[ Under ] Oscuro [ Moonlight ]

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For once, Oscuro was letting the luminous rays of moonlight cascade upon him, he was laying on the hill, staring at the twinkles of crystals scattered along the ebon abyss above him. He pulled his arms behind his head and used them as a pillow, he found himself dirfting in and out of a daydreamy slumber and he sat up abruptly to wake himself from his daze, once up, Oscuro fished a peculiar object from his pocket, his newly acquired Moonlight Orb. A thought invaded his dreambox and he threw the orb onto the delicate strands of grass, directly under a ray of shimmering satan moonlight.
The Moonlight Orb allows one to summon a Lunar Steed who's color and strengths as well as weaknesses depend on the moon phases. A full moon will produce a highly offencive silver stallion while as the moon wanes so does it's powers which convert to more defence and it's color changes to midnight black. Starshine glitters accross it's hooves and the freezing night air is carried in it's breath, it's hoofprints made of frost. A Lunar Steed is a mixed elemental creature of both light and darkness- exceedingly powerful indeed as far as summons go. Luckily, a full moon shone powerfully above Oscuro and within second the steed appeared and lashed up into a rear letting a feirce whinny out from it's jugular.
Oscuro admired the complex beauty of the creature and decided to let his steed gallop around for a while, simply because he had nothing better to do and he wanted to get to know the movement of the raven czar. The ebon-locked boy gazed at the steed at it's metallic glittering daggers peirced the tender earth beneath them and danced around on it's hind bayonets, letting it's coat aquire a certain radience to it. As the brute trotted around, Oscuro found himself thinking of Silent, he found he was thinking of her most of the time at this new academy, it simply wasn't the same without her. Oscuro felt his corazon burn with heartache and he layed back down and let out a long dejected sigh before reciting a heartfelt peice of poetry,
'I stood there as i watched you run,
and waited for the pain,
love can be a painful thing,
you used my love in vain,
Why'd you leave me here to cry?,
our love had felt so...right,
why'd you go and break my heart,
just like you did that night,
let me kiss your lips once more,
so I can see it's true,
help me see your love is gone,
that I can't be with you,
don't leave me here to fall apart,
to watch you fade away,
tell me how you really feel,
and why you just won't stay,
I never thought I'd cry so much,
I want to see this through...
although you'll never feel for me.....
I always will love you. ',
he spoke in poetic but hushed monotones and felt one cyrstalline tear drop from his ambered eyes that were livid with pure emotion. Oscuro belived that Silent had left him that night, never to return, how he longed to see her again, he never got to tell her how he felt for her and regretted that every moment, if only they had the time to let their relationship continue, if only...
The 'if onlys' could have gone on forever that night, Oscuro glaced at his steed before falling back onto his back and cursing himself for his mistakes with Silent.

