Children of the Coven: Mora

So cute. Her story to come soon....

Cal and Dai's Wedding

From Dai's Perspective 

Cal was waiting. My superman like he called himself. The planning, the reception. At least Juna was taking care of the cake.

Dress shopping, I hate dress shopping. So what was my surprise on that morning when arriving at JadeWings that morning that she had already picked out one that she thought I would like.

It was beautiful, and standing there i'n front of the mirror, I was surprised that the cut actually brought out something in me. 

Then I heard it, Cal's voice in my head telling me to meet him in Madrid. Taking one last glance in the mirror and not saying anything to Juna. I knew she would understand, I disappeared and appeared next to Cal. This day was going to be the best day.

I grabbed some daisies and tucking them in my hair, I stood next to Cal and together started our walk down the aisle.

The priest stood there at the front waiting just for us.

Enemies: Breakers and Beasties

There are 4 levels of Beasties:

There are the very bottom with no names. Just broken souls with little hope of ever seeing freedom again

Then come the Silvers: Prized. These are well trained in the art of fighting. They have survived the pits and proven survivors and most with a little threatening respect their breakers; most some learn to well and their breakers find themselves at the other end of the dagger.

Then there are the Golds: Highly Prized. They listen and are loyal only to those who they respect. They will fight and kill for their Breakers. They are kept in top fighting shape and pad the pockets of their Breakers well. 

The final are Ebonies but those are so rare, that at this time they have not been seen in the pits. It is rumored that Hunters use them for something else. 

Depending on who they are that is the life. From the eyes of the outside who manage to sneak in and observe it is a cruel life. It is the life of three that we will document in following posts. Each one, even though they are beasties, end up leading quite different lives. Each one with a different breaker.....

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Luna's Journal

"And life makes love look hard"

Once you've got it, its an amazing on-top-of-the-world feeling. When you don't well...that's another thing. I've never really had it before. Only heard about the way it makes you feel; the butterflies can't....

stop thinking of them. *smiles-ear-to-ear....*

And I've finally caught it in a jar, and I'm never letting it out...

Backstories: Cal

Cal 
slowly his story is revealed

November 9th,2011 A.D

I can't remember much before I became a thief. Just..blackness. Imprisoned? Maybe. Dead?

Possibly. Who knows for sure. Only sure thing is, I'm old. And I have no idea who I really am. All I do know is, I'm not a Shadowshot. I'm something else, but not a Shadowshot. I found out earlier today. Need to do more digging

                                                                         -C

Kids of the Coven: Mika

Mika is Luna and KBU's adopted Daughter

Six is a magical year for most kids. 

For Mika it is a year of receiving her magical gifts. It is a mile marker in her life and a time to celebrate that she is growing up. 

  It was a good time with cake, decorations and promises. Even though she will have to wait 6 days to open her presents it doesn't seem like so long. 

  She is fun, loving and fills JadeWings with her laughter.

Maybe she should tell us her story sometime when I can catch her.   

Roasted Chicken and Wagon Wheel Cinnamon Rolls

Sitting in a Palm Tree can be boring or perhaps Percy was just to lazy to move. 

The island seemed like an endless stretch of sand....

Roasted Chickens run underneath and then out of nowhere cinnamon rolls the size of wagon wheels begin to appear on platters. 

"Its just too freaky..." Percy thought looking down. A roasted chicken flutters up beside him squawking, "This means trouble for a demi god." Taking a sword slicing the chicken in half, "Just too freaky, I tell you."

As if it wasn't enough a platter of bacon appears in the center of the island......

September 18th, 1873

Entry from Dai's Journal

September 18th, 1873

Life goes well. The hunter camp is a peaceful place for the most part, and I feel like I truly belong....The most shocking thing is though, is that I found records of my birth. I am a hunter's prisoner. A demon. Specifically, a Keres. Specifically, Ker. The personification of violent death. Is that a good thing? So my name's actually Ker something. My mother was a POW captured in some big battle or another. And my father...well they don't list my father. Which probably means he was a hunter...but that doesn't fit with the timeline. So I'm left with my mother's "name", 4T3XH1. And nothing else. But that's a start....

Right?

Ren Koron.... or am I ?

October 31st, 1873

Halloween. Used to love this holiday. Then I turned 7. I dug up more info on my mother. She's a beastie in the Barcelona camp. Explains my Spanish....? Apparently, a vamp coven broke into the camp to save on of their members. And Jyakuran and I got carried off and were eventually filed as dead. We were only four, so it didn't actually matter that much.

I miss Jyakuran. And Silar. And Somarn'l. Why, I'm a regualar emotional wreck. 

Ren Koron

Like Mother like Daughter

I think if I had known I couldn't have waited. But it turned out that Shiina came as a surprise the following day.

No drama no big announcement. I had promised Dai that she could help raise her.

Dark hair, dark eyes and growing before my eyes. She is a vampire human shadow demon, but it turned out that she is mostly Shadow.

