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 Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:46 pm
Nadia sighed as she listened hoping Teinama would do the right thing. That Chikanno would help him through this betrayal. "Oh Tei. You'll never know just home much I love you for this." She said looking over her shoulder to see Max and Codi fighting to hold the crazed Yuli down. Her eyes raised to see where his girlfriend had been on the roof. Nadia kept waiting for her to step in.
Paha rolled his eyes and stood to walk over to where Karn was kneeling. "If that beast doesn't kill you, I know plenty of religious buffs that would more then willing to do the job." His own cold eyes turned to look to Chikanno "I say we use him as bait, maybe get that thing back in the underworld. Find some way to reseal it down there."
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Leonardo barely had time to brace himself for the attack. Snarling angerly he did his best to keep the bigger man from knocking him over. "You idiot." Leonardo hissed pushing him back "She's trying to keep us from stopping her!" Again he tried to go after Afsana. "If she gets hurt how do you think everyone will cope? It's going to be hard enough after this mess."
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Kadra grabbed ahold of Attorra's wrist before he could get too far "Wait!" She looked a little frightened. "Please Attorra. Be careful if you really do intend to go help, just try not to get too hurt. This is a big magical battle, I can feel it." She wrapped her arms around herself and shivered, clearly uncomfortable with the power going around in the air. "Humans don't stand much of a chance against such things. Please. Be safe." Slowly she turned to look at the dragon. "We need to go some where where you'll have enough power to hold off more of those things."
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Skyden tried to get up to follow after Codi, but quickly found her left leg wouldn't support her. Falling to the ground she whimpered from the pain. "Shiiiiit."
Abarden stood over her looking down. "s**t is right. You don't stay out of trouble long do you?"
"Bite me long toothed bastered." Skyden snapped looking to see the more lions in the room then she cared to deal with.
Mavek growled softly, trying to keep himself from hitting the girl on the head. "Hey. Don't you think if you want to be healed you should be nice to the man doing it?"
Chalan found himself rolling his eyes. "Theo, Ravis. Let's get back out there and back dad and his men up. Uh Mavek, you can keep an eye on things here." He said seeing his brother's reactions.
"Yeah sounds great." Mavek said still glaring daggers at the girl bleeding on the floor.
Abarden sighed. "I'm not going to heal you all the way, if I did you wouldn't learn your lesson."
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Maeve listened intently. "I don't want to talk about that. I'm sorry. You seem nice and all. Really. But my family is all I had. I was born and raised under Kurag's rule. I had never known a truly good day in my life." She sighed looking at the quickly passing streets. "My father and brother's deaths hit hard. I'd rather not discuss more then this."
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:19 pm
Eversor made his way through the battlefield as he make ground toward his ruler. On his way, he had gathered a few cuts and gashes from passing monsters as they began their assault again. When the dragon found his Lord near Karn, he approached saying, "My Lord! Lord Paha!" but as he did, his legs finally gave out and he collapsed. He fell onto his side with a heavy thud, as his weight finally proved too much for the dragon.
He lay there panting heavily to catch his breath for a few seconds before continuing. "Gravagarra and Infernara are dead. " he panted a bit before continuing further with his report. "Adurnafor is still to be accounted for and I haven't seen Attorra or Kadra. Telmina still fights with a frigid passion..." he bit at the last words as he knew his children were in danger even as they spoke. "I think Karn's force is streaming into the town, but I didn't get a good look. They seem to have kept fighting even after his surrender... Tell me you have some tricks up your sleave, because the fight will end badly for us if it continues or escalates..."
Karn ignored the dragon as he shook his head and snorted. "I already told you. And it won't work like that, Paha. Godith's only use in me is to fight you all while that giant--" he indicated to the colossus. "--kept him busy. Otherwise, you'd all already be dead at his hand. Myself and Maude included." he then glared at Teinama like he never had under his own free will. "And if you don't swear to leave her unharmed, I'll let this world burn away to nothing and let Godith have at your soul. All of yours. It's the only reason I haven't already damned this land." he raised a weak fist at Teinama, then pointed at him. "Don't be like Godith. And certainly don't be like me, Teina-- ARGH!!"
Godith's mental lance burst through Karn's mind like a rampaging wildfire. The markings on his skull shimmered with delight as Godith put them to use.
"She... Goes free... Or I... Let you all... BURN!" he cried in a hoarse, sooty voice as he resisted Godith's will as best as he could. A burst of power finally reached the sorcerer from the monsterosity in his mind, giving him new life before he could seal it off once more. Karn raised both hands to Chikanno and Paha's chests and let loose huge blasts of raw, magical energy at the two. Karn then grabbed Teinama by the throat and lifted him before anyhting else could be done. Karn's mind fought for it's freedom, but his body had already lost its fight against Godith. "Teinama! Now! Put your hands to my skull! Reach into my mind when I let him take my thoughts and actions completely! Sever the connection, but hold his thread of thought in place! I'll do the rest!"
Karn then let his resistance falter and allowed Godith into his mind. His face changed from an expression of a caged animal to one of triumph as the possessed Karn teleported his sword into his free hand. Karn poised the blade to strike Teinama down. Godith's eye glinted with delight within Karn's skull.
Eversor somehow found a hidden pocket of energy when Paha was assaulted. The dragon leaped onto all fours and came at Kar with a mighty roar as his jaws reached for the socerer, hoping to grasp him with their deadly embrace. Wihtout looking at him, however, Karn froze and held Eversor in place just before his jaws wrapped completely around the underworldly god. Karn hastily stepped out from within the jaws of the dragon and stepped to one side of Eversor's head. Karn then struck him in the side of the temple with the guard on his sword, as if he were to punch him, and the dragon, now released from the spell, recoiled from the blow as if he had been pegged with a great boulder. His great head snapped to one side as he keeled onto his side again. Only this time he was out cold. Karn then turned his attention bad to Teinama.
Nexus swung his massive sword in great arcs, rending his way through unit after unit of Karn's forces alongside his own turned, twisted forces. Nexus took a reprieve from the gore of battle and allowed his creatures overtake him and attack the monsters before him when he spotted Afsana hurtling into the fight. The necromancer grinned a bolted to her side. "Ah, what a sight! A king whom fights with her army! Your forces could use the boost in morale. Shall we?" he asked before hefting his greatsword onto his shoulder haughtily. "I think we've got a date with the Devil, huh?" he chuckled. All this time Nexus had been convinced his abilities were good for nothing but evil. This had proved him otherwise and he relished in the change of purpose.
Adurnafor bit back a growl when Attorra made his decision to go help in the fighting around the palace. "Normally I'd argue with you, but I think they'd have better use of you than us." he said before he huffed a gale of air from his nostrals. "Be safe, Attorra, or you'll never hear the end of it when I join you in the next life." the water dragon then motioned to Kadra. "We have to go before more of those things appear."
Floradail bit her lip. Was it her place to say about Eversor's past as well as his future intentions? Eversor had lost his Sire, Dam and hatchmates to a single crazed Metallic Dragon when he himself was just a hatchling. Ohh, she talked too much and she knew it. "In that case, I think," the Flora Dragon started gently and spoke with consideration. ", that you should truely talk with Eversor then. I don't think you've approached him on this yet, but you should." she assumed that she hadn't due to her reluctance to talk about it now with herself. "I think it'd be good for you... And him. You'll find the two of you have more things in common than you think."
