A single dirt path cuts through a dence forest, miles from the central city, as a mob of townfolks moved down the path, each armed with a different kind of "weapon" as if hunting a beast down. As the mob walked along, a pair of red eyes glance from the wilderness, watching them leave. Once they were at a good distance, a young man with grey hair and red eyes stood up, looking to see them already out of sight. Stepping back onto the dirt path, he places his hands into the pockets of his long dark coat as he let out a sigh, "I'll never get anywhere if those people keep hunting me cause they think I'm behind it." Turning to face the opposite direction, he looks back at where the mob went off to. "It might be better if I stay OFF the road." He mummbles as he then begins to walk toward the woods again, stepping his way through the plant life. As he walked along, he managed to make his way to a riverbed, the thick wilderness cleared out abit near it, making his traveling alot better. Following up the current, he continued on his journey to a place he had heard of. It was heard that a mass of Dark Chaos had gethered at the part of this wilderness where the river was said to start along the mountain range. If he was to find any answers to what was going on, that was a best place as any to begin.

The wind blew through the trees making a rattling sound, from the green leaves. The trees in the wood had grown very close, blocking most of the sunrays from passing through, making the woods dark. Not so dark that you weren’t able to see anything, you could actually see pretty far ahead, but dark enough to make the woods a safe place for someone to hide from other humanoids. Somewhere in the forest Kiara was cleaning two stones as well as around the two stones. There weren’t any markings on the stones, but even though it was pretty easy to see that it was gravestones. Kiara stood up after pulling a root up from the ground, which she thought had approached one of the stones a bit too far. Normally she wouldn’t pull up plants around the forest. She felt that the forest had the right to live as it wanted without her interrupting it, as well as she had the right to live the way she wanted to. The elven side of her made her love the nature and she almost felt like the nature loved her as well. She helped the forest grow and it helped her survive by giving her fruits and berries, from time to time she also hunt down an animal, but only when she felt like she was in need of flesh.

Kiara had taken a bucket with her when she traveled from the top of the mountain. Most of the items she had she found not too far away from the cities when she was on her small adventures. The bucket was for her to get water from the river in the forest to the graves. Using water made it much easier for her to clean the dirt off the gravestones.

On her way to the river she heard sounds of footsteps, it sounded like a very big group of people walking towards the mountain, at least she wasn’t close to the path that the humans normally used when they passed through the forest, so they wouldn’t be able to spot her. A lot had happened at the mountain she lived on the last couple of days, she lived in a cave on top of the mountain where no other living creature other than her lived. That would maybe be because of the cold temperatures or the thin air making it hard for most creatures to live there. But at the place where she normally got water to drink new kinds of creatures began to appear and sometimes run down the mountain, those creatures didn’t look friendly, first of all they all had weapons with them and secondly their red eyes, which were almost like glowing at night didn’t make them look like anything you wanted to approach. Actually a lot more than that made them look unfriendly.

As Kiara appeared at the riverside, she took a fast look around to see if there were anyone around, but she couldn’t see anyone. She looked down into the water seeing her two blue eyes. She smiled to herself before dropping the bucket into the water and pulling it up again, now filled with water. She put the filled bucket and the sword, on her back, on the riverside. She knelt down, put her two hands into the water splashing water into her face a couple of times before drinking some.

As Kane continued his walk along the river, he followed along a turn that the water made, looking about for any signs of creatures in the area. It was then that he spotted a girl by the water ahead with a bucket, quickly jolting into the bushes to hide. He didn't know who it was, but he WAS being chased after so anyoen could be an enemy. Peering through the branches, he watched the strange girl as she then began to wash her face and drink from the stream.

"Is she from around here?" He wondered since it seemed she was getting water from the stream instead of a town. Thinking for abit, he came to the idea that, if she was from around here, she wouldn't be part of that mob from before. But her apperance kind of gave her off, since Kane had never seen a race like her before. She had tail and horns like a Drake, but ears and body like an Elf. A combination that wasn't really logical for some. After abit of thinking, he decided to show himself and see what happens.

