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Post by Princess Anne on Jan 31, 2008 8:57:19 GMT -5
Anne breathed in deeply to ready herself. "Alright, mimick exactly what I do, you two... this'll probably be easier for you both since you don't have any thick armor on like I do... wait, I have an idea!!"
Anne eased near the exact spot where the blade would drop down. She stooped down and examined the spot. Soon, she started to remove all of her armor and made a small pile right where the blade would fall. The blade fell, but her pile of armor kept the blade from touching the ground and it was enough room to crawl right under it. Anne carefully crawled under the blade to the other side.
"Come on, hurry!" Anne called to Elka and Fearn. After that, a bunch of blade-tipped spears began to shoot up through the ground, come out of the ceiling, and the walls and Anne quickly dodged them all by jumping and spinning around swiftly before they could reach her. She stumbled to the ground after they appeared to be gone, and noticed something grabbing her leg. She quickly pointed her dragon's eye on her leg and saw a black shadow flee.
"We must be gettin' closer to the Dark Messenger. He's sicking his crew on us, they're coming." Anne noticed a bunch of black shadowed figures coming closer to them in the distance.
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Post by Dante Reach™ on Jan 31, 2008 19:03:23 GMT -5
The man kept running and eventually came to the end of the tunnel. He took a second to catch his breath then started to climb up a rope that lead to the huge mansion he lived in. When he climbed up the top of the rope he cut it so no one else could climb. Then he started walking down a hall and found an empty room. Then as Dante started to wake up he quickly threw him in there.
" Hey what the heck!?!" Dante exclaimed but then the door was quickly slammed.
The man climbed up a couple flight of stairs then went to his room at the top of the mansion. Then as he was going into his room he whispered something to a guard. He guard quickly nodded then ran off to go tell other guards to patrol the building for intruders.
Dante who was locked in the empty room started banging on the door and tried to kick it over, only to fail. He got frustrated then went over to a window to look out. When he looked out the window he actually saw a small little village made up of about 6 or 7 buildings, A school, and a church.
"Wow so this Misty dark and depressing island actually supports life...which means this island couldn't have always been this way could it?" He backed up away from the window then got one of his knives and threw it at the window. The window shattered then the pieces quickly came back together.
"What the hell?" Dante said then tried again only to get the same results. Dante looked under the door and saw two feet which probably meant someone was standing guard. He smiled then went and layed in the middle of the floor. Then he put a knife in his hand and put his hand behind his back. Then he let out a yell of agony and just layed there. The guard who heard it then quickly ran in.
"Hey are you alright?" The guard said then came over to check Dante.
Then Dante opened his eyes and quickly pulled the knife from behind his back and stabbed the guard in the leg. The guard yelled then Dante punched him in the face as hard as he could and then the guard was out cold. Dante took the guards armour and put it on then closed the door started running.
I Gotta get back to Anne....Wait...where were they again? Dante stopped running then stood there and thought about where they were. Then he was bumped into by another guard.
"What are you standing there for? Don't you know someones invading! Get a move on it." The guard yelled.
"Uh...Yeah" Dante said then continued.
Dante ran outside of the mansion and saw the village. He looked at the villagers walking around...They looked so depressed. Dante walked up to one of them to ask what happened, but the guy only got frightened and ran. Dante stood there puzzled.
"Hey you there."
Dante saw an old lady standing outside here house. She beckoned him to come inside. Dante walked over to her.
"Aren't all the guards supposed to be inside?" The old lady asked.
"Yeah but I'm not a guard...Im Dante I just came to this island with umm....."
He tried to remember who he had came here with but he couldn't. The old lady gave him an odd look.
"Well umm...I guess i am a guard." He said not exactly sure if he was or not.
The old lady smiled then waved her hand to tell him to come inside.
"So whats happend to this place? It hasn't always been this gloomy and dark has it?" Dante asked.
"No actually this place used to be a thriving little village and we had actually made boats so that we could finally connect and trade with other villages over seas but...One day the boat we sent out came back...But the crew wasn't on board instead there were odd figures that looked like they were purely shadow. They came and took over the island and attacked the kingdom. There was a leader of them that they followed orders from but he didn't say he name. When they came to the king the king laid down his sword and said that he would sacrifice himself as long as they did not harm anymore people. The creatures stayed true to there word and the leader took the king into a room and all we heard were the kings' screams...but to our suprise the king walked back out again...but his eyes. They weren't his eyes. Those eyes were full of hatred and anger. Then things got worse....He completely ignored how the villagers were doing. He even forgot about me...His own mother.."
The lady stopped then a single tear rolled down her face.
"....I just want my son back..." She said then sat down in a chair with her face in her hands.
