Curse of the Fallen Quest: Ring Bearer's Trilogy

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I blinked a few times, trying to think of something and thought, "What the hell!?"
"I don't recall what happened or how I got off the boat..." What boat? I wished I could recall something, give me an idea if he was yanking my chain or actually knew me!?
"How did you get off the boat?" I asked cautiously. I had to think of something viable and quickly before he suspected something.. but what if I just told partial truths?
"Truth is..." lord, how did one go about all this?
"We best talk somewhere private.." All else failed I could take care of him when we reached the new hotel.
I sat in silence as the cab drove along, thinking over what he had said to me.. Surely he was mistaken? Mistaken idenity was possible these days with so many people looking like other people.. Right? I had to think and go carefully with this.. For now.

 

[poohlive]

Lance shruggedh is shoulders. Personally, he couldn't think of anywhere more private than a moving cab, but he knew how uptight Aria was about these things. He decided against it, and rested against the side of the far door, looking now at the city that deserted before them, and ran into the country.
Forests replaced buildings. Houses cramped together now moved out, having more and more yards, until all that was left were huge open spaces for ranches and farming.
It felt good out here, peaceful. He liked Australia. Only been here once before, when it was still a prisoner's island. Some of the riff raff sent over had been vampires. They took to prison like a duck to water. The great malady of existance is banal.
"I missed you," he said, into the lengthened silence that hung in the air like a thick fog, "Thought I had lost you forever. Maybe I would have to do this all myself. I never could do it alone... as many times as I tried, I never could."
He let his eyes fall as his head bounced lazily on the twilight trip through the countryside.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I said nothing for the longest time, just sat staring out the window. Having no idea what he wanted to hear from me, I couldn't think of an answer for him.
I tensed now and then, knowing I was getting further from Willow and my back-up, as well as further from the hotel room and everything I needed in there. All I had on me was two daggers and my ring. Little use that was to me right now.
Spotting a road that went no where basicly, I sat forward and pointed for the driver. "Turn off here for a moment and move behind that big rock." I didn't look at Lance to see if he was curious why I was stopping us, but he would soon find out.
The driver did as instructed, "Leave the car running, we'll be right back." I opened the door and climbed out, motioning for Lance to come with me.
Moving a few feet behind the cab I turned and faced him.
"I am afraid I had some rather unpleasant news Lance." I started as he came into view. I knew he could hear me, so I didn't bother speaking too loudly. After all he was vampire as well as I was.
"I don't know how you mistook me for this Aria, but I am not her. My name is Arianna.. I know it's similar." He smirked at me and tried to speak. I held up my hand, "Please let me finish."
Stuffing my hands into my pants pockets, I glanced around, always watching for intruders it seemed.
"I don't recall you. I don't recall this boat, or even this Ray person. I work for someone who sent me here to...... well.." I halted a little not sure what to say now but I had to get it out and over with.
"I was sent to kill you." I said lamely, not sure I could now if I wanted to, but then what? Mongrel would more than likely kill me if I didn't kill Lance. Here I was, standing in the middle of no where confessing to my target I was supposed to kill him! Like I was some naughty child and needed disciplined for this!?
"I don't know why I am supposed to kill you, I don't know why he sent me when Willow.." I halted in speach, I shouldn't have said Willow's name. I backed up a little watching Lance's face, wondering what to expect next? Would he attack, ask questions or laugh?

 

[poohlive]

