Love is a Lie(Mature, Closed)

[Rose for the Hunter]

Time, a strange thing that passes quickly the longer you watch it, the shorter it becomes. You see after so long it becomes dull, the same wars repeat, the same words are spoken, especially by humans, the most popular lie ‘I love you’. Deceptive, Cruel, Liar.
All of those things and more just like demons, yet they call themselves humans, but some are naive like children but are considered angels; pure, innocent, oblivious to sin.
There is not such thing as a pure being, when we are born, we are born with greed; we are hungry, we want to breath, we want to live? But is that really the reality of all this?
To you these are simple questions, to me they are puzzles, mysterious of that race. But here I sit and watch as they all settle before me, I sit in my dark cloak watching over them, it’s my job now to collect the dead after all, who else will do it now that Death has met… well his death. Well I say dark cloak but really it is torn and only consists of a hood. Ah, it is time, what creature shall I come across today?

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She waited in her shop of ghouls and ghosts that danced around her, truth was that she loved to mess around with life and death, there were other reapers that took care of such things. Saki, she dealt with curses and cures, life and death, medicine and poison; but there was always a price and she did get the odd knight or someone coming in saying she was a witch. It was true, but then it also wasn’t. Saki looked to the knights that were before her and chuckled “This is whole they send?” she questioned holding her cursed dagger in her hand and looked to them, a small albino dragon running up to her scared and sitting on her shoulder with it’s tail of snow white scales wrapped around her neck. “Well what is it you have come for? You are scaring my dear hatchling, he was born only yesterday” she said scratching the small albino dragon with her other hand softly before it gave a squeaky roar at the intruders. the small nest in the back of her home or shop was evident with a broken dragon egg there.

(You don't have to be a knight you can be whatever but male character please)

[Ravenna 3arc]

Looking at the young female witch, he admired her form. He had always thought witches where old and haglike with a major anger and attitude problem. He gets closer to her as he was wearing his combat armor still, he reaches out to her with his gloved hand saying,"I need your help, what will it cost to have you render your services unto me?" Seeing the newborn dragon he smiled, reached in his pocket and took out a small piece of a very popular dragon treat and gave it to the dragonite saying,"be strong little guy." He looked at the other nights, they wherent with him so he thought they where hers or perhaps they where trying to get her aswell. but no matter the case he had decided that she was going to go with him no matter if he had to fight them off or what.

[Rose for the Hunter]

The young dragon crept forward snatching the treat and eating it after returning to Saki's shoulder. "Well the price depends on the job but one price that is always there is guaranteeing I'll come back alive" she said before settling back down in her chair and looking to the knight "Well then, what is it you seek my services for?" she asked him. Looking him over she smiled a little, from what she could tell he was most likely very fit and then noticed the other knights armour was different "Well then seems two sets of knights seek my services" she said looking to the pair that came before him "Well what are you here for?" and they began to speak "We were sent to get an albino dragon in which you have if not we were told to use you to help us find one, our princess desires one as a pet you see" Saki sighed "Such a creature is not a pet, he is but a child that will grow and become as wild as the fire form which it was born" she smiled "now you?" she said referring to the man who'd given her dragonite a treat. "what did you need my services for again?"

[Ravenna 3arc]

He looked at her and then thr dragonite before saying,"I need you to travel with me to my homeland, my companion is hurt well beyond my knoledge and I need your help. I know your not a medic but this is different, I cant give too much details right now," he looks at her leaning closer whispering,"not around them," he pulls away some and puls out another treat saying,"here you go little guy," he gives he dragonite another treat and says,"and most importantly, I will garentee your safe return. and money isnt a issue."

