We are not alone. (open)

[skara]

He ground his teeth when he saw her greatest fear, he saw it all, the fear was so powerful he even got a name. Zane. To think a guy did that to her, it made his stomach churn and his blood boil... hmmm when would his blood boil in this for? It was hot enough to set most things on fire. But back to the main point, a man like that had no honour, no respect, all Skara got from the werewolf was all he needed to know about the man, for a man to hurt a woman so much... If his moods could effect the whether no doubt the sky would be black and only lit up by the constant lightning.

"I swear to you upon my sword and soul I shall not rest until his heart beats it's last." he vowed to her after getting on one knee and drawing the sword with the point over his heart, if she was human and knew what to do she would take the sword and offering it back. Swearing upon his sword was the greatest of oaths he could make, a knight of Arthur's court who forsake an oath upon his sword lost everything, his money, his titles, his lands. He would be no more important that a beggar on the streets.

"Eh... just touch it with your nose so I am not left here looking like a pillok will you?" he laughed and stood up sheathing his sword once more and he smiled at her. "I can make a forest your cage, every forest. It is a form of compelling spell, the moment the change becomes close it compells you to a forest and you cannot leave the forest until you change back." he informed her and ran his hands through her fur, "It will work on the wolf form to should you change on your way to the forest. It is how Arthur had packs controlled in his lands. It was the spell or death. But I won't kill you, you can say no but let me remind you there is game in the forest, you can hunt, be somewhat free and can become what you were meant to be again."

[taz]

His teeth ground and it hurt her ears, Lilith flattened them against her skull, she didn't like the feelings had had coming from Skara. It made her shiver, watching him get to one knee Lilith shuffled back to give him room.

She leaned forward and place her muzzle under the sword. In her human form she would have taken it and offered it back, but without hands the best she could do was put her nose on it. He laughed and stood as she lowered her head once more.

"I- I'm not sure it'll work."

When she felt his hands running through her fur she closed her eyes and allowed a purr like growl escape her. It was a comforting touch but brought bad memories with it. Glad she had her eyes closed she smiled and reminded herself it was Skara not Zane.

"You'd have to shatter a spell already in place. At the sound of a certain pair of dog whistles i will return the their origin and enter whatever cage awaits me. The Dean doesn't know about the spell."

Lilith looked away and sighed. I won't kill you she wished he would. The life of being a slave to Zane was no life at all. She wanted to die and that's why she was simply laying here.

Looking up once more she saw the stars shine. Looking into the forest she sighed once more and flopped rather ungracefully to her side, careful not to lay on Skara at all.

"Why don't you just go back to your room, I'm not going anywhere except a cage."

She failed the mention that the bars had silver cores. It was better than her normal cage, that one had the wolf's bane. In truth she preferred the schools cage. Her voice was almost inaudible. Nothing had even ventured near them since they got here. It was a little worrying and depressing for her, but she knew nothing stood a chance of killing either her or Skara when they were together.

[skara]

"Of course it will work. I learned from the best, what Merlin doesn't know about magic is either better off not being known or not worth knowing, have you seen The Sorceror's Apprentice with Cage? You know the magic circles that help the guy learn magic faster I guess you can say what I am going to do is like that. Exept it is to help dismantle spells." he explained to her after he stood up and sheathed the swords while trying his horrible demonic smile again.

He looked at her, watched her. Animals were easier to read than humans so he just watched and waited, "I am not goingg anywhere." he told her when she mentioned a cage. He ran his hand through his hair and kneeled beside her, his hand on her side so he can feel the beating of her heart, "No normal cage can keep you caged, your strong enough to break through most of them so the only cages that could keep you confined are bank vaults, silver cages and magic cages. I offer you a trade, a horrible one to a pleasent one. You have my word I will free you when your soul recovers from it's wounds. When you control the beast not it you." he told her standing up and taking a few steps back and speaking an old old word.

This word was a word for fire, hell fire. It would only go out when he comanded it, it would burn hotter and faster at his command as well. But he only had it burn low as he controlled it to burn the magic circle into the ground around them, it was complicated, circles within circles, shapes withing shapes, lines, squiggles and spirals. After the backbone of the circle was complete he started using the hell fire to burn in the words and symbols to complete the spell. "Shall we begin?" he asked holding his hands by his side, palm open after turning off the hell fire.

[taz]

Her ears twitched as she heard him speak, he sounded so sure that she held hope for a moment, but it was soon banished by a whispering deep within her mind. Multi-colored eyes watched him stand, his smile had her want to turn tail and run it reminded her too much of Zane.

When he looked at her she went to stand on instinct alone, when Zane looked at her like that she had to stand or deal with pain, but she stopped and he knelt next to her. His hand on her side made her wince but she couldn't pull away, she wouldn't.

