"Wonderful, absolutely wonderful. She's run off with a nun and an Englishman? And you've no idea where she could have possibly gone. A great load of help you are." Myllea's parents were frantic with worry. She had been gone for nearly a fortnight and everywhere they could possibly think to look, nothing could be found of her. The woman they were talking to, a seemingly ageless young woman wearing an oversized trench coat, and her pale sister, told them not to worry, and that everything would be alright. The pale one leaned close to Myllea's mother. "She is with those of the other place, in perfectly good hands with the cats and dogs." With those words, her mother calmed down. "Thank you, ladies, please let us know if anything comes up."
"Well, wasn't that a positively delightful conversation. With a father like that I'm not surprised she took off into Makai with Jon and Felicia. He's a very over protective man!"
The girl wearing the trench coat tore it off to reveal pale blue skin and wicked razor blades. She wore traditional oriental clothing, the garbs of the Chinese Vampire. "Oh, but you remember how mother was with us growing up, Hsien-Ko. He's just doing what parents do. Now shut your immortal mouth and lets find Bulleta so we can hightail it back to Makai and make battle plans." The sisters drove off in search of their friend.
- Makai: House of the Maximoff Clan -
Myllea was quite enjoying her new 'position' as the Heiress to power, although she had no idea what she could do herself. She left the throne room of the Castle Maximoff in search of Felicia, whom Myllea had slowly began to grow very fond of over the past week or two. She found the aging cat woman in the kitchen, fixing some food for herself and her husband. "Bee in your bonnet, Myllea?" She motioned to a set of chairs in the adjoining room, and the two women sat to talk.
"Well, you see, all of the Darkstalkers I've seen thus far seem to have some special power or another. I mean, you're a cat woman, your husband is a werewolf, and from what you've told me, we've got a Chinese Vampire, a Sorceress, and a Demon girl coming to help us fight. What is it that I can do?"
"Well, every Darkstalker comes into his or her own powers when they need them most, so when you really need them, they will manifest. You're an Aensland descendant for crying out loud, your perfectly capable of defending yourself even while powerless!"
Ugh, maybe this wasn't the best idea I've ever had. Although I truly do believe I have a duty to these...no, to MY people. Myllea made Felicia goodbye and went to go and explore the vast terrain that was hers and hers alone.
"Oh yay, it's bleak and disgusting as far as they eye could possibly want to see in a place like this. Still, it holds power." Jon had sat her down and lectured her on the history of both parts of her family lineage. Her birth parents were named after Dmitri Maximoff and Morrigan Aensland, each the most powerful, as well as the ruling member of their respective Clans. Her father was a powerful vampire warlord, while her mother was a sultry succubus. Although her parents were not the first in their families to be born with those names, they broke a boundary line: members of those clans were forbidden to love, so her parents ran away into the night and eventually had her.
As for the land itself, it was only as appealing as one wanted it to be, and after a massive dimensional war between Jedah and the Darkstalkers, there was not much left to proud of. The Realm of Makai looks like the human realm, even after a war. Myllea was wandering the town nearest to the castle, utterly lost, but still maintaining that air of sensibility. Tossing her raven locks over her shoulders, she strolled down the busiest street, mistakenly bumping into a rather large man. "Oh, you'll pay for that one, you rotten human filth!"
"Excuse me? Hold your tongue, you natural mistake. I'll not be spoken to like that." She finished by slapping him hard across the face, which only prompted him more. "Challenge accepted, bitch! It's a fight you'll get, to the death!" Extremist brute. You'll get yours if you ask. Having been forced to spend every free moment in Makai with her werewolf guardian, she had been forced to endure endless hours of martial arts training, finally coming to terms with the effort she needed to exert. Taking a battle stance, she was immediately shot into the air by a heavy ball of energy attached to a chain the brute held tightly…
- Human Realm -
With the agility no ordinary human could possess, the slender woman of around twenty six years of age unsheathed throwing stars and hurled them in graceful streams at the beast she was out to capture. Running forward with a glint in her eye, she flipped, taking to the sky off of the beast's back. She pulled out a pair of stunning silver pistols from somewhere underneath her chic red mini-cloak, and began a rapid fire assault of bullets as she danced through the sky back towards earth. When the beast gave a final groan, she gave a maniacal laugh and locked the pistols to the holsters underneath her red mini skirt.
"I see you haven't lost your lust for the battle field, B.B. It's good to see you again." B.B Hood turned, dropping her hood to reveal a stream of long blond hair, to see Hsien-Ko and Lei Lei leaning against their car. "Well, if it isn't the Asian Sensations. I guess you're here because of the little outbreak of crazed hellbeasts into this realm?"
"Uhh, no B.B, we're here because we're calling you into Makai for military reasons." Bulleta's eyes shone with interest. "Well, it seems we've got our Heiress to the Throne of Worlds, however powerless she may be, the stuck up little wench, and we need you there as our military faction leader."
Without thinking twice, the demon girl jumped into the car and yelled at Lei Lei to hit the gas. "So it's really her? The Empress? What do you mean powerless?"
"Well, we can't all be as lucky as you, now can we? Her powers have yet to manifest themselves, and she has very little combat training. She's been with Jon and Felicia in the House of the Maximoff Clan for the past two weeks."
"Whoopie, a loser junior. Well she'll be playing with fire once I get there, so if she can't take the heat, I'm outta the game, got it? I have a life to lead too, ya know."