Within the end of that day, the baby that I carried from the woods, would transform into a 4 year old. I can't say I don't envy those that get to spend more time with their children. Figured someone will probably rub it in my face someday. But, I tried to be a good mother for those few hours adapting to her needs.

She is not the emotional type, but neither am I or her father for that matter. But she see's everything and feels everyone's pain around them. Not having her father is also a hard for her to deal with.

Her fascination seems to be only music and her katars. Dai presented her with her first wooden daggers, exact replicas of mine. Ren also presented her with blades which I believe she still has. The wooden daggers now reside in my treasure box.

She is very private, with her thoughts and feelings. As I write this she is no longer even a little girl. But a teenager. It is difficult when the most time you spent with your daughter is only an hour before she has sprouted another year.

On a fascinating note, it seems that she did inherit my love for driving the other coven crazy. Set off a shadow bomb blowing up half the castle, but then because she is not the malicious type, the castle eventually rebuilt itself. Jacey was angry and questioned my parenting skills. But, as her mother for someone who has had to grow up so fast, I am proud with how she embraces everything. Jacey can never understand the life of a Shadow.

Shiina will be great. I just have to keep trying harder to reach her. Its selfish to wish for that six year old that you can show things too. There was so much I wanted to show her. I will let her discover who she is at her own pace.

I love her so much. I only hope she does too....

Enemies: Hunters

Hunters-

Camp located in a unknown island.
They are always happy to snag unsuspecting "beasties" 

At Blood Moon about 12 years ago after a raid, hunter children were adopted and given out to members of at that time. Among them were Sam, his sister Mika and Sarafina. Most were taken in. The Queen without really consulting her mate at the time adopted 14 children among them Darcy and Marcy. But things didn't usually turn out so cheery, even so the hunters tried to retrieve their children, but failed for once.

Prisoners are held in a POW camp, where most are broken. Assigned jobs, but most are turned over for Pit fighting, most don't survive. The ones that do learn to adapt quickly or suffer the consequences. 

J0N4 and A721 are some of those beasties. Not all Hunter's are hunters, some have ranks and have jobs. Jobs such as Breakers, nurses and Captains who oversee. But, who's to say they don't pad their pockets with occasional pit fighting.....

And the Beasties children are turned over to be raised as hunter's children.   

They are cold heartless and efficient. They are fully aware of Vampires, Werewolves, Shifters. Their lives, their magic... And to encompass that they make sure that it can not be used. 

Hunter's live by their code and their rules. No other creature dare question that.

A Coma and a Heartbeat continued

I had lain him out in his study and tried everything to heal him. The shadow heal and iridescent flames that usually worked had done nothing. 

Alone I wept. I had, had him back for only a few hours. I let the iridescent flames recede and crying softly i walked through the empty halls of the Castle to my room.

I couldn't think. 

Then I felt it a small pulse that seemed to shimmer through the walls.

I smiled a little. Ghost would be back. He always came back.

Another pulse of and a message. It was so soft that I didn't catch it at first... a second heartbeat I hear within you...I must rest now too much energy wasted. 

I had not known, we had not known. 

I lay there stunned, but feeling so happy. I got up and wondered what everyone else would think about it.

Going to the kitchen I poured the remainder of the hot chocolate into my mug and sipped it slowly.....

Backstories: Percy Revisited

Ok Percy, now that you are awake,lets do this

Well we all know my father son of Zues, and well the wolves that seem to haunt my footsteps. I was a demigod, traveled through the camp.

Fulfilling missions. I discovered that I could control electricity.

It was in my journeys that I met the vampires. I had met Primo Kaze and we had journeyed for a while when we came across the group of them as I would soon come to know them. Ali, Ghost, and Jacey.

*starting to get a glazed look on his face*

I got into a fight with Ghost, why, who knows....and then somehow I got bit.

Became who I am now. I discovered that I had a brother KBU and a half sister Luna.

*Becomes thoughtful* I had my father's temper. My boys changed that. But that's another story, which you know already.

I gotta run. The wolves they are nearing again or the gods call. As always 

A Coma and a Heartbeat

The night was warm and Ghost had returned. It had been so long, his journeys taking him far and for months on end. But, when he returned, my soul would rejoice. The soul shard that I wore around my neck was always there to remind me that his wings would always wrap around me if I ever felt alone.

I won't forget that night because I was in the kitchen when he surprised me, coming up behind me kissing my head and getting Sake from the fridge.

I looked at him as he poured his first glass and I actually felt shy around him, it had been so long. So I asked if I could taste his Sake.

He gave me that smile, the one that always put one on mine, and I took a sip. Sputtering, not my thing, I made a face and he laughed softly, "Think you can handle it?" I shook my head and replied, "I think hot cocoa is more my thing, love"

He looked into my face and smiled,"ok, getting up and making it in a small pot. My favorite hot cocoa." Leaning onto his wings I watched as he melted the chocolate and added the ingredients.

