Dragon Wars Ii

[Khadgar]

Worraps

Worraps frowned, his tongue picking out bits of meat from his teeth, the meal had been good, but this land was new, and strange, and dark. nothing was how he had left it. the land smelled different, looked different. in the distance, the lands burned, he could smell it.

Worraps spent almost an hour sitting on the peak of a mountain, watching the world below him, then he soared down into the forrests, ready to great the world for all it had changed in his long sleep.

instead of people to meet and talk to, he came across bodies. human, elf, orc. knitting his brows in curiosity and frustration, he changed into his human form, so he could go deeper into the forrest. turning his scaled in and shrinking, the area around him darkened to a near blackness. the only light visible the two slitted eyes burning with white intensity, as they died, and dimmed, the area around hm brightened up back to normal, andout of the darkness came the man.

 

[chewbacca71]

Golanth searches.......

Golanth looked down at the last yearling to receive his instructions. "Remember, you need to stress to your contact that they are needed as soon as possible back here so that the council can meet. I trust that you are familiar with where you are going.....Good, then fly with as much speed as you can muster." Golanth shook his head as the youngster turned and jumped off the nearest cliff, trusting to the thermals to lift his weight back into the air.

Stretching his own membraned pinions, Golanth took two giant strides and leaped up into the air. The wind currents caressed his large body as he winged his way towards the forest. After a short hour of travel, Golanth noticed a stray herdbeast that had escaped from his shepard. He quickly dove towards the ground, snapping up the frightened beast in his gaping maw. With a sickening crunch, the living beast had been reduced to a fleshy, bloodstreaming paste. Golanth soared back up on his journey to the forest.

He first noticed a large clearing in the forest that he was sure was not there the last time he had flown this way. A glint of light flashing from the ground caught his attention. Turning his great wings towards the ground, Golanth backwinged to drop with a practiced thump to the forest floor. He could make out a large pile mound of flesh in the clearing that showed large bite marks. A stray beam of light reflecting off a golden scale brought a full realization to Golanth of who this might be. Moving around the body, Golanth was able to identify this creature as having once been Monarth.

A single tear trailed from his eye as Golanth tried to remember what his friend had looked like in full vigor. This steaming mound of blood splattered meat was a sad end for such a noble creature. Pushing his grief aside, Golanth tuned his senses to the area around him. Straining with the effort, Golanth could hear some crashing in the underbrush to the west. Bugling a challenge, Golanth thrust his scaly bulk through the treeline in pursuit of that noise.

 

[Jeremy Davis]

Gloomfaust

::His wings cut through the air as he traveled in a slight zig zag pattern, his head dipping as he looked about. He passed a orc band below and a smirk tugged at his maw. Little did the orcs know what he had in store for them. No they had no clue of the death and destruction they were going to suffer in his plans.

His thoughts returned to the task at hand, the dragon counsel would be meeting, and for him to know what they were planning to do about the attack on the gold dragon, he would have to be there. His reception would have mixed reactions he was sure, but he had to find out if his actions were swaying the dragons how he wished they would.

Again, he dipped his head to look below him, nothing but forest and clearings below. Lifting his head and looking ahead he watched as a flock of birds came into view ahead of him. A nice in-flight snack.::

 

[Maid of Marvels]

Fiandorel

The graybeard was called Pine Beard, Fiandorel learned. The headman of his village, he had come to fish when he had stumbled upon her bathing. The Lesser Being was in awe of the magnificent dragon though strangely not afraid, even though it was more than obvious that she could have ended his life in the blink of an eye -- or the snap of a jaw. That in itself was enough to pique Fiandorel's curiosity. That, and the magic that wove around him like a web.

Eventually, she chose to appear before him in a form more akin to his own and he returned to her often. The two became more comfortable with each other as time passed, an unusual bond growing between the two.

The fisherfolk were suspicious of her presence amongst them when Pine Beard first brought her to his village. Who was she? Where did she come from? Why hadn't any of them been aware of her before? The ratlings were far more accepting of her presence and that is what she used to learn more of them and gain the Lesser Beings' trust... or at least plant the seeds for a peaceful coexistence.

Her white hair and the age-old wisdom in her eyes belied her youthful features. She would run and gambol through the trees laughing brightly with the young ones and they looked forward to her visits, though she was still much of an enigma to them all.
Most of all, they looked forward to Fiandorel's stories. Legends of great flying creatures and their fantastic adventures. Tales of gallantry and romance. At first the older ones listened from a distance, but eventually found places in the circle around her as she wove the strands of the tales and made them see her words.

