Sweet Dreams [Fang]

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Alisa was starving, there wasn't much she could afford now these days, not since she became homeless anyway. The townspeople were nice here, giving her food when the saw her, maybe it was because they knew if they didn't she was on the verge of dying. It really didn't matter to her, she gave her thanks and was on her way before they could ask her about any sort of family. She was sitting in the alley late at night when she saw a cat, it was slowly coming towards her. She stood up from the ground and smiled over at it, knowing all about Darkness but had gone two weeks before seeing it again. Though she wasn't aware they could look like animals, as this one currently did. "Hello..." She called over to the cat, of course she would want to pet it. She didn't have any friends and it was nice to see a stray every once in a while. As it got closer and closer she found herself growing impatient so she stood up to meet it half way, talk about close call.

[Dream Wolf]

Fang was in hiding of course, disguised in his red hair and brown contacts. But then he sensed one of the new darkness, the Animal ones. And it was mere feet from a girl. He was sided with Oscuro for the time being but he didn't want innocent people getting hurt. He stepped into the alley and sent the cat flying with a good kick.

"Let's go, you stupid twit! That's a Darkness!" He attempted to drag her away.

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She stood back when she saw him kick the cat flying in the air. "Wait what?" She asked but before she could get out of reach he had grabbed her arm and started dragging her. "I'm not a twit...." She complained trying to break free from him. "That was a cat you moron...." She corrected him, though he continued to drag her. If it wasn't for the fact she saw the cat following behind her she might have taken more action to breaking free from him. Though seeing as she didn't know him, thoughts did still cross her mind of wanting to get away. "Let me go...." She answered trying to struggle out from his grip, sure she would keep going that way but she wasn't about to let him be in the same area as her.

[Dream Wolf]

Fang turned at the darkness came towards them. Then the moonlight shone through the clouds and covered the cat in its shine. It revealed a half rotted corpse, bones sticking out, skin flaps hanging, and eyes of endless shadow.

"Run!" He shove her to the entrance of the alley and drew his sword as the darkness twisted and shaped itself into a giant flower made of rotted cat parts with a huge gaping mouth. He slashed but his weapon as only iron, and it had barely any effect on the Darkness. He stabbed it in the leg and turned to run, realizing the girl hadn't fled as told, he grabbed her and carried her away as he ran.

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Fang told her to run but she didn't listen to him. She just stared at the Darkness that no longer looked like a cat. It reminded her of the Darkness that had killed her siblings and her parents, but the image of her siblings came to mind. She grabbed her ears with her hands as if trying to cut out the screams she remembered from her past memory of her baby sister. She almost didn't notice him turn and grab her, she was still frozen in her thoughts. Though she had moved her hands away from her ears to look behind him, seeing the Darkness following them made her panic slightly, as if she wasn't shaking enough as is. When he ran into the building she felt somewhat safe, having slept in this place quite a few times. "Okay, you can put me down now...."

[Dream Wolf]

Fang set her down and looked at her. "Were you that scared?" He noticed the tears in her eyes and instinctively reached up and wiped them away.

"You should sit down, we are gonna be here a while, and its gonna get COLD. Those copy cat Darkness are all over the place, probably close to a dozen. These ones seem to be Razor class I think. Names Fang, you?"

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Alisa found him staring at her and she ignored his question. It wasn't until he whipped the tears from her eyes that she came to realize she had been crying. "I've seen that thing before.... just brought back memories." She found herself refusing to talk more on the subject. His advice of sitting down didn't go ignored because she had turned to find a corner and did just that. She liked corners, made her feel safe on the inside. He told her, that his name was Fang. "Alisa." She answered him back, glancing out the window she was looking at the Darkness. There were many down there, but she didn't have a death wish, so she moved back away from the window so that she was leaning against the wall only. "The cold doesn't bother me.... I'm sure it will be the same as other nights." She wrapped her arms around her legs, trying to get warm.

[Dream Wolf]

He realized she was homeless pretty quick. He pulled off his jacket and walked over to her. "Stand up for a minute."

When she didn't he pulled her to her feet and yanked his jacket onto her. "That should keep you warm. I know someone a lot like you, you have the same energy as her. Don't be stubborn with me because I make stubborn look easy to manipulate. We are spending the night together, its gonna drop to a record low tonight so guess what? we gotta find what blankets we can and huddle together for warmth. You aren't going to like being so close to a guy you just met but that's the only option really. That or start shivering in the open which will raise your external temperature which will let the Darkness know where we both are. Blankets will cover our heat and scent."

He stood and walked over to a closet with a busted door and found two fairly ok blankets, but that was it and both were more like fall or spring blankets than mid winter blankets. "So Alisa, my guess is if you are homeless, and have bad memories of Darkness, your family was killed by it. I wont go further. But just so you know I pride myself on my chivalry so if you want to cry then do it, I wont judge you for it."

