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 Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:10 pm
It was high noon and the sun was directly above her head as the woman stood in the middle of a massive tangle of bodies and carnage. She wiped sweat from her brow with the back of her arm and looked up, cringing and wincing as the sound of iron grinding overhead and terrifying, agonized screeches rent the sky. Her two dragons, Kernaghen and Chesna, both green and shining in the sunlight, were both now fully grown for all intents and purposes and Fluf-Kernaghen had more attitude than ever.
The dragon that had come against them was cuaght between their four massive claws and mouths as Chesna ripped off the wings and Fluffy broke its neck. It fell to the ground, making the earth shake beneath Ragen's feet. The two massive beasts came and landed nearby, all three of the friends breathing hard as the surveyed the damage. They had been fighting like this daily for the better part of a week and Ragen was honestly beginning to wonder how long they could keep it up.
After all the Soulstorm adventures she and had gone off to find Fluffy and Chesna who had left her in frustration over something she couldn't even remember now. Once she had found them and reconciled, they had gotten to know each other again and somehow, set themselves up as the protectors and defenders of the world...things were, however, getting very bad. Very, very bad. There seemed to be more enemies every day and Ragen was beginning to wonder if...she shook her head and looked at her dragons. "All scales intact?" She asked. Chesna dropped her head, looking over herself and then nudged Ragen gently. "I'm fine, small one." she said in her soft, warm rumbles.
Kernaghen, who Ragen called Fluffy, merely nodded his chin once and snorted. He was above being asked after. She knew better. Ragen snickered.
"What's the plan now, where to?" He asked, his voice rough and growling. Ragen sighed and frowned.
"I need to go check into some things at a nearby city. I need to look up a book in the library...Do you remember a city Wolfe and I went to once? Where they forbid me to ever come back to?" Fluffy imediately growled and Ragen held up her hands to have him wait. "I just need to check some information." She said.
Chesna growled low and snapped Fluffy with her tail. He jumped a little and then rolled his massive green eyes before wrapping his tail around Ragen's waist and throwing her onto his back.
"Fine." He rumbled. "Just don't cause any trouble. I don't like the idea of eating humans." Ragen laughed, the sound drowned out by Fluffy's wings.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:55 pm
Wilt had a headache. He was stuck in a very small room, which was more like a closet, with a stiff oak chair and a nice wall to keep him company. He was hot in his thick wool green coat. "This is ridiculous."
His gray hair shined in the light flowing from the window. He had come to the water mage school in hope to form a alliance against the chaos fiends. Ten years, Ten long years since the first chaos fiend appeared. And when they did, everything went to hell.
They had taken the world by complete surprise. What started as a handful turned into what seemed like millions overnight. And at their lead, that woman... But that was impossible. She had died of madness. "I'm getting old."
The door opened, permitting a young girl with blond hair and green eyes to enter. She was young enough to be wilts great grand daughter. She wore blue robes for that of a water mage, and walked as regal as one. "I'm sorry to keep you waiting master wilt." the young girl said and took a seat across from him.
Wilt shot up an eyebrow, "I asked to see head mistress Aven. You are not her." This was going to to be another one of those meetings. "I'm sorry, but the mistress is away at the moment. I however am able to speak on her behalf. you can call me Arabella." Wilt couldn't help but laugh inside. Away they say. "Why is it that Mistress Aven always seems to be away whenever i come?" This was the third time in three months that wilt had gotten the run around. "I'm sorry, I am not at liberty to say." Of course she isn't. "However. whatever you wish to discuss i can guarantee that it will get the greatest attention. Its not every day the master of the elementalist visits us."
"Could have fooled me." wilt said. "I am here to discuss an alliance, The chaos fiends are getting out of hand for us all to be holding our own. Its time to unite." He swore this was the last time he visited Illuminadus.
Little did he know how close to being right he was.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:08 pm
The trio soared over head and finally came to land right before the library. Fluffy didn't care about pretenses. He didn't care about soldiers. He just landed, leaving a wide eyed Ragen and a nervous Chesna. He took the girl off his back and plopped her down on the first step of the library.
