The Twins Reunite Once More

[Allora]

Allora took the bags with a smile and began to drink straight away, she always liked the way he heated them up for her, he was always thinking of the little things but those little things were just as important as the big.
She glanced to him as he lay down and then ran a hand through her hair as she continued to drink. A small smile as he spoke, she knew his emotionless tone like the back of her hand and could see through the walls that he put up, even with her.
As he said how long she had been away she froze and stared into space a moment. ''Ne...nearly five years?'' She had lost the entire last five years of her life and she didn't have a clue what had happened... if she was aware she had been away that long, away from Kitai it would have been sheer torture but he knew, the entire time he was well aware of her absence.

She placed the bags down on the table, suddenly no longer hungry, and then held her head in her hands. Five years he had been searching for her, counting to even the seconds. She could not imagine what everyone had been through, she didn't want to because she would feel tremendous guilt even if it was out of her control.
''What now...what do we do now?'' The question was said aloud but more to herself, they had no leads, no traces and absolutely no clues as to what the hell had happened, but she needed to know, she would never be able to move on from it until she knew all the details.

[Kitai]

"I told you, you wouldn't like the answer and I know what you are thinking in that guilt on your face but it was not in the slightest bit your fault and do not blame yourself, never know five year away from me may have done you some good" He slowly opened his eyes and looked over at her, his voice held the cold sarcasm to it as he spoke, knowing full well he was trying to keep his mind off the fact they had nothing to go on, it set his teeth on edge.

"What we do now is regroup and see what comes our way, I have a few on the look out in the shadow plane, gathering Intel, I have since the moment you left really, I don't do things half assed, the moment shit happens I get stuck in, I may not be much of a planned but I'll breath my last breath before I step down and give up this fight"

[Allora]

''Maybe, but maybe not. I don't feel any different, at least.... as far as I can tell.'' In truth she didn't even know how long she had been back in 'consciousness' or how long she herself had been searching for Kitai and the rest of their family.
''Ok so for now, we just go with the flow and wait and see what happens.'' She looked at Kitai as he spoke about never giving up 'this fight' but what was the fight? They didn't even know who they were up against let alone what it was all about, but she always read into things too deep and as Kitai said, he was more of a doer than she was.
''Who have you met here in these parts so far?'' She was curious to know if he had met any to call allies or enemies around here. She was planning on scoping around to see what was what and where as it looked as though they might be staying here for a while.

[Kitai]

"I seek no so called allies, there is no such thing only enemies" He looked away and looked toward the windows, lost in his own thoughts once more as he snickered softly. "Odd enough to be in this place less then a week and find the one person I was after, I have not been looking for anything else but you"

He clicked his tonged against his teeth and old habit of his as the piercing in his tonged made an odd ring each time it tapped against his teeth, he amused himself by listening to the odd ring it gave off, only those with high pitched hearing would be able to hear it, he did not care for much but what he did care he would destroy anything that came near, his mood souring again as he thought more on what happened.

[Allora]

''So typical of you brother.'' She smiled and went to him to squeeze his shoulder lightly, she had never known him to really have any allies, or friends for that matter but then again nor did she have really. She may have been the friendlier of the two of them in that regards, but they both knew better than to trust no one but each other, and she did, she trusted Kitai with her very being and nothing would ever change that.
''Yes. There is something about this place. It feels different... there are more immortals here than I have ever experienced in one place before. Strange...'' She ran a hand through her hair before taking the dual katanas from her back and sitting down to examine them a moment.
''It's like they are all drawn here or something.'' She could hear the souls all around, waiting to be set free. ''Can you hear them? It seems we have a lot to do here.'' She yawned and found that she was very tired, but more emotionally tired than anything else, the news of the time she had been away was heavy on her and all she wanted to do was sleep. ''I think I will get some rest if you don't mind?'' Before he could answer, she lay back on the couch and stretched herself out, quickly her eyelids closed and she drifted off into sleep.

[Kitai]

He rose to stand and allowed her to peaceful time to sleep, he removed his massive jacket, setting it over her. Letting her know he was always going to be there to look after her no matter what it cost him. He thought on her comment about the souls and closed his eyes, just listening to them. He could hear them well and always had as he stepped outside and leaned against the railing once more, just listening to the voices, some spoke of fear, some of death and some held such anger that it made him smirk coldly to himself.

Lifting his left hand ever so slightly to run it through his hair before flicking open his lighter, a habit he had picked up along the way from humans. Taking a long drag on the cigarette and allowed the cigarette smoke to curl from his lips, lost in the voices, listening to each one almost as if he was looking for any particular ones that might give him any information he could actually use.

