Not Mine, Just playing
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Stepping down from the warp-gate. Jim began to make his way into town. He was still about 2 hours early for his date with Odana but as he had some free time he fealt that he may as well get some practice in early. From the looks of things quite a few people had logged in , the town was bustling with brightly dressed and heavily armoured people.
As he walked through the streets, a few people waved hello or smiled as he moved past, but most just ignored him. Looking about he quickly spotted the portal which Odana had taken him through the previous night, he quickly began to stride towards it. As he approached, a small sub-screen opened up in his visor, showing a variety of destinations. Unsure of what the different pictures represented, he selected one at random. The small set of images disappeared and the portal before him flashed a different shade of blue. Readying himself Jim leapt through. Before the portal returned to its ordinary colour, another figure followed the black-haired knight.
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Jim found himself in a copse in the middle of a group of huge trees. Far above him there were a series of walkways linking wooden platforms . All of Jim's attention was focused on the scenery around him, so it wasn't surprising, that he didn't notice the black-clad figure following him.
"Uhf!" As the wind was knocked out from him Jim found himself, back against the tree with a grinning figure rushing towards him, a knife aimed at his head. Using one of the moves that Suzuka had taught him earlier that day, he rolled to the side and sprang to his feet his sword held, pointing at his assailent.
"Who the hell are you?" screamed Jim. The attacker straightened up again and looked Jim in the eye. His purple hair hung low in the front, almost covering his eyes, and was tied into a short ponytail which barely brushed his shoulders. On his chest was a black set of studded leather armour and his legs were covered by a pair off black briches.
"Hmm. This could be more interesting than i thought." As the last word left his lips, he charged towards the knight once more. Jim was staggered by the speed he was being assaulted at. Swinging the sword around in a massice arc he smashed the blades aside, deflecting their course. The swing ended with his sword raised above his head. Gripping the sword with both hands, Jim brought the sword down, where his opponent had been, less than a second before.
"I said WHO ARE YOU?" The stranger bowed low, arms swept aside.
"My name is Biliv. I shall be the one killing you today." Leaping into the air Biliv reached into his shirt pulling out a series of throwing knives, letting them fly whilst still in mid-air. Jim threw himself to the side, trying to dodge the incoming cloud of blades. Not quite fast enough one of the blades impaled itself into his thigh and Jim collapsed to the floor. Pushing himself upwards he held his sword before him in a full defensive manuever.
"Why are you doing this? What the hell's the point?" Jim was breathing heavily by this point
"Why not" Biliv said with a smile. "It's fun, I'm the one of the best at this, so why not show it to everyone else" With that he lunged forwards intent on squewing the injured knight. Jim looked up at the charging man, anger showing in his face. He shifted his stance and ducked under both swipes of the blades before swinging his sword low in a powerful slash, aimed at his opponents mid-section. The sword connected leaving a nasty gash, at the bottom of his assailents ribcage. Rolling away, Jim stood again glaring at his opponent a small smirk playing on the knight's face.
"You might be the best," Jim held the sword pointing towards the floor, gripping it in both hands, "and i may be new at this," he bent his knees, getting ready to run forwards, "But i'm not going to just lie down and die." With that Jim began to charge forwards. On the opposite side of the copse, Biliv began to do the same. Remembering his earlier lesson Jim kept his face set it a permanent scowl as he approached his target. At the last second, the Knight leapt into the air, ignoring the simulated pain of the twin knives slicing across his belly. Jim swung the sword in a powerful horizontal slice aimed at Biliv's neck. Across the visor the words "Critical Hit" flashed in red letters.
As Jim landed he turned to look at the body behind him. The corpse was begining to fade away into nothingness, only an amulet with a blue jem, remained. Jim reached into his stash and removed a vial of blue liquid. Raising the bottle to his lips, he allowed some of the substance to trickle down his throat. After a few seconds he fealt his wounds begin to close. Putting away the vial, he reached down to pick up the amulet and raised it to the light. Dropping it into his pocket, he turned and retraced his steps back to the town portal.
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Jim walked back to the cafe where he had met her yesterday and took a seat. There were still a few people dotted about the area, but much less than had been present earlier. He good as collaspsed into the chair in the exact same place as yesterday. After ordering another cup of coffee, Jim sat back and started watching the other players amble around the village, chatting amongst themselves, buying equipment, and trying to convince each other that trading items was a good idea.
