the injured wolf(open)

[James Adler]

James watched as the tensions between the two girls continued to escalate despite his and Night's best efforts. It was clear that something needed to be done, and something needed to be done now before things...

Alex screamed and tackled James on the way to her intended target causing him to slide backwards onto the ground. Then the tension building up in Alice finally reached its breaking point, and she spiraled out of control. It wasn't funny, James wasn't smiling, he wasn't amused, thoughtful, or even interested in the details present in the manifestation of her powers (at least for now). The Shadow Realm was upon them, and its denizens were all too pleased to reap the emotions of the living. This wasn't time for coddling and it wasn't time for games, James had had all the time he needed to prepare for such a catastrophic event, now it was only a matter of execution. Alice needed to see the truth of her actions, if he was going to have any chance of saving her life at all.

James stood and began to glow faintly utilizing the remaining light streaming into the room he slowly and calmly walked forward with a sense of superiority about him, as his eyes slowly began to glow. With each step he took he left a footprint of light, that seemed to infect all the shadows around them as if repulsed by their touch. Finally when James reached the center of the room standing between Alice and her victim, he spoke."Alice, I know your in there you need to listen to me. I have the ability to shine through the world and show you the truth of your actions" he said, stepping aside as a a large circle of light continued to grow beneath him.

" I show you the truth nothing more and nothing less..." he continued as he raised his arm toward the tortured girl, her blood curdling screams of pain just now seeming to come into focus."You think that these minions, these others, are here to exact your revenge, and feed off the pain of those who have wronged you, but these shadows do not feed off the pain of others, Indeed there is only one person's pain, discomfort, and misery they feed off of." he uttered as he waved his hand over the poor girls face."And that is you."

The girl's face was now revealed to be an exact replica of Alice's, and the expressions on her face showed a range of pain, anguish, and torment that Alice may not have known she was capable of displaying. As tears of anguish rolled down the poor girls face, the horrified shrieks continued to echo throughout the room as the unyielding torturers continued.

"The only one you are slowly torturing and killing is yourself, and I for one will not stand for it."

[Alexandra Kavi]

Alex yelp and move out of the way of the shawdows but only to have them latch onto her skin and start wraping around tightly the pain was over baring Alex screamed falling to the ground everywhere the showdows where felt like it was on fire and where the things had gotten to her sholders where she was already wonded form earlyer felt even worst.

A normal human body would have a hard time with this let alone an already week body form her two week trip alone in the wild with no food shelter and and a way to treat her shoulders tears where running down her face Alex tryied moving but that wasn’t working.

When the wolfs attacked the shadows that where on her the pain was still there but it had subsided a bit but Alex didn’t feel well she didn’t even hear what Night was saying to the two of them all she new was it was dark and alex already didn’t like the dark she was attacked by shadows and there where these large ...dogs around her.

then when what the other guy was pulling off she was verry confused at the momet and tired at the same time but Alex still managed to send a glare to Alice, Alice may of been down but she wasn’t going to give up with this little fight.

[alice]

Alice’s pitch black gaze was focused entirely on Alex as she started screaming, the blanket of darkness around her tightening and tightening. It was a horrible, slow way to be killed, and Alice did intend on killing her. She just didn’t expect the two men to suddenly jump in.

Her attention turned to Night first, just because he’d been the one to ‘save’ Alex. There was absolutely no recollection in her eyes. She, or whatever was in control, didn’t recognize this man as anything but a threat. She didn’t respond to her name, or anything he said to her. After several moments though, an almost mocking smile touched her lips. ”She doesn’t want to kill you yet, so don’t give us a reason to.”

Suddenly, the girl flinched, her gaze shooting towards the source the one thing that would never be welcome here. Everything he said, and did, was met by silence. She wasn’t phased, or really reacted. Who did he think he was? First getting in her way, and now trying to reason with her? She didn’t hesitate, she didn’t care that the wolves were trying to protect Alex. Shadows lashed out like snakes, teeth baring with the intent on ripping apart Alex and James.

