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Post by Varian on Mar 21, 2009 22:16:20 GMT -5
Render sighed a little as she worked her fingers through the more dried in blood, trying to get as much of it off with her fingers as she could, leaving the rest to soak in the shampoo for now. It'd be better for charity if she wasn't wandering around covered in blood, her form at least mistakable for a were if one didn't notice her tails.
"Don't go saying silly things like that Charity." She quietly tells the young Cerberi, her hands adopting more of a stroking motion along with their cleaning. "Not all witches are bad, nothing is set by blood alone. Your father should be an example of this if nothing else, he and your mother had such a lovely child and she should never be ashamed of herself for their sake." She told her.
"Even Regina here was trying to do good, I just didn't see it until after I had ended her life." She recalled, the now long silent voice of the witch having been the shock that snapped her out of her bloodlust after the death of her pack.
"It gets better, but there will always be those that surprise you. Changelings are always hard, dragons as well, they are so full of pride some refuse to believe they have died at all." She smiled some, enjoying that arrogance some as she slowly eroded it.
"There was that one though... she hasn't made a peep... that was just strange" She recalled, mentioning her vampire form. By all rights she was always taught that she wouldn't be able to take the forms of the undead.
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 21, 2009 22:22:53 GMT -5
" Yeah?" She asked her tilting her head a bit as she listened about a certin form Render seemed to be puzzled by. Though a frown graced her lips at this fact that she spoke of. " I loved father... but ... they killed him too in the end...." She spoke, her mind blanking out for a moment as she was lost in long forgotten memories. After a moment she shook her head looking to Render. Changeing the subject ever so innocently.
" Tell me ... about that one Render." She spoke up as she looked to her eyes hopefully.
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Post by Varian on Mar 22, 2009 4:15:04 GMT -5
Render let her hands idly play through the younger blood hound's fur for a few moments. She would have liked to have had the chance to meet Charity's father, if only so she could have firsthand proof of the fact their two races were perfectly capable of co-existing. Sure, they had to kill things to survive, but they could just as easily live off the flesh and blood of animals as they could sentient beings. When on earth did things become so complicated or them?
"That one?" Render teased the girl for a moment before smiling and nodding to her. "I don't know if your mother ever told you, but our powers are completely useless against the undead. This means vampires can pose a problem for us and more importantly, that we can't gain the powers or form of any undead creature after we devour it." She gave Charity a moment to let that information sink in. It made sense after all, most undead didn't bleed to begin with so there wasn't any blood and vampires took blood from the living to sustain themselves so most if not all of theirs was probably from others.
"About... must have been probably eleven years before I met you. I ended up stalking a vampire who started wander around where I was living in another city. I don't know if she knew I was there or if it was just a coincidence that we started hunting in the same area, but I wasn't willing to take any risks. Turns out I wasn't the only one out for her though." he paused again, closing her eyes and trying to recall what events she could.
"Whatever it was it was powerful... I doubt I could have taken it head on. Must have been a demon or something of that vein but I'd not seen anything like it before. The vampire had trouble with it as well, I'm not even sure if she killed it in the end. Either way I knew I wasn't going to let something that powerful be a threat to my life, so the moment the demon was gone and the vamp let her guard down, I attacked her." Render shivered a little as she finished that part.
"That would be about the only time in recent memory that I've been afraid of my opponent,worried that my powers wouldn't be enough. Thankfully the demon had already done a number on her and with the element of surprise I overwhelmed her and took her down. I drained her of blood quickly and made myself scarce in case that demon or something else popped up again." She shook her head some, still finding it hard to believe that vampire had possessed so much power, all the others she'd killed over the years she could have taken in her normal form, powers or no.
"I don't know why, but a few days later I was thinking on the matter and I discovered I could take her form. I managed to gleam her name and her powers but other than that nothing. I didn't even get the surge of fear and pain which normally comes after claiming a form. No complaints, no habits showing through, no noticeable change in speech. She can't be out in sunlight, she had to drink blood but she was... different... I don't know. I've spent a lot of time just sat, thinking in her form and I get no closer to figuring out why I have her shape. I honestly don't know what to make of it." Render started to concentrate on her task again, trying not to dwell too much on the identity of the vampire girl. It was... well frightening, to have absorbed something she couldn't understand something so different to all she had obtained in her half a millennia walking this earth. She'd bent the forms of countless weres, changelings, fae, witches, humans, animals and even dragons to her will but this single one, even with all of her age and experience still worried her in a way she'd not been able to put into words.
