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Kimberly sat in the corner of the square, the emotions of everyone around her was happy but this didn't effect her today. She had her hands around her knees and was crying, how could she let Alex die. Kimberly just kept imagining that Alex would come around the corner and put his hands on his shoulder saying "you thought you could get rid of me that easy do you?" and they would of laughed and got over it but that was a fantasy, she was in real life, she needed some sort of help. But no help imaginable could help her get over this. It would be with her forever, her hair was now permenantly black and so were the butterflies around her. She could usually master her emotions and change them with ease. This is a permenant emotion she would never in her life get over this. She looked into abit of glass, her eyes were empty, there was no life behind them, no emotion showing, even her eyes had changed to black. She looked down trying to stop the crying, but she couldn't the tears kept coming and kept flowing, with a light tap when they hit the floor.

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Lycara had been wandering the streets of the city square, whiling the time away. One of the effects on being a lycan, or maybe it was just her, was that she required vary little sleep, spending almost all of the day either in the city, or in the wasters. She had just returned from a hunting trip in the wasters the previous night, and was quite full. She was looking around, watching out for anything or anyone interesting, when her keen ears picked up some faint crying. She wandered to a corner, and found a girl with long black hair, surrounded by equally black butterflies. From scent alone, Lycara guessed that she was an aniven. The girl had her hands on her knees, crying. Lycara walked up to her, putting a hand on her shoulder

"Hello? What's wrong?" She asked the girl.

[dougan_2]

Between gasps Kimberly only managed to bring out, "He's dead! My" Gasp "Alex Is dead!" The tears flowed more freely down her cheek now dripping to the floor, suddenly Kimberly grew angry, hair glowing red and butterflies glowing red to and flying around agitated, she had never been this angry. "I will kill her! That vampire will die by my hand and no other!" Kimberly swore an oath to whatever God was listening that she would hunt down the vampire that killed her Alex, ofcourse she would have to become more powerful but she would do it, lets see someone try to stop her! Almost as suddenly as it came, it went, suddenly her hair was black again and she was crying. She sat aback down. Tears flowing again, butterflies less agitated and now as black as midnight again, she screamed in frustration for abit then remembered what it did to people and stopped suddenly, that made her even more frustrating, she couldn't even scream!

[blader4411]

Lycara observed Kimberly curiously, watching as her powers seemed to come alive, according to her mood. Those butterflies must play a part of it as well, she concluded. As Kimberly settled down, and her power seemed to fade, she tried to get through the the distraught girl

"How did it happen, and which vampire did this?" Lycara searched her memories as she said this, she had only met two vampires in the city, and was pretty sure Freya would never have done something like this. Still, the other one...

[dougan_2]

"he-he lost control! And it was a vampire Lord, I do not know her name! She controlled his blood though! I saw it! Very powerfull to of killed Alex with such easy barely a scratch on her!" Kimberly cried as she remembered it so perfectly, the hole in his chest, the blood, how the vampire tricked her by controlling his arm. Her hair flared red quickly then went back to midnight black. Once she was stronger she would kill it, the Vampire was more of a demon then Alex ever was! Kimberly sat down, tears had stopped flowing, she had no more to cry, but she still felt horrible inside, she had actually ran out of tears in her first time ever crying!

[blader4411]

Lycara paused for a second as she thought. Sid could well have been a vampire lord, but it would do no good to tell her, as she was nowhere near strong enough to defeat her. No, better to help her as things stood. She sat down beside the girl, pulling her into an embrace.

"I'm sorry" Lycara said to her

"I know from personal experience how that feels, but I know that wherever he is, Alex would not want you to live your life wallowing in sadness. Honour the past, live in the present, and plan for the future, was what my parents told me. And that is what I did, after they were killed by a wild beast on my 13th birthday." Lycara said, remembering the event. She had cried a lot after that, but now the memory was faint, the pain gone. She looked at the girl, gauging her reaction.

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Kimberly looked up at Lycara with her big round eyes, which were shining with the tears around the rims. "Thank you but I cannot simply just get over it like that, it didn't happen weeks or days ago, it happened today. I loved him and i never had the guts to tell him. He was slaughterend inhumanely, to honour the past i must honour him and I can't if i keep thinking about the Vampire that slaughtered him, i must kill the Vampire and even if i do die atleast I will be with him then." Kimberly lost power of her emotions then, sadness overwhelmed all the people around her and she couldn't stop it, the barrier between her and others had broken they had to share her emotions. Kimberly hated taking peoples choices away from them, the happy people that walked past were almost crying for her, Kimberly looked back at Lycara and apologised, "I am sorry, i cannot stop it."

[blader4411]

Lycara almost staggered as she felt the wave of sadness hit her. A glance around told her that the people around her were not as strong-willed, as some of them were running away, on the verge of tears. As she heard the girl's story, she pulled her closer

"I'm really sorry about that, I didn't know." Lycara responded. She knew that she could try to prevent her from going after the vampire lord, but at this stage, the desire for vengeance would be much too strong. Nothing could be done now, though she may cool down later on.

"So, what's your name? And do you have any powers other than influencing emotions?" She asked the girl.

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"I have these" Instantly beautiful black butterfly wings came out of her back they were small, fin and very fragile looking. "I can also make the butterflies appear at my own will, here have this for being kind." Kimberly put her palm face up and instantly a butterfly with pink wings appeared, it flew over to Lycara, "this is a rememrance butterfly, it will remind you of me, you can dismiss it if you want and if you ever need me it will lead you to me, if i die it will turn black." Kimberly noticed how Lycara wasn't crying, that was a relief, "I am Kimberly"

[blader4411]

The pink butterfly clung on Lycara's shoulder

"Thank you" She said to Kimberly, before looking at her wings curiously.

"From the wings, I'd guess you're an aniven, right? Anyway, I'm Lycara, the wolf-sister, at your service." She said, grinning despite the sad topics that had just been discussed.

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"yes, well I think I am an Aniven, thats probabely what you could call me." Kimberly didnt smile, she didn't even show anything in her eyes, they were purely empty black pits. "Why are you here then?" Trying to take her mind off of Alex but she couldn't no matter how much she talked, his face would pop up in her mind, smiling at Kimberly, saying not to waste her life on revenge. She remembered his last words, him say he loved her. She cried again a fresh wave of tears.

[blader4411]

Lycara remained silent, knowing what Kim was going through. She settled on answering her question

"During my 13th birthday, my parents were killed, and I awakened my powers. Ever since then, I was wandering the wasteland, until I arrived in Nether. How did you end up in Nether?"

[dougan_2]

"erm I came here with Alex I was looking for links to his past. We didn't learn much of it ofcourse" There were still people around them crying, it kind of helped, stopped people coming to close. Kimberly started playing around with the butterflies making them fly around in front of her and in midair make them change colour, it entertained her a little but this was the show she used to watch with Alex.

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Lycara watched the butterflies, and stopped herself from grinning. At least she was not as sad anymore, with time, she could recover. Lycara stood up, turning to face Kimberly

"I have to go now, but I'll see you around, Kim" She said, using a nickname she had coined for her. Then sun was setting, and Lycara had to meet a contact in another area of the city. Lycara proceeded to run off, heading towards the "Lost Soul". Despite being in her human form, she was still extremely fast, and soon faded from view.

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