Vision Stone

Sessions to get the Vision stone.
Owner: YukoAburame

~Tox awakes from a nightmare with a heavy gasp that echoes throughout the castle. The morning was just now arriving, the sun peeking over the horizon, painting the sky with a beautiful mixture of red, orange, and purple. Tox sits up, panting heavily, his face drenched in sweat. Tox throws his legs off of the bed, sitting on the side for a second before standing up. He walks to his balcony, leaning over the edge and looking down at everyone in the court yard. Considering Tox likes to sleep in the outfit he was born in, people down below have quite the view.~ “The day is young so, let’s find something dumb to do.” ~Tox says aloud before smiling.~

Up early Cleo sat at her desk reading over some paper work before a servant came dashing up the stars into her room. Placing a letter on a table with urgent news, the servant girl panted and spoke deeply “It’s about the 50 stones! One of them has been rumored to be at a nearby location.” Cleo’s eye brow rose, as she opened the letter to read the entails. Her eyes opened wide, “Hurry and bring Tox to me, this is urgent. GO!” Cleo spoke with a loud stern voice, sending the servant towards the lead beta. Jumping up she got ready and slipped on a short brown leather top, brown leather top and her black boots. Grabbing her Sai’s and her shoulder armor, holding the letter firmly in her hands, waiting for Tox to come up.

~Tox takes a deep breath and lets it out. He smiles as the fresh air of the Alps makes him happy, because you can’t get air any fresher really. ~ “Toxóti̱s!” ~ Tox hears his name shouted from down the hall but he doesn’t turn around to see who was calling him. A young servant woman enters his quarters. She was panting, out of breath because she must of have been running. ~ “Toxóti̱s, the Alpha request that you see her, she says it’s urgent.” Tox turns around. “What’s so urgent that it interrupts my morning routine of being naked and doing nothing?” ~ Tox stops the servant from explaining by raising his hand just before she speaks. ~ “You don’t have to tell me, I’ll have her tell me when I get there. In the meantime grab my armor and clothes and meet me there. If it’s really urgent I don’t have time to put on my armor.” ~ Tox walks out of his room and proceeds through the castle. It takes him about a minute to arrive in Cleo’s room. ~ “Ok, what’s so urgent again?” ~He says. A group of servants file in after him carrying his armor and weapons. They then begin to cloth him while Tox waits for the details.~

As they clothed him she opened the letter once more “There was word sent that one of the 50 stones has been said to be a few villages away. It’s Vision, The ability to alter ones vision in order to see anything from the organs of a human to the bacteria on their very skin. I believe this would work well with your abilities. Are you willing to go with me right away, and I mean right now to search for it” Cleo spoke in a serious voice. Before grabbing a map and looking at the location, “it would be a day of travel, but running I think we could burn some of that time to the ground” she said sternly.

~The servants finished clothing him faster than he expected. His armor isn’t the simplest to put on to say the least. Tox dismisses the servants, giving them a word of thanks before the leave the room. Tox listens to Cleo’s words carefully, as something like this can’t just be ignored.~ “Another stone you say….I see no reason why we can’t go get it now. Do you happen to know who the current holder of this stone is, or is it just out and about?” ~ Tox ask as he twirls one of his swords around before sheathing it.~

Listening to his words she thought for a sort moment and looked at the letter, “they say there’s like 3 Kappas and one beta guarding it, because others are trying to take it from them. They are getting a lot more attackers that they can’t get back without getting attacked by hundreds” She said seriously. Walking up to him she showed him the map and pointed to a small village. “They should be around this area. The problem about this mission is that there will be other wolves on their way to try can steal it as well. We may have to take them out to get to the prize, so we have to be quick and deadly. It will be found as a circlet. Let’s head out” Cleo ordered as she closed the map and headed down stairs and out of the castle. The other pack members looked at her as she did, looking at them all Cleo spoke loud and clear “Me and Tox are going on a quest. If I find out anyone of you caused trouble when I get back, get ready for a pretty cell. Behave and Take care of each other” She finished before she ran down the steep hill at a fast speed heading towards the location of the quest, hoping Tox was right behind her.

~Tox smiles as the mention of other people attempting to take it too will be there. ~ “Oh how I love a good fight, let’s just hope they can put up a good fight.” ~Tox looks at the map with Cleo, making mental notes in his head on where everything is and the best approach. ~ “Let’s get this show on the road.” ~Tox says as Cleo begins to tell the rest of pack what’s going on the rules upon our leaving. ~ “Yeah and no one enters my room while I’m gone. Whoever does will find themselves missing a more than a few limbs.” ~Tox adds to the end. They then proceed outside and Cleo begins to lead the way, running down the steep hill that leads up to the castle. ~ “You see Cleo, you’re doing it all wrong….you have to jump first.” ~Tox says. He then takes a few steps back, preparing himself. ~ “This is going to hurt if I screw up…” ~He says before running full speed towards the edge, jumping and diving down head first. He spreads his arms out, letting the wind caught him as he positions his feet in a way that changes the wind that passes over him, making him pull up slightly. The human body is naturally aerodynamic, so gliding just using the body is simple enough. It wasn’t long before Tox passed Cleo, smiling at her as he did so. Gravity begins to take its effect as Tox begins to fly towards the ground at an extremely fast speed. He positions his body straight up, putting his feet out in front of him as land gear so to speak. His feet hit the ground hard, leaving deep trail marks in the dirt as he slides deep into the earth feet first. He comes to a stop eventually, but due to his speed and angle of stopping, he ended up stuck in dirt that went up past his waist.~ “Cleo! I need some help over here!” ~He yells as he struggles to try to get out of the dirt.~

Running at full speed she smiled brightly, she loved to run… it made her feel free and had the power to make her forget about the bad things… to simply focus on the goods. Her heart was pumping and adrenalin was running threw her veins, her lungs were burning… it was the most satisfying sensation. Her body wasn’t even feeling fatigue, it just felt like the power of being an alpha was setting her stamina to the clouds. Nothing could have made her lose concentration, other than her lead beta getting stuck in the ground. Stopping she panted softly and looked at him stuck in the ground, for a moment there was silence but then she broke out into a fit of laughter. She laughed so hard she her stomach started hurt so much she couldn’t breathe. Catching her breath after 5 minutes of straight laughter she went up to him and pulled him out of the ground with ease. “Your too much I swear” she giggled and pushed off the balls of her feet continuing to run. This time her necklace that was hidden under her shoulder armor was beginning to work, with each step she took running her feet would dig and crumble the ground before her. Noticing what was happening her eyes widened just as she took another step having her leg break down into the ground  making her squeal loudly. Stuck in the ground with one leg in the ground and one out of the ground made her look extremely unusual. Her eye twitched as she slowly pulled herself out of the ground and dusted herself off, not looking back she spoke “don’t even laugh!” she said before she pounced off again.

“That wasn’t even that funny….” ~Tox says while he dusts himself off after being pulled out of the ground. He begins to follow Cleo afterward, just running normally rather than jumping down the side of the mountain. After a few moments he noticed Cleo was struggling to keep herself above the ground and she ends up suffering the same fate that he did just a few moments ago. ~ “You see….I would laugh, but I’m going to save that laugh for later. So if I start randomly laughing, you’ll know why.” ~Tox says before continuing after Cleo pushes herself out of the Earth. He lets Cleo take the lead once more before catching up and running alongside her. ~ “So, what’s our plan to begin with? Are we just going to go in and just kill everyone? Because I’m perfectly fine with that….or do you want to take the more stealth approach in which, I can do just as good.” ~Tox says, keeping his eyes ahead as he speaks.~

Giving a slight cut eye at his response she smirked slightly as she ran, Thinking about his second question she gave it thought and spoke. “Jumping in would be quite fun wouldn’t it… however we have a bit more class then that my friend. We will go stealth on this, however I have a hunch most will be men. So I’ll probably take it upon myself to start a diversion. If you thinking wolves will notice our smell this is why I have this” she spoke clearly before she reached into her shirt between her cleavage to pull out a tiny perfume bottle. “This perfume masks our natural wolf smell, It has no scent so you won’t be smelling like a girl. But anyways, first the plan is to see who we’re up against… and just how many there really are. Then we plan according to what we see and notice, so we can beat them with ease” she said softly before stuffing the small bottle between her cleavage once more. Running they were soon starting to reach the 1st village out of the 3 after a few miles of running, it was small village but quite rich in its living style. Instantly there was a smell of wolves in the area, she stopped in her tracks and turned to her head to tox “Smell that? We take them out, we use this perfume once we get to the pack guarding the Circlet.” It seemed as if they were all inside a pub, walking towards it she stopped noticing what she was wearing “Wait outside, once you hear fighting come in” she ordered as she scanned the area. Smirking she saw a women in a lovely casual dress, with ease she snuck up behind the girl and knocked her out by touching a pressure point in her shoulder. Looking around no one was on the streets so Cleo dragged her to an ally way and slipped on the brown dress, hiding her armor and outfit safely and putting her sai’s in her boots. Walking out of the ally way she smirked and walked into the pub having a few men link eyes on her. With a few others catching her scent immediately, beginning to growl at her roughly. Smirking she spoke “Don’t you know?... it’s not polite to growl at a Lady” within seconds she bent down and grabbed a sai slinging it towards a man at full speed, having the pointy part cut into his head making him drop to the floor. Soon enough the whole group of people stood up and circled her growling, there had to be about 10 of them “This with be fun” she said before she growled so loud her voice echoed through the streets, giving a signal a battle was about to take place.

