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Title: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 05, 2011, 09:56:52 PM

Do not post until approved in the OOC

Shrub looks at an old scroll, it has been beaten down with time, and torn from being handed off some many times, most of the words are illegible or just totally out dated. He has little interest in old philosophy or old text, there was one thing that interested him on this broken down little paper, and that was the forbidden techniques that the orbs were never allowed to be used for. "To bring the dead back..." he read put loud, "you must take a piece of there remains fuses it with the orb and..", he could feel his heart start to race as he looked at the final line. He rolled up the scroll tied it to his waist line and began to walk again, he was heading to the closest demon 'friendly' town, the town of Tristram.
  As the young demon arrives at the city, his child like mind can't help but take over, he gazes at the large city, the three story buildings of bamboo made. The large market of all kinds of meals, demons and humans living peacefully along side each other..; 'mama would like this...' he thought to him self walking forward looking down avoiding eye contact. He ran into something cold and felt like metal, when he looked up he saw it was a Ostagarian. Shrub knew little about demons but every one knew about the Ostagarians, the big, strong, and most of all there hard to kill. Shrub grabs his staff just in case the creature attacks, but he hears laughter, a loud, deep, booming laughter.
  "Ha ha, child I'm sure that hurt you more then it hurt me, most people say excuse me, but I take it your not most people? Welcome to my shop how might I help you" Shrub rubbed his head looking at the creature.
  "Sorry... sir? I don't have any coins, I was wondering if you knew a way a stray such as my self may earn some?"
  "I'm sorry child but-"
  "I may know a way" a large human in a silk robe said with a devilish smile.
  "Thour he is just a kid-" the Ostagarian protested before he was cut off.
  "A kid you where about to turn away and make him starve, oh how cruel you are, come child I have an offer I wish to place upon you" shrub looked at the Ostagarian, and then back at the man. The man held his arm out at he turned away, and shrub followed as the man placed his hand on his back.
 

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 06, 2011, 02:03:49 AM

Leo yawned as he looked on at a building from his perch high in a holly tree, with his legs and arms wrapped around the base, one leg lying on a branch to further secure his perch. The village Tristam was a few hours of a walk from where he was, as he carefully observed the watch towers and the villagers. He flinched, nearly losing his grip as his concentration was broken from a familiar voice.
“Do you see anything Leo!?” a person yelled from at least forty feet below him.
With a sigh the feline shook his head before looking down towards the ground “For the twenty-third time of you harassing me Hawkeyes! YES they are STILL there! Mind telling me why I’m forty something feet up a tree, when apparently your name is Hawkeyes. HAWKEYES!”
“Because you’re the cat? And I’m a bird! You like trees don’t you kitty?”
“Don’t make me come down there!”
“Well ‘scuse me. But the boss is getting impatient!”
Leo was about to say something till he glanced back up seeing that the guards who were awake are now asleep “Some guards, this might be the easiest raid yet. You remember the plan right?”
The bird down below nodded with a smirk “Sneak in, solicit, wait for night fall then strike!”
With that Leo moved his legs, planting them carefully on a branch before jumping away from the tree. Falling quite quickly but still landing safely, crouched down in a four pronged stance. “You guess right. Tell the others, and I’ll meet you then.” He chuckled waving to his ally as he began to sprint down to the small village.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 07, 2011, 08:10:12 PM

some time before the raid
"Well Gabag, as an official member of the tribe, you have your first duty as a tribeswoman! Maintaining relations with Tristram! They're short on night watchmen tonight so you have guard duty." Gabag's father said, handing his daughter her claymore. Grasping the hilt of the new blade, she tested it's weight by spinning it around then sheathing it.

"do you understand what you must do?" he asked

"Yes father. I'm to go to the town, find the captain of the watch and tell him i'm the new girl" she said, yawning.
"Good, now dont doddle, the man gets impatient when recruits are late and its not pretty."
At that, Gabag began running to the town of Tristram, and after an hour of travel, she was in the town, enraptured by all the sights that were around her. She saw a little demon boy walk into a store, and wondered what kind've breed he was, but shook the thought from her mind as she walked into the Guard station.

"Good morning sir, I'm Gabag, your new watchman." she said, the man at the desk put his documents down and sized the Ostagarian up. He liked what he saw.
"Well lass, good to see you, you knwo what you need to do?" he asked. Gabag nodded.

currently the night, where Hawkeyes and Leo are sizing up the town (they arent seen by Gabag im just saying this is happening in that timeframe)
Gabag looked out into the darkness and saw nothing amiss, well besides the guards sleeping. But they were human, and humans tired a lot more quickly then an Ostaragarian.