Stepping out of the bushes, making a rattling nosie with the branches as he did, he stummbled abit through the deep woods as he came back to the river bed. His red eyes and grey hair visable in the sun light as he looked at her, giving a commen greeting wave to show he wasn't a threat. "Hello....do you happen to live around here?" He asks, trying to get some answers.

Kiara looked at the man that was talking to her. The first thing she saw was his red eyes, the same red eyes as the creatures that had appeared close to her home in the mountain, but this man looked more like a human, and much more friendly than those creatures. Kiara thought a bit about what to do, but decided to answer him. “No, but I come here often to keep some graves clean.” She put her sword back on her back. Even though the sword didn’t look like it, it was very heavy, but Kiara had trained both her forms very much, or rather she had trained her normal elven form a lot, and as her normal form got stronger, so did her dragon form.

She put on a smile to show that she was friendly, and tried to change the subject away from her by asking “I haven’t seen you around here before. Actually no one comes here a lot. The last couple of days have been… Special. What brings you to these parts of the forest?” She kept her eyes on him, even though he didn’t look like he would attack her, you never know when someone would attack you from behind.

Kane was about to reply to her, when a movement in the bushes caught his attention, turning his haze to it. He wasn't sure what it was, but a unsettling feeling came from whatever was causeing the ruckus. The Dark Chaos within him was reacting to it, and he's learned that it's never a good thing. Just as if predicting what was to come, a large wolf like beast lunged out of the bushes, landing between them as it slide along the stone filled river bed. Turning to look at him with it's blood red eyes, the beast looks over at the girl as it growls evily at the two of them.

Kane could feel it, the animal suffering inside as the Dark Chaos now controlled it's body. A mixture of emotions stirred within him at the sight and sensation as he saw the ravaging beast glare them down. In almost an instant, the beast turned toward him, lunged onto Kane, knocking him down. the Wolf creature dug it's jaws into Kane's arm as he tried to block it. Yelling from the pain, he grits his teeth as he then manages to kick the beast off of him, also having it's fangs injure his arm as it was yanked off. As the wolf landed onto the stone riverbed, it quickly get's onto his feet and readied to lung at him again, Kan still on the ground and with a torn up arm now.

Kiara ran towards the wolf like creature, pulling her sword with her right hand while running towards the attacking beast. The animal was not normal, it had this strange black fur and the same red eyes, as the creatures on the mountain, something was obviously wrong... Very wrong. Kiara jumped in between the creature and the man. With both hands on the sword she blocked the next jump attack from the beast, but the beast was much stronger than any other animal she had defended herself from before, which she wasn't ready for. If she had known about the beasts strength she would have used her dragon strength against it, but instead she fell into the river together with the large creature. In the fall she dropped her sword on the riverside. The black beast began to rip and bite, as if it was a matter of life and death, but Kiara's skin had turned from normal to somewhat reptile, the skin protected her from the minor attacks but the larger attacks gave her wounds, especially on her arms which she tried to protect as much of her body as she could. Not enough with that she was under water and if the creature kept staying on top of her she would run out of breath at some point. The water was beginning to turn red around Kiara, she needed to think fast.

As Kane forced himself off the riverbed, he looked at the beast as it looked like it was ripping her to shreds. Griting his teeth abit at the pain of his torn up left arm as he holds onto it's shoulder, he forces himself toward the beast as he does soemthing he knows he'll regret. Charging at the wolf as it continues to pin down and attack the girl, he pulls his right arm back as he ran toward it, a mass of a dark aura forming around his fist. Once he reached it, he swung his fist at the monster as a sudden burst of what looked like a dark force knocked the beast off of her. The wolf beast splashed and rolled along the water before it could manage to get back onto it's feet and glare Kane down. Standing by the girl that it was ontop of, he just glared right back as he panted heavily from his injured arm, holding it once more. Giving off a furious growl, the wolf darts off back into the woods.

