Take a Chance on me {PRIVATE RP}

[Danielle Otis]

(( Private RP between Dante/Dani and Xavier Dosise ))

Dani walked, a hood covering her face and the cloak attached surrounding her body. It was a few days after she found the book that could save Xavier's life, and the day of the full moon. First she tried to search for Sanaki- but gave up after not being able to find him. Not to mention she realized he was a healer. Even if he did know dark magic- was he an expert? Danielle decided to go and search for Xavier's friend, Dante.

Little was known about this man. She had never seen him before. She asked around for days, not knowing even where to start. She learned a few things about him- he was the deceased King, Phillis', lover. He was an expert of magic, and graduated from the magic classes at the public school early. Not to mention he was her best friend Stacy's cousin. Would he be as optimistic as her? Or calm and collected like her parents?

After a few days of searching she grew nervous. It was the morning of the full moon, and she did not want to wait a month to try the ritual. Dani knew that Xavier might not have that time.

A quick visit to the school, they released his address after she stated that it was important business. But this was his address from two years prior- he might not have lived there anymore. It was worth a shot, and off she went, making her way to the town house he might have lived in.

When she reached the house, she dully noted its picture perfect appearance. It was a small, comfortable looking house, with a garden bed surrounding the walls. It was two stories high, with a chimney on the top. Staring at it for a few moments, she realized she was wasting time.

Danielle hurried up the steps, and knocked loudly at the door. Time seemed to stop as she waited. And waited. And waited. She was about to give up as she slowly turned around, when the door swung open. There stood a man with short brown hair, and big blue eyes. His coat was brown with a fluffy hood, and patches all along the left sleeve. Past him, Dani could see an uncountable number of books in his house- on chairs, tables, the floor, on shelved and a coat-rack. She then looked back to him. They stared at each other for a moment, before he smiled, and spoke, "Anything I can help you with?"

The neko girl froze for a moment, unable to speak. He slowly began raising an eyebrow, before she straightened herself out and replied, "Perhaps...Are you Dante? Dante Ahti?" "Yes, I am! And who might you be?" he grinned, leaning up against the door frame with his arms crossed and one leg bent.

"My name is Danielle Otis...I was a friend of your cousin, Stacy Thompson. I believe you know Xavier Dosise?" the girl stiffened up, nervous. He stared for another moment before slowly nodding, "Yes, yes I do...why do you ask?"

"He needs your help. Please," her eyes were desperate. If he didn't know what to do, she didn't know who else could. Her hands were clenched, turning white at the knuckles. Her face going red. And Dante seemed to notice. "...Please, come in. I'll try and help you out in any way that I can," his grin had become a soft smile, as he moved out of the doorway and into the house, turning only to see if Dani was going into the house.

And with a relieved sigh, she did.

"Alright, so we've gotta get to a clearing..." Dante stated, as Danielle and himself walked along to Xavier's home. Dante knew fully well that he had been in a very dark place for quite a while- he didn't know if it was enough to complete these spells, but he knew that he would have to try. Xavier had made his cousin happy- it was time to return the favor.
In his hand, he held the book he had stolen from his sister so long ago. For the second spell, he believed that it was in there. But he was not a hundred percent sure. Not in the slightest. Again, he had to try.
Danielle was thankful for this. She nearly burst into tears, after telling the sorcerer the story. She held it in of course- she never cried.

"I'll draw a magic circle, he'll step in the middle and I'll chant the first spell. Now, you might have to go out and catch a squirrel or something for the blood sacrifice," he stated, clutching his book even tighter in hand. Danielle nodded, not really caring. A smile was plastered onto her face as they neared Dosise's house. He might actually make it.
"Here's hoping that you can do it Dante," she stated, walking faster and faster. He nodded, walking faster with her, "I'll try my best, don't worry."

They reached Dosise's doorstep, and Danielle promptly just wondered inside, as Dante raised an eyebrow. The mage stood outside for a moment before shrugging, and walking inside as well.
"Xavier! I got Dante!" she stated, stepping in the middle of the room as Dante looked around.

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From down bellow in his hidden cellar, Xavier could hear Dani's voice softly calling for him. He grabbed the jars he had came down to find and walked up the stairs.

Above a soft sloshing sound could be heard before, from the center of the room, Xavier's head popped up and continued to rise into the room until he was completely up on the main level. Interestingly enough, the jars came with him. Evidently as long as he held it it could go through solid objects as ghostly as he could.
In the light you could see through the glass what the contents of the jars were, a red colored liquid. Blood to be exact.
"Dante!" he sort of felt bad he had to meet him again under the circumstances, the two had been so close to becoming brothers and he hadn't even talked to him for quite some time.
"..How have you been." he said sort of sadly, guilty of not reaching out but understanding the man's possible pain. He believed his lover was dead, something he had gone through but because Xavier knew Phillis was alive he forgot that Dante would still need comforting. He had failed to even incline as to how he was doing.

