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 Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:10 pm
Onyx growled lightly, narrowing his eyes on the dark figure.
"I don't run from anything. Especially not cowards who use sleeping darts and blinding magics to face others. And judging from a name like Warhammer, he some overgrown huge monster with a big hammer and a small brain."
Onyx still bared his claws and his fangs, tail lashing back and forth.
"So go ahead, bring out your Warhammer. and when I kill him, you leave us to our own devices. Besides, we've got nothign of value anyway. I spent all my money on the lizard and entry to to Tournament. and you think your taking Ironsides you better be doing it over my dead body."
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:19 pm
"So, you choose death Fine." The lone figure smiled, "Are you sure Those numerous dart wounds look painful, and you do have wings, so you might actually get away... but if you insist." He waved a ebony hand. The sound of a distant rumble slowly echoed until the monstrous form leaped from the Salmander onto... The water.
"Captain, I shall smite this insect for you." The minotaur stood ten feet from the water's surface, his hand's empty, and a large warhammer strapped across his back.
"As long as you don't get killed, feel free to fight him." The captain said calmly.
The minotaur slapped his hands together and began to pray loudly, his voice echoing off into the distance.
A scratching sound came from beneth the raft.
Not quite so visible, the crew on deck reloaded their hand crossbows.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:29 pm
Ashlyn bobbed her head. Kinda like a pet, more like a loyal frined. though it had been so long since she had thought hersefl such, the way she had usaully been ignored but Master and Mistress. She pawed at his pant leg in a freindly way, just kind of glad to have a bit of attention. She wasn't allowed in the bedroom, after all.
Bode swallowed. No running hun? She kept hereslf on the deck, to afraid to move, silent tears runing down her cheeks. She didn't want to see that large cow thing...she didn't want to hear that aweful scratching sound...she whined
Laying in a foggy dream...that's what she was doing. Her vision wvered, swaying with the rock of the little raft. She would wake up soon, she was pretty sure. No one ever died in her dreams...what was tht noise?
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:36 pm
Now he was going about the task of smoothing down the feathres he was ruffling, after all griffins were prideful creatures and liked to look presentable. No sense in having a griffin mad a him for making her messy. Standing up he continued his attention to her before he was knocked in the back of the head by the white and black Nerian.
Nerian himself was looking rather bashful in the prescense of Ashlyn. Yes, he was an odd little Zephyr, usually the coward but when it really counted, Kieran belived there was no braver or more willing steed. Nerian was just socially awkward he supposed with anything outside his own breed.
So one hand to Ashlyn, one hand to Nerian now, both getting equal attention. Though a look over to Serino and Nightmare. Serino he knew was an attention seeker, the Nightmare probably not but still. "And just when it seems I need more hands, those two are lazing the day away..." At least he thought it was day.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:30 pm
Onyx glared, and looked at the minotaur with a smirk.
"Big and dumb..."
Then his eyes narrowed. the sound, the prayer looking action. alright, fine, want to play like that, do we. then lets see if they like a show of power..at least a small one.
Concentration..and his hands shimmered lightly, then his form, and the whole of him burned red. it looked alot more spectacular than it was. it just sharpened his claws and fangs to weaponry you might find in the pit.. nothing overly impressive but it looked awfully powerful. and the static sound on his fur was nice.
"Alright Warhammer..come on then. show me what you got, so I can embarass you in front of your boss here."
Malik woke up, stretched with a wince..he;d gotten a fair share of clawing last night..before kissing Piper lightly and getting up, moving to get dressed. everytiem he got her like that he woke up first, after all he exhausted even her body.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:41 pm
The minotaur looked at Onyx with a grin, He pointed a finger, and spoke a holy word. A spectral staff rose from the raft, right in front of Onyx, and exploded into a flash of bright sparks which landed on Onyx's fur, disolving the enchantment.
The second holy word caused six large black tenticles to rise from the water around the boat, which attacked the individuals seprately. Three instantly wrapped themselves around the 'sleeping' victums, and the other three went after Onyx, Bode and the lizard. The lizard was snatched and entangled, while the other two tenticles approached the living creatures without fear.
Each second that passed, Warhammer spoke another command word, each time something different happened. His third word caused the three unconcious people to be dragged under the water, and his forth caused a human sized water elemental to rise from the surface, right beside Onyx, who it happily attacked (if elementals could feel happy).
Whilst Warhammer's spells ravished the raft, the crafty lizard, Sstrl was clawing the bottom of the boat, feeling for weak points in the structure. He discoverd a roped that had been worn away by frequent encounters with jagged rocks, whch he proply started to cut with a dagger. Once the rope was cut, the raft began to unravel underneath Onyx and Bode.
