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Post by Da Pwny on Jun 2, 2009 9:51:11 GMT -5
*you spelt his name wrong... again x-x I-G-N-N-I-S~!!!!*
"Keep your enemies close, and your friends closer" he'd almost let slip, but refrained at the last second as he heard her words, so near to tears. It was a mood she rarely used, oftentimes covering it with her explosive anger, but the presence of her fear made his mission all the more prominent and necessary. Ignnis was silent for almost a minute, pondering his decision before responding "What you ask of me is suicide, m'lady, as you surely know. But I will do as you wish. Ending communique."
He, a man worse than a traitor, was her "friend". He knew that; still, hearing her sound so pathetic only made him wonder if turning against her was the wrong thing. However, she had done much evil, chief among them her assistance to the elves in eradicating the Syrin, something that the latter party had come to regret. He could still see them in his mind, the screams that pierced all protection, all manners of spells, the cries of innocents being slaughtered for no reason other than their race.
No, Sonanja would pay for her crimes one day soon, but for now cooperation would continue, lest she suspect anything. There was much to do and so little time to do it in, especially with the youngest two, their lives and histories . The past and the future were colliding now, and those in the present would have to bear it, or be destroyed by both...
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Post by Ze on Jun 2, 2009 17:14:24 GMT -5
The fox twitched slightly as she was poked with a needle, but didn't respond besides that outwardly.
Inside Roxy was fighting with her demon. ~~~
"God I hate you!" Roxy yelled and kicked at her demon as the fox tried to bite her.
"oh like I enjoy being stuck with you any more than you do."the fox growled.
"really, what do you have to lose? you get a body and plenty of time to rest, oh and you take over that body when I don't even want you to! I'm the one who's suffering here! You snack on someone's heart and go take a nap, then I'm the one stuck with the aftermath!" Roxy kicked at the fox again as it got close.
"You never let me out! Not once have you just let me come out and enjoy myself! If it weren't for the fact I forced control of our body I'd never even get to really SEE what it's like in the world, I'd just get vague, second-hand experiences. Maybe if you would let me out, I wouldn't have to leave you with the aftermath. And maybe I wouldn't fight to get out so often. Don't blame me for something you brought on yourself." the fox swiped a tail at Roxy and knocked her back.
"All you've ever been is a nuisance. Ruining my life. I can't trust you around anyone, you'd just hurt them if you could!" Roxy slowly got back to her feet.
"And all you are is an ignorant child! I hurt those that would hurt us! Those bastards who tried to or have hurt us, I got revenge on! and how many people has that been? Four, because you keep everything so tightly under wraps that you don't LET things cut to deep, or ignore it. And then when things do hurt you, I come out like an explosion. Face it! When people die by me it's because of you! If I kept you stuck in here all the time, you'd explode too. You're just like me after all." the fox smirked.
"I'm not like you, I'm nothing like you. I don't enjoy killing and hurting people."
"yes you do, when the moment comes, and someone has done something to upset you, you want to get back at them just as much as I do. The only difference is you stop yourself from doing what comes naturally to you. We are a fox demon, a kitsune! If you had just gotten that stick out of your ass long ago we could've been strong by now! We could have had all of our tails by now and no one would be able to hurt us! You USED to go on instincts, but then you changed. When we were still small you always let me out to explore, and remember how good things used to be then? This... inbalance didn't exist! But you changed it all." The fox sat down and glared at Roxy.
"I didn't change anything, you did. The first time you killed someone, you changed everything."
"I did this? Oh, no no no. I protected us. That man would have robbed our home and then hurt us, who knows what he would've done, but I stopped him. I saved us, he was a creepy old guy who probably would've LOVED to get his hands on a little girl."
"you didn't have to kill him! Mom and dad would have been home soon to handle it! But you did, you killed him, and then expect a child to be able to cope with something like that? You used my body to murder a man and..." Roxy sighed and shook her head.
"your body? it's OUR body. And I did what any other REAL kitsune would have done. What do you think our parents would have done? let him go? Hell no. They would have killed him to, especially mom since someone would have hurt her kit. So stop acting like some d**n little brat and face facts! The sooner you learn to deal the sooner I can be a real fox demon! I'm tired of scrounging around with less tails than a real demon! You're holding me back, and I'm sick of it! I can just imagine what others of our kind would think if they saw how you were. I wanna be like them! I wanna be a full demon and be strong like the others, and I want to be like momma!" the fox started off angry and serious, but by the end of her rant acted more like she was having a tantrum.