The dragon bit her lip after that statement to keep her from going on and telling MAeve about Eversor's past outright. It should be told by him and him alone. It was also something for Maeve to overcome by herself. As far as Floradail knew, Eversor hadn't even told Telmina about his own family. At least not in detail. Floradail had only found out the black dragon's past by chance. On the waning crescent moon, Eversor would excuse himself for the night saying that he would be gone hunting when really he would go out to a secluded part in a woods and try talking to his family from beyond the void. The Flora Dragon had chanced apon him once when she was out forageing for flowers that only bloomed at night in the light of the moon. She couldn't help hiding and listening in on Eversor as he talked as if there were other dragon around him, but never were. He didn't seem crazy or mentally insane, just mournful and depressed. It was a sad thing to watch and it almost made herself cry a couple times.
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:46 pm
Afsana noted Nexus running with her and gave him a small nod and smile, "Martyrdom, here we come!" She noticed the beast was primarily concerned only with fighting the other, and thought it would probably be best not to get between them, but maybe beneath the thing, Or, that might not work, she probably couldn't reach its underside, maybe a back leg...
Ackitahr leapt off of the lion with a growl and reamrked how he was only following orders. He turned to see where the king was going, "s**t." As quickly as he could he took off after her, but she had already gotten awfully close to the monster battle.
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Chikanno quickly threw up both hands to avert the attack and absorbed what he could of the blast, the last thing he wanted was to accidentally send it flying off toward another. He glanced to his right to be sure Paha was okay before he looked up at Teinama now being hoisted up by the throat. "Teinama!"
But Teinama was busy reaching forward with not only his arm but his magic and into the god of the underworld's mind to see what he could do. It would be easir to just kill him, but it was likely, at this point, that that might not accomplish anything.
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Tiranna watched from the rooftop, still as if her partner in crime wasn't being held down by the two generals. She either had nerves of steel or a plan up her sleeve. If she had been anyone else the guess would easily be the former, but Tiranna and Yuli were known for their villainy and their trickery, and so odds were she probably had a back-up plan. She had turned her attention however to the large battle of the even larger beasts. She watched for a long while and even noted the King and an agent of death running toward the underbelly of the darker dragon. "Hm."
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Yuli had given up fighting. It seemed apparent that he, too, had a plan of some sort. But instead of making a move of any kind, he cocked a brow and looked up at the air behind his twin niece and nephew. "Is that a ghost?"
"Really? You think that s**t's gonna work on me?" Codi managed to say, but it was tough, as he was being flattened between his sister and the man he was addressing.
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:56 am
Leonardo growled angrily and much like the goat took off as fast as he could after Afsana. "We have to keep her from getting stepped on by those things!" he yelled tearing through a beast that got in his way. "She'll get killed with that man!" Of course he planned to personally strangle Nexus for encouraging her.
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Nadia gasped and jumped back thinking the power was going to even effect her. She didn't miss Yuli's question. Floating over she looked down at the man between the twins. "Great you're the only one who can see me?" She folded her arms over her chest, and felt something unfamiliar. Looking down she could see right through herself. "I have a hole in me!? I have a ******** hole in me!"
Paha managed to defect any sort of back last from Karn's attack. "I hope we can end this soon." He mumbled his eyes darting over to Eversor to make sure he was still breathing.
Telmina ran to her husband's side. Killing everything in her path not caring she was receiving a few wounds as she went. "Eversor!" She cried stopping by his side and trying to get his head up off the ground. Nudging him around she managed to left his body enough to carry him off to a safer place.
Chalan came launching out of the palace at full speed attacking beasts right and left with more energy then the soldier had left in them. Growling wildly he jumped onto a monster moving in behind a man and women holding another man down. Using hos sword he managed to decapitating it in one swing. Laughing he moved on.
Theodin was much the same as his older brother. And ran in to help the soldier begin fighting some of the monsters back from the edge of the palace walls.
Leonardo glanced over his shoulders hearing the war calls of his sons. Three out of the four had joined in on the battling and were cutting down almost everything in their way. Laughing he sped up to try and stop Afsana before she got killed.
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Kadra nodded her head. "We should head near some water. You'll be able to do more there." Kadra awkwardly climbed onto Adurnafor's back.
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Maeve felt a little bit of anger peak. "He killed my father and my brother, and wants to take land, from what it sounds like, by force if he doesn't get it freely. That doesn't sound like the nice dragon you're trying to make him out to be. I understand his need to want to save his people, but Leo is in much the same boat. But I don't see him 'doing what he has to' and possibly starting a war. If he was the kind dragon you're trying to say he is. He wouldn't even think of something like that. He'd find a way to save his people in another way. Not risk losing even more over a war." Maeve stopped before she ended up yelling "Really Floradail. I am not going to get over what he did as easily as you're hoping. I get along well with Telmina. I've even had a few talks with her. That's a start if anything."
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:10 pm
Karn didn't mind when when another dragon came to take Eversor away. He didn't even care when Chikanno and Paha survived his magical attacks. What he did care about was the battle within his own mind. Karn could think on his own again. Teinama had done that much for him, but Karn's body was frozen in place by the mental fight. Karn's face twisted from scowls to smirks to snarls to teeth-grinding before he could finally feel control return to his body. The sorcerer held Godith's thread of thought in place as it still fed him power. Karn dropped Teinama as he worked his magic.
With his hold on Godith now instead of the other way around, Karn invaded Godith's mind directly along his our passage of thought. Once inside the entities mind, he forced his will apon Godith, forcing him to give Karn all of his power at an alarming rate.
Godith expression turned to one of horror when Karn reversed the flow of power. He already started to feel weak in his legs. He didn't even notice Dormin getting back up and golf-swinging his in the jaw. Godith, with not much of anything holding him together with his power now being drained, had his lower jaw ripped off from the attack. Liquid hot magma streamed from the wound as his jaw flew and landed next to Nexus and Afsana.
Godith screeched as he was flung onto his side by the blow.
All the monsterous forces under his control ceased fighting at the sound of Godith's screech. One by one, as Karn sapped the gargatuan's power, the creatures fell into piles of dust and ash that fell to ground and seeped through the earth to rejoin the Underworld.
Eversor's head lolled to one side as he mumbled to himself in his unconscious state. Even as Telmina carried him, his body twitched and his eyes squeezed shut as if tormented by a terrible dream...
A memory of an event 152 years ago, when the Scale War was long over and the sight of gigantic battle of ferocious dragon ceased to plague that portion of Karmae, came back to haunt like it has countless times before. Eversor was just an 8-year-old hatchling, half the age at which normal fire dragons send their young off to fend for themselves in the wild to grow into their rightful title as a Dragon. Eversor's Sire, Abraxas, had taken him not too far from the nest to instruct him further on hunting. Eversor was the runt of the nest and needed more help than could be given most of the time. The alpha of the nestmates was Gharzvog, an extremely large male hatchling for his age. Abraxas was sure Gharzvog was destined for greatness, as well as his sisters, Thundaga, Numira and brother Firnin. Eversor was the one who seemed to be overlooked though, compared to the other hatchlings, and he made great efforts to push himself to to his siblings' level. He had never wished for anything more than to be better than Gharzvog and grow up to be like daddy. Abraxas was patient with Eversor as he noticed a fire within the hatchling that burned as an unbreakable determination rather than as a physical force. This was the only thing keeping Eversor from being cast out of the nest by his Dam, Rariifa, for she wanted only the greatest in her litter.
