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Creative Arts and Media => Roleplay => Serious RP => Topic started by: Grace.E on February 17, 2011, 02:42:07 AM
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Cerri read underneath the shady willow tree by a small, flowing river. Tia rested in the sun, her emerald scales were dazzling to look at. the road to Ironwing was far and long from the forest of Cree. though she paid no attention, the dragon awoke, she yawned. then stretching kinda like a cat, then shook herself as she walked gracefully, she laid back down behind Cerri, Cerri rested her head on her shoulder. feeling the warmth of her body, though this peaceful moment was interrupted by a cry of horns, alert, Cerri looked the sound came from a returning army, she stood up, Tia merely raised her head as the two watched the worn out army march pass. the stench of war clung to them, Tia and Cerri grimaced and nearly gagged. one wolf man stopped, he rode upon a beated, weary horse. his sharp gaze seemed to go right through Cerri, he had a bloody bandage across his left eye.
"where are you going?" he asked, Cerri slightly bowed "Ironwing sir, the academy summoned me to finish my training sir" the wolf anthro man looked at Tia then back at Cerri.
"be safe, war is not far off.."
"I cannot agree more..." Tia replied through mind speech. the wolf anthro nodded, understanding. "be on your way, don't rest long"
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Jonathan was pacing back and forth on the ramparts of Ironwing. He couldn't believe he had been positioned here. Why would you need to protect DRAGONS? And from WHAT???
Let alone people who were trained to RIDE the foul beasts. Leaning on the wall, he looked down over the nearby town.
He sighed "Why are people here, when there is the horde to kill elsewhere..." he looked back and saw a guard asleep at his post. His boots clanked on the stone floor as he marched over to the trooper.
He slamed his gauntlet into the younger man's shoulderplate. "Wake up soldier. You aren't here to sleep. Get back on watch."
The guard mumbled something about the unfairness of things, and Jonathan grabbed the man's breastplate with his enormous hands.
"Unfair? You think this is unfair? Dealing with four hundred screaming greenskins charging down on you, with artillery, and your men are about to be over run... THAT's unfair. Now get back on watch before i throw you down from the wall."
The soldier quickly got to attention and marched off.
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Cerri mounted Tia and they flew off, on dragon back they approached the gate in a matter of minutes, Tia landed graceful, folding her wings to her body, many people stared in awe as Tia and Cerri came passed, the guards looked at her passports and nodded in approval "the academy is in the heart of the city, just fly over and you'll get there" Cerri nodded and Tia took to the air, they merely glided across the city before landing in what seemed to be the from of the academy. Cerri dismounted as a booming voice was overpowering a poor young guard, Cerri merely raised an eyebrow, her father warned her about warriors ...
"my, my isn't he a charming character?" Cerri chuckled and bravely approached him "excuse me sir?" she called out to him, Tia followed
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Jonathan heard the frail voice from over the wall. He stepped over to the wall and looked over.
"Ah, another elf lizard rider. Come to join up eh? Do your fancy hand waving and firebreathing? Looking for vacation? Well you got it here, miss. I'll open the gates." Before waiting for a response, he turned and walked down the steps, his huge regalia of plate armor clanking as he walked. His 7 foot frame got to the gates and didn't need the machines that powered the door. He pushed and the doors open with his hands and looked down at the 5'11 girl.
"And? What else do you want, a piggy back ride? Go on in, i am sure the other lizard lovers are expecting you." he turned and clanked off, his greatsword swinging from his back.
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Cerri and Tia stood there for a brief moment, intimidated, they wanted to feel offended, but instead they had the urge to burst out laughing, Tia raised her head high to get a good look at the 7 foot man. she flapped her wings and trotted after Cerri who was trying so hard not to smile, but she then stopped, then turned to the guard "ummm...I am not an elf by the way" lifting up inky black hair, showing off her round, human ears. " but thanks for the compliment anyways, oh by the way, your hysterical" she giggled but smiled kindly at the guard who clearly disliked dragons, she could tell this man was stubborn. Tia affectionately nudged her, "come on, its time to meet the headmaster"
"bye sir! hopefully we shall meet again" she and Tia walked up the stairs to the entrance
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Jonathan frowned underneath his helm.
"Begone, scaley." he said waving off the dragon which got too close for his comfort. He turned over to where the barracks was, both guards apon seeing him snapped up to attention. He waved them off and walked in to his room. Clanking, he sat down in his big wooden chair, scratching his head with his gauntlet, putting his big metal boots on the table.
Another soldier, a dwarf, walked into the room. "Another recruit, aye? One that got one yer nerves?"
Jonathan looked up at Ironjaw. "What, am I that easy to read?"
The dwarf grinned, pulling his own helm off. "Ye've always been that easy to read, laddie. Tell me. See anything interesting sides pretty dragon riders?"
Jonathan grimaced. "Yeah. I saw a greenskin the other day... not too far from here, and no slave markings. I don't like it..."
Ironjaw smiled. "Probably just a savage one."
"Maybe..." Jonathan said, looking at his helm on the table and thinking.
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once inside the main hall, glorious statues of the greatest dragon riders either in an war or standing proud, many Cerri was proud to see were women, though most of them were elves. many of the students wore the traditional uniform of black boots, pants, white tunic with a mid thigh gray robe, men and women alike. each had a pin with a jewel the same color as their dragon.
"Cerridwyn Stormseeker!" a loud male voice called to her. Tia and Cerri looked, a man in golden armor approached her, behind him a majestic, monstrous gold dragon. Cerri blinked, Tia stared
"yes sir?"
the man held out his hand " I am Jereth Wings, headmaster of the academy, welcome." she shook his hand heartily, the headmaster was inpressed "you shake hands like your father Cerridwyn, though you look so much like your mother"
Cerri was caught off guard "you know my parents?"
he smiled "one of the greatest legends out there...i hope that I can see you become a legend as well". after that, they went seprate ways, Cerri and Tia found their dorm, for both rider and dragon...it was nice, cozy. Cerri dressed in her uniform, the twin swords that rested on her bed, the long dagger...the twin swords were her father's and the dagger her mothers, her twin swords fit perfectly in the one scabbard. they were elven made, eternally, wickedly sharp, shiny, slim but not skinny,it messed with many people for she could also use them together as one sword. Tia watched as she readied herself
"what of your armor?" she asked, Cerri shrugged "not now"
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durako was 'escourted' to the main gate by six guards, shadow right behind them "i told you, i didn't steal it, i found it....in a case in your camp..." <told you it was a bad idea to go in there.> "what! you dared me to run in there screaming 'the horde's a comin!' hows that teling me it was a bad idea?" <because i thought of it, i thought it was implied that it was stupid.> "touche..." he turned to one of the guards as the gat began to open slowly "soo, mind letting me off this time? i was just seeing if your security was good enough." "just get inside..." <i have a bad feeling about this...> "you and me both, shadow.....you and me both."
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Tia and Cerri were exploring the academy, the interesting was, was that there were hardly any hunters... actually, she was the only one pratically, that made her upset, mages looked at her snootily while warriors in training teased her.
"i am charmed by this place" Tia was sarcastic. Cerri nodded in agreement "its like the forest, kill or be killed"
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There was a yelling outside and Jonathan, his train of thought broken, got up to see what was the matter. Six guards were wrestling a squirming male in through the gates, with a dragon behind him.
"More lizards... just my luck..." he mumbled to himself. He marched up, his plate clanking menicingly as he did.
"Who is this" he boomed, his shoulders raised up to full 7'2 hight.
"Trespasser in our midst sir. Trying to start something. A little trickster. Caught him screaming about the horde coming."
Jonathan sighed.
"Well my little prankster" glowering down, his eyes piercing through the holes in his already menacing helm. "What do you have to say for yourself.