[Rose for the Hunter]

Saki listened to him tapping ehr cheek with one of the meal claws on her glove. "I see but you do know I specialise in curses right?" she said "it should be well known from many lands but if you can knowing that then it means you're friend has come across a curse correct?" she asked him "well either way how will we be travelling, I do not have a horse so it would mean walking unless you brought two horses with you" she said to him.
Rising from her seat she picked up the dragonite in her arms who'd already snatched the treat from his hand once again. "Also he shouldn't have too many of those treats and I can't help you unless i know details" she shooed the other knights away. They left but were more than a little disgruntled. "Well then what are the details, I cannot help otherwise"

[Ravenna 3arc]

He looked at her once the knights had left, he then apologised for giving the dragonite so many treats and said,"sorry im used to spoiling my friend at home," looking at her, he started taking off his top armor, then directly followed by his shirt saying,"I'm the friend that i was referring to," showing his chest, he was fit and very toned but black marks where all over his chest and abs showing the mark of a curse. Closing his shirt and looking at her once more saying,"but I do need you to travel, my companion has the same curse...and without her I dont know what I would do." he then pets the dragonite saying,"You look alot like Rebecca, I wounder if your her child?" Looking the dragonite over, trying to find a unique marking that would show its her child. Almost ready to give up and thats when he saw it, the mark was under the belly like Rebecca's is. The knight looked at Saki asking,"how did you get this dragonite?" He quickly put the top armor back on as his chest started to burn, he knew that this meant the curse was growing on his body even more and may end up spreading all over him.

[Rose for the Hunter]

She watched and looked him over "I see well let's sort your curse out first, you'll be no good dead" she said bluntly before she searched her cabinet and pulled out some ointment "Put this on the mark over your heart for seven days and it should die away slowly.This curse I a pesky one so magic will not do it completely you need to kill off the link to the source which is always energy drained from the heart" she said looking to Ryuu and then to the knight "I looked after him as an egg for since i was ten years old, my parents found it abounded long ago" she said, even they thought it was dead since it was ice cold when it was found." she explained. "Now then what was your name again?" she asked him. "and how far are we travelling and to where, also what is your friend, human, dragon?" she questioned him. "and do you know what route we are taking?"

[Ravenna 3arc]

He took the ointment that she had mentioned and put it in his pocket, thinking the stuff wouldnt work but he thought he would try it atleast. He thought it was odd that this dragonite looked like Rebecca, but thought nothing of it for now as he had pressing matters on the brain. When she asked where they where heading, he asked,"why does it matter? its a long ways from here, and I am paying well and garanteed your safe return." He held his chest some under the armor as he was clearly speaking in pain. He looked away and said,"look, its way in the north, and we must hurry." He turned some and looked at her when she asked who the client was that needed her help and he said,"My dragon rebecca, she is inflicted with the same curse as me."

[Rose for the Hunter]

Saki thought for a moment "A dragon huh..." she thought for a moment her finger resting on her lip before heading back to her cabinet and pulling out something else "the treatment for dragons is different which si why I asked" she said to him "as for how we get there, a nightmare might be faster but we will have to share a stallion since he isn't the most sociable creature" she sighed and soon enough a coal black flesh eating horse appeared there, stuffing what was needed in her bag she mounted the horse and waited for him to do the same, Ryuu joining them. "Also that curse can remain on dragon's for months before they'll die and judging by yours on her it'll be maybe a week or so old am I correct?" she asked picking up the pace.

[Ravenna 3arc]

He got on the horse with her, out of breath as the heat of the curse was taking its effect again like it normally does. He normally had no problem doing this but with the curse killing him, everything was harder. He looked at her saying,"Rebecca has had the curse abou the same time as me, about a week each, it took me 3 days to get here by horse." He held onto her for as long as he could untill the curse mark began burning really badly and he fell off the back of the undead horse. Upon falling the armor cracked and broke open as a large amount of heat was coming from his chest. He wasnt shure how far they went away from the place where he met her, for all he knew they could have been traveling for 15 minutes or for 2 hours. laying there unshure if she was coming back to help him or just leave him be. He tired sitting up but the heat made him very very tired and he couldnt move. Feeling like he was cooking, all he could do was sit there but unknowing to him the curse was changing and turning his body into what it wanted.

