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Day: 48 (2/4)​

Date: 8th November, 2013​

Location: Birdsville Hotel Dining area, Australia.​

Nasir was about to open his mouth again and respond to the newcomer, but was silenced when Elsie told everybody to calm down. There was no way he was going to be able to calm down, he knew this, but at the same time he did not want to leave. No, leaving would mean the the other guy won, and there was nothing the other guy would be able to do to make him leave, save for physically dragging him away.​

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With a great sigh, Nasir crossed his arms once again. "No need for that, I'll play nice for now with all the widdle kiddies" the dealer responded. He glanced in the direction of Logan now. He was hungry, and Logan had food. Every bone in his body screamed at him to just leap across the table, attempt to knock Logan out, and then take his food, but with the willpower of a thousand Tibetan monks he fought off the urge to do so and sat quietly. Although part of him knew if he truly did follow the advice of "if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all" then he would probably never speak again.​

 

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{♚}Location: Hotel {♚} Mood: You got Lucky {♚} OOC: {♚} ​

"Whoa everyone, let's just settle down."​

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It was then that he realized aside from Kai and the other guy that there was someone else at the table. Heck she'd probably just prevented them from getting into a fight by speaking up. The Kumbaya thing she did was a clear sign that she was trying to calm them down. ​

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"Sorry about that, Nasir is very rude to everyone and never learns from it.​

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Nasir. I'll be sure to remember that name. ​

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Were you really planning on fighting him? Samael asked.​

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Only if needed. In other words, Most likely. ​

"I'm sorry, I'm Elsie by the way,"

"It's amazing that you can tolerant him. You can call me Logan." He said, not really caring if Nasir heard the first part of what he said.

"No need for that, I'll play nice for now with all the widdle kiddies"

Great, just great. The last thing he wanted was for him to actually stick around. Even if he said that he would play nice. Still with this seemingly over, he picked up his fork and knife and started to eat his food. It was after the second bite that he noticed Nasir looking his direction. "If you want food, get in line. There should be plenty left." Normally when it comes to him sharing food it depends on the what he's eating. In this case however, there was no way that he was getting any of his food.

 

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[/url]"Really?" Soren asked curiously. Cal nodded. If he ever bothered to play with her before, he would have learned that there were tons of really cool places for Hide - and - Seek in the palace.​

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The door clicked as the latch came undone and she sat forward more on the bed. Alistair came in sight from around the corner and she smiled up at him enthusiastically. Even if Soren said the adults were bad and they needed to stick together, she really liked them all, especially Alistair. "Awww how nice. You're all getting along." he said cheerfully. Cal smiled and nodded as he made his way over to the cradle to see the baby. She liked looking at Caius a lot, imaging what she must have looked like not long ago when the lot of them were his size. "Hah babies are so cute..." he said with a grin.​

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"Baby," Anna repeated.​

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"We can see that," Soren snapped after.​

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"I like the baby," Cal replied coolly. She had no problem with it or their teacher. Alistair usually found good places to explore, and she was becoming a pro seeker because of him.​

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Soren reached for Cal's arm and tugged on it, clearly wanting to leave. "Come on," he whispered. Anna left the room first, taking off immediately after. Cal's red eyes lingered on Soren as it was just the two of them left by her bed. She really didn't understand the sudden change in the twins whatsoever. "Sorry about my sister. She gets ahead of herself sometimes." He muttered lowly.​

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Cal got to her feet and ran her small fingers through her messy hair. "What do you mean?" she asked while smoothing out her nightgown. As they made their way out of the bedroom, she stopped at the intersection and waved to Alistair. "Bye Azrael!" she chirped. Soren tugged her along and she gave one last wave before being pulled out of the room. She glanced around the hall, her eyes lingering on the Operating Room door where that Sariel guy had been performing experiments. "Now what?" she asked.​

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Soren was acting all cold as usual to him and Anna was as quiet as ever, but he was at least glad to see them opening up to Cal at least. Caius was babbling his baby talk, but Alistair merely watched as the kids walked off to go about their adventure. Cal waved at him in farewell and Alistair closed his eyes cheerfully as he he raised an hand and waved back. "You three stay safe and have fun now..." Alistair said before Cal left the room. With a sigh he took a seat on a nearby chair and looked at the baby he held "and now its just the two of us" Alistair said.

He was always interested in playing around with the kids, but he was just too tired to even do so. Azrael was a total asshole that just had to take up a shitload of energy so he chose to rest for the time being with something easy. Azrael was sure as hell not going get the best of him and this fatigue won't happen again. Alistair leaned back on the chair he sat on and raised the baby high up into the air and stared up at the face.