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durako, now being completely held off the ground, smiled weakly. "i'm a new student..." the guards put him down as shadow walked forward, then as if practiced they both pointed at each other and said/thought "it was his idea!," they looked at each other "my idea?!" they now faced each other and were stearing each other down "yea yours!" they were now eye to eye and looking furious "how dare you accuse me!! and another thing! bye" the two bolted past the larger of the guards and into the school laughing as they turned a sharp corner and hit something moving. durako, shadow and both of the people they hit fell over, he looked up at the younger student and her emerald green dragon and smiled, he then heard the guards looking for him. he and shadow looked at each other then back at the student and her dragon and pleaded in unison. "you gotta hide us!"
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Cerri was startled as a body slammed into her. Tia snarled angrily, Cerri looked at her, "w-what?" was her reply, Tia looked at her, then they saw the guards "to the library"
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Jonathan saw that the smaller male had gone to the girl lizard rider, and they ran off down the corridor. He was fairy fast in his armor which had gotten him to see up to that point, but he decided it would be better just to wait. One of the guards panting. He clapped a hand on his back.
"Don't worry. They are just being misfits. If you see them, i don't care how, but grab them and bring them to me. Even if you have to be friendly and pat them on the back, and knock them out with your gauntlet, i want you to do it. I'll go talk to the headmaster."
The guard and the others who heard him, nodded, saluted, and left.
He marched up the staircase to the Headmaster's room. The door opened automatically.
"Jereth? We have a misfit hunter in the academy."
"Oh?" Jereth said, looking up from the papers strewn over his desk.
"Yes. I would like permission to go find him and personally kick him out."
Jereth smiled. "Always the violent one. Here, right now they are both in the library."
Jonathan momentarily wanted to ask HOW Jereth knew, but then he remembered who he was talking to.
"Okay. I'll take the secret passage." He turned and walked through what looked like a hard wall, and appeared behind a bookshelf in the vast library, right near the front doors of it. He detested magic, but a little here wouldn't hurt.
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"thanks for helping us, i'm durako and this is shadow." he said extending a hand once they were in the library. he wasn't sure how this stranger would react and he hoped the obvious question didn't come up before he could think of a cover story. shadow just appeared to bow his head....untill a light snoring sound started to emit from deep in his throat. "oi! you can't sleep now. your going to have to wait till later...or at least till the guards stop looking for us....i said to much" <fine...not that i'm the one that got us kicked out of our village> "that was you!..." <so you, ganren and spire just kind of helped.>
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Jonathan stepped out of the shadows and grabbed the black dragon and the blood elf by the neck scales and shirt collar respectively.
"Welcome to Iron wing. Now, if there is anything else i can do for you, the kicking of yourselves out of here will commence shortly." He pushed past the human girl and walked out, dragging the two of them.
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"I am Cerridwyn Storm Seeker, this is Tia" she then noticed Jereth and Johnathan walking out, Johnathan had a hold of Durako before anything could be said, Jereth looked at Cerri, she bowed her head in shame, but Jereth smiled at her kindly "You are not in trouble young one, though I do advise to stay out of it"
"yes sir" Tia looked down at her affectionately. "now go to the mess hall, eat something at least" Tia slowly hesitated, but she looked at Durako and Shadow with a sad, apologetic stare. Tia gave a rather rude stare at Johnathan before leaving the library. "I feel so...bad now"
"its okay, one thing is for certian, I know that prankster is not gonna be in a whole lot of trouble" Cerri hardly believed it.
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once cerridwyn and tia were gone durako looked up at his holder "this is going to hurt wont it?" <don't worry, it's not like there going to litteraly kick us out.> "don't give them ideas." <hay how highs the wall? i always wanted to see if he could use air magic.> "WHOS SIDE ARE YOU ON!!!" <the one thats winning....> durako gave him a blank stare that basicly said 'you suck' <thats what we normally do!> "thats what we normally do, WHEN ITS NOT OUR HEADS ON THE CHOPING BLOCK!!!"
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Jonathan sighed at their bickering.
"Just, SHUT UP. I was going to make this kinda painless, but turns out I changed my mind." He whistled for his guards to come over, to whom they all grinned and ran off to the door, opened it a little bit.
"I don't want to see your faces here unless you have a SIGNED NOTE to get into the academy. And if i catch you boys messing around in the town, you WILL be put up for public humiliation."
He then proceeded to use his plate boot to literally kick the dragon out the door, followed by the blood elf. The guards slammed the door right behind him.
The guards started laughing, with Jonathan.
"That should show them. Keep an eye out for them boys, and if they even step out of line ONCE, chuck him in jail, and we'll have some fun."
he said the last part darkly, but smiling and chuckling.
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Cerri and Tia hid and watched, Cerri felt so mad that these guards were total jerks! she gave them a intense stare that practically said 'you guys disgust me...' her emerald gaze then shifted to Johnathan, her gaze became darker, but she shook her head, turned around and walked away to the mess hall. Tia followed "human men can be...unpleasant" she said something else in Cerri's head and agreed "I am going to go eat, I think you should too" Tia nodded, Cerri hugged Tia's head, which Tia hummed with Happiness before they went their separate ways. the mess hall was huge, full of people talking, laughing, none of them payed attention to her except for the one wolf whistle she revived from a group of young guards. upon reaching the table with a giant soup pot, there was a plumpish woman in peasant clothes. Cerri smiled kindly at her as she grabbed a soup bowl that was considered 'dwarf sized' which was huge. Cerri, has a metabolism that makes her eat monstrous amounts of food, and she loves eating. the woman looked at her, then the soup bowl, then back at Cerri "Child you may as well just burst if you eat that much" Cerri shook her head, but the woman filled he soup bowl, with a large hunk of bread and cheese and some chicken breast meat, she looked around for a...more empty table. when she found it, it was only inhabited by a dwarf. with a long red beard and a angry looking face, on his back was a monstrous battle ax, he also had a full soup bowl. she sat down across from him, the dwarf looked up at her, his pale blue eyes studied her breifely. she merely gazed back, he then looked at her soup bowl and suddenly let out a sigh "this is my table human girl" he said gruffly, Cerri shrugged "so? I rather sit here then be with the rude guards, the snooty mages or the mach warriors" the dwarf stared at her "your a hunter, aren't you" Cerri felt annoyed, she set down her soup bowl "so? got a problem with that?" she could see a bit of a smirk under his long beard. "I don't, just out of curiosity, what forest do you come from?"
"Cree"
he stopped eating, and looked up at her, eyes were wide "only a madman would dare live in that forsaken forest" he said in a low voice, it was Cerri's turn to smirk "I was born and raised there"
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Jonathan was still laughing as he walked off from the punting, but he darkened when he saw a runner coming towards him with a piece of parchement clutched in his hands.
"SIRE! SIRE! Urgent report from Stormwind!"
Jonathan came up to the man and took the parchment, his eyes scanning quickly. He dropped the paper and started barking orders.
"You two! Open the gates full board. You four, go get all the nearby villagers into the academy, and the rest of you wake the militia. We have to go hold the outer walls. An orc warparty has been seen coming towards us. I want every able bodied man at the outer gate in an hour. Tell the scouts to be on high alert."
He looked back at the messanger.
"Go tell Jerath that the enemy might be close at hand and to get all of his recruits to saftey."
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Atlas awoke with a groan in unison with his dragon. As he set up he felt his stomach growl, while his dragon gave him a look that just said that she's hungry too.
