Katherine suddenly had a strange feeling envelop her entire body. She felt, for once in her life, like she wasn't completely alone.
She could hear something too. Now she was used to this, anyone within her range, she could hear every thought and idea that came into their thoughts. She could always hear someone/ But now, it seemed like these weren't regular thoughts. She knew who was around, and she knew that this train of mind didn't fit any of the people that lived around her apartment.
It seemed wild and free, yet tame and down to Earth at the same time. She couldn't really put her finger on it, but she knew that it was someone important.
Ah, Katherine. How nice to finally have you awake to acompany me. He spoke clearly and he had an accent that matched her. Not entirely Irish, but also mixed with the way that she said some words. He sounded proper.
"Who are you?" She asked, pulling the covers up to her. She had been sitting in her bed with her knees up, flipping through an AP magazine that showed upcoming concerts and new album releases from her favorite artists. She has been in the middle of an interview with The Used when this random voice began talking back to her. And this had never happened before.
You need to settle down. My name is Iorek, and whether you know this or not, I am your spirit. And everyone whom is not a human has one. You need to tell your friends these locations to help find us all before the humans get their hands on us. After he finished he gave her numerous cities, some in different states or even countrys. He stated that he was located in Canada.
She felt overwhelmed, she wanted to pull her hair out, but instead she snatched her cell phone and sent a mass text. Everyone meet at the coffee shop. IMMEDIATELY!
She slid the device back into her pocket and hopped off of the bed in a rush. She flew to her closet, leaping over piles of clothes to find something to wear. She snagged a pair of black jeggings and a black 'As Blood Runs Black' tee and slid it over her head.
She dashed out to her car and slid into the drivers seat then sped her way to the tiny cafe.

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Ace had been asleep, but his phone screamed at him to awaken. He grumbled, annoyed and rolled over, his eyes still closed. He felt around on the mattress for the cause of the unwanted noise.
His eyes barely opened, still slits from lack of sleep and his eyes scrolled over the message. The last word was the one that caught his eye first. He had to read the lines over and over again before it finally comprehended that he needed to leave. Now, apparently.
He slowly got out of bed and turned right around to pull the covers back up to meet the pillow and smoothed the comforter to look perfect.
He nodded then looked down at what he was wearing.
Baggy jeans and a teal long-sleeved shirt on with fingerless gloves and a black beanie that was halfway off of his head. He took off the hat and flipped his hair twice to the right, his hand smoothing down his blonde hair. He placed the tobogan back on so it accented him well.
He nodded at his reflection then pushed the door to leave his house.
The cafe wasn't a long walk, but he wanted to drive his Cobra Mustang. He just loved his car.
Before he started the engine, he looked at the text again. He saw who all the message had been forwarded to and couldn't help but to grin when he saw Oren's name in the list.
"Yes!" He said, turning the key and his car roaring to life. He took a quick turn at the stop sign and was there in less then two minutes. He was too excited now. He hadn't seen her in a while and now that was all he could think about.
He locked his car behind him and headed inside. He eyes Kat at one of the larger booths that took up the corner of the place. She had a steaming coffee sitting in front of her on the table and her head was down, a bright light showing her face from underneath. He slid in and she looked up at him, her eyes wide momentarily then she held a hand to her heart.
"Damn, Parker." Her eyes went to his hair and she reached to fix a piece out of place but he backed away, his hands going to smooth it out again before he whipped his head to the right.
"No touchy." He shook a single finger at her. "So what's up Kitty Kat?"
She shook her head and told him he would need to be patient and wait for the others to arrive.

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Juniper sat in a royal looking seat in a fancy room. She was in the human headquarters and she had just gotten word that a spirit had been located. They had ways of finding out when the connection had been lost or found. Humans were out searching the woods and fields and mountains, scouting everywhere for them.
She chuckled to herself, hoping that the spirite had already been killed by now.
She didn't like that these anti-humans were around with little animal buddies. She wanted to find the leader and give him word of the recent news. If he didn't already know yet.
She opened the door without laying a finger on it and closed it behind her using her telekinesis.
She marched up to his room, hoping he would be there and politely knocked on the door before asking, "Sir?"
She didn't know if he was there or not, but she needed to get ahold of him soon. If there was one spirit, then others would soon be springing up and trying to get ahold of the others. She growled at this thought and knocked again, louder this time. If he didn't answer she would have to run to go and get him.
"Kain, please."

