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Tristam Lockhart Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:28 pm
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
~Harold Hulbert
Demon and Diomedes' youthful years.
[Woot for artists team work!
Color version soon!]
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:55 pm
Another cry came out of the small black muzzle as thick whip hit an already bleeding back. The black runt pulled away, weakly, thought thick iron collar and chain kept him in place, weighing him down infront of the punishing Lieutenant Serno. The man's cruel eyes looked down at the small creature with hatred in disgust, one of his legs was bleeding from a cut that creature had dare to inflict upon him.
Rising the whip once again, the dark child curled, shivering, waiting as his world started to become a blurry mass of color from the pain and bleeding. Covering as his tail curled about him, showing a shinning metal tail blade dipped in blood at one side of the C-shape.
The whip whistle through the air, but when it hit, it curled and lock about a forearm. Lieutenant Serno, upon seeing the whip hadn't come down on the ulaith pup, looked up, discovering the source. Morpheus' cold black eyes stared back at him with a hatred no one else could muster to make the vampire show. "That would be enough."
"Do you really believe you can control my actions, you foolish vampire?"
General Seldasangre growled, grabbing the whip and snatching it away from the Lieutenant in one swift move. "No, but I don't believe you should be killing off our future troops over a small paper cut..."
"He's a trouble maker and an a runt! He's no good! He won't survive anyways!"
"I'll see about that." The vampire growled, showing his fangs. The two man stared each other before the Lieutenant move closer. "Watch yourself, Seldasangre....."
He thrusted the chain leash onto the vampire's hand. "He's yours...and he's your only one."
Morpheus blinked and looked down at the unconcius pup. "Danm it...."
He had recently lost his beloved ulaith to the war and had been put on leave until he could find and train another one...now he was stuck with a half-dead runt.....
He picked him up, being gentle to not touch his back, he looked around the ware house filled with cages of much more suitable ulaiths for his tasks and sighed once again, shaking his head at his thoughts. Resting a hand on the wounds and healing them, leaving no scar behind.
Could this day get any worse...
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Tristam Lockhart Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:14 pm
This little blood red child had been watching out of his own curiousity from behind a wooden barrel as a lashing upon a smallet cchild than himself was taking place. The bloody colored boy winced slightly at every strike that vicious general had laid down upon the poor runt...at least until the black one's Chosen came to stop the needless whipping. With golden slitted eyes watching contently, the bloody child Diomedes soon crept away, though following after Morpheus until something scooped him up by surprise.
"I loojk away for two seconds and you run off to eavesdrop...I should give you a whipping like that just so you won't disobey me again."
spoke the cruel and deep voice of the demon Raphael. The bloody child was pulled up to center his vision with his Chosen as golden eyes blinked towards the bloody crimson hues of the demon.
Letting out a small squeak from being squeezed as a warning, Raphael tossed the winged child back onto the ground as if he were nothing but a toy...though Diomedes was now used to such treatment.
Now the bloody child merely followed suit beside his demon Chosen as Raphael strode over to General Seldasangre and his beaten child.
"Always in getting into trouble..isn't he, General Sedlasangre?"
the demon mused as Diomedes trotted his way over towards Morpheus' feet, looking up at the battered black child.
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:32 pm
"As far as I have heard, yes, he seems to always be getting in trouble. I just met this thing." Morpheus took the iron collar off, passing his fingers through the black mane. "I think I am the one that's always getting into trouble....Is it any wonder why Serno doesn't like me..."
He looked at the black child over, holding the unconscious creature at arm's length. "Eh....I am not even sure if I can make this thing into a warrior and now I am stuck with him...Me and my big mouth..." He growled deeply, even thought inside he was glad he had stopped Lieutenant Serno.
Pulling the pup to let it rest on his chest, he looked down to see Diomedes. "But then again, don't all pups give trouble." He gave a half hearted smile after he looked up with cold eyes. "Raphael, you are quiet aware that when I am on leave, I do not wish to be called General....Morpheus is fine...it makes me feels like something else then a war pawn..."
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Tristam Lockhart Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:00 pm
Raphael gave a fangered smirk as he crossed his powerful arms over his chest. Still looking at the unconcious little black lump in Morpheus' grasp, the demon male sighed and then looked up to the sky.
"I had forgotten about that loss of your's Morpheus."
the demon spoke solemnly.
Upon a thought, Raphael looked down with crimson hues to his child as Diomedes began to walk around Morpheus and the black child with more curiousity than before. This little one would be his first Ulaith to care for, Raphael had always depends upon his own strength and power to carry him on through battle..so when he was given this child as a gift the demon couldn't help be feel a little offended.
Though the child was in a bliss upon the words the Morpheus had spoken to him, although he was unable to completely understand what the vampire said, the child wagged his tail furiously and squeaked.
Letting out a small huff, the demon brought his gaze back over to Morpheus as he decided that he wanted to take a look at the runt.
"You'll need some luck with that task..."
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:25 pm
Dark crimson eyes open slowly as the pup started to regain consciousness. He let out a gentle whimper, still feeling some pain from the no-longer-there wounds.
