| DerrinRPGWRTR |
Derrin was sitting on a log near
the fire when Andrew came back.
"Derrin Momma gave you a rune lets get ready
to go." Serena said.
"We are going nowhere. We are camping for
the night. Right here." Derrin said calmly.
Everything stopped happeneing and everyone fell
silent. What was this Derrin Defying Serena?
Could this be? Has Derrin gone mad??
The anger was welling up inside Serena;
"DERRIN A COUNSIL NOW!" she yelled.
"Queen your bow and one arrow. NOW!"
Derrin insisted. He knocked the arrow and let it
loose into the woods. "Kojak tend to our
Supper." he said as he walked away! "A
large bear just 20 yards out of the campisite
where I shot."
Kojak left to go gather the meat from the bear as
Derrin walked calmly to the edge of the camp to
talk to Serena.
"What right do you have to undermine my
leadership?? What gives you the right?"
Serena asked sternly.
"These are battle weary warriors. Not one of
them is half the warrior either of us are! If it
be just me and you I would say yes press on! But
IF i am to trust THEM with YOUR life then they
WILL be rested." Derrin stressed calmly.
Serena looked deep into Derrin's eyes; "You
have no remorse right now do you? No feeling as
to what is happening."
"I know what is happening. And it is my job
to keep you safe. If you are asking if I have any
remorse in doing that the answer is no! I will
kill any warrior that even looks like they will
harm you. As far as emotions. They are a weakness
I no olonger deal with."
"Derrin what is happneing to you?"
Serena asked, "What happened to that sweet
person always willing to help and and and
........"
"He no longer exists Mi'Lady!" Derrin
bowed and walked away. "KOJAK WHERE IS MY
SUPPER??" He yelled as he entered camp.
Cerwidan noticed Derrin entered camp alone and
saw Serena with her back turned to the fire. She
walked over to Serena. Derrin noticed a thought
to himself, "Hmmm I guess I am to be led by
two soft and weak women. Figures!"
After everyone ate and settled in Derrin said he
would take first watch. He removed his viking
sword from it's scabbard and produced a very dark
green vial of liquid from his pack and started
oiling his sword down. Serena Knowing Derrin made
since had said nothing besides that they would
leave at first light to get a good night's sleep
when she returned to camp.
After all were asleep Derrin heard Rustling from
the bushes. He left the camp to investigate his
poisoned sword drawn and his dagger in his other
hand. He happened upon two old buddies.
"What say you Derrin?" one of them
said.
"What brings you to Trammel? Is Felucca
getting too boring for you?" Derrin replied.
"No we had sinced you have returned to your
old ways and came to offer you a place once again
amongst us."
"Not now." Derrin said, "I have
unfinished things here."
"Aye we see that now." Said the second
stranger.
"Aye so how is the old gang?" Derrin
asked, "Tis good to see you still carrying
your skin Steve and you too Justin."
"Aye and I see that Trammel has not tamed
you Derrin." said Steve, "So what
should we tell the boss?"
"Tell him I will come to Fel and speak with
him when I am done here." Derrin replied.
"Aye" They both said together. And they
left into the night.
The next morning caught Derrin still reapplying
poison to the sword he favored as an PK in the
old days! The others scrambled to get thier
things together and while Serena And momma and
Cer were doing thier morning ritual Derrin
approached the others.
"Queen when I say to shoot you shoot what I
tell you to. One second delay can have us all
killed. Kojak heal like you have never healed
before. And if you miss one may the gods help you
if I survive." He turned to Ladi.
"Ladi I want you in the back ready to heal
and cure. All I want you to do." He then
turned to Andrew.
Derrin stared at Andrew long and hard, very long
and hard. "YOU" he pointed to Andrew.
"You I am putting in charge of healing our
ladi Serena. If one hair raises on her head and I
do not see you muttering the words to the greater
heal spell you are in trouble."
"Now today we are prolly going to hit some
tough things out there. Listen to me and you will
live. If you do not you will die. That
simple." Derrin ended it there.
Serena and Cer and Momma returned and Derrin cast
the gate on the rune Momma handed him! They all
left the camp site and stepped into the gate.
Derrin had no idea what was going to happen but
he knew by the way his insides were turning it
was not going to be good.
After they all stepped through the gate and it
closed Momma Sin looked for and found what she
was looking for. Derrin motioned the group to get
ready for he felt something terrible was about to
happen. Momma did something and a rock moved and
all of a sudden there was spawn everywhere!
"STACK STACK STACK" Derrin yelled.
Momma did not see the spawn show up she was still
looking for something under the rock!As the spawn
closed in on them Deriin reached down and grabbed
MOmma by the collar in her golden Armor. "I
SAID STACK DAMN YOU DON"T YOU LISTEN
ANYMORE??!!!" Derrin yelled as he stood her
up.
There were 4 liches,1 poison elemental, 3 blood
elementals, 4 drakes, 2 elder daemons, and an
dragon that spawned there. Magically protected my
ass Derrin thought.
"Cer Koj the liches, Queen Serena the
bloods, SHIT!!!" Derrin yelled as he started
to fight. He was a little late cause everyone was
already fighting and healing and well it was a
mess.
Derrin Saw one lich fall then another. Cer and
Koj were good at that! Derrin started fighting
the Daemons. The burning of thier spells seering
his every fiber. But someone was healing him.
Queen was shooting and Serena was axing the
bloods to death! It seemed all the spawn was
after mainly Serena and Momma. Derrin blocked a
daemon's blow so severely that it's hand was
severed in the blow.