Lance looked at the haze in her eyes, the unknown that stirred around her. Aria didn't have a sense of humor, he knew that much. And something like this was beyond just funny. It was downright mean. She didn't lie, she didn't try to trick him, just wanted him dead.
Wonderful.
"He wants me dead because I have the page, "He said, matter-of-factly, "Something he's been trying to get for a long time now. He's pissed that I slipped through his fingers, again, and just wants it over with."
Lance shook his head from side to side, "You are attracted to me, that's probably why. He thought you would find me when even his best trackers couldn't get a trace. You and the ring... of course, that would make perfect sense. Everything makes perfect sense..."
Lance looked at her, how she stood, half defensive, half offensive. Ready for just about anything, or ready to start if it it weren't going to be started.
Could he trust her now? His thoughts ranged from driving off in the cab alone, to possibly just leaving here bruised and beaten, a warning to stay off his trail.
No, he needed her... her ring. If for nothing else, he needed that damned ring.
"So, what now? Last I heard targets usually don't get an explanation, just a bullet in the head. You waiting for something? Willow to find the page first? No one will find it without me, and if I'm dead, it'll go on missing forever. Sorry, sweety, this is a lost cause no matter how you look at it."

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

He had a point, him dead was a useless move if they needed something.
"Page? What page?" Again I was not certain what to think or say here, I was a little torn. I couldn't kill him for several reasons. One being this page he mentioned and another reason he seemed to know me?
"Let's get going somewhere private before Willow does track us." I moved back to the cab and climbed in, waiting to see if he would follow or not? Poking my head out the window I gave him a little grin, "I promise to play nicely.... Besides I want to know who I am and if you know me.. best way to solve this mystery is to stick with you isnt it?" I scooted back into my seat and waited with the meter running.
"Is he coming?" The driver asked,
"Eventually when he thinks over all his options." I assured him. Folding my arms, I sat silently waiting for Lance to join me in the cab.

 

[nightray]

Ray

I walk the streets of New York aimlessly as my mind boils with conflicting thoughts and emions. I bump in to people not paying attention to there meaningless curses to watch where I was going. The images of the women’s kids drifting in my mind as I emgen there faces when they fined out what has happened to there mother. I grimace half in disgust at my self half with hummer at what I did.

“I’m more then them why should I care what happens, there nothing more the cattle to be fed apon by me and my kind.” I shake my head at the thought thinking “no I was one of them once.” I mutter under my breath the look on my face making people get out of my way some with pity in there eye’s some with fear.

I growl as I duck in to the shadows of an ally trying to get away from there eye seeming to accuse and blame. I walk down the ally not noticing the smell of rotting garbage and old sweet from the bums sleeping in the dark corners. My feet splash in the putils left bye the down pore that ended not to long ago.

I stop as I smell the familiar sent of vampires they have been watching me for a while now thinking they where unobserved. I shake my head and keep walking pushing the thought of doubling back on them and killing them from my mined knowing it would do no good.

I come to an open acses grate to the subway system I look down smelling the rank smell of stale water and urn. I smile and drop down in to the darkness letting it enfold me comfortingly. I quickly walk down the tunnel lessoning for persot. I smile grimly as I hear the faint sound of feet hitting the ground behind me.

He thinks I’m going to be easy to fallow down her.” I say softly to my self deciding to have some fun with him. I move quickly and silently down the tunnel until I come to a wider subway tunnel. I look to my right herring the sounds of people talking and moving around in one of the terminals. I turn left heeding in to the darkness away from the sounds of people. I jump easily to the other side of the tunnel herring the faint hum of electricity passing threw one of the rails.

I duck down another access tunnel until phone and electric wires hanging over my head. I cock my head still herring the faint sound of my watcher. I chuckle as I come to an old grate leading in to the suers. I open it carefully grimacing at the screech of rusted hinges. I slip in landing with a splash in a tunnel knee deep in rain run off. I wade to one side pulling my self up on to a walk way. I look up at the grate over head seeing the shadow of my watcher as he looks down.

I smile and wave to him before moving deeper in to the draining tunnel the rank smell of waste filling my nose. I shake my head chuckling softly to my self as I lead him deeper in to the maze under the city. I smell and hear humans down her the homeless looking for a place to sleep.

I move down a smaller side tunnel and in to another larger tunnel running parallel to the first. I jump down in to the water and walk up stream then down another side tunnel leading back to the first. I walk get back up on to the walk way moving to a small cubby hole.

