The Meeting

[Sinbad]

So, the slumbering man was a time traveler. "So what's the point of being here? The whole reason we came here was to make it clear that my pack was not involved."

He could feel the Moon rising and had to make it clear that if something was going to happen, it needed to happen right now or the werewolves would have to leave the meeting.
"Can we speed this up a bit?" He snapped as the whites of his eyes were beginning to gain a pink tint. He shut them for a moment. The Moon's pull was strong and if he was having a hard time holding this form, he could only imagine how this was affecting the other two. He took a hasty breath and swallowed, forcing himself to sit still and not give into the change.

Sinbad sucked in a breath through clenched teeth. "Just what are you implying?" He tried for calm, he really did, but knew his tone was one step away from angry. Did this bloodsucker want his head ripped off by an angry werewolf? Apparently so.
He folded his arms atop the table and glared, but made no move to attack. He had more self control that that. Or, so he hoped.

[Rex]

Rex had to admit that he was siding with the werewolves and fairies on this one. He didn't want a fight but it seems like the vampires were in fact jumping into a war right away. Same with demons. "It would get done faster if they just admit that they had everything to do with it." he muttered.

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Riven just shrugged his shoulders at Musa. "I can't help it if my visions happen in ways i don't want them to," he replied. "I can't control them." his eyes flashed for a moment at the other members of the meeting. He had seen them in some of his visions. Not dying or anything but if they wanted information about the war then maybe he could use it to his advantage.

[Ion]

Ion's wings twitched uncomfortably as he listened to each side speak. Some sounded like they wanted to start fighting right then and there. Others wanted to bide their time. He just wanted someone to admit what had happened so they could go home without shedding blood. Of course, it didn't look like things were going to go over smoothly. Riven had said so. An oracle couldn't be wrong, could he? As Ion continued to mull it over, he fidgeted with his hands and stared down at the floor. Not the most professional of actions, but it made Ion feel just a tiny bit less awkward about the whole thing.

"If everyone would just stop blaming one another, maybe we could get some actual proof that someone did it at all." Ion said. Obviously, someone had to be responsible for killing the nymph. But from what Ion knew, it was becoming increasingly difficult to even pinpoint who might have been involved. There was evidence of other races being involved. That much was obvious. Ion, however, could firmly say that the angels hadn't had anything to do with it. Angels were peaceful. They had no reason to kill.

Then there were the witches and wizards. Gothel was adamantly standing by the statement that they hadn't been involved either, even if there was proof of scorch marks at the scene of the crime. Vampires could have easily done it as well... but Ion thought it was unlikely. Their kills were cleaner, weren't they? One bite to the neck and several pints of blood later, and their jobs were done. No... it seemed unlikely that it was the vampires.

Then who did it?

"Ugh... this is making my head hurt..."

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"This would be so much easier if someone would just step forward and confess." Gothel said. Sinbad's shift to anger hadn't gone unnoticed. She made a mental note to avoid making him angry if she could and shifted her attention to Ion for a beat. The poor boy looked as though he had reached the breaking point of trying to figure things out. Even without that, they weren't getting anywhere with proving that someone had done it. "I have to agree with him. The whole reason I came out here was to prove that my witches and wizards didn't do anything wrong." Gothel stated.

Even if Hiccup is a blundering idiot sometimes.

No, Gothel couldn't say that much out loud. Even if the redhead did irritate her, she couldn't put him on the metaphorical chopping block so lightly. He wasn't even there to defend himself. Besides that, she didn't believe Hiccup would have done anything as stupid as killing someone without reason.

[Proteus]

Proteus glanced at Ion, concern filled his eyes but he didn't stray from it. He didn't like the idea of having this lead to violence. He turned, hearing Gothel's statement and nodded. "I would like to point out that we Angels had nothing to do with this at all. We aren't killing creatures."

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Chase snorted. "Oh here we go." he said. "You think just because you are Heavenly creatures you aren't capable of killing someone?" the boy raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms. "I find that very hard to believe. Do you honestly think that there hasn't been a time when an Angel hasn't chosen something other than the "right" path?" the demon pushed his hair back. "Everything and everyone has a dark side, even Angels."


The prince turned back to Eris before smirking. "I have no doubt that your people were capable of doing this."
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Proteus' fist clenched, he had never once wanted to punch or harm anyone in that room but now the sudden urge to do so to the young demon boy was rising. How dare he start accusing his people of doing something. He didn't speak anymore but the calm and serene person that had once stood there was now full of anger and displeasure.

