Last of His Kind - RP

[Rywho]

  Residing within Lupine's eyes revals something that should not be there, another presence, another power.  Through the red and primal eyes still shines Lupine wishing he could regain control, though this chanting is driving him further into a fabricated madness. Lupine crawls away from both the creature and Gem as far away as he can, his growls warning thme not to come any closer.  Within The fightinh mind of the wolf man, the chanting becomes louder and more detramental, moving to his knees Lupine grabs the sides of his head and lets out a howl of pure anguish.
   The blue fades completely from the fur and is quickly replaced with gold,  Lupine finally loses conciousness and falls limp to the floor.  Before their eyes his body begins to float in the air, to the outside eye he looks as if to be possesed but within his wounds begin to heal at a rapid rate.  As his wounds heal up, the gold fades back to blue and his physcial appearance seems to increase in muscle mass.  once the event has passed Lupine's body floats back towards the floor, though he still remains unconcious.

[Ben]

composite long bow at the ready and aimed at the creatures eye gem retorts uneasily


"I would say the same to you, vile creature......what plane would one as yourself reside from......Tell me your name and business....
lest my hand should falter.."


Gem glances fleetingly at the overly muscled lupine on the ground.......and swallows a lump in his throat"

Gems shorsword is on the ground, a foot in front of gem....it was dropped upon drawing his bow......

"dammit kite......where in blazes are you....."

[Darkfox]

The creature grunts putting it's right hand to his head "Thoust truly are as dense as I expect from a vile vermin of a race... nevermind... I am a great beast demon of emense power... or at least... that be what I used to be... now I am an imp, cursed to a cute and cuddly form but bring no thoughts of advantage to mind human... I am still the one with an upper hand... I simply choose not to attack... because unlike you, I have restraint... as for the lupine, he is out cold... think of it this way... if it wasn't for me, thoust would likely be shredded."

The creature grinned "Oh yeah, does it bear true that at certain instances human's eat their own? Truly disgusting..." With that insult the creature turns around and gets ready to walk away.
"Thoust should be grateful... that I be a guardian... even if I am likeing it not... it is because of thou's race I live without a kind in this realm... overzealous humans like thous' own self most likely wiped them out..." the creature jumped to the window's edge. "...Leave the lupine be, understood or should I train you to understand words?" The creature's harsh words reveal an anger toward humanity not far dissimilar to Gem's aggressive bias toward lupines.

(OOC: Sorry to everybody, action scenes involving more than 2 people tend to go off like this. Sorry again.)

[Ben]

" suspicious....." Gem whispers to himself.......

Gem thinks for a moment, how kit, and this creature would make good family....despite the whole demon thing..

"I heed your words, demon.....Now I ask you....What is your business here......with me.....I saw you in the sewers....Why were you there.....do you have news of Bloodviper, the lupine?"

[Dragonium]

The company stop walking. "Attikus, you can't just walk around doing that. Carrion attracts bigger, nastier predators, everyone knows that". Quickly, an argument breaks out within the group. "Are you trying to get us all killed?", yells Verde, harmonising with the whimpers of Rise.

The fight grows, and in a moment of panic, Rise stands on tiptoe and whispers something to Verde, who quickly stops yelling, eyes wide. Locke, John and Attikus continue to argue. Verde raises his hands, silencing them.

"I am prepared to listen to your comments, Attikus. However, John, you may be able to answer the questions which I have. Firstly, Attikus may have the creature's skull. However, he did not kill it. He did not remove its limbs". His voice drops slightly. "I am no expert, but even I know that to simply remove a skull without making any sound or effort, requires for the creature's head to have already been severed".

John opens his mouth to speak, but Verde silences him again. "And what", he whispers, turning round and firing a beam of light down the passageway, illuminating a dozen more mangled corpses like the first one, "Did all this?".

[Drace]

Locke looks down the cave. At the bodies, at the blood. Fear and dead in their eyes.
"I... I... I don't know..." John says, looking down at the ground."
"This tracking has gone long enough!" Locke shouts. "Everyone grabs any piece of weapon he can find. We're going down these mines to search whatever did this and cut off it's head!" Locke picks up a shield he can find and pulls of a helmet from a rotting skull. He turns around and looks at the others, after which to turn around and walking into the dark mines.

[Grandy]

 Atikkus takes a scythe that is lurking nearby. "I could ask then what happened. But I guess no one will agree." ¬¬

[WarxePB]

A young woman screaming, followed by what sounds like an incantation by an old man, echoes from deeper within the caves. The darkness ahead is briefly illuminated by a flash of purple light, accompanied by the sound of the stagnant cave air flowing forward.

[Dragonium]

The purple flash seems to blast a path through the dust and gloom. The company brace themselves against the attack, which has no effect as it carries up the cave. It is accompanied by a peculiar whispering voice, which radiates inside Verde's mind...

"You did it..."

The voice is sharp and sly, and Verde blinks and gasps as it continues to speak.

"There is another in this cave, who did it... And you..."

"No", whispers Verde, catching John's attention.

"The one who brought you into the world... Who died by your hand...

Verde growls and kneels down; the group stand back to give him space, and Locke tries to pull him back up. The magician becomes limp and lifeless, and collapses onto the muddy floor.

"But you... You were trained by Geriard..."

Panicked yells fill the air, as Verde's vision becomes impossibly hazy...

"You knew he was only better than you because of that Gauntlet of his... And you had to have it, didn't you...?"

"No...".

"And you mustered your strength... You killed him... You took his Gauntlet... And you ran... Ran like a coward, away from poor dying daddy..."

Verde growls again, which rapidly becomes a yell.

Geriard and father were the same person, weren't they?".

The world begins to turn black...

"You're a murderer, Verde... And it'll destroy you..."

