Mutant Lovers

[Toku]

Raphael

Allthough he was in some kind of a deep healing sleep, missing all the action with the fire, he heard Celia call out for him, but before he could answer Nature answered for him, what distressed him, those two had reacted quite odd on eachother the last few times. But not this time, which was very odd again, again Raphael was confused, but this time didn't worry about it, he was confused but pleased, very pleased AND he felt much better. A big smile appaeared on his face.
Raphael tries to open his eyes, it was still difficult but it works. He sees Nature, Violet and the Black Trenchcoat. the Black Trenchcoat.......he seems to be hurt, his powers evolved somehow and are hurting him. He seems not to be ready yet, and he knows it, it is tearing him up. Raphael thinks of him eating the heart.....he did some terrible things......but Angel should help him, maybe showing him friendship would tame his nature....maybe....maybe...but nevertheless his pain should be taken away. Angel raised his hand, pointing at the Black Trenchcoat, he tries something he had never tried before, if he could boost someones powers he could use it the other way, he thinks, somehow decreasing powers. He had to concentrate, which was hard, still recovering from his injuries, but slowly he notices it works, he decreases the Trenchcoat's powers to his usual levels again, putting a wall between him and his new powers. after that he looks at the Trenchcoat. "Tell me when you're ready, my friend, and I'll remove the wall, first learn how to use and control the powers of Blood," he smiles......

 

[Firegirl976]

Dawnfire

I take one look at Angel, listen to him talking and watch him using his powers and feeling...... light headed....I reach out to him...then darkness......

 

[nightray]

I feel the new powers fading and being cuntand by somthing as they are put away I feel my mind go in to an evin deeper sleep as my bode begins to preper it's self for the new powers one the powers wer awacind they refus to be put away so my body why'll they are held back preprs it's self for ther next awakining. I feel my body strankth it's self as I go in to a very deep and dremles sleep. Befor I go to for I send and mentil thanks to the one how brot the powers under control.

 

[Isolde]

Celia

Celia awoke hours later, sore and dazed but able to breath again. She stood up and looked down on herself. She was caked in mud. It was all over. Well, she couldnt very well travel like this.

Standing on the edge of the stream, Celia stripped off all of her clothes and bent down to wash them in the stream. When they were as clean as they could possibly get, she hung them on a tree to dry.

Braving the cold, she dived into the water and began to scrub the mud from her hair and body. After the initial shock, the water felt pretty good. Laying back, she closed her eyes and let her body float for a bit.

She thought about contacting Angel but she vetoed that quickly. She couldnt do it without the cat woman hearing and interfering. Celia luxuriated in the feeling of the morning sun bathing her as she floated and tried to come to grips with her feelings about the woman.

What really stood out was that Celia had not had a private moment with Angel since Dawnfire had appeared. It was as if every thought and feeling was an open book. Didnt the woman understand that personal feelings should be left between two people and not interferred with? Maybe she had been in her forest too long and didnt understand.

Celia sat up in the water and began to swim for the shore again. She really wanted to talk to Angel but she didnt dare. Dawnfire would just intercept any thought and take it upon herself to answer for him. It was a lost cause. She missed their private connection and the feeling that it gave her to know that what they thought and felt was only for the two of them. Celia definately was having a hard time with the loss of privacy issue. And since it wasnt about to get any better until Dawnfire realized that two people had a right to privacy-a small human thing called curtesy-Celia decided it was time to move on on her own.

Getting out of the stream, she allowed the sun to dry her skin before slipping into her, still damp, clothes and placing her hunting knife in its holder. Picking a direction she thought was good, she started walking.

 

[Toku]

Raphael

Something was wrong with her, she wasn't feeling comfortable, he had been sitting on a thick branch, watching her for hours now without her even seeing him, stand alone sensing him. Admiring her beautifeul face as she slept, gazing at her body as she swam, he knew he shouldn't have done that, but he couldn't help himself and he thought she would notice him, which she didn't. And again at the end she walked away from all of them, walked away from him. He floats out of the tree, which looks more like a clumsy fall in slowmotion because he was still very weak, and runs after her. "Princess, wait....you leave again...why? Tell me, we can......we can.....how do you call it? 'Work things out.'" He tries to look very serious.

 

[Isolde]

Celia

Celia whirls around. She had not sensed Angel's presence due to the fact that she had firmly shut her mind to any interference from anyone.

Seeing him, her eyes open wide and she fights to keep the tears back as she sees how injured he still is. It takes all he willpower to keep from running into his arms and letting him hold her close and make the world go away.

"Angel," She says in a kind of strangled whisper,"How can I explain to you what I, myself, do not understand. I never asked for these powers and I dont know how to deal with the fact that having them means I have no privacy from prying minds."

She looked at his face and quickly added,"Not from you, Angel...never from you. I could never even think of keeping anything from you. But the woman we just met. Its as if she is trying to control me and move me as if I was a pawn and I have never been good with letting someone push me around."