I stand in its deeper darkness watching and lessoning. I hear the follower come back in to this tunnel swearing under his breath. I smile enjoying the game. He walks by my hiding spot his head moving as he looks and lessons for me. As he passes me I step out behind him my arm moving around his throat my hand clamping don on his mouth my other hand moving to the top of his head reedy to snap his neck like a twig.

I move my mouth close to his ear “I don’t like being watched it annoys me greatly. So tell your friends to stop or you’ll start dying very painfully.” I say this in a calm hard voice telling nothing more then a fact no more no less.

I let go of him pushing him hard sending him flying down the tunnel and in to the water. Before he can recover I turn and walk to a ladder leading up to the subway levels. I move quickly losing my self in the tunnels stopping now and agene to lison for persot. I smile slowing down as I come out on in a terminal.

I catch a train getting off near my penthouse building. I walk up to street level looking around at the people looking for any vampires watching me. I smile as I see a few walking away from me on the other side of the street. I turn in the opeset direction walking to my home.

I walk in to the lobby ignoring the strange looks the door man gives me as I don’t smell very pleasant. I hit the up button for the elevator waiting patiently for the doors to open for me. The doors open and the snob of a bitch who lives below me steps out wrinkling her nose as she sees and smells me. I just look at her threw my sunglasses causing her to step back fear rolling off of her as he edges past me. I smile a note so friendly smile causing her to gasp and run tords the doors. I chuckle as I watch her run her ass swaying sexily her silk dress riding nicely over it.

I step in to the elevator letting the doors close my stomach lurching slightly as the elevator moves up the shaft to my pent house. I step out pulling my clothes off as I go throwing them on to the floor that’s already letter with my dirty close. I shake my heed thinking I need to do laundry soon. I walk in to my bedroom leaning the swords agenst one wall as I take the rest of my clothes off.

I walk in to the bathroom taking a quick shower. After I dry off and walk in to the living room. I sit on a couch looking threw the large picker windows at the city’s lights as I relax trying to clear my mind trying to find the eye of the storm once agene.

 

[Firegirl976]

I step out of the limo flashing a smile and a thank you at the driver as he helps me with my bags. Taking a deep breath I sigh and look up seeing just how tall the expensive looking building is. A footman walks out to grab my things and staggers lightly when he picks up the bag with the magical artifacts in it. "What ya got in here lady a body" He grins a bit at me and I lean over flashing a bit of cleavage as I grab the bag with one arms and walk off leaving the rest of the luggage for him. Once I reach the desk the gentleman behind it smiles annoyingly and talks to me in his NY educated tone, "The penthouse you requested is ready madam, you may go up when ready." I grin at him a bit my full lips mesmerising him, "Ma' thanks....an' if you would eb soo kahnd as to have ma things sent up, I dunae thing I can carry much in this skirt." My smile widens as his eyes widen at my scottish burr. Even after all these millenia it hasn't lessoned, other than when I cover it. I pick up my bag and walk to the elevator, when the doors open I step inside glad to have the mans eyes off of me finally. Suddenly the ring becomes almost white hot and I drop my bag from surprise......it glows against my skin. My hearts beats slightly faster and a goosebumps break out on my skin,....."Ray?" the name floats off my lips in a whisper and I feel his anguish. HE was close......