“Unscented perfume? Didn’t know they even made that. I’m fine with the whole stealth thing, as long as I get to actually kill someone.” ~Tox says as the come upon the first small settlement that will mark a checkpoint in the whole quest thing. Tox listens to his orders, come in when the fighting starts. Tox wanted to take out the first group, but what the Alpha says goes. Tox watches Cleo knock out a woman and take her dress. ~ “Well then…I would have just walked in as I was…” ~Tox says as he readies his bow around the same time Cleo enters the pub. After only a matter of seconds, Cleo lets out a howl, and indication that the fight has started.~ “She didn’t waste anything…” ~Tox says before drawing an arrow, keeping it ready as he moves in. He stops at the doorway, thinking to himself.~ “I have to think of something cool to say when I come in…” ~Tox says aloud.~ “Oh, I got the perfect one….” ~He says as he bust threw the door with his shoulder, placing an arrow in the first werewolf he sees. The air pierces the heart, a perfect shot because Tox wouldn’t have it any other way. ~ “Why don’t you guys make like the Roman Empire and split…..Damn that was horrible….it sounded so much better in my head.” ~ Tox quickly holsters his bow before unsheathing both of his swords, holding the short sword in his left hand and the long sword in his right. They were made of tempered steel, if he would have known they would be fighting werewolves ahead of time, he would have made them out of silver. Tox stands back-to-back with Cleo as the group of now 9 werewolves surround them.~ “I get 4, you get 4, we leave one alive. I’m ready when you are.” ~Tox says as he twirls both swords~

Once Tox came in and made his speech she smirked, “what a loser” Cleo said sarcastically. Nodding to what he said. Locking her eyes on 4 people she smirked pounced towards them, instantly turning herself into a wolf having the dress rip of her. Cleo’s fur was white as snow and her eyes still a beautiful emerald. The 4 circled her, Cleo took no time to wait, and pounced on one of the guys, digging her teeth into his neck and ripping his throat out. Swirling around she locked her eyes on a second target, she was a girl and had a tattoo on her arm that made Cleo’s eyes widen “Hunter!” She growled loudly and pounced at her without hesitation, taking her claw out and slashing her in the face many times. Feeling a great rage within her heart, totally forgetting about the other two that were behind her. The guys saw there shot and one of them took out a dagger and stabbed her shoulder making her growl even louder. She jumped off the mutilated girl and took the pain in continuing to fight, jumping towards the 3rd guy with her both claws out lashing his body having his blood splatter on the walls and on her white fur. Quickly turning back to her old self she ran and grabbed the sai out of the head of her first target, slinging it backward toward her 4th target, jabbing him in the throat so fast he didn’t even have time to react. Panting she looked at a girl that was too afraid to move, she looked at Cleo like she had seen the devil. Cleo walked up to her, grabbing her by the throat, bagging her against the walland dragging her up slowly. The girl wolf cowered in fear, making Cleo remember the one that was to survive. Clenching her jaw she took two fingers from her right hand and knocked her out by touching a pressure point in her arm. “I got the one that will live, get crazy” she said simply as she panted no caring that she was naked. Looking around she found a long leather jacket and put it on as she waited for her Beta to do his part.

“Get crazy? You should choose your words more wisely Cleo.” ~Tox said as his eyes changed color and his teeth began to grow and sharpen. He wasn’t going into a fully transformed state, but more of mixture between human and werewolf; A state where you get some of the strength of a werewolf, without the side effect of losing your clothes because unlike Cleo, Tox didn’t knock out a person and take their outfit. All 4 of the remaining wolves then transform into their much bigger, werewolf form. Tox was outnumbered and definitely outsized, but not to be under estimated. All 4 converge on him at once. Adrenaline pumps through Tox’s veins as everything moves in slow motion in his mind. Tox then begins to analyze every aspect of the battlefield. Every inanimate object, every insect, and especially the 4 enemies who are closing in on him in slow motion. ~ ‘Enemy furthest to my right, place sword in left lung, leave incapacitated. Spin to the right, around now injured werewolf, dodge other 3 attacks. Withdraw sword from left lung during spin. Throw both swords at the one wolf in the middle of the 3 now reformatted werewolves who are ready for another attack. Hit both right lung and left lung, leave incapacitated. Draw two arrows but don’t use bow, throw one arrow at each of the throats, pierce the Larynx, cause it to collapse along with the Trachea, leave incapacitated. End result, 4 incapacitated wolves. Estimated time of death without medical treatment, one minute.’ ~Tox maps out his whole battle plan in his head, no all that’s left is to execute. His Adrenaline wears off and time returns to normal. Tox begins to execute his plan, placing his sword right in the lung of the wolf furthest to the right. He then spins around to the back of the wolf, retrieving his blade from the wolves’ body as he does so. The remaining 3 wolves fall forward, missing Tox. They reform quickly and come back in for another attack. Tox quickly throws both of his swords into the lungs of the one in the middle, stopping him in his tracks before he draws two arrows and spears the remaining wolves’ throats with them. This whole plan executed in less than thirty seconds. All the wolves are now on the ground, grasping for air. Tox turns to Cleo shrugging, ~ “I could have gone crazier…”

Watching her beta beat the shit out of every single one of the 4 remaining wolves made her smirk, it was nothing she wouldn’t expect from a former Alpha of a prestigious Clan. Standing up Cleo picked up the unconscious girl and dropped her forgetting she had a dagger in her right shoulder. Wincing at the pain slightly she reached and took out the dagger with her left hand. Dropping the dagger to the floor, she grabbed onto her right shoulder biting her lip slightly at the pain. Slowly the werewolf healing process began, closing the wound up without a scar on her perfect skin. Stretching her arms slightly she picked the dropped unconscious girl once more, throwing her over her shoulder and walking out of the pub naked, Finding her hidden cloths and slipping them on. Once she was ready she walked with the girl on her shoulder walking back to Tox, “Alright we continue on to the second Village, and wait till this girl wakes up to question what she knows about the stone” She said bluntly before walking in the direction of the other village with the girl still on her shoulder. Thinking back to the hunter girl Cleo killed, her jaw clenched. That hunter clan wasn’t just any hunter kind… it was the Clan that killed her family, husband, and the ones that kidnapped her twin boys, that were never to be found again. Cleo’s past was horrifying to her… it was too dark to think about, she held back her tears. Even Tox that only knew her for a few days would know that something wasn’t right with her… it was like as soon as she laid eyes on that hunter, something went on in her mind. That something was pain of losing everything she cared about. After Walking for about a mile the girl started to wake up, Cleo dropped her on the ground making the scared girl wake up fully. “You’re the one that killed my sister… P-Please don’t kill me” she stuttered in fear. Cleo smirked slightly at the fear she saw, “If you answer our questions correctly, than we won’t. Also don’t lie… because if your heart beat changes pace even slightly I’ll hear it and know your lying” She spoke with a blunt voice. Turning to her Beta she gave him a signal to start the interrogation, while Cleo Grabbed one of her Sai’s. “I love having hunter blood on my hands” she giggled evilly, listening to the sound of her heart beat carefully.

~Tox returns to his normal state, his eyes going back to normal along with his teeth. ~ “I think that was new record for me, four people in less than twenty or so seconds. Considering they were all werewolves I think I did pretty well. What do you think Cleo?” ~He turns around to find Cleo gone, she must have moved on without him. ~ “See, I really need to learn how to stop rambling.” ~He continues outside, stepping over all the bodies. He sees Cleo already moving on, the girl over her shoulder. He returns back inside in order to retrieve his swords, wiping the blood off on the dead people’s clothes before sheathing them. He then looks at the two arrows still stuck in the werewolves’ neck. He walks over and then tries to pull them out, but the arrow head is shaped in way that makes it almost impossible to pull out with sheer force alone. Tox stops trying, shrugging before saying, ~ “You can keep it….” ~He pats the dead body twice before moving on. At this time Cleo was already gone, so Tox had some catching up to do. Tox catches up miles down the line, because Cleo has stopped to interrogate the girl they took. ~ “I think I should lead this interrogation, I know the human body well, I know how to make them squeal….wow that sounds sadistic. But in all seriousness, do I have permission to take control here?” ~Tox ask.~

Nodding towards Tox to take over, Cleopatra walked back and forth, making sure there was no one in the area. She had a strange feeling that once the rest of their members found out the slaughter of their people that her and Tox would be on a kill list. Cleo wasn’t scared at all, she was actually happy that she might be able to get her hands on more hunters… she hated them more than anything. She had every right to after her terrible history with them. So this interrogation would be more than fun for her, she would cherish every moment of it. Smiling at the girl, Cleo looked up at Tox “Come on, make her shake in fear…” Cleo’s voice sounded sinister.

