Realms of Peril

[airborne92]

Galen Silverbow

As I finish dressing my wound I see six more rangers show up on the other side of the river. I look down at Trianna and see she has passed out. I motion for the rangers to come across the river.

"You two take her and get her back to the palace, she is the King's niece. So guard her with your lives" I say to two of them as they get across the river.

"The rest of you are with us" I say as I stand up. "Are we ready to head out Siegfried?" I ask the knight.

 

[Dark Warrior]

Siegfried

Siegfried nodded.
"Of course, ready as always..."
Suddenly, Siegfried's response was cut off, as he heard a ruffling in the swamps ahead. He immediately pulled out his sword, brandishing it in front of him.
"Did you hear that...?" he whispered, his eyes attempting to penetrate the fog.

 

[airborne92]

Galen Silverbow

"Did you hear that...?" he says as I watch the rangers get Trianna back across the river. I had heard it as well. I ready my bow and scan the swamp throough the fog.

"I heard it, there will be others to try and stop us. The vampires want what that girl can get for them. If they succeed, this world will be plunged into a war of darkness the likes of which we can't even imagine" I say to him as I look for the source of the noise.

 

[nightray]

Lizerd men

The leisured chief mesons for his men to spread out just in side the swamp. They move fast and easily in the muck of the swamp. All the elves can see are flickers of movement as the lizard worriers spread out preparing to attack the elves as they come in to the swamp where they’ll have the upper hand.


The Prince

I fallow the girl in to the eerily quite swamp steadying her when she trips and guiding her away form the quick sand and the tangle rots of carnivore’s trees. I watch the trees wearily feeling the presents of a powerful creacher living in this place. I sense that it’s asleep now but it won’t take much to wake it.

After walking for a cupola hours are legs covered in the muck of the swamp we come to an old rotting tree that seems to radiate a malignant evil form it. I look around seeing stones seronding it in a perfect circle. I smile saying “I do believe this is what your looking for girl but what is it I know that the sword is in the Dragon Mountains.” I look at her blank face as she begins to move towards the black rotting tree.

 

[airborne92]

Galen Silverbow

I can see movement in the swamp, but not enough to take a shot at. Whatever they are, they outnumber us.

"Siegfired, Neil, get ready we are about to have some company" I say to them as the other four rangers ready bows.

 

[Lacewing]

She walked to the tree, touching it setting off the power that coursed through her viens. Again the circle flaring as her body took on it's unearthly glow. Flaring and to the prince's suprise, he was drawn into the circle, to join her in her calling.

I serve the ones that bring me to this world.the vioce was feminin, and the girl stood the demon of hte gauntlets over her shoulder as a female rose, earth to the male demon's sky. The serpantine demon curled herself around her master, the corenet of the power coming to rest on his brow.

Then the power flared once more bright and powerful.

And the two were left unconsious in the mud, dried to hard earth for the moment.

 

[JediKnight]

Neil

Neil watched the movement in the swamp, wanting to ask what it was but trying to stay silent, although he knew whatever it was must have seen them already.

 

[Dark Warrior]

Siegfried

Siegfried watched as the flickering movements became more frequent, as if they were all around them.
"I... think... they're... coming..." he whispered, before an arrow whistled past his shoulder. The assailant had made a fatal mistake, revealing itself, and in just a moment one of the elves had put an arrow straight through the thing's chest, sending it tumbling forward. The lizardman landed at Siegfried's feet, and they knew now who their attackers were.
Siegfried let out a yell as he charged into the swamp, his eyes searching for the first of the creatures.

 

[BLACK BART]

Chameleon

OOC:

Originally human, "Cam" has enjoyed the "blessing" of an ancient being, upsetting the powerful magician with his own concerns for vanity and beauty and suffering the consequences.

Humanoid form...No special powers other than the "curse" which makes his body assimilate his surroundings, blending him into them and if he holds still enough, seems invisible...

As time has progressed Cam has forgotten most of his human qualities and become what he was cursed to be, a demon...living on urges and primeival emotions that control his actions...

Hope this works for all? I will willingly edit to work with ALL...k?