Of course, while this was happening, some of the crew on the boat shot bolts at Onyx and Bode, usually hitting nothing but air, but a few darts were shot at the sleeping victims to prolong their sleep.
The Captain walked away from the battle, slowly fading into nothingness.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:52 pm
Onyx looked around, water, tentacles, boat coming apart. oh joy. Well, first thing was, neverminding the beating it was going to cost him, grab Bode..and Fling her up into the air as hard as he could.
"Moon! Airmail!"
Tentacles and Elemental coudl be avoided by going airborne himself...and then promptly went into the water after Whirlwind and Ironsides, biting, clawing, tearing at teh tentacles. the red glow came back, as it was part of his body, a birthright of his Conduit mother..anything that was attached to Ironsdies or Whirlwind got attacked, the hell with the raftmen. In the event they got free..time to try his luck with that overgrown steak. Wings were great for water travel, kinda fly through teh water feel. like Oars on a boat. down deep first..then dart to teh surface, hopign to take that big fool down into the water. and maybe get a few nasty bites or clawings in the process.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:59 pm
Her mouth opened and her breath was gone as the ice water shocked her system, broke the effects of the seditive washed away. hse sucked in a lung full of water, chocking and trying to breath, the liquid forcing it's way in as she was pulled down deeper. The tenticle was wrapped around one leg, it's length looking black and rough. She had no weapon, she had nothing but her silks.
She was screaming, she couldn't help it. This was worse then the tournament, this was worse a hundred fold. This wasn't some nameless face being hacked to death by a man she mostly fear, this was an inkown stragner killing the only family she had right now. Her eyes were glued open, even as the raft began to fall apart beneath her. The cold iron ring that was string to her chest, keeping most of the blackness in, grew hot and painful, she torn it from it's strappings and hurled out into the water. Almost instantly a rush of black smoke and ooze poored out of her, filling the air around them, and the water below them.
And then she was grabbed roughly an flung into the air.
Moonstone caught the child easy enough, but the girls powers had triggered soemthing that they had not accounted for. Below them, deep down in the murk water, there was a red glow...and it wasn't Onyx.
A few claws scrapped across her skin, but she forgave that. And as much as Onyx ripped at the tentical, it didn't seem to want to come off. Then the water around them was filling with little bubbles, like when you put water on to boil. She looked down...
It was a pillar of fire...
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:24 pm
Indeed Serino had come to join the little party around Kieran, hell, he wanted attention to and he wasn't about to let Nerian and Ashlyn soak it all up. Though still, Nightmare seemed uninterested maybe even a little resentful of Kieran's attention to her proclaimed herd. Serino could tell she wasn't exactly ecstatic with Kieran at all.
And Kieran...he only obliged, though he was grateful Serino was much less demanding than Nerian and even less so than Ashlyn. That was the thing about companion animals over pets, they needed the affection and thrived on it. Of course he had the itch to go play with the Nightmare...but he also knew that they were known for stomping you in the ground without a second though...then again he had seen worse...a Zephyr Nightmare cross was quite the wild and aggressive creature.
Piper? She smiled lightly as he kissed her but then merely rolled over in the bed onto her stomach, arms wrapping around her pillow as she made herself comfortable once again. She may be technically out of that tranced state of reverie but she didn't feel the energy to get up yet either. If she had been in the mood to talk the phrase 'five more minutes' would of left her lips.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:27 pm
Warhammer turned his face towards the gloom, and noted the fires. "By the Mother." He trust his left hand into the air, and seemed to shout out as loud as he could, calling for the heavens...
Tarathiel watched the scene unfold and realized the danger, as though some divine being whispered it into his ear, he quickly signalled a retreat for himself, and was instantly transported back to the vessil. "Send the prioners to jail NOW!" Three of his five wizrads instantly began cahsint the appropriate spells, words of recall placed on the severed tenticles that would sent them and the one they were attached to to specific cells deep within the earth's surface. A spherical hole with what appeared to be a bowl in the centrel.
The water elemental had surronded Onyx when it dived after him, and held him back from being teleported by created a dimensional rift between Onyx and the woman/tenticle. The spell that bonded the creature to the material plane lasted for ten minutes or more, depending on the strength of the caster, and it continued to use all the water it could against its foe, much to no avail.
The water boiled around the elemental, and it absorbed the heat evenly.
Warhammer called out once more, this time speaking a name, Tauronak. From what seemed to be a delicate haze of cloud, a giant man-bull charged from the sky into the water, and crashed onto the surface, creating the correct amount of wind the ship needed to speed away. Kneeling on the surface of the water, Warhammer whisperd a word of recall, that would transport him back to the ship, which was now moving much to fast away from where the fires were burning deep below the surface.
