The Dragonis War

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

((My last post for about 2 weeks. I'm on vacation so see I'll see you guys when I get back.))

"....uninformed...?....I'lll show you uninformed!" She was about to take a swing at Balthizar when she heard a noise."...I'll deal with you later...stupid..ignorant male..." She glared before walking away muttering in a different direction of the forest. As she delved deeper in the woods her runes were glowing."What...they shouldn't be glowing....." She muttered until something struck her from behind fast. She fell foreward into the dirt as she was carried off towards the exit of the forest. The last thing she heard was,"...Master will be pleased...."

 

[Ninja_Blue]

((Nice excuse to be gone. But Balthizar was muttering to himself, would've been just mumbling to you guys.))

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

((I'm gone for 2 weeks and no body posts?....Well I'm back now.))

When she awoke it was dark,cold, and wet."...my head..." She moaned when she felt her wrists were chained. She pulled but nothing happend these chains weren't mortal chains. She noticed torches lit very lightly around her. She could feel the dark aura of the place...and it shook her to the core. She felt the pain wash over her as she looked down noticing the deep gashes in her stomach. Someone had tried to go after the scriptures. She could hear faint voice conversing."...You stupid little urchin! It is useless to keep cutting unless we have the blade! Go and get me the sword...I need the sword of the Dragonis in order to obtain the scriptures for Daemon. Do not return until you have brought me the sword!" There was a smack before the sounds of feet moving past her caught her ear. Whereever she was...was not a good place to be...and whoever was in the next room was after Torque.

 

[VoxEladrin]

((We didn't to get too far ahead))

Torque and the others waited for Asakai for a time then when she didn't return, they ventured after her. Torque seemed visibly cool but in his mind he was really worried. Asakai was a companion, and a friend. "We'll find her...we have to." He muttered as he walked on through a swampland with Balthizar and Thaltos. Suddenly he detected movement and he put a hand on the ebony hilt of Deathscream. "...Someone comes. I dont like it."

 

[Ninja_Blue]

Balthizar narrowed his eyes, hands at the ready to pull out his weapons, and took a quick look around. He whispered to Thaltos, "I can't see anything, too dark for me, do you see anything?".

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

Smack! A harsh hand repeatedly collided with her cheeks."I will ask once more girl! How do you activate the scriptures!" The voice yelled. The man was hooded his face covered."....I don't know...." She looked up eyes glaring. The man became furious he smacked her again."You lie!" He growled. "If you do not tell me I will search your mind until I find it!" She was silent before she spat at him glaring. The truth was she didn't entirely remember. She was very young when her adopted father a monk named Father Shiatzu had told her. The man reached out and took hold of her head. Then the pain came. She let out a blood curdling scream as her eyes glazed over emptily. So many memories...so much pain...so much blood. The man let out a laugh so menacing it made you shiver."You wicked girl....so the gods so trusted one to bare such a weight...you must despise your mother for leaving you with such a horrid fate...but it does appear you are still needed." The man smiled lifting her jaw to look into her eyes."You are nothing more than a tool...no purpose other than to die to give Daemon the ability to destroy this world...Heaven..and hell ...to create one of his own...you must loathe your mother." The man smirked before turning. She coughed blooding spilling from her lips in a short river."...I pity you..." She spoke smirking a little though her voice was emotionless. "Pity me?" The man turned to look at her."...Even I can sense your pain...you have remorse..you don't want to hurt me...because you feel as if it is hurting yourself...you think I should loathe my mother...so I won't be in pain." The man came back over quickly grabbing her neck and slamming her into the wall." I could care less if you are in pain child! You...you are a sick little monster. You have memories of death ..that you enjoy!...Memories of pain and suffering but you show no pain!...Do you not understand that once we collect the sword and the final scripture you will die!...You will die painfully your soul ripped to pieces slowly! And you can't seem to care?...you are a monster." The man let her go obviously enraged."...a monster?...I am no monster...monsters do not feel emotion...you flatter me with an unaccomplished goal..I only wish I were a monster."

 

[VoxEladrin]

"In the trees, it moves fast..." He said and suddenly a man burst out from the brush beside them. "Ha! I found you at last, Dragonis." He cackled. Torque drew Deathscream swiftly and glared at the man with his hard chesnut eyes. "Who are you? What do you want with me?" He asked. The man just laughed and snapped his fingers and three more men came from the shadows of the trees.

