ooc: This next post promises to be long and very interesting. When I first created Donovan he was not only a human. He had a secret heredity that I had decided to not include in his bio. I've decided now to bring that heredity to light, while at the same time proving my character isn't so ** hum like I was beginning to think him.
ic: At length of wandering through the forest I came across a small stone temple. it looked abandoned to me and I thought it a good place to rest for a while. however, once I drew close I noticed a small woman in a sage's wear by the front door. I approached cautiously and greeted teh woman.
"Hello. My name is Donovan Easterly. I seek shelter in this temple. Are you its gaurdian?" I asked politely.
"They call me Luna's Aura, and I am the temple's sole proprietor. You are welcome to rest here for a while Donovan, but I sense you seek more than just rest. Perhaps I may be able to help you with what you seek."
"What do you mean?"
"I am a seer of the senses and I can feel that you seek to reawaken your soul. You have a power over magic that inadvertently distances you from teh world. You feel like you're losing touch with your emotions due to this and wish to 'reinstate your humanity' so to speak."
"This is true. How do you know this?" I asked her. "You seem familiar to me."
"Like I said, I'm a seer of the senses." She smiled. " I have something here that may help you. Within this temple is a large glowing pearl called 'The Spirit Gem'. It has the power to awaken every part of your soul and strengthen it, allowing you to be in touch with every part of yourself."
"That is just the sort of thing I need!" I said excitedly. "May I use this Spirit Gem?" I asked.
"You may. But I must warn you. The Spirit Gem hs a soul of its own and will not aid you if it does not find you worthy. It will test you during the process. If you do not pass the test, it will absorb your soul and leave your body an empty shell."
"I can take this challenge!" I said defiantly.
"Very well. Follow me." She led me through a number of halls before we ended up in a large chamber. It felt cold and I shivered. "There it is." I looked where she indicated and ona pedistal I saw the Spirit Gem. It was a bright glowing sphere about a foot in diameter. It sent off a soft blue light that fille dth room. we both walked up to it and she turned to face me.
"To use the Spirit Gem, you must place both your hands onto it. It will cause severe pain and it will do anything it can to throw you off. If you manage to keep both hnads on teh orb for two minutes, then you have passed its test and it will work its gift on you. Do you understand?" I nodded and took a deep breath as I readied myself. Then I clasped the Spirit Gem with both hands and prepared for what was to come.
But nothing could have prepared me for the pain that surged through my body. I cried out in a roar of agony as I collapsed to my knees, my hands still touching the gem. Lightning shot down my arms and I gritted my teeth against the unbearable pain it caused. Every nerve in my body was on fire, and I felt I couldn't take much more. Suddenly teh pain was replaced with a pleasure feeling and I felt some strange force glide through my body. everything felt numb, but I managed to hear the sage say " Congratulations. You passed its test. I had a feeling you would."
ooc: And here comes the plot twist. :D
ic: I stood up, amazed at teh strange feelings I was having. But something didn't feel right. The emotions of love and happiness, I couldn't feel them. All I felt was teh frustration and anger of the lst few days return to me. "Something is not right." I siad to Luna's Aura. "This isn't me at all."
" You don't know how wrong you are." the sagely voice was replaced with a familiar malevolence. I quickly turned to face her jsut in time to block a pucnh to teh face I backed off, the anger I was feeling growing stronger. " How dare you impersonate a sage! What did you do to me Moonlight?!" She grinned and the sage clothes fell off, revealing Moonlight in her werewolf form.
"I did nothing to you. It was teh Spirit Gem. I told you it awakens your soul and I did not lie. This rage and frustration is a part of you, just like it is a part of me."
"how dare you compare the two of us?!" i roared. "i'll show you!" I charged towards her with a raised fist, preparing to strike her with it. She calmly raised a hand and suddenly I couldn't move. I was surrounded by a blue aura that bound me to my spot.
'What did you do?!"
"i figured you would recognize your own spell." She scoffed.
"What do you mean?"
"I was hiding nearby when you told eclipse of that spell you so generously left inside of her. That spell that controls her because she's a demon. I've studied magic myself. Did you know that spells like that leave behidn a copy of themselves in teh caster, allowing the spell to ID so to speak the controller? When you used teh Spirit Gem, you passed on a part of that code to me, since it is my Gem after all. i used it to bind you, in your own demon trap. And by controlling you," she began to grin again, bareing her wolven teeth. " I control her."
