Bewitch

[Ariel]

It was a quiet night in Hallowton, the fog hung a few feet above the ground as people began returning to their homes for the day. A calm, relaxing melody would soon filled the air, coming straight from the mouth of what sounded like an angel with a voice that lured in any who heard its intoxicating rhythm. As she walked across the docks a look of despair threatened to take her face, betraying the seduction she was here to convey.

It has been nearly one hundred and sixty years since the mermaid had been freed to make her own decisions and it was through those decisions that she found herself in the situation she was in. Now her will was entirely dictated by the witch that lived underneath the sea preying on people's hopes and dreams. Ariel herself being only one of many victims, and agents, connected with the Sea Witch and her works over the years. It has also been over one hundred years since she's seen her family, her friends. She may never see them again and through it all a cruel irony followed her wherever she went. Ariel was able to walk among the humans like one of them all she wanted, as long as she did the Sea Witch's bidding. It was a nightmare with no end. The amount of people whose lives she's taken with her voice, her eyes and the dagger hidden away on her person felt endless and sorrow filled eyes looked up ahead on the docks through the fog at what appears to be the next victim.

[Raal]

Raal found himself on the docks, in the fog, from another blind teleport.

He took a brief moment to view his surroundings. It wasn't much to view from the naked eye due to the fog, but his brain picked up multitudes of mental activity. His ears picked up something else. Singing. Beautiful singing to boot. The demon refused to move an inch, resembling a hooded, cloaked statue. His face was hidden, but it was facing the singer's direction. Now who could that be?

Maybe he didn't want to know.

[Kira Yamato]

Kira was out and about. He liked Hallowton, not because of where it was, but because of how peaceful it normally was. He was sitting on the docks thinking about what it was he should be doing. He wasn't sure supporting the Resistance was the right thing to do anymore and yet he couldn't leave Vulture uncheked. He held a data disk in his hand. He knew why Imai acted they way she did, but still that gave her no right. He of all people would know that.

His head turned as he heard that singing. It was soft. He knew it, at least he knew what it felt like the feel of it. He slowly got to his feet before he began to follow it. It was peaceful. He soon found the source of it a girl. He blinked. It wasn't entirely unnatural for someone to have a great singing voice even if they seemed like they shouldn't. He waited until she was done. ”That was beautiful.” he said.

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[Ayen]

Ayen was attempting to get some sleep in the hotel room with Yuna, Saturn and Lori to no prevail when he heard singing coming from outside his room's window. His eyes opened and he sat up on his bed listening to the beautiful voice and melody wondering where it was coming from. Standing up from the bed, Ayen quietly made his way out of the hotel and into the emptied streets of Hallowton where he determined that the singing voice was coming from the docks.

As if in a trance, Ayen headed towards the dock. Completely oblivious to everything around him bar the source of the voice up ahead who revealed to belong to a beautiful young woman. Ayen has had no short of the beautiful coming into his life since first meeting Yuna in the Crystal Expanse but there was something 'special' about this one and because of that he had to know her. A smile curved his lips as he approached the female and looked into her eyes.

“H-hello. I heard your voice from the hotel. It was beautiful.”

[Ariel]

The fog began to clear and showed a hooded figure in the distance facing her direction, though their face was concealed and they made no move towards her. Deep down inside beneath the despair was joy, joy for the fact the stranger remained right where he was but that wouldn't be enough. She wanted him to run, run far away and never return to the source of the serene sound that echoed through the night skies from the sound of her voice. But no matter how much she wanted that, Ariel had no choice but to move forward and continue singing to lure the stranger in like so many before them. Until...

"That was beautiful." A voice stopped her. Ariel turned to see a second person on the dock, no hood and this one she knew for sure to be male. Forcing the sadness that wanted to be displayed away and willing a smile onto it instead as she replied to the man, "Thank you." Just when Ariel started to walk towards him she heard another male voice speak behind her in greeting, "H-hello. I heard your voice from the hotel. It was beautiful." So many people were being attracted to the docks by the sound of her voice. The Sea Witch would be pleased, and that saddened her. "One moment please." Ariel said to the first one to greet her before walking over to the blonde, the fog around them growing so thick eyes could not penetrate it and see through as she made eye contact with the male. Her hypnosis coming into play while soft, gentle hands brushed across his cheeks and reached behind the back of his neck, her lips drawing dangerously close to his. "Now's your moment."