Eversor trotted next to his Sire, which could be best explained as a uppity child skipping beside a mountain. He listened intently as his elder reminded him fundamentals to prowling and stalking on the ground level, then ways to decrease wind noise with ones wings as a hunter would dive at its prey from above. He then began to go step by step what to try if your prey should fight back, turning to your breath weapon first. What to do if your prey was bigger, or smaller, was next. Eversor answered questions as he was asked and was given praise for many of the answers being correct. He then turned to more convroversial matters, like how to take care of your inner fire. Abraxas went over Fireweeds, bones to grind into a fine powder, stones to swallow to aid in hard digestion. Then he changed over to a new subject. A very inportant one. A subject that was bore into the mind of every fire dragon. Never cry. A single tear that should surface would extinguish a fire dragon's inner flame, killing it. That killing tear is something called a Fire Tear, which contained the dragon's very life's essence. One who could catch a fire dragon's killing tear could harness that drgon's power indefinitely without repercussion. Not only does the dragon die, but it's power turns into a tool, a dishonoring thing worse than slavery.
Eversor was intrigued by this subject, but then jerkily put his belly to the ground as he spotted a plump lizard further along the crags of Ignis Island, which Eversor and his nest called home. It was starting to get dark, much to Eversor's advantage as he spotted a rise in the crags that provided a perfect aount of shadow to hide himself in with the help of his black scales. Abraxas's originally scale hue was black, but this color had faded into a cracked grey shade that matched that of an aged stone as he got older. With this in mind, Eversor's sire stood in place, never moving as he observed his hatchling's progressing hunt.
Eversor prowled into the shadows, flexing his paws so his claws raised and didn't clack against the hard, dry, craggy ground. Silent as a trained predator, the hatchling stalked along the long rise, focussing on himself, the lizard and everything in between. A small dragon Eversor was at a size of that of five feet in length and four feet in height, but he was a clever dragon. Now he was in pouncing range of the lizard. He could see the bristles on it's tounge as it flinked in and out of it's mouth.
In and out.
The lizard slowly skittered toward the end of the rise toward an over hanging portion, most likely to escape the last bits of sunlight. Eversor froze when the lizard moved, but then continued when his prey seemed to stop again under the overhang of the rise. Head low, claws up, scales tight, movements slow... The hatchling mentally went through a checkllist his Sire had drilled into his mind a million times before. He was within pouncing distance again, but he wanted to get closer to minimize the distance so there was less of a delay between when he pounced and when he stuck his prey. When he was within that zone that would offer the best distance, which happened to be ust where the shadows ended. Eversor raised his hackles and rolled his shoulders as he tightened up his body like a spring, preparing for the pounce...
The lizard seemed to nibble at something long and pink, probably a plant of some sort, but then the overhang snapped over the poor creature with a clap. Eversor froze, he could hear his Sire's growl even as fafr as he was away from himself. He saw the resembling features as the rise actually rose. A triangular head with teeth that dripped with frsh blood, scales were revealed as a layer of sediment fell away from them to show a dusty brown shade in the dimming light of the sun.
A Bronze Dragon. The metallic hue to it's scales was unmistakeable.
The Bronze Dragon starred at Eversor with a heightened amount of interest as its natural nightvision trait took effect. The Bronze's neck poised itself, then lunged forward in a snake-like strike intending on devouring the hatchling. Eversor's reflexes came to action, one of his Sire's lessons on battling a larger foe: Go for the eyes.
Eversor had never moved from his pre-pounced state, so he took the time to spray a liquid stream of irridesent, black flame, then pounced to the left as far as his little legs would take him. Eversor had only sent about streams of white flame before now. A black stream surprised him as it seemed to absorb light into of give it off, his Sire could breath the two independent flames as well, but only this surprised him only briefly. His fire hit its mark as it struck the bitter mud-brown eyes of the Bronze Dragon. Eversor's foe yelped, but his lunge continued as it struck the ground. The ground gave way and flew into the air from the force of the blow, leaving nothing but a small crater at the impact point. The Bronze Dragon was momentarily stunned by the pain in his eyes and snout before he could realize the ground he stood apon began to rumble as Abraxas ran at the creature that had was a threat to his young. Eversor landed out of reach of the initial attack, but the impact of the Bronze Dragon's snout on the ground sent him tumbling across the ground until he finally came to a stop on his side.
The world spun until the hatchling shook the feeling away a began to rise to his feet. Eversor's eyes widened as he saw the Bronze Dragon face him once more. The white's of it's eye red from irritation, but nothing more. its vision wasn't impaired in the slightest, as was evident when then dragon lnged with its head again. Gleeming ivory teeth came for Eversor like hungery swords with a bloodlust only matched by their master. Eversor only had enough time to coil into a tight circle and call for his Sire in his squeeky hatchling voice.
A thunderous roar answered him. A glorious roar that seemed to defy even the heavens. Eversor heard the clap of the Bronze Dragon's jaws snapping shut just short of it's target as it was interupted by a wall of pure force as Abraxas plowed into the Metallic Dragon's side. The next few minutes were a blur of battle and blood as Eversor was rooted in place by fear and indecision. The next thing he knew, Eversor's Dam, Rariifa, joined the fight with a ferocity even Abraxas couldn't match. Rariifa was a Red War Dragon with a fighting spirit that rivalled that of any of the greatest dragons, even Storm Battle Dragons. Eversor's other hatchmates were at the outter fringes of the fight, cheering their parents on as they battled onward. If there were two Chromatic Dragon that could kill a Metallic dragons, even by themselves, it would Be Abraxas and Rariifa, right?
Wrong. The Bronze Dragon forced his will on it's namesake, creating spikes of metal of varying sizes that came up from the ground and impale anything. Rariifa was the first to fall. The Bronze Dragon had forced the pair off of him with a poisonous spray of liquid metal. The Sire and Dam circled their foe in synchronocity on opposite sides. Eversor's Dam died relatively quickly. All four of her paws were held in place as well as run-through by bronze spikes. She struggled to pull her paws free, but when she did, she toppled over onto her side. A spike came up from the ground that same instant and went clean through the side of her skull.
Abraxas, enraged by this, lasted a bit longer, but died much slower. Using his Dark Fire, he coated himself in a flame-scale shield that melted his foes spikes on contact. The Bronze Dragon's fate seemed sealed then and there as Abraxas charged at his foe with newfound fury. The Bronze Dragon let loose a spray of liquid metal. Already being in a liquid state, the liquid metal took effect immediately as the Bronze casually moved to one side, obviously amused. Abraxas was blinded, his nostrals and throat burned uncontrolably. This wasn't a temperature burn that he could shrug off like nothing, it was a chemical burn that bypassed heat and cold. The liquid hissed and steamed as it ate away at Abraxas' face and snout. He stumbled off to his right, scratching and roaring at his new wounds that continued to worsen. His flame-scale shield spell dispersed, but the pain didn't stop. The poisonous liquid metal, seemingly with a mind of it's own, made it's way into the rest of his body, slowly, but surely killing him. The dying Abraxas collapsed directly in front of Eversor, who was still rooted in place. His Sire coughed and weezed, but was able to make out a few sentances to his offspring. "Don't cry, Eversor." he weezed as the metal ate away at his flesh. "Never say 'die'." he was able to cough up his last words before his eyes glazed over feet away from his smallest offspring.