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Christian

Standing out front, I scanned the streets, looking for something that might take my mind off what had taken it over.
Nothing.
Not even a good meal, a fresh one, could bring my mind back to the present. I kept thinking about how we'd met, and what we'd done together. So much time building a friendship and a relationship, something that I felt I'd never want to be without. And now it was gone.
I felt like crying, but I didn't dare. I didn't want to show that weakness, not when our enemies could be near, watching us. More than that, I was afraid. Not of the enemy, especially not now. If I cried, it might help me deal with her loss, with the reality of not having her any more. Then what? What would life be like without her, even if all she was now was a memory? I was scared that the life I'd find would be empty, almost sure of it in fact. And what then? Immortality, but with such a steep price.
"Christian."
Kavak patted me on the shoulder with one hand, shaking me a bit by it.
"Come, we should talk, in private."
I followed his lead, moving around the corner of the building and into the alley there, rubbing at the strange object with my thumb. My finger burned beneath it, but I didn't bother to remove the item. The burning sensation might prove an effective method of drawing my attention should the depression get too deep.
Once we were there, he turned to me, the lamplight from the street illuminating his face some.
"Mikael?"
"Fine," he returned. "Healed faster than you did, in fact."
The incident had been about a week ago, and still, I was sore. A few days, and I should be fully recovered.
"That's not what I wanted to talk about, though. I wanted to talk about you, and about Kayla."
He fought the last few words, as though he thought I might cry at thier mention.
I opened my mouth to speak, but he cut me off.
"i'm not here to apologize, lad," he stated, "Just to explain something. I've seen you in battle with her, and without her, and I've seen your behavior over the last few days. I know you're one of us, and know that the battle we're fighting affects us all, but there's also this nagging feeling, I've got. A feeling that's telling me that this was her fight and not yours. A feeling that says maybe this path isn't for you..."
I stared at him, mouth agape.
"We all must do our part, but if your passion has left you, maybe you part should be somewhere other than on the front lines..."
I wanted to tell him that it was still with me, but the words felt wrong, as though I'd be lieing, more to myself than to him.
I looked down at my feet, not wanting to answer. Just then, the ring seemed to be burning more than ever, mostly I felt it was because I wanted to feel it, more than what I was feeling inside. I was scared, as my thoughts of uncertainty in the future were becoming a reality already.
"Just think it over, and decide what is best. We'll support you in what you decide."
I nodded, then he patted me hard on the shoulder, and headed away. I stood outside, thinking that it would be poetic if it might start to downpour.

 

[poohlive]

She worked for Willow, but more importantly, she worked for Mongrel. The man swept up unearthed emotion within him that dealt back hundreds of years. He had many curses put on his heart, chaining his soul down to the facets of earthen misery, but the biggest, the most baleful was that of Mongrel.
Mongrel wanted the page, and he knew millions of tricks to get it.
Lance looked back at the cab.
Another trick.
That is why he brought her back. She could help find him, sure, but that was nothing. Lance knew that Mongrel would have found him on his own soon enough, he wanted Aria for another reason.
A sicker reason.
He trained Aria to come after it, cause he knew Lance would have to kill her.
Lance kicked up a pebble, sneding it screaming off into the distance. He had to kill her. She still wore the ring, and if she was tainted like this, she was no good to him anymore. Damaged goods. He would have to kill her, to let the ring pick another.
Lance tried to hold back a tear, his thoughts betraying him. He could see the look on her face when she picked up her son, held him in her hands, screamed when she saw him die right before her very eyes.
She had been cursed on this earth long enough, she deserved death.
They all deserved death.
He, however, had a job to do.
Kill Aria.
He would have to be quiet about it, go somewhere private. Just like she said, a nice reclusive spot to do her in. He wouldn't even let her scream, just a nice gentle death. He could be gentle. He killed enough people to know how to be gentle.
Lance sat in the cab, a fake smile plastered over his face.
"Let's go," He said, from far away.
Out of all the things he had been cursed to do, this was going to be the hardest, he knew that from the start.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

He climbed back into the cab and quietly spoke. Nodding to the driver we were once again moving.. towards what, I did not have the faintest idea.

"This is hard isn't it?" I said softly, staring out the other window. Again torn in this mission. So many nagging thoughts entered my mind, all chaotic and confusing as well.

"You said you know me.." My hand twirled the ring around and around my finger as I thought. I knew something that might be helpful, but would he go for it? Glancing at him, I did not think he would. This just did not feel right at all, and getting personal with a target was beyond stupid as well.

I fell silent again, unsure how to approach what I was thinking but something inside wanted to know. I hated that black void, the little things that said who I was and why I was. The little annoying habits people had. Did I smoke? Did I drink? Was I a cruel person or caring?

"Who could I speak with that was the closest to me? Who would know alot about me?" I asked hesitantly, uncertain he would even answer me that one question.

