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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:47 pm
((sweet))
As more of the small demons rushed around and attacked people, the large demon had finished destroying the building in front of him and turned towards the loud bang that came from behind him. Tightening the grip on it's battle axe, the demon prepared to charge the destroyed inn once again only to come into contact with Aron.
Aron had focused fire into his sword once again and had made a running jump at the beast. Slashing his blade through the air created a wave of fire which washed across the demon's chest causing a massive bright red mark to appear.
Roaring in pain the demon stumbled back a bit and literally backed into the building behind it almost vanishing into the rubble as the building collapsed on top of it. The massive axe hit thr ground with a loud thud, which caused anything that was left of the building to crumble and fall.
Aron grinned. "Take that you stupid beast!" He said proudly, that was until he got tackled by one of the smaller demons. "Gyah!" Hitting the ground with a hard thud, Aron still holding his sword brought it up and cut the wolfs head off the demon causing it to sail through the air and land a few feet away and the body to fall over beside him. "s**t, almost lost my head that time!" Getting back to his feet Aron began to deal with the smaller demons, believing the large demon to be dealt with at this moment.
In the rubble of the building the demon snorted and growled, although most of his sound was muffled or blocked by debries and the screams of people, mixed in with the sound of swords on claws and flesh.
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:15 pm
Renee was busy with the smaller demons but she took note of the man with the flaming word. Gritting her teeth she killed as many demons as she could, she was cutting a path towards the larger demon, she shouted towards Aron, "Is it dead or do we have to take care of it?" she would be more than glad to fight alone side him and was thankful that this man even took time to help with the people of this town.
She felt a pair of hands on her back and she leaned forward flipping the smaller demon on it's back, she drove both blades into the beasts chest, killing it. She had enough time to brush her hair out of her face before she had to hack and slash again. The feeling that she caused this all began to weigh heavily on her, she took a deep breath in and fought with a frown on her face. Then and there Renee vowed that she'll never stop fighting until all of these shadow crystal creatures were killed.
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:58 pm
Draq looked around quickly and not seeing any immediate threat bent down to quickly examine the creature on the ground in fromt of him, it still twitching as more and more smoke poured out of the small holes the crystals caused, allready the crystals would be reacting to the magic inside, turning them and twisting them so that they destroyed from the inside. While expensive to be nigh prohibitive, anti magic rounds were effective at what they did, ignore most low or medium magic defences, and once inside the flesh, used the tagets magic against itself. Goog quality medium and high defenses though the crystals burned out and turned into the closest thing to flying pebbles.
But the smaller ones did not have high leel defenses, but were seething with energy, which ment that while Draqx touched the creature it was broiling itself from the inside out. Draqx closed his eyes for a moment to help keep his last meal down as the smell of burning flesh wafting from the twitching soon to be corpse.
Though the contact was not condusive to not huring, it gave Draqx enough to know that magic was not the only thing that effected these. Draqx rummaged in his pack and brought out one of his oldest tools. Draqx then closed his bag and put it back on, and wiped some blood out of one eye, head wounds did tend to bleed a lot, and getting blood out of labcoats was a bit of a pain.
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:36 pm
"That thing? I don't know, I've fought something like it once before, nearly cost me my arm. You need to seal it to kill it, only problem is my sealer isn't here at the moment..." Aron was caught up in fighting he was not thinking about who he was talking to right away. "Just try to deal with these things, and leave that thing to me, they are dangerous and that one will kill a lot of people if it gets back up...." Aron knew it would stand up again thinking now about his last fight. He would just have to hope he knocked it for a loop long enough that Alexis would get here. "Where is that girl! I shouldn't have left her with that damned beast loving freak!" Aron growled, quite angry with himself.
The demon growled again and tried to get up, but it's strength was not there at the moment. I needed food, it needed rest, it was going to die at this rate, and it certainly did not want to die. "Must.... find... food!" It spoke to itself as it started to sniff around for something to eat while still burried under the rubble.
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:27 pm
Jade could hear the screams from outside and didn't like the sound of what was going on. To him it sounded like fighting, even though he didn't like the idea of it. Though, it was most likely going to cause innocent people to get injured, so it was probably needed. He was just worried about the entire situation.
