The hunt began. The two outcasts were on the move... what they were looking
for was currently unclear, but surely important if their sources were
correct. What to do – follow them and try to interfere? Or try and figure
things out on their own... Neither option seemed that realistic at the
moment. The outcasts knew where they were going and what they were looking
for... He however, had nothing. Perhaps it would be better to observe... to
wait and see what was so important and then decide a course of action from
there. Yes, that sounded much better, much better indeed.
The young woman woke only mere hours before dusk would fall... She was disappointed in herself for sleeping so late. So much of the day had been wasted, and work would more than likely not be happy with her for not calling in. However, who could really blame her after the night she'd had. There was something coming, the air held this pregnant feeling as if something important were about to be born out of the mystery that was keeping her feeling tense and unsure.
Who had been talking to her last night? Why had this woman called her daughter? Had that been the voice of the mother that she had never gotten to know? Was that the woman that had died giving birth to her? It couldn't have been... there was just something about the words she spoke that lent themselves to a certain air of mystery that no mortal woman could have created... There was something at once familiar and strange about that voice. She had also felt strangely comforted and at the same time very afraid as if it were something far larger, far greater than herself that she had been in the presence of that night....
So many questions and so few answers... Something was coming for her... the voice in her dreams had told her that much... So much was odd about what the kindly voice had spoken to her, but at the same time she was hard pressed to deny the validity of even the oddest of the statements made in her dreams last night... So what exactly was going on? She had mentioned some sort of war between vampires and werewolves – hadn't she? As unbelievable as it sounded, somehow it felt right. It was so odd. Then again hadn't that kindly woman called herself Gaia, as in Mother Nature?
Danae just shook her head and proceeded to make herself something to eat... Once she was done, she cleaned up as much as she could... Something told her to get things ready, that she would be leaving and she might not have a chance to come back for a while... Where were these things coming from? Why was she compelled to follow these odd inklings? She supposed that it didn't matter, after all, if it was right then she was ready and if it was wrong, then she could always put things in their place...
Darkness fell...
Selene and Michael slowly slipped out into the night... First they would feed and then they would go to the girl... They were as shadows, keeping themselves out of the lights and out of the focus of anyone that might be watching. They would have to operate under more subtle and secretive ways in order to make sure that the girl was not put into more danger than was necessary. After all if Kraven caught wind of this, then he would surely have his minions knocking down the door to try and get her for himself.
They were being watched and not by only one source. The guide was watching, as she always would, but there was someone darker and more dangerous watching. Sensing this, the guide sought to keep him as baffled as possible and sent out into the night a fog, deep and dark as well as letting him pick her up on his radar, so as to believe that she was what the two were searching for... The guide would lead him on a merry chase through the city as far away from her daughter as she could manage... and then she would let her presence ebb away so as to leave him baffled and behind. Certain steps must be taken and sacrifices made in order to ensure the safety of her little phoenix.
"This way Michael."
"How do you know where we are going?"
"I pulled up a map last night and committed it to memory, besides her address seems burned into my mind... and we have walked this city many nights... I do know a thing or two about the names of streets, though I seldom pay them mind." Selene chuckled. Michael just shook his head and chuckled, following his love on the path to this treasure she was seeking...
Danae grew tense, she was waiting for something and it was almost like she could feel what was going on. She knew something was on its way. She only hoped it was the woman, Selene and her mate and not something else coming to find her. She set everything she wanted to take with her in the living room... A suitcase... and a bag filled with her stuffed animals and a few personal effects she thought that she might need... other than that there was nothing... nothing else here in the apartment held anything of great importance to her.
She felt very little connection to any of these material things. The only time she felt any sort of real connection was when she was out in the park, surrounded by nature. That felt natural, that felt right, that felt like home... The rest of this was just an illusion she'd been forced into by the circumstances in her life that had led her here. Other than that, this materialistic world meant absolutely nothing to her.
It was all really strange. She couldn't claim she understood any of it and she wouldn't want to try anyway. It would more than likely only serve to give her a headache... and she didn't think she could afford such at this time. Something told her that she needed to be ready for just about anything and that she needed to keep her mind as clear as possible. Something important was about to happen and her clarity of mind was something of importance for it. She might not understand what was going on, but she knew that she had to be prepared for whatever was coming her way...
The pair drew nearer to their goal... time seemed to be slowing around them, getting to the girl seemed to be taking an eternity. However they couldn't help but feel like something was on their side in this game. A strange fog had rolled in and while it was thick as frozen pea soup, it seemed to move for them, as though it were guiding them to their destination. Selene was growing more and more restless the closer they got. She was on the verge of bursting with the excitement she was feeling... And that was saying something as she rarely showed such things or felt things so deeply as this... but the puzzle pieces were falling into place and she was happy about it... very happy about it indeed.
The power he sensed was something unlike anything he had ever felt before. It called to him like a siren's song. That had to be what the pair was looking for. He darted off down a foggy alleyway and made to follow and find the source of that power. If he could find the source of that power... shape it and mold it and wield it for his own, he could surely bring those insipid outcasts to their knees... And bring Selene to bow before him, force her to submit to his will and reign the night beside him as his queen... He pressed onward at a pace that would baffle even most vampires... he had to have that power. The true source of that power smirked as the bait was taken.