Morpheus seeing the pup waking up, putting him down, watching him slightly sway from side to side.
"Well....Good luck you as well..." He eyed Diomedes before looking up at the demon. "Alas' death was regrettable but expected in times as this...."
The vampire seem numbed about it. "I grief over him long enough..." He began walking again, he stop, seeing the little black pup had started to wake up even more and looked towards Diomedes more curiously now, sniffing towards the other pup. "Hey, you, black runt fur ball, move it."
The dark one looked up towards the vampire then away, giving him no attention, since he had been stolen from his chosen, he had stop listening to the two legged ones.
"Danm it...why are the runts are always trouble?"
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Tristam Lockhart Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:55 pm
Raphael cast a menacing glare down towards Diomedes who was getting a little too overexcited now the the other little boy was put onto the ground, the glare of which caused the bloody colored child calm down and clam up slightly. As the demon watched Morpheus new pup as it discovered it's legs again, he laughed in a way that sound like a growl towards Morpheus' comment.
"I don't know what in the world my little sister was thinking when she retrieved that little pup Diomedes-"
the demon was interrupted by a series of squeaks that the crimson child had let out upon hearing his name spoken as he shuffled on clumy legs like a puppy to go to his demon who simply sighed..
"..and gave it to me as a gift. Somehow I think she was mocking me..."
Raphael didn't extend a hand to pet the crimson child who was clawings on his pant leg, tail wagging radically as he jumped up a little as if asking to be picked up. Though the bloody child's attention was lost to the dark child as he was inspected and sniffed him back, circling the wingless boy. Diomedes was obviously bigger than the runt, though he was the average size of a Ulaith pup. Looking back at Morpheus and Raphael with golden slitted eyes, Diomedes squeaked before looking back down to the dark child and squeaked at him.
Fluttering his wings that he was uable to use yet, Diomedes stopped himself in front of Morpheus' pup and started to bury his nose into the odd fur growing on the dark one's neck. Raphael quirked a brow at the child's curiousity and appeared flustered with embarrassment.
"Like you said..all pups are trouble..."
the demon said with an undertone of resentment.
"...though...what is the name of your new runt? Is it too soon to have decided just yet?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:57 am
"Maybe she did. " The vampire chuckled softly as he looked towards the two pups, grinning lightly as he detected Raphael's embarrassment at his child acting like, well...a child.
"Far to early....for now, I think I'll call black furball..."
The dark pup tilted his head, letting out squeaks as he felt the dark wine colored pup's nose. His silky fur tickling Diomedes' nose as the other pup's nose started to smoke.
Morpheus rose an eyebrow at this. "Huh...a fire breather...those..are uncommon...."
The pup looked towards the vampire, blowing his smoke towards him. "I guess you don't know when to be a good boy, do you?"
The pup squeaked and turned away, nuzzling Diomedes wings curiously.
Even thought Raphael was fluster at normal behavior of his pup, Morpheus wasn't even tick at the overconfident and disobedient of his own as he grinned constantly in a way that the dark pup was starting to dislike enough to leaped away from Diomedes and attack one of Morpheus' thick black boots, swishing his strange bladed tail, not even thinking of using it.
The pup bite down on the boot with his smalls teeth, the vampire barely feeling the heat that came from the now smoking mouth of the pup.
Rolling his black eyes, he reached down, wrapping his hand about the child's back of the neck. With a yelp of pain, the pup let go and was lift to vampire's eye level. Glaring towards calm eyes the pup suddenly screeched and curled up in the grasp, whimpering as he was let go and drop to the ground.
Morpheus folded his arms and looked down at the pup, who was now cowering at his feet. "Better....Tho you are not nearly broken enough to be even half the ulaith Alas was....but that kind of training would have to wait until you are at least Diomedes' size...." He looked between the pups. "And that might take a while..."
What the vampire had done was invade the pup's mind, breaking whatever had been left of the weak bond he had had with his former chosen, and then filled the pup's head with images of what will happen to him if kept his behavior up.
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Tristam Lockhart Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:13 pm
Raphael quirked a brow at Morpheus' new child as he began to act in an odd way that the demon was beginning to wish that Diomedes would. Though one thing seemed to become certain, the runt did have some sort of special ability...maybe to make up for his size. It was amusing and Raphael was almost tempted to try and get the small thing for a trade with his dark red child...but then again..he'd probably end up killing the pup for the way he acted now that he was gnawing on Morpheus' shoe..
Diomedes was busy sneezing for the tickle that came from putting his nose into the dark pup's mane. With only a few sneezes, little rings of smoke puffed out from his nostrils as two smokey columns spiralled upward once he was done with the sneezing fit. Without really paying much attention to what he had just done, Diomedes cast his golden gaze over towards the runt who had begun to nuzzle his small leathery wings. With his tail twitching, the dark red child was contemplating whether to whack the small one with his tail or not...though his question was answered once the small one attacked the vampire's boot.
