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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2006 17:19:01 GMT -5
A loud collapse of wood echoed the dark city alleys this night. One of the man stumbled from the broken wood pile of once cart pathetically glaring at the new figure that clocked herself in a deep respect as she glared at him coldly. Nadirah slipped her hand, soiled from the throw, back under her cloak, hiding her disgust for the two fledgings in her eyes, decked in their cultist robes underneath their pale flesh and their ignorance for her. To them, she was just an inference to their to-be meals or members that was behind her, the female and her child was docile still under the influence of the vampire's charm.
Nadirah turned toward the two mortals, making a nod with a supernatural suggestion and the two victims walked aside the alley, finding a bench sit down. The queen smiled with a satiation that her skills haven't rusted from her long sleep as she turned grabbed the other fledging arm, as it was about to plunge a dirk in her back, and with a flash of a turn, the boy found himself on top of his reviving friend.
"Pathetic..." She smirked, slipping the rose out of her ear, "Using any power would be a waste...I wonder who's idea was this. To make a showboat out of our race,"
The cultist climbed back to his feet, clutching his arm, "What's it to you, wretch?"
"I want to thank him...."
"Thank him?" The other stared at her, confused.
"Yes...it'll be a gold chain with a glistening ruby. . ." She cut her finger on her rose's thorns, as she knew they are about to jump her... "...made of his own heart."
....now
(Don't you just love the randomness? Anyone can join this...even mistake her to be human or something. No one knows that she exists, yet)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2006 14:24:26 GMT -5
Staggering along a stone wall, struggling with some unseen force, a cloaked young man stepped off the main road and into the forbidding alley. He took several steps into the misted area and suddenly stopped, cursed, removed his backpack and flung it onto the cobbles, where it broke apart into fragments of dirt.
What moonlight was available revealed a scowl on his face. His hood was half-covering his features. As he stormed down the walk, his face flickered briefly into that of an elf woman and a slight ripple crossed his form. He steadied himself and continued muttering.
Ana fumed. How dare someone humiliate her like that! She was irate and felt like exploding. Someone was going to feel it tonight. Oh yes, she had some nasty illusions ready. A rotting bugbear. Some giant insects, and a deformed devilchild. Her brain was soon cooking up all kinds of images.
The young man strolled along consumed by his thoughts and stepped under the shadow of an overhanging bridge. He was nearly out of its cover before he noticed what appeared to be three humanoid shapes to the side.
"Mugging in progress? Hmph! Well, good!" Ana thought.
He crouched low, staring, and then began to slowly walk up in the direction of whatever crime was in progress.
"Let them try and rob me. I'll have them witless and drooling before they know it if they try anything funny!"
Ana felt a little heady with adrenaline but remained resolute, continuing forward. A few ideas struck her as she neared ...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2006 17:16:12 GMT -5
A vampriess turned to the side, tripping one of the man as they rushed at her. The boy realized his mistake after she kicked his back in, and he tumbled forward on the ground while his ribs cracked. He lurched his face forward to searched the progress of his partner.
The other man aimed the dagger once again at her chest. Nadirah leaned to one side for only the blade to catch her arm, leaving a thin line of blood. The whip came down around the fledging's neck as she thrusted her knee at his chest, throwing him on his stomach with her foot pinning him in place.
The vampiress sighed, "He's not worth keeping as a hostage for you, right?" As downed man opened his mouth to answer, she pulled on her thorned whip, causing the thorns to saw around her victim's neck until blood became dust on the ground as the fledging disappeared its final death, "I have no use for your 'kind' in my presense...time for you to keep him company"
The fledging gawked at her actions, which destroyed the fight out of him. He stumbled backwards with what use left into his broken bones, falling on his back again that he spotted the elven lad creeping towards them. Using the remaining use of his legs, he springed behind Ana pushing the boy on his fours before bring a blade as the boy's neck.
