GREY MADDOX
Darach
Posts: 170
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29
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Owner of Grey Haven Hotel
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Destiny Baccari
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Post by GREY MADDOX on Jun 25, 2022 13:50:35 GMT
A scatter of mountain ash spilled across one corner of the map. The jar it had tumbled from and a half dozen others like it littered the top of the work table, the box they’d been in lay on the floor at his feet. So much had been packed away in that brief window between finding out he was going to be a father – realising just how much he wanted to be a father – and Leah taking that chance away, taking Petyr from them. Preparation for something that wasn’t happening.
Grey planted his hands on the edge of the table as the thin threads of black liquid – the mix of his blood and the mountain ash that tied together so many species – crept like tendrils over the map. His head hung low between his shoulders, trying to shove that hatred down into the burning pit of his stomach for just a few more minutes. It had been like a volcano those first few days after. Lava working its way between the cracked shell of the man he’d been, searing nerves and emotions while he tried to keep it all under control. He wasn’t the only one grieving. Both of them had lost Petyr, both of them carried the guilt for it no matter what the other said to try and soothe those wounds. There was no resurrection bag or healing touch that would fix any of this.
Only death.
His. Hers. The mental image of their blood on his hands eased that burn for just a moment. Grey’s eyelids fluttered as he closed them, rocking side to side as he waited for the breakthrough he needed to do something He’d been ready to step away from it all once Petyr was safe, but that opportunity had come and gone. This needed to finish and then finally he’d be free and the druids and Leah would both be gone, a shadow lifted from his family after centuries of shitty decisions and non-stop death.
Ping.
Blue eyes shot up to the map, muscles that had already been tight snapping like a rubber band as he felt as much as saw those tendrils all coalesce in one spot, right in the centre of Mystic Falls. Years of searching like this had found him nothing, but something had changed. It oozed, practically quivering outside of town. The college.
Leah? Maybe. She hadn’t reared that ugly head since she’d left Destiny and Petyr to die in an abandoned warehouse, calling someone else in to clean up the mess she’d made trying to pay him back. If it wasn’t her he wouldn’t complain, better stamped out than floating around out there, scheming about how she was gonna come at him next, how she would take the last thing he had left.
Them, better. Rip it all out at the root before he burned the rest.
Picking up his phone, Grey considered telling Destiny where he was going, but she would want to be there and he couldn’t risk again. He didn’t want the woman he loved caught up in it all the way his mom had been, the way too many had been in the past. He dragged his other hand over his face for a moment, caught between that crushing rock and a hard place. In the end he snatched up the jar of the mix he’d created and a printed map of Whitmore’s campus and took off. A text sent in the elevator, saying he was going out, but he would be back in an hour or two. A reassurance for both of them.
The trip wasn’t fast enough, nerves starting to burn like fuses to the dynamite of his temper as he eased onto campus. Grey pulled off road just inside the gate, the car filling with that dark hiss of power as he performed the search again. Closer now, those lines trailing to a spot in the centre of campus. It was dark enough that he had trouble tracking it as he closed in. After fifteen minutes he bumped over gravel into a parking lot in a shadowy pool between two buildings.
Grey slipped from the car, his gaze flicking over both buildings, the lit windows scattered across both of them. For a couple of long minutes it was silent, then one of the doors opening onto the lot opened and a guy emerged. Was it? After all this time. Anticipation had that fuse burning faster as he approached. ”Hey, mate, you got a minute?” To die. Eyes narrowing, Grey watched for any twitch, any sign of the brand that would have seared its way into the flesh of the druid he was hunting for.
