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 Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:19 pm
"I thought you would see it my way," Sortha said with a smile then walked outside.
(( hey people I have to go to my grandma's house on the 27 and she does not have computer so is there something you can do/have happen to Sortha till some time around the 18th of July when I get back? Sorry for being a pain like this. sweatdrop ))
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:43 am
"Oh, clever are we?" He said as she twisted his body and adjusted his footing, slipping from her footing and turning about to slash at her throat. "I've been fighting freaks like you before you popped out of whatever deformed gut you came from." He spat, grabbing a pair of spiked balls from his belt and tossing them at her also.
"Muse, If I have to tear through this lizard shell your in, I will! Then I'll make sure to starve you 13 years." He spat, using the same rate of time he had personally hunted her down.
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It was hard for Sortha to get out of the inn door, because the troops where dragging the struggling Nalima away from it's master and it's host. Troops held on to magic-blesssed chains and moved as if they where moving about a unrulling blimp in a wild updraft. A few troops where ringleading and shouting how the troops should move to move the flapping, ebony beast, who had all of it's white eyes moving in different directions and snapping at it's binds, tearing it's wings off in it's blind struggling and having most of it's organs falling from a large gash, which it didnt' seem to notice.
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:38 am
Having already been prepared to go down, it was pretty easy for Kitasu to duck and avoid both the spiked balls and the sword. "And I've been fighting arrogant, pompous generals like yourself before YOUR disgusting soul blinked into existence." She flipped up and did a somersault, landing as far away from him as should could without getting in the flames, which wasn't very far. She grimaced. She needed a way to win this fight fast -- not only did she have to extinguish the fire around them both, but she also had to beat this pompous #$* of a commander, who, despite his attitude, was a *&^@ of a fighter.
All these thoughts passed in a second as she took her scimitar and stepped forward, spun around with her leg up for defense, and brought the scimitar with her, aimed right at the general's throat.
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:39 pm
Ren flipped his helm down, a thick armour that covered his face and already had some nicks do to previous battles. Jumping back, he waved at the mage, who squeeked and moved the flames, allowing Ren to jump out of them before they came back to just encircle her. "We can't allow it to escape. Shot the beast down!" Ren said, his voice muffled from his helm as he signaled his ready troops.
Don't question what I say, but I want to answer my question. If you needed just one thing to ensure victory, what thing would it be?
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:58 am
Kitasu gave the helm another good nick before the commander jumped out the way. She snarled -- what a damnable coward!
She heard Ren's voice, then the girl's. One thing? One thing?! What one thing could she think of that would extinguish the flames AND somehow kill the commander?
Her mind raced. Well, if she could somehow make herself lighter so she could use her normally useless wings to fly, then she MIGHT be able to escape the flames -- but she was get less clearance by the second, and besides, what would she do in the air to get rid of the commander? What one item would vanquish both threats at once?
In the seconds that she thought, the flames got closer. She could hear the distant sound of many soldiers cocking their guns. She needed...
A jar.
About 30 years ago, she had purchased a jar. Boring and dirty, it had been five common coins because the merchant considered it junk and nearly threw it away.
But after buying it, Kitasu had found out that it was one of only five Preservation Jars left in the universe, an incredible rarity she had planned to sell when she decided to settle down. This jar, measuring only one inch tall and wide, would hold up to ten thousand tons worth of anything, no matter how large. Using some very odd magic involving pocket dimensions and suspended reality, it would literally freeze time for the objects inside of it, so they did not age at all.
However, Kitasu had already sold the jar and used the money to help someone who had desperately needed it, as a payback for a huge favor they did her in the past. She hoped that girl speaking in her head could make rare magical jars appear out of nowhere.
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:06 pm
A JAR?!! Ahhhhh. She whined. I hate inatimate objects. Why couldn't it be a giant snake, or a puppy? Okay...Okay. Jar. Jar. Jjjjaaarrrr. She thought. You better not break this, I need it back when your done. She said.
From the warm feeling that came from her enterance, a shot, stinging chill ran up and down her body, and inturn, Kitasu's. Jar. A soft thud hit the ground, as a small, plain jar hit the soft, dirt. It rolled and hit her foot, annoucning it's reality.
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:22 am
She grinned. If the girl had wanted a live object, she should have been more specific. She was going to have to deal with a jar.
But it was time to get to work, unless Kitasu wanted to be full of lead soon. She bent down and picked the tiny object up, then reflected on how to use it. A memory surfaced...
She heard her divinating friend speak. "That's right, speak any element you can think of into the jar and it will suck those things out of a 50 yard radius."
The memory faded, and she was standing back in the fire. She brought the jar near her beak and spoke. "Fire Magic. Steel Armor. ...Unreconciliable Evil." She held the jar out pointed directly at Ren.
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:52 am
The dust started to fly towards the jar, as the fire flickered towards the rim of the jar and started to pull from the ground and collect inside. The troops, unaware of what was happening, felt their footing pull as they slid towards the jar, and used hand, weapons, and eachother to anchor themselves to the unknown force. Ren, who was seeing this and was a man on instinct, looked over to the mage as he was slowly pulled in. The mage's wide-eyed, and gapping expression was enough to tell him this was wrong. VERY wrong. "Mage. Transport. NOW!" He barked, and the mage, blinking, shook out of his trance and shot out his hands, dismissing the flames that where there and in a flash of indigo light, all signs of them where gone. However, the place was still trash, grass trampled, stable crushed, and the Nalima still flapping on the ground, as the chains weighed it down.
Ahhh... they..left?
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:03 pm
Kitasu growled. Damn! How can that pompous jerk be so on guard?