"You know kid...I pity you...to be born to a person like Regulus. Welp you just gotta keep strong and prove your worth...thats the only advice I can give really" Alistair said. "Heh...who am I kidding...you've grown since I got you out, but now you can't even understand what I'm saying..." Alistair said as Caius continued to speak out pure gibberish as he tried to reach out and grab Alistair's nose to no avail. "Heh so innocent....I do wonder what road fate has in store for you" Alistair said calmly with a smile.

 

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✴Day~48{3/4}☁Location~Birdsville, Australia☁✴​

"It's amazing that you can tolerant him. You can call me Logan."​

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"Nice to meet you, Logan," Elsie said with a smile. She shot Nasir a glance when he said he was going to play nice and then sighed out in relief. Well, maybe it was too soon for relief to sink in since Nasir was going to stick around, but at least he was going to keep his trap shut. ​

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Logan said something to Nasir about getting in line to get food, but somehow Elsie knew that Nasir wasn't going to budge. Elsie had somehow mistakenly gave Nasir a challenge instead of successfully shooing him off. Without a second though, she pushed her plate of food towards Nasir. "I only touched the bacon," she said with a grin and then looked at Logan. She had some questions that were just dying to be answered. 'Why do you and Kai have reddish eyes?' That was one of them, but she didn't want to say that out loud cause that would probably be rude. "Are you two with the big group of people that showed up last night?" she asked, resting her chin on her interlaced hands. "Why are you guys come out here anyways? The races are over. Then again, I'm here because I got stuck in the storm and this place was a lake a few days ago... But that's different." She laughed nervously, scratching the side of her head. That was a nervous habit of hers. "Sorry if I'm talking too much. You can tell me to shut up whenever... I get too nosy sometimes."​

 

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⎡WEARING ✑ DAY⁝ 48 3/4 ✑ WRITING⎤​

⎣LOCATION⁝ Hotel ❮Birdsville, Australia❯⎦​

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Kai had had enough of the bickering and the weirdness for one day. All he wanted to ask some girl about her writing -- to which he thought daily writing prompts were not dumb at all -- and then he was interrupted by some dude with a tude. Not to mention, Logan -- whom he was grateful to have around for the simple fact that it made him not the only German -- came sauntering over and got in the middle as well. He could deal with the taunting and the teasing: mute, mime, and so on; but that didn't mean he appreciated it being thrown in his face without any proof that he was in fact mute. Just because he hadn't attempted any sort of response during that time didn't mean he lacked the ability. They simply hadn't given him a chance. Sure, it would have been a fruitless endeavor, but that wasn't the point.

He sat there as the conversation persisted. By this point in time, Kai was just ready to get up and leave. There was just arguing back and forth. He sighed and rolled his eyes at the comments directed towards him. He didn't feel the desire to dignify them with a response of any sort. When it started to settle down, he still didn't care to stay at the table. He pressed the palms of his hands down flat on the tabletop, preparing to get up. ‷ Are you two with the big group of people that showed up last night? ‴ Elsie asked, resting her chin on her interlaced hands. Kai nodded his head slowly, care not to divulge too much information. He wasn't sure who was safe to trust anymore. If they said the wrong thing, they might end up with more dead members. ‷ Why are you guys out here anyways? The races are over. Then again, I'm here because I got stuck in the storm and this place was a lake a few days ago... But that's different. ‴ She laughed nervously, scratching the side of her head. ‷ Sorry if I'm talking too much. You can tell me to shut up whenever... I get too nosy sometimes. ‴

Kai shook his head no and started to scrawl on the backside of the paper before glancing at Logan, then back down to the paper. He tapped his pen lightly on the table before finishing the message and sliding it over to Elsie beside him.​

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He liked the sound of her voice and took the note back from her as soon as she was done reading and added another line at the bottom. Kai gave her a smile before sliding the sheet back over to the girl. She didn't seem like she was a native Australian.​

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W E A R I N G ✚ S O L V E ? ✚ M U S I C​

MOOD ※ SYMPATHETIC ✚ DAY 48 ※ 3/4 ✚ DATE ※ 11/08/2013​

LOCATION ※ BIRDSVILLE, CENTRAL WEST QUEENSLAND; AUSTRALIA​

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AS soon as Leo finished talking, the only sounds were that of Lauren clapping, as if he had just told some marvelous, out-of-this-world story. ⎧That was a good performance. I'm pretty good at improv myself.⎭​

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Leo blinked once, twice, and then sighed.​