Y'know come to think they're adorable when asleep" she thought. She patrolled through her designated area, the shopping quarter, greeting the citizens and generally enjoying an easy task.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 07, 2011, 09:00:28 PM

'You win you get a gold coin', that's what the man said it kept playing over and over in shrubs mind. Shrub was asked to set his 'staff' and scarf to the side, they didn't want him to be accused of cheating. Shrub was fine with that, as long as it was always winthin his sight. He was in some octagon shaped arena, it had a wooden boundaries, just to justify the lines. The arena was very well hidden withing a small warehouse kind of building, or at least that what it looks like from the outside. On the inside there was a large open space, that's where the crowded was gathering. There was also a second story area, where the richer folks would go and sit. It was out of the crowds way, they could see everything, and there was beautiful silk robe that blocked shrubs view from seeing them.
  "Shrub, it is time" the man in silk said, shrub nodded, setting his stuff to the side of the arena, out of every ones reach. A large org looking demon came on the other side of the arena, he was getting pats on the backs and cheers, shrub could only assume he was the champ.
  "The champ, Sand creeper!" Loud cheer interrupted the announcer, "and the challenger, shrub!" There was some laughter and rude comments.
  'Stupid humans.." shrub thought to him self, he raised his hands ready to fight. The org laughed a little, smiling.
  "Fight!" The announcer roared as the crowd screamed. The Oreg lunged at shrub, shrub quickly side steeped, throwing a swift kick to the creatures face. This repeated for a couple more minutes, the org was obviously angry.
  "Hammer!" The crowded yelled, while shrub gave a curious look at the creature. The creature again lunged for shrub, but this time when he side stepped and was about to attack, the org pulled a large club out of grounded, and hit shrub sending him flying back, cracking the wooden wall a little. As shrub tried to figure out what just happen, the org was already on him, towering over him about to smash the little demon with the large club.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 07, 2011, 11:11:09 PM

The duo walked passed Gabag talking to each other examining the town’s market. There eyes darted to and fro counting and keeping track of the guards who were in the area.

“How it warms my heart to see the big cats tossing coins around as if it were confetti.” Hawkeyes sighed, absorbing the atmosphere for the moment. His head whipped around when he noticed Leo was at a stall buying a cup of tea.
“Sure… sure, it doesn’t interest me so much.” He said blowing on the surface of the beverage before taking a sip, “Ah, nothing better then tea at night” He turned around to grab a torch from its holder.

A few seconds later an arrow flew into the sky, attached to it was a small instrument that made a loud whistling noise, followed by Leo tossing the torch into a nearby stall, igniting it in a quick fiery blaze. “And that’s the signal of this glorious raid!” he laughed throwing the cup into a charging guards face as a distraction. The man covered his eyes now blinded by the piping hot tea and was soon kicked in the throat by the feline, knocking him down in a single effortless blow.

Leo whistled in disappointment at how quickly the guard went down “Tell you what Hawk, I got this area covered, go” he called over the typical screaming crowd as more watchmen came in hopes to stop him.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 09, 2011, 03:39:57 PM

The crowded gasped as they saw Stub still standing, what baffled every one was the light purple circular object that sprouted out of no where. It was flat, thin, and sturdy. The ogre with a puzzled look on his face looked at his club, he picked it up and swung again. This time Stub was ready, he put all his wight into his arm as he swung at the org's on coming swing. There was a loud thud followed by a crack, as the org's club broke in half. Stub ripped off the hanging piece of the club and launched it at the org's face knocking him to the ground, and finishing the mach. The crowd was silent, there champing has lost, and now they didn't know what to do. The silence was broken by the man in silk clapping, he had a devilishly smug look on his face.
  "Well done shrub, we done" he said laughing a little. "Dam, it almost looks as if I was the only one to bet on Shrub, it looks like my winnings are 1:100,000, so I'll take my gold now." The crowded gasped, but they had an honer to uphold, they had to pay they man. A large chest was placed in front of the man who opened it, and threw a gold coin to Shrub. "Very well done kid-" the man was interrupted by the sound of an alarm going off, "Damn bandits. Hey shrub grab your stuff and follow me kid." Shrub did as he was told, not knowing what else to do. He followed the man out side as he got onto a lavishing looking man powered carriage, "Now stub I want you to sit up here, ahead of me, and protect me and my gold, if you do that they will be more money for you" Shrub nodded listing to the mans words. There where about four other guards on foot, and then two men pulling the carriage.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 09, 2011, 04:07:48 PM

While the feline was busy throwing tea and kicking the guards, Gabag walked up behind him and placed an armored gauntlet onto his collar.

"Stop right there criminal scum! You have violated the law! Pay the fine or serve the sentence!" She yelled in a booming voice
it was funny because she didn't even know about any fines or sentencing so she decided to make some up.
She tossed him into a stall, withdrew her claymore and held it to Leo's throat while holding him down with a forceful shove.

"You help me catch the rest of your gang and I promise not to brutally sacrifice you for my other clansmen, after all they could use the meat!" She was hoping everyone thought demons were mindless monsters who sacrificed people to their so called dark gods. Well they did, but mostly criminals like one feline Leo.

She would have to nab the hawkguy later, but she was hoping the other authorities could see to that right now.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 09, 2011, 06:13:13 PM

Leo shook his head side to side to clear it up, after surprisingly being thrown into a stall. Other then that, it didn’t even look like it phased him to much, no sense of fear, or self preservation could really be detected. His eyes looked at the blade held to his throat and then up to the helmet of the Ostagarian with a smile. The only demon traits he had were claws, fangs and his eyes which gave off an ethereal glow.