"Yeah yeah, guess it is time we should find another village." Said Atlas as he stood and put on his cloak on and walked towards Alice who stretched awake and shook her wings. As soon as Atlas tied his backpack down onto Alice's saddle and jumped on she immediately took flight, and as they came from under the trees within the forest the sun immediately glared in Jacks eyes. As they continued to fly Jack was able to see a castle in the distance and it seemed as if his dragon saw it too, since she had made a small growl. "I don't like going to another kingdom either, but hey they have a market probably, which means we can get food. Lets just hope they're friendly." As Atlas grew closer he decided pull up his hood, and take a look around to see a good sized group of Orcs below him, who seemed to be heading in the same direction as the kingdom; Atlas knew he should warn whoever is there as quickly as he could.
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urako turned quickly about to protest when the large doors slamed in his face.....litteraly.. he got back up holding his nose when a large, fully grown skyblue dragon landed behind him and shadow. "i swear you two, your learning to fast for my teachings so i try to send you to a decent school and you fly off without your forms." called an older looking version of durako. "yep, thanks dad." <thats master atcher to you> "sorry, master atcher and master hawk. i forgot that you cared for such formalities." "at least try to behave your selves." and with that durako's sather threw a letter to him and flew off. <well, isn't that guard gong to be happy?> shall we give him the news?" at that moment the gates opened and the two were alost trampled by guards and milita running to battle. <to the mess hall?> "to the mes hall."
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the dwarfs name was Billy Redbeard, in those small moments, they had very much in common, they became fast friends. suddenly bells began to rang, everyone stopped what they were doing and ran, armor and weapons unsheathed. Billy smirked "well, looks like a battle...wanna play a game?"
"what kind of game?"
"well Cerri...its a game of how many orcs you can kill until the battle is over...the one with the most kills wins, loser buys dinner and drinks"
Cerri smiled widely, she extended her hand "meet you at the roof in ten minutes"
Both Billy and Cerri ran, Cerri ran to her dorm, Tia was there dozing, she opened her eyes when she saw Cerri dressing for war. Tia got up "I fight I see?" Cerri told her everything as she also armored up Tia, elven armor was the strongest, lightest, best armor you can get. putting on her helmet she mounted Tia, both of them ready, the window was large so they could pass through, she saw Billy on a red dragon, he waved his axe in the air "TO BATTLE!" Tia glided and landed next to the red dragon, Billy there her something, a long bow with a huge quiver of arrows, so beautifully made." it was a gift from my master... i have had no use for it, its yours"
Cerri smiled "thank you..." she slung over the quiver and strung her new long bow "beat you there" Tia at blinding speed shot to the sky, Billy and his red dragon followed. the people cheered as they flew past. they landed on the gates, and waited.
"let them come to us lassie, we will be here, they will send in the mounted ones first, watched the ground while I watched the sky"
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Jonathan was already on the ramparts. He nodded at the dwarf, but looked with a scowl at the girl.
"Little young don't you think? To be fighting green skins and warlocks?" he said pulling out a bow as thick as his arm and as long as him pretty much, grabbing an arrow from his quiver that was about as thick as a good sized thumb.
The militia were all gathered at the wall, their own bows ready, large ballista's armed and aimed downward. Through the heavy forrest, you couldn't see the orcs, but you could hear drums. That was for sure. It started low, but slowly got louder.
Jonathan, looking over his men, beleaguered and ill trained, most being recruits, as well as the town's militia which was far from a war party, and stood a little straighter. He turned to his troops, and his chest heaved with air.
"Men! Today we fight a battle to which we defend the very honor of the Alliance. Today, we hold the gates of Ironwing from a large party of orcs. Today, we hold our pride, to hold our standards high over the battlefield. WE, men, hold the lives of many innocents in our hands. If we can not stand, the entire kingdom will fall. WE HOLD IRONWING. Do not let it fall!"
He raised his Greatsword over his head, and his men looked to him like a hero. This man who had fought so many battles cheered them on, and their morale soared.
They cheered in unison, and smiles were seen to glance their faces, which were contorted with pride for themselves. If they failed to hold the wall, they at least would die with honor, and glory for the Alliance.
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Billy smirked "had a little tiff with Johnny?" he asked, Cerri glared at Johnathan. "kinda..." Tia looked at Billy "lets just say that he gets under ours skins" Billy laughed "yup, same here" his dragon, Ember, a male dragon smirked at his rider "more under mine then yours" he laughed, but the drums of war grew louder, Cerri could hear the war cries, she saw the hell hounds. but there was something else... Cerri's eyes widen at the sight, how in the world did they get a mountain trolls? not to mention...this one was from Cree. she looked at Billy, he saw it too, he nodded.
"ALRIGHT BOYS" he boomed "WE GOT A COUPLE A TROLLS ON OUR HANDS, NOT TO MENTION HELL HOUNDS AND ALL THAT JAZZ, BE ON YOUR TOES!" the drums stopped as the army lined up, the silence before war. they waited, the orcs broke the silence with a mighty battle cry as they charged. Cerri leaned in so Tia could hear. "lets burn them"
Tia raised her head high, she roared with such ferocity before a mighty stream of hot fire busted from her mouth, scorching the footmen. Ember joined into the blaze.
"I GOT ABOUT FORTY!" Cerri bragged, Billy laughed "FIFTY HERE!!" footmen that avoided the flames began banged against the gate.
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As Atlas finally soared over the outer wall he circled around to see the Orcs already pounding on the door, while hell hounds were slowing coming up behind them. "Hu, not only did i misjudge the number of Orcs, but also how close it seemed they were. So I guess we should give them a hand?" Said Atlas, his dragon only replied with a grunt, so as he finished he circle above the outer wall, which the Orcs pounded at, and slowly descended towards them with his staff raised high, and glowing. As atlas became low enough, behind the outer wall which he had an outstanding number of knights and militia, he thrust his staff down which had brought down strip of giant icicles, scattering and killing a good number of Orcs, but had unfortunately missed most of their hell hounds. Atlas grew higher and circled for another attack.
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Jonathan cocked another arrow, maybe his twentieth, and shot it through one of the orcs that was scaling the wall.
It was that moment that the door breached, and the orcs flooded into the city. Jonathan ran down the stairs, and drew his longsword. With a hellish scream of fury, he litterally started wading into the orcish lines, slicing orcs to pieces, his armor becoming caked with blood. Many of the lesser orcs were trying to flee, but they ran into the Militia that were waiting. He pushed farther into them, ripping all in his way to pieces.
"FORWARD MEN! FOR LORDERON! FOR THE ALLIANCE!"
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Atlas's last attempt with ice hadn't stopped the Orcs from breaking through, so Atlas did what he could and decided to target the hell hounds, but unfortunately the Orcs finally decided to target him as well with there arrows. As Atlas again grew closer to a small group of hell hounds staring him down Atlas gripped his staff enough that the small blue crystal had turned red, and a ball of fire had grown above it, and as he passed over he took out the group of hell hounds, including Orcs surrounding them. His dragon had not gone unscathed, and although the cut wasn't massive, Atlas took his dragon into the outer wall and landed behind a group of knights away from the massive battle, there swords drawn towards him as he climbed off. Atlas only grinned, his eyes unseen with his hood still up, then asked walking towards them with his staff and hand telling his dragon to stay. "Is this how you treat all your allies? Please step aside so I may help, and to me, those Orcs look to be the bigger problem then me." Finished Atlas pointing towards Orcs fighting other knights and militia. The knights only taking one more look at Atlas, then turned and charged into the battle with there allies, Atlas right behind them his staff raised high, again glowing.
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Tia and Cerri took to the air, scorching the ground with massive blasts of fire, the smell of smoke, burning flesh and blood burned her nose, the sting of the smoke watered her eyes. with her arrows, she shot at the charging Hell Hounds.
