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Post by dain on Jan 30, 2007 19:09:27 GMT -5
(ma bad...switching between medieval fantasy topic and this confuses me. O.<)
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Angelus
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Suzume's Squishy Student - Angelus[M:2120][M:1100]
A Dark Past...
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Post by Angelus on Jan 31, 2007 15:56:13 GMT -5
Angelus held his staff in front of him as he walked slowly and cautiously into the ziggurat. The building was the only one that was left standing in the town and was still perfectly in tact. There were no markings or anything on the building that indicated that it ever came under attack. These creatures seemed to find this place sacred and would not touch it during their conflict.
The ziggurat had a huge hall that extended all the way to the ceiling. On the top of the ceiling, there were many glass mosaic pieces that were designed to allow sunlight into the ziggurat as multiple colors. Because this ziggurat was underground, the rooms were very dark.
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Feb 1, 2007 20:39:13 GMT -5
(( Sorry I haven't been replying. I'm currently addicted to a video game called "Okami", and it's just sucking up my time! O__o Anyhow, back to the RP...))
A ziggurat? This would explain it. This must be the reason for these creatures and as to why they were completely encased in ice.
She craned her neck to take in the grandeur of the building, having to take a step back or two in order to do so. It was very large, indeed, with its many statues and ancient fountains in a large, barren courtyard no longer able to produce any plant but the simple weed that blotted the ground here and there. Though it appeared ancient and quite uninhabited, a certain tingling sensation had flooded the very air, and it was thick with powerful fragments of some sort magic, long-forgotten in a grave of mold and decay.
Ithilwen prepared to go in just then, but a slight rustle of the bushes nearby grabbed her attention immediately. Before she had time to prepare herself for yet another ambush, a great force had instantly had thrown itself into her, knocking her off her feet and to the ground, dust and dirt cast into the air in a thick, opaque cloud.
White fur had clouded the avariel's vision like a soft, blinding snow storm, and a warm, wet tongue lapped at her face enthusiastically. Ithilwen snarled, struggling both with the great heap of snow-white fur and her own hair as she growled,"Ai! Thalion! Hria vanta! (Ah! Thalion! Get off me!)"
She pushed the weight off her body, and got back on her own two feet in a flustered manner as her ice-blue eyes entwined with those of a vivid golden color. Sure enough, there sat Thalion himself, the white wolf of Celebarda, sitting placidly upon his haunches with head cocked and ears pricked forward at his companion tentatively. Ithilwen shook her head slowly as she muttered, "I Valorion? Man sad im? (And Valorion? Where is he?"
Soon after as if on command, a bird of prey's shrill call sounded off in the distance, and a large, silvery-white falcon descended from the sky and perched itself upon the wolf's head, eyes fixed on the avariel almost shamefully. Ithilwen tapped her foot sternly, fixing the two with a hard glare, but she soon did away with her scowl and laughed softly, "Mae govannen, nîn mellonir. (Well met, my friends)"
Thalion came to the avariel's side and nudged her arm with his nose as she scratched him under the chin.
"We musn't waste time, now. We're heading inside." She explained to her two animal companions, heading inside after the others through the entrance of the building.
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Angelus
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Post by Angelus on Feb 1, 2007 21:04:01 GMT -5
Angelus peered back towards Ithilwen right before she was "attacked" by the two animals. When they emerged from the bush, he charged forward and was ready to slice them down with his staff. When he realized that Ithilwen knew what and who they were, he relinquished his attack and turned back into the ziggurat to make sure that there were no new signs of any life.
"Your friends there, Ithilwen," may be a great advantage to us, "keep them close."
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Post by dain on Feb 3, 2007 18:32:29 GMT -5
Dain paid no heed to the wolf and falcon, he could tell they wern't native here and we brought here for a reason other than to hurt them. He continued on through the suspened hall as he came to the great doors leading the the shrine of the ziggurat. Dain looked back at the others before he pushed the door open. A loud creak echoed through the hall and a velvet floor met his eyes. Gold tassles and linings glittered from several hundred lit candles on in front of his eyes at the shrine podium, a statue of Saggitarrius stood...with two wooden crosses big enough to perform crucifixtions on.