Again his voice rang out and again it hurt her sensitive ear, but she remained still. That was until he stood again and she herself stood. That one word both called to Lilith and almost sent her running. She had heard that word to many times and had come to associate it with pain. It did cause pain and Lilith closed her eyes. Her mind saw the circle as if she were soaring above it.

Stepping up to Skara the huge wolf looked down at him and nodded. She didn't have the heart to tell him that this spell would break her even more. Watching him she hoped he wouldn't figure out that shattering Zane's spell would break her mind again. She didn't know how she would react though, she was worried and scared. Her fear shown by the trembling of her body and her ears being flat against her head.

"Make sure you can protect yourself after this. Please."

[skara]

Everything he did seemed to scare her or hurt her. It seemed he reminded her of whoever had hurt her so much, was this person a demon like he was then? Otherwise any random guy would cause this reaction to her wouldn't they? He frowned and shook his head when she winced from his touch, "Shhhh I won't hurt you." he whispered hoping to calm her down.

"Lillith please, I was casting magic and eating people long before you were a speck of dust in the eyes of creation. now stay still, and inside that large circle with all those slightly smaller ones in the middle please." he instructed and stepped outside the circle, using hellfire to make a tiny one for him to stand in that was linked to the bigger one. He then activated the smaller circle, wincing slightly as it drew a little power from is very soul to slowly activating the bigger one, starting with the circles the wolf stood in.

"Please would you try not to break out. If you want me to stop say so so it can put the spell back together before you do permanent damage to my soul. My soul is the barriers that will keep me safe if you will." he explained and held his hands out like he had a basketball in them. The demon then moved his hands about to inspect the spell.

[taz]

Skara frowned and it upset Lilith, when he whispered to her it made her smile. Huffing she spread her paws as if ready for a forceful attack and closed her eyes. When he used the hellfire again she winced as it burnt her mind again, she felt to blows she had recieved from the fire in the past.

"I'm not an idiot-"

Her words were almost a growl cut short at his words. She turned to face his and lowered her head. Stamping her paw on the ground the bracelet she gave him eariler grew warm and cold at the same time.

What she had just awoken the part ofherself within that bracelet. The part of her in it was the lighter side of her beast, in effect it was the lighter side of her soul. If her mins snapped like this and she tried to escape then hopefully the lighter part would help to protect Skara.

If her mind did snap then skara would feel her soul asking to protect him, and hopefully he would beable to tell the difference.

"If you must put your soul on the line then at least Rose out of her cage when or if she asks."

[skara]

"Your smile right now is almost as horrific as mine. But then you are just a big puppy dog aren't you you cute ittle bittle thing you." he teased her scratching under her chin with a laugh as he smiled right back at her, "Never said you were an idiot, no wolf is... just a tad... impulsive shall we say?"

"Rose?" he asked confused, scratching an itch on his leg. His hand brushed the bracelet and he felt his sword vibrate, his sword reacted to it? He hadn't felt it before probably due to the 'dying' part now his sword had only vibrated a few times before, to items like itself... a partitioned soul. His eyes flicked up to Lilith and he frowned sadly, "Your name is Rose?" he asked quietly, knowing the wolf would hear him, he then laughed bitterly as anger flashed in his eyes, "Of course it is."

It made him all the more determined to dismantle the spell and work in the new one, but because she seemed to be more 'impulsive' that others he decided to add in a precaution into the compulsion he would put on her. The demon then nodded at the wolf and activated the magic circles. each of the barriers around Lilith as like a bubble, bigger than the last and the bubble matched his aura, his soul, it was silver with black and red tints here and there.

In his hands about the size of a football (a proper football, not the american pussy rugby ball) was a multicoloured glowing ball. It shifted through the spectrum, probably due to how it was connected to her and any other spells constructed into it. Skara then started to pluck what looked like threads from the ball, those were the easiest parts, it was like having one of those 3D jigsaws of the earth or the moon and trying to take it apart either piece by piece or chunk by chunk then having another one under it, like those russian doll things? Were they russian? bugger, distraction thoughts, stupid demon.

With the 'threads' gone he could work on the main body of the spell, it was slow going but he started to move tiny parts of the spell away form the core bit by bit until the first sphere was undone. If you were perceptive enough you would see that the bits that made up the spell were all placed to be able to snap back together in an instant, looking up at how the wolf was doing he closed his head against the pain. It was hard work this, demaned complete concentration, one wrong move would do so much damage to Lilith, hell he was sweating so much he was starting to steam as his hot body evaporated the water almost instantly, by the end of this you could scrape enough salt off his body for your food.

