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call_me_vampire2009 Captain
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 Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:01 pm
Scirocco wanders through the woods aimlessly and silently until she halts at a clearing where she finds a man laying face down in the dirt, an axe through his head. Slowly she inches towards the man cringing at the smell of blood. Damn does she hate that smell but yet she loved it. It reminded her of the excitement of a fresh kill. How it stirred her.
Pity.
She kicks the man in his side.
I could've been the one to kill him.
She snickers as she pulls the axe out of his head and throws it into a nearby tree. She picks him up and slings him over her shoulder and moved him to tree and leans him against it.
She kneels down in front of him and stares at his face.
She realizes despite the crusted blood he could've been a handsome man.
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:20 am
Slowly, painfully consciousness began to return. How long? How long had he been asleep for? Something wasn't right, there was someone here. But who. The last thing he remembered was... What? Kalania struggled to maintain the demeanor of death as the back of his skull finished knitting itself shut and a blast of memories flooded back all at once. The war, his wife, his... No death apparently wasn't the right word. He had died thousands of years ago, only allowed to keep the mockery of life that is vampirism. Still he was awake now. It had to have been at least a few hundred years since his wife had betrayed him and summarily tried to end his un-life. The manor was entirely gone, as far as he could tell without seeing, and this definitely wasn't a forest when he ruled it. Oh well, there'd be time to deal with that. For now it was time to deal with the intruder. Kalania may have been asleep for a few centuries, but he was still certain of one thing. This was his world. His domain. Others may have forgotten, he hadn't. Kalania's eyes snapped open and his hand flashed out, catching the figure in front of him by the throat. Leaping to his feet, he spun and slammed his stalker against the tree repeatedly before slamming her to the ground and placing his foot over her throat. Kalania smiled sadistically as he leaned over, his eyes glittering. "So doll, why don't you tell me why you're here."
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call_me_vampire2009 Captain
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:50 am
Sneering at Kalania, she spits at him through a struggled voice, "I could ask you the same thing."
Her crimson red eyes narrow at him full of anger and blood lust.
What is he? He's suppose to be dead... But so strong... I love it. I want it.
She grabs his ankles with her hands, her palms glowing a light red as she burns through his skin. Pushing him off of her with all the force she could muster Scirocco jumps into a tree branch drawing her blade.
"Is this how you repay the one who saved you?"
She shrinks into the darkness of the trees catching her breath. The tattoo on her right shoulder begins to throb out in agonizing pain. Sci grimaces as she grips her shoulder tightly.
No...not now....
Yes...Yes. Kill him. Do it. It'll be fun. Play with him.
Run. He'll kill you.
His blood. I want it.
Something in her heart felt like this strange man could easily kill her if he wished to but she is curious on who he is and wants to see his blood spill on the forest floor.
The conflict in herself makes the pain in her shoulder more unbearable than before and she yelps out in pain as the tattoo begins to spread across her torso and her right arm.
She falls unconscious from the scrutinizing waves of pain and falls out the tree hitting the ground hard. The newly fallen autumn leaves and twigs tangled in with her jet black hair, dirt and mud smudged on her clothes and face.
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:27 am
Kal grimaced slightly as his ankle knitted itself closed. Great, he thought to himself, a witch with cheap parlor tricks and a bad attitude. "How long was I asleep? What year is it? Who are you? What of my child, my empire, my LIFE?" Snarling in rage, Kalania grabs the hilt of his sword and draws the blade only to stop and stare in wonder. The once fine blade had rusted away to ruin, looking down, he sees his once fine clothes in rags, barely clinging together to cover him. He drops the blade and staggers back, his hands beginning to shake, his eyes wide and panicked. "No, no, NO, NO, NO!!! How long? HOW LONG DID I PAY THE PRICE FOR THAT HARLOT'S TREASON?!?" In a fit of rage and hatred Kalania slams his fist into a tree, splitting the trunk and shattering his hand, "Where am? What is this place? I figured a century, maybe two? But this? No this has to have been longer... It can't be." Kalania falls silent staring down at what's left of his clothing and muttering to himself, completely oblivious to the strange girl still watching him from the tree.
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call_me_vampire2009 Captain
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:53 am
After laying unconcious on the ground for a good few minutes Scirocco's eyes flutter open, her teeth bared in an unnatural way. Where is he?She stands up using the tree next to her as a prop and sees Kalania through the trunks of the surrounding forest. Picking up her sword she limps towards him materializing out of the trees like a ghost. "What are you?" she snarls at him. Sci's grip tightens around her sword's hilt. "You are suppose to be dead. There was an axe in your head." Scirocco grows silent and glares at him with her one eye, the other hidden behind her blindfold as she circles him cautiously. The air around her is blistering with her new recovered strength and power.