Cer and koj fighting side by side Koj would block
the blows from the Liches blows and it's horrible
attempts at wrestling with his kite shield while
Cer was pounding them to death with her short
spear. Koj would throw in the occasional thrust
with his cutlass. It did not take them long to
Finish off all 4 liches and start helping Derrin
with the Daemons.
By the time they got there to help Derrin had
slaughtered the one he had severed it's hand.
Queen and Serena Made short work of the Bloods.
Queen Shooting one and Serena and her axe of
blood drinking on the other. Queen shot the blood
elem to the left and it faultered. Serena sliced
a mighty hit to the other blood's mid section
with her blood drinking axe. It let out a howl
and came in for a second attack. Serena BLocked
the attack with the flank side of her axe and
smashed it in the face. That giving her enough
room for her last fatal slash with the axe to end
it's miserable existance. Queen still shooting
the other Blood with arrows Saw serena turn and
she ducked just ion time for Serena's axe to miss
her head and sink deep into the second blood
elemental's head. Serena then turned her
attention to the poison elemental while Queen
turned hers to the drake.
Momma now getting her bearings also started
fighting the drake.
Derrin, Koj, and Cer squared off to the last
Daemon and all three attacked it. There was a
thrust by the daemon and a parry by Koj's shield
and 2 thrusts one by Cer's spear and one by
derrin's sword. Derrin dropped his kat and
released his viking. Koj took two steps back
remembering what it did to Spit just cutting his
foot. Derrin stepped out and taunted the Daemon.
It came at him and Derrin Parried it's blo with
his sword and quickly tunred his wrist to make a
small cut under the Daemon's wrist! The daemon
grabbed it's wrist and fell to it's knees. Derrin
knowing the poison was already effecting the
Daemons came back with a backhand and cut it's
throat. Koj and Cer turned thier attention on the
drake. And Derrin took a deep breath. Was this
all that was going to come to meet them? Then he
felt it.
His shield was ripped to shreds. DAMN HOW COULD
HE FORGET THE DRAGON! Derrin looke dwhere his
shield used to be to see 2 huge gashes in his arm
and green dragon plate arms. Blood poored out of
the wound. Derrin turned to engage the dragon. It
would pay for drawing his blood. Fire flashed in
his eyes then he saw what it was doing. It was
trying to stomp on Serena!
Derrin reached into his cloak and grabbed his
Dagger and let it fly. It went hurtling through
the air and found it's mark. The dragon's right
eye. The Dragon let out a mighty roar and turned
it's attention to Derrin. Derrin nudged his horse
towards the dragon into a gallop and dropped his
viking sword to the ground. He leaned over in the
saddle and grabbed his katana off the ground as
he rode past it.
He yelled the sword's name as he jumped into the
air from his saddle. "Kamanue'" and the
sword started to glow red. He had involked the
sword's spirit to help him and it's magic was
showing. It was glowing bright red by the time
Derrin landed on the dragon's back! The dragon
turned to bite Derrin and Derrin slapped it's
head away with the sword leaving an burn mark on
the side of it's head!
Derrin climbed it's neck to the base of it's head
and shoved hios katana through and through its
head from the top of it's head through the lower
jaw. The Dragon started shaking it's head from
left to right and Derrin held onto his sword. The
sword hilt broke off and it started spewing
sparks!
"SHIT!!!" Derrin yelled just as the
sword blade exploded with the release of the
magical energy! The head of the dragon
disentegrated and Derrin flew to the right of the
monster landing on his back! The force of the
explosion knocked his helm from his head negating
the magical effect his armor had to protect him.
As Derrinklopened his eyes it was to a horrible
sight the dragon was falling towards him. Derrin
scrambled to move backwards yet the dragon's
lifeless body fell on his chest crushing his legs
ans hips and chest!
Derrin spit blood from his mouth and looked over
to his guildmates. Would they even care? He
noticed that they had finished the poison
elemental and the drake and he saw 3 bodies
running towards him as the light
faded............ |
| Ladi Serena |
Serena wiped the blood from her
axe and the sweat from her brow, she was boiling
with anger.. She searched out Cer with her eyes
and let the energy flow between them. Cer's eyes
grew wide as the emotions Serena were feeling
washed over her.
Serena was angry.. very angry. Cer had been one
of the very few to witness Serena's full wrath,
and on more than one occassion. It was not to be
taken lightly. Serena always wore a game face
when around most of the people in the guild.
Keeping her annoyance and displeasure to
herself... always trying to reserve judgment...
No matter how mad she was, she tried to speak to
the object of her displeasure in a civilized
manner, in private, at the right place at the
right time. Cer hoped that Serena could reign in
some of that anger before she acted upon it...
she was doing a good job controlling it so far,
but only an imbecile could not tell that she was
struggling to keep her composure.
"K guys... we can't move this dragon.. and
we can't risk hurting him more by trying to move
him either." She nodded towards Derrin.
"So, we gonna have to cut it up and move it
a little at a time until we can free him."
They needed no instructions, they began carving
at the corpse.
Serena knelt beside Derrin, wetting some cloth
with water, and cleaning off the blood. She was
having a hell of a time, she was worried,
concerned, and pissed off. Quite a combination...
She knew he'd pull through, she'd seen him in a
LOT worse shape than this.
Derrin groaned.
The party removed the last part of the dragon
corpse, and Derrin sat up. They wanted to go to
him, to see if he was okay.. but for some reason,
they knew not to say a word, or move a muscle,
until Serena did something.
"You alright?" she huffed.
"I suppose I'll live" he said.
"That remains to be seen....You foolishly
risked the lives of all these people all because
you want to act like some arrogant, know it all
jackass..."
"Look, Lady...." he began
sarcastically.
"LADY??" The group fell into an awed
hush as Serena's hand fell smartly upon his cheek
with a resounding 'thwack'".