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She was going to say something else when Alice interrupted and the two stared at each other. Alice looked back at him and she was clearly shaken. ⎧Interesting. I . . . have no idea what to think.⎭ He wasn't sure why it was Lauren that was Ahriman and not Alice, who was certainly taking the situation more seriously than her wife.​

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The two pursued a relatively broken conversation until Lauren spoke more seriously. ⎧This explains a lot. I . . . I always thought it was odd how much I broke . . . things . . .⎭ He wondered how she ever dealt with it in the first place and minimally empathized with her. ⎧I - ⎭ she started again, but Alice cut her off.​

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⎧She's not going with you.⎭​

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The room went quiet. Leo made eye contact with Alice. ⎧You said you weren't here for her, and she's not going anywhere.⎭​

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⎧Alic - ⎭​

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⎧Dammit, with all the stuff going on in the world and hearing of some Apocalypse responsible for it, I don't want to see her go.⎭ Leo nodded once to show he was listening reasonably. ⎧I don't want to see her die because dammit Lauren, tôi yêu em but you aren't the brightest bulb on the tree – if anything you're the broken one that makes you need to replace the string of lights.⎭​

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Leo almost snorted but contained himself because this was clearly getting emotional for Alice. It wasn't like Leo had come here for the sole purpose of taking Lauren with him [ although with training, that would prove to be a good idea ], so her behavior was uncalled for, really. ⎧I - I d - don't want anything to happen to h - her . . .⎭ Lauren was at her side almost immediately and he watched the two interact.​

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He always knew he would never marry, never have a significant other, or kids for that matter. They just didn't fit into the lifestyle he had, especially with what he was. How Heinrik could deal with it, he didn't know. How Hay Sun thought she might be able to love, he didn't know. How Hana could "fall in love" with Samuel, he didn't know. How he ever loved in past lives . . . He didn't know.​

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It was a little unnerving . . . Not knowing. ​

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His attention returned to ground level when Lauren talked to him. ⎧I still think you look like Leo . . . but if you are an angel, that makes even more sense now.⎭ He snorted, rolled his eyes, pulled out his phone and quickly typed a message up.​

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TO: Taekwoon​

According to this girl, you look like an angel.​

You should tell Hakyeon to pitch that for BIKS'​

next concept. You can all carry harps and​

everything.​

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- Leo​

After setting his phone back in his pocket, he looked back up at the two. ⎧It's a name from Zoroastrianism, which is an ancient Iranian religion. Ahriman, however, is simply a Zoroastrian deity. His – your – nature has always been described with The Lie, which represents greed, wrath, and envy. However, you, Lauren, aren't embodying that at all. The deity always bends and adjusts itself to the nature of the mortal, and sometimes, when they lie dormant, they don't effect your life at all.⎭​

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He looked to the side for a moment, thoughtfully. ⎧Look, like I said, I'm not here for Lauren, but I will have to bring Sal back because we have to leave soon. We're staying at the inn down the road, so if you feel anything else, have any questions, you can come find me. Alternatively,⎭ He asked for a pen and small piece of paper, and then wrote his number down and handed it to Alice. ⎧you can call me if need be. It's a dangerous world right now, and whether or not you come with us doesn't matter much. If you really feel you can't be separated, I suppose the choice of you, Alice, coming along isn't completely gone. Keep that in mind.⎭​

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Leo stood and dusted himself off, noting the vibration in his pocket but ignoring it for the moment. He glanced at Sal. ⎧I told you where we're staying, so you don't have to come with me now, but soon. I won't wait forever.⎭​

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With a slightly sympathetic nod to Alice, and then a small wave to the other two, Leo left the porch room and started heading back.​

ιllιlı.ıl L lııl E lııl O lıιllιlı.​

 

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✴Day~48{3/4}☁Location~Birdsville, Australia☁✴​

Instead of getting a verbal reply like she was expecting, Elsie was passed a note from Kai. Curious, Elsie glanced over the words. She almost had to read one of the lines twice to make sure she read it right. "Shipwreck, what? That's insane!" She wondered if they were caught in the freak storm on the way here. It was hardly unbelievable that these people were caught in a shipwreck. They looked healthy and somewhat happy despite a big ordeal like that. The piece of paper was taken from her and Kai wrote something else to her, handing it over once more. "Heh, you're right. I do have an American accent. I can't hear it, but eh. I'm from Brookings, Oregon. It's on the west coast of the United States. It's really pretty there." She felt a little homesick just mentioning it. She had been away from home for nearly a year now and wondered when she was going to go back... If she ever went back. ​

