"Maybe that's his new boy toy." Murmured in a whisper to Darcy as he caught that wink and twinkle in her eyes. He took another bite of his food, followed by a sip.

"Patrick put sexy pants on or I'll molest you!" demanding now while she wriggled her nose. She was practically shaking her fist as she rose and began to stomp and huff, her body pacing back and forth in the process. And now thanks to what D said she was double checking the number on the phone. She blinks again and wrinkles her nose," Does Patrick have sexy pants?" Takes place on her face as she pauses to scratch her chin. What was the meaning of all this? She was clueless as usual.

"Or maybe your friend is just clueless on how to work a phone," More murmurings to Darcy.

"Maybe." She whispered back to Dark with a snicker. Sipping her drink and munching on another fry before she motioned May over, "Come 'ere you. I'll program his number in the phone and put it on speed dial so all you got to do is press one button and presto! You can get a hold of him and not this Patrick person who is probably wondering why you're calling him pants sexy."

And then she realizes she was hung up on again. There's a blink, stare into thin air, and then blink once again. She glanced at her phone, "Oh that brat!" She half debates on calling him back and then poofing, or poofing and not calling at all. There's a long debating pause before she looks to Darcy, ?But, the..." Dials the number in and tries again. Please not be the wrong number!

He chuckled into his tea cup, as he finished off his fries and burger, followed by a burp. "Excuse me" Murmured as he looked to May, then back to Darcy. "Was she dropped on her head a lot over her life?"

"Hello?" comes again while she listens with extra attentiveness, "Patrick?" Both brows arched upwards before a hand rose to double check her booze level.

She smirked to watching May struggle with the phone. May and technology did not go hand in hand. She quickly finished her fries and burger. Then her drink followed suit, "Is Patrick your new boy toy?" She asks as she grins and gives Dark a kiss on his cheek, "Excuse me love." Not being able to help herself she steals a kiss from his lips before slipping off of her stool and walking to May, "Sweetie I think its best you give me the phone."

He kissed Darcy back, before watching her go to help her friend. "Don't smack her upside the head to hard," called out teasingly.

"It is you! Oh thank god I thought I either had the wrong number or I was drunk...again..." She was smiling broadly again, actually proud that she had managed to get the cell phone thingy to work. She still was working on the 'thou shall not shout while talking' rule, "I'm at the Isle, want to come make my day and pick me up?" Yep, she was totally meaning something entirely different in that instant. It was still something fun to be had. To Darcy on the other hand she waves her hand - and flips the bird again. She had finally figured this cell phone game out and she wasn't about to pull away from it and break the thing. She shook her head from side to side even though she was surely acting like a jolly Cheshire kitten.

"May you flip the bird more often than I say the word <censored>" She said this rather matter-of-factly before she leaned forward. She was still hungry you see, and bit May's finger. That's right! She actually bit it like she wanted to eat it!

?What's that?? She blinks and stares at the phone. She shakes it a bit and then leans directly towards the mouth piece, "HELLO! JIN BABY CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?!" She actually yelps then, but that was thanks to D biting her finger. For that a kick in the shin was rewarded to Darcy.

Shadow just blinked as Darcy bit May, then busted out laughing.

She sighs in relief and wipes her forehead," Oh good. Good, good..." Both eyes turn over the area before she stares at Darcy, "Whatcha wearing right now baby?" Her voice was suddenly so low and sultry that it could qualify as disturbing.

Of course Darcy released May's finger and hopped backwards May's foot barely gracing her shin she smirked, "That's what you get." A pat to May's head like she were a little kid, then since May was staring at her she began to shake her goodies at her. Darcy could play at that game too! Give her a pole and it'd be on!

Just for that May tweaked D's nipple before she could get away. Shaking the goodies was a very bad idea. "Hey. You promised to only do that for me in my lap, " Shadow quipped to Darcy.