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IC: The girl was near...with each call I sent to her I "felt" her body tense, her mind flaring in curious horror..and again I called her and waited...the stagnant water about me blending as my body adjusted to the miriad of colors and textures.

I was a demon, cast by an ancient, forgotten spell...destinied to live my days this way. The body I was once so proud of, vanity...was now cursed to assimilate the surroundings, mocking the perfection of a molding log...slimy mud...or worse...

And yet perhaps there was a hope...Her spirit was strong, unknown powers flickered within her ignored...unknown by herself, scented by the vampire Prince...and now myself.

Rolling at the surface of the water I dove...cursing my carelessness as my webbed feet flicked the surface and broke the calm...But such was my haste...and need, I needed to find her..

 

[Lacewing]

Something kept trying to draw Lacy to consiousness. But it was hard, harder than last time. She nearly felt the demon of her braziers touch her, he watched her with consern, but not yet material enough to effect the world yet. They still needed the sword for that.

The other curled protectively around the prince, she resembled nothing so much as a woman blended with snake and given 6 arms. She watched the world with imaterial yet rapilian eyes.

So tired though, she couldn't move. Finding their restingp place was dry she curled up figuring the vampire would kick her awake once he recovered the silver and gold of the corenet on his brow glittering dimly. Another peice found the call of the sword was farther away and not as overwelming as the nearer peices had been.

So she was going to get a nap since sleep was something she knew she would be sort on she hoped the two demons would warn her if something was to happen. Give her time to run, or something. All the mud she knew a fight or running would be near immosible. Just too bad she didn't have the energy to try running. She could have tired to get out of the swamp and leave thep prince behind. Escape.

She didn't see the thing that was part yet not part of the sceneery. Something that eased it's slow way twords her.

OOC: Hey black welcome! yea sounds great!

 

[airborne92]

Galen Silverbow

One of the lizardmen shows himself a little too soon and let an arrow fly straight into its chest. The lizardman drops to the ground dead. I quickly have another arrow nocked and ready. The vampires are determined to keep the girl, and I am even more determined to get her back. Failure is not an option, for it would mean an era of great evil upon the land from which no one would be safe.

 

[nightray]

The Prince

I watch as Lacy walk near the tree and touch it but this time as she touches the tree something pulls me after her then darkness fall over me. I drift in it for awyll then some thing moves out of the darkness a female demon she move with the fluidity of a snake small delicate black scales covering her but instead of detracting form her instead it some how adds to it in an exotic way. I meat her black depthless eyes unflinchingly and I see what can only be a form of love for me in them not love that the mortals form my world would know though it’s align to me and in its way it scars me for I don’t know what she expects in return.

She raps six pears of arms arund me the top pear curtailing my head bring my lips down to meat hers her forked tong sliding in to my mouth going deeper then any normal tong could, the middle pair corres my back rubbing it sliding under my tunic sending shivers down my spin at her touch witch is worm instead of cold like you would expect form a reptile like cricher, and the bottom set of arms rap arund my waste her hands cup my ass grinding me in to her hips sensually.

I moan in to her mouth as I become aroused from her kiss and her body prest tightly agenst mine I can feel her breasts mashed agenst my chest and I feel of her hard nipples pressing in to me like two pebbles. The demon brakes the kiss looking me in the eyes and says “Master what is thy bidding I’m yours now and for ever.” With that she disappears and I fall agene farther in to darkness falling on and on.


The Lizard men

The chief looks at the two how couldn’t wait for them to com too them. He sends out a telepathic message to the rest “Do not attack until they are well with in are element when they will be at the disadvantage.”

He cock his head smiling as he hers the large snakes form the deeper parts of the swamp coming closer. He hers in time to see one coming up behind him he sees that it’s a good hundred feet long before it sinks under the algae cover water where it will lay in wait for and unsuspecting elf to fall in and be crushed in it lethal coils and then devoured. The chief gets a mental messages from the rest of his men they’re more snakes hiding to the left and right of hem not many maybe five in all but they will do.