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Perceptive ears caught the susurrated words that the tender zephyrs carried, some of the verses were sealed with quality whilst others were muffled or disturbed by the low hissing of foliage. Curiosity sparked as the words muttered became clearer as the figure that donned a swart cloak flitted silently over the turf, feet moving with precision and confidence as they sought balance in the partially crumbling earth. The way this stranger moved was like a shadow in liquid form, his or her presence never given away due to care taken.
A ray of moonlight highlighted the cloaked one's face. Grey eyes tinted cyan looked out form under the shadowy hood with a gaze that continually wandered. If one looked, this stranger was undoubtedly a female reaching seventeen in a short time. Purple streaks of hair escaped their seclusion and billowed rebelliously beside her cheek. The glazed expression on her face meant she was searching for something or someone. Possibly the person that had murmured such a touching poem whose last line could jerk one's heart.
Her attention was that engrossed in her surroundings, the young student stubbed her foot on something soft and fleshy. Before she knew it, the ground stared at her full in the face before hands came to soak up the impact.
S i l e n t leapt to her feet in an instant, as though the acreage had burnt into her very skin. She stared around in bewilderment, making sure no one saw her fall and the cause for it. Her eyes came to rest on a sorry-looking lump of guy and she skittered back wards, they narrowed in a glaring way as her face cast in shadow.
"For fucks sake...can't anyone walk without interruptions these days?"
Silent hissed under her breath as she dusted herself down. Her common piercing gaze burnt into the boy as feet prepared to walk away.
Yet something stopped her from doing so. Her tense expression softened considerably and so did her posture. Eyes widened in disbelief. Now her feet stepped back only from pure shock.
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Oscuro lay on his lonely colina, on his dark, silent hill as the soft, lonely tear drifts away from his dull eyes. His eyes, full of emptiness, longed for those soft azure pools of tenderness to once again meet his and exchange feelings of romance. His lonely waste longed for those soft, warm fingertips to slowly run across its cold skin. He longed for her warm, inviting lips to press against his neck and tease him with her whisperings. His ears, mourning the loss of those 3 words that made his skin tingle and my heart bulge from its ribcage.
Oscuro woke from his ghostly trance and felt a sharp dig in his hip, he winced in pain and let out a faint groan before sitting up, rubbing his side and looking up at the shadowing figure above him, immediatly, he knew who it was, even before seeing her face or hearing the sound of her voice, he was caught in a web of reunited love.
Unfortuantly that web was split when harsh words sounded from the cloaked girl, Oscuro sat still and let a mischevious simper play on his lips,
'For fucks sake, can't a guy lie down without getting trampled upon?', Oscuro let his mind ponder their odd way of being reunited, it suited them really, a play of sarcasm and forgotton feelings. Once Oscuro heard the sound of his own voice he spoke in melochic tones, almost too hust for anybody to hear,
'Yea...it's me, perhaps you should carry on walking, as you did last time i saw you.'', he expressed coldly, although he spoke in hostile tones, he immediatly pulled himself up and threw himself around her in a romantic embrace, he let his lips kiss her tenderly and he took hold of her hands as if he was never going to let go.
'You have no idea...', he exclaimed in agonised tones, he could not even attempt to expressed how he felt for her at that moment, it seemed as everything from the past had been washed away, and that kiss, it was the fresh beginning of everything.
Oscuro pulled her closer and felt a sting in his ambered pools and he held back cystalline tears of pure contentness before speaking to her in strong meaningful vocals,
'I need to tell you one thing that i never got to tell you before, i want to tell you now, just in case time gets stolen from us once more...', Oscuro took a deep breath before letting himself declare his feelings, 'I am completly in love with you, and i always will be, no matter what we do or where we go, my heart will never let you go.', he told her, letting his heart flow out to her, for once, he didn't even fear rejection, the thing that had stopped him from saying that in the past.

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It took Silent a few minutes to let what just happened sink in. It had been weeks, months even, since she had last seen a single hair of Oscuro and now there he was, out of the blue. Words tried to escape her mouth as it opened in astonishment but they failed to do so. Therefore she lived up to her namesake: Silent. Deep slate hued ocules were overpowered by the azure that invaded them once more, they also lost that harsh edge that they had obtained from her emptiness that was filled with hatred.
"I-I...I?"
Silent managed to stutter as a lump rose in her throat. The young girl shook her head slowly as Oscuro declared his feelings for her. She didn't want him to say it. It hurt too much. All those times she gone against him grated on her heart. The old Silent woke from her long sleep and the bottom lip trembled, eyes welling up with tears unshed. All of a sudden her arms flung around him and she buried her head into the dull warmth of his clothes. She was determined not to let him see her cry.
"I missed you."
Came her muffled voice, shaky and scratchy as it spoke without the usual hisses or spat tones but in reality, it was like that because, Silent Tatiana, was attempting to mask her crying. She ran a hand through his hair and one remained glued around his torso. She never wanted to let go. Stupid Salaron... She mused as her fingertips gently stroked his raven locks once again.
"I thought Salaron had got to you before I got...-....I was scared for you."
For a brief moment, Silent's thoughts wandered up to a particular sword locked in a box sort of thing sealed with a key and magic. It wasn't hers. With a bit of bribery she had managed to get her hands on that sword, Si'eth. Only because the owner of it had had a crush on her was she able to. If she hadn't, Silent guessed graver things would of went down back at the old Academy.
"Why, Oscuro? Why us?"