"Who could I get my memories back from?" I turned towards him with that, my eyes zeroed in on his face.

 

[poohlive]

Lance only shook his head. A soft little light fading from his eyes as they moved down the road.
"They're all dead. Mongrel made sure there were no survivors, except for me. I guess I'm just a little too slick for him."
A fake smile that hid behind his own hurt feelings. The thoughts that ran through him, they sickened him worse than anything else. She wanted nothing more than his hope, and here he was ready to kill her before a moment's notice.
The real question that entered his mind was if this truly was Mongrel's plan. Mongrel brought her back to kill him, to give him the last page, but did he go through this ellaborate routine of her asking for his help just to rouse him? Just to weaken him? Or was he stupid enough to send her to him without some sort of leash.
Mongrel was stupid, but not that stupid. He couldn't believe a word Aria spoke. She looked so sincere and hopeful, almost like her old self, but he couldn't see it. He refused to see it.
She was a walking assasin, bent on the page and Mongrel. If he thought she was any more than that.... he couldn't go through what he was about to do.
"I don't know much, we weren't close," he lied, the lie sounded better than any truth at this point, "Just shared a quest, that's all. You might find something in New Orleans, if you looked. You used to live there, or France...."
Maybe if she left. If she just got up and left, got away from him and Mongrel. Just disappeared, maybe this wouldn't happen.
Maybe...
That sickening feeling came over him again, and he shifted in his seat.
"No family, no friends. A pretty big bank account, last I checked. You always had money to burn. You liked to travel, but then again, who doesn't?"
He continued to stare out at the window, unable to look at her, to see that innocent look on her tainted face.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I sat silently, thinking over what He had told me.

"Nothing but money? Why was I even alive?" I asked more stunned than anything else.
He said France and New Orleans.. Perhaps I could find something there? Again I twirled the ring as I felt it's warming sensations on my hand.

"A quest? What was that about? And do you know about this ring?" I had a feeling I wouldn't get answers from him. Oddly I didn't feel as if Lance was ever close to me the way he spoke. Something did not feel right about what he said. But who was I to judge this? I couldn't remember my own name!

The car ride was feeling more and more uncomfortable by the minute. It basicly was almost hopeless to find some answers, he apparently didn't know much about me and if I had no one alive who knew me, I was stuck in this fucked up void.. for who knows how long?

 

[poohlive]

"It's a remnant. An old talisman. It used to be a key," Lance didn't look at it, but he didn't need to. He knew exactly what she was asking, and he couldn't answer that. He couldn't answer her like this, to shre with her these feelings that were the same as to why he needed her dead in the first place.
Aria would have wanted it that way. He knew... he had the emotions of her to prove it.
"The key was used though, that was part of the quest, and now the book is opened. Mongrel's property, all others stay away. He has everything except the page. The one thing he needs the most, but... it doesn't matter. It's over, it was over a long time ago."
Lights came bumbling up, another small city. That helped him, at least they didn't have to see this endless stretch of nothing.
"Where do you want to stop?"

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

Where did I want to stop? At this rate I'd never be done running when Mongrel found out I did not do the job. He'd be sending Willow after me and whatever else he could find...

"I've seen the book. I know where he keeps it as well." I knew what book he was talking about. Mongrel was being whispered about behind his back by all those around him. Seems he has a strong thing with this book and is always reading it.

"If he doesn't have everything then the quest you speak of isn't over now is it?" I didn't look at him, I watched the road ahead. Some where around here was another smaller city. They had a private airport as well. I could go where ever I wanted to, perhaps New Orleans it's self, find some answers?

Call it selfish, or drive but I no longer cared about Lance or Mongrel. I certainly did not care about this quest thing or killing anyone. I had some information to who I was.. I needed to know this more than anything else in the world at this point.

I finally seen the city limits sign and smiled, "Take me to the air port." I spoke to the driver of the cab. I had enough cash on me to charter a flight anywhere I wanted to go, after that I would be on my own and broke, but I would be moving in the right direction. Now to figure out what to do with Lance? I glanced over at him, he looked fine to me only a little pale, he could handle himself.

