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 Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:29 pm
"In freeing the slaves? or, taking off these...collars." Perhaps a little tenative that they might try to collar him, but her tried not to show it. That would be very impolited. Stretching wing, he hopped off the table and flew to Keiran's shoulder. "I will come, certainly. Sounds somewhat interesting. Perhaps I can help too."
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:54 pm
Eliot nodded her understanding.
"I will be strong, but please hurry, I conno stay in this form much longer." She looked back to the dome and watched as the hooded man probed and prodded the slaves. She was disgusted at what he did to them, and what could be doen to them.
These were people who would do what they were told, and not tell a single person. She saw not only the sadness for those who's souls were taken, but also to the danger to society that they represented.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:57 pm
Onyx reguarded his brother with an almost..knowing look.
"Felt damn good, didn't it. to let all that emotion just take over. feel the adrenaline and the wind and the blood and everything. It's addictive."
A slight grin.
"I should know. I love that feeling. a feeling you only get in a good fight. and of course there's women. You need something, Moon. somethign to bring you back to life, make you a real Vah again. Right now your just wasting away."
Malik watched Piper and Kieran, and smiled lightly at them both.
"I'm going to check on Nightmare and the other horses. maybe see if I can calm her down about this new mare we have for the time being."
A looked to piper, and placing a hand at her midsection just to stop her a second.
"IF you need me, have someone get me or call for me, alright?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:07 pm
A slight look at Blue took up residence on his shoulder. Hm, seemed quite the popular little perch spot, didn't it? "She's taking off collars. A deal if you will between them. A nod to the little fairy thing. Then a look to Malik as he popped back in. "Right, you take care of the horses for the time being, I'll take the elf.." A slight chuckle at that.
She flinched lightly and stepped back from him, arms wrapping around herself and looking to the floor a moment before she could look at him again. Okay so father had a point, she was having quite the hard time letting this go. Though the hearing of a phrase she had heard before from Malik was a bit comforting. "Alright...I'll remember that." And with a little nod she walked off, making her way to meet Broog.
Kieran stayed back a moment, exchanging a look with Malik. "Just have to keep our eyes turned to the horizon, don't we?" A shake of his head before he followed after his daughter, Blue riding on his shoulder.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:07 pm
Roarke left the she-wolf, made his way down the hall. He slinked along, feeling very snazzy in his new form. He passed people, souless slaves to be exact, but they didn't see him. or more precise, they couldn't register his presence. For some odd reason, the souless didn't see animals. Perhaps because it was said that animals didn't have souls themselves, were marked as unimportant and therefor ignored. He didn't really know the answer, he just knew that animals could walk around unhindered.
How many doors he passed, how long he spiraled downward he was not certian, all he knew was that he was somehwere underneath that dome. And sure enough, poke his head around a corner and there was the hooded man, the three twhite coated docter type men. He just...wanted to smell them out, listen to them a little better. Maybe he could follow the hooded man to one of the labs and see what they do.
If the hooded man could smile, he would have. Oh yes. How wonderful. Proceeding just as she'd seen it. Oh yes. He kept talking with his scientists, muttering an incantation under his breath, and slowly lifting his arm. It looked like he was going to do soemtihng to oen of the slaves again....
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:13 pm
Moonstone swalloed. He was quite uncomfortable, talking about this. "yeah...yeah it felt good. But-but it wasn't my emotion. It was more like soemone thought I should be feeling it, and let me borrow it." He shook his head. "I'm not like that. I don't need the adrenaline...I don't need it." He sniffed though, turned his head slightly to hide that blush that wouldn't go away. "I don't need a woman, Onyx. I'm a courter. I wouldn't just....do that to a girl."
He glanced down at his waistline, yeah so what? "It's not that bad."
Blue took his seat, which was really quite comfortable. He felt like he was made for a shoulder. Small enough to not small enough or get in the way, and wings to help him move around quickly. Wow, what luch he would find these people.
"Oh my, a momentus occasion!"
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:13 pm
Eliot saw roarke enter the room form where she was standing.
What was that man doing! She warned him! That man knows he's there she was certain of it! She didn't know what to do, she was scared.
Something was wrong with the way the hooded man was moving, it didn't look natural. He may be smart, thought eliot, But he is no actor. But from where she was Roarke couldn't hear her yelling.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:26 pm
I an abrupt motion, the hooded man swung an arm in Roarke's direction, finished the incantation. For a moment it seemed that nothing was happening, and all thought the hooded man had made soem sort of msitake.
In a sudden shower of blood and the sound of snapping bones and ripping skin, Roarke was forced back into his human body. The pain was beyond anything he had felt before, much worse than his own transformation, which was slower and more gentle. He screamed as his body hit the floor, shuddering in convulsions and spasms. He was covered uin his own blood, though there were no marks on his body.
"Fetch me one of the vials." One of the three rushed out of the room, an odd grin on his face. He twirled a bony hand, and Roarke's limp form was lifted off the ground non too gently. "Hello, Roarke Al'Blackbowman. I've been waiting for you, oh yes." He stretched Roarkes body out as if the man were being nailed to a cross. "Finally, to have one of your kind. Oh, it's delicious." He started another incantation, threw his arm out in Eliot's direction, forcing the same spell on her. Then he turned back to Roarke.
Outside of the room Eliot was currently in, two slaves suddenly stopped. One said soemthing to the other, and together they left whatever duties had been set apon them and entered the room. They saw Eliot, they saw her alive....and suddenly they were very much animated.
"Give me your soul!" they shouted as they charged after her.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:36 pm
Eliot, stunned but not surprised to find herself back in her human form, after all she had just seen Roarke somehow forced into his, fell to the ground. She heard voices outside.