Good thing the hoodie was thick otherwise it would've hurt! "That's going to cost you extra honey." That to May as she winked to her bff then laughing like a fiend she turns on her heel and moves back over to Shadow only to sit on his lap instead of beside him wrapping her arms around his neck, "Not in public babes."

She paused at the voice on the phone, both eyes going devilish. A small purr of interest laces her lips as she muses, "Think ya could pick me up like that then?" Oh, but look at that grin. Bad, May, bad.

The thought of May and Jin doing the mattress mambo was about as equal to thinking about her parents doing the same thing. It just seriously disturbed her. And you could tell by the look on her face. And she wasn't disturbed easily! Darcy was one seriously screwed up chica. But that? That was the icing on the cake!

He moved his arms back around her. "Nope?whenever I want you to make a fool of yourself,-" A nip to Darcy's nose, before looking towards May, "Stop doing that to the tables, May! They weren't made for that!"

Darcy smiled as she pulled one of her old Vampiria moves out of the bag; burying her face into Shadow's neck to deeply inhale his scent. Running her nose along the flesh of his neck to scent him her lips curl into a devious smile as she teasingly ran her lips along the flesh those lips meeting his earlobe to whisper dark sweet naughty sinister nothings in his ear.

There she is, getting ideas again. That's what's bad, May getting ideas. She leans away from Darcy and Dark to speak softly, well, as softly as she dares on the phone, which is still pretty loud," I was thinking about you today.."

Tearing her gaze away from May she blinked looking at Dark, "A better kiss than Jin over there?" She asks with a smile motioning to Jin. She had after all received a smooch from Jin once-upon-a-time before May staked her claim on him.

A smirk to Darcy. " Yes, or do you not remember it? " as he wiiggled his brows at her.

Dipped! Well that's something to take her mind over the looming essence that was the singer. A long breath of Jin was taken in and she smiled, brightly. Her fingers moved to run through his hair as she murmured to him softly," Miss me?" But the singing was back and it had her pausing for only a moment, this time both eyes did look, and she gave a small nod to the singing man.

"Oh I remember it very fondly." Her voice was warm and fuzzy but her eyes were cold, darkening to the sound of the singing one. As if May was the owner Darcy was the guard dog. Set to go at her order. Again...Her gaze traveled over to her bff and she quirked a brow and mouthed the words, 'what the <censored> is going on?'

He smirked to that, with a swat to her rump. Before looking to the singing one for a moment, then back to Darcy with a quirked brow.

?I did. Ya miss me?? He follows her eyes to the creepy guy.Wait a second, something's registering in his mind.

?'Gonna make a change. For once in my life. it's gonna feel real good. Gonna make a difference. Gonna make it right." A quick shift has the voice changing again to perfectly imitate the true owner of the song. "I'm starting with the man in the mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways..." Eyes like light just look over the gathering without care though they linger unnaturally on Mayverdia.

Even the smack to her rump didn't cause her to jump in glee like she usually did for Dark. She saw him giving her the same look she was giving May, minus the mouthed words of course. Hopefully, and she prayed for this, the keen ninja hadn't noticed the darkening of her eyes. Or the slight glow of that pale skin. Though she kept a tightly closed lid on it just like last night her Otherness was peaking out. She was still new to this gig and didn't have complete control yet like she should.

He pulls May up with him as he stands upright. He remembers now... that description May gave. That's hm. His serious face is on. Leaf greens locked onto the man from behind green sunglass lenses. - Oh but he did notice the change in appearance, before he looked back to the singing one a moment.

"Of course I missed you?" Dare to be calm even then. May turned to glance to Jin, a small smile forming on her lips and her fingers tracing over his cheek. She was doing her best to keep her calm. She could feel the eyes on her; it was making it harder for her to focus. Eventually she swallows softly and whispers to Jin," ... Jin... relax.. .He?s? he hasn't done anything just yet." She shook her head at Darcy, telling her to relax a bit.

He looks back to May and nods. But the translucent green angel wings are still visible. He's ready to act in a heartbeat. For now, though another legendary kiss pressed to her lips.

