Sith shouted "Stop, Roland..."
"If you detect Mikba where you are charging to, and I do in another direction, there is something strange going on... one of us is picking up Mikba, the other, an equally powerful familiar of Mikba..."
Roland: then it hit it me...rather the door bursting open hit me and sent me flying....Draga....
i quickly recovered and stood there Feircly...
"so draga we meet again.....last time we met i almost destroyed you then that Coward mikba teleported you away....but this time i will get you..SITH go on follow the energy you sense i have to deal with this Demon...."
"but.."
"GO SITH I CAN HANDEL HIM NOW GO!!!!"
sith hurryed off following whatever he sensed.
"now Draga...just you...and me......one on one..lets finish this once and for all"
i readyed as the battle began
[Edited by Roland Gilliad on 07-08-2000 at 10:15 PM]
(You guys have a protector demon, USE him!!!)(And one other thing, it would be a lot fucking easier if you had just agreed with the big god here and not went ranting on about how all powerful you were, anyway you just broke the balance of life and death when you killed him, so now no one can fucking die, you are all gods who can't be killed now, oh yay, the story is really fun now!!!!!)
He turned to the rest of the group, and said "Please, could you come with me and help me with the fight? Roland will take care of himself here. He knows his opponent and has already defeated him once, he will obviously do the same now..."
_I hope I'm right, don't like people in my group dying._ thought the snakeman.
Quickly i cast a magicalbarrier around us so no one could interfere with our fight..then we finnaly fought....Dragonsting blazed through the air and met each of Draga's blows with his own it seemed to be an even match until the magic came out then rolando's true power shone throughout the castle HIs magic overpowering all others even the concentration of mikba was broken for a swift minute by this colossal energys surging and then..it was over...draga was now nothing more than a pile of dust....just the way he should be i thought....i respected his ashes and gathered them into a pot and said a small prayer...grabbing his spell book..i quickly raced towerds the energy where i found...mikba himself...had trapped sith and taitannia in stasis magicthe protecter demon was in chains as i approached the laughing mikba..
"Hello...Mikba...we meet again...for the last time!"
Vixen and Gardeen separated and went in opposite directions down the great hallway. Vixen had a dagger in each hand at the ready, every nerve focused for sound and movment of potential enemies.
She noticed a small doorway to her left. It didn't look like an exit, but she pushed against it and felt it open under her hand. She listened to the silent way it opened. It was uncanny, whoever made this door intended it to be unobtrusive in everyway. Now that she thought about it, it blended very well with the wall itself, it was only her keen eye that managed to spot it. Slowing her breathing she carefully entered the dark room.
Inside a eerie glow appeared to illuminate the room softly. It smelt of dried herbs, some she recognised immediately as poisons. A quick glance about the room, no one seemed to be inside. She walked over to the desk and looked over the numerous scrolls which lay about in a haphazard way. This was a strange study of sorts. She noted a large chest in the corner and crouched before it. It was locked. Pulling out her dagger she tried to snap the lock open. Suddenly she cried out in pain as a sharp electrical charge ran up the blade from the lock itself. She hissed, holding her injured hand to her chest. "Magick" she said with venom.
Gingerly she flexed her hand. No permanent damage she surmised. Her hand still throbbed though. She collected her fallen blade and noticed the razor sharp blade was chipped. She dropped the knife, leaving it there, quickly finding another on her person. She slipped out of the room again and continued down the hall.
Finally she reached a doorway. She slipped through it and found herself in a magnificent garden. Roses, neatly maintained grew in random colours. The scent made her feel slightly giddy. She flipped open her mirror and said, "Gardeen." Gardeen's face appeared as he opened his own mirror. "Knight, I'm outside, it appears to be a garden of sorts. Possibly about 100 feet from where we parted."
"Good," he replied... "I'll collect Theresa and meet you there"
Vixen snapped the mirror shut and looked about. She froze... turning her head sharply in the direction of some noise, or movement. "Come out and face me, whatever you are..."