-~-~-~-

He didn't mention the truth to her because it would probably scare her. And because of the distance, only forced thoughts would be sent to the other one. Iorek paced inside of the place he really did not want to be in.
Ever since the human had touched him, he had been captured and placed in a cell in Canada. He had explained to Katherine how to get there, but when would she arrive? It might take a long time and he didn't know how long he had before the humans would take matters into their own hands.
There was a human guard outside of the steel bars and he wished his reach would be able to hit the man. His massive paws scraped across the wooden floor and he looked out of the barred windows out into the ice and bitter snow.
Would she be able to make it through this? He knew she was tough, and also if she had her friends she would have them as backup. But not all of the spirits were located here. Some were in the mountains and others were in the ocean. There were a few in forests and others he couldn't even place.
This was straining him and he was getting nervous the longer it was taking. He didn't like being here and if it was possible he would escape. He was curious, wondering exactly what powers this human had who tried to restrain him.
He growled which sounded quite menacing towads the person who stood outside.
He turned around suspiciously eyeing the beast before asking, "What's gotten into you? You have been so well behaved these last few days. Now be a nice bear and shape up or you shall be shipped out." The male snickered and turned back around.
Iorek reached out, claws extended and was able to snag to clothing on the back of the guy. He was taken by surprised and immediately turning around, making the bear lose his hold.
"Ah, now you did it." He said. "I warned you, but now I must take the required measures to subdue you."
He raised a hand, facing the palm at the artic beast and out of his hand shot bolts of electricity which wrapped around the torso of the animal and went up his legs and down to his paws. Then he fell to the ground, in an explosion of pain and he stumbled to the ground and closed his eyes. His breath was heavy and he had to try hard to keep conciousness.
He emitted a weak roar before he lost all holding to the Earth and fell into what wasn't a sleep, but it was at least comforting to be out of the cell and in his own world.

Lily stepped out of the shower steam still rolling off her arching a brow at her phone. She walked over and flipped it open texting Kat back "Be there in 15." She let her blonde hair down it spilling like honesy across her back. She tossed on a button up and a pair of blue jeans along with her ugg"ly" boots. She glanced at her self in the mirror giving her outfit a final once over before heading out to her jeep.

Lily walked into the cafe finding Ace and Kat in a booth in the back. "Whats up guys?" She had like she had already had six or seven cups of coffee. She sat in the booth with a smile drumming her fingers on the table. "Anything bad going on? Cause i mean if its bad new your should so just spill it before the other get here I so hate bad news." She spoke a mile a minute, before looking up at them.

Amoretta jumped when a little chirping sound came from her phone that sat on her nightstand. Pressing her small hand to her face tiredly, she rested her phone on her stomach and flipped it open, making a little blue circle of light on her tank top as she read the text her friend Kat had sent her. 'I'll be there in ten minutes, pushy.' She sent back, yawning as she swung her legs over one side of her bed and stretched. Amora rubbed her eyes with one hand as she changed into jeans and a scoop-neck white shirt.
Amora slipped on a necklace that hugged her neck. On the necklace hung a small metal feather that used to be her mother's. She she brushed out her long raven black hair, she opened her curtains and let in warm sunlight that stung her still tired eyes. Before she slipped on her shoes and left, she glanced in the mirror. She certainly looked very witchey with her long black hair, grey eyes, and pale ivory skin. No warts or green skin. She couldn't even imagine why humans made up stories about them riding on broomsticks, and being covered in warts and green skin. Amora was a perfect example of just how wrong that was.
Slipping her phone into her back pocket, she headed out the door. The coffee shop was close enough that she chose to walk. As she walked, her light eyes stayed on the ground and her hands stayed shoved in her pockets. Sidetracked, she nearly missed the small shop. She entered the store and got herself a hot chocolate before slipping into a seat next to Ace. "Lily, it's way too early to be this hyper. Please tell me you weren't considering drinking any coffee." Amora rubbed her hand against her forehead as she glanced at Kat. "So? Why did you call me here so early?" She raised one thin brow as she brushed her long dark hair over one shoulder.