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"I came to Australia to brush up on my creative writing skills, have been going to school in Sydney. But I don't stay in one place for long and I wanted to explore Australia a bit more... So that's how I got stuck here. But you guys were shipwrecked?" She still couldn't get her mind off that subject no matter how hard she tried to. "I hope no one got hurt... And that you guys find whoever you looking for. They sound pretty important if you guys came this far to look for them." Elsie didn't want to pry into personal matters too much. If she wasn't willing to tell everything about herself, she wasn't expecting anyone else to either or even try to push them to give her more information. She would be uncomfortable if she was put on the spot like that. ​

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Sort of wanting to change the subject, Elsie wanted to ask Kai why he was interested in her writing. He seemed curious of her daily writing exercise, or at least that's what Elsie concluded by the way he was hovering her earlier. But they had quite a crowd around them that probably wasn't interested in writing at all. She looked from Logan to Nasir, wondering what else was going to happen this eventful morning. ​

 

Samuel Riviera
DAY: 48 - 3/4 | DATE: November 8th, 2013 [Friday] | LOCATION: Obsidian Palace ==> Underground Tunnels in Rome, Italy

Sam was awakened by Chicken Wings, who it seems was standing in his room for quite some time. Lazily, he rose and got out of his bed, standing face to face with the bastard who brought him there. After having been allowed a few minutes to fully wake up, they both disappeared from the room in a black mist and ended up on a hill that was outside of a city. He had been told that he would be taken to a place in Rome to do something that required his expertise. When the mist fully lifted, they were greeted by a pair of demons that had been waiting for them. One of them looked like some kind of half-man, half-bird hybrid, and the other looked like a little red-haired girl. He was told that the girl was a succubus demon, like it actually mattered.

When all was said and introductions were taken care of, they brought Sam to where he would be working: an underground tunnel. It was there that they told him that he would be helping them dig and bust rocks and what not. Busting rocks, very much like a prisoner. It all seemed like a sick joke to him. Regardless, he was told to start as soon as possible. When everything was fully explained, Danel disappeared and left them to their own devices. Whatever, it didn't seem like he'd be helpful in anyway.

They made it to the end of the tunnel where other demons seemed to be working diligently. Just looking at them filled him with disgust. The little bastards just made him very angry. Just then, he had an idea.

"Hey Abaddon, about the explosions caused by my flames."

"My flames. And what about the explosions?"

"If I set something decently sized, like say a demon a little shorter than I am, on fire and let it explode, would it cause a larger explosion?"

"In your current state, yes. The size of the object touched by the Flames of Destruction would influence the power of the explosion. The bigger the object, the larger the explosion. Are you planning on doing something with that info?"

"Just watch." As one of the lesser demons passed by, Sam called out to him. When he turned around, he took a hold of its head and held it in front of him.

"Hey, what are you doing?!" Someone called out to him. He didn't even bother to look in the direction the voice came from, Sam just stood there, holding tightly onto the struggling demon's head.

"Working." As it screamed and writhed to free itself from the Destroyer's grip, he set the bastard on fire. The screaming intensified as it burned, the flames tinting everything around it a bright shade of crimson. Sam pressed the demon up against the wall everyone was digging on, pointlessly trying to get free. As everyone cleared away from the burning demon, Sam let him go, kicking him further into the wall.

"So that's your plan." To his surprise, the Angel of Destruction began to laugh as he walked away from the demon. "Well, for a moron such as yourself, this is a brilliant plan you've come up with." Sam held out his hand as if he was holding something and then mimed the action of pressing a button, much like a detonator. When his thumb pressed down, the demon in the wall exploded, forcing large chunks of rubble to burst forth from the wall. After the smoke from the explosion cleared and everything settled, a large hole revealed itself and showed that the tunnel now went much further than before.

"That was good. That was really good. But you've got a lot more work ahead of you."

"Of course." Casually, he sauntered over to the newly made end of the tunnel and pulled out his sword. "This is just the beginning."​

 

Sal had remained standing idly by as Jun Tae had come over to the Walker residence. Sal felt both relieved and slightly terrified at this moment. Relieved because if Jun Tae was here that meant that everyone wasn't dead. Or at the very least he wasn't dead. And Jun Tae was quite the good fellow to have around. He was terrified because, well, this guy seemed to be none to pleased to find him so far out of the beaten path. Perhaps staying in Foster might've been the better course of action, but hey! Turns out Lauren was actually a fallen angle named Ahriman, the Destructive Spiri- hey wait a minute. Sal at that point had a bit of a flashback to when they started their session of skeet shooting. 'Zachariel.'