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 22, 2009 10:53:53 GMT -5
Charity shook her head at the words of Render about her powers.
" Mama was just starting to teach me to use my blood hound powers... She was still trying to teach me to just hunt small prey when.." She stopped and looked away with a frown. That was when -THEY- came. Instead of continueing on she changed subjects swiftly.
" Thats weird." Charity responded with a bit of a frown.
" Papa used to say, there were many strange creatures out there, stranger then me and mama. That we had to be careful in case we ever confronted one of those creatures. He had a REALLY big book he used to read....." She told her. One of those few times she would talk about her life prior to Render now. Slowly she was opening up as of late, instead of hiding away in her blood hound shape.
" Maybe if you found a book like papa's you could find out why that form acts so strange..." She told her. Again with the frown, she only held a few possessions from her old life... Most of them were confiscated by the coven... Blood hound artifacts as well as witching ones. Her blue gray eyes looked upon Render's face again. A bit of a confused state was upon her face.
" Or maybe it's just broken like Charity is sometimes?" She asked as she tilted her head once more. Sometimes... Charity knew she was a bit 'different' compared to other sixteen year olds.
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Post by Varian on Mar 22, 2009 12:28:44 GMT -5
Render just smiled and rubbed her hand over the younger hounds neck for a few moments in a soothing motion, trying to help the girl stay calm. She knew all too well how easy it was to slip into anger and hate, they had that in common as well the two of them, though it had been far longer since Render had experianced it first hand.
"You are still young and I am probably pushing you faster than I should be, should you ever wish to though I can let you rest more." She smiled, knowing that Charity was very unlikly to ever take her up on that offer. She found that exceptionally inspiring in a girl her age, even with what she had been through
"I'm hoping to get a good look inside the coven here, if they have a libary maybe I can fiond a similar book. Either way it's not a big deal, maybe this one was just quiet in life." It wasn't entirly impossible that the consicousness just gave up, it would be a first but anything was possible.
"Charity isn't broken, she is perfectly fine." Render stated, leaning in to give the hound a hug not too worried about getting wet or soapy given her ability to jsut change forms.
"And I proimise I'll make them all pay for what they've done to me, to you, and the rest of our kind." She whispered softly to Charity, the deadly calm in her voice as much a reassuance for herself as for the younger half breed.
"We'll dance in their blood and greet a new dawn free of this fear and pain."
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 22, 2009 13:02:48 GMT -5
" You really think so?" Charity smiled as she suddenly turned back to her human like shape and wrapped her arms suddenly around Render's neck. Naked and soapy the child smiled at this before letting go.
" I'll enjoy that day. Alot." She told her as she listened to her mentor speak.
" Though I don't want to rest. I want to learn!" She whined like a little kid as she suddenly crossed her arms. Though just then, the words entered her mind.... the coven... Render wanted to infiltrate the coven house?
" I can do it. I can get in there I bet." She told her mentor suddenly. The strange child tilting her head a bit. She was part witch.... she could easily get into the coven house... couldn't she?
(( >.> I'm sort of tempted to make her a off branch of the Lothair family since she has similar hair color and skin tone XD what do you think? Might be useful to the plot line at all or not really? Maybe it was Claud's fathers brother or something? Stepbrother? <.< Uncle... XD ))
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Post by Varian on Mar 22, 2009 14:42:11 GMT -5
Render had to grin at the girl's wish to continue her training. It was comforting to know the girl would continue to strive to better hersel, even in the face of what she'd been through and as much as she might well have liked to disown her Cerberi half.
"Then learn you will my dear, I'll teach you everything I know and if I run out of things to teach I'll find others that can help you more." She smiled , moving a hand to ruffle the girl's hair. The hand slowed on her head at the mention of infiltrating the coven, Render's mind quickly running over the possibilities which that'd bring.
"Perhaps, though I wouldn't want you to put yourself in harms way like that. If they found out..." Render didn't feel the need to finish that sentance, she didn't care how reformist this Claudius was, she doubted he'd show her kind more mercy than any other.
"We'll see. Let me see what we are dealing with, if I think it's safe for you, I'll let you have a go. YOu might be better able to do some things I will need as well." She nodded to the younger blood hound, hoping she'd understand.
((That would prove a good dilema for Claud and Render XD ))
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 22, 2009 14:47:38 GMT -5
" Okay... eh! When your there can you get me some spell books? I want to try to work on spells a bit... again." She grinned innocently since well... every time she tried a spell... it usually lead to a utter disaster... which explained her love for her Cerberi side. At least she could control her skills in that form.