He watched as Alexis ended up falling on the floor. Jade quickly made his way over to her. "Are you alright Alexis? You should try and take it easy just for the moment." He knew that she was probably needed, why else would Aron want her to be put in danger. Just, at the moment, she wasn't going to be any use to anybody.
"Let me help you Alexis, it's the only way we can go and help. If there are any injuries, I want to be there to help them as well. Once you regain enough strength to stand up, we can try and make our way there." He smiled a bit not really sure of everything that was going on. Even with the unknowns, he had a gut feeling that she was needed to stop whatever it was. Jade wasn't entirely sure how or why he had that kind of feeling however.
"Aron needs you doesn't he? You can stop whatever is going on can't you?" He said a bit saddened knowing that it must have been tough on her to deal with this kind of thing. For anybody it would be difficult but, a teenage girl to be doing it, it probably took a lot of courage.
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:02 pm
Draqx heard the sound from the rubble and started walking towards the pile of rubble, his gun ready and panning back and forth as he walked. There was a sound and movement and another one of the small creatures jumped out at him.
Draqx managed to get a shot off catching the creature in its chest, blowing a hole into it, spraying ichor onto Draqx a split second before it bowled into him knocking the both of them over. The creture had crystals all the way to its spine from the point blank shot, but it still had some control over its head and shoulders. The creture yowled in pain distracted by the new hole it had been torn, this gave enough time for Draqx to let go of his gun with one hand, and get a good grip on the tool in his other hand and clobber the creature.
Draqx felt the heat from the crystals in the creatures body and heaved the creature off of him and coughed for a few oments, lementing in his mind the condition of his once clean labcoat, now stained with blood and ichor.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:18 pm
Alexis nodded as she forced herself up to her knees. Although she had been normal before, she was turning quite pale, a sickly ghost white. "Until, ... I stop... it, I will.... be... like this...." Alexis brought her hand to her mouth and started to cough again. "I.... must stop it!" Alexis suddenly got to her feet and ran out the door, or rather crashed through it. Stumbling out into the panic stricken streets she looked around and didn't think twice about what she was doing. She saw smoke, screams, and what looked like magic on the other row of buildings, and then the one building which had collapsed in, where the monster lay. Forgetting about Jade Alexis began to walk towards the ruined building. Her pace and her breath were slow, her eyes almost blank along with her face.
The demon, grumbling and snarling under the rubble cringed for a brief moment. "Master Sydren!" The ground started to shake as the demon forced himself up and looked towards where Master Sydren was only to see young Alexis, struggling to keep standing in the middle of the street.
Aron growled. "s**t, it's back up already, these things are a pain in the a**!" Readying himself in an attack stance he waited for the demon to make a move, only to see it walking away towards the place where he had left Alexis and Jade. "Oh great timing!" Aron looked behind him and saw a man in a white coat and the woman from earlier being the only ones standing. Most of the guards were busy either fighting for their lives, injured, or dead. "You with the gun, and crazy woman We have to stop that thing and try to knock it down! I can't get into details, but we have to knock it back down!" Aron shouted as he sent more fire magic through his blade and charged forward and slashed through the air.
The blade of fire streaked towards the demons back and struck home, flames washed across the demons wings and into his back causing it to stumble a single step and roar with pain. While this move made the beast angrier, it didn't turn to attack, it continued to focus on Alexis. "U bent niet mijn meester, nog ontdek ik zijn magisch." The demons words sounded like pure gibberish, few would understand what was actually being said. It was a form of Non-human speak, demonic to be precise. Alexis who heard the words. "You are not my master, yet I sense his magic..." The demon snarled and went to swing it's battleaxe only to see it had forgotten it in the building. "Geen kwestie, zal ik u om het even welke manier doden!" (No matter, I will kill you any way!)
Roaring loudly, the demon opened it's mouth and began to move towards Alexis, it was going to try and swallow her whole! With Aron close behind, unsure if Renee and Draqx were even going to help, after asking random people to help take down this monster, only he and Jade were in position to help dear Alexis from this evil beast.
((O.o it's drawing to a climax))
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:10 pm
Jade watched quietly as he waited to see what Alexis would do. He hoped they would be able to stop whatever it was so that she could go back to her normal self. Seeing her like she was made him feel a little saddened. It must be a terrible burden to be placed on somebody so young. He blinked slightly as she ran and crashed through the door. She then proceeded to walk off. Jade quickly followed after her hoping that she would be alright.