Dante knew that he couldn't say anything else to cheer her up so he left. Dante thought about what the lady said and figured that, that probably wasn't really the king, but he was a knight. So he couldn't harm the king. So he just walked back into the mansion and continued patrol, but still continued to ponder on what the lady had told him. At the same time though...He was forgetting about everything else.
Reason for Editing: Some errors in typing.
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Post by Elka on Jan 31, 2008 20:55:23 GMT -5
Meanwhile, Elka was slowly making her way after Anne and Fearn.
Getting both herself and Rolf down into the pit had been a bit of a challenge. He was too big for her to carry, but too small to carry her. Instead, she grabbed him around the neck and slid down ungracefully on her rump, pulling the dog behind her.
Seeing the falling blade she grimmaced. She could imagine all too well what would happen if she got in its way, or if Anne's block of armor failed. Squeezing her eyes closed, she threw herself under the blade, rolling out on the other side. Rolf followed with a small snarl.
"Why in the world is this place so well guarded?" Elka asked, darting out of the way as a rack of daggers fell from the ceiling. "I didn't know of anything exciting here. It's practically the middle of nowhere!"
Suddenly she felt a presense behind her, though it almost like the absense of something rather than the presense of it. "What the...?" she gasped, seeing the black shadows of figures in the chamber, seemingly following them. "Who are they?"
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Post by Peregrinus on Jan 31, 2008 22:12:21 GMT -5
Pere could almost make out the voices through the ground. Moving quickly, he continued down the trail until he found the hole. Taking one look around, the ranger quickly dropped into the hole. Shielding his eyes, Pere looked down the pasage. However, the massive blade blocked his view. Walking down the tunnel, the ranger quickly scooted under the blade. Just as he finished, the blade slipped and smashed down behind him.
"Wow, that was close." Grabbing Anne's armor, Pere stashed it away before continueing down the booty-trapped path.
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Post by Fearn on Jan 31, 2008 22:59:02 GMT -5
"Oy, Pere! You just locked me out, you dingbat!" Fearn hollered from the other side of the blade. She waited for a minute, trying to get the timing down as the blade rose and fell, smashing a grove into the ground.
"Great, watch as Fearn is cut in two," Fearn muttered, getting ready to throw herself under the blade. As it started creeping upwards again, she made her move, rolling quickly past. She managed to not get sliced like steak in a resturaunt, but three inches of her already shortened braid disappeared.
Fearn swore and ran down the tunnel. She was lucky to be moving fast as her movement dislodged more daggers from the ceiling. They fell straight down, burying themselves in the rock, where they quivered ominously. Looking down the tunnel, she saw Elka, Anne, and Pere all in front of her. Their shapes were obscured, though, and Fearn couldn't tell why.
Strangely shaped shadows kept flying up in front of Fearn, causing her to jump more than once. They looked incredibly human, but she knew they couldn't be... unless there was more magic involved. Since there had been zombies and sea monsters, she might as well resign herself to the fact that not everything was normal where she was.
Finally, after a particulary realistic shadow srang up in her way, Fearn lost her temper. "Right, this isn't funny! I've had it with you stupid shadows. Shrivel up and die, for all I care," she growled, digging around in her pockets for something to fend them off with, not caring how immature she was acting. After pulling out a dry carrot, a bit of string, a few quartz crystals she collected, and some crumbs, she finally found something that might be helpful-- a couple of matches. Grinning evilly, she struck one on the wall, greatly enjoying watching the odd shadows shrink back. The paintings of dying, mutilated people on the wall didn't make her feel much better, though.
Setting off again at a jog, the matches Fearn had quickly went out. She decided that maybe it would be best to just ignore the shadows all together, and sprinted again, running right through some while catching up with the others.
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Post by Princess Anne on Jan 31, 2008 23:51:09 GMT -5
Anne looked behind herself, noticing the forms of Elka, Fearn, and Peregrinus. She ran over to them all, but to Peregrinus in particular. She jumped onto him, giving him a firm hug.
"Wow, you're here too, Peregrinus!? I really didn't think you cared, but we could sure use your help... i lost my armor back there!" she looked up into his eyes. "but wheres Dante?"
Anne looked over as she heard weird, ghostly noises growing louder and louder. All of a sudden, a large shadow in the shape of a hand reached out and clutched its grasp on Anne's whole body and held her firmly against a wall. Anne could not move at all and the shadow constricted her more as she struggled to get away. The princess started to grunt in pain and dropped her dragons eye in the moment.
"You guys..... get outta.... here!" Anne managed to growl while still trying to get away.
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Post by Dante Reach™ on Feb 1, 2008 16:10:10 GMT -5
Dante continued down the hall with the knights armour on. As he was walking another Knight came and gave him a playful shove.
