Large facility in the middle of the desert

Stelian smiled as the young demon left returning his attention the Deidre. "I mean no disrespect, but the tale of how I came to be is a sad one best left for another time. While I wish that we could indulge you with warmer welcomes but I believe that the others are on their way. Something is happening in the outside world and I don't think we will be spared from it. You are welcome to join Magiere and I at the bar while we wait for the others." He motions to the table they had left to welcome her. He tilts his head to hear the wounds of the facility better. "Though I believe that they will be arriving shortly." He looks at Magiere trying to see what she thinks of their new friend. 'I do hope Magiere won't attempt to kill her. Having another vampire here will make this stay much more enjoyable.'

As Deidre bent down and held her hand out to Ayla she simply stood there looking at it, she didn't respond, Magiere shot her a dirty look and Ayla quickly knew that she was to be friendly with their new companion. She licked the vampires fingers and allowed her to pet her. Magiere listened to Stelian invite Deidre to sit with them, "Yes please do join us, I hear the others on their way then we can finally get some answers. She smiled, "It would seem Ayla is warming up to you quickly, she doesn't typically like Vampires, but that's a story for another time." she said leading the way back to their table.

Firvin blushed as Riley told him she loved him, she then gave him the single most passionate kiss Firvin had ever received, not that he had received many. He was silent as she spoke after their kiss. "I love you too Riley. And there will plenty of time to spend our lives together after the war, for now we must be strong for the others. WE will go tell them what is happening together." He said as he grabbed her hand and the walked with her to the lobby. As they walked he spoke calmly "I must confess, if this place remains the prison that it is, after the war, I can't stay here. I need to be near the forest, it's who I am. I love you and want to be with you, but I cannot live locked up when I have committed no crime." He sighed "This could be a wonderful place for people like us to escape persecution, but it needs to be a freely chosen home, a place where we can come and go at our liesure, together we can make this a paradise for all those humans see as different, it can be wonderful, but only if we remove those terrible walls locking us in." He smiled at her "You know, even with all that is going on you're beautiful, your beauty alone makes this place worth it for me." he said to her as they arrived in the lobby.

"Thank you, maybe while we wait one of you could give a short version of one of these long stories everyone seems to have." Deidre smiled warmly, petting Ayla one more time before standing. "She's a lovely," she complimented, following the duo to their table. The lobby was quite impressive, with all it had to offer certainly thing's that Deidre hadn't gotten to enjoy in many years. Even with what was happening outside this place, it seemed to maintain a form of calming energy.

Stelian sat back at the table with Magiere and Deidre. "Short version of my story. I was an experiment by the vampire council. I was to be the first of many Daywalkers, but I escaped with all of their information and the last of the venom used to make Daywalkers after killing those responsible for having made it. That is how I came to be." He watched Deidre closely to see her reaction. 'Not many Vampires like kin killers... He resumed drinking his coffee waiting to hear how Magiere would condense her story and wondering what Deidre's was.

"Sure Kalin. Im starving anyways!" He exclaims and pats his flat stomach. He gets up out of the chair, and stands next to Kalin, towering over her. He followed in her step as she led te way to the lunch area.

Kalin walks to the lunchroom and gets a lunch. She sits at a table and motions for Shard to sit next to her. "C'mon, sit here!" She says. Kalin says, "So, what's your, like....... life story?"

Shard sits down next to Kalin. " Im comin." He said. " Well, before i came here i lived on a farm, with heaps of horses." He said remembering. "They were my only friends. No one liked me." He chuckled slightly, remembering his past. Shard didn't even have a chance to say goodbye to his horses or his dogs. He sighed. "WHtas your life story?" He asked wanting to stop thinking about his family and horses and dogs/