Giving a sigh mixted with his heavy panting, he turns to the girl that was attacked and offered his good right arm to help her up. "You ok?"

Kiara sat up, as the creature was knocked of her, to get her head above the water surface. She coughed out a mixture of water and blood. Drakes take a lot more damage from inhaling water than most of the other races, because of their lung-system, so it was some painful coughs. As the coughs settled down a bit she accepted the mans offer to help her up. Kiara was a small girl and it was easy to see that as she stood beside the man. "I am fine... Not good but fine. Thank you for helping me out." She put on a small smile, but the smile disappeared fast. Kiara's body didn't look too good, there were a lot of small wounds and she was drenched.

She walked over to the place she had lost her sword, with water dripping from her clothes, picked it up and put it on her back. She twisted her hair to dry her hair, or at least get most of the water out of it. She turned around and looked at the man "What was that thing? It didn't look like any other creature I have seen and it was much stronger than any of the animals in the forest."

Still catching his breath from the attack, Kane replies, "I heard rumors of Dark Chaos forming near here.....I think...that used to be a regular wild animal....until the Dark Chaos got it. It reeked of the stuff." He says at abit of a lower tone at the last part as his arms pain snapped him back to his senses as he held it near the shoulder. It had a major gash on both sides as his sleeves were torn up abit. Forcing the beast off while it's jaws were dug deep into his arm wasn't that much of a good idea on his part. Stepping back out of the water, his breathing was still heavy from teh wound as blood dripped down along his arm, dripping onto the water and ground, forming a path as he moved.

Stepping onfront of her, he looked at the direction the beast ran off to, "I have a bad feeling that that thing didn't just leave us alone. I might come back with some "friends" of it's own." He turned to look at the girl, noticing her wounds as he continues to keep his serious tone during the whole time. "You said you lived near here, did you not? Is it some place safe that has first aid of some kind?"

Jon fluttered in and out of consciousness. He was awake when he heard shouts coming from behind him, but then fell back under the beckon of sleep. He awoke again and the shouting was gone, and he felt rested. Gingerly Jon stood and looked at his surroundings. It was a bright night with the moon out. He could see quite well, though he suspected it was the light of the full moon. There was a forest in the distance one direction, A farmhouse closer in another. He walked over to the gate and slumped by the gate. He might have been rested, but he was still physically exhausted. From his vantage point, he could see a path into the forest, how dry the earth of the dirt road was, the sound of the wind in the small trees nearby, the smell of the grass all around him. Being outside the facility was exhilarating. He was free. He barely managed a fist pump in the air before he fell unconscious yet again.

Kiara looked at the man while thinking about what to answer. She had never had anyone inside her home in the mountain, and it was hard for most of the creatures to live up there, but the man that had saved her had a badly wounded arm and needed treatment. She looked down her own body, she was also bleeding from the minor wounds she had. Then there was this Dark Chaos attacking the animals in the forest and turning them into enraged beasts. No matter what she thought there were no other option, she had to show her hiding place, her home.

“It is.” She replied him smiling, and began focused the energy in her body, few seconds after a pair of black wings ripped through her back, it was easy to see that it was painful, the wings were filled with blood as they appeared. She walked over behind the man and put her arms around him in a tight grip. “Don’t you dare struggle.” She growled, it was the drake inside her speaking. She was normally more aggressive when using her powers. One swing from her wings and they were far op in the air, they were easy to spot in the air but she needed them to get there fast.

She landed on an edge of the mountain leading into a cave where she had build a little house inside. The air was thin and the wind was strong. She let go of the man, and walked over to a wooden door “This is first time someone has been here… So be nice.” She opened the door and went inside. It wasn’t very big inside the house, but it was clean and cozy. She went to a shelf and found some bandages. “Please sit on the bed and I’ll treat your wounds.”