"Stay, bitch...stay back!" He snared, desperately push the blade closer enough to let a thin stripe of blood form. "What gives you the right to protect them...the elders will see you dead for this, you traitor!"
"Traitor..." She smirked, "That should be said about you, child. Why don't you think it that I wasn't protecting them and wanting to clean our lineage of you showboys?" her hands caressed a thorn of her whip idly "...but that's none of this boy's business into the details. Don't you agree?" She gave Ana her mischeivous look, "Surely you're not going to let him work you over like that?" Why don't you show him how weak he really is? Give me a reason for me to keep you after your meddling. She added, which was heard with force in the elf's mind.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2006 0:17:25 GMT -5
Ana crouched along the shadows, vaguely aware she was clearly out of her mind. To emphasise this, one of the shadows was vaporised by an attack from the dominant shape from some sort of rope which she couldn't see. A commotion was clearly in progress. She blinked and was then suddenly grabbed from behind and sharp steel was put to her throat.
The taller of the shapes came out of the shadows and Ana could vaguely see something tentacle-like, squirming and living in the being grasped. The being in fact, had a cold, agonizing, female voice. It spoke to the one holding Ana captive, and brief dialogue passed through her though she was clueless. One thing did she did hear:
Give me a reason to keep you...
And she knew it came from the cruel-sounding witch in front of her. The guy holding her interrupted her thoughts and tugged on her neck, his intent obvious. And if she didn't act fast, he would follow through.
"I'll give you a taste," Ana thought loudly, trying to project at the villainess in front of her, like there was some hidden meaning when there really wasn't, and then sprang into action.
She released the illusion of Rubedo from around her, and her captor laughed sadistically as his fortune seemed to turn.
"Well what do we have here, an elf girl?" He licked his lips hungrily, but Ana concentrated on his mind and from inbetween a cobble, a snake head rose up and bit him unsuspecting on the ankle in mid-sentence.
He yelped, which was just the snap Ana needed to whirl around and summon a faceful of bees at him. This made him really angry, or frightened, or some emotion, and he reared up, yelling and clawing at his face. The bees were of course fake, but the gashes he was ripping in his own face were not. She scrambled away for the second part of her act, concentrated more and from the shadow of the bridge arch above, something huge flapped its insect wings and launched itself at the ground.
"No you don't, get back here!" the acolyte screamed, after tearing enough of his face off to see where she went. But a large flesh beetle, the size of a cow, hissed at Ana and he hesitated. In that split second of hesitation, it charged her with its vicious bonesaw forehead, and appeared to tear her head straight off in one swipe. The skull clattered to the side with its tongue lolling out and for effect, the arms of the body grasped out at some unseen object before falling limp.
The body of Ana crumbled to the floor in a heap. The acolyte blinked as the giant flesh bug turned imperceptibly toward him. At this point, Tiny flaming ants which had begun gathering below the acolyte began to crawl up his legs, appearing to set his entire body on fire. The flames were, of course false, but he clawed layer after layer of clothing away trying to cast the fire off of him, which Ana kept re-illusioning again and again until he stopped, realizing it wasn't clothing in his grasp but his own intestines; not fire all over his body but blood ... when it dawned on him, it was too late.
The real Ana shimmered into sight from only a few feet away. She was laying on her stomach, propped up on her elbows and catching her breath feeling only a slight hint of nausea. She squinted at the observer to the side.
"In some places, people pay good money to see that," she risked saying, but at this point it was all a gamble anyway ... she would just have to pray for her lucky number.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2006 2:03:56 GMT -5
"Well, now that was interesting..." She watched the male changed sex is a wave of illusions, making the cultist look more convident.
The vampiress frowned as she felt the wash of the girl's illusion coming at her. The whip slithered around like a snake searching for its dinner as it shorten, becaming a rose again. Nadirah sighed an closed her eyes, burning off the illusion is it was focusing on her and making herself aware the patterns so she won't be tricked so easily. She opened them just when the intestine spilled on the floor.