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Oscuro flinched as he tasted a familiar metallic taste lingering on Silent's lips, he found himself pulling back and gasping in disgust, after a few seconds he became pale and eventually began to retch. Once he had finished that display, he gazed up at Silent with agonized eyes, straightened himself up and let his burning ambers burn into hers as he spoke with cursed words,
'Silent, I'm not what you think i am anymore...', he broke off as he realized the reality of the situation, this could mean that Silent and himself couldn't be together anymore...
No, why was he thinking such thoughts, nothing could tear them apart, could it? Oscuro sighed and stared at the ebon sky, as if he was looking for some inspiration or possibly an answer but to no prevail, he stared at Silent with glazed pools and spoke in equally glazed tones,
'I don't think this can work.', he expressed in complete disbelief, he was more in shock than anything else, he felt like a young child lost in a sea of broken possibilities and simply not knowing where to turn. Oscuro felt his body going limp and he collapsed onto Silent, holding her tight, and for the first time, giving her one of her desired real hugs. As he held her close, breathing in her sweet scent and letting her warmth invade him, a heart-wrenching thought passed through his mind, she was immortal, he wasn't. A disturbing fat hit Oscuro and he pulled back abruptly, he knew that their relationship could never be because it would be too painful for Silent when he passed to the outer realms. So, he did the most painful but Honorable thing, he made everything his fault, so she could continue to live carefree and content. Although what he was about to do killed him inside, he truly believed that it would be the lest painful thing for Silent, if he left her, then she wouldn't be able to fall further in love with him, thus, be heartbroken once he died,
'Silent, i don't want to be with you anymore, i thought i loved you, but i don't, sorry...', he muttered in hushed monotones, never in his existence had he expressed such painful lies, he spoke the opposite of what he was thinking and soon after the pain became to much for him and he collapsed in a heap on the floor, his head in his hands, pushing his sable locks back.
'I can't say it, i can't do it, i just can't lie to you, i can't leave you...', he exclaimed, his voice livid with emotion and pain.
Oscuro's breath quickened as he held back agonizing tones, he felt completely helpless, he desperately longed to do something to save their relationship, he needed Silent to survive, if he couldn't have her, he feared he would take his own life.
Suddenly, distant words of wisdom invaded his mind, Theres always something..., Oscuro leaped up and grabbed Silent fiercely by her arms, digging his ebon nails into her tender flesh in the embrace and spoke in rushed urgent tones,
'Silent, we can fix this, we need to, there must be a way to do it and if we work together we may be able to succeed!', his vocals flowed with hope and he felt a minute simper gracing his lips. Although he spoke genuinely, for some reason, there was a voice echoing in Oscuro's mind, telling him he was kidding himself....

Was he?

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As Oscuro spoke those words that Silent had hoped she would never hear, she felt her world begin to crumble from the inside and her dreams cave in with a heart-aching impact. Her bottom lip trembled uncontrollably and the girl began to blink excessively, obviously holding back those crystalline tears of hers. H-He can't be... Silent insisted to deny the truth, it just wasn't believable. Oscuro, her Oscuro, among the mortals that she preyed upon? Silent shuddered and backed away at the fact that he shared the same blood as the ones she had feasted upon during those quiet nights. It was wrong.
Silent blocked out everything he said, she refused to listen, she was too engrossed in her own thoughts to be burdened with yet more. The young girl swallowed carefully, eyes were still welled up with liquids and they glimmered eerily as a stray shard of sterling light caught them. Staring at the ground and focusing on a single blade of grass that quivered under the wind's gentle manipulation, she stood there, choosing to ignore what Oscuro said.
Silent skittered backwards when he grabbed her, thus sending her spiralling back into reality. She desperately attempted to wriggle away from his painted nails that she could feel dig into her skin. The urgency that he expelled in those monotonious vocals of his only made the situation sink in a bit more. As dazed as a bat in daylight, she wrapped a single arm around him.
"There is a way to reverse it b-but...-"
Silent cut herself short, her breathing had quickened at the mere thought of them. A few more times did she attempt to speak yet her mouth uttered not a single word, only air escaped her parted, rose lips. With a deep, tremoring breath, Silent began to let her melodic voice hit the air once again.
"You need....to drink the b-blood of a...a....a-a Sincara."
By the end of this relatively short sentence, the girl was shaking like a leaf and clinging onto Oscuro as if her life depended on it. Sincara's had dealt their visible scars on her pale skin and etched even deeper ones in her realm of thoughts. She would never forget that fateful day when her life took a drastic turn in events...

The youngster looked up at the dark figure looming over here, it was too dark to make out a face but an audible hiss met her ears. Crimson liquid continued to deep from the gash in her leg at a slow rate. The girl had forgotten about the pain as the stranger made a lunge at. Claws wrapped themselves around the injured leg, talons dug into her soft skin and caused yet more minute cuts.
"Mommy!" The young girl did scream yet no one answered her delicate shriek for help...