Kane was abit suprised at first from the wings that formed on her as he thought to himself, "So she's part Drake alright...still alot of questions." Once she took him to her place and went to the door, he walked behind her inside as he looked around until she told him to sit down. Doing as told without a word, he sat on the bed as he noticed that there was a trail of blood form him from the door. "If those things catch scent of that trail....it might be a problem," he thought as he then took off his coat, giving her a better veiw of the large gashes on his arm from the beast, abit apinfull as his coat went agaisnt the wound.

Kiara took a bottle from the same shelf as she took the bandages and walked over to the bed and sat beside the man. "This is going to sting a little." She opened the bottle filled with a very strong alcohol and cleaned the wound on his arm with it, before she put the bandages around it. While she covered his arm in the bandages she looked at him. "So... Why have you come here? You seem to know something about those creatures out there... Of cause that might be normal in the cities but I doubt it." She looked into his red eyes, and felt a shiver down her back. This guy was very different from any other person she had ever seen in her life, even though that wasn't many this one was very special... Very different... But then again she was as well, so she wouldn't ask, at least she wouldn't start the question.

Time passed. How much Jon didn't know. He was still out of it when his body stood. Something inside of him stirred. He took a step towards the forest, toward the mountain. Though not fully awake Jon knew he was being drawn to Dark Chaos. Dark Chaos? What's that? He said to himself. He didn't know, but if it was a large enough source to call to the deepest part of him, it had to be important. The trees filtered the moonlight. Not much got to the floor, however, the leaves gained a fluorescent shine to them. The animals were going about their nocturnal lives. The forest was semi peaceful at night. A whimpering caught his ears. Jon looked around and a large wolf was looking at him, with pain in its eyes. Jon looked at it, not just at it, but into it as well. The wolf's red eyes looked glazed. Jon reached his left hand out, but didn't move closer. The wolf on the other hand, slowly padded over to him.

Once the wolf was directly under his hand, it shivered. A dark reddish color energy seemed to transfer from Jon's hands and into the wolf. The glamor around him faded, exposing his odd body. Jon sent a silent prayer to guide the wolf as it turned and padded away, it's wounds weren't as bad as they were, or so they seemed. Jon's eyes went black for a second, then back to their silver color (His body had just processed the passing of Dark Chaos you see.) His eyes clouded over as the wolf's memories sped through them. He Saw the people who had hurt it, felt what the wolf felt at the time, but oddly enough He knew the feelings weren't his. He looked in the direction the wolf had come, but he didn't go there. He picked up the scent of the two people and looked around. The scent trail went into the sky and off to the side. Jon's wings pricked. After 18 years of non-use, they felt weird moving. He slowly lifted into the air, angled toward the scent trail which his exposed drake side was easily registering, and began the flight.

Though he hadn't used his wings ever before, the sensation felt natural. The crisp air flowing over the thin membrane of his drake wing, ruffling the feathers of his Skyran wing. His tail made constant twitching movements. Soon he was at a cave entrance. Before he took another, he fell over. His body was now thoroughly used. It had been almost a full day since he had anything to eat, and the Dark Chaos had used the rest of the energy stored in his body.

As he gritted his teeth from the pain, he remained quiet for abit after she gave him the question. "......I'm just looking into the rumors of the Dark Chaos....that's all." She may be treating his wounds, but he wasn't about to just tell everything about himself to someone he's only just met. Not to mention the fact that she's still a mystery to him, not looking like any race he's seen before. "Since we're asking questions here, mind telling me what you are exactly? You don't exactly look normal yourself." He says in abit of a serious tone, as if she had to answer since she asked him a question. Kane was abit to cautious for his own good it seemed, since he was strict to not trust her just yet, having thoughts that she just might be yet another one effected by the Dark Chaos. Knowing far to well what it was capable of doing to people.