She sat there watching t.v. it was a mindless and rather pointless thing to do... She couldn't really even focus on it. Her mind was racing, trying to figure out whether or not the dream she'd had the night before was actually real. Something inside of her told her that it was, but she couldn't be one hundred percent sure. Was this follish? Was she being set up? Was she going insane? She was beginning to wonder. It was possible that her mind was working over time and with the stress level at work she could be suffering some sort of break down. But why then would she feel so... deeply about this?
She was lost in thought as the knock on her door came... and it was only as that knocking turned to pounding that she was startled out of her mental reverie. She looked at the door as if not believing someone was knocking... and an eternity could have passed in the time it took her to realize it was real and the time she called out into the mystery.
"Who's there?" She called out, her voice nervous, anxious and unsure...
"Selene." Came a strong, feminine voice. The girl looked up, startled... that one word, that name spoke volumes to her... confirming her dreams were not just dreams. She got up and made her way to the door... Keeping the chain lock in place she opened the door, a little startled at the figures that stood there before her. Both were clad in black, but there was something about them that was unlike anything she'd ever seen before... a sense about them... and the fact that she noticed that sort of disturbed her.
"You..." She paused and shook her head... closing the door and undoing the chain lock. "Come in..." She said softly. She was confused, stunned. That comforting voice inside her head, that warm sense was present again as if confirming to her just who was before her. She stepped aside and let them into her apartment, closing and locking the door behind them.
"You are Danae – correct?" Michael inquired.
"Yes. Gaia sent you..." Danae said softly...
"Yes, she did. You are going to have to come with us..." Selene started but was interrupted by the girl.
"I know. I dreamt about this happening last night. I have my things ready. Just a suitcase and a small bag... the rest can stay here... I've little attachment to any of it." She explained quietly. She was very quiet and reserved she had resigned herself to her fate the moment she'd seen dream become fact...
"You are sure about this?" Selene asked, taken aback by the young woman's behavior.
"If I am needed, I must go. I feel... I've been... instructed. I wish to figure out what this is all about, and I think the only way to do that is for me to go with you. Regardless of my fears and such, I must do what I must do..." She said softly, gathering up her backpack and her purse... turning off lights and whatnot... then picking up the awkward suitcase. Michael took the case from her.
"Follow us then... carefully and quietly... but try to act naturally. I am not sure if our guide shall keep us under her protection and cover much longer. I have a feeling she is the reason we have gotten here without anyone noticing..." Selene said as she turned to leave. Danae just nodded and followed obediently... pausing to lock up her apartment... She looked at that wooden door for a moment and then turned to follow. She was not completely comfortable with what she was having to do... but she would do what was required... it was how she had always been.
The young woman woke only mere hours before dusk would fall... She was disappointed in herself for sleeping so late. So much of the day had been wasted, and work would more than likely not be happy with her for not calling in. However, who could really blame her after the night she'd had. There was something coming, the air held this pregnant feeling as if something important were about to be born out of the mystery that was keeping her feeling tense and unsure.
Who had been talking to her last night? Why had this woman called her daughter? Had that been the voice of the mother that she had never gotten to know? Was that the woman that had died giving birth to her? It couldn't have been... there was just something about the words she spoke that lent themselves to a certain air of mystery that no mortal woman could have created... There was something at once familiar and strange about that voice. She had also felt strangely comforted and at the same time very afraid as if it were something far larger, far greater than herself that she had been in the presence of that night....
So many questions and so few answers... Something was coming for her... the voice in her dreams had told her that much... So much was odd about what the kindly voice had spoken to her, but at the same time she was hard pressed to deny the validity of even the oddest of the statements made in her dreams last night... So what exactly was going on? She had mentioned some sort of war between vampires and werewolves – hadn't she? As unbelievable as it sounded, somehow it felt right. It was so odd. Then again hadn't that kindly woman called herself Gaia, as in Mother Nature?
Danae just shook her head and proceeded to make herself something to eat... Once she was done, she cleaned up as much as she could... Something told her to get things ready, that she would be leaving and she might not have a chance to come back for a while... Where were these things coming from? Why was she compelled to follow these odd inklings? She supposed that it didn't matter, after all, if it was right then she was ready and if it was wrong, then she could always put things in their place...
Darkness fell...
Selene and Michael slowly slipped out into the night... First they would feed and then they would go to the girl... They were as shadows, keeping themselves out of the lights and out of the focus of anyone that might be watching. They would have to operate under more subtle and secretive ways in order to make sure that the girl was not put into more danger than was necessary. After all if Kraven caught wind of this, then he would surely have his minions knocking down the door to try and get her for himself.
They were being watched and not by only one source. The guide was watching, as she always would, but there was someone darker and more dangerous watching. Sensing this, the guide sought to keep him as baffled as possible and sent out into the night a fog, deep and dark as well as letting him pick her up on his radar, so as to believe that she was what the two were searching for... The guide would lead him on a merry chase through the city as far away from her daughter as she could manage... and then she would let her presence ebb away so as to leave him baffled and behind. Certain steps must be taken and sacrifices made in order to ensure the safety of her little phoenix.