[Arcanagirl]

Jenna finally awakens form her rest, only to find herself in clouded darkness.

Jenna: "What the hell? Ah crap, Dark Magic!"

She begins to run in unknown directions looking for a way out. Her mind raced with angry thoughts towards the person who dare use dark magic upon her.

Seeming lost beyond words, she stops and sits in the center of the vortex.

Jenna: "Ok, I can figure this out....I hope!"

Her mind slows down in attempt to meditate through the dark vortex in hopes to back fire the spell.

[Drace]

"Something is playing some sort of mind control on him. I've seen this before," John says.
Locke slams his shield against one of the walls.  "Argh!" he grunts. "What foul beast may lurk down these mines will be brutally murdered by the touch of my sword!" Locke runs further into the mine and finally vanishes out of sight.
John looks at Attikus and thinks for a while, trying to dig up the name he gave him while they were tracking. "Artikus, was it?"

[WarxePB]

Another scream by the woman cuts through the caves. The older man yells something in a strange tongue, and cracks begin to appear in the floors and walls. He yells "Get out before the caves-", but gets cut off by the woman screaming again.

[Drace]

"I could have sworn I heard something," John says to Attikus in wonder.
"What did it sound like?" Attikus asks.
"Get out before the cave..., didn't heard that last part."
Attikus raises an eyebrow. "Before the cave..."

[Kinslayer]

Anyan kept walking, now into a valley, where the beauty of the snowy mountains eased a bit the pain inside Anyan's heart and mind. There, Anyan started to wander, watching all the beauty of nature sorround him. Soon, Anyan found himself in front of a huge cavern (Note: the mine where Drace's and other characters are). "What is this place?" whispered Anyan, surprised by the size of the entrance. Anyan touched the wall beside the mountain, and after removing some dust, he found some scripts...
"This..." said Anyan "... is written in dwarvish! This is a dwarven mine!". Suddenly, he heard a scream, from the deep. "Something is in there!" he said. He touched his old sword, the one known as the Dragon Breath, given only to the Elite Knights of the Dragon Order... After closing his eyes for a moment, he hurried into the mine. Anyan kept running towards the sounds, deep in the darkness. Soon, he found a man with a shield. "What is going on?!" screamed Anyan. Soon, a purple beam hit him and he felll on the floor. He heard a voice...

 "You have a name... another name that you hate with your very heart..."

Anyan kneeled.

 "Yes, people saw you, with your sword filled in blood of inocents..."

Anyan screamed, holding his head between his hands: "That's nonsense! I didn't kill anyone!"

 "Too bad the world doesn't hear you... you lost everything, you have disgraced your name... KINSLAYER!!!"

Anyan lost his senses: "DO NOT CALL ME THAT NAME!!!!!! WHO DARES TO PUT JUDGEMENT ABOVE THE ACTIONS OF MINE?! THE NAME KINSLAYER WAS GIVEN! NOT PUT BY ME! DIE!!! DIE!!!! DIE!!!!!"

Anyan ran towards the beast, with his eyes filled of tears and the Dragon Breath in his hands... Anyan didn't know what was the beast like, he couldn't really describe what he was killing, striking over and over, again and again with his sword, while hearng the beast still talking inside his head: "Kinslayer... Kinslayer" it kept saying, until the creature's head was off... Anyan kept striking the dead body, while the other people looked at him, in mixed feelings of pity and fear...

[Dragonium]

After what seems like hours, Verde wakes.

He peers about, loking at the roof, with stalactites hanging from it. John is leaning over him, and Attikus is handing John a handful of herbs. "These should revive him", mumbles the Necromancer. John waves them around Verde's face, and the magician sits up and coughs to dispel the pungent aroma. He sees the concerned faces of the company. "Wh... What... Happened to me...?", he whispers.

"You said some... Things...", mutters John, averting his eyes. Verde nods, knowing exactly what he means. He tries to stand, finding his feet with a little difficulty. "I feel I should explain myself. I cannot go any further with you all without you knowing what I am...", he sighs.

"I have already told you that I was trained by Sage Geriard... But he was not my master. He was my father. I was ashamed of him. He would boast, lie, and insult others who had weaker skills than his. Which was everyone. He always pretended that he was better. 'Ah, son, you have much to learn before your weakness will become strength like mine', he would say. I hated him". Verde wobbles on his feet, and leans on a pillar of rock to steady himself.

"But I knew more. He was only skilled because of this old thing". He pulls out the rustic gauntlet from his knapsack. "This is the Gauntlet of Iridon. It is an ancient artifact, which enhances the magical power of the user. Geriard bought it from a black market trader for a handsome sum. He always used it. He was only better than I was at magic because of it. I do not wish to be complacent, but my father was one of the world's greatest magicians, and I was more skilled than he was. He couldn't afford to have anyone beat him... Even his own son...". Verde slides down the rock wall, and covers his face with his hands.

"In the end, I could take no more. I summoned all the strength I had, and blasted him with everything I had. He died before I could feel any regret. I snatched his gauntlet, and I ran. I made it look like an accident. I'm a murderer and a thief. That is all I am".

He stands and pushes out his chest, taking a deep gulp of air. "I hope you will not judge me on my past", he says. Another scream from the woman echoes down the passageway, alongside more mutterings from the old man. Wide cracks begin to appear in the walls. From the direction of the entrance, a man can be heard yelling. "DO NOT CALL ME THAT NAME!", screams the voice.

"I think we should split up", says John. "Me and Locke will go on ahead, and you and Attikus go back to the entrance".

"There is another in this cave, who did it..."

"No", says Verde. "I will go ahead. The rest of you see what that yelling is about. I will not be long". With those words, the magician disappears into the gloom of the mines...