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:01 am
Kal glances over at her, seemingly in a daze, his eyes hollow and his cheeks sunken. "Have I really been forgotten, has it been that long? I once threatened the world, and I am no longer even memory." He sighs and slumps to the ground, eyes vacant, and emotionless. "I suppose I could always restart, rebuild. I can't die, and I have no home, I could conquer one, reforge my empire. But why? If it can all be taken so easily and then forgotten." Kal glances over at the odd little one who seems persistent on pestering him. "You, if you value your life, you will leave me alone. You can't kill me, you know that. I can see it in your eyes. You fear me. I've been asleep for a very, very long time and I'm a little annoyed. Keep pestering me, and have no doubts, I will end you."
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call_me_vampire2009 Captain
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:12 am
"I-I'm not scared of you. If I was I wouldn't stay here."
Scirocco tilts her head a little staring at him. She sticks her blade into the soft dirt and walks towards him. When she reaches him she kneels down in front of him and looks at him intently.
"Listen. I helped you. Now I ask for answers. Who are you? What is your name? And what are you? You are not of my kind."
Sci's eyes turn back to their original color, purple, as she realizes there is no need to be defensive when this man is weak after being dead for so many years.
She rummages through her knapsack pulling out a canteen of water, handing it to him.
"My name is Scirocco Valentine. You are in my wood and I want to know why this strange man is in my territory. I've lived here most of my life and never have I seen you here."
Of course I have not traveled this far into the wood... Not in this direction anyways.
He has to be delusional. This man couldn't have been dead for years and then come back to life.....unless...
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:17 am
Kalania sighs and pushes the canteen away. "My name, child, is Lord Kalania Voluminost. Though Lord is more of a vanity at this point than anything. And it is you that trespass on the remains of my kingdom. I don't know the year, so I know not how long it's been, but there was an empire here once. An empire that belonged to the dead. Then a war with humanity, magic, and gods, ensued, existence was almost annihilated, and I was cleaved through the back of the skull by my now ex-wife. And I've apparently lain here ever since. At least that's the short version. Now, I've answered your questions. What year is it?"
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call_me_vampire2009 Captain
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:42 am
She recognizes the name Kalania Voluminost, from the stories her evil Master once told her. She remembered the wars but her and her Master had stayed out of those affairs. But that was 800 years ago....how could his body still be here after 8 centuries?
"It is year 1247, Year of the Moon."
Scirocco takes a knife out of her pocket and hands it to Kalania.
"For your trouble."
She stands up and grabs her sword sheathing it. She looks back at him.
"This is a dangerous place at night. I'm heading home before the ghouls come," she chuckles. "If you wish to follow be my guest, or be here alone and confused."
Sci begins to walk away, heading towards her home in the east.
The gust of wind picks up and blows her hair out of her face revealing her elven ears, and scars on her back from when her Master tortured her for treason. She bore these scars for centuries, the marks never fading, and ever lasting reminder of pain and suffering, and alot of death on her hands. Her palms stained with the blood of others.
One day she'll find him again and kill him for what he did to her.
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:49 am
Kalania laughs uproariously and lays back, closing his eyes for a moment and breathing deeply. "If ghouls are all that inhabits this forest then you have nothing to fear. Slaves is all they are, can't even think for themselves." He stands up and stretches as one of the pathetic creatures shambles into the grove and snarls. He casually walks up to it and smirks. "You will kneel before your lord." The creature hesitates, looking confused as it feels the tug of influence that has been dormant for centuries. "I SAID KNEEL!" Kalania bellows, and the creature quickly drops. Laughing he lays a hand on it's head and slowly the ghoul crumbles to dust. Wiping his hands, he turns and smiles, his face full and eyes sparkling. "You see child, it doesn't matter how many centuries pass, one thing is always true. Slave will always obey master. A lesson, judging by the scars on your back, you never learned."
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call_me_vampire2009 Captain
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:02 am
Scirocco suddenly stops in her tracks, her hands clenching at her sides. In a bitter tone she says, "You will never understand the chains of a slave. Especially a female slave. I was trained to kill mercilessly by my so called "Master" and he did things to me I would rather not repeat. I had to kill my own child...his child. In the end I tried to murder him. He left me out in this forest to die almost 700 years ago, with a curse that follows my every footsteps. You speak as if we are ants to be stepped on. I am not an ant anymore. I am a warrior and I will fight for my freedom if its the last thing I do. I am not to be held down by chains." Tears roll down her face as she faces her past once more, the pain of her past experiences overwhelming her. She falls to her knees, sobbing. She hasn't truely thought of her past in a good few decades. Its been years since she last had to deal with these bitter feelings. She lost everything thanks to him. Her family, whom she does not even know; her life, her childhood, her soul, her pride. She lost it all. Her home village shunned her for who she was and is. She was cast out and abandoned all thanks to the man she once called Master.