"Hey John what cha walking around here for! A couple of us are play dice over there wanna join in?" The Knight asked him.
Dante gave him a weird look because he wasn't John he was.....Dante stood there puzzled because he couldn't remember exactly who he was. He must be John...I mean that was what this guy was calling him.
"Uhh Yeah Sure!" Dante said then went to go gamble with the others.
Dante played around with them untill another knight that was wearing gold armour walked up and yelled,
"WHAT ARE YOU ALL SITTING AROUND PLAYING GAMES FOR!!?!? GET YOUR LAZY BEHINDS UPS AND GO TO YOUR ASSIGNED POSTS!!"
He kicked one of the knights in the butt making the knight start running. The rest of the knights and Dante all got up and went to there assigned. Dante stopped and asked.
"Uh...Where is I my assigned post?"
The knight looked at Dante infruiated. He grabbed Dante by the arm then pulled him into a room that only had a whole. He looked down the hole and saw that it led to an underground tunnel. The rope had been cut though.
"You stay here and make sure no one comes up here! UNDERSTOOD?!" The Knight yelled
Dante saluted him then sat down and watched the hole. It didn't take very long for him to slowly doze off...
Reason for Editing: sdflkajsdfkljdsa lol
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Post by Elka on Feb 1, 2008 19:20:24 GMT -5
Elka peered down the cavern, seeing the odd shadowy figures wherever she looked. She backed away from one uneasily, and with good reason. They seemed to be getting more violent. Seeing one grab Anne, she tried to leap forward to help, only to have one of the figures wind itself sinuously around her leg.
"Get off, you cursed thing!" she shouted, kicking her foot around in circles as if she'd gotten mud on it. "Get away, go back wherever the hey you came from! Go home!"
Unsurprisingly, the shadow ignored her, twisting itself all the more tightly around her. Suddenly, Elka smelled the bitter scent of sulfur, and whirled unsteadily around to see the outline of Fearn, shaking the dead stumps of matches.
"Gimme some of those, Yelena," she ordered. Not even waiting for a reply, she snatched the matches away, scraping it against her pant leg. It ignited, sending a tiny point of light into the tunnel. The shadow creature seemed to cringe away from it, shriveling down into the corner.
"Knew I could get him eventually!" Elka said, a vicious grin on her face. Her smile faltered when she remembered Anne's predicament. "Get another match for us!" she shouted at Fearn, waving hers at the shadowy figures growing at her feet. "They're trying to strangle Knife!"
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Post by Peregrinus on Feb 1, 2008 22:52:09 GMT -5
Pere was a little surprised by the hug as Anne nearly tackled him. He was about to pass her the armor but was interrupted by the shadow. The ranger struggled with the shade as he tried to free Anne.
"Get off of her! You stupid..."
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Post by Princess Anne on Feb 1, 2008 23:18:49 GMT -5
Anne noticed how the shadows fled from the flickering light of Elka's match.
"That's it!" Anne managed to raise up one of her legs and slightly kicked Peregrinus, making him turn around a bit and made the light Elka's fire lit match reflect off of the blade of Peregrinus' sword. The flash of light went directly towards the shadow that as constricting her and it seemed to disintegrate into the air. Anne dropped to the floor, on her feet, then jumped away as yet another shadow tried to come after her.
"We need to keep going forward! They're trying to make us stay away from something important!!" Anne said with a bit of a smirk on her face. She started to boldly dart down the cavern hallway, following what seemed to be a light source at the end of the tunnel.
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Post by Fearn on Feb 1, 2008 23:41:16 GMT -5
"That worked nicely," Fearn said, grinning. "Now we know how to get rid of those things, anyways!"
Padding down the hallway after Anne, Fearn kept her eyes out for more shadows, excited to use Anne's strategy against them. When a human-shaped shadow sprang out at her, Fearn struck a match on her boot, and used her dagger as a mirror to reflect light at the shadow. She snickered as it writhed around on the ground before fading away.
"Sucker," she laughed quietly, carelessy trotting off again. She had barely gotten a few yards before a shadow decided to reach out and trip her. Fearn cursed and lit another match, shoving it in the shadow's 'face'. She scrambled up as it faded, and was suddenly very glad she had been tripped. In front of her was a row of spikes that shot up from the floor every few seconds, and she probably would have ran right over them if she hadn't been knocked over.
Fearn hopped over the spikes, kicking the side of one for no apparent reason. "What are we looking for, anyways?" she asked, before starting to hum a campfire song.