Today was such a day. The children ran to Fiandorel when she walked into the village, jumping and laughing and greeting her as they formed a circle around her.

"Good morn, silly creatures" she chuckled. "First I must have a word with Pine Beard and then we will have time for play."

 

[Vixandra]

Sylvia

A green dragon emerged from the forest below us, asking what was wrong.
I stared down at it and hollared back in dragonic, "There's something killing things down there that I can't see! Be careful! And don't try to eat my elf, if you don't mind, please."
The sun felt warm on my crimson scales and I shuddered a bit feeling the elf trace my silver streak. "Careful of that- damn stripes sensitive," I told him in elvin.
I watched the green dragon scent around, a spell building in the back of my mind just in case.

 

[poohlive]

The black dragon gave her a hurried look. Here he was, trying to help, and she thought he was after a cheap meal on her back? And coming from a red too, a flush of anger criss crossed his face, as he turned to see the source of her problem in the woods.
"There doesn't seem to be anything here now," he gave her a sideways glance, wondering just how young she was. Maybe a bunny rabbit had jumped from the underbrush and spooked her.
With a more serious tone than his thought, he spoke to her, "I don't want to take your meal away from you. I was just concerned for your safety. You looked very rushed coming out of that forest. Why don't you just tell me what happened, and maybe we can do something about it?"

 

[Vixandra]

Sylvia

"I'm sorry if I sounded cross," I said appologetically, truely meaning it. I'd had no reason to sound that way if I had and I knew that. "I'm Sylvia and this is Selwin, pleased to meet you." This in Elvin so my companion could understand.
He looked a bit startled. Smiling I went on in dragonic, "I am Sylvia Callistia Fireclaw, daughter of Mithiaca Fireclaw, High Priestess of the Temple in Om-Shere, I bid you greetings and wish thee good fortune in all your ventures."
"We were attacked by something- killed a gold about a mile away and a couple of elves already. I'm not the biggest thing and rather like my hide in one peice and have decided to protect this little elflette here so I took to the air to avoid a head on fight with my friend here so close by. Thank you for offering aid, sir."

 

[hybirdx]

Spar flew silently through the forest. He had regretfully gave up on finding the killer, yet it still bothered him. Spar came to an abrupt stop in mid air. His ears picked up an set of wings. "Another dragon?" Spar quickly turned around and headed torwards the the dragon. "Wrep? What are you doing here?"

"Golanth sent me, he wants all dragons back at the colony, NOW."

"Right... Thank you Wrep, I'll see back at the colony."

 

[poohlive]

With a little snort, black smoke coming from his nose, Snort let her earlier comments fall of his back like water on a duck. She looked physically upset, and had probably just lashed out from horror more than anything. He wouldn't be the first to conclude that a dragon had become upset at his sight.
"No harm done. The name is Kort. A pleasure meeting a priestess. I wish I had something more attached to my name. Haven't had the chance much."
It was only the partial truth. He felt she shouldn't know about all the skeletons in his closet though. She wasn't comfortable, and he didn't want to push her. He flew alongside her, trying to sooth her for the time being.
"Well, my guess is we either go back, find what it is, and destroy it... or we go to one of the colonies and tell some others. Maybe get a party out here to find what it is. I don't mind tearing something apart today, but I can see you are really shaken... there is a colony not too far from here right? We can find aid..."
He'd never known a red dragon to be scared of much in his days, anything actually. Tales told of the blacks and reds fighting side by side in the older times, them being the bravest and fiercest of all. After the other dragons held back, it was the black and red who won the bloodiest of fights. So the legends go anyway. One knows how legends can be twisted.
Still, the fear in her eyes unsettled his own heart. If something could scare a red priestess, then it'd be enough to take down something like him. He was black enough to go back and kill whatever it was, but he was green enough to get help, and then shop its head off without a second thought.
A smile came to his lips as he thought of the beast in the forest spilling its life blood into the virgin ground.
"We'd better hurry one way or another. Whatever it is won't stay around for too long, especially if it knows it's been spotted."
Humbly, he awaited her decision.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Rheamus Barren