“Not good enough, no deal” he chuckled and moved his left hand to bat  the blade to the side very quickly, and cutting his hand open in the process. He placed that same hand on her armors collar to pull himself up and over her into a hand stand, placing the other one on her head and pushing off to land behind her in a roll, then back to his feet spinning on his heel to face her. “Bandits have no regards for the law. We don’t abide by it, we don’t know it. So tell me…” he would trail off reaching off behind him, unsnapping the strap that head the sword in place inside the sheath and drawing it keeping it collapsed for now as he rested it on his shoulder. “What law am I breaking now?”

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 09, 2011, 07:09:15 PM

As the carriage went through the city the occasional bandit would show up, and two men would be sent to fight them off. Now there where only two guard, including shrub, and a single man pulling the carriage, other then the man in silk obviously. As they came closer to an exit, they saw a feline who gave a demonic feeling when they saw him.
  "I have never seen a creature like that before, kill him, he has to be a bandit." The man in silk said, "you go, shrub stay by me." Shrub nodded as the man left to go face the feline. The man charged at the cat armed with a simple spear.

Most of the fire in the city has been put out as the Ostagarian's forces pushed in. The town's guards where all fighting the bandits, slowly taking the bandits out, most have other been captured or had fled the city. An officer of the towns guards run up to gabag as the feline runs away, "Wait, don't worry about him, not just yet." The man panted as he tried to catch his breath, "the bandits are stating to flee the city, you are to neutralize any and all suspicious characters you see, we have been told that a head man for the underground fighting arena is fleeing the city. You are to find and eliminate him, he has been said to be carrying a hidden artifact that must be returned to the general of the Ostagarian forces." The man gave a scroll to gabag that had a painting of the silk man.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 09, 2011, 07:50:59 PM

As the feline escaped, Gabag re clamped the sheath to her armor and studied the scroll, she saw a similar man in a carriage that was vacating the scene. Remembering where it went she quickly ran to the carraige and shoulder bashed one of it's guards into the wall of a building and drew her claymore.

"You're all under arrest! Surrender now and I won't kill you, resist and your skin is mine!" She commanded.

She sighed internally as a guard rushed her, sword drawn.

"Should've figured." she said as she deflected his blow and wound a furious slash across his chest, sending him flying a bit with a gash across his chest.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 09, 2011, 09:21:52 PM

The man looked around, the feline on one end, the girl on the other.
  "Very well.." he said as he got out, he grabbed a large axe, it looked like it would way a ton but he lifted it with ease. "Shrub stay with the chest, ill be back in a seconded. " he got out of the carriage, and looked at gabag. "Such a shame that I will have to kill one so young" he smiled as he said this. He set the axe down on the ground, it settled with a thud followed by small dust flying in the air.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 09, 2011, 10:54:07 PM

Leo stood there twitching his ear occasionally as he was rather quickly ignored, turning his head to see a man run at him he made a step to the side to allow him to run past before opening up the blade by spinning it in his fingers at his side and bringing it in a slashing motion across his front, cutting the man several times before he fell to the ground as the blade closed. His right ear perked up when he heard someone mention a chest turning his head to the carriage seeing what appeared to be a young boy standing guard next to it. He smiled before running to the carriage keeping his eye on the boy for anything unusual. When he got somewhat close to them, he took notice of a carriage of bandits that was moving for an escape, along with Hawkeyes. Taking a brief longer stride, the moment his foot planted on the ground he lounged forward at in incredibly fast speed, practically soaring across the field, leaving a large dust cloud where he once was and creating a gust where ever his body went.

He seemed to have ignored the demon boy and shot straight through the carriage, knocking it over and forcing it onto its side as he rolled across the ground and back to his feet. Unfortunately due to his carelessness the chest was also thrown sky high and eventually popping open dropping a decent portion of it before it landed in the felines arms with most of the contents still inside. “Sorry kid, no hard feelings” he said twirling around to sling the chest into the carriage before running towards it quickly catching up.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 09, 2011, 11:17:39 PM

Gabag immediately ignored the man with the axe and charged after the feline, football tackling him to the ground before  smashing him into another stall.

"You test my generosity feline spawn! I honestly think me throwing you into a store stall is going to be a recurring thing, so let's make that NOT happen. Be a good kitty and surrender so i can kill the rest of these idiots." she commanded, this time keeping a gloved fist around the feline's neck ready to throttle him when and if he resists. She noticed the carraige guards move towards her, so she picked up the feline and hurled him at the guardsmen, then grabbed the chest and ran.

Whatever artifact the general needed had better be worth it.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 09, 2011, 11:30:15 PM

The feline let out a loud ack as he bounced off the ground and did somewhat of a backflip planting a foot on a guards face before bounceing off of him in another one of his quick long distance lounges snatching a kerosine lamp and catching up to the iron giant in a matter of seconds. He landed right next to her side not even panting as he easily matched her pace "Sorry thats mine, I have something of yours. Lets trade" he chuckled with a sly smirk hopping to the side to land on top of her as a distraction before hopping up higher and landing on a nearby roof top and tossing the lamp at the ground infront of her creating a large plume of burning liquid, that set any guards, or civilians near her on fire, and possibly her as well.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 09, 2011, 11:53:22 PM

Gabag charged through the flames, feeling her armor heat up and she began sweating, but she charged on through, dousing herself in a nearby fountain and regrouping with many more guards.