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DANNY MAHEALANI
Druid
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Riley Parker
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Post by DANNY MAHEALANI on Aug 24, 2022 21:59:55 GMT
 Ever since the brand first appeared on his skin, Danny had been grateful for each day he had with the people he loved. He had told his friends about the curse that had plagued his family for generations but he hadn’t told his parents or the rest of his family. He knew that they would find out sooner or later when the curse took him like it had so many others from his family but he and his friends were doing their best to find a way to break it. Unfortunately the problem they were having was that no one seemed to know how it started and that made it quite difficult to break. He knew that his friends were never going to stop trying but the truth was that Danny was trying to juggle trying to find a way to break the curse with living his life to the fullest. Every moment he was able to spend with Riley was a moment he cherished and even the ordinary things like working on assignments for college were things that he enjoyed because he knew that he could have easily not had the chance to do any of this. He had no idea when the curse would catch up with him but when it did if they hadn’t found a way to break it then he knew that he wanted to face whatever was to come without any regrets. That day he had ended up hanging out with Scott and some of the others during a free period but as his friends went off to their classes Danny started heading outside since he had agreed to meet with Riley so they could go and get lunch together. That was something that they tried to do as often as they could but as Danny made his way out of the building he was soon stopped by a man asking if he had a minute. “I’m on my way to meet someone but sure, if it’s quick,” he nodded. “What’s up?” he asked, his eyes surveying the man before him for a moment. There was something about the guy that was enough to put him on edge a little straight away, he couldn’t explain what it was but there was something that just gave him a bad feeling about the guy, so he knew that he didn’t want to be there any longer than he had to but he knew that he couldn’t just keep walking in case the guy needed help either. GREY MADDOX
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GREY MADDOX
Darach
Posts: 170
Age:
29
Occupation:
Owner of Grey Haven Hotel
Status:
Engaged
Partner:
Destiny Baccari
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Nov 19, 2024 20:19:32 GMT
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Post by GREY MADDOX on Aug 29, 2022 15:31:25 GMT
He wasn’t Malcolm. No matter how much Leah had managed to claw from his life, leaving tattered shreds of it behind, he was still sane enough to know that finding and killing this druid was going to make everything magically better. Grey had seen how desperate his dad was for it, the rants that would shake the windows of the ramshackle house rimmed with it. Breaking a curse that might only be sustained by what was screwed up inside of them wouldn’t repair while Malcolm’s own decisions had destroyed. It was hard to stomach with Petyr gone to somewhere like it now, but his mum hadn’t gone to a better place. That would’ve been a million miles away from her husband in the first place, well beyond what Malcolm could taint.
In those moments where he was hollowed out and seeing nothing but those bloody fingerprints spreading onto Destiny’s life too, Grey wondered if she’d have been better off a million miles away from him too. Weak as he was, he couldn’t push her though. It was her, and Petyr, although his son was beyond his touch now that kept him holding on, believing that there was something this death would bring. Even if it was just an end to the certainty that had burned in generations of Maddoxes, from the moment they first one had bargained away everything that would come.
That hope burned like ashes under his skin now. White hot, ready to be scattered with the first breath he breathed after. The temperature rose with every inch closer he drew to the druid, coalescing in his throat as he’d been led from the gate to the centre of campus. It left his throat raw as he emerged from the car to see the rangy form emerge from one of the buildings. Had it been the easy? Hope said yes, but the saner part of his mind warned Grey that not knowing for sure had cost him so much before.
Grey’s lips twitched up at the corners, leaving those lines Petyr’s loss had carved deep crinkling at the corners of his eyes. He waved off the kid’s warning – spoken like a teenaged girl trying to assure some creepy guy that her boyfriend was right there around the corner – huffing out a breath. ”Don’t worry, not gonna keep you long. I hate it when people are late, you know, all that waiting around.” His expression twisted like it pained him, a stab to the chest, maybe even a claw to the heart, the gut – the same as had killed Malcolm.
Sighing lightly, Grey slipped his hands into his pockets, rocking back on his heels like he had all the time in the world here. Maybe the guy was meant to meet somebody but the added couple of minutes he took here were going to be nothing to the decades of life this kid was going to lose. ”I’m actually looking for somebody. An old friend. I found out he was meant to be on campus and well, you know, it’s a big place. Maybe you know him? About yay high, dark hair, has like this thing …” He pulled his left hand free, gestured vaguely at his chest, like he was indicating some sort of distinguishable feature – a scar, a piercing … a brand. The other hand came free, the vial of the blood and mountain ash mix he’d half emptied in the car to get this far clutched in his palm. Grey crushed it as he spoke those same words again, holding his breath as the mixture threaded through the air. Not away … not somewhere across the damn lot. Here. To him.