Silence.
Serena had never struck another guildmate,
ever.... NOR did she even raise her weapon
against the enemy in anger... She had preached
that so often... Never raise your hand towards
something or someone because you can not control
your own emotions.... Yet, they had witnessed it
with their own eyes.
Ice shimmered in her eyes. "I should've left
you for dead. IF I EVER hear you speak to me or
these warriors that way again, you will wish that
I would have."
She began to walk away. Derrin just stared at
her.
"You have three choices... be ready in five
minutes, and we can discuss this later, after we
make camp.... or you can go back to the
guildhouse and think about it for a while until
we return... or you can just head east... and we
can pretend we never knew each other.. Your
choice, but make it quick."
Serena began to direct for the next
journey..."Koj, give your supplies to Ladi
to carry, in case Derrin comes with us, that way
he can ride with you in case he loses
consciousness again... Andrew, remain up here
with me, if you will... Queen, can you grab the
reigns of Derrin's mount and guide him, and
Momma... Did we get what we need?"
It was a rush of "Ayes" nobody said a
word still... They hoped the tension would ease
up soon.
"Okay.. tis almost sunset... we will go west
until we find a spot to make camp... then we can
discuss our next move... Let's move.. it's gonna
rain again."
They all waited anxiously, wondering what Derrin
was going to do... Everyone looked at him
expectently...
"Well, Derrin.... time is up...." |
| DerrinRPGWRTR |
Derrin stood and tried to walk.
He stumbled and fell. He struggled to his feet
again and let out a cough and some blood. He knew
that Serena knew what he would decide. Even in
his weakened state and in his non-challant
non-caring attitude that he had taken on he still
has honor and still cared for his Guildmisstress.
Not to mention the promise he had made.
He struggled to his horse and Kojak rode up to
him and put out his hand to help Derrin mount his
own mount and Derrin shoved his hand away.
"I will ride my own mount if you do not
mind!" Derrin said as loud as he could. But
that was not very loud considering the broken
ribs he was nursing. Derrin struggled but finally
after about 3 minutes of trying he got up in the
saddle.
He used some leather to tie himself to the saddle
and took out some band aids and started to
support his ribs by wrapping them up. He nudged
his horse to follow Kojak's horse. He guessed he
was bringing up the rear as pissed as Serena was
at him right now. He did not care All of them
were still alive and that is what he was aiming
to do!
As he removed the rest of his armor and started
trying to heal himself he found himself coughing
up more and more blood. The party reached a
clearing about 30 minutes into the ride and
Serena decided this is where they were to rest
for the night. As the rest of the party started
to set up camp Derrin tried to cast greater heal
on himself and lost his concentration.
He put his spell book up after the 4th try and
all of a sudden everything went black and he felt
wind in his hair. He knew he was falling. He felt
the ground hit him but it did not hurt. At this
Derrin pass out............ |
| Momma Sin |
With all the commotion and
Serena and Derrin at odds with each other, Momma
had forgotten to grab Vengence. The mighty sword
that had been passed down from generation to
generation.
Shoot, she thought, I HAVE to go back and get
that sword. How could she protect Serena with out
Vengence?
But Momma was smart enough to know that she was
not going to do it alone, or without her
guildmistress/daughter's knowledge. But how could
she put these warriors in danger again. That last
battle was nasty and messy. But ....there were
probably going to be worse ones. Might as well
get used to them.
So Momma went to Serena and explained the
situation. "I NEED that sword" Momma
told her. "It has protected generation after
generation. I do not believe there are anymore
spawn guarding the sword and the scroll is tucked
safely away in Demon's saddle bags. I wish to
return to the stone and recover the sword. I will
take Queen with me, if that is okay with you. I
don't feel you and Cer should be split right now
and Kojak is watching over Derrin. Andrew is
needed to help with Derrin. We will recall and be
there and back swiftly, M'Lady."
" Nay" said Serena "you and Queen
will not go by yourself. As I do not know if
there is any more spawn or not, I will not let
you put yourself in that kind of danger."
Then she turned around and looked at Cer. Momma
could tell that there was some communication
going on there, as Cer nodded her head and
started gathering supplies.
Then Serena turned to the group and said "
It seems that we did not retrieve Sinja's sword,
Vengence, and it must be done. We are not
expectiing any more problems, but just to be on
the safe side, Cer, Queen, Momma and I are going
after it. Derrin is in no shape for a swift
journey and I know you will protect him with your
life Kojak, so I wish you to stay with him.
Andrew, your healing magic is needed here, and
you can also help with any trouble that arises
until Derrin is full strength again. We should be
back before the moon is overhead. If we are
not....then come after us. " and then
turning she said laughingly "Party up
ladies, it's the girls' night out!!"
And so the 4 women warriors returned to the site
of the bloody battle. As Momma reached for the
stone where it had fallen back in place, All 4 of
the women warriors went into battle stances,
ready for anything.
Momma grabbed the stone with one hand and gave a
mighty heave as it gave way and turned over.
Pulling her axe up with both hands, ready to
swing as.........
nothing happened.
There beneath the stone lay Vengence, the jewels
in the handle covered with dirt and the long
blade rusted with unuse.
Momma put her axe up and reached for the family
heirloom with both hands. When all of sudden
there was a mighty rush of wind as an air
elemental with force of a tornado,rushed at Momma
and knocked her down, and then on to Serena.
Serena sliced through the air elemental as Cer
stepped up to take her turn and Queen let loose
with arrows. But it disappeared. just Vanished.
It had hurt no one, only knocking Momma and
Serena to the ground.
