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Solomon frowned, "Holden..you.." He stood as Seth grabbed him, picking up something was not right.

Mystic jumped in front of Azriel, blocking her path to the vampires, and vise versa. He held up his hands, "S-Seth you have to let me e-explain. Y-you all know how dangerous spirit manipulation is...a-and when you three first met..Azriel, she wasn't under the best influence...at the time.." He coughed, twiddling with his cravat a bit, "A few years befo--"

Azriel looked down to Holden with a smile and a wink, "Thank you very much~" She looked back up to Serus and Jaelynn as Seth snatched a boy, "That was rude," she said with a frown. She then interrupted Mystic by covering his mouth with her leather gloved hand, "Mystic..just take care of the circle. Okay?" She smiled a bit as he scurried off. She set her helmet down on the end table, placing her hands on her hips, "A few years before I was contacted to kill you three, I had an attachment go horribly wrong...you remember Ariel..correct?"

Serus almost lunged, but Mystic blocked her path. She narrowed her eyes with a hiss, but remained, even as he moved away, "I do."

"I won't go into the details of the attachment, but in the end, she ended up being much stronger than Mystic or I had anticipated. Shortly after she was brought back, the body she was attached to rejected her...and..as per our instructions, she was not allowed to be in the Ethereal Realm, and I attached her to something I knew couldn't reject her; a Marionette doll."

Jaelynn shook her head a bit, "Wait...so..you're implying that she..possessed you or something along those lines, correct?"

Azriel shrugged, her armor clanking a bit as she did the motion, "Along those lines yes. I still had most of my free will, but a lot of influence did come from her...and from there you know the story. A few years later; after 'leaving' the demon world, I-we were contracted to kill the three of you by your council so that they could appoint their own leaders and rule as they have been..."

It only took Mystic a second to get the circle ready. He remained silent, sitting on the floor 'pretzel' style as he listened. When she was finished, he spoke up, "You have to trust me you three, she is not here to harm you."

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Holden listened intently, and smiled. "This is very interesting." He thought to himself. He ducked down from Seth's grip and walked over to Azriel, "How can this be? I'm not a vampire anymore but I can feel the power rolling off of you." He said walking around Azriel. He made it back to the woman's front, "Umm..c-can I..feel your ears? With them being so much larger than Mystic's, I'm guessing you're more powerful than him. Shit!" He quickly closed his mouth, realizing how his comment could be taken. Holden couldn't help but let his excitement lit up his eyes; he was like a five year old in a toy store.

"Holden!" Seth said with a hiss. He wanted to go and grab Holden but he was right in front of Azriel.

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Solomon sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose as Holden spoke. "Holden..." He looked up to Azriel with a frown, "I have a feeling there's something more to that story, but you won't tell us..correct?"

Azriel nodded to Solomon, but before she could speak, Holden was at it again. He was ogling her with those creepy pale eyes of his. She was about to answer him about her power, when he brought up the ears. She was slightly taken aback, unsure of how to react other than ramming her knife into his heart. She had a feeling though, that'd be a bad idea, especially since he seemed so precious to the male vampire behind her.

She took a moment to compose herself, then chuckled weakly, "You're right, a demon's ears does give a general representation of their power..and again, I'm way stronger than that thing over there," She pointed to Mystic with her thumb. "As for touching them...you want to touch ears, touch Mystic's...he's already paralyzed from insult."

Mystic fell over like he was smacked, "You don't have to put it like that Holden.." He grunted as if punched again as Azriel spoke, "Nor do you...I'm strong too.." He lay there, weakened by their words.

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Holden's heart rate was increasing with the excitement going on around him. He looked to Mystic, "He has kind of ordinary ears. I mean he is impressive with his power, even though he almost died bringing me back." He said feeling like he over stepped. He sighed as he felt his heart rate getting close to having another heart attack. "Sorry, I.. er um.." He trailed off feeling that if he said anymore he would be six feet under... Again.

He walked over by and kneeled down next to Mystic, "I know you are very powerful." He said with a weak smile as he started sweating. "Here, you need to be sitting.. or standing for this." He said helping Mystic sit up. When Mystic was sitting up he grabbed his chest in pain, he quickly let go and smiled to Mystic. He stood up and backed away, to one of the corners, when he made it to the corner he turned around and slightly rammed hi head into the wall while he grabbed his chest. He knew everyone was watching him, he composed himself and turned around with a smile as sweat poured down his face. He cleared his throat, "Let's do this." Holden said letting out a deep breath.