"Come at me, I dare you" she hissed glaring at the feline on the roof.
"That's right i forgot, your a coward" she said walking to her superior officer and handing over the chest, which was brought into a secured building.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 10, 2011, 12:05:42 AM

"That is mine!" the man in silk said as he lunged into the building cutting straight through two Ostagarian guards with his giant axe as if they where made out of butter. There heavy body feel with a thud, as the group of other guards starred with horror, never before have they seen there own defeated with such speed. The man in silk looked at the officer holding the chest, he was lavishly covered, the man in silk lugged at him, but the officer didn't move. The sound of metal on metal rang through out the building, the officer had been cut but the axe had not simply cut through him as it did the others. The officer grabbed the axe and pulled it off him, the man in silk raised his hand which showed his beautifully crafted ring with an odd gray stone. The officer raised his other hand, revealing a ring of the same kind. "What the he-.. I see" he said as the officer pulled his claymore out and cut the mans head off.
 Shrub wasn't to aware of what just happend, he was to busy killing bandits that got in his way as he ran after the feline, but then ran into the group of Ostagarians but stopped, with a bang, as he slammed into gabag.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 10, 2011, 12:15:27 AM

Leo curiously tilted his head crouching down watching her and the group go to a secured building. He turned noticeing Hawkeyes wave to him to hurry up but he motioned to them to go on. He pulled his bandana down covering the glow from his eyes but allowing him to see just fine as he silently stayed on the buildings and moved closer. When He got close enough he knelt down and began to examine the area therougly. Finding a window opened he repositioned himself into a crouch moveing back a few paces before quickly moveing forward and loungeing through the window landing silently into a empty dressing room. He began to hum to himself as he carefully pried open the door to look outside through a narrow slit, before closeing it again makeing a guess for the area and put on some clothes of a regular servant making sure it hid his weapon, and removeing the bandana from his eyes and pocketing them, and fixing his hair so it covers his eyes somewhat but looks decent. He picked up a tray carrying a pitcher of water and exited the room walking down the halway humming to himself.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 10, 2011, 12:30:00 AM

Gabag was about to walk off, but then felt an impact against her knee. Looking down she saw a little demon boy on the ground. She looked around to see if there were any others who may have thrown him at her, then reached an arm down to the boy to help him up.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 10, 2011, 01:29:00 AM

Leo kept his posture more civilizied then ever, secretly dreading this to the highest degree. He politely returned nods to the others who passed him as he looked for the chest. He practicaly searched nearly every room within the building before sighing as he entered a final room looking around. "Ok, I give up" he thought to himself as he began to make his way back out of the building looking down at the tray he was holding day dreaming as he stared back into his own reflection before bumping into the back of Gabag dropping the tray and soaking himself "Excuse me sssss..." he began politely but quickly trailed off as he looked up at the Ostagarians helmet finding his own hand print of blood and secretly curseing his luck hopeing she doesn't recognize him "sir...".

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 10, 2011, 01:44:12 AM

Gabag grabbed the servants hand (the bleeding one) and hauled him up.
"No no it's alright, Just next time please watch where your going. Come to think of it everyone has bumped into me today. Ah well I wish i could help you with your stained clothing, but that isnt my department, toodles!" She went to walk off, but then her palm felt suspiciously wet, looking down she saw her hand covered in blood, storming back she grabbed the servant by the collar and yanked him into a shadowed corner.

"Listen, I know your not who you seem to be, Please do not run, because I want answers. You look similar to a feline bandit who sliced his hand open on my sword today. I want to know if your that same feline."
She held him with both hands with strength to keep a charging bull still, at least she assumed so, but she wanted answers.
She looked at his hand, and sure enough it was bleeding.

"Why do you keep returning bandit! I'm wondering why im not calling the guards to kill you right now. Explain to me why I shouldn't!"

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 10, 2011, 02:07:47 AM

Of course the feline was about to quickly leave as she turned and left only to be snatched up by her again coughing slightly at this one. With a sigh he knew he couldn’t easily hide himself now as he ruffled up his hair again and perked his ears up once more, the left one having a bit of trouble with the added weight of the exiles ring but stood up eventually. His tone quickly going back to its original one.

 “Yes I am the same feline, its not like another bloke could have possibly cut their hand open the same way.  And from all honesty what reason do you have to kill me if I have answers you want? And what is the chance of finding another one who has the *same* answers?”

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 10, 2011, 02:11:45 AM

"Just tell me who you are and I'll let ya go, Does that sound fun? I honestly want to know why i keep running into you"

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 10, 2011, 02:15:37 AM

"Leo Cyrule, and you must be the Ostagarion who keeps throwing me all over the place." he chuckled before looking the other straight in the eye "And something tells me your not letting me go are you?" he said with a smirk.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 10, 2011, 04:25:52 AM

"Thank you-" shrub looked over at the chest, and then the head less man in silk. Shrub sighed, 'damn... I guess I won't get any more money." Shrub sat on a bench across from the building. He was a little curious as to what was so importamt about the chest, other then the gold.
  With gabag distacted, and every one else looking at the chest, shrub crept forward, staying out of anyones view to get a closer look.
  "Where is gabag...." the officer said, "distracted good..." he opened the chest, brushing away at the gold in the way, the pulled out a scroll, "ahh... good good... this the final piece.... after we send her off... yes.." shrub was getting irritated by his lack of ability to hear everything the man said, he was lost, but he knew that be a piece of the forbidden scroll, it had a strange mark that his scroll also had.