"Have you fed tonight?" I whispered, he wasn't normally this color. Course after the illness and the festering book, he went human again. "Who changed you back?" I asked again, puzzled completely by this.

 

[poohlive]

"Changed me back from what?"
Lance gave her an odd look, for a moment pondering if she knew something or not. Had she been playing at something? Maybe even lulling him into some sort of fake pretense? He didn't see anything devious in her eyes, but then again, he couldn't see much of anything.
She looked like some weird blank slate, that hadn't quite been empty, but rather all the words erased, smudged together, but they were still there.
That didn't frighten him though, what frightened him was the other things that might have been written in their place.
"I haven't fed, nor have any desire to."
Curt, short answer. He would have said thank you, but it seemed to fececious, and at this point he didn't want to do that to her. Not here, not now. They were too close to opposing sides, the tension too high.
Each playing a facade, and the vision of death playing in the back of both their minds.
It was enough to scare anyone, and for a man who hadn't been scared in centuries, that was a truly evil thing.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

A puzzled look came over my face as I thought, I had a thought there a moment ago! Feeling frustrated and upset that something popped out of my mouth, I knew it one second and the next I didn't, I wanted out of the cab.

"Pull over here please.." I curtly spoke the cab driver. I turned to Lance, my eyes searching his hardened features.

"Good luck with whatever it is you are doing, watch out for Willow.. I have something to do and it doesn't involve you.." feeling like crying and hating the weakend thoughts of it, I jumped out of the cab and briskly began to half walk and half run towards the small air field. I needed out of here!

 

[nightray]

Ray

My eye’s open as I feel the ring on my finger growing hot the image of Kat flouting with in my minds eye. I stand frowning as I look out of the window at the city below. “Are you hear Kat?” I ask in a soft voice as my eyes dart hear and there at the shining lights of the city.

With out thinking I move quickly to my room pulling on some black jeans and a t-shirt. I buckle the swords to my waist and pull the trench on covering them. I then move back out in to the leaving room posing trying to think of what to do what this means.

I look down at the ring as it glows heat emanating from it in waves. I growl as the storm with in my mind boils conflicting emions running threw me. I look threw the flour to ceiling glace looking at the stars over head. “What do I do master where am I to go?” I say in a tight voice wondering who my true master was the dark or the light. I smirk or could ether truly control me. I shake my head as I begin to pace agene wondering if I should hunt Kat down.

I look at the ring frowning then it hits me I don’t need to hunt her down she’s hear in the building close very close. I growl a sound that shouldn’t be herd from a human’s throat but from an animals. I move to the doors of my penthouse lessoning to the out side no she cant be coming to this floor this is the only pent house up hear there are more below for rent.

“How do’s she know where I am I never told her about this place no one knows, it’s where I came when I wanted to be alone. It has to be a cawinsadens doesn’t it? I open the doors to the lobby where the elevator opens to. I look at the number over the door it stops at the floor just below mine. I frown as my eye’s narrow with thought. I watch as the numbers go down agene back to the lobby. I look at my feet my eyes not rely seeing any thing as I lesson hearing nothing this flour was completely sound proofed so as not to disturb me.

I stand thinking wondering what I should do confront her and seek her help or run and begin the hunt fore the book once agene. My thought swirl in my mind. “Maybe I’ll pay her a visit see what she wants hear maybe kill her for daring to disturb me. I flinch slightly at that thought even as an evil grin comes to my lips.

I hit the down button on the pad next to the doors and I wait for the doors to open chuckling to my self as I wait.