A rose bush rustled briefly and a figure emerged...
She came out from behind her bush. "It is just me. I'm sorry I disappeared, I got a little frightened when we entered the castle."
Lies. that's what she fed them. The truth was she had been soothing her father. He thought that she had betrayed him. She had, but so far he didn't know that.
"Why do the two mages fight? I thought we were all on the same side."
The assassin looked at her for a moment, sizing her up. "No one understands them, least of all me. Come on, we'll take you to our base in the castle. You can stay with Theresa and help keep her safe."
Vixen's expression was carefully blank as she lead the way back into the castle. There was something that just irked her about this girl. She just appeared, seemingly out of nowhere and she moved, very unlike a scared young girl and more like a girl trained... at what Vixen was still unclear, but she didn't trust her. Vixen walked slowly towards the room meeting point, making a show of being on the look out for guards.
In her mind, she was thinking out her options. Ahead she heard footsteps. Gardeen she thought. She held up her hand indicating for Tatianna to stop. Tatianna froze, her expression frightened and concerned. Vixen had a moments doubt, was she being paranoid she thought. She steeled herself, always trust your instincts Vixen... she thought to herself.
Gardeen rounded the corner. Vixen stepped out of the shadows and returned his smile. "So you found the exit?"
"Yes, and something else as well..."
She lifted her hand indicating Tatianna behind her. Hesitantly Tatianna stepped out of the shadows. Gardeen looked surprised. "I thought she was with Roland and Sith?"
"Apparantly they were still fighting when she left them."
Gardeen frowned, "well we'd better collect Theresa and head out of here, I don't want to be around when they all run into Mikba"
Vixen nodded and they moved to open the door that Theresa guarded.
" Greetings Vixen, as that idiot Roland won't let me help him, I've decided to join you and make sure you at least make it alive from this sursed place, my master wouldn't be too happy if I had to call him over to make him kill Mikba and Draga and heal all of you. So if you want my protection or not, your going to get it, and one little thing don't try anything against either Roland or me, for I am an extremely powerful mage of Death."
Vixen spun around startled hearing that dark voice. She saw him standing there. "Oh for goodness sake!" She growled, "would you stop with all the dramatics? Roland is a pain in the ass and you know it! Don't get grumpy with me because your master told you to protect him..."
Vixen stood with her hands on her hips, her warm eyes sparkling with supressed anger. Suddenly, the heat vanished and she smiled at him. "Now, that I've got that off my chest, you can start helping by telling us the way out of here, I've found the gardens, but I have a feeling that they may be the inner gardens, in which case, we're back where we started.
Vixen glanced over to Gardeen who seemed to be having trouble opening the door to Theresa. "Whats wrong?" Vixen asked him...
Roland: mikba turned around and looked at me...
"Roland nice to see you again...i wasent told you were in that nasty group of travelers...ah according to my sensors you seem to have destroyed draga....i alwase knew you were a match for him...and so much more....but now it seems i will have to destroy you VEX ORT!"
fireballs came at me and i rolled to the side...
"not that easy Mikba...take this Vex IT!"
lightning struck down all around mikba and he hadto doge a few bolts...
"not bad roland...not bad at all...."
"you think SO old man well trythis of for size! SHADDOWWALK!"
i dissappeared into thin air...i came up behind him and nailed him on the back with the back sword doing serious damage...
"whhhhy you IMPUTENT FOOOL!!!!"
"watch it mikba.....i have more tricks up my sleave than a mage on a stage...go ahead...gimmie your best shot"
"raaaaaagh ROLAND YOU FOOL!!!!!"
balls of big time energy came into his hands and he fired ball for ball totaly blowing away the walls of the castle to nothing and i was never even touched..
"that the best you got......too bad mikba...time to DIE!"
"YaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
i readyed my greatest fire spell....Holocaust.....
i fired it at an enraged mikba who tried to suffice a defence but was too late as the energy and fire hit him like a kansas tornado....he fell to the ground almsot on his knees...