While Abraxas struggled to keep a thread of life, the Bronze Dragon had not been merciful to his other hatchlings. Being off ad away from Eversor on the other side of the fight, Eversor's siblings bolted away. They didn't get very far though. Thundaga lay limp not far from her Dam. She had shed her Fire Tear. Numira had bolted first, followed by Firnin. They had been run down and torn to pieces. Gharzvog had challenged the murderer shortly after that, and he had lasted longer than his Sire or Dam against the monster purely due to his size and agility. Sooner or later though, he joined his previously slaughtered siblings in the form of a mulched pile of meat and scales.
Eversor finally came to his senses that he had to escape. The murderer would come back and look for him. He had to run, or hide. The nearest cover that was in sight for miles was his Sire, which lay before him dead from a flesh eating metal liquid. Not safe at all, so he took the next best thing. He hid inside the dead corpse of his Dam, Rariifa.
With the Bronze Dragon's departure to go and kill Eversor's siblings, the spikes that had riddled the aftermath of the fight had lost shape and structure and fallen back into the ground. Eversor almost lost his nerve when he came up to the very large, and still growing, pool of blood that surrounded Rariifa. The copper-like smell of blood filled his nostrals and he had to turn his head away to keep himself from losing his lunch. His thoughts intensified as he thought of the ones who now lay before him, slaughtered like animals.
Have Metallic Dragons no honor? No pride? No mercy? Eversor whinned, a sad and pitiful sound for a creature of such majesty. "Dont' cry, Eversor." he sniffed. The hatchlings chest swelled as his Sire did charged with a task he wouldn't take lightly. "Never say 'die'." Eversor said with a bit more confidence, quoting his Sire. He was going to be better than any dragon hoped to be. On a physical, mental, moral, and magical level he would strive to be the best dragon to had even lived. He wouldn't cry, and he'd certainly never say 'die'.
His Dam's blood pool had reached his tiny paws now. The crimson mirror reflected Eversor's dark scales. The scarlet liquid kissed his paws when it met them and slowly creeped passed them and, soon enough, kissed his hindleg paws as well. Eversor hadn't flinched when his Dam's life's fluids touched him. It was a test. All of it was, and the hatchling intended on coming up on top in his nest's name.
Eversor strode forward across the blood pool and climbed onto the head of Rariifa, then desended down into the hole in her skull that had resulted from the Bronze Dragon's metal spike. He found a crook in her cranium where all the fluids and brains had already streamed out, curled up, and squeezed his eyes shut as he heard the returning pawsteps of the Bronze Dragon. Something shifted above Eversor and something burst from within his Dam, but he didn't move. He dared not to move. Seconds later, a thick splash of blood met his entire body. Eversor's determination held, but his breathing quickened and his heart pounded. The heart that pounded with the same blood that coated him now. Blood of his Dam.
He heard the Bronze Dragon walk around. Eversor assumed it was searching for him, or eating what was left of his Sire. The latter of these thoughts was cast aside when he heard, and felt, the Bronze Dragon approach him and the corpse of his Dam. He expected the murderer to start eating Rariifa, but then Eversor wouldn't know what to do other than run...
The Bronze Dragon seemed to just turn around and walk away though. Rage welled up from within Eversor. A hate crime! It had just been a bloody hate crime! Eversor put the pieces together then and there that his nest had been a part of a conflisct that was thought to have died centuries ago. His nest was dead because of a stubborn Metallic Dragon!
His nest was dead!
His nest was dead...
The concept was almost enough to make Eversor jump out of his Dam and beg for death, but his determination held him in place as he listened to the Bronze Dragon's pawsteps fade into silence.
For three days and three nights Eversor stayed in his Dam's corpse mourning, whinning, sniffling, squeeking, but never did he cry.
Not once did he cry.
Not once did he say 'die'.
Eversor whinned once, then realized what he felt now was the present. There was a battle... Gravagarra died with Infernara... There was Karn...
"Telmina!" the thought of his mate and offspring snapped him into awareness. He lifted his head and looked about. He felt rather saw Telmina. The texture of her scales and her cool touch was something he could never mistaken. She was carrying him. Why? He had such a terrible headache... "What's going on? The battle's the other way!"
Nexus looked from Afsana to Godith and back to Afsana. "And just what do you plan on doing with that there knife, your highness? No offense, but you might as well use a toothpick..." he said as he run beside the king.
Adurnafor nodded. "You remember that pond I made? We could go there." he said as he tured in the direction the pond in question. "Unless there's a river nearer to here than that, that'd be our best bet."
Personally, Adurnafor would really just enjoy seeing Kadra all wet again before he died.
Floradail couldn't hold it anymore, and she dearly hoped it would turn the conversation away from where it was going. She was only trying to help the two of them. "And Eversor's entire nest was killed by a single Metallic Dragon. I bet you anything that fighting is all he knows how to solve almost anything. He fought for food, for water, and his very right to survive as just a hatchling. He was half the size of me when this happened to him, I bet. Pity him if you will, but don't hate him for what his past has done to him. It's not his fault, it's the Metallic's for thinking the Scale War was still going on. I'm not saying that I agree with his actions, but I see it from his point of view and I don't blame him for how he handles things. He must be scared to death over Telmina's pregnancy. Scared to death that the same Metallic could still be on the loose and scared to death that history may ever repeat itself." she concluded herself with a stern huff. She felt much better to get all that off her chest, but she doubted it'd change Maeve's mind... "Does Telmina ever suspect anything? Does she ever see anything strange once in a while in him?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:44 pm
Afsana understood the man's doubt, certainly she was not a hundred percent sure of what she was doing herself, but she certainly could not sit back and let everyone else fight this fight without her. "You don't have to believe in me, frankly I hardly ever believe in myself, but I certainly won't just-" Afsana was cut off when without warning she was jerked backward by some force unknown. She managed to lift her head from where she landed on the ground to see the large chunk of the beast which had landed where she had been standing. She looked around for a short moment until she noticed the woman on the rooftop watching her, but it was almost instantaneous as the woman had immediately turned and started away. Afsana watched where she had stood for a long moment before she could focus on the fight between the colossal monsters, it seemed like the good one was winning? She thought. Either way, once again the threat of the array of smaller demons seemed to be fleeting and that alone was a good sign.
It was about then that Ackitahr had gotten to her side and dropped to his knees beside the king. "Are you alright?" Before she could answer he reached for her arm to throw it around his neck as he hoisted her up into his arms. "For the sake of our sanity, majesty, let's not do that again."
Afsana was silent still but nodded, her eyes still locked on the one battle that mattered.
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Teinama was happy to have a moment to rest of course. His focus was on Karn though, for whatever the next move might be, he wanted to be ready.
Chikanno sighed and glanced over at his old friend, who was watching Karn intently. He doubted the man would do much now, however, in a battle with the three of them he didn't seem to have a leg to stand on. He threw an arm around Teinama and gave him a quick squeeze before he spoke, "It's going to be okay, you know, this realm."
Teinama didn't lose his gaze but he did reply, "Well, that makes one of us."
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"GET YER FUT USS OFF MUH FUSS, CUDI!"
"I don't think he can breathe." Max commented but she did not seem very concerned about it. Shes was now standing beside her brother who was holding down the wayward warlock with her hands on her hips and her head tilted as she watched the scene play out. It was rather amusing to watch Yuli flailing underneath Codi's fat a**.
"I can't imagine why I should care." And he certainly didn't. Codi was perched rather nonchalantly on the outlaw's face with his head resting on his fist as he watched the rest of the battle play out.