"Yes?"

'Did you know that Lauren was an angel all along?'

There was a bit of a pause between the question and the answer that was supposed to come."...No."

Zachariel's inability to lie well aside, this was quite the fortunate development and allowed him to play off having totally traveled irresponsibly away from the closest city to them he was at with no real reason other than he was bored. He didn't say much, simply because he didn't think of anything to really say. Jun Tae seemed to have it all covered and Lauren seemed to think that it was an elaborate prank, only to then think on what he had said a bit more and actually come to the conclusion that she was indeed an angel. Well there was another person convinced of their reality is stranger than fiction story. Only Alice was not having Lauren get involved because she was afraid of Lauren getting hurt. As much as Sal wished he could assure her safety, judging by the dark angels popping out of nowhere and the fact they kind of have been in two issues where water was to be used as a lethal weapon, it would be quite the lie.

When all was said and done Jun Tae bid them farewell and clearly the asian man wanted him to follow along. He turned around to the ladies and rubbed the back of his head with a nervous smile. "Well, there you have it ladies. I must be on my way now seeing as I've been away from the gang from a bit too long now. I do hope you'll join us in the future, but in the end it is still your choice. Thanks for the temporary housing Walkers." After saying his goodbye to them, he walked back and followed after Jun Tae. "So, did I end up missing anything?"

 

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[/url]Manitos waved her hand in the air to clear the dust and debris from the explosion. She coughed a few times before making her way over to the oaf of a Mexican man that Danel dropped off. He was the host for Abaddon? She was thoroughly unimpressed, but given what Mammon told her, he could make for an interesting life source -- if she played her cards right. Her hands ran down the front of her shirt and blue jeans, clearing off some of the dirt buildup she had acquired from being down here. If this did turn out to be wrong, they would all get in trouble for a royal waste of time.​

She tapped Samuel on the shoulder and tugged at the ends of her hair. Her lips scrunched to the side and she eyed him curiously. "Are you trying to kill us all? An explosion like that could cause a cave in and I'd appreciate being able to leave at the end of the day." Her expression was light and playful, but her tone was scolding. She gave him a wink and poked him in the arm before slinking her way back to the pickaxe she left abandoned. Manitos scraped at the wall with her fingernail and bit down on her bottom lip.​

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The other demons were making progress, but unless the Gates revealed themselves, this would be all for nothing. How much longer would they have to dig these tunnel networks until they found them? It had to be down here, it had to. This was where it was before. She remembered. Even with her being young back then, she remembered.​

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Hearing Elise's question on why they were here, he didn't quite know how to put it. Sure he knew the reason, but it wasn't like he could just openly explain it. Which is why he was glad Kai answered it via paper. Still, hearing that she was from America was a surprise. ​

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"So your from America then. It's been a awhile since I've been there." Awhile being a couple of years. While mostly he went there to visit the other part of his family, Logan still had some memories there. Though just thinking about it caused him to wonder what going on over there. Hopefully things were remotely peaceful over there.​

 

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✴Day~48{3/4}☁Location~Birdsville, Australia☁✴​

"So your from America then. It's been a awhile since I've been there."​

"Born and raised!" Elsie grinned from ear to ear, proud of where she came from. Somewhat... "I hope they didn't get a freak storm there like we did over here. The world has been crazy lately. I've been keeping tabs on all the freak accidents, storms, people, so forth and blah, blah, blah." ​

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Elsie pulled up her backpack from under the table, setting it on her lap. "The world is going insane. I think it just had enough with us silly humans." She sighed, unzipping her backpack and slipped her writing prompt notebook in and zipped it back up. "Well, I don't want to keep you guys from enjoying breakfast. I'm planning to head out back to Sydney tomorrow, see if my apartment there is one piece." She smiled, only to suddenly remember something. "Oh yeah, Kai..." She pulled out a business card from the pocket of her shirt and handed it over to him. "That's my email, my cell number, and fax number. Though you won't be able to contact via fax right now because... well... I'm not there. Heh. I'm always happy to collaborate story ideas with other people, or help them with what they're working on." ​

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Elsie saluted to Kai and then stood up, slinging her backpack over her shoulder. "I hope we'll meet again. Good luck with your quest of finding the one you're looking for." She walked away from the table, waving at everyone as she skillfully walked backwards a few paces. "See ya. Nasir, I'm leaving, so I guess you can do whatever." She waved to him, spun around, grabbed a jelly filled donut, and then proceeded to walk to the exit of the dining room of the hotel. ​

 