"We dont get along and she has much greater potential to help you in your quest than I do. As she says I am but a child to both her and you. An untrained child with powers I may never hope to control or use properly."

"I have let my emotions control this power too much and it has caused you to get hurt," She could no longer control the tears and they began to flow down her cheeks,"I feel so out of control and lost sometimes. It is so hard to explain and I dont want to hurt you ever again while I am learning to control myself and what the fates have given me."

"Please understand," She said as she looked around the forest, her gaze falling anywhere but on his beautiful face,"I leave because of me and not you. You have never shown me anything but kindness and..yes..love."

 

[Toku]

Raphael

"If you go, I wil, go with you." he ment it, "you say it yourself, you don't understand it, those men were looking for me, they wanted to hurt me." He comes closer. "You never hurted me, or let me get hurt. Better, it was because of you I'm still alive, the thoughts of you kept me fighting. You are right, Nature and Violet helped me, but if it wasn't for you i would have given up, whatever they would have done." He touches her. "Stand up against her, you can do it, don't run away from her, from us. If you would like it, I will talk to Nature. But don't run away, I can't live without you anymore, I would be lonely again, running from everything, just like you want to do now. Wasn't I your gaurdian angel?" He smiles and gives her a kiss. The same moment he amazes himself about all the words he just brought out, he never had talked that much.

 

[Firegirl976]

Dawnfire

I wake up on the ground.......his can't be right what am I doing on the ground? I wait as my sight clears and look at Violet the sit up straight as I hear Angel and Celia's thoughts clearly. I look back to Violet relief evident on my face....."Thank the Goddessss they are talking....I wasss begining to think that I would ever have to endure the young onesss insecurity." I paused looking at the unconscious wolfman and a slight forboding makes me shiver. "I never meant to hurt the lady but she isss sssso insecure that everything I did she thought was to betray her....(I shake my head)....How I miss my youth." I smile at Violet and try to stand but my legs give out again.......

 

[Isolde]

Celia

Celia knew that if she was really going to be able to go, she would break of the kiss now but she couldnt seem to find the will to do so. She finally gave up and melted into him, returning his kiss as if she was a thirsty man in the desert that had gotten a drink of water.

Finally, when she was able to pull away enough to look up and smile at him before laying her head on his chest. "Oh, Angel," She said as she held him close,"What did I ever do to deserve you? Here I am ready to leave you after I promised I wouldnt and you stand loyal as ever. Maybe the cat woman is right and I am but a child still." Yet she did not feel like a child so close to Angel and she had to swallow and force herself to think of something besides his warmth and closeness.

Her brow furrowed as she said,"I have been having nightmares. Terrible nightmares where I am the cause of your death. Its almost like someone is warning me that if I stay around you you will die. I almost feel a presence when I am dreaming but I cant tell if it is good or bad. I am so confused, Angel, so very confused."

 

[Morgoth]

Lokken had turned away when Celia had tooken off her clothes, but quickly got back onto the trail. He caught up to her and saw her talking to Angel. He breathed a sigh of relief and got into the highest trees where he maintained his lonely vigil.

Far away, Canada:
A great beast leaped out of the sky and landed on a car. This beast lokked exactly like a human, but it stood 10 feet tall, was covered in weapons, and had wings. But this was definitely no angel. The aura of evil gave that away instantly. It smiled and sent a spout of flames shooting in all directions, burning the city to cinders and broiling the people alive, their blood hitting a boil before the flames even touched them. "Lokk..." was all it managed with it's strange tongue.

 

[intriguess]

Violet

I do what I can and after a night of rest the landscape is still damp from the rain, I smile at Nature. I look at nightray his clothing badly charred, my own clothing a mess. The others didn't look all that much better.

"Do you know of a place where we can acquire new clothing and some provisions? I'm used to trading, my talent is one more widely accepted." I whistle softly and my horse scampers up, I stroke his nose and calm him. Seeing Lokken's horse roaming idly about. "I fear the journey has just doubled in danger." I say softly unaware I even said it aloud.

 

[Morgoth]

"Damn", cursed Lokken silently as he remembered his horse and the others. He jumped through the trees and finally landed in front of Violet. "Hello, Violet. I was just checking on Angel and Celia. Wow, what happened to Nightray?" he asked, "If one of my sisters were here, they would solve that quickly enough". "Well, what has been happening here while I was checking up on the two little lovebirds?" he asked over his shoulder, tying his horse to a tree. Then he turned about. "By the way, did anybody feel that great evil a few moments ago?" he asked, sniffing the air.

 

[nightray]

I sheft and opin my eyes tring to wake up I look arownd not moving my head just my eyes I see violt and the cat lady tolking to echother. I prop my self up on my elbos groning from the pain sens my body is still changing in side prepering it's self for the stronger powers. I look down at my chest and stomic wich is no longer coverd thaks to the fire. I see that the berns arn't cumpletly held yet my body is to bisy ajsting to heal any thing that isn't life thretining. I stand and stager over to a tree and sit under it using the trunk to suport me. I'v never felt so week and helples it's fritining I never thot I would be in thes cind sichuwashin. I sherg off the remans of my shert and cout sins it hert to much to have them on I would take wuts left of my pants off to but ther are wemen arownd so I bear the pain and leve them on. I look at the to ladys and say in a raspy vois whot are we doing now. They spin around suprisd that I'm awake.