Max replied with a simple shrug, "Just thought you ought to know."
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Attorra returned covered in blood that may or may not have been his, and he didn't really seem to care. "They just stopped. Again." He huffed a heavy breath out and spit a good amount of blood out with it. "Water sounds good though."
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Ariasana was rather confused when flocks of people began heading past her in droves. She made a curious noise but continued on moving her horse through the throngs of people. It seemed as if someone's army was moving them all this way. They also didn't seem to keen on letting her or the lion go back. Rolling her eyes, Ariasana continued on until the floods of people had stopped and the last two she spotted bringing up the rear were appearing. They seemed much more calm than the rest of the people, maybe they'd be more willing to talk. "Girl. Dragon. Where is everyone going?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:52 pm
Leonardo had been slowed down, rushing he had became a little careless and a large beast had managed to slice a wound into his leg. The pain was bearable, but it still slowed him. Running up beside the goat demon he was relieved to see Afsana safe and unharmed. "I'll cover your back just get her some where safe." Leonardo called watching as most of the beasts began to fall apart.
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Nadia was still in a bit of an uproar. Even in death she bared the mark of what her brother had done. Looking to her body she shivered. Yet, looking at it, she knew something was wrong. Something was missing. The necklace! The one she had made, it was missing! That means she should have been reborn, why wasn't she in a body by now? Panic set in, something must have gone wrong, with that thought she realized it was possible she'd be stuck like this forever.
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Telmina carried Eversor off, not knowing where she could put him that would keep him safe. "The battle doesn't matter. Not when you're half dead." Slowly she lifted her head, if only she could find- the wind changed and she caught his scent. Abarden was in the palace.
Ducking through the doors she was careful to avoid letting Eversor hit them. "Abarden!" She called slowly letting Eversor slid to the floor. "Can you help!?"
Abarden looked up from his work on Skyden. "Sure." He moved away from the grumpy princess. "You alright there buddy?"
Skyden snapped angrily. "You hardly fixed me! What is wrong with you!? I'm still bleeding."
"Your left over injuries are non life threatening. I told You I was going to make you learn your lesson." Abarden glanced over, his eyes looking over Patilla again to make sure he was still breathing.
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Kadra felt her heart stop. "Oh my god what happened!?" She asked running over to meet Attorra to look him over. Lightly she touched him worried her touch would cause him pain. "Are you ok?"
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Leonidas could smell all the people, could hear them as the rushed by. "Guess it was a good idea to wear some clothes."
Maeve looked up when she heard the women addressing herself and the dragon. "The town was evacuated. Some massive monster rose from the ground, some of the smaller ones started attacking the town and everyone in it." She said looking at both of them.
"Sounds like we are missing out on a party." Leonidas said with a grin. "Come On Ari let's get a move on, I wanna see if my claws are still sharp." He couldn't help but grin. A chance at a fight, to test his skills, he couldn't pass it up.
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:12 pm
Karn jerked this way and that as he stumbled to hold his control over Godith a moment longer. "Maude goes free, Teinama!" it was all he could think about. His wife. His children. His family that he had to live long enough to apologize to when Karn was finished mending his own mistake here.
The sorcerer gasped as Godith struck back at his own mind, yet Karn held his own against the invisible battle with the monster's failing and dwindling strength. "I didn't mean to kill her... But I trust that you'll do what you deem necessary." he said before the dark markings all over his body seemed to swim over his skin, cleansing themselves from his flesh as a black mist that was lost to the wind. "Almost got 'em." he said to himself more than anyone else. His horns started to jut out of his temples until they fell from his body like two starving parasites until they too faded to mist. Karn's skin began to regain its color against the pale, dry husk that seemed to cover Karn's bones.
Eversor gave a weak hiss. "I wasn't half dead. I was merely exhausted. Exhaustion can be overtaken with will and determination." he said with a growl of hostility. He couldn't help but be aggressive at the moment. He could only hold onto that for strength to prove he wasn't as weak as he feared he still was. The nightmare had come to him many, many times before, but it had never been as graphic as the latest one he had just had. He wanted to move. He wanted to fight. Every fiber of his being was screaming at him to keep fighting like he had for his right to survive as a hatchling. Yet, he couldn't move without the risk of falling off of Telmina and then there was the question of if he could stand back up.
When Telmina had taken him inside the palace and toward Abarden, his mood only worsened. Eversor adjusted himself when Telmina let him fall to the palace floor so he landed on his claws and belly. His claws clacked on the marble-tile flooring just as he growled at all near him, especially Telmina. Eversor tried to rise to his feet, but only managed to raise himself a few inches from the floor before his body met its embrace once more. Eversor pulled his lips up into a snarl as he welcomed Abarden with a cresendo in his growl. "I'm fine. Just tired with a splitting headache. I'm bloody brilliant. If you don't mind then, I'll be getting back to doing my job and saving G'Reth from these monstrousities!" he panted before trying to rise to his feet again, only to be rewarded with little more than broken pride as his muscles refused to raise him off the ground.
"I can-- keep fighting. Can't-- let them-- down..." he forced out as he continued to try to rise to his feet with no success.
Nexus saw the chunk o' monster coming and was going to move Afsana out of the way of its trajectory, only to find that she was already...Out of the way?
Nexus stepped backward just enough so the chunk missed him by mere inches, then joined the king with Leonardo and Ackitahr. "Oh, please. She's a big girl. She can handle herself, can't she?"
Adurnafor huffed, but quickly corrected it. So much for a swim. "What do you mean 'they just stopped again.'?"
Floradail huffed when Maeve dropped the subject all together. She'd leave it be. For now. Atleast until this strange duo went on their way. "I actually suggest going the other way... It's gotten much too dangerous for anyone or thing to go to the palace."
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:45 pm
"She can." Afsana replied rather quietly to Nexus's inquiry, but she was no focusing not on the colossal battle above them, but on Karn and the men talking around him. She was too far to hear what they were saying, but in reading their expressions it certainly didn't look pleasant.
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Max took the opportunity to sneak away from the scene with her brother to take to her father's side. "Father," she looked over to Teinama and lowered her voice a bit, "Teinama... What should we do?"
Teinama heaved a heavy breath and looked down at Karn as he shook his head, "I'll figure out what to do with them, but... there's no way I can put them back in the underworld, not after this. So the underworld will require a new ruler, in the meantime I think it would be best if we stripped them of their powers and banished them to this realm."
"This realm?" Chikanno didn't think it would be right to argue with Teinama. Not now. He looked his friend in the eyes for a long moment, searching wordlessly for an answer before he realized he wouldn't find one in the man's expression. "Who would you deem fit to rule there? Nadia trusted her brother, when she first designated him as king, it would prove to be rather difficult to find someone, especially now, with enough power... that you trust... perhaps if-"
"Me." Teinama had cut the potion maker off rather abruptly with his decision. "Me. The worlds beyond can handle themselves."
"Teinama that's preposterous." Chikanno protested immediately. "The other worlds certainly need their king just as much and they-"
"They can have any of your cornucopia of offspring, Chikanno. They are all powerful, and suitable for the role- I'd have offered it to you but I know you wouldn't give up the life you have for anything." He turned his gaze to the horizon and stared thoughtfully into it, "There is nothing left for me back there Chikanno, and I don't want anything to do with this life anymore." He finally pulled his gaze away and turned back to face his old friend, "It's the only thing I want now, Chikanno, allow me to at least have that."
