Out Hunting (Zee/Castiel)

[Darrius Ajax Ambrose]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=z-index,1][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/sy8djo.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; width: 500px; height: 600px; outline: 2px solid #7a756a; padding: 0px;, bTable] The young phoenix messed with his long sleeved, black shirt with jeans as pants. his dirty-blond hair is brushed back to show that his hair is slightly wavy. His startling, blue eyes blinked as he stood in the afternoon air of a small forest in California. His handsome face frowned as he remembered reading about the siting of a strange things happening in the forest. He then also heard about the multiple killings of mortals. The almost 300 year old phoenix started to head onward on a path. Darrius knows that this will lead him to the demons that he knew are they hiding in the forest. Stepping onward, Darrius glanced around as his tan tennis shoes that meet the drying leaves that fell from the tree tops. He knew that there are about 3 demons in the area, but there are really a group to the size of 6 demons. Some own red-eyes while the rest own black-eyes. He kept on walking before he stops at a fork in the path, unsure of what path to head onward on. [style=padding: 15px; font-size: 0.7em;] Location: Forest near Palo Alto, California Status: Done Outfit: Black, long-sleeved shirt and jeans Notes: He is going into danger and that he doesn't know that there are more demons hiding nearby that he thinks of. [/style]

[Zee Pritchard]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/2ai207k.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; outline: 1px solid #928a7a; width: 500px; height: 600px; padding: 0px;, bTable] Zee came up along a bad, narrow hiking trail that she'd found on a chart. The last time she and Darrius had run into one another had been Parkers Crossroads, nearly a month ago, and back then even in the middle of Zombietown the young hunter had managed to run around in black lace and corsets, stompy boots, a ton of makeup. Today she still had the makeup, at least the huge black smears of kohl around his eyes, but the rest was noticeably different. She was wearing hardcore hiking gear, heavier than this kind of country really warranted, with serious boots and a do-rag tied around her head to keep her hair back, but with a pistol at each hip and that big fuck-off rifle she loved so much hanging by a strap off her shoulder. Her backpack was a hiker's pack that looked well-worn but was balanced wrong for being full of normal camping gear. Probably weaponry, all things being equal. "Darrius." She didn't sound as surprised as she really should have, Zee was starting to figure out that the world was even smaller than she'd thought it was, at least lately it had been. "What're you doing out here, dude? You should get back home, these woods're no good right now." [style=padding: 0px 25px; font-size: smaller] Location: Woods near Palo Alto, CA Outfit: Basic hiking gear, with bonus armaments Music: Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen Notes: Castiel will be along once the violence starts. [/style]

[Darrius Ajax Ambrose]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=z-index,1][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/sy8djo.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; width: 500px; height: 600px; outline: 2px solid #7a756a; padding: 0px;, bTable] Darrius paused as he looked at both paths before smiling, showing his healthy, white teeth. His blue eyes short of shined a new way as he thought of the up coming fight. Oh, yes. The thrill of the fight is part of the reason he does this type of things. Another is avenging his father and mother who died to save Darrius from a group of raging demons. A voice made him leave his thoughts. The immortal turned to Zee and nodded a greeting. "Good day, miss." he said politely. "Why I am here in this area? Well, have you heard about the killings of people and mysterious sitings?" he asked softly. His voice holds a coolness and calmness. "If not, I am here to see what all the sitings are about. I should guess that your here for the some reason, I presume..." he said as the phoenix eyed the outfit and weapons. "I came here since I know the sitings are from a group of demons. I am also in a great mood for a fight. Been fighting demons since I was...15 years old." Darrius finally spat out why he is in the forest. His blue eyes blinked at Zee before turning around and taking few steps on the path to the demons, before turning back to Zee. The phoenix turned to the huntress and smiled, "I really don't mind your company, also you really can't turn me away from a good fight with more then one demons." he said with a friendly nod before waiting to hear Zee's opinion. Hus ears are also listening to his surroundings that may tell him if someone is sneaking up on them. His head also peered at the path, which also showed a bit of impatience in his blue eyes for the fight to come. [style=padding: 15px; font-size: 0.7em;] Location: Forest near Palo Alto, CA Status: Done Outfit: Black, long-sleeved shirt and jeans Notes: He is anxious for a good fight with demons. [/style]