His being calm is what she needs at that moment. For them all to be calm is just what is called for. She returns the kiss as best as she can with her unease. A small smile is given to Jin, both her fingers trailing at his cheek before she whispers," Thank you." Once more the passive May shows her face and the true nature of her ways.

A single blink that lasted as long as a heartbeat and her eyes were back to being those glittering forest colored jewels, the glow from her skin fading. She swallowed hard as her heart had been in her throat. Funny how violence and sacrifice went hand in hand, that's why she reacted so badly around the threat of violence. She put her hand on Dark's intertwining her fingers with his own and gave his hand a squeeze; giving him a reassuring smile that reached her eyes.

An imaginary hat tipped to them all at the warm reception. This one had guardians. How quaint. And they all looked so cute. He could just eat them all up. Make them all a true family; a romantic notion that, as his twisted mind gave such a bit of seriousness. "Undead!" It was a literal scream. And that is what began bursting from the ground. "Undead!" Ghoulish hands snapping up at their feet as an eerie music filled the air. Hollywood Undead was playing on high. "Undead!" Hands grew attached to arms and soon full torsos.

Unfortunately Darcy was far from passive which is why she was beginning to think it was a slight mistake at the charge that May had left her with. But then again it did seem perfect for her. A real human mortal touch is what she needed right now. And that's what Dark provided. Like a scared little girl she crawls onto Dark's lap and curls up in the tiniest ball she can pressing herself against him and holding him tight.

Honestly, he was expecting the guy to pretend he's not batsh*t evil for a little longer. They hardly ever reveal their true nature this soon. So he's taken off guard by the hands snapping up at him, but only for a moment. A burst of energy emanates from his body to shake off the hands, though he holds on tightly to May. Once that's taken care of, he ascends to the sky, taking May with him. He looks around across the Isle with grit teeth. They could really use a Keeper right about now.

Of course the singer's voice pierced her eardrums. She whimpered as she wrapped arms and legs around Dark. Holding him close and tight, eyes squeezed shut as she took in a deep breath. The tension was thick enough to cut with a knife. The fear was choking. She let out a shaky ragged breath, "I need to go...I need to get away..." Surely May would understand, seeing as how she was once new to the gig herself.

He nodded as he moved to stand, despite having a Darcy clinging to him for all that she was worth. He then darted towards the portal with her.

Both of her eyes went wide at the bodies rising from the ground. May couldn't help it; she began to freak out right then and there. She was shaking her head; her body was pulling away as those vile creatures. This was where she was practically useless. Zombies, undead, and pretty much the lot of them horrified her. As her body was lifted up she screamed, she had actually thought it was something other than Jin plucking her up. She was almost shocked to death in that moment.

"Bang Bang. Get up out the way. "His hand shot sky ward as great skeletal shapes came up from the woods. Long buried animals called to the will of the Singer of Songs. "Tomorrow will rise so let?s fight today. You know I don't give a fuck at ya think or say. Cuz we gonna rock this whole place anyway." Long dead began to drift from the woods, shambling monstrosities of half decomped bears, squirrels, and all manner of the long devoured.

"This isn't real, this isn't real, this isn't real." All repeated into the thin air. Both her eyes were wide and filled with horror. Undead, not what she was looking for. Anything could have been thrown at her, anything, but this. This was where she got the jist of horrified and scared out of her wits. May couldn't do much more than what she was doing now, she was in the air, flying was not her forte," Jin... he's not going to let us leave."

?May, I'm gonna do something that you might think is totally crazy and stupid. But trust me.? That's totally weak of them! Big frown. Okay, fine. He'll take on an army of undead all by himself. Thanks, guys. He chucks May toward the lagoon. The lagoon doesn't exactly want its Keepers' friends to drown, and indeed, May is definitely his brother's friend, so it catches her, and suspends her above the surface. ?So, you wanna play hardball?! Let's play hardball! Just who the hell...? He points his hands at the densest clump of undead. A surge of energy emanates from the Seraphim Knight's body. Hyper Arte. An intense white light builds up. ? ...do you think I am?! Seraphim Buster!!? A large beam of scathing white energy thunders forth toward them.