[Raal]

The demon pretty boy remained still, watching the woman advance toward him. Two more voices interrupted the singing, and he watched her move toward the sources of the interruption. Raal's brain locked onto the new sources, like a targetting computer. He had memorized their brain waves too, and was using that to get a lock on them.

The demon no longer needed to physically see anything to actually tell if they were there and still alive. He was getting dubious about the woman's actions at this point. Call it paranoia, call it intuition, call it whatever, but it did help him survive. Raal would stay out today's events, unless absolutely necessary.

He might actually be needed.

[Kira Yamato]

Kira gave her a small smile in response to her thanks. What was she doing out here? He had just been about to head inside himself so it was odd to still see someone about. Especially with the fog out. This might be a peaceful town so he supposed it wasn't really a problem. He blinked as she started to walk over. He could make out the figure of a person in the future. Were they watching? Why? It seemed odd. He frowned and was about to call out to him when someone else appeared. And this time he could make out the figure, but he seemed to not even notice him.

”Sure.” he said in response to her question his eyes glancing to Ayen. ”You okay?” he asked. It seemed as if he was totally absorbed by Ariel. Thought he should ask at least. Soon enough however she walked over and the fog thickened. Odd. He had never noticed it happen that quickly. Then again he had never seen fog in Hallowton, so new rules to a new place maybe? It was something to ponder over even if he couldn't see anything. He wondered how long the fog would stay. It was ruining the night in his personal opinion. What remained of it at least.

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[Ayen]

Ayen never broke eye-contact with the redhead, he couldn't even if he wanted to. They were so beautiful, so gentle, so sad... He could see her hair moving in the breeze around them as the fog thickened and hid away their position to the naked eye. Of course, Ayen didn't notice any of that. His full attention was on the woman, shivers shooting across his body and spreading throughout when her hands touched his cheeks. The blonde could practically feel the ruby lips against his own, separated by only a few inches worth of air. Without thinking, Ayen closed that gap, and his eyes, as he surrendered himself to her.

[Ariel]

True love's kiss, that what it started out as at first. But through the years it became polluted, corrupted. Ariel kissed so many men it lost all meaning making her feel hollow inside. What should have been a joyous occasion for her was now nothing more than sorrow built on broken hearts and lost souls. Making her hate intimacy altogether. What she wouldn't give to be free from this hell, however it was that exact line of thought that got her into this mess to begin with.

A tear for the young man would be had, he couldn't have been much older than she was when she first became the property of the Sea Witch. Another life tragically cut short. She didn't want to do it, she didn't want to drive the knife through his heart but what could she do? Her soul belonged to a monster that could only find happiness through other people pain. While the blonde male embraced Ariel in a passionate kiss like that of a long lost lover, Ariel's hands moved down his body and to her side, brandishing a single shinning dagger of silver and brown from her pocket. "Forgive me." As soon as the tear that ran down her cheek fell to the docks, Ariel took the knife and plunged it into the young man's heart directing his body towards the water where the Sea Witch lied in wait.

[Raal]

Raal's nose picked up the scent of blood. Well, looked like he needed to interfere after all. He moved, talon-paw feet clacking against the wood of the docks. He immediately traced the failing mental signal, and made a brief, second-long thorough diagnostic of the signal's owner. After, he used a plug made of psychic energy to stop the bleeding, helping with keeping the human alive. During that, he made the dying body come to a halt in mid-drop, using a psychic grip.

The third thing he'd do... was levitate the bloody dagger out of the woman's hand, the weapon itself surrounded by a purple outline. It drifted to an out-of-reach height, and stayed there.

Raal had walked straight up to the woman in question, towering over her with a lithe, cloaked frame. The eyes beneath the hood were a soul-piercing violet, twin rings of glowing amethyst.

"That isn't necessary."