Then they heard it, that sound of whispering
roaring through the leaves of the trees. Now
what..the 4 looked at each other with questions
in their eyes, but no answers.
"Okay, Momma, grab your damn sword and lets
get back to the others."
Momma bent to retrieve Vengence when the
whispering sound grew....and Momma thought she
heard words. "Nay, Sinja, do not touch it.
Leave it be."
As Momma looked at Serena, her eyes grew glassy
and she started moaning. Oh NO!!!! Not another
vision right now.!!! "Cer" Momma
replied softly "stay with her, it will be
frightening, more than likely, but do not leave
her mind, let her know that you are there with
her in her conscience."
Momma and Queen looked on helplessly as a look of
total horror came on the faces of both warriors.
Then Serena yelled "No, you cowardly force,
whatever you are, you will NOT control my mind
anymore, so bring it on." And amazingly
enough, both faces relaxed into a concentration
look, like they were concentrating on something.
A few minutes later, Serena's eyes cleared and
Cer heaved a sigh of relief. Twas over.
"Momma, do not touch that sword" she
said. "It has been handed down through the
generations, but .....everyone of the generations
died around their 25th year. Except you. Because
the sword was not in your possession. Some way or
another, this evil force has obtained information
through the years through that sword. If you
touch it, they will know that it is Sinja that
swings it. Heed my words and replace the stone.
NOW."
So Momma did as she was bid and rolled the stone
back over the Vengence sword. "Let's get
back to the others, I have a bad feeling, "
Serena said. "Let's go read that scroll and
find the gate."
The women recalled to the place they had left the
others and all seemed to be in order...Momma
grabbed the scroll from Demon's saddlebags and
handed it to Serena..............
|
| Queen ofDArkness |
Well as momma and Serena were
discussing the scroll and the sword, Queen
dicided that with everything else going on in
Serena and mommas life that worrying about a
curse and a sword was too much for them to deal
with. So when they weren't looking Queen slowly
moved the stone and took the sword and placed it
in her backpack. When she reached for it she felt
a strange feeling come over her, but she ignored
it and replaced the stone. She figured it the
sword would be needed later then she would have
it. Besides she figured that it woulded hurt her
cause it was not her that was the one being
threatened. So as they returned to camp where
Derrin, Kojak and Andrew was. Derrin was being a
stuborn ass again and refusing help. So Queen
goes up to him and tells him that with all the
times he has help others he can just sit his ass
down keep quiet and let them heal him. Then she
tells kojak "If he doesn't listen to you
then we will have to team up and make him
listen." "We may not beable to do it
alone but as a team he will have no other
choice." Derrin looks at Queen with that
cold and uncaring look in his eyes and starts to
speak. Queen then tells kojak to leave for a bit
so she can talk to Derrin. As he walks away she
then tells Derrin that as long as they have know
each other and with the relationship of him and
kojak that this was not the time to decide to
return to his old ways. She rememers his past
from years agon and new also that he was better
then that. She then told him to decide if he
wanted to sit her and be a pain in everyones ass
or work as team to stop this evil that was
coming. Queen then left to go get kojak and wait
for Derrin to decide what he was going to
do....... |
| Andrew Wisniewski |
Andrew stood back while Queen of
Darkness talked to Derrin. He got real mad when
she walked away, but he stopped to think for a
second. Andrew stepped towards him and said,
"Now can I please heal you? At the rate
you're going, you'll be dead by day-break.
"Whatever, do it if you feel you need
to." Derrin grumbled, and Andrew pulled out
his magic book and prepared a greater heal spell.
"In Vas Mani!" Andrew nearly shouted
when he cast it on him.
"Think you were loud enough, Andrew? Damn
near cast it big enough to heal all of us."
Derrin said sarcastically.
"It doesn't matter what someone does for
you, you just can't be nice, can you?"
Andrew shouted at Derrin, and stood chalengingly.
"Watch your words, you have no idea what I
could do to you even in this weakened
position." Derrin stood up still slightly
holding his chest.
"I have no quarl with you, I just don't like
your attitude. and I am not afraid of you, even
though you could kill me. I have never been
afraid in my life." That wasn't true, but it
had been along time since a single person had
scared Andrew.
"Show some curtesy to people who know alot
more than you, and we won't always be at each
other's thoat." Derrin growled and sat back
down.
"Then show some curtesy to people who just
saved your life, and then I might show you the
respect you deserve!" Andrew said, and
walked away from Derrin for the second time
wandering if he might die at that moment. He
didn't and he went to set up his bed a few meters
away the others, he was always a loner, and he
couldn't change even now, lots of people made him
nervous..... |
| DerrinRPGWRTR |
As Derrin Sat there wondering
what to do Kojak came to him and said "I
have something for you."
"And just what would that be?" Derrin
asked sarcastically. "What one of your
worthless band aids?"
"Why the hell are you being such an ass
Derrin?? No tis THIS!" Kojak yealled and
dropped the hilt of Derrin's broken Katana in his
lap. "Figured you might want this back. I
mean it was your favorite sword."
"Aye twas my favpeitr. Twas a gift from an
old old friend. By the name of Beowulf. Do you
remember him Koj? You got him killed!" A
very cold stare was send Kojak's way.
"Derrin I am sorry. I do not remember anyone
named Beowulf. Remember my memory is gone."
Kojak said.
"And that is why you are still living. And
when you remember your past you will not be safe
from my wrath." Derrin said. Knowing Kojak
was his brother Beowulf was someone closer than a
friend he was considered by all to be Derrin's
twin. They could have been brothers. And besides
how valuable was KOjak anyway he was only
Derrin's HALF-BROTHER!
Derrin sat there and placed a few bandages on
himself and layed down. He was going to do
something he had not done in years. He would
sleep soundly tonight.