She grimaced and held the jar out. Here's your jar. ...We lost, although we've survived. I think it's safe for you to come out now, though there may be a few scraggling soldiers hanging around wondering where their army went. Her expression changed from anger to sadness. The battle had been lost... she had failed to take a true monster out and instead just tired herself out.
Just like...
She frowned and repressed the memories that threatened to overwhelm her. Looking up, she spotted that awful, loud beast struggling with all its might. If she could find her stupid cow, she might have something to break those chains. But first she wanted to be dispossessed -- she didn't like sharing her thoughts with someone like an open book -- so she waited for the girl to exit her body.
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:36 am
There was no answer, as she already left after she said the coast was clear.
"Ahhhhhh. " She whined, the words outside her head now, and now behind her. Sitting on the ground, sat Artemis, her hair still dark brown from Hitori, but her eyes back to deep green, one hand transparant, and a pair of scrawny wings poking out of her back. "What the heck?!" She whined, as she looked at her back. Great, alteast she wasn't covered in scales. Pushing up, and frowning at her back, she went and picked up the jar. The jar, solid and shinning in the sun, turned to a puff of smoke, that filled up her fading arm, and made that solid instead. Her face was displeased, and she turned around to see her Nalima still flapping. "Oh be quiet. It's not like you can feel it." She barked, and walked up to him, tugging at the chains and trying to figure out a way to free the beast.
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:58 am
Kitasu turned around, and watched in amazement as the girl turned the jar into her hand. That was some risk!
As the girl walked up to the beast, Kitasu looked at her wings, perplexed. Those wings weren't there before, she was pretty sure of that. Actually, they looked quite a bit like hers, only scrawny and smaller. Odd.
She took a couple steps so she could see the chains clearly, took one glance at them, and sighed. "Great. That looks like diamond. I really WILL need that stupid cow, these things would just nick my blade. Unless..." She sighed and rolled her eyes. She could actually break the chains pretty easily if she cast a good edge enhancing and a protecting spell on her scimitar, and she was pretty good at those particular spells. She really didn't like magic, but she couldn't think of anything in her pack that would break the chains anyway.
So she took the blade, holding it flat in her two clawed hands, closed her eyes, and concentrated. She whispered something, and the blade glowed bright, bold green, then purple.
She opened her eyes. Yeesh, if she thought she was tired before... well, she's got a room now, so she should be able to get some rest after finding that stupid Grunty. She reminded herself that as she walked up to the chains a reasonable distance from the upset beast, holding her sword rather limply, head hung down. Not only the fight, but the defeat, had tired her out far more than was good for her, and she hadn't exactly been spritely today. First a wild goose chase for two weeks that wasted her energy and items, and now this. She shook her head, clearing it of more troubling thoughts -- she was too tired for that right now -- and kneeled down, gently applying the scimitar to the chain. After all, she didn't want to ruin her blade if her spells weren't strong enough to cut through the chain.
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:11 pm
Artemis knew her pulls where in vain and instead went up to the beast, and started to shove it's innard back inside so that it could close up. If it didn't, the skin would heal too quickly, and might leave them poking out. So, pushing the soft organs and purple tissue back in, and pressing to drive it far inside, she started to press and lean in. It wasn't until a few shoves showed that her tiny appendages, just recently recieve, where flapping in some form to help move forward. It would of been plesant, if they actually helped, and since they didn't, all she could do was be annoyed by them. However, the best news was a soft 'kink' from behind, that sent both the beast and her rolling alittle as the chain snapped and hit the ground with a heavy thud. Turning, she looked at her, and since her arms where deep in organs, she mearly said, "Thanks!"
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:21 am
Kitasu nodded toward Artemis, then raised an eyebrow after realizing what she was doing. Well, the beast didn't seem to mind terribly, so it must be alright. It seemed the girl was having some trouble, but there wasn't room enough for Kitasu, and besides she didn't want to cut the beast with her talons, so she looked around and spotted the tattered wings not too far off. Seeing no way else to help, she gathered the pieces of the wings, brought some bandaging out from one of her now singed pockets, and proceeded to fasten the wing pieces together and then, if it allowed, on the beast itself. She didn't know how fast the thing healed, so it was best to secure the wings in place so it would have plenty of time.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:44 pm
Artemis looked up to see Kitsu pieceing back the wings, and she smiled her thanks. Then, drawing back her eyes to the gut of the Nalima, she gave one last push to the organs and then drew her hand to the skin. Grabbing one edge of it, she pulled up towards the top opening of the gash, and overlapped them together. This was especially diffecult, since the fur was sleek and oily on the underbelly, along with the blood and it's own breathing, made for a very troublesome job. However, after getting both pieces overlapped, she pressed hard and watched as both peices melted together like ink, and then be sealed. Giving one pat of approval to see how it held up, she crawled over it's gut to look at the wings. "Don't bother with the bandages. Just shove them in like needles in a pincushion and twist the root. It should hold then. Oh, and due stay away from it's mouth." She said, and slipped over to look at the beast's eyes.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:11 pm
Kitasu nodded, having pressed the wings into place already and watched it heal, she took the blood soaked bandages off. She already knew to stay away from the thing's mouth, of course, so she stepped back a reasonable distance and watched Artemis, studying her wings.
Odd. Kitasu's own wings were large, with a twenty foot wingspan, but no good for flying because of the laws of physics. Artemis' wings, on the other hand, looked uncannily similar but tattered and completely useless. Kitasu made note to ask the girl about it later.
Kitasu waited for Artemis to finish, then approached her. "I've lost something of mine. If you don't need anything, I'll be looking for that, then back at the inn."
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