The Keeper of Water dashes through the portal, panting as he looks around to get a sense of what's going on. Okay. Let's see here. There's a crap load of undead. He can't see past them to figure out what's happened to Jin and May. He grits his teeth, clenching his fists as he tries to feel out the energies in the area.

It's a monster mash on the Isle apparently as more and more undead pour from forest and rivers and sands. "It's my life." Reaching hands pull Mayverdia close. "This is for the ones who stood they're ground. For Tommy and Gina who never backed down." Using the undead as a foul fog a rush is made for the portal, a pretty posey in his arms.

Dark arms entwine around her in the moment her hero falls back. Her hair falls back as her head lulls a bit. She was twitching for just a second, reacting to the shifting of her body, but even at that moment there seems to be no resistence with the situation at hand. Well, if she was concious she would have resisted.

Kelathe looked at Neo, and the wings suddenly appeared again. Hair flooded black, and she was snarling and hissing as she looked around.

Feeling like Ash from Army of Darkness, save for the fact she doesn't have a chainsaw as an arm though that'd be awesome, Darcy blows one of the undead?s brain out all over whoever was close enough, she'd apologize later, and cocked the nasty looking weapons loading another round into the chamber. Kneeling down beside Jin, "Damnit Jin get up!" And she slaps him in the face.

Undead pouring from rivers? Oh no he didn't. The Keeper of Water objects. He suddenly throws his arms up. All the water that dares to spit out undead? It shoots upwards, aiming to pull he undead back in, consume them, and crush them to nothingness. Ice blues narrow upon the man holding May. ?You're that guy that Skid said to kill. I should have taken his advice.? He knows that Darcy's here, but he's going to ignore the fact that he hates her guts for the sake of his brother and his brother's girlfriend.

It's no use. He took a tranquilizer bullet to the face. Well it's not like taking the tranq dart out sucks out all the tranquilizing liquid, you silly goose. He's still out cold.

She's close to the portal, and so spots him. She screams. "Neo!"

He can feel the distinct energy of the man, at least as distinct as it is from all the undead, rushing toward the portal. A scowl on his face, he sticks his arm out at the very last moment to clothesline him in the face.

"God mother <censored> damnit!" Darcy screams as she takes out that tranq dart and slaps Jin in the face again, "Get up damn you!" She wouldn't break down into hysterics now. Not with the fact that her best friend was about to be taken by some monster. Well...What is she supposed to do? Put her mouth on the wound and suck? It wasn't a snake bite! She screamed in frustration as she think, think, thinks of the best way to rouse Jin ASAP.

Eyes widen as there is suddenly an arm there! The connection sends both he and the package skidding like a top...straight through the portal. Smelling salts? Would that do the trick? She carried them in the event Tara fainted. Or anyone fainted around her or Tara. Because of her or Tara's hand. It had happened recently. She fishes them out of her pocket, breaks the seal thingmajigger, and wafting wafting wafts it underneath Jin's nose. Work work work!

Oh no you don't! <I>Freeze Lancer!</I> Long, sharp crystals of ice drop down from the sky. Hopefully, Neo planned the timing right, aiming to pin the man down to the sand at his legs or at his shoulders... while not hitting May

He's up... he's conscious. He gets up to his feet post-haste... and immediately falls over. And back up... and back down. See, conscious though he may be now... there's still tranquilizer in his system. Jin?s stumbling around trying to stay on his feet, looking around frantically.:: Wh.. wh... where's the... b...bastard?! I'll... I'll... p-punch his head off!

Completely lost Kelathe made her way to Jin, as quickly as she could; albeit surprised when he was up and moving. "Jin...what hit you? Be still!"

?B...bastard shot some...somethin' in my f-f-f-face!!?He's love to oblige her on that, but, uh... it's literally impossible for him to stand still on his own power.

