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[lilmis]

Michelle looks to viper "I will need roughly five minutes after that make you way out as Hollow will destroy the fort and most of the demons forces." She ushers everyone back to the dinner table to finish of there meals but keeps Hollow from entering she leans to one of the maids and asks her to keep the guests busy with wine.

Michelle shuts the door and turns to Hollow "You have been very quite and you haven't eaten anything, are you alright?" taking his hand "your not sure about this are you Hollow."

[hollowstar]

Hollow stands and watches, he listens to everything everyone said and felt out of place when she grabbed his chain. He wasn't happy with the plans he noticed that she blanked vipers question when this siege was going to happen. Was she avoiding it to keep it from the nobles or was it that she didn't know either.

Michelle moved everyone back to the dinning room, Hollow begin last to exit was blocked by Michelle's arm she speaks to a maid shortly. She shuts the door and asks him if he was alright he replies that he is fine, Michelle asks that he wasn't sure with the plan. "sorry but yes iam not sure about this plan, I mean when you remove this chain what happens if nothing happens? or if i do lose myself how will i be stopped?."

[lilmis]

Michelle listens to Hollow "I understand what your trying to say and everything is planned i have backups that will be in place. I wouldn't worry, if all else falls I'll just throw myself at you." She smiles "Your special Hollow and i would like to know more about you. but for now we must return to my guests and Hollow stop trying to fit in with these humans be yourself." She opens the door and sit back up at the table.

The event ended and the nobles left Viper and Hollow "You two will stay in my estate tonight and we will start the siege tomorrow afternoon. We had a spy amongst us that why i didn't answer you Viper. Rest well and be ready as it will be just us three your things have been taken to your rooms." She turns and begins to walk up the stairs "goodnight Hollow goodnight Viper." Michelle come to her bedroom door she hold the handle. Her mind racing with thought of what happened in her father room with Hollow she smiles to her self and retires for the night.

[leoin666]

Viper sat awake in his undergarments, a small cloth wrapped around his waist that was connected so that is was kind of shaped like modern underwear. He knew that there was a spy. He knew who it was. Michelle needed answers although she didn't know it yet. He may as well find him and bring him back to her. He climbed out the window of his quaters, and up onto the roof effortlessly and scoped the area.

He saw a small amount of movement in the bushes nearby, although it was not the spy. It was of no doubt that he was watching the mannor and Viper was watching him. He saw a man dressed in a cowl, lurking in the branches of a tree no more than a few yards away. Viper leapt down from the roof, making no sound as he landed due to his somewhat lack of clothing and scaled the trunk of the tall oak at blinding speed, snatching the spy from the bough on which he sat.

He dragged him up to the front door and knocked heavily. The door was answered by a frail looking maid, pretty nonetheless. He winked, she blushed and the down came Michelle, in her bedware covered by a robe. Suffice to say that Viper had to think VERY unsexy thoughts. "I've got him!" he proclaimed as he dumped the man to the floor, his eye-snake wrapped around his throat. He made no effort to cover his empty eye socket. He figured that she needed to find out anyway. "It's time to get some answers..." said Viper evilly. He ginned and bore his sharp, fang-like canines.

[lilmis]

Michelle flowed down the stairs to where the knocking was coming from her night gown and rode brushed each step. She rubs her eye's and answers "What's the meaning of this." she stares at Viper holding down a man his eye missing and a snake around the cowled man neck. The sight of viper missing an eye and the appearance of a snake lead to mean questions.

"Count Vaine Fontmore you surprise me." As her voice boomed in the space of the hall the man asks how long she as known about him and she replies three months. she had been feeding out false information to the nobles for that long and knew he was the spy. "You think you could hide begin half demon Vaine." The man asked how she knew she turns her back to him dropping her robe and lifting her night gown. the whole of Michelle back was covered with an pentagram and inscriptions around it, black in color against her pale white skin. It seemed to pulsated in a faint red color "My back burn in the presents of demons or demon craft." Se drops her night gown and re-robes herself. "Now be a good half demon and die." She summons up scythe and cut the man down the weapon shatter after she had finished "Viper if you would be so kind and throw the body out side."

Michelle yawns and returns to her room but she stops at Hollows she opens his door to pears in she wonders in closing the door quietly. She slipped into hollow bed seeking comfort and protection from viper and what she saw as it did frighten her could viper be of demon kind or demon made?.
she put her arms around Hollow he didn't stir and yet the warmth off Hollow skin comforted her as she fell asleep.