  A large guard ran up to gabag, "umm.." he looked at the feline "it isn't nice to play with the peasants.. anyways, you have new orders you are to scout out the temple of htaed, there are rumored that a tainted shard may be the reason for so many, "zombies" as the humans call them are showing up. Shrub heard that, he wasn't to sure what this place was or how to get there, 'best bet would be to follow her', shrub thought to him self.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 10, 2011, 01:32:28 PM

Leo raised a brow, turning his eyes to the guard. “Temple you say?” he asked with a dull sound of interest turning his eyes back to Gabag “Looks like you could use my services.” He said placing his hand on her arm to adjust himself onto a nearby box so he was no longer hanging.  “A temple with such a important artifact of its kind, is likely to be… larger then it appears, and have several reassurances that there little goodies remain safe. Not to mention with the threat of walkers, you’re going to need all the  help you can get, in such a small… unit.” He paused for the moment looking her up and down. “I help you get to your goal and receive a sixth of your pay, and you get your mission done, and get the god forsaken shard and possibly not see me ever again. Physically that is” he added the end in a joking manner.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 11, 2011, 02:43:02 AM

"Alright, sounds fair. but as a reassurance that we won't be seeing each other anytime soon, how about we split any goodies in side half and half. A temple is likely to be filled with wondrous gemstones and other rare items for the taking." She mentioned, appealing the feline's greed.

"However if i see you taking more then your fair share of any goodies, your as good as dead, and you'll just wish you met the gallows for your crimes" she added before waiting for his response with a smug grin.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 11, 2011, 02:53:48 AM

'A shard!' Shrub though to him self, he hadn't had the slightest clue where the temple was but he had to find it. Shrub walked over to gabag, he tried his best to look defenseless and weak,  "miss... I.. I.." he began to breath a little hysterical, "I want my mommy! She.. She said that she.. she would be here.. but.. but someone told me that she is a little past that.. place the other grown up said.. miss please.. please take me with you.. I.. I want my mommy!"

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 11, 2011, 03:08:12 AM

"a question for you my small friend" she began, kneeling down to go eye level with the small demon boy.

"Why would a Demon mother be hiding out in a dead human's tomb? It doesnt exactly make so much sense your story, and judging by the fact your 'caretaker' had a battleaxe and tried to kill my boss and was the head of the underground arena. I think there's more to you then your letting on little boy." She said with a hint of sarcastic sweetness. She knew he was lying, she saw him walk into a shop all alone earlier in the day, and no mother would let that happen with a child so young. She placed a strong firm hand on his shoulder so he wouldn't run away or freak out.

"Tell me why you really want to get in there. Children of the Orb should be free to seek their fortunes anywhere but you seem younger them most by a large margin. Besides I'm an officer of the law. You can trust me to keep my word to not hurt you"

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 11, 2011, 03:28:18 AM

Shrub could probably lie his way out of this easily, but he became a little aggravated, "I stated that she would be past that temple, your right, I lied. She is within the temple more or less. And that wouldn't be my care taker, that would of been my employer, a child has to make money some way correct."

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 11, 2011, 03:52:53 AM

"But a little child does not also earn a living beating people down in an illegal fight ring."

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 11, 2011, 03:55:17 AM

"A child dosent earn a liveing asking for help either, look I'm coming with you weather you like it or not."

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 11, 2011, 04:13:05 AM

Leo gave his usual coy grin “Fair enough,” he replied before his smile went away quirking a brow at the kid. He glanced back and forth to them as they spoke. He raised a brow when he heard that the kid had been fighting in a illegal fight. “This quirky kid? Well, if he’s willing to enter a living nightmare let him.” He sighed raising a paw to scratch his brow.

With some thought he held out his paw to the Ostagarion “For now we call it troops then, what is your name? If I may ask, after all it would be a mouthful to say ‘Over here Ostagarion!”

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 13, 2011, 02:09:27 AM

Shrub eyes the feline, "fool, who do you think you are making some accusation that I am 'odd' just because I am. Diffrent then that of you. Is it odd how I do what I must survive, or is it odd that these fouls leave a child to fend for them self. Something that is truly strange is how easily you bandits fall, I mean honestly, couldn't they put up a better fight." Shrub tunred his back to the cat, finishing his sentence in a taunting manner.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 13, 2011, 03:01:34 AM

Leo gestured off to the child saying in a thank you tone "Thats exactly what I tell them! They want to cry and complain about the training me and the other commanders give them. And they have the auddacity to talk behind our backs and insult us. And they dont learn from diciplin. So what are they good for?" he paused thinking as he looked off to a corpse being hauled off "Reinacting lemmings, they just die, its just the fresh ones at that. I suppose they are good for distractions but nothing big." he added as he turned back to the boy "If you want a tougher challenge fight one of our Forsaken"