There really is no words to describe the fragrance of the chocolate mingled with the scent of the crimson feathers only that my heart beats faster when I think of it.

I sipped it and he sipped his Sake, looking at me he grinned, "lets go for a flight."

I was so happy I drank down my Sake, "Ok...I'm ready"

Dancing I took his hand and walking we both stood on the edge of the night. The lights of the city casting brilliant reflections into the sky.

I love the way the wind felt on my face, the rush of his wings. Flying through the sky I could touch the Aurora Borealis as the colors swam by.

I didn't know this was going to be the last time we did this. It happened so fast that I still don't know what truly happened.

We were flying over Blood Moon Castle, and there was a flash of light. Something that seemed to pierce through him.

And then we were falling.

Falling

It seemed that with the last of his strength he vanished me to the entrance of Jade Wings.

The impact echoed through the quiet night sky and I vanished back.

Blood Moon had been damaged, but more than that Ghost lay injured and what seemed like in a coma.

The impact had rattled the occupants of Blood Moon. But, I had no interest in seeing Queen Jacey or her mate. So I did the best I could through my tears.

I vanished Ghost and I back to Jade Wings. 

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Luna's Journal

Plato once said. "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

Music is an escape. A place to indulge yourself in who you are, what you feel; a place where you don't have to pretend you fit in with the world. Once music is a part of you it leaves an imprint in you that can never be forgotten or rid of. 

  

Music describes what is indescribable. Music tells a story when the world cannot. Music comforts you, when others won't. Music is your friend, and when everyone has abandoned you, and you're so alone, music makes you feel warm, surrounded by thousands. 

Music isn't to impress or for success, but for harmony to every melancholy melody there is. And until you've reached that, it's a sad life you've been living, I can tell you that. It hurts nothing more to see the light when you realize you've lived in darkness forever. I don't want that darkness anymore. When I have my music, and nothing else matters in the world.

Luna

Revised the Kanji symbols for Shiina

She will be a strong warrior yet diplomatic leader.
She will protect her mother....

Could not resist.....

Juna and Shiina

August 15th, 1873

Entry from Ren

August 15th 1873

Ren here. The split is going good. Dai hasn't bothered me. The hunter's have accepted me into their ranks. I am a breaker, and train "beasties" which are basically poor souls that have been marked by the hunters. Many of them fight in arena fights which leave us breakers rich the the beasties broken. The trick is not to get close, I think.

I've been assigned a beastie. An allu demon from Sumeria. Hopefully he will bring me riches beyond belief.

Ren Koron

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Luna's Journal

Found this on an old piece of paper:

I'm scared. Of myself. Last night I was so close. I asked myself again. What's to live for? and I had my blade on my throat, the marks to prove it. I could have ended it. 

I'm afraid. So afraid.

.....................

In the days after I escaped I felt so alone. What's to live for? I still ask myself today sometimes. And I answer quick: My friends, my family. The rush of the battle. Hands intertwined. Warm hugs.

And I realized that death isn't a way out. It's a way in. I fear it not, I am tempted by it not. I am as strong as I wish to be. 

Luna

August 13th, 1873

Entry from Dai's Journal

August 13th, 1873

Possibility of joining the hunters. I assisted in killing a vamp. They gave me a card to come into thier camp. I knda had a feeling I would. Killing vamps, making money...sounds like a good idea. The only problem is that you have to be mostly human. I'm not sure how I'll get out of this situation.

Maria

August 14th, 1873

I figured it out. I'll split my personality so that way I'm human. I'll go by Daiguren, which is good. I'm never going to be a Maria. It'll be me (Ren) and my demon half (Dai) all living hapily under one roof. 

Ren

Backstories: Kage

Current Location: Unknown
Loves cake

I was a princess in the Shadow Realm. My father helped lead and control both the Realms of the Shadow and various Covens above. My name said it all Shadowbug a play of Shadow warrior.
I was destined to be a warrior perhaps even lead one day. But, it changed with one act of curiosity. That day the portal to the above had been left open and I couldn't resist. I went up.
It was an accident really stumbling upon Blood Moon. They were out hunting and just tracked them...it wasn't to hard. I watched the vampires hunt. I was thrilled that these were the creatures that someday I would protect.
Oh. I forgot to mention that we as Shadows are not allowed to imbibe blood. Which is what caused the whole mess that day.
I had met the queen and sworn my loyalty to protect her. I had politely declined be marked as well. It had been a good day when Hunters approached and I defending the queen was badly injured. I ended up drinking blood and she tried to turn me but a bad reaction on turned my arm.
But I was tainted and disowned. I met Sardo around that time and my father let it go. He turned me over to Sardo. As if I was merely a servant. But I was ok because I had found the coven.

The rest you all know.

But just for fun I'll name my kids for you. Yes that includes you. Juna, Ookami, Minjita,Aron, Azriel, Aden, Ember, Maddie,and Dai

Thanks for the cakes