~ZANE~

Ignoring Jase's comment for the moment, I turned to Azrayel and said: "Well, I wasn't planning on meeting any other hybrids on my way to Nevada, but you can come along if you like, or you can go back to our base and hang there with the rest of the hybrids. I think that the best idea would be if you went back to the base, you need to learn how to control your feeding habits, and also discover some hidden powers you might have."

"I would love to come and help you out, but I also think I need to learn how to control my feeding habits, so I'll go back to your base."

I gave him a map and directions back to The Coven. "Ask for Syvilious and tell him I sent you. If you have trouble talking to him ask either Leona or Leon to assist. I know that Leona can read minds, but I have a hunch that Leon can too."

I sent him on his way and once I knew he was out of earshot I looked at Jase. "You are going to tell me about your past sooner or later, trust me on that, I am very good at, persuading, people. We will make camp for the day in that small wooded area on the edge of the city. It won't take that long to get there."

When we got there I made camp while letting Jase think. There was an awkward silence for a little while until I broke the silence with a cough. "So, are you going to tell me about your past or are you not? I try to get to know my allies as soon as possible, and since you are the next member in line for me to get to know, I would really like it if you would tell me about yourself. So, how about it?"

"Why do we all need to know about our past?" She groaned at him. She was tired and hungry. She could barley keep her eyes open for the moment. The sun, she could see off in the distance and it was hurting her. Before Zane could answer she was under attack.

Zane jumped up to his feet not sure what to do. She was being attacked but she wasn't. What the hell was she doing? Jase was sprawled out on the grass. She almost looked like she might fall asleep but her forehead was most and her brow was furrowed. Her hands came against her face.

This was torcher for her. She knew it was. She hated who gave her this special effect. He was close by. It only went off when he was close by. She fought against it as best she could but it was taking over her. She was going to have to shut herself down for the time being. And with that she was out cold.

*Vamplord. Okay, I have myself and idea. You get to learn of my character's past but it's going to be in chunks. First, get my character awake. Hopefully she hasn't been taken over.* That's all I'll give away for now. See ya*

~ZANE~

ok, how is this ambercoultis?

I ran over to her and looked around, trying to figure out what was happening and/or who was doing it. After a few minutes I realized that I could do nothing about it except wake her up and try to make sure that didn't happen again.

I shook her for a second and she awoke, startled. "Where am I? What happened?"

"You are in the woods with me, and I don't know what happened." I didn't know what to do or what to say but she had a blank look on her face.

Then her face cleared up, "I think I know what happened."

"What? What was it?"

Leona~

I sat down next to Syvlious and smiled over at him. He was very attractive and it took all I had not to run my hands through his silky hair.

So, why did you have me come here? I asked him through our thoughts.

Well I was hoping to show you how to block your mind from others. His reply seemed rushed.

Oh. I thought, a bit disappointed. I should've known he just wanted to help me out with my newly formed powers. He didn't want anything more. I sighed and looked over at him. Our eyes looked and it was silent for a moment.

*Sorry, didn't know you had posted Vamplord. It hadn't showen up...*

Jase:

"An unwelcome guest," She growled. Her head coaked and she stared off into the woods. Zane turned to look but found nothing.

"Who?"

"Die."

"What?" Zane turned to look at her.

"His name," She said looking back at him. What he think she ment?

"Oh," He gave a puzzled look.

"SHh!" She told him. SHe jumped up to her feet. SHe swivled in defence mood intirely. "Crap," She hissed. She grabbed Zane's arm and janked him down. He basicly fell and she was pulled down. "Keep on your gard," SHe told him as she pulled herself off him. SHe looked around again. He was gone. "I lost him," SHe comfermed. Next time he came around she'd have to shut herself down again. Great. Unprotected since Zane had no idea what to do.

SHe droped down and sat beside him. "I have a lot to tell and little time. You ready to listen?" She asked. She looked directly at him to make sure he knew the great importance this held.