Walking out of the door that had been crashed through he could see all the destruction and Alexis heading right toward it. He knew it wasn't safe but, that wasn't going to stop him. He began to run to catch up to her, she had been given enough of a headstart that he needed to in order to catch up. As he ran he could hear the strange dialect and see the demon heading right toward her.
Jade needed to hurry, he was going to make it in time but, if he wanted to make sure the demon didn't kill her, his spell wouldn't have much time to work. He made it to Alexis and could see the demon getting closer. "You need to stay alive to defeat that thing." Slowly he held his hand out infront of him. The palm of his hand glowed white as he was concentrating on casting a barrier. A barrier using light energy would for sure hurt the demon if everything worked out.
"I won't let you injure her." He said as he used his magic to create a barrier. The barrier was created around the both of them just as the demon attempted to swollow them whole. There was a bright light which formed where the demon met the barrier. Jade was using everything he could muster to keep the barrier from being destroyed. "Cmon barrier, please hold up." His breathing was starting to get harsh as finally the demon was pushed back by the barrier.
It wouldn't have done much damage at all but, at most it would stun the beast enough so it could be destroyed by Alexis. Unable to use his magic for much longer the barrier slowly disappeared and he ended up falling to his knees. He was breathing hard and sweating a bit from how much the spell took out of him. He glanced toward Alexis and smiled. "Hopefully you can defeat that thing. I'm sorry I couldn't be more useful."
((Well, hopefully that was good enough. ^^))
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:00 am
(Crazy woman? O.o)
Renee was busy fighting, in a way she enjoyed the challenge, the rush of the fight, then at the same time she felt horrible because she accepted the crystal. Spinning she sliced through three more of the smaller demons, she heard the man speak and she looked up and saw the rubble in the demolished tavern move and pulse. The demon was getting back up, she bit her lower lip, 's**t.' she thought to herself, she felt a jab of pain in her arm and she looked down and one of the smaller demons managed to stick one of it's needle like arms into hers. "s**t!" she cried out and shoved her body into the demons', digging her daggers into it's chest she pushed to demon away from her, it's arm sliding out of hers. Hissing in pain she leaped and plunged both of her daggers into the side of it's neck.
She turned her attention towards the larger demon and the men that had decided to help, the demon had gotten up and started to charge a younger girl, she didn't seemed phased by it, and another young man came running up behind her and creating the magical shield. "Oh no." she moaned and began to run towards the large demon, she jumped and it seemed like forever while in the air, being able to pin point the exact location of landing and the exact point of which locations as to which her daggers would be inserted. Clenching her teeth Renee jumped, she looked down at the people below her, the girl and the younger man with the magic shield, the two men, one in the lap coat with blood all over him and the other with the flaming sword. She made clearance over the demons head, she didn't want to land on it exactly so she reached out with her daggers and pierced it's skin, Renee used the momentum of her jump to catapult herself up and over the beast.
Her blades had pierced the top of the skull, and because she jumped from behind her momentum carried her up over the front of the demon. Renee's blades traveled through it's skin, down between it's eyes, down it's nose, to it's mouth. The blades tore free and she landed on the ground. She got up quickly and backed up towards the girl and the boy that was protecting her. "This is not a safe place." she risked a glance over her shoulder at the girl, "You should leave."
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:08 pm
Aron almost broke into a grin. "Damn, that was a good spell!" As the barrier knocked the great demon back and Renee jumped over and literally slashed the demons face like it went through a meat grinder he focused his fire magic once more on his sword and as the demon stumbled backwards and fell he sent forth his flaming strike and it washed over the demons body as it fell on top of the blade, severely burning it's back. Roaring with pain the demons movements slowed.
Events from the demons point of view happened far to quickly for it's mutated brain to even fully register what exactly happened. On the ground, blood dripping and pooling around it it almost made a whimpering sound to that of a beaten dog. "I… kan niet sterven… Beheers… Sydren… helpt me!" (I can't die, master sydren please help me!) The demon slowly raised it's hand as it tried to reach out towards Alexis. While a couple of it's words could be made out, most were still very strange. Why was this beast so attracted or effected by the presence of Alexis?