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Post by Bishop on Feb 2, 2008 0:17:51 GMT -5
As fearn began to hum a campfire song a slient swishing noise could ould be heard in the quiet. Two figure then became visible as they slowly entered the match light. The stoped befor the light can show their full bodies. Bishop looked at the person who was humming and said "may you please stop that?"
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The Unknown
Vampire[M:49998]
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Post by Kai on Feb 2, 2008 0:22:09 GMT -5
The second figure stepped with only visible blue eyes, he looked at fearn then back at bishop, "quite a catch we have here this time eh bish"?, the pale lighted figure stepped closer to reveal two sharpened fangs as he stood silently watching fern look in horror.
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Post by Fearn on Feb 2, 2008 0:51:11 GMT -5
Fearn stopped singing "Trian's Burning" abruptly. "What the...?" she muttered. Two figures had just stepped out in front of her, apparently unconcered by the booby traps. That probably meant they were in charge here, which meant they were most likely at least part way evil.
Backing up mistrustingly, Fearn slipped her bow off her back. It was not as if it would do a lot of good, but it gave her a sense of comfort and control (which is good for little children like Fearn).
"Look, I don't know what the cows your problem is, but you can cut it out with the fang thing," Fearn growled. "Oooh, you have teeth! I'm shaking in my trousers. And catch? Do I look like food to you? Be civil. You're not a cannible or a tiger."
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Post by Princess Anne on Feb 2, 2008 1:11:51 GMT -5
Anne was a bit surprised at first, but looked directly at the two warriors that stood before her and Fearn with fiery eyes. Although she was weaponless and armorless, a huge feeling of competitivness arose in her.
"Who are you beasts. You're both standing in our path, I suggested you kindly step aside." As Anne looked at them, she noticed that the two beings seemed to tower over her in size. The princess casually walked past them in a disrespectful, yet challenging way.
"Come on, Fearn. These guys aren't of any important to us right now... I'm sure that the Dark Messenger would be a much better challenge." Anne held her dragon eye firmly in her grasp.
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Post by Bishop on Feb 2, 2008 1:27:14 GMT -5
bishop looked at the small girl who seemed to be in charged and said "little girl who do you think you are?" he quickly moved in front of her when he heard her say dark messnger and said "frist you need to turn around and go back the way you came and then leave.....or you can make me and my friend here very happy and fight us. we normally come with a larger group but seeing as those shadows are on our side i think we would have the upper hand
bishop then looked at kai and said "my blood is staring to boil and i do feel in a good moved today" with a smirk on his face as some fangs show.
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Post by Elka on Feb 2, 2008 1:29:57 GMT -5
Elka jumped in surprise at seeing the two new figures appear. They were definitely not shadows as the others had been. But neither did they look friendly. In fact, they looked downright dangerous to Elka.
"What's your problem?" she asked sarcastically, following Anne even as she casually pulled out her dagger. "Are you somehow offended by our singing?"
Elka dropped the match she had been holding at their feet on the floor of the cavern (after almost two minutes, it had begun to burn her fingers). "Why are you here anyway?" she snapped at the two newcomers. "Buddies with whichever lovely person set these traps?"
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Post by Bishop on Feb 2, 2008 1:57:22 GMT -5
Bishop looked at the match fall to the floor and then said "basicly i am here to slow you down and i think my friend here want to kill someone but i am not entirely sure but that noise was kinda bad and i have a headache."
Bishop then looked around at everyone and said "to tell you the truth i am not in the mood to fight so can we sit and have a convosation about this?"
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Post by Princess Anne on Feb 2, 2008 9:14:44 GMT -5
Anne looked behind herself, taking a side glance at Bishop. She noticed that he didn't look too much older than her and sort of figured out why he had called her, 'little girl,' he was clearly 2 to 3 times her size. After noticing that Bishop also had fangs, she became even more intimidated, and nervous. More shadows started to come up after Elka's match dropped to the floor and burned out.
"I don't think this is a good time to have a conversation--- augh!" Anne struggled as two more shadows came up and grabbed onto both of her arms, acting as if they were gonna pull her down into the floor. Pretty soon, she began to fall to her knees.
"Only reason I'd have a conversation with you is if you call these... 'things' off of me and my friends! Why are they doing' this to us!? I want to challenge the Dark Messenger, his weapon is gonna be mine wether they like it or not!" Anne was just about being held down to the ground by the shadows at this point.
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Post by Bishop on Feb 2, 2008 11:43:54 GMT -5
bishop moved his head to look at the shadows and they let go of the young girl. then he moved his hand and they disappeared but not to far. bishop looked at the girl who was now at her knees and said "the shadow cratures are kind of things you dont want to be caught by.... i mean they are souls that died horrible deaths here and want to seek revenge on otheer living things."
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