The Dragonis War

[VoxEladrin]

Torque looked at the boy. "How would you feel when you just killed your own brother?" He asked him, his chestnut eyes seemed to have no feeling in them anymore. He then looked back down at his ale. "Because of some godforsaken curse."

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

"I know how you feel." Akira looked at the wood of the bar."Beacuse of me my little brother died..he was only seven."He smiled after a minute."But then...I had someone to catch me. She took me in when no one else would.She made me laugh and...things didn't seem so bad. Maybe all you need is someone to catch you." Akira smiled at him.

She clawed against the wood floor angrily this was the second time she had ever sobbed in her life."HOW DARE YOU!" She yelled sobbing. Daemon had gone to far. He had taken her parents bodies. She wanted to stop crying but somehow couldn't the tears would not cease. Her heart ached she wanted the pain to go away."Why! Why! I worked so hard to build this shell!" She pounded against the floor.The cold shell she so coveted was cracking before her eyes and she couldn't take it.

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque nodded to Akira, listening to his own reminiscence. "Someone to catch me huh..." He said then looked over to the side. "My brother and I were best friends when we were growing up. We were inseparable. When one got in trouble, the other would go down with him." He said, closing his eyes, remembering those innocent days of youth before either of them had had blood on their hands. "When it came time for one of us to inherit the sword, that's when we started to grow apart. No...not grow apart. We were torn apart." He said and lifted the scabbard of Deathscream to make a point. "I won the fight, being the more physical type of brother, Gai was better with magic." He said then stared back at his ale.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

"Your brother will never really be gone. He's still a part of you.As long as you hold on to that...it feels like you never really lost him."Akira continued to smile."So how did you and Lady Asakai meet?" Akira tried to change the subject in hope so flightening the conversation.

She ended up leaving the Inn wondering the city. Her clothes were shredded and she couldn't continue walking around in next to nothing. She wandered through the city trying to take her mind off it. She found a small shop and had gone in."What do you mean you don't sell men's clothing to women?" She glared at the shopkeeper."I'm sorry Miss but it is against the law. All I can sell you are women's clothing."She sighed and took the gold coin pouch from her anklet dropping it on the counter."Fine...I am tired...I need a cloak two daggers and a set of new clothing....and throw in a book or two." The man nodded and soon returned with her request handing her the brown package. Sh eleft the store returning to the Inn and once again dissapearing upstairs.

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque delved into conversation with Akira about how he met Asakai and from their journies with the rest of the group. He felt like a great weight was lifted from his shoulders. He saw Asakai return to the inn and so he followed her upstairs and knocked on her door. "Hey, Asakai, are you alright in there?"

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

From outside you could hear soft sobbing. She got up answering the door after she dried her tears."Everything's fine..." she spoke light heartedly.She left the door cracked assuming she shut it and sat back next to the window. She hadn't changed yet so she still looked like hell She looked down at her arms seeing the scratches form crying and pulled a blanket up over her she felt the need to hide it from Torque.

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque sighed and opened the door, walking in. "Asakai...I'm worried about you..." He said in a quiet tone. He walked up to her and sat at the foot of the bed. "Now that my brother's dead, and my father is crippled and bed ridden...You're all that I have now." He said, staring at the floor.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

She looked up at him."Please...don't worry about me..." She got up and hugged him."...I have taught myself ever since I was a child to be...cold. When you're cold you don't feel pain....I don't like feeling anything...feeling means you can be hurt...feeling means you can die."She hugged him tighter."...and I don't want to die."

 

[VoxEladrin]

He shook his head. "Feelings are what make you a human being. It's normal. Without feelings, I dont know where I'd be." He said. Torque looked down again. "And when you saved my life...Never before had I ever wanted to be that alive. You gave me meaning to live." He said with a small smile. "I enjoyed that part of you that showed emotion... It was beautiful." He said.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

She blushed this time deeply. She smiled at him kindly."...I'm glad....at least I think I am." She smiled more. There again she felt that warm feeling. And her heart began to hurt. She held her chest."..I-It hurts..." She winced.

 

[VoxEladrin]

He instantly had his hands on her shoulders. "It must be some new feeling to you, just relax and let it pass." He said in a whisper into her ear. "I'm right here for you."

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

The pain soon sub-sided and she relaxed a bit."...but I ...I want...I want to care for you...but I know I can't..." She let her arms rest. The scratches were visible."...I want to love...but I can't...I'm not allowed to l-love."

 

[VoxEladrin]

Torque closed his eyes. "Everyone is allowed to love. There is no law that says you cant. You are just too used to that shell of yours to realize that you have every right to." He said. "You have nothing binding you from love."

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

She shook her head."They won't let me love..." She spoke in a sullen tone."...love causes impurity...so I cannot love...objects can't love." Ekiji's voice rang through her head.'Love...Ha! You are a tool to be used you can't love something you are incapable of love.' An older monk spoke to her.'You were born as a tool to hold the scriptures and nothing more. Even your parents knew that. Now begone with you.' The monk shooed the little girl away."J-just...a tool..." her voice was almost distant."I am...just a tool."

 

[VoxEladrin]

"You are not an object, Asakai. You are a person. Those that had made you into a tool are gone and even if some are alive, you are better than they are. An object has no mind of its own nor can it move on its own, thus making you a person. You are sentient, you don't have to follow orders that say you're a tool to be used by others." He said with a grave seriousness.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

'Then what is my...purpose?...If I am not meant to be a tool then what is my purpose?' She thought quietly to herself."Akira...is safe....and...my home is gone...you have reason for living do you not Torque?" She looked at him seriously as well.

 

[VoxEladrin]

"Your purpose is what you make of it. My purpose now hinges on your decision whether or not you want to be a human." He said. His face then started to redden. "I'm just trying to help you..." He sighed.

 

[Asakai-miko-Midoriko]

"I see...." She reddend herself."Then if I am your purpose...I will make you mine as well." She smiled."My purpose will be to ...make you happy." She held his hand in hers.

 

[Ninja_Blue]

Balthizar sat at an Inn table having a good meal and ale, "Oh tavern whench! I seem to be out of ale! Would you mind filling it up?" Balthizar said this happily laughing.

He also sat with some other men, all of them telling their life stories ad adventures together, one turn to Balthizar and asked, "So, what about you? Where do you come from?"

Balthizar simply replied, "Hell, the deepest dark pits of hell."

The other men started getting quiet, then one joked, "Well, no wonder! You look like you've been through hell and back!" they all laughed, so did Balthizar, but it wasn't a real one.

"I've got to be taking my leave now gentlemen, hopefully I won't be seeing you in hell." Balthizar laughed, a real one this time.

As he walked outside, he spotted a forest, and suddenly wanted a quick forest stroll.

He entered the forest, oblivious to everything and everyone. He took in all the wonderful sights, he thought to himself, It's been way too long....way too long since, well, anything...why can't I can live out my immortality in peace!?

Because I own you you pitiful little human.....

Balthizar jumped, he spoke up, "Who's there!?".

Why Balthizar, you can't honestly tell me that you have forgotten your own master's voice!

Balthizar muttered darkly, "Daemon..... oh how I do hate that name....".

Hate me if you want, but I still own you. And you best say your farewells soon, because the worst is yet to come...my little pet.

"What do you mean, "The worst is yet to come!?" Balthizar yelled.

But all that returned was Daemon's evil laughter.

 

[VoxEladrin]

((Welcome back Ninja!))

Torque's face reddened a bit then smiled. "Same goes for me, I will make making you happy my purpose." He said and winked at her.