Magus of the Ghag'Saron
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
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(-:-) Flash back
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She frowns once Sin finishes telling them what happened and how Ryo and Davis were captured. She balls a fist and feels a storm of emotions rise to the surface, some of it was worry for Takato's safety as well as the fact she was pissed that she couldn't be by the elder Ghag'Saron vampire's side in the up coming battle. She glares into space, thinking up ways to met up with Takato to help out. She's not just going to stand by and wait for this whole thing to blow over.
(+-+-+Takato+-+-+)
He glances around from his vantage point from the roof of the hotel. He had spent the remaining hours setting up sentry runes around the city. He sighs as he watches the rainbow of colours fade as the sun sets under the horizon with a hand on Kenai's back. The black wolf snorts and asks, "Are we going to hunt or wait until later?" "Might as well be later. For I'll most likely be dragged into clan politics now that I'm 'on the map.'" He replies as he gets up off the tiles.
He shakes his head; he just knows the subject of daylight spells will be brought up. Ever since his clan died, the remaining clans want some of their members to be able to walk around in daylight hours. He's uneasy about doing that, his memories about how much his clan leader and elder member had disapproved of him for casting those same spells he just finished casting onto himself and then onto Ryo, his best friend.
He grins as he remembers the excitement that Ryo had when they had stepped into the sun. He can still remember the kiss that Ryo gave him once the mind charmer dragged him out of the shadows of the alley. Both had gagged once they realized what happened. Once they got over it, Ryo dragged him to the closest market and they shopped around, he watched Ryo flirt with the ladies as well noticed just how pale vampires were. Luckily, the humans just thought that Ryo and him were nobles from a distant land so the colour of their skin wasn't used against them.
He climbs through a window and waits for Kenai to enter before closing the window. Kenai walks by him without glancing his way, not that he expected it from his familiar, knowing that the wolf was pretty independent. He closes the window and locks it. He did notice the looks from a couple walking to their rooms, first on Kenai and then onto him. He wonders if Mimi will hear from them about the fact that there was a 'dog' on floor whatever.
He finds Kenai at the elevators, the black wolf's ear swivels in his direction then forward again. He presses button and stands to Kenai's right, noticing that Kenai didn't move a muscle as he moves behind the Digital Monster. He didn't know whether it was because Kenai didn't think he'd harm the black wolf or if Kenai had something on his mind. All he knows, that's not a normal, most living beings get edgy with someone moving about behind them.
He looks straight ahead, waiting for the doors to open up. His thoughts flirt around as they wait for the elevators. His thoughts drift to those huge crystals in that were thriving in that training carven. He wonders how long they'll remain undiscovered, for he doubts that he'll be able to safely drain them of energy so that they don't have so much power stored within them. He's uneasy with those crystals containing so much magical energy; it only takes one to …
The doors open and he steps into the elevator once the people make room for him and for Kenai, the smell of so many humans aroused his hungry for a few minutes before he brought it under control. He notices the glances at Kenai, but ignores them; he watches the doors close and feels the box descend downwards.
Soon they make it to the main floor and he walks out, just in time to come face to face with Kari. They both blink at each other and Kari's checks redden, he notices Mimi behind the front desk. He sighs, he looks around in hopes of spotting someone else, but he doesn't spot anyone else as Kari walks over towards him. "Kari." He says to the younger vampire, for he's about fifty years older then the vampire before him. "Takato." Kari says as an awkward silence falls between them.
Truth be told, Tai and Kari were blood related to him, it was distant but there for both Kari and him share the same eye color, proof of their shared blood. His great great-grandfather had a pair of twins, the eldest was his great great-grandfather and the youngest twin was Tai and Kari's great great geart-grandfather. The eldest often argued with the father and ended up leaving the country, leaving the youngest brother to inherit the family name and fortune.
His great-grandfather made a name for himself as a blacksmith, by the time he was born; his side of the family owned their own estate, a copper mine, and a few shops in the villages around their estate. The old smith shop that his great-grandfather owned had burnt in a fire just months of his birth. His family did have a small workshop connected to their house, but he found himself drawn to creating things on paper then with metal, like his cousin Takuya, who went on to inherit his father's business for when he had been turned, he had been the only son of his parents.