"I see...I guess any party you do would have to eat before the show." Nadirah chuckled slowly at the girl at her feet before talking a glance at the quivering flesh that he self-inflicted himself over and over, "Poor sucker, I guess I'll show some mercy..." as she approached his body in a blur, before long her hand emerged from his back, bloody and caked with flesh of his destroyed heart as the body broked into dust.
The vampiress walked over to Ana once again, moving her mouth to speak until a new heartbeat erupted in her ears, "seems like the watchmen are ever puncatual..." Nadirah signed, picking the elf carefully like something fragile before lifing them both in the air.
The girl was dropped on the rooftop, followed by Nadirah on the box before her. The vampiress smiled with an ominous form of patience as she sat on the box casually. "Aren't you a piece of work...most I see were tree huggers, makes for their exotic taste." She glared at the girl with a warning, "I have seen your power and now when it's coming, so keep in mind that I'll snap your neck before you can get an idea, understand? You have better..."
Nadriah leaned back cozily, crossing her legs, "I'm new around here, so you'll have to help me out with a few things....you can start by telling me...."
She glaced at the night sky, "What year this is....or how long since the great war?" The vampire queen wondered how long has it been since she slept, maybe why her protegies have been less respective toward the way and why hasn't any of the elders stepped in during her indeposition or could they handle the rebellion? So many questions plagued her mind, so much to reestabished. So much to kill and terrorized by into the respected and feared race she and her lover made them to be before the incident.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2006 12:41:55 GMT -5
Ana tried not to scream as the being which revealed itself to be a vampiress suddenly wrapped a cold, inhumanly strong arm around her, and in a blur of movement, had carried her up to the rooftop. The witch deposited her like a sack of potatoes on the deck and Ana did her best to refrain from shuddering.
"She really is a vampire? Yuck." Ana had only heard stories, and though she had already lived twice as long as most humans, she had never quite actually encountered one.
She crouched defensively as the matriarch went on about trivial illusions and how they would mean death. As the seconds ticked by, Ana had been fearing for her life, but with each passing moment her confidence grew, seeing as how the dark witch hadn't plucked her heart out on a whim yet, or fit of rage, or vampire hunger.
"So the witch can see through my illusions? I wonder if she was in the tavern earlier." A flush of anger nearly rose that maybe somehow the witch had been involved, but the feeling quickly subsided.
The elf girl did her best to respond to the question about the current date, but her lifestyle really didn't include keeping track of the date, if there even was a date. Not to mention that she was still unsure if the next thing she said would result in an untimely demise.
"A great war? Never heard of it," came her rather confident reply, but on second thought she added "Maybe something a couple thousand years ago? Should ask a mage, maybe."
"Good, I'm still alive." She stared at the vampiress, trying to examine her features or determine where that whip-weapon was hidden, but could make out very little in the evening light. Her mind turned and tumbled, looking for a way out even when there was none. She was having trouble putting two and two together at the moment, mostly due to survival instinct and remaining alive for at least the next five minutes.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2006 0:05:11 GMT -5
The vampiress stumped as she tried to make a comformable throne out of a old wooden crate. The poor girl's thought crawled into her ears were enough to make her show her just how 'Yucky' she be...if not crimanal. Rather than wanting to give the girl a nightware to keep her wake for the rest of her nights. She hidely nodded and feign ignorance to the fact that she 'heard' those thoughts of her.
Of course, the queen wasn't expecting her to answer her question with any form of accuracy, she was way too young for that. Nadriah wanted to make her sweat and taste her fear in the air, or maybe her confidence. She might have a use for her in this new times, right now, it was a matter of 'how useful'.
"I just I will eventually...if most mages even like me" She said, looking tired. "You're pretty good at choking your fear down in a vice, most will..." Sighly lightly before giving a toothy grin that can almost stike the elf, "...would beg."
