The Third Temptation of Paris [Open].

[Holden J. Caulfield]

The horizon, now as dark as the crimes that brought them here,
is filled with my impending dread.
My foolish actions will cost so many good men
Achilles has come...

A thousand sails approaching.
Sent here in her name to reclaim the one I stole
and destroy the walls of Troy.

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Holden had been in the Dungeons all day, since there were no more classes for the rest of the term; from what he knew. Earlier today he went to look for someone to talk to but he couldn't find anyone. All the upper years seemed to be craming like crazy since the O.W.L.S and the N.E.W.T.S were coming up soon and they all needed to pass. The Hufflepuff was confiendent enough in himself to know he was going to pass in rainbow colors.

He wore his new Alesana shirt, tight skinny blue jeans, a black three row studded belt, black and white Vans, and a black and white bandana that hung out of his back pocket. His dark brown hair was how he liked it, nice and straight.

"The horizon, now as dark as the crimes that brought them here, is filled with my impending dread. My foolish actions will cost so many good men. Achilles has come...

"A thousand sails approaching. Sent here in her name to reclaim the one I stole and destroy the walls of Troy. Desire leaves me numb to all the pain surrounding me. Storms will arise to condemn me. I will not die before her eyes...It ends tonight."

The fifth year took a deep breath as he looked at the dark floor. It looked between really really old and moldy. To combinations that don't go very well together. It reminded him of the people in the nursing homes for some odd reason. But that wasn't very nice so he didn't dwell on that thought for very long.

"Tragically I now must accept the penance I have earned. She is cursed and tonight we die in the dawn of this, my end, I hold my sword true. I must let her go...

"A thousand sails approaching sent here in her name to reclaim the one I stole and destroy the walls of Troy."

Originally this song was sung with three people: two men [boys or guys] and a woman [girl or female] but Holden didn't know anyone that actually knew the song or anyone that would want to sing it. He liked it personally but his father hated the song to death. To him it sounded like an old band from the seventies and of course Jeffree couldn't understand a word they were saying. 'It's too muffled Holden,' he said. Pfft. It was easy to understand, to him at least.

He sighed as he stuff his hands into his pockets and continued walking. It was getting kind of boring singing to yourself and walking alone. Holden at times didn't mind being alone and having silence but now he actually wanted to talk to someone. Anyone. As long as he liked them.

The Third Temptation of Paris by Alesana

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[Ankoku Akuma]

There came Ankoku, he had been wandering the school for a time trying to find somewhere to go. A place quiet would have been nice but he had felt like talking right now, something very rare to him. Silence had become a close friend of his and he was now ignoring it. He didn't understand it himself but after the karaoke thing he had to talk with someone. Even though he had been in nice clothes before, he had changed into new clothes, he enjoyed the ones he had on right now more enjoyable. It consisted of a black shirthe had got at a concert a while back,baggy black jeans and black shoes with red laces. Though his eye color was still the color crimson, it didn't matter much, this eye color matched him as well. The problem was that Ankoku was in the dungeon, since when did people casually walk around in this place, most of time people go here for solitude. This room hadn't much promise for his purpose. But then he could smell something was in here, it was the scent of flesh from a human though unsure if human or not.

But the change was that someone was inside the room ,this would help him,hopefully this person isn't all for gloom and doom. It was interesting how Ankoku was a slytherin that enjoyed the presences of a cheerful person. It was just something that Ankoku had, cheerful people had some effect on him for some reason. It was difficult to track the scent of the person down here, the room reeked of slime and other things that should not be named. But he was getting closer and it got easier to track, until he found who he had been looking for. A smirk came to his face, this person didn't seem to sad and from the looks of it he wasn't a slytherin so he might be less annoying than some people might. He detested people who insulted people and thought of them as lower forms just for being different from themselves. He could bet that the person who said that would get their butt whipped by the other if they fought, just to show how wrong he was. Those thoughts brought a sly smile to his face, he had seen that once, a boy was insulting this other kid for being shorter than most people, next thing he knew the boy threw him head first into the wall. This was one of the awkward memories he has, he witnessed this as a friend of the one who was being teased, but since the other started it he would not say anything about it.

Clack, a rack flew int the ancient walls to wake Ankoku up, he wasn't paying attention and had almost ran into a wall. When he got all the way back into the real world he noticed the boy was singing, he listened for a while. The song was interesting but Ankoku had never heard of it before,he waited for a while until the boy was done, he didn't want to interrupt such an interesting song. Maybe he would look it up one day, but until then he would have to remember this thing. He popped out from one of the stone pillars to speak,"Yo."He said a bit quiet, he wasn't sure if the person had heard him or not but waiting was better than trying to repeat himself in a loud enough tone for the guy to hear him. Ankoku had been trying to repeat the song in his head so he wasn't to sure of his wording. Where had they boy heard of that song, he would ask later on when they got a little deeper into their conversation that hadn't even begun yet.

