The Council Room

[Enzo Veioni]

Enzo was going to smile back at Angela one again when he has seen a woman walk up to him and put her hand out infront of him. He looked at the hand then back up at the woman, taking it and smiling. "Yes, that is me. And you are? I want to say by the tone of your voice, you are an instructor here?" He asked out of curiosity. Then looked back at Angela.

"Not a problem, I will do that. Why don't you go and get Vance, then meet us in the room in a few, alright?" He smiled now, then looked back at Veyda once again for her response.

[Veyda Hargreaves]

Veyda bowwed her head slightly in respect.

"You're very perceptive, sir. I amdire that. I apologize on behalf of the Shadow Peak Council about the absence of hunters to lend aid during this skirmish. But, please, also forgive my rudeness. I am Miss Veyda Hargreaves. Head instructor of the hunter order in Shadow Peak."

[Enzo Veioni]

"Oh, no problems, no problems at all. It is a crazy day for us all. I just so happened to have been in that area when it started. Thank you though for the concern and it is a pleasure to meet you Veyda." He smiled then looked past her for a second and sighed.

"I was hoping the kids from the warehouse would have been back by now...it worries me..." He looked back at Veyda, his smile now gone and replaced with a slight frown.

[Vance Beau]

Vance had heard through the hunter grapevine that there was a meeting in the Council Room, so he hurried down the hallways as fast as he could. When he got close to the doors, he slowed down, not wanting to be out of breath when he got there (not that he wasn't athletic, but since his...injury...he hasn't quite been the same.

He heard his wife's voice in the room. The corners of his mouth lifted into a small smile. He walked into the room with that smile. He lightly touched Angela's arm as a greeting before addressing Enzo, "Still in action at your age, Enzo?"

[Enzo Veioni]

Enzo looked away from the entrance and towards Vance when he entered the room. He smirked at the man, knowing the was in for a rather nice surprise later. He nodded a greeting to Vance and listened to his question, snickering a bit towards the end.

"A hunter can never rest, you know as well as I, Vance....also, if not fighting, I'm still part of the council." He smirked, his face then returning back to a frown of sorts.

"How is your injury holding? I know your wife takes very good care of you, I was just wondering." He would understand if Vance did not want to tell him, but seeing what had happened at the warehouse, he foreshadowed the need for all the hunters to take action. He just wanted to make sure of Vance's condition before Vance himself was pulled into this fight.

[Sela Rothchild]

"I'm sure that Vance will be able to do whatever will be required of him," Sela said, walking into the Council room and taking her seat near the front of the table. Once she was seated, she focused all of her attention on Enzo.

"It appears you've brought a bit of trouble with you this time Enzo.." she said, her voice sounding slightly disapproving, but then all of a sudden her stern look softened into a slight smile, "it's a good thing too, things were getting boring around here as of late." She said.

She then looked over at Veyda and used her 'walking stick' to knock the younger lady's leg slightly, "You need to lighten up a little. You always look so angry, it'll cause wrinkles you know."

[Demetri Koskov]

Demetri was not too far from Sela when he saw her hit Veyda with the "walking stick", "I would listen to her...she's just like that monkey Rafiki with that stick I tell you, next it will be your head!" He teasingly laughed as he sat on the right side of Sela and smirked at Enzo.

"Nice to see you here again, and I agree with the Old lady here, it was getting p~retty boring here..so thanks for the fun." He smirked as he watched Chaira come in and put her hand on Enzo's shoulder.

Enzo tensed up at the touch, then looked up and smiled, seeing it was her and Jill then looked back at Sela.

"Well, fun is my specialty, you should know this..you and I had quite the fun back in the day." he smiled as he stood um, being careful with his injury and sitting on the left side of the council, but not by Sela or the other council members.

[Neah Brightmore]

"Sorry to keep you all waiting," Neah said as the small group entered the Council room. She spotted Chiara again and walked over to her and gave her a quick hug.

"It's good to see you, we'll have to catch up after this is all finished." Neah whispered, then spotted Demetri and nodded a greeting to him before taking a seat a little away from the table. She watched as Nate escorted Atticus to sit where the prisoners were usually placed next to the table.

She smiled slightly at Dakota and Belle and wondered if anyone would challenge the presence of non Hunters in the council room.

Sela watched everyone enter and straightened her back, "Now that we're all present.. should we begin the meeting?" She asked.

[Veyda Hargreaves]

Veyda moved forward in her seat, putting her elbows on the table.

"Give it another minute, Sela. We're missing someone." No sooner than that, Grapha walked in tentatively. Veyda spoke to him sternly.

"Just because you're new, doesn't mean you can be late." Grapha looked at her like a deer in the headlights. "Uh... sorry. I... got lost... It's a big church... Ma'am..."

Veyda chuckled. "I was only joking, Mr. Sheogorath. And you don't have to call me "Ma'am". You probably outrank me."

[Demetri Koskov]

Demetri tried to hold back the snicker as he saw Grapha's reaction to Veyda talking to him. He didn't say anything towards that though as Sela started to talk. He nodded his head as he looked at the two non-hunters and the prisoners.