He terns back to the elves then from behind the tree he’s hiding behind he yells are the pore elves to scarred to com play with the big had lizard men.” He hears an arrow bolt hit the try he’s behind and he laughs mockingly.

 

[BLACK BART]

Chameleon

She slept as I knelt beside her, my body adapting once again, becoming opaque shadows that flickered with the dim surroundings.

A tenetative hand stretched out...a finger brushing her hair from the peaceful face..and for an instant that finger became the color of the skin it brushed the strand from....Flesh...how long had it been since I had seen that tan color on my own "skin"?

Shrugging at such distance and no longer important memories I touched the cheekbone gently, trying to stir her...warn her....

"Danger...my sad maiden...beware...it approaches"

The figure beside me began to stir..then awoke, eyes snapping open as she tried to assess what brought her from her dreams...and I sat beside her...unsure...but drawn and held there by her spirit..

 

[Lacewing]

Lacy opened her eyes hearing a vioce, vaguely something about danger. SHe opened her eyes and it was a colidascope of something hard to see, yet seemed to stand out gaining a golden coloration.

A demon.

But not one she knew. She found herself frowning trying to get herself to focus, she still felt so.. tired. "Run.. must run" she thought and didn'trelize she wipsered it horsely

 

[BLACK BART]

Chameleon

"Yes, Run" I agreed, encouraging her "To the waters, where they wouldn't suspect a human to go"

I could help her there...show her hidden places I had discovered...created...in my endless times in the swamps...

"Be wary...and hurry" I warned, my eyes drinking her in...

 

[Lacewing]

Lacy looked at the creature unable to think, but he offered a resonable escape. She got painfully to her feet, feeling the other two spirit demons about to go nuts, they didn't want her to go, kept saying it wasn't safe, but she couldn't think, she wanted to go. She could right now wasn't feeling the suffercating draw of sword and the imprisioning geel of the braizers.

So she got up following the odd creature who kept changing color before her eyes till she couldn't hardly see him at all. She nearly collasped again.

 

[BLACK BART]

Chameleon

She fell and rose....then fell again, creating a large amount of noise to boot.

"Here, let me carry you" I told her quietly, ignoring her weak protests "You are weak and will be the death of both of us if we are caught"

Pressing my lips to hers I lowered myself beneath the scummy waters surface, moving to the deepest part of the tepid water.

She fought me as she felt the water closing in around us, then found she could breath thru me...being a swamp thing meant I had formed "gills" and could survive under the scummy ponds as well as above...

I walked the familiar path now...Taking her to a quiet glen and rising within it, placing her on the moss filled stones...

"You will be safe for a time, here" I spoke gently, my body assimilating the brown and green of the shrubs around me...

 

[Lacewing]

"Here, let me carry you. You are weak and will be the death of both of us if we are caught"

That was about all the warning she got before his lips suddenly captured her's in an unbreakable kiss and she found herself sinking into the mud. Panic took her before she realised she could still breath. It was.. weird. She could only hang on as he went through the mud his lips on hers in a contact that she just decided not to think to hard about. This place was weird.

Suddenly she could breath on her own, covered in mud and slime she looked at a being that went from a golden color mixed with mud to the color of the serroundings and very hard to see. Even it's eyes here hidden but for a slight gloss of color.

"Who are you?" she asked finally wondering why she couldn't hardly think. Somethingwas so wrong with her head at the moment. But in a two day period of time she woke three treasures. She just felt.. drained.

 

[BLACK BART]

Chameleon

"I am called a chameleon" I replied, evading the question, not wanting to tell my story of vanity...and it's downfall.

"You woke me...called me to you, something I have never seen done in the years I have existed here. Why?"

She needed something...memory tore at me..of another woman and the way she used to sit in front of a mirror and....

I sighed..the memory escaped me...as did almost all my past, except for the curse and the face behind it as it was spoken.

"You need to rest" I spoke the obvious "But how can I help you?" And then I remembered, the way the woman used to brush her hair endlessly...until it shined, the way she "cleaned" herself.