Oren hadn't been in town for very long. Well...as far as people were concerned she wasn't in town at all. She tended to move around a lot and didn't make a habit of informing people of her change of address. In fact anyone would think Oren Kovalenko made herself deliberately hard to find. She made her way along a street on the outskirts, a hood pulled up over her head and a thick woollen scarf covering her mouth. As much as the vampire hated to admit it, this was not a successful chapter in her life. With no clan, no fixed home and not having gotten blood in weeks. She was loathe to bite a human to get a drink. It was unhygienic and the taste of lingering neck sweat made her want to gag. Robbing a hospital seemed a little bit low, but it'd soon be necessity. Oren was just dwelling on the thought of it when a rather distressed buzzing noise issuing from inside her coat coat her attention.

"Now you choose to start working, you rat bastard chunk of plastic." she muttered, displaying a clearly unfitting accent for the area as she fished her phone out of her pocket and peered at the cracked screen. Her mode of speech gave away an Eastern-European background that many people mistook for meaning that she was Russian. Oren was in fact a bit of a euromutt, with Hungarian and Ukrainian blood, and who knew what else. Thankfully she had come to the country a fluent english speaker, and after some years on the North American continent she rarely spoke anything else.

After hitting it on a hard surface a couple of times she was able to identify the message, something that came as something of a surprise. She hadn't spoken to Katherine in some time. She hadn't spoken to anybody she knew in a while in fact, something that came as both the result of a phone that was on its last legs, and because she'd been trying to avoid attracting to much attention.

She considered it, rather left in two minds about whether to go or not. Who knew what this was supposed to be about. She could have at least been a little bit more detailed on the subject. Then again isn't wasn't like her to message for no reason. She'd have taken to ignoring her if she had been.

Giving a sigh, the vampire stuffed the phone back into her pocket and began walking. Might as well go and see what all the fuss was about, she guessed.

A little while later she stepped into the coffee shop and approached the only table that was reeking of supernaturals. She kept her hood drawn up as she did so. She wasn't sure if her contact had remembered that she would end up getting scorched in the sun, but she was not going to risk it. She grabbed a chair and sat herself down.
"Katherine." she greeted, not wasting too much time on small talk as she glanced round.

She caught sight of Ace and nodded in greeting in his direction. She hadn't spoken to him in a while, so long that it felt a little awkward starting again.
"Not to push you, but I do burn in the sun so I'd rather keep this short."

Charlie woke up to the sound of her cell phone going off on her desk. She lifted herself off her bed soft, warm bed to grab her phone. She opened her phone to see the messeage from Kat. Everyone meet at the coffee shop. IMMEDIATELY!. Charlie's eyes grew wide as she read the messeage I wonder if she's okay. Charlie texted her friend back Okay I'll be there in 10 minutes. Charlie got dressed in a pair of skinny jeans, knee high brown boots, with a light pink lacey shirt. Then she brushed her long-thick blonde hair that almost fell down to her butt. She walked out of her appartment grabbing her phone and placing it in her jean pocket. Charlie walked to the cafe humming her favorite song.When Charlie entered the cafe she spotted her friends sitting together. She had a small grin on her face and walked over and sat next to Amora."Hey guys, so what's up?"

Katherine was a bit edgy, soon people were filing into the coffee shop left and right. She was glad that they could respond so quickly. She opened all of her new messages on her phone so the blasted thing would not continue to go off.
She cleared her throat and after so many people arrived, she couldn't take the suspence anymore.
"Alright, so this morning I woke up and I had this weird voice in my head...It told me that I needed to inform you guys of this..." She snatched a napking out of the holder and wrote down a few locations and names and species of different types of animals including her own.
She turned the parchment around so the others could view what she had scribbled down and she looked up towards them expectantly.
"We need to find these places quickly..Apparently we are all assigned one of these creatures and they are our souls..He didn't really give me a lot of details, but I know that what I heard is real. I don't really know a better way to explain it to you all." She sat back against the cushion and gave a sorta sigh of relief and gratitude that she had finally finished talking. Her eyes fell on Oren. She was probably one of the smartest people she knew, and she would have good input towards the information she had just given to them.
"Please don't think I am crazy..." She scrunched her eyes closed, a bit worried for the outcome.

