"You seem distracted?" Beast asked as he threw Malice down again, as they sparred. " Either that or your wanting to just get beat up without much of a fight for some reason?"
Malice chuckled a little as he rolled over onto his side and then the rest of the way to get back up again. "I suppose my head is somewhere else today." Malice admitted, rubbing the back of his neck with one hand. Just then sending a different or a suddenly appear from somewhere close, and he wasn't sure what it was but for just a brief moment it had been different, more evil. But it quickly went back to the same aura that belonged to the person who showed up last night, and it was staying at the Palace with Lord Vishious.
"Well want to try one more round?" Beast snarled at Malice in a kind of sympathetic teasing tone.
"I'll have to pass I wouldn't want you to over exert yourself." Malice teased back.
"Don't worry about that Kid I could never over exert myself when you're fighting the way you are today and pretty much just staying on the ground" Beast chuckled. Showing his razor sharp teeth and his black serpent tongue slithering in and out as he spoke.
"Well as always thanks for sparring with me for a little bit and next time I won't go easy on you" Malice said as he shook Beast's clawed hand before turning to leave.
Beast new just how strong and fast Malice was and the fact that he was able to keep throwing him down and beating him not to mention he didn't talk that much during the entire time since he had shown up this morning, looking for him.so quickly and easily he knew something was going on with him. Figuring it'd be best not to pry and let Malice talk about it if he chose to.
But, just a little bit ago Beast thought he sends the different Aura but it disappeared too quickly to figure out what kind of Aura it was. He shook his head, he would just have to be on guard and see if anything showed up again. It was odd though, he couldn't help but have a strange feeling come over him when he sends that aura. It was like he had come across it before, like he somehow knew it..
Shaking his head, he would think about it later and figured he'd go ahead and make an appearance at the Palace hearing from Malice that Lord Vishious had arrived last night. He knew that Vishious would have some questions for him. He unclasped his massive bat -like wings that he had cloaked around his body then he launched himself straight up before he let his wings spread out widely with great strong, powerful flaps and started flying towards the Palace.
Malice watched Beast fly off towards the Palace and was going to also fly back to the Palace as well, but he decided to go ahead and take the extra time and walking back instead. He wanted to see if he was being watched and if he was then he knew that they'd follow him as he walked down the trail towards the Palace. And since the forest wasn't familiar to the unknown guest, it would make it easy for Malice to catch them by surprise and find out some answers that he had.
So he started off and he had been walking on the trail for a little while now, making sure he took his time and was in no hurry because just as he thought, he was being followed and didn't realize that Malice was luring it out of hiding, it was easy for Malice to get enough distance ahead where he could make them lose sight of him and be able to wait for the right time to grab the one who thought following him would go unnoticed by him.
Malice stood very still, pressed up against one of the massive trees and waited as the person walked closer and closer to where he was. And once, they passed him a little and weren't being careful enough to think about looking behind as they kept going forward, believing that they would soon spot the Kamaira in front of them again.
Malice held his breath to not make any kind of noise as the cloaked figure passed by the tree he was hiding against and when he knew that he was in the clear to slip up behind, he quickly grabbed the cloaked figure up in a bear hug hold so their arms were pinned to their side.
The cloaked figure struggled to break away and was frantically trying to kick Malice, hoping he would loosen his balance or something. Allowing them enough time to be able to get away.
Malice was quite surprised at how small the cloaked figure truly was once he got his arms around them. He could feel how slender and yet how solid they were. His thoughts were interrupted when suddenly he got head-butted hard. He had not expected that kind of attack and it made him loosen his grip enough for the one he was holding to be able to break free from his hold, turning to land a hard kick right in the stomach, making Malice take a couple steps back. The cloaked figure then started running down the path. Malice was able to regain his composure quickly and hurry down the path after the perpetrator. He was able to catch up quickly, grabbing a hold of the back of their cloak, throwing them down backwards, landing hard on their back with Malice quickly on top of them and as much as they struggle to fight off Malice, hoping to get a chance to flee again, Malice was too strong and was able to get them pinned down quick. He was sitting on their stomach, staring down at who was trapped beneath him and still struggling trying to desperately to get him off, but Malice knew it was futile for them to keep trying.
Then grab the hood that was still hiding the face of the cloaked person he had beneath him, "did you really think that I wouldn't send you following me? Or when you appeared in the forest when I was sparring?" Malice's voice was threatening and he was going to find out the answers to his questions that he had. Not waiting for a response before he pulled the hood back to reveal what Vishious's company look like.
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Meanwhile, back up at the Palace in Slayer's study,he was still going over everything that had led up to the death of Vishious's General 18 years ago. Including the Generals involvement with one of the female Kamairas.
Vishious listen to Slayer had been talking, but he could tell right away that Slayer wasn't telling him everything but just allowed him to keep talking on interrupted. He would find out everything that Slayer was trying to keep hidden from him sooner or later and he still was going to make sure he would talk to Beast.
Vishious had a very strong suspicion that it had to do with the white Kamaira that had come into the room a little after he had arrived, pointing a power arrow at him. And with it being told that his General was involved with a Kamaira and she was due to give birth at any moment, it wasn't hard to come to the conclusion that the baby that had supposedly died with the mother during childbirth was more than likely Malice. That would also explain why the Kamaira had a different smell and reacted to his whistle the way it had. He was just puzzled as to why Slayer actually thought that he could tell him such a story especially since he knew that he saw the Kamaira already and it had caught his attention right away. It was almost comical how flair was so obvious and not to mention his attempt at trying to not let him know of a couple things, he failed horribly and had obviously not thought of a better story to tell him. Which only made him that more eager to talk to Beast.