[Zee Pritchard]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/2ai207k.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; outline: 1px solid #928a7a; width: 500px; height: 600px; padding: 0px;, bTable] She looked him up and down, deciding. She'd seen Darrius fight back in Tennessee, she knew he knew what he was doing. But he also wasn't a hunter, not properly, and she was always wary about teaming up with people who weren't hunters. Especially against demons, there was just nothing good that came from getting civvies involved with demons. Question was, if Darrius wasn't a hunter, was he a civvie? He fought well against the croats, but could she trust him to watch her back? Especially now when maybe she-- Zee cut that thought off mid-word and told herself firmly that she didn't have to trust him to watch her back, she just needed to trust him not to stick a knife in it. As she did trust him that far, she just nodded. "Yeah, okay." She hiked up the last few yards to join him. "Problem with these dudes isn't that they're killing hikers. Or, okay, yes. That's a problem. But the other problem is that the bodies disappear, turn up three weeks later but are only ten days dead. They're playing with their food." And her voice and eyes went bleak, but she didn't feel the need to explain or anything. That was nobody's fucking business. [style=padding: 0px 25px; font-size: smaller] Location: Woods near Palo Alto, CA Outfit: Basic hiking gear, with bonus armaments Music: Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen Notes: So doesn't want to talk about it. [/style]

[Darrius Ajax Ambrose]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=z-index,1][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/sy8djo.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; width: 500px; height: 600px; outline: 2px solid #7a756a; padding: 0px;, bTable] Darrius smiled as Zee agreed that she was here about the mysterious sitings. His blue eyes blinked as he kept a slow pace. He listened to Zee as he started to head closer and closer to where the sitings were witnessed. He also knew that there will be a few demons that are hiding around the area that the hunter and him are heading towards. The phoenix nodded to what Zee said about the bodies. "Yeah, I heard that also." he replied politely. "But, the bad thing is that we or I don't know how many demons that are near the area of the sitings." Darrius said to her. His blond hair moved slightly as the soft breeze toyed with it. Darrius blinked again, "Playing with food is a very ugly habit to have." he sighed before pausing after a 30 minute walk. "Okay, the first siting of a body was around this area..."he said as he studied the path ahead of him that is crowded with bushes and lots of areas where demons can hide in. [style=padding: 15px; font-size: 0.7em;] Location: Forest near Palo Alto, CA Status: Done Outfit: long-sleeved, black shirt and jeans Notes: They are very near the sitings of the bodies that the demons left behind. [/style]

[Zee Pritchard]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/2ai207k.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; outline: 1px solid #928a7a; width: 500px; height: 600px; padding: 0px;, bTable] "Hang on." She gestured them off the trail a bit, to a place where a redwood had fallen and the trunk had gone dense and weathered rather than dissolving to mulch the way so many did. Propping a foot on the trunk, she swung her backpack around and started looking inside it, pulling out various things. "What'd you bring?" Knowing your supplies was essential on a demon hunt, you could be the best fighter in the world and you still couldn't deal with more demons than you had the salt, iron, and holy water to hold off while you exorcised. So even though Zee knew to the last molecule how much she'd brought with her, she needed to know what Darrius was carrying. There's an old saying that says 'raise no more devils than you can lay down', and the hunter's corrollary is 'engage no more monsters than you have bullets in your gun.' [style=padding: 0px 25px; font-size: smaller] Location: Woods near Palo Alto, CA Outfit: Basic hiking gear, with bonus armaments Music: Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen Notes: Bit of business first. [/style]