"I am sorry, I have nothing for you to clean yourself with"

 

[Lacewing]

Clena herself? she blinked at the creature "Chamelion?" it fit "I.. have to escape.. I.. have to go somewhere.. I.. called?" she was confused rambling at this point. She couldn't even remember what she said really or what she asked. She laid back and stared at whatever was above her head and blinked feeling, strange.

She couldn't see the camilion as he moved around her drawing closer. She couldn't think hardly at all only stare and her eyes felt so very heavy as she fell to a sort of sleep that wasn't.

 

[BLACK BART]

I sat beside her and for a second time looked at her as she slept...Sliding my leg underneath her head I removed a small peice of cloth from her torn shirt and dipped it in the cleanest pool of water I could reach...then dabbed at her face and the mud covering it.

She sighed at the touch, tensing...then relaxing as no harm came to her and the cool rag moved over her brow...

"I have saved you, maiden...But from what evil...and only to deliver you to a greater one?" I questioned her sleeping form

 

[Lacewing]

She felt herself waking briefly, then falling back to a sleep, then waking once more to the feel of a rag cleaning her face and then working down her neck. She opened her eyes feeling confused as she couldn't focus on the person before her nose "who?" she still had a hard time grasping reality and what was happening.

She could make out an outline of a figure, a man she thought but he blended so well into everything, fleck of gold sworling into the muddy colors.

"where?" she tried to sit up but was restrained. the braziers on her wrists burned. She found herself wimpering feeling useless. She couldn't even protect herself. Like one of those fairtale princesses who were only good for a kiss and to scream on cue.

She tried to sit up again and foundherself clutched to a warm body she still couldn't quite focus on it very well.

 

[BLACK BART]

Chameleon

Memories fade as a man is forced to live as a demon...and eventually the demon tells the man within how to live...but buries the mans reactions to others...

Her still body next to mine triggered physical reactions...reactions that I could not understand but neverless reacted to instinctively...

As she awoke, questions in her words and touched me, grasped my body for comfort and support I gave it...returning the touch..and pressing myself to her...My body reflecting the colors of her own in each place we met, and feeling the pain and lethargy in her as well.

"You wear bracelets of pain and fire...why?" I queried, not understanding the desire for pain "And I weary your body and mind, yet you called for me?"

Understanding came difficult to a creature that lived in a swamp...emotions came swifter...and the reaction to others emotions with them...

 

[Lacewing]

She didn't understand and was confused "no choice, can't take them off" she responded to the one question she did understand. She fetl so.. confused. Parts of her reacted others didn't know what was happening and parts fo her were afraid.

She'd been this way since coming to the world.

 

[nightray]

The Prince

I hear something faintly in the darkness a feminine voice the voice of the demonness calling me. “Wake up master the girl is gon master master wake the girl is in danger anther has taking her wake master.”

I swim up out of the darkness straining for the waking world my eyes slowly open the demonesses face swimming in to my vision concern plain in her face. I role over on to my hands and knees shaking my head. I frown at the unfamiliar wait on my brow I put my hand up on it finding a coronet there. I try to push it of to look at it but it doesn’t budge. I set up on to my knees using both hands to try and take it off. I look arund trying to find Lacy but she’s no where in site.

I see the demonnes though she’s looking at me ankshesly as I com out of my shock and my head begins to clear up abit. I frown as I can some how sense Lacy I can ack chilly feel her she’s tired and confessed. I stand and move in the general direction that I feel her but I just com to some murky water.

I fall to my knees trying to think through the fog that keeps want ting to over take me. I frown as I sense a demon near Lacy not the one that she is some how bonded to like I am to the snake like girl but a deferent one. I move to a near buy tree and I sit down leaning agenst it’s trunk my eyes falling closed agene as the darkness over takes me the demoness hovering over me protectively even though theirs nothing she can do not yet any way.

Blackness rolls over me and I seem to see though Lacys eyes at a thing that seems to shift its coolers like a chameleon but more perfectly. It seems both of them are confused as it thinks she called to it. I say in to her mined “come back to me Lacy we need you and you need use now.” Then I go farther in to the darkness seeing nothing more.