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 Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 7:34 am
The noble didn't say anything, but he witnessed the entire fight between Alihi and Abel. He didn't interfere either, this was their fight and theirs alone. Once he tactition defeated Abel, he watched his body go limp and looked away. If anything, hoped he was alive for the most part.
Using his spear as support, Ephraim moved himself toward Ganon when he removed he rubble and pile of wood that had collapsed on Blossom. He could barely move and it wasn't because of his wounds, those didn't bother him as much but rather due to the massive loss of blood (Also thanks to the wound on his leg which he ignored for the time being, during his fight with Large), it was making it hard for him to see let alone walk. Adding on to the fact that his entire body was heavily sore from being bashed around by three men. He managed to get a few feet away from Ganon, Aiden and the fallen blossom before he fell to his knees once more. He was covered in sweat, grime and in his own blood but a majority of the blood were his clothing.
He looked up, watching Ganon pray next to Blossom, hoping she was safe. "Staying here won't help..We need to get her to a healer back at the manor" Ephraim infomed and it was true, if they just sat here doing nothing then the girl's condition may become worse and that was the least any of them wanted. He picked up his spear and pulled himself up from the ground with he support of his weapon.
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 8:54 am
Ghis stared down at Dan's prone form, ignoring the gaping wound for a moment. After all these years of rivalry, of trying to push each other off the top, Ghis finally had his chance. All he had to do was take the lance in his left arm, drive it through Dan's neck, and he'd have settled it once and for all. This was his style, was it not? He was the sort of person who would "kick 'em when they're down".
But a strange feeling came back to him... it hadn't been a fair fight. If that fire hadn't rolled in out of nowhere, Dan would've won. It made Ghis realize just how wide the gap between them had become. It made him realize...
When he'd been younger and had something to prove (though he'd never admit it), Dan had been his goal. He'd been close once, but now... he'd let the gap slide too far for too long. Killing Dan wouldn't close that gap; it'd just leave it as an empty chasm Ghis could never cross.
Well, that settled it. Dan could live... so Ghis could rub it in that HE'D been the one to bring the other General to his senses. ...Even if a mage had actually done the deed for him.
He looked around, knowing of only one mage on the battlefield currently, spotted the Pegasus... Wi' only one rider?
He followed the Pegasus' path back... and among the littered corpses saw one that wasn't clad in some sort of armor. She saved me? After all I told 'em about savin' yer own hides, she saved me and died? Or maybe Charice flew too high. Needles is probably in town somewhere...
His vision was starting to get a little hazy from the lost blood, however. Kneeling down on the ground, he rummaged on Dan's person for any healing salves... Ah, good, vulneraries! and gingerly applied them to the wound. With such a deep wound, however, the process was still painful, and though he felt muscle returning, he could feel blood seeping out from his armpit. Agh, if only we'd had a healer. It'd save my arm!
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 9:28 am
Victoria had arrived at the battle, the aftermath of it all bringing back all too familiar images of her past.
Shaking them off, she had to focus on her duties, to heal, and use the light tomes if necessary.
Aran came with her, only as a means of protection by an actual physical weapon user. From the looks of it though, the fighting was over her. "Can anyone hear me? If you're alive, the say something!" the bishop shouted. For a while, it looked like no one would answer.
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 9:35 am
Both archers had also fallen, struck by lances. Cavalry lances, in fact. Charice darted and weaved between them, looking for a solid blow to land on her opponents, several cavaliers. Sadly, there were too many of them, and Katherine was gone; though they couldn't catch her either, this battle was currently a stalemate. She heard something about "alive" and "say something", but could only answer with a loud "OY!"
Further ahead, Ghis had problems of his own. Knights were lining up in front of him. They weren't charging--they could see the blood, could see his right arm dangling uselessly. Besides, they had Javelins. It would be just a nice, easy walk down, followed by a turkey shoot. They just had to be sure not to hit Dan in the process, but Ghis was trying to retreat as it was, and was now a good distance away from the prone General. The first Knight launched his Javelin, and Ghis had to stagger to one side as it sailed harmlessly past him. He'd dropped the Steel Lance back by Dan and had his arm clutched, trying to stop the bleeding, but his vision was growing dim. Victoria's shout, in his case, fell on deaf ears. Nobody else would last much longer before the guard simply overwhelmed them.
