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A light rain falls, misting the forest with a cool dampness that just barely stirs the leaves of trees. Nearby, a herd of deer graze, undisturbed.

Suddenly, thunder booms, followed by a flash of lightning. The deer bolt. Then, all is still.

Demitri cursed softly as he watched his targets escape his line of sight.

"Stupid animals..."

Dodging a low branch, the man marched through the mud and piles of dead autumn leaves. He would go hungry today, but he didn't mind. It wasn't as if it never happened before.

Narrowing his eyes, the young man glanced about, sensing something. Of course, he always thought he was sensing something-- someone just out of sight, someone watching him...

Grabbing his pocket knife, he turned around, slashing the air.

Nothing, of course. Just a madman at his little games. At least it kept him from being bored.

Oh she loved the woods and the animals, they were lovely and part of her life as a Sorcoress, she needed such things since she felt far more closer to nature then any other thing in the world. She stopped and looked to the sky suddenly when she saw the lightning flash, her grey blue eyes locked onto the sky for a breif moment before she had to move out the way of the deer herd comming towards her, hidding behind a tree.
She sighed, pushing her feather brown hair out of her face before pulling the hood of the deep purple cape back over her head, stepping out once more and stopping when she saw a dark haired male standing before her. Amethyst was the name of this young girl who didn't move at the sight of the man, staying still as she narrowed her eyes at him, calculating as she tried to figure out what the deal with the man was.

Still, the man felt watched.

Well, this wasn't much of a surprise. He always felt watched.

Making to walk back to the city, he paused. After a moment of complete silence, he spun around, shouting in surprise when his eyes fell upon a woman standing not too far from him. She seemed shocked as well, though it was obvious that she had seen him before he had seen her?

How much did she know? How long had she been standing there? Could she be a spy? An assassin? Maybe a fellow outcast?

All these things flashed in Demitri's paranoid mind in a split second. Within the next he was speaking, more like shouting.

"Who are you?! What are you doing here?!"

Not the best greeting, but it was the best that someone like him could manage.

Amethyst looked the male over, she saw him but didn't see him, she saw everything from a different light, amethyst swirls and numbers and acient words where floating around, labeling everything making everything seem better in her world. She moved slightly, pulling the hood over her head a bit more as she continued to look at him, understanding what she was seeing more then she would let on.
".....I am going to the abandoned town......" she said to him in a soft whimsical voice as she backed away slightly, so not sure if he was a dangerious or not and not willing to find out. She traced a few words into her hand as she looked at him, preparing to defend her self just in case he tried to do something, like attack her.

The young man's eyes narrowed, scanning the woman and trying to understand what she was saying. His mind was always a jumble of words and images, and he often didn't have room for much else.

"Are you... one of the others?" he asked, his hands clenching into fists and unclenching periodically. The last thing he wanted was for one of the normal people to find out about the city. If she proved to be one of them, he would kill her immediately. Silently he wondered how he would do it, and decided on a quick slice across the throat. Quick and mostly painless...

Grinning at the thought, he looked at the woman's face, waiting for her to answer.

Amethyst relaxed a bit before pushing her hood off her dark hair, feeling a bit safer when he had asked that question only because the others are what everyone was hidding from. "Would one of the others be able to do this?" she asked him as she chanted a few words, making a small illusion of a purple bird appear in front of him, it was small magic so it didn't take that much effort from her though she could feel the slight fatigue it left with her. "Like most of my kind i seek a safe haven where i can live and work in peace."

The man looked at the illusion with a detached gaze as it soundlessly zipped around his head. He wasn't amazed nor in disbelief; it was proof, and he saw it as proof.

"I see. Then come along, before one of the others does show up..."

With a jerk of his shoulder toward the edge of the woods, he began to walk slowly. He did not speak any more than that as they headed towards the town.

"Who are you?" Amethyst said to him as she looked towards him, she kept a good distance between them since she was unsure about what he was and all, giving him a curious look as she made the bird disappear. She didn't mind the silence but she didn't know this male, knowing who you were with was important to her even if her world was labeled in her eyes, she still felt the need to know.

"My name is Demitri," he began, his words rushed and sounding rehearsed, "I live where you're hoping to go. Freak City. Well, I don't think it was called that, but we call it that now--"

Suddenly he froze, lifting an arm until it was parallel to the ground, head tilted slightly. A minute went by as he listened, before starting back up again as if he had never stopped. "We're safe. Sort of. Safer than out there, where everyone wants to tear your brain apart for science..."

