The Dragonis War

[VoxEladrin]

Torque grunted, keeping his neck tense. "You first." He smirked then kneed his brother in the groin to break free. He then tried to kick him away and got back into his stance. His chesnut eyes were heated with more rage then before. "Hrrr... Why cant we break this curse, brother?"

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

"What do you suggest we do...wait out eternity as insanity takes us.. I 'd rather perish here than wait for that.. no dear brother it is because it is not in us to break it...we were born with the desire for eachother's blood...as we were born with the inability to keep the woman we love. It is what our family must suffer with." Gai spoke as he rose again getting back into stance."

Asakai laughed quietly.'...I heard those words too...it is within everyone to break that which torments them....but sometimes wemust suffer with what we are born with.' She thought still watching them.

 

[VoxEladrin]

"But we had a lot of fun together when we were growing up. It's this damned curse that is forcing one of us to kill the other. Who would you rather it be for the victor? You? Me?" He asked then charged again at his brother, swinging the blade sideways.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

"Me...." Gai thrust his sword foreward straight into Torque's abdomen."Good bye...dear brother..."Gai spoke watching Torque. He had been lookign foreward to his brother's death...but now it seemed to have no joy.

Asakai's stomach dropped as she watched the silver point exit Torque's back. She stayed silent maybe she had seen wrong maybe it had missed him. Torque was strong he wouldn't die...he couldn't.

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque's eyes widened in the sudden surprise. He thought he would feel excruciating pain but all he felt was...cold. "G-Gai..." He said and looked up at his brother. "...You sacrificed your footing..." He said and then swung his sword at his brother's neck, slicing him from shoulder to the ribs on the other side of his body. "..Ugh... I'm...sorry...Gai..." He groaned and fell to his knees, the blade still sticking out of his back.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

It began to rain as Gai's body fell to the earth in one slump it still bore a smile on his face."Torque!" Asakai yelled running over to him sliding in the mud that formed. She cradled him,"No dying! I told you...you can't die.." She spoke softly."Get up...I'll take you to Thaltos he'll make you better." She slung his arm over her shoulder trying to help him stand."...your not weak..."

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque looked up and saw Asakai's face, radiant against the darkness forming around his vision. "Asakai...you're so far away...what was that you said about Thaltos?" He asked, blood starting to drip from the corner of his mouth.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

"Torque...you're...you're bleeding..." her eyes were wide in horror. She fell to her knees she couldn't get he rbody to move."NO YOU PROMISED!" She yelled at him. She removed the sword from him placing her hands on the wound trying to stay the bleeding."...you can't die...I won't let you..." For the first ime tears spilled from her eyes."YOU CAN'T DIE!" She screamed. There was a pulsation as a surge of energy shot through Torque she was glowing only this time it was white. Her hair slowly rose as her glowing became brighter. "I won't let you die..."

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque suddenly felt a warm light in the darkness. He reached out for it. "Hey...it feels so peaceful..." He said and he started to feel warmer again, but slowly. His wounds started to close up. His breathing regulated.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

The light became an overwhelming brightness and then the pain hit her two white feathered wings burst from her back they were small but still there.Asakai finally fell resting next to Torque peacefully. She was exhausted and the surge had taken up the remaining engery she had. she kept mumblign in her sleep."...please don't die...please don't die."

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque sat up. "Asakai...you saved me..." He said and smiled down at her. He noticed the wings and he arched an eyebrow then, exhaustion swept over him and he fell asleep, his head landing in her lap.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

"Maybe we should go back for them...what if Lady Asakai is hurt?" Akira began to argue with Thaltos."What if they died?!" akira pulled on Thaltos's arm in panic.

She slept there for a few hours before opening her eyes."...it's..raining?..." She looked around and then felt something in her lap. She looked down to find Torque asleep. Her cheeks became heated then she remembered. She shook Torque."Torque?"

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque opened his eyes to the feeling of rain and someone shaking him. He looked up to see that it was Asakai. "Hey...you're okay." He said and smiled. He wiped the blood from the side of his mouth and let out a breath. "I'm alright, I'm not hurt anymore."

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

She bit her lip before tackling him hugging him tightly. She was sobbing something she to had never done before."You scared me!"

 

[VoxEladrin]

He nodded and hugged back. "It's alright, I'm not hurt. You saved my life." He said and closed his eyes, relieved to be alive. Relieved that Asakai was safe and in that moment in time, the two embraced wordlessly for a time, just hugging each other in the rain.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

Her sobbing eventually ceased and she wiped her eyes."...the others are probally waiting for us...." Once again that hard cold shell began to rise. She stood almost silently. She turned her back to him where the wings fluttered so gently.

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque nodded and stood up with her and sighed. The two went towards the nearby town where Thaltos and Balthizar and the new kid would be waiting for them.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

She hadn't meant to be cold...it was just her nature. To be cold to be emotionless meant power. When they finally met up with the group She had gone off alone with Akira.

"What are you doing here? They'll surely kill you knowing you're with me." Asakai's voice was harsh."...No they won't...they're dead." Akira spoke sitting under a tree."..Explain." Was her simple response."...after you left on Father Ekiji's mission...Father Ekiji left to...Daemon attacked the temple." Akira didn't make eyecontact."...I see. With both of us gone Chang'ah was defenseless.There is only one option." She spoke turning her back to him."I get to come with you right?! I get to help fight Daemon!" Akira jumped up excited."...No. The next temple we come across...I will make arrangements for you to stay there." As Asakai and Akira were walkign back they were still arguing."My decsion is final Akira. You cannot come with us you will be a burden." Asakai growled at him."You're just a woman you can't tell me what to do! I want to come to!" Asakai punched him straight in the jaw."You will stay at the next town temple we come across! You will not argue with me! You will not say another word! This disscussion is over!" She yelled at him before dissapearing into the tavern. Akira sat on the ground head down obviously heartbroken.

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque was sitting at the bar, staring at his ale. He was pondering what to do now that his brother was dead. It brought him no joy to slay his own twin but it had to be done, it was in his genetic code to kill him someday. He sighed, also bummed out that Asakai went back to being her reserved, cold self. He kept remembering that moment when her iron armor fell off to reveal her true self underneath the cold exterior. It was something special to Torque and he held onto that memory.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

She let the last wing fall to the floor. Her room was covered in blood.She kept tryign to cut her wings off but they continued to regrow. The wings that she would cut off would turn to feathers. She tried cutting the long mass of locks but they to regrew.Akira had followed her to her room watching and trying to stop her."Please stop Lady Asakai."He finally finished cleaning up the last of the blood.She sat by the window boredly."Lady Asakai...you need to know something about the temple."

Akira came down the stairs looking rather defeated.He sat next to Torque."I shouldn't have told her...." He looked up at Torque."You look down."Akira spoke looking at him.