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 Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:17 pm
Innova rode on Stain's back as they navigated the streets of Gutre. Stain was tring to follow a trail and avoid bumping into things. People backed away on their own, being as he was liof. "Stain, are you sure these people will give us the opprotunity to start on our mission?"
She pulled her fox mask up onto her face as a drunk whistled at her. "Yes darling, If the rumor I heard is true these people are just what we're looking for, now please let me cosentrate. There are so many scents to sift through...."
She kicked herself mentaly for questioning him, she knew better. She thought,"Just because these 'follower of Shu' are big time villans it dosen't mean I'll get what I want out of it...we'll see then I guess."
"Gottcha," Stain growled threw a smile before taking off at a run.
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Stain skidded to a hault in a allyway where a nightmare had been tied to a post for the night. Innova got down and Stain complained, "huff...The trail takes us into that building there but the spell on it will probably keep us out anyway...."
Innova had been looking over the dump of a building and turned to Stain, "So you're saying we'll have to wait for them to come talk to us?"
There was laughter in his voice as he eyed the nightmare, "Exactly, but there's reason why I shouldn't give them some insentive to hurry...unless you would object darling?"
"No, it has been a while since either of us has eaten," She was calm as he began to terrorize the nightmare, forcing it to make quite a racet. "Save some of the meat for me please!"
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:28 am
(( I'm going to point out that there are two Nightmares there, one is Hiro's and the other is Shu's ))
Hiro was still concentrateing heavily on the circle where the goddess had been rebourn, nothing around him seemed to even matter or could drag him out of his mesmoristic stare, not even Shu being strangled. But finaly one thing pulled him out of his trance, the call of his hard won nightmare, Verith.
Hiro flew to his feet, furry radiating about him, and ran to the door blowing past the goddess and his adoptive father. With a quick wave of his hand the door practicaly flew off it's hinges with the furry and anger of the spell. He waisted no time in reciting one of the most terrible spells that he knew and directing it at the liof and it's trainer. Quivering shadows flew off their respective places to create the most horrible and lifelike illusionary monsters to combat the liof and rider.
"HOW DARE YOU TOUCH VERITH!"
He bellowed in furry, praying for a glance in his direction so he could unleash a spell of terrible power. He would make them see their worst nightmares untill they screamed out for the mercy of death. the monsters continued to bombard the attackers, their blows just as real as the minds of the liof and rider made them. The two really could die from imagined wounds, made by shadows, if they didn't relize they where just shadows in time.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:20 am
((yes I know thank you. I pegged that Shu's would have been in a stable where as a new arrival....))
Innova, in the primal parrt of her mind that had been second nature and home to her mental state many times, forgot that she was in this place for reason, not alone, and what it was she fighting. Fliing limply threw the air after being knocked back by her imagination, Innova opened her eyes and saw red. She bounced on her back hitting the ground and rolled over her shoulder, back onto her feet. For a split second she saw past the spell and caught a glimps of Hiro. In that second she charged with all hit might striking his torso with a body slam. Still unable to think and feeling the effects of the spell, She stood to face and asailente behind her, swinging fists of fury. Her hand hit the hilt of her sword so she drew it and swung with all the viger her body could muster.
Stain, on the other hand, had been placed under this spell before and fell for it for a few minutes then sat down, cleared his thoughts, and was fine. Looking around he saw Innova's personal attack on Hiro, then watched her stumble around in what would have been an impressive display of power instead of the drunken dance of idiots. He crept by her nearly lossing his tail when she drew her sword, sat and addressed Hiro, "I see that you really don't care at the moment, but we're here to speak to one of the 'followers of Shu' or Shu himself."
His anouncement was polite enough but what followed was said in a growl, "And your precise nightmare is fine. It's not even bleeding but if you don't remove your spell from my daughter it will be."