"You have an hour. Go. Don't make me eat anyone." He snapped as smoke plumed from his nose. He was tall, nearly forty feet, and at least fifty feet long with emerald scales and a golden under belly with the color reaching from his chin to the tip of his tail and Chesna was a dark green with a mint underbelly...but even in their beauty, they both looked terrifying.
Ragen nodded and saluted sarcastically before running up the steps. She had to hurry if she was going to find the book she needed in all this. Even if she could remember which it was.
As soon as the dragons had come into sight, the watchmen on the watchtowers sent the entire city into the alert and soldiers were storming the streets in angry marches to get to the library.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:28 pm
Wilt was right. Three hours later, Arabella had managed to agree that something needed to be done. To what purpose and how had been dodged. He would not have been so mad had it not been for the fact that not only was he being interrupted, But the girl was happy about it. The Arrogance.
Apparently some fool decided to fly in on a dragon and descend onto the great library. It had the city in an uproar. Arabella escorted him out and he started heading up stairs. Arabella called out to him "The entrance is this way master wilt." Wilt could not help but smirk. "Well that would defeat the purpose sister Arabella considering i need to go to the roof."
Despite her protest wilt lumbered up the stairs of the school to reach the roof. He opened the door and walked out to see what was going on. All around him laid building of white brick. most of which dwarfed by the school itself. In the distance he could see the great library, one of the biggest buildings in the world. all around the city there were walls and towers with bells on them, which were currently making his already pounding headache worse.
In the streets he could see foot soldiers heading towards the great library. In the sky two dragons seemed to be circling . "What are those idiots doing?"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Arabella emerged from the staircase in a huff. "You cant be out here, i do not care who you are?" Wilt just smiled, "Oh, and your going to stop me?"
Before she could say anything else wilt spread his arms and started to transform. His body mass grew and his wool cloths soon were ripped to shreds. Arabella watched in horror as his hands and feet became claws, his face elongated into a snout. all over his body quick silver scales began to appear. Great wings and a tail sprouted from his back. wilt grunted. and He grew. And grew, And grew. Till his wing span overshadowed most of the school.
Arabella gasped in astonishment. Where an old Grey haired man stood now was a mighty quicksilver dragon, one of the last of his kind. Wilt jumped into the air. flapping his wings, knocking Arabella off her feet. Soaring, his scales shining like mirrors in the sun, he let out a roar. It was good to be back in his body again.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:50 pm
She had been pouring over the books for a while...throwing them off shelves...threatening workers who tried to kick her out. What was the name of the bloody thing? After nearly twenty minutes, she was frustrated and fed up and went over to the head master of the library and grabbed him by the collar.
"I ne-" She remembered. "The Chaos Chronicles. Where is it." Her eyes flashed with light, literally, and the man ran away stuttering and trembling...muttering about a lich or something. Ragen rolled her eyes. She was entirely opposite to a lich.
Fluffy and Chesna were circling over head until the soldiers got closer to the library...then Chesna landed, positioning herself in front of the door, hissing and baring her teeth. The soldiers fell back, nervous, obviously never having faced a dragon full on before.
Fluffy, however, froze in mid air. A roar met his ears, even above his flapping and he turned to face it, his fangs showing behind sneering lips. It sounded familiar...but he frankly didn't care and flew off to meet whoever it was, sending out a return roar to match the strength of the stranger.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:05 pm
*Oh great, she's here.* wilt thought to himself. He recognized the roar from his counterpart immediately. And here he was hoping this was going to be easy.
Rolling in the sky and diving down in between the buildings wilt let his wings hover while his body barely missed the heads of the pedestrians below him. They were all scared stiff, fleeing. he didn't care. he didn't have time for subtlety.
He craned his head back and forth searching. *Doesn't anybody keep a garden this city!* he was approaching the younger dragon fast, this was going to get ugly unless...
*There.* Wilt swooped upwards quickly and rolled. It seems that one of the citizens had a nice tomato plant on a patio. He grab one on his claw. Only one. The true prize was the seeds.
