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 Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:52 pm
Lilia sighed. She hadn't wanted to make Blaze angery, but... well, neither of them had gotten along to begin with, and they had been bound ot get into an argument sooner or later. She was glad is was this small. She went about making the twins comfortable while Blaze mixed the things.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:33 pm
"This sucks. My powers are the only ones bound. So what if I want to bring the above world back to what it once was? It's the humans' fault for ruining it. They should pay for it. So why am I sitting here, making medicine for them?" He pounded a dried root angrilly, easily grinding it into a fine powder. He suddenly blinked.
"And now I'm talking to myself!" He exclaimed so loud he was almost sure the others heard him in the living room.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:05 am
"Don't worry, Blaze! Talking to onself is only an early sign of insanity! If you get a grip now, theres a chance that you'll be fine with no side-effects!" yelled Lilia at him. He was so infurriating. The twins may not have heard anything, but Lilia's sidhe hears heard Blaze's entire little tangent, and she was not very happy.
So what if you want to make the world the way it was? The HUMANS ruined the world?! HA! He will never understand that we Sidhe were the ones that blew the deal. With great power comes great responsibility, and we ignored it. We hurt the humans, the very ones we swore to protect, and used them like animals! Its no wonder that they hated us! Its people lie Blaze who screwed everything up!!
Jason watched somewhat nervously as Lilia's face grew more and more stormy. He had no idea what she was so angry about, but whatever it was, it was bed. Very, very bad. If this is what being married is gonna be like, he thought Then I am going to make sure that she's always happy. I have no desire to die.
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:56 pm
Blaze finished mixing the herbs with a fierce hand. The powder was so fine when he finished it glided off his fingers like water. He then used alittle magic to solidify it into a pill shape then took the medicine in his hands and carried it into the living room.
"Here." He said, handing two pills to Jason and two to Jenny.
"It's all I have, but you'll feel better..." There was an intense pressure in his voice, and his expression was dark.
Once the medicine knocked them completely out, he knew that he and Lilia would be going at it once again. Good. He was ready for it. He had quite a bit of pent up anger he wanted to get out.
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:52 pm
Lilia helped the twins get comfortable on the couches in the living room.
"What kind pill was that?" asked Jason, his eyes slowly closing. Lilia didn't say anything, just put a blanket over him. Jenny didn't say anything, but she huddled under the blanket. Lilia watched as they both fell into a deep sleep within minutes of taking the pills.
She turned around and looked at Blaze for a moment before saying shortly "I'm going to bed," and walked into her room, closing the door behind her."
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:08 pm
Blaze barraged her with eye daggers as she retreated to her bed room then glanced at Jason and Jenny.
It was foolish. This world was all he cared about...all he wanted to make his...so what were these strange emotions conflicted inside him? He had never felt them before.
Power was all that mattered. And soon he'd have it. Erinshin....this was going to ruin everything. He should have just died....he should have....A sharp pang hit his stomach. What was that? Regret? Guilt? Oh this was so infuriating. He was so confused! He didn't care about the Royal House. He never did! He had even mentioned to Lilia that the Mounds would be better off if Queen Mab had died. Of course, once she had, Blaze had been suspect number one for a long time and for all he knew he still was. However, he had never harmed his Queen. He couldn't. That was what angered him the most.
He roared between clentched teeth. No! NO! What was he thinking!? He had to focus! He had to take control of the Above World and to do that he needed to get rid of this collar....Somehow....
"Sorry it took so long," Dracula said, walking in. "I actually got lost after you magic trails faded away....What's going on?"
"Nothing." Blaze said quickly. A little too quickly. He walked past Dracula and out of the apartment muttering, "I need some air."
Once outside, and on the street, he stretched and began to walk. Fuming as he went. Lilia....why couldn't she see his ideals? Why couldn't she see what the humans were doing to their world? Pollution, Deforestation, excessive hunting....It was killing the above world. Blaze just wanted to restore it's glory. He wanted to bring the people...his people...back into a world full of light.
"Heh. Look what stumbled into our turf..." A tough looking man mused. The jacket he wore obviously affiliated him to his gang, and judging by his size and demeanor, Blaze guessed he was the leader.
"A skinny, goth, punk....What garbage." The woman on his right sneered.
"You must be new in town." The leader said. "Everyone knows this is our turf."
Blaze was suddenly aware of atleast twenty people standing around him, preventing his escape.
"Hmph. You guys are like rodents flocking together." He said, before he could stop himself.