[Allora]

Allora soon went deeper and deeper into her sleep, the fact that she had found Kitai made her feel more at ease, more settled to let the sleep take hold. For the last few days or however long she could remember back she had not slept properly if at all, she sometimes wished she were a full vampire so sleep would not be an issue but she wasn't so she just had to make do.
Her eyelids began to flutter in her sleep although her body stayed deadly still....

....................... Allora's arms were tied with burning hot chains, spread apart along with her legs she was raised up, each chain trying to pull her in a different direction from the other. At first she did not cry or scream in pain but her blood shot eyes stared vengefully at something... a shadow amidst a wall of burning flames. The screams of others echoed around her, the smell of burning flesh and blood suffocating.
As she was raised higher her bones began to break, the arms being pulled out of their sockets and her knees collapsing under the pressure. She grit her teeth as blood began to trickle down her body, dripping on the ground below.
The shadowed figure moved forward with a large spiked whip that quickly lashed out and began to hit into something, something that yelped in pain, almost begging to be spared. Allora found the source of the pain ridden screams and her eyes widened, her hands balled into fists as she was filled with even more rage than before, ''Unmei!!'' The shadow was torturing her hell hound to torture Allora herself, it's cruel laugh grew louder and louder as Allora began to struggle to free herself to help her beloved hound.
After what seemed like hours passed of whipping the creature, the shadowed figure stepped past the flames, the hound lay motionless on the floor, and he stepped towards her with clawed fingernails that soon threated to pierce into her, ''Tell me... tell me how...'' It's voice was little more than a whisper, Allora's reply was to spit in it's face and with that the shadow thrust forward it's claws and pierced into her stomach. The pain was unbearable, her skin was burning from within as though acid was filling her up, her screams were finally released as the pain became all too much.....................

Allora awoke from her sleep with a piercing scream, tears were streaming down her face as she shot up from the sofa, she was sweating and felt boiling hot to touch, her eyes had taken on a blood red colour and her hands went down to her stomach, lifting up her top and true to her dream, she had five large puncture wounds that had formed into scars, the skin around them was still red raw and looked as though she had been burned. ''Hell... I was in hell...'' She whispered figuring Kitai would have rushed in with the way she had awoke.

[Kitai]

Twitched, he had seen what she had seen from their link, he didn't speak but he was at his twin's side in a heartbeat. He had seen it all and just rested a hand on her shoulder, noting the heat but wasn't fazed, those images clawed at his own mind as he know it would his twins but she got the worst of it as he sharply looked at her skin, a look of pure anger flashed over his facial features for a few seconds.

He tried to process the images to see if he could understand them, he was looking for clues for anything that would help them. His hand rubbed her back ever so slightly, trying to comfort his twin, clicking his tongue and called his hound to him to look a scent of the wound as he bit back a snarl, he grabbed a cold cloth and set it on the raw skin, hoping to cool the skin down. He would figure this out even if it killed him, no one laid a hand on his twin in such a way and walk away alive.

[Allora]

Kitai was by her side in mere seconds, she knew he must have seen what she had seen and as much as she hated the thought, she thought that the only way her past would be revealed to her was through her dreams, she had to be strong, to find out the face of that shadowed demon or whatever the hell he was.
Her arms began to itch and as she gently rolled up one sleeves, she just as quickly let it fall back to normal again, hiding the damage that the chains had caused her. It seemed that with the dreams, the scars revealed themselves, she dreaded to think what else would appear after another dream.
Allora glanced up to Kitai as he placed the cold cloth against her skin, it did help a little and as her eyes grazed over the room to land on his own hell hound her hands balled up into fists once more. ''Unmei.'' She gasped, she then realised she had not seen her hound in quite some time, she began to panic, what if she was dead, what if that thing had killed Unmei. ''Unmei!'' She shouted, calling her out but only getting silence, she looked to Kitai with clear worry in her face but then fire began to emerge in the corner of the room as Unmei surfaced, she was bloodied and battered, covered in wounds at every inch of her large body, her breathing was raspy and she could barely even stand, but yet she had come to her.

Allora stood up quickly despite her own injuries and rushed to Unmei's side, crouching down she began to stroke her hound, resting her forehead on Unmei's own. No words could be spoken as Allora was too saddened.
After a time she stood and rummaged around, returning with a first aid box and various other things as she set to work cleaning up her hound the best that she could.