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<should we help?> durako rubbed the sore spot from the guards boot "fine, but not for them. for those other riders" <you hit them high...> "and you hit 'em low." seconds later the two we're flying high, way higher than the others, durako with five arrows notched. they flew over the fight and sighed "you better catch me." <have i ever mised?.....don't answer that -_-> with that shadow did a back flip, durako muttered an incantation while in free fall, shadow swooping about ten meters in front. he let loose the arrows which landed on the points of a mental star, lines formed along the ground between them as shadow pulled up and caught durako mere meters from the ground while breathing fire over the area. the two flew over to the two other riders lazily. "five..." <four...> "three..." <two...> they both said one together as the mark along the ground shone, veperising all that were trapped inside "are we late?"
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From his helmet, Jonathan saw the dragons flying above, bickering, and even laughing to one another, fighting what looked like the greatest amount of orcs. But what they hadn't noticed was that the catapaults in the back of the orc line had breached the wall, hundreds of Militia and guards lay dead, and even Jonathan, with his enourmous strength, needed to fall back. The orcs were pillaging the town as they went. Half of the buildings were burning. The guards had scattered and fled back to the wall, the knights and militia with them. THeir numbers were falling rapidly.
Jonathan cursed at the dragon riders for their lack of vision of the battlefield and the damage they had caused not only to the enemy, but to their own forces.
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Atlas continued to fight along side knights, thinking its been a while since he has fought like this, but since it had still been a while since Atlas ate, he had to stop casting spells so he wouldn't further weaken himself. He started to just charge his crystal ball and went on smacking orcs left and right with his staff, which was only tazzing them. Atlas didn't have the strength to make his attacks lethal, but he didn't give up, even though he had know idea who he was really helping. Atlas wasn't unstoppable, he was knocked down by a orc, hard, it would have been the end of Atlas if his dragon hadn't come to burn down all the orcs surrounding him. After Atlas got back up on his feet, his dragon beckoned him to get on, Atlas only pet her with a smile. The small moment was immediately broken when a boulder had struck down a house close by, Atlas turned to see more boulders coming in, he jumped on his dragon, and as they took immediate flight Atlas had his eyes set on destroying those catapults.
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"TAKE OUT THE TROLLS! IM GONNA HELP JOHNATHAN!" Cerri nodded to Billy as they flew off to aid the falling guard.
Billy and Ember flew over the gates, scorching more of the army, if they could keep them away from the wall, then they could have some help. Ember let loose a fire ball, Billy cursed "where are the others?"
Cerri, saw the city in flames, she couldn't help but wonder where the other dragon riders where. ((sorry guys, I have t cut it short, part of plot twist)) suddenly the ground shook and everything all at once froze...for that brief moment, then the shaking continued until it became violent. orcs, hell hods and other beings began to scatter, as the ground below suddenly cracked and shutter, most of the orc army fell into the abyss of the earth. Cerri watched with awe and shock as the suddenly change began to happen, orc fled out of the city and ran in all directions. something did change, Cerri suddenly felt a vibration that chilled her to the bone Cerri looked up one moment she saw nothing, she felt something had reappeared, something ancient...something evil. Cerri looked at Tia "I feel it too" Cerri looked to the bloody horizon... a powerful hit wave suddenly hit them as a bone chilling roar ripped through the air.
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Jonathan felt the vibrations.
"HOLD! GRAB HOLD OF SOMETHING!"
The earthquake shattered the second ring, opening a chasm to the ground. Jonathan rose first, while the rest of his men were either on the ground or knocked out, and he stood tall. He looked up, and even in all his experience fighting, he couldn't fathom the monstrosity that caused such disaster.
"Hold fast, soldiers of Ironwing! Hold the wall!" he said, regaining his strength with lightning speed, and raising his sword high again.
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Atlas was approaching the catapults, ready to use the last of his energy to destroy and save what he could. It was when he summoned his energy when he noticed the earth rumbling, a loud roar, and orcs immediately started to mobilize and run back into the forests. Atlas stopped summoning his energy, he was completely curious as to what could have caused that massive rumble, and roar; he decided to turn around only to a massive beast arising from within the kingdom grounds. His jaw dropped and almost did is staff from his hand.
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the feeling of rejection returned when both the dwarf and cerri just left him there. "oh come on! i can understand back at home but here to!" he noticed the loud roar (he was facing the other way) and slowly turned <i retract my previous statement...their on their own....> "too late. i don't know how it happened but we're tangled up in this now." <durako, seriously, i can see what your thinking and thats just crazy. i refuse!> "oh come on, please? <fine...if we survive i'll send a chicken into space> "ok, how about this one?" <thats just wrong.....cool but wrong....> "and this one? nonotthatone!!!" "oh...your...god...> shadow started laughingand flew over to where he saw the guard from earlier. apon ariving shadow just couldn't stop laughing as durako threw the guard the letter he was given before the fight. "i was suposed to give you this. WOULD YOU SHUT UP!!! IT"S NOT FUNNY!!" <but....you....ahahahahahaha! i can't...can't help it! it's just so out of charactor that its imposible for me not to.> "ignore him....." a thought just hit him and he hoped it wasn't to late "AND FOR GODS SAKE PLEASE DON'T BELEIVE ANYTHING HE TELLS YOU!!!"
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((@haxor: no monster from the kingdom, but hold on)) suddenly in the distance Cerri, saw a small cloud of smoke arise from a distant mountain in the south. she looked at Tia curiously, another wave of vibration, this one so strong that it threw Tia off balance in midair. Cerri could not imagine what would cause this...but her answer came...in a form of speeding cloud of smoke and fire, it flew past her, it was so huge, she could barely comprehend the size, it flung Tia and Cerri out of the air, Cerri almost fell out of her saddle. when they landed on the ground, Cerri could not help but look up, the cloud had lifted and revealed something so...evil, its energy seem to crush her. but her eyes widen at the sight, monstrous... Cerri knew of only one who looked like a Molten Lava dragon with that huge of size... Astarot the Destroyer, the evil Titan,The Aspect of Death, the leader of the Black Dragonflight... Tia looked at her "we are so screwed...no one can take him"
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"Correction: no one can take him alone."
Another Hunter/Rider riding a black-and-silver dragon came up next to the others and drew a black sword and a crooked dagger.
"We could probably drive him off if we all worked together."
<Yeah>, said his dragon. <We could totally drive him off.>
;) (I'm doing exactly what you told me to do.)
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(no need for corrections here little one, and good job!)
Cerri and Tia landed next to Billy and Ember "Bill, we need to drive the citizens away! we need to tend to the wounded, right now the citizens are more important!" as if everyone around her heard her, men helped fallen men up, driving terrorized citizens out of the city under Astarot's nose, finally the other dragon riders were helping, Cerri and Tia felt a deep sense of annoyance with them, one lad with a black and silver dragon was foolishly trying to gather the other dragon riders to fight him when suddenly the massive dragon shot to the sky, as if satisfied of destroying a city. Tia and Cerri called to him "come on! we need you help with the people, you can't expect us to fight him right now!" she sent Tia next to Johnathan, sensing his hatred, she ignored it "Sir, you are the voice of the people, knowing them more than I...I want you to lead them out of the city to Storm Wing...they will be safe there...its our last Alliance strong hold" there was a deep pleading in her eyes before she and Tia shot to the sky. "what now?" Tia asked, Cerri did not reply.
Jereth, was thrown against a wall, but he knelt down as the human form aspect of death watched from his chair, in the middle of a cave. "so tell me Jereth, why has the Alliance not have died yet? If I hadn't left, they would of been gone, instead they have flourished!! luckily my daughter, a spy as the Kings adviser is luckily unnoticed... " Jereth laughed nervously "my lord, my army is well on their way to StormWing disguised as dragon riders, only all the good ones reside in StormWing...IronWing academy was just a false replica of it, bringing the recruits here, killing them off, though somehow a few have evaded me..."