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And that's when Solomon swooped in. He wrapped his arm around Holden's waist manipulating his heart to keep a steady rhythm, "You cannot be present for this. And before you ask why, I will tell you...one; humans cannot tolerate the immense cold that will be occurring, vampires hardly can actually...two; you need to relax, and we shall do that downstairs and three, well..I don't have a third one, but that doesn't matter. You stay in here, you'll freeze to death." Before he could say much else, Mystic spoke.

As Holden helped him up, he continued to stare at the floor, "For a human, you have words sharper than most daggers..." He hair came forward, completely hiding his face from the group. After a moment, he turned around, facing the circle, "Get me a body."

Solomon nodded, looking to Holden, "Where shall we browse?"

Azriel frowned, "Holden..that's highly insulting to a demon..but..then again..this is Mystic we're talking about." She grinned a bit as he flinched again, "Oh, dear, you know I'm just teasing~ I love you and your short fuzzy ears~" She came over, kneeling next to him and trailing her finger along his ear, "Besides, you're power is displayed..elsewhere.." She snickered as he tensed.

Mystic tensed as Azriel came over and mentioned..unspeakable things. His face turned beat red..well..more like a red-violet due to his skin tone. "A-ah..can we just focus on the matter at hand?" He kept his face low, purring a bit as she stroked his ear.

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"Damn human heart." Holden said hitting himself in the chest. "Mystic I'm sorry, I just find you demons very interesting... Great another thing that sounds insulting." He said looking down at the floor. "Solomon get me out of here before I find myself dead again." He said waving his hand still looking at the floor. "Connecticut." Holden said slightly disappointed in himself.

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Solomon gave him a squeeze, "Relax will ya? Mystic is used to the abuse." He gave him a kiss on the cheek then teleported them to an ally in Connecticut..."Take your pick."

Serus almost gagged, "I-I'm sorry..it's just..oh my god.."

Azriel laughed, standing up, "Don't be, I understand. You thought Solomon had strange fetishes? You should take a look in his mind," She pointed down to Mystic, "If you can handle it." She sighed, sitting on the couch and crossing one leg over the other. She looked to Seth, "That human is very..strange. Why's he so damn fascinated by my ears? Don't all vampires know demons exist?" She had a feeling though, that he was rather ignorant on Mythical creatures.

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Holden sighed, as they teleported he forgot to close his eyes again. When they landed he started clawing at Solomon's hands, "Let me go, let me go, let me go." He said feeling the bile coming up his throat. When Solomon let him go he ran over to the wall and let what little contents in his stomach flow out. After a few second he stopped and whipped his mouth, he tasted something familiar, "Well that's never good." He said looking at the blood on his hand. He lifted up his jacket and whipped his hand on his shirt. He knew Solomon would smell the blood but he didn't want to say anything about it right now. He walked back over to Solomon and turned around, he watched the people walk by. "Her." He said pointing at a blonde woman. "Let me help?" Holden asked watching the woman.

Seth sighed, "Well he is different, he was only a vampire for a what was it? Not even a year. And Solomon kept him very sheltered, so to say." He said sticking his hand in his pocket, and putting his other arm around Serus' waist. "And the only thing he heard about Demons was what he read in some old vampire books. Which no offense to us, but we sometime either stretch the truth or don't fully tell it." Seth said pulling Serus closer to him.

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Solomon quickly let him go, not wanting to have bile and various other things on his shoes. He wanted to rush over to Holden, smelling blood, but, soon Holden was heading back over, "Holden..I know you know I can smell it." As he pointed out the woman, he shook his head, "No, there's not much you can do."

He quickly rushed over to the woman, grabbing her attention and about to ask her something when he knocked her out. He caught her her as she fell, keeping the other humans unaware as he carried her back to the ally. He held her so Holden could see, "I can't find any current relationship in her memories and she is in good health."

Azriel nodded, "Oh I see..that makes sense, we kind of say some things about you in our records...all is fair.." He leaned back in the couch, looking over to Mystic, "Are you alright?"

He shuddered a bit, taking a slight breath, "I'm..fine...I deserve it.."

Serus put her arm around Seth, "I'm finding this all rather hard to believe, Azriel, and forgive me if I'm on edge or testy. You put us through..quite a bit.."