He looked over to Queen she was folling with a
sword in her backpack. Hmmmm when did Queen start
using a sword? Derrin smiled he may have just
found himself an extra sword. It looked old and
rusted but so was his kat when it was given to
him. Derrin closed his eyes and fell fast
asleep.............
|
| Momma Sin |
Momma had noticed the change in
Derrin since the incident with Spitfire. And she
was worried about Derrin. What was bothering him?
Was he missing his "old ways" ?
Somehow Momma didn't think so. But SOMETHING was
wrong. This cold, unfeeling person, was NOT the
Derrin that she had come to know. Did the task
that he had done in the name of S@S bring out the
real Derrin, or was the real Derrin hidden behind
a wall of pain so great that this was a defense.
Or was it the work of the Evil One again,
Destroying from within the soul and spirit?
Because Derrin's soul and spirit were definately
not at ease. And it was causing distress to the
others.
So, knowing she may get a dose of his cruelty
that he had just handed out to Kojak, she took a
deep breath, determined not to let his words hurt
and telling herself that this is probably the
work of the evil one and she mustn't let it upset
her.
"Derrin" Momma spoke softly so as not
to waken him, if he had finally fell into a
restless sleep. Which was the case. Momma gently
changed his bandages with care and hoped she
would have a chance to talk to him before this
got out of hand. |
| Kojak the Warrior |
after the argument with his
mentor,Kojak walked away upset.Who is this
Beowolf,and why did he,Kojak,cause his death.He
don't remember any beowolf,but Derrin must know
what he is talking about.He seen Queen digging in
her pack,and something silver flashed in his
eye.When he turned to look,she quickly covered
it."Now what is she hiding"he
wondered.He takes off in the woods to
think,wondering maybe if he should head back
home,and stay out of everyone's way.If he was the
cause of Beowolf's death,then maybe he should
leave before he killed anyone else......... |
| Ladi Serena |
Serena took the scroll that
Momma had handed her and put it in her backpack.
They would open it after everyone had gotten a
chance to eat and relax a little bit. Besides,
she needed time to think. By now, everyone knew
their duties when they made camp. Serena saw
Kojak, shoulders hunched, as he walked into the
woods, and slowly went after him. She noticed the
new woman archer, seemed to be very protective of
him, and didn't want to raise any suspicion.
After a few minutes in the woods, she quickened
her pace to catch up with him. She put her arm
around his shoulder, he jumped, and mumbled about
how he should be more careful.. "Kojak,
look... I don't know what Derrin's deal is, but
don't let him get to you. It's probably all my
fault for having him kill spit, but that still
gives him no excuse to speak to you in such a
manner, or anyone else, for that matter."
Kojak nodded his head, however, still
unconvinced.
"I don't know who this Beowulf is, but if my
carelessness got him killed, maybe I should just
head on back." he said.
"No, Koj, we all know that you are the
closest one here to Derrin.. I have a feeling we
are going to need you to help him through
whatever it is that plagues him. Accidents
happen. I don't know who Beowulf was either, but
until you can remember exactly what happened, I
wouldn't worry myself with it."
Koj smiled. "Well, maybe you're right....
"
With that, Serena turned again and headed back to
camp to find Cer. She spotted her talking to
Momma who was cooking up something delicious, as
usual.
"Cer." Cer nodded and walked towards
her. they lowered their heads and began to
whisper in hushed tones.
Cer concluded the conversation. "Maybe we
should atleast ask her.. she may know...."
Their gaze fell upon Ladi, who was staring at
Derrin, and seemed to be focusing on something. |
| Andrew Wisniewski |
Andrwe saw Kojak move of into
the woods, and he was pretty sure everyone heard
Derrin yell at him about the beowulf, and Andrew
walked back over to Derrin.
"Derrin, what is the relationship bewteen
you and Kojak? You act like brothers, but you
just treated him like-"
"I don't know why I acted that way, and
frankly, I wish sometimes that I could change the
way things have happened." Derrin almost
smiled, and Andrew didn't feel so much menace
towards Derrin.
"Are you brothers?" Andrew asked him,
and Derrin looked at the ground. "I thought
so, but I wasn't sure if it were true."
"He is only my half brother, he does not
know this, and I may someday tell him, but I want
him to figure out himself."
"Maybe he will someday, but I won't say a
thing." Andrew crossed his heart right
there.
"God, please don't." |
| Queen ofDArkness |
Queen noticed the argument
between Derrin and Kojak. She seen how upset
Kojak got when Derrin mentioned something about
Beowolf. She had met him once long ago and knew
that him and Derrin were friends, but didn't
really know how Kojak was responsiable for his
dealth. She knew something had happned to kojak
one day when he came home and was upset about
something. It was about that time that he said he
had to go and help Derrin cause he owed him that
much. Kojak never really explained why, but not
long after that is when he lost his memory and
when she lost him. Queen decided to go and talk
to him alone for the first time. She just hope
she could hide her emotions from him long enough.
She waited patiently for Serena to leave and then
went and approached him. She felt a little
jealous at time of the relationship he had with
Serena and momma. He knew how close they had
become but also wished he would remember her.
"Oh well that is the past." Queen said
to her self.
When she went sit next to kojak, he looked at her
curiously. "How is it you seem to always be
there when I need you." "Do I know you
from somewhere else?" kojak said. Queen
wasn't sure what to say. "Well I just always
seem to be there at the right time I guess."
She said with a little laugh. "I know Derrin
is being a jerk right now, but there is something
more important going on right now that needs your
attention." "The guild needs you and
your skills to help get throught this."