He hadn't known what happened to his parents until a few years after he first encountered Kari visiting her parent's and brother's graves when he was in town during a two month break. They hit it off, neither knowing about their family relation until he was about to head back to study with his clan again. As odd as it sounds the same night that Kari was turned, they found out just how they were related as he mentioned how the crest reminded him of his great great-grandfather's personal crest.
They headed to Kari's family library and found his great great-grandfather's name in the family registry. They had been shocked and he had thanked his lucky stars that neither of them had tried anything more then just having dinner together. He had been about leave the property when something happened back at the mansion and rushed back only to find a rogue feasting on Kari's blood.
Then Tai appeared and wasted the rogue who was Tai's enemy within his clan. Tai had kind of reacted like any brother would, he panicked and wasn't thinking straight so he had simply knocked the frantic Tai out and asked her if she wanted to live. The look in her eyes told him enough and he had glanced at Tai, but decided that Kari needed an older vampire's blood for Tai had only been a vampire for about three years.
He took a knife and cut his wrist. Kari almost refused to press her lips around the cut, but she had wanted to live so she got over it. Oddly enough, Tai had been cut on the wrist, so as he waited for Kari to undergo the transformation, he did a minor healing spell on his cut and cleaned up the blood on the floor. When Tai woke, the brash vampire added two and two and got … five.
Neither Kari nor himself had the heart to correct him, so to this day nobody knows that Kari's the first of her bloodline. Since Tai's rival was of the Zvor'Rarif or Fang's Blood and him being of the Ghag'Saron that allows Kari to choice to mix the two names together to come up any number of combanations such as Saron'Zvor, Terror's Fang, or Ghag'Rarif, Sun God's Blood. Though Kari has yet to decide on a clan name just yet, not that he blames the woman before him for to decide on a name is to break away from her brother's clan.
"So, this must be Kenai? I heard about him from Mimi." Kari says after a few minutes of silences, since it seems that Mimi wasn't going to rescue them from each other. "Yes, this is Kenai. Kenai this is Kari Zvor'Rarif." He says, clearly glad that Kari brought up Kenai. Kenai nods and then looks up at him with an odd look. He swallows and looks away from his familiar.
"TK's around here somewhere, maybe you'd like to look around for him. I know you two are close…" He says after two minutes of silence. Kari nods, definitely relieved that she has an excuse to leave as well as edger to find their mutual friend. He watches as Kari quickly walks towards the elevators, he relaxes as Kari disappears as the doors close.
"I still don't get why you and Kari can't remain together for more then an hour. You two didn't have something going on behind the curtains, do you?" Mimi asks kind of bluntly. "It's nothing like that. We just don't know what to talk about." He replies as truthfully as he can. Mimi looks him over like she usually does and then seems to sigh, not finding any real answers. He is slightly older then Mimi, by five years, which does give him a bit of seniority over the pink wearing vampire.
Soon Tai enters into the hotel and he looks at his other cousin, relief that Mimi can find someone else to bug. He glances to the elevator, his thoughts wondering if their shared secret will bite them in the arse soon, for he doubts that their true relationship will remain hidden as Kari begins to shed the scent of a Zvor'Rarif and take on a more unique scent of her hybrid bloodline. He can't help but wonder of will happen once the other clans learn of the newest clan of one has some of the legendary blood of Ghag'Saron.
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He blinks as he stares straight up at the huge lion/bull/lizard beast currently trying to snatch and gobble up humans. He sighs as Kenai transforms into his truest form, soon the black coat gains the red stripe and dot tattoos along the back that he had done when he designed Kenai.
Though Kenai stands five feet tall at the shoulder, the chimera stands seven feet at the shoulder, but didn't have the sleek design that Kenai has for the chimera looks like someone just cut up a lion and decided to keep the front paws and mane with a bull's stocky build and horns with the rest being that of the lizard. The beast has a grand total of three eyes with one being green, blue, and red as well as having the ability to spit acid.