Astarot looked bored, but anger flashed in his eyes "you didn't bother telling me that Stormseeker had a child..." Jereth shrugged, relieving himself of his human form, he was a black dragon now. "she doesn't matter, she has absolutely no magic ability what so ever, I sensed nothing"
"that's what worries me ..."
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"don't talk to me...." <it was a loke!> "you made me look like a loser!" well arn't you?> with that durako gave shadow a death stare and walked away, tending to wounded where shadow couldn't get to him. <avoid me all you want, you can't hide from my voice!> he put up mental bariers and completely shut out shadow while he worked, now to angry to talk he resorted to a series of grunts when spoken to.
once durako had blocked shadow out the dragon looked at the ground in shame <i messed up big time. i hope he forgives my soon.> and with that he took off, soon spoting tia and her rider cerri. he flew over to them sadly. <hay, it's me....shadow, from earlier.....one of the ones that got thrown out...i need some advice when your free.> he thought to them sadly flying next to them, never looking them in the eyes.
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Cerri and Tia gave each other an odd look, then back at the black dragon "yeah...sure, once we reach StormWing" something in he wind changed and Cerri and Tia sensed it. every single dragon rider besides Billy, her self, and the the other three. suddenly she felt safer and less paranoid.
[color=]orangeyou are safe now child of Cree... but this is not over yet...[/color] a voice spoke to her...it was soft, gentle, loving like a mothers. Cerri looked perplexed "is something wrong?" Tia asked, senseing her confusion. "no, nothing"
*****At StormWing*****
the citizens were safe and Tia and Cerri could finally rest
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Atlas awoke with a blistering headeache, and a still rumbling stomach. He sat up looking around to see other injured people, he was in the infirmary.
Atlas called to the nearest doctor "Hey excuse me, where am I?" "So, you live? Most of us would've thought you to have been dead." replied the doctor rather surprised, with a smile. "Well it had to have been at least 2 days since I last ate." "Yea well make it 3 now, you've been out for a while. Well I advise you to get to either the mess hall, or buy somethings out our market before you pass out again. Here's your stuff in this chest." Finished the doctor tapping on a chest next to the bed. "Thanks, for saving me and tending to my wounds." "You thank us for your wounds, but Sir Jonanthan is the one who saved you, you make sure to thank him." Said the doctor leaving Atlas, to help other patients. Atlas got up from his bed grabbed his cloak, staff, and backpack and started to leave. "Still 2 things before I go, where is my dragon, & where am I again?" Atlas called out to the doctor one more time. "Ask a knight where the dragon stables are, and You're in the kingdom of StormWing." Replied the doctor for the last time, Atlas nodded and left with his hood up once again.
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Durako walked the path to stormwing, his mind still shielded from shadow who despite the distance was still pounding at the gates of his mind desperately trying to make contact with his friend. Durako just walked stormwing now in sight.
Shadow looked over a tia and cerri and seemed to sulk a he curled up, <I did something stupid, and Durako and I got into an argument. Now he won’t even let me speak to him. I don’t know where he is or anything….I’m scared…I’ve never been without him and now I can’t even hear his thoughts.>
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Cerri stroked the black dragons head "well, first tell me what you did" Tia gave Shadow a distasteful look "as a dragon, you don't ever play tricks or do anything to upset your rider... you and your rider are one, you will only break the bond slowly if you do something like that...trust is the element in this relationship"
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After having a dragon baisically tell him what he was planning, he turned to the people.
"Iron wing has fallen. We are to move to Stormwing now."
3 days later, the refugees arrive in Stormwing.
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<i can't tell you exactly what i did or it'll only make things worse...but i can tell you that i made a fool of both of us and he took it personaly....it was one of his deepest hiden memories> the black dragon hid his head in shame unawear that durako was walking up behind the group. "i supose he went to you for advice?" shadow emediatly shot up and practicly ran at durako, almost running him over before stopping about a meter away. he then looked away and sturted to turn back towards tia and cerri. "wait!" shadow stoped in half turn as durako spoke, "what you did was wrong, and i'm not sure how long till i can trust you as i always have.....but i am in the wrong as much as you, i shouldn't have reacted so badly." <you've forgiven me?....for what i did?> "i had some time to cool off during the walk over here, and the local wild life was verry one sided. they agree that you shouldn't have done what you did, but i shouldn't hav acted like i did. can you forgive me?" <i already did.> the two touched their foreheads together as a sign of friendship.
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Cerri and Tia merely smiled at each other, Tia rested her head on Cerri's lap, the dragon stable was big enough to fit two dragons, Cerri lazily rested her head on Tia's stomach when the stable door opened. a teenager, telling from the body size was about fifteen. but she could not see its face. his clothes were nice, he looked wealthy, he wore a cloak. he sank low under the stable door, holding a dagger shakily, clearly Cerri could tell that the kid had no clue that this stable was taken.
"you okay?" she asked, the kid jumped, covering its mouth. its hood came off, revealing a teenage boy with short blond hair and bright blue eyes, he stared at Cerri for a moment, Cerri, now having a closer look new exactly who this kid was. she looked around and whispered "what is the Prince of Stormwing doing here?" the kid slightly blushed before he jumped up and covered her mouth, Cerri gave him a sour look. Tia lifted her head and growled, the Prince ignored Tia. "be quiet, I don't want anyone to know I am here..."
Cerri didn't like having her mouth covered, her emerald eyes flashed angrily, ripping his hand from him mouth "what in the world?" she snapped. for a prince who has always acted like an adult, he wasn't now. she remembered meeting him when he was about ten, she was younger at the time, they merely said hello. Tia growled again "remove your hands boy...royalty or not I will hurt you if you hurt Cerri"
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At that moment, Hex and Darren were walking around, trying to find Cerridwyn or anyone else that they knew from the battle.
<So should we tell Mongoose to come out now?> Darren said, speaking only to Hex.
"I don't think he should reveal himself just yet," Hex said to Darren through telepathy. "We should probably wait until we get a chance to meet the king."
<Good idea,> the young dragon said. <Are you sure you're okay? That mercenary hurt you pretty badly before he fell on Hoenir.>
(Just a brief recap: Hoenir= Hex's sword.)
Hex winced slightly as he rubbed his left shoulder. "I'll manage," he said. "I'm just glad that you were there to rescue me after I passed out. And that Hoenir got stuck in his chest."
<Yeah,> Darren said. <Hey wait! I just remembered that Cerri said that she was going to the dragon stables on the other side of town to visit Tia!>
"Well, it's about 20 minutes from here," Hex said. "Let's see if she's there."
<I hope we run into that general,> Darren said. <We still have to give him our papers.>
"Yeah," Hex said.
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"hey, you can't do this!! I am the prince!!" the towns people stared in shock and horror as Cerri dragged the prince back to the palace by the ear, she was inraged by his immaturity, Tia was behind the Prince, the palace guards saw the commotion, pointing their spears at Cerri's armored chest "release the prince or we will have no choice bu to make you"
Cerri growled "I am returning the prince to his father immediately..."
"UNHAND ME YOU EVIL WITCH!" the prince cried angrily. Tia growled loudly, he stopped squirming, Cerri noticed the head of the Guard coming to greet them "let her through boys, His Majesty the King wishes to see his son immediately"
Cerri bowed her head in thanks as they marched passed. the gates closed and the Prince mumbled something, Cerri pretended not to hear. finally in the throne room, His Majesty King Varian Wyrnn was talking to war generals, almost on cue he turned around in shining, golden armor, a angry scar across his face, his long black hair in a pony tail, he stared at the sight.