Kojak looked up at Queen and said, "You are
right, I need to worry more about protecting the
only family I seem to know right now and less
time worrying about something I don't evern
remember." Then kojak asked Queen a very
strange question, "Why do you have that
sword when you can't even use one." Queen
then replies with a surprised look on her face.
"I took it from when Serena and momma
weren't looking. They are afraid of some curse on
it and didn't take it, but from what I heard it
will be needed. I figured if I had it then it
will be there when it is needed. I just hope that
it doens't get into the wrong hands. I have been
trying to practice with it at night when everyone
else is sleeping. But I'm not very good at
it." Kojak laughs and says, "Maybe
that's why you are not a swordsman My'lady, cause
you suck at it." Then they both have a good
laugh at it. Kojak then looks up at her and to
her surprise kisses her. Not sure of what she
should say she says nothing. "For some
reason it seems like I have done that to you
before, you seem so familiar to me, like you
belong with me." kojak tells Queen. Queen
looks away trying not to cry. "Maybe when
this is over me, you and Derrin will have a long
talk, there is something I know about you but
don't think now is the time for it. You are not
ready to deal with it now." "I think I
am ready, but you are right we need to get back
to camp, if you need me to I can hold the sword
for you beens you don't know how to use it
anyway." kojak tells Queen. "Maybe that
is a good idea, I will give it to you when we get
back to camp. You would have better luck with it
then me." Just when they get up to walk back
they hear something. Before queen has a change to
get her bow she is hit with something hard and
then falls to the ground. Kojak is fighting
something but she can't see what it is. She tries
to get up but can't move, then see realizes who
it is, and can't believe it. OMG It
is............................ |
| Queen ofDArkness |
Ladie Scarlet was watching Queen
and Kojak have their little talk and was waiting
for the perfect time to attack. She figured with
Queen and kojaks guard down she should beable to
take them out easily. She had been waiting for
the chance to get to Queen, but with all those
people she never could get close to her. If it
wouldn't have been for Ladi's momma being so kind
to tell her where to find Queen and her friends
she may have been looking forever. She joined up
with the old woman not long ago when she was
asking around for information on Queen and she
happen to find out that she was joined up with
the SOS guild, helping them to fight against
Ladi. When she offered her services to the old
woman in exchange for her giving her more power
to fight Queen with. Ladi Scarlett was an old
neimus of Queens from a few years back when they
crossed paths while she was out looking for
someone. She remeber how much she hated Queen
cause she was trying to help some poor guy out
that Ladi had attacked with her dragon. When
Queen found out that she lured te dragon on him
she got very upset and started to fight her. At
that time Ladi Scarlett wasn't as strong as she
is now and was no match for Queen. She was left
for dead and swore she would live just to get
revenge on her.
This was he change so quickly attacked Queen just
as she was about to grab for her bow. She heard
her say just before she passed out "OMG it's
you". So she knew that she regonized her.
Ladi Scarlet then went for Kojak, and was using
some of her strongest magic on him and he was
weaking and was about to go down then he hit her
hard with his sword. She fell to the ground and
just as kojak was trying to heal himself and
Queen she called for her dragon to come. She then
grabed hold as he took off. She then screamed as
she was leaving, "This is not over yet, I
will get you if it's the last thing I do."
But right before she flew away she cast one last
spell a earth quake hit hard on Queen and Kojak
and she was hoping it was the end for them both
and all of their friends........ |
| Andrew Wisniewski |
Andrew heard the noise of a
dragon not far off. In fact, everyone did. Derrin
peered in the direction of the roar and said,
"That is the direction Kojak went off. We
must hurry."
Andrew and Derrin ran off before anyone else was
ready to go, not thinking about anything but
rescuing Kojak if it were needed.
"Damnit, Andrew! Keep up!" Derrin
yelled behind his shoulder as Andrew, a man in
his very young 20's couldn't keep up with an
older man.
"Last time I moved this fast, I was running
from three lich lords and two drakes, and there
was incentive of beating them!"
"There is a good incentive to getting to
Kojak in time, I won't kill you!" Derrin
yelled as Andrew found a reserve of strength and
pushed past Derrin, just as they came to Kojak,
and mysteriously, Queen of Darkness.
"The Dragon, where did it go?" Derrin
cast his lazer-like gaze around him.
"It left with it's owner." Queen said
from the ground, she wasn't able to get up.
"Crap, what the hell happened to you
two?" Andrew asked them aprehensively.
"An old enemy. She is already gone. I do not
know which direction she went. We are both
injured pretty bad, she hit us with an earthquake
spell that nearly knocked the trees down on
us."
Derrin walked over to Kojak who was laying on the
ground, not saying a thing. "I'll heal him,
you take care of her." He pointed to Queen.
Andrew walked over to Queen and began applying
bandages to her wounds. "I thought you were
a mage?" Derrin looked over his shoulder at
him.
"I have just enough magery to cast greater
hael with a scroll and get myself around with
recall. I am actually a warrior, and I have been
sent here through unknown powers to protect
Serena and Momma Sin against anything and
everything, even my own death my be
neccessary." Andrew stated matter-of-factly,
shook his head, and finished healing Queen.
"Oh, well then." Derrin actually didn't
have something to say, Andrew thought. Maybe he
was returning back to his former self that the
others speak of. "At least they won't be the
ones dying if anyone does." He finished the
conversation with that, and Andrew shrugged his
shoulders and helped Queen off the forest floor.
Derrin did likewise with Kojak. "My dear
friend, I am sorry that I got mad at you earlier.
I don't know what has gotten into me, but I had
no right of saying the things I said. You have no
clue what you did, and I can't hold it against
you." Derrin hugged Kojak and he embranced
his mentor back.