No, no, no! She thought. Thankful for her black silks she tried to hide herself in shadow. But the slaves knew exaclty where she was. And when they demanded her soul she flipped her daggers into her palms. She sliced at them as they came closer but they felt nothing, and kept advancing on her. She tried again but they didn't even bleed. not sure what to do she threw a blade straight into the forehead of one of the slaves. She heard a distinctive twang as it found its mark but it did nothing.
She shuddered, they were just like the corpse wiht out the rotting flesh. She was afraid they were goign to get exactly what they wanted. Unable to hurt them or through them off, the slaves pinned her down on her back.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:48 pm
One hand kept Raorke helpless, the other was weaving in an incantation while the hooded man spoke. "Never thought you'd see me again, hmmm Blackbowman?"
Raorke chocked on sometihng unseen as he tried to get out the owrds. "Don't...know what...you're...."
"Oh, try hard enough and you might. You mgiht." He laughed. Oh yes, this was sweet. "Melikki showed me you would come, if I were here. So I gave her up, so that I might come to you. And you come to me, oh yes. How marvilous."
"M-Meilikki?"
He laughed. "That's right. You're precious cousin. But, that doesn'tr matter, because ina few moments, you won't remeber anyway." Suddenly Roarke when stiff, his back arching, mouth open wide. The hooded man drew etended fingers overtop of Roarke, made a grabbing motion. Roarke conculsed. The colour left him, seemed to be pulled from the bottum of his and up. Slowly, slowly the hooded man oulled his hand up, much like a child might steal something from a cookie jar.
The scientist came then with the vial. The hooded man laughed. A light, small as a laser beam, appeared in Roarke's chest, seemingly glowing from the insde. "I have it now, won't be long.
The two souless, girls, had pinned Eliot down. They ignored every knife, every swipe, every punch, every kick. Nothing seemed to hold them back. And indeed they were not rotten, smelling bodies. Why, except for their pale colour, no one one could tell the difference between the dead and the....living. One girl Pinnd Eliot down by stradling the girls waist, the other one held Eliot's arms out above her head. The one souless opened her mouth, began to lower it to Eliots in a pervers embrase.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:58 pm
Eliot tried hard to get herself free, but the girls overpowered her. What she wouldn't give for the muscles she had seen on the Vah earlier. surely that would have helped her now.
She twisted her head this way and that trying to avoid the kiss of the dead. She keep the girl away. She resorted to the last thing she had, her voice. for such a small girl she had lungs larger than normal. Taking what she believed to be her last bretah she filled her lungs.
She screamed. She screamed loud enough to burst ear drums, to make normal people cringe and fall huddled to the ground. The two on top of her did not even flinch.
The glass dome shattered.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:09 pm
The light grew brighter, Raorke was chocking on his own soul as it was ripped out if his body through his mouth. I tiny speck, a thing that loooked like glowing dust, appeared before the hooded man's fist. He laughed as the sceintist uncoarked the vial.
Then suddenly the dome shattered, and the hooded man was surprised. He opened his hand to stop the rain of falling glass, though it was a silly move, glass would never hurt him. But too late, the incantation was released, and with unnatureal speed Raorke's soulr eturned to his body. Not through his mouth, but through his chest, hitting him with such force that it threw him to the ground. This all happened in the split second it took for the glass to reach the ground, a few shards dug their way into Roarke's body, one sliced across his eyebrow, eye, and cheek, leaving a long and bloody streak.
Freed but weak, Roarke throw wizards dire in the general direction of the hooded man, and one up towards Eliot, hopefully to catch whatever things were holding her down, whatever it was that made her scream.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:19 pm
Eliot's scream stopped suddenly. She felt another mouth clamped tight aruond her own. Funny she thought, that she had never felt a kiss before, and now this one would probably destroy her.
Her breath was sucked from her lungs until no more could come out, but still the souless on top of her did not scease. She felt er body rise up in time with the slave as she sucked harder. She felt her neck fall back against the floor. She felt as if...her being were being sucked through her mouth. That part of her, that was always a wolf left her body for the firts time.
Eliots eyes closed slowly, and she found herself swirling into a black nothingness. There was nothing but the pain in her lungs.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:28 pm
The wizards fire, true to Roarke's aim, enveloped the souless that had Eliot locked in a deadly embrace. Wizards fire stuck to whatever it first touched like sap from a tree. Nothing you did could out the fire out until it had burned its own strength. the souless were consumed in a "foosh" of flash and flesh.
Roarke, limping, coughing, weak, and naked, pushed hismelf hard to get out of the glassy mess. He cut up his feet, and now that he was suddenly human, the souless had caught his scent. The hooded man...he didn't knw what happened to the hooded man..whether the thing had been caught up in his wzards fire or not. They were hot on his tail now, and Raorke was running out of energy fast. He was running on adrenalin and magic right now.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:37 pm
Eliot's eyes flipped open suddenly. the pain in her chest was nothing but a dull ache. She glanced around to see to charred bodies, still smoldering and heavey upon her won. Only slighty scorched herself she wrinkled her nose. She hated the smell of burning flash. She supposed that a body could live with out a soul but that did not mean it was invincible.
She caughed and began shifting the bodies off of her. they were heavey and difficult to move.
Once she was able to get the bodies off of her she scrambled to the now shattered dome and looked down, she saw nobody. She tried to call out Roark's name but her throat throbbed and rasped as she passed air across her vocal cords. The scream and the sever vacuuming she had just recieved would hinder her voice for some time.
She turned around, heading out the doo rintent on findinf Roarke, they were not goign to find any more information today.
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