He scoffed at the word, as if it was something to be ridiculed.

"And you are...?"

"What about calling it Supernatrual Haven? Sounds more welcoming and friendly." Amethyst said to him at what he had said to her, she tugged her hood back on, pushing her black hair back underneath it as her violet eyes searched this odd man before her.

Her face wrinkled as she stopped, wondering what it was that had caused him to stop, giving him a quizzical look when he started up again, actting like that had never happened. She looked around once more, just seeing aceint symbols labeling everything before she looked at the man before her once more, shotting him a look when he said the word science.

"Amethyst......My name is Amethyst, Demitri. What are you to be in a place like this?"

A dry laugh resonated through the trees, which seemed stiller than before.

"Me? Well," he began, thinking of all the words he could use to describe vampirism, preferably the most disturbing ones. Then he second-thought scaring her, and continued: "Vampirism. A curse. The Europeans thought that we were dead people who rose from the grave way beck when, but I'm no corpse. Sometimes I wish I was. It's not fun."

His face darkened as he explained this, and turned quickly, catching her off guard. "What's up with you? Let me guess... shapeshifter? God, we don't need another one of those..."

She looked at him as she thought about what he said, chuckling at him saying that he wished that he was dead sometimes. "I actually prefer vampires over zombies.....considering vampires are much more reasonable to get things from then zombies." she said to him as she leaned against a tree, looking at the city as she thought about what he asked about her, even what he said about a shapeshifter. "Ah not that lucky to be a shapeshifter. I am actually a sorceress, magic is my game nothing else, after all i just have deal with other supernatruals for ingredents though i could use some friends." taken by surprise at him turning around quickly, which was clear by how she jumpped back some and the tone in her voice as she spoke to him.

"That so? Maybe you'll be more useful, then. Let's see..."

Demitri scanned his surroundings, as if looking for something. He seemed slightly peeved when he continued, "Most of us grouped together in those apartments--" he gestured ahead, where a good-sized building stood, rather deserted-looking-- "Well, most being the few of us who are actually here. You can get yourself situated, should you choose to stay..."

"Well i don't know how much help that i can be, after all magic does take a toll on the body." Amethyst said to him as she smiled, looking at the building he was pointing at before she started to head that way, looking back at the male to see if he was following her so that they could continue to have the conversation that they were holding at the moment. "Trust me i would rather stay here then be out there.....the human world laughs and thinks my powers are a joke, a lie, illusions....well some of the things i do are illusions and lies but i can do real things too but they just don't believe in it." she said to him as she sighed sadly, looking up at the building once more.

He began to walk beside her, mildly interested in what she was saying. "Of course people will disbelieve something that they cannot understand," he said bitterly, "It's human nature. When I--"

He cut his words off again, and froze. This time he looked mad.

Upon seeing the two figures in the distance, Ares-- in his wolf form-- instantly sprung to his lanky legs and started to bound toward them. One was Demitri, that he knew-- it was easy to distinguish him from anyone else.

The silver wolf slowed as he neared the two, still walking in a cheerful, skipping manner. He yipped once, and sat down a few yards away from them.

Alright, a new person! he thought, Finally...

Noticing something icy about Demitri's glare, he cocked his head to the side and grinned. He loved messing with the vampire, and now was the perfect chance.

"Are you alright?" Amethyst asked as she stopped and frowned, looking at him before she took a few feet away from him, not sure how he was going to react or what he was going to do at that moment. She was wary of what may happen now, starting to prepare for anything that will come her way, and a wolf was not what she was expecting to come upon. "Ah....um....ah...." she was at a lost for what to say to the male, she didn't even know what to say about the wolf that had shown up.

Demitri sighed. "I suppose I may as well introduce you to the resident shapeshifter. This is Ares," he said, gesturing non-enthusiastically at the wolf.

"Thank God we don't have any more..." he added, under his breath.

"Well, Miss Moonstone," he said, "I suppose you'll be able to settle down here on your own. I should add that everyone here can be trusted--" his eyes glinted-- "If I had found them to be untrustworthy, they wouldn't be living here."

With that, he turned and walked away, turning down one of the streets and disappearing from sight without another word.

