Drake flinched out of his flashback. He was still delaying the requesting kiss Bianca was craving for. He nodded his head and denied the kiss. Shrugging her hands of allowing her to fall back to the bed. She raised an eyebrow.
'What wrong with him?', She thought as she got up with him. "C'mon ..you didn't just deny me."
"Sorry about that.. I just remembered my uncle arranged a dinner with me and the girl he introduced to my parents years ago."
"Oh.", She exclaimed dolefully. "Doesn't still give you the right to deny my kiss though but what are you going to do about the dinner then if you don't accept the proposal your parents are offering you... come to think of it.. why are they in so much hurry to engage you and her?"
Drake raised his head from where he sat on the bed's edge. He looked to his side with no intention to look back at Bianca who was busy hugging the pillow, pressing it against her chest. "Yeah.. I never thought of it. And neither do I really care. This is the supernatural world ...and in the supernatural world everyone needs to be in alliance with the strongest, fastest, most durable , fittest and so on to stay unrivalled and undefeated..."
"...Oh, so she's a hybrid. Never mind then.", Bianca lowered her head. Her sad tone triggered him. He got up in haste and turned to her. "...Relax.. she might come from one of the strongest races there is but believe me when I say they aren't on the original's level." He teased.
Bianca looked up to him from where she sat. She frowned immediately he showed pride of being the original.
"Okay , okay... I will handle it. I just need some time."
"The dinner is tonight...isn't it?"
"Yeah... anything can happen I mean. I have somethings up my sleeve."
The door to their room came open. A tall fair slender lady in a pink singlet and blue jeans with a a pair of yellow slippers walked in. She had an Ebony hair with matching steel blue eyeballs.
"Selene..."
"Oh.. am i--."
"No no.. you aren't interrupting anything. Was about to go pay uncle a visit before tonight.", He adjusted his sleeves preparing to leave. "What's up?"
"We have to talk.. like now. I hope you don't mind."
"No I don't what the news?"
"...Well. Some tourist have been found massacred , their bodies were hell out of place.. and believe me when I say it a high profile murder case."
"Any suspects?"
"Wish.. but there isn't... the cops don't have the right tool ---"
"But they got you...", He gestured pointing at her before folding his hands. "Their very own forensic scientist who literally has the right mind and tools for the job so what you got."
"Might sound awkward but from what I found...", Taking her tab out her bad , handing it over to Drake who examines the file and footages on it. "The claw marks matches only one claw in the supernatural race and that hella the---"
"Feline Family... the same people Uncle Ryan is setting me up with tonight. Okay we need more information ....if we can gather more information....", Looking back at his worried Bianca. "We might just be able to call this arrangement of."
"I hope so..", Bianca manage to say.
"Do you need any help to make it more faster? I can aid you in it.", Drake offered but she declined.
"No...no... you are already busy enough not to even aid me. Go and see Uncle. I heard he was expecting you to come visit but you haven't. And Bianca could help. After all she's a better hunting force than I am.", she teased smiling at her.
Drake chuckled. "Nice try. Fine then she is gonna help you but remember. If anything comes up don't hesitate to call me."
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OLD BLAIR'S MANSION.
RESIDENCE OF RYAN BLAIR.
The mansion, former residence of the Blair family till they abandoned it and moved on. It was way too old and terrifying to leave it. Knowing it's mapped out of the world geographic areas. Like some hidden dimension clouded with dark skies. It a place where the blue sky is dark and bloody.
Like ritual domain of some sort. Drake on stepping into it felt his powers diminish before his very existence. He coursed the fact he was here. This was his uncle's domain and least one of the most dangerous places to be after everything. One little mistake and he could get killed by just the strings of the dimension.
He entered the old mansion after location it to the center of the domain. Rummaging for Ryan.
"Am right here nephew."
Drake held his grounds. Slowly turning his head back halfway. He turned the rest of his body to where Ryan was seated, on a throne made out of bones. Ryan frowned with his hands folded.