[Danielle Otis]

One side of his mouth twitched. It was being brought down to a frown- then it stopped, and became a smile once more.
"I've been better to be honest...and worse," thinking back to his darker days...it made him scared. Not because he was more powerful like that, because he wasn't. But because at that point, his morals seemed to have gone away.
Now that they were back, he didn't want to loose them.

"It's good to see you, though," the magician added with a grin. "Now Dani here tells me you have quite the problem, and I'm here to try and fix it! Believe it or not, I wasn't in the greatest place for a while there, and I do believe I might now have the skills necessary to perform the magics you need."

Dani kept her grin to herself- not only did she enjoy visiting Dosise, but the thought of him coming back tonight...it gave her the shivers. But she kept them to herself.
"We have everything we need, really, all we need is the blood...sacrifice..." her words got slow, as she began to stare at the jug in Dosise's hands.
"...what's that?" she asked, a raised eyebrow, and a smirk threatening to descend upon her lips. It wasn't surprising Xavier had blood in his cellar, but it wasn't something she really expected.

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"Yes it is quite the peculiar problem isn't it." he chuckled a bit before hearing and, well having to answer Dani's question.
"Uh well, it is from an old collection... its blood." he explained. He didn't think he needed to go into any further details such as if it was his, he figured those were probably obvious.

[Danielle Otis]

"...you have some pretty odd hobbies, Xavier," Dani grinned, but winked to show she was kidding.

Dante chuckled before continuing, "We need to find a small clearing so that I can make a magic circle. Know any that are close? Or if you prefer, any that are secluded?"

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He thought hard on that. Any places he new secure and open? Preferably close too. They were generally close to the forest but for the most part it got thicker and less open the farther one went into those.

"Come now Dante, you have been here your whole life and you don't know any open places?" he raised an eyebrow, he was of course kidding. Mostly.
"I have no preference, and I refuse to be picky while under these circumstances."

[Danielle Otis]

Dante grinned, "Hey, thought you might want to pick a place. I know a few, hardly in this area, but still. We should get to it then!" The man pumped a fist in the air, before heading straight out the door, book in hand, walking off towards the forest.

Dani looked back at Dosise with a smile, "He isn't half bad. Definitely different from Stacy though. But I don't think anyone could be as enthusiastic as she was!" the girl laughed, heading out the door as well, waiting for Xavier to come too so that she could shut the door.
She knew he could walk through things, but she also knew it would probably be nice not to have to.

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Xaveir could not help but chuckle as Dante fisted the air. Motivated he could see. He walked out the doorway holding the jars and stopped just under the threshold.
She was right, to assume it felt better to be treated like a real person rather than a ghost. it felt very nice, even though it wasn't true at the moment.
"Not Half bad at all. Shall we go?" he says as he walks out and begins to go in the direction Dante had left, "Don't want to be left behind now." he smirked.

[Danielle Otis]

"Of course not!" she laughed, closing the door and following the two.
It wasn't long before they spotted Dante, already standing in the middle of a small clearing.
"I hope you haven't been very lonely while you've been waiting," she stated to Dosise, as they came closer to the clearing.

Dante, while there began to look around, and began to create his circle.

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Lonely? He didn't get lonely anymore, not really. He had gotten used to it furing his past, lonely was actually something he knew much of and it didn't feel so lonely. Only to those who had experienced that could understand it.
"No no, you were hardly even gone longer than it took for me to dig through my collection." he chuckled a bit, being that it was rather awkward to have a blood collection.

Xavier wasn't really sure of what to do, he sort of just stood out of the way and waited to be told what to do by Dante.

[Danielle Otis]

Danielle stood back as well, knowing that she probably wouldn't be needed.

Dante on the other hand, closed his eyes and began chanting away in the center of the clearing. A tiny mutter, he himself could barely hear it.
Suddenly, wind began to pick up and circle him. just a small breeze, that you could see rippling through the grass. With a bright burst of light, a magic circle engraved itself into the ground. Where the magic circle was, grass was there no longer. And instead of Dante's usual blue magic glow, this circle danced with a black colour.

He opened his eyes and smiled, walking over to Dosise. He had memorized what he had to do from the book before they left, luckily, because he had only brought his own book along.
"I'll have that jar now, Xavier," Dante opened his hands towards the man to take the jar.
"And I'll now have you stand in the center."

"...be warned though, this might not work. Be prepared if it doesn't, because things might get worse if they do," he smiled half-heartedly. Danielle only stared at the two with worry.
"You might go through some pain during the second spell, as well," he piped up. Danielle's worry turned to a scowl, "You never mentioned that!"