((Sorry for the mispelling. heart ))
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:24 pm
Hiro was more than happy to see that his trick worked and Innova was more than happy to look him full in the face. He recited the spell that would plunge her into her own world, a nightmare created by her own imagination. The spell and the concentration required momentarily rooted him to the spot and he was hit by her charge, and flung backwards a little ways but after that she was trapped in her own world by the spell. He directed the nightmare for a little wile so she would be swinging her sward wildly away from his precious nightmare as well as himself.
He sat down to catch his breath, feeling winded he rubbed the aria where he was hit and covered the now bruised aria, wile the obviously more intelligent creature, Stain, walked over to Hiro, in no hurry to deal any more damage. He stifled a laugh that would have pained his bruised midriff as the liof practically lost his tail.
"And I suppose knocking never occurred to you? You would rather torment my innocent mount, then you pay the price... and for now, I should be well enough for you to speak to, I am one of Shu's followers."
Hiro saw no reason to tell him that he was Shu's adopted son. No sense in giving his enemy any more means of tormenting them further.
"As for your 'Daughter' she won't be physically hurt at all, and I will see to it that she won't die... But for torturing my mount you will live with her in a nightmare until you leave... unless you would rather join her."
As Hiro said this he looked the liof in the face, a way of threatening him with the same fate as his 'daughter'. The nightmare itself kicked and pranced with delight at the nightmare the girl was having at the moment, enjoying the fear she was spreading.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:14 pm
Stains patience had been tried. Stains fur stood on end as he leaped for the boy and passed him to the nightmare dragging it down by the juggular. Sinking his claws into the atrey on one side he shot a look at Hiro that said exactly what he barked threw blood and flesh, "I do not make Idle threats!"
Innova dropped to her knees, exhausted. She lurched forward as if something heavy had struck her back and screamed. She felt her long bow and out of reflex grabed an arrow, knocked and fired at nothing.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:27 pm
Hiro didn't even waist his breath on casting a spell over the liof, if he was going to attack his mount again then his daughter would suffer, and he would even more.
"Neither do I."
He said as he stood up and commanded the nightmare of Innova once more, this time he directed the woman at the liof. Now the daugther would be attacking the father, and not know any diffrent. Hiro was confident that he would not attack her, and if the liof didn't let go Hiro had nothing against killing her.
"With her in this state, I can kill her with just a wave of my hand.... and my nightmare, though hard won, is replaceable...though it would be a chore I rather not repeet."
He said as the daughter attacked, without a second thaught. And even at this pace she might just colapse from exhaustion... no matter, he could still kill her if she did.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:37 pm
(sweet I just relized my gold hit 666...cute)
Stain slashed the nightmare's artery wide open, a heavy spurt of blood hit his face, before turning on Innova and knocking her knee cap out of place to keep her from charging again.
In the blinding pain from her knee, she saw Stain, and though he was gone in an instant, She hesitetated to let her arrow fly once more resiving a blow to the head from her imagination. The arrow was released by acident and hit Stain in the front left flank. Now that both were practically immoblie.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:46 pm
Hiro could no longer stand by and watch the liof hirt his nightmare. He ran over to the creature, takeing a swing at the liof with his heavy onix staff as it was thrown about by the panicing nightmare with the arrow imbeded in the liof's side, he hoped that the blow from his staff would throw the liof off. With a quick word he used one of the most basic spells to summon fire to his hand and quickly burn shut the wound before the beast could blead to death. The smell of burnt fleash filled the aria and the nightmare bucked and raured ever louder as Hiro finished the most efficient and basic care he could master.
"You try my patience..."
Hiro said in an angry huff, with another wave of his hand he commanded a blow to the daughter, this one aimed at the back. She might pass out but unlikely, she would probably be paralized, if not sevearly winded, untill he removed the spell or lightened it.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:00 pm
Innova lurched forward again, the back of her tunic stained in specks of blood from the blow, she gasped deeply for for every scrape of oxygen she could muster. She fell to her stomick resting her head on the ground. The pain from her bleed ing back showed her another glimps of reality, Hiro sticking an arrow wounded Stain, her arrow! The image was gone and she forgot herself, thinking only of her Stain, to deeply for her own feelings to be just father daughter.