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 13, 2011, 03:19:44 AM

"I don't want a challenge, I have other prerogatives then just to prove my superiority to some one like you. Anyways let us be off we must waste no time, the more time we waste the ,percent of a chance mother might slip away"

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 13, 2011, 03:38:04 AM

"Again with this mother of yours. If what you said is a lie, then why do you insist on useing it again? Unless its not and the child just simply can't grow independent from his mother?" Leo teased with a smile planting his hand on the childs head ruffleing his hair.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 13, 2011, 08:57:06 PM

Quote from: Self-sain on January 13, 2011, 02:09:27 AM

Shrub eyes the feline, "fool, who do you think you are making some accusation that I am 'odd' just because I am. Diffrent then that of you. Is it odd how I do what I must survive, or is it odd that these fouls leave a child to fend for them self. Something that is truly strange is how easily you bandits fall, I mean honestly, couldn't they put up a better fight." Shrub tunred his back to the cat, finishing his sentence in a taunting manner.

"Let's get this straight, you, a random demon child, wants to randomly accompany an Ostagarian guardswoman named Gabag, and a strange bandit person who I've thrown at least three times into store stalls TODAY, into a possibly dangerous trip to a human tomb, where you say your supposed mother is, but the way your talking makes it sound like your mother never loved you, and probably maybe is dead."
Gabag finally said after thinking everything over.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 13, 2011, 09:26:22 PM

"I would kill you both right where you stand if I didn't need one of you" he said eying the feline, "How I and you may interpret something is totally different for your primitive mind couldn't possibly hope to hold to understand what I mean" a large guard comes over to the group and hands gabag a map Her and the others head off she is to head east until she comes to a fork in the road, there the group mad a forty degree turn and walked for about an hour. They slowed there pace once they started to see odd statues, the statues where of odd gods. As the group walked, a large black beast began to stalk them. It was about five feet long, and had no eyes. Its teeth where so large it couldn't properly shut its mouth, and it had a razor pointed tongue squirming from side to side.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 14, 2011, 12:33:59 AM

Leo began rubbing his chin humming to himself as he looked up towards the sky. "Hm... have you ever got the feeling that your being preyed upon by some creature with really sharp teeth just eyeing you down?" he asked still looking up, even though he had the feeling, he was completely oblvious to how close the creature was, or the fact that he was right behind them. His head turned to the child "How about you Mr. Chauvinist?"

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 15, 2011, 10:08:58 PM

Shrub ignored the cat, but he did have a point, there was an ominous feeling hanging over him.
  "How much further-" shrub began to say, but as then cut off as the black creature lunged forward swinging its mighty claws at the short demon. Shrub only heard the creature rip through the trees a second before the creature was at his back breathing down on him. Shrub pulled away as fast as he could try to manage but it was inevitable, the creatures claws ripped into his skin l. He screamed as he was rolled away quickly regaining his footing. He held his back as the pain hit him, but the creature soon found a new target. It shot its harpoon like tongue straight at the feline, the tongue was as sharp as any blade.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 15, 2011, 10:16:55 PM

"Oh about a good three hours..." he would say before looking to his side flinching as he saw the beast slashing the childs back before seeing the tongue flick at him. He quickly moved his body to the side but still getting cut by the tongue on his shoulder as it brushed passed him. He reached to the back of his hip and immediately ripped the sword from its sheath drawing it up to cut off the creatures tongue before spining it open.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 15, 2011, 10:45:11 PM

The creature screamed as its tongue feel to the ground oozing a blue liquid all over the ground. It hissed as its wounded tongue retracted into its mouth.
"What.. what kind of creature is this?" Shrub said painting, it felt as if his whole back was burning, but at the same time it felt as if it was going numb. He clinched his rod, holding it in a battle ready stance. The creature backed up a little, opening its large jaw hissing hysterical. Shrub lunged forward, swinging his staff in a downward motion, the creature quickly side steeped it and threw its claw at shrub.
  "Inferior creature" Shrub said, he pushed his power into the rod, causing a yellow light to sprout out of the top of the rod giving it a scythe like appearance. The light cut into the creatures claw cutting through its skin and bone, shrub pulled back ripping through creatures claw inflicting more damage onto its claw. The creature jumped back, quickly running away as its blood split to the floor. "Coward!!" shrub began to call, but for some reason he began to feel weak. The light from his rod dissipated, and he feel to his knees, his face started to look clammy. He was barley holding himself, as he fought trying to stay awake. His arms gave out causing him to fall to the ground, 'damn..' he thought to himself, looking at the creatures blood, it was a dark blue, and didn't sink into the dirt. "it must of been a salminsiula.." shrub was barley able to say, he hasn't ever seen one but every one has heard the stroies. A salminsula would sneak behind it's prey and attack it, it had posing seeping throughout every poor in its body, so all it had to do was cut you once and you would of been infected. You would feel a burning sensation, then feel numb and fall asleep, it wasn't fatal but quite dangerous to be out cold.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 15, 2011, 11:33:26 PM