Tilting his head in curiousity, Diomedes slowly began to advance towards Morpheus and the now cowering child, puffing small smoke rings at the scared child before looking up at Morpheus. Somehow the child managed an angry look and Raphael was about to snatch the pup away, but he didn't catch him in time as Diomedes swung his tail blade at the vampire's shin before squeaking at the cowering child.
Though Diomedes wasn't about to go unpunished...even though what he did made the demon laugh as he was siezed by the tail and held up in the air to writhe and wriggle to get free, growling angrily.
"Keep it up and you're going to end up dead."
the demon stated calmly as he lowered the child, but did not let him go.
So the sight was seeing the little boy flailing in the air, his wings fluttering frantically as he pawed towards the ground considering Raphael was pretty tall..
"Diomedes seems to be impressionable...what did you do to make that furball cower like you did?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:36 pm
"Ark!" The vampire growled, glaring towards the dark red child. He heard a couple of chirps that sounded like laughter and his glaring glance went down to the black child at his feet. "I should skin and gut you right now for what your friend did."
The dark child lowered himself further down to the ground to appear much smaller.
Morpheus looked up towards Raphael. "It would seem so...." He looked over Diomedes. "I don't know if the trick could work on him.....I just send cruel and crude images into his head of what will happen if he kept his behavior up. Its a trick I learn with Alas to intimidate the Ulaiths in the other side of the front lines. Also broke his mental link to his La'don Chosen, that adds insult to all this..."
The small pup got up and walked over to Diomedes, pawing up to the boy before staring up at the demon, growling.
Morpheus sighed. "Maybe we should just let them be for a while....Lets just leave them here for a bit...maybe they will fight and kill each other....I need to go do some things in the city and I rather not take this thing to my room and let him destroy everything."
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Tristam Lockhart Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:41 pm
The demon nodded his head with a look of interest as Morpheus shared this information....he had quite the bit to learn about these Ulaiths now, well..if he was going to raise this one of course. The demon looked at the darkred child as he tried to reach up and bite his forearm, but he was unable to do so and just continued to dangle around until the small one came and pawed at him.
In return, Diomedes pawed back and squeaked before resuming in his attempt to get free of his Chosen's grasp. Upon hearing the small childish growling that came from the runt, the demon bared his own vicious fangs quickly with a short growl of his own before dropping Diomedes back onto the ground.
"Don't think that just because Morpheus took you under his wing that I won't have the pleasure of silencing you.."
the demon muttered down to the child before finally returning his crimson gaze over to Morpheus almost lazily now that Diomedes was practically rough housing with the runt by nudging him and hitting him with his tail...though not too hard. Boyish play...
"I think that's a good idea. If they are worth keeping then perhaps they'll find us again."
the demon agreed as he fixed his gaze to look at the forest outlining the area.
"I believe I'm going to get some more time to myself before taking on this child...maybe I'll see you in the city Morpheus."
the demon laughed under his breath as he gave one last look at his child,
"...good luck Diomedes. Hope you find your way back home."
the demon spoke clearly to the child as his great bat like wings burst from his back. Almost in that same instant, Raphael had already taken to the skies...searching for what could possibly his last fight alone.
The darkred pup was confused and began to run after Raphael, but then gave up after a few steps before turning to look at the dark child. The child's attention on his fleeting Chosen was gone almost in an instant once again as the darkred boy ran at the dark grey child as to tackle him down and gnaw on his forearm or neck.
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:53 pm
The vampire watched after the demon with a raised eyebrow before turning away. "See ya around, Raphael..."
"Good luck staying alive, you black furball...."The man turned away, the pup only watched after him as Diomedes ran after his own chosen. The runt sat there, watching the vampire suddenly melt into the shadows and be no more. He got up and sniffed towards the shadows, squeaking questioningly before being pounced on by other boy. He squeaked happily and pawed towards him playfully as his neck was gnaw on.
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Tristam Lockhart Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:05 pm
Diomedes' small tail was swaying from side to side as he continued to gnaw on the small one's neck, thinking he was somewhat of a chew toy before he decided he bat at the smaller child right back. Stopping the chewing, the darkred child began to bat at the small dark child before scampering off, growling playfully at the other to follow and continue to play.
He had no concern over Raphael and where he was going to be..and neither did the other it seemed...so maybe they weren't going to be bothered by those two anymore? Ah..he didn't care right now...he was too busy being childish as he skittered on into a bush as if trying to hide from the small one.
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:22 pm
The small black one giggled as he was pawed back. Once let go, he rolled over and looked back towards Diomedes, hearing the playful growl. Grinning, the runt rose up to his feet and starting to run after him, chirping loudly after the other boy.
Losing him, the smaller pup sniffed around, getting near the bush, he stuck his nose in. He chirped and wagged his metallic tail happily.
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Tristam Lockhart Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:46 pm
Diomedes snapped at the little one's nose once he had been found and got out from the bushes, tackling down the small dark child once agin before backing up and lowering himself down to the ground, ready to pounce yet again as his tail twitched every now and again.
He tossed his head, challenging the small one to try a shot since he hadn't quite gotten a chance to really land a hit on the darkred child.
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