He sighs, he glances at the energy gate that's still behind the beast, he casts a simple spell that'll allow him to read the runes on the edge of the shimmering portal. Its daylight out so Kenai and him are the only ones able to react to this disruption. He frowns as he notices the amount of druid runes on the gate; he glances at Kenai, wondering if the wolf left some important information out of his tale. He goes through what Kenai had said and tries to pin point where the mention of any other magic users would probably appear.
About two hours, they're current location is at a park, nobody around since most of the humans were hiding in their houses, thinking that they're safe within those familiar walls. "It's a druid, isn't it?" He asks out of the blue. Kenai looks both startle and smelled surprise. "How?" Kenai asks in surprise. "There are druid runes on the gate edge, if you know how to see them. So you know who it is, but why leave something like that out of your telling?" He asks the black wolf.
Kenai stands suddenly and begins to pace with his ears pin back. "And how can I trust you vampires when you let this world become so unhealthy? How do I know that you won't just exploit my world just to breed more humans?" Kenai growls out in threatening tones. He chuckles and soon out right laughs uncontrollably with Kenai looks bewildered. For a total of five minutes he just laughed until Kenai finally snarls, "What's so funny?"
Though he tries to answer Kenai as he tries to control his laugher, "You think human mages are any better? Non-magical humans number in the billions while the magic users numbering in the thousands and vampires numbering about a thousand less then the magic users with some mixtures of rogues among vampires, magic users, and humans preying on vampires and magic communities."
He pauses to let Kenai chew on that as he takes time to fully calm himself down. "Two great clans of vampires did try to do something grand, what we don't know, and nothing truly remains of them expect for the Ghag'Saron bloodline. Those two clans were the parent clans for mine clan and you know what that means, right?" Kenai nods slowly as the wolf begins to understand what he's getting at. "They tried something with magic that we didn't know if they succeeded in their spell casting or they annihilated themselves with it. Thus leaving only one magic using clan of vampires, which now numbers two, so think about that as you consider what that group told you. For most human mages have always been envious of my clan's ability and resources in the mystical arts for the longest time Ghag'Saron were the most profound in those arts, so much so that many orders tried and failed to capture and torture information out of the only magic user clan of vampires. From the minute we finished turning, we under go teachings in the mystical arts for the first part of our time as vampires. It takes centuries before we are declared masters, compared to about ten or so years that most human mages under go."
He can tell that Kenai is stunned at about how thorough his education had been. "Really?" Kenai asks and he nods. "Ken is a few decades shy of being declared a journeyman level magic user and though I'm sure Ken's lessons as a human magus give him a slight advantage over pervious turned vampires, it still makes Ken a beginner in the mystical arts. So which are you going to believe? A group of human magic users who have only mayber about two decades of experience under their belts or someone who has about five centuries of experience as well as access to about ten thousand years of magical history?" Kenai sits and looks down at the grass under his paws.
He leans back against the tree, knowing that he had made his point to his familiar. Though he can understand why Kenai would suspect vampires of wanting to exploit his world, that Digital World, but in the end, it's usually human mages that were more likely the threat to that world then his race. 'Maybe it's because we're currently just viewing it as a passing thing that will die before we decide what our position is on the subject. Sadly, this world might not exist in five years from now.' He thinks as he views it from most vampire's point of view. He also guesses that once Izzy is found and rescued, the world's life span won't last two weeks.
"What's up with Kari? She does smell like Tai or the Zvor'Rarif representative." Kenai asks after about thirty minutes. He sighs and looks into Kenai's inquisitive eyes. "She's a hybrid." He answers and Kenai chews on this for about three minutes. "Then why introduce her as a Zvor'Rarif?" Kenai asks. "Tai thinks Kari feed on his blood when his rival drank her's." He says truthfully. "Did he?" Kenai asks. "I feed her my blood. We didn't correct his assumptions and nobody bothered to ask once Tai made his announcement." He admitted. "You mean you turned her?" Kenai asks.
He blushes and says, "The thing is it doesn't count as a turn for me, for it to count you need to drink and feed the candidate. It's just something that doesn't really matter until it's out in the open. Plus, Kari hasn't chosen a clan name for her bloodline so she's kind of still dependent on the Zvor'Rarif clan. Until she's ready to break away from her brother's clan, it doesn't matter what kind of blood runs through her veins as long as she doesn't declare herself as belonging to a new and independent clan."
