In the Dark

[kai the pkk]

( I fond an appearance for revy..finally!)

{ in a alleyway somewhere}
Revy: { passed out in the the gutter of the alley}......I'm thirsty....{ he goes to stand up but he stumbles and falls over}....rggghhhh.....it's so hot.....I hate the sunlight...when the hell is the sun going to set? god...who the hell would want to spend eternity like this! { he finally suceeds at standing}...I look like a homeless person for gods sake!...{ he stumbles out of the alleyway}...jeez...ahhh! I need a DRINK!! { his red eyes show from under the cloak but he quickly walks off}...I hope Alex is working today...

[shugo_lover]

"Indeed, he's still changing. He won't become a vampire inless he dies and when he does better burry him quick before his body fades" she glanced a bit at Dex. Ah, Dex as old as she was. She heard a lot about him, but has never actually seen him before.

[KiteXX]

"No...From this smell He's Already dead. Put him in the ground. It's for his own good." Dex caught sight of Soongs gaze in his peripherals, "What of me Awes you.." He sniffed the air, "Druid? Have we met?"

"Whoa whoa whoa! No way in hell am I getting buried!" "Unfortunately if you don't get buried that is where you shalt wind up" Dex replied with a flick of his wrist.

[shugo_lover]

"Still alive I see or partially anyway." She looked back at Raphael "Your right he has. Interesting"

[nekoryuuha]

Lumina looking between Soong and Dex. "But, is there really nothing that can be done of him? Anything at all?" Lumina asked quietly. "He can't be changed back, or revived, or anything?" She fell quietly. "I don't want him to permanently die. But I f I can, I want to do something to help him!"

[KiteXX]

Dex gently cupped the Druid's face in his hand, "You didn't answer my question" He said though not unkindly, before sharing a kiss. It meant less to Humans. Underworlder's shared thoughts, memories, and even meet eachother through such things. It was a standard Hello to them now. But that didn't mean he didn't enjoy it.

"No way. You are all insane." Raph shook his head in defiance. "I'd rather Fade." "And be stuck in Hell for all eternity? You were damned the moment you were bit, Try to avoid the big H until you at least live a few hundred years. "

[kai the pkk]

Revy: { he loses the heavy cloak and he throws his hood up quickly on the heavy jacket he's wearing while standing in the shade}...phew got to stay out of the sun {he begins wandering around the city with his hands in his pockets}....rrrggghhhh { he stumbles past the group}....* wierdos whatever I have to get a drink...I can't lose control...not now.... { he takes a cantine and drinks whats left} ahhhh thats some good type O positive.... I need to get some more as soon as possible { he looks over to the group}.....no can't get distracted have to find a drink...and shade

[shugo_lover]

She slightly blushed a little. Emberassed by what Dex must of thought of her thoughts. For a moment she just stared at the guy who just stumbled by then looked back at Raphael. "Well, I'm surprised you would say that"

[GamerKale]

((I suppose I should make some sort of post, even if it doesn't directly affect anyone else. Especially since I just gained control of Westher.))
Westher was anything but amused. He needed to know why this daywalker had appeared and although he had the patience of a glacier he found himself unable to resist the urge to impatiently tap a finger on his throne's arm rest. "Has Dex made contact yet?" "Yes, my lord." He had better hurry. The shadows vibrated with his annoyance.
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Nicolai found himself standing in the center of a battlefield, soldiers clad in armors forged of gold or bone formed a ring as he and a woman that he knew he had never seen and yet knew well. His closest friend and circlemate for generations. But her flesh had become a both sickening and alluring bone white and instead of her brow being adorned with the blazing golden crest of a member of a dawn cast it was a bloody perversion of the Unconqured Sun's emblem for his chosen warriors. As the blades clashed he found himself in his own body again and jerking his head away from the hilt of Twilight Paradox. He brushed cold sweat from his brow and steadied his breathing. "Just a bad dream." He said trying to reassure himself. He didn't want to kill Raph, no matter what his exaltation may have done in the past.

[nekoryuuha]

Lumina gasped and looked angrily at Nicolai. "How could you say that! You know I won't just give up on you and let you go to Hell!" she almost yelled at him. Almost immediately, the girl turned red and looked away. "I-I mean... You can't just give up on yourself like this. If you give up on things, how would you know if nothing can truly be done...?" she continued a bit shyly.

Arietta giggled as she pat Lumina on the shoulders. "What she's trying to say, is that she likes you two much to let you go to Hell.," the Kitsune stated, making Lumina flush even redder. Arietta turned to Dex and Soong. "And what she wants to to say to you two, is are you really so sure nothing can be done here? That everything has been done?"

[kai the pkk]

Revy: { a few moments after he arrives at the hospital he has cooler and he seems refreshed} phew....I thought I was a goner....though...I wonder { he looks off back the direction they came...whay was a druid, mummy and Vampire there....whatever it's not really my business I guess { he walks back where he came and sniffs} blah! what is with the smell of rotting flesh?!.... did the kid not get buried yet?!...* that kid needs to be buried soon otherwise poof*

[KiteXX]

"Lumina..." Raph whispered before pulling her into a hug. Only recently had everything changed. He felt ashamed for everything, Being half-dead, wanting to fade, SMELLING her blood, Craving it. He tensed up a bit.