Smooth hiss gave an ominous tone to her words as she made a face caressing motion with her hand, but sending a feeling her hand along Ana's chin, "Hmm...I guess I should thank you for helping me with some trash, if you can call it that" "Although I didn't need the help." she serectly added....you earn your life back after interferring...maybe trying to get a quick bit of 'gold', you're lucky that youngling stop you."
Nadirah stopped carressing and idly combed her long hair, "Simple cutpurse...no, I think not. but tell me how you do things...how good? About yourself, in short...you might have a customer, if you're don't bite off your own tougue" Before I do...Her inner thoughts laughly at her terrible joke.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2006 0:24:21 GMT -5
Ana could not help but shiver as the witch's cold hand stroked her elfin jaw. She was getting the distinct feeling the tall one had some kind of agenda, some plan, but what was it? Why had Ana not yet found herself laid out on the ground with a vicious backhand or some magic?
The sands of time trickled on and she found herself gaining more confidence but hardly enough to do anything stupid.
"She's powerful..." Ana thought. I wonder if I could ...
"If you must know, I," she said confidently, putting emphasis on *I*, "don't really have to do anything. People just seem to believe what they see, so," she shrugged and could not help that a smile crept out as she spoke, "They just start seeing things. Maybe it's just a coincidence that I'm nearby." Ana laughed out loud but quickly shut up as she was reminded of her situation by the looming appearance of the tall vampiress.
"I'm really pushing it tonight, what's wrong with me?" Ana wondered. She still felt angry about the tavern, not knowing what happened, and still felt there was something unsolved.
A cold breeze skipping across the rooftops snapped her out of a quick daydream and back into reality. She felt a little dizzy. Vampire magic at work? She couldn't know. All she knew was how to gamble.
"Yeah, I was out on the job tonight, some bad luck there, some good luck here..." but her mind drifted off again to the tavern yet again. "I don't care how big the gem is, I'll steal anything. Though Your Darkness probably doesn't need help steal-, er, 'acquiring', but two are better than one..."
Ana looked up, unusually at a loss for illusory spells to make an escape.
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Post by Cassius Ado Virtus on Jan 25, 2006 4:18:58 GMT -5
"General! Up on the rooftops!" A loud voice rang out, shattering the eerie calm. A large party of well armed and experienced officers from the Karadorian army stood in the street below. One had drawn his sword, and was pointing and yelling at the vampire queen and the thief, who were outlined against the pale moon as it hung high in the blanket of darkness that was the night sky. The warriors had just left the Phantom not moments before, and were headed their seperate ways - Cassius to the library and the rest to their homes at the keep, when the captain had alerted them to the presence of something so profoundly evil, that it made the General's blood boil. The entire party drew their swords and donned their helms, and a stocky and heavily built man in the centre of the group strode forward. His armour was adorned with ancient runes and mysterious symbols and patterns, that glowed in the darkness, giving light to those around him and drowning out the guttering torches that hung on the walls. the sword he carried was massive, and looked as if no man should be able to wield it in two hands, let alone the single hand that this man carried it in. General Cassius Ado Virtus stood in the street below, gazing up at the vile creature before him, ignoring the elven woman. His eyes burned with fury and bloodlust, and he almost seemed to grow in size, his towering fury surrounding him in an aura of light. "Creature of the night, foul denizen of hell, vile filth, repugnant wretch!" Cassius yelled, "Come taste my steel!" He called up to her from the street below. With surprising speed, Cassius reached down and dislodged a heavy paving stone from the street, lifting it above his head in one movement, he hurled it with tremendous force straight at the chest of the vampire, yelling curses all the while.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2006 15:38:05 GMT -5
"Two are better than one." She agreed, but that's not why she needed to hire her, "and yet a mouse can slip into a small hole in the wall better than a big rat, you find out that means and you'll know why you'll be heavily conpenstated."
Nadirah relaxed at little, kinda relieved that the girl hasn't made an attempt to run away, even seem kinda confent that she kinda had some good ideas on how to reward her patience. As she moved her lips to explain the details of the job, when her ears picked up heartbeats deep with plates of steel, followed by a very stealth call of her presence...guards...damnit.