~Tox smiles, taking off all of his weapons and placing them on the ground.~ “Before we get to the whole pain part, what’s your name?” ~Tox ask before pulling up the armor on his arms, kind of like rolling up his sleeves.~ “C-Christa” ~ The woman replies~ “Christa? That’s a very beautiful name. I Once considered naming my future daughter that name but, I’m going to stop their before I start rambling, and we don’t want that.” ~Tox gave a small laugh before getting in her face~ “You’re scared, I can tell. Rest assured you have no reason to fear me, but she on the other hand, won’t hesitate to kill you. So, cooperate with me, and I might be able to convince her to not rip you limb from limb.” ~Tox says before taking a step back,~ “Are you hungry by any chance? Thirsty perhaps? Want something to eat, drink?” ~Tox ask, pacing around.~ “No, I-I’m not that hungry.” ~ She says~ “What about thirst, you dehydrated?” ~Tox says. Christa shakes her head.~ “Ok, just making sure you are comfortable. Now that I know that your needs are met, let’s get down to business. What are you doing out here? Why were you in that pub? I know it wasn’t for the shitty beer and sewer smell.” ~ Tox says, taking a step closer to her. ~ “I frequent that pub, I come by every other day.” ~Tox listens to her heart beat, noticing it stayed the same.~ “You’re not lying, but you’re not telling me the truth either so, we’re going to play a game. Cleo, can you stand about five or so steps away from our lovely friend here.” ~Tox ask, hoping Cleo will play along.~ “When you answer a question with something I don’t want to hear, she gets one step closer. When you run out of steps…well you’re smart, put two and two together. Now, the same question, this time tell me something I want to hear.” ~Tox says, waiting for an answer.~

Smirking to his request she slowly took 5 steps back, “As you wish” Cleo Played along. Looking Christa straight in the eyes with her deep emerald eyes. Cleo slowly changed to mid-way, meaning that she was still human but 2/3 into a Wolf. Her Nails grew about 2 inches and her fangs grew out nice and sharp. Hearing the sound of Christa’s heart beat rang in Cleo’s ears like bells, it sounded like music to her ears. It sounded even better when her heart changed pace with fear, it was an easy emotion to depict, it sounded the same for everybody. That pace that was uneasy and jumped to a higher tempo in seconds, wasn’t hard to miss. “Can I cheat and go up a step?” she asked trying to tease the girl into fright.

~Tox smiles as Cleo was willing to play along.~ “I’m still waiting on that answer Christa.” ~Christa remains silent, staring Tox in the face.~ “Fine, Cleo, take one step closer.” ~Tox says while making a gesture for her to do so. ~ “You didn’t have a lot of steps to begin with, now you only have four. As a matter of fact, yes Cleo, you can cheat, take an extra step.” ~Christa’s eyes widen as she says~ “Why are you doing this to me I don’t know anything!” ~Tox laughs, taking a step back from her to catch his breath from the laugh. ~ “Cleo, take another step. Go ahead, keep acting oblivious, we’ll see how far that gets you, and how close she gets to you. Two steps, answer wisely.” ~Tox says before waiting. A few moments pass and Tox begins to lose his patients. Tox signals for Cleo to take yet another step, but Christa yells,~ “Stop!” ~Tox stops the signal.~ “Are you ready to tell us something?” ~Tox says~ “All I know is some mythical stone is supposed to be in this area.” ~She says.~ “We already know that sweet heart, tells us something else. “ ~Tox says~ “I also know some strong werewolves are looking for it too, not like the ones you fought in the pub, I’m talking real bad-asses. If you run into them, I recommend you don’t try to fight them.” ~Tox smiles before saying~ “See, that wasn’t so hard. I guess it’s for us to move on, when we do see this group of werewolves, we’ll be sure to say hi for you. Unless Cleo wants to ask you something, I have no further use of you. So Cleo, any extra questions?” ~Tox says, waiting for a reply or gesture.~

Cleo takes her first step from Tox with a smile spreading across her face. Soon he said for her to cheat as asked and she took the step happily, having her smile grow more sinister with each step. Smirking at Tox’s laughing, Cleo knew that there was no doubt he was enjoying this just as much as she was. Than once again Cleo was asked to take another step, doing so she raised an eyebrow smirking ‘this girl really wants to die, I hope she doesn’t think we’re kidding… because this will end badly” Cleo thought to herself itching to take another step to the glory of ripping this girl’s throat out. Tox was about to motion for the 4th step, seeing as this girl was start to annoy not just Cleo but Tox as well, but the girl screamed to stop and told them both everything she knew. Smirking as Tox had no use for her anymore, Cleo nodded at his question “Oh yes, just a question or two. Not pertaining to the Stone” Cleo said softly, making the girl raise her eyebrow wondering just what was Cleo going to ask. Walking up to her slowly treading her feet on the ground, enjoying the sound of her boots rustling against the rough dirty ground. The Girl pushed away from Cleo in fear, but Cleo took out her sai and stabbed it into her pants going through the jean material like it was water, deep into the soil. Christa almost jumped out of her skin, thinking she was going to kill her. Laughing sinisterly Cleo kneeled down on one leg and leaned into Christi’s neck, taking a long whiff of her hunter scent. Backing her head away slowly Cleo looked the girl deep in the eyes, you’re the Varluv Hunters. You’re Swedish and I’m guessing your Fedrick Klaus’s Daughter. Christi’s eyes widened at Cleo “Ho-w do-o you know t-that?!” she stuttered in fear. Cleo chuckled slightly, “Oh, me and your father go way back. Looks like I didn’t kill him, strong man he is. Do you know who I am?” Cleo asked intently. Christa shook her head slightly in a no, leaving Cleo with her eye brow risen. “Maybe a name will jog your memory, I’m my family is famous in your family. My name is Cleopatra Adolfo” she said bluntly. Christa began to shake “You’re her! The one who killed my mother and cousins!” she screamed towards Cleo. “Now, now young lady. It’s not polite for Ladies like yourself to scream. But to make you certain… yes that was me. So Now I’m going to kill you” She smiled softly as she spoke. Christa screamed “I gave you what you wanted!!” but the area had no people close by “HELP! HELP!” she screamed in fear. Cleo laughed and spoke once more, opening her ears hearing in a far off distance that there were people coming, probably christa’s group, “Here make sure to give your family a message” Cleo said before taking out two knifes she had hidden in her boots. Slitting her wrists Cleo pinned Christa to the ground and shoved two the two knives into each of her hands, the hunter girl screamed in pain ass her hands were pinned to the ground by knives. “You’ll have enough time to tell them my message before you die from blood loss. Tell them that this is what your family gets… For killing my Father, Mother, Younger brother, Twin sister, My lover and for taking my twin sons from me… to never see them again” Cleo’s voice was deep and dark, but with that last request from the young girl she stood up and looked at Tox motioning that it was time for them to head off. With that Cleo kicked off her feet and began to run in a fast pace out of the area towards the second Village, leaving the hunter girl to die. As she ran she could hear her loud cries for a while but pushed it to the back of her mind, forgetting about the darkness she showed upon the girl.

~Tox raises a brow at Cleo’s actions. Tox would have done the job a bit more gruesomely, but everyone has different taste. It wasn’t long before they were back on the road again, Tox running side by side with Cleo.~ “So….what was that all about? You know, the whole family thing?” ~Tox ask~

Running side by side with Tox, she heard his question and her lip began to quiver along with her eyes watering slightly. Even though she left her darkness behind with the most likely dead girl, her heart was still feeling pain from her past. Biting her lip hard, Cleo snapped out of her emotional peak and held her pain with a heavy heart. She didn’t want to not tell her beta, in the pack she was to trust him the most… so she wasn’t going to lie to him. Sighing she spoke with her eyes still looking in front of her along the path, “Well I was about 15 when the Varluv family of hunters came to town, I was still living with my family back then we were the richest family in town. We were pure blood wolves. We weren’t killers, whenever there was a full moon we enclosed ourselves. We lived in peace for a bit with the Varluv family without them knowing our secret until I was about 16 and a half… I was engaged to a man of good heart and good wealth, either way I didn’t care if he was rich or poor, I loved him with my heart. He was a regular human who looked pass my beastly side… his name was Stephan…” Cleo’s Lip began to quiver slightly. “He had no idea that his family were werewolf hunters, The Varluv family. When his family met ours the day of our wedding, they knew instantly what we were… They didn’t hesitate to kill my family the same day. They killed my Mother Jade and father Dimitri Adolfo… Soon after my little brother Edward, he was only 12… he was too young and a handsome young man he was…” Cleo’s voice was losing its balance with all her lips quivering. “Soon all that was left was me, my Twin sister Theophano and Stephan. Theo loved me so much she lied to save me. She made me take off my dress so she could wear it, she then convinced me that it was only a Diversion that she would meet up with me and Stephan later on. Of Course I believed her… she was my twin, it was inevitable… Soon I realize that after an hour of her not arriving she was dead. I made sure of it and safely snuck back and saw my sister’s lifeless body beside the rest of my dead family. I couldn’t do anything, the hunters already had figured out that was my sister and was searching for me. I left with a deep sadness, but left with my husband and we lived in hiding for about 2 years in which I had gotten pregnant with two handsome twin boys. Then the hunting family found us…” Cleo was on her edge, a first tear drop rolled down her cheek. “They crashed into our house and sent a silver bullet my way… but Stephan jumped between the cross fire and sacrificed himself for me. I killed every single one of them, once I was finished I ran into my boy’s room to take them and flee… As if things couldn’t be worse…” more tears flooded her eyes and poured down her face as she ran. “I got into the room to notice they weren’t in there cribs, when I was killing every hunter, one of them snuck into their bedroom window and kidnapped them. I instantly went looking for them for 13 years I searched, but the trail went cold. I lost my hope and figured that they were either impossible to find, or that they were dead. I moved on in search of a pack and found one of the 50 stones that soon leaded me to your pack, and for me to defeat you. You see I didn’t kill her because killing her would be easy… I wanted her to feel the undying pain without escape…” Cleo dropped to the ground and tears poured from her eyes onto the cold floor. “I-I w-wasn’t S-strong enough” Cleo stuttered as her air left her lungs making it hard to breath. The pain hurt worse than the time she felt it, the fact that she was a werewolf made it worse… her emotions were heightened and it didn’t make it better she was an alpha so those emotions were heightened even more.