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After Sal and Leo left, Alice and Lauren tried to finish off the rest of the day like they normally would, but they just couldn't seem to. Alice went over to the real hospital for a bit to get a real scan of her arm, and Lauren continued to skeet shoot. Her focus was off a bit too, especially when she was skeet shooting, to the point where she purposefully stopped herself from it.​

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When Alice was gone, Mikey came out to tell her he was heading off to a friend's house in another city, and he thanked her for letting him stay. She replied in her usual dumb way, he didn't seem to ask about Alice though.​

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She played with her younger siblings for a bit before Alice got home. She was glad Mikey was gone because the two could have their own room now. After eating dinner with her parents and responding to a few phone calls, the two headed off to bed.​

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When lying down, Alice kept her distance from Lauren, who only brought herself closer and hugged her tighter, "Why are you sad love? I didn't go, I'm still here."​

"I'm not sad about that... I'm... sad about what we learned about you."​

"I'm still your little rabbit." Lauren said as she buried her face into her neck, "I haven't learned anything new."​

"You just learned you were an angel?"​

"An angle? Am I an isosceles angle?"​

"Angel... Lauren. Ahriman?"​

"Oh right there was that I guess. Don't worry about it. It just explained why I am always breaking things. I'm still here."​

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✴Day~48{4/4}☁Location~Birdsville, Australia☁✴​

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The rest of the day was uneventful for Elsie Malone. Before she completely left the three boys to their own demise, she gave Nasir one of her room keys and told him he could spend the night in her room if he didn't do anything stupid. She had two beds after all in her room. Nasir could crash on one of them if he wanted to. Today, she went around town to learn of the history behind Birdsville, something she was meaning to do since she got here before the big storm hit. She was able to buy many books, get brochures, and even souvenirs of the place. Maybe someday one of her stories would take place in this small town, at least for a little while. ​

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After packing away her finds when she got back, she took another shower since the day was very warm and kind of gross, and then packed up everything else. She wanted to leave Birdsville as soon as possible and head back to the place she called home for the time being. Elsie was changed into her PJs and flopped on her bed, staring up at the ceiling. Her mind shifted all the way back to that morning, barely remembering the conversation that had taken place. Somehow, Kai and Logan had seemed familiar to her... She had never met them before in her life, but she felt like she knew them from somewhere. The same thing happened when her and Nasir had met. After she found him in a pretty bad state, she couldn't just leave him in the hospital alone. She stayed with him until he was well enough to head back home, and even then lingered around longer to make sure he would be alright. Elsie couldn't explain why she did what she did... All she knew was that she knew Nasir from somewhere and couldn't figure out where. The mystery was never solved when Elsie brought him back to health and it had been circling on her mind to this day. ​

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Suddenly feeling very tired, Elsie burrowed under her blankets and fell asleep; her mind still tossing and turning.​

 

Brandon was sitting down waiting for something to happen all day, but no sort of fun was to be had. As such, Brandon decided that it was time to get a move on and do something, but since he was the only one not doing anything, along with his good pal Wealthard, he didn't really feel like interrupting them at all. So he turned to Wealthard, who was sitting next to him and said, "so do you want to go for another training round?"

"Nope."

Brandon was stunned by Wealthard's response. And after they had such an intense match yesterday, how could one not want a rematch. "what? Why not?"

"Don't feel like it. Not tonight at least. Anyway, see ya." With that Wealthard got up and walked all the way to bed where he would fall asleep in.

Not entirely sure what to do now, Brandon looked around until he saw that El was sitting around with a pensive look on his face. He hadn't seen the man in what felt like ages, and he was brought back by Lion bro. Well that was cool. Brandon still wanted a training partner, and seeing as he didn't feel like disturbing Lion, he walked over to El and said, "hey there man, how've you been."

El looked up, pulling himself out of his thoughts and said, "oh, hello their Brandon. I'm doing, alright I suppose. Can I help you with something?"

Same bright smile on his face, Brandon said, "oh ya know, just saying hi after so long. And uh, I was wondering if you wanted to train at all?"

El looked to the ceiling while thinking of his answer and decided to just say, "sure why not." With that, the two went off to the roof to face off in one sparring match.

Spoiler: Sal vs. Brandon

The two faced off against each other. Brandon was here due to his pursuit to get stronger. Sal was here because he felt like having fun and helping the boy out seemed like a nice idea. Brandon got himself ready again by pulling out Vis Vis. He was going to be sure to have to end this better than last time. Losing was just not a fun thing to have happen at all. With a smile never leaving his face, Sal pull out his wand and extended it into a longsword. This would be the first field test of it , but he still felt confident with it regardless. The two faced off against each other, ready to go.