"Never the most formal sort, are they?" She hissed softly before the metal sliding of blades errupted the silence that caress her sensitive ears. Her face went cold and arrogant as she heard the common names that all the ignorant give vampires and she had no need to repeat them in her head. Humanity has always vilfy them for centuries, although their powers come from another religion entirely from 'heaven and hell' these humans have, her kind was forced to take the role of being creatures of darkness. Hell bells, that's where the 'blood curse' came from. Not quite surpised that this fact hasn't been enlighted to them yet, Nadirah turned so quickly that it didn't even seem like she moved and caught the rock, before looking at the group before them, never fearing and neutal calm in her face, despite the insults of agorent general has give her, "Are you talking to the shades roaming about tonight, they loved the fear of a lone walker in the night sky, or maybe the proud, lustful incubi that seems to get away with another's soul tonight..." She crushed the rock like it was a piece of caked dirt as she walked toward the edge of the roof, looking at the ever proud general and his men.
I guess you better look like you're in trouble now. The vampiress mentally told Ana, You don't want to ruin your disquise in this town as an innocent looking like you stand with me...run with act of clever or fear when I seem to give you the chance. I'll tell you of your very rewarding job later.
"You only got one name of me right as a night creature, so by chance, I'll hear to you. However, save your misplaced orders for your own men, kid, before you'll find yourself into a place you wish never was imagined in the minds of those holy-faking clowns!"
She didn't have to answer his challedge, but running away would make her seems weak, but a cruel riddle was about to be throw in the general's path, little that he realized.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2006 16:19:10 GMT -5
"Like I need some old hag to tell me when to escape!" Did everybody take her for a fool?
Ana scrambled to her feet, all too glad for some kind of diversion. She briefly glanced down to see shadows in the street to see a troop resembling a patrol of guards, but could make out few actual details in the darkness. A vaguely familiar voice boomed out from below.
"The guards eh? Tailing me all this time or something?" Ana's mind whirled but she could only guess how the vampire and the guards were related.
She looked back at the tall witch who seemed eager to get in a fray with these newcomers and decided to take her chances.
"Nice friends. Bye!" she laughed and bolted to the edge of the low roof, tripped over the brick side and landed with a crash onto several bolts of old cloth laying in a side alley.
She could hear a few guards rushing in her direction and she did her best to look helpless. One rounded the side of the house and upon immediately spotting her, yelled "Stop right there!" Ana blinked and jumped up.
"Idiot guards, why me?!" she cursed silently, grabbed a bolt of cloth and flung it at one of the soldiers. He deftly caught it but his breadth blocked the tiny passageway and Ana took off full tilt in the other direction, heading around to the front of the tall house. She dove into a shrub and cast extra leaves about herself to blend in perfectly.
As she listened to the guards making a racket, she started putting the pieces of the night together: the unknown person who had used a spell on her in the tavern, the rude guards, the strange witch in the alley, the appearance of guards again ...
"Maybe that vampire has been tailing me all along, looking for somebody weak to prey on and mess with. I bet she was the one in the tavern! Playing like she didn't know me, damn this town ..."
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Post by Cassius Ado Virtus on Jan 25, 2006 18:34:29 GMT -5
Cassius continued to stand below, statue like in his immensity. He seemed to have grown even more in size, without getting any larger, as if his towering fury filled the entire street, and was now wreathed in golden fire as runes of ancient and terrible power burned brightly across his brilliant armour, filling the street with its fiery brilliance. Liquid fire ran down the length of his blade, forming mysterious runes and ancient symbols, before melting into other fiery shapes. The General burned with towering rage and hatred, as the ancient and powerful magics that imbued his wargear with great strength sensed the presence of terrible evil, and responded with a fury to match that of the General's. "Cease your whispering and scheming, wretch!" Cassius commanded in a voice like thunder, "Come down here upon the instant!"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2006 5:43:16 GMT -5
"There you go again with the commands like you owned me! " Nadriah rebuked with malice, as she crossed her arms. "You're as typical and blind as villager, just with armor... with as much holy power as a lone firefly to me, to let you know. If something doesn't fit into your personal selfish ideas, you vilify it as a excuse to push it out of your way. It sickens me about humans...and it seems that my younglings have soaked in your disqusting habits, which I'll have to finish what I have started tonight."