[Rose for the Hunter]

She frowned and jumped off quickly before she got him somewhere cold and took off his armour checking the curse and searched his pocket for the ointment "This will burn" she said and began to rub the ointment in muttering something under her breath in order to help increase it's affect. "Now then that should be ok until tomorrow evening, then I'll help you with it then, it'll take us maybe two days to get to your friend on Nightmare so let's get there quickly, travelling is not good for our body after all" she said before helping him back onto the nightmare making sure he held on and got him to help her with the route they would be taking. when they came to a town she got them a room and made sure he wasn't wearing his armour at least to help with the stress of the curse.

[Ravenna 3arc]

He held onto her tightly even though he felt weak, the curse was draining him but the ointment that she put on him made it bareable instead of like it was earlier where he couldnt do anything. A few times he passed out on her but woke up not long after she asked for directions or something like that. Once she got them to a Inn for the night, he insisted that they share a room and that was what ened up happening.

Once they both had a room together he took off his shirt, and was gonna put the ointment on himself but when he tried moving his arm to his heart, he felt his shoulder stiffen and when he looked at it, he saw that the curse had spread even after the ointment she gave him was put on him. He thought this was odd and said to her,"Saki, I dont think this is working.... its spreading still." He touched a part of his skin where it was black from the curse and noticed that it was still his skin, but the skin was now really really tough. Seeing this made him wounder if the curse was more of a charm, or if this really was a curse in the end. He looked at saki after touching the cursed spots and said,"its stronger than my armor, does this mean its turning me into a half human half something else? or is it trying to kill me? I mean whats going on?" He waved his hands some to express himself when he was talking, but when he did flames shot from his hands for a quick second, and when he saw the flames he quickly hid his hands saying,"ummm... how did i do that?"

[Rose for the Hunter]

Saki went over a little concerned "Ok how did you get this curse exactly?" she asked him "and if you know who from as well" she said examining it again "hmmm, seems like it's actually a new hybrid curse now that I look closely it's as if it's trying to turn you into something, still the ointment should help to slow it down at least and relieve the pain. I'll investigate possible curse as well although it might be tricky since it is a hybrid" she said thinking a little and helped him to apply the ointment a second time as well trying a different spell this time to stop the spread of it for a good while which should work.

[Ravenna 3arc]

He looked at her as she wanted to know how it happened,""me and rebecca where taking a walk through a tall grass field, playing and this woman came out, I guess we spooked her and she hit us with these small orbs. When we woke she was gone and nothing was wrong, untill a few days later. She and I both where and are in pain, hers doesnt seem to be as bad as mine though." When she was helping him apply the ointment, he was able to smell her. It was odd that his sense of smell was alot higher than normal, the smell eminating off her smelled really good. Suddenly he reacted out of instinct and kissed her on the neck, a brief kiss before pulling away and quickly saying,"Im sorry, I dont know what has come over me." He looks away trying not to face her as he didnt mean to kiss her like that.

[Rose for the Hunter]

He looked at her as she wanted to know how it happened,""me and rebecca where taking a walk through a tall grass field, playing and this woman came out, I guess we spooked her and she hit us with these small orbs. When we woke she "Dragons are beings of magic, white ones are especially powerful when they are older, the young ones though are as weak as puppies so must be protected so that is most likely why she has far more resistance to it." she said making sure the curse had frozen "There it shouldn't be painful and will remain frozen for a while, don't worry it won't hurt your body" she said "and three orbs you said? well that means it's two curses one I can identify easily because of the markings the other one is rather strange and rare so I'll have to see what I can find in my book" she said to him she sniffed her clothes a little after he'd kissed her neck, not thinking anything from it "Hmm most likely the honey candles i had burning in my house, they soak into the clothes and don't worry it's happened before." she said

[Ravenna 3arc]

The pain seemed to get dull again but this time the markings didnt grow anymore, he knew it was only a temporary thing so he didnt expect a miracle or anything like that. He looked at her, looking in the eyes as she said something about honey candles and he shook his head saying,"I dont smell the candles on you, i think its something else..." it was a sweet smell but not like honey, it wasnt strong but at the same time he could clearly smell it. He sniffed her neck again while trying to pinpoint the scent.