[Darrius Ajax Ambrose]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=z-index,1][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/sy8djo.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; width: 500px; height: 600px; outline: 2px solid #7a756a; padding: 0px;, bTable] "Okay." he said as he followed Zee off the path. He heard Zee's question and smiled. His took out two pistols and 50 rounds of iron bullets that have salt in them. "There are 50 rounds of iron pistol bullets with salt in them. Once they hit a person or demon they explode when touched. The salt will be sent flying into the air and spread all over the demon like a swarm of bees. I am also a phoenix with the knowledge from almost 300 years of fighting demons and a touch that can send someone into ash very quickly." he said politely, as he handed over his weapons so that Zee can look at them. He then waited to see her expression or statement she wanted to show or say. His blue eyes blinked calmly, as he stared around him. He is still a bit unsure if a demon is spying on them the very moment. [style=padding: 15px; font-size: 0.7em;] Location: forest neat Palo Alto, CA Outfit: long-sleeved, black shirt and jeans Notes: Showing off his weapons to Zee and keeping an eye out for anything suspicious of the area. [/style]

[Zee Pritchard]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/2ai207k.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; outline: 1px solid #928a7a; width: 500px; height: 600px; padding: 0px;, bTable] Zee had never in her actual and entire life heard of salt/iron/exploding pistol rounds, but if they both survived the afternoon she was going to have to get him to tell her how he made them. "All right." She pulled two bottles of what looked like Evian and tossed one to Darrius. There was a cross inked onto the top in sharpie and Zee opened hers and dumped the entire thing right over the top of her head, soaking her hair, skin, and clothes in holy water. It was a small edge, but one that could matter--if they can't touch you, they can't eat your face, right? She pulled a battered looking iPod nano out of her bag and got it hooked up to what looked like a fairly expensive and high-quality pair of card speakers which had clips welded onto the back of them. The speakers clipped to her belt, she checked that the volume dongle on the speaker cord was run all the way down to muted, and then she hit the Play button on the iPod and shoved it into the buttoning back pocket on her shorts. The two cans of outdoor surveyors' marking paint went into the outside pockets of her backpack, she put her guns back on and snapped a pair of pouches onto her belt that just had to hold more clips, and then said, "Let's move." And, inevitably, they hadn't made it another hundred yards before the first pair of black-eyes rushed them from the undergrowth. [style=padding: 0px 25px; font-size: smaller] Location: Woods near Palo Alto, CA Outfit: Basic hiking gear, with bonus armaments Music: Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen Notes: I love these kinds of details. [/style]

[Darrius Ajax Ambrose]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=z-index,1][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/sy8djo.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; width: 500px; height: 600px; outline: 2px solid #7a756a; padding: 0px;, bTable] Darrius took the holy water and did the same thing that Zee did to herself. He smiled as he sort of basked in the smell of the water as it soaked his skin, hair and clothes. (I ought to take a shower when I come back to me living quarters.) he thought as he took up his weapons that he designed by himself. The phoenix then watches the huntress get ready for the battle with demons. It sort of made him smile at how eager and ready she is. He then smiled again as he put a pistol away before filling the second with a round of bullets. His blue eyes looked this way and that as Zee lead the way to the area where the demons sat waiting. He heard a rustling of bushes before the first demon sprang at him. With a loud yell, a bunch of demons followed the first one with loud calls of battle. (Sh!t) Darrius thought as he saw that they odds are 8 to 2 and muttered. "I never thought of this many demons in one area." he whispered a bit mystified, as he demons quickly surrounded the hunter and him in a circle of glaring red and black eyes. Darrius also doesn't know that their are about 10 more demons spread throughout the forest. They will need to slowly deal with the 10 after they deal with the 8 demons that now surrounds them at this point of time. [style=padding: 15px; font-size: 0.7em;] Location: forest neat Palo Alto, CA Outfit: long-sleeved, black shirt and jeans Notes: Time for a fight with 8 demons. (Castiel can come in) [/style]

