Topic: Burning Light (18+)

TigerEye Charms

Date: 2009-09-13 14:06 EST
A Huntress was not one to take pleasure in the notion of being Hunted.

She felt the sensation though of being watched. That someone waited in shadows.

The answer came soon enough. Left her shaking. A wander in her bedroom found the vanity covered with shattered glass and blood.

It would paint, stain the ground with its thick crimson long since gone dark and stained dark brown.

Ugly.

Ariahn had come to the Crimson Scarf to clean out her room. Crimson Scarf it always would be to her. Rather then Crymson Tryst. The name meant nothing to her.

To move on as she promised Theodore. Instead...she found destruction and disaster.

The visceral scent of sweat, blood, sex, and body waste.

It was so thick she gagged around the scent, stumbled to grip the vanity only to fill her palm with thick shards of glass. Cutting deep.

Another scent twisted around that destruction of what had once been alive. Now in bloody remains that covered her room like a wild feast gone astray.

Like a hound with rabies had been unleashed to become rabid. Devour and destroy.

Her senses were keen enough to know the scent of werewolf.

"Luna."

An ache in throat. There was something of relief that it was not the other friend she would expect to find in such a state to get to the Huntress. Rona was safe for now.

The room was raining blood. Her head tipped back and she was painted in it.

Saw the omen scrawled in blood and ashes on the ceiling.

He will be next

Absinthe went wild. Frenzy rage of fire in her spirit and those indian ink stripes exploded across her flesh. Painted her skin dark with their savage design.

Theodore.

She had to warn him.

He surely could take care of himself but this was different. Turning to move to that open door she ran smack into the broad expanse of Sahar's chest.

"Jesus, Tiger. What did you do? More so...why?"
"What?!? This... I didn't do this."

Snarling. Fangs exposed as the dusk of her flesh became imprinted with the feline spirit of her.

She saw the woman then behind Sahar. Tellis St. Croix. The only female Ariahn's mother would confide in. Work with. And still hold at an arm's length.

The Friend of a Friend to become Enemy. Taboo. Panther dark eyes were deadly and savage. Cruel.

"Take her away, Sahar. You know what you must do."

The enhanced shackles were snapped around her wrists before she could voice protest.

Indifference lit in the eyes of Taboo, that voodoo born cajun, black magic baby.

Her smile made Ariahn sick. The whisper at her lips more so. "Your mother... says... hello."

This was her doing. Her mother. She planned on having Ariahn pay for her crimes. The Sins of the Past.

Hauled away she struggled, savagely aware she needed to get to Theodore before the Coyote came to him too and made his death seem a crime of passion.

"By Loki, Theodore... just stay away." A whisper under her breath. She could only wish he would hear her plea, but part of her... hoped he wouldn't. If only it meant to assure he was safe and that she wasn't at risk to lose him forever.

Just one chance, one more moment to see him again... before they killed her.


Theodore

Date: 2009-09-13 21:16 EST
He was still sitting at his desk when he began feeling that nagging sensation that something was amiss. At first, he just thought maybe he was forgetting to do something, but it kept growing, intensifying. Theodore frowned, his brows furrowing heavily. He glanced furtively at the clock, and decided he needed to go. Thrusting himself up from the desk, he escaped the confinement of his office in haste; his jacket not even bothered to be retrieved. Only one growl of good-bye for Juliana on his way out.

"Oh, Ariahn, I hope you are okay," he sighed softly into the evening air.

He did what he usually did after work, he headed for the inn. With hopes of seeing her.

Instead what he saw was a modified version of Ariahn; fierce beauty, but with a mean streak. Wicked cruel, maniacal. She had hunted Ariahn's scent straight through the porch window and instead found him lounging langoriously in the porch swing.

Sniffing at the air, Head tilt, over to a porch swing. "So you're the one hm?"

His head was tossed back over the top of the porch swing, fingertips even drummimg against the rich fabric of his suit.
Animalistic instincts heard the footsteps, and he sharply looked at the porch window before the woman with uncanny resemblance
with Ariahn. He stared briefly, drinking in her form and trying to digest what, and who, exactly he was looking at. He was
semi-perturbed by her sniffing, not that he had room to speak. A single brow rose and met with his hairline. "Excuse me?"

