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 Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:03 am
Vertusk smiles and then looks around. "Um, so, yeah, um, what now?" Then a wicked laugh is heard. Jacques looks around and readies himself for a battle. Sara materializes behind him and throws him into a wall, and brings her scythe perilously close to his neck. She tilts her head.
"It feels good to be back, that hurt you know." She says wickedly, and then grabs him and throws him into the air. He vanishes from sight. Vertusk takes aim at her and opens fire. She falls to the ground and looks up at him. "Who are you?!" She throws her scythe at him, and it slices open his leg. He growls at her.
"Someone want to help kill this crazy b***h?" Vertusk yells at everyone. He had Kahlan, who looked like she was stunned, and everyone else was in the hideout.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:08 am
I looked at the windows and picked the best one to jump out. "Alright, time to kill a crazy b***h." I ran as fast as I could and jumped, curling into a loose ball and covering my face with my arms, which where wielding my blades. I burst through the window and kicked my leg out, which thanks to my positioning got Sara right in the face. We both fell to the floor before I was shot off with magic. I soared through the air and landed on Vertusk. "Well that was awesome." I said as I picked myself up.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:47 pm
Vertusk gets up just as the other come out. Sara looks around and then is gone. Vertusk smiles. "We scared her off!" Then he is gone. Then Gyro,, followed by Jarlaxle. Then the other two follow suit. Vertusk looks around, dark dingy dungeon, not his place of living perfection, to say the least. "So, um, where are we, anyone know?" He touches his leg and a Golden glow erupts from his hand and heals his wound. "My Magics work!"
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:28 pm
I got up and rubbed my head, which I had landed on. "Good for you." I said distractedly, I waled up and knocked on the bars. "Well it's ok, I once spent a hellish time in a prison, but sadly I think it's just starting...." I looked out between the bars and only saw a long black hallway with other similar empty cells. "Well this kind of sucks. Maybe we should get out of here." I walked over to the lock and examined it. "Oh well this should be simpl enough!" I pulled out a few small delicate instruments and started working, a minute later there was a small click, followed by another click and a small blast of energy that tossed me across the room. I staggered upright, "Well I should have expected that."
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:32 pm
Vertusk laughs. "Some thief you are." He slowly walks over to it and examines it. He lets his hands glow gold and then he looks to Jairn. "Now try, I kinda made the magic less potent, it should let you open it, and if not, it wont be as bad as it was last time."
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:39 pm
"Two points, one, I'm an assassin not a thief, I just know how to pick a lock because that comes in handy both when you grow up on the street, and during assignments. Second, I have absolutely no magical abilities or anything of the sort except my feather, so don't judge my lock picking because of magic!" I moved over and picked up my tools again, making sure they weren't damaged before picking the lock, which only sent a burst of strong wind at me. I kicked the door open and looked around the hallway before picking the direction like I made most important decisions, I flipped a coin. A few minutes down the hallway and we found two flights of stairs, one going up and the other down. "Huh....thats annoying."
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 2:07 pm
Vertusk looks at both of them. "I call up, down is more cells most likely, up is the chamber of whomever owns this place." He hears voices, and looks to the others. "I think we have company." He shoulders his rifle, and looks around. "We fight?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:43 pm
"Of course we fight! We're not going to sit here and get thrown in a better security cell!" Kahlan declared.
The first man, a simple guard, came around the corner.
"I got this one." Kahlan smirked, pulling out her archangel sword and easily dispatching him.
He had apparently hit an alarm before dying, she could hear a commander calling orders to what sounded like a large amount of troops.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:48 pm
Vertusk sees the next man, carrying a small sword. He hits the man over the head with his rifle and smiles. Then he is assaulted by a man with a bludgeon. "Geroff me!" He blasts him with magic and he flies to the roof, the gold emulating off of him. He stnds back up and shoots a couple of the men coming around the corner. "It feels good to use my magics again. I wonder why I can." He shoots off some of it at some men in a group, effectively dispersing them onto the floor in all directions.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:57 pm
Most all of them seemed to be fighting three or four at once. These guards weren't their best, or maybe this place relied to much on their magic traps, and seals.
Wait magic traps? Just as Kahlan thought that she noticed the men she was fighting were luring her toward a design in the floor.
"Oh hell no." Kahlan jumped around it and shoved one of the men in, he instantly disintegrated and the design disappeared.
"Guys! Watch the 'pretty' floor tiles, there are traps!" Kahlan screamed a warning.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:03 pm
"Instead of standing here and wasting life why don't we go kill the witch now?!" I said gruffly as I kicked a man that was running up from the stairs case going down and he fell back, tumbling into a few other guards. I turned towards teh stairs going up. "I'm going up if you want to stay and fight or not." I started running up the stairs. Greed and the lust for power where the two deadly sins of the day. The payment for them was Sara's head.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:19 pm
Vertusk follows Jairn up the stairs. He takes care of the men trying to flank them with his rifle, and magical bombs. He follows him up and then he sees Jacques. He had a dark aura around him. "Jairn, here, you shall die, and so shall your friends." He says, and attacks Jairn. Vertusk watches and tries to help, but he catches sight of another battle. He runs to them, the man with long white hair and ears and tail of a fox was battling her with a slender sword.