The dungeon was as gloomy as it had ever been, but being himself these feeling it would give off to some people wouldn't effect him the slightest bit. The stone wall was cold and when he first relaxed on it, the thing sent a clod chill through his spine. Bu he had quickly recovered from it in his wait for a reply. Ankoku had heard it would be a full moon this day, it was something that he would want to see so he began to wonder the time too. He had plenty of things to wander while he waited for this boys reply along with the question of his year. Some of them would be answered soon so he kept them in mind until he would have a chance he thought was right, so the boys reply was awaited till then.

[kaelyn]

It wasn't time for this.
It never is.

Kaelyn took another step forward and stopped. It was pitch black here. Good. Tears were falling freely from her cheeks, but she didn't dare make a sound. She hated this month. Taking a second to dry her eyes before she moved on, she tried not to reflect.

She came down here because she wanted to get her mind off her studies. Bad idea. When she wasn't thinking about her schoolwork her mind wandered to other, less pleasant things. She wished she had someone to talk to. Five years of living here, and she still hadn't found someone she could truly call her friend. Someone she could trust to listen to her and not tell others about it.

She ventured further. She thought she knew the closest way out from where she was.

The minutes, they hide from me,
and it's the cruelest game of hide and seek

Or maybe she didn't. It didn't matter either way. She didn't have anything to do when she got back. Except study. She was more worried than she usually was this time of year, because of the pressure of being a prefect. If she failed, would her prefect license be revoked? Her mouth twitched upward in the echo of a smile.

Kaelyn came upon a relatively well-light area, for the dungeons. She reached up to touch her face, make sure there weren't any tears still lingering. She felt trails of wetness running down her cheeks and swept them away as best she could. She felt slightly embarrassed about her appearance, and hoped fainlty she didn't encounter anyone else down here.

She was still wearing her pajamas. She wore a fitted dusky purple tee with a raincloud and a thunderbolt on it, her gray sweatpants, and her gray flip-flops. Her hair was down and left in it's natural waves. She hadn't eaten in a few days, and was afraid she looked even more sickly than usual.

where all I want is slipping through my fingers
and I'm crumbling.

Continuing onward, she came upon a boy, no wait - two boys. Her hazel eyes glanced between them before finally focusing on Holden. Crap. She wasn't really friends with him, but she knew who he was, meaning he probably knew who she was. Crap crap.

She blinked slowly, turning away. She didn't speak, just continued to look back and forth between the two. She wondered if she had intruded on a conversation. She wondered if she had tear stains on her cheeks. And she wondered if she should introduce herself. Her mouth didn't open, so she decided not to.

How embarrassing. How she hated this time of the month.

[Holden J. Caulfield]

Touch of poison seals my fate.
The dawn echoes the night with my glory...the sun himself honors me.

Once king of roses, now lord of gold.
The gods themselves envy my hand.
Blessed with the gift of gilded touch,
fate wields its knife to cut the thread.
Ambrosia by Alesana

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"Desire leaves me numb to all the pain surrounding me. Storms will arise to condemn me. I will not die before her eyes...It ends tonight.

"It ends tonight, I am alone. Pain fills her eyes, I am alone.

"I must save my honor, I cannot let them win, the blood of many spills
sacred and profane is our love in death..."

The fifth year quickly turned around when he heard a 'Yo' from a masculan voice. When he turned around to face the male who had spoken his eyes automatically noticed the boys eyes, they were crimson. Holden had a puzzled look on his face and titled his head. Was it his eyes just playing tricks on him or was the boys eyes really crimson? Of course they're not crimson, Holden. You've been reading too much Stephanie Meyer. Time to visit the optomitrist.

Holden kept his hands in his pockets and shook his head slightly. He had to reply back to this creature human boy. The only reason the Hufflepuff continued to see him as 'boy' was because the boy was shorter than he was. Holden blinked and said, "Hello. How are you?" If he had known this creature person then he would have said 'How art choo?' but Holden didn't feel like making a complete full of himself.

Then there was someone else. Someone that Holden knew and practically grew up with here at Hogwarts, Kaeyln. They had talked once before out of class but either than that they had never talked. But she was in most or in all of his classes, he never bothered to look to see if who was in his classes anymore. He was about to say something to her when he noticed how she was dressed and looked.