~Tox listens closely to her story. ~ “Hey…” ~Tox says before getting down on his knees next to her. ~ “We’ve all had things happen in our past that we’re not proud of, sad about, and just flat out regret, but that’s what makes it the past, and not the present. Why focus on the past when we live in the present. Take it from me, if I thought about all the things that have happened in my past, I would not be here right now because I’d have a rope tied around my neck hanging from the ceiling. I’ve had my fair share of heart break and grief and the best way I deal with it is killing people so….” ~Tox stands up, offering him his hand~ “Lets push forward, and kill some people.” ~Tox smiles, waiting for her to grab his hand.~ “Hey, I’ll even let you kill the first one….but after that leave the rest for me.” ~Tox waits for her to get up so that they can continue~

On her knees, having an emotional breakdown, Cleo listened to his support and nodded her head. Cleo was an Alpha, she’d have to be a lot stronger, but whenever she even touched upon the subject on her children… it made her die inside, it was as if they were still alive crying to be back in her arms. Pushing everything aside she looked up at him and smiled brightly, something she didn’t do often “Hell no, I get to kill more than half. Why don’t we race there, whoever wins gets to kill more than the loser. Ready set..” Cleo got on her feet and started running at full speed before she could say go. Yeah she cheated… only because she wanted to get them both back into the cheerful spirits. Running, her senses were coming back into play. Her breathing was quickening in pace, her muscles were working perfectly, and her lungs were burning without feeling fatigue running through her body. Her Beautiful Ginger hair was rustling in the wind like a silk cloth, and her eyes were shinning bright like diamonds. But her heart was sulking with sadness, but Tox somehow made her partly forget about the past that haunted her soul everyday.

“A race? Ok, I guess I ca-“ ~Tox’s eyes widens as Cleo gets up and takes off before he could actually take his mark.~ “So it’s that kind of party?” ~Tox quickly speeds after her. Due to her head start, Tox was far behind. Tox begins to transform into his pre-transformed state, not fully werewolf, but more than half-way there. Tox quickly catches up to her in his pre-transformed state because she was just in a normal state. Tox slows down in order to run side by side with her. He lines himself up with her before pouncing forward, an attempt to tackle her to the ground. Even if she dodged it, Tox could quickly regain his balance and continue to run.~

Laughing loudly she’d think “c’mon that’s the oldest trick in the book.” Cleo laughed more as she ran at full speed, thinking that from her cheat she was probably winning this race by a lot, however she was wrong. Soon after the race had begun Cleo turned her head to look if he was even close to her, when she was shocked to see her was literally right beside her. Her eyes widened as she tried to pick up the speed, but Tox went for a tackle and succeeded “Darn it!” she coughed out. He was way taller than her and more muscular than her, so having him drop on her wasn’t the most comforting feeling. Falling flat on her face she mumbled roughly before pushing Tox of her. “HOLY SHIT I COULDN’T BREATHE!” Cleo yelled out Gasping for air. Looking at Tox for a moment, she laughed “holy what do you eat?” she said jokingly. She waited for a moment catching her breath hearing something course through the forest. Narrowing her eye brow she looked around and got into her pre-transformed state. What were they? Wolves? No they were faster than that… They were “Vampires….” Cleo howled loud for a warning. Sounding like they left, they really just stopped and ran to our direction. In seconds two Vampires stood before us. A women, she was beautiful… with strawberry blonde hair, golden brown eyes, olive skin, pair shaped body with wonderful curves and she was no taller than 5’7. With her stood a tall handsome man; he had black hair, hazel eyes, pale peachy skin, somewhat athletic body and was about 5’11. Cleo stared them in the eyes with such hate, “Didn’t you hear my growl… that was a warning if you came near it would end in your death…” Cleo’s voice sounded protective over her pack member and strong like a true Alpha. The Vampires laughed together and the man spoke “What a prize she would be… Xavier would love her surely, don’t you think Cassie” The Man looked at Cleo with a sinister smile. The female vampire nodded “Oh yes… Cyprus… Maybe we should keep her alive and just kill him” she giggled while pointing at Tox. Making Cleo’s Blood boil, she growled Loud enough for their ear drums to burn slightly, “I gave you a warning… don’t say I didn’t say so before” she said bluntly before her nails grew about 3 inches in size. “Ready Tox?” she asked him softly.

~Tox was successful in his pounce attempt, in part due to his element of surprise. He would quickly get off of her though, due to her complaints of not being able to breath.~ “I’m sorry, maybe you should be more alert.” ~Just as he says that he notices Cleo go into her pre-transformed state. He then smells it too, vampires. He quickly draws his bow as Cleo lets out a warning howl. A few moments pass before the Vampires actually arrive before them. He listens to their rambling about prizes and what not but what really hit him was the comment about killing him. ~ “You know, you’re not the only vampire to underestimate me. By underestimating me you’ve already started to dig your own grave. So now it’s my job to put you in that grave.” ~Tox draws one arrow, stringing it up but not pulling it back.~ “I get the girl, you can have the guy. But if you want, we can take them both on.” ~Tox says, smiling before now pulling back the arrow in his bow, aiming at the girls heart.~ “It’s a shame I have to kill such a pretty face. In another life we could have been an item.” ~He then releases the arrow, kicking off the fight. The lady quickly catches it. Tox eyes widen. ~ “Why aren’t you a fast one.” ~He quickly draws three arrows. He strings them up and shoots them without a moment to spare. One arrow was aimed at the ladies left lung, the other the right lung, whilst another was aimed at the throat. The lady catches all three arrows. Specifically catching the one aimed at her throat in between her teeth. ~ “For so reason I find that really sexy……Anyway, it looks like you’re a step above the average vampire sent my way, so I might actually break a sweat.” ~Tox says before biting his lip~ “Well Cleo, lets whoop some vampire ass.” ~Tox says as he readies another arrow~

Looking from the corner of her eye, she noticed that this ‘Cassie’ was no weak vampire… she looked like a tough fight from the looks of it. However Cleo had full trust that her beta wouldn’t lose, especially to a vampire… heck when Cleo fought him for the position of Alpha, he was a tremendous fight even though Cleo was using one of the 50 stones. “Gotcha, I got the boy” Cleo smirked grabbing her two sai’s in each one of her hands. Pouncing off in seconds it was like a flash… he was right behind her running is hand down her arm “I’m no boy young lady” Cyprus said softly. All Cleo could do was laugh, “As a Women I can tell just by the way you’re standing right now, want to know why?” Cleo asked with a wide smirk slapped across her beautiful face. Cyprus’s eyebrow rose, “why?” he asked. Cleo smiled as she lifted her left leg and stomped on his foot with brute force, making him grunt in pain and crunch forward slightly. All in motion Cleo swiftly stretched her arm forward and bent it back elbowing Cyprus in the nose roughly, making him back up a few “That’s why” Cleo chuckled softly. Already in her pre-transformed state Cleo felt adrenaline running threw her veins, her heart beat was arising and her breathing was intensifying as the battle went on. Cleo stomped toward him and held her sai’s tightly in her hands, lifting her hand she lifted it attempting to stab him in the neck. But before she could do that she was grabbed by the neck and slammed into a tree. Coughing out slightly she grabbed onto his cold vampire hands trying to break free, relaxing herself she knew not to panic, looking down she was in the perfect position to bring this guy into a world of pain. With a wide smile on her face, Cyprus looked at her with a strange face… probably thinking ‘why the hell is this women smiling I could kill her right here and now’ but he was extremely wrong. Smiling still Cleo kicked hard into his private area making him let go of her instantly. Not about to lose her chance, her necklace began to glow blue meaning that her power was in use. Giggling slightly she kicked him into a tree about 5 meters away, Cleo felt that she was doing a great job. Wiggling her fingers over her Sai she snapped it forward at Cyprus at a high speed targeting his heart. Widening her eyes he had caught it in his hands with ease and turned it around with two fingers, whipping it back in Cleo’s direction having it pierce threw her left shoulder. Groaning out in pain she took it out quickly so that she could heal… now Cleo was Mad, she cracked her knuckles and ran towards him at fast speeds sending a another sai out of her hand, this time it came as a surprise to Cyprus. It sliced threw his stomach, he coughed out blood as he took it out of him… getting ready for Cleo to pounce on him. Her speed was picking up from anger and she pounced opening her claws nice and wide, before she could lash his throat out he smirked and side stepped. “Hm… Xavier will like you as a Bride. Well looks like the evaluation is done, I’ll leave the rest to you Cassie. Have a nice day” He laughed sinisterly before he took off and ran somewhere Cleo couldn’t even pick up. Cleo’s eye twitched thinking what the hell was he talking about?! She didn’t understand who this damn Xavier was, and it would be a mystery unless… “Yuko I want you to kill her near death, keep her alive enough for a few minutes. I’m going to speak with her” Cleo said simply as she waited and watched her betas battle.