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Post by Varian on Mar 22, 2009 15:26:30 GMT -5
Rendier grins and stands up patting the girl on the shoulder as she moved to get her a towel from the cupboard nearby, passing it to her as she came back.
"Of course I'll see if I can get into the libary, I'm sure I'll find a couple things that might be of use to you. In the mean time why don't we get you dried and dressed. Then we can go see about that ice cream." She smiled softly to Charity, hoping she might get to enjoy this kind of time with her again after she was done with the witches.
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 22, 2009 15:36:39 GMT -5
" Eh! Okay!" She smiled as she took the towel and swiftly started to dry off. After this she ran out of the bathroom stark naked. Running for the small area where she kept her stuff she started to yank things out like a child getting ready for school. After a moment she took out a black skirt with lace upon the end. She put on a black tank top and a silver moon necklace. Black shoes paired off the outfit as she smiled back at Render, dressing as swift as possible.
" Can I get two orders?" She asked trying to be as innocent as possible as she bounced back and forth upon her feet.
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Post by Varian on Mar 22, 2009 18:26:36 GMT -5
Render followed her out far more calmly, having a lot to mull over herself by this point. Between the were packs, the coven and that strange vampire form she had a lot of things she needed to find out and little time she could safely take to research them. The first order of business though would still be to work on the coven. If they took the weres to the moonstone this afternoon... then if she tried to track down some things she needed for a protection spell this evening... she might have time to search for this Claudius over the night.
"I think you're missing a word there young lady." She remarked back to Charity at her question. Though chances are she's end up getting the girl two or three anyway still, no reason to forgo manners.
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 22, 2009 19:04:41 GMT -5
" Uh... Please?" Charity asked with a bit of a innocent grin. Hoping that was the missing word. Either it was that or well. She really didn't know what it could be then.
" I'm still hungry after all that were meat." She pouted a bit to Render, doing the cute little girl act with a demented twist.
" So I can eat two easily, if that's okay?" She asked. Hopeing it was.... it would be nice if it was....
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Post by Varian on Mar 22, 2009 19:27:18 GMT -5
"That's the one." Render grinned to the girl as she moved back to the entrance to their little den, waving the girl over.
"You can eat as much as you like but don't come crying to me if it all goes to your hips." She playfully teases the younger blood hound. She doubted with all the training she'd be doing there would be any time for something like that to happen.
"Just don't go getting more than you can eat, it's a shame to waste food." She added, believing that even if it didn't pertain to the spoils of a hunt.
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 22, 2009 19:48:01 GMT -5
" Okay." She sighed a bit before running after the older female and passing her out of the door. She ran right into the sunlight. Twirling around happily and carefree. For once, they were out here, alone. No worries of vampires and half of the night breeds. Though there were still the witches, were's and other creatures of course, though to her... right now. There was no worries, but the worry of food in her belly.
" Then what do we do after that?" She asked with a big playful grin.
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Post by Varian on Mar 22, 2009 20:32:58 GMT -5
"Assuming that were form of yours will keep from making passes at anything female in it's sight, I figured it'd be a good idea to go and check out that club. We'll need to make sure no one notices they are missing." Render replies, knowing that if the they were going to put the forms to use they couldn't be considered to have disappeared. Otherwise they'd be connected with the dead bodies that had been turning up. Or well, what was left of the bodies anyway.
"Maybe we'll get to meet that Skye as well." She grinned, looking forward to seeing how the witch had adapted to her new life. If she ended up being a pain, Render would have to enjoy watching her be the one being hunted down for being a witch.
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 22, 2009 20:39:50 GMT -5
" Really? Cool!" She shouted then paused as she walked.
" I mean... I'll try... not to ... make passes as him..." She told her shakeing her head at this.
" I can't believe we picked a pervert for me to consume. Eh! Render! You don't think I have a disease now do you? " She puppy whined a bit cause really... if that man had... and did... and yeah. Before she left school, they used to tell her things like that!
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Post by Varian on Mar 23, 2009 10:08:45 GMT -5
Render chuckled softly at the girl's whine, ruffling her hair some with a hand. She'd have to keep an eye on that were form of hers but otherwise she trusted Charity to do her best as always.
"Don't worry over that sort of thing Charity. We mimic the body and the powers, but at the same time we are still us. There isn't any way for you to pick anything like that up from a feeding." She assured the younger Cerberi.