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 9:39 am
Victoria did hear the pegasus knight, but not before the clanking of the knight's armor.
Hiding, she drew out another tome she had specifically for these types of situations. Muttering the spell "Purge!", she managed to destroy one of those advancing towards Ghis before they could even speak.
She knew that some of them were still... dark. But, she had to save those who weren't.
The bishop hastily aimed the second spell. One down, four to go.
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 9:56 am
Ghis had started to walk backwards now, trying to keep an eye on the five knights as they advanced. No wait, four--the gods were angry with that fellow and smote him.
...Wait, that didn't make sense. One of them seemed to have his eyes focused somewhere behind Ghis. The General risked turning his head around for a second, and off in the distance could barely make out two forms. Reinforcements?
He turned his head back around in time to see several Javelins come flying at him. One was a bit low, and wouldn't bother him, but the other two... he moved to his right, letting one slide of his shoulderplate and the other bore itself into his chestplate, just above Dan's earlier dent. He grunted as the blow struck, but it hadn't gone in far enough, thank goodness.
There, now they were out of Javelins.
And here they came as a rush, pulling out Steel Lances of their own this time, charging for him, going for a kill before anyone else could eat Purge.
Ghis pulled a Javelin out of the ground, backing up more quickly now, letting the Knights come close. He may be wounded, but he still had strength enough to gut them!
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 10:01 am
Blossom felt light in Ganon's arms, such a small, wiry little body. It might have been unsettling for anyone that knew her, a person typically so filled with energy and vitality that it left her practically bouncing, and now she lay so utterly still, save for the slight twitches of her limbs from cold. Her back was indeed safe, and as he placed her back down onto the street, the extent of her injuries suddenly seemed more serious, skin covered in bruises and bleeding gashes. Most of the bloodflow from her cuts had slowed to a crawl, but her wrist was still visibly broken and trickling blood, and her skin was growing pale. There was no real way to tell just how much blood she had lost between being buried underneath the stones and being fully removed from the ruin of stone, chest shaking as her body instinctively drew in each watery, strained breath.
There had been movement, thrown up in the air by strong arms, then suddenly hitting the ground, like being caught again... and now there was the soft rumble of words she felt more than heard. Deep and comforting, familiar somehow... The... singing, wanderer pirate, came a vague thought. Ga... Ganon, that's it... Consciousness didn't seem to want to come to her in more than little flits of recognition that ultimately got swallowed away in blood and bruises and the paralyzing headache spreading out from just above her left temple. Her eyes stayed closed.
Here in this cold, dark space, the pain was almost a little bearable.
Her mouth was open, little noises shuddering in and out as she tried to breathe through the pain around her ribs.
Help...
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 10:03 am
Watching as they charged forward, Victoria took careful aim at the one knight that discovered her. She purged him right quick, and then she closed in on the others, Divine in hand. She got their attention, surely. "Over here." She said calmly. The divine was already in her hands, ready to spark.
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 10:57 am
(Sorry Im late, I was getting a new bike) Aran saw some of the Casualties around, Hard to tell who's on what side.. He thought. He did remember the Constabulary though and there commander looked pretty banged up. Luckily though, Victoria and him arrived. Unluckily though there were more corrupt soldiers. Before he could say anything, Victoria purged a few and he took out his Javelin.
He hurled a few at them (They magically reappear after you throw them, amazingly) It had struck a Cavalier battling the Peg. Knight named Charice, he fell off his horse grabbing his arm in pain, while the other damaged another soldier but didn't injure him that much. He equipped his Steel Lance and charged one of the enemy's about to strike Ghis. He hit him smack in the face with his shield which was enough to KO him.
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 11:16 am
Letting the Divine shoot off and kill another of the armored knights headed for Ghis, Victoria counted again. Through Aran's help, it was three down, two to go.
She was ready to dodge, even moreso than usual, if they ever came after her. However, she did have something important to attend to. Much more important. "Aran, cover me. That man... he's on our side. He needs healing."
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 11:24 am
The sky turned dark, as if by rolling thunderheads, and there was a horrible sound that echoed through all Eyris as the massive dreamcatcher leaning against the castle wall began to move of its own accord. It left a horrible trail of blood in its wake as the thing, crafted of the maimed bodies of the dead, rolled and then seemed to climb an invisible ramp toward the twisting, dark sky.