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:14 am
Kalania snorts impatiently. "Get up and dry your eyes. You're weak, don't be pathetic as well. For a mortal you're strong, don't get me wrong, but you've awoken something greater than mortals. You've awoken the remnants of an era you should have left dead." Kal grins triumphantly, as more ghouls, mixed with some very young fledglings begin cautiously entering the grove. All stop and kneel, eyes, lowered as they enter, with mixed looks of fear and reverence. "No, no child. Now is not the time to show weakness. Now is the time to grow stronger. Now is the the time to feel rage and hatred. I will exact revenge for every last ounce of pain and suffering I have endured over the past 4,800 years. I will take all that is mine. The question is, are you strong enough to stop me from purging you with the rest of the filth?" Kalania grins down at her as more of his servants wander in and kneel before him. "As I said, nothing ever changes. People fear, their betters, resist the control of those who have the right to rule." He laughs and his eyes almost glow a bright emerald green. "Join me child, help me retake what's mine. Help me lead my army, back to the glory of millenia past. Serve under me, and you shall end those who tormented you."
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call_me_vampire2009 Captain
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:27 am
She wipes away her tears with her fists. "H-How can I trust you? I don't even know exactly what you are and I would not know if you would kill me in the end when everything is said and done. I want to kill him.... That is for sure. I want my village to burn for their wrongdoings against me..... Why should I give up my freedom once more to work for you. Give me one good reason, other than sparing my life, why I should join forces with you." My heart tells me to go.....
I'll have to take a big risk...
My life is on the line, either way I'm dead
I've been dead the minute he layed hands on me.
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:36 am
"Honestly, you can't trust me. If you disobey, or fail me, I will kill you. But you want power. I have that. And I take a risk too. The last woman who was close to me left me face down for 800 years with an ax in the back of my head. But what are you going to do? Hide here for the rest of you life? Are you going to live in fear of ghouls and shadows?" He sweeps his hand behind him at the growing horde. "This is what I've managed to call in the scarce hour since I awoke. More come from farther and still more shall rise later. I'll win, you know this, and that's why you'll follow. Because you've seen first hand, that I cannot be stopped. Not forever." Laughs manically and then stares intently at down at her. "But most of all, you'll follow because you want more than just to survive, you actually want to live."
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call_me_vampire2009 Captain
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:42 am
She looks up at him with her one purple eye, the color in her eye now dull. Silently she stares at his face, taking in the power she feels coming off from him. Eventually she looks back at the ground and bows her head. "My Lord....what is it I must do? I am here to serve." Scirocco looks back up at Kalania and slightly smiles at him. "You are right, I am weak seeking more power than what I already own. I wish to not only survive but to live a life worth living for. I've wasted all my years with that man, then wasted another 700 years in solitude, only killing when it was required." Standing up, Sci brushes herself off. "I need to return to my home for an hour or two to take care of some final matters. Please excuse me. I will return here when I am done." She turns her back on him, and walks away towards her home. 15 minutes pass by and Scirocco arrives at her home A blonde haired elf comes out of the cabin. "Sci where were you. You know its not safe out here," he said to her as he placed his hands on her shoulders. Scirocco steps back, shrugging him off of her. "I met someone tonight Cashmir." Her voice sounded cold, her eyes serious. Cashmir frowns. "It was him, or so you think, wasn't it?" She shakes her head, her hair falling in her face. "No. But it is someone who can help me find him so I can fulfill my fate. I am leaving with him. After tonight you will not see me again. You've saved my life and I've repayed my debt to you." Cashmir grabs Sci's hands and holds them in his and says, "Let me go with you. I don't feel comfortable with you leaving. I don't understand." Scirocco sighs and pushes past him into the house. She quickly and silently grabs medical supplies and rations of food for herself and a few extra weapons. "Are you not paying attention to me Scirocco?! Do I mean nothing to you anymore!" Scirocco stops what she is doing and looks at him with a hard look on her face, her eye red once more, a single tear falling down her face. "You will never understand me Cashmir. I thank you for saving my life years ago and thank you for keeping me company when everyone else left. But I must do this alone. I seek to destroy my enemies and increase my abilities. You will drag me down. I cannot allow you to follow. Stay here. The shield will stay put if you keep the Wards up in the house. Look after this place for me while I am away. Wait for me and next time we meet I'll have his head." Scirocco walks up to Cashmir and cups his face in her hands. "I'll be back. I promise. You'll always be my friend." She kisses him on the forehead and storms out the house before Cashmir could say another word. She heads back towards to the area where she left Kalania.
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