"No... you should." Alexis said in a half dead tone as she slowly walked past Renee, like she were walking dead. Slowly raising both of her arms and holding out her palms Alexis closed her eyes and looked away. From Renee's angle Alexis was crying. A few tears fell from her closed eyes as she began to say some words. While it sounded almost intangible, this was something she could understand, to a point. The elders, the leaders of the great kitsune tribe and other leaders in Himo, made sure to teach these words to all for they were forbidden arts. The only ones to ever use these magical arts were mages of old who have since either passed on or are living in seclusion... and the dark mage Sydren. The words came like deathly poison from Alexis' mouth, slowly moving towards the demon which suddenly started to go into convulsions which became more and more violent. "Dark creature.... embrace my will, and return to me..." As Alexis finished her magical chant a dark circle formed around the demon and a star formed. This was not just mere forbidden arts, this was heretic magic! This girl was a dark mage, that was the only possible way she could be able to cast a spell such as this. Dark orbs formed on the demons limbs. Each arm and leg were encased in a dark mass of blood red and raven black energy and with a dark blue flash from the star in the circle, a massive black spire went through the demons chest and into the air.
It was over in an instant. The demon suddenly vanished, the body of the man lay in it's place. To everyone else it looked as if the demon had just suddenly vanished. A fist sized black crystal, the same which had been given to Renee and caused this whole problem slowly began to float down towards Alexis. It suddenly darted, as if trying to do the same thing to Alexis when it suddenly stopped in front of her face. A dark field stood in it's path, as dark rays sparked from the point Alexis reached out and slowly closed his hand around the crystal and placed it into her bag. As the dark field which had stopped the crystal vanished. Alexis lurched forward and held her chest. This time blood came from her mouth as she coughed once and then fell forward and hit the ground with a thud and didn't move. What ever had happened, it was over, finally. The destruction although it appeared bad, was far less then what could have really happened. The smaller demons vanished into a dark cloud and the man who had been transformed, although laying in a pool of blood, which was slowly starting to vanish as well, was out cold, he was alive and not that worse for wear.
Aron was quick to Alexis' side and carefully picked her up after first replacing his sword to it's sheath. His face was blank, but yet it was easy to tell that behind that blank face was untold rage. He was furious, why did that man have to force this young girl to do this! She should be with other children, learning how to be a normal girl, not fighting demons and beasts which were slowly killing her. Not speaking to anyone, Aron walked towards the inn carrying Alexis in his arms. The blood she had coughed out, was not enough to cause her any harm, but it was still serious none the less. From his past experience, he needed to get her to the inn and into a bed. He was doing his duty, if Jade, Renee, or anyone else who had seen what just happened, came after him they would have to wait, Alexis came first. He knew what kind of reactions he would probably have to deal with, Alexis did just use the forbidden dark magic, he was even disgusted himself, but he was just a sellsword, he did as he was told, regardless of feelings. Besides, if anyone wanted to try and kill her because of what she just did, they'd have to go through him first...
((Congrats, your efforts have netted A DARK CRYSTAL surprised , I will take a moment to say this, although I do not say directly... there are many hidden secrets within my posts, should you read carefully, you might be able to figure out what is happening, or what might be happening next wink ))
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:33 pm
Renee was startled when the girl told her to stay away, she frowned and held her pierced arm. She watched as the girl mindlessly walked past her in front of the demon, there was an odd connection between demon and girl that she couldn't place. Now standing behind the girl she watched as she conjured dark magic, instinctively Renee stepped back, she had only heard of the dark arts in whispers. Renee couldn't exactly wrap her head around this child being able to wield such dark, such taboo powers.
She didn't know what to think when the very large demon when it disappeared. She frowned and her hand dropped away from her injured arm, it was impossible, though with this girl who wielded untold powers. She saw in the demons place the old man, she was very thankful to see that he was okay, Renee would have to make a point to make sure the man would be taken care of.
Seeing the girl and the crystal that had been absorbed into the old man's body, hover in front of the girls face, the girl reached out and took it with her bare hands. She gasped and tried to stop her, but it appeared that it did nothing to the girl until she put it away. Renee watched the girl fall to the ground, blood coming from the girls mouth. She saw the man she was fighting along, the one with the sword rush to the girl's side. Renee watched as he gingerly picked the girl up and carried her towards the inn about a block away.