They both didn't know what to say until Kenai says, "I guess I should thank you for being honest about that." He smiles slightly and replies, "It's not like either of us lied, it's more like we were never asked to explain what happened once the rival drained her and after I knocked Tai out. You're just the first to take note of Kari's truly unique scent." "So do you plan on training Kari to become a magus? I'm sure that she has it in her if she has some of your blood in her." Kenai says simply. He blinks, he hadn't thought about it. "I don't know. I guess I should." He answers honestly, if Kenai had been human, Kenai's eyebrow would be raised at his answer.
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He waits for Kari to enter the room before saying, "I think we need to talk about… you know." He says the last part a bit lamely. Kari tenses and states, "I don't think I'm ready to become independent." "That's not it, you have … and Kenai pointed out that you should have the potential for…" He says, Kari looks surprise, showing that she hadn't expected this bit to be brought up. "I mean, usually you'd spend time with both … and maybe it's time for you to…" He says, not sure if he's saying this right.
Kari finally says something after about two minutes of awkward silence. "I guess I should, but wouldn't Ken be…?" "I doubt it; he might be slightly relieved to have someone under him, asking him for help and advice. He might even improve from helping you understand it." He says to Kari. He can tell from the look in Kari's eye that she didn't know what to do, he pipes in, "You're old enough and I'm sure Tai will understand, though I think he'd be angry that we kept it secret for so long though."
"I knew it! You two did something!" Mimi's voice rings out, at which point they both panic. "Mimi! What are you doing here?" He asks in a higher voice then normal. "This is the girl's washroom, Takato. You should have realised that! This will just break TK's heart! I mean, Kari's practically TK's girlfriend and you're TK's friend!" Mimi says and begins to head out, but he quickly grabs Mimi's arm.
"It's not like that! Kari's like my daughter!" He says and finds that Sora by the door. "Daughter? But that would mean…" Sora says as she trails off. He pales and lets go of Mimi's arm as both Mimi and Sora stare at him and then at Kari in shock. "What's going on?" TK asks and Mimi blunts it out, "I think Takato just admitted to being Kari's father." TK looks puzzled, "But vampires can't have kids… they closest is… oh." TK says once it dawns on the blond what kind of relationship that allows a vampire to claim parental names. "But Tai said… and you would have been…" TK says and he looks away guilty.
"It was just a break and we met when she was visiting her family graves… Then we learnt about our family connection and I was leaving to return to my studies… Things happened and I knew that Tai wasn't old enough to help in the process so I just… then I casted a healing spell on my cut. I had just finished cleaning up Tai's blood and was about to bind his wound when he woke and jumped to conclusions. Neither of us wanted to break the news and it's been like that since." He says, not liking the amazed looks he was getting from the vampires before him.
"What's keeping you guys?" Tai asks as he enters the hall. He suddenly finds the wall paper really interesting. "What's going on?" Tai asks and Mimi breaks it the ice after a few minutes, "It seems that Kari's a hybrid." "No she's not." Tai says and he glances at Tai and then looks down at his shoes. "Takato… you didn't… but I had a…" Tai says and he sighs. "You were only three and I guess you didn't want her to die… I gave her a choice and I did what I could for her." He says softly. "We just didn't want to burst your bubble." Kari says and Tai sighs and runs a hand through his wild hair. "I got to think about this." Tai says and walks out of the room, he watches as his cousin walk away, he knows that Tai will get over it, the brash vampire just needs time to think it over.
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She sighs as she counts to ten as once more her attempt to buy a plane ticket is shot down once more. This was like the twentieth time in three days and she was beginning to get annoyed. "Do you really think that the clan leaders would want humans going to a city where Digital Gates are opening? I don't think so, so unless you have your drivers and a car, I don't think we'll be getting to that city until whatever is going on is over." Ken says from behind her.
She sighs and looks over at the sleeping cyber beast that's curled up on Ken's chest. "Do you really think that Kenai would tell them about who's behind it? I mean, that wolf's got an independent streak a mile wide. I wouldn't be surprise if that lobo is keeping that bit under wraps. Even Sin admitted that Kenai was tempted by that offering the group made." She growls as she turns in her chair to face the vampire.