"What was that!?" the woman snapped.
"I'm sorry. Did I speak to fast? Let me say this in terms you'll get: You. Guys. Are. VERMIN." Blaze said, his voice remained quite even, but it teemed with latent danger.
The leader, snarled.
"You talk big for a skinny punk on his own." He said. "Maybe it's time we teach you a lesson..." He pulled out a knife.
"Hold him. I'll just cut him up a little."
Two guys grabbed Blaze's arms and snickered with pleasure.
Blaze laughed, manically.
"What's so funny?" The girl asked shrilly.
"You fools. I've been WANTING something to take my anger out on..." Blaze could feel his power swelling rapidly. The collar activated for self defense, so Blaze had the perfect moment.
As the leader came at him with the knife brandished high, Blaze lifted his left arm, sending the man holding him, flying into the gang leader who then was thorwn back against a wall.
The woman stared at Blaze in shock and fear as he sent the other guy flying atleast a hundred feet.
"G-get him!" She ordered the others.
And they swarmed.
"Fires of hell, at my command, Powers of the fire gods, I call thee, Flow through me the true power of fire-" Blaze chanted, his body began to glow. There wasn't any stoping him. Blaze was going to kill.
"W-what is-!?" The woman exclaimed, watching him.
"Burn fire! Burn all in your path!-"
"This pressure!" Dracula gasped, his head turned to the door. "It can't be! Not that spell!"
"Melt Flesh and bone! Turn stone to ash!" The area was becoming hot. Too hot. All the gang members had stopped, and the smarter ones were beginning to run away.
"BLAZE NO!" Dracula exclaimed from inside the apartment. Before he knew it, he wrentched open the door, spread his wings and shot off to find Blaze.
"FIRE GODS HEAR ME! BURN ALL IN YOUR PATH!" Blaze's eyes began to glow, and the air around the gang began to crack and clap like thunder. The ground began to shake.
"R-run!" The woman exclaimed, but it was too late.
"HELL FIRE RISE! ENGULF THEM IN YOUR ETERNAL FLAME!!!" Fire swirled around Blaze, so thick they were opaque and spiraled upward and outward until a giant tornado of flame engulfed everyone, burning everything but Blaze who stood smirking in the flames.
"What...What ARE you!?" The woman exclaimed as the fire licked her skin.
"I am a Demon." He said. "Sidhe of the fire people, and the one who will one day rule this world. Filthy scum like you...does not deserve to be in it."
He thrust his head back and shouted, "DO YOU HEAR ME!? I WILL RULE! I, DEMON SIDHE BLAZE, WILL TAKE BACK THIS WORLD AND BRING IT INTO AN ERA OF GLORY!!!"
He then stood, his arms outstretched, listening to the screams of pain around him.
Dracula saw the spiral of fire and his heart fell.
"No..." He whispered.
When the flames finally dissappeared, Blaze stood on a blackened, barren part of town. Not even the bones of the people remained. The fires of hell were mercilless. He was breathing heavily, when Dracula landed behind him, pulling his glamour back on.
"Blaze you idiot! Do you know what you've just done!?" He cried.
"We have to go before the police show up!"
Blaze turned to him.
"Are you going to make me?" He challenged. He saw dracula faulter alittle.
"Don't kid yourself Blaze. I'm stronger than you." He said. They could hear sirens now.
"We have to go now!" Dracula grabbed Blaze's shoulder and they dissappeared, reappaering outside the apartment building.
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:41 pm
Lilia hand't felt the power surge. Blaze had been defending himself, and therefore could use his powers as much as he needed to. She didn't feel the hundreds of deaths of the people who were consumed by the flames, screaming as their flesh was burned off of them. She didn't hear the last thoughts, the prayers, the regret, the last thoughts of loved ones...
She just felt the wrongness of it. She knew that something was wrong, very wrong, horribly wrong, but she didn't know what.
And it frightened her.
In the living room, Jason shot straight up, the effects of the pill dissolved by the overflow of magic in the air. He fell off of the couch and vomited on the floor. He thought he had felt bad before, but now it felt like something was inside his skull, trying to scratch it's way out. He couldn't help it. He tried hard not to, but he started to cry. It just hurt so bad.
Jenny started to scream in her sleep. She heard voices in her head, all of then sobbing in terror, screaming, wailing, and she felt their pain. Even at such a small degree, it hurt so badly.
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:32 pm
"Blaze, what the hell were you thinking!?" Dracula yelled.