Jaelynn sighed, "Serus, if she was aiming to kill us now, we'd all be dead..and Mystic wouldn't just be lying there about to bring back a third friend of ours."

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"I'm fine Solomon, and yes I know you can smell it." Holden said with a sigh as Solomon ran off. He nodded when Solomon came back, "So her heart is good? Good. Now let's get back, I have this weird feeling. And don't worry I will close my eyes this time." He said letting out a deep sigh to the side, not to tempt Solomon. "When we get back can we talk about my health?" He asked feeling that his humanity was killing him. He put his hand on Solomon's shoulder. Holden sighed as he closed his eyes.

Seth sighed, "I agree with you two." He said closing his eyes. "Well that wasn't good." He said opening his eyes. "Holden just threw up blood.." He trailed off. "Don't look at me like the Serus. I wasn't going to do anything, plus Solomon would kill me if I did." Seth said feeling bad for Holden.

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Solomon frowned, "We will discuss it after the attachment...I'll need to help them find her spirit." He waited until Holden's eyes were shut before teleporting them back to the room. He set the girl down in the circle and stepped away, back to Holden, "You couldn't sense that he was ill Seth!?" His face was ever calm, his eyes did have a slight red tint to them as he he continued to talk to Seth, "You should've scanned the body over to issues...I can't believe you'd be so careless..."

Azriel nodded, "I know, I know, but your daughter has a point Serus..yes I know about her. Either way," She looked over back to Holden as he appeared. She stood up, going over and placing her hand on his forehead, closing her eyes with a frown, "I think this has something to do with Mystic's screw up with attaching Holden's spirit.." She was trying to lighten Solomon's mood as she sensed the rage coming from him, but she knew she'd upset Mystic.

Before she could continue Mystic interrupted her. He sat up straight, his eyes flashing red as he glared at her, "Excuse me? I don't see you pulling two spirits from the Realm all by yourself and trying to do it perfectly! The only reason I screwed up was because I almost died myself."

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"He was fine when I double checked Hayden's work, so to speak." Seth said with a red tint in his eyes. He growled, "Damn it Solomon this isn't all my fault, ok? I double check your body and his. Fucking aye, I should of stayed out of this and not of even though about bringing you two back." He said as his eyes went red.

Holden stepped away from Azriel and Solomon, "Redford Seth Shaw Augustin! How dare you say that? You..." He said as he clenched his chest in pain. He felt a angry presence come over him.

Seth got wide eyed, "H-..how did you know my real first name?" He asked slightly taken aback. He let go of Serus. He felt a anger come over him, more then when it was just between him and Solomon.

"Well when me and Solomon were in France, Felix was in my mind, and in return to the favor and I went into his." He said as he started to cough up blood. After a moment he recomposed himself and smiled evilly at Seth with blood dripping from his mouth. "I know a lot about you, Seth. Like this little fact, when you were twenty you fathered a child... A son if I remember correctly. His name was Reid, you killed him isn't that right?" Holden asked holding his abdomen.

"The poor child, but then again you were a animal then. You even killed the woman you claimed to love." He said staring down Seth.

Seth's mouth gasped open as Holden spoke. "How dare you Holden? I helped you and that stupid boy of yours." He said glaring back at Holden.

Holden's smile deepened as he coughed up more blood, "You want to know something Seth? I also know what happened during those eight years, when everyone assumed that Serus was dead. Shall I say it?" He asked as he felt more blood pool into his lungs.

Seth snarled as Holden mentioned the eight years. He teleported and picked up Holden by the collar, he was a good two feet off of the ground. "If you say it I will kill you." He said through his clenched teeth.

Holden leaned in to Seth's ear, "You killed Elizabeth, shortly after Annemarie was born." He whispered. His smile went away as he snapped out of this anger feeling, "Wha-..what is going on? Seth what is going on?" He asked looking down at Seth as he felt his heart rate rise. He started gasping for air as his lungs were almost full of blood.

You could feel power and anger rolling off of Seth, he felt Holden's personality change back as well as his. "This isn't possible. You don't remember what you just said?" He asked confused. He set Holden down and slowed his heart rate down and made the blood dissipate from Holden's lungs. "I didn't do those things Holden. How did I act this way?" Seth asked looking back at Serus. He let Holden go, "Something isn't right here." He said backing away. "I-..I'm sorry Holden and Solomon. I don't know what came over me. Honestly." Seth said looking down at the floor as he made it to the couch and sat down.