Just then the phone rings and as quick as lightning, she grabs that phone, "Hello?" She says once she bringing the phone up to her ear. "Rika? What are you doing at the apartment?" Takato asks. "Trying to get plane tickets, fang boy." She replies. "You haven't had luck, huh?" Takato says in a teasing tone which made her flush slightly. "Obviously." She says icily. "Don't feel too bad, there's not much going on other then the revelation of a new bloodline and that Kenai is debating about telling me who's behind this." Takato says.
"How could you trust him to tell you if he's withheld that information to begin with?" She asks. "That's something Kenai and I have in common. I just need to talk with Ken for a quick sec and then we can talk all you want." Takato says and she sighs. She hands the phone over to the young vampire, she tells Ken, "He wants to talk to you." She then waits for Ken and Takato to finish.
After watching Ken's reactions, she was interested in what Takato told the young magus that could cause such reactions in Ken within a few minutes. Soon Ken says in a much louder voice, "We're done, Rika." She picks up the phone and walks back to the chair by the computer. "What did you tell Ken?" She asks, forgetting that she wanted to get Takato to allow her to fly to the city to help out. "Oh, it's just that I know have another student." Takato answers. "Who did you turn this time?" She asks, not that her interest is peaked. "It's not like that; Kari's a hybrid with Ghag'Saron blood flowing in her veins. She's about fifty years younger then I am and it's about time she does choice a clan name and spend time with this side of the family." Takato says.
"So you two are just coming out of the closet, now of all times?" She asks. "It came out by accident more then anything. It's better then what Mimi originally thought is was." Takato says dryly. "And what was that?" She asks, over come with curiosity. "She thought we had this secret affair going on, even though Kari's more or less with TK." Takato says and she couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure that nothing's going on between you two?" "Trust me! She's my cousin, plus I'm the one that donated the blood she feed off of, so nothing can happen between us it'd be like committing incest!" Takato says, clearly surprise she would even think that.
"Besides, who says she'd survived an attack by a fiery red head? So talk with you later Rika, see ya soon." Takato says and then hangs up before she could gather her thoughts. She blushes like mad as she thinks about that 'fiery red head' comment.
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He glances around at the study, he sighs, shaking his head at the fact that it was a druid master minding the whole thing. Many of the others were expecting a wizard or a witch or even a one of the rogue types, but definitely not a druid. "I'm sorry Takato. I shouldn't have believed them." Kenai says once the black wolf enters into the room. "Your mistrust of people of this world is valid, Kenai. All things that happened here could very well happen in your world once the inhabitants gain enough intelligence to commit such acts. It's just how things are, you know." He tells Kenai.
They didn't say anything until someone else enters into the room, he turns and finds a tired looking Ryo enter into the room. He sighs as his friend walks unsteadily towards him. He walks up to his pale friend and steadies him. "You shouldn't be up and around, Ryo. You should let those cute nurses look after you." He says jokingly. Ryo smiles slightly at his joke. "Maybe they wouldn't mind a foursome." Ryo jokingly says.
He snorts and says dryly, "I do believe a certain red head wouldn't like that one bit. Besides, I got more important matters to deal with then to go around womanizing." "Like training Tai's little sister in the mystical arts." Ryo says. He sighs and glances once more at the library of mixed spell books, some were even written by vampires, no more then six though.
He sighs as begins to walks out of the room with Ryo. "You need your rest, Ryo. So no complaining or I'll bind you to the bed until your well." He threatens as he walks out of the room. "Ah, such a party pooper. I remember the days when we would kill a whole village just for kicks." Ryo says and then he nods in agreement.
"Those villages desired it, murdering children and innocent people just to get in favour with those gangs of blood mages and the odd necromancer. We truly earned our old nick name, didn't we?" He says thoughtfully. "Yea, we did. We truly did." Ryo says. "What nick name was that?" Kenai asks as the Digital wolf follows behind them. "A name that most likely still sends shivers up and down people's spines. I know the history classes still review what we did, despite how many centuries have passed." He says, he pauses for Kenai to pass through the door before closing it. 'Even if any of the mages find out, they wouldn't believe. People truly like having an unsolved able mystery, don't they?'