Chikanno wanted with every fiber in his living being to protest but he sighed, If he were going to put up a fight, now wasn't the time. His friend certainly wasn't thinking rationally.
"Good evening losers. I think I might be able to fix your problem." The woman. Yuli's partner had descended from on high to take her turn mingling with the godfolk and wore a sly smile as she did so. "If the man before you had no powers, he would have no use to the monster, and then that problem would be solved. So..." She held up her right hand which sparked ans a small green flame ignited, "May I?"
"Tiranna." Chikanno stifled the same growl he would offer to Yuli. He thought, despite Teinama's questionable mental state, the decision should be his. Although he knew that Tiranna shouldn't at all be given any more power. He, of course, wasn't aware of her having already drained Maude as well.
Teinama chose not to look at her, but narrowed his focus as he looked at Karn, "Go for it, Tira."
The woman smiled a devilish smirk and nodded her head slowly as she started quietly toward Karn. "Thank you, brother.
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"I mean just that." Attorra sighed, "They just stopped coming. I don't know what the hell started all of this, but it seems like it might be ending, and that'd be a nice thing."
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"Well," Ariasana began, "we're on our way to G'Reth, is that this way then? We've been ...lost a few times." Ariasana wasn't at all happy to admit that, as every time they were lost it was really her fault. Oh well, it had already happened. This counted as stopping for directions, right?
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:09 pm
Nadia looked at her husband in stunned horror. He wouldn't take over the underworld? It clearly had the poor to turn people evil, after all her brother had never once before had an evil thought. It must have been the power of the underworld it's self. Shuddering slightly she moved away, she would have to do something to stop them, to stop him. That meant she had to find out why she wasn't in the body she was supposed to be in.
Looking one more time over her shoulder Nadia began her search.
Paha sighed. "Teinama." He said gently understanding the man was likely out of his mind with grief. "Why would you want a place like that? Not to mention, the religiuse freaks are going to go bonkers with you gone, there's going to be chaos as is, I fear that decision is only going to bring more."
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Leonardo followed Afsana's line of vision. Even being so fare off he could hear what was being said. Not well but well enough to know something bad was going to happen. "I have a bad feeling after all this is done, that we will be dealing with a lot of back lash."
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Abarden sighed and began calling a circle of power to keep everything in check. "Let's get you fixed up before Telmina has a heart attack." What ever he had drank from that guy had given him enough of a power boost to heal some of the greater injuries on the dragon.
Telmina moved nervously to Eversor's side when Abarden was done. "How do you feel my love?"
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"Ha!" Leonidas snorted "A few times?" He crossed his arms, and would have rolled his eyes if he had any.
"Yeah G'reth is that way. The smoke from the town should take you right to it." Maeve said looking over their shoulders.
"Must be some attack," Leonidas said with a sigh "Are you bleeding miss?" He asked catching the scent of blood, hoping it wasn't coming from the town.
"No I got hurt but their was a sorccer. He healed me. It's nothing more then a scab now." Maeve touched her side lightly.
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"Good. But we still need to get some where a bit safer." Kadra said still looking at Attorra worried he might be bleeding to death infront of her. "Are you sure you're ok?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 2:33 pm
Karn had successfully drained Godith of all of his power. Even now he watched as the monster's own weight collapsed onto itself just as the colossus took a mighty hooved foot up and stomped it down onto the abomination's head. It was like breaking an egg that had been filled with liquid magma and evil. Black streams of his being spread this way and that as Godith's body brock down into a bubbling, glowing mass of lava. The lava itself seemed to evaporate and accumulate the dust that was Godith's underworldly army within itself. With a whirlwind of absolute chaos and a sound accustomed the screeching of metal on metal conflict, Godith's essence left this world with his followers to the depths of the underworld once more. Within the whirlwind, everything shifted and moved with its own purpose and when everything settle, it looked as if Godith had never been summoned in the first place.
The eclipse finally passed as sunlight returned to the land with more brilliance and triumph than ever before.
It was not a victory for Karn, however. When the dust settled, Karn had taken advantage of the dust that had been kicked up and made a considerable distance between himself and Tira with Maude at his side. The sorcerer clutched at his wound with hand and prepared a spell with his other. "I might suggest appointing a "God of Balance" Between us before we turn to such drastic measures. My indoctrinated work has been reversed. You can have the Underworld, but I'm keeping my powers. We have to be able to teach our children how to harness it. I can return the souls to the dead that had lost their lives to my foolishness. Allow me to make amends, Teinama... Revenge will only do so much. Slavery hurts so much more, don't you think?"
Eversor had finally put his rising temper in check. Barely. His head layedon its side turned around from all others. He was wrestling with thoughts that had haunted him in the back of his mind. This cloud of choas over the dragon's thoughts only lifted briefly when he heard Telmina's voice. "I'm fine." he said simply and flatly. "How goes the battle?"
Nexus nodded. "You can cout on that from Karn. I know him well enough. He seems sincere enough now, but, trust me, he's already hatching some kind of ploy in that wicked brain of his..." But as Nexus watched the scene unfold, things looked more and more different than what he remembered. Karn had looked VERY different before and something wasn't right with him... Could he be serious about this surrender? It wasn't in his nature to let things go, but that may have been in the past...
Adurnafor shifted uncomfortably. Now he felt like a third wheel between these two... "Maybe I should head to the palace and see what's really going on. If you two would like to join me, you're welcome to." he said before starting in the direction of the palace.
Floradail huffed. What was with the inhabitants of G'Reth that they would just refuse to listen to reason? Flora's parents would occassionally tell her stories of how dragons had once had seats of great power in whatever society they helped found, conquer, or were welcomed to join. Eversor's plan to reunite dragonkin into a new nation was eeming like a great idea right now...
Or was it that they would rather listen to Maeve? She was human and Flora herself would rather take advice from one of her kind than a human or sorcerer. Floradail stayed quiet however, taking on the role of a mindless and noble steed. Dispite Flora's helping Maeve, she didn't seem particularly grateful. She didn't even say anyhting about Eversor's hell of a Hatchhood! The woman made her blood boil, but the Flora Dragon kept herself in check for the sake of her kin's pride. How would Maeve view dragons if Floradail suddenly turned on Maeve now?
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:07 pm
There was a distinct yell from an area on the battlefield. It sounded quite like a yawp of a small animal being tackled by a larger one. It was apparent in a moment however that it was in fact Codi, leaping off of Yuli's face. "He bit my a**!"
It was a quick moment before Yuli was standing behind Karn. "My mouth tastes like a** and I'm not happy." He placed a hand on Karn's back and one on Maude's. He smiled. "My dear brother never did know how to properly negotiate. Now, I can kill her or take your powers. Your choice, buddy."
Maude was quite unhappy. She was completely useless without her powers and she certainly felt it now. But one of these little bastards had just dropped her off of the castle roof, she doubted the other was bluffing. "Karn, I'm done fighting. Give them what they want so we can go."
"Yeah, big boy." Yuli's face twisted into a malicious grin. "Give 'em what they want and live your days like rural peasants, knowing forever that you could have had the world. Your coup was unsuccessful though, and, did you really accomplish anything?"
Teinama watched and waited for Karn to make a move. Honestly, he'd take both Karn killing Yuli and Yuli killing Maude quite well. It was probably best to have Yuli do his bidding. He didn't have to look like the bad guy if something went wrong, and it put Yuli in the line of fire. He never really cared for Yuli.