"We need to talk."
A devilish smiles grows on Ryan's face on hearing his nephews bargaining.
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CICADA WOODS.
The beauty of this woods knew no bounds, it always attracted tourist over the years and it was among the most beautiful places in the continents but with the new hybrid monsters on the loose, it was no more safe to visit cicadas woods anymore since the last death of the former tourist that were here.
Selene and Bianca were situated on the tree branches. Selene had concentrated all her energies on making their presence concealed from sight. Selene was busy planning on luring the killer out. Using some of the rings magics. She managed to infringe her desire and her imagination against reality, influencing it and warping it fabrics creating a bunch of tourist.
"Are they real??" Bianca asked. "They look so real am not even sure if I should be wondering they are illusions."
"They are illusions. Just that they look to real. Which is the only way to lure the killer out once again."
"Right."
The tourist wandered around taking pictures, commenting here and there on various places within cicadas woods. Despite being mere illusion, Selene programing on their reality was the perfect way to lure the serial killer out of it hiding spot once more to come out and clean it domain of intruders.
Abruptly,
"You tourist don't seem to listen what I say!.", The female were tiger leapt down from the branches. Startling the tourist. "....Seems to me you all just want to die because I don't see why you would Kay your feet here after the rumors about tourist being killed for trespassing my territory.."
"If you ask me... ion think that how things work though. Claiming these whole landscape is kinda bullshit to me.", Selene's voice dropped in from behind. Appeared to be above ground level as the female tiger hybrid turns around to sights her and quickly looks down getting a hold of Bianca's entrance from afar. "..You shouldn't have murderer them."
"What is this! a set up!.", She barked. "...Your ambush is pretty disgusting. You could have taking me head on but you both seemed like you were in it to reveal your...selves.....", Protracting her razor sharp large claws. ".....Soon."
Selene dropped immediately and threw her hand forward releasing a bolt of esoteric energies right at the tiger hybrid but it she had even ran forward in time closer to the beam and ducked it. The beams collides with the trees with no effect.
Selene focuses on the violet rings donned on her are wrist. Her concentration results to a violet aura trying to overwhelm her but it's on a blinking stage. The tiger hybrid closed the distance between she and Selene who quickly stomped her feet. Deducting the distance between her and the hybrid before shooting her hands forward discharging a force that warps the hybrid into a far distance.
Crashing on the rough soil of the earth. She grinned with her fangs increasing their lengths. Roaring ferociously as she turned around , right on time to hold Bianca's fist, the hybrid slowly turned it neck towards her. Then, it proceeded to flinging her across the woods , breaking her body through the trees and making a stop at a Cliff's vertical surface and falls back to the earth axis. Coughing spontaneously.
Selene attacks from behind with the rings dazzling in her hands, violently shaking in her wrist. The hybrid threw it attention on her. Abruptly it took of , running on it four legged paws whereas Selene kept fading and forming her body here and there. She was trying to evade the hybrid by all means possible.
Abruptly completely vanishing without trace. The hybrid tiger didn't relent, it ears were on guard. It instincts were cloaking another level and her eyes were dead on sight for the Selene. Selene appeared elsewhere breathing inexplicably. Using to much of her own energies to constantly teleport was overwhelming. Lucky enough the hybrid tiger hadn't laid it claws on her just yet.
She kept observing the rings. Her supernatural instincts, her knowledge on the supernatural world was something she knew that was unparalleled. When Uncle Ryan gave her the rings. She was still young, very much 10years old but a little bit 2years younger. She knew nothing about the rings till Ryan offered to train her with it when she was turning fifteen.
She knew how hard it was to use the rings alined with the necklace she had on. The rings always took the form it user wanted. They could be small finger sized rings or rather wrist sized. Selene could barely keep up with the original mages Ryan had set up for her. But being an original, Ryan had some magic up his sleeves that were indeed more inferior than those of the rings.
She remembered the whole scenario like it was yesterday.
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