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DANNY MAHEALANI
Druid
Posts: 168
Age:
22
Status:
Engaged
Partner:
Riley Parker
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Nov 11, 2024 16:57:18 GMT
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Post by DANNY MAHEALANI on Nov 20, 2022 18:09:02 GMT
Danny had known that it was only a matter of time before his family’s curse caught up with him the moment the brand had been seared into his skin. He knew that it was why his parents had turned away from their heritage, they had lost so many of their family to the curse and he knew that they hadn’t want to be next in a long line to fall foul of the curse anymore than they had wanted him to be next. He hadn’t told them about the fact that he’d been branded, ever since it had happened he had been keeping it from his parents because he hadn’t wanted them to worry about him. He knew that it would break their hearts to lose him if that was what ended up happening but they had promised him that they respected his decision to embrace his heritage no matter the consequences and he knew that he just had to believe that they had meant it. His friends were supporting him and so was Riley and they were all doing their best to find a way to break this curse. He had asked Henrik to do the same as well but he wasn’t sure which was going to come first – the cure or the person responsible finding him. He honestly hoped that it was the former but there was a part of him that had always known that it was going to be the latter so he had been making the most of every moment he had with the people he loved. He had meant it when he’d said that he was on his way to meet someone, he and Riley had agreed to meet so they could have lunch together and Danny knew that Riley would worry if he ended up running late but at the same time he couldn’t turn away someone who was asking for help either. “I appreciate that, I do too,” Danny nodded. He always felt bad making people wait for him, especially Riley. There was a part of him that was curious about exactly what it was that this guy wanted but at the same time he couldn’t shake the feeling of dread that was building inside of him and that only grew the moment the guy started describing the person he was looking for. “I’m sorry, I don’t know who you mean,” he shrugged. “Perhaps if you make your way to the office they can help you,” he suggested, hoping to get the guy as far away from him as possible. He didn’t know for sure whether he was the one the guy was looking for but he suspected that he was and Danny didn’t want to take any chances. Before he could move away from the guy was speaking some words that Danny shouldn’t recognise but he did and his eyes went side as the mixture in the guy’s hand threaded straight to him. “It is you,” he breathed, his heart sinking as he realised that this was it. He could try and run, after all he was quite quick on his feet, but the guy had managed to brand him without even knowing who he was so something told Danny that that wasn’t going to do any good. “Why are you doing this? I haven’t done anything to you,” he asked, needing to know the answer to that question no matter what happened next. He might have known this was going to happen at some point but that didn’t mean that he was going to go down without a fight and he was already prepared to use his own abilities against the man if he had to. GREY MADDOX
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GREY MADDOX
Darach
Posts: 170
Age:
29
Occupation:
Owner of Grey Haven Hotel
Status:
Engaged
Partner:
Destiny Baccari
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Ange
Last seen Nov 19, 2024 20:19:32 GMT
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Post by GREY MADDOX on Dec 18, 2022 17:55:42 GMT
Was it honestly going to be this easy in the end? Follow a trail on a map, find some scrawny looking kid who was obviously too dumb and naïve to see the danger standing right before him. It all seemed a cake walk, even if he’d spent years getting this close – almost as though one last tumbler had turned and suddenly all of this was running smoothly. Finally. Grey knew better than to believe that anything in his life was that simple, but maybe this was the pay out for all the pain of the last year. A way to burn that past to the ground, leaving just him and Destiny standing on that ground to start building anew, what they had left of their son held close, cherished.
The twisted smile stayed on his face at the boy’s appreciation of his promise. Had his family always slipped through untouched? Any pain shunted aside onto those they’d cursed. Perhaps. The druid certainly didn’t look like the world had placed a single mark on him – other than the one that would’ve seared its way into his skin somewhere that was out of view now. ”I bet you’re one the only ones around here that give a damn about that.” Teenagers rarely kept punctuality in mind – he wasn’t a normal teenager, though, was he? Their kind were always supposed to be saints, giving over their lives to the packs that would just turn on them in the end. Like Malcolm, deluded into believing that maybe there’d be some sort of salvation in the pack and not the damnation that had cost him the woman he loved and his own life.
He tried playing at being just a little lost a moment longer, but the ploy was rapidly running out. The office, the place where the alarm might go up eventually about a student’s body being found on campus. Grey grimaced faintly, then laughed, his hand full of the mountain ash mix already rising. ”Maybe you ought to check a mirror the next time. You could’ve lied and sent me off somewhere else. It might’ve saved your life for five minutes.” Until he hunted him down and got rid of this problem once and for all.
Grey started forward the moment the dust was flowing away from his palm, following its trail right towards the kid who suddenly looked like he’d realised just what was going on. He pouted faintly, brushing his hand off against the chest of his shirt. ”Is that any way to greet an old family friend?” he asked, clucking his tongue. The laugh rolled out sharply enough that the birds in the trees behind the building took off squawking. ”You might not have done, but your family did plenty. How many lives are they going to take before it’s enough? Or are my kids gonna be right back here in a couple of decades, trying to find what you did to them?” The image of Petyr, so tiny, so fragile, so perfect swam behind his eyes as the tears burned their way up.