I followed the orcs, keeping my hand near the handle of my weapon, but not letting it stay too close, wanting the orcs to think that perhaps I really was stupid enough to trust them. So far, they proved dumb enough to believe me so foolish. It's amazing what a little arrogance can accomplish. One tought of superiority and they trusted themselves to be able to handle anything.
Problem was, in human form, with so many of them around me (by then, we'd caught up to a group of about twenty, many carrying the same field cots, long thin bodies beneath sheets), they truly could handle me should I try to fight them away.
I kept my eyes open, glancing from side to side, then one grabbed me and drew me aside, as the other orcs scurried beneath the higher limbs of trees above.
I glanced up in time to see two dragons flying overhead. One was the darkest red dragon I'd ever seen. The other appeared to be all black dragon.
I watched as the Orcs hid the field cots first. They were hiding something, and the thin bodies that had to be elves were part fo something they didn't want entirely known just yet. But why were they taking the...?
Then I saw one of the bodies move, the form shifting slightly beneath the sheet.
Prisoners. Not the dead, but the injured or unconscious. Covered to appear as though they carried their own? I wondered.
"What are you looking at?" An orc asked, then slapped me on the back of my head. I gripped the sword handle again, then steadied my hand and released it.
"I didn't realize you had wounded among you," I responded. "What happened to your men? Were they ambushed?"
The orc smiled, crooked teeth jutting from either side of its mouth. "Yes, we were attacked...by elves even," he laughed. "Now up!"I stood at its request, then joined them as they continued on toward what I guessed to be an orc camp. I followed along, amazed that even orcs could be so stupid as to fall for my retoric. Oddly, I felt tired suddenly, but I pushed on nonetheless.

 

[chewbacca71]

Hidden in plain sight......

The three transparent dragons were nervously biding their time as the two dragons talked. Their master had gave them explicit instructions that they were to capture this red dragon with the distinctive silver streak down her back. They were not privy as to the why of the capture when before they were told to simply massacre every dragon that they could find. They did not ask questions, memories of the charred bodies of too curious dragons on the floor of their masters chambers wrung all questions out of their scaly hides.

The three dragons whispered among themselves, too quietly for the two dragons to hear them. They decided that too attack now would be foolish, since that other dragon looked to be quite a fighter based on the ridged pattern of scars on it. They felt their patience would be rewarded, most dragons were not social and the other would fly off and leave the red dragon to their foul clutches. Jaws salivating at that thought, the three dragons quieted down to wait it out.

 

[hybirdx]

Spar bolted through the sky with ease, his glowing emerald green eyes didn't blink once during the time he crashed through the clouds. To him, the sky was an open access to something interesting, and he hated to blink during that time.

During this whole time, Spar was lost in thought, his eyes didn't even focus on the path back to the colony. "What could be scaring all of the dragons? And why do theuy want me...? I'm just an whelp!" Spar shook off the feeling. "Wrep did say all dragons..."

Spar uprighted his body to an standing position as he saw the dragon colony. He quickly ducked his head just before he crawled through the hole that led to the cliff where the councle was being held. "Not many dragons.... Must be taking longer than expected..."

 

[chewbacca71]

Canth

The sentry warbled in a message to Canth that the first of the dragons had returned. Canth had told his sentries to notify him when the dragons had arrived, since he wanted to welcome them all in person. This was an important council and he wanted to have all his charm at full power to be able to do what he needed to do. Canth thanked the sentry and strode out towards the cliff.

He noticed that a young dragon was landing on the cliff. Canth searched his prodigious memory to find the name of this whelp. As it had many times in the past, his mind gave him the name of this dragon. "Welcome to the council Spar, please avail yourself of my hospitality and you may take any seat that you like in the second tier after you have had a bite to eat. You are the first in so far, so I am not sure how long the wait will be. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask one of the attendants and they will come get me. "

 

[Jeremy Davis]

::Gloomfaust swirved through the air as his journey was coming to an end. The Dragon Council was just ahead and he smirked as he saw the landing wondering what type of welcome he would recieve concidering he almost caused a riot the last time he came to the council.

In a whirlwind, Gloomfaust headed towards the balcony, his wings beating the ground furiously as he slowed and landed. <i> I will stay as a dragon so my human form remains unknown </i> he thought, and smiled as a whelp met him on the terrace::

Welcome to the Dragon Council, if you wait a moment Canth will greet you himself.

Thank you.

::He turned his head and looked for any approaching DRagons as he waited for his greeting wondering if he would be welcomed or otherwise::

 

[Vixandra]

Sylvia

"Well meet, Kort," I say with a smile, feeling better. Reds and blacks have a long history of working together toword a common goal and there had been many black priests at the temple where I'd trained initialy before rejoining my mother for my final training.
"I think it would be wise to head for a settlement- you can take a humanoid form, right?" I asked because not all of us would or even could take a humanoid form for whatever reasons. Some could change into other "animals" or even demons instead so the talent veried from person to person.