 

[poohlive]

He let the cab driver go for another block, turning away from her as she ran off. He wanted to let her go, thought the better of it. She would leave, an unmentionable on this earth, a cursed enigma trying to find answers she never could.
He could live with that, he could. Just to let her go, continue on, alone.
And then there was that pull. Aria's pull, as she spoke to him, somewhere deep within where he still carried her.
"No, not like that. She still has the ring. You do it one way, or not at all, don't just let her go. She doesn't deserve that fate, no one deserves that fate."
"Stop," Lance called to the driver, pulling out enough bills to satisfy the hefty fee. He slipped into the shadows of day, his mind set on her.
A spy to Mongrel? A walking time bomb? Or just a hallowed shell with her soul wrethed out like the insides of a watermelon? Either way, she couldn't just walk away.
She was too important....
Too important for him, and the cursed sworn to still uphold a dead quest.
"Aria, wait," He tried to catch her off guard, but he hadn't regained most of his strength, and knew she would hear him coming. He didn't think she'd plan on his attack.
That was the one thing going for him.
He tackled her as hard as he could, wrestling her to the ground, his knee sticking sharply inside her back, pinning her to the cold concrete. He held her there, gritting his teeth as he strained her.
"This won't take long," He muttered, reaching down her side.
If he knew Aria, if her memories were correct...
Yes, a dagger.
He brought it out.
"It'll be over in a minute. Don't worry, you'll get all your answers," He kept digging his knee into her, forcing her between his tangled mass of muscles and the unforgiving slab of concrete below.
"It'll be over in a minute..."
It rose high into the air.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

I heard him shout out what he said was my name, but I didn't stop moving. I wanted out of here and away from him and Mongrel!

Next thing I felt was heavy weight against me, slamming down into the unforgiving concrete below. The wind knocked out of me and seeing stars, I lay there stunned a moment. The fresh taste of blood in my mouth as well as pain shooting up my leg and through my back.

That rotten bastard was kneeling on my back! I caught my breath the moment he pulled out my dagger.

A million thoughts raced through my mind as I grit my teeth in anger. He betrayed me! He was never a friend to do this to me! I peeked over my shoulder as best I could and seen him raise his hands. Gasping for air and grunting, I braced my right hand and knee.

"You bastard!" I growled out as I shoved sideways, sending him to his side and myself onto my back. Reaching for my other dagger, I quickly managed to get myself upright as my temper started to flare.

Panting I stood up and glared at him, "I let you go.." I panted, holding my side a little as my tongue darted out over my bleeding lip. "And this is how you repay me!? I have the feeling we were never friends..." I shook, with pain, anger and upset that he would do such a thing.

"I could say I have an excuse for attacking you! but you?! You have your memories, you know who you are and what you believe! and for a supposed friend, you sure are a snake!" I hissed at him, nearly spitting in anger.

"This what you want?" I asked scornfully, holding up my other dagger in a menacing and very threatening way.

 

[poohlive]

Lance moved to his feet, already feeling the sting of pain across his back. The transformation had only been a few days ago, and those tingles of old muscles forming and massing new again took time.
He bent down low, holding the dagger in his hands. Words... He almost smiled if he didn't realize what kind of serious situation he was in. Aria always liked to have her words, running about the mouth, trying to back up things in her heart by speaking them aloud.
It was her...
All the more strength he had to summon up to do this right.
"I'll give you all your answers" He ran at her, but instea of aiming high, at the head or chest, he rolled along the ground, taking out her legs from under her.
Up on his feet, he held his dagger dangerously close, waiting for the right chance to strike deep in her heart.

 

[Morgoth]

The doors were closing. He would need to be fast. One second he stood in the lobby, the next, he held his hand between the elevator doors to keep them form closing. He saw her, finally. He had been tracking her presence, and finally, he had met up with her again. He smiled handsomely. He took in her shocked expression, and his frown stood out on his face. Rarely was it that expression that adorned his face, and usually, it meant death. "You don't remember me?" he hissed, his blood boiling.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

Hitting the ground again, harder this time, I was prepared for something but not this. The sneaky little shit!

He was up and ready to pounce yet again as I lay there trying to catch my breath. Glaring at him, I kicked out, knocking the dagger from his hand as my boot made contact with his fingers.