Blinking them away, he drew in a steadying breath and threw his hands up. Wind whipped around him, sending up an eddy of dust as he roared into it, words peppering that violent sound. The birds that had been flying away were suddenly rushing back, swooping down on the two of them, shrieking, flapping. In the maelstrom of all of that Grey vanished, not in a blur of speed, but vanishing in the blink of an eye, from right in front of the kid to behind him. One arm slipped around his throat, the other pulled the blade, lifting it, aiming for the tender skin under his jaw. ”This is for him … for my son,” Grey growled. No, this wouldn’t bring Petyr back, but as Destiny had said, he had to do something and ending this curse would be it. Maybe in the peaceful wake of it they could finally heal.
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DANNY MAHEALANI
Druid
Posts: 168
Age:
22
Status:
Engaged
Partner:
Riley Parker
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Emma
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Post by DANNY MAHEALANI on Mar 21, 2023 21:36:00 GMT
“Maybe so but it’s something my parents always instilled in me,” Danny chuckled. He knew firsthand that there were students around campus who didn’t care about being late because so many of them showed up after class had already started but that wasn’t him. He always liked to be on time and he knew that he definitely didn’t want to keep Riley waiting. They both knew that there was a ticking clock over his head but so far Danny had lived with the brand for much longer than he had thought that he would. They were still trying to find a way to get rid of it but he was also trying to make the most of whatever time he had with the people he cared about. He knew what being branded meant for his family, it meant that they were going to die although he couldn’t seem to find any reason why. Perhaps it was a curse that had been placed on them but either way it had made him learn to appreciate the little things and he had been spending as much time with Riley and the other people he cared about as he could. The moment the guy started talking about the person he was looking for Danny started to feel uneasy but he did his best to hide it. Unfortunately mountain ash didn’t lie and Danny started backing away the moment it revealed that he was the one the man was looking for. “It wouldn’t have done much good. You already branded me from a distance, it was only a matter of time before you found me,” he said, knowing that he was going to have to think fast and use everything that he had learned if he was going to stand a chance at surviving this encounter. As the guy called himself a family friend, Danny shook his head. “You’re no friend of my family, you’re the one who has killed so many innocent people. You’re a monster,” he growled. As he spoke again, Danny’s eyes widened in surprise. “You’ve got it all wrong, my family haven’t hurt anyone. They’re Druids, they help people. They’re not killers,” he insisted even though deep down he knew that it wouldn’t do any good. The guy’s mind was made up and the only way that Danny was going to get out of this was by fighting to stay with the people he cared about and he would do that until his last breath. Before Danny knew it birds were descending on them and Danny did his best to fight them off, using his telekinesis to clear a path as best he could. He knew that he needed to get out of there and that’s exactly what he was trying to do but they weren’t making it easy for him. Suddenly an arm was around his throat and Danny felt his breath catch in his throat. In that moment his instincts kicked in and he targeted the guy with the biokinesis ability he had been developing, trying to make the guy’s arm stop before the knife reached his throat. He used that moment to elbow the guy in the stomach and pull away from him, knocking the knife from his grasp. “I don’t know what you think happened but you’re wrong,” he said, aiming a punch at the guy in the hope of at least slowing him down so he could get away. GREY MADDOX
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GREY MADDOX
Darach
Posts: 170
Age:
29
Occupation:
Owner of Grey Haven Hotel
Status:
Engaged
Partner:
Destiny Baccari
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Nov 19, 2024 20:19:32 GMT
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Post by GREY MADDOX on Apr 5, 2023 20:11:11 GMT
He almost laughed with the kid. Almost. What else had his parents instilled in him? A bone deep hatred of the people they’d screwed over generations before, the ability to twist lives from a distance so well that they hadn’t needed to lay hands on to ruin those lives in how long? There was no question that it had been something more than punctuality now. That certainty was burning its way through his own flesh and Grey had learned long ago to listen to it. This kid might not’ve been the one to coax his mom into taking her own life, or even twisted up Malcolm’s thoughts the way you would a lock of hair around your fingers – although their kind could play with their appearance like they were made of play-do, shifting their features, erasing their scars – but he was the one here now and he would end it with him. One last death to stop a dozen, a hundred others. Worth everything it was going to cost him.