 

[poohlive]

Kort looked back at the forest below, wondering just what she thought was in there. His first gut reaction wasn't to go to a human settlement. Humans couldn't help for shit. They were stupid little ants, fodder for anything bigger and smarter, something Kort knew himself to be both.
His first thought, if anytyhing, was to go get some dragons, or at least inform them. Maybe it was just his way of thinking though.
Did she feel being in a human settlement would stop whatever was in those woods?
"All right milady," He gave her a smile, thinking that, at least for the time being, he should try to help and soothe her. She did have a nice smile in either case, and he didn't feel any need to be away from her company.
"I can be a human, if the situation calls for it," for her sake, he would. Following her lead, he flew towards whatever settlement she thought would be nearby, but far enough away for the shadows of the forest not to reach them.

 

[Vixandra]

Sylvia

I appreciated him going with me to the settlement- there was something psychically big or numerous down there and I wanted none of it alone. THe elf didn't count much- shoot he was why we were going to the Elvin settlement near by- needed to drop him off then go inform the Council. If golds were getting splattered about there was something going on and we all needed to be on our guard untill we discovered what was happening.
While we flew I explained about the Gold, what little I knew till we landed about half a mile away from the settlement. I easily shifted back into my elvin form after telling Sel to get off my back. He was a little weary of Kort- didn't blame him. I could hold my own against a black with my magic and viciousness- he had no such abilities. I picked up my pack, smoothed my hardened leather skirt and bound my hair into a braid while Selwin walked out the kink in his legs- riding a dragon isn't exactly fun in humanoid form. I looked down at my dragon hide boots- was going to have to make a new pair soon- the blue scales on mine were getting rather dim and dusty. I'd made them from a shed skin from a blue dragon who had done the same with one of my sheddings- dragon leather that's easy to work, stronger then steele and no one had to die- worked rather well. Entire outfit was spelled to shift with me, forming into a pair of bracers I wore on my fore limbs in dragonic form. Joys of magic.
"Ready to go?"

 

[poohlive]

Kort grunted as he felt his spine retract and bind in against himself. He hated morphing. There was no need for it, in his eye. Only to fool humans, and gain their respect. He had no need for humans or respect. He could just as easily destroy them in dragon form. What is the point?
He stepped out from the clearing, looking better than he had hoped. Simply clothing, simply features. A deep blackness never left his eyes, and when he went up to Sylvia, he couldn't help but look at her human form for more than just a moment.
She had taken some time perfecting it, and a small smile touched his lips.
"You look..." He paused, "Good."
He followed her into the camp, at her heels, looking at all the new and weird things inside the camp he had never seen before.
"What exactly are we doing here, then? Is there someone you wish to talk to, or simply lay low for a few days."
Some small child gave him a curious look, and Kort sniffed at him. Black circles of smoke rose up in the air, causing the child to look at him aghast.
Kort smiled.

 

[chewbacca71]

Canth

Canth raised his head at the subtle cough of his aide. "My lord, Gloomfaust is here at the council waiting to be greeted. " Canth's breath sped up as he said to his aide "Why is he here, he is the last problem that I need now? However, I did tell Golanth that all the dragons needed to be included; as usual he was too letter perfect at what he did. Fine I will go and greet him. "

Canth went out to the balcony, noticing that Gloomfaust was standing there mostly still with neary a smirk on his toothy muzzle. "Well, I see that you have made it back here to the council. You may enter and be refreshed, but I will not tolerate more problems with your scaly hide. If not for this current crisis, I would just as soon destroy your soul with a puff of my breath. However, I need all the dragons I can get at this point. The council will start once we have a majority of dragons. "

 

[chewbacca71]

Selwen

Selwen thanked the female dragon for her ride to the Elven settlement, bowing low to show his appreciation. His eyes never left contact with the other dragon for very long though. Selwen waited while the two dragons assumed a humanoid form , and then went with haste to see his lord.

The sentries at the edge of the settlement quickly usher them through after questioning Selwen as to who the strangers were. Selwen was cryptic with them, only saying that they were crucial to the information that was needed to be given to Lord Garbon. Selwen was heartened to see that at least there was more of a prepared atmosphere here at the settlement then when he had been here last. He came to the council chamber and nodded to the two guards at the entrance as they let him and his companions through.

Selwen looked in awe at the gilded columns in the airy room. Even though he had been here once before as he was taken into the Lord's service as one of his rangers, he still could not believe the beauty of the chamber. "My Lord Garbon, I bring news for your ears and your ears alone. " Garbon looked at his ranger, taking into account the bloodstains on his travelworn clothing, "All right, follow me to my chambers . Who is this that you brought with you? " Garbon looked at the two people behind Selwen. There was something familiar about them. Garbon was sure he had never met them before but something was ringing in the back of his mind.