"The Tiger's mate."

Honey narrowed uncharacteristically, muscles tensing. "What value does such knowledge have to you if I am?"

"That you would be sitting here enjoying the scenery when your mate is sentenced to die." Teeth gleamed. Sharp. "Ta ta. Finding a shooting star. You'll need to wish on it. "

Theodore: He stared for another moment, a muscle twitching in his jaw as he growled fiercely. "You won't lay a finger on her."

"I didn't have to."

"Little birds told me...that there was a murder... at the Crimson Scarf... Tryst, whatever it has been called now. Hmm. Isn't that where your mate used to work?" Blink. Ticking up a brow.

That had to have been the feeling, but he's sure she's not dead.. He'd have felt that, wouldn't he have? He looked murderous as he leapt from the bench, his hands around her throat in a flash. "Maybe you just missed her; and got the wrong one."

A snarling then as her throat was caught. "She wasn't the one ... perhaps you should see her room."

Nails snapped through those gloves, growing as claws would. Something in her enjoyed this moment. "Shades." Called like a beckon.

Precision blown rings from the temp spot at the bar, he looked window-wards and was by the window in casual stride. "You rang..."

It only took him a moment to decide whether he wanted to fight her or see if Ariahn had made it. He growled low and viciously, only threatening her menacingly. "If anything has happened to Ariahn, you are a dead woman.. Mark my words." A flicker of topaz to the man before he gave Briar one last look- and then he was gone as quickly as he'd had his hand around her neck.

TigerEye Charms

Date: 2009-09-14 09:17 EST
There had been a point where she wanted to lose consciousness to give in to that excruciating pain. Struggling against those bonds they finally had let her free. If Freedom was what you could call this.

Many did not have the 'pleasure' of knowing that the Crimson Scarf was a different sort of establishment in its lower area. The basement was nothing more then a well equipped torture chamber specially made for the preternatural.

The cuts were ugly that sliced across her skin, flesh fevered with a poison concotion that left her halfway through hallucinations and violent savage impulses.

Exhausted her body had slumped against the cold marble. Cold Marble.

Her mind near shattered with the images of him. Theodore.

Ariahn's mind was breaking as the next wave of torture came through as she was given a hardcore mind fvck from the girl sitting across from her.

The sound of her screams was a violent agony that would be devoured by those soundproof chambers. His name screamed out as whisper threats crossed patterns in her mind.

Visions offered of him taken, tortured, maimed, killed. So many brutal visions that left her heart breaking and her mind snapping.

"Please..."

The Huntress never would beg, but for saving his life over hers she would. She never would realize when the tears spilled over.

"Oh... Ariahn... this is just the beginning of what we have in store for you... for him."

TigerEye Charms

Date: 2009-09-19 08:14 EST
A quiet time. Exhausted and worn, Ariahn had managed to move to find a colder spot to lay on.

She drew up that chill, held on to it like a memory. Without the trio downstairs to torture her while Taboo and the rest figured out what to do with her, Ariahn could have some peace of mind.

Feel a bit like herself. The device that had put on her she knew would keep the healing factor to kick in, keep her from changing.

Still that didn't mean she would just lie there and take it. Absinthe depths assessed the damage. Shoulder shoved back into place as she gritted her teeth and gradually rose to her feet.

Silent on her feet she walked over to the door.

Looked out the small bit of glass that gave her some vision of civilization rather then this hell.

Ariahn would die here.

It was the gradual sensation, the sinking realization. There was a will though.

Survival.

Without weapons. Without ability. Without him it was back to how she first had come about.

As the Huntress. The Executioner of so many of those women. But now there was no one to make arrangements with.

Yet.

Fingers pressed to the wall. Thinking of that life that once had been, thinking of the life she had been given now... the hope of it.

Sometimes to keep herself sane she would talk with him in her head, wondering and wishing if he could hear.

Perhaps this was just a whole different flesh out notion of sanity.