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"We'll have to fix quite a mess." Afsana sighed. She continued to watch the scene however, as it looked like their main antagonist might be getting away. "What are they saying over there? I just want this thing to end."
"It's confusing." Ackitahr spoke up as he, too, had been listening to the conversation. "But it seems as if they are in attempts to take the opposition's powers away from him. Can sorcerers do that to one another?"
"The powerful ones." Afsana nodded. "My father could."
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"A sorcerer with healing powers? Not a demon? A potion I gather..." Ariasana said her thoughts aloud before she looked in the direction they had been headed, "Oh boy. It's probably a hell of a fight over there." She looked back at the two girls, "We thank you ladies, but you'd best be on your way. As you likely know it's probably quite dangerous over there. We'll have to get a move on though, if we're to help at all."
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"I'm fine. I'm completely fine." Attorra assured the girl. "Although to be honest... I feel a bit dizzy. But I'm sure I'll be...fine..." As he trailed off Attorra's eyes rolled back as he fell forward onto the ground.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:51 pm
"Why would we let you teach your kids anything?" Paha asked glaring at his best friend's killer. "Why do you seriously think we would let you raise them to be anything like you? You who killed your own flesh and blood. You'd be crazy if you thought you could get away with any of this." Paha motioned out to his sides, showing the battle fiend with it's dead "You think just because you're sorry that it makes everything alright? Ha! You're a pathetic excuse for a god, and and even more pathetic excuse for a human." Paha spat angry about the whole situation.
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Leonardo raised a brow "I don't think I've ever heard Lord Paha so upset." He said turning to look around at the fallen demons and men. "Too bad a Sorcerer couldn't fix this whole mess."
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Telmina shook her head "It's about over, rest please." Walking over she settled down by his side "I know that look. Something is the matter?"
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Kadra gasped quickly falling to the floor to try and see to Attorra "Adurnafor!" she yelled already trying to get the man up so she could move him some where they could save him "Adurnafor! Please I need your help getting him to the palace. He needs a healer badly!" She glanced down seeing all the blood. She had to find the source of the flow and tie it off. Pulling his clothing aside she began looking for the reason for his blood lose.
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Maeve sighed and watched the two rode off. "I guess we should keep moving to?" She asked turning to the plant dragon. "I think I'm ok to walk from here. I don't want to tire you out carrying me about." She looked back up the path way. Her mind on a certain one eyed goat demon.
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Leonidas was quite as they made their way away from the two girls. "I can smell lots of fire, some blood, acid, and death. What ever is ahead isn't good." He said somberly. "I hope we find a battle, not a grave yard."
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:15 pm
Karn nearly lost his cool after that. Didn't these people see that it wasn't his fault that it had gotten as much out of hand to get to this stage?! "Paha, if anyone should come remotely close to understanding how I felt about Teinama getting with Nadia, and Nadia planting me in the Underworld. You loved her! And she ran off with Teinama like any giddy newlywed. I saw the signs of what was going on, and I know you noticed them too! Sure, I wanted revenge, but not to this magnitude!" Karn spread his arms out to his sides to indicated to all that was around him. The dead palace guards, the two dragons, the piles of dust that were Godith's legions of demons (that even now sank back into the earth to join their master). "If you would've looked closely, you would've noticed that this was not my military legion. Hell, I don't even have a milirtary! Why would a master of Death need an army when the armies on this plain killed each other to do my job for me?!" his voice rose with the injustice he saught to exploit. "I know that you're grieving Teinama over Godith's indoctrination over me, but it was just that. Indoctrination. I had no more control over my own actions than a tiny bird in a vast hurricane!"
Tears threatened to surge forth unbidden as he pleaded his case, but he knew his case was falling to deaf ears. Teinama wasn't rational with his grief, and the others were fools to not see the truth in his words. "I would do all that is within my power to teach my children not to make my mistakes. Isn't that what we all strive to do with our children?!"
Karn had made his case clear. Either they would consider his point of view, or condemn themselves to unjust bias. He clutched at the wound in his chest. Evidently the power he had absorbed from Godith was the only thing sustaining his miserable life. "I've made my case. Do what you will, but if you, Teinama, condemn me to what you plan to condemn me to, you will only condemn yourself. I, for one, find you unworthy of your position and I'm sure of what Nadia would say right now. To calm down and take all peaceful options into account. You condemn yourself to what you are not. If you do this then how could you be my better if you let such primitive emotions take you so completely?!" The tears flowed freely now. "Godith forced me to kill my own little sister! That option should never have crossed my thought process! It did only through Godith playing on the primitive emotions you let rule you so irrationally now! I beg you not to make the same mistake I did, but who am I to question a "God"? Pfft. Pou're no more a God than the latest king. I'm sure if she had your abilities she would put them to better use than you and would consider every option before throwing it to oblivion! I'll even send myself into exile if you let me go. Either you do, or don't, I'll most likely do it anyway. But do what you will, Teinama. Karn wiped the tears from his face as he stood straight as his verdict was nearly upon him. "I've pleaded my case, Holy Father, but I warn you to what might come of this unjust trial. This bias jury. This world will fall into ruin by the hand of the karma that will be wrought upon you. Don't confuse this with a threat, because, magic or not, I am no longer a threat to you. You are the threat now!"
Karn finally straightened his robes, making his wound in his chest apparent to all through the obvious hole that the blade had made in his garmet. He willingly nodded to Yuli ant Tiranna. "Let Maude go. You can have my power. Teinama doesn't need my help to tear this world apart anymore. He'll do it himself..." He then looked directly at his wife. If no one would heal his wound after his powers were gone, he would certainly die. "I'm sorry, Maude, that I wasn't the real me when we met. You met, and have known, me as I was already under some amount of influence from Godith. Just know that my love is real for you and I hope you feel the same..."
Nexus finally couldn't take it anymore. He cast a spell to enhance his senses so he could survey the godfolk better. What he discovered made him stumble and nearly made him fall over. "Karn is willingly giving up his power! He swears to the Void that this had not been his fault, but the beast that had been raised from the Underworld, Godith. He puts up a good fight with his words. I'm almost inclined to..." He shook his head. "What I know is this isn't the same Karn as before. This is the real one. I should've known that a human warlock couldn't get that twisted and wicked on his own..." Nexus' gaze fell to the ground until he struck himself in the face. He wasn't one to forgive easily. "No! That must be what he wants! He wants sympathy from Teinama so he can set him free!" He stared at the scene in the distance with renewed hatred... With a pang of doubt and sypathy that he couldn't help feeling."
Eversor let a puff of black smoke escape his nostrals. "More accurately 'nothing is right'." He rotated his head so he now looked at Telmina with his magistic grey eyes. They, as well as his mind, still swam with rage confusion and, most of all, grief, but Telmina helped to calm the storm. She always found some way, voluntary or not, to make him feel rational again. "I'll rest if you'll lay with me..." he was going to say more, but he clamped his maw shut before going on. So long he had consealed his past that to suddenly reveal it now was like busting down a mountain of habits. Eversor lifted his wing that was adjecent to Telmina to allow her to come closer to him and, if she wanted, to snuggle into his side. "You once told me that I could tell you anything and you would understand as best as you could. I know you were raised by Paha for the most part, so I won't blame you if you've been deprived proper dragonlore..." the black dragon spoke awkwardly. He wanted Telmina to understand that he understood if her education into their race was incomplete, but he didn't want to sound as if he were calling her an outcast to their race. She was far from it.