In fact, there were two things crucificed already, and blood dripped from where they hanged (correct grammar). A human, unclothed, lay twisted on the large wooden cross and next to him was a gargantuan lizard, its four les pounded into the cross by stakes.
THis is where they do it. Dain thought to himself as he looked at the travesty.
From the doors he had opened he saw in front of the wooden corsses was a table drenched with blood and scattered organs. Hearts, kidneys, lungs, and even brains. This was an unholy shrine to him...which he secretly liked. Unholy shrines were his favorite. Dain would not show or voice that openly however...now was the time to be careful.
He turned his head around as he whispered to his companions, the whisper echoing to them.
"You all need to come see this..." A dull voice said.
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Angelus
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Post by Angelus on Feb 3, 2007 19:07:55 GMT -5
Angelus followed Dain's orders and slowly walked through the open door. The see was grotesque. He had never seen anything like it before. He turned away quickly as not to throw up because the scene was so disturbing. He continued to stare away from Dain but spoke as though he was talking right to him. "So these creatures were have been fighting...They have not been made by magic but rather religion. This is sick."
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Post by dain on Feb 3, 2007 19:15:20 GMT -5
"That is what happens when people have a belief...they act upon it. I bet these humans were martyrs for the belief..." Dain trailed off as he steped inside, blood getting on his fine leather Italian shoes...he'd clean them off later. He held the spear at ready in his right hand, ready for an opposition at any time. The sight of it all was wonderful to him, unfortunately, he HAD to act like it wasn't. Dain tepped and came forth to the table of blood and organs..and the hearts were still beating. Someone had been here. Someone had been supplying the heart with energy and blood. THe heart stopped and blood spurted onto the table, the energy wore off. Dain immediately came backwards to be beside Angelus.
"Get ready, someone has been here...and it could be the priests...", Dain said in alarm. This wasn't good. Not good at all.
"Angelus, Ithilwen, Crow! Stand fast!" Dain yelled back to them as he heard a door slam open on the inside of the shrine.
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Angelus
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Post by Angelus on Feb 3, 2007 19:54:41 GMT -5
Angelus reached onto his back and grabbed his staff. He quickly put it into a two-handed battle stance in front of his body. He began to quickly dart his eyes around the dark room. There were faint footsteps that echoed off the stone walls in the shrine. There could be only one man on the opposite side, but it sounded like multiple men surrounding them.
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Post by Whiteshadow on Feb 4, 2007 8:22:04 GMT -5
Crow unsheathed his sword, and stood firmly beside Angelus and Dain. "I'm ready for them." he whispered. "I'm not gonna let any no-good priest end our adventure.
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Post by Angelus on Feb 4, 2007 9:16:53 GMT -5
Angelus stood at the ready when the footsteps steadily became louder and louder. "Who are you?" Angelus yelled throughout the room. He did not mean for his remark to be so loud, but it echoed throughout the room and rattled many instruments that were lying on the tables.
From the opposite side of the room, which was dark and Angelus could not see properly, torches began to light down an unseen spiral staircase. They began to light from the top to the bottom. Then, a man quickly paced his way down the stairs. He was garbed in pure white robes with a gray beard. He held in his right hand a golden staff which had a golden crucifix at the top. He ran across the room and confronted the group. "Thank you Lord that you have come. Something horrible has gone wrong.' "What is it?" Angelus quickly responded. "My followers, my druids. They have conducted these horrible experiments down here without me knowing. These monsters became free and roamed the city, destroying everything in their path. I was able to keep refuge in my room, but I fear that there are thousands in the city." "How do we stop them?" Angelus asked. "We can stop them by-"
Suddenly, an arrow came shooting across the room ad caught the priest in the back. He instantly fell to the and was dead.
Across the room were two creatures. One of them was dressed exactly like the priest, except for the fact that he was reptilian. The other was much taller than the first and had a sword across his back and a bow in his hand. The reptile-priest spoke first, "you will not be able to defeat us." After he spoke these words, the two of them walked back into the darkness and disappeared. Then, back in the main hall where Ithilwen sill was, loud sounds began to emanate. The balconies that looked over the hall began to fill with creatures. The archers stayed up on the balconies while the warriors began to repel down to the main hall with ropes.