"Ready for part two? It may hurt, it is what is holding the spell to you and I have to break those connections." he asked her as a shudder ran thorugh his body.

[taz]

Growling playfully at his words Lilith raised her head slightly when he scratched under her chin and laughed. She knew that as a true werewolf she should has snapped and sank her teeth into his arm. She should have tried to rip his body to pieces.

At the mention of her original name Lilith raised her head suddenly, she had mentioned it first but she hadn't heard the name directed at her in years. Seeing him scratch his leg and his hand brush the bracelet made her body shudder. When he figured out what the name meant she lowered her head.

"Was."

Adjusting her stance once more Lilith watched Skara, he nodded and she sighed she eyes took in every detail, from the world beyond her new cage to the barriers that formed her cage at this moment in time.

In his hands was a football sized was a glowing ball of 'stuff'. It hurt her eyes because the mix of her wolven sight and human meant that she saw some of the colours but her mind would mix them up occasionally, it gave her a pounding headache but nothing more.

He plucked strands from it and Lilith watched. He looked at her and she lowered her gaze avoiding eye contact, she didn't want to distract him. The salty smell reminded her of the ocean. Upon hearing his words Lilith nodded briefly.

"Do it."

[skara]

"Was, is, will be. Time is unknown and ever changing, what once was may come again and what may happen could already have happened." he whispered softly, quietly enough that even the massive wolf may not have heard him, he was pissed off majorly at whoever had hurt her, whoever had wrapped this spell so tightly to her it was so close to becoming a part of her.

It had taken a lot out of him to break the first shell, was a bit like the game operation, except the buzz of touching the sides could scar her mind or soul or who knows what. That was the hard part, in theory... probably. He has never done this spell before so its a bit touch and go... maybe he should have mentioned that before, too late now anyway. Now also in theory he could break the rest of the spell with brute force, throw a sledge hammer at it or chip away like an archaeologist?

Still he had no weak point to try any with, this spell was woven so tightly and expertly and carefully to leave no weakspots, no way he could wedge some magic in and slowly peel it away... crap this was going to be hard. He would have to keep hitting it with all he had to force a crack then work on that... unless... that could work, infact that could work very well. He pulled the braclet from his pocket and held it out to the magical representation of the compulsion on her.

It was like trying to put the same poles of a magnet together, they were repulsing each other... or rather the bracelet was fighting to get away? But the closer it got cracks started to appear, he held it near it for only a few moments before pocketing it again and looking up in worry at Lilith, "You ok kido?"

[taz]

She saw his lips move but didn't hear the words, she could have read his lips but that required her to work past the pounding headache. She could feel his anger but had no idea who or what it was directed at. She regretted showing herself and staying with him, this spell was almost a part of her soul and she knew that even Zane would have had a hard time undoing it.

He had broken a layer and that had caused Skara pain, she only liked causing pain when the other person wasn't willing. Skara was doing this to help her.

Why?

He took her bracelet from his pocket, it was leather with wolf fangs, a few strands of her hair and a mix of black and white fur, more black than the white. Skara held it out to the magical ball and Lilith shuddered. Closing her eyes she whimpered with the pain. The closer he forced it the more pain it caused. The ball he held if he looks careful the cracks would resemble claw marks.

"Don't stop. Please Skara... don't stop no matter what."

Lilith knew Zane would have felt the crack in his spell and he would try to stop Skara from freeing Lilith from the compulsive spell. Lilith hoped that Zane could reach her mind, she didn't want Zane to break Skara's mind.

[skara]

"Keep those things to the bedroom little wolf." he teased we with a wink as he walked out of his circle, leaving the spell intacted while he cut a branch off the tree, it would grow back better than before, he didn't just hack it off but cut it in the way gardeners and folk do to promote growth or whatever it is, pruning it is called isn't it? But it wouldn't be so effective cause the tree is relatively old.

"I am going to switch them around at alomst the same time." he said walking through the barriers towards Lilith, he drew his sword and let the point pierce the final bubble, he needed her blood for this spell and he told her so with a smile, "Just don't go making it so you don't have 100% full mobility. I just need a drop."

He waited for her to decide whether to do it or not, blood was dangerous, it could be used to bind any number of spells to her, focus a large storm to shoot lightning at only her, curses, control spells, anything. She would need to trust him to do the spell right, trust him to not make her a cage but make this forest her haven - ok it was technically a cage but she would have the illusion of freedom - and it wouldn't hurt her either if she tried to leave while in wolf form, just turn her around and confuse her so she will always be in the forest.

It was then he felt a faint presence, a third one, like another mind, brushing across the forest like it was looking for something, "Ummm, we should hurry this along don't you think. I'd assume that would be him? Not to worry, you are save in there, well as long as I'm alive." he assured her and walked back to the smaller circle.