Silent flicked back to the present and her leg twinged irritatingly as a secret untold nagged her. Now her nails were digging into Oscuro's flesh, not from desperation, but from fear. Would she go through that traumatic experience again just to prolong the life of her love?
"I-I wish Salaron would of just butted out of our lives when he 'knew', then maybe it wouldn't of come to this..."[/color]

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Oscuro found his ambered pools transfixed on the tender earth beneath him, a sigh escaped his hoarse throat and his shoulders tensed considerably as he formulated something to say to his beloved. Words attempted to escape but were held back by deep thoughts that flew around his dazed mind. A small whimper was sounded and Oscuro felt a soft substance fall against his legs, he jumped from shock and gazed down in surprise as he saw Soots laying at his feet, her shaggy fur falling softly over her back and her absorbed emerald pools focused on Oscuro's feet, chewing his converse trainers slightly and growling softly. Soots stared up at Silent and ambled towards her with her soft head almost trailing on the floor, her tail wagged slowly to show trust and she whimpered at Silent's feet sweetly.
'This is Soots, my er, cat, she always picks the more inconvenient times to appear.', Oscuro expressed as he patted her floppy ears, showing great affection to the loyal mutt. Yes, it was clearly a dog, but for reasons unknown Oscuro referred to Soots as a cat and denied all implications that she was a dog.
Oscuro let his legs collapse beneath him and sat on the grass, pulling up clumps and chucking them back down onto the earth, Soots decided this seemed like a fun game and attempted to eat the grass in mid air, when this failed, she panted and set herself down on Oscuro's lap. Oscuro fiddled with her fine soft locks and gestured for Silent to sit beside him before letting deep husky monotones flood their surroundings,
'A sincara, Silent, i don't think i could do that to you.', he explained with a tortured look cursing his features, he knew well of Silent's troublesome past and of her experiences with Sincaras, however, it depended on what she wanted to sacrifice to keep him with her. Even more worrying, what he wanted to sacrifice to keep her with him.
Oscuro had been cursed as an undead for one hundred and eighteen years, he almost couldn't bring himself to be dragged back into that web of guilt and pain. His mind was like a butterfly, fluttering against a closed window, seeing what it aimed for, but be held back by repeated crashes against the glass. Each time he thought of returning to the realms of the undead, another harsh thought collided into his mind, making his corazon race uneasily.
However, he did the noble thing, he let his dreams of a blessed life fade away and agreed to become his most dreaded curse once more,
'Yes, a sincara, for you, i would do anything.', he expressed in feeble tones, one could tell his heart wasn't in what he had told her. Oscuro was simply complying to Silent's will, after all, he had bestowed the curse upon her in the first place and he couldn't abandon her. The boy let his sable locks cascade over his septors, which flashed with a touch of acrimony and dismay. Automatically, he took Silent's hand and dragged her down to the ground with him, he took a lock of her fuchsia hair and twisted it around his fingers before stroking her face affectionately,
'Oh yea, i almost forgot, while we are defeating the sincara, please don't get hungry!', he let a cheeky simper fall over his lips and kissed her playfully, he felt he had to lighten the mood, he needed her full confidence for the great ordeal ahead of them. An uneasy aura filled the atmosphere and a cool chilling breeze swept past them, making Oscuro shuddered. Never once had he been exposed to the temperature, he rubbed his spare hand against arm in an attempt to warm himself, once this failed he pulled Silent closer and held back an agonizing shiver.

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Silent gazed at Oscuro with eyes brimming with sheer delight on agreeing to go ahead with this Sincara-blood-and-killing business. This pure joy washed away those feelings of fear and reluctance...for now. Who knew when they'd be back to haunt her or plague her in her dreams. The girl with locks that rivalled the deep hue of wild violets, almost let a high-pitched squeal escape her butterlike vocals as she flung her arms around his neck, trying her best not to strangle the poor boy as she cuddled him tightly.
Random mood swing? Maybe.
Silent tilted her head backwards to look at Oscuro, her arms firmly constricted around his neck like a snake with its vice-like grip, squeezing its unlucky prey to death. But, of course, Silent didn't have those intentions...or did she?
Fangs flashed pearlescent in the sterling splendor as she smiled, deep within that seemingly merry grin, something deep down lurked. For that split second, her soft like powder eyes took on a violet glaze. Silent nuzzled Oscuro's neck, her breath gently stirring his raven bangs, her mouth opened a fraction, oddly sharp canines at the ready to penetrate his tender flesh. She could sense the blood pumping through that vein that she was so close to, causing an echo effect in her head, the pounds beating inside her like a drum.
Silent was so close. She could almost taste that metallic tasting substance already in her mouth.
Silent jerked her head backwards, her mouth firmly clamped shut and her eyes had reverted back to the warm azure. A nimble hand flew to her mouth, covering it in a gesture that meant disgust. She was revolted with herself and what she had almost done.
"I-I'm so sorry!"
Silent stuttered from behind her hand, muffling her dulcet voice. She was more scared than a Vampire's victim could be. After a minute or so, her hand rested on her lap as her head bowed down in shame.
"I never thought that....I mean....You understand?....No humans...its hard."
Silent mumbled incoherently. Timid eyes wandered back up to Oscuro, showing their mistake and regret they sincerely felt. Cautiously, Silent touched the spot where her fangs had almost embedded themselves in and stroked that small part of revealed skin. He'll understand. He must know what its like...Fuck...this is like rehab and I'm suffering from withdrawal. Is this an alternative to rehab? Its gotta be in a way...[/color]

