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 Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:58 pm
Annis had safely retreated to the trees when she heard the black-haired man shout at her again. "Following me...?" she whispered aloud. She still had her daggers in her hands, and good thing, too: As Lance was running at her, shouting angrily, a morph nearby was preparing a lance to skewer him through the chest.
"Watch out!" Annis shrieked. She flew out of the trees, tackled him down in the process of hurtling forwards, and rammed into the morph in question. The two went tumbling a few paces, Annis ending the movement by plunging her weapons deep into the morph's heart. She winced as she ripped the daggers free and flew back towards the trees. In their tumbling, that lance had slashed across her stomach. Not enough to damage her organs, but enough to make the blood very visible.
"A-Augh... you idiot!" Annis glared at Lance once back in the cover of the trees, still holding her daggers in her hands. Her wings twitched in agitation. "Don't shout like that and run across a battlefield unless you expect to die!"
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:59 pm
Vika had her gift.
Neros had something else to attend to.
With all the chaos working nicely like clockwork in his mind, each gear cleanly cranking, Neros slowly circled downward. He breathed deeply and quickly, trying to get his heart to calm, but it wouldn't calm, and so he throbbed and pulsed. The pain was dull, he hardly felt it, his eyes wide. He let the coolness of the air wash over and rejuvenate him.
Neros descended in front of Madriana...or the morph of her, whichever it was. Perhaps now she could see that he had Soren's face. Perhaps now she could see he wore Soren's robes. His eyes were a bit changed, and yes, the claws and fangs and wings were different, and maybe his voice had been a little altered, but...
Perhaps now she could see who he once was. And he stared, waiting.
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Now, "Soren" was not incapable of pain, so as soon as Castello's beak came down he knew he was in trouble. With a wince and a grunt, his hands instinctively flew up in an effort to pry the raven's beak away from his head. Fat lot of good that would do him!
He felt himself lifting off the ground, and this time he only tried to cling to the raven to avoid having his body slung around and his neck snapped, but Castello's grip was strengthening and he was trying to force his head out as the pain intensified, his face screwed up in pain.
Soren hardly realized he'd been released with the agony his skull was in, but he knew he had just been chucked full-speed back to the earth. Still, there was no panic. A murmur, a flick of the hand, and a muffled blow of Wind compressed into the earth, heavily breaking the speed he was flying at.
Still, he landed pretty heavily.
The sage realized that energy had drained from him very quickly. He glanced around, seeking the tome he had dropped, and saw that the unused Rexcalibur was nearest instead. Soren dove for Rexcalibur, slipping it into his robe, then hurried to collect the Elwind tome. He listened for the raven's approach as he struggled to stay on his feet.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:02 pm
Octavio turned to face Loki. Yes.. Now he would fight him...
I'm ready. I can do this... I can do this...
"I will. And I'll be glad to do it."
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:06 pm
Madriana stopped staring in the air for a moment and looked at Neros... "...Hello." She said. "You were hurting my sister... Soren...?"
Soren is friend? Soren can't be my friend.
Soren hurt Mika. Why do I want to be his friend?
Is that why I couldn't shoot while he had her?
Because I didn't want to hurt... Him?
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:12 pm
My descent into madness......it's only temporary... _____________________ Ereshkigal? Oh, my, she was pulling out the big guns now. The air shifted eerily, swirling around the two...it started to implode upon the raven herself.
"If you're so innocent, why are you attacking me?" she spoke from within her raven form. No time for a response. If Vika was going down, so was the druid. A beak carved itself into the druid's abdomen, and Vika could taste her entrails...oh, it was so good~
The air suddenly became less choking, and the second phase of the spell struck, nailing the psychotic raven. Feathers charred, skin burned - but it could have been far worse. Apparently during her time with Neros, his semitangibility must have bled onto her, raising her resistance to magic considerably. It hurt, but it did not stop her at all. _____________________ Your destruction will be permanent~
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:18 pm
There was that name again.
At first he seemed terribly enraged, a shadow over his face, his eyes sunken with bitterness. He trembled furiously, his wings quivering, the colors refusing to stay within the lines. But then he snapped back as a terrible idea dawned on him. His face split into a wide, fanged grin and he giggled.
"Yes," he hissed. "It's me, Soren. I was hurting your sister because I thought you didn't like her, my sweet Mistress. I thought she ruined you."
He knelt before the woman, still shaking with suppressed laughter. "So good to have you back, Madriana."
Those golden eyes, how disgusting they were... This had to be an imposter...of some kind...
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:19 pm
Jyoti was okay. Jyoti had healed her. This was good. This calmed Misura down a bit, and let her be able to think. All right. Jyoti had the paladin now and the sniper and the bishop. The bishop was plotting something again, the little b*****d, wasn't he? He always was. He.... he....
NO. No time. Couldn't deal with this. There was... the girl. The girl would be the one she had to take care of. The horse? No, bad idea. The horse was innocent, why harm it? Just kill the girl and have it done with. But not easily. Torture her first. Make her endure pain. Yes, yes, yes! That was it! She grinned a dark grin, then spun in the opposite direction, Vezra flashing up right in Sue's path. But... it wasn't the blade. It was the flat of the sword, rushing up towards Sue's face, meant to knock her off her horse and flat onto her back.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:19 pm
Fa shot violently into the back of the ravens back. Fa seeing that the orbs were going to work on the raven Fa let go of the light tentacles and they dissipated and Fa jumped off and flew over into a nearby tree and blasted one more orb shot at Castellos abdomen.