"You just commited....a huge...a MAJOR crime! Genocide of that extent is never necassary! All those humans...it's our job to protect them! Not kill them!"
"So what!?" Blaze retorted. "Why should we risk our lives for them? They have forgotten us!"
"That makes it okay to kill them!?" Dracula was so furious his fangs were showing despite the fact he had his glamour on.
"Blaze, have you forgotten all your teachings!?"
"I have not." Blaze said and Dracula blinked in suprise.
"Wh-what do you mean?"
"What I learned all those years...and what happened today...I've made my decision." Blaze's hands clentched.
"Erinshin can die! I'm going to take back the above world! Despite what we've done in the past, I will make this world beautiful! It will be a land of a bright future! AND I WILL RULE IT AS ITS KING! A LAND OF FIRE AND PASSION, A LAND WITHOUT POLLUTION, DEFORESTATION, AND WHATEVER ELSE THE HUMANS HAVE DONE! THEY DON'T REALISE...THEIR TIME ON THIS WORLD IS OVER. DEATH HAS COME TO COLLECT ITS DUE.
THE HUMANS WILL DIE AND OUR KIND WILL RESURFACE! SO WHY SHOULD WE WASTE OUR TIME WITH MORTALS WHO HAVE NOT THE STRENGTH TO PROTECT THEMSELVES!? MY WORLD WILL BE GLORIOUS AND UNPOLLUTED BY HUMAN SIN!" The look in Blaze's eye was manic. Dracula couldn't even see the little boy he once knew.
"Blaze this is absurd! You're blinded by your ambitions!" Dracula said, several heads had turned to watch them now.
"How can you even think those things! Sidhe are protectors!"
"We're beings of power forced to take the backseat becuase of the royal house!" Blaze said. "Well that's over!"
"ENOUGH!" Dracula exclaimed.
"If you keep this up I'll-"
"You'll what?" Blaze asked and then he felt it. The power coming from Dracula. The power was invisible to human eyes but Blaze could see it perfectly, the intense shadows swirling around him.
"As your Godfather, and your superior, I will stop you." The look in Dracula's eyes was frightening but so was Blaze's.
"You don't control me." Blaze said. "NO ONE CONTROLS ME!!!"
Then power surged from Blaze.
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:14 pm
Lilia felt it. The power puring from Blaze. SHe saw with the moon. She saw with the stars.
The death.
The murder.
Blaze's fury and anger and power.
His outberst.
Lilia's eyes turned to ice andher sould became cold light. She smiled, but it was a friged one, cilling to the soul.
She reached into the collar and she yanked on the power. She threw her power intp the collar, let all the pain and horror that the humans had felt fill him. A hundredfold. Lilia was not longer just Lilia, the Light Sidhe. She was Lilia, the Light Leader, the Coucil Member of Justice, and she was filled with rightious rage.
Her power filled into her, and she appeared before Blaze. She knew he would be able to feel the storm of pain that she was barely holing back.
"Blaze, Leader of the Fire Sidhe, I condem you for eternity to be collared for the mass murder of humans, betraying the Treaty, and for unlawful scheming to overthrow the Royal Family. In the name of King Eirshin, I strip you of your rank, your title, and..." she let her eyes fill with distain for him. She realized that she was done with him. What good would striping him of his powers be? He would never be able to use them again. The restrictions were now solidly in place, and only she could take them back.
And she would not do that.
She let the pain go through the collar.
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:22 pm
Blaze's pupils dialated and his screams were ear piercing. His hands flew to his neck as he struggled. He felt all his powers leaving him.
No! It couldn't leave him! His power was all he had! It was his passion, his love, his life.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" The pain doubled, quadrupled burning his flesh from the inside. It was pain he had never felt before, and it tore at his very soul.
He dropped to the ground, still screaming, his body flailing.
Tears fell from his eyes which were shut tight in pain. His fingers, which were now clawing at the cement sidewalk desperately, were begining to rub raw.
He wanted it to stop....
Dracula looked away, unable to see the sight of his godson struggling so futilely.
He bit his lip and focused all his strength from stopping Lilia. He could not let his emotions and personal feelings get in the way of Sidhe law.
All he could do was stand there, listening with a heavy heart as Blaze screamed for Dracula to help him.
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:05 pm
Jason stood in the dorrway of the apartment, looking at all the destruction. His eyes were sad, but his face showed no emotion besides that. It was very odd to see him so quiet. But he stepped among the rocks and rubble, ignoring the sounds of Blaze screaming. He walked a bit before reaching a point where a building used to satnd.