~SYVILIOUS~

I sighed and looked away. Not looking at her, I thought: Well I was hoping to get to know you better, and then teach you how to block your mind out to others. Like right now, with my powers, I am blocking out both your thoughts and my thoughts to others. No one else but us two can hear what is being thought right now.

She pulled my face around so I was looking at her. Well if you would like, you can get to know me better and I can get to know you better right now too. But who should start?

Flip on it? I asked.

I got heads.

I got tails then. I pull out a quarter, seemingly from nowhere and flipped it. It flipped over and over in the air, I watched and counted how many times it flipped. I caught it in midair and slapped it over onto the back of my hand. Not even looking at it I showed it to her.

I never did have much luck, She thought, then she began.


~ZANE~

"I am completely ready to listen, and if this is a dangerous spot, we can move if you like," I suggested.

"This spot is fine. Just keep your guard up and stay on your toes," she said quickly, eager to begin.

I sat back on a log I had dragged from the woods while setting up camp. "You may begin whenever you feel ready."

Then, she began, talking quickly, eager to get it out of her system for the first time in a long time.

Jase:

"When I was younger I had a relation with a few unlikly people. One was a werewolf. He was surpisingly kind and the other was a vampire, as me and you. When we got to the point our parents couldn't take it any longer they told me to pick which of the two I was willing to keep and I wan't sure. I didn't even know it had mattered one bit. They had always seemed like brothers to me. Why would I chose between the two? I manged to get them to agree with letting me make up my mind by having a week to deside. By the end of the week werewolf boy had been killed and the once sweet freind of a vampire had torched me nearly to death.The day of desistion came and I was no where near. My parents didn't mid. They knew I could make it on my own but Die wasn't saticfied with my indestion. He still wants me to tell him I chose him over my dead freind. He's like a sphico ex-boyfriend. He follows me every were and ends up hurting a lot fo people or just manages to get myself taken over by another side of me. I hate my other side. And we never embrace the part that we are the same person. My God. I'm surprised that came out so fast," She said as she lay down.

It wasn't very long before he came back and she wasn't even ready for it. She was asleep. Zane had been watchingover her but still didn't know what truely to do when the attacks began again. And as he stood over her he was tackled down by a vampire boy, Die.

*Crazy past. Nothing to say. No, this had nothing to do with my life one bit.*

Leona~

Well, Leon and I have been on our own since we were about 10 when our parents died. We basically take care of each other except for when I get fed-up with him and leave. I went to a whole other state without him once. He went crazy when I didn't come home. But I like to be independent from him sometimes. He likes to tell me who I can hang around and who not to mess with but I normally don't listen. I looked over at him then. His eyes bore into mine. His eyes reminded me of the ocean at night. I was tempted to hold my hand against his cheek and pull him closer so I could just stare into his eyes.

I suddenly looked down, blushing. I'm sorry. I thought quickly.

~ZANE~

I was tackled to the ground unexpectedly, rolling to get out of the way I saw that it was just a boy, glaring fiercely at me. I saw blood-lust in his eyes and I knew who it was. It was the vampire boy that Jase told me about. He leaped at me again as I went to protect Jase, who was somehow still sleeping.

"What do you want?" I yelled at him. Jase jerked awake but Die didn't notice. Stay quiet, and stay still, I thought.

"I want Jase, you will give me to her or else you will die and I will take her with me," He growled.

While shifting into panther form, I said: "You will not take Jase. I will be sure of that." He got a shocked look on his face when he saw me turning into a panther, then he calmed down and took a fighting stance.


~SYVILIOUS~

Ignoring her apology for now, I thought: Well, I have had no siblings, my parents only wanted one and I was it. Both of them were vampires so I was born one, but I wasn't an ordinary vampire, I was born a mute, that's why I don't talk. But anyway, when the scientists came for me when I was about 15, my parents were killed trying to save me. The scientists fused me with a beetle, I escaped and hid out here. Zane and Kratos found me here when they moved in and I have lived here for almost a year now. With them helping me through all that has happened to me in my past and all, me not having anything except the clothes on my back, my parents dying, they helped me a lot.