With that last part being said with pure hated in her slurred voiced, she trailed her long nail along one of her arm, cutting it while doing so. As the blood trailed and touched one of her gauntlets, the runes of darkness flared to life covering her body with its black flames briefly before disappearing the shields hide themselves. Nadirah glared at the rest of Casiuss's men staring at her as her eyes. As they coverted into an redish gold rage, she whispered harshly, "Be like the new pup in your mother's womb, and forget that you know about your limbs that can move..." Her words carried into the minds of the men, along with the very indeposing illusion in their minds that they don't have limbs. "And how about you, my kind general, why don't you be a gentleman and come up for a lady..."
She let a drop of blood trail to her fingers which she direct it to drip down the ground below. On the ground it touched, a circle was drawned with lines of red light, oulining a odd pointed star in its center with many scripts of unknown orgin. The circle raised an inch above the dirt and remained there for its purpose to be fufilled.
"Don't keep me waiting, let me see you in moon's light," She stepped back, disappearing from his view as she slit a long line along her left arm with her nail. "You wanted to dance with me for doing no evil tonight, then come...show me how much time has change and how much idealism as worsen in my absence." The vampire queen told him with such amusment that it was mocking to ears. While she gave a duelist's pace from the edge of the roof, she put her wound arm over her chest in a salute. She waited her entertainment to come while her left arm tranformed by the blood from the elbow into a diamond-hard and black claw.
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Post by Cassius Ado Virtus on Jan 31, 2006 12:50:37 GMT -5
Cassius paid little attention to her words, but enough to draw another rage filled retort. "Be still with your wormlike tongue. Do you think me a fool? Your kind prey upon the innocent, take life, give nothing. Your very existence is enough to damn you to hell. No evil? Bah, you are evil. Do not flaunt your unimpressive circus trickery before me. I am not impressed, nor intimidated. Your words are empty, as is your black heart. Come down here and taste true steel. Cast aside your own illusions, witch, you know me not!" He bellowed up at her.
"Come get acquainted with my blade!" He finished, staring back up at her, hatred and fury burning behind his eyes in the light of the runes. Cassius was afraid of nothing and no man, intimidated by nought and quick to anger with anything he saw as evil - even when he might be wise to be more cautious. He did not even glance at the black magic apparation that floated before him, offering itself up to him. He would not be defiled by fell sorcery, nor would he trust the beast. Creatures like her were nothing but purest evil. The very same that had claimed all that Cassius once held dear in the world, and their destruction was his hearts desire. Idealism played no part in it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2006 16:09:22 GMT -5
You're the rare fool who thinks not a fool...I seen it for thousands of years, no different to me now. You're boring...and as weak as your words tonight. Such a waste of energy...but not like I haven't anything else better to do after my long sleep." Nadiarah told him with a tired voice, lean back again the crates behind her, "You know nothing of our curse and what its has done once noble priests ...even that one of your heros that created what we are in the first place, so I suggest you shut up with your wisdom, ik't (fool or idiot) It makes you sound more stupid than you make yourself to be."
"...but you won't take your invitations like a man, then you'll have to be dragged like a impurent child you are..." The circle of energy remained steady in front of him as a distraction, while the actual circle appeared under his feet and without notice it would teleport that man to the edge of the rooftop of the perturbed vampiress.
"And for your information, I'll enough iron from your igorant blood , although it smells dull even from here...your rage is fake, your power and strength is fake, you fight and hide behind your holy runes, using a lie to hide ye from thy old truths from thou true worth which is weaken by your ignorance...I don't think I need even a crumb of my power."
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