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 Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:50 pm
Onyx got himself up, shaking and bating his wings nad throwing elbows at his back while his twin had his jaws around his neck...before throwing him back and off with a burst of demonic energy.
"I track that thing through sulfurci tunnels, past some dragonic creature, the walls of Deep Water...and you dare to accuse me of killing?! If I had killed, you woudl have known it! I hunt as I was trianed to hunt! Nothing remains, everything is used, remember!? Just how our father taught us!"
And then he tackled into his twin again, just slamming him down and throwing him back further. snarling and growling before pouncing on him again with claws and teeth raking and snapping.
Malik wasn't so pleased.
"Quit your running and hiding and fight. It's a drakota, surely you have studied such things."
The drakota landed and flapping it's wings kicking up dust. before trying to just snap him up with it's jaws, and tearing at him with his claws.
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:54 am
Zahara remained curled up in the transposed trance-like state for quite a while, allowing both her and her child's mind to rest and relax. Of course after a decent amount of time had passed she blinked, her eyelashes fluttering and opened her violet eyes while her body was still stirring. Lifting her head off the pillow she glanced at Sevilin and couldn't help the smile that came unbidden to her lips. So he'd done as requested and been there when she came back from her memories. A poignant feeling filled her slowly and she pushed herself into a sitting position while a stirring of a different kind took place in the lower area of her body. Tilting her head at him a moment she shoved her hand through her hair only contributing to her just woken up appearance and stepped towards him. "You're here..." Longing welled within her, some of which she blamed on the reverie which had visited her. Spurred on by a feeling she wasn't used to she threw caution to the wind and slipped up onto his lap, brushing her lips softly against his and reaching up, her hands lightly playing with his ears. Staying there for a moment, she snuggled into him then decided to take things a bit further. He'd asked her why she hadn't asked for what she wanted and needed, so now was the time to put that to the test. She kissed him deeply then slipped off his lap and around his chair, resuming her play on his ears before leaning forward and whispering something that would probably make his eyebrows spike and leave him reeling. She didn't even consider the merit of her request, she just knew she needed what had gotten her into the situation in the first place. After all she couldnt' get pregnant again.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:10 am
"Pheaura. Right. You said that before."
"Sorry, I forgot."
"Me to!"
"A dollar! For me?" He bat his slashes. "Why you sohuldn't have."
"Is friendship wih twenty bucks?"
"I sure hope so." They lookd at their new freind expectantly.
Warren frowned. "Eliot. I was not in anyway indicating the differences in our culturs, nor insuinuating that you don't understand responibilites or bathe." He caught her arm before she walked away.
"Sneaking around and hiding? No, I've just been away. Lieing? I surely think not." His eyes were stern yet strangely caring. "I've become privey to a lot of information that can hinder or help alot of people. I have to make sure it helps, rather than hinders. Or worse, harms."
"I need your help with it, but I'll tell you about that later. Right now, I just need you to trust me. Put your faith in me." Eliot probably did not understand the depth of the question he was asking her now.
"And when were you one to do everything father told you?" The beat on eachother for quite some time, each bloody but showing no signs of slowing down.
Their fight had drawn a crowd. People were pointing and gasping, and gathering pitchforks and other household weapons.
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:30 am
Onyx heaved his brother into the crowd, roaring in defiance at all of them to dare use thier weapons.
"Because I enjoy it. I love the Hunt. the thrill of the chase. the weeks of tracking prey. the Hunt is the only time I heed my Father's word."
He snarled and growl, tail lashing and stood his ground.
"And there are far more appealing hunts in this place than your little assistant!"
Turning his attention to teh gathered crowd.
"You want a monster!? You want something to vent your anger on?! Come and try it. Call your own hunt...and we'll see who I drag screaming into hell with me!"
His attention turned back to his twin.
"Starting with you."
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:00 pm
"THOSE ARE NOT WORDS I WISH TO HEAR UTTERED BY AELLA"S POTENTIAL MATE!" THe minotaur shouted with a feriosity that matched Onyx's. He sundered through the crowd, allowing them to back away on their own, not daring to lay a finger on them, but also insinuating that if he did, they would not be getting back up.
"YOU ALWAYS CLAIMED THAT YOU WERE NOT A MONSTER!" The normally gental giant said with a booming voice, "YOU, Onyx, YOU said that there are parts of people beneath the cover. Are you going to become a LIAR, and continue this viloence, OR are you going to be the Sophisticated Hunter I know you can be."
The mob and the minotaur seemed to come to agreement with their place in this quarell. They formed a ring around Onyx, Warhammer and Moonstone. Not even a monstrous creature like Warhammer could completely sooth over this crowd, they were after all, only protecting their doctor.
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:22 pm
Moonstone Whipped spit and blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand. His chest heaved with adrenilin and anger. He looked around at the circling people, and the minotaur. "I have seen nor smelled nothing that would contrary your actions, brother." There were tears in his eyes as well. "All that I can see, is that you killed Kat."