Eversor's next words came even more awkwardly. He had never confessed to his past in the sole fear that reliving the event would cause him to shed hir Fire Tear and he would die. What he now realized was, confession or not, his past would either drive him insane or kill him. He would see if it would kill him soon enough. "What do you know about the growing up of a Fire Dragon?" Eversor didn't know if he had worded the question correctly, but he was sure that Telmina would understand the question he ment to ask."
Adurnafor had returned the instant Kadra had called for him. Strange that he felt as such about a human female...
Adurnafor raised a scaled brow at the princess. Karda was in serious need of a proper education of what each dragon species' unique abilies were. Perhaps he could get the two of them alone and he would explain before he...
He didn't complete the thought.
"Your Grace, Water dragons are the draconian equivilent of any healer. Where's he hurt?"
Floradailhuffed as the two finally departed their company. They were crazy to want to head to the capital, but who was she to judge? Survival of the fittest. Better not to let those genes pass on to the next generation, right? "Oh, no, it's fine. You underestimate my kind." Again. She thought bitterly. She was sure that this hadn't been the first time she had misunderstood a dragon. She doubted any human ever would. "I could carry you all day before I'll need my first break. Don't strain yourself. Even newly hatched dragons have the strength and stamina to go toe-to-claw with one of your veteran fighters. Granted, if they had enough coordination with their muscles depending on how recently they had been hatched." She was starting to grow a bitter tone with in her voice toward the female, but she didn't care any more. It was then that she realized that she was allowing her emotions to rule her similar to how Maeve felt about dragons. The young dragon huffed again. She wanted to scream and scream and scream her frustration with the human female, but she put herself in check for what must have been the fifth time. "I apologise if I seem unkind at the moment, but mostly all the other dragons that I've ever known are out fighting a bloody battle that may well be all of their deaths. They could all be the very last dragons for all I know..." there she went again! Her emotions just kept getting the best of her and she just couldn't shut up! Floradail clamped her maw shut before she went on a venomous rant she had wanted to go on since Maeve had first ingored he telling her of Eversor's past that of which she wasn't even supposed to know about.
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:16 am
Chikanno was the first to step forward, yanking one of the small bottles from inside of his jacket. Quickly, however, Teinama had snagged him by the very same arm, "Teinama!"
"I don't see what could be very wrong with allowing him to die." Teinama explained coolly. He kept his eyes on Karn as he spoke. "Can't say he wouldn't have it coming. Indoctrinated or otherwise."
Chikanno in response gave his friend a nasty snarl, "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, Teinama." He jerked his arm free and returned to approaching Karn. He took the man's hand and place the small bottle in it. "My brother knows no mercy, and Teinama will allow none anyhow. Forgive him it, he, much more than you, has just been mortally wounded. But this, this will heal you."
"You're soft, Chikanno." Yuli growled from behind the accused. "If you are going to sin," He jerked his arm in such a manner than a small blade fell from his sleeve and into his grasp, he then twisted the knife up to hold it against Maude's throat, "you need to repent."
"No, Yuli. I'm wise."
"There is nothing wise about mercy in war. Kill it or it kills you."
"How would you know what mercy will do if you never show it?"
"Well, I certainly know the other method works. Always has, I'm sure it always will."
Chikanno narrowed his eyes at the boy. "Frankly, I'm not sure how it is you sleep at night."
"On my side, with the window cracked." Yuli winked and laughed as his brother rolled his eyes and walked back to Teinama.
"Unfortunately, Karn," Teinama took a step forward, past his friend, "I can't believe that you'll spend the next half of your life feeling guilty after you've been let off the hook. Therefore, I'll give you a fifteen year sentence. Banishment, here, to the middle realm. No powers, nothing. If you can turn it all around in that time, I'll consider returning your powers to you- and it will be just in time for you to teach your children. That is my only offer. You can take it or leave it."
"They killed your wife -they killed another god- and you'll let them live?" Yuli scoffed. It was then that his companion took to his side,
"Teinama is soft for your brother. Since he's single now, do you think maybe we'll get a save-the-date by the end of the week?"
"Probably" Yuli scoffed. "Too bad we'll be too busy to attend."
"Yes, much too busy."
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"What are they saying now?" Afsana craned her neck to try and see what was happening. There was a bit of movement, and the attacker really seemed to be begging for mercy. She wasn't quite sure he deserved any, he had just attacked her kingdom without provocation.
"The potions master and the boy back there, it seems they're brothers, they're having some sort of sibling argument over what is to be done. But it seems like the god has given his own verdict and he will be rendered powerless... for a while anyways."
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Codi was standing beside his sister in the background now. They both assumed now that all they could do is wait until they were given another task. Max looked around, perhaps in search of just anything to focus on, she had quite the minimal attention span. She was then, of course, to see the last two to arrive at the party. She laughed, "Look who's finally come down from mount boring to join the party.
Ariasana dismounted as soon as she saw the siblings and stopped the horse then to approach them. "I see your religious fanaticism looks are already out of style."
"What would you know about style, you never leave your house?" Codi scoffed. "Where'd you find the lion? He looks a lot like Paha;s general, don't he?"
"Doesn't he."
"Don't correct big brother, he'll have to kill you." Codi smiled a fake smile and nodded to the side, "You here for dad or your granddaughter?"
"A little bit of everything. Though dad really is here, huh? What the hell happened?"
Max let out a half laugh and sighed, "Well, that's quite a long story..."
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While Attorra had at first been fading in and out of consciousness, by the time the dragon approached, he was out cold. Immediately though, he was dreaming, once again reliving an old memory.
After the deaths of his family and Kurag's usurpation of the throne, Attorra had chosen to leave the comfortable life. He certainly couldn't bear to be a burden on either of his aunts anymore. However, after only a week in the real world, he had already been robbed of everything but his pants; he was hungry, tired, and cold, and he was certainly susceptible to any of the danger in the woods. The woods being where he was currently lost. As he trudged on, gripping his stomach out of hunger, he heard a noise from behind him. He turned to see there was nothing there, give it a confused look, then turn back around to face the front. There, however, he was startled by the presence of a man and a woman inches from his face. Each one had a knife and they were clearly prepared to rob him too.
"You gotta be kidding me." Attorra muttered, "I don't have anything."
The man looked him up and down and a scoff, "I can see that. Where are your clothes idiot?"
"They were stolen yesterday."
"Boy, you've been robbed blind."
"And in only a week."
The man in front of him was gripped with hysterical laughter, which really only made Attorra all the more bitter.
"I don't have anything to give you, I don't even have a family anymore so you can't hold me for ransom. Sorry to disappoint but you'll have to steal from some other idiot who's out on his own."
The man's smile was weirdly contagious, but Attorra wasn't in a smiling mood. He untied a small bag from his waistline and handed the bag over to Attorra. "Here, take it."
"What's this?"
"It'd gold you fool." The man was still smiling. "I know you left home thinking of how great independence would be, but you know, everyone needs a little help every now and then."
Attorra had looked down at the bag and opened it to see inside. The man wasn't kidding. It was actually full of gold. Attorra was startled and he lifted his head immediately to thank the pair, but they were already gone. He looked around for a long minute before he realized her should probably get a move on before nightfall
Attorra jerked awake, his ees flashing open, and he looked around before he could remember where he was. "I- Kadra." He smiled and nodded as it all came back before he lowered his head again.
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