"We need that sword of yours, kiddo. We have a lovely lady for company but our boss needs that sword." He chuckled and then Torque's eyes narrowed. "Asakai? Where is she held?" He asked.

((Chelz, you can be this guy))

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

((^.^ Got ya.))
"If I told you Master would be angry....now give us the sword..." The man smiled as one of the other men spoke up."We have to cut the pretty lady up...but we need that sword of yours to do it." The leader of the men struck him."Quiet or Master will be angry! Make sure you keep the key alive....otherwise master will kill us....remember he said Torque was his."
The men then hurried to attack Thaltos, balthizar, and Torque.


"Your wounds are healing rather quickly." The masked man spoke as her wiped warm water against th eopen gashes on her stomach."If you don't care...why bother?" She spoke growling."If you die then....I have nothing to give to Daemon. It appears that you are the key to the scriptures...I mean you and Daemon are the only ones who can read them." Asakai growled again."Don't touch me." The man laughed as he tore the middle of her dress off."Your in no state to do much of anything." She tried to move away but hit against the wall."Calm yourself. I won't take advantage of you like this." The man began to wrap bandaging around her mid-section. He stopped taking his fingers along the ornate runes on her body. She kicked him away glaring."The scriptures aren't inside you are they?"The man questioned her standing. Asakai stayed silent."They're part of you...they are you." The man smirked under the mask."...All along the scriptures were in their hands the whole time.And the key to....you didn't want to get close to Torque because...you knew...you knew the whole time. If he survives my traps and Clayton...maybe he just might save you." The man turned walking away. Asakai growled before fainting. The blood loss had gotten to her finally.

 

[Ninja_Blue]

Balthizar got clubbed aside the head, but he only staggered backwards and winced, "Never could I bet so grateful of being hardheaded." Balthizar said with a chuckle. He quickly pulled out Hibiki and Michi and parried another man's attack, He says, "I can never find sanctuary, am I right Thaltos?".

 

[Vadriel]

((Sorry, been absorbed with other stuff lately, but I can pop in. ))

Thaltos shrugged at Balthizar, and parried an attack with a twist of the Shears, sending the man's weapon skittering off into the trees and responding with a stab to the attacker's gut, draining the energy from him.

As the dessicated corpse fell to the ground, the other attackers hesitated for a few moments, clearly wary of Thaltos' obvious skill with the Shears.

Thaltos shook the blood from his blades, and chuckled. "Only 4 men? You must either be very desperate, or very stupid. The Shears of Atropos have tasted the flesh of your comrade...who next wishes to meet their fate?"

((Sorry about stuff...not been much inspired lately. I'll try to be a little more active.))

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

"Hmm...you have a fever." The man lifted his hand from her forehead."...d-don't touch m-me.." She spoke shivvering. She was breaking out in cold sweat."I told Clayton to wash those damn blades..." The man left and returned with a hot poker burning red. She backed into the wall trying to move away."...stay...away..." She continued to try and move away."...You'll die of infection. I can't have you dying on me." The man reopened the wounds and Asakai bit her lip blood dripping down in little rivers. The man used the poker to kill the infection in the wounds wrapping her mid-section backup once finished."It was for your own good." The man spoke discarding the poker."...I've heard that before...You men always say the same thing...it's for your own good....It's never for my good...It's for you to feel stronger. You grin when you see me cringe....because you have false power."Asakai still trembled though she wasn't afraid. She was never afraid but illness could still affect her."...." The man released her from the bonds letting her fall to the floor. He picked her up carrying her over to a straw bed where he laid her covering her with a few skins."I'll..k-kill you...." She spoke tryign to get up."Rest.You're no use to me dead." He sat beside her watching her. Asakai was about to protest when sleep began to claim her again.

"Take the Dragonis and his sword! It's all we need!" the man cried out as he saw his men falling one by one. The man backed him self against a tree cowering after his last man fell to the gorund dead."..Don't hurt me sir! I meant no harm...I was only following my master's orders!" The man cowered before them.

((As soon as I came back everything got active again. XD))

 

[Vadriel]

Thaltos stalked up to the cowering man, his blades dripping with the blood of the fallen attackers. Placing his foot on the man's chest, Thaltos placed one of the Shears' blades against his throat and leaned in close, snarling.