That last part I said sadly, cause I was thinking about my past for the first time in ages and it upset me. And don't worry about before, you can tell...sorry, think me anything you would like. I am very good at keeping secrets. And by the way, your brother is watching us at this very moment from behind the mirror.

I opened up a channel between the three of us, me, Leona, and Leon. If you think you are fooling anyone Leon, then you are probably fooling Leona, but not me, I have known you were there since you wondered what was behind that mirror.

Leona~

LEON! You little sneak! What are you doing?! GO AWAY! I was furious. Leon gave me no privacy...

Calm down Leona. Syvlious tried to calm me down but I was so mad at him. I felt like running at Leon and attacking him. I wanted to scratch his eyes out. Suddenly I stopped, scared at my own mind.
I'd never hurt Leon, he was my brother. I looked up at Syvlious shocked at my own thoughts and knowing he heard them.

Jase:

She bolted up to a sitting postion as they were about to go at eachother. Her eyes were some how glazed. Diffrent. It wasn't Jase one bit. Her mouth was a line of pink, almost white with the force that was being put on it.

"Want to meet the new Jase?" Die growled. His face didn't shift one bit. Zane turned. It really wasn't Jase. I was a posetion. She was a pupet at the moment.

"Wha'd you do?" He asked the vampire boy.

"Nothing," He said with a smile. That was a lie.

What did you do? He though into the boy. Die's mouth droped open for a second and then he finally shut it.

"I know a few things. Leave it at that. Let's have a fight. Who ever wins keeps her." DIe gave a smile. He was always full of himself.

*Make the fight long. If you need help I don't mind.*

~SYVILIOUS~

Pulling Leon into the room and at the same time trying to keep Leona from going after Leon, I think to them: Do not be angry with your brother, I can sense that he is too overprotective. With the training in blocking out the mind, I can also teach him not to be overprotective. First thing I can do is to remove the tunnel leading from his room to all the others. How does that sound to the both of you? Me teaching him how to not be so protective and to take out the tunnel to be sure that he doesn't do anything rash again?

I looked around the room to study their faces. I could tell that Leona was fine with that deal, but not so much Leon. Do you like getting yelled at by your sister? Would you like it better if she respected you for giving her some privacy? Even though you don't know me, I'm not the kind of guy that would go after someones sister right after I met her. A look of hope was drained from Leona's eyes when I thought this. Noticing this, I thought: I really like her and all, but I respect women enough to not do anything so soon. If you can live with that, Leon, I think we can be good friends.

Leon sat there for a minute and thought this proposition over. I don't like it very much, but alright. I don't really have much of a choice, do I?[i] When he said...thought...that, Leona tried to hide her enthusiasm. It didn't work for me, because I could hear her thoughts, I don't know if Leon heard them or not, but I didn't care, I was happy too.

[i]Not really, I do not think your sister would let you choose who she should date and who she shouldn't. Now, I will leave you too in here to talk so I can go and take out those tunnels really quick.

As I turn to leave I remember something. Without turning around, I think: And I would know if you explore my room Leon, I don't mind if Leona does it, I have nothing to hide from her, but you, I have my doubts.

Inside his head I heard him swear, and I also heard him mutter it under his breath. I didn't need to read his mind to know that was what he is planning. I exit the room and close the door, going to take out the tunnels.

~ZANE~

I shift into half panther form, so I can still use my fists ,along with the claws that were jutting out of my fingertips. "Please Jase, do not interfere. I have not lost to an opponent yet. I know that I can defeat him."