-~-~-~-

When the door chimed and she stepped in, everything that had brought him here this morning didn't seem to matter.
It had been quite some time and just seeing her again made him want to jump up and hug her. He could feel the aggitation reeking off of a couple of the girls, nervousness from Kat and tired as well as eagerness radiating.
He swallowed, trying to get a grip on all of them, sighing slowly, he began calming them all down. When Katherine had finished saying what she needed to his eyes averted from Oren finally to the writing.
A grey wolf? He thought for a moment then nodded towards Kat.
"Well, I do not think you are crazy, but this is a little odd to just randomly happen. I mean, why haven't you heard this voice before?" He asked.
"He mentioned that he was touched by a human, and that the reason we needed to hurry had something to do with us as well. He said to make haste because...if they got to them first then we would all be..." Her eyes shifted towards out the window, Ace could tell that she really was frightened by what was to come if they failed.
"Obliterated."

"Well, the first thing I'd be asking about this is, whether you were smoking anything, and if so, how much of it." Oren remarked from her place, with her arms folded. After a moment she leaned on the table and pulled the napkin over.
"Though I've got to say that if this is some sort of crazy pot dream then it's a pretty well-researched ones, seeing as these are all real locations as far as I know." she stated. She assumed from the way Katherine had been looking at her that she wanted some sort of informed opinion on the subject, and she had quite a lot in the way of knowledge. She'd also visited quite a few of the areas. Work with The Exsanguis had sent her all over the place...though it had rarely involved much of a chance to take in the local colour. It normally involved impaling someone on something.
"Let's see what I ended up with...Stygian Owl....Central American bird of prey...and the location is listed as somewhere in Peru." she remarked.
"Well no offense Katherine but I never took you as a bird expert...either there's some kinda legitimacy to this or you're seriously committed to the lie. Still....magical animals spirits? Sounds like something used to sell fake indian jewelry or something."

Lexia had already been awake when her phone buzzed with a crazy text from her... well Lex didn't want to call Katherine a friend more of a friend of a friend of a friend of a... you get the gist. She went to the bathroom trying to fix her obnoxiously puffy red hair she saw antlers on her head, wait what? No that couldn't be right, she pat herself on the head and found no antlers "I know creepy right?" a voice inside her head mumbled. Umm, okay Lex was weird but having a conversation with herself was on a whole other level "I'm not you, i mean I am you but in a different way" a husky voice called to her "Listen just go to Katherine and she'll explain it" Lex just stood there in shock for about 10 minutes. "Today?" Her legs automatically unlocked and she shoved her way out the door into the cold and towards the coffee shop. She paced back and forth before she went in, but finally entered it looked like she was one of the last to respond "Yeah, okay was I the only one cause this shit is seriously freaking me out" She probably spoke to fast for anyone to ever understand. "First your text, something weird happens to you... then to me? what the fu-" Lex realized she was pretty much yelling and looked over her shoulder to the staring customers.

Kain's was the last office at the end of a long line of offices, each given to a respectable member of the team with impressive records. Of course, Kain had been elected leader of operations, and so his office was the most elaborate. He had asked specifically for a corner spot and a long, narrow concrete ledge just outside, so that he could leap down and fly whenever the urge struck him. In one corner of the room was a working shower, and next to it, across from his desk, was a large vanity mirror in which Kain liked to admire himself.

He was especially prone to doing so when the hours became long-- a compliment a day, Kain knew, kept the doctor away, and at his age, that was among his greatest priorities. So he sat on his otherwise empty desk, gripping the edge with his long talons while he admired his beautiful wings.

A sudden knock on the door reminded Kain that he was still on the clock, and he transformed back immediately. The process had gotten faster with time and he had learned to control it better, but it still caused him some discomfort and pain, and Kain ensured that he was not bleeding before he redressed himself and answered the door. It was always refreshing, he knew, to confront his team members face-to-face.

"Come on in, Juniper," Kain said, pulling the door open for her. He trotted across the room and sat back behind his large executive-style desk, moving his laptop to one side. "What can I do for you? Would you like a mint?"