Could you call it an unfair fight when he gave the druid every chance to figure this out … and just hand himself over without a fuss? Surely he wasn’t the only one who wanted to end this now. He wasn’t the one with a brand burning its way into his skin – just into his heart. Grey clucked his tongue and shrugged, shaking his head slightly like he was ready to throw a dice or toss a coin, neither of which would save the kid now. ”It would’ve given you a little more of a head start at least. You could’ve tried to find a way to worm your way out of this … your family are good at that after all.” At least the inevitably of this meeting had struck him.
Hey, maybe he wasn’t as dumb as he looked, he was figuring this out now after all. Grey’s smile gave way to bared teeth, lips peeling back as razor sharp as his voice. ”I’m the one who killed them all? I’m a monster. You know how many of them died way before their time because of your family? They broke the deal, they cursed us. Anything that came after that was us trying to stop you.” The kid could all innocent all he wanted, but the druid’s touch was all over that dark cloud that had smothered every darach in his line. Their madness had been spilling out of cold eyes, out of Leah’s eyes as she slunk in to tear his life apart again. Every time he looked in the mirror he was desperate not to see it in his own, no matter how many knocks he’d taken in all of this. For Destiny he was keeping it together.
Druids might’ve pled innocence, but playing at being the wise oak didn’t mean there wasn’t darkness creeping inside of you too. Something had driven them to break their promise, and not even try to stop this afterwards. He wouldn’t hesitate the same way. Grey threw his power out, tossing the wind at the druid, drawing the birds to him with the sort of magnetism that couldn’t be avoided. They were an extension of him, fluttering dawn, cawing, tumbling as some were driven away by the opposing wave of power. ”Nice try,” Grey hissed out in a laugh. He curled in as he grabbed the kid, one muscled forearm catching him under the chin, the other hand gripping the same blade he’d used to kill Leah’s boyfriend’s brother – the wrong man but it still counted.
Maybe the kid wasn’t useless. He was turning that power around, leaving him straining with the knife tip still an inch from that skinny, tanned throat. Grey snarled, picturing Destiny’s face, full of the devastation of their loss, Petyr’s so tiny, so still and perfect. The tears blurred his vision, blinding him for a moment as an elbow drove back into his gut. Just a second of his concentration slipping was enough to get the druid free. There was another blow, the knife flying out of his hand. Grey wheeled back as he swung at him, the fist swishing by an inch from his chin. He staggered another step, straightening himself up to point a finger at the guy. ”You’re telling me your family didn’t break your promise? That you’ve been sitting here all sweet and innocent since … bullshit. You damned them all and I’m stopping it now. I’m not watching her go through that again. I’m not losing anybody else.” Death and destruction had swirled around them for generations and now Grey called it out, dust rising again with his telekinesis as he threw himself into the kid, hitting the dirt, planting a knee in the centre of his chest as he stretched for the knife. Screw turning this into a sacrifice, it didn’t have to be neat, he just had to be dead.
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DANNY MAHEALANI
Druid
Posts: 168
Age:
22
Status:
Engaged
Partner:
Riley Parker
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Nov 11, 2024 16:57:18 GMT
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Post by DANNY MAHEALANI on May 20, 2023 23:37:10 GMT
Danny had felt like he was living on borrowed time ever since the brand had seared its way into his skin. He had known the risks when he had decided to embrace his druid heritage but there was still a part of him that had hoped that he might be spared the same way some of his family members had been. His parents had decided not to embrace their heritage because they hadn’t wanted to take the risk but Danny had known that he couldn’t just leave his friends high and dry. They had needed help freeing Allison from the demon and Danny had known that he had needed to give it. He hadn’t been a part of their group back in Beacon Hills but that didn’t mean that he hadn’t cared. He hadn’t known how to reach out back then and if he was honest he hadn’t known enough about the supernatural world to get involved without getting himself killed either. He had worked on that over the summer and he hadn’t looked back since. It had brought him to Mystic Falls and it had brought Riley back into his life so Danny knew that he was never going to regret that no matter how this ended. “You’re acting like you know my family but you don’t have a clue. My family are good people,” Danny said even though he was pretty sure that his words would only end up falling on deaf ears. As the guy said that so many people had died way before their time because of his family, Danny shook his head. “That isn’t possible. My family doesn’t hurt people, they help them.” That was something Danny knew for