[heatblast1996]

Sokka clenched his fists, trying hard not to leap across the table and tear someone's throat out. It was close to a full moon tonight and already, the changes were starting to show.
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Thrax sat down in one of the chairs and glanced at all the occupants. He knew that this was just politics. That meant he had to call their bluff for as long as possible, which was hopefully forever.
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Garrett let his shadow foam free, trying to find someone who actually knew what was going on. He scowled as he realized that the demons had very strong mental blocks.

[Azula]

The vampire princess made a dissappointed 'tsk tsk' sound as she glanced at the wolves. "This si a meeting of peace and you can hardly keep yourselves from killing everything. Is it really a wonder why you're a suspect?" She said with a roll of her eyes. "Light is right, the fact of the matter is that while we could work together to prevent this, you won't. Most of you are too proud to work with a demon even if it meant preventing a war. She wasn't exempt from this. She'd plunge a stake into her own heart before working with a slayer no matter what the cause.
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The fairy princess was still upset, but she put on a good face. She turned to the demon hunter and shook her head. "You should know better than anyone that they won't admit to it." She said. "They want to pit us against eachother with this whole thing, they'll die before they give that chance up." Her mind was set. The demons wouldn't give in, and on the off chance that it wasn't them, nobody else would come forward.

"All we can do is hope for the best, and when the time comes, the demons will get what's coming to them, if it's the last thing I do."

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"Gothel's right." Marina said firmly. "Whatever happens, we witches didn't do anything." The mere thought of it was enough to make her laugh. "But it's beginning to be clear who did do it." She said, glaring the the demons. "So they should just own up to it."

Her dark blue eyes shifted to Sinbad and his wolves, they seemed ot be having a hard time keeping it together. If anything that would only turn more suspision to them, she hoped they could hold out a while longer.

[Xia]

"Enough!" Xia shouted standing up, "you all need to stop blaiming each other! As muc as id love to pin this on th demons they can't lie. If they say they didn't do it then they didn't. Why do you all need to fight with each other?"
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"I agree," eris said with a smirk, "we cantlie so why blaime us. Its just so sad. There's nothing to gain by blaiming deons for your problems."

[Light]

"I was not implying anything....Sinbad..right? I was just merely stating that you did not choose to become a werewolf, and you could not prevent it...am I correct?" Light asked, his red eyes looking across to Azula as she spoke, nodding his head again.

"It is not exactly helping with the whole 'I did not do it' scenario, I mean, for all we know, the demons may have done it...We should write a list, of all the evidence found at the scene..and whichever race has least evidence pointed towards them..should be the biggest suspects." Light said, smiling slightly as he remembered the cases he worked on with his father.

[Sinbad]

Great, now the fairy princess was all but declaring war on the demons. And they claim to want peace.

"We haven't killed anyone. That's the reason we're here." He said forcefully. "We don't work with other species that well to begin with, what makes you think we'll work with demons?"

Sinbad felt Marina's gaze land on him for a moment. He glanced over to her. With the energy flowing through his body, it made it hard to pick up on what exactly she was trying to tell him with that look.

He listened to the vampire, Light. "Yeah. It wasn't."
"Wait, what? Look, we didn't have any reason to do it. The witches didn't either. The angels wouldn't hurt a fly and the hunters are too busy hunting down the rest of us to bother with a nymph." He paused. "That leaves the vampires, which princess over here," He jutted a thumb over at Azula. "says her clan didn't do it. And as much as I'd LOVE to toss the blame on her, vampires do have laws."
He focused on Eris and the demons with a hard, determined glare. "That just leaves you guys."

He could feel his ribcage changing and squeezed his eyes shut, forcing it back into it's human shape. It went back with a loud CRACK! They couldn't stay much longer. Sokka looked ready to kill and Sinbad was worried that if push came to shove, he wouldn't be able to remind both him and Taiga that they had to uphold their laws, regardless of the Moon's phase.

"Look, I hate to cut this meeting short, but the Moon's rising and unless you want a bodycount, we've got to leave NOW."

(OOC: Feel free to try and stop them if you want the action to start!)

[Chase Young]

"Yeah really good job, informing us that you can't lie in the middle of the meeting. That could have been really important to know you know before the meeting actually started." Rex muttered sarcastically. "Normally that's what people do." he felt a tense movement for a moment in his own arms. The angel leader was looking pissed, the werewolves looked pissed.

It was not a good day.

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Proteus glared at the demons again, before looking at Sinbad. "Sinbad, you and your pack do have permission to leave. I don't think we want to start bloodshed right now." he sighed rubbing his temples.