"Where is Asakai being kept?"

The man squirmed and stuttered a refusal, and Thaltos smiled sadistically. He pressed the edge of the Shear against the man's neck, the keen edge biting a few millimeters into the sweating flesh. The blades, ever hungry, started to siphon the man's life force. Taking the blade away before the man could be sapped completely, Thaltos thrust his face closer to the terrified man's own face, his whiplike hair writhing like snakes. Slowly, eyes narrowed, he grated once more.

"Where is Asakai being kept?"

Trembling and bleeding from his neck wound, the man stuttered and began to spill all he knew.

((What he says specifically is up to you guys...didn't want to take control there.))

 

[Ninja_Blue]

Balthizar let out a quick chuckle, "I believe the poor man has wet himself. Hell, I'm surprised the man didn't soil himself also!".

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

"She's being kept up in the mountain!...he he he but it's no use...she's probally dead already....I cut her up so very nicely.." The man trembled he was dying."You can't win Dragonis...Master always wins..." The man grinned before he lolled over to the ground dead.

" Wake up!" The man threw water on Asakai. She didn't move she was in heavy sleep."...great now I have to carry you." He picked her up carrying her bridal style."...slaves...never can count on them." He mad ehis way out of the cave starting down the mountain in hopes to diverge the comming party. He looked down at the girl in his arms."...Your hair wasn't that long..." He saw the once short locks were now nearly down to the middle of her back by his guess."...Strange girl..." He lept down the short cliff making his way into the forest.

 

[Vadriel]

Thaltos went about decapitating the four men that had been slain, including the informant. Using some vines slashed off a nearby tree, strung the heads up and looped them over his belt. When he met the informant's comrades in the mountain, it would serve as an exceptional shock tactic.

Uncaring of the disgusted eyes of Torque and Balthizar, and not bothering to explain his intents, Thaltos starting moving through the forest in the direction the informant had indicated.

 

[Ninja_Blue]

((Balthizar can't be disgusted, he came from hell, he's seen far worse things than decapitated heads.))

"I'm getting a very strange feeling.....why would this person send out four weaklings....surely he would've sent more, or stronger underlings.....I sense that something sinister has come into play.....and I know it is Daemon's doing.....tread lightly friends.....that is all the advice I can give you....." Balthizar said darkly.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

Asakai continued to sleep in her captor's arms. The man fled east stopping short of where he could see his slaves dead and without heads."....damn...." He spoke softly before taking off in the opposite direction. He ran fast stopping at one of the rivers in the forest and diving in to lose his scent in the trail."You're one heavy sleeper girl...." He splashe dwater on Asakai's face but she wouldn't stir. He took off withotu second thought and continued to flee.That was until someone stood in his path."Diverting my prey....damn afterall that work to..." Theman before him decapitated him in one swift motion."Pethetic." He noticed the girl and picked her up."So it's the girl from before...hmm..you might be good for something afterall.." The man picked her up carrying her bridal style.

Everything was dark she assumed she was asleep.'My body feels weak...' She tried to open her eyes and suceeded in getting them half open."Torque...y-you came....for me?..." was all she managed before falling back to sleep."Hmm?..." The man looked down at her."...I'm far from Torque girl...but if you want imagine him for now." The man continued to carry her towards the forest exit.

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque, Balthizar and Thaltos continued onwards through the woods, Torque sighed. "I could have just given him the sword you know. He was too stupid to know that the sword would have killed him if he touched it anyways." He said and then they approached the Forest exit at last. There he saw a man in beige robes with black hair in contrast to Torque's white hair. "Hrm...Gai. We meet again, brother." He said. Gai was carrying someone in his arms and he turned towards his brother. Torque put a hand on the hilt of Deathscream in reassurance, the final conflict was on them he thought.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

"So you finally caught me." He turned to fully face Torque Asakai was in his arms quiet and unmoving."You look like I've just killed you...keep that face." Gai smirked."Ohh...I see you mean this ?" Gai motioned towards Asakai."I think I'm going to keep the girl....but if you want her...come and claim her." Gai gave a bigger grin as he held Asakai.

 

[Ninja_Blue]

Balthizar looked to Thaltos with a smile, "Ah, young brothers and their conflicts, I was never very fond of children." Balthizar made a quick chuckle.