The fight started with Brandon charging at Sal to go in for one clean strike. Sal was, by no means, a swordsman and so he didn't really think to find in the same mindset that Richard would. Instead of really parrying the attack from Brandon, he just brought up his sword and blocked the attack. After the blades collided with each other, Brandon moved back and proceeded to go with a vertical strike towards Sal. Sal was, once again, able to easily block this attack and pushed the sword away through just overpowering Brandon and pushing his own sword. Brandon was then forced to retreat away from Sal and get back to fighting.

This time, though, Sal had decided to go on the offensive rather than just wait around for Brandon to do something. As such, he rushed towards Brandon and horizontally slashed towards him. Brandon was able to stop the blow and deflect the blade away, only for Sal into another strike towards Brandon once more. Brandon was kind of surprised by Sal's recovery speed and had barely enough time to bring his blade back up and block the strike. Sal then brought his blade back and went into strike once more at the lightning boy. After colliding with Brandon's blade again, Sal proceeded to not change his attacks up at all. Consistently and methodically Sal kept bringing his blade away to attack one more only for it to be blocked.

Brandon was starting to feel the pressure of Sal's attacks and had to change something up. If things continued as they were, then Brandon was pretty positive that he was going to lose. After getting a grip on things Brandon waited a bit for the right opportunity to change things up a bit. Sal brought down his sword towards Brandon again and rather than trying to block again, Brandon jumped away from the attack. The shift was not something that Sal was entirely expecting, and thus he fell a little off balance from the missed attack. Brandon then took this opportunity and jumped towards Sal in an attack. Sal felt that the longsword was a tad on the cumbersome side to be able to have him bring it up in time and so he shifted it to a more suitable form. Bringing the baselard up to defend, Sal was able to intercept the strike from Brandon. He didn't stop the attack completely seeing as Brandon had more force behind his attack, and so Sal ended up moving back from the recoil. Sal then nonchalantly tossed his baselard in the air and then caught it back as a longsword.

Sal was thinking about how this kid was clearly better than appearances might have dictated. He'd have to actually dip into one of his auras soon at this rate. Though he didn't want to go all out before the kid did, no not at all. If they were going to fight with powers the kid was going to have to be the one to initiate it. As soon as Brandon had landed he got ready to take on Sal once again. Sal, however, was already looming overhead and was already bringing his blade down on Brandon. Brandon, taken kind off guard by this fast attack, could barely pull up his blade in time only to get flung out of his hands and made him go backwards.

Brandon was stumbling back and started to stare down Sal, kind of unable to do anything. Brandon then summoned Vis VIs back to his hands and decided to go back into using his powers to fight against his Mexican companion. As soon as he noticed that electricity was crackling off of Brandon, Sal decided that he should cut loose a bit as well. Sal then started radiating some sort of golden aura off of his body and pointed his blade towards Brandon, signaling that he was ready to go. Brandon made the first move and charged at Sal, to which Sal responded by quickly returning to his stance and slashing directly towards Brandon's blade.

The attack came much quicker than Brandon was expecting, and so he was completely surprised by Sal's increased speed. After recoiling a bit, Brandon started to go for another attack, it was just that Sal was much faster than before so hitting him wasn't entirely the easiest thing in the world to do. Rather than continue intercepting attacks, though, Sal decided to go straight on the offensive. He started attacking faster and more relentlessly against the British boy who could do nothing but block against it. If Brandon was going to do anything he'd have to think of something quick.

Brandon was kind of drawing a blank here until he remembered something he had only used once before that was specifically designed for getting people away from him. Charging the blade with more angel lightning, Brandon released it all in one large pulse that ended up knocking Sal backward. Sal stumbled as he regained his balance and saw the young angel send a wave of lightning towards him. Sal was able to step away to the side in time and saw that the boy was about hit him at full speed. Sal got his footing back to where it should be and slashed at Brandon's sword. The lightning was trying to impart itself onto Sal's blade, but the blade seemed to be quite non-conductive. Sal back stepped and brought his blade back, causing the boy to stumble forward . With Brandon unable to block the next wing, he channeled lightning into Vis Vis, sending out another pulse knocking Sal backward. Sal picked himself up and quite pleased to see this boy was still putting up a fight.