Kaelyn did look sickly from Holden's point of view. I wonder what is wrong with her. The way she looked, it really made her look like she had been sick for weeks and just came out of sleep. But there was something else. Even in the un-well lit corridor he could see that her face was red and puffy from crying. Was she okay?

Holden, knowning him well, had to had to ask what was wrong with Kae. "Kaelyn, are you okay?" Hopefully she wouldn't snap at him but if that came to happen he would snap even worse. He was just asking and there was no harm in that. Not like Kaelyn Thompson was going to pull out a knife and stab him. Personally he felt like he should give her a hug and calm her down a bit.

"Kae, you're crying. What is wrong?" Being a Hufflepuff he cared about other people's feelings other than his own and would stick by them till it was over.

The Three Temptations of Paris by Alesana

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[Ankoku Akuma]

"Another one?" The slytherin whispered to himself, the scent of another person had appeared inside this polluted dungeon. She was crying, he could hear the tears fall down here face,what had upset her? Then the boy interrupted by asking how he was. Should he speak? Or wait for the girl to arrive, instead he began to speak."Fairly well.You?" Was this a wise set of word choices? Maybe or maybe not, the person should understand it either way. By the time he finished speaking the girl had arrived, once she noticed the people she stopped. Maybe she didn't want to meet anyone, she looked a bit ill. Ankoku was going to ask her if she was okay but the other boy beet him to it, he had known her apparently. What was their connection, most likely friends but it could be something else. While listening to the boy speak he heard that her name was Kaelyn, a unique name. But he payed attention to the boy, he was a little worried about her. Though maybe the boy shouldn't have brought out the crying part, Ankoku wasn't going to take part in this for the moment, maybe he could just stand there like a stone till things were figured out.

The matter was he had already spoke so the wasn't much chance to get out.This isn't the best moment to meet someone, maybe I shouldn't have gone looking for someone to chat with. But he was too late, not like he would just walk away after starting a conversation. From the looks of the girl she hadn't been eating much, she was very slim, she also had her pajamas on. Had she been sick and escaped from her friends that forced her to stay in bed? Not likely, it might have happened but there was more chance she had been sleeping and just wanted to wander around. Though this still told him nothing about her tears, maybe waiting would be better. He hadn't much to do other than sit there in the corner until someone spoke up. Through the bars of the dungeon you could see the moon rising and the sun lowering. He hadn't noticed that so much time had passed by, what would happen if it got late, would they leave. This would be answered if the talk lasted.

He began to comb his hair with his long fingers in frustration, he had no clue on what to do, staying quiet was his best option but that probably wouldn't work. He let his fangs hang out a bit as if expecting them to do something to help him out, it would most likely just scare them. So he sealed his lips tight but his fangs remained out so he could poke his tongue with it. Some cold breezes of wind made it through the window and onto him, he nudged a bit but not enough to be noticed. The girl stood their, what had she been doing until she arrived her? She looked as if looking for solitude, his thoughts seemed correct for the time being. He began to curl his hair around his finger,wanting to speak but knew it wasn't his place at this moment. He just stood their bitting his lip, what would she answer this with?

[kaelyn]

"Kaelyn, are you okay? Kae, you're crying. What is wrong?" She cringed on the inside as she heard his words. Was it truly that obvious? She didn't want this to be a big thing. Just give her a week or two and she'd be fine, she knew it. She hoped.

She wasn't sure what to say. Denying it certainly wouldn't work. She wa certain that both boys knew she'd been crying. Aw, crud. She was sure she didn't want to tell him the truth though. She hadn't trusted that to anyone yet. And she didn't think she wanted to tell a kid she'd only ever met in class and another she'd never seen before her secrets. She glanced quickly at the younger year. He was standing still, not saying a word. She wondered if he felt out of place. She sure did.

"Oh, I'm alright, really," She urged, "Just, you know, personal things. I'm fine now." Kaelyn gave them both a smile, hoping Holden would just drop the subject.

Taking this chance to change the subject, she leaned back against the stone wall and focused on the other boy, still standing stiffly by his lonesome. "Hello, sir. I'm Kaelyn Thompson. A fifth year Mihael?" She added the last bit uncertainly, unsure of whether she should have added it or not. "Do you know Holden?" She jerked her head in Holden's direction.

Taking a deep breath, she waited for someone to respond. Her eyes flicked back and forth between the two others. For a moment Kaelyn thought the younger year had red eyes. She did a slight double take, and couldn't tell anymore. She shrugged it off. Even if her did have red eyes. she'd certainly seen stranger.

[Holden J. Caulfield]

I curse the day my dream became my descent.
Suddenly I long for you, my only love.

