Re: The Shadow Hunters

[Wolvel]

Dire Wolf listens to Silver's idea,"well personally I don't like the idea...too risky but its not my call...War?"

"Well unlike Dire I think its a good idea so we don't go in blind...Wicked...Bellare...your thoughts?" asks War Monger.

[Wicked]

Wicked looks thoughtful and says, "I don't like it. If he figures you out you are all alone and you can't heal so if he catches you off guard you are toast." Bellare says, "Let the girl do it, she can teleport out if it gets rough. If she gets stuck we'll still be able to track her." Bellare nudges Wick and Wicked looks at her and decides to give her consent grudgingly. "Ok, you can do it but you get out at the first sign of danger you understand?"

[Wicked]

Silver nodded and while Wicked talked to her about the mission Bellare left the office. She decided she needed to relax so she went outside and grabbed a horse from the barn. She mounted up and rode out to the lake down the road from the HQ. She stopped and stripped all her clothes off and entered the water and dove in. When she came up she realized she was not alone.

[Wolvel]

Sitting against a tree near the waters edge, Dire Wolf watched the entire scene,"you know if you're gonna go skinny dippin' you might want to look around first."

Before she can argue or say he was following her he just points to his motorcycle and grins.

[Wicked]

Bellare blushes very slightly and ducks her head backwards into the water smoothing her long red hair. She swims towards him but stays in the water. "Did I embarrass you? Have you not seen a naked woman before?" She teased him as she tread water about 5 feet away from him. "Why don't you come in to swim as well?"

[Wolvel]

"I've seen my fair share the last one hundred and seventy-five years...must say you do rank up there though...not sure you're the top though." He grins wide then pulls his clothes off and dives in near her, coming to the surface he pulls his long hair out of his face. "a swim sounds good though."

[Wicked]

Splashing him Bellare moves away and swims a little ways out. She grins at his backhanded compliment knowing that he was messing with her. "So what is it you are not telling Wicked about this guy?" She looks up to see his face and sees in his eyes that she is right. "I am the Goddess of War. I can read people's faces and yours says you are not telling all you know." She smirks knowing she caught him. Bella playfully moves closer and waits to see what he will say.

[Wolvel]

"I will say this you're pretty good...and you're right I haven't told ya'll everything...neither has War Monger....You need to understand a few things first though, to be able to stop him I will need to be able to trust every team member, and right now I only trust War." he pauses dunking his head under the cool water.

Popping back up he continues,"the other thing I've seen Wicked fight twice and get hurt both times...I'm not so sure she is cut out for the fight ahead."

[Wicked]

Bellare smiles soflty thinking of her friend. "Yes, Wicked has had a rough road. After her love was lost in Los Angeles she was put behind a desk at LOH Corporate. All of her powers have not returned. She can cauterize her own wounds when injured. That has obviously not kicked in yet. It comes from her grief. She is not even aware of what she grieves since her memories were hidden from her." She looks at him and nods. "I see your point, and no she is not at the top of her game right now but she is an amazing leader. I trust and respect her immensely."

"Truth be told, that is why I am here with her. To ensure she gets her head back in the game. You must not tell Wicked that I know what her memories are. I am the only one who does remember. Her God could not touch my memories." Bellare looks at Dire and moves in closer. Putting her hands on his shoulders to keep the waves from propelling her into him she grins wickedly."So... Dire, anything else you have doubts about?"

[Wolvel]

"Doubts...I'll always have my doubts its just part of who I am. Until I see her step into this amazing leader role I will keep my own council. Let me ask you this...if I tell you what I truly know about Claw how much are you going to spill to Wicked?" Dire replies locking eyes with her the entire time.

[Wicked]

Bellare looks at him and understands, "I will not tell her any of what you tell me. If I think she needs to know I will encourage you to tell her."

[Wolvel]

He lets her response filter in..."fair enough...but to understand him you'll need to know my past as well...and its a bloody one."

He takes a second to think it through if he was willing to let her in that deep, deciding to stop Claw he may have too he starts his tale,"okay I was born in eighteen forty-two and grew up in the deep south. When the civil war broke out I joined the rebels and went off to kill yankees...one nasty fight lasted several days we were bunked down in a ugly fight. I looked up and saw a musket ball hanging in the air a few inches from my nose...I was frozen in place as well...That is when I first met Demon Claw, he offered me a new life away from this or I could die right there and then. Of course I took his offer."

He takes a second to dunk his head letting the words sink in then continues. "So from eighteen sixty-one too about ten years ago I was a mercenary for hire...that was my first run in with the heroes. Not going into much more on that just yet...but as too Claw I know he has been amassing money and soldiers for something, not sure what but its big. We put him away last time and it cost us a hero...his name was Mass Weight..he gave his life to create the box to contain him, so his escape has made this personal for War and myself."

[Wicked]

Bella's expression has turned serious and she says," Wicked does not need to know all of this to defeat him. Can he be destroyed or moved to another plane of existance?" Bellare moves back a little laying her head in the water, floating away from him a little bit. "Maybe there is another way."