A howl as something unknown pierces his left foot. The sound is inhuman and would give a Banshee reason to wear ear plugs. The sonic vortex directed at the new Mr. Hero 2.0.

Kel reached out one arm, grabbing his shoulder and spinning him, sinking an intangible hand, the undamaged one sinking into his temple only to drop screaming herself, hands over her ears. wings covering her protectively.

She sighed with obvious relief that Jin had come to. She didn't recognize the other woman so looked at her warningly. However after deciding she was going to help instead of hinder she grabs one of Jin's arms and wrap it around her shoulders and with her help she helped him stand, "He tranqed you..." She growled. Not at Jin, not at the woman, but at the situation at hand.

?Oh, Jesus!? He staggers back a bit, hands coming to his ears to cover them up in panic.:: ?Gah--!!?

?What the f--?!? He brings his hands up to cover his ears and promptly falls on his face in so doing, taking Darcy with him.

A jerk and flesh and sinew are ripped from the spike to leave a bloody trail through the portal. However a piece of paper fell behind.
Once he recovers from the sonic attack, Neo grits his teeth. How could he fail to protect his friends yet again?! ?God damnit, NO!!!? Flying into a blind rage, he dashes through the portal after him.

"Neo!" She was up, stumbling after him, hands held out.

"Nooooo!" Her bloodcurdling scream heard as she saw the monster and May disappear, "F*ck this! F*ck this! F*ck this!" And despite the fact he hated her guts she was on the same page as Neo. Scrambling to her feet as she lets the wrath fill her being her Otherness peaking out in full force as she hurls herself through the portal in pursuit.

He'd attempt to dash after her too. In fact, he does attempt it. And he fails. He falls right on his face. ?God... damnit!!!?

She snarled at him. "Don't lie to me." Crimson eyes blazing, Kelathe sat back on her haunches. She turned then, looking towards Jin and ... the other woman. Her back...is ruined, completely shredded... Feathers continue to float down around them. She's up on her feet, and getting ready to follow them, but she stumbles to a knee.

?I'll try... ? Doing his best to keep his grip on her.

?Fine. I'm not fine.? He's snarling back. ?I just failed to protect my friends yet again, and charged straight into a pair of frag grenade explosions, which endangered you as well. I'm not fine... at all...?! And even so, he's struggling to get to his feet. He has to chase them... he has to.

"All along I pierce the chain. And on and on the sting remains. And dyin' eyes consume me now. The voice inside screams out loud! I am focused on what I am after. The key to the next open chapter!" The words rush from all avenues in the cavernous maze that is the sewers and deep catecombs of Rhydin. "Cause? I? found a way? to steal the sun from the sky! Long? live that day! That I decided to fly! From the insiiiide!" A teasing taunt of acoustics the egg the battered angels on.

It wasn't long before they appeared climbing out of the manhole. She scrambled to her feet and looked back at Jin, "Can you stand?" She asks as she's trying to remain as calm as she can about this before she looks to Neo and the woman with him.

Kel turned and looked at him. "Get up, Seraphim Knight. Get up, and help your friends."

?No, I can't stand. Why do you think I'm holding on to you like this?? Jin snarled against her shoulder.

"Right...Dumb question." She heard Neo and jerked a thumb towards him, "Convince your brother we'd get lost going in there blind looking for her right now."

He can't escape the pain. He can't control the rage. Sometimes he thinks that he's gonna go insane. He's not against what's right. He's not for what's wrong. He's just making his way... Neo struggles to his feet, somehow managing it. But he looks like his legs are going to give at any moment. ?I'm going to find him... and tear him limb from limb!? With that... he loses control and transforms. His hair, eyes, and wings turn a bright radiant gold, and his entire body starts to glow. A brief wave of force shoots from his body in all directions. He grits his teeth, enduring the pain, and stalking toward the manhole.?I'm still feeling... completely f*cked up...?

?No. I'm not going to sit there and do nothing.?