[leoin666]

Viper watched as the head rolled from the half deamon, previously known as Count Fontmore. A black steam rose from the stump where his head had been. Viper had been asked to throw the body outside, but he had other ideas. The half deamon would not only go to waste outside, as he hadn't eaten in days, but it should still have some considerable ammount of essence left. It would defintely let him identify deamons better in future, that was for certain. As for the blood of the deamon, he would have to drain it. He could not risk turning into one of them.

He recalimed his precious Snake-Eyes and it coiled itself around his wrist. He dragged the corpse outside, strung him up and waited patiently for the blood to drain away from the body. After it had done so, the body was cut down and stripped. Viper placed Snake-Eyes down near the body. The snake's jaw unhinged as it crawled along the length of the body, the corpse seeming to dissapear into the back of the snake. Viper then knelt down, had the snake slither back up his arm and once more into his eye socket where it resumed its duty, serving as an eye.

"She's just lucky I don't sleep..." he said as he lifted a poisoned blade that was slung at the back of his undergarments and licked the length of the blade. He convulsed slightly as his body ajusted to the poison the lined the entire of the balde's surface. "Heh... She would probably be dead by now... this is some potent stuff. It could likely fell even a large rhino at a scratch. If this had gotten anywhere near her it would all be over." said Viper to himself.

There was no way that he could have shown her the dagger then and there. She probably would have taken it for study and then he would have never gotten any of he venom for himself... He probably wouldn't stand a snowballs chance in hell when facing the deamons if hadn't found this on him. One thing was for sure, the deamon's werent taking any chances.

[hollowstar]

Morning peered through the windows of the room, birds singing to the new morning. Hollow eyes open half hearted groaning as he looks around the room he pulls back the cover on the bed to find Michelle curled up to him. She stirs little as the warm covers had been moved he wonders how she got there. He yawns and he remembers what must be done later on he nudges her to wake her up. "Hey it's morning." he notices she is in a nightdress a lump reached his throat and tires to swallow, it seem that he was spotted by her.

[leoin666]

Viper sat upright on the edge of his bed as the sun crept up over the horizon and shone into his window. He got dressed into his normal clothes, adorned his cloak and boots and walked own the hallway to Michelle's bedchambers. When he got there he found an empty bed. He placed his hands on the sheets. They were cold. He walked to Hollow's room to soo if he knew where she was. He opened the door, without knocking. And sure, enough, there was Michelle curled up like a newborn kitten against the belly of a very surprised and now embarrased Hollow. "Naughty children..." Viper chuckled. "I hope you both slept well. Lady Michelle, I found something on the man last night that i think you might find of intrest."

He flung the curved dagger to the floor in front of him where it stuck into the floorboards and wobbled for a few brief seconds before becoming still. "It was covered in a type of poison that I have never come across in all my years of working as an assassin. There is no more left on the blade itself as I assimilated it into my own body. A single drop would have been enough to fell a Hill Giant or Troll outright. He wasn't here last night to spy." said Viper in a very informative tone. "We need to strike soon. They will not take any chances."

[lilmis]

Michelle awoke to find she was still next to Hollow a red flush came across her face to find him awake at staring. Before she could utter a word to him viper burst through the door, still dazed of just waking up she couldn't her viper call the pair naughty children but the sound of a dagger piercing the floor had her at full attention. "Vaine was here to kill me in my sleep."Her voice muttered half sentence as she remembered the events of last night. She stands and walks to the door "We will leave in a one hour no strike force just us three we will catch them off guard and destroy them." She leaves the room to go get changed in her bedroom.

Michelle picked out her cloths from a wardrobe but places them back thinking to herself that this wasn't a time to be lady like anymore. She lays out a black body suit and removes her nightdress she sits on the bed thinking why did she seek comfort in Hollow and why is she nervous around viper. She blotted the ideas from her head and dressed her self and meet up with them down stairs.

[hollowstar]

Hollow looking at viper as he entered the room his eye's wides and Begin to Scrabble for his cloths till the sound of a falling dagger halted him. He turns as Michelle mutters a name and about this man wanted to kill her in her sleep. Hollow bite his lip as the name of the man was the same man that put the chain on Hollow he remembers the parts word that Vaine had said to him, This chain will protect you and others you are far too young to even understand the power lucking inside. Hollow couldn't remember what else Vaine had said to him once the chain was placed around his neck was he trying to help or hinder?.