She would survive just to piss everyone the fvck off.

TigerEye Charms

Date: 2009-09-21 17:17 EST
Kaos stood before her. Staring her down with the bleached white eyes of insanity.

Ariahn had known the touch of Kaos for hours and it terrified her. The woman's touch was chaos and corruption. Twisting her thoughts and corrupting them. Breaking her mind, shattering it and leaving haunting apparitions. The Huntress knew nothing better of what was real and unreal. Eventually she had enough and she snapped out her free hands to clench the brittle wrists of Kaos. Kaos was a brittle, fragile thing. Ariahn could break her like a wishbone and lick out the marrow. Yet it wasn't the body of Kaos that should be feared but the mind.

Right before her eyes the pale skinned, dark haired, and sallow creature contorted. Changed. Ariahn's mind altered the vision of who she had near shattered the wrists of. Strangled gasp, a keening sound in throat. Those absinthe eyes were feral wild with torment of what had been done.

"Tsk. Kitty be losing her mind."

A whisper that was Kaos' voice, like nails down a chalkboard but all Ariahn could see standing before her was Theodore. Ragged gasps. She felt sick with the sensation.

Shaking her head roughly from side to side. Clearing her head. Kaos there again.

Snarling, teeth were bared as the absinthe of her eyes became the violent green-gold of the Tigress.

"You stupid harlot whxre" The voice better suited for an angel had a demon's cruelty to it as Ariahn attacked the mind tripper. They had left weapons.

Some sports were better to watch. Survival till one was left standing. Those knives were her weapons. Ariahn in her mind knew nothing, felt nothing, could see nothing more then her past as the Executioner in that brutal room of torture. Cutting and slashing till the one before her was tortured ruin.

The laughter grated on her nerves until it became masculine. So cold.

It had Ariahn still. The knife dropped as she snarled out to stifle the scream that wanted to crawl out of her throat.

"No."

There in bloody ruins was Theodore. Still very much alive but his words were ice down her spine and running artic winds through her veins.

"I will kill you."

Theodore

Date: 2009-09-21 18:00 EST
It only took him moments to get from the inn to the Crimson Tryst. The front doors were kicked down, not caring for the damage he was incurring. Past any staring occupants at the speed of light, up the stairs he bound. He found her room with ease, like second nature, as he stumbled inward. The stench of blood met his nostrils and he lifted a hand to block the smell, but he sighed in relief.

"Thank God," he murmured. It wasn't Ariahn's blood. He's have known, been able to smell the difference. He was a Hunter, too.

Grasping the doorjamb he studied the scene before him, head tilting out to sniff the air. She had been here. But how long ago? Her scent wasn't thick, so maybe several hours had passed. The blood still soaked, but was caked now in most places. Topaz drifted upward to the message on the ceiling and he groaned.

"Damnit," he cursed. Theodore knew that such a message would drive Ariahn to the brink of doing something stupid.. For his sake.

It was times like this that being able to hear her thoughts would have been useful. A feral growl emitted from deep in his throat. He couldn't stay away, she would know that.

Maybe they had kept her here? He knew the place had such uses for those types of people into torture. Down the stairs he tromped again, beastly in manner, growling viciously as he then descended into Hell.

He would find her, mark his words... And her captors would have Hell to pay.

TigerEye Charms

Date: 2009-09-25 07:54 EST
"Fight me, Ariahn."

They had freed her. Those shackles had been loosened but she was still trapped in the torture chambers of the Crimson Scarf. Had left her weapons. She paced like a tiger caged. Not far from the truth.

Shaking her head as she looked to the one before her. Theodore. He had struck her, cut her, made her bleed to the point she almost wanted to lash out and unleash the beast. Take his throat and tear it out.

Yet she didn't. Couldn't get the strength of will to take a kill in offering, in challenge. Her spirit roared out fury that she declined a fight, a challenge. The tiger within her saw it as a weakness.

Still she couldn't fight him. Even when the serrated edge of a blade slid deep into her abdomen and she snarled out, eyes green-gold and bleeding feline with the urge to kill and torment ... harming him... was far more agony in her soul.