~Tox watches Cleo’s actions for a quick sec before turning his attention to his lady opponent. ~ “Well let’s get this over with quickly.” ~He says before entering his pre-transformed stated. ~ ‘Let’s see here.’ ~Tox thinks to himself. ~ ‘I can’t afford to use too much adrenaline, it could kill me, but for someone this strong, I might have to.’ ~Tox closes his eyes, keeping them closed for a minute. Adrenaline begins to pump through his veins as his brain kicks in hyper drive. ~ ‘Opponent: Vampire, shorter in height, faster in speed in comparison to my current. Advantages: None at current moment. Probability of winning: 50%. Begin attack plan. Draw five arrows, shoot all five at opponent, no body part specified in attempt to stick opponent to an object, distraction in place. Quickly draw ten arrows, removing arrow heads and keeping arrow shafts. Activate maximum muscle strength available in current state. Throw unsharpened arrow shafts at multiply pressure points located primarily on the lower body section, shutting down muscles temporarily. Then throw arrow heads at upper body pressure points, shutting down muscles for an extended period of time. Improvise from there.’ ~Tox then opens his eyes as he puts his plan into effect, quickly drawing five arrows and shooting them at Cassie. Cassie dodges all arrows and charges forward at him. ~ ‘Damn it, change of plan.’ ~Tox quickly rushes adrenaline to his heart one more time, causing his perception to speed up, causing the world to his eyes to slow down.~ ‘Revision, draw two arrows, bend arrow so that the forms a 140 degree and them drop them to the ground right in front of self. Dodge in coming attack, quickly step on arrows on the ground, launching them up at the enemies’ throat.’ ~Time resumes as Tox puts his plan into motion, bending the arrows and dropping them to the ground. Tox quickly dodges the attempted punch by Cassie. He then stomps on the arrows, launching them up to Cassie’s throat. It catches her off guard, leaving her little time to react. She puts her hands up to stop the arrows. The arrows impale of their hands to each other because of the way Cassie defended her throat. Tox doesn’t wait, not giving the opponent anytime to break free; he drops his bow and grabs her head, twisting in an attempt to snap her neck. He then takes a kick to the stomach that knocks him back onto his back. He lets out a slight cry of pain, but not a result from the kick, but from the sheer amount of adrenaline he’s forced his body to produce in order to give him an advantage in the fight. His chest heart, it was as if he was having a heart attack. He wasn’t a heart attack; it’s just that his heart was on the verge of basically exploding as it was still working in over drive mode. Tox needs a cool down session, but he doesn’t have the time for such a thing. Cassie works the arrows out of her hands as Tox rolls around on the ground in pain. ~ “Come on Tox, you can’t lose to a vampire.” ~ Tox takes in deep breathes, trying to slow his heart rate.~ “Cleo, I need some help over her!” ~Tox yells as Cassie slowly approaches him~

-For one such as he, the sounds of the forest were like music in his ears. The sun was just dipping below the horizon, making the sky bright orange as if on fire in one part and yet black in another. The sounds of birds nestling down for the night, their whistles piercing the air in a soothing lullaby. For the time he was dressed weirdly, much out of the society's norm. A black coat hung from his shoulders, falling all the way to just above his heels. Though the coat's arms were cut off just a little above his biceps on each arm. A ragged cut as if it had been done by a dull blade. Underneath the coat he wore nothing, evident by the opening that wasn't buttoned. The sides of the coat just hanging to either side of his waist. Attached to the back of the coat was a piece of cloth just wide enough a sheathe could be slid through. Of course, which, there was. The sheath to a 5ft katana. Though the only visible part of the actual katana was the black and crimson hilt. On his waist sat a pair of dark cloth pants. He chose cloth because it did not interfere with his running, or mess up his agility to an extreme extent. The end of these cloth pants were tucked into boots designed for soldiers, though they seemed to be made of thicker/heavier leather than a soldier's. The bottom of which were metal studs, an expensive outfit in all. As he stood in the woods, waiting for the moon to come up, he heard a noise. It sounded like voices, but there were never anyone out this close to the Full Moon. Even if it were waning. Superstitions were a wolf's best friend. Still, he started towards the direction he heard it from. For someone built like a track star and wearing such a heavy outfit, his footfalls fell perfectly on moist leaves or on dirt paths, never making a sound. He wasn't moving fast, figuring whoever or whatever it was would be there for a while still. He could still feel the rush from the moon, it was still close enough to full moon that his blood was filled with the need to hunt. But he was in control, until he heard the sound of a bowstring being released. HIs feet picked up their speed, his body leaning forwards slightly as he rushed between the trees. His head popped into a slight clearing in time to see a woman pulling arrows from her hand, as if it didn't even hurt. That didn't seem right, and with once wiff through his nostrils he knew why. Keeping silent he continued forwards. His right hand reached up as he ran to grasp the hilt of that rather shortish katana. But he didn't draw it. Instead he kept towards the woman, moving swiftly yet fluidly. So that the shadows of the trees still hid him. It worked, her eyes were only for the man on the ground. Just as the shadows were ending he leaped off the ground, his body flipping once in the air. During this flip he moved over the man on the ground, his katana sliding from its sheathe so that it spun as well, the point of which drug from the bottom to the top of the girl's spine as she kind of moved in auto-pilot. Moving towards the man, but looking up at this new figure. Most blades would never have hurt her, but this blade was made out of a metal known to hurt all supernatural. Hell, it was forged by he himself for that very purpose. The woman turned to him with a hiss, only to find a size 13 boot in her face. The metal pegs digging into her eyes, nose, and mouth. She screeched as the metal pierced even more of her flesh, but could not pull away. For the boot kept moving forwards, bending her body back until she landed on the ground. Even then the boot kept coming, until it crushed her skull into a bloody pulp. The owner of the boot didn't even step away, just watched as the blood seeped from beneath his boot. His eyes staring at the substance as it pooled out. Eyes wild, hair in a mess covering parts of his face.-

Cleo stood a few feet away from Tox watching his battle, still confused to what the hell just happened. Breathing hard she was a little tuckered out from her battle, she used more adrenaline then she expected. She heard her betas call for help, he was down and the vampire was catch up in taking out an arrow from her hand. Running towards him, she smelled something… it was dark in the forest, looking around she noticed a tall man come out from the shadows basically kicking the vampires ass. He killed her, raising her eyebrow Cleo came from the shadows and stood beside Tox still iffy. Tilting her head she examined the man, she wanted to thank him for killing the vampire that could’ve hurt her beta… but she wasn’t sure to trust him. Standing strong she bowed lady like and spoke “Thank you for helping my Beta. I’m Cleopatra… but people call me Cleo. I’m the Alpha of my pack” She said softly in her velvet voice, waiting to see if he would share his name. Looking at the skies it was getting darker “Looks like this quest is taking longer than planned, maybe we should take a break in the village we stood at. Shouldn’t be far from here. Then again if you’re not tired we can continue” Cleo spoke to her Beta.

-It took a few moments for either of their voices to register to him, in that split second he had stomped the vampire's head in he had lost control. Bringing his blade up, he slid his tongue along the edge to take in the drying blood of the vampire, cleaning the blade of all blood completely in one pass. Moving with deliberate slowness he straightened his arm. Once it was completely straight he spoke, his voice deeper than his face would have made it seem possible. "It's no problem, really. I saw another of my kind in trouble, and was kinda hankering for some fun." At this point he placed his index finger flat along the face of the blade, turning his arm so that the other face was parallel to the ground, "We have Tox, a beta, and I'm in the presence of an Alpha, been a long time since I was in this predicament. Cleopatra, the name of a Egyptian Pharaoh, knew her actually. Not for a long time, but knew her." He seemed to be talking out loud, though to himself. Moving both his shoulder and elbow he brought the point up and then down in an arc, so that it was resting at the entrance of its sheath. Without looking he dropped the weapon, which slid in with a final snick. Turning, he placed his left arm across his abdomen, his body bending over at his arm in a slight bow. His eyes never leaving the face of the Alpha.- "It is nice to meet you both, as for the saving. You had it in the bag Tox, I just wanted some of the glory. And Ms. Cleopatra, it's a pleasure to meet you. To you both I now introduce myself, my name is William. I'm happy I made it in time, hate to see our numbers thinned out in even the shortest of numbers."