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He signed and shook his head as Kaelyn refused to tell him what was wrong. Was it because of this boy next to him with the crimson eyes? Probably. Holden would still probably blurt his heart out in front of a stranger but that was how Holden was. He didn't care what others thought of him.

"If you say so Kae," he said dropping the whole subject. If she didn't want to talk about then she didn't have to talk about it. It was none of his business anyway and wouldn't pressure her to do so. Under pressure was one of the worst feelings ever and he wouldn't put her into that.

His grey eyes looked to the stranger. Holden hadn't gotten his name yet. They were talking when crying Kaeyln came. He stuffed his hands into his pockets waiting for the boy to state his name and maybe house. "Holden Caulfield, fifth year Hufflepuff," he stated so the boy didn't have to ask him if he was going to ask.

"I wonder if there are any skulls down here," he said to himself but enough to were Kaelyn and the stranger could hear. Holden might go in search of a skull and name it Oli[ver]. That would be fun...wouldn't it? Something to keep Kae's mind off of things and to keep this younger year from feeling left out. =]

"I say we go on a search for a skull. I say we name it Oli."

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[Ankoku Akuma]

The conversation was getting better, they had started to share their names though Ankoku had been the only stranger. But it didn't affect him, so he pleasurably spoke"Ankoku Akuma, 2nd year slytherin. It's a pleasure to meet you."He complimentary said with a nod of satisfaction. Then the words 'skull' and 'Oli' appeared. He glimpsed at the boy for a moment wandering what the boy was thinking, looking for a skull? Was this his Idea of fun? But it seemed a bit interesting so he has fine with it.

"Sure, and Oli sounds like a good name." It was an interesting game, and he felt like finding out what happened if they really found it. He pushed himself off the walls and walked a bit closer to the people,She's lying. A word said in the back of the head when he remembered that she had said she was okay, Her heart rate wasn't in the normal rate, and of course he could tell she had not eaten normally for sometime. He watched the girl for a while then switched his attention to the wall, he heard something scurrying by but it had only been a rat. Still the rat smelled abnormal, what was that smell? But it went by to fast for him to find out.

Even though this room seemed like a room skulls would remain in, he doubted they would leave them here. The staff wouldn't appreciate students screaming at the mere sight of a skull, human or not. It wasn't very clear why people had been scared of them, they were just bones, nothing much to be scared about. You give dogs them all them time but I have never heard someone scream and shout about that. Another part is that bones had no scary aspects other than the thought that someone was killed or had died down their. The killing part would probably be the most scary. Oh well,as long as nobody screamed in here he was safe from pain.

Now he was questioning if his being half vampire was a curse or not. Having those advantages just brought out more weaknesses. Then the smell of the rat returned and snapped him out of his world, but even so he hadn't gotten all the way out until the rat had been gone. He glanced at all the holes and cracks in the room, what would be in them? But from the smell of them he didn't want to take the chance finding out. It had been a pleasant evening and he believed that this should work out fine too. So he stood their looking back and forth with anticipation until Kaeyln agreed to begin.

[kaelyn]

Kaelyn gave a small nod to the Slytherin as he introduced himself. Ankoku. She whispered the name to herself. She liked that name. She liked the way her tongue clicked against the roof of her mouth as she said it.

"I say we go on a search for a skull. I say we name it Oli." The other boy agreed, and Kae knew they were waiting for her to respond. She smiled. This sounded like fun. She was delighted to have a chance to get her mind off things.

"Okay, let's go search for skulls. But if we do find one, and it doesn't look like an Oli, could we consider naming it Benjamin instead?"

With that she walked to the wall and started searching in the deep crevasses and pits in the walls. She hadn't actually realized how old this school was until now. It made her feel so small to think that these walls had existed so much longer than she had. She brushed away a cobweb or two, and shivered.

Shaking the feeling off, she turned back to the others, "No skull in or on or around that wall."

She came to the realization that she was quite chilly. Her fingers and toes were icy cold down here. And the stone was even colder. She hadn't realized how warm it was up in the Mihael tower until now. She folded her arms across her chest for warmth and bounced up and down a few times to make her toes feel better.[/font]

[Holden J. Caulfield]

After hearing the boys name he nodded. Ankoku. What is up with everyone in Japanese names. Or is it Chinese? It's all the same to me.

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The Hufflepuff began walking after Kaelyn and stopped to see if the boy was coming along, he had agreed after all. Holden turned back to see where Kae was. I can't believe I'm almost out of here. It seemed almost yesterday that I just got here. So much has happened. I wonder what I'm going to do after this.[/color] He took a breath and began walking.