Hollow snaps to his senses as Michelle said they would leave with in the hour hollow rushes for his things viper hand Michelle had left his room. hollow made sure he had his cloths on the right way and pulled up his hood he grabs just his sword and runs out of the room down the condor and leaps over the railing to the down stairs hallway. He lands in-front of Viper, Feet first, Hollow body absorbs the landing he crouches his right hand holding the long sword behind his back and the other planted on the floor to keep him stable.

[leoin666]

"Nice landing..." said Viper. "But your footing was off my a little bit." Viper tapped Hollow's forward foot and motioned for his stance to be a little wider when he landed. "I know you are scared about releasing the chain. Who wouldn't be? And with only the three of us, we are going to need all of the destructive power that we can get. I know that it sounds like I'm refering to you as an object, but that is not how it is. We need you."

Just as he finished his sentence, Lady Michelle appeared at the top of the stairs in a tight black war-suit. Viper got a good eyefull and proceeded to wink as he said, "Looking sharp, love..." His mind suddenly changed subjects and his mouth seemed to follow along. "I bet you're wondering about last night, with the whole snake for an eye thing. That is what I meant when I said that I can't eat normally. Speaking of which, the body has been taken care of..." said Viper, patting his stomach subtlelly. "So, what is the course of action, m'lady?"

[lilmis]

Michelle looked at the odd pair and replied to viper's complement, Thank you as she walks down on the tips of her toes and placing her feet in-front each other. She reaches the pair and smiles as she towers over them "Viper we all have our differences some more unnerving then others."

Michelle whips round to think of a way to get in her tail waves slowly. "There only one way in or out and that the front door that where me and Hollow, as for you viper the west wall changes guard every 2 hours that's where you get in here the map of the structure." Michelle passes a satchel with a map, grappling hook and rope "This will help but once Hollow is free get out of the area don't worry about me."

She grins at Hollow "You know Viper, Hollow is still only a hatch-ling for his age and yet has the destructive force of one thousand highly trained men." She folds her arms "we leave now."

[leoin666]

Viper got a good eyefull of the other side of Lady Michelle as she whipped around to think of a way into the fortress. She handed him a map, satchel and a grappling hook with some rope. He couldn't hold it in anymore. He burst out laughing, laughing so hard that he ended up dropping the heavy hook onto the floor, making a loud thud as it did so. He was still laughing when he looked up to Michelle. "You underestimate my skills by handing this barbaric tool?" he chuckled. "I'm sorry, but if you think I need anything but the map, you really don't know how I oparate." He slowly stopped laughing and stood up straight again. "I appologise for the outburst, m'lady... One other thing. DO NOT, under any circimstances, let the deamons cut you. If they do, I might not get there in time to administer an anti-venom. But, thanks to last night, we actually have an anti-venom. Without it, we couldn't even think of beginning the assault, so be careful."

Viper made sure that all of his weapons and equipment were there. Throwing knives. Check. Sword. Check. Map. Check. Deamonic assassination dagger. Check. It was all here, and it was time to move...

[hollowstar]

Hollow watches as everyone leaves the estate, it seemed they where going to be taking a wagon to the fortress. Hollow looks the wagon picking it up with one hand and examines the wheels "This would be too noisy i would suggest we run there, not to mention it i am a bit quicker then a horse drawn wagon." Carelessly he drops it as it comes down with a thud, Hollow looks at Michelle "I am guessing you need all your strength to break this chain right, I'll carry you lady Michelle." as he grin roguishly to the thought of doing something chivalry. Hollow turn to Viper "Think you can keep up." challenging viper to a race.

Hollow looks at Michelle and how tall she was "Michelle can you hold my flambard" he passes it to her and with in that moment swept her of her feet effortlessly cradling her. Hollow leans forward to the point of almost falling on Michelle but catches his footing, upon his first step his wing spread out and he busted into acceleration rushing past viper.

[leoin666]

It was true when Hollow said that the wagon would be too noisy. Viper was impressed by the ammount of strength that Hollow possessed when he lifted the carrage with but one hand and when he dissaproved was able to drop it in an instant. It was a rather expensive looking carrige too. He would have rather enjoyed the ride. It had been a while since he had last ridden in a carrage of such quality. The last time he did he had to, unfortunatly, redecorate the entire inside of it with his target's blood. His insides looked better on the outside anyway...

As soon as Viper was challenged to the race, he replied with "I think it should be you answering that question... Ready? Set! Go!" As the last world left his mouth, he became a blurr and sprinted into the distance. He then ran back to where they were standing in a matter of seconds. "Which way are we even going anyway?" he said, not even the slightest out of breath.