His earlier encounter had certainly been a shock to him. He certainly hadn't expected someone to attack him like that. Certainly he'd heard of high level, experienced characters fighting each other for fun in dueling pits on the bigger servers but here? He'd never liked bullies. When he was younger, in the orphonage, before Gene adopted him, Jim had met more than his fair share of bullies. As one of the smarter kids there he was the one most frequently picked on, until one day, a much larger boy tried to push him around just because he could and Jim did the first thing that came to mind...... He kneed the bully in the crotch. Hard. After that, most bullys left him alone. Just thinking about that memory caused, both a smile and a wince to the Knight's face.
"Wong for your thoughts"
Looking up, he saw Odana standing next to him. She had bent over and had moved her head so that it was right in front of the patch of ground, he had been staring at, her face was mere inches from his and was wearing a broad smile.
"Sorry, just reliving past memories" he said smiling back. She took her seat.
"What's brought this on?"
"I met some Jackass, who tried to kill me earlier today, which reminds me." Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out the amulet he had taken from the body earlier. "This is for you." He handed it over to her.
Taking it off him she raised it to the light and began mumbling slightly, when she finished her eyes widened slightly. "Do you know what this is?" She said gesturing to the amulet.
"No, i just thought that, as i got the one yesterday, you should get this one." Jim was unprepared for her reaction, she squealed and threw her arms around him.
"I've been looking for one of these for ages." Letting the Knight go, she placed the amulet around her neck and for a few seconds there was a white glow about her.
"What is it?" Jim said looking at the aura around her.
"Amulet of Holliness" Odana said with a grin "It increases the power of all Holy spells. Easily one of the best cleric items in the game." She looked over at him. "Where did you get this?"
"You remember that guy I told you about? The one who attacked me?" She nodded and gestured him to continue. "Well after i won, this was what was left afterwards."
Odana looked at him, with a concerned look in her eyes "Are you ok?"
"Yeah i'm fine" absentmindedly he rubbed his mid-section where the blades had cut him earlier. I had to use a potion after it and i only won, because I got a lucky hit in at the end of the fight"
"Who was it you fought?"
"Some Jackass called Baliv. Kept going on about how he was the best and so could do, whatever he wanted" Jim leaned back in his chair and, with a smirk on his face said: "He won't be doing that again for a while."
"Sounds like you've had quite a day allready" she said smiling back. "So what would you like to do now?"
"Um... I don't really know" Jim admitted looking a little embarresed.
"In that case, I do have something that I want to show you." With that she walked with him back towards the portal.
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As Jim looked around the new landscape he was shocked. It was like nothing he had ever seen before, in or out of Illusia. It was a meadow with flowers as far as the eye could see. The only part without them, was a small path which weaved amongst the plants, leading up to a small thatched cottage. Jim looked back at Odana.
"What is this place?"
"This is my home" with that Odana began to walk up the path to the small building.
Jim swallowed his surprise and began to jogg up to try and catch up with the cleric. As he slowed his pace to meet hers, she turned to him and smiled.
"I was a member of a party a while ago which completed one of the major quests of the game. As a reward, each of us were given a small part of the world to build a permanent base. This," she said gesturing to the house, "was what i chose to make of my part."
As they walked down the path, Jim found Odana working her hand into his. Turning his head to look at her, he saw her smiling up at him.
"So whattaya think?" She said. Jim tightened his grasp on her hand.
"I think, that this is one of the nicest places I've been to in a long, long time, and its not just the scenery, the company is what makes it all the nicer."
With that they walked up to the door and through, to the cottage.
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Thanks to both Breakaway Republic and A.Amishi . The reviews are really helping and giving me loads f new ideas. I've been told that Hack Sign has recently started in the US. I gotta confess that it was the inspiration behind this fic and that Biliv is kind of a rip of Soura from the series itself. Any way, more to come, thanks for reading,
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Stepping down from the warp-gate. Jim began to make his way into town. He was still about 2 hours early for his date with Odana but as he had some free time he fealt that he may as well get some practice in early. From the looks of things quite a few people had logged in , the town was bustling with brightly dressed and heavily armoured people.