sure, his family had done so much good over the years and he wasn’t going to let a complete stranger cloud his judgement of them. “Wait, they cursed you? I remember reading something about how my family’s curse started, two families were trying to help the same group of people but they were double crossed. Both elders were killed and my family was told that the other family was responsible. Ever since then so many of my family have died,” he said, his eyes locked on the other man as he spoke. “Let me guess, your family was the other one involved?” he asked, pretty sure that that was what it had to be. It was the only thing that made sense. He didn’t know what had really happened back then but if he was right and this guy felt like his own family had been wronged then it sounded like both might have been set up. There was something about this guy that told Danny that it didn’t matter what he said, though, the guy was determined to kill him and that meant that Danny was going to have to fight for his life. He had known that this day was coming for a long time, his friends had all done their best to find a way to save him from this but there were some things that you just couldn’t be saved from. Danny had accepted his fate a long time ago but one thing he knew for sure was that if he was going down then he was sure as hell going to go down fighting. He managed to get away from the guy after catching him off guard, more grateful than ever for the hours he had spent learning to control his abilities. Danny had always been athletic and he knew how to fight but this was a very different kind of fight and it was one that he knew that he had to do everything in his power to win. It wasn’t long before the knife was out of the guy’s hand and Danny let out a breath he hadn’t known he was holding. He knew that the fight was far from over yet but at least he had a moment without the knife pointed dangerously at his throat. “My family hasn’t done anything to you. They wouldn’t,” Danny protested. “You can say what you want about them but you’re wrong. You’re the only one hurting anyone here, you don’t even know me or any of the things I’ve done but you’re trying to kill me anyway and I bet even you don’t know what really happened back then,” he challenged. The guy had a warped view of Danny’s family, that was for sure, but Danny got the feeling that nothing he said was going to make a difference. “I’m sorry for your loss but you’ve got the wrong person,” he added. It didn’t matter though, moments later the guy was on top of him and Danny called on his biokinesis again, ripping the knife away out of reach before blasting the guy with his own telekinesis in the hope of knocking him off so he could at least fight properly. GREY MADDOX
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GREY MADDOX
Darach
Posts: 170
Age:
29
Occupation:
Owner of Grey Haven Hotel
Status:
Engaged
Partner:
Destiny Baccari
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Nov 19, 2024 20:19:32 GMT
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Post by GREY MADDOX on Jun 11, 2023 21:40:00 GMT
He didn’t have a clue? Everything that spilled out of the druid’s mouth was bullshit – the same thing his kind constantly spouted. What they were, what they did was right, while the flip side of the coin was polluted and evil, nothing they did justified in the same way. Had Petyr deserved to die because of what his parents had done in an attempt to protect themselves? No. There was no way he could ever believe it. Good had nothing to do with which side of that coin you fell on. Destiny was a good person, their baby hadn’t had the chance to be corrupted by whatever was out there, the curse that had damned generations in his father’s line, at least he’d prayed that Petyr hadn’t. It wasn’t how it should’ve worked, the sins of the father passed to the son, especially before birth. Children deserved the chance to be brought into the world and loved, not taken by something else corrupted by that curse, and there was no doubt in his head that it had sunk just as deep into Leah as it had into Malcolm, into him.
”I know what they did, what happened time after time to my family. I don’t know how you can call them good when all they’ve done is destroy people’s lives.” The words were bit out of gritted teeth. ”Do you think they helped my mum when she left a lunatic to raise a baby. Do you think they helped my girlfriend when she lost ours?” Dark brows rose, something inside of him trembling like it was about to shatter, the shards of what were left sharp enough to slice the druid’s throat and turn him into another sacrifice, one made in the name of those he loved. Grey took a slow step in the guy’s direction, each move measured, heavy and ponderous as lead. ”They were double crossed, my family was double crossed by yours. There was never any mention of some third party – although you’re welcome to try and squirm out of your punishment by pullin’ that crappy ‘he did it act’. It wasn’t us. Our people were the ones dying at your hands.” The insanity they’d caused bleeding through generation after generation in a neat little trick that meant the druids didn’t have to actually lay a hand on them. They did it all themselves instead. Not anymore.