Leo looked at the sky as he flew downwards towards the ground. "Finally..I'm free...I can breathe" he said, as he looked around this field he was in, and then took out a cloak. "Better hide my wings...after all I have to at least try to blend in...he said as he began walking, not really paying much attantion to where he was heading. Before he knew it, he was at a mountain of some sorts. "It seems so calm here..." he said, sitting down and then laying on his back, looking at the sky. "I know about the Dark Chaos, but seriously, is it fair to blame all the other races?"...he thought to himself as he closed his eyes, unaware that there was a creature nearby.

Kiara kept her eyes on the man, "Not normal?" her grip around his arm tightened and she turned her head down "Not normal!?" She got up in a very slow way and pointed a finger towards the door "Get out..." she whispered while her head still was turned down, just as she said it, she heard something outside the house. She turned her head and her eyes began to glow in a red color, eyes of the dragon. She saw a pretty big thing lying outside the door. She walked over to the door put her left hand on the doorknob while putting her right hand on the sword handle, on her back. She opened the door and saw a somewhat worn out creature on the ground, a human-like creature but with one wing of a Skyran and another like a Drake. She walked closer to the creature on the ground lifted her sword from her back "Hey?" She poked it to see if it would give any response "You alright?"

Leo kept hearing the movements draw nearer and nearer. "Guess i can't take a nap after all..." he said, as he stood up, ready to embrace whatever danger came running towards him. "What the..." was all he could say, as he saw a rabbit pass by him, and scratched his head. "How'd that little thing make such a big noise?" he said, as he turned around shrugging and about to lay down again when he felt something rip off his cloak, his pure white skyran wings now exposed. "CRAP!...YOU STUPID...Uhh..." he said, as he turned around, and saw a bear infected with Dark Chaos roaring at him. "Not good..." he said, as he tried to speak telepathically with the bear. "His mind..is clouded with such darkness..." he said, as he made an ice orb, and threw it towards the bear, watching in dismay as the bear simply sent it back, forcing him to duck. "Guess i'd better Quant..." he said, as he waited for the last possible second, and then quantum jumped to some sort of place near a cave, not knowing that behind him were two people. "Phew...close one..."

He could hear the girl before he could see her. When he looked, he saw a girl with long flowing white hair, skin a tanned bronze. Her eyes were glowing red, but he suspected it was natural. There was a warm feeling spreading from his right arm, he was accessing their energy reserves. Those alone wouldn't last him more than 20 minutes, but it was something. He positioned himself into a sitting position, thereby revealing his face and both arms. "Hi. My name's Fantasy. It's a pleasure to meet you." He said rather formally. He assessed his body's condition. "Actually, come to think about it, I don't think I'll last much longer. You wouldn't happen to have anything to eat. Would you?" Already he could feel the stones energy withdrawing. His vision clouded for a second.

Kane remaind silent as the girl started getting pissed off at his question as he flinched at her gripping at his arm. As she got up to check on the sound of someone outside, he followed behind, planning to pass her by and leave as she wanted. Walking to the side of her and the strange visitor that arrived, he looked at both and said in a serious tone, "Well...I'll take my leave then." Walking by the two, he went on about to leave the cave, when suddenly a man with white wings lunged into the cave, stopping him in his tracks. As he looked at the newer stranger, he was about to speak out to him, when suddenly a loud roar echoed into the cave, the sound of a enraged bear. Even worse was that fact that Kane could feel a wave of Dark Chaos coming from that roar. Realizing the situation, he looks back at the girl with the fallen "guest" and yells, "Get inside right now!" The look he gave showed that what was coming was not something to take lightly.

Taking a few steps forward at the cave entrance, he peers over at the winged stranger. "I'm going to take a wild guess that you lead that thing over here somehow?" He says in abit of a serious tone as he stood at the cave entrance, ready to guard it.