"Besides if the blood was bad your body would have rejected it and we'd have your head in a bowl most of the day as it purged your system." She smiled, knowing that feeling all too well. Eating homeless people might have been the easiest way to remain undetected but it was also the quickest way to find someone with a blood based disease that would have you retching your guts up for hours afterward.
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 23, 2009 19:00:04 GMT -5
" Eeeeewww... that doesn't sound fun." Charity frowned never having thought of that before as a blood hound. Sure she knew she drank blood and flesh and stuff but well. She had yet to ever get sick from it. That in part though had to be due to her mother and Render watching over her.... taking care of her and making sure she didn't eat anything diseased. Not long afterwards the ice cream shop loomed into view. Charity laughed a bit as she ran ahead.
" Don't slow down Render!!! Hurry up!!" She called back to her with a laugh.
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Post by Varian on Mar 24, 2009 19:31:54 GMT -5
"It isn't." Render simply stated in a tone that should be enough to tell Charity she didn't want to elaborate. She had been desperate for food and unfortunately the risk she took hadn't helped her any. By the end of it she was lucky she still had the energy to shift to lure some more prey.
"Hey we've got plenty of time." She called after the girl as she started to run off again, though she soon ran after her, revelling in the little game while it'd last. After this they'd have to get to work and there'd not be time for games.
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 24, 2009 19:34:23 GMT -5
Charity ran inside and straight up to the counter. Leaning over a bit she pointed at a confection of icecream that held cherries and chocolate chips within it's creme.
" I want that one, two orders." She told the guy at the counter holding up her fingers in case he didn't know what the word two meant. She then looked back to Render with a grin.
" What do you want Render? Huh? HUh?" She asked excitedly as if she never saw icecreame before.
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Post by Varian on Mar 24, 2009 20:13:46 GMT -5
Render had to smile at Charity's enthusiasm, even if she herself wasn't sharing it quite so much. She wasn't sure why but Ice cream had never really appealed to her, much like most human food. It might just be that as a Cerberi, she only really considered meat and blood as food, while Charity being half witch was probably more open in her tastes.
"I'll just have a serving of the vanilla thanks." She replied, reaching into her pocket to produce the wallet she always kept some money in. She needed to remember to to frisk more victims of their belongings before settling down to eat though.
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 24, 2009 20:23:15 GMT -5
" You never get anything interesting Render, try the double bubble gum flavored. It's really good!" The young female chimmed up eagerly as the guy gave her the double serving and then offered up Render the vanilla as Charity was already licking her cones with a hungry manner about her. She almost acted as if she had never eaten before.
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Post by Varian on Mar 26, 2009 16:57:13 GMT -5
"I've never really taken to... ice cream..." The Cerberi states, leaving the pause in to try to get across to Charity that she was talking about human food in general as she took her own ice cream and paid the man. She preferred her food alive and normally warm, intelligent was a bonus, but then Charity was a half blood and probably raised more on this kind of thing so it didn't surprise Render that she could enjoy it.
"Don't eat it all at once." She chided the young girl in jest before taking a lick of her own cone. She shivered about as much from the action as one with very sensitive teeth might.
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Post by xxHuntressxx on Mar 26, 2009 18:26:34 GMT -5
" But it's so good!" She whined as she headed out the door. Humming to herself as she walked in the sunlight glad to feel it's rays upon her skin.
" Render, why do you think they call rocky road icecream ' Rocky Road' It's not really made out of roads.... nor does it have rocks in it." She spoke up a bit absent minded. Charity knew Render would have the answer to this one. Since the hell hound always seemed to have the right answers.
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Post by Varian on Mar 30, 2009 21:16:36 GMT -5
"Because as far as the humans are concerned their roads may as well be made of out marshmallows and chocolate. They ignore what goes on around them and let themselves be protected by those over eager witches. If they ever opened their eyes to what was really going on they might learn to take more care with their actions." Render started, before cutting herself off. She could rant for a good while on the, in her opinion, ridiculous protection the humans received. They were more than capable of ruining the planet themselves yet the witches thought they needed protection.
"Or maybe it's just because they ran out of names, you know they seem to name a lot of things with ridiculous names." She turned to charity with a smile, making the effort to look like she was enjoying her own ice cream.
"You should have seen first hand what they used to wear." She sighed a little, much preferring the more modern clothing to what she used to have to wear if she wanted to look at least a better than a commoner.
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