Relentless

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Having been gone three weeks his journey was finally about to conclude itself in The Chiltern Hills. A vast wooded stretch of land that covered the Chilterns in England.
Breathing loud in his ears he ran for his life flames licking skin in a defensive effort as he bound through the woods blood and grime covering his skin in a thick coating, his journey had not been an easy one.
First he had tracked down some of the Ancients involved in the attack upon the Matashina coven and after gaining what information he could from them he took their lives and burnt down their home as they had done to their foes.
He had then travelled the globe following the ones he sought, each time he gained some ground upon them they would move as though they knew they were being followed by something just as relentless as they.
Then he found them, hiding their prize in a old bomb shelter buried deep in the hills of the Chiltern forest. But he had underestimated just how well it would be guarded.

Now he sprinted through the woods desperately trying not to trip on any low lying branches as he covered the ground leading them away he planned to circle back around before he took them on. He knew very well what they protected and he wanted it, to take it back to where it belonged. The Matashina coven, he had come to save Daton.

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Daton had no idea where he had been taken to, the attack drained him more then he cared to admit, all he knew was he was chained, like an animal in some kind of under ground dungeon. The shackles around his wrist held him off the ground, causing great strain on his shoulders and wrists but also cut in to his skin like an unforgiving knife. It may have only been three weeks but for him it may as well have been ten years, a blind human held by several ancients, what was worse was that the knew his gifts, his family tree and wanted him, and would do anything to get what they wanted.

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A sudden weight upon his back had him toppling to the ground sliding through the undergrowth, scraping the skin upon his hands and the side of his face. Shaking his head the wind knocked out of him he gasped in a large breath lifting his head to see who had knocked him down.
A kick to the left of his jaw spun him viciously sidewards landing him upon his back, the second's didn't connect he knew he had to act the other three would catch up soon.
Physically he was no match for Ancients, Grabbing the foot on his hands he flinched the impact separating bones and crushing a few within his hands and wrist.

Twisting the foot in a quick movement he pushed his body weight upwards bringing his attacker onto the earth beside him, grappling with the Ancient to avoid its fanged jaws clamping upon him, Erebus quickly ended it bursting himself alight burning the Vampire with him.
Stumbling back onto his feet he wasted no time, setting off in a sprint again, circling the two perusing him.

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With all of this going on Daton was unaware, too weak to even thing straight his mind was at risk of unhinging completely, that was his biggest fear, losing his mind and the ancients knew that, so there were several horrific images playing in his mind constantly, like a video loop of deaths, murders, people being ripped apart, all this because of the chains and shackles he was forced to touch.

He was in the lions den, but what unexpected was a sudden spike in his telekinetic ability, which had been dormant until now and blasted a hole in the roof which was directly in the way of one of the ancients.

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Seeing the explosion not to far ahead he dug his feet into the earth causing himself to stop suddenly, the two ancients following him nearly barrelling straight into him, the first he took down easily with a burst of seering white flames, the Ancient screaming unnaturally as the flames stripped the skin and muscles away from bone until nothing remained but a pile of ashes and bone quickly whipped away by the wind.

The second one recovered quickly placing clawed hands upon Erebus's shoulder it swung sideways hurling the fire demon against a pine tree.
Vanishing inside the branches for a few seconds he impacted upon the floor with a thud, rising a little slower then the other times the more damage he took Erebus looked upon the ancient with hatred flames coursing high into the air in a funnel, twisting fast and precise until they consumed the Ancient in a single sweep.

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Daton heard the fighting, but at the same time he didn't, unable to know if it was real or not, his head bowed as he rested fro now, one of his shoulders now dislocated but he didn't react to it, he was numb to the pain now, thin and brittle were his limbs. He was a mess but what would the total cost be, could he even begin to recovers from these physical and mental injuries?

Could he even be found?

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More would come but for now the ones close were all dead. Feeling a bit wobbly on his feet he started to move, limping quickly towards the hole that Daton had blown in the roof of his torture chamber.
Scrabbling down until he pushed his legs through it he let go landing hard upon his injured back.