[Zee Pritchard]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/2ai207k.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; outline: 1px solid #928a7a; width: 500px; height: 600px; padding: 0px;, bTable] As the demons started swarming forward, before Zee even raised her gun she thumbed the dongle on the cord leading from the speakers on her belt and all of a sudden an exorcism ritual was blaring through the clearing. Zee's voice amplified through the speakers intoning, 'Regna terrae, cantate Deo, psallite Domino' qui fertis super caelum caeli ad Orientem ecce dabit voci Suae vocem virtutis, tribuite virtutem Deo...' and on through one of the basic Catholic exorcism rites. And, right over the top of it, the sound of gunfire as she plugged shaped iron rounds into demons one after another. The only purpose to the gunfire was to hold them back long enough for the exorcism to complete, the guns wouldn't even begin to kill them, but it could knock them back and keep them pinned in place as the magnified voice blared out. It worked, too. Sort of. The gunfire kept the demons too distracted for them to abandon their meatsuits and as the ritual completed four of them were banished in flares of black smoke and ruddy, evil light. Four. Out of eight. The other four just kept coming, red eyes glowing and laughing an ugly, awful laugh as they approached. Zee was swearing right over the top of the looping exorcism track, backing up as she pumped round after round into the nearest red-eye. But eventually there was nowhere to back up to and it reached out, took hold of her wrist and yanked her forward and down onto her knees. "All right, bitch," it began, but it never got any further than that because suddenly twenty-two inches of angel blade sprouted through his skull on a diagonal and he was exploding into white light and screams, leaving Zee cursing and blinking away dazzle-blindness as Castiel spun away to deal with the next demon. [style=padding: 0px 25px; font-size: smaller] Location: Woods near Palo Alto, CA Outfit: Basic hiking gear, with bonus armaments Music: Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen Notes: There ya go, you want Cas, you got Cas. [/style]

[Darrius Ajax Ambrose]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=z-index,1][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/sy8djo.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; width: 500px; height: 600px; outline: 2px solid #7a756a; padding: 0px;, bTable] Darrius shot at the two demons that where advancing on him. His pistol rounds worked great on dazing or making them yell in pain. The phoenix muttered as the enemy kept on approaching him which they easily cornered the young immortal against a huge boulder, away from the other hunter. Darrius's blue eyes blinked in anger as he knew that he is cornered by the two red-eyed demons. (Sh!t) he cursed to himself as he leaned into the bump and sharp boulder that he is pressed against. A demon encourages his buddy as they drew closer. Their eyes gleamed with a hunger for a rough play with Darrius before killing him at the end. The phoenix's blue eyes narrowed as he saw the eagerness in the demon's eyes as they started to get ready to pounce. Darrius muttered as he got his ability ready to be used to protect himself with. (This is going be one bad day and a half.) he thought as he pocketed his pistol. This made the demons howl with eagerness, since they think that Darrius is surrendering to them. The still young phoenix started to block blows that the demons sent at him by his strong arms. The immortal creature knew that these demons are stronger then him and wished/prayed for some assistance to arrive soon. Darrius then focused to send the demons into ground and into Hell as he started to swing blows with his arms and legs to fend off the demons. The phoenix also knew that the odds are against him, since these demons are red-eyed and much stronger then him alone. Darrius also doesn't see Castiel that is helping out Zee as the immortal fended and tries to push the demons back to give himself room. [style=padding: 15px; font-size: 0.7em;] Location: forest neat Palo Alto, CA Outfit: long-sleeved, black shirt and jeans Notes: Fighting for his safety and life. [/style]

[Castiel]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/33yg9is.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; outline: 1px solid #96948a; width: 500px; height: 600px; padding: 0px;, bTable] With her wrist broken (Zee could already feel it started to swell, and the dull throb that would turn into screaming pain soon enough) there was only so much Zee could do, but she tried. She swung the GK down off her shoulder and set it near to hand, but then before she pulled it up she pulled out the iPod and flipped the track to a different exorcism ritual, one that was more potent but was also longer and so wasn't her first choice for this kind of fight. But since it was pretty clear that things had gotten way over their heads, she went for it before bringing the gun up in her off hand and bracing it against her shoulder. Her accuracy would be for shit this way, but if any of those red-eyed fuckers got near her she'd show them what eighteen rounds a second felt like. Castiel kicked one of the red-eyes back out of the way and swung around to where Darrius was, yanking one back by the back of its collar and stabbing it, sending it belching out white light and collapsing. The other skipped back out of the way, forcing Castiel to chase it and distracting from the way that the last red-eye was circling back around toward Darrius and Zee. Location: Woods near Palo Alto, CA Music: Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits Notes: Battle Mode.