Dex shook his head and laughed,"There is no other way, Put the guy in the ground, Let him dig himself out. Then he shall, be an Underworlder forever. He can never be human again." Dex turned, Winked at Soong, and then stretched out, letting his arm detatch from the rest of his body. After so many years dead, your ligaments just don't want to work

[nekoryuuha]

Though the girl blushed from his hug, she didn't pull away freeze up on him. Instead, she hugged him back, turning her head to put her ear to his chest. Nothing... I can't hear it anymore.... The realization that he was physically dead saddened her immensely, a tear coming to her eyes when she felt Raphael tense around her. On instinct, she froze. But when nothing happened, she looked up at him, meeting his eyes not with fear, but concern and a little confusion. "Raph? What's wrong...?"

Arietta looked at them with a sad smile before turning back to Dex, giggling as she heard his joint separate and smelled the dust in his bones. "Getting old, huh?" She sighed. So that's it, huh? An unmarked grave and then he's a Nightwalker...? Wow, I didn't think Vampirism was like this," she commented, glancing at the passing Revy as she spoke, but not saying anything to him. She tended to let sleeping dogs lay, as he mother said to her in warning of certain beings.

[KiteXX]

Dex reached down, retrieved his arm and reattached it, "It's not. He is a Daylighter, He Is how you would say, half vampire, half God. He Will be put in a grave, but it needs a headstone, I can make that though. So we put him in, he digs himself out, he is then a vampire, only then. And it must be an official funeral."

Raph pushed Lumina away, and covered his mouth with his hand, His own teeth sinking into his hand, moments ago it would have been Lumina. "I'b...I'b gotta geb away. Ib canb fay fis way." the teeth still in his hand, obscurring his speech

[nekoryuuha]

"He needs... A funeral...? Arietta replied as she turned to catch Lumina as she stumbled back from Raphael's push. She moved to see what was wrong when Arietta pulled her back. "Don't Lumina. Not yet. He needs a moment," she said as the girl turned on her.

"You too? You've known him almost as long as me. You think he would hurt me?!" Lumina to her.

Arietta shook her head as she pointed to Raphael. Specifically, to the fact that he'd sunk his teeth into his own hand. "No, I don't think he would if he could, hence why he pushed you away and bit himself." When Lumina turned to look, Arietta sighed. "Maybe it would be best to have the funeral and bury him...." Lumina froze at those words. A... Funeral...?

[KiteXX]

"Dex......mfumny" Raphael still couldn't quite speak, but he almost bit his girlfriend. He was prepared. He removed his hands from his mouth. "Mummy. Put me in the ground. I'm ready."

Dex clapped his hands, and a form of glittery dust brushed off his arms. Not to mention it only happened when they both, snapped and hit the floor. He looked at the group apologetically, and asked for help retrieving his limbs

[nekoryuuha]

Arietta giggled at the sight of an Armless Dex, though she still moved to help him reattach his limbs. Lumina, on the other hand, stood there frozen and dumbstruck Raphael's decision. She stood there for a long while as her brain put things together. Arietta had finished putting the Mummy's arms back on by the time Lumina said anything. "You... really want this....? No... You have to... right?" Lumina smiled, though it was obviously fake. "So... When is it happening? The funeral?"

[GamerKale]

Nicolai found himself riding another memory that wan't his the same incarnation just later that week. He was presiding over a burial at sea aboard Silent Tinkerer's vessel. He and his crew were in full naval regalia. The rest of their circlemates were in attendance as well. Arturia and her Lunar mate were clad in deep purples and silver. Even Ea who owned almost nothing not wrought of shining gold or orichalcum was wearing a black band. Nicolai saw himself reflected in the casket. He was a member of the winged air people and clad in white and gold robes befitting a priest-king of the Unconquered Sun. And he also saw that of all the faces there his was the only one not marred by tears. He blinked and when he next opened his eyes he was Nicolai again. "So I did it. I actually killed my best friend. And not only that, I gave her a funeral without shedding a single tear. Just what kind of a man am I?" He took a deep breath and looked to the fast darkening horizon, "Is this is your idea of telling me I should kill him, Lord?"

[KiteXX]

Raphael removed his hand from his face as his sharp teeth retracted."No not what I want. I WANT to be free of this curse. But this must be done. Lumina could you arrange for my burial, seeing as I'm not able to?"

Dex did a little hop in order to make sure he was all there, "Thanks love," he whispered to Arietta. "OK I shall make the headstone."

TIME SKIP: FUNERAL DAY.

There it was. Dex's newlymade headstone propped above a hole. Alas, he happened to inscribe a mix of his own last name into a part of Raphaels. Not that it mattered nobody would be using it.

[nekoryuuha]

This was it, Funeral day. In a swirl of leaves and wind, Lumina and Arietta arrived at the place, the shy Lumina flushing red as she held down the black dress she was wearing until the winds stopped. "I know it was a bit far, but did we need to travel like this, Arietta..?" she said quietly as her Kitsune friend giggled.

"Yes. You've been so pale these last few days that you need the color," she replied jokingly as she put an arm around the girl's shoulders. The Two-tails had also acquired a black outfit; Black, sleeveless shirt with a matching skirt and gloves. Her face turned caring as she supported Lumina. "Come on, Lumina. Without us, there's almost no one to call this a Burial and it'll be for nothing," Arietta said kindly as Lumina took a deep breath and nodded.

"Were... you able to get to get Nicolai to come, Arietta?" Lumina asked as they went out to where the chairs and casket was. The Casket was already suspended above the grave as part of the service. It was already difficult enough for the girl as it was.

"Arietta scratched her head. "I found him and told him with was happening, but he didn't really answer me. He seemed... absorbed by something pressing. I asked him to come just to support you, but he never replied." At that, Lumina looked incredulously at her friend. "What...? What's wrong?" Lumina seemed to want to say something, but stopped and shook her head. Nicolai was kind, she knew he wouldn't take it like that. It didn't matter anyway.