Kiara looked confused at Fantasy "Names Kiara... Well yeah I got some food inside." The guy didn't look good, she knelt down beside him. Her eyes turned blue again while she observed him. "What happ..." She wasn't able to finish the sentence before the man she had met earlier yelled that they needed to get inside. She turned her head towards him and saw another man had appeared, this one was a Skyran, one of the worst races, if you asked Kiara. Kiara wasn't in the mood for someone to give her orders, especially not that man. Just as she was about to tell him that she wasn't going to take orders from him she got the sense of something coming towards them. Her eyes turned red again and she saw that a big bear was running towards the cave-entrance, she wasn't able to see what the bear looked like, with her sight, but she got the feeling that it looked like other animal she had met earlier, at the same time as she met the man in the woods, when she was getting some water at the river. With her right hand still on the handle of her sword, she gripped Fantasy's arm with her left hand and tried to pull him up. He didn't look like he would be able to get inside the cave all by himself.

Something clicked when Jon felt the Bear infected by the Dark Chaos get closer. His eyes went a blood red, similar to Kane's eyes. He stood, helped by Kiara, his body flush with Dark Chaos. He stepped up to Kane and unbidden, His emerald earring flashed, and an exquisite bow formed in Jon's hand. The aura of the bear was one of pain and a sudden urge to cause harm to other living things. More Dark Chaos, like the wolf from earlier. Was the only thought in his head. He pulled back on the bow and an arrow formed between his hand and the wood. The arrow, unlike last time when it was green, was red. This signified that the arrow was made from Dark Chaos, and would prove fatal if it connected with a being that hasn't experienced it.

"This seems so exciting!" was all Leo could think of as he heard someone yell, and then say to him if the bear was because of his fault. He simply looked back, and without saying a word, he quantum jumped behind the bear and tried to get it's attention so that the arrow could hit it effectively. "Better try telepathy once more..." he said, as he closed his eyes and focused his mind, his thoughts pouring into the bear's darkness plagued mind. "Please...just let us be...regain your true form...we mean you no harm..." he said, as the bear tried to claw at him again, and he focused more. He saw the arrow draw nearer, and kept trying to communicate with the animal. "It's no use...Unless I try to directly extract the dark chaos...but It'll be no use...it'll just be drawn to another vessel..." he thought, so distracted that he didn't notice the bear swipe at his leg, as he let out a yell, and his eyes went white. He quantum jumped back to the cave entrance and formed Ice towers along the mountain to serve as protection, another warning given to the bear as it was hit with the arrow and began to leave. "My apologies for putting you all in danger." was all Leo said, as he bowed, his leg bleeding badly, but he turned around and began to walk away from the cave, sensing that he wasn't welcomed.

((sorry for the wait, college and work has been getting busy))

As the others struggled to hold the corrupted bear back, Kane simply remained silent and was focusing a dark mist around his right arm. Using the time that they were giving him, he finally finished, walking past them as he stepped forward to the bear. Suddenly, the dark mist broke away as his right arm suddenly changed. His whole arm took the form of that of a dark beast like arm, the fingers having sharp claws resembling that of a creature corrupted by Dark Chaos, aswell. The bear noticed the dark arm and started glaring at Kane now, fixed on that arm as if it knew what it was.

Charging at Kane, the bear ran toward him with it's jaws wide open to crush him between them. Giving the usual serious expression, Kane moved abit to the side, just enough to lung his arm into the bears face, gripping it as the charging beast still manages to shove him back as Kane holds on. The bear swung around, trying to fling Kane off of it as he lunged hismelf onto it's back with teh dark arm still on it's face. As it struggled, it's movment started to slow down as Kane's arm started to absorb the Dark Chaos, waves of a black energy pulsing into the arm as the bear slows down more and more. It wasn't long until the appearance of the bear also began to return to normal until it just fell on the floor collapsed, back to how it used to look. Getting off the downed bear, Kane holds onto his arm as he forces it back to normal, gritting his teeth cause it was abit painfull to do as he looked at the others, expecting some kind of reaction from it.

"On second thought...that was kinda interesting...n-not that It matters, anyway..." he said, with a loud sigh. He was tired of keeping up appearances, but for now he thought everyone would shun him out, so he kept to himself. "I hope he's ok...looks brutal..." he thought, as he looked at the sky, and then at the man.