1 I~Explanations~

~Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. (Albert Einstein)~

Our story comes from the things of old tales. You know the thing under your bed or the monster in your closet? Your parents told you not to be afraid of the dark? Well truth is, even those monsters you feared as a child have become frightened by what lurks in the dark. You see, the things your parents said weren't real are very much real and there are many more than you can imagine.

Not all tales about these creatures are true but some do ring true. Take a vampyre for instance. Their real name is a hemophage. You've heard that the sun can kill them, that's a flat out lie. The sun does hurt, a lot, but not enough to kill. Staking a hemophage through the heart? That'd kill just about anyone but... I'd think twice before trying it on them. Right idea, wrong creature. It will just make a hemophage very angry and... you're probably not going to last through that. Holy water or a crucifix? While holy water might insult them and make them angry it will do little more than piss them off. A crucifix well that bucket holds some water, the crucifix will begin to heat up and glow red when the wielder of the crucifix is frightened but unless it has been blessed by the pope or an archangel it won't do anything to the hemophage. However, it will burn itself into the wielder's skin, that's never fun to remove. Their fangs? You can tell them by that right? No, their fangs descend when they need them but otherwise they look just like us humans.

Other creatures are much the same. You never know what is myth and what is real. It takes a lot of digging to find the truth. For quite some time we were told that those creatures were just the product of someone's twisted imagination but now we know that's not true. They have lived among us in hiding for hundreds of thousands of years and we never knew. Now it's common knowledge.

There are some that have always known the truth. Hunters. They never realized that not all of these creatures were evil. Hunters had the tendency to kill whatever it was first and ask questions second. There are still some that do this and if they are caught they are tried with murder of the first degree.

We know that our next door neighbor may be a hemophage or a witch is an innkeeper. They still frighten many but we cannot just shove them into a dark corner while we try to forget about them. Very few have ever hurt us and we cannot just let the hunters have their way with the innocents, not again.

They must follow rules and regulations as well as us humans but because they can cause more harm and because each creature has their own needs the rules change. To protect everyone we have an agency that deals with them and their laws, seeing as how human laws don't hold them.

Now we move from this explanation to Islanzadi, the lead of our story. From the outside Islanzadi looks to be a human, like you and I. Her beauty is contrasted by the scars on her porcelain skin but most would assume an abusive past was to blame and they would have only a small part of it. Her beautiful bright blue eyes, long snow-white hair, straight, sparkling white teeth would help us advocate these ideas but in truth she is something any human and many creatures fear.

She is one of if not the last banshee left on this earth. She has walked through many of our lifetimes and seen things we wouldn't even dare have in our nightmares, things that would drive people to insanity. Hearing what she is may explain why humans fear her but why would other creatures fear a wailing spirit? Well that answer comes with the truth of what she is along with her history and her current job.

The history of a banshee is common knowledge to most of the supernaturals. They were hunters, judges, and punishers, should a supernatural step out of line well... off with his head. Islanzadi is now an agent, one of the top, for the Supernatural Criminal Detection Agency, SCDA. The SCDA is an international organization and they all talk to each other and many call Islanzadi for help. All of this really just translates to whatever you do don't piss her off.

A few things that humans don't often know about banshees are as follows. They wear coloured contacts to blend in, their eyes are pure white with a small ring of red where the iris and pupil would meet. Instead of tears blood drips from their eyes, this also happens when they are angered which helps make them all the more terrifying. Their perfect white teeth quickly become needle-like and jagged when they are angered or just want to be outright terrifying. Their beautifully manicured nails turn to crystal-like talons, able to rip a man limb from limb. They are extremely strong and now we come to her scream, which they are famous for, it paralyzes it's victim and she can choose to either give a kiss of death or end them in bloodshed. She can even choose what kind of death they receive with her kiss. The scream and kiss of death are very rarely used. Islanzadi enjoys the hunt and she loves the look in her prey's eyes when she catches them just before the light goes out forever.

As if she wasn't terrifying enough alone we now come to her boyfriend, Abaddon. Now Abaddon is terrifying when he's not angry or protecting Islanzadi, as if she needs his protection, but he is a class four demon.

Let me explain the classes briefly. We have class one demons, which are the ones you most often hear about. Pitch black eyes, possessions, all of that nonsense. They aren't the ones you really need to worry about though. They are often referred to as ones or dolls. A lot of the time they are being controlled by a demon higher than them.

Class two demons, you don't hear about them much. They like to walk among humans and cause as much trouble as possible. You do have to worry about them, they will gladly take your loved ones away and say you are needed for something great. They have plans for you to fight for them, make you something less than something. These yellow eyed darlings enjoy starting mini wars for their own amusement.

Class three demons, you hear even less about them. They have blood red eyes and they are scary, you don't want one of them on your tail. They like to make deals, they promise you anything you could ever want but they don't usually tell you the cost. Making a deal with them often ends with your soul as the price. Cherries don't play when it comes to collecting, they like to send Hellhounds or some other creature to take your soul and drag you to Hell.

Now class fours... you don't want to screw around with them. Where your eyes are white theirs are black, their iris should be coloured theirs is white, and their pupils are red. They can walk among us in a form of their choosing and posses someone at the same time. They love to make deals and they are even worse than most. Also they do everything in their power to start wars, they find it entertaining watching people kill each other. These are the higher ups and the one you would most likely know about would be Lucifer Morningstar. Now think about this for a moment, most think he isn't real.

Demons are feared and they stay in Hell... so most assume. They trickle out of the pit every century or so but other than that they usually do stay where they are. Now that you understand the way this world works and the people in it I'll send you on into the real story. This won't be the last time we talk. I can promise this.