The feline began to fall in and out of consiousness slowly. Doing his best to stay up he pulled a small rock and a steel file from it crouching down to light a branch on fire and handing it to the Ostagarion "Best of luck....." he said trailing off "Do not fight a walker... in the daarrrr..." he couldn't finish on time as he fell forward like a falling tree and crashed onto the ground still awake but that wouldn't hold true in a few seconds

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 16, 2011, 08:06:34 AM

Gabag withdrew her claymore from it's sheath and gathered up her two companions and stashed them in a little hidey hole then prepared to kill anything that moved.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 17, 2011, 08:56:55 PM

A decayed human corpse started to walk towards gabag, moaning and slowly limping towards her. Soon more gathered, she would have little room to run away. As she was distracted trying to cut down the weak flesh hungry zombies, a more animated zombie picked up the other two demons and took off, running off towards the temple.
  "Mama? mama where are you" shrub cried as he woke up, the poison has worn off, and he was regaining control of his motor functions. He was hanging by a rope tied to his wrist, and he could see the feline hanging near him, hopefully he also would wake soon. It was dark, and there was only very dim light so he couldn't see much around him. They where in some kind of holding cell, but he wasn't to sure of where. He had been striped of his staff, and he assumed the feline has also lost his weapon. He could hear someone talking;
  "The prisoners must be taken to the shard within the hour.... no no, you must let them bleed out in the presence of the shard.. alright then I'll be on my way." shrub couldn't figure out it, but that voice sounded familiar.

As the last zombie fell to gabag, she neared the entrance to the temple, it looked much like a pyramid. The entrance split into two different directions, she could go up, or down. From the lower area she could hear the moans of the zombies, but form the top, she could of swore that she heard something slithering on the floor of the temple. She had to make the choice to head up or down, before more zombies came, and she could hear them start to wobble in her direction so there wasn't any turning back.   

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 18, 2011, 01:11:06 AM

Leo fidgeted a bit as he fell through his own dreams. Oddly for a theif it wasn't about a new found wealth. More of something that he feared. He started to fidget a bit more violently before snapping awake and looking around. He could easily guess what the situation was as he hang from his own hands. He mouthed to the kid with a grin "Hold still and pull your legs to your chest."  before slowly starting to rock from his bonds back and forth. When he came closer, he raised his feet and planted them on the childs chest force fully pushing off pushing him back as well.

As he came closer to the wall from that one push he did something close to a hand stand keeping his body straight and then back as he came back to the kid bulding up his momentum. Now close to the kid he put his feet on his chest one final time. This time The child would feel a very hard blast of energy channeling from them launching both away from each other and snapping the ropes. Leo landed with a rough roll and placeing his feet against the wall to keep himself from crashing into it and makeing a very noticeable noise. If the child did as he was told he would land the same way.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 18, 2011, 02:26:33 AM

"Ugg.." shrub says doing what the feline says, he lands pretty much unharmed, other then his ego. Shrub brushes his hands off, the floor was quite dusty, "damn, they took my staff...." he said looking around double checking that they didn't some how forget it. He was a child so he couldn't always help acting like one. "Thanks.. anyways I think we are in the temple, I could of sworn I saw some creepy human looking thing walking by. I think we should look for our weapons before we go we search for the shard, but you are the thief. You should have a little more experience with this then I, so I think you should lead the way. I don't know, maybe there is some kind of universal set of for this crap." Shrub wasn't didn't know how to express him self well, but he tries.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 18, 2011, 03:10:08 AM

Leo pushed himself up feeling a throbbing in his arm signaling he dislocated his arm. "Thank you for useing theif this time." He said as he wedged his forarm in a nearby and placed a bloody bone in his mouth as a bite. He twisted his arm grunting a bit as it snaps back in place and freed himself spitting out the bone. "As bad as this sounds... that doesn't taste half bad. Now our weapons... of course..." he said grabbing hold of the torch "That wierd human you saw, could have been a Walker. Or what the humans call it Zombies. I learned a thing about or two about them..." he said checking out of the door way on both ends before walking on wards slideing on the walls and keeping his ear planted on it "If they overwhelm you... even the strongest demon will fall. Fortunately they have the survival instints of an ant, witch is also a bad thing." he paused for a minute smileing as he heard a small clank followed by several others like a bunch of metal objects falling, then a moan. "Well, I think I know where our weapons are, now the fun part of all mazes. So what is your name? I can't keep calling you kid forever."

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 18, 2011, 03:18:35 PM

While Gabag was busy deciding on a direction while cutting up a few strays with her sword, a satisfying "FWING" per beheading, she was going to go down but saw a small mob shamble towards her. She ran, she had no idea such weak creatures would be so terryfying.
OH THAT MOAN

THAT HORRIBLE HORRIBLE NEVER ENDING MOAN!
So she ran upwards.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 18, 2011, 06:30:50 PM

As Gabga ran upward, she ran into a clear opening. There in the middle of the whole thing, stood the tainted shard. A large shadow rose up from behind the shard, the room was very dim, so it had little light, but Gabag could see the shadow of the large serpent shaped creature. Its head slowly rocked back and forth, almost taunting Gabag waiting for her to make her move.