"Fight? No, we aren't goign to fight." He looked hard at his brother, a malice there never seen before. "You'll die for the people. As Kat did."
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:26 pm
"JUSTICE IS NOT BOUGHT WITH MALICE!" Warhammer raged upon Moonstone, "Let us hold court, prove his guilt or innocence, and not be wasted by such animosity!"
"Killing him will not ease your pain. Killing him will only make you more of an animal." THe minotaur walked slowly towards the white Vah. "I beg of you, calm your spirit, honour Kat, and bury your lost, less we allow further harm to her."
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:33 pm
Moon could not deny the value of Warhammers words. He was a Vah of standards, of honour. He could only back down, and let the town handle this.
"You are right, minotaur. I will do as you ask, and honour Kat." He looked up at the bouvine creature. "Does this satisfy?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:36 pm
"Alas, it does." The minotaur turned his head to reguard a creature that sought his blood, over a girl and honour. "Can you calm your rage too, Onyx?"
Warhammer walked beside the white Vah, and awaited a response.
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:42 pm
Onyx watched them, and was silent. potential mate...she didn't even come when he'd begged. what did she want with him.
"What do you want from me? How am I to prove myself when everyone is shouting that I am the killer? I have no hide in my claws, humans wouldn't survive in the place I was taken, and even to get there you have to confront some multiheaded firebreathing snake thing."
Onyx looked around himself, and back at his twin and at the minotaur.
"Who's to hold court? Great Warhammer, Minotaur shaman? Even you know that they look at me a monster. Look at them!"
Gesturing with bloody claws.
"the only person even there to see that thing was a child, that was just as terrified of me as she was of it! So tell me, what unbiased court am I to plead to? What defense am I to muster in a place that has already condemned me?"
His wings flared out, splattering blood from his brothers hold on his neck.
"And I have no intention to just roll over and die to appease the crowd that picks a monster for convience."
At least the claws resheathed, and the voice was calm...though anger still burned in the eyes.
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:49 pm
"Thus, you have unveilled most of your evidence, yet all you proclaim is that you did not harm the girl. Tell, what did happen." The minotaur stretched tall, and snortd at the crowd, hoping they would accept him to judge. A monster for a monster. "Tell us your tale."
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:11 pm
"The earthquake, the recent destruction had me hunting the city for survivors. I can find people faster than they can, and I have the strength to pry them from places they cannot easily. I had recovered a woman, when I heard the sounds of something that certainly wasn't human. I found Kat on teh ground. a young girl not far from her. the thing on her was a black panther, that had two large tentacles."
A growling sound.
"It was eating her. to sucking her insides out through her...womanly areas. I fired a bolt of energy at it..that went through it..further hitting Kat. the girl ran into a nearby home. apparently her mother..who was..dead..and not prettily so. I took the girl with me, and followed the thing as it was dragging Kat. It let her go, I set teh girl down, and tried to help."
A sharp look at his twin.
"I'm no healer. I tried to transfuse my blodo through her, I tried demonic possession to force her body to live. I sent wisps to everyone I coudl think of to help. To you, to whirlwind, the elves, and my twin. None came. She died...and I left her there."
Claws extended again, anger rolled of him in waves.
"I tracked that thing by scent. until it came to a place where sulfur dorwn the smell. ash left tracks, adn I followed. down to a open area of lava. the raidance made it hard to see, adn I had no ease to smell. the thing laid a trap. My coming alerted some big multiheaded snake thing that breathed fire. I ignored it only to get my prey..which escaped into another series of tunnels. I crawled and backtracked and retraced until I found a clear scent again. that scent put me infront of a sewer enterance into the realm of Deepwater."
Crossing his arms, tapping his claws lightly.
"I blame Deepwater for that thing, I think it's some beast they let loose. I came back to inform that deepwater was moving against this place..when I saw my twin, who so conviently wasn't available the one time I needed his help."
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:32 pm
"I recall your whispe, a spiritual entity that can serve as a messanger over a great distance, a very benevolent ghost." The minotaur explained to the crowd. "It did ask for aid, aid that we could not give, because we did not have the power to provide it."
Almost as if on que, rather coincidently, Cedric the Songblade came to the gathering, pulling a stretcher. It was wrapped in cloth, and very misshapen. He pulled it to the centre of the field, and Warhammer approached it. Cedric whipered a great deal to him.
"The body does hold the injuries, as well as some from being moved." The minotaur announced. "No signs of which creature caused them could be found." The minotaur smelled the body, with two great and powerful breathes. "The only scents I can find, are the girls, Onyx's and Moonstones. ONyx is the most prevailent, as his blood smeers across her. He may have tried to aid her."
Cedric looked at Onyx, "I believe he did try to help her."
"Nothing gives you the right to make that claim." Replied Warhammer.
"He doesn't have any trace of her on his lips."
"Alas, no trace of her." Warhammer cried, "Would you have an innocent man destroyed because you feel Regret!" He challenged the crowd.