"Mom..." Roxy got distracted by the thought of her mother... her mother probably would want her to grow strong, but her mother wasn't around.
The fox sensed something was off and looked at her curiously, "what do you know about mom that I don't?"
"she... she was captured and is down in the Underworld... with dad..."
"Daddy? wh-why are they there?"
"dad's dead... and mom's being held captive there..."
"I- I knew we fought her shadow before but... but why didn't you let me know! How could you keep me caged up so much that I couldn't even know this? Our mom's being held in the Underworld and our daddy's de-..." the fox whimpered and lowered its ears.
Roxy actually felt a pang of regret and actually went over to the fox, slowly resting her hand on it's head.
"I-... I should have let you know... I just... I just didn't even want to deal with it myself and I didn't think of you. I'm sorry..."
"they're my parents too, I should have known the exact same time you did, but you always push me so far down. All I ever get to know are names and places of towns, but you never let me know anything else about a life I should be sharing." the fox shook it's head away from her hand.
"I'm sorry, I know I should have let you know, but I wasn't thinking."
"you never think, you stopped thinking long ago. You try to act so big and smart, but you never really think about others do you?"
"I do too."
"Now you do," the fox growled, "now you have this group, and they've got you being considerate again, but how long will it last? will you eventually leave and be alone again? and then what? be an inconsiderate brat again? lock up so tightly I'll never see daylight again?"
"hey, I'm not perfect, but I'm not as bad as you make me out to be-"
"you are to me! and I'm part of you! You can't hide these things from me!" the fox snapped at her.
"fine, ok, fine. what do you want me to say? It's true ok, I'm a b**** to you, but you killed a man when we were just children, and never showed any amount of remorse. Maybe it's because I'm the human half, but I'm not like that! I can't just kill someone and be ok about it, even if I'm feeling vengeful! So I pushed you back. You're right. I'm an inconsiderate little brat and I've been punishing you for years for what happened. But did you ever stop to think about what you did? You killed a man and ate his heart, then left a 6-year-old human girl to deal with it, you were resting as I got to sit there with a corpse, covered in blood and wait for our parents. You were so proud of getting our second tail that you never stopped to think about what you did. And then when I kept you back you just grew more and more wild, and it scared me! I didn't want other people to end up dead with no hearts... but recently I've been failing at that... God, 3 tails since I met Reinos... I went so many years without losing control, but as soon as I joined this group... three f**kin tails..." Roxy sighed and plopped down on the ground next to the fox, feeling worn out.
"... you're still a brat, but I never really... thought about that before... I guess it's safe to assume that we are both a**holes... you more so, cause you're an ass to me..."
"I guess..." Roxy sighed and laid down.
"Can... can I come out?... I want to see mom and get her out, I don't want to be kept back anymore... I want momma..." the fox laid down next to Roxy.
Roxy hesitated for a bit before nodding slowly, "just... just try not to get to out of control..."
"I don't know if I can... but if you'll let me out I can try." the fox nodded.
"god why do I feel so tired?" Roxy closed her eyes.
"well we did just kinda fight a wolf demon and then pass out."
"oh yeah, that's why..."
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Post by Da Pwny on Jun 3, 2009 6:02:33 GMT -5
*classic, Ze, classic XD*
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Post by Saturn on Jun 4, 2009 22:29:34 GMT -5
Deep within the mountains to the south, a lone figure stood atop one of the highest summits looking down upon the Wastes and the Elven Forest to the north. His gray coat flowing in the high winds. He looked to the reckage behind him, a mass of twisted metal over growm with vegetation and rocks covering much of its hull.
However, this man knew what it was. This mass of metal had once been one of the ships that transported human life to this world and other life that at the time humans thought were still fairy tales.
He walked to the vegetation and it wilted underneath his hands as he removed it from the hole in the side of the vessel. Most of it was a mass of metal pilings, most of it having been used for the early construction of the planet.
The man sighed. His memories mixing with what he had from when he was another person. Once he had been called Joshua by his parents as a child, then he had taken on the name Theodoric later in his life.
Now, if he had to go by any name, it would be Legion. For now he no longer felt like himself. More like he was several people at once. He saw his face in a grimy mirror set up on one of the alcovs as he passed through the ship and stopped.
For a moment he didn't recognize himself, after having slept for so long. He thought it was his younger brother Reinos. A growl came from his throat as he thought of the boy in the Colosseum who had erupted into that fight.
"How can he be my brother?" he asked himself, looking into the mirror and oddly enough, his reflection answered.
"Because he came from you," it said back. Theodoric was confused for a moment as it continued.