Sstrl swam like a fish to the nearest cliff, and climbed out of the water, and hid amongst the rocks. He fumbled with a whistle, which he eventually blew, and was whisked away, back to the ship.
Tarathiel frowned, that was not a good raid.
He seemed to have ignored Bode and what happened to her, but Jin so kindly reminded him. "A white one."
"Two."
"Indeed."
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:46 pm
Onyx splashed out the water and hit..nothing.
"Cowards! All of you! get your horned a** back here you overgrown pig so I can rip them out of your head!"
Onyx was livid. Whirlwind was taken, the oppoent had fled..and then..Fwooosh. Pillar of fire not two feet behind him, and the surge of an updraft sent him spiraling through the air and back into the water, gasping and gurgling and quite pissed.
"Moon! which way did they go! I'm going to gut that horned freak."
Sputtering and gagging and seared and aggravated, Onyx swam to the cliffs, climbing up and catching his breath.
Malik went down stairs, and outside, neverminding Keiran with teh menagerie aroudn him, and moved to Nightmare, petting her lightly, prushing over her, and giving her a peice of raw meat.
Gaer gaer Ramoth. zhlaass..nindel darthirii zhah naut aluin ulu xta'rl dos.
Then back to Keiran.
"I hope we didn't disturb you too much last evening. Piper is still abed, she'll probably be down in the next twenty minutes or so."
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:57 pm
"Do you think it was wise not to tempt fate with the underwater fire?"
"Sir, though you would survive anything such a creature could through at you, the ship could not." Jin taped a booted foot on the deck. "Wood. Tendancy to burn."
"Marvellous stuff."
"Weak. Like the surface dwellers who invaded our territory."
"When did you grow a grudge against them?"
"Aw, you caught me there..." Jin fused inside his head, he ahad to be more maniplitive than this to get anything from his captain.
Tarathiel sighed. "Say, was that not a woman we captured?"
"It was sir." Jin hoped this was leading towards what he thought it was leading towards.
"I guess we should save her for last, if you know what I mean."
"Indeed I do. I'll have Orko begin the prepriations for the torture... Who would you like to go sir?"
"That is a good question... But for now, lets concentrate on re-hiding the ship."
Tarathiel went out side, and had his team of wizards form the necessary proceedure to hide the ship, the Mirage Arcane. After the ship was concealed, Tarathiel sent word to Jin to send Stoneshaper to interogate the prisoners. This would cause some distasteful feelings amongst the drow sailors, but Tarathiel didn't want to depart with them just yet. The Cat seemed psycotically dedicated to his work.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:01 pm
Moonstone clutched an unconcious Bode in his arms as he flew above the seen, trying to help but only knowing that he would hinder. This wasn't good. He shouted and pointed, "That way, to a lrager ship!."
There was an eminse pressure as her body was forced through a plane or diminsion or soemthing that it didn't belong to. She had not air in her lung to begin with, but she felt like every last drop of fluid was being squeezed out of her, adn then it was as if she was being stretched. She wanted to die but she couldn't move, she wanted this to end but she was helpless.
Suddenly she could breath again, but the air was humid and lifeless, sapped her of what little engery she had. She fell to the stone floor, trying to catch that breath. No weapons, no clothing to keep her warm, nothing but a cell that seemed....impossible. Impossible to make, impossible to engter, impossible to leave.
Ashlyn didn't complain too much about all of the other animals there, it was not such a bad feeling after all. Usually other animals, even other griffins, shied away from the scent of bipedls on her, but these horses were used t it, if not her. She smiled a beaky smile. yeah, this life was good. She was enjoying how her last few years of life was turning out.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:07 pm
Kieran was relived the burden of Serino as the Zephyr took an interest into looking out for Piper who usually was in tow of Malik. But at Malik's mentioning he snorted and walked off a little ways to occupy himself by playing with rocks and wind. Though he had to hold in a smirk at Malik's comment. "Not too much..." Kieran really didn't seem bothered at all...which could of been good or bad really. Though his attention was drawn off by what seemed to be a pillar of fire off in the distnace...but he didn't seem to pay that too much mind either. Kieran was rather easy going with the views. "So, does she only respond to you...I mean the Nightmare, not my daughter." And no, he wasn't above jokes of the sort.And he merely continued his affections to Ashlyn and Nerian a like...though Nerian was still being his cowardly self around Ashlyn a bit.
Piper...was caught up in a fit of giggles, holding her pillow over her face as the gravity of the previous evening sunk in. Oh good lord what did her father think? And why was she laughing? Easy...it was just too funny to think about his reaction to it...or it was an immense amount of embarrassment that was coming out in laughter. Oh lord how was she to face him with a straight face. Most interesting day...now to just find the energy to get out of bed...
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