"Why not, I must be a baby goat. Cute to look at bad to f-" the kid stopped for a second, looking around. For what ever reason, the zombies just scared the living heck out of him. "Shrub that is my name... and your might I ask?"

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Gabag on January 18, 2011, 11:40:36 PM

"Your that kid from before who said you wanted to desperately accompany me. And if the living dead fear you, then I'm going to have to kill you" gabag said, forgoing all negotiations, before cracking her knuckles and opening up on Shrub with a fierce left hook the the jaw

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 18, 2011, 11:59:03 PM

"Leo" the feline said bluntly as he turned around, only to see a zombie inches away from his face screaming at him getting it's horrible decayed saliva on him. Not really phazed by this Leo quickly gave it a head butt to make it stumble back, then a punch into the face breaking its nose, sadly it doesnt feel pain, yay zombies. As it came stumbleing back to him Leo gave it one final kick, useing his ability with it to send him flying down the hall and smacking against a wall "Jeez your ugly..." he grunted in disgust as he began to whipe the saliva off his face. "You know what love about zombies? The song Nocturn of Shadow was inspired by them." he would finish and begin to hum along with the moans of the zombies in the walls, the tune that he was mentioned earlier, witch had an erie sound and probably didn't help with the atmosphere at all.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 19, 2011, 10:08:25 PM

"ugg.. you know you just give me the creeps with that.." shrub said, walking slowly behind Leo. "How much further do you think before-" a hand grabbed shrubs shoulder, he screamed in terror as a shield formed around his arm. He swung at the zombie smashing its skull into the wall killing it. He began to slowly pant, catching his breath. "How much further do you think it will be before you find out weapons..."

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 19, 2011, 11:11:53 PM

The feline horribly managed to keep himself from laughing, makeing a chokeing sound as he trys to hold it in. "We... heheh... just need to circle around." He gestured to the halway still chuckleing "Your not such a tough guy now are you?" he teased walking down the halway keeping the torch in hand, lighting each unlit torch he came by that hung on the walls. When they reached a dead in, he lit one last one before frowning. He took off his bandana and closed his eyes before slowly backpeddleing untill he came to a stop as he heard some wind comeing from a wall.

He turned to face it and opened his eyes for a moment looking the wall up and down. The feline rose a paw and placed it on the one peculiar part of the wall and gave it a push. Oddly the wall swung open like a regular door with no resistances into another room, full of weapons. "Thats convient..." he sighed before groaning as a zombie came hobbleing up to them from the side. He quickly grabbed hold of it and slung it onto the ground and stomped on its temple caveing the poor creatures head in. "I swear these things get annoying after a while."

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 24, 2011, 03:43:08 PM

(( sorry I thought it posted, but I guess it was when the forums kept going out :/))

"I'm touch enough to kill any thing that stands in my way" he said,  walking over to the weapons looking for his staff. "Damn the absent amount of weapons these blasted things have taken." Shrub was to busy looking through the weapons to have noticed something starting wrap around his leg. Once he noticed it, he was already in its grip. The creature lifted him in the air, and threw him to the other side of the room, shrub landed with a thud as his small body slammed through the room. He landed on the other side of the wall, in a pile of gold, "note to self, grab gold after killing the tentacle monster." He climbed over the remaining wall to get back to the weapon room, the creature had four limbs visible, each holding a weapon.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 25, 2011, 02:07:54 PM

"Yeah sure... sure... tentacle monster" Leo sighed as he sifted through the weapons oblivious to the creatures presence and the gold that was infront of him. He finaly looked up when he saw a glint of something and rolled forward as a blade came to decapitate him missing his head by inches. He spun around on his heel as he came to his feet, faceing the monster, and growling when he found it holding his weapon. "Note to all, overkill this thing if you can"

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 25, 2011, 10:33:14 PM

"Note taken" shrub said climbing back over, his arms dropped to his side as his shields formed. "Do you have an idea how to-" he swiftly dodged an incoming attack, followed by him slashing back with his shield. "Do you know how to kill this damn thing!" shrub said lunging forward and grabbing a staff the creature had and ripped it out of its tentacle. Shrub was quite good with staff like weapons so it was his natural choice. Shrub held the staff ready as the creature attacked again, shrub cut it with the blade of the staff. He heard it scream a little, but a new tentacle popped up and attacked just as quickly as the other went into hiding. "Damn"  

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: tangletail on January 26, 2011, 12:01:49 AM

"Not a clue" Leo said jumping back from another swipe. He was already hearing zombies flooding the halls and cursed his luck. his eyes turned to a nearby pillar, an idea crossing his mind as his lips curled into a smile. He would reach to his side to grab hold of a lance and quickly through it to the center mass of the tentacles. While the monster was preoccupied with pulling it out he quickly lounged forwards to grab his own weapon and pointed to the pillar "How about we ignore it for now, break the pillar!" he yelled as he had to duck yet another swipe as he was moveing something to block the doorway.

Title: Re: Broken Hope
Post by: Self-sain on January 26, 2011, 04:49:55 PM

"As soon as I find my!" Shrub saw his staff and grabbed it, without a moments delay he swung his staff at the pillar, cutting through it like butter. "Lead the way before we all die!"