Flipping myself upright, I stood there panting and glaring at him in anger.

"You still fight like a sneaky under handed pussy!" I growled low. Wiping my hand across my still bleeding lip, I grinned and waited.

"You're going to have to do better than that! Forgetting who..." A confused gaze came over my face a moment, trying to grasp the right name out of thin air.

"FUCK!" I swore, backing up and waiting. I would plunge this knife so deep into his black heart! No! Better yet, my bare hands. Throwing away the dagger, I kept my gaze on him.

"I should make this a little fair shouldn't I?" I lunged for him, my hands gripping around his neck as my body hit full force into his chest. We both went down hard, my landing a little softer since I came down on top of him with my hands firmly around his neck. Fangs bared I was prepared to drain this one to death!

 

[poohlive]

She had strength. He would admit that from the beginning. His only hope to kill her, to pass the ring onto someone that deserved it would be to use every trick in the book.
Slippery, conniving, underhanded fighting.
Something he had an intimate detail of.
Hell, how do you think he survived so many centuries? Protein shakes and morning jogs only go so far.
His legs came up as they fell, reaching their mark right under her stomach.
When they fell, she was on top of him, but the leverage was all his. A sort of catapault in waiting, something he had learned from a few friends back east.
He kicked, hard. She flung up into the air, but still clung onto his neck, and he wouldn't let her get off so easy. His arms grabbed her shoulders, making it so that her entire body had this wide arch in the air, and landing right next to him on the pavement.
He did a back flip, landing right on top of her.
"If I didn't know any better," he hissed, "I'd say you weren't trying."
He hit her, hard leaving a trail of blood coming from off her cheek.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Aria

Spitting more blood than before, my face now stung like a son-of-a-bitch!

Nostrils flaring slightly as I drew in a shakey breath, he was really pissing me off. Knuckles curled and palm up, I slammed it into his nose and felt it slow with his block.

Nothing left to do to get him off of him, I raised my knees and hit him in his lower back. Doubling both hands into one fist I threw it hard into his stomach. I was weakening a little but still had plenty to give.

"Someone..." I grunted as I shoved him, "Hasn't fed!" He swung again or appeared to and my hands grabbed his wrists, digging into the skin with my nails until he bled. Rearing up, I head butted him and shoved him over sideways with a twist to my body.

Jumping to a crouch, I panted heavily as I wiped off my cheek. "I have had enough of this!" Running to my dagger's I grabbed one and turned towards him. He was closer than I thought possible.

Backing up a step at a time I had to smile a little, he was good.

"To bad I don't recall knowing you... How many times have you tried to kill me huh?" My cheek was bleeding again, the ring was making my body throb more with it's insistant glowing, and I was just not in the mood for this. I should have killed him before. Nice silent and easy like.

I stood between him and the second dagger, watching for him to move just once the wrong way. Any excuse to sink this one into his black hearted body!

"I should have known you'd turn out like this... My hand still hurts where you cut my fingers off! Fucking sick bastard!" I stepped back a few more steps, coming closer to the second dagger, but knowing I couldn't take my eyes off of him, he would attack the second he thought I wasn't paying full attention.

 

[Firegirl976]

Kat

Trying to wipe the surprise off my face at seeing one of the blood I simply look at him for a minute noticing the way his smile turns to a fierce frown when he say "You don't remember me do you!?" Suddenly trailing Ray leaves my mind as I stare at the Vampire standing before me. He is tall, taller than me and big, a warriors build. THe doors open at my floor and I just stand there till he steps aside holding the door for me to pass before stepping out after me. THe doors close as I turn around, "I'm sorry.............Should I know yae?" THe ring on my hand is so hot it almost burns my skin and I look around then freeze wondering where Ray is that I can sense him but not find him. I turn back to the man before me thinking how familiar he looks and wondering at the feeling deep in my belly at his nearness. "I'm afraid I've been a bit....ummmm.....out of it until recently." My brogue comes out a bit stronger as I speak and I flip my braid over my shoulder my hand at my knife the whole time.