[Wolvel]

"That's what War and I are working on...its also why I was against sending Silver into that base incase it is his...We know how to trap him but we don't want to go through what we did last time if we can find another way." Dire pauses for a second thinking he heard something. He looks around not seeing a thing. "Sorry if I come across cagey or paranoid...its just this one is kinda personal for me is all."

[Wicked]

Bellare smiles and nods her understanding. "So, Dire Wolf, tell me about you. What do you like? " She smirked and splashed him in the face challenging him to chase her.

[Wolvel]

"What do I like?...Hell no ones ever asked me before, want to see if you can help me find out..." He replies sending a large wave of water at her.

[Wicked]

Laughing Bellare came up out of the water a little more and splashed him good. "You'll have to put in a little more effort than that!" She dives down into the water and swims towards the shore.

[Wolvel]

"Gotta do better than that girl to out swim me." He takes off across the water reaching shore about the same time she does. Grabbing her as she comes up he tosses her back into the water.

[Wicked]

Laughing and swallowing a ton of water she comes up coughing. "Ah you want to play rough do you?" Bellare reaches out and grabs him by the neck and pulls him to her and when she is about in inch from his lips she says, "What do you want to do now Dire?"

[Wolvel]

Dire doesn't say a word, instead he pulls her in tight to him kissing her long slow and passionately. after they stop he just looks deep into her eyes,"you tell me..."

[Wicked]

Bellare feels her senses explode inside and she kisses him back passionately. When they stop they are breathing rather heavily. In her mind she is thinking she should go before something else happens and yet her body wants to stay. Bellare smiles and says, "Dire I must go....I can't .... I won't say anything to Wicked." Bellare leaves the warmth and hard maleness of his embrace and she swims to the shore and climbs out. He watches. She dresses quickly and swings up onto the stallion and races back to the HQ leaving him staring after her.

Pulling up into the stables Bellare hands the stableman the reigns and runs inside to her room hoping no one would see her. Unfortunately Wicked is standing by her door. She looks up and raises her brows at her. "Swimming in the lake I see?" Bellare nods. "Yes, as per usual. I got bored and needed to relax." Wicked smirks and sees Dire come in looking just like Bellare. The glint in her eyes told her all she needed to know. "You were at the lake together." She said it in a statement and grinned a self satisfied grin as she walked away. "I thought as much, You two are a lot alike." Wicked chuckled all the way down the hall.

Bellare turned around and looked at Dire standing there with a grin on his face and stomped her foot in frustration. Forgetting the imprinter couldn't read her pruny fingers she got mad and punched the thing and slammed open her door.

[Wolvel]

Dire just walks off laughing out loud, can't help not after seeing that it was too priceless to not enjoy it. Finding War he decides to see if he came up with anything yet or if their still in limbo. "Okay you damn yankee got anything for me yet?"

War smirks "no you inbred bastard I don't"

"Inbred...excuse me but I am NOT from MISSISSIPPSI so get it right, I'm a rebel bastard."

[Wicked]

Bellare, now in a mood she goes up to the roof and decides to do a little training. First thing she does is stretch out her muscles and she takes a running leap off of the 8 story building. Flipping in the air she summersaults onto the garage roof then back flips off and lands directly in front of the gardner who jumps backwards in surprise. Bellare runs through the obstacle course out in the back of the outdoor training area slashing and hacking at the obstacles. She runs til she is breathing heavy and allows herself to collapse on the soft grass. There she lays looking up at the sky.

[Wolvel]

War Monger gets to his feet and starts to pack his bag,"[color=green[actually I do have an idea where to start looking for solutions though. I think I need to revisit that shaman in Japan...he may have info on other ways to stop him.[/color]"

"Want me to tag along?" asks Dire.

"No if he strikes while I'm gone they need you here for your expertise in dealing with him. I could stay and you go but I can travel faster than you...so stay here and 'swim' all you want."

Dire watches him turn to light then vanish wondering what he saw.

[Wicked]

Bellare finally gets up and goes back inside to the galley and pours herself some iced tea. Wicked comes in and sits down and plops her head on the table. "What is bothering you Wicked?" From under her arms her voice is muffled, "Probably the same thing that is bothering you." "HAH! I doubt it." "Why? What is wrong with you Bella?" "Nothing a wild night in town wouldn't fix. I just haven't been wild in that way in such a long time...I don't want to have a fling you know?"

Wicked looked up at her and dropped her head back down. A minute later Bellare heard chuckling. Wicked's shoulders and head were moving from her laughter. She raises her head up tears streaming down her face and laughing so hard she couldn't talk. "You and Dire!" Bellare grits her teeth getting ready to punch her one. "SO, what about me and Dire?"

Wicked giggles so hard and bearly gets it out. "You two looked sooo guilty. I am not surprised though you look good together." She looks at Bellare and sees how angry she is getting but she can't help but laugh harder and she gets up to leave and Bellare hits her through the galley wall. Wicked comes up spluttering drywall dust and is still chuckling. She shakes her head getting more dust off her. Bellare comes out and says, "keep it up! I'll do it again!"

Hearing the chaos Dire comes down the hall and is surprised to see Wicked in a pile of what used to be the kitchen wall laughing her ass off and Bellare looking like a demonic goddess from hell.

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