Blood and tear soaked was that face of the Huntress. Feline eyes with slitted pupils seemed unnatural and yet fitting within her face. Snarling growl as she felt that presence lean towards her. Her Theodore. Words that could set her off the edge.

"I never loved you."

He was thrown then, preternatural energy unleashed with that fury of agony, of a heart breaking. Hatred. She gave in to the beast to those elements of spirit more untamed.

Only part of her in the depths of mind could connect the fact that Theodore felt... warm to her.

Ariahn was screaming then, fingers in her hair as the scream became a roar. Muscles and bones in the sickening snap and twist and contort of all unnatural offerings of the shift.

From the corner of the room Kaos got up, breaking that illusion of the Tiger's mate from her skin with a smile as she knocked on the door of the torture room to ask for an exit.

"It is done now... perhaps this is better then death for her." Insanity was music from the lips of Kaos as the door was opened and she spoke in half-hearted conversation with Taboo.

The job was done.


Theodore

Date: 2009-09-27 14:49 EST
He could hear her yells of frustration, but he was blind as to where they were coming from.

He swooped down the stairs effortlessly, his descent into Hell making him look more beastly than ever. The first door seen to his left was kicked down with ease. His usually honey irises were flashing a dark red. It isn't smart to anger the beast within. It was empty.

This was his series of actions, to bust down every door until he either found someone who could point him in the right direction, or until he found her himself. He was barrelling through doors, knocking them off their hinges.

Theodore paused as he propelled through a door, stumbling into the wall. A soft gasp. He felt a pang of... pain? Something was terribly wrong. Again, he could hear her scream then her roar. Something was very wrong indeed. He lunged out of the chamber like a rabid animal, following the sound of her roar.

It had taken mere seconds until he came upon Kaos and Taboo. He instantly knew, and he had every desire to shred them into pieces as he knew he could. Still moving quick as a flash so that they could not see him, he had knocked into the both of them, one hand around each throat as he pushed them up against the wall, snarling viciously.

"Where is Ariahn and what have you done to her?" he asked calmly, looking between the two. Stone fingertips tightening a bit just to prove who really was in control.

TigerEye Charms

Date: 2009-10-06 17:35 EST
Panther dark eyes flickered to Theodore as her body writhed in his grasp. It was evident that the Voodoo Queen rather enjoyed the... abuse. Manipulated it into pleasure. Taboo bore her name for she was all things forbidden and desirable. Manipulator of emotions, controller of phermones. Weaver of desire and passion.

"Mm... he is delicious, Kaos. You should taste him. The way of his emotions. So much anger... imagine if we turned that fury... into lust. Do you think he would take us both? Whatever would that do to Ariahn's mind?"

Oh Taboo knew of the threat in that moment but the sadistic pleasure, the twisted compulsion of her mind enjoyed that rough brutality. Grinning sharply under her dom leather cop cap she continued to writhe in anticipation for his next move.

Kaos... was a bit more sedate in the offerings. Testing her own abilities to see just what sort of mind meddling she could do with the cold one. Trying she struggled then under his grasp as she began to force the illusion, the image of herself as Ariahn into his mind. What might it do to his mind if he saw himself harming the tiger? Squeezing her throat till she couldn't breathe?

"Where. Oh where is she. Can't you see. I am right here..."

A whisper as that toying of the mind increased ten fold as Kaos just smiled. Savage delights, blissful instability.

Behind the door the tiger paced, snarling out a warning for any that dare would cross her path. Dared to try those savage claws and brutal teeth. Mind given to the beast the will and way of the Huntress was fading as her blood tainted and painted the flooor.

Theodore

Date: 2009-10-29 21:20 EST
Theodore was growing impatient by the second. He rolled his eyes at their pathetic attempts to seduce him. Crimson gaze flashed at the two women in disgust. Taboo?s writhing was promptly ignored as he turned to Kaos, one brow lifted in mild amusement at her antics. Didn?t she know that sort of magic didn?t work on golems?

?Ha, ha. Very funny. I?m not stupid.? He saw through their facades. ?Give me one reason not to snap both of your throats, hm??