She stared at him, eyes wide, trembling in fear. She bowed her head, slowly, in the face of his rage. Softly spoken, "Neo?" She falls to the side, unable to hold herself up any longer. Blood flows freely down her back, and tears down her cheeks, she cries with the pain.

Electricity was shooting from Achilles hands as he arrived. He had felt there was something wrong. He had on shorts and a tee-shirt and shoes this time. Close toed shoes can ya believe it. He had a bad feeling something happened to his little sister. He closed his hands into fists and ran trying to find out where she, or if she was with the gang, where they were.

"Shit..." She said softly and with feeling. It was gonna be Darcy versus Neo round two. She sets Jin down carefully and gives him a smile that says she ain't gonna kill his brother. Now standing her ground she rounds to face Neo, "Neo Eternity I advise you to stop where you are. That place is a mother f*cking maze. Think of the maze in The Shining but ten times f*cking worse. We would all get lost going in there blind. We need to clear our heads and think of a plan." She sensed Ankle but didn't acknowledge him just yet. One problem at a time. One emergency at a time. One tragedy at a time. She nodded down to the woman on the ground, "Help her Neo. Help her so we can help each other get back to one hundred percent and get May. Together. Not divided. That will get us nowhere."

?Get... out... of... ? He couldn't push himself any further. It's like the rage has eaten away what energy he had left over anyways... He loses the transformation. The angel wings disappear, and his hair and eyes go back to their normal color. He almost falls forward, but stumbles to catch himself. Kel. He looks over to her. His lover... one of the most wonderful women he's ever met. He can't abandon her. Such would be to fail her as well. ?Healing... Circle...?He points a hand out at her, using the last of his energy to call forth his tower to power a healing spell. A blue circle of light would appear beneath her and unleash a truckload of energy upon her. He hopes it helps as he falls over backwards and loses consciousness.

He slid to a stop sensing Darcy. He kept on until he drew closer to them. He looked around. "Darcy! May? Jin, Neo someone answer me damnit!" He looked around. Damn his inability to get an accurate bead on where they were.

She pressed a fist in her mouth, the bandages having unravelled to expose her burnt hand. She sobs, quietly, hair ebon.

?God... damnit... ? He can't hold on either. The tranquilizer's still in his system, and he can't fight it anymore.

She can feel his power wrap around her, healing her wounds. She cries more, pulling herself to her knees, and dragging herself over to where he is. She pulls his head into her lap, and looks down at him, ebon curls around her face. She's still crying, tears falling onto his face.

She let out a sigh of relief. It was then as the adrenaline faded she began to hurt. Various bleeding cuts all over her body. Her clothes torn and tattered. The exposed skin burnt horribly in some places in other places blistering. Darcy begins to feel all the aches and pains. Haunted forest hues fall on Achilles, "Ankle..." She whispers to her former lover of eons ago before her eyes roll up in the back of her head. Her knees buckling as they give out and she crumbles to the ground.

"Darcy!" He ran over and slid next to her. He picked her up and shook her gently. "Hang on damnit!" He growled. "Neo... Jin... Someone... what happened.." He was doing his best to hold back his anger. He looked to the one with the group still awake. He had a low growl in his voice.

She was alive. Very much alive. He could tell by her breathing. She was just hurt and very badly at that. Burns, bleeding cuts, bruises, probably some internal bleeding. She grumbled whenever he shook her. Eyes fluttering, "The...Monster...Took...Took...Celestina..." She manages to say before she is completely out cold.

She closed her eyes, tightly, white flooding through her hair. A blue and silver glow envelopes her, and begins to spread outward, engulfing Neo...Jin.... Darcy. She trembled, muttering under her breath. A chanting came from her, melodic, the words flowing from her... " Caer Eir...." The chanting continues, low under her breath. She seems to be singing almost, the energies gathering and swirling around them all. It wouldn't be enough to cure all their wounds... but it would be enough to wake them up.