[Kira Yamato]

Kira frowned as the man didn't answer him. Even if the fog dampened his vision it shouldn't do anything for his hearing. Even the silence was deafening to even his own ears. Which was saying something. That was until he heard the sound of claws on the deck? He frowned moving towards their source and as a result the direction Ariel had walked off to. Of course it was slow, but in the fog it was much easier said then done. He almost missed what he was looking for until he heard a voice speak out.

In the opposite direction? This time he found it, or at least knew the general direction. In a few short moments he found it, but the scene itself made no sense. Some type of magic to keep the dagger afloat? And then that guy from earlier with blood on him. So he had been stabbed, but by who? That guy with the claws or the girl from earlier. Fortunately he wasn't close enough to be seen. Thanks to the fact he had better sight then normal people he could barely make out their shapes. So he waited hoping to know a bit more before he jumped in, but if someone tried to make a move for that guy away they would find a well placed gun shot in their path. Not actually meant to hit, just to warn.

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[Ayen]

What should have been a beautiful moment underneath the full moon turned into a disaster as a low grunt exit Ayen's lips and he looked at Ariel through wide eyes.

“W-why?”

Ayen fell towards the sea but stopped mid-way and also felt the bleeding from his still beating come to a stop as through the will of a third party he was being kept alive when he should have fallen into the ocean that would have quickly became his grave as his heart failed. Looking up, all he could see was a dagger floating above in the sky as a male's voice could be heard, though faint, addressing the woman. While the hypnosis began to fade away one question still remained.

Why?

[Ariel]

After nearly two hundred years Ariel thought this would be easier but it only grew worse with each victim she came across. "W-why?" "I had no choice." Ariel didn't expect him to understand and wouldn't blame him if he never did. Though not every soul delivered to the Sea Witch is revived in the way Ariel was, a select few were and each one that died by her dagger carried much resentment for the former mermaid, although she was every bit a victim and a slave as they were. Ariel held no contempt for them however. They were angry and could not channel their anger to the Sea Witch in fear of being reprimanded so Ariel was the most logical choice for them. And Ariel accepted their hatred in order to pay for her own sins. How could she hold it against them when she was one half the reason they were where they were.

The hooded figure who stood away in the distance had chosen this moment to act as Ariel could see the blonde's body did not fall into the ocean nor has death released his soul from his body as it did for so many others. Her eyes fell upon the dagger in her hand now being hung far above from her very reach, blood-red rubies dripping down from the lavishness blade as the next thing her eyes would see was the man himself, towering over her with a much greater height than the woman and eyes that could not be human staring into her own. His voice representing the severity of the situation as for once, someone came to the rescue of one of her victims. And the former mermaid couldn't be happier, though her features did not show it. "That isn't necessary." "I know."

[Raal]

Raal made a hand gesture, his seven inch-long black claws on the ends of his fingers shining in what light was available. The gesture was the simple "come here" gesture, directed at the man in the psychic grip. The body floated toward him in compliance, and the purple outline faded off, gently putting Ayen back on solid ground. Raal's psychic plug remained.

His hand disappeared beneath the unappealing brown tarp of a cloak, "We'll get him to a medic. That plug will keep him alive until then."

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The demon kept the dagger out of her reach though, the weapon still suspended in the air. His gaze remained on the woman, watching her every move. Raal was making sure she didn't try anything against them. He hoped, for her sake, she wasn't planning on trying anything.[/center][/size]

[Kira Yamato]

Kira paused trying to make sense of the conversation in question. He still didn't know who had caused what. The only thing he had managed to figure out from this distance was that Raal was controlling how Ayen moved at the moment. He didn't know exactly if that was helpful or not, but it was a start. If that was the case the weapon that was there was probably under his control as well. The main question remained who had started it. He tried to think for the moment. No matter the case that person needed a doctor.

Kira took a few steps forward looking between the two. He bent down to examine Ayen's wounds. He'd survive, but not for long. It was straight to the heart. Someone had known what they were doing, he straightened keeping his eyes on both of them. It would seem Airel had done it, but why? He still had no weapon drawn and he hoped to keep it that way, but only time would tell if that was actually possible. ”He needs a doctor, now.” he told both of them hoping they would understand. Even with help it was only a matter of time without proper treatment.

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