"So, one guest that isn't a hunter at all, and then we have Dakota Neloe, our vampire-hunter halfling must of us have been hearing about. Well..." he said, in a stern voice similar to Veyda's, then smiled. "Welcome to our meeting. I'm guessing you know these two that are here to be questioned?" He said, trying to resist the urge to put his feet on the table.

[Annabelle Ventus]

Annabelle nodded at Demetri question. "Yes, I know both of them..." She said, taking a seat where she expected Nate to sit. "One has been after Nate, Neah and I for some time, and the other..well I just found out a few interesting things about." She said looking at Nate, smiling at him, hoping that would make him at least smile back.

Dakota almost glared at Demetri when brought up the comment about how the council had been talking about him. Was it good or bad things that they have been saying? In any case, he almost laughed at Demetri's mood-swung introduction. He composed himself then looked at the two. "Well, the acid witch made it my business to know her when she attacked my cousin...as for the other one, I just found out she was Belle's brother...kinda so yeah." He said the second part without even thinking.

Chiara hugged her cousin back and nodded back to her when she said she would meet up with her later. "I would really like that." She whispered back as she looked at what was now starting with the prisoners.

[Sela Rothchild]

Sela listened as everyone spoke, her interest piqued when Dakota mentioned that the sorcerer boy was her brother. She leaned in to where she was a bit closer to Atticus and studied him for a moment. She then looked over at Annabelle, and then back at Atticus.

"Yes...yes.. I can see it. I don't think you're all bad boy, you've got kind eyes.. and no doubt confused too, and there's quite a bit of that going on tonight. So tell me, what brought you into our city to cause the trouble you brought?" She asked Atticus.

Nate had his arms crossed and pretty much looked every where but at Neah, which Neah noticed but decided to ignore once she sat down after greeting her cousin. Instead of making it obvious that this was bothering her, she decided to throw herself into the meeting, listening to every since detail. Nate really wasn't listening, his thoughts were on other things, but when Annabelle smiled at him, he offered a slight smile in return and uncrossed his arms only to take her hand into his and squeeze it.

Usually he would have been as close to the council as possible, but because he wanted to be in the way just incase anyone moved to take Annabelle or Dakota out of the meeting so that he could stop it.

[Atticus Tavon]

Atticus felt trapped when all of the hunters were in the room, and even more so when the conversation had be put right on him. He swallowed as Sela looked at him and then brought up how he didn't look all that bad. Strange, him being cuffed seemed to be pretty bad in his opinion. However, he was going to answer her question.

"I had been after her for a long time." He said, looking over at Annabelle. "I was...lied to by my own father...he had told me that she and her father had killed my grandparents, and I wanted revenge. So, today was the day...my father had me kidnap her, while he and his pal, Micah, lay waste to the adamites by summoning the demons. Need to know anything else?" He asked as he looked over at Belle once again to see Nate now holding her hand. He glared hard, as hard as he had ever glared. He didn't like this Nate guy...not one bit.

Annabelle on the other smiled one again and squeezed his hand back. "I'm glad I got you to smile..at least once today..." She said softly to Nate.

Demetri chimed in as he looked around and didn't see the other person that they were suppose to question as well. "So, where is the other person that was causing havoc in the town?" He asked Neah, Nate, Sage and Awen.

[Awen Davels]

Awen stood from her seat when Demetri asked about the loud sorceress, "I'm sorry if it is inconvenient," her voice was muffled under her mask, "But she was very verbal as I was dragging her here that I placed her in a room located very close to here."

Vance, who was sitting next to his wife, spoke up, "Why don't you bring her here, Awen."

"Of course," she replied before walking out of the room. A few minutes passed before the sound of a woman's angry voice could be heard. Awen had her hand on Celena's back as she reentered the room.

"I present to you Celena. She was one of the few that started the ruckus at the nightclub and even injured some of our own."

[Sela Rothchild]

Sela nodded as she listened to Atticus speak of what all happened and how he had just found out about Annabelle being his sister. Her eyebrows raised when she heard of Micah's involvement but she let it go for a moment. She had to admit that she was a bit curious about the loud sorceress that everyone was speaking about.

"Ah yes, I've heard of this Celena, it hadn't been that long ago that she had another encounter with our young ones has it? Both of the Brightmore twins if I remember correctly." She spoke to everyone, but her eyes shifted from Neah to Nate, and then finally rested on Awen.

"You did good by aprehending her, young Awen. I feel that we've all made a good choice at having you take over the lycan portal." Sela said, nodding her head in approval before turning her attention to Celena.

"Everyone has the right to defend themselves here Celena, do you wish to speak in your own defense? Before you open you're mouth, let me inform you that we will not have vulgar remarks or meaningless threats, and let me remind you that you are basically at our mercy since you are currently unable to work magic so it would be wise for you to mind your manners." Sela said, now speaking directly to Celena. She had her "walking stick" close at hand incase she needed to give Celena, or anyone else, a good knock on the head.