Those still darkened began to scream in agony as a beam of darkest black smashed through the wall of the castle and arced up to the swirling sky, through the center of the horrible dreamcatcher, which seemed to pulse and spin, etching itself into the minds of all who saw it.
From the screaming mouths and wide, open eyes of the darkened men on the ground, black light streamed forth, flying up and joining the dark beam passing through the circle. The dark parasite was ripped off their souls, resulting in terrible cacophony that echoed across the corpse-strewn battlefield.
The beams reached their end and all swept through that awful circle, and then the dark clouds pulsed and wrapped themselves around it, closing and diminishing until they disappeared and took the horrid wheel with them. Under sunny blue skies, free men began to collapse where they stood from exhaustion.
In the castle, Asami's body was gone, and left no trace that it had ever been there at all.
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 11:27 am
Aran watched as Victoria cast a Divine Spell on an armored knight, the knight had no chance against the Bishops magic. Aran, cover me. That man... he's on our side. He needs healing "I got ya covered" the Soldier said as he parried a couple blows from one of the advancing knights. He stunned him momentarily, by aiming a quick jab at one of the tendons in his sword arm.
He turned his head to see Victoria approaching the wounded General. So he slowly moved backwards a few feet in their direction so as to prevent the other knight coming in on the Left. They both had swords though so it shouldn't be much of a challenge for him. He was already bursting with energy anyways.
But then he saw a huge, evil looking vortex that opened on the castle wall. One by one, darkness from the corrupted living men began to flow into it. I sure hope this will be something good for us And his dreams were answered as followed. The darkened men began to collapse in exhaustion. He let out a short sigh as he said "It looks like it's over then." He lowered his lance. (EDIT: Just saw Loki's post, no more corrupt guys)
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 11:32 am
Ghis' eyes widened in surprise as another Soldier appeared to battle the Knights. Javert? No, Javert's not got green hair.
Aran's strike reminded Ghis that the Castle Guard was starting to dwindle in number. At this point, perhaps some of them could be KO'd rather than killed outright. Batting aside another Knight's lance with a powerful sweeping stroke, he countered with a powerful uppercut to his chin. The other man wasn't Dan by a long shot, and he crumpled.
The last man realized that his talents... were no good here. He couldn't run, and he couldn't face two enemies at the same time.
The will to survive was neither good nor evil. It just existed. No matter who you were, if you were alive, you had a will to survive. He dropped his lance and raised his arms in surrender, though still suffered the indignity of removing his own helmet, then a knockout-fist-to-the-head. A bit pointless, as he was freed from the corruption a moment later.
One man fell off. Finally, Charice had more room. Distractions were rising among the guard, throwing off their original tactic of trying to down the Pegasus and its occupant. Rising her steed just a bit, she soared straight for the hurt soldier, who was trying to pull out Aran's other Javelin. Aphrodite neighed in triumph, aiming a kick to break the opponent's neck, but her hoof missed as the rider fell to the ground, writhing in pain. Charice was confused by his sudden movement--You big baby! It's not THAT bad a wound, is it?--but then looked up and was a bit scared to see a large vortex, followed by large inky blots of blackness spiraling into it. Both Pegasus and rider stopped, staring upwards in awe.
"O-ow... what just happened? Ooogh..."
The cavaliers both fell to the ground, clearly exhausted. Charice stared for a moment, confused, but... they weren't moving. Was that it, then? Because there was somebody she had to go see...
EDIT: Ack, give me a minute.
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 11:32 am
As Victoria ran to heal Ghis with her Recover staff, watching its large, blue soothing aura cover the General in full, Victoria heard the simultaneous outcries of the Fallen ones, having the 'parasites' ripped from their souls so violently.
For a moment, her power faltered, from the pure fear she faced upon hearing so many yell in pain. Focusing though, the staff regained its magic, and continued to work its wonders on Ghis. "Are you all right, sir?" she asked. "We came as soon as we could."
Before long, she noticed that not even the other knights around them were advancing.
All was silent except her voice. It chilled her. She had to know others were there. "Aran..?" she muttered fearfully.
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