Brandon was not feeling so hot after his second repulse. It was a good skill to have and the use on it was quite great, but Brandon wasn't exactly the most energy efficient fighter. Regardless, his fighting spirit was still stronger and so he wasn't going to let a little fatigue get in his way. Brandon decided to start doing what he did against Richard all over again. He started sending wave after wave of lightning towards his opponent and figured that based on what he had seen, Sal had no direct counter.

Sal was still feeling fine though. He wasn't expecting such a large outburst of lightning powers from the boy, but he didn't really mind it too much. Sal decided to just run head first towards the attacks and dodge as he went. Normally an attack like this would be impossible to avoid, but due to Sal's increased speed he managed around it quite nicely. After clearing that onslaught of lightning, Sal then slashed forward at Brandon's blade.

Brandon, however, though of slashing at Sal's blade at the same time. When the blades collided a pulse of electricity sent Sal backward and on the ground. Brandon didn't follow up immediately though , simply because his body wasn't exactly the most responsive right now. This gave Sal enough time to get back on his feet and attacked Brandon once more. Brandon couldn't keep his grip on the blade this time and it was knocked out of his hands once more. To not even give Brandon a chance to resummon Vis Vis, Sal kicked him in the gut causing Brandon to reel back and pass out.

In the end, Sal was the victor and Brandon was lying on the floor passed out. Despite having some powers, it was clear that he wasn't entirely adept with them yet, and so he was still an easy person to fight. Even when all Sal had to rely on was increased speed. In the end though, he picked the kid up and decided to walk him to his hotel room. Once there, he put him in his bed and went to a room that Jun Tae had hooked him up with. As he lied down in bed he wondered about everything that was going on. Lauren being an angel wasn't too big of a shock to him, seeing as he had that slight hunch of familiarity with her, but it was sad that she probably wasn't coming along. The more the merrier after all. Then there was the new issue of Hana and Samuel missing. Oh that was no good at all. They were missing their bruiser and the only person who truly knows what they were doing. Oh well. For now, Sal figured that they were going to continue doing their recruitment thing as they always had, and cross that bridge of what the **** do we do when they got there. With those thoughts in mind, Sal went to bed.

 

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Most of the time was spent playing with little Caius and more and more as he played with the child he began to wonder what path the boy would take. Would he inherit his father's immense curiosity and become the fearful man he was? or maybe he would take a much more different route. Regulus was a patient man, but there was no need for him to hold back with the child.

Despite that facade he knew Lu wasn't the loving mother that she really was and Regulus was actually proving his worth and did not accidentally kill Jehoel. Lu was sure to allow Regulus to do as he wished and nothing was holding him back. He did question if Regulus held a single shred of fatherly pride, but he doubted that, fathers were just big assholes.

Alistair grew weary and so did Caius. He let out a yawn as Caius drifted off to sleep resting on his chest and soon enough Alistair himself fell asleep as well on the chair he sat upon. Despite what happened when he fell asleep before, he really was quite intrigued about what would happen next. He held fear, but that fear was what fuelled his excitement about what was to come.

 

After that excruciating breakfast and 'chat,' Kai went off on his own for the rest of the day, mostly just reading in bed to heal up his ankle. He was always a slow healer. Eventually he came down to eat again later in the day, then went back to his room to lie around some more. It gave him an opportunity to start writing again. They hadn't had many laid back days as of late. It was nice to kick back and put his feet up. Doing nothing all afternoon made him drowsy and he fell asleep early.

 

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W E A R I N G ✚ S O L V E ? ✚ M U S I C​

MOOD ※ TIRED ✚ DAY 48 ※ 4/4 ✚ DATE ※ 11/08/2013​

LOCATION ※ BIRDSVILLE, CENTRAL WEST QUEENSLAND; AUSTRALIA​

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WHEN Sal was following him with a single question not too long after he left the Walkers' house, Leo genuinely thought about all that had happened while Sal wasn't around. Somehow, he had been far too tired to answer the question.​

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He had simply looked at him, shook his head, and then continued without a word to the inn and to his room. All of his cordiality was stripped of him by that arming question. With Hana gone and Leo feeling like Samuel was her captor, he was left with the position of being leader. There was always Heinrik, but Leo couldn't trust another person to do what he could do better himself.​

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. . . But Leo didn't like being a leader. He didn't like being in groups, either. Really, he didn't like this situation at all. It was a hell of a lot easier running the underground than being an angel. His powers set him above others and were self-serving. In reality, Jun Tae wasn't the 'save the world' sort of guy.​

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By the time he had gone back to his room, Hay Sun was already asleep. He wondered if she had left bed at all that day.​

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After taking a shower, Leo got under the covers and forced himself to sleep, and while sleeping, his subconscious forced him to dream.​

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