Coughing he got back up fast seeing Daton's feet first he slowly looked up at the rest of him, his head shaking without his knowledge.
Quickly going to him he undid his binds and lowered him carefully to the floor.
"Hey..hey little buddy you still in there?"

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"the three fold man approaches" Came a rather... strange voice from daton followed by a completely insane laugh, his head raising to what would be eye level, his arms lifeless, his body limp and beaten, covered in bite marks around his arms and neck which hadn't healed which was one of many attempts to break him, or maybe an attempt to turn him "the elders are coming"

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"Yeah man I know, I know" he responded getting up he held onto Daton the added weight not doing much to help his own physical well being.
Holding him close and protected to his larger form he began to walk looking for a way out.
"Just tell me when they are close enough that I have to fight"
Finding the stairs he began to ascend them picking up speed as he did so, needing to get himself and Daton somewhere safe so he could call for help.

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"I can't see" He said, which was a surprising thing for him to say, because he may have been commenting about being blind which was pretty strange or he couldn't tell if anything was around the corner which would have been a more reasonable thing to explain because he was exhausted and seemed mentally drained, but he was trying his best, it just wasn't enough

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"Well that's just wonderful... don't worry buddy I will improvise...I.."
Upon reaching the top step his statement was cut short spinning around to avoid Daton getting hit at full force Erebus copped the kick from a huge beast of an ancient who had been waiting for them.
Toppling backwards over the stair edge they tumbled down the stairs, Erebus letting go of Daton so not to make the damage worse by landing on him.
Landing hard he rushed to get back up and meet the Ancient before he got to Daton.
"Little buddy..it would be real good..if you could try and call for help some how" he yelled grabbing the ancient by the shoulders trying to stop him.

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now he was free of the chains, and even if he was hunched in a ball by the middle steps the eerie young man tilted his head up in the direction of the scuffle, an evil crazed grin on his face, the ancient suddenly holding his head, screaming in agony before the male's head was seemingly crushed as if a melon was crushed between two concrete blocks even if nothing was physically there to do such a thing. "he danced away in to the jaws f the fires and pointy sticks"

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Looking in disgust as the ancients head basically went pop Erebus let him go dropping him onto the floor, he felt like he had been hit by a bus then reversed over but he still made his way back over to Daton helping him up again he picked him up.
"Right.... well what ever you say" he muttered gruffly hitting the stairs again making short work of it.
"Daton, do you know the fastest way out of this place?"

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What a 200 lb tiger was doing in Britain was strange enough, but this one was angry and cornered. Its eyes ablaze, crouched low to the ground it would blend more or less into the darkness and from it would shoot stakes. These were no ordinary stakes for they were attuned to the shadows and the athame lodged in a crevice of the bunker’s walls. Through it and the magics bound by it Xiomara could absorb the Ancients; though it took a great amount of effort because she would need to weaken them and even then was not guaranteed that she could destroy them altogether. Tentacles sprang forth at the same time that the tiger pounced, tackling one of them and managing to grasp another with the dark magics. His head was crushed between her jaws and his blood tasted like ash and corruption. Letting the blood drip out of her open maw she moved towards the one caught in the tentacles and with her stripes aglow twisted the creature in opposite directions and shredded him into ribbons. Turning away she changed back into her human form, hair far too long due to the transformation, jumped and retrieved her dagger before joining the men downstairs. Her body covered in blood, bits of guts and wounds that mingled in with the stripes. “We need to move, they might bottleneck in this hallway, but we’ll be trapped down here or if in the next room; having to defend two different directions.” Xiomara was probably just as exhausted as Erebus and Daton but she’d relax later, while waiting for Daton to reply the woman would move to check some of Erebus wounds, her head cocked at all times as if she were listening to something.

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"Yeah so lets go then" he replied his mind on getting Daton out of this place and on nothing else, everything else could wait. Moving on by Xiomara as she started to check upon him he shot her a look trying to explain that he didn't think now was the time.
Going down the hallway he tried to listen out for any on coming Ancients, letting Xiomara protect them from behind.
"We need to get to a boat or an air port"