Ankle moved a hand from her as he forced his anger to subside, the electrical storm in said hand seeping back into his body. He laid Darcy down gently and looked around. He placed his hand on her shoulder. He looked to Jin and Neo. He kneeled by them and looked to the chanting woman. "I need to get them back to the H.Q. Please..."

She spared a glance for the man who spoke, holding up her hand as if to say "wait". The Seraphim Knight tattoo on her arm glowed faintly, and she turned her attention back to Neo.

That white healing energy flooded her being causing her eyes to fly open and a gasp to escape her lips. She coughed and rolled over on her side, "Ankle...Help me up."

He spun and got Darcy up in his arms. He held her close. "Hang on...." He chuckled. "Never guess you would ever end up in my arms again huh?" Achilles tried to make her smile mainly to try to calm him down so he didn't accidentally nuke the area with lightning.

To Plant a Posy...Intermission

"I can ride my bike with no handlebars, no handlebars, no handlebars." The fetid water of the sewers swirled about his ankles as the stream left them to the quiet trickle of leaking pipes. Dipping low, the Singer of Songs held Mayverdia aloft above the water doing what he could to keep her from the grime infensted much behind them. "So much pain, we don't know how to be but angry. Feel infected, like we got gangreen, please don't let anyone try to change me. Me. Just me in the middle of the sea full of faces. Full of faces. Some laugh. Some salivating."

The crumbling hall was all that remained of an ancient opera houses' original foundations. Passages linked off in several watery directions as a newly built central hub had unearthed this section of the city. Mouldy and broken furniture lined the walls in a mockery of warm welcome. Broken slabs of upturned earth and stone littered the floor with great gaping holes that breathed dank air into the room from forgotten chambers. Despite the age there stood a new addition.

On a sturdy space of floor a four poster bed had been erected with care. Coffins were not his style. Too cramped and limiting by far. With infinite care he laid Mayverdia down upon rumpled sheets of satin saphire and fresh snow-white pillows. Softly he fanned her hair out so nothing would pull or knot as a pale ray of moonlight broke through a hole in the floor cieling above. Its silver light brushed across her face as though touched by the grace of an angel. "You ought to know. Tonight is the night to let it go. Put on a show. I wanna see how you lose control. So leave it behind, cause we got a night to get away. So come on and fly wit' me as we make our great escape."

It felt like a force beyond his person held his hand in place as it cupped her cheek then. Something magnetic made her stand out to him, something primal even. So much had changed in such time to leave him in a state of disbelief over it all. What had he become in his slumber? First the undead upon the Isle, then the odd power in his scream at being bloodied. Something was changing him. Something beyond the Singer's own knowledge, limited as it was anyway. "So baby don't worry. You are my only. You won't be lonely. Even if the sky is falling down. You will be my only. No need to worry. Baby are you down down down?

A true force of will finally pulled him from her side and up the only set of stairs in the broken room. A soft rumbling overhead sounded the commencement of pipes roaring to life as soft bits of dust and steam drifted in the air. Moments later he returned with an overlarge bowl held casually in one hand while the other carried sewn sack draped over the wrist. At her side once again, the bowl was set down on a flat slab of stone revealing steaming water in its basin.

"Down. Down. baby are you down down down? Even if the sky is falling down." From the cloth bag a wash cloth of dark green was removed and set into the steaming basin. Following it came a squeezable bottle of a deep blue, almost purple substance. The scent of lavender tickled his senses. "I'm so addicted to...all the things you do." lavender soap found itself spread over the wet cloth before he leaned over May and began to remove her soiled clothes. Hands that could crush steel now slid like velvetine wind over her form, freeing it of the clinging materials.

"If you only knew..." The hot cloth lathered up as he softly caressed it over her skin. A soft trail of white froth and bubbles soon turned black as it began to eat away the filth of the sewers.

"I'm hangin' by a thread. The web I spin for you. If you only knew. I'd sacrifice my beating heart before I'd lose. You. " He lifted her arm as though it were made of glass and brought he cloth down along the underside and up around her shoulder in one contunous motion before rinsing the cloth and re-soaping.