~Tox slaps a confused look on his face as the man acts slightly….different from werewolves he has met before; the man might even be as crazy as Tox is.~ “I don’t know completely know you, but I have a feeling that we are going to be the best of friends.” ~Tox says with a smile. Tox notices Williams stare that was locked onto Cleo. His suspicion rise alongside his curiosity, in which for some reason, makes Tox slightly uncomfortable on Cleo’s behalf. ~ “I see no reason to stop here, we can keep going, the faster we get there the better”~ Tox says, trying to get this road trip to hell over with as fast as possible~

Cleo watched the man carefully, hearing his words she smirked. He knew the actual Cleopatra? I mean that’s like impossible… he had to be joking, he’d be millions of years old. He respectfully bowed and introduced himself as William, it was strange Cleo noticed that he had his eyes locked on her. Looking back with her shinny emerald eyes she blinked, “The Pleasure is all mine, again I show lots of thanks for what you’ve done” she said softly before looking back at Tox. “Alright I’m fine as well, we can continue on then” Cleo said simply before stretching a bit. Walking up to this man she stood a few feet away from him, she wasn’t sure if she should be careful but she walked up anyway without fear holding her hand out in a sign of a hand shake. She wanted to thank him somehow, but she didn’t know how… but then a light bulb went off in her mind. Speaking she looked up at the tall man’s face “To express my thanks, I Cleopatra Adolfo want to invite you to join my Clan/pack, The Polemistí̱s clan. That is… if you don’t already have a pack” she spoke with her strong voice, looking William straight in his eyes.

"The best of friends? I had a best friend once, that's why I'm a wolf today. Had to kill him, or he would have killed me. Let's hope we don't end up the same way." he spoke with his eyes still on the woman. She was kinder than most Alpha's he had met. Not snapping at his throat, or expecting him to bow down and submit. Many Alpha's had met their demise that way. He wasn't one to unwillingly submit. Having been on his own so long. "Join your pack.....I...I don't know. Been so long since someone has even looked at me without snapping. I could give it a go though, see how things worked out." He responded to the woman, his eyes following her all the way as she walked to him. From his body oozed a feeling of...restlessness. As if he just wanted to be in motion. Even as she stepped closer, he stepped back a step. As if not comfortable being that close to someone else.

~Tox observes Williams body language. A peculiar person indeed, in which makes it official, he is crazier than Tox. ~ “Well Cleo, you do what you have to do with the katana wielding guy, I’m going to go ahead and get on with this whole quest thing.” ~Tox smirks before taking off in the direction he believes the next village is. He’d want Cleo to catch up later, but if she doesn’t want to tag along its fine with him. It was a quest for a stone that was going to be his anyway, so why not get it himself.~

Cleo stood there and listened to his words, “Well, it may be a new experience. But together we’re stronger and a family. We will always have your back, I myself make sure all my members are treated like royalty” she said softly before directing her vision towards Tox. “I’ll catch up” She said simply. Looking back up at William she notice he stepped back, maybe he really was new to this group stuff. “I won’t hurt you, don’t worry. That only happens if you try and hurt my members, believe me I may be small but I’m a fighter. I’ll destroy anyone that tries to hurt my family” she said bluntly before she walked away a few steps. With her back turned from him she turned her head to the side slightly, “It’s your choice to make, if you’re joining the follow. If not, it was wonderful to meet you” she smiled softly. Looking ahead of her she pounced into the darkness at full speed, feeling her breathing start to heighten, Cleo pounced forward turning into her full wolf form. Her eyes were turned yellow and her fur was white as snow, she thought that she might as well turn to catch up with him. Running on all fours she passed through the forest like lightning, her paws seemed to grip onto the dirt ground roughly and her muscles were contracting wonderfully. Soon enough she reached her Beta and continued to run by him, side by side. Taking a glance from the side of her eye she looked back to see if William had followed.

-First the Beta left, moving off to who knows where. And then she was speaking again, his ears perked slightly. So that he could catch and understand everything she was explaining to him. He had said he would give it a try, and that meant he would have to follow the Alpha. So without a word he slipped off his coat and wrapped his katana in it. She was already rushing off, but he moved at his own pace. Taking out a rope he tied the coat to his left leg. At which point he started to jog, his blood pumping in his ears. He could hear her up ahead, changing. But his body was still refusing to. It was always hardest after fighting. But soon enough he broke into a long loped sprint. Which got his blood flowing even faster. After some time he finally managed to change. His body turning into that of a black wolf. Granted, bigger than any regular wolf, he moved through the trees like a ghost. His fur camouflaging him well. Even as he followed along with them, he hung a little back. Staying in the shadows, so that if anything were to try and attack he would be ready.-

~Tox continues forward. His brain works in overdrive as billions of thoughts run through his head. Mostly about the situation he was previous in. His life was technically at stake, though he could have defended himself, he called for help. It could be seen as an act of weakness. Tox called for help on the simple fact that if he wanted to fight his opponent to the fullest, he’d have to transform, and he doesn’t like to transform. When he transforms he doesn’t have much control over his actions. He completely gives into his inner beast; leaving little room for restraint. ~ “I’m going to scale the trees, try to get a good vantage point!” ~Tox yells before jumping to the nearest tree, scaling it really quickly. The forest consist of about thirty-forty foot tall trees so climbing them could get him a good view of the upcoming village and also with his archery, he could be a good sniper.~ “The village is just up ahead, in about fifty feet it will be in your field of view!” ~Tox yells to the others. ~ “I’ll stay up here! I’ll be sure to cover you!” ~Tox then continues to jump from tree to tree, a great display of his agility in deed. He gets within a good shooting distance of the village, then he waits.~ “Ok Cleo, do your thing.” ~He wraps his legs around a tree branch and strings up an arrow to his bow.~

Running at full speed Cleo was unstoppable, her speed was amazing. She looked like a white lightning bolt, swiping past the trees like it was her territory. Her heart was pumping and her mind was set on its goal, the stone. This mission was taking longer than she thought so passing this village would have to be fast, kill and go. Her paws were grasping into the dirt ground with ease, she noticed Tox jumping high into the trees for an advantage point. It was set up perfectly, he was her sniper which he was good at and Cleo was the field killer, which she was better at the whole hand to hand thing. She heard his words and growled roughly showing that she heard him. She picked up the pace, soon enough she ran through the 50 feet of field and made it to the village. It was dark, with no sign of life, villagers slept deeply within the comfort of their houses, not ready for what was to come. Cleo motioned William for him to stay back to watch the trail to see if anyone would come. Cleo ran through the village, passing different streets before stopping in her tracks. She took a whiff of her surroundings, a pack. She needed to get their attention, smelling the air there was about 5 of them. Cleo howled loudly having her voice echo through the village, not only was this to get the other wolves attention but it was a signal for Tox to get ready. Turning her head she saw 5 wolves appear from the end corner of a street, they locked eyes on their target, Cleo. They pounced towards her and Cleo sprinted off to the center of the village that was open and easy to spot from Tox’s location. Easily the wolves followed, smirking Cleo stopped in the dead center with the 5 wolves circling her, turning into their pre-transformed state. Slowly Cleo also turned back into her pre-transformed state, making sure she still had fur on her body but with a human body, due to her being naked if she was in regular state. She looked at them slowly and rose her right hand in the air holding up three fingers… she hoped Tox understood that that meant she would leave 3 for him to kill. The wolves growled at Cleo eager for her to make the first move. Taking her mark she locked her eyes on two males standing side by side and pounced towards them. They pulled their arms back ready to punch Cleo, but horribly failed as she leaned back seeming as if she did limbo under their arms. Now standing behind them, they turned and both clawed at Cleo’s stomach. Cleo dodged one attacked but was hit with the other claw, having one of the males sharp claws slash her stomach. Groaning out in pain blood splattered out, but Cleo refused to give up there, holding in her pain she quickly grabbed them both by the neck with each of her hands. Yelling out she pulled them into the air and slammed them onto the hard dirty ground in a matter of seconds. Cleo was so strong she indented them in the ground having them cough out blood, finishing them off she crushed their throats having blood splatter on the ground and on her hands. There was 3 left 2 girls and 1 boy, they slowly stepped back from her, “Hey, you guys aren’t going anywhere!” Cleos voice sounded deep and demonic. She waited for Tox to do his part.