"This way Michael."
"How do you know where we are going?"
"I pulled up a map last night and committed it to memory, besides her address seems burned into my mind... and we have walked this city many nights... I do know a thing or two about the names of streets, though I seldom pay them mind." Selene chuckled. Michael just shook his head and chuckled, following his love on the path to this treasure she was seeking...
Danae grew tense, she was waiting for something and it was almost like she could feel what was going on. She knew something was on its way. She only hoped it was the woman, Selene and her mate and not something else coming to find her. She set everything she wanted to take with her in the living room... A suitcase... and a bag filled with her stuffed animals and a few personal effects she thought that she might need... other than that there was nothing... nothing else here in the apartment held anything of great importance to her.
She felt very little connection to any of these material things. The only time she felt any sort of real connection was when she was out in the park, surrounded by nature. That felt natural, that felt right, that felt like home... The rest of this was just an illusion she'd been forced into by the circumstances in her life that had led her here. Other than that, this materialistic world meant absolutely nothing to her.
It was all really strange. She couldn't claim she understood any of it and she wouldn't want to try anyway. It would more than likely only serve to give her a headache... and she didn't think she could afford such at this time. Something told her that she needed to be ready for just about anything and that she needed to keep her mind as clear as possible. Something important was about to happen and her clarity of mind was something of importance for it. She might not understand what was going on, but she knew that she had to be prepared for whatever was coming her way...
The pair drew nearer to their goal... time seemed to be slowing around them, getting to the girl seemed to be taking an eternity. However they couldn't help but feel like something was on their side in this game. A strange fog had rolled in and while it was thick as frozen pea soup, it seemed to move for them, as though it were guiding them to their destination. Selene was growing more and more restless the closer they got. She was on the verge of bursting with the excitement she was feeling... And that was saying something as she rarely showed such things or felt things so deeply as this... but the puzzle pieces were falling into place and she was happy about it... very happy about it indeed.
The power he sensed was something unlike anything he had ever felt before. It called to him like a siren's song. That had to be what the pair was looking for. He darted off down a foggy alleyway and made to follow and find the source of that power. If he could find the source of that power... shape it and mold it and wield it for his own, he could surely bring those insipid outcasts to their knees... And bring Selene to bow before him, force her to submit to his will and reign the night beside him as his queen... He pressed onward at a pace that would baffle even most vampires... he had to have that power. The true source of that power smirked as the bait was taken.
She sat there watching t.v. it was a mindless and rather pointless thing to do... She couldn't really even focus on it. Her mind was racing, trying to figure out whether or not the dream she'd had the night before was actually real. Something inside of her told her that it was, but she couldn't be one hundred percent sure. Was this follish? Was she being set up? Was she going insane? She was beginning to wonder. It was possible that her mind was working over time and with the stress level at work she could be suffering some sort of break down. But why then would she feel so... deeply about this?
She was lost in thought as the knock on her door came... and it was only as that knocking turned to pounding that she was startled out of her mental reverie. She looked at the door as if not believing someone was knocking... and an eternity could have passed in the time it took her to realize it was real and the time she called out into the mystery.
"Who's there?" She called out, her voice nervous, anxious and unsure...
"Selene." Came a strong, feminine voice. The girl looked up, startled... that one word, that name spoke volumes to her... confirming her dreams were not just dreams. She got up and made her way to the door... Keeping the chain lock in place she opened the door, a little startled at the figures that stood there before her. Both were clad in black, but there was something about them that was unlike anything she'd ever seen before... a sense about them... and the fact that she noticed that sort of disturbed her.
"You..." She paused and shook her head... closing the door and undoing the chain lock. "Come in..." She said softly. She was confused, stunned. That comforting voice inside her head, that warm sense was present again as if confirming to her just who was before her. She stepped aside and let them into her apartment, closing and locking the door behind them.
"You are Danae – correct?" Michael inquired.
"Yes. Gaia sent you..." Danae said softly...
"Yes, she did. You are going to have to come with us..." Selene started but was interrupted by the girl.
"I know. I dreamt about this happening last night. I have my things ready. Just a suitcase and a small bag... the rest can stay here... I've little attachment to any of it." She explained quietly. She was very quiet and reserved she had resigned herself to her fate the moment she'd seen dream become fact...
"You are sure about this?" Selene asked, taken aback by the young woman's behavior.
"If I am needed, I must go. I feel... I've been... instructed. I wish to figure out what this is all about, and I think the only way to do that is for me to go with you. Regardless of my fears and such, I must do what I must do..." She said softly, gathering up her backpack and her purse... turning off lights and whatnot... then picking up the awkward suitcase. Michael took the case from her.
"Follow us then... carefully and quietly... but try to act naturally. I am not sure if our guide shall keep us under her protection and cover much longer. I have a feeling she is the reason we have gotten here without anyone noticing..." Selene said as she turned to leave. Danae just nodded and followed obediently... pausing to lock up her apartment... She looked at that wooden door for a moment and then turned to follow. She was not completely comfortable with what she was having to do... but she would do what was required... it was how she had always been.