"what's this, a dragon rider and my son the prince..." Cerri and Tia bowed deeply. Varian got a good look at Cerri "well, you certianly do have the striking resemblance of your parents Cerridwyn Stormseeker"
Cerri snapped her head up, then bowed it "of course your majesty"
he smiled "I have a good memory, your father is a dear and loyal friend of mine...its surprising how long he has lived well in such a cursed forest...not even Astarot would go near it"
Cerri looked at Tia, her face paled at the name, "rise" the king ordered and Cerri obeyed. the king sat in his throne "now tell me..what happened at Ironwing"
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From outside the capital a feline anthro was walking in the distance closely followed by a dyed black vulture. He was a tall and sleek serval holding a half eaten green apple. The feline stopped with a sigh, and asked his companion vulture with his very peculiar accent in an annoyed tone looking over his shoulder. “Is that giant spider still following us?”
The vulture let out a squawk and landed next to him. It looked to the cat narrowing its eyes and turning its head to the village <No, he won’t bother us anymore. You should be more concerned with the task at hand instead of eating apples you pig.>
“Oh? I beg your pardon but last time I checked you and I do not share the same diet.” Leo groaned taking another bite out of the apple he was carrying.
<You just ate half an hour ago. How you remain agile I do not understand.> The vulture squawked to him in a retort.
“Oh yes, a human corpse is a delightful meal. I may have developed an immunity but that’s certainly not normal for a Serval. Can I not just enjoy my kind’s food for once without you acting as my caretaker.” Leo sighed finishing the apple, he tossed it to the side and glanced back to the city. He slowly started to walk again gradually picking up speed into a light jog, staying under the trees to prevent himself from being seen.
“<As you wish, but remember why we are here.> the vulture squawked once more before taking flight high in the air <I will be watching you from up here.>
When the anthro finally reached the outer wall he planted his foot on the edge and quickly ran up a small distance before grabbing hold of the bottom of the flag. Clinging from quite a distance from the ground, he started to pull himself up hand over hand before hopping to the side grabbing hold of a ledge. He would hang there for a second and looked both directions to be sure a guard was not near before pulling himself over and onto the wall. He wasted no time in hopping over the other portion of the wall into the civilian area.
“Ok…. Now for the target…”
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Jonathan stood at the gate of Stormwing, his armor musty from the long trek. Behind him a ragged line of refugees from Ironwing made thier ways to the door. Jonathan took his heavy fist and banged on the door.
"Guards of Stormwing, this is the Captain of the guard from Ironwing. Our Kingdom has fallen to an evil more terrible than the likes of which we have ever seen before. Please, open the gates and let my survivors inside."
The gate opened slightly and a tall elf walked out to meet him.
"Jonathan. It has been a while. It must have been quite a terror indeed if it caused the mighty Jonathan to flee." the elf mused.
"This isn't the time for jokes, Ith'lan. We have to get my people safe now. I have quite a tale to tell."
The elf ranger nodded. Jonathan started inside then paused.
"Pray, have a few dragon riders made thier way here recently?"
"Yes, they are causing quite a stir inside. Why?"
Jonathan grimaced. "The master of the academy there vanished when the fighting broke out. i am leading the people and I take it these Dragon riders are under my responsibility." he sighed. "Direct me to the commotion."
The elf laughed.
"That female was fighting with the Prince, and she is now in council with the King."
Jonathan grimaced again. "Direct me to the royal chambers. Stormwing has changed much since i was last here.
Jonathan walked into the throne room, two of his most trusted lieutenants, Mograd and Dugard, a dwarf and and a Human, in plate armor as well, but not quite so large as Jonathans. He came in just as the king asked "what happened at Ironwing."
"Sir, I believe you will be wanting to talk to me in this case, since Jereth has vanished. I am leading what remains of the forces and dragon riders in his absence."
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Leo grinned to himself as he overheard Ironwings destruction, but quickly discarded it to fit in with the populace. He idly walked through the streets, finding himself a bit lost he stopped with a sigh and looked around at his surroundings. Seeing a shadow on the ground, he took a short glace up to see Terror circling. She would then cut off her path and slowly glide in another direction before circling a new area, then flying off.
Leos eyes followed the birds flight and then began his trek in the direction of the birds signal. In a bit of time the feline found himself in a slightly more guarded area, and quite a distance from his target, the dragon stables. He would quickly crouch done and spin off to a shadowed corner and check over his gear. "Three bottles of poison... and a flint and steel," he sighed silently shaking his head "that’s an accident waiting to happen"
He stood up and pressed his back against the wall and peeked around the corner "Hm...I could afford one casualty or two..." he commented to himself. He would slowly pull his head back from the corner and crouch down next to a box. He pulled from his pockets the flint and steel and struck it a few times, causing the box to ignite before he pulled around the building, avoiding the guard as he went to investigate, with the cat quite easily sneaking closer to stables from behind.
As a shadow came into view he slowly increased his pace until another guard came into view.
The man pointed to him as Leo came running towards him. Before the man could say anything, the cat was somehow immediately upon him in a single hop covering his mouth and pressing him to the wall. The guard tried to grab push him off tearing a bit of fur from Leo's shoulder, however he didn't budge. Instead he quickly pulled a dagger out and dragged it through the guards throat. Ending his life, and spilling his blood to the ground.
After letting the body drop, he quickly pulled one of the poison bottles from his vest and tossed it through the stable's doors and leaving the scene in a sprint.. The moment the glass broke a green toxic gas was emitted from the mess filling the room.
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durako and shadpw both turned when they heard a small bottle shater. they saw the toxic cloud moving closer ahd emediatly dashed out of the stables, grbbing anyone that was still inside on their way out. they did their best to seal up the large hall before any of the poison escaped. "so, they want to play like that." shadow, lets go see the king, he could be in danger." <yes, we should go right away> the two of them took off towards the throne room. <so how are we going to get in?> "i have an idea....."
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The king thought for a moment before he stood up "seems as though our ancient enemy has decided to return..." he looked out the window "Alexstrazea will not want to hear such news"
Cerri bowed her head breifly " I know your royal majesty..." Tia then spoke "neither will Cree" the room suddenly became very dark..even tense and scary, a cold chill seemed to creep. the kind turned towards Tia " Young Dragon...as you may know, not a even such a warrior such as I will even venture several inches into that forest, even our greatest enemy will hesitate to venture into that forest, the most cocky of men will bravely march in and never to return.."
Cerri nodded, the prince frowned at his father's word "then how come she survived?" Cerri spoke before the king did. "I was born in its heart, my family resides there, the forest only cares for its sons and daughters, I am the first human ever to actually live and thrive..I know the forest as it it was the back of my own hand" suddenly an Idea came to her
"your majesty...what would the chances be if we lured Astarot to Cree?"
the king turned to face her, his eyes glowed with curiosity and intent "go on"
Cerri coughed before she spoke "legends and rumor tells that Astarot and Cree were once friends...when Cree had a physical form, she was betrayed by him...I have seen dragons, who were the members of the black dragon flight, powerful ones...devoured by the tree's alone"
the kings and princes eyes widen with horror "the trees.."
"yes...they alive...they eat flesh and photosynthesize" as ludicrous as it sounded...it was true. hoard armies alone did not venture far. the kind approached her "you know..you have given me an idea I could never think of..but the tree's can burn?"
Cerri grinned wickedly "they are magical tree's..." was all she said
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As Atlas continued to find his way out of the castle to his dragon, and then to the market to finally get something to eat, he walked by 2 large doors that he assumed was the kings throne room. He immediately knew he wasn't in the right place, and decided to ask the nearest guard who pointed him in the right direction. He walked by 2 other guards who seemed to making there way towards the throne room, but decided to pay no attention to them. Atlas finally made it to the castle steps, he asked a guard for directions to dragon stable, and immediately started to walk faster before he passed out again.
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Having recieved permission to enter the castle, Hex and Darren made their way to the throne room, where Cerri was talking to the king about something.