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As a feeling of delight flooded through Oscuro he simpered and for once, he held Silent close instead of tensing and refusing to co-operate with the 'cuddling' business. Oscuro felt the first touch of cool ivories falling onto his neck and he remained still, for some reason, he didn't attempt to move, he put his full trust in Silent and felt relieved when she pulled back with a horrified look cast upon her features.
Ebon-painted fingernails pulled up to the tender skin of his neck and touched in disbelief, he couldn't comprehend that she had even attempted such an act. Menacing thoughts troubled his mind and a deep breath was pulled in from his throat before he spoke in hushed half-hearted tones,
'Silent.', only one word escaped his lips but his ambered pools expressed it all, with one gaze at those sorrel orbs one could see that his mind was plagued with thoughts of disbelief and most of all, emotional hurt.
Deep down he understood what she was going through, after all, he had experienced it himself but he wasn't ready to admit that, he was simply too tormented by the thought that she had tried to feast upon him, almost treating him as one of the mere mortals she fed upon, it was all too much to bare.
With a hardened glance his pools glazed over and he found himself looking away from her, avoiding her gaze, without hesitation, he offered her his wrist, he held it closely to her rosy lips and commanded her softly,
'Drink, if you don't you'll pass out.', Oscuro was more than prepared to supply her with the things she needed, and although this was more abnormal than most gifts, he felt it was what she wanted most at that moment, after all, if she lost control of her thirst, she must need to clench it.
Oscuro guessed she would feel feelings of remorse and not want to take a drink from his tender flesh so he reassured her gently, in caring hushed monotones,
I do understand, don't hesitate to do this, i want you to only drink as much as you need, just to keep you healthy, i care about you, right.', he expressed reassuringly and added a few light words to make her feel better, 'Besides, it's only fair, i did pray on you once.', he exclaimed with a cheeky and slightly devious simper falling upon his lips.
Oscuro clasped his spare hand tightly around Silent's waste and kissed her swiftly on the cheek, his lips brushing her skin for just long enough for her to know he forgave her.

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Silent braced herself for what she supposed would of been a cold, maybe even hostile, reaction. Her cyan hued occs widened only a minute fraction as she was offered something one like her would cherish a person for. But in her eyes, this was wrong. It was just too wrong to be belivable. A human shouldn't trust a mortal threat even if they were binded by their hearts.
Cautiously, the purple locked girl held onto his wrist and guided it back to its owner, Oscuro. A shadow of a smile briefly flitted over her rose lips for a split second before she tackled down reluctance and pushed Oscuro away with her melancholic gaze resting downwards.
"No, Oscuro, this isn't working..."
With a long drawn sigh, Silent picked herself up off the ground with her back facing the boy at all times. The young student folded her arms whilst her eyes glazed ove with a misty edge as she starerd aimlessly into the sea that frothed and lapped against the shore melodically.
"It isn't fair on either of us. I don't think we should be likes this....you know?....I can't take the risk of doing something I would regret, whether your consent backed it up or not."
As she spoke, Silent stole a glance of the human boy over her shoulder. A small nod concluded those words spoken for the welfare of Oscuro, in her eyes.
From that single dip of her head, a world could come crumbling and tumbling down if taken the wrong way.Someone, she guessed, would decipher it as though she no longer wished to see him. Ever. Just for the crime of being what he was. She was powerless to that change.
"I just don't wanna hurt you."
Silent said through gritted teeth, somehow, she could feel anger welling up inside her like some disease; tainting everything it touched and growing with strength by feeding on the passing seconds. She was furious at how he had let Salaron tame his supposedly 'cursed' ways with such ease. Silent switched her miserable gaze to a heated glare that burned into him.
It was his own fault, in a way, that Silent now pushed him away.[/color]