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Koji walked away from the audience chamber. He smiled slightly, he knew he could get into the audience chamber and the throne room anytime he liked, and that fit his mission perfectly. He had been hired to take out the Shadow, but he had been ordered by the Shadow to kill members of a Warrior council. Koji slaughtered the three guards outside the chamber as he left. He wiped the knife off and stepped through the portal. He had also noticed that there was a magical barrier that prevented portals to the throne room, but you can use them from he room. It would be the easy part to escape, but the hardest part would be to get in. If Lilith was in the room when he arrived to kill him, he would have no choce but to kill her too. He grimaced at that as he arrived on top of a building where he strung his longbow and prepared an arrow, a minor member of the council was here, and he had to die.

Koji stepped over bodies and looked at his target. The room, no, the whole mansion was quiet. He retrieved his throwing knife from the target's solar plexus, and wiped it off with the man's face. He looked around, trying to piece together the last five minute through his rage. He had been blooddrunk. Not only that though, he had slaughtered every inhabitant of the mansion, slaughtered, their entrails clogging gutters and hallways, the stench unbearable... for one unaccustomed to death, that is. Koji sheathed the knife and inspected himself in a mirror. Doused in blood as he should be. He stepped onto a window sill, and closed his eyes, remembering.

He had fired the bow, hitting a bodyguard, but as soon as he had fired he had dropped the bow and dove in through a first story window. None of them had suspected a thing, not even the maid as he had slid his knife through her rib cage, not even as he unleashed a hellstorm of dark magic, killing many. He had walked through blood slicked halls and murdered all in his path. He had stifled a scream from a concubine and slid his blade in next to her spinal cord and jerked the blade, up and through her skull, throwing aside the mutilated body like a sack of wheat. He had found the minor noble cowering under his bed. He had grabbed his hair and dragged him out, nailing him to a wall with knives and slaughtered each man and woman as they stood transfixed by the sight of him screaming. After the last soldier had fallen, Koji had thrown his knife into the dying man. The assault had lasted six minutes, then it was over.

Koji jumped off, falling into a portal that he had opened. He arrived outside the Shadow's castle. Koji hid his disdain once again as he brought a vial of the noble's blood as proof of the kill. He saw Lilith kneeling before the man, but ignored her. He marched in and tossed the vial to him. "Proof of the kill. If it pleases you to make sure, send Lilith to where I killed him, she knows my handiwork well enough." He stood there waiting. Normally he would have had to kneel, but he had no ounce of respect for the Shadow. If it hadn't been for Lilith there, he would have completed his other mission right then and there, and killed the Shadow. Fortune spared him for another day.

((Toxlind has been playing the shadow.))

((You'll see him in the older posts. For example he posted at the top of page 4 I think))

((It was for the Shadow. It's his only character. Sly is the one that called the New Shadow into being basically, cuz berfore he was just a hermit and... well, if you want to know you can read what you missed, but yes, he is the Shadow))

OOC: I am fairly sure I am The Shadow, for I only sent in one profile, but yeah... If I am not The Shadow then I have been playing the wrong character...





The throne was a difficult thing to look at, for The Shadow had been quite a man, one Galbrix respected beyond measure... but he couldn't help but feel some sort of pride in fact he had gained this position. After all, it isn't everyone who gains control of an entire army hellbent on destroying the human race. A portal opened behind him and he sensed the dark energy eminating from it, yet he still didn't take his eyes away and continued to stroke his long, white beard. It was only after the woman had spoken that he turned and reguarded the striking woman. Her face turned to the ground, Galbrix could not see how her face was made out... so he felt uncomfortable... but her voice sounded true enough.

The next thing to happen was the assassin. Before he knew it the man had thrown a vial of at him, which Galbrix caught, looked at, then dropped to the ground. Why doesn't he kneel? he found himself thinking maliciously. Then again, who would kneel? He cleared his throat and spoke to both of them in his withering voice, "Whose is this? I do not recall asking for any 'handy work'. I can only hope it was a hit against the humans... And as for you," he turned to Lilith, "I am glad you have chosen to continue The Shadow's work... now my work..."

Galbrix recalled Koji and Lilith, remembering that they were avid followers of The True Shadow... so he could only hope they would both follow him. He continued, "We need to have an elite army ready by this week's end. I expect such. These Warriors' reincarnates are in the world, or so this... creature," he guestured at Sly, "tells me. We will take them down before they ruin us all."

{{Sorry, I didn't know anyone was playing the Shadow, I shall stop doing things that are the Shadow's orders if they weren't posted, sorry.}}

Koji glanced at Lilith, then back to Galbrix, "a minor noble's blood. And for the elite army, ask Lilith, I kill every soldier who sees me, shadow soldier or warrior. I can't afford my identity to be known, my lord," he said the last bit with a slight condescending twist. He drew a knife and threw it at a guard hiding behind a pillar, splattering blood on the marble floors. He walked over to the body and retrieved the knife. He turned on his heel and strode towards the door, "Shadow, some day I may kill you, but I'm sure you and Lilith realize I'm too valuable an asset to try to kill," he turned back around and pointed at Lil, "and I won't hesitate in killing either of you if it comes down to it. Watch yourself kid, 200 years of assassination doesn't work in your advantage if I turn on you." He walked out the doors, once more killing the guards who had taken the old ones' places. The bodies had become a common sight and no one asked. Good, I am assured victory when I fight him.