As Kaelyn looked up and down one wall he began looking around in corners and behind statues. Best to work from where you were at. Hopefully there was no decaying bodies. That would be fun...I mean funny. It would be funny. Not really. Holden would probably be all 'Time to go' sort of thing and pull them along from the body then go find a teacher or something. It wasn't the skull they were quite looking for so to speak...or type.

The Mihael said there were no skulls on her side of the Dungeon. "I can't find one either. But yeah, if it doesn't look like an Oli[ver] well name it Benjamin. Any ideas for a name if it doesn't look like an Oli nor a Benjamin, Ankoku?" He wanted to keep the other kid in the conversation and not feel left out like third wheel or something, that would be rude.

Holden looked back to Kae from Ankoku. Kaelyn was cold. He looked to himself, he didn't feel cold but there were cold bumps on his arms. His eyebrow raised but he ignored his arms and began walking again. "Oliver! Benjamin! Come out come out whereever you are." Calling out skulls...fun.[/font][/size][/blockquote]

[Ankoku Akuma]

This was slowly becoming a weird game, Benjamin and Oli but those weren't the only two. They apparently decided to get one name for each person. But what name would he choose, then a name he had heard in stories as a child.chaorlettebut he couldn't remember the stories so he just shrugged. This was mostly likely the one he would choose. Ankoku was the worst when it came to names. His lips parted to let out a whisp with the name"Chaorlette," but he had made it loud enough to hear. He lowered himself to the floor and began to search for the skull. Though how would they be able to name it out of the three? Skulls didn't have much of a difference, though he could use his sense of smell for that. Depending on it's smell he could name it, would they agree with it? Hopefully, but unless they found what they were searching for there was no point in suggesting it. For most of the time he searched the floor, but there hadn't been much luck for him.

For some awkward song had come into his song, he wasn't to sure where he had heard it but he liked the song a lot. It pulled him in, the song was one of the only ones that could keep him entertained. For some reason it had slipped out of his mouth, he said it quietly wondering if it could be heard."You can't escape the wrath of my heart. Beating to your funeral song. All faith is lost for hell regained And love dust in the hands of shame. Let me bleed you this song of my heart deformed And lead you along this path in the dark. Where I belong 'till I feel your warmth." His finger tips wondered through his wild silver hair while he continued on with the song in a hushed tone.

"Hold me Like you held on to life. When all fears came alive and entombed me. Love me Like you love the sun. Scorching the blood in my vampire heart. I'll be the thorns on every rose. You've been sent by hope I am the nightmare waking you up. From the dream of a dream of love." It solemnly reminded him of his half life. From word, this song had been based on vampires, but this song was not meant completely for people like him since he was only a mere half of this story. But none the less, this song was very addicting to him. Being able to hear a song that calmed Ankoku had pleased him so even if he was the one to sing it. What other songs had the band of this song make? He wasn't sure but he believed that the same band made wings of a butterfly as this song. Even with these many thoughts in his head he could continue with the song." Let me weep you this poem as Heaven's gates close. Paint you my soul, scarred and alone. Waiting for your kiss to take me back home. Hold me. Like you held on to life. When all fears came alive and entombed me. Love me. Like you love the sun. Scorching the blood in my vampire heart."These people had chosen an interesting wording choice that pulled him deeper into the song. Some how he had heard this song,how did he? He waited wondering if he could get the answer after a while. Then he came back to the normal world due to the chill from the frozen floor."None here."He said hoping they hadn't noticed how out of it he was.

[kaelyn]

Kaelyn watched the other boy for a second, searching around on the floor, whispering something to himself. She couldn't make out quite what he was saying from where she was standing but it had a peaceful rhythmic pulse to it. She quickly turned away, realizing she was staring, and hadn't she always been told that was rude?

"So, Chaorlette it is." Smiling at Holden walking around calling out for the skulls to come out, she joined him, "Char, Oli, Ben! Come out! We come in peace!"

As this made no difference she continued on her way down the hall. The light was a little dimmer over here. Searching across her wall she found a deep crevasse in the wall. She frowned, looking into it's dark depths. It almost looked like a hallway, but much narrower.

She slipped out her wand at said, "Lumos," A faint light at the tip of her wand appeared. She used it to see further into the deep crack. It started out very thin and narrow and as you got deeper in it looked like it got wider and squatter.

She didn't think twice before stepping in. She had to go in sideways at first, barely scraping through and then she turned and looked forward, walked a few more steps before she had to get on her hands and knees.

It occurred to her she should really tell Holden and Ankoku about this. She hadn't even bothered to tell them she'd found anything. She didn't want them to think she'd gotten lost.

"Hey, you guys!" She called.