Mizu's concoction drips to the floor. " You see...my bloods rather caustic itself...and now I've got Celestines in my veins as well...so no danger to me...just too you..." Kire giggles at Celestine's words as he raises an eyebrow.

" Oh I got some juice and a cookie for now. If I eat too much at once I'll get a stomach ache," murmurs Kire, that whispering seeming to get louder as Kire hisses. " Be quiet..." Kire sighs, breathing out slowly as his hands glow slightly, moving his fingers as a bit of that blood from Celestine's wounds comes to float above his hand as he smiles toward Van. " I'd advice leaving now...if you value your life at all deary..."

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" Yes, he's rather good at using different abilites," murmurs Mizu softly, breathing softly as he smiles a bit. " He can gather shadows and a bunch of other things as well...he's best at healing...as for what type of being he is...it's up to debate...but he's always called himself a "demon"."

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Van very obviously had no idea what to think of Kire, but Celestine found it quite amusing that he was so terrified when he noticed that Kire was able to absorb his blood in his current state. That was certainly full on proof that it wasn't going to hurt him...or his aura apparently. Celestine could very clearly see it now and his energies only powered it further. His magic was quite potent, but clearly it was more so when someone else could use it.

Van frowned and tore his eyes away from Kire to look to Celestine again. He tightened his grip on his wrist, squeezing out more drops of crimson without intending to.

"I have to meet my contract or else it's my life. But I could always just add onto my duties....and you could yours."

Celestine looked him in the eye, oddly enough seeming to understand what he was saying.
"Fine. I guess just this once I'll let it slide. But in return you have to tell me the name of the presence that Caldwell is associating with. the one that I haven't noticed."

Van sighed and closed his eyes as Celestine did the same. The air around them crackled with power as markings in the old angelic language crawled their way up both Celestine and Van's wrists, until they could no longer hold on. Right before they lost contact, a word was written in Celestine's mind, one that made him catch his breath just as the contract was solidified and the two men flew back into the opposite wall.

"Owww," Celestine muttered, pushing his hair back and feeling the back of his head cautiously. He'd flown right into the wardrobe and had impacted his head and arm quite badly, a bit worse than expected since his hand came away wet.

For his part, Van was nowhere to be seen.

*****
"That's amazing...and he was being so nice just a second ago, but it was almost like his personality changed when he went into battle..." Simon said. He moved back to the other side of the table and rubbed at his chest, but if they didn't need to know then he wouldn't push it. It seemed strange things happened all the time when it came to the magical side of things.
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And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't;
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road.
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope;
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat.
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Kire sighs, falling silent as he watches the proceedings, blinking after Van disappears and Celestine flies against the wardrobe as he groans, moving to kneel beside the other as he tilts his head in thought, looking at the others wound. " I could probably heal that without the use of any actual blood...but I don't know if my aura would hurt you Celestine," murmurs Kire softly, smiling as he tilts his head in thought. " If all else fails I can always stitch it up and wrap it for you..." Kire looks around for Van as he raises an eyebrow, thinking for a silent moment as he sighs. " Where'd he go..."

Kire sighs, tilting his head in though as he sighs softly, sheathing his sword as those whisperings fall silent as he smiles a strange expression on his face for a silent moment. " I hate having to filter that like," mutters Kire softly.

" Yes, his personality does sort of change," murmurs Mizu softly, smiling a bit as he sighs. " He told me once he's fighting with more then just his own strength, though he's never fully exaggerated on it. I think he means that sword has spirits or something in it."
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Celestine looked at the seal of the contract on his right wrist, sighing at the sight of his own blood. He'd have to burn the carpet to make sure none of the maids got themselves hurt trying to get out a tough stain. And the wardrobe too. He blinked when he realized that Kire was so close and averted his eyes toward the door.

"Don't attempt please. Healing spells have never worked for me. I have to wait like a human to heal, unfortunately. Unless I can access my powers and manage to heal my body before they're sealed again...and that doesn't seem apparent so it seems I have to wait after all."

He pulled his knees up to his chest and rested his forehead against them to relieve some of the pressure on the pained back of his head. His greenish-blue hair was stained red and a trickle of it ran down his neck but it didn't appear to bother Celestine all that much. He was strangely drained.

"It was probably unwise to make a contract with Van but the terms were too good to pass up. He's disappeared to another realm to work...which was the deal. We both wouldn't violate our orders if we worked in different sense of reality and I can't operate too well outside of this one without my powers so he took the initiative and left. He's not that evil, he's just also not at all good."