"This was the ice cream place where my girlfriend and I used to get milkshakes," he said to himself.
Lilia stood there pasivly while Blaze writhed in agony at her feet before she snapped her fingers. The pain stopped, and Lilia spoke. "You will not talk unless I tell you to, you will not eat unless I tell you to, will not sleep unless I give you permission, and you will whatever I say. You are no longer recognized as having any rights as a Sidhe." She looked at him. "As soon as Eirshin has been found, you will be imprisoned in one of the Forgotten Mounds. Now, if you don't mind, I have things to do." She turned to go to the apartment, but gently placed a hand on Jason's shoulder as she went. "It is time we left this place."
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:06 pm
Blaze laid there, his body shaking, the pain still lingering in him. His breath was ragged. With one hand he reached out to Dracula who bit his lip then took a step back.
Tears welled once again in Blaze's pleading eyes and Dracula couldn't take it. He dropped to the ground and scooped Blaze up like a child. Blaze opened his mouth, but couldn't speak. All he could do was cry. His hands clutched Dracula's suit desperately. Dracula kissed Blaze's head then looked at everyone watching them.
"What!?" He exclaimed sadly. "Why are you staring!? He's just like you now!" Tears fell down Dracula's pale cheeks.
"He's just like you!"
He picked Blaze up and carried him inside the apartment. His sadness was unbearable, but Dracula could only shed tears. He could not express it any other way.
He set Blaze down on his bed then shut the door and went over to Lilia.
"What made you think you could do that without my consent?" He asked. "Erishin isn't found yet. How can you deliver punishment in his name when we don't even know if he'll agree to be king? Do you hate Blaze so much that delivering the WORST possible punishment is okay to you?"
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:26 pm
Lilia turned around. She wanted to yell as well, but she refused. She was ice, like her mother had been. She looked at Dracula through empty eyes, betraying no emotion whatsoever.
"Blaze... is a murderer." She turned to look at the window. "The whole point of my bringing Blaze with me was, yes, for my protection, but to show that if we were to come into this world again, it would be to guide, not conqour and rule." She sighed. "We would come to rule, yes, but through example. We would show that we are better by being kinder to each other and to them. Blaze was a test. Everyone knows that he is perhaps the most violent of all Sidhe, but if I could show him this... to be firm and strong while he needed to be, but to be kind a gentle at others... If I could succed with him, then I would know that every Sidhe could learn. And eventually, I was hoping that both the Sidhe and the humans could become one. The Sidhe blood has always been stronger, but the humans understand love and kindess better. The new race would carry the best of both breeds."
She sat heavily on her bed. "Unfortunatly, Blaze has ruined that hope... I had hoped that... when he met the twins he might..." She sighed. "Nevermind. I failed. Now, all I can do is find Erishin or the next heir."
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:55 pm
Dracula's jaw had dropped when she was explaining and when she finished it clicked shut again and his hands balled into weak fists.
"Blaze was...a test? He was your guinea pig!?" He breathed, trying to make words. To yell, to scream, to knock things over, he wanted to do so many things to express his anger and his pain. But his position made him stand there, glaring so fiercly at the wall behind Lilia he was sure it would shivel up and die any moment.
"Atleast let him talk." He said atlast. His tone almost pleading.
"As part of his punishment...Make him live the rest of the mission to find Erinshin as a human. When we do...You can take him back to the mounds...Just let him speak again....Please...." Dracula got on his knees.
"You were always on opposite sides....You don't know Blaze like I do. You don't understand him like I do...Without his powers, I'm all he has. He's not my biological son, but I love him all the same. Please...Let him atleast talk. What harm can it do if his spells no longer work?" Dracula looked down.
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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:03 pm
"Well, he wasn't exactly a test. Actually, the test was more spur of the moment than anything really. But I decided..." She turned to Dracula. "Good GODS, stop begging! Really, thats not how Council members are supposed to act at all! Honestly, if your people saw you like that, you would never live it down!" Lilia rushed over and helped him to his feet, and sighed. "Alright, alright, he can talk, but thats all. I'll bring him to the mounds when we're done. Tell you what," she said pointing at Dracula, "If you help us find Eirshin, then you can be his keeper once we get back. Of course, I suppose we'll bring the twins along... they can help us out and we'll reward them at the end if they agree..."
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