Kissing her neck again, this time on purpose as the scent was beginning to drive him. He looks at her saying,"your not human."

[Rose for the Hunter]

She looked to him a little concerned watching closely as he sniffed her neck again she moved away when he kissed her neck a second time. Looking to him she seemed a little annoyed "I will ask that you try to refrain from such actions, I'm here on a job not to play around" she moved away and luckily there were two single beds in that room "and of course I'm not human, I am a witch after all" she said quietly before she headed to bed, the small dragon roaring angrily at him before snuggling up to Saki.

The next morning she awakened pretty early, pulled her hood up to hide her hair before she went to the inn front in order to get breakfast, letting him rest for a moment longer not wanting to be in his company at the moment.

[Ravenna 3arc]

He went to sleep not long after the incident. Sleeping peacefully through the night for a change in weeks, he was fine untill he woke up. Upon waking up he felt hot, the bed was soaked and he knew he didnt piss the bed. He felt his chest and realised that he was burning up, the medicine must have worn off during the night he began to think. He takes the blanket off him and looks around for the witch, knowing that she wasnt human brought comfort to him but at the same time made him uneasy. He looked down and saw that the markings had taken over most of his body, the markings where in a way very beautiful. Almost like someone had gave him a body tatoo that is growing. The only thing he didnt like about this was the heat the curse was venting off him. Since the markings began growing, he was always hot and the heat only seemed to cool when he showered or bathed.

He stood, feeling weak in the legs but tried to manage to walk anyways. After taking a few steps he falls unconscious to the floor, still breathing but this was beginning to get bad. The curse was beginning to grow stronger and stronger. He passed out from being too hot, some call it a heat stroke but in his case it was the curse.

[Rose for the Hunter]

Saki awakened hearing a thump and noticed him on the floor lighting the candles with her magic quickly he saw the curse growing and took the other medicine she had. "I'll regret this later" she sighed using the liquid medicine which was always far stronger than the ointment and gave it to him mouth to mouth to make sure he drank it. "That should sort you out a while longer, I couldn't see it was this bad I'm sorry" she said softly helping him back into his be until noticing it was soaked so let him use hers, she stayed up the rest of the night as the liquid medicine began to attack the curse to try and get rid of it. The curse would slowly retreat to one spot over his skin as it ought back. Meant for dragon's usually it did cause a small amount of pain for him.

[Ravenna 3arc]

He woke up suddenly when she kissed him to give him the medicine, knowing that the kiss was intended to give him the medicine that he needed but he felt swept away by it even though he knew why she was doing it. He kissed her very passionately as it had been a very long time since a woman has done something like that to him. He didnt push for more as his body was weak, and helped her the best that he could as she helped him move but she was doing most the work considering he was so weak at the moment. He passed out not long after she put him on her bed. The curse markings started to slowly receede and fade away as the medicine was working, and the curse started retreating to his heart as he laid there asleep while shirtless as the markings was clearly able to be seen from her view. He was in pain but not nearly as much as before.

[Rose for the Hunter]

Saki pulled away as quickly as she could when he began to kiss her back. She didn't like how strange eh was acting towards her, it was very strange. Saki then settled in one of the chairs in order to sleep, Ryuu curled up in her lap before the morning came, for when it did she checked on the curse "Good it's working" she sighed and let him rest, pulling up her hood she went to get their breakfast, Ryuu however,r went and work him up before she got back.

"You awake? if so I got us some breakfast, we'll need to eat first before we head back out" she said to him finishing her own quickly before going to tack up her nightmare so they could get to traveling as soon as he was ready "That curse is a pesky one, so do not push yourself and please refrain form such actions as last night as well" she said bluntly

[Ravenna 3arc]

He woke as the little dragonite had began to wake him by jumping on his chest. THe little guy must have liked him and wanted more of the treats but unfortunately he didnt have anymore. Seeing Saki come back, he nodded and sat up. Still shirtless from the night before, his muscle tone was far more than most. Evident that he has been lifting heavy things alot. He lifted his hand some to his head, and realised that he was very weak and asked,"will you do me a favor?" He sighed some as he felt heavy, he didnt know if it was the curse, the medicine, or if he was weak from not having eaten in a few days.