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Post by dain on Feb 4, 2007 11:10:52 GMT -5
((Hmm, time for some Capoeira...))
Dain immediately reacted and threw the spear, impaling a lizard scaling down from the balcony. He went into a fighting stance immediately, the Ginga, a stance of Capoeira. His hands swung side to side as his legs moved, his feet brushing the ground on their sides. He lunged forward as he went up onto the palms of his hands and kicked a lizard square in the head. He jumped himself up with his palms and wrapped his feet around the lizard's neck and cracked it. Witht he lizard still standing, Dain lifted himself up and flipped off the lizard's head, landing on his hands again and twisting, his feet in a flurry of three-hundred and sixty degrees of pure pain. He was literally break-dance fighting.
Dain broke a lizard's neck and ended his spin as he came down to his butt and his leg thrust out to try and tip a lizard. THe lizard jumped up, then Dain went again with the trip, the ankle of his shoes scarping the ground, his body only held up by his arms. The lizard jumped the leg again and while the lizard was in mid-air, Dain leaned to the side and came up onto his hands again, and delivered the lizard a blow straight to the nose. Dain looked almost like a monkey, going up on his hands and kicking and such...a gigantic monkey. He thrusted himself up off the ground again and caught the lizard by its neck again. Dain spun in the air as the lizard followed, flying into the air after Dain, hooked by the neck by the boy's feet. Dain front-flipped in the air as the lizard rushed over his body and crack like a whip in the air as Dain brought his feet up quickly. The lizard's skull literally flew out of its body.
Dain landed in the Ginga, slgihtly tired. This was going to be a long fight. He stood up as he grabbed one of the lizard's swords and thrust the sword outwards before him into the air. He was going to perform some Wu Shu, Capoeira absorbed a lot of energy. A lizard came running at Dain as Dain stepped aside and swung the sword around his head and connected with the lizard's neck, decapitating it. Just then, Dain noticed he had been bleeding. He must have been slashed without knowing, for a deep gash was on his side. He moved over and went back-to-back with Angelus.
"Got any ideas?" Dain exclaimed.
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Feb 4, 2007 11:15:39 GMT -5
Ithilwen led her two companions further into the building, examining every detail of the architecture down to the very last grain of each stone block. Thalion's ears flitted this way and that, his every muscle taut and prepared for an attack as he sniffed furtively at the cold, dank air for any detection of intruders. Valorion, on the other hand, had taken his perch upon Ithilwen's right shoulder, his large eyes peering curiously out at his surroundings.
The avariel stopped dead in her tracks, standing stock still as a wave of uncertainty washed over her with a shudder.
Something's not right here. I can feel it...
The wolf, too, seemed to sense a certain uneasiness as he shifted weight from paw to paw, ears flicking rapidly in front of the company.
Ithilwen furrowed her brows and trotted over to th rest of the companies, and before she could say anything, her eyes caught sight of the table in front of her. Her lip curled as the overwhelming odor of blood and decay met her nose, but deep within her mind, her sadist self was chuckling maniacally at the sight with joy and amusement. The avariel held up an arm in front of her face to block out the scent as she futher examined the organs with reluctant curiosity.
However, her examination was cut short by an intruding priest who, after a few moments of exchanging words with Angelus, was shot with an arrow from above.
On instinct, Ithilwen unsheathed her katana, assuming her battle pose as her eyes glared at the oncoming attackers.
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Post by Angelus on Feb 4, 2007 12:03:37 GMT -5
Angelus quickly darted his eyes around the room assessing the situation at hand. There were so many creatures. Some with swords and some with arrows. Angelus needed to find a way to the balconies, but the only way was to cross the hall and climb the staircase that was flooded with creatures. The only option left for Angelus was to climb the ropes which, at the moment, had multiple creatures crawling down them.