Sara was easily over powering him, he was weak, it was on his face. She slices his leg and he jumps off of it. He comes down with his sword, and then impales her arm. He takes his blade from the wound, and it heals instantly. He gasps, and she comes down with her scythe, cutting his arm off. Vertusk aims and then shoots, his bullets meet a wall of Earth. He runs around it to see the man in a cusp of magic, it Eating away at him, and his soul was out in the open. It was being ripped in two, Vertusk aims again, only to be thrown back by magic. He shoots back some of his own magic, and they clash. Her white magic against his gold magic. He forces through all he had, but it fails, and she throws her scythe through it, he dodges, but can't dodge it coming back around. He flies throw the air, his back sliced pretty bad. He looks to the man, and then to her. He grabs her scythe and runs at her. He cuts through he chest, but it does little to her. She was more hurt against his magic, eh? He cups his hands together and blasts out as much as he could, and it catches her, he was too close to have her block or retaliate. She is blown to the wall, and then he follows up by grabbing his rifle and shooting at her. She disappears, and he goes to the man.
"It will be okay, who are you?" Vertusk asks. The man says nothing, his body was almost nothing but ash now, and his soul was rattling in the breeze, torn from his body. She was like a killer, a Death, and she had killed this man by ripping his soul from his body, and tearing it into two, and decimating his body. He searches for an I.D., and finds only a name. Axel Wolfgang.
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Vincent could feel his fathers death, as could all of the Wolfgang family. They all fall to their knees in unison, on different parts of the omniplanet, and pray for him. He was truly dead, they all knew it, nothing of his soul remained, he was fully dead, completely and utterly, his essence also gone from the planet.
I would like to dedicate this post to Wishmaster by Nightwish, which was playing while I wrote this.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:50 pm
"Damnit Jacques! If you lay a hand on any of them your dead to me!" He rushed me and throws a punch, I blocked it with the face of my blade and punched him as hard as I could with my fist. His weight behind the off-thrown punch and the hit to the head made him tumble to the ground, but even as he hit the ground he made a roll and jumped back up to come at me again. This time he gets me full on in the shoulder, he was faster than a normal human, but I was too. I got a glancing slice at his arm before it hit me, I slide back across the marble floor and got back to my feet. He charged me and I flipped over his head, locking my arms around his neck as I was backwards above his head, I twisted around as I landed and forced him to lose his fett from under him and spin to the ground. He spun and kicked my legs out from under me and we grappled across the floor, both of us trying to strangle the other. There was a loud crash and Sara flew across my field of vision into a wall before we rolled over again, kicking and strangling each other. The next moment I was alone on the floor and the room held the quiet of mourning and lose. I picked myself up and heard the dim sound of fighting floors below us. Vertusk was kneeling over a small pile of ash, and I saw the last remnants of something glowing fade away, he was holding something in his hand. I walked over and looked at it, Axel Wolfgang. "No..." Suddenly a glimmer caught my eye and I looked back at the pile of ash, it started twinkling and shimmering a familiar shade of purple. The ashes skittered across the floor and condensed into a small coin with unfamiliar markings on it. Drako walked up from behind me, his mask off and a tear in his eye. His clothes where black. he knelt down next to the coin and picked it up, it faintly glowed with it's own light. Drako sighed deeply, shakily, "He was my brother-in-law...... and perhaps the greatest alchemist the world has ever seen. This would be what he wanted." He stood up and suddenly a bunch of robed figures materialized in a circle around us, their robes where tattered and gray and they didn't seem to have any sort of body besides the floating robe. "Sing something that could make even my soul weep." Said Drako, in a voice that held nothing but bitterness. The robed things suddenly stood erect and a mournful sound that seemed to come from everywhere filled the air, it was a song with words that no mortal could hear. I hadn't know Axel very well, I had only met him a few times and we had never talked....but at that time I realized that all of the planes had just lost something great. The song was so sad the most heartless of men would break down and weep. And so we did.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 5:02 pm
Vertusk wipes a tear from his eyes. He had not even known the man, but if he was able to weaken and fight against Sara in a weakened state as he had, he was something great. Suddenly, portals of all colors open all around them, and a good twenty or so men and women appear from them. Vincent walks to the coin. "Father." He says lightly. He kneels and prays. Jamie appears next to him, her wings slung low. She puts a hand on his shoulder, and he looks up to her. Genaveve also kneels and prays. A white fox appears from a dark portal, the image of Hell could be seen in the background. He howls a sad whine, and bows his head. A blue fox also appears and dips his head. All of the strangers make pay their respect and leave through the portals they created. Vincent was the last, he looks around. "Where is Jacques?" He smiles, and then frowns. "He is a messed up kid, isn't he?" He says to no one, nothing was around him, and yet he was almost talking to some one. Vertusk opens his hand a little, and sees a man standing by him, his magic making the man seem gold, if only faintly. He stops and Vincent nods to him. "Guess who gets to take both Jacques and Axel's place. Good luck with that, we are always the ones to get the short end of the stick, always." He disappears into his portal. Vertusk ponders his words.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 5:24 pm
I sighed and wiped away my tears. By time I looked up silence reigned over the room, me and Vertusk where once again alone in the destroyed hall, even the fighting below had faded away to nothingness. "Come on Vertusk, we need to get back to the others. In wars, you say a prayer for your dead and move on. Come on, there is always another battle over the next hill." I turned my back to the room and walked slowly down the stairs, giving myself time to think. People died all of the time, but that was something different. It was a complete death. The extinguishing of a soul. Life didn't last forever but the afterlife was supposed to. What was the meaning of life anyways? Why did we live in a mortal coil at all? What where we supposed to achieve in our time on the various planes.... Was it really worth it to suffer all of this pain and sorrow? Why?
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