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 Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:57 pm
Thankfully, she had not been in the trajectory path that the door had suddenly taken, and the morph had been left to leap backwards out of sheer instinct as the wood shrieked, cracking at its veins and bending unnaturally inward from the Hawk King's sheer brute strength. Though at first she could barely make out who had done it, let alone why...
The feathers were unmistakable- the hawk laguz that had once called her 'morph' with such utter distaste, saving her from this fate of blind obedience and servitude.
Her eyes were wide, like a deer before a hunter, but his voice jarred her out of her stupor.
"Th...Thank you..."
Her mind not fully clear, she could not teleport immediately- but she took advantage of his daring move and moved past him, hoping Madriana was fully distracted by his supposedly suicidal dive. Turning a blind eye to the woman, she rushed up the corridor, rushing and waiting for the moment a free breeze would grant her the clarity of mind she needed to truly escape from here...
...But a bolt of powerful magic struck her. With a hoarse cry, she fell back, striking her head against the ground.
A trickle of blood moved from a gash on her skull, and a groan escaped her throat.
Something had broken...
And she could barely hold onto that thought as she lost all consciousness.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:06 pm
Tibarn's shriek shook the very foundations of the castle as he fell upon Madriana, eyes ablaze with rage! "YOU... <********>" He arched his head down at her while she was still finishing the spell she had cast at Vaherianslyeri, aiming to sink his sharp beak into her skin. At such close range, neither was at a particular advantage, but he managed to swing one talon up, trying to pin her arms with it, to shove her against the wall. "I'LL KILL YOU RIGHT HERE!"
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:21 pm
Madriana fires another powerful spell in Tibarn's direction. She barely managed to avoid Tibarn's talons.
"Alcyone.. Grishelda! Anyone!"
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:25 pm
"I'LL KILL YOU BEFORE THEY CAN REACH YOU!" Tibarn roared, his feathers singed by dark fire, but his rage unquenched, his thirst for Madriana's blood unsated. Once more he drove his beak straight down at her, aiming to tear her open from hip to shoulder. It was fast-- she dodged it, but not without his beak tearing a long, deep, bloody gash down her right arm, from her shoulder to her elbow. He reared back, screeched, and went in for the final blow with his beak once more...
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:29 pm
Out of seemingly nowhere, a projectile flew from the darkness, into the hawk's back. Whether that would bring him down was unknown, but at least it would let Madriana move away. Tacitus stepped out of the shadows. "Master... I.. came in time..." Tacitus fell to one knew, as he was exhausted from all the fighting his body had to endure.
[*hopes this doesn't mess anything up*]
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:42 pm
"Tacitus!" She teleported next to him. Aah.. She held her arm. "Thank you. I needed that."
She put up her hand, chanting quietly, a very powerful, devastating spell. The spell was called Naglfar. It was one of the most powerful she knew.
"Keep him in range, Tacitus..."
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:47 pm
Tibarn reeled from the arrow that had lodged itself unexpectedly in his back, and spread his wings, staggering back a bit on his talons. His head was thrown upward in pain, and it was enough of an opening... he tried to go in for the kill, tried to recover in time to hit her first-- but he was too late.
He watched the dark glow and closed his eyes, ready for the end.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:47 pm
Tacitus staggered to his feet and stood in front of Madriana, but not in a way that would not allow her to cast her spell; only so that it would not backfire on her[after all, they were in a dangerously closed in place]. "I will... be your shield..! Even... if I... ...even... if you... ...!!"
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:52 pm
The spell hit him, but not head on. It was enough to bring him to the brink of death. She smiled, walking toward him. She stood over him. "Are you alive, still?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:56 pm
Another shriek of agony shook the castle. Tibarn convulsed as the dark fires of Naglfar raced over his body, pressures and unholy wind twisting him. There was a sickening crack as his battered left wing gave into the pressures exerted on it, the bones within snapping unpleasantly, and as he fell, his body smoking, a bright green flash returned him to his winged beorcish form.
He collapsed on the floor, his fingers twitching, his eyes barely open, vision swimming, breath rattling. His left wing hung at an obscene angle, and he rattled, "Vaher..." before he fell unconscious at Madriana's feet.
The mighty King of Hawks had been beaten.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:57 pm
Tacitus had knelt down, with his face to the floor, part of his body dissolved from being so close to the blast. It was typical to happen to morphs. If the creator was generous enough, it could be mended.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:03 pm
Madriana grinned. Then she noticed Tacitus. "Fool." She said. "Why did you get so close?"
She quickly took ahold of Tacitus and used some saved up quintessence to fix his ravaged body.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:05 pm
"There. Now take this thing to the dungeon to rot out the rest of his days in agony. Hah. I must go find Alcyone... I have a feeling she is injured..."
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:06 pm
"For... you..." he said quietly, as his master graciously spared him, when he was in such a useless state. If she was like the man who raised her, Tacitus would no longer be around. No, instead, she clearly knew the importance of power, and did not take it for granted, by killing off creations so recklessly.
Tacitus stood to his feet, not able to look his master in the eyes right now, and did what she had asked without questions. As he was moving the hawk king, Tacitus looked over at his fellow morph Vaherian's body. Tacitus went on, not daring to him an opinion on how she had acted.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:15 pm
Madriana remembered Vaherian. She walked over, and picked her up. "What am I going to do with you? Could you really have fallen in love with one of the resistance? You and Synra will both need me to reset you. These people are clever. They turned two of my best into their own..." She took the girl and put her into the room she was in before. She found her injuries and used a bit of quintessence to heal her. There isn't much left. She would need more soon.
With that, it was over. The night was completed. She set some faceless morphs upon the job of guarding the castle while they slept. She put a barrier on the door of Vaherian's room so she couldn't get out, and went off to find Alcyone.
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