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"That' right, we'll leave the demon hunters to do that to our kind." Chase smirked. "After all, killing people is what they do best, i wouldn't be surrpised if they thought that nympth was a demon at all."

"SON OF A-" Rex could not take that speech anymore and lunged, ready to kill. Screw the meeting, he was going to kill that demon no matter what.

(ooc: like Sinbad, someone try to stop him)

[Taiga]

Taiga let out a sigh of relief when they were given permission to leave. Though at the sound of Chase accusing them yet again. She snapped, her body cracked as she shifted forms. Growling and snarling at Chase. She was going to kill something. It was hard to keep her mind on the fact that they weren't suppose to kill anyone.

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"Rex no!" Xia said, jumping out of her chair to run at Rex. This was just not their day. Sending a huge mental push at the boy she tried to keep him away from the demon long enough to get her arms around the boy's waist.

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Oh this is just too easy! Eris thought gleefully, "See? The demon hunter attacks us for no reason! True it was wrong for one of my followers to say such a thing. But it's true, look at the young one, unable to hold her form, ready to attack. They could have easily killed the nymph."

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Odette was getting tired of all this. Listening to the other vampire talk was like listening to Derek talk. Running a hand through her hair she shot a glare at him when she felt the need to. Slightly after that hell broke loose. The demon hunter lunged and the other one was trying to stop him.

"Princess," she said, "Let's just leave."

[heatblast996]

Thrax moved, quickly and efficiently. His foot was forced upward into Rex's face, hopefully throwing the boy off course. He regretted this deeply. The kid reminded the demon of himself. "Down boy!"

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Tulio watched the predicament in interest, hoping to glean some more information about this war. He sighed and relaxed in his chair. After all, no one would want to kill him. He was just an observer.

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Sokka cricked his neck. The bones of his body were starting to shift and he couldn't help the change. He could slow it down. "Can we go, now?"

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Garrett stood, his shadows rising up around him, forming a small wall between the rest of the groups and the wizards. He stood there, barely concentrating. He was the strongest student by far, had it not been for Gothel herself. He muttered in sarcasm. "I thought it was supposed to be a peace meeting."

[Proteus]

"ENOUGH!" Proteus had finally lost all his patience and stood up. His eyes narrowed in a dark glare at all of them. "I don't know what caused it or who is to blame but fighting like this is not going to solve anything." he turned to Ion before heading out. "I think we have had our time in this, if war is what the answer to our problem is then so be it."

The angel turned back to the other races. "As much as i hate to have blood shed over an innocent life nothing is going to stop this so very well. War is the answer." he turned back to the young Angel. "We're done here Ion."

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Rex glared back at Chase who had already started to walk off. "Fine, but know this demons, I won't let you harm any innocent people, even though no one else believes me i know you all had something to do with it."

Chase glanced back at the demon hunter. "Looking forward to it," he snickered

[Ion]

And then, like a dam bursting forth with a massive deluge of water, fighting erupted around them. Bright green eyes grew wide with horror. Ion had seen fighting before, as he had grown accustomed to Anise and Arietta fighting over him, but never before had he seen an actual fight like this. The young angel rose hastily to his feet and backed up, raising his wings and hands defensively as he tried to gain some idea of what was happening. "Stop it! Stop fighting! We aren't going to get anywhere if you're all just going to try and kill each other!"

Even with his raised tone, it appeared as though Ion had gone unnoticed. He could only watch as the fight broke out and grow disappointed that he couldn't do anything about it. If only his skills with magic had been better when he was alive...

Suddenly, Proteus' voice broke him out of his thoughts. He was saying they needed to leave. While the younger angel wanted to protest and try to find a way to stop the fight, he ended up nodding in agreement. There was nothing they could do about it. At length, Ion gave a little nod. "All right..." he said softly.

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Gothel was quick to leap to the defensive as well, glaring daggers at the fighting individuals and once more beginning to summon her own fire power in case the fighting got to her and the others on her side. So far it seemed focused mainly on Rex, the werewolves, and demons... but she couldn't be too careful. If things got out of hand and if she were to be injured... well, it was a good enough point for Gothel to want to keep herself defended.

"Is this really what it's come to? Fighting like animals simply because no one will step forward?!" Gothel demanded. It infuriated her. Why was no one willing to solve the problem peacefully?

[heatblast1996]

Sokka finally couldn't take it anymore. He fled from the room, the sounds of bones cracking and the faint aimge of a tail before he turned a corner and ran out of the house.

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Tulio sighed, then vanished in a flash of light.

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Thrax stayed his ground, waiting for his orders as did Garrett.

(Small post is small.....)