Die attacked soon after I said that, trying to catch me off guard, which didn't work so well. I dodged the attack easily. I spent a few minutes dodging easily away from his blows. He got frustrated and started making foolish moves like diving at me and his punches became erratic. "HOW ARE YOU DODGING ME!?!?" he yelled.

"You should realize by now that I can read minds. You must rely on instincts alone to defeat me. Without doing that, you will lose. I am telling you this for your own benefit. This wouldn't be a challenge without you relying on instinct." I said this calmly, with my eyes closed, seeing if he would actually attack me like this. He didn't.

When I opened them, I couldn't see him, he was gone. I knew that some sort of blow was coming in my direction. I didn't expect a knife to be driven into my stomach from Die. I coughed up blood and fell to the ground, Die laughing maniacally as I fade back into vampire form. I lay there, shuddering for a moment, then going still, faking death.

I see Die walk over to Jase. "You're mine now, I will not let you go again," He growled. Then, he went stiff. The knife that had been in my stomach moments before was now in the small of his back.

"One good blow deserves another, remember that while we continue this fight." I jump back, wincing in pain from the hole in my stomach. He ripped the knife out of his back and threw it at me. I just stood there and let it fly towards my head. Jase opened her mouth to yell a warning, when the knife being about three inches from my face, I whip my head sideways and catch the knife between my index and middle finger. Spinning, I fling it towards a tree behind Die and run towards him, shouldering him past the tree the knife was stuck in. When he wasn't looking, I leaped into the trees so he couldn't see me. When he entered the clearing he didn't see me, so he started backing up. I vaulted out of the trees towards the knife in the tree. Fortunately Die was very close to that tree. I flew through the air to the knife. I grabbed the hilt and used it to swing myself so I was as straight as an arrow. My feet hit his chest and he flew backwards into another tree, howling in pain from the gaping hole in his lower back.

While he was on the ground in pain, I checked my wounds. My stomach wound was healing really fast, as per the vampire blood coursing through my veins. I look up and see Die stagger to his feet. There is total hate in his eyes while he glared at me. He darted towards me, ignoring the pain in his back, so I leap out of the way. While sailing through midair I realize that he is not going after me. He is running to get the knife out of the tree. I brace myself for him to throw the knife, which he does. I go to catch it again but my coordination was off. The knife sailed right into the palm of my left hand, which, from the speed of the knife, pushed my hand backwards, slicing my cheek. I yell out in pain and topple to the ground, pull the knife out of my hand and throw it back at him, opening a gash in his right shoulder. Luckily, the knife goes flying into the trees and out of sight.

Die swears and comes at me. As quick as I can, I turn into my half panther form again and slash out with my hand/paw. The swing was a wild one and I didn't expect it to hit. But by the luck of the vampires, he was close enough to open up a deep cut in his neck, though not fatal. Close to fatal, but not. As he is trying to figure out what has just happened, I shift into full panther form and jump on him. My jaws gnashing for his neck, I get left cheek, left shoulder, then struck home and hit throat. I ripped out his Adam's apple and left him bleeding there as I went back to vampire form. He crawled over to Jase and she backed away, out of his trance.

"It is alright," I say, "he can do you no harm anymore." All the while that was happening i was tending to my wounds.

She stays still while Die crawls towards her. When he gets to her, he grabs her leg and pulls her down to the ground with the last of his strength. With his final breath, he said: "I will still have you, just you wait."

He coughs up about a pint of blood and dies.(That is sort of irony isn't it? His name was Die and he did...weird...almost as if it was planned that way *sits back in chair and ponders that*)

Jase walks over to me and asks to see my wounds. I pull off my shirt so she can see my stomach wound. She gasps at how muscular I am, even though I look skinny. I ignore it and I show her my cheek and hand wounds. She touches my cheek wound, and it heals in about five seconds. She backs up and looks at her own hands. They did not look any different than before. Even I look at her hands in astonishment. I was the first to recover from shock. Quickly I take her hand and put it to my stomach wound. It finished healing as quick as my hand wound did.