Glancing at the other two men, the one in the lab coat and the one that protected the girl with the magical shield. "I'll be back to check up on her, I've got explaining I must do." she bit her lower lip, "It's the least I can do." She walked over to the older fellow and assisted the people already gathered around to assist him. She followed the small party to a small house, she gave the family some money to cover and sort of medical the man might need. Giving the family blessings she left the home and began to walk towards the inn.
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 4:07 pm
Jade could only watch on as the other woman that was helping in the fight against the demon. She had attacked the demon and managed to cut open the demon's head. Next he saw Aron make another attack on the demon from behind which would give Alexis the chance to finish the demon off. He watched Alexis use forbidden dark magic to finish off the demon. The demon disappeared and left the body of a man laying in it's place. The dark crystal was then taken by her and placed into her bag.
"Dark magic?" He asked himself not really sure that what he saw was real but, it really was reality. Jade wasn't sure what to think at the moment. Slowly he got up to his feet and watched as Aron took Alexis. He knew why Alexis was the only one that could defeat that demon now. Things wouldn't ever be easy travelling around with her but, that wasn't something he cared about. There was no way he would worry much about her dark magic, Alexis was still Alexis and that was all that mattered.
Looking around the scene he could see that lots of people had lost there lives. It was terrible for sure but, it was over now and people were safe once again. Alexis should get her rest, so he was going to leave her alone for the moment. He decided to help out and with the injured he went around and healed whoever he could with his healing magic. Even though he had already used up most of his energy from the barrier spell. This wasn't going to stop him from doing what he could.
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:52 pm
Draqx heaved a sigh of relief as the weight of the creature vanished. He had heard the exchange, and the assistance asked of him. But as he breathed and felt the pain in his side as the adrenaline started to wear off he knew that he had at least one broken rib.
Draqx managed to stagger to his feet, some of his wounds opened up again from the movement, and the wound on his head leaking once more. His lab coat was stained with dirt, blood, and gore from the fight. Draqx looked around and walked towards the person who had stopped things, Draqx emptied his gun and tucked in in the straps of his pack and he hobbled forward, keeping his tool in one hand, the metal spanner having a bright metal finish, and part of an inscription visible from the maker "...XWELL SMITH"
Draqx walked up and the ed of the spanner sparked slightly reacting to the energy still in the air, the interplay of metal and energy making small frying noises. Draqx tried to hide the grimace of pain he felt from his injuries.
'Everyone alright... looks like meestarrr maj-sheesh took an exit stage left... hope nothing like that happens again soon. Takes a while for bones to knit you know. That and rounds are expensive to replace you know. Sorry bout being slow to get up, but those smaller ones were large enough to knock ones breath out, and then some.'
Draqx winced a bit, as his ribs made their presence known again. Draqx then looked at his lab coat and sighed and gave a small shrug.
'Though I may not look like it much at the moment, I can help care for the wounded, and if what I think is correct, you might not want to have the government involved where a report might get filed correct?'
Draqx moved the end of the spanner where it was still fizzling with the ambient energy.
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:11 pm
Jade had finished healing anybody who needed it when he was going to head back to the inn. That was until he saw the man in the labcoat who seemed to be quite beat up. His messy labcoat kind of said that he had been through a lot in the fight. Walking up to him Jade smiled weakly. "You look like you could use some healing sir. If you don't mind, I can help you out with that and get you back to good condition. Though, I dunno how long I can heal you, I've used up a lot of energy helping out so far."
He was breathing a little heavily but, right now there was no way that he would give up. Jade just wanted to help out, even if he used up all his energy. His parents always told him to be helpful to anyone in need. He didn't know anything about this man in a labcoat but, his injuries made him want to help out. "Anyways, it's the least I can do for you considering you fought off those demons."
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:35 pm
Draqx smiled at the offer but politely declined the healing for his own reasons.
'Thank you, but please, I should be fine, aside from a few ribs and a horrible stains... I guess I will wait a few days to see if the ribs are just bruised or broken eh?'
Though Draqx had a sneaking thought that the ribs were broken, he did not want too much attention brought his way so he understated his injuries. In a few days he would be healed, besides, there was still the unconsious person that needed to be looked after.
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