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 Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:40 pm
Kaylyn walks towards the Clan council, watching for Alaric on the way. Anubis is sleeping soundly, and Hariel stays outside his tent with Saberstryke.
((more later, but gonna wait a bit to get Dannin to the camp))
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:33 am
Saberstryke, after only three hours of rest, wakes up. A presence...something...called attention to itself. He rubs his eyes, yawns and finds that Talpa is standing at the entrance of the tent.
"Saberstryke, I would know why you let the one called Anubis escape," Talpa said.
"I didn't know that he had," Saberstryke replies. He gets out of bed and kneels before Talpa.
This seems to please the Lord of the Wolfriders. "Did you give orders that he was to be kept here?"
"Yes, Talpa, I did." Saberstryke answers. "If he did escape, it wasn't because of anything I ordered."
"I can see that you are telling me the truth," Talpa declares, moving back. "Very well, I shall investigate further." His armored boots stalk off.
Saberstryke slowly climbs back into bed. He does not hear his sword fall to the ground.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:06 pm
Dannin smirks as she passes Saberstryke's tent, and looks at his sword. All ready having one, she shrugs and leaves it. Continuing on her way through the woods. She walks for hours until she sees the banners of the Clans, and at one end, the banner of the Wildcats.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:29 pm
Saberstryke turns to Hariel, his two swords already out. "I heard something," he whispers. "Someone is coming."
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:59 pm
Hariel looks up and towards the edge of the camp. He sees a young woman, dressed in black with hair to match. He watches her for a moment, then walks up to meet her.
"Can I help you?" he asks her.
Then he sees her blood red eyes and takes a step back. She gives him an evil smirk, raising her katana.
"You are Hariel, who the Hyroshas call Wildfire," she says.
He nodds.
"I am the Lady of the Flames," she says, "prepare yourself."
She lunges at him, and he parries. He makes one cry before she lashes out at him again, this time jarring one of the swords from his hands.
"Wolfrider!!!!" he yells.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:29 pm
Saberstryke steps forward, "Lady Wolfrider, I shall challenge you." His green cloak billows behind him, stirred by a gentle breeze. His two swords are pointed directly at her.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:34 pm
Merely steal the Bright Flame Armor, kill the green-armored warrior if you can, and return
The words of her Master rang in Dannin's ears. Something tried to hold her back from assulting Hariel again, but the darkness that had taken her soul make her attack again. Once he was on the ground, she looks up at Saberstyke.
"I accept," she says, "traitors deserve a traitor's death, and your own will be at my hand!"
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:43 pm
Saberstryke replies to the Wolfrider intruder, "I have stayed true to myself, while others have betrayed me. In time, you will find that your commanders care less about you than you may realize."
He takes the initiative, sweeping both of swords down towards the Wolfrider's neck...
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:46 pm
Dannin dodges, attacking the a power and speed no human, not even one of Wildcat blood, should be able to do. Her katana blocks the blow, and she spins around him, ending up behind him and ready to spring. She smirks, and strikes.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:59 pm
Saberstryke lets his body- what was his body, now an armor to contain his spirit- relax, ducking underneath the blow. He rolls to the side, springs up and charges the Wolfrider. He ducks low, plowing his shoulders forward, taking her to the ground. Pinning her for a moment, he raises his swords for the kill. The Wolfrider's legs contract and then push into his chest, forcing him off of her. Saberstryke lands on his feet, in a crouch. The two warriors charge each other, meeting in a clash of steel.
Saberstryke's swords meet against the Wolfrider's sword, a contest of muscle underway. Saberstryke feels the power of the Netherworld come into play as he uses all of his force to push the Wolfrider's sword against her throat and end her life. Except the Wolfrider's sword does not budge. In fact, Saberstryke finds that, in spite of the fact that he holds a mystical treasure in his hands, his strength is failing before the Wolfrider's. One of the Soul Swords falls to the ground, dislodged. The other is backed up against Saberstryke's throat.
"What have to say now, traitor?" The Wolfrider demands.
"Only that more will be gained by my death than by my life..." Saberstryke manages.
The Wolfrider draws her sword back, and decapitates him. Blue smoke quickly flies into the air- Saberstryke's spirit, loosed of its armor, flying to heaven.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:05 pm
Dannin smirks, taking the two soul swords and strapping them to her back. Before Hariel can challenger her, she knocks him senseless with a swift kick to the head. She walks deeper inside the camp and pauses as Kaylyn, who felt she was needed, returned to her tent. She looks at Dannin, not seeing her sister, then glances behind her to see if Batrias has remained.