"Excuse me," Hex said, walking into the room with Darren by his side. "First of all, one of the Hoard's hunters just dropped a bottle of poison in another area of the castle. And secondly..."
He reached into a pocket in his cloak and pulled out a freaky looking amulet.
"We have to introduce you to someone."
The rider touched the center of the amulet and set it on the floor. The strange object glowed turqoise and emitted a large cloud of smoke.
This vapor formed itself into a six-foot tall pillar of smoke, and started to grow arms, legs, and a tail. When the process was complete, a white tiger, in full battle armor, stood- no, FLOATED- in the place of the column of smoke. He smiled and looked around the room, then locked his fierce amber eyes on the king. A sly smile spread across the tiger's face.
"Hello, Varian." ;)
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((wait...where are you?))
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(The throne room of Stormwing. Where Cerri and Tia are.)
(I'm finally bringing Mongoose into the story....)
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Leo cursed to himself as he saw someone from down the corridor grab the poison bottle. He was about to head after him to prevent him from spreading the alert of his presence, however he stopped. His ear flicked under the bandana that was over his head at a small sound of a gentle footstep. Slowly, the cat turned his head seeing a young servant, close to his age holding a tray.
“Can I help you sir?”
With a smile Leo responded “Maybe I can help you.” He chuckled as he walked towards him. Before the man had time to react Leo quickly jumped upon him and bringing him down the ground. The cat quickly covered the mans mouth so his scream was muffled before slicing his throat. He grinned as the man laid there dead, who was quickly stripped of his clothing and lobbed out of the window.
The cat didn’t quite bother with removing his own gear, instead he wore the servants apparel over them, witch fit loosely enough to hide his equipment.
The feline checked over himself in the mirror to make sure he was proper and combed his hair, before picking up a nearby tray and tossed a bottle of poison out of the window. Instead of a shattering sound, there was a swoop as if something picked it up as he went to the throne room. He gave the door a few gentle knocks before heading inside addressing the king with the tray of water. “Sir… someone addressed me that you required refreshments? I have brought you something to drink…..” he trailed off looking around the room a bit hesitantly “I am sorry… I didn’t know there were others.”
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<Hex! It's him! I remember his scent!> Darren said.
"Uh, majesty," Hex said. "I don't think you should drink that... you know, considering that it's most likely poisoned and that THAT MAN DOESN'T WORK HERE!"
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((WAAAAIIIT! there is no in here besides me, the king and the prince....))
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(Hex and Darren just walked in. They were sort of following discreetly, and Darren thought that it would be a good time to introduce Mongoose to the King. So they literally just walked in there.)
(They got permission from the guards to go into the castle to meet the king.)
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((this is not how I wanted to go....but okay...))
Cerri and Tia looked at the new comers...the king angrily stared at them "I did not invite you young lings" he let a powerful, angry stride "you will wait outside the throne room until your are needed..maybe its time you learn a lesson about manners" he looked at the ghost thing "nothing surprises me anymore.." he waved a hand "get out before I throw you out" Cerri looked at the kids "just go out now" she said calmly "I am having a private conversation with the king"
the king looked at Johnathan "Captian, see to it that these younglings are out of here, besides Cerri, the others have no sense of manners..which I know you can teach them well"
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Leo raised his eyes slightly faking a hesitant stutter “Y-y-yes sir!”. With that he slowly backed to the door, he would slide his foot under the door and pull it open before stepping outside allowing the door to close as he stood next to the wall waiting, still holding the tray. “The man remembered me… no…. his friend… lovely” he thought to himself calmly, whistling a happy tune. ((Durp! Never knew a king could be threating.))
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The king looked at the water cup "i never drink water that is not poured by myself" throwing the water to the plants..which shriveled up and died "knew it.."
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"Oh... sorry," Hex said. "We'll all wait outside."
<Yeah, sorry,> Darren said. <Come on, Mongoose.>
"Okay, little one," Mongoose said. "I still wish to talk with you all later about certain matters that could benefit you greatly." He disappeared back into the amulet, which Hex put back in his pocket.
With Mongoose in tow (sort of), the pair walked out of the room. At the door, Hex stopped and looked back.
"I'm glad you didn't get poisoned. And again, we're REALLY sorry for interupting you."
With that, he walked out of the room and followed Jonathan and Darren outside.
<Our timing was really off, wasn't it?> Darren thought.
"Yeah," Hex said, pulling his hood back up.
<Let's just head over to the stables for the time being,> Darren said. <We both need to rest at some point, anyhow.>
"Sure thing," said Hex as he and Darren headed to the stables.
Hex suddenly stopped and ran back to Jonathan. "Sorry, we forgot to give you these papers," he said, handing an envelope to Jonathan. "We were supposed to be training at Ironwing before it was taken over by the Hoard, and in all the confusion, we forgot to give you our documents. We'll be in the stables if you have need of us." With that, the young hunter ran over to where his dragon had been waiting and they began walking to the stables together.
Post Merge: March 18, 2011, 04:34:20 AM
(Sorry about messing things up. I should really start paying more attention to the posts.)
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((I will post in a bit, the cup was never poisoned, Leo has one left, the other is somewhere else.))
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Hex suddenly tensed up.
<What is it?> Darren asked, tilting his scaly head to one side.
"I don't think the king is out of danger yet," Hex said, continuing to walk towards the stables.
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Tia looked at Cerri "he sure is young..." Cerri nodded "too young maybe" the king sat down in his throne "i must gather a war meeting...please feel free" the king looked at Johnathan "as a reward for you heroics Captain and Cerri, I advise you join me to the war meeting, I trust you have seen our great enemy" The King rose from his throne and walked to a door. "what about me?" the prince called, the King paused "you may come..you are old enough now"
((okay, but the King is highly suspicious and wont let other people do things for him...so..just saying..and he is immune to many poisons, since he was once split into two people and was once a gladiator))
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(But if Leo didn't poison the water... then who did?)
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Giving up on waiting, he spun on his heels and left the tray on a nearby table, left glassless with a half full pitcher of water. He moved his hands behind his back and started to walk down the corridors continuing to whistle as he came up to hex and stopped. “Good evening sir… is everything in order?” he asked calmly canting his head with a curious look. ((His poisons were meant for dragons. Unless you want, the most it would do to a human is knock them out.))
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*Darren, leave me temporarily, but stay close by, okay?* Hex asked his dragon.
<Got it,> Darren said, taking off.
"Yes?" Hex said, discreetly drawing his knife from its sheath.
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Leo quirked a brow as his eyes glanced down to the knife then back to the mans face. He would just calmly blink very slowly before asking the man. His hands remained behind his back empty of any weapons.
“Can I ask you why, you do not trust me? I do in fact work here. Stormwing did fall, so I transferred over for more work, starting only today. Surely a dragon rider, should be wiser then this to draw a blade to someone unarmed?”
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"The question is... why did you kill the real servant and leave his body where I could see it?!"
Hex ran over to the left and jumped out the window onto Darren, who had been waiting there the whole time.
"Better luck next time!" Hex said as Darren flew off.
(This is a bit strange being enemies here and allies on the HALO post.)
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Atlas approached the stables to see Alice and other dragons outside with guards keeping an eye on all of them. Alice noticed him, and ran over to him. The guard closest to Atlas thought she was going to take off and was about to grab her when Atlas stopped him with his staff. "It's ok, she's mine." The guard simply stepped back, and Atlas walked forward only to be wrapped around his dragon. *Atlas, I knew you were alive. Please tell me you got something to eat now." Atlas took of his hood, and replied to Alice. "No, I had to make sure you were okay first." Atlas stepped back with his dragon in front of him. *Don't give me that; you know that as long as your alive, I am too. Now go get something to eat now before you pass out again.* Alice turned away and laid back down, looking away from Atlas. He knew she was going to give him the cold shoulder until he got something to eat. "Fine i will be back." Atlas turned to the guard still behind him, and asked where the nearest place he could buy food was. "Oh, just head on down the hill, the baker will get you something fine." Atlas was about to continue walking when Alice sneaked behind him and grabbed his staff with her teeth. *You will get this back after you eat. Casting another spell will more then likely cause you to pass out.* Atlas sighed, and just left with his hood up. He finally made it to the baker and got something to eat, but boy did he get a lot.
