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Post by Echostar on Aug 12, 2008 16:26:52 GMT -5
"Maybe ivy leaves and a little sulfer....." Lia muttered, bending over and scribbling in her notebook. She stood back up and took a golden vile very carefully into her hand. Twisting it back and forth in the light, she observed its color, texture, volume, etc. Some discovery made her frown and she placed the vial back in its original position on the rack. She bent back over her notebook and started scribbling again. Suddenly, in a short fit of rage, she slammed her notebook shut and bashed the table with her fists, making vials, tubes, and everything else on the table shake and clatter against each other. "God! Will I NEVER get it right!" she screeched. When she calmed down, she knotted her eyebrows together, deep in thought. She sighed and decided to take a break to get her mind off things; even vampires can get stressed.
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Post by Saberstar on Aug 18, 2008 18:21:17 GMT -5
Skye slid through the moonlit window. He cast a compassionate look at Lia and smiled. "You ok?" he asked slowly walking toward her and putting his hand on her cold shoulder.
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Post by Echostar on Aug 19, 2008 18:30:21 GMT -5
Lia turned to look at him, her sour expression changing to one of happiness. "Not really," she admitted. "I can't seem to find anything that works at it's really getting to me. I know I should be more patient, but I can't help it." She half smiled at her partners concern then walked away down the spiriling staircase that lead to her lab. This time of day the rats would normally be scurring around, but for some odd reason, none of them were on the steps. Lia tried to forget about it, but couldn't help wondering where Ginger went. Ginger was a special albino rat that Lia kept as a 'pet'. Though she nevers sees much of her little companion during the day, she's always waiting for her on the steps once night hits. Shaking her head and trying to forget, Lia continued down the stairs until she reached her destination, the kitchen. She glided over to the refrigerator and took out a packet of blood. She slipped over to the living room, sat on the couch, and flipped the tv on.
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Post by Saberstar on Aug 19, 2008 18:41:49 GMT -5
Skye slowly slid down the stairs. Picking up his vampire bat 'Blood', and sitting on a kitchen stool, sketching randomly. "What all have you tried? Did you try dried bay leaves?" she soothed his friend tense nerves. Tired of failed sketched he sat next to Lia and sprawled out lazily. "And about the rats, maybe they've found a good hunt tonight, stop worrying Lia, you'll kill yourself." he said flashing his white fangs.
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Post by Echostar on Aug 19, 2008 19:27:13 GMT -5
Lia looked away from the tv and gave Skye a death stare. "Ha ha ha. You SO FUNNY." she growled and returned her attention to the screen. "Besides, Ginger always waits for me. She's a lot smarter than the other rats and quite a bit more affectionate. I have a strange feeling that something is either going on with the rats, or there's somehting else living here besides them and us." She lifted the bag high and took a long gulp of the cool blood before letting it rest back in her lap. She licked her lips and turned to face her Skye. "And I tried bay leaves Tuesday anyway."
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Post by Saberstar on Aug 20, 2008 5:12:33 GMT -5
Skye slanted his jaw in disappointment. "Well," he said, heaving himself up from the couch, "I have to go." he bent over and hugged Lia with a gentle kiss on the forehead. "Hey," he whispered, "While I'm gone relax, I don't want you to hurt yourself..." he gave her a pat on the shoulder and strapped his blade to his left arm allowing his wings to slide out of their sheaths.
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Post by Echostar on Aug 20, 2008 18:15:15 GMT -5
Lia rolled her eyes. He always seemed to be worried about her. She switched positions so she was sitting with her legs on the couch. "Hey!" she called over her shoulder, "Where are you going?"
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Post by Saberstar on Aug 20, 2008 18:36:44 GMT -5
Skye strapped on the sword with a final click. He sighed. "I'm going to get you more food, I'll search for Ginger while I'm at it, plus I want to make sure no werewolves are around." he soothed. "Don't worry about me Lia, I'll be fine." he said and grasped the doorknob, closing it slowly behind him.
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Post by Echostar on Aug 20, 2008 19:24:57 GMT -5
Lia sighed as he walked out the door. She was alone again and not even Ginger was here. Taking another gulp of blood, she flipped the channel. Nothing was on. Sighing again, she got up to toss the empty bag into the garbage. She looked up and jumped back a few feet, startled. At the kitchen windowsill sat a large crow, looking in at her. It tapped the window. Once. Twice. Three times. It stared at her again, unblinking and unmoving. She took a deep breath, her hand slowly and unconciously moving toward her necklace. Her eyes never tore from the bird as her hand moved. When it touched the pendent dangling from the chain, the crow's head jerked to look at her hand briefly, then snapped back to her face. It let out a CAW! before gracefully turning around and taking off into the night sky.
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Post by Saberstar on Aug 26, 2008 15:52:48 GMT -5
Skye turned around and saw a huge raven fly from the house and slowly it shifted into a black dragon and flew towards the moon. "Oh no.....Lia!!" he screamed dashing through the forest at top speed. 'He's probably hypnotized her already...' he thought frantically. He burst through the locked door, shattering it into wooden pieces. "Lia!" he yelled. "Lia where are you!?"
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Post by Echostar on Aug 28, 2008 17:30:32 GMT -5
Lia was standing by the window, still. Her eyes were still fixed on the place the raven was only a few moments ago. Now, she began to mutter unintelligable words, her lips moving ever so slightly. Her hand was still clutched around her necklace, its grip increasing as the seconds ticked by.
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Post by Saberstar on Aug 30, 2008 17:07:32 GMT -5
Skye leapt at her with a cold hiss and bit at her necklace chain...no luck. He grabbed her small hands and strained hard to pry her fingers from the necklace. When her fingers were off he shattered the silver chain and hit her across the face and she snarled at him. She fell to the ground and he pinned her down. "LIA, WAKE UP!!" he growled. He couldn't let this happen again....not again...
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Post by Echostar on Sept 3, 2008 15:05:32 GMT -5
Lia didn't stop growling but she had returned back to normal. "What was that for?!" she spat at him. Her arms were pinned and Skye was staring at her as if she had just devoured a whole village of people. She strained to look around and noticed she didn't have necklace anymore. The chain was broken and lay scattered across the kitchen floor and her pendent lay across the room near the fridge. She refocused her attention to Skye and curled her lip, snarling at him again. "What was that for?!" she repeated, flinging him off and getting up.
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Post by Saberstar on Sept 6, 2008 16:25:44 GMT -5
"You we're...you were hypnotized....the raven....he came back.....we can't let this happen again Lia it's far too dangerous..." he snarled, curling back his lip to expose long curved fangs. He gradually stood back up and collected the shattered chain and the pendant. He slid it into his pocket. "Did it say anything to you?" he demanded.
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Post by Echostar on Sept 14, 2008 9:53:36 GMT -5
Lia raised an eyebrow in confusion, her hands on her hips. "I don't remember anything." she confessed. She held out a hand in Skye's direction. "My pendent." she growled. "And YOU are making a new chain."
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