The fight wouldn’t be as easy as he’d hoped it would be, but it didn’t matter, he had righteousness on his side. Karma would come through for him this time after taking so much from him. It had all added up to this point, grim determination clinging on despite the roar as the blade flew out of his hand. ”Wouldn’t isn’t the same as couldn’t,” Grey hollered, his face red, his rage a boiling thing inside of him. ”No, I’m not the only one. It’s not just my blood that you’ve corrupted. I’ve got a sister, and the way she’s dealing with this is to try and take everything I’ve got, as though that’ll absolve her of the whole thing.” Leah had never seemed to care as much about the curse as she had her parentage - by simply fathering her he’d committed his crime. Feeling his rage grow at the thought of how Leah had paid him back for that (his only crime seemed to be existing), Grey held onto the druid with an iron grip, lowering his head to hiss in his ear. ”You’re right, I don’t know you and I don’t know what happened then, but I know how to end all of this. You die, kid, and that’s it, curse over. We’re done.” He and Destiny would get to live in peace. ”I don’t think ….” His hand had been so close to the knife but now it was skittering away again and he was thrown back, skidding away on his back. No! There was a way he was going to do this, but screw the sacrifice. He rolled over, scrambling again, throwing his hand out to have the blade sailing back, straight at the druid.
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DANNY MAHEALANI
Druid
Posts: 168
Age:
22
Status:
Engaged
Partner:
Riley Parker
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Nov 11, 2024 16:57:18 GMT
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Post by DANNY MAHEALANI on Jan 7, 2024 19:19:12 GMT
Danny had known about the curse when he had decided to embrace his Druid heritage. None of his family seemed to know how it selected which members of the family it would affect but everyone affected by it had died. That had never been lost on Danny and he had known that it was a risk but he had also known that it was worth it in order to help Scott and the others save Allison. He had been there to help his friends and it had brought Riley back to him so Danny knew that he was never going to regret it. He could already tell that this guy had a twisted view on what had happened and he seemed determined to go through with what he had planned but Danny knew there was no way that he was going to go down without a fight. “They haven’t destroyed anyone’s lives, they’ve saved lives,” Danny hissed. He had no idea where this guy was getting his information from but Danny knew that it was wrong. His family hadn’t hurt anyone and he was pretty sure that they weren’t even capable of it. “My family are Druids, they have never gone down that dark path.” He knew the stories, going down a dark path would cause a Druid to become something else – a Darach. He knew that some of them might have made some mistakes along the way and Danny knew that he wasn’t perfect himself either but none of them had gone down that path that he knew of and he knew that they all wanted to keep it that way. “I’m sure they would have helped if they’d known them,” Danny assured him. “I really am sorry for everything that has happened to you,” he said gently. Most of his family lived in Hawaii but they always did their best to help those on the island while those that had left tried to help those around them, just like Danny did with the pack. “Just like my people have been dying at your hands, don’t you see? You don’t know that there wasn’t someone else responsible for it all back then but this has been going on for too long. You care about your family and I care about mine so instead of you trying to kill me, why don’t we work together to stop anyone else getting hurt?” he suggested. Danny was still scared, he could tell that this guy believed what he was saying but so did Danny. He had no idea what had been going on with the guy’s family but he knew what had been going on with his and Danny knew that it had to stop. He needed to find a way to survive this so he and Riley could have the future together that they had always wanted, so that Danny could marry his fiancé and put an end to this curse business once and for all. It had been hanging over him for such a long time but now it was coming to a head and he was doing his best to talk the guy down but he wasn’t sure that it was working. Danny’s friends had found themselves in fights for their lives before but not Danny. He knew how to fight but he wasn’t a werewolf like lots of the pack were and he wasn’t a hunter like Allison. He was the adviser of the pack but this time he had to fight and he was doing that with everything that he had. He could already see that the guy was surprised that he was fighting back but Danny had something worth fighting for so he knew there was no way that he was going to make this easy for the guy. “People can do just about anything when they’re backed into a corner but they wouldn’t hurt your family,” Danny said, believing every word. He knew that the guy was lying even if the guy didn’t seem to believe that. Danny knew his family and he knew that there was no way they would do something like what they were being accused of. “Right here you’re the only one hurting anyone. I haven’t done anything to you other than exist,” Danny countered. “Then work with me to stop this once and for all. Then we can let both our families live in peace at last,” he pleaded. He could see that his family wasn’t the only one hurting from all of this and Danny knew that there had to be a way to help both families. His friends had tried to find a way to break the curse but there had always been something missing – something that perhaps only this guy could provide. Danny struggled as much as he could as the guy held onto him, he wasn’t weak by any means but the guy was older and right now he had the upper hand. “So many of my family have already died because of this curse. Do you really think that killing one more will stop it when none of their deaths have? If you kill me all that will happen is you’ll have blood on your hands and a curse that still hasn’t been broken.” That was something he was certain about, whatever curse had been placed on the other guy’s family hadn’t been put there by Danny’s family so killing him wasn’t going to change anything. Taking the chance to get to his feet after he’d managed to throw the guy backwards, Danny held his hand out and stopped the knife before it could strike him. “This isn’t the way,” he said. Sending a wave of sheer force at the knife and breaking it in two, he made vines grow from the ground and pull both pieces into the earth before aiming a second set of vines at the guy, hoping to stop him from attacking once and for all. “This has to stop.”GREY MADDOX
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GREY MADDOX
Darach
Posts: 170
Age:
29
Occupation:
Owner of Grey Haven Hotel
Status:
Engaged
Partner:
Destiny Baccari
Played by:
Ange
Last seen Nov 19, 2024 20:19:32 GMT
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Post by GREY MADDOX on Jan 27, 2024 18:20:35 GMT
Grey’s laugh was more than bordering on hysterical now. Tears burned in his eyes, the guy’s twisted view of things tightening his certainties around his brain and heart like barbed wire. Metal biting into him, threatening to tear him apart. Was it like this for the druid? Had the madness taken hold of both sides of all of this? Maybe. Either way the view this kid had of the world was wrong. ”They didn’t save any of ours. What they did destroyed people. You can fool yourself into thinking your hands are clean all you want, but it’s not gonna change the truth.” His mum was dead, Petyr was dead, because of what these people had done all those centuries before. His cackle filled the air, threatening to choke him as it rolled out. ”Tell yourself whatever you want, it’s not gonna change what’s happened.” Hypocrisy was like a blanket for these people, keeping them warm at night when the truth should’ve left them cold and hard – like he’d been before Destiny had found him in that street.
No matter how many assurances this kid spat to try and save his own life, Grey didn’t find himself comforted by any of them. This kid couldn’t have given a shit about his mum, or about his son. ”What’s that gonna do for me?” he asked, bitterness coating every word. Nobody had a spell to tell burn the clock, nothing would bring his mum back, or Petyr, nothing would mend all of the cracks in his and Destiny’s hearts. Shaking his head, Grey brought a hand up between them like he was waving off the kid’s words. ”It was self-preservation. You can’t tell me you’ve got proof that someone else kicked all of this off, Why would they ever have bothered?” No. It had been his family and this kid’s from the start, their hands on the first knife in the back.
”That’s not how it works,” Grey said hoarsely, staring into the kid’s dark eyes as he tried to skate out of it by offering help the same way his ancestors had. ”It ends here and that’s gonna be with you dead. Your people will be gone, your line’s gonna end and this whole thing will finally be over.” The weight would come off of his shoulders and both him and Destiny would be able to breathe again and find a way to rid themselves of their last problem – Leah, the living embodiment of that curse.
This whole thing would’ve gone faster if the kid had just shut up and let fate take over, but he kept talking and talking. Some of it had him laughing, but although the truth hit again, this time Grey pinched his lips together and just continued to fight. He was right, people could do anything when they were backed into a corner, including killing their own sister to survive. ”Bullshit!” Grey bit out. Someone had cursed them, had started the pain and that was them, the only way for it to stop was to kill again. One death to stop countless others. He would take that extra black mark on his soul to put an end to anybody else having to pay for what had happened so long before. Grey’s lips twisted, his eyes only growing colder. ”My son didn’t get to do that.” His head ticked back and forth, like a metronome counting down to his next strike, denying the druid at the same time.
Rationality should’ve added more weight to the kid’s words, but Grey was far beyond that. He knew what he had to do and that was to kill. ”It wouldn’t be the first time, but it will be the first time that there’s nobody left to come after you. No druids, no curse.” Just a chance for his own line to flourish again without the curse hanging over them. The moment he hit the ground, Grey was moving again. He sent the knife flying back, used the time it gave him to get to his feet. The blade was gone, the brittle snap of it filling the air before the kid whipped the pieces out of sight. Seconds later vines came at him. With a casual flick of his hand Grey brought a forcefield up around himself. The tendrils that made their way past it grasped at his ankles, trying to stop him, but he didn’t stop until he was only a foot away and this time he was whipping the garrotte out. He whipped the end of it out like a whip, aiming to get it around the kid’s throat before the vines reached his hands and pulled him back again. ”Just die!” Grey barked, the tears burning in his eyes again, as hot as the anger that poured off of him like steam off of boiling water.
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hope to see you in the discord! 