Damn it Cleo, you’re taking too long.” ~Tox says as he slowly takes his bow out of its read position. Tox lets out a yawn as Cleo enters the village. Tox closes his eyes, waiting for action to actually happen before readying himself. Tox jumps as the sound of Cleo’s howl echoes throughout the area. ~ “Damn it, I can’t get any rest…” ~Tox says as he readies his bow again, peering down its metal sights. ~ “Let’s see what I can find in the jungle.” ~Tox says as he pulls an arrow back. He sees Cleo hold up the number three, and indication of some sort, Tox didn’t understand. ~ “If she’s telling me to take only three then she must not know me very well.” ~But before Tox can take more than his assigned targets, two people were already down.~ “Damn it, I wanted to kill all of them….” ~Tox re-adjust his bow to his new targets, letting one arrow fly towards one of the girls, aiming right for the head. The arrow whistles through the air as it quickly approaches its target. The arrow sticks her right in the middle of the four head. She quickly falls to the ground. The other two look at each other as they didn’t really know where the arrow came from. Before they could start running, two more arrows come down and impale them in the chest, not killing, but putting them through a shit load of pain.~ “I missed, my skills are a little rusty at this range.” ~Tox strings up two more arrows and then launches them, this time they both hit the mark. ~ “There we go.” ~Tox says as he lowers his bow. He then closes his eyes again, resting~

Once they were all killed Cleo pounced back in to her wolf form and ran through other streets, they weren’t visible to Tox from where she was. Caught off guard something… more like someone jumped from the shadows tackling Cleo down. Pinned down the scent was so strong, another vampire? Growling, Cleo was so shocked she transformed into her regular state. She was looking up into green eyes, quickly she pushed him off her with a brute force and jumped away from him. Without she went to her pre-transformation state and was growling at him. He was tall, standing at 6 feet, he had maroon colored hair and was somewhat pale, and he was a handsome vampire… Cleo was about to attack when he spoke, “Don’t worry I’m not here to kill you, but you should know, I’m much older than the vampires for fought earlier. So I suggest you not to fight me.” Cleo was confused, if he wasn’t here what was he doing here than. “What do you want” Cleo asked bluntly. He ignored Cleo’s question, “Cyprus was right, you are a beauty. I’m so tempted to touch that perfect body” he said in a seductive voice. Cleo had no time for this, she pounced at him but he was extremely fast, he had his arm locked around her neck, holding him close to his cold body. She could feel him breathing on her neck, Cleo heart leaped, he had the power to snap her neck right there but he said something instead “I’ll be watching you from now on my Queen, your mine.” With that he was gone, Cleo blinked and was trembling. For some reason she really felt fear, he was so fast his movements were a blur. His scent was gone with no trace. There was no more wolves or vampires. Cleo turned back into her wolf state and howled meaning that it was time to head on to the road again. Running fast she seemed different thinking to herself they would catch up to her eventually.

~Tox keeps his eyes closed, waiting for the slightest disturbance or signal from Cleo. Little did he know of the scuffle that was going on outside of his field of view. ~ “No…I-I don’t…want to eat your soup….it…it taste like….bird droppings.” ~Tox mumbles in his sleep. A howl wakes him, startling him really, causing him to tumble out of the tree. He hit the ground hard, stomach first. Tox could hear the sound of his ribs crack as he hit the ground. He lets out a big yell in pain. ~ “AHHHHHHH!! CLEO YOU BITCH!!!” ~Tox rolls around in pain on the forest floor as his bow falls on top of his head. ~ “So far this quest has been a complete and utter piece of shit for me. Why the hell did I even agree to come here in the first place? ‘Oh, Tox, there is stone that may or may not be there.’ I should have said go jump off a bridge.” ~Tox says as he begins to stand up, letting his bones heal in his chest. It may take a while, but Tox will be uninjured again…well until the next time he does something stupid. He gets up and quickly stumbles after Cleo, trying to catch up.~

Stopping in her tracks she heard Tox’s screaming, but it wasn’t him getting attacked… What the hell he did this time, Cleo thought to herself before turning back. Running back she couldn’t shake the feeling that, the Vampire from before was watching her like he said he would be. Trying to think of something else, she pushed off the balls of her feet and sprinted towards Tox’s direction, seeing him running her way. Stopping she looked at him “What the heck happened to you? I heard your scream” Cleo asked softly.

“What happened? Well you know, feel about fifty feet, broke a few bones, nothing serious.” ~Tox says~ “Let’s continue, please….asshole” ~Tox says under his breath before running ahead. The third and final village wasn’t too far from the second, at least he hopes. Tox was tired of this whole ordeal and just wanted to go back to castle and sleep. He was running out of arrows too, he shot about twenty or so and he only carries about thirty with him. He didn’t know he’d be fighting so many people or else he would have bought more.~

Hearing his words Cleo’s eye twitched, “You know Tox, I’m a werewolf and can hear your whispers like you are talking normally” she said with slight annoyance in her voice. She ran after him, now running side by side. Looking back Cleo told William to stay back, that this would be Tox’s and her fight. They were running for a few hours and soon they were about 10 minutes from the 3rd village. Stopping she pulled out at a small bottle, it was the perfume that hid their. Spraying herself she threw it to Tox, “this will last for a day, try not to get wet. We go stealth from here on, he got too spilt up, you come from the back of the village, and I’ll come in from the front. Be careful, remember the stones jewelry form is a circlet. With that she pounced running towards the village, turning to her full breast mode, entering her jumped on one of the houses and kept herself low so she could see what she was dealing with. Already there was blood bath fights, the place was filled with hunters, vampires and wolves. The houses had blood splattered on them and dead bodies were laid everywhere. If this perfume didn’t hide their scent the smell of death and decay would. Cleo saw someone and her eyes focused in on the piece of jewelry in his hand. It was a circlet, it was leather with a white quartz stone in the middle. The man was surrounded by 8 people, 2 were hunters, 4 were wolves and 2 were vampires. Looking to the back entrance of the village there was about 10 people just battling out, but they were too far with her scents lost with the rotting bodies. Turning to her pre transformed state, Cleo without hesitation took her two sai’s and sent them flying towards the 2 hunter’s heads. Of course they did not notice, so they stabbed right through their foreheads, making them drop to their knees with blood running down their foreheads. “2 down, 7 to go” Cleo said bluntly. The rest looked for the stealth killer, Cleo turned back to her breast form and jumped from the roof of the tall home, pouncing on a female wolf, gripping her teeth into her neck before ripping the wolfs head off. The rest all looked at her blood stained mouth, they all had a similar target now, Cleo. She growled and had a vampire run towards her, in seconds Cleo turned to her pre-transformed state, grabbing the Vampire by the neck, snapping it off with ease. That vampire was obviously no older than 55 years old, with Cleo drawing power from her stone, vampires like him were ants to Cleo. Cleo’s body was now covered in blood, she was in her pre-transformed state standing naked. Her eyes were different they were blood red, she was losing herself in the bloodshed. She smirked and spoke, “4 down… 5 more to go…” With that two wolves pounces towards her, but Cleo leaned back steeply like in matrix having them fly over her. The moment was as if it was in slow motion, they were like turtles and Cleo was the rabbit, Turning she grabbed her sai’s from the hunters and jabbed them into the wolves throats. More blood splatter on her unflawed body. She was panting she turned to have Vampire stab a dagger into her stomach. Coughing out blood, she wasn’t going to die there she gathered her immense strength together and pulled her arms up and stabbed her hand into the vampires chest ripping its heart out and crushing it. Weak Cleo pulled out the dagger and began to heal slowly. The pain was numbing but Cleo had to finish them off, “4 more” she coughed out blood. There was one more wolf, and once human with the circlet. Her legs quivering the Wolf pounced and scratched her face, this woke Cleo up. Falling on her knees she grew her claws and ran towards the wolf, pouncing on the wolf she pinned him down by its chest and ripped his eye out of their sockets, standing up she held up the wolfs body, grabbing it by its arms and legs ripping its body in half. Cleo was out of control she turned and looked at the terrified man with her red eyes and walked up to him slowly. The man was frozen, Cleo grabbed him by the neck and raised him to the sky, we was gasping for life, Cleo had tears running down her eyes, there was something she truly valued about Human life. She dropped him and punched the lights out of him, “he won’t wake till the next day” she said softly before taking the circlet going around the houses so no one could see her, to the back entrance. She groaned out in pain of her wound, coughing out blood every so often, she was exhausted. Stopping she fell to her knees and turned to her wolf state and jumped to the roof and passed out with the circlet in her mouth, were no one could find her, except Tox possibly.