"Well it is nice to know i am trustworthy then." Amethyst said to him as she chuckled, relaxing a bit as she looked back at the wolf, smiling and waving at him as she thought about something, taken by surprise at what Demitri said next. "Ah be safe out there! she called after him as she waved, smiling before turning back to the wolf and putting her hands on her hips as she looked down at him. "Well it is just you and me now, Ares. You can call me Amethyst which is my first name." she said to him, chuckling at her self, feeling more relaxed now that she knew there was someone there with such a keen sense of smell. "I don't suppose that you would change into a human and help me find a vacant apartment?" she asked him as she continued to look down at him before turning and heading to the building to find herself a place to stay.

Ares cocked his head, as if he didn't understand what she had said, and yawned before starting away. After a few steps he turned back, looking at her again.

I heard something... he thought, Someone else?

Shrugging the feeling off, as he already had someone to introduce to the town, he started walking away again, expecting the woman to follow her.
She must not be used to shifters; I'll have to change back in the apartments... if I did it here it wouldn't be pretty. He would have laughed, if he could in this form. He only managed a strange bark.

He still felt like someone else was there. Whatever, Demitri'll take care of it...

Amethyst looked down at the shape shifter, chuckling to her self as she shook her head, glancing at him for a few minutes before she sighed and proceeded to follow him. "I take it you don't have clothes when you change back. Different from one i knew......though i guess he was more of a were-tiger then a shape shifter. Anyways my point being is that when he changed back into a human he would be wearing a orange fur outfit." she said to him, watching his body language to see his reactions, though there wasn't much she could get from it considering he was a wolf at the moment and thus left her with a one sided conversation. "Ah.....there are a lot abandon places here....oh maybe there is a studio i can live in and use or a nice little house." she said to him, though she was more or less just talking to fill up the air considering the fact that it was just much easier for her to talk and interact with animals better then people.

Demetri watched the two walk off, hidden. Either his paranoia had gotten the best of him, or he had heard someone else.

Once Ares and the girl were out of sight and earshot, he started to walk, ducking under buildings for shade. The sun was beginning to make him feel uncomfortable.

Turning a corner, he noticed a figure sitting by the edge of the woods, facing away from him. He growled under his breath, scolding himself for not noticing her before she had gotten into the town. Silently, he made his way toward the person, pausing when he was about five feet away. With another step, he had crushed a branch under his heavy boots and resisted the urge to curse out loud. Then he decided he was close enough.

"Hey!" he said loudly, purposefully trying to startle the intruder.

Ares listened to what Amethyst was saying, but he couldn't respond.

Hmm... maybe I should have greeted her in person...

Finally, he began to slow, and stopped in the middle of the town square-- the only part of town that hadn't completely fallen back to the forest. He glanced at the woman as if telling her to choose where to go, and yipped once before turning and trotting away, towards a large apartment building. He figured he would shift back into his human form and come back to find her afterwards, giving her time to explore.

Amethyst was taken by surprise which is rather hard to do considering the fact of who and what she was, after all strange things happened to her all the time when experiments go array. She stopped when the silver like wolf stopped also, looking down at him for a few minutes before sighing and waving as he walked off to do what ever it was that he had planned to do. "Well then.....seems i talked his ear off." she said to her self as she chuckled a little bit, she looked around once more before she saw a pub that was a few blocks down. She decided that it could never hurt to have some liquor for some of her experiments, so she turned and begin to head down that way to see what she could collect.

Demitri immediately grew defensive, annoyed at the girl's lack of reaction and tone of voice. "I should ask the same to you. What are you doing here? This is private property, you know," he said evenly, not revealing anything just in case this was just a regular person. The way she had spoken to him triggered an alarm in his mind to be careful.

He glared at her hand as if it was something dangerous before ignoring it completely.

"This area is reserved for certain people," he began slowly, "Why are you here? Were you followed?"

His eyes narrowed at the last question.

The man wasn't about to be so easily convinced, but he was good at telling truth from lies by the tone on a person's voice. She seemed pretty genuine.

"Well..." he said, not changing the suspicious tone of his voice, "I suppose it'll be reasonably easy to kill you if you're not telling me anything but truth, so come--" he gestured, "I will show you around."

He was neither friendly nor warm in his words, but it was enough to get the point across.