He then remembered that he was asking for a favor and continued saying,"In my bag, there is a small box made of wood. Inside it is a small cross shaped item. Will you hand it to me?" the small cross had very small capsules in them and he needed to take one soon before his secret begins to take place.

He looked at her as she asked that he refrains from doing what he had done last night and simply smiled. "and I thought I was kissing a Angel, Shame.... you shouldnt have told me that It was you, because now I will try to get another kiss." He said in a confident manner, but at the same time just toying with her.

[Rose for the Hunter]

Saki looked to him and went to his bag pulling out the box and handing it to him "here you are and don't because if you do then I'll make sure to make that curse of yours worse" she smiled sweetly before she sorted out her own bag for travelling "Well whenever you're ready we'll be leaving" she said to him "but why do you need such pills are you not human or something?" she asked "Also I was not given your name, so who are you?"

Awaiting his answer as well as for him to be ready. "Now then let us get going" she smiled. Once outside she mounted her nightmare and waited for him "Well you coming then?"

[Ravenna 3arc]

he looked at her as she made a defensive remark towards him about him not pursuing any further for more than the kiss'es that he has already taken, the thought only made him smile in a kind gesture as he took the small cross from her as he replied,"you dont know what the curse is, and you cant treat it yet. So how would you manage to make it worse unless you gave me a far more severe curse." Looking up at her sternly showing he was smarter than she may have thought and wasnt about to be fooled or scared into anything just because she was a witch and wasnt human.

He returned his glance to the cross, and pulled the main slider down and took one of the capsules by mouth and pushed the slider back closed into its respective spot saying,"If I had told you such things in the beginning, would you have came with me even if you knew I wasnt human? And didnt you think it was odd that my armor just cracked down the middle when i fell off your horse like creature?" His veins lit up blue for a few seconds to show that his body took to the medicine, lifting his hand up before him to see the slight glowing pulse for a second or so and then returns his hand to his side saying,"Im half human, and half something else." He paused for a minute thinking if he should tell her and shrugged his shoulders before saying,"half angelus."

He quickly stood and put his clothes back on while saying,"My name is..." pausing as he thought of if he should tell her his call sign or not ,"Im known as Apollo," finally deciding to give her his call sign, however the call sign wouldnt make any sense to her for now, but maybe in the future it will.

He stood alongside her nightmare and touched its rear leg, rubbing it gently as he walked forward and said,"nice creature," he got on the nightmare and looked at his hand as he felt the stinging and he then remembered that she said it was a flesh eating type creature and he mumbled,"oh yea," Looking at his hand he focused his sight in the mid center of his palm and the hand began healing very slowly, but then he wrapped his other arm around her saying,"lets go," trying to focus on healing his hand even though he had just taken a suppressant to suppress his angel half powers. If un-suppressed his powers could go out of wack and then everyone would know his secret, including the woman that he needed to help him.

[Rose for the Hunter]

Saki did listen to all he had to say to her questions before she had mounted her nightmare and smiled slightly "Well, Apollo let us get going" she said once he was on the back and was secure she started her nightmare off, making sure everything was packed and that Ryuu was curled up in one of the saddle bags in front of her. Stopping near the afternoon she let her horse drink and fed it some meat the same went for the little dragonite as well as themselves "Eat up, we've still got a way to go so we need to make sure you don't pass out during the journey this time and we need to give you some more of that medicine around the evening to be sure it'll work properly but because you're not completely human that explains why the ointment didn't work." she said thinking to herself for a moment before resting.

When they were ready once again and were back on the road she looked to him "How much further is you're friend exactly?" she questioned.

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