Katherine couldn't really expect anything less than for her to call her basically crazy. It sounded crazy coming from her mouth, so no doubt most of them probably wouldn't believe her.
"Listen, I know how it sounds...But I don't make these things up. I woulnd't gather you all together before I would ever wake up. Some of you don't even know me well..." She glanced at the barely recognizable faces.
"And no, I am not a bird fanatic, nor do I look into horses, or know where to find any of this." Her gaze sub-conciously struck the napkin before she looked at the new arrival. When she admitted that she'd had a relatable experience she wanted to breathe a sigh of relief. But instead she was even more taken aback. This completely prooved that what she was stating wasn't complete nonsense. She would have to believe now that-she looked back down to remember-a polar bear was her soul? How could such a preposterous thing even become reality?
She shook her head, holding it after. She was getting a headache and this was too absurd to comprehend at the moment.
"I'm heading to Canada." She murmered quietly. "And I gotta get there quick...apparently I'm in for it if I am to fail..." She felt like she had a heap of trouble on her shoulders now and the stress would ruin her.
She ran a hand through her blonde hair and readjusted her bangs. Her hair was just a way to distract her, but really, she just wanted to figure out a way to solve this so she would be able to continue her repitious daily schedule like all of the days before.
Her eyeborws pulled together, but in a way that read she was utterly disturbed with whatever she was thinking. The only problem was that she could hear everyone else and their opinions as well.

-~-~-~-

Ace's eyes widened at this. Obliterated? He was barely nineteen, only have been that age for about five or six months. He sighed and began strumming his fingers against the table. He needed to calm himself if he planned to keep the others level-headed.
He watched Oren when she spoke of her understanding of the situation. He looked back at the writing and squinted his eyes to gain better focus. Is what he was reading true? He had just heard her state that her animal was located in Peru, and now he saw that the two locations matched for their animals. A grey wolf, he read. He arched a brow. Did this have something to do with him being a werewolf? And for her being a vampire? These all seemed to be a very wide range of species between the lot of them and the handful of animals listed in the animal kingdom.
"Looks like I am with you, then." He said to Oren. He wondered if they would succeed in what they had planned ahead.

-~-~-~-

Juniper opened the door quickly, shutting it behind her fast.
"I'll pass. Sir, they have found the first location of a daemon. He was found in the coldest region of Canada. Now, would you like to preceed there now, or wait until we get word of any others. This is a very important find and we will have to address it sooner or later."
She had a clip board in her hand with the information that the establishment had collected upon finding of the beast.
Her eyes cast away from the print to him and gave him a once over, starting at his feet and ending with his eyes. She now found the chance to smile at him, a light blush brightening her cheeks. She was not used to being the one to deliver things, more than retrieve them. She felt a bit awkward at the time.

Kain listened intently to Juniper, nodding so that she knew that he was paying attention. "Yes," he answered, "I am well aware of the presence of the daemon in Canada. What were our operatives doing in the coldest region of Canada, anyway?" If she was speaking of the Yukon, Kain could imagine no reason that they would have been there-- the Yukon was almost completely barren.

"Obviously it's important that we get our hands on it now. If we wait until more crop up, we'll be spreading our resources too thin." He turned his attention to the giant framed map that had been hung on one wall. He opened one of the drawers behind his desk and retrieved a laser pointer, which he used to highlight the area that interested him.

"I am willing to send in a unit to detain the daemon, but I need more, Juniper. Have you gathered any other intelligence on it? Have we exhausted all options of diplomacy and rapport?" Above all else, Kain would not kill or capture the creature unnecessarily-- that would do no one any good, and Kain would prefer an open relationship with the daemons. "Please, Juniper, tell me something I'd like to hear."

Juniper was hurredly flipping back and forth between the few sheets that were clipped in front of her.
"It says here that a citizen from Canada was the one to find it. She immediately alerted the police and their information was sent directly to us...The" She looked at a different piece of paper and her eyes focused on the small blue print. "Iorek in question is now being held captive in a cage in one of their highest guarded facilities.
He doesn't seem to be violent, and has been willing since they contained him, even allowing to be chained and dragged to his cell. This also says he is very polite, but sir, you never know with these creatures. They could snap at any given second." She snapped her fingers to display what she was talking about.
"It also notifies that once Iorek was seized and "awakened", if you will, a mental connection began with he and his holder. Now she is named...Katherine Greer...A griffon."