Stain huffed under the blow he stood just over him. Before another blow fell, he tore the arrow out, rolled and sabbed it threw his calf.
Innova forced herself up, barly able to breath, ignoreing the other blows, knew what she saw and she saw that person from before hurting Stain!
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:20 pm
With his precious nightmare safe from harm once more, he halted the nightmare of the girl momentaraly a way of giving her time to rest. But he made shadows dance on the fringes of her vison as she sat in imagined darkness. With the liof still in pain, having an arrow ripped from his side and now stabbed into his calf Hiro could only imagine his attempt at trying to hirt Verith again. With the threat of attack vertualy none, he sat down again with confidence.
"Now.... this is your last chance to say what you have to say.... otherwise I will be forced to rid this world of the both of you for your rude behaviour... feal fortunate that I am even this kind."
the nightmare slowly bucked and calmed itself behind Hiro, feeding off the imagination of the girl and slowly healing itself, as it took pleasure in her pain and suffering. Hiro glared at the liof, dareing him to try such a stunt again.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:36 pm
Stain released the arrow as Hiro sat.
Innova fell again, now blind to everything, not even the images she had been fighting, the blows had stopped, but she could hear. She heard what Hiro said to Stain and answered for him, "I will destroy all weakness and weak people like you who hide behind their illusions to fight an opponent! Now lighten your curse so that I might see my target!"
She drew an arrow knocked it, estimated his whereabouts and pulled ready to fire, she hissed under her scratched breath, "Prove you are worth to weld me coward."
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:48 pm
Hiro couldn't help but laugh at the feble attempts made by the girl at a retaliation, much less a demand. As he laughed the illusion forced the laugh to come from every direction, as if a thousand fiends where plotting her downfall just beond the fringes of her sight.
"You dare make demands of me? In your state? You should be begging for your life!... if not the mercy of death."
The words seemed to come from every direction, even up and down as if she was suspended in limbo with no direction. He laughed a big hearty laugh as he reached out and smacked the girl's hands, his small attempt at making her drop the bow in suprise, makeing sure to hold the spell strong as he did so she couldn't see through the spell for even a moment in this lapse.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:59 pm
She fought herself now to keep from crying, her voice sqeaked like the door of a haunted house but her word had enough force to should that she was not bluffing, "I will never stoop to the tacktics of those I have vow to destroy. I beg for nothing. I faced a hord of myts at six, SIX, and did not beg."
Her grip had held tight when he tapped her fingers. Adeathgrip on the bow and arrow feathers from fear that she might miss and injure Stain farther. She couldn't move her fingers even if she wanted to.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:08 pm
Hiro waved his hand at the girl, he could honesly care less about her acomplishments because he could always find a situation where she would die. If anything her extencive battle experience helped Hiro, her mind would create ever more real situations and she would never get out of the spell unless he willed it so.
Now, having grown board with tormenting the girl, turned to the liof with a board stare. Obviously he was in a spot that he liked, total controll, their best bet would be to say what they had to say and leave. But Hiro knew it wouldn't be that simple... noooooo, people always had to make things complicated... what was it with creatures of good origin that made them so blind to authaurity?
"Now, liof, you where saying?..."
He asked in a board tone, he was clearly losing patience for the situation quickly. Especialy now that both of them had run out of steem and where vertualy harmless.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:25 pm
"She just told you. Innova wants to destroy weakness. I heard a rumor that this organization would help her do just that. We came for a contract-."
Innova shouted, "No! I want to do with these people1 There weaklings-!"
"Hush Darling," Stain barked and then was gentle, "It may sting your pride but..." He glances sadly but with loathing at Hiro, "they have a lot of power-."
Innova released the arrow, not caring anymore. The edge of the blade skimmed Hiro's shoulder. "I will not work for weaklings or cowards."
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