"What do you want Wolfrider?" Kaylyn says.
"The Bright Flame armor," Dannin says, "I know you have it. The last one to bear it was of your mother's family, so the Hyroshas hold two armors. I have come to claim one."
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:18 pm
Batrias, remembering the shards of his own armor lying on the grass or in someone's tent somewhere maybe, says to the intruder, "Talpa, was it not? I can a part of his design in this. But whatever success you gain now, you must know that you cannot, and will never, prevail."
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:43 pm
"You are a fool, just like the trailor," Dannin says, "but I've delt with him. Now it is your fate. Do you challenge me? Or do you go free and give me what I want."
"A Hyrosha does not kneel before a Wolfrider," Kaylyn says.
"Another once thought the same as you do now," Dannin shakes her head, "but they were wrong as well."
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:58 pm
Talpa stops, looking up. A blue wisp of- smoke or spirit?- heads towards Saberstryke's tent and enters it. Talpa thinks on this for a long time, not moving, considering what he should and what it might mean. He finally decides he has to consult Badamon.
***
Saberstryke, still dreaming, sees an older version of himself, this one with a scar on his chest and two swords, themselves as ghostly as the rest of his other self, walking out of field littered with dead bodies. They are warriors, ones who have fallen to Saberstryke's blade- the blade made for him by a master swordsmith not that long ago. He recognizes some of the faces- men and women who fell under his blade at the orders of his lord and master, Talpa.
Saberstryke's other self says: Your honor is defined by your actions, not by your obedience. Guard your actions, well, therefore, lest you become one of these dead.
Then, the other self, the scarred one, fades away into nothingness and Saberstryke, servant of Talpa, returns to sleep.
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:27 am
NB: This post was written by Dani Hyrosha
Kaylyn draws her sword, a large no-datchi that
someone of her build and age should not be able
to lift, does so with ease. She shakes her head.
"I will not yeild this armor," she says, "nor any
other of the Flame. Leave now."
Dannin smirks, "So be it, your death comes with
great reward Lady Hyrosha."
The two lock in combat, hard enough that a crash
of thunder was heard throughout the camps.
Warrior lock, working their way out of the camp.
Flames came from the swords as Dannin cast away
her single katana for the two she had taken from
Saberstryke. Each met the other blow for blow,
throwing the other back only to get back up and
fight again. In the end, however, Dannin pins
Kaylyn to the ground, one of her swords tearing
through Kaylyn's sub-armor and shoulder to pin
her in place.
"The armor," Dannin says, "give it to me."
"DANNIN!!!" a cry comes from behind the two of
them.
Both women look up. Anubis stands against a tree,
his bandaged and battered body barely able to
hold his weight. His eyes betray the pain, and
the shock of seeing his baby sister suddenly ten
years older in body. Dannin had alwasy been the
peaceful one amoung the three siblings, now here
she was, one death on her hands and another soon
to follow.
"Dannin!" he cries out, "stop it! This isn't like
you. You never tried to hurt a single soul."
"Shut up Anubis!" Dannin snaps, "you think you
could have saved me. I saved your life and this
is the thanks I get when I obey my new Master.
You stay out of this, I will not save your skin a
second time."
Anubis takes a step back, the shock free on his
face. Kaylyn takes the advantage. She grabs her
sister by the shoulders. Flames erupt from her
hands. Dannin screams, the red fading from her
eyes as the shadows begin to loose their hold.
"Let go of my sister demons!" Kaylyn says, "You
cannot slay the Wildcats with one of their own!"
Dannin speaks, but for the first time, it is not
her own voice that comes out.
"You think you can stop us?" she says, "look
around you? The Clans are destroying themselves."
"Then take this!" Kaylyn says, "and see if you
can
control her now!"
The Flames engulf Dannin, her clothes burning to
reveal the Black Flame sub-armor. For a moment,
both sisters are wearing the same armor, then
Dannin fades in a burst of flame, her body and
spirit returning to the Wolfrider camp.
Kaylyn falls back, her burned clothes revealing
that, instead of giving Batrais the Bright Flame
as she intended, she had taken it herself. Her
energy spent, she fall uncouncious. For the first
time since their mother's death, six years
earlier, Anubis runs to Kaylyn's side, catching
her as she falls back, and holding her tight
against him.
"What have I done?" Anubis wispers.
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