Magiere listened quietly as Stelian was so open about his past with Deidre. After he finished speaking Magiere reached down and pet Ayla. She then took a deep breath. "My mother fell in love with a vampire, but the asshole left when he found she was pregnant, leaving only this armor and this sword", she holds up her Falchion completely ignoring the saber. "Because I was only half human the pregnancy was tough on my mother, she died in childbirth and I was raised by her sister. Since I have been old enough I have been hunting, and training. Looking for my father so that I might take his life, as he took my mothers." Magiere paused for a minute staring off into space before continuing. "Then the good old government came along. Apparently even though the public doesn't like vampires, the government doesn't like people killing them either. And I guess it was an even bigger problem when the one killing them was half vampire herself. After finally catching up to me they sent me here." Magiere quickly realized that telling a vampire that she used to kill vampires for a living might have been a bad idea. She studied Deidre's face attempting to discern if she was offended or threatened by Magiere's comments. Finally Magiere decided it would be a good idea to explain herself, "Don't worry, even though I used to hunt vampire's for a living, I have ultimately decided that all I really crave is my father's death, so I don't feel the need to kill every vampire I run into anymore, and I certainly will not try to harm you." Magiere looked at Ayla who could tell that she was lying, Magiere gave her a look, a look she had only ever given Ayla once before, but the wolf knew exactly what it meant, "Don't give me away, even though we both hate vampires, these two might be able to help us." Although the exact meaning was a little different both times Ayla was able to get the message without Magiere needing to say anything in front of Stelian or Deidre.

Deidre looked from one to another, both have a habit of killing vampires. "I see well most vampires can act like monsters and just like animals if they go mad and try hurt everything living they need to be put down. I've done my fair share of putting such creatures out of their misery." She took her seat, keeping her posture straight. "Once you start to abuse the abilities given to you, it should be taken away." In a way Deidre felt almost ashamed for how most of her kind treated people, that's why she had always tried to keep to herself instead of living with a group of her own kind. "As for my story I was turned by a man who wanted to create an army of vampires, specifically a women army. The poor fool didn't know that trying to control an army of young vampire females is an impossible feat." she looked at both of them again her face sincere, "It looks like we have a group of rogue vampires, doesn't it?". Deidre hoped that they believed her story, since this had been the first time in years she had tried to make friends with people who were almost her own species. Knowing both had been hurt by full vampires made her extremely self-conscious of her actions, the last thing she wanted was to offend anyone.

Kalin smiled at Shard. "Okay. First, I was born in the underworld. They sent me up here to... hurt people. I didn't want to though. I was found and put in a foster home. Everyone was scared of me, and I could never find a permanent home. I found out about this place last week and I decided I would come." She starts spooning food in her mouth. "Are ya gonna eat?"

Edme walked into the facility, crying a little bit. Ivy, her pet dragon, fluttered over to her shoulder and comforted her by rubbing her face over her cheek. Edme smiled slightly at her companions desire to help her. Yazzie flew abover her, swooping around the facility's roof, before landing on Edme's head with a soft thud. Edme sighs and giggled at the same time. Unsure of what to do, Edme wandered over to a small velvet couch. She was going to sit down, but flutter squeaked as she almsot sat on her. Edme sighed, a smile on her face, and scooped Flutter in her arms, and made cooing noises. "Where's Zali?" Edme asked, suddenly remembering about her other dragon friend. Flutter shrugged, and Yazi chirped, cloising her eyes, tired from the arival. She heard Zali's part roar part chirp coming from beghind her. She turneed around and bent down, picking her up. "Better stay here." She said. Edme said to all of them. She studied the place. It was completely the oppisote of what she though it would be like. She thought it would be a prison, instead it was paradise.

Kalin sees the girl in the lobby. The girl has about 4 dragons. She looks like she was crying. Kalin runs past the girl. behind the couch, Kalin grabs a dragon. She examines the creature in her arms. Weird.

Zali chirped and struggled in the girls arms. "Rarrrppp!!" She squaked. "Hey, I'm Edme." she said to the girl. "Thats Zali." She said, pointing to the dragon, now relaxed in the girls arm. She made soft chirping noises, and snuggled her head against the girl. Edme smiled, then giggles.

"My name's Kalin. I think your dragon likes me! What are your dragons names?" Kalin asks "Oh, just so you know, I'm a demon but I can only fly like a chicken, start fires with my head and make people have headaches. I won't make anything of yours get on fire though, and I won't give you a headache unless you want it so you don't have to go to class or something."

Stelian watched their new friend closely as she told her story. He wasn't able to detect any dishonesty from her. As she finished he laughed. "Rouge Vampires? That sounds about like us. Eh Magiere?" He chuckled again and ordered another coffee. "I tell you the rest of the gang sure takes a long time to gather up. We just got another new arrival. Usually they come running to join the welcome wagon. So Magiere do you feel like sharing your story as well? We rogue vampires must stick together." He laughs again and begins sipping his coffee slowly waiting to see how she would react to his slight taunting.