"Enough of this gushy stuff, we left several
heavily armed woman back at the camp, and I don't
think that they'll like us staying away so
long." Andrew said, and the others smiled
and Derrin opened up a gate back to the camp,
where food and a warm fire was waiting.
What's next? Andrew asked himself as he stepped
through the gate, why the hell did I tell them
that? It was none of their business.
Right then time stopped. What in the..."
Andrew looked at the magical portal standing
completely still, not fluctuating at all.
"It is I, Serena's father and Momma Sin's
Husband. I could not get in touch with them like
this, so I acme to you. I spoke to you once
before, and I could get to you again. There is
something grave you must know." He paused to
collect his thoughts. "You have a new enemy,
she is a great mage, and she is after all of you.
Tell everyone in your party that they must never
be alone. Ever. She will prey on small numbers,
as she already did."
"Whats is her name? Why am I part of this?
All I want is to go back to my hunting ways, away
rom all these people. Do you know how long it has
been since I lst spoke to another human being
since the people of S@S? YEARS!!!!!" Andrew
yelled and HE faded away into nothing.
THe portal shimmered back to life and Andrew
shook his head and went through it back to the
camp....... |
| Ladi Serena |
As Derrin and Andrew ran by in a
flash into the woods, Serena and Cer just looked
at each other. They had only heard one dragon...
they weren't needed. Besides, by the time they
caught up to the racing men, it would be too late
to be of any help anyway.
After Serena and Cer had talked for a while, they
finally agreed to ask Ladi if maybe she knew what
was going on with Derrin. Serena beckoned her.
Ladi swayed over to where the ladies were
standing, and cocked her eyebrow in questioning.
"Ladi... Something is very wrong with
Derrin. Do you by chance have any idea?"
"Well, not everything is caused by ancient
spells" she laughed. I think it is exactly
as it appeared. He had to kill Spitfire... he
knew that Spitfire must've betrayed the guild.
From what I gather of Derrin's past, he has had
more than his fair share of being betrayed by his
friends, and it probably triggered some
memories." Ladi said.
That was the first time Serena or Cer had ever
heard ladi speak like a compassionate human
being, and Serena had to consciously close her
jaw that was hanging open.
"So.. do you think that he is upset with me?
I had no idea.. I only knew of his competence in
getting the job done... I hope he understands
that. I would never do anything to cause him pain
on purpose."
" My suggestion would be to ask him
yourself." Ladi smiled, tuked her hair
behind her ear, and sauntered off.
Just then, a gate opened and the men and Queen
returned to camp. Kojak looked a little shaken,
and Queen looked madder than a hornet, but
otherwise... they were all fairly intact.
"Derrin...?" Serena inquired
Derrin looked at her with apologetic eyes.
"yes, m'lady"
"Might we have a word when it is convenient?
I have some things I wish to clear up."
"Aye, I am available now" he replied.
They went off to the outer edge of the woods for
privacy, but staying close by. As they walked
off, Andrew called out to her... "M'lady
when you are finished.... if I may..."
"Of course, Andrew, I won't be long"
Serena looked at Derrin... she wanted to
apologize, but he must realize that regardless of
whatever she may have or may not have done...
that was no excuse to lead an attack like he did,
and NEVER an excuse to speak to his guildmates in
that manner. Her words came out slowly and
carefully.
"Derrin.. I'm sorry about that whole
incident with Spitfire. I had no idea that it
would trigger such violent memories for you. I
was only worried that the job would remain undone
and I knew I could count on you... Please believe
that I would never ever have asked you to do that
if...."
Derrin stopped her in mid sentence...
"ahh M'lady....."
|
| DerrinRPGWRTR |
"ahh M'lady no need to
appologise. I understand we never spoke of my
days as a murderer. You never asked so I never
told. Now I believe you deserve to know the
story." Derrin pointed to a log and they
both sat and relaxed for the long story that had
been too long kept in silence.
"Many years ago before I met you. Even
before the OSI gods found that there was a
trammel facet that was able to be lived in. I was
just begining my journeys. I was walking just
outside of Britain one day and a murderer killed
me. And in my ghost form I Saw him loot
everything I owned and needed for my journey. I
ran into town hoping that someone would ressurect
me and retrieve my belongings or at least help me
do so. I met a group of guys led by a woman
called Marrissa. Blue Lion healed me and we went
to retrtieve my belongings. And yet there was
noone to be found near my body! They replaced my
things and asked me to join thier guild to take
revenge on murderers. I joined and we scoured the
country side looking for murderers and killed all
we came upon. We were spreading justice that the
guards did not want to spread. One day I was
tricked into killing an unarmed man and was
flagged a criminal. My own guild hunted me down
and killed me. Saying I went rogue. Well from
that day forward I watched that guild and awaited
my turn at revenge." Derrin explained.
"Rage swept over me and I killed most of the
guild one on one. The last three I killed as a
group. At that moment in the rage I lost myself.
I joined an informal guild of murderers. I killed
and killed and killed just for the fun of
it." Derrin bowed his head. Tears streaming
down his face. "I actually enjoyed taking
lives. Me and two of my closest friends would
take out whole guilds the size of S@S. Did you
think I got my skills from fighting
Daemons?"
"Sometimes when the mood grabs I must
dismiss myself from other's presence as not to
harm anyone. The rage still gets me. I was not
out here this time to let the rage go but was on
a quest. It is said that a warrior of great
strength that possessed magical abilities and had
no remorse when angered. I fear that is me. The
great evil in the prophesy is supposed to come in
great numbers and take me and form me into some
great killing machine. Starting with my loved
ones I am to kill and kill and kill till no good
is left in the world. The innocence of love,
unconditional love is to heal my heart. And I
hope that comes before I am to kill the one who
is to kill the great evil. Do not get me wrong I
love having you and the others here. But I wish
you would not have come. Cause I fear you are the
one I am to kill to bring this about. Mi'Lady if
my prophesy and yours happen to intertwine you
must promise me something!!!" Derrin looked
to Serena with a very worried look. Somthing
Derrin never does is worry.