"He is both yout brother and our enemy. He took your throne and life....and your face," it said as Theodoric thought back to the Colosseum and remembered his shock at seeing his face on the boy, just with that hideous scar through his left eye. And those boneblades. Theodoric didn't recall ever having those.
"He shouldn't have that face," he said to the reflection,"It's my face. He shouldn't have my face!" and shattered the reflection. Theodoric paid little attention to his bleeding fist and continued into the bowels of the ship, unaware that reflection he had shatterred was silently laughing. Several reflections in each shard just laughing.....
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Post by Ze on Jun 4, 2009 22:36:38 GMT -5
Roxy laid there quietly as her mind settled and the blood transfusion continued.
Her demon form was taking the blood quickly and sending it to every place that needed it, making her healing process speed up rapidly.
When her wounds had mostly closed up, and the skin was just a light pink color where wounds were under the fur, Roxy began to stir, slowly opening her eyes.
The fox just blinked a few times and looked around before getting up slowly, accidentally removing the needle for the blood transfusion. Roxy sat up on the bed and moved around to get comfortable before changing back to her human form- tired, groggy, and the freshly healed skin of her wounds more obvious.
"how'd... how'd I get back here...?" he looked around, recognizing the Tauros' home, before she focused her eyes on Reinos, "what's goin on?..." she mumbled, still feeling tired.
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Post by zyphan on Jun 9, 2009 13:18:59 GMT -5
Zyphan looked at Waldon, who had clambered under the table. "Yes, he's gone. Forever frozen in place in the riverbed surrounding Tauros' castle." She looked to the girls, aware that her appearance had caught them off guard. Not sure what to say, and still emotional about what happened to Scoltun, she couldn't get the words to come out, and smiled weakly, patting Mierca on the head. "Just checking up on you guys. I hadn't seen you for a while and was worried. Be good, I'll catch you guys later."
With that, the pheonix left quickly before the girls could see the tears running down her face as images of her friend's dying face and falling form came to mind. Taking flight outside the restaurant, she sped off towards the roof of the castle, paying no heed to the gargoyles there and roosting a top one of the spires, her gaze aimed at something shimmery blue on the horizon...
((is that okay? If you want her to tell the girls about scoltun, i'll change it, just let me know.))
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Post by Saturn on Jun 11, 2009 0:52:38 GMT -5
(Alright, on with the story. Though I'm winging it here. Oh, and Swytchblade. I think I got it now. Ignnis. Ignnis. Ignnis. Ignnis. Repetition helps me remember. ;D )
Reinos eyes snapped open and his gold yellow eyes locked onto Roxy as if she were prey to him. The silver turned to black and shrunk as he shifted into his human form. He had taken off his jacket and shirt before his transformation so, as he sat up from laying on his stomach, his scars were visible.
Reinos removed the needle from his arm as he got up went to her bedside. Though his eyes were still gold, no longer green, a look of concern was still in his eyes.
"Don't move so quickly," he said, laying his hands on her shoulders lightly,"You lost alot of blood."
"Is there anything I can get you?" he asked, forgetting that the Tuaros and Sonta were watching from the otherside of the room.
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The gargoyles circled the ice lady wearily. She had thrown such a fit earlier that even they could see that the weather had acted of her will. They had never seen soemthing like that in thier existence. Snow and ice in this desert. They didn't even know what it was.
But they knew cold, and the cold that had come had reminded them of the Lord of Shadow himself. The master of all things shadow who this ice lady traveled with.
They had wanted to attack her earlier for invading thier territory. Now she was here again, but she had rid them of that annoying bird. The whole clan was now confused.
One of the gargoyles had forgotten about the promises they were given by the one they serve and landed close to the ice lady...with a blue and silver blossom of ice, created from the mailstrom of Zyphan's power earlier and laid it at her feet and backed away fast.....
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Post by Ze on Jun 11, 2009 8:23:40 GMT -5
Roxy's eyes were still the same shade of violet, but now they seemed deeper, since both halves were now staring out together.
"I'd... I'd definitely like answers to a lot of new questions..." her voice was soft and tired, still wanting to sleep after everythhing but unable too.
"like for starters, how'd I get back here...?"
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Post by zyphan on Jun 11, 2009 13:25:30 GMT -5
Zyphan had been ignoring the gargoyles, not caring if they attacked her or not, though she knew she was well within their territory. Her thoughts were fully on Scoltun, but the sound of gargoyle feet hitting the castle roof where she crouched brought her out of her reverie, and she looked up to find one of the strange beasts backing away from her, it's gift already placed at her feet.