"How can my own spell bind me when I'm not a demon?!" I roared in anger and confusion. Moonlight tisked while shaking her head slowly. "poor, diluted mage. You've spent too much time with good company. I suppose I should explain it allfrom teh top. You see, you are a demon."
"You lie! My parents are both full blooded humans and have nothing to do with your kind!"
"That's partially true. You see, those caretakers of yours are indeed full humans. But those aren't your birth parents. you where born to a couple comprised of a demon mother and a human father. After you were born, your father was killed by mother's parents and she left you with those humans you call parents to protect you from her family's wrath. She left a note with you to explain the circumstances. you should feel blessed that they did not drown you or leave you to the wild when they foudn out you were a half breed. But I suppose they new their human way of life would snuff out your demon side over time. If it weren't for my Gem you would have never known you wer half demon."
" More lies!" I said disbelievingly. " How would you know these things should they have actually happened?"
"Because. I'm supposed to know my family... brother."
With the uttering of that last word I had to fight the urge to puke. To be related to someone so evil was worse than not knowing myself.
"You lie." I said in a quaking voice.
"oh. come now brother." SHe cooed as she walked around behind me, whispering in my ear. " How can you say that to your own sister? Haven't you ever thougt about why you were stronger than any other mage your age? Demon magic. Did you ever wonder why you were able to sense Eclipse before she revealed herself to you so many days ago now? Family bonds.The only reason you and your friends won that last fight was because little brother and I threw you the fight. We didn't wan't to kill our oldest sibling you know. little brother was just killed because he was being too careless. His fault." she siad with no remorse for her fallen brother.
"I refuse to believe this nonsense." I declared. She placed her furry arms around my shoulders and clasped them in front of me.
"Belive what you like, but that won't change the fact that you are completely under my control."
"Get your hands off me!"
"Make me." She taunted. I growled angrily, but I knew there was nothing I could do.
"You forget brother, you are completely under my control now. Whatever I want you to do, you do it, whatever I feel like doing to you, you can't fight it. you can only endure it." She licked my earlobe to emphasize her point. I shiverd in repulsion. she chuckled at how uncomfortable I was.
"What do you want with me?" I said grimly.
"Let me pose a question to you. What do you say to forgeting your friends and joining me in destroying humanity and having all the lucious fun we can manage?"
"You have got to be crazy." I said simply. her arms moved in a way that had let me know she had shrugged her shoulders.
"I figured you'd feel that way. your demon side has yet to fully reincorporate itself into your body. but don't worry." She said, turning my head so that I could see her wolven face over my right shoulder. " As time passes, you'll become even more of a demon and once that happens you will start to see things my way." She placed a small kiss on my cheek and again I had to fight the urge to hurl.
"You are one sick, perverted creature." I informed her.
"I know." She said playfully as she slowly walked back around in front of me. "It's time to have some fun now. We're going to pay a little visit to your friends. I'd like to see how well they'd fair with you incapacitated."
" IF you ever touch any of my friends, I'll filay you to the bone and feed your flesh to teh dragon!" I roared. I couldn't even remember saying it. It had just happened, and it greatly disturbed me.
"Well, well." She said, sounding impressed. " It sounds like you're becoming a demon already. you've already got the dirty evil threats down." She then laughed in a way that made my blood run cold. "but seriously, I have no intention of fightng your friends. My plan is really quite simple. once we get there you will be held for ransom. They get you back in exchange for allowing me to convert one of the angels into a demon. And since they most likely won't let that happen, I always have a plan B. I will force you to activate your detainment spell, and in this way I will control my sister through you. I will then force both her and you to attack your friends, holding them down so that I may convert everyone with angel heritage into a demon. And your friends will have a choice, either they let themselves be overrun, or they kill you. In my case it's a win/ win situation." She laughed again.
"You'll never get away with it." I said defiantly.
"We'll see brother, we'll see. Come." She ordered. "we have angels to convert." She began to walk out of the chamber. At first I didn't move but then with a motion of her furred hand I was forced to stumble along after her.
ooc: So how's that for surprise heritage and an interesting story plot twist? :D