~Tox stops when Cleo stops, watching her apply that perfume that mask scent. She then throws it to him before running forward. Tox looks at the perfume and makes the mental decision to not put it on. ~ “I can be stealth without this…” ~Tox says as he throws the perfume deep into the woods. He then continues forward, going around the back of the village like he was told, making sure he was silent. It didn’t take long of the scent of blood and gore to come to Tox’s nose. ~ “Well that’s a pleasant smell, maybe I can add to it.” ~Tox peers through the bushes and notices a battle of somewhat huge proportions. It was basically a battle royal between hunters, werewolves, and vampires. ~ “All right, this is my kind of party.” ~Tox doesn’t waste any time and jumps right out of the bushes, drawing both of his swords. He quickly sprints up behind the nearest hunter and slices his head clean off, the blood splattering all over his armor. About nine others stood in the field and they all stopped as the hunters head rolls towards them. Tox smiles as the fighting then resumes. Two vampires quickly rush up to Tox, but Tox quickly disperse of them with a few slashes, not killing them but leaving them in some really bad pain on the ground. He whistles whilst he walks forward, encountering a group of about three hunters fighting two werewolves. Before he could interfere the two vampires he slashed grabbed both of his arms, holding him in place as Tox is forced to drop his swords. Then out of nowhere, another vampire came in front of Tox and began to punch him in the chest. His armor stops the punch, but leaves a dent in it. ~ “Come on, I know you can punch harder than that.” ~ Tox says, taunting him. The vampire gets angry and begins to deliver rapid punches to Tox armor, denting it in multiply places. The vampire quickly wore himself out, Tox’s plan really. Tox gives a fake taunt yawn before kicking the vampire, causing him to fly back about seven feet. He enters his pre-transformed state and easily throws both of the vampires off of him. He follows up on the one he kicked, ripping its heart out and crushing it in his hands, blood splattering all over his face. He turns to the other two and licks his lips as he liked the taste of vampire blood. His eyes changed color to a deep gold of sorts as he was becoming a bit more feral as the fight went on. He quickly rushes over to the other two, picking them up, holding one in each hand. He then squeezes until he couldn’t squeeze anymore, crushing the vampires spine, internal decapitation, an instant kill. He digs his teeth into the neck of each vampire, biting big chunks out of each before dropping them on the floor. Tox t hen turns his attention to those who weren’t paying attention to him but instead, were focused on each other. Before he rushes in, he stops himself as he begins to struggle mentally. ~ “No, I have to stop before I get out of hand.” ~Tox says as he tries to go back to his normal form but find that his body was not agreeing with his mind.~ “Come on…” ~ Tox’s eyes begin to change color once more, this time a dark red, a sign of blood lust. Tox then rushes forward towards a group of five people fighting amongst each other, consisting of hunters and werewolves. He grabs one hunter and rips his head clean off with his bare hands, drinking the blood as it squirted from the hunter’s neck. ~ “Human blood just tastes so much better…” ~Tox smiles as the rest of the hunters and werewolves quickly converge on him. The hunters had silver weapons, so Tox had to be careful, a silver cut takes a lot longer to heal and hurts a lot worst. Tox charges one of the hunters, but the hunter was able to roll out of the way just in time. The hunter then unleashes a barrage of throwing knives at Tox in rapid succession. At the moment Tox would use adrenaline, but since his last incident he wasn’t sure if he could use more to get him out of this situation. He attempts to dodge, ducking and weaving under the knives swift. One hits him in the leg though, piercing him armor and hitting his bone. He yelps in pain as he is bought to his knees. The hunters then quickly surround him and begin to stab him with silver weapons, Tox was practically defenseless. Then the other two werewolves quickly jump in, distracting the hunters long enough for Tox to attempt to pull the blade out of his leg, but the handle was made of silver, so it burned his hand before he could do so. The pain was driving him mad, he didn’t have much more fight left in him, and not he was covered in stab wounds that won’t heal easily in his current state. Tox closes his eyes as he tapes into his inner beast, something he did very rarely. His body begins to grow bigger as the blade is pushed out of his leg slowly, the wound still remaining there though. Tox’s armor quickly breaks off alongside his clothes. His hair evolves into a large mane as he grew to a height of 8 feet. He lets out a big roar as his transformation was complete, his dark fur reflecting sunlight slighting. Everyone halts as Tox begins to stand up, towering over everyone else. Tox disappears in a blinding flurry of speed and agility as he appears before one of the hunters. He then places his hand on the left side of his face before placing his other hand on the right side of his shoulder. He then applies pressure to both of his heads, tearing the head off in one messing movement. Tox holds the persons head in his mouth by its hair. The others quickly turn and run in different directions, Tox not willing to chase them. He then begins to eat the body of the hunter he just killed, Tox having no control over his actions. He was a flesh eater. He ate human flesh when he was in werewolf form, but that’s not all he ate. Tox eats any living thing when he is in werewolf form; no one is safe, not even other werewolves. The field was clear, not another person in sight, everyone was either dead or routing. Tox sniffs out Cleo, as he didn’t know where she was. He quickly finds her though, lying atop a roof. Tox looks into her eyes, his bloodlust running out, and his body turning back to normal. He falls to his knees, his body exhausted and still filed with stabbed wounds. He grabs Cleo, throwing him on his back, he had some strength left, just enough to carry her for a while. ~ “Come on, we’re going to make it out of this.” ~Tox says as he pants. He then jumps down from the room, his bare feet hitting the ground hard. He then proceeds to carry Cleo into the woods, making sure they were a safe distance from the village before putting her down and resting. He the noticed the circlet that was sitting in her mouth. He slowly pries it from her mouth, holding it in his hands.~ “Well…this is….weird.” ~Tox says, out of breath. He then puts it on his head.~ “I beat…it looks…good….on me though.” ~He says as he passes out, naked in the woods, his back to a tree.~

After about a 1 hour of passing out, Cleo opens her eyes to, noticing she was in a forest. She sat up rubbing the temples of her head, trying to remember what the hell happened. It was like she was drugged and woke up in the middle of nowhere, the best part was that she was naked with blood stained on her body. Looking to her side she blushed to see Tox was completely naked with the Circlet around his head. Looking around there was no one around, she stood up and slapped Tox to wake him up, “Wake up sleeping beauty” she chuckled. It wouldn’t be long before more people came to find the Stone so it was time to get the hell back to the castle. Stretching a bit she began to run, knowing Tox would be right behind  her, it wasn’t long before she reached the area where she had left William in. Seeing him, she didn’t really know how he would react to her naked and bloody Alpha, to be honest she didn’t care she just wanted to go home. “Alright William, lets head out home” she said simply before she began to run again. Cleo would have turned to a wolf to hide her body, but she had already abused it with the amount of changes she had done on the way there. So to make sure no one would be in there way home, Cleo took both William through the woods. After a good 5 hours of running they were reaching the Alps of Italy, from where they were it was easy to see the castle on top of the wonderful mountain. “Home…” Cleo said softly picking up the pace. Racing up and down the steep hills with ease. She was dying to take a damn shower, she reeked of death. They were now at the castle, standing at the outside throne room. Many servants and people came out welcoming them home, Cleo turned to William, “this is your home too now, make yourself comfortable, if you need anything we have our darling servants that we treat as family, there are beds just above the dining room. Welcome to The Polemistí̱s clan/pack” with that she turned and went up to her room having many servants follow her. Going to her private bath, the servants massaged her shoulders and washed her hair getting her freshened up. Once she was finished she laid down in bed passing out into an effortless deep sleep.

~Tox wakes up as he is slapped by Cleo. ~ “Ouch, why would you-“~Tox stops in the middle of his sentence as the whole world looked….strange. Everything looked black and white and very faint. Tox then looks at Cleo and instead of seeing skin, he saw bones. ~ “Whoa, I don’t think you’ve been eating enough Cleo….” ~Tox says as he begins to look around more. ~ “This is so awesome….and weird at the same time.” ~ Tox says as he begins to stand up. Tox places his hand on his forehead as all the blood rushing to his head from standing up quickly made him light headed. He felt the circlet still on his head, he had forgotten about it. ~ “Oh…that’s why, the whole vision thingy. I guess this whole quest wasn’t for nothing, this is pretty damn cool. ” ~Tox says as he focuses his eyes on the ground. His eyes act as a magnifying glass the smallest of bugs are spotted climbing along the blades of grass. Tox un- focuses his eyes in order to zoom out back to normal. He then begins to zoom out more, something not really normal for regular people. His field of view widens as he could actually begin to see things behind his own head. His peripheral vision was widened greatly, allowing him to things that were normally un-seeable without the turn of the head. He puts his eyes back to normal as he smiles. ~ “Oh I can have so much fun with this.” ~He then turns around to realize Cleo was pretty much long gone. While Tox was experimenting with his new found abilities, Cleo was already on the way back to the castle. Tox still wasn’t completely healed of his stab wounds, but they weren’t bleeding so that was good. Tox follows, struggling to keep up as with each step he was experiencing a great deal of pain. Hours upon hours of running would bring them back to the castle. Tox was basically crawling at this point, his body wasn’t well rested enough to run another marathon. He looks up at the steep hill that leads to his castle and just gives a face of “You’ve got to be kidding me.”~ “Come on Tox, you’re just a few more steps away from a soft bed, a warm bath, and good food.” ~Tox slowly climbs his way up the steep hill. He rolls over the top of the ledge, now lying on his back. ~ “People, your Beta has returned!” ~Tox says in a fake king like voice while making arm gestures. A few servants rush to help him to his feet, Tox says thanks as he makes a gesture for him to be carried back to his room. The servants quickly rush him to his bed, laying him down in it. ~ “Bring me my casual clothes, and get the doctor in here, I need something to help ease this pain.” ~Tox says as the servants quickly rush off to do as he request. ~