 

[Jeremy Davis]

Gloomfaust

::He turned and met the voice of Canth. Canth as usual was his noble self and though his threat was what it was, Gloomfaust knew that it was mostly words as the old dragon had too much to worry about with Gloomfausts minions than with Gloomfaust Himself at the moment.::

Hello again to you too my old friend. Please, no threats here, I am on the council and am here to do my duty now that things seem to be happening....What exactly is happening?

::Gloomfaust moved past Canth as he went into the counciil chamber and assumed his seat with what delegates have already gathered, the Dragons whispering amongst themselves as he did so.::

 

[Vixandra]

Sylvia

I looked at this "Lord Garbon" and bowed slightly. The depth of the bow showed the level of respect dew. "I am a Priestess of Fire, Sylvia Callisa Fireclaw. Pleased to meet you Lord Garbon. I am here to answer any questions I have before leaving with Kort for the Dragon's Council to warn them. There's something rather wicked afoot here and I like it not one bit."
A shared look with Kort and I laughed. "No, I don't mean either of us. Something different- an evil I don't know and don't particularly like at the moment."

 

[poohlive]

Kort nodded, standing behind Sylvia, and looking around in curiousity at the structure of the inner sanctum, as it were. The elves did seem to have a high pride for craftsmanship and the like. When his name was said, he gave a smile to the Lord, and then resumed his inventory of the room.
They were going to the dragon council. A lump went in Kort's heart. He didn't exactly hate the council, but their decisions left something more to be percieved. He could just imagine a bunch of whites gold and gray's all agreeing on some diplomatic piece of shit that didn't do anything.
He'd rather just take a bunch of black's and red's out there and destroy the whole forest. No forest, no threat.
That was just him though.
Kort waited silently at Sylvia's side.

 

[chewbacca71]

Garbon

Garbon acknowledges the bow and is then quickly absorbed in what has been said. Selwen gives him as much information as he could. But his long time friend Monarth killed in the forest, basically ripped to shreds. Then his two ranger companions also killed in front of his own eyes. Garbon looked to the two dragons to get comfirmation that Selwen is not mad, their sincere nods only brought shivers up his spine.

Garbon was silent for a moment as he wracked his brain for a possible answer to this puzzling question. He seemed to remember his father mentioning something about an invisible terror that had once almost destroyed the elven race. His father had told him that ultimately it had only been the intervention of the dragons that had saved his race. Garbon's breath quickened as he recalled the book that his father had read to him from.

He looked back to his guests. "If you would excuse me for a moment, I think I may have some information that might help us. Please partake of some food and drink to restore yourselves, you have had a long day. I will return presently. " Garbon bowed at them as he quickly left the hall and almost ran to his families private library.

Selwen looked towards the two dragons. "I am not sure what you would like to eat or drink. But we have some venison and also a large shank of pork already cooked. We have some fine elven wine also if that is what you would like. Just let me know what you would like and I will have it brought. "

 

[chewbacca71]

golanth

Golanth was just reaching a clearing when the two dragons took off into the air with a passenger on one of them. His keen eyesight could make them out as a red dragon as well as a black dragon. But what he did not understand was what an elf was doing with those types of dragons. He was about to bugle a challenge when he was suddenly hit from two sides. The air was pushed out of his lungs as he was knocked to the ground.

His years as a chamberlain had made him softer than he had been, but his years as a warrior came back quickly as he realized he was in for a scrap to the death. He pistoned his great bulk to the right and was gratified to hear a yelp of pain. He looked to his left but could only see a slight change in the background of the forest. He blindly slashed out in that direction and was rewarded as a stream of red hot blood came pouring over his claws.

His mind whirled as his eyes saw a stream of blood basically pouring out of the air. *So that is what the danger is, I thought they were all still asleep* Golanth finished his roll to the right , digging in his claws into dragon flesh as he moved. He agilely righted himself and spread his great wings as his legs flexed to thrust himself up into the air. Before he could get off the ground, he was slashed on the right side, spilling some of his own blood onto the forest floor.

An angry blast of his breath cleared that dragon out of his way while inflicting some serious damage. he could hear the death rede of the dragon as his last breath dissipated into the air. His way now clear, Golanth sprung into the wind as he winged his way back to the council. His great wings alowed him to quickly outdistance his chasers. He hoped his strength would hold out for the long journey ahead of him.