Not knowing what it meant, the phoenix picked up the rose, finding it's petals to be of the same ice and snow that she had conjured earlier. She looked around her, and realized they were confused about what was going on, though the gargoyle that had brought her the rose had meant something, perhaps a thank you, but she couldn't be sure, as she had never encountered the creatures until now.
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Post by Novalyyn on Jun 11, 2009 19:20:42 GMT -5
Mierca was confused. Something happened, she knew that much. What it was... hard as her mind was trying to work it out, she had a feeling she didn't really want to know.
((I have no clue what to do... ))
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Post by Da Pwny on Jun 11, 2009 22:17:57 GMT -5
*kinda reminds me of one of those running jokes in some sitcom where one person keeps forgetting the other's name, and keeps running through them as if they were right, but they aren't : P
*oh, and zyph, be prepared for misinterpretation, since neither of them even know what happened to Knight's character x-x and... i'm not sure how to proceed too x-x Sat, did you want pig-face to follow the group now or what? that's got me stuck for the moment x-x*
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Post by Ze on Jun 11, 2009 22:19:38 GMT -5
((I think he does. maybe if the group rushes back together for a bit we can all get back on track, unless now is when you wanted to start that spiritual journey, then you're on your own time.))
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Post by Saturn on Jun 15, 2009 23:01:22 GMT -5
Reinos took his hands away from her shoulders as stood up straight. He sighed for a second and sat down next to her.
"Tuaros," he said as the big man smiled from across the room,"He brought you back and as for more questions. I have a few of my own."
His eyes were glowing faintly,"What were you doing taking on that blasted she-wolf in the middle of the city," he said. Not realizing he had gotten a slight edge in his voice.
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The gargoyles were landing a few at a time around Zyphan. A gift from one of thier own had gotten them curious. The display of power earlier telling them of what Zyphan might be.
The one who had laid the flower at her feet was clicking and grunting and speaking in thier gravelly way to each other and it finally "walked" as you would say towards her slowly.
"You....be....Old...One...of....cold," it said to Zyphan, very slowly almost as if it was trying out the words for the first time.....
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Waldon crawled out from underneath table, making huffing sounds as if he was trying to get his sobbing under control. He didn't understand what the girls were talking about, but he knew that they were upset about something.
Waldon grunted and snorted a little as he said,"I...sorry..."
(As for this boar demon, he'll be with the group for awhile. Don't worry about him though. He'll be following people around for the most part. He won't be taking an active role in the story for sometime to come.)
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Post by Ze on Jun 16, 2009 0:12:02 GMT -5
"I went for her throat like I said I would the day she invaded my dreams. It didn't even seem like we would fight though till there was something up in the sky and she attacked me. Now answer my questions! What is this pact she was talking about? She said I was in some sort of pact with you, and I kinda remember something like that being mentioned when that silver collar was removed from you, but I have no clue WHAT it is."
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Post by Saturn on Jun 22, 2009 15:24:11 GMT -5
Reinos looked to her for a moment and then to Tuaros and Sonta. Tuaros nodded and both he and Sonta left, though she looked a little reluctant.
Reinos took a moment to gather his thoughts, as he got up with his back to Roxy and slowly began.
"To understand this, I have to tell you what happened to me three hundred years ago. Of what happened between Kyra and myself," he said, his voice sounding strangely nostalgic.
"I caught her feeding on a deer around the time we first met, and offered my blood to her. She took it reluctantly," he continued,"I had hoped a half-breeds blood would cure her of her bloodlust, but it had an opposite effect and I became infected with the vampiric virus."
He turned to Roxy, looking her in the eyes,"We became connected in a sense, though later I sort of fused our powers. At the time it was needed." He took a breath.
"The fusing of our powers is called a Soul Bond, and it was exactly as it sounded. We were quite literally sharing souls. The wolf demon in me and the vampiric powers within her. However, I messed up," he said, closing his eyes.
"The Soul Bond now works erratically. The Nexus that connects all of us is an extension of the bond I once shared with Kyra. No..." he stopped.
"It's something else. The Soul Bond was originally created by the kitsunes. A partnership formed between the Lunare and the kitsune. Whenever a male or female came of a certain age, they would be bonded to a member of the other race, to allow for the growth of thier powers safely. But...there was another reason for this as well," he stopped for a moment.
"Don't get mad at me about this, but Lunare put it into these terms," he said looking at her," He said to consider like an arranged marriage..."
Reinos was waiting for the explosion on this part of this little story...
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