He lifted his head a bit and looked to Kire curiously.
"I'm unfamiliar with the power you displayed. It was quite impressive. Almost as though I had a hellish knight to assist me in battle."
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And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't;
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road.
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope;
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat.
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Kire looks toward the bloodied carpetting for a moment as he tilts his head for a moment in thought. " I can get that out," murmurs Kire softly, a smile playing at his lips. " And it's not actually a spell...I can do spells too...but I've never found them effective...my aura's better at healing...but I suppose I'll just have to patch you up for now..." Kire sighs, breathing out slowly, his aura seeming to shift around him for a moment, a strange glow happening before bandages, antibiotics, a needle, suture material, a pan of warm water and a strange glowing bottle appear. " So then...where to start..."

Kire sighs, listening to Celestines words as he sighs again. " Well, what's done is done," murmurs Kire, carefully taking one of Celestine's hands in his own, looking at the others wrist as he makes a face. " I wonder if I can even stitch this up...your blood might burn through anytype of suture material I can use in good faith...I'd get moonshine threads from Mizu...but I think it'd do more harm then good..." Kire sighs, taking that strange glowing bottle as he tilts his head in thought. " This is an external pain killer that I generally use when stitching people up...it can be used orally as well...but I'm more worried about your head then anything..." Kire grins a bit, hearing the "hellish knight" comment as he grins. " Well...I'm known as the Nephilim Knight in my own realm..."

Mizu sighs, sitting in his room as he looks at Simon, cuddling the other a bit as he smiles. " Well that weird energies gone...and I think Kire's trying to patch Celestine up," murmurs Mizu softly. " I felt a summon go on for a second..."
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"My aura, blood, and magic are tied so closely that an unbalance in one creates a similar reaction in the other two. If that happens then the balance would be turned one way or another and what they were afraid of happening when I was a child would happen and I would either die trying to stave off my powers or else destroy myself and a certain radius...they've never been able to properly measure my powers so no one knows quite how big it would be..."

He started when Kire gently took his hand. Celestine flinched without meaning to. He wasn't used to being voluntarily touched, but the other male seemed perfectly fine with touching his skin, even with the blood trickling down from his wounds.
"You're probably right. All I ever do is bandage them up. The bleeding stops after awhile and I'll just avoid humans till I do."

Simon smiled when Mizu hugged him back. He felt far more at ease being so close to him, but now that the situation upstairs seemed to be over it was just his usual internal sense of warmth when he was around the other boy.

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And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't;
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road.
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope;
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat.
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" Well my aura has been known to set certain people off," mutters Kire, starting to carefully clean Celestines wounds with some water as he looks at the others wrist. " I just hope your blood won't eat through the bandages..." Kire sighs, tilting his head in thought as he picks up some guaze as he carefully starts to wrap Celestines wrist as he hums softly. " You should probably rest after this..." Kire sighs, tilting his head as he sighs once more. " After I finish with your wrist I'm going to have to get a good look at your head..."

" I don't know about you, but I'm worried about a possible concusion," murmurs Kire softly, finishing wrapping up Celestine's wrist as he hums softly. " Can you shift so I can look at your head?"

Mizu smiles, holding Simon close as he tilts his head in thought, tilting his head a bit as he breathes out slowly. " What should we do until Kire returns?" murmurs MIzu softly.
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Celestine didn't wince as Kire cleaned his wound and bandaged it. He, like many other beings with somewhat dangerous jobs, had lived through too much for smaller wounds to make him into an utter wimp when it came to pain. As it was, he hoped that the bandages would hold as well. He tended to return home when he was wounded, but he was still in the process of the mission, to the point where he had the distinct feeling that he would be able to catch Caldwell soon so he felt he couldn't leave to recover.

"If I return to heaven then they can loosen the contract enough for me to recover on my own but I don't want to bother them with this until I've made at least a little bit of headway on this case," he said.

Celestine raised his head and shifted, pulling his free hand away from the wound at the back of his head so that Kire could look at it.
"A concussion? I hope not. That'll make it a bit harder for me to get around for a little while."

Simon moved away from Mizu and glanced toward the sketchbook that was resting on top of the bed in Mizu's room.
"I'd love to see you draw...would you like to do that? I could even try something if you'll let me have a sheet..."
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And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't;
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road.
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope;
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat.
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