John just getting kicked in the ribs by a general no less was sent flying backwards. Soon as John re staggered back up a flower encased him and a ball of light formed overhead and dropped causing John to not see for a second and stumble around. Then the walls of the flower closed in and BOOM. John was sent out flying with mass cuts on his legs, arms and abdomen. "Ehh need healing..." he stuttered as he took the elixir he still had in his pocket and drank some and felt a sudden rush of energy and wounds closing up.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:19 pm
As the paladin continued to charge, she noticed petals starting to form around her. No.... Evelyn's here? Isadora thought. That would mean that the Beastmaster was about to screw her senses again.
But when she took another look, she noticed that the petals were white. She wondered what spell was this. Surely, it couldn't be Evelyn's spell since hers were purple. Was it another spell caster?
Isadora realized that the petals were circling above her and began to form into a light ball. Afraid of what the spell would do, Isadora looked back at Misura. Looks like I have no choice. Isadora thought determined as she quickly threw her spear at the general.
As she threw her spear, the light ball suddenly hit on her. The next thing she knew, she felt dazed. Wha..... Is this the work of the spell?She thought.
Before she could understand, petals suddenly appeared and wrapped around her and her horse. The next thing she knew, explosion erupted leaving the paladin screamed in pain. Her body were starting to arch from the explosion.
After the explosion, Isadora sat on her horse for a moment, before the daze suddenly fazed. That's really hurt. Isadora thought. However, at least this spell wasn't as painful as Evelyn's spell. She had nearly lost half of her blood from that. Now fully determined to end it, Isadora drew her sword and went into another charge at Misura.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:20 pm
Screaming in pain, Mika kicked the raven in the head, gearing up to attack again. Having been freed from her, She fell...
Madriana looked at Neros... "Soren..." She said quietly. "There's something different than I remember about you. Are you ok?" Her voice had softened... It was strange.. to hear the morph talking like that... Suddenly she heard Mika scream again. She looked back up into the sky. "FALLING! I'll save you!!"
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:26 pm
Seeking hope in an unknown land......within the despair all around... _____________________ "Stop." The Heron strolled behind the Valkryie, previously unseen, regarding the battle as though they were having a simple picnic. He kept his distance close, one hand on Thoron, as he watched her. "So this is what you love? You love hurting the citizens of your land, your own descendants?" "Unless you are indeed being controlled, which my doubts on the matter have not quite been settled, you are a despicable excuse for a legend." He withdrew his tome. "Madame Jyoti, shall we see which of us is correct?" _____________________ I search for happiness, whatever it takes.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:26 pm
A cruel smile formed on Loki's lips as he stepped back, eyes narrow and sinister. "Then come at me. I want to see this new power..." He grinned, stepping back and steepling his fingers. (Was there something... claw-like about them? Why did the very sight of him give the sensation of staring at some terrible bird, swooping down at you...?)
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:29 pm
"Never better," he murmured, rising to his full height. He did look a bit older than before, now that he thought about it... He found Madriana's behavior familiar and tried to put a claw on it. He shifted through his mind silently as he glanced up to the sky. His eyes fixed on Mika falling.
"FALLING! I'll save you!!"
Now he recognized it. Sorrow twisted in his gut as he remembered the morphs of yesteryear — Lady Vaherianslyeri, Sir Maln (who he had personally attacked, and he did regret that), Lady Grishelda, Lady Alcyone, Sir Tacitus. This morph had personality like them. Unlike the morph guards who had once been stationed throughout the castle, unlike the morphs around them in combat, she had sentience, a sense of self.
Maybe...hopefully?
"Allow me," he whispered, swooping up and catching Mika, slowing her fall with the beating of his wings. The two landed, further unharmed, and he set Mika down for the mistress.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:34 pm
Sue saw the HUGE blade coming right towards her, and knew that if she stayed mounted, it was gonna plant right into her face. She instead forced herself to fall off Andre backwards, whipping the horse with her bow to scare him into running off somewhere safe.
She noticed her steed stay faithfully near... but at the same time go barreling to one of the few caves in the mountain... where no morph could get past the Watchman's weapons.
The nomad rose up soon after. She'd remembered seeing a weak point of Misura's armor with just one ride around, but she'd need time to aim. The strike of Antaram shook the ground.. made her slightly fearful... but this was no place for fear. The moment you showed you were afraid... you were dead. So instead, she didn't show she was afraid, and climbed atop a smaller peak that was sticking up... a higher ground, better aim. Where was the weak spot? Where is it? She searched... aimed... and fired at the place just under Misura's arms....
Victoria noticed the spell Antaram hit at full force, and her Psychic staff glowing as if it were nagging at her for its power to be used. She chanted the spell quickly, making the distanced healing spell reach first Isadora, and then the sniper, John. That was close... if the staff hadn't reminded her of it, Victoria would have never thought to use it. Maybe its nature was good after all.
Just when she was about to relax, she drew her Aura tome upon instinct and fried a morph warrior coming from behind her. Reinforcements!!! She turned around to see more of them pouring in... and readied her light tomes for firing off spells once again... ready to react to the Psychic staff's flashing sapphire again if necessary.
Leon was raising his poleaxe, about to catch a casting Domanova off guard until... WHOOSH! An arrow, fired from an enemy morph sniper managed to speed itself right through his pouldrons into his left shoulder. The knight winced slightly before pulling it out, thanking the Hero Anri and his Blessed Blade that it wasn't his axe arm... and it wasn't even deep enough to impair him. "Now who be the 'un who shot that?!" the watchman said furiously, before he went barreling into the crowd of morph reinforcements, axe flying at a dangerous speed to all whom dared step in front of him.
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