She pulls her hand away. "Why did you do that?" she asked.

"Sorry. It hurt a lot. I couldn't take the pain any longer," I mentioned, looking away. "Do you think you could..." I point to my cheek.

"Oh, yeah, here." She put her hand on my cheek and it healed completely.

"Thank you. I think I know what is going on. But you have to let me explain about it before you say anything," I say quickly. "Some vampires, like myself, have special abilities. I can read minds. You can also do that. But you can do something that even I can't do. Well, not right now at least. You have the power to heal others."

"Do you think I will have any other weird powers like these?" She sounded sort of freaked out.

"Well, I know one other power you have," I said, almost embarrassed.

"What power is that? Please don't let it be a really creepy one."

"You have the power to steal my heart." I look up and gaze into her beautiful green eyes as she gazes into my grey ones. I pull her face closer and into a kiss, wrapping my arms around her waist as she tangled her hands into my jet black hair.

*So, How was that Ambercoultis? Would that be long enough of a fight for you? And would you allow that last part?*

Hey. It all seams to flow. It's good with me.

(That is sort of irony isn't it? His name was Die and he did...weird...almost as if it was planned that way *sits back in chair and ponders that*)

Yeah.. SHocking. Hey. I guess it was planed. *CHuckles evily*


Jase:

His lips were warm. Enticing to the feel they gave as he kissed her. It was rather sudden but it all seamed to meld together. She pulled away from him. "How?" Was all that came out. He pulled her twards him and kissed her again.

*I'm not sure what to put...*

*Hey I was wanting to give Leona a special power... please tell me if she can have one or not.*

Leona~

I scowled as I watched Syvilious leave the room and then glared at Leon. I didn't think it was a good idea for me to be left alone with him right now. My thoughts were darker than they had ever been but I just quietly went to sit on the bed.

"Leona I-" I held up my hand cutting him off.

"You what? Were just trying to protect me?" I lightly laughed at the idea.

"Yes." He hissed the word at me and I stared up at him with hate in my eyes.

"Don't then. I don't need you protecting me from people who are HELPING us Leon. You have such bad judgement in character." My arms clenched into the covers of the bed as I became even more upset. I focused on not striking out at him as he continued to talk about not knowing these people and they could be anyone for all we knew.
I kept thinking of how much I just wanted to run so I didn't hurt him while another part of me was on fire with the need to hit him. I'd never felt these things to my brother before but I got up and ran as I heard a voice in my mind taunting me to hurt him badly.
I ran quickly away. I could hear Leon calling after me and running but I didn't stop. I had to get away from him so the voice would stop.
I held my ears and ran as fast as I could.

A.N. Ok, 2 things. 1. I will not be here until Monday so I will not be able to post this weekend. and 2. I will probably post for Zane when I get back on Monday.

~SYVILIOUS~

As I am taking out the tunnels,(don't ask how) I hear footsteps pass in the hallway. I leave Leon's room to see who is going down the hallway and see Leona running down the hallway, away from my room. I shift into a beetle and fly after her. I pass her and crawl under a door farther down the hallway, turning back into a vampire when I get into the room. I open the door and catch her arm as she passes.

What is wrong, Leona? I saw you running away from my room.

I didn't want to risk hurting my brother. I have never had thoughts of harming him before.

On second thought, it probably would have been a good idea to not leave you in a room with him right then. I'm sorry, I didn't know you would react that way.

It's fine. You don't have to apologize. There were slight tears forming in her eyes and she looked away.

Please, don't cry. Well he did agree to something you should be happy about. She looked at me questioningly. He said he would back off. We can date if you would like. But we should give him a few days to get used to me liking you and so he can learn to accept me.

A sort of sad but happy look appeared into her eyes and she walked over to me. When she was about six inches from me, I pulled her into a hug and held her for what seemed like hours. She dug her face into my chest and held me tight.