Wilt Flew up high in the sky. He took aim and threw the tomato. As it soared through the air, he began chanting and weaving magic. the younger dragon was mere feet away, when the tomato exploded, vines whipping out, threatening to entangle him.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:15 pm
Fluffy was pumping his wings in powerful strokes, sending himself hurtling through the sky, his arms pulling at the air to speed him along even more. The dragon, he blinked, his eyes narrowing. He looked so familiar...but he just couldn't place it. It was a rare breed, quicksilver...and Fluffy licked his lips in anticipation of the battle. This scaled one was old, it was obvious...so this fight should be entertaining at the least.
Releasing another roar, Fluffy did a spin in the air and turned in a glide to come head on with the old one. ...Only to meet with a face full of vines coming at him like tentacles. He growled and opened his massive jaws, vomitting fire in a long, large stream. He pulled back, his wings filling like sails in a ship as the air hit them and slowed him so that he was able to bring all four claws up to shred the vines that weren't incinerated.
"Is that all you've got?" He hissed at the other.
Chesna's head snapped up from her position on the ground as the fight began. Her eyes widened. Ragen! Ragen, come quick, we've got trouble! She sent out the message telepathically to her friend, not knowing what else to do and not wanting to leave her unprotected from the soldiers.
Ragen swore and shouted for the librarian to hurry up. No rest for the busy...she thought.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:33 pm
Wilt snarled. *All i got, Arrogant as ever i see.* He didn't have time for this. the youngling had not even relized what he had done. He flew into one of the most populated cities in the world in a time of crisis, in broad daylight no less.
It was only a matter of time before his big imposing body and big scary teeth stopped frightening the guards and they started loading mythril arrows. Then they would both be in trouble.
*No choice.* Wilt flew upwards at terrifying speeds and his body mass began to shrink. as he came to a stop, he was half his size. Then he began to dive. By the time he struck the dragon on the head he was the size of a human. But just because he was small, did not make him any less powerful.
The youngling went crashing down into the streets bouncing. throwing dust up in the air as he skidded to a stop. Wilt landed gently 30 feet away, standing on his back to legs, like a human. "Stop this now Kernaghen, before you get us both killed. You are out matched." He hoped this would stop him. Then again he also hoped that he could take a vacation. Like that ever happen.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:42 pm
Chesna roared in alarm, charging forward a few steps before retreating back to her position in front of the library. Fluffy hit the ground hard, tumbling and rolling, taking out a few lamp posts...and a man stood where the strange dragon had been descending to land.
He knew Fluffy's name. Her eyes widened. Ragen? She called nervously. Ragen ran out of the front doors, a piece of paper in hand. She hurried to Chesna's side and put a hand on her shoulder. "It'll be okay, where is-" Her eyes found fluffy as he struggled to his feet, a bump above his right eye forming beneath the softer scales of his face. She glared, mouth agape in shock as she followed his gaze to where a man was standing.
"...Well, I'll be a darky..." She muttered, bitterness in her voice. She ignored the soldiers, her body beginning to glow with light that formed a body molding shield around herself as she simply walked between them to meet the man who was causing her so much headache. She motioned for Fluffy to wait before charging again, his teeth showing in a snarl.
"Cool it, scale head. I've got this." She walked over to stand before Wilt and crossed her arms.
"And here I thought you'd be dead by now..." She said in greeting as she was finally within a foot of the old man.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:52 pm
So here he was.. stark naked in the middle of the street, confused soldier and citizens looking on in sheer amazement at what just happened. *Every time i come to this bloody city something likes this happens.*
Completely ignoring his nakedness, wilt look her straight in the eye. "Old, Who is old. I got a good hundred thousand years left. Well i would if somebody would THINK before they ACT." wilt huffed and grumbled. He noticed that the crowd was starting to notice just how free he was being so he stomped the ground. Vines pop up and wrapped his entire body like cloths.