"Had enough MIKBA......."
"Grrrrrrh.....i am not at full power here...ill be back...and then i will destroy you AND YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!"
he dissapeared and didnt return....
damnit...lost him...
i turned and realeased sith and taitainnia...and i turned around to where the castle walls had been and saw vixen with the demon i called to them
"hey guys whats up? leaving so soon? comon were gonna raid the tresury..he got all his men out but not his stuff!! comon!!!"
i sounded all happy and they decided from the look of the castle walls he was gone.. so we all went into the tresure rooms..while they were busy opening doors..i got in the one i knew contained...the tome...quickly i seized it and hid it in my bag..i had it again then i made the sound of rustling..
"its gone! sith it s Gone the tome must still be with mikba!!!"
"blast it....well i wouldve expected that roland....he had some forewarning of us coming...that stasis spell i belive is in the tome...comon let get all we can carry and head back out...we have to find him now......
While all were ranting on about some useless tome, the demon pulled out a small but perfectly cut diamond and pulled out his sword. Suddenly, he made a small slash on his arm and placed diamond inside.
"Head straight through the hole in the wall, take a right, a left, go straight and you'll see and hear plenty of explosions. That would be them. Follow the directions and you just can't miss them", the demon said grinning.
"Roland, we are not ready at this moment to defeat Mikba. He was tired after battling me and the demon and Tatianna, he had just placs us in stasis (a very tyring spell) when you came in. We need to devise some plan, I have to research one or two protective spells that could help vs. Mikba..."
Roland: "Quite true sith..i know just the guy... unfortunatly im not sure if hes still alive...his name is Zeratul, he literaly wrote the book on protective spells, if theirs anyone who knows them he does...also..i can start vixens training while you get what you need..now we must hurry...without mikba to support the magic in this castle it will soon crumble and us with it...so Hurry!"
we ran down the hall ways to the outside where Taitannia stood with the demon
"hurry Taitainnia run with us!!"
we ran across the courtyard doging stones and falling timber we dove out the blasted open wall and escaped just in time to see the castle fall to dust....
"Pant....pant....Heeve.....well....thats somthing i dont ever want to do again....whew..." we were all sitting down on the ground near the camp and just rested and calmed down after the inital rush.. well...the battle was ours...but the war has just begun i fear...the war has just begun
OOC: For what I think, Roland's intention (and now Sith's too) is to get ready for the fight in typical fantasy staple, Roland will go train Vixen, and Sith will finish the research of two or three defensive shadow spells.
Theresa screamed. But no one heard her.
"Who are you?" She shouted. Invisable hands clawed at her, raking into delicate skin. Instinct took over; picking uo a skeel of wound wool she quickly threaded it though her hands. With one knot, the thing that attacked her screamed. With another knot and mumble of prayer to the Goddess, the demon sceamed louder. Theresa split the thread from the knot into three parts, then quickly braided.
"Goddess help me goddess help me..." With a final scream, the thing collapsed, purple-red blood oozing from pores. The tiny room stank of rotten meat.
As soon as the thing died, the door burst open. A concerned Gardeen swept her in his arms. Vixen and their new friend knelt over the oozing mess of Theresa's attacker.
"Ay'uers." Vixen was impressed that a little frail thing like Theresa had managed to distroy such a powerful being...
"W-What?" Sobbed Theresa. Gardeen soothed her manically.
"Ay'uers. They eat you from the inside. I've seen a victim of one of their attacks before- nothing is left but skin and bone. Mikba must be very powerful if he can control one of these," he said, staring into the eyes of Tatianna, who blushed and looked away. Vixen pulled Gardeen and Theresa out of the room- Theresa still had her threads to play with. A scream of anger and pain erupted to the very core of the castle.
"We need to fight," she said to Gardeen. "Theresa, can you..."
"No!" Said Gardeen. But Theresa's cry was louder.
"Yes, " she said. "I can look after me n' my child." With the detirmined look on her face, Vixen did not disagree. They went and joined the others.