"I shall aproach the law of this land, and tell him of what we believe transpired. He shall be your judge, Onyx. For, beyond your words, we have little else to base this on." The minotaur stormed away.
He found the King, working hard with his people, and approached him about the subject, and lead him to where Onyx and Moonstone stood trial.
Cedric stood up straight, "I am a great adventurer, and have seen a great many things. But, I find it hard to believe that this... Person, murdered that girl. He has the sewers on his coat, he has ash and lava burnt into him. He looks as a hunter who's lost his quarry. Let not his appearce mark him the murder."
"Yes, your magisty. You have heard all the evidence from a neutral source. Make your judgement."
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:53 pm
"Running just wears you out faster then fighting...the only reason for running is to gather range." Putting her two little cents into the battle just because, and then watching further, sipping at her drink from time to time before chewing on that cinnamon stick as she watched with Malik, Arthur dodge and roll his way around. Hm, he better not hurt that thing too badly. She swore she was developing an affinity for Underdark critters...well some of them. "Hm...I'd play bait and then jump up to it's snout and head for it's back when it tried to take a bite..." Because she knew how such things worked...sure it had a breath weapon, but if it looked like it didn't need to waste the energy, nine times out of ten it wouldn't.
He looked up to her when she moved and pulled out of her reverie, only to blink as she got up and walked toward him Though he gave a blink and perhaps spiked a little in his wariness to her as she more or less plopped on his lap, her lips brushing his own. Oh wait, this may be going somewhere that wasn't good. "Zaha-" Words failing him as soft fingers took to his overly sensitive ears, his brain not able to comprehend or deal with the feeling and thus more or less shutting down on him.
Thus she was allowed to indulge herself a moment with his person, whether he wanted her to or not. Though he shook his head lightly as if to get his senses about him once more as she pulled away and slipped from his lap. "What are y-" And it happened again as hands touched to his ears once more. Damn those things...it figured that with all the defenses and resistances he'd worked up that there was one crack in the wall. There always was. Though yes, those words penetrated and those eyebrows did raise at her little request from him. There was a loaded question...but at least she had asked. But the thing he found the scariest about all of this...it didn't sound damn half bad. Blaming the ears.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:50 pm
Okay Arthur was a little ticked off at the moment, he did not need those two putting in their own little comments when he was trying to fight though he was somewhat happy to hear piper vouching for what he was doing if she was actually. But Arthur knew that just running around will wear him out but does he really have a damn choice in the matter? He was going up against a pretty big drakota and wanted to figure out what the hell it could do and plan a attack plan before charging in full force; after all he didn't want to screw up and die or get a limb bitten off. Even though he had heard and maybe read of drakota a little bit he never had a chance to see one in person, let alone fight one head on so Arthur had to keep himself well off as the damn thing tried it's best to eat him, though when he heard Piper's own plan for subduing the monstrous beast he lightly nodded to himself, after all that was his basic plan was to get at least somewhere on its body where the damn thing couldn't snap at him and now that the lizard decided to try it's pursuit on the ground he had to follow her advice or the thing would not stop coming at him.
Alright, I need a moment where the damn drakota is way too much into attacking me so it cannot just pull back and slap me away with a wing or it's damn tail so...like Piper said bait the damn thing to come close enough... Hoping the damn lizard was stupid enough to go after wounded bait Arthur jumped back a safe distance, then pretended to yell a bit in pain then lower himself on to one knee and grab the one that was standing up with his left pain and made a face to seem like he was in a lot of pain. The drakota seem to stare at Arthur as if wondering if was happening was real then after awhile it slowly started to stomp it's way over to him as it poised to attack him, while the lizard was making it's way towards him Arthur kept his one eye opened to wait until he knew when the time was right, and hopefully he didn't miss the change or he be drakota chow. He waited in silence as he pretended to be in pain then when it got close enough it stopped and raised it's head as it got ready to strike.
Come on you dumb a** lizard... He thought as the drakota let out a huff of smoke and then there was a light pause, but then Arthur saw what seemed to be maybe a tiny glint in the lizard's eye and he knew that was the moment. Then suddenly the drakota lunged at him and let out a loud roar while it's jaw was hanging wide open and Arthur took that moment to spring into the air high enough so the drakota passed underneath him, then when he landed on top of it's head Arthur sprang forward towards the back as he got his katana ready to strike it, when he reached his detestation he grabbed onto a bit of the dragon's back to stop himself from moving and got ready to drive his katana into the lizards back. Eat this you dumb a** lizard... He thought and drove his katana into it's flesh which made the drakota let out a roar of pain, but it wasn't over as the area around them was lit up by what seemed like a light show; but really it was Arthur sending some lighting magic from him through his blade and into the big lizard. When he finished using his magic the creature collapsed onto the ground and the young elf quickly grabbed his blade and jumped off and rolled away from the body before he sprang back up incase the drakota got up again to attack him.
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