- Makai: Street Fight -
So this one has power to channel bodily energies? Myllea thought as she continued her plummet to the ground. She had managed to avoid serious injury, and even landed the odd punch or two on her attacker, but she had no idea what to do now. After the energy ball and chain, he had began an assault using heavy blades, so she had no choice but to run. She gasped and spat blood suddenly as she realized her daze had slowed her pace, and there was now a freely bleeding wound across her back.
"WHORE! You'll be sorry you lost respect for me!" he shouted at her. If there were any time for a power to manifest itself, it would definitely be right now. she desperately thought to herself. Having switched back to a long range weapon, the brute brought the ball hurling towards her again…but it stopped, seemingly bouncing off of a barrier. It continued to move in the opposite direction, pinning its thrower to the ground. "You'll not lay a single scratch more on her, fool." A young woman looking to be at least 21 emerged from the shadows then. She wore a flowing black and white gown, and stood calmly as she spoke, narrowing her sharp brown eyes.
"Anita! I-I-I didn't mean to do anything. She-it was her, she attacked me, I swear!" The woman took a step forward and literally glided over to Myllea's side. "Honestly, I'm not one to play word games. Come over here now and pay your respects to your next Empress." The reaction from the crowd that had gathered was intense. Everyone that held something in their hands dropped it immediately; those that were speaking choked on their words, and those that were silent only continued to stare at the strange new face. "Now Empress, take me back to where you came here from."
"I have to thank you Anita. I am quite inexperienced on the battle field."
"Well, in my case, you need no experience if you are a telekinetic. I have the gift of mental movement. I take it your powers have not manifested. Ah, if it isn't Jon and Felicia."
"Good timing, Neets! Hsien-Ko and Lei Lei are here, and they brought B.B along for the ride. It's time to cook up our plot." Felicia latched on to Jon's arm and dragged him onto the couch in the foyer. From the back room came the three strangers. There was the Chinese Vampire girl Hsien-Ko and her Sorceress sister, Lei Lei, and the human girl with a demon's heart and soul, Bulleta.
After a lot of discussion and planning, the group split into smaller sects. Jon and B.B were to train Myllea and help her powers manifest; Felicia and Anita would go out to gather troops and raise awareness of the situation at hand, and the sisters would continue to find past allies to help in the upcoming fight.
So, first thing's first. What exactly is it you can do, girlie girl? Or do you just stick to the sidelines and leave the playing to those of us with talent on the battlefield." B.B. grabbed Myllea and showed her fighting stances and tactical maneuvers that she used daily in her bounty hunting, and refused to let the girl stop until she had mastered at least one of them and grasped few others. Myllea was getting fed up with her trainer. "You don't look like much of a fighter girl yourself, so what's your story?" Her response was a low growl and white glimmer in Bulleta's eye. "I may look completely human, but I've got the heart of a demon beating in this chest. Now shape up, slacker. Your due for meditation with the wolfman after another two hours here."
By the time Myllea had actually finished, she could have been killed by a single gust of wind. B.B had worked her to the bone until she knew exactly how to handle herself, and insisted on sessions throughout the week. It was nearing midnight when she began her slow walk back to the Castle alone, Bulleta having gone to continue her bounty hunting. "Well, I suppose if this is necessary. I'm changing quite a bit around these people, I never would have considered this in my old life." It truly is my old life now, isn't it. I have responsibilities to uphold in leading entire realms into peace and cooperative coexistence. And there is a war with Jedah when he decides to show himself.
Responding to that thought, a muscled arm thrust itself out of the shadows and grabbed Myllea by the legs, pulling her through a portal into a region of Makai that was far from the Castle Maximoff. She screamed, succeeding only in making her throat sore. When she finally felt everything stop moving, she was tied to a pole that appeared to be in the middle of nowhere. Surrounded by sloping fields and a dark night sky, she was tied by tendrils of shadows to a single pillar of darkness. When the body that the arm was attached to materialized in front of her, armed with the same heavy blade as the brute, she opened her eyes to find it was that same man who stood before her now.
"So, I've found our little Heiress. Dark Master Jedah will be pleased with this, he will." The brute charged his blade and loosed a powerful energy stream from it while muttering under his breath, "All he needs is you to die." He didn't expect what happened next. Myllea screamed, fighting against the shadow ropes, breaking their hold on her wrists. She could feel that she was off the ground, hovering some distance in the air. A single flash of lightning broke the sky, and she curled into a fetal position, after which she sprung back out into a graceful battle stance.
She now sported a stunning pair of jet black feathered wings, as well as a slender tail that split into two near the middle and ended in sharp edges. She tossed her raven hair, framing her face as well as the pair of red horns that began just above the forehead on both sides of her skull, sloping back until just before the back of her head. "Speaking of playing with fire, this is what happens when I get pushed a little too far beyond my boundaries. Now bow to me you fool, and give your eternal praise to the woman that will end your miserable life!" With those words, she cupped her hands as she crossed her arms in front of her, forming an X. When she threw them forward, a great helix of shining white fire erupted forward, obliterating the brute completely.
- Majigen: Jedah's Lair -
"It seems as though the fox has barred its fangs. Good show, girl, but mine will be much better, especially when your people will kill you in my name, through my power!" The Vampire lord laughed as he watched magnificent tongues of white fire envelop Myllea completely, signaling her teleportation back to the Castle Maximoff. As she went, she mumbled, "It seems as though duty calls…"