"Why did I say those things? I only knew your real name." Holden said falling to his knees. He started crying, "I'm sorry Seth. I..." He said trailing off as he slammed his head into his hands.

Seth's skin turned white as he felt something new come over him, "Jealously." He said looking up at everyone. He adjusted his eyes, he saw more auras in the room then there were people. "W-..we can't do this anymore. There is more then six auras in here. They were influencing me and Holden, I understand Holden. But how me?" Seth asked pushing the jealousy feeling away.

Holden felt something wrap around his heart, he grasped his chest and bent over in agony, his forehead was on the floor. He felt the life draining from his body. "Solomon h-..help!" Holden said gasping for air.

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Solomon was about to retort to Seth when suddenly, things spiraled out of control. Before long, Holden was on the floor, gasping for life. He growled a bit at Seth, "Perhaps you shouldn't have." He rushed over to Holden, lifting him up and teleporting them down stairs to an empty room. He lay Holden on the bed, placing his hand over the boy's heart, trying to get to keep the rhythm, but it kept slipping out and racing beneath his ribs. He let out a growl of frustration, concentrating hard trying to dispel the force around Holden's heart.

The entire time, Mystic was clutching at his chest, his nails ready to dig into his skin; and being almost 3 inches long it would not be hard. It took a lot of will power to keep his claw-like nails tearing at the fabric of his shirt and not at his flesh and heart. He looked over to the side as Azriel came over, "Seth is right...get rid of them." Finally his face contorted to pain and he bent forward a bit using his hair to cover his face.

Azriel let out a slight growl, "This is why you don't do it alone Mystic." She stood back up, closing her eyes as she focused on the manor. She could definitely feel a lot of Ethereal energy; much of it negative. With a slightly displeased look, she began to mutter quietly, working on dispelling the spirits one by one.

Serus grabbed Seth by the wrist once the whole thing was over, her eyes narrowed sharply. She pulled him up, stared angrily at him for a moment, then pulled him into a hug, "Come on, we should go." And before he could object, she teleported them back to Wisconsin.

Jaelynn sighed, her eyes off to the side as everything occurred, "Can we just finish this so I don't have an unconscious girl in my room?"

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Seth was limp in Serus' hug, when the appeared back in Wisconsin his skin brightened up slightly. "I should of been able to dispel that energy, how could I do that to Holden? H-..he was..is my friend." He said looking at Serus. "That stuff wasn't true... My name was but that stuff about Liz a-..and that stuff about a son. Weren't..." Seth said feeling like he should rip out his heart.

Holden clenched his chest harder as the force tightened around his heart. Blood was starting to pool in his lungs again, the brightness in his eyes was starting to disappear. Holden looked as Solomon with pleading eyes.

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Solomon growled a bit, standing up and removing the blood from Holden's lungs with a flare of power as he paced the room. "Why is it that my wishes are never honored? Why must something always happen just when I think I can finally relax, something happens. Well quite frankly, I'm sick of it." His back was to Holden, and his arms crossed tightly over his chest. Why couldn't things just work out his way? Just once?

Mystic released his shirt after a moment, looking to Jaelynn, "I can't..I need Solomon to help me...he knew Alicia and would be able to find her quicker than if I was on my own. The quicker we do this, the less power we use."

Azriel sighed, "You shouldn't even be considering doing this in the first place Mystic. You should go home and rest and recover. I can handle on attachment by myself."

Jaelynn rubbed her temples, "Then fix Holden so Solomon can get up here."

Azriel remained, "There's nothing we can do...the body is rejecting him and the dark energy surrounding this place isn't helping. If Solomon wants to help him, he's going to have to turn him..and that's not even guaranteed to work at this point."

Serus held him up without any apparent effort, "I know that Seth..just relax alright? I don't know if you noticed but Mystic was having trouble with them as well; they were very strong. You couldn't have blocked them if he was having trouble."

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"Bec-..because people need you Solomon." Holden said still holding his chest. "Its my fault, this body is rejecting me... I read about it in a few books." He said clenching his chest more. "Go help them bring Alicia back... Since I am dieing here, I cannot help." He said feeling weaker by the minute. He knew Hayden was in his head, he closed his eyes. "Hay-..Hayden? I need you to do me a favor." Holden said opening his eyes.

"Solomon is going to kill me, for what I did, and said." Seth said feeling even more defeated.