"Why is it every time i see you, you seem to be blowing something up, or causing somebody to have a heart attack. Ever heard of calling ahead, maybe make an appointment, like other people do?"
The only way this day could possible get worse is if the tiger showed up. Luckily he was in the lost wood. *well at least there is that*
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:04 pm
Her eyes narrowed, ignoring his nakedness for being too annoyed with his face. She rolled her eyes as he babbled on about proper etiquette, the usual thing for him to be speaking to her. Shaking her head, Ragen held up a hand, one finger pointing in his direction accusingly.
"You've known what this crap has been all the time you old codger! Now where is he?" She demanded. Fluffy and Chesna came to stand behind her, watching her back and Wilt's front.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:20 pm
"Oh, that is what your after." wilt said. "So the world falling apart isn't enough for you? All the chaos Minions, and the natural disasters, to dull. SO now you want to unleash the immortal who, i might add, shouldn't exist. Brilliant plan."
Wilt tried to keep his eyebrow from twitching. How anybody could wish that walking disaster out of his hole was beyond him. "He was born from chaos, And you want to bring him back. That is like adding fuel to the fire. And even if i could bring him back, what makes you think he wants to come back?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:19 am
Ragen rolled her eyes, pinched the bridge of her nose between two fingers. She had forgotten just how infuriating speaking with Wilt had been. Ten years was a long time, even for an immortal, and she had only known she was immortal-at least to old age-for a little over a year. She opened her eyes, dropping her hands at her sides as she looked at him again.
"Look, you know as well I as bloody do that he was the only reason those things were kept off this planet!" She took a step forward, scowling. Fluffy and Chesna were getting edgy, the soldiers were growing in number.
"You know I'd like to see you completely pound your opinion into his old head, Rage, but things are getting a little tight. At least if you're still opposed to having me eat civilians." Fluffy said quietly.
Ragen waved him off. "He doesn't really have a choice, the only reason I'm asking you at all is to save myself a little trouble in case you happened to feel helpful at all. But, since you're going to be your usual self, I'll just climb up on my lizard and fly away, wreaking more havoc than I could have avoided by asking your help in the first place." She turned and started to climb up Fluffy's leg as he offered it to her as a step ladder to get up on his back.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:49 am
*She is crazy.* Wilt was stunned. She was seriously threatening violence to get her own ends. "Well you can do that. If you like. Unfortunatly for you, your journey would just end back to me." Wilt smiled.
"Wolf's location is a secret for a few reasons. first, Lexy burned all the chronicle archives when she snapped. we are lucky she did not take half the planet with her. Second, all the people but me who know the location have disappeared, died, or wont talk to you. And finally, My favorite reason, You cant get to him without me to open the portal. The lost wood does not like intruders, and it would surely take your intrusion as hostile."
"So if you want to go off and create havoc, go enjoy yourself, ill be in my office." wilt turned and walked away. What a fun day. Water mage politics, crazed light warriors, and younge arrogant dragons.
"Halt, in the name of the queen." Lovely, the city guard decided to finally Defend.
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:59 am
Ragen sighed and paused mid climb. Fluffy groaned, Chesna whimpered. She was going to listen to this guy. They didn't see this ending well and both had their own telepathic response to the idea.
Ragen got back down and turned to face Wilt who was beginning to walk away until a voice spoke up claiming to come in the name of the Queen. ...Ragen closed her eyes, annoyed and let her head fall back heavily. Perfect. "OKay, fine." She conceded to the back of Wilt's head. "But Lexy didn't destroy all the Chronicles you know." She shrugged and leapt up onto the back of Fluffy in about three jumps and a toss from his knee at the last moment. She sighed and looked down at Wilt who had paused. Apparently he cared about what the guards had to say.
"Lemme know when you'd like to talk. I'm easy to contact." Chesna pushed herself into the air, pulling hard with her wings, Fluffy doing the same and Ragen snapped her fingers, throwing up a golden shield around them to avoid any arrows that might be sent, mythril or otherwise. Wilt could get himself out of trouble, she had what she needed for the most part, at least to help her get started.
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