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((It helps if you right your character seeing the body :/ or being within a area. Eliminates confusion.))
Leo again rose a brow as the man jumped out the window. He titled his head as Terror’s shadow swooped through the window into the window signaling that she was following them “The dragon is not very tentative…” he commented illy before continuing his trip down the hall nodding to the guards periodically.
Terror would be gliding above the dragon. However she had found a better target and slowly panned off to the side towards the ground, flying to the group of dragons and a single guard. In one swoop it flew over the guards head dropping another vial of poison bringing up a toxic gas aiming to kill the group, then flying over Alice’s head in a hurry back to the sky.
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<Well that was close,> Darren said to Hex, who had sheathed his knife and righted himself on the saddle.
"Yeah," Hex said. "But at least we know that the "servant" is really a Hoard spy."
<Yeah, but we should probably wait to impart this information on the king until after his important meeting.>
"You're right," Hex said. "Let's just find something calm to do until he can see us."
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durako and shadow saw the bird drop the bottle. "you get that bird, we need it alive. i'll stop that poison!" he back fliped off shadow who sped off after the large bird. as he was falling he held a hand out in front off him and chanted one of his spells under his breath, large amounts of water gathered around him and as he reached the ground it spread out and contracted, knocking everyone/thing of their feet. the guard got up and ran to him sword drawn. "what is the meaning of this?!" "i just saved the lot of you." durako smirked holding up the ball of now toxic water with the bottle in the center. "now if you don't mind....i need to go lie down....." <you need to learn to conserve your energy more.> <get back to your bird hunt..."
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Terror glanced behind herself seeing that the gas had been captured, takeing the chance. she pulled upwards into a U-turn and spinning around in a barrel roll, she dove down into the water bottle at a frigting speed to burst it and spread the gas once more, startleing the people, and killing several of the dragons <I can not allow that dragon rider> she screched as she pulled upwards back into the sky to disappear in a flock of birds.
Mean while Leo was walking through the corridors and began looking through the corridors, yes he was still whistleing as he thought to himself "Hmm.... the boy thinks I am after the king, and he knows who I am. Yet... he hasn't ratted me out?" He smiled slyly and stopped "Perfect."
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>:3 (You just wait. I'm not going to interupt the meeting again. I'm just going to wait... and then rat him out.)
:S (Again, strange to be enemies here and allies in HALO.)
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((ummmm...i don't need anymore death of dragons...you did ask permission to do so tangle tail)
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(( I do have one last poison bottle, but Leo is probably going to accidently break it. Free runners and glass are a bad mix.))
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Atlas just finished his massive meal and already payed the baker, and just sat there patting his full belly. Alice was still outside the stables laying down until a big bird flew over her head; she turned around to see a a cloud of black being held within a ball of water being destroyed. Alice grabbed Atlas's staff, flew away from the cloud of what she assumed was poison, and headed to find Atlas. She found Atlas still laying back in a seat holding his belly with his hood on, he was asleep. Alice swooped in, hearing yells from surrounding towns folk who had dust being blown into there faces. Atlas snorted awake, and turned to see Alice. "What's wrong?"He said with a groan. *Someone is either trying to kill me, or just all the dragons.* Replied Alice "So, I'm guessing you want me to tell the king?" Said Atlas turning back in his chair trying to fall asleep, only to have Alice drop his staff on his stomach. *Yes, now get on before the bird that dropped the last bottle drops another* Atlas groaned again, but got up and got on Alice, who took off immediately."Hey, easy i just ate a big lunch" *Whiner*
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Leo slowly made his way to the gates of the castle. He stopped for a moment only to glance behind himself to be sure no one was following. Satisfied he continued out into the city heading into an allyway. He climbed through a window into a dark room and removed his disguise before heading out through the door in his normal atire. He didn't quite care at this point if one of the people who encountered him snitched him out. Instead he would take the time to get a few supplies for what he feels hes going to need later; he mingled around the shops picking up some medicine and making a final stop near a blacksmith.
With his equipment repaired and sharpened, he set out into the city looking around for another disguise.
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Hex and Darren were flying around the city when they ran into Alice and Atlas.
"Hi," Hex said as Darren pulled up alongside the Rider and his dragon. "What have you been up to?"
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((I think, the others aren't posting. :/))
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(Maybe they are...)
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max was thrown a good twenty feet into the side of one of the still living dragons, the guard wasn't so lucky and ended up impailed on the side of the nearby building. max looked around and droped his head into his hands at the sight of the dead dragons, none of which were even two years old yet. shadow landed next to him once it was clear and silently layed down. <it wasn't your foult....> "you and i both know it was. if i had just solidified the water....." he looked at the now cleared courtyard, but in his mind he could still see the carnage. "i wont let this happen again."
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Leo came from around the corner after setting a few disguises in hidden locations. He smiled crossing his arms as he leaned on a nearby wall keeping his ears rotated to point behind himself. He looked at the few deaths caused by his own little pet causeing his lips to slowly curl into a smile before turning back to Max. He slid his foot under a small dragon and proped it into the air to land at Max's feet to catch his attention. "Won't let this happen again you say? Last time I checked there are deaths otherwhere. And you favor the lives of a dragon over kin and sentinent?" he asked allowing his smile to fade as his head tilted to the side in a questioning manner. "I am sure you remember me. Just as I remember you... although you don't fully know me do you?" he smiled looking up to the vulture as it rolled off into the distance in the sky practically giving off a hint. "Can you stop this from happening again?"
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max nevr took his eyes from the ground between his fingers. "i might not be able to stop death, and i never was one to really care for the others of my village, but this, the death of such inoccence.....you did this......" he spat the words, looking up with fire in his eyes, and soon after fire in his hands. he rose slowly, shadow laying low, emitting a deep growling with flickers of black fire escaping between his teeth. "you have ten seconds to leave this city, before i turn you into a smoldering crisp that even the hungryest mutt wouldn't dare touch."
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Leo propped himself off the wall and extend his arms to his side, lowering his upper body in a bowing motion as he began to slowly walk back "Hm... it does not seem like you can even touch me. The difference between me" he paused guesturing to himself then points to the other, "and you. I do not wish to spark a flame in anyones hearts. I just want to set the world on fire." he said in a venomous tone "Come after me if you dare. After all, if no one stops me in this godforsaken nation, then the death toil will rise, child."
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(Sheesh, you get off early and you miss EVERYTHING!)
"Maybe..."
Hex pulled Hoenir from its sheath as he advanced, with Darren following behind him and Atlas next to him.
"But how about three hunters and their dragons?"
Hoenir started glowing a greenish turquoise color.
<Hey, wait!> Darren said, communicating with everyone. <That's the nob who was impersonating a servant in the king's castle!>
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max practicly spat a look filled to the brim with evil ententions at the group. "any of you touch him....and you'll wish you were him....the bird is free game though." he looked back at leo. "you want someone to stop you? you wanna see a world on fire? i'll try not to disapoint." both max's hands burst into pure black flames, trace amounts of smoke rising from the sides of his mouth.
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"Okay... but we're here if you need us," Hex said, backing off.
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shadow rose behind max, growling deeply. <can i help you rip this dragon killer to shreads? show him what happens when you kill a dragons kin?> "if you insist." the two stood waiting for a response, the last curtesy they were willing to give such a monster in there wake.