 

[Morgoth]

"Oh, nightray, good that you're awake. I was wondering if you feel a great presence of evil?" asked Lokken.

 

[nightray]

I close my eyes and consintrat I say I feel one thing that is evil and I can feel wher the ones how started thes fire the evil is ferter north and the others northwest of her I tell lokkin to find the ones how started thes fire just look for a blank spot with your mind in tring to hide from use they allso stand out if you payatenchin. I chukil and say befor fuges blood I would not be abil to tell wher they are. Then I screem in aginy as my musils achily bolgis growing larger and denser and a very sharp pain go's throw my brane.

 

[Morgoth]

"Fuge", replied Lokken, strangely blissful.

 

[Toku]

Raphael

"The dreams are nightmares, like you said, Princess, not visions of things to come. I will not die on you, I promise." he smiles and looks at her beautifeul eyes, but he's a bit worried, he heard it before, heard of DreamWalkers. "Will you tell me when you've had another nightmare?"

 

[Isolde]

Celia

Celia looked at him puzzled but nodded. "Of course, if you want me to. But I am a big girl I can handle a nightmare. It just...just seemed so real. Like it was happening to me. It was just before I woke up and the forest was on fire."

She shrugged. "But like you said, just a dream." Looking over to where she knew the others would be, she sighed. "Angel, I know we have to get back to the others but something disturbs me. As long as I dont have control of my powers, others will. I need to double my efforts to learn about them and control them. Will you help me, please?"

 

[Toku]

Raphael

"Again, your wish, is my command, princess. But you allready have developed your powers a lot, or haven't you?" looking at her, he softly lets his hands slide over her body, "I'm glad you decided to stay with me." he blushes, "but where do you want to start."

 

[Isolde]

Celia

Celia shivers as she feels his hands on her body. She looses all train of thought and just lays against him for a few moments. She was glad she was staying with him too.

"Humm,"She says eventually, bringing herself out of it,"Oh..well not now. Maybe when we stop for a break." She reaches up and gently touches his damaged wings with her hand as to not cause him pain. She was trying to take her mind off of what the feel of his hands were doing to her. "We are going to have to get you a ride. There is no way you are going to be able to fly with your wings in that condition."

 

[Toku]

Raphael

"But I allready can fly....." but when he tries to move his wings the pain comes up again. ".....maybe you're right. are we going back to them? I'd like to stay here, with you for a moment." With that, sits down against a tree. He blushes, "somehow I liked watching you when you were swimming, is that wrong?"

 

[Isolde]

Celia

Celia was pleased to hear that Angel wanted to be alone with her. It was something she wanted also. She sat down beside him and said,"Well, I guess we can always catch up in a little bit. I am sure that the cat woman will know what is going on and tell the others."

At that point, it hit her what else he had said and she blushed fiercely,"You watched me?," She said as she had not realized how long he had been there. Seeing his face, she hastily went to reassure him. Placing her hand on his his, she tried to pick her words carefully.

"I guess its no worse than me getting so jealous over the cat woman when she was being so possesive of you. Besides, I dont mind. In fact I kind of like the fact that you would want to watch me. It's flattering." Thinking about Angel watching her while she bathed was a little more than flattering but it was the best word she could think of without embarassing him. She turned her face away from him and looked out onto the lake so that he wouldnt see just how 'flattering' it was by the look in her eyes.

 

[Toku]

Raphael

What was wrong with her? She seems uncomfortable with it, but not in a wrong way. He smiled, not understanding, but finding it rather funny. He holds her hand softly with one hand, with the other he began touching her body in a peculiar way, he liked touching her, it made him feel warm inside. He kept looking at her, ready to stop when she felt uncomfortable with it.

 

[Isolde]

Celia

Celia closed her eyes and shivers ran through her body as Angel caressed her. She bit her lip as she tried to keep her wits about her. If Violet was here, Celia did not doubt that she would be getting enough energy from Celia to heal everyone in the party and then some.

She knew she should probably say something. Break away and insist that they find the others but the only thing that came from her lips was a small moan. She felt weak in the knees and she could feel her body respond to his touch and become very sensitive to his closeness.

As his touch continued, she could feel her body leaning closer and closer to him as if on its own accord and soon she was leaning against his chest and just letting his hands roam.

"Angel," She moaned softly as she buried her face in his chest.

 

[Toku]

Raphael

He had never felt something like this before. He had a strange feeling inside him, he felt warm, she felt warm, he liked her body against his a lot. He kept touching her, his hands flowing over her body. He gave a kiss on her face, than a soft kiss in her neck, his hands now began to touch her body under her clothes, he couldn't stop anymore but also didn't exactly know what to do.