When Slayer finally finished filling Vishious in on what he knew, there was a long silence that followed that filled the room as the two brothers set at Slayer's large table he had, just looking at each other, not showing any kind of emotion on their faces for the other to know what the other was thinking or feeling.
Slayer knew that vishious was far from stupid and would know that he wasn't being told everything and even Slayer knew that was only two obvious but he had not had any time to think of any other way to try avoiding Malice's hybrid makeup.
Just then a knock on the door interrupted Slayer's thoughts. A maid opened the door just enough to stick her head inside to tell Slayer, "Y- you have a visitor, that is wanting to speak with you. I-i informed him that Y-your M-majesty is in a meeting with L-Lord Vishious. Should I have him wait in the lobby until you're done, Your Majesty?" The nervous maid asked, keeping her head bowed and not daring to look up as she spoke.
"Well who is the visitor? Don't you think letting me know who it is that is requesting to speak to me should be the first thing that you should tell me?" Slayer's voice held obvious anger and annoyance towards the maid for forgetting to tell him what should have been common sense when bringing him a message.
"I-I'm so s-s-sorry, Y-your Majesty, the visitor is Commander, Beast. "The maid stuttered in absolute fear, still keeping her head bowed and notice please shaking.
'Damn it! I can't tell the maid to have him wait in the lobby. Not to mention, Vishious would suspect something and not hesitate to just go out to talk to Beast. I really didn't put any thought into this and of course it's backfiring on me.' Slayer rambled inside his head, before pulling out of his thoughts and ordering," No, allow him in to join us! "The maid hurried to leave without another word, the door shutting behind her.
A moment later there was another loud knock on the door. "Enter, Beast! "Slayer said loudly. The door opened and Beast stepped inside, letting the door shut behind him. He proceeded to walk towards where they were both sitting and stopped once he got right next to both of them. He bowed his head and formally greeted both the Lord's, "Beast, of the Howler's Kamaira Clan and Commander of Damns Hollow, agree and thank both the Lord for allowing me to join you." Slayer gave Beast a short note of approval once he raised his head up, letting him know that he could take a seat and join them.
"Well, well your ears must've been ringing, Commander. We were just talking about you." Vishious said to Beast with a charming smile on his face as he spoke to him. He then continued to say, "it's been quite a while since we last met."
"Yes it has Lord Vishious." Answered Beast, turning to face towards vicious as he spoke, bowing his head a little to show his respect.
It had been nearly three decades now, in this Realm, since they had indeed last met. In the other Realm, it had been only a year or two.
Beast had accompanied Slayer to his Demon City, Sprague. When Slayer had shown up demanding answers about their oldest brother, Wycked and their sister, Sinyster.
And in response to Slayers uninvited visit and especially showing Wycked disrespect and getting on his nerves.He had gone on a killing spree and completely took out an entire kingdom in just one night, leaving no survivors. Even the animals weren't spared that night. And it was the neighboring Kingdom that was right next to Damn's Hollow, Spreatty.
Vishious had found the newly ranked Commander honorable for how he never coward or showed any uneasiness while in Sprague. He had spoken and held eye contact with Vishious when he was spoken to and didn't hold back when he had something he wanted to say. Vishious wanted the Camaro to serve him and stay in Sprague but Beast was loyal and left with Slayer. But, he couldn't help but wonder if he would be killing Beast this day.
"It seems like you are aware of why I'm here?" Vishious asked. Breaking out of his thoughts and the silence that had filled the room for a brief moment. Vishious didn't want to give Slayer any chance of trying to get Beast's attention and attempt to send a look or some kind of sign or signal that Slayer didn't want Beast to talk to him right now and postpone their conversation.
He knew that Beast would keep his attention strictly on whoever it was that was talking to him to look away from the one speaking showed cowardice and disrespect and Beast was neither of those things, another trait that Vishious had really liked about this Kamaira.
"Yes, Lord Vishious, I am aware of what it is that has brought you here to visit Damns Hollow." Beast growled dutifully.
"I also appreciate you coming and requesting to speak with me this early and not wasting time." Vishious said in a true appreciation towards Beast's actions, and bowed his head a little at him as he said this. He then continued, "So please go ahead and start telling me what had transpired on that day and why?" Vishious asked. He noticed how Slayer had become a little restless and kept tapping his fingers on the table, showing his irritability and impatience. Slayer then cut into their conversation by saying, "I have already told you what happened that day and actually I had just finished when they told us that Beast had requested to join us. There's really no point in being told again what had happened." Slayer said in a short, Stern voice and a slight narrowing of his eyes came to his face as he spoke to Vishious.
And to his dismay, it was none other than beats himself who chose to answer what Slayer had just said, "I appreciate you talking to Lord Vishious on my behalf, before I had arrived. But I would like to speak to Lord Vishious myself, since I'm the one who had killed his general. It's my place to answer any of Lord Vishious's questions for my reasoning to kill one of his Night Creatures. And then Lord Vishious can decide on what he is going to do about it." Beast growled as he looked directly at Vishious and had not even thought of looking in Slayer's direction as he spoke.
A small, light chuckle left Vishious as Beast finished talking and he brought his hands to hold up in front of him before he clapped twice, showing how he respected the way Beast felt about speaking to him and viewed it as honorable. And this kind of appraisal from Vishious was something that was completely on heard of and it made Beast respect Lord Vishious as a Demon Lord.
"Very much appreciated, Commander Beast. You're truly an honorable Demon that I'm still surprised you serve my little brother. But, like you said, you don't mind telling me what happened, directly from you this time and I don't mind and actually would prefer hearing it straight from you. So shall we Begin from The beginning?" Vishious finish saying to Beast.
'What exactly is it that you're thinking you can hide from me?' Vishious said inside his head as he gave Slayer a quick glance.