"What can I do for you Derrin?" Serena
asked.
"If our quests were meant to intertwine and
I am to kill you. You MUST kill me first! Before
I kill you. I am worth sacrificing to save the
world. Just promise me that......." |
| Kojak the Warrior |
A stranger sat there as Ladi
Scarlett ran off.He knew she wouldn't be enough
to take this Queen and Kojak.He had known Kojak
for a long time,and new it would take more then
this to separate Kojak,or Derrin,away from the
guild."Time to make myself shown" the
stranger stated as Derrin and Andrew ran in.
The stranger followed Ladi Scarlett to where she
was to meet with Adrianna.As Ladi Scarlett
explained to Adrianna what happened,he seen the
anger in her eyes."No need to get upset
Adrianna,or our quests won't be
satisfied."replied the Stranger."WHo
are you"Adrianna asks."and what does my
mission have to do with you.""I know
alot about Kojak,and Derrin,and those are 2 of
the main keys to getting rid of SOS."he
replies,"And with my help,we all might be
able to take them out."
"I am a mage,from the past.Not many people
know this,but Kojak,and Derrin,are brothers.ANd
your nemesis,Ladi Scarlett,Queen,is his wife.But
Kojak don't know this.He lost his memory awhile
back,and Derrin took him in."He watched the
surprise look in the women's eyes."How do
you know this"asked Ladi Scarlett."I am
the reason their father is missing,"he
stated."And I been a family
"Friend" before their father
dissappeared.This is one of the main reasons that
Derrin picked up swordfighting.He was the one who
trained Kojak.The only other thing i can tell
you,is that i've been wanting to get rid of thier
family for a long time,and those are the last two
on my list.If i get rid of them,especially
Derrin,then maybe SOS will fall,and the key to
defeating them,is to try to get Kojak never to
realize who he is,for if he finds out bout his
past,then we may never be able to separate him
from Derrin,or Queen,then our mission will be
lost."
"Well mistress Adrianna,it looks like we got
a new companion" Ladi Scarlett
replies."BUt you never did tell us your
name."Strange words came out of the
stranger's mouth,then he removed his hood and
robe.He had short hair,and a beard and
moustage."You look a little like Derrin and
Kojak" Ladi Scarlett says in shock."i
know this spell,it's a spell where he can take on
any form" replies Adrianna."My real
name is of no use right now,so,you women can call
me Kojak II..........................." |
| Queen ofDArkness |
When queen regained conciousness
she realized that it was ladie Scarlett that had
attacked them. But how she thought for sure she
was dead. She had killed her herself and left her
in the woods to turn to bone. How did she live
and who helped her. But the main question is how
did she find her after all this time and why now.
She knew that they had a difficult journey ahead
of them and now with Kojak wondering about them
and Derrin acting the way he was, the last thing
she needed was to worry about Scarlett. She did
notice how every that she was much more powerful
then she used to be. That has to be from the help
of someone. "Hmmm I wonder if Adrinna has
something to do with this." Queen said to
herself. Kojak was figthing off Scarlett and was
doing good intill she cast earthquake on them. As
she seen Scarlett call her dragon and leave she
then heard Andrew and Derrin coming to help them.
She was much more relieved now and was able to
try to heal herself and Kojak. When the gate was
opened to return to camp she was glad, but knew
that she had to stop Scarlett before she figured
out what was going on and who she was and how she
was tied with Derrin and Kojak. If she would
every find out that she was kojak's wife that
would be all it would take for her to use it
against Queen. Kojak seemed to be queen's only
weakness. She would give her life for him and do
whatever it took to protect him. The more she
thought about Scarlett coming back the more she
knew she had to stop her anyway she could before
anything happened to kojak or her new friends
that she had seem to grow close to, especially
momma. They seem to get along so well, and she
was always accepting of Queen no matter what she
did or said. She couldn't let scarlett destroy
that. She will stop her, but first she had to
find her. Looking around she noticed that kojak
was settling in and that Derrin had left with
Serena. Hmm maybe this was her chance to try to
find some information."Wonder if I can leave
her without anyone noticing." she thought to
her self. She grabed her vanq bow and some bolts
and went to leave. Just then she heard someone
behind her say, "What are you doing and
where are you going this late." She turned
to see kojak watching her and momma not far away.
"Damn" she thought "now
what." ........ |
| Kojak the Warrior |
"I,um, had to go take care
of some private business if you don't mind"
stuttered Queen."Ok," Kojak
replied,"but don't run off too far,with
everything happenin with the guild,and with that
strange woman after you,you need to stay close by
in case something happened.""Ok,"
Queen agreed,hoping Kojak didn't see her
lieing.She watched Mamma turned back to the
campfire,then she handed a bag to Kojak"This
is that sword i was telling you about,i wnat you
to hold it,you might have better use with it then
i would""OK" Kojak says,"and
don't stay away to long,i got some more questions
for you,bout that woman".As Queen walked
away,Kojak headed back towards Derrin.He passed
by Mamma,and seen a worry look on her face,as she
stared off at Queen,"What's wrong
Mamma",asked Kojak,"Oh,
nothing,"she stated,"Just thinking
about everything that has been happening
lately"she replied as she continued to stare
at the edge of the woods where Queen had
dissappeared............. |
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