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Alisa heard him giving orders but had ignored him, she felt him yank her to her feet. "Hey..." He put his jacket on her. She was in the process of sitting down when she heard his comment. She opted to not say anything but sat back down. He had walked over to a closet and found two blankets. He pulled them out and started talking to her as he made his way back towards her. She curled in a ball, tempted to take him up on that offer. "My family was killed by Darkness, but I didn't see my parents get killed by them. Nor my little brothers, just my sister." She covered her ears with her hands, trying to get that fateful scream out of her head. "I saw them dead on the ground though, I knew I was alone when I got saved but my little sister still died. I should have let them take us.... if we had been thrown into foster care my siblings would still be alive." She found herself crying again, her family was gone, she had no control over her parents deaths, but she did blame herself for her brothers and little sister being murdered.

[Dream Wolf]

Fang came over to her, pulled the blankets over them both. He pulled her close and buried her face in his shoulder. "I know some of that loss. I have a second personality, I'm actually the second one but the primary is in a deep state of despair. He accidently killed the one he loved most. I eel his pain as my own. But you should know, its not your fault. I can sense the guilt in you. Its not your fault. But let it out. Cry away." He held her close, he used his absorb to pull away the bad emotions as best he could. It was hard, but he held out. The side effect would be that she would et very tired, but no more so than if she spent the night crying.

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Alisa felt him cover her with a blanket, she found herself crying in his shoulder. "Your wrong.... it is my fault." She corrected him, clearly not in the mood to be told anything different. She could feel something absorbing from her. Was it bad emotions? She noticed they were leaving her, at the time she wasn't sure why it was, but she would come to realize later. She felt tired, all she wanted to do was go to sleep, it was strange being by him though. At least now she had managed to stop crying, though she refused to move, finding herself leaning against him just as comforting as laying on the hard ground. Normally she was alone, it was also cold when she would be alone sleeping. He was warm, so she found herself to lazy to move away.

[Dream Wolf]

"Not your fault." He said it in a firm way, one that allowed no argument. He felt her drift off, but he stayed awake the whole night, making sure the Darkness didn't find them.

The next morning he woke her gently. "The Darkness are gone, we are leaving. I have better stuff at my little hidey hole, and food. Your stomach was moaning all night, and I can tell by the feel of you that you are underfed."

He didn't wait for her to stand on her own he simply picked her up and carried her out.

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Alisa wasn't going to let him win that argument but she was to tired to continue it. He woke her up in the morning, claiming the Darkness was gone and that they needed to move. He mentioned how her stomach made noise and she just sighed. He picked her up and started down the stairs. She found herself drifting in and out of sleep, blame it on the fake that she hadn't slept as well as one could have, but she wasn't in a bed, what did anybody expect. Though with how he was holding her she almost thought she was going to slip, so she placed her hands on his shoulders as if to shift herself, but her hand slipped and she found herself hugging him slightly, but her hand touched the back of his neck and she felt the over powering feeling of emotions, hers going to him, his coming into hers. Her eyes closed as she was trying to sort them all out, of course she had let go, making it easier for him to possibly drop her.

The few seconds she had been touching his neck, she had gained some emotions, blame it on the fact that she had absorbed it. She found herself panicking, these emotions, they weren't all hers. Some of them were his, some she believed were deep dark emotions that had meant to stay locked away. Though her power of feeling emotions was not limited to contact, it just seemed to allow her the extra boast needed for her powers to awaken. The last one had yet to be seen, unless he had dropped her in which case she would have fallen through the floor screaming.

[Dream Wolf]

Fang was surprised when she hugged, but was more surprised to feel her energy snap and feel his emotions being pulled out, and hers flooding in. It wasn't hard for him to recognize what had just happened, he had Absorb so he was used to feeling other emotions. Just not on this level. He did not drop her nor did he even miss a step.

"Well, it seems you have awakened to some form of telepathy or empathy." He kept walking but shifted the way he carried her from princess to forward piggy back, for better grip. people stared but he smiled and nodded and they shrugged as he flashed his Chaser badge with one hand. They all assumed he was either rescuing someone, or that his chaser partner had collapsed after a fight.

He carried her down a flight of stairs to a room that was cut off from the world and could only be accessed by him with his Forged in Fire. Inside was a bed, a dresser, a small bath tub and a fridge. "You need to bathe, and eat. There should be some clothes that will fit you in the dresser. You can either do this with me outside or not, your choice, but I wont be far."

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Alisa listened as he explained her power, in her head it seemed more like empathy to her, seeing as she took notice to the emotions. Though she didn't care to admit that to him. When he shifted her, she thought it was strange but people looking at her wasn't what bothered her. She almost felt like any moment he might drop her on accident or purpose and neither one sounded like fun since he was running. His words didn't go unnoticed she just didn't care to bathe with him so close. "You can go outside." She answered him back, more than willing to take a bath, just not change into different clothes. When he was out of the room she took a bath, making sure she was clean before putting her old clothes back on. She opened the fridge to eat something small. She finds herself sitting on the bed, waiting for him to come back in before wanting to flee.