"There wasn't much use worrying you," Dante looked at Dani with a sheepish smile, before looking back at Dosise.

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Xavier walked slowly over as he began to worry a bit. It could get worse? No this was the only way. He reassured himself with a deep breath and handed over the jar to Dante while he move to the center.
He wasn't scared of the pain, he would handle that...hopefully.

He took another deep breath, "Okay, I'm ready."

[Danielle Otis]

Dani bit her lip, and folded her arms nervously.

Dante only nodded, took a deep breath in, undid the top of the jar, and began to circle the magic. As he did so, he poured the blood very slowly onto the circle, and chanted.
Doing this type of magic when he wasn't angry was extremely tiring. And this was only the first spell! The blood continued to pour, he continued to chant, and his feet continued to circle around the magic. At the last drop of blood he looked up to Dosise, and stopped chanting.

Quickly, Dante opened his book and flipped to the page he thought the second spell was. Once he found the page, he nodded to Dosise with an attempt at a reassuring smile.
And then, he began to chant. This spell was the process with binding a spirit to their original body. The trick was, it had to be both in one. In Dosise's case, he was both a spirit, and a physical body, in one. Dante was just trying to fit the pieces back together.

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While Dante circled with the blood, Xavier could have sworn that was the pain that he had been talking about. His teeth clenched and his gut wrenching.
But then he began the second part and the pain rose exponentially.
His brow began to sweat profusely and his knees quivered but despite all this he forced himself to keep a straight face and continue to stand.

As he looked himself over, slowly he could begin to see himself get 'thicker', not being able see things through him. It was working. He could definitely feel it.
And his hunger also grew with his body becoming tangible. Food and drink would be a must after this.

[Danielle Otis]

She held her breath in. Was it working? She looked harder...it had to be!
It pained her though- she saw him shake. But she ignored it. He was one of the strongest people she knew.
And it really showed here.

Sweat beaded Dante's forehead as he spoke, growing more exhausted by the moment. But finally- the final words were spoken. The circle, black as night, suddenly burst, and disappeared into the air. The outline of the magic circle was still imprinted in the ground, where there was no longer any grass.
Dante dropped down to one knee, panting.

"Well, that was fun!" he laughed. "Let's do it again sometime!"

Danielle couldn't stop staring at Xavier, and finally after being silent through the whole ordeal, mumbled,
Are you... are you, you again?"

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He hasn't noticed it himself until he gasped for air, having holding it because of the pain. He could feel the blood and fluid running through his body again. In fact his noise started to bleed while he swallowed back down more of it from his mouth as the blood entered returned in an instant to him.
His face was pale, although the color was beginning to return.

Xavier hobbled out of the circle, feeling each step like never before. He laughed hard, now that the danger was over he could partake in the joking, "Alright but it's your turn next time." He says to Dante through his fit of laughter.
After regaining his computer a bit more he hugged Dani tight, it probably wasn't needed, the answer to her question but he did anyway, "Yes, yes I'm me." He smiled and then turned it into a smirk, "Up for the pub? I'll buy the first rounds." He offered the group.

[Danielle Otis]

Dani was shocked to be able to touch Xavier once more. She hugged back as tightly as she could, burrying her face into his chest.
"I was so worried..." she muttered.

Dante stared on, with a raised eyebrow and a cheeky grin on his lips. Oh? Danielle had only told Dante they were friends. She did not say what kind of friends.

Dani pulled away and with a big grin, she nodded. "Sounds great. I could use a drink right now anyways. I'm sure you both want one more though."
"But of course! Such a serious event should be celebrated with intoxication!" Dante spoke, crossing his arms matter-of-factly.

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Xavier chuckled again, loving being able to feel laughter again. He wouldn't think that would be something that he missed so. And Dani's scent, he never really never noticed but before but when he was hugging her, he could smell her sweet aroma. The small things..

He took in a deep breath, just letting it fill his lungs.
"Alright but we better go soon before it closes...Is the pub even open at 1 o'clock?"

[Danielle Otis]

"In this town? Oh please, As long as someones willing to work in the hours of the morning, it's open. And remember, I work there, if anything I'll just open the place up and we'll hang in there for a little bit," she grinned, grasping Xavier's hand.

"C'mon, let's stop dilly-dallying, and go!" Dante laughed, placing his hand on both of their backs and beginning to push them towards town. He could really use a drink.

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Xavier held her hand back and with minimal resistance let the push start their venture to the pub. He hadn't forgotten Dani worked their but he didn't want to just assume.
"It has been so long... Perhaps I should only drink water for awhile, get that back in my system first." As good as a drink sounded he needed to become hydrated again. He just couldn't afford to get drunk, although he was 'real' again he still had to get healthy again.