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Post by knightc3 on Mar 20, 2008 16:14:32 GMT -5
He looked at Cardea, his smile disappearing as he realized he had one on his face. He took the plate and turned it over in the stream, the contents falling into the stream all together. He got up abruptly and started walking away from the camp.
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Post by Ze on Mar 20, 2008 16:20:28 GMT -5
Cardea watched him leave, feeling rather confused. She THOUGHT he had enjoyed feeding the fish... but maybe she was wrong.
She just sighed and sat there, it's not as if she could really do anything about it anyway...
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Post by knightc3 on Mar 20, 2008 16:27:07 GMT -5
Oden had forgotten about Cardea next to her as he had retreated into his own world back then. He walked to a tree and sat down under its shade. The camp was still in sight but he was far away. His gaze moved and rested on Cardea at some distance now as he just sat there resting.
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Post by Ze on Mar 20, 2008 16:28:31 GMT -5
Cardea got up after a bit and just decided to walk along the river, following the stream and the river away from the campsite.
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Post by knightc3 on Mar 20, 2008 16:35:30 GMT -5
Oden followed Cardea as she moved away from the camp. He closed eyes and slid down the trunk of the tree.
He woke up a minute later as he heard some shouts coming from the camp, followed by screams and then right before his eyes, the earth itself folded! He froze where he stood. The camp had disappeared off the face of the earth, literally. He then saw Viviana walk out of the dust as it began to settle along with what looked like the twelve wizards he had heard resided in her castle.
They were walking away in the direction of Cardea. He quickly sprang into action and start running towards a point where he would end up right in the middle of her and Viviana's group. He was acting on what the training from the academy had taught him.
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Post by Ze on Mar 20, 2008 16:38:44 GMT -5
Cardea had froze and turned back when she heard the screams and then her eyes widened at the site of the earth folding.
She tried to move but couldn't out of shock. But then she saw Viviana and stumbled backwards away from her.
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Post by knightc3 on Mar 20, 2008 16:46:54 GMT -5
Viviana eyes flickered as she raised up a hand as if to strike Cardea. Her gaze shifted to Oden as the bolt of lightening came down to strike Cardea. He had taken his shield and weapon in his arms and come up behind Cardea. He was much taller than her which helped here. Before the bolt could strike her, he brought up his shield. and projected his holy shield. The bolt first tore through the projection and hit the shield sending an immense amount of shock through his body.
Suddenly the holy energy grew back in strength and the angle of the shield deflected the bolt towards the group. It took three wizards putting their powers together to shield them from the bolt that was not flowing from the sky, deflecting off Oden's shield and disappearing into the wizards' shield.
He still hadn't recovered from the shock he had received and couldn't comprehend where this power came from.
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Post by Ze on Mar 20, 2008 16:54:50 GMT -5
The wizards didn't wait to attack again, but they decided using a lightning attack probably wasn't the wisest.
One moved to the side and aimed at Cardea again, since Oden still had his shield up. She gasped and moved out of the way, into the path of another wizard who was waiting for her to move.
Something, almost like a ball of wind, hit Cardea, knocking her far back. Leaves caught up in it cut her, and the force of the air hit like punches. She tried to let out a cry, but the wind swept her breath away.
Then she hit a tree, stuck there as the spell continued until it stopped and she hit the ground, breathing shakily from all the impacts.
Viviana looked over at her with an amused look as purple spots started to show up on Cardea.
"hmm... I thought you all worked for me... guess you just couldn't handle the freedom I gave." she smirked.
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Post by knightc3 on Mar 20, 2008 17:06:56 GMT -5
Even though Cardea had moved from under him, the wizard directly the attack at him. He thought if he could get the three wizards stuck shielding Viviana to free themselves, they would have more firepower. As numerous, sharp ice crystals hit his armor, he held his footing. The ice didn't reach his skin but his body took the force of the impacts.
As Viviana spoke, she stopped channeling the bolt. Oden saw his chance as dazed as he was and dove in front of Cardea again. "Its you, the guardian leading the others back on the battlefield. Well, we just destroyed your whole army and there is no one coming to help you. So... get out of my way", she said her anger rising.
"No", that was all he said.
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Post by Ze on Mar 20, 2008 17:09:10 GMT -5
"what do you mean no? you're going to die here either way, so just make it easy on yourself." she glared at them.
Cardea slowly got on her knees and looked around at Viviana, "Oden... back down..."
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Post by knightc3 on Mar 20, 2008 17:13:35 GMT -5
Everybody stood in their positions as he accessed the situation. He looked back at the changes that had happened to Cardea. He frowned. There was really no one he could trust except himself.
He turned back around to face Viviana and spoke, "I would rather die...". He called on as much of this new energy he could find within and charged up his shield and claymore. He did something unexpected. He started walking towards the group.
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Post by Ze on Mar 20, 2008 17:17:30 GMT -5
The wizards prepared their attacks and Cardea backed away into the woods.
When one of the wizards were about to attack Oden, one of Viviana's own mutated beasts leapt out and bit into him, bringing him down.
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Post by knightc3 on Mar 20, 2008 17:24:09 GMT -5
Oden stopped and moved a step back taking a defensive stance as he saw the beast leap out of the woods. It was clear from Viviana's expression that she was as surprised as him. Seeing an opening, Oden pulled the sword hand back and thrust it forward towards Viviana. A wizard quickly raised up his hand and an invisible shield stopped his thrust in mid-air. It felt like he had struck a rock wall.
His eyes narrowed as he concentrated all his strength on the thrust, keeping his hand steady. The wizard's eyes widened as the sword began inching forward penetrating the shield.
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Post by Ze on Mar 20, 2008 17:27:44 GMT -5
When the beast had one wizard down, it quickly moved on to another wizard, wanting to get as many gone as it could.
One of the wizards cast a spell at the beast, and knocked it back for a bit before it got back up and attacked him.
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Post by knightc3 on Mar 20, 2008 17:33:14 GMT -5
Viviana could only stare as her most powerful wizards were being killed off the same way she had killed theirs. As she turned around to look at Oden, she stepped back seeing the sword almost through the shield aimed at her neck.
Her eyes narrowed as she spoke, "We will meet again..." and with that the wizards and Viviana were gone along with the shield.
Oden fell down to his knees letting go his sword. He was exhausted and his body hurt but he knew they were not safe here. He suddenly remembered the beast was still there in front on him. His head snapped up to see if it would attack him.
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