[Darrius Ajax Ambrose]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=z-index,1][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/sy8djo.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; width: 500px; height: 600px; outline: 2px solid #7a756a; padding: 0px;, bTable] Darrius winced as he felt a blow to the chest that ultimately knocked the wind form his lungs. His gasped as he filled the clasped lungs with fresh air. His blue eyes widened as he glanced at the pressing demons. At the corner of his right eye, he saw Castiel coming and gathered strength to keep on fighting. Once, Castiel took down a demon and the guardian angel ran off. The phoenix's blue eyes blinked slowly as he stood up slowly before hearing a ruffling of bushes as 2 more red-eyed demons came sprinting at him. The immortal muttered before sending one demon into a pile of ash with a rough push with his hands. The other demon growled in anger before starting to do a fist fight with Darrius. [style=padding: 15px; font-size: 0.7em;] Location: forest neat Palo Alto, CA Outfit: long-sleeved, black shirt and jeans Notes: Keep on fighting demons. [/style]

[Castiel]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/33yg9is.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; outline: 1px solid #96948a; width: 500px; height: 600px; padding: 0px;, bTable] Between Darrius's phoenix-fire and Castiel's blade, they managed to take out three of the five red-eyes still in the clearing. When the exorcism ritual completed the last two were banished and there was a moment of startling calm and quiet in the woods. And then Castiel was moving again, gesturing Darrius over toward him as the angel went to Zee and scooped her up in his arms. The hunter had barely started squawking and kicking when the world lurched away to nothing and all three of them were in Zee's room at the crappy motel in Mountain View that she'd been camped out in while she investigated this case. "Jesus Christ!" Zee rolled out of Castiel's arms and straight onto one of the beds, made a horrible whimpering sound as she landed on her broken wrist, and then curled up into a ball as she fought not to puke all over everywhere as the disorientation from the teleportation warred with the flashing red-and-dark pain from her wrist. "Not just at the moment," Castiel said calmly, knowing better than to approach the hunter right now as getting punched would help nothing. "Darrius, are you hurt?" Location: Woods near Palo Alto, CA Music: Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits Notes: He knows how to prioritize.

[Darrius Ajax Ambrose]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=z-index,1][atrb=style, background: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/sy8djo.jpg) center bottom no-repeat; width: 500px; height: 600px; outline: 2px solid #7a756a; padding: 0px;, bTable] Darrius finished off the last demon and shook his head as he felt throbbing pain in his shoulder, chest, leg and a finger in his left hand. His blues squeezed closed for a few seconds as he tried to forget the pain. (Pain makes you stronger, you gotta deal with it.) the phoenix blinked again, before glancing at the woman hunter and the man in the trench coat. He saw the gesture from Castiel and is bit suspicious before he nodded politely. He watched the guardian angel scoop up Zee before the world lurched around him. (I guess, this man is an angel.) the still young phoenix finally pieced together who Castiel is. The immortal feels a bit sick to the stomach as the world stopped moving. Darrius's blue eyes blinked around the building, a very, crappy, motel room. His blinked as the sick stomach stopped rumbling angrily. The immortal walked closer before he heard the guardian angel ask him if he was hurt. (Of course I am hurt.) he thought politely. He then gathered his voice and said as his eyes started to wincing. "I got a twisted arm, dislocated left shoulder, 3 broken fingers... and maybe a broken rib and my leg hurts a little also." he said before looked down as the ground as he fought pain away. (I learned over the years to be deaf to pain when I fight.) he thought as he shook his head when his blue eyes winced. [style=padding: 15px; font-size: 0.7em;] Location: forest neat Palo Alto, CA Outfit: long-sleeved, black shirt and jeans Notes: He is at the motel, but is a bit wounded from the fight. [/style]