[Kitai]

Watched in silence for a few moments, this was one sure way to set his temper off greatly, his own hell hound whined and moved over, trying to help, like himself and his twin Allora, their hell hounds were also of the same family and litter. He sat in silence, starting to mediate. Only his twin would know what he was doing. The screaming voices of the dead around them would suddenly fill the room. He called the dead souls to him by force. He had the power of darkness at his hands and he was going to create one hell of a power surge to call the demon to him. He had, had enough with someone playing with his twin if he had to lose what sanity as the cost to call the demon to them then so be it.

His massive spike in power would cause his hell hound to shrink away in terror, he had only done this one before when the had needed to get a certain soul to surface, a hell demon so he figured what better way then to bring the fight to them. He didn't care what cost was involved he would willing pay it within a heartbeat to stop his twin being tormented the way she was. The darkness circle glowed around his meditating form.

[Allora]

Allora turned sharply to face Kitai as he began to try and call forth the demon, as much as she wanted to find it out, she was frightened to do so, the demon wanted her to reveal something to him, what she did not know but she had a feeling that Kitai using his powers like this would be to the demon's benefit, not their own.
She Pat Kitai's hound and closed her eyes momentarily. Light began to creep from within the black of the night, a light that she could call forth just as her brother could call forth the shadows.
The light encased The two hounds as a protective shell,one thing about Allora's light powers was that she could use them to repel demonic energies. She stood, having done all that she could for now and pulled free her dual katanas, preparing herself for this demon to surface.
The screams of the souls made her cringe, reminding her too much of that dream, too much of what had happened to her in the depths of hell. She could see the determination and hate etched in her twin's face, whatever happened she would not let him die. She would rather die herself than that.

[Kitai]

Scoffed under his breath, that smell, he hated it, he knew it was the stench of rotting flesh and heat. He had become well adjusted to it but it always never settled right within his gut, he stopped in his tracks and just sat there, snapping his eyes open as the screaming stopped, he sat there almost in a daze, blinking in confusion. Slowly looking around it was strange, he was seeing everything like it should be but there was something different to it, almost like it was under water, distilled in a way.

He snapped out of it and caught his breath, he had not even been realizing he had been holding it and winced, resting a hand against his head, it wasn't often if at all that he showed any sign of pain in front of anyone even his sister, slowly going to stand and used the wall for support, sliding down it, breathing hard, something wasn't right, he could feel it.

[Allora]

Allora watched in anticipation as the stench poisoned the air around them, but she seemed to be well adjusted to it, she dreaded to think why that was. She watched Kitai closely, and although he seemed to stop, nothing was different except him. He looked confused, dazed. Allora left the side of the hounds and went straight to her brother. ''What happened kItai? What's wrong?'' Her voice was slightly cracked, she had never known him to show pain no matter whos company he was in, something was seriously wrong.

Allora looked at him with worry before darting off and coming back with a blood bag. ''Drink this.'' Whatever had happened, he seemed to have gone deathly pale, the blood would help replenish him. She glanced around to see no clear signs of anything. ''He is a powerful demon Kitai. I doubt he could be called forth so easily.'' She could have been wrong of course, Kitai was powerful in his abilities, not much could out do him but it seems this demon was on a whole other level from both of them.

[Kitai]

Stilled her hand sharply. "No, it was something else, I can't place it but I swear" He shook his head and tried to clear the dazed feeling he had, it was off putting and he didn't like it one bit, he slowly looked around, his eyesight seeming to return to normal as he just rested back and closed his eyes. "I could have sworn mother was there trying to stop the calling, but in a way it was her but wasn't. I can't make two ways about it, it felt like her, looked like her but the smell wasn't hers" He sighed, shaking his head. Keeping still, the paleness in his face only growing as he tried to understand it all.

[Allora]

Allora paused in her movements and stared at Kitai in disbelief, ''Mother? What the hell is going on?'' This was too much for one day to deal with, she was confused beyond belief, she hated being in the dark only finding out snippets of information, she felt like she was being slowly smothered. She had not sensed their mother at all, but why would she try and stop the calling? Did the demon have her too? Allora's eyes widened, ''Does he have her? Does he have her too?'' She wanted to delve back into hell to find out, to find her mother and take her away from the demon's rotten claws.

Allora sat and tried to analyse what Kitai had said, that it felt like mother but the scent was not her own. ''Kitai...is mother dead? Could it have been her soul you detected?'' Souls had a different scent to their living selves, she hoped to God her thoughts were wrong.