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 Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:50 am
Duraz stopped and placed his hand on his forehead. Beads of sweat came down from his brow as his face clenched as though something was tearing through his skull. After it subsided he looked at Maovu "I'm sorry about that," He sighed "I need to rest for a minute."
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:23 am
Worry broke Maovu's trance. "Druaz, are you all right?" She stroked his cheek. His skin was hot and damp. "What's wrong?" Maovu searched his face for any sign of disease. "Whatever it is, I'm sure I can help. I have a gift for keeping people alive." Had things been different, the toy maker would have been a phenomenal physician. Her blood thread could seal any wound and bind living tissue the same way it connected cloth. Unfortunately, decades of torment had led Maovu to use her power as a means of torture rather than healing.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:43 am
He smiled at her "I'm fine, I just need to r..." His sentence was cut off by a gasp. Blood began to pour from his shirt, he clenched his chest "Not now!" He howled in pain as the blood grew thicker.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:51 am
Maovu was on the verge of screaming. "Duraz! Duraz, what's wrong?" Tears were already spilling over her cheeks. "Please, let me help you!" Maovu's heart was pounding in her chest. She reached reflexively for the needles in her arm.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:00 am
Duraz howled as he tore his shirt apart. His chest was covered in a series of scars, the largest was in the center by his heart. Blood leach from it as it pulsed and tore, any who looked closely enough at the scar would see into another world where the dark beings looked back. He screamed as more tears appeared, coated in a firey aura. A few words escaped his lips through the screams "...please...seal the room and run!"
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:13 am
Maovu shook her head furiously. "I won't leave you like this!" She shouted. Before she could say any more a toy dragon the size of a great dane dragged her away from Duraz. Maovu's own will to live was strong but her desire to help her lover was quickly outgrowing it. The dragon acted quickly and pulled her out of the room. "No! Let me go!" The toy maker sobbed. Most of the toys still in the room crammed themselves into the cracks around the door jamming it shut. A few of the dolls had already succumbed to Maovu's desperation and surrounded Duraz. Maovu beat the door with her fists and screamed.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:27 am
Duraz screamed as the fissures on his chest spread, infecting the floor. The firey cracks ran up the walls and cielling. One tore its way over the door, in the crack the other world burned with activity as creatures of nightmares tried to force their way through the gaps in reality. Duraz rolled on the floor as claws protruded from his scars and tore at his flesh. After awhile the fissures calmed and the beings vanished, leaving Duraz curled on the floor bleeding in the center of carnage. The walls had been burned and torn by the scars and any decorations had been utterly destroyed. Duraz lay there and cried.((This song seems to fit the mood: ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh2kSs89Xxw&feature=related))
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:37 am
The surviving dolls wriggled free of the door and inspected their wounds. Maovu burst through the threshold and darted to Duraz's side. Without a word, she shoved five needles through her arm. When the needles surfaced, long strands of blood thread were looped through the eyes. Four of the most intact dolls each took a needle and began to sew Duraz's wounds shut. "What happened?" Maovu whispered. Her tears fell on Duraz as she worked.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:44 am
Duraz just lay crying "So...much pain.....so much....death, why?....Why is it me... who must suffer for the future." He said no more, all he did was shake and cry as his mind tried to piece itself back together.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:51 am
Maovu cradled Duraz's head in her hands. "I won't let it happen." She growled. "If the future is what's hurting you, I'll change it." Maovu kissed his forehead. "I won't let anything hurt you. Ever." She said firmly.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:59 am
He looked up at her "I'm sorry I caused so much trouble," He raise himself into a sitting position "It is my curse. Since I saw the future the dark beings there try to force their way into our world through me. Thats what leads to the scars, they're conduits between worlds, if one was to infect you the creature would posses your body and in turn infect others." He put his head in his hands "Then the world would be destroyed. I am a walking nightmare."
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:07 am
"Not to me." Maovu said quietly. "You're a dream come true to me." The burned dolls collected themselves and began to heal. Like living creatures they could recover. Maovu held her lover close and did her best to comfort him. "Helping you is no trouble. It is my pleasure."
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:12 am
He hugged Maovu "Though it doesn't happen often I will do all I can to keep you safe from my curse." Duraz closed his eyes, tears ran down his cheeks. Though these were not tears of pain or sadness, these were tears of joy.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:25 am
"Everything will be alright. I promise." Maovu said with a smile. "We'll help." The dolls called in unison. A plush illithid climbed onto Duraz's knee. "You've made our mistress very happy. You can count on us." He announced. Determination flashed in Maovu's eyes. "We'll find the ones responsible for ruining the future and we'll fix them all!" A wind-up soldier cried.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:29 am
He smiled "Thank you, thank you all." He leaned over to Maovu's ear and gently whispered "Perhaps I could show you how gratefull I am, in private?"
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