"If I drown tonight, bring me back to life. Breath your breath in me. The only thing I still beleive in you. If you only knew." He swept the renewed cloth down along the length of her hip in soft circling patterns while moving. Suds traling down to her calf and across the flat of her foot with a lover's caress to the care he took in bathing her.

"Ever since the days of old. Men would search for wealth untold. They dig for wealth and gold. And leave the empty holes." Fingers swept upward, wiping soil from her inner thigh and lower portions to be rinsed again. "I remember black skies. The lightning all around me. I remembered each flash as time began to blur. Like a startling sign that fate had finally found me. And your voices was all I heard, that I get what I deserve..."

The words a soft lullabye to her slumbering presence as he continued to cleans her body of the physical impurities from the waters beneath Rhydin. "Never knew...I could feel like this. Like I've never seen the sky...before. Want to vanish inside your kiss. Every day, I love you more than me. Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing? Tellin' me to give you...everything. Seasons may change. Winter to Spring. But I love you. Until the end of time..."

Dirt and slime gradually fled from her perfect form under the steady motions of his hands. Matted hair and stench vanishing before the cloth and lavender, all the while his words floated over her sleeping body, Eyes protective and guarded. "Come what may." His voice ran through the empty room. "Come what may. I will love you...until my dy - ing day."

His hands pressed over the supple flesh of her busom halfway between inspecting and desire. "Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place. Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace. Suddenly my life doesn't seem such a waste. it all revolves around you..."

His near skeletal frame moved to lay atop hers, taking in the lavender scent, and her own just beneath that as though it were an aphrodesiac. "And there's no mountsin too high. No rivers too wide. Sing out this song and I'll be there by your side. Storm clouds my gather, and stars may collide. But I love you....til the end...of...time...." HIs eyes flashed as he strunk, buring his fangs into the flesh above her heart.

Modus Operandi Interruptus

"Come on. A little bit of sunshine, a little bit of booze. A little bit of me, and a little bit of you. A little bit country, a little bit of blues. A little slice of heaven, and a little piece of you. Come on, alcahaulin ass. Pour another drink in my glass. Alcohol and ass. Alcohol...and ass." Distant reverberations played back at his senses with the carrying voice that drifted like a wraith through the darkness of unused catecombs. He could feel the stirrings of other things within the walls, but he dare not bother them, and so in turn woud not be bothered.

Faint torch light guttered far ahead as a heavy steel portcullis rose on rusty hinges at his approach. Three pale figures came into sight through the portal of his new accomodations. "The Master returns, ready the table Mara. Myra, see that proper garb is prepared for this new sister she was stolen from him in the time before."

Lips twisted upward at the attempted whispers of his favored bride. Though she was but a fledgling necromancer, her skills benefitted him most in binding Mayverdia, or as her other name...Celestina. How they fought over his attention like children, it was amusing at times. However tonight, their games worked in his favor.

"A little bit thirsty, a little bit used, a little bit of whiskey, and a little pinch of chew. A little bit tired, and a bad attitude. A little bit of drinking, and another piece of you. Yeah, come on. Alcohol and ass. Pour another drink in my glass. Alcohol and ass. Alcohol. And. Alcohol and..yeah..yeah..yeah. Come on." An eerie wind swirled through the open space as unhurried steps moved around piles of books and electrical cable. It appeared the sisters had tried their hands at cleaning.

With deliberate care he gently laid her down as Mara finished laying out the pillow and blanket. "You drove me too it, so there was nothin I could do. Pushed me down, split me right in two. Now I've fought the long hard road, carried the weight of you. Boy. yeah boy, yeah boy God damn. There's only one thing left to do..." His steps moved away as the three saw to her, ridding her of garments and to setting her leg and fixing the injuries sustained by the accident.

"It may not mean nothin to y'all, but understand nothin was done for me. So I don't plan on stoppin at all. I want this shit forever mine."