[taz]

Lilith was confused by his words, had he tapped into her deeper thoughts? Well that would be a little awkward. Watching him walk from his circle and cut the branch from the tree she raised her head slightly like a dog that had just been called. He was getting good at confusing her lately.

He walked through the barriers toward her and the point of his sword pierced the final bubble, he told her that he would need her blood. She knew what could be done with someone's blood and was reluctant to give it, but she raised her right paw and bit down lightly. Feeling her fangs pierce the skin she pulled her head away and held her paw up so he could take the blood. He would be lucky to get a small vial full but he would get the drop needed.

She trusted him enough to give him her blood by choice. She hoped that Zane would leave Skara alone for a few more minutes, she knew he wouldn't and didn't want to see Skara hurt by Zane. She felt his presence and shivered.

"It's Zane."

Lilith watched Skara move back to his own circle and put her paw firmly on the ground. If Zane managed to come here in person she really didn't want Skara to be in the middle of casting this spell, so she would do whatever Skara told her to without question... if she thought it was needed for the spell.

[skara]

He winced when she bit into her paw and he shook his head, "I said a drop, not like I'm taking enough for a blood test woman." he muttered and grinned at her before as he wiped the blood from the sword onto the stick before confidently striding back to his own little magic circle, quickly etching a symbol into the stick. The half demon tore a a chunck of material from his shirt and cleaned Lilith's blood off the blade, "So did this 'Zane' character name you after my grandmother for a laugh? Well I am assuming we are related, nobody knows much about the first wife of Adam." he asker her as he incinerated the rag with her blood on it.

Without saying anything he cut the stick to a point, sharp enough to be a spear then thrust it through his hand. It bound the spell to him so he could dismiss it with a few words and someone else would have to do a complex spell like the one he is doing, blood magic is such a fine thing to be shunned so much. "Here we go, good luck would go a long way." he muttered and began to chant in Scots Gaelic as the presence grew, his accent was so think and the language so unknown most people would think he is just muttering gibberish.

Everything seemed to go completely silent as he finished the spell, he figured she would prefer all the pain at once rather than him taking forever to take the spell apart so after he had finished the spell for his compulsion he jammed it deep into the cracks of Zane's spell, using that magic to fuel this one.

Slowly but surely the sphere started to shrink and the branch with it each growing brighter until all that was left was a tiny seed. That tiny seed would be launched into the air and find somewhere in the school forest to grow, that seed with the bood of Lilith would bind her to the forest in her wolf form. Skara was saved from sending it into the air himself by the force of a telepathic attack launching him into the air, it was like being hit by a car, and Skara had been hit by one after first waking up in this time. It had hurt as a human but in his demon for it just winded him, in fact hitting the tree did more damage to him.

[taz]

Lilith saw him wince and wanted to laugh, there was no other way for her to draw her own blood, although her blood would have flowed freely down her arm in her human form with this much damage done, in this form the fur slowed the blood.

Putting her paw back on the ground sent a small wave of pain up her leg as her body adjusted to the change in pressure to her wound. Hearing his words Lilith opened her eyes suddenly, instantly her eyes went to the fire used to incinerate the rag.

How would she answer that question? Zane was a powerful demon and although Lilith didn't really believe it, he claimed to be one of the kings. She couldn't answer Skara honestly because she was after all only a pet to Zane. Hearing him mutter Lilith looked to him again.

"Good luck"

Her words were muttered and she tried her best to keep her attention on Skara's words, her eyes closed to avoid accidental eye contact with him. The silence almost hurt when he finished the spell. When he forced his own spell in place of Zane's she collapsed growling in pain.

Hearing the impact of something fleshy against something solid Lilith opened her eyes and for those milliseconds it took for her eyes to adjust she saw Zane's figure. Snarling and trying to push herself to her feet and falling Lilith looked to Skara.

"S-Skara?"

[skara]

"Thanks." he said before starting the spell. He was quite proud of doing this all on his own, that all the teaching and his own research and studying was finally paying of, perhaps if his demon blood gave him such reseviours of magic and he used it with these spells then that doesn't make it inherintly evil does it?... Doesn't make him inherintly evil...

Then he got punted through the air like a ball, whoever did that was good, to find them so fast and try and take him out before the spell was finished, very nice. "But you weren't fast enough were you? No doubt you found us from me being lazy and taking over the compulsion but you were still not fast enough. Heh, you suck, my mother could whip your arse and shes been dead for 1500 years and was human." he teased as he stood up, letting a doorway in the barriers around Lilith to open, he was hoping to taunt this 'Zane' into focusing and have Lilith run away.