Pausing, he looked sharply to the side, sniffing. He was close, he could smell the sweet bliss of Ariahn?s scent. Lids fell half-mast briefly; he could almost taste her. Taboo's writhing reminded him of his task. Another severe growl as he turned savagely at his prey. ?I will not ask again. Where is she? ...and perhaps I?ll save your skins," through gritted teeth.

TigerEye Charms

Date: 2009-11-07 08:17 EST
"For a golem you're not very... keen."

Kaos chuckled as she side glanced to the door that locked away the Huntress.

"Tsk Tsk. We figured you'd be smarter to realize... this is all a distraction. WE are a distraction... while she dies."

A lean back as she smiled cheekily, fingers rubbing her throat as she gave a hip nudge to Taboo.

"He's no fun."

A heavy thud was heard from behind that thick door.

"Ah. There we are now."

Kaos of all things... giggled.

A turn of body away from Theodore and the key was shoved in the lock and the door that kept the Ice born from the Fire claimed spirit of Ariahn was opened.

"Enjoy saying your farewells."

They were both gone then as if they never had been there. The door creaked open with a sound of an omen breathed out to reveal the collapsed and motionless figure of the Huntress.

Loss of blood and the wicked instability of her broken spirit had forced the shift from tiger back to woman. It had taken every last inch of her power and the woman was limp on the floor.

Just as promised by Kaos... Ariahn was dying.

Theodore

Date: 2009-11-23 18:30 EST
Topaz flashed a violent red. "Neither are you for messing with my bird."

But at their next words, his face paled lightly, and if it hadn't been for that, neither would be alive. Their escape could be dealt with later, but it was Ariahn he was worried about. In a flash, he was beside her, holding her in his arms.

She felt so limp, like a ragdoll, and it stirred a type of fear Theodore had not felt in a long time.

"Ariahn? Ariahn?!" His voice threatened to break as he tried to bring her to some level of consciousness. "Please, Ariahn, I'm here. It is Theodore.. Please," he begged, as if trying to will her the desire to live again.

If not, a drastic measure might have to be taken.

TigerEye Charms

Date: 2009-11-28 16:05 EST
Cold. As Cold as he was. The Cold of him that she was drawn to.

On another time and place, another existence that perhaps would be Valhalla or Heaven or what have you, the Huntress knelt a good distance away from it all.

Hearing the familiar voices of those that she had brought a hand to when it came to the cross pattern of death disturbed her.

There were tears that spilled free and a silent plea for forgiveness. Fates be damned but she was not that woman.

No longer.

In the distance she heard her name called out, beckoning her to return home. Back to the one that called out to her.

Called to her heart, her spirit, her mind, her body.

Theodore...

Her mind willed her body to react.

Wishing for heart to beat. Body to move. Breath to be taken but she could not.

None of it was in cooperation.

Her mind screamed his name in a frenzy. There was no desire to lose him. To be parted from him after he had been found.

Not now not ever.

Her soul screamed even as the darkness surrounded. Claimed with the hand of Death that even now her soul fought against.

She had still the will to stay with him...If only he knew...

Theodore

Date: 2009-12-29 03:47 EST
Theodore shook her, and not kindly, whispering her hoarsely as he pulled her tightly against him. "Ariahn, Ariahn.. Come back to me, please," he begged. She had to want to return, to live, to be... Shaking with rage, he lifted her into his arms delicately as he rose.

"Please, please make it to the E.R." he begged her, holding her close as he sped at the speed of light from the dungeons, headed for the Riverview Clinic.

TigerEye Charms

Date: 2010-01-17 19:42 EST
So far away seemed his words yet they brought her forward as she lingered limp in his arms. Cold her flesh was damp with sweat, clammy and so cold.

Such a contrast those stripes were on her flesh then. Bold indian ink sprawling its mark to her skin.

"Theodore... you... came."

A whisper. Never in trust of her voice. Never in trust of her strength. Such a small smile on lips as she reached a hand up. Touched his jaw as lips found his in one sacred frozen kiss before she slumped in his arms.

Heart gone still.