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[Night Wolf]

Night Wolf didn't like the way the light coming from the man shined everywhere. That light might normally weaken and harm the shadows, but in this kind of condition they wouldn't be fazed too much from it. Night noticed that Alice wasn't acting like she had been before, and he was sure of what was going on after what she said. A being of the shadow plane was controlling her and using her to do what it wanted to do. The wolves quickly moved and destroyed the shadows she had sent after Alex and James, while one made a dead run for Alice. When it came to her, instead of going in to attack her, it instead jumped through her body. The wolf looked at her after it had passed through once, and jumped through her again like it had before. It didn't jump through her a third time, it only stood and looked at Alice as if waiting for something to happen.

Night kept his eyes on Alice as he said directed towards James, " Hey you, light bulb, get Alex and get her to someone who can help her now. I have this covered, but I'm not in a condition to be picking a girl up and carrying her to safety at the moment."

[James Adler]

James watched, clearly worried as he stared at Alice. The shadows she had sent after him evaporated the minute that they entered the circle surrounding him. James looked deep into her eyes a sad frown on her face. He of course realized that it was her powers controlling her, that almost went without saying, but the fact that she hadn't even flinched at his attempt to get through to her was rather worrisome. meant that her powers were far stronger then her own will, or conversely her own will was so confused and unfocused it was incapable of controlling her powers even slightly. It didn't bode well for her future.

Stuck in a trance staring silently at Alice, he barely noticed when Night spoke to him. Turning his head toward Nights gaze, the words slowly sunk in. Alex needed to get out of here, and she was in no shape to move on her own.

James didn't want to leave, He really didn't want to leave, but Night was right, and he really had no choice in the matter. It was a moral imperative. "I'll be right back..." he said as he turned a quickly picked up Alex increasing the glow around them as he went. He honestly wasn't sure where he was going to take her, as long as it was a safe distance away it would do well enough.

[alice]

Alice didn't seem all that upset about her attacks being dealt with so easily. She could always try again, after all. Feeling a shadow racing towards her, one she couldn't control, her gaze locked on the shadow wolf that was rushing her. She didn't even try to move to avoid it. The Shadows couldn't harm her after all, so why should she be worried?

The first time the strange creature jumped through her... Her whole body violently twitched, almost like the girl's whole system had been jump started. The results were the same for the second time the shadow wolf jumped through her.

Several moments of dead silence followed, the air in the room heavy. Finally though, completely in sync, her eyes slowly returned to normal, the darkness under her control fading. The Shadow wolf had actually managed to 'pull' the darkness from inside Alice, or at least enough that she could regain control.

The girl was bewildered, blinking as she... Well tried to figure out what had happened! It was rare for her to retain memories of what happened when she lost control, and now was no different. Still blinking, her puzzled expression shifted from the shadow wolves to Night, completely and totally lost.

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[Night Wolf]

Night Wolf gave Alice a friendly smile, or at least the best he could pull off in his condition, as the shadows of the room began to slowly fade away. The wolves went with the last of the shadows, their eyes on night as they left as if to say, ' this was interesting and fun, make sure next time is the same'. Night sat on the floor as he looked at Alice, he couldn't move from that spot at the moment so he was just glad he was sitting instead of being flat on his back. He saw Alice's puzzled expression and knew what had just happened. Alice's body and powers were being used by a powerful being of the shadow plane. He was glad his gambit had worked with having the wolves do their thing.

" You feeling calmer and more in control now? You lost it there for a moment." Night said to her in a friend, weak voice. " But don't worry, you didn't kill or seriously injure anyone. Also, I'm not going to say we can't play now since you hurt Alex. She shouldn't have rushed you like that, so it wasn't completely your fault this whole thing happened and since everything worked out, I thought you should get a free pass and still get to play with me later."