He sprinted to the first rope in the all and grabbed it. There were currently three reptilians climbing their way down. Angelus pulled tight on the rope and then began to swing it back and forth. Two of the creatures fell from the rope and made love with the ground. There was only one warrior left on the rope. Angelus split his staff and and held one of his short swords in his right hand. He began to climb the rope with his left hand.
The warrior swung his blade at Angelus. He was able to block it with his sword and then throw the sword right into the warrior's stomach, killing him instantly.
The archers that positioned themselves along the banisters of the balconies shot arrows down upon Angelus as he climbed. He raised his right hand was able to deflect the arrows with some gusts of wind. However, one of the arrows scraped Angelus in his left shoulder. The pain caused him to let go of the rope and fall. He was able to grab onto the rope with his left, but he was now only a foot above the ground and the two monsters that had fallen off the rope before were right next to him and wanting his blood.
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Post by dain on Feb 4, 2007 14:16:31 GMT -5
((Nice, that's a great description. "Made love with the ground." ))
"HEY ANGELUS!" Dain yelled as he ran toward the wall despite his pain and ran along the wall toward Angelus. Dain threw the sword he had in hand and caught one of the creatures around Angelus, and lifted off from the wall into a barrel roll kick that caught the other creature upside the head. As a last move, Dain quickly grabbed onto a rope and was suspended next to Angelus.
"Hey Angelus, I see you had a party and didn't invite anyone, eh?" Dain asked, his eyebrows in an inquiring state. He looked over at a group of lizards below them, and smiled. Dain put his feet flat against the wall and was prepared to jump.
"See you on the other end." Dain saluted as he jumped off into a backflip. A lizard thrust up a spear at Dain almost instantly. Hands grabbed the flat-faced part of the spear and twisted the spear-head off. Dain landed on the ground, a spear-head in his hands. He then waved it around like a knife.
((I stick j00!!! Heheheh...))
Reptillian faces started to surround his, making Dain almost invisible as they jumped upon him. Dain was being trampled underneath the reptiles.
Awww...Damn. And I can't can't the armor on. TIme to reveal something... Dain thought to himself, not really showing any pain, but he was sure as silver experiencing it.
"ELGHINN FALMA!" A voice rose in the air that echoed with a demonic resonance, and a dark energy orb exploded from the group trampling Dain. Lizard guts andblood combusted everywhere around Dain from his little phrase, decapitated bodies ran about from nerves, armless lizards walked and legless lizards crawled. In the middle of the mess, Dain brushed a kidney from his tricep, he didn't want to smell unearthly. The only object out of place was a tiny black orb that revoled around Dain like an electron of an atom. It girated around him as a dull ultrasonic sound emanated from the ball, only audible to children or babies.
Well, hopefully nobody suspects I've been holding back... He thought to himself as a lizard came running at him. Dain simply pointed and the little black ball flew forward and drilled a hole straight through the lizard's brain cavity, and blood spurted everywhere. Back to rest, the little orb once again began its revolution.
THis will take more out of me than fighting regularly, I should stick to defense. THat way I won't have to send it out from my body's own energy source. He pondered.
A door busted open to the left and another group of reptiles filed out in single lines. They were quite coordinated, but that's because they and humans are the only animals that can reason...
Upon the sight, Dain moved backwards a bit toward the door he and his group and all come from. There were rare things Dain did not care for, and being boxed in was one of them.
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Post by Angelus on Feb 4, 2007 15:04:33 GMT -5
Once Dain summoned the orb, Angelus knew that the reptiles would be attracted more towards Dain than he, so he began to climb up the rope again. Now that he was able to climb with both hands, me was able to make it to the top within a minute.
He swung on the rope until it gained enough momentum so that he could swing it a complete 180 and land on the balcony. The lizards were distracted by Dain when he swung, but once he landed, they all had their eyes on him. The warriors darted forward while the archers continued to shoot down onto Crow, Dain, and Ithilwen.
The creatures surrounded Angelus, but he was prepared. He began to spin and eventually was gong very fast. Small air currents that originally surrounded him became larger currents. These currents pushed the creatures back and some were even forced over the edge of the balcony, falling to their deaths below. They had substantially weaker bones than humans and were not able to survive a fall from that height.
This move by Angelus, however, was only buying him some time.
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