Edme grinned frome ar to ear. "Ha, i hate head aches.!" She said. "Oh, and I'm a weredragon!" She said, flapping her arms pretending to have wings. "Ok sure! This is Yazzie." She pointed to the dragon on her shoulder. Yazzie lent over and sniffed Kalin's hand. Edme smiled. "This is Ivy." She gestured to the small dragon hiding behind her hair. "Come on." Edme said to the small dragon. Ivy shook her head. "She's shy." Edme added. "Thats Clairzali. Zali for short as you already know." She laughed as Zali xhirped in Kalins arms. "Oh and thats Flutter. She is so cute." She said to Kalin as FLutter flew above Kalins head, landing softly on her hair. "They are all pretty adorable." Edme went on. Yazzi huffed at her. "Ok, very adorable!" Edme said.

Kalin giggles. She runs her hand down the scales on Zali's back. "Where did you use to live? I want a dragon!" Kalin lifts a small lizard from her pocket. "Oh, also, I found him in the forest." She says, talking about the lizard. "I think I'll name him Ash." She laughed when the lizard crawls up her arm. "He likes me!" She puts the lizard in her shirt pocket, its head poking out. "Oh, your silly, Ash!"

"I used to live in Kazan. It a small town where dragons roam free! You are only aloud to have 2, or 1..i forgot, but i have 4, so i was considered a full on criminal. I have no idea why it was so bad! So thats why i sorta wanted to come here, but sort of not, becasue I missed my family." She said, taking a deep breath. "WHEW! i almost suffiocated!' She laughed. "What about you? Where did you live?" She asked,

"I used to live in... the underworld. We were allowed to have hell hounds, but they always creeped me out. I stuck to lizards instead. Scales always attracted me, I don't know why." Kalin looks at the lizard. She closes her eyes and whispers something. The lizard sprouts small wings. "Ha! I created homemade dragons! Those words were spell code for lizard and wings! Lizard wings!" Kalin drops the winged lizard and it flits in the air and starts playing with Edme's dragons.

Riley nodded thoughtfully, 'Yes and I will follow you, unlike my 'little sister' Sierra I do not live forever. it is a possibility I will be killed in this war. But if not I will follow you anywhere.' She faces Firvin and looks into his eyes as she admits it. she felt a pull that none else had been able to induce, this wasn't just love Firvin was her soul mate. Something she didn't think could happen to her just had, and some how it felt just right.

"Really?" Edme asked. "The underworld? Was it scary?" She asked. Kalin looked at the lizazard, and it grew wings! "wow!" Edme gasped, looking at the flying lizard. Zazi got out Kalins arms, and started flying after it playfully. Edme laughed, and Ivy shrank back on Edme's shoulder.

"Yeah, the underworld was pretty creepy. It was all fiery and stuff. My dad, Hades, sent me up here to do bad things. I didn't want to and I found out about this place a couple months ago and two weeks before now, I finally arrived!" Kalin looks at her winged lizard playing with Zali. "So, how old are you? I'm like 85, or something, my kind of demon is immortal and I don't really even count anymore.

"Oh. your 85? You don't look that!" She laughed. "Oh im 14, turning 15 on...." She paused, and Ivy whispered in her ear. "I will be 15 in 2 days." She laughes. Flutter, still on the chair, lifted her head, and lbinked with sleepy eyes. Then turned around in circles, before lieing down and warping her tail around her paws. Yazzie was now frustrated with a farn on the ceiling. She was trying to make it stop spinning, and it wouldnt, so she pounced on it and it broke off. Yazzie squealed, and hid behind Edme and Kalin

"Oh my gosh! Yazzie just broke the fan from the ceiling!" Kalin's dragon-lizard flitters around where the fan was. "Yeah, I look about 14. I'm only 5 feet tall." She looks at the fan on the ground. "So, what are you gonna do about.... all that? I could help fix it if you want, I don't even need a ladder, I could probably fly up to the ceiling and stay there for a little."

Edme laughed. "Yeah, I should fix it. It's ok, you don't have to." She said. Yazzie sat on her hind legs, next to Kalin. She chirped, as if to say sorry. Edme bent down and picked the fan up. "Do you happen to have any glue?" She asked, while laughing.