As he walked through the streets, a few people waved hello or smiled as he moved past, but most just ignored him. Looking about he quickly spotted the portal which Odana had taken him through the previous night, he quickly began to stride towards it. As he approached, a small sub-screen opened up in his visor, showing a variety of destinations. Unsure of what the different pictures represented, he selected one at random. The small set of images disappeared and the portal before him flashed a different shade of blue. Readying himself Jim leapt through. Before the portal returned to its ordinary colour, another figure followed the black-haired knight.
**********
Jim found himself in a copse in the middle of a group of huge trees. Far above him there were a series of walkways linking wooden platforms . All of Jim's attention was focused on the scenery around him, so it wasn't surprising, that he didn't notice the black-clad figure following him.
"Uhf!" As the wind was knocked out from him Jim found himself, back against the tree with a grinning figure rushing towards him, a knife aimed at his head. Using one of the moves that Suzuka had taught him earlier that day, he rolled to the side and sprang to his feet his sword held, pointing at his assailent.
"Who the hell are you?" screamed Jim. The attacker straightened up again and looked Jim in the eye. His purple hair hung low in the front, almost covering his eyes, and was tied into a short ponytail which barely brushed his shoulders. On his chest was a black set of studded leather armour and his legs were covered by a pair off black briches.
"Hmm. This could be more interesting than i thought." As the last word left his lips, he charged towards the knight once more. Jim was staggered by the speed he was being assaulted at. Swinging the sword around in a massice arc he smashed the blades aside, deflecting their course. The swing ended with his sword raised above his head. Gripping the sword with both hands, Jim brought the sword down, where his opponent had been, less than a second before.
"I said WHO ARE YOU?" The stranger bowed low, arms swept aside.
"My name is Biliv. I shall be the one killing you today." Leaping into the air Biliv reached into his shirt pulling out a series of throwing knives, letting them fly whilst still in mid-air. Jim threw himself to the side, trying to dodge the incoming cloud of blades. Not quite fast enough one of the blades impaled itself into his thigh and Jim collapsed to the floor. Pushing himself upwards he held his sword before him in a full defensive manuever.
"Why are you doing this? What the hell's the point?" Jim was breathing heavily by this point
"Why not" Biliv said with a smile. "It's fun, I'm the one of the best at this, so why not show it to everyone else" With that he lunged forwards intent on squewing the injured knight. Jim looked up at the charging man, anger showing in his face. He shifted his stance and ducked under both swipes of the blades before swinging his sword low in a powerful slash, aimed at his opponents mid-section. The sword connected leaving a nasty gash, at the bottom of his assailents ribcage. Rolling away, Jim stood again glaring at his opponent a small smirk playing on the knight's face.
"You might be the best," Jim held the sword pointing towards the floor, gripping it in both hands, "and i may be new at this," he bent his knees, getting ready to run forwards, "But i'm not going to just lie down and die." With that Jim began to charge forwards. On the opposite side of the copse, Biliv began to do the same. Remembering his earlier lesson Jim kept his face set it a permanent scowl as he approached his target. At the last second, the Knight leapt into the air, ignoring the simulated pain of the twin knives slicing across his belly. Jim swung the sword in a powerful horizontal slice aimed at Biliv's neck. Across the visor the words "Critical Hit" flashed in red letters.
As Jim landed he turned to look at the body behind him. The corpse was begining to fade away into nothingness, only an amulet with a blue jem, remained. Jim reached into his stash and removed a vial of blue liquid. Raising the bottle to his lips, he allowed some of the substance to trickle down his throat. After a few seconds he fealt his wounds begin to close. Putting away the vial, he reached down to pick up the amulet and raised it to the light. Dropping it into his pocket, he turned and retraced his steps back to the town portal.
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Jim walked back to the cafe where he had met her yesterday and took a seat. There were still a few people dotted about the area, but much less than had been present earlier. He good as collaspsed into the chair in the exact same place as yesterday. After ordering another cup of coffee, Jim sat back and started watching the other players amble around the village, chatting amongst themselves, buying equipment, and trying to convince each other that trading items was a good idea.
His earlier encounter had certainly been a shock to him. He certainly hadn't expected someone to attack him like that. Certainly he'd heard of high level, experienced characters fighting each other for fun in dueling pits on the bigger servers but here? He'd never liked bullies. When he was younger, in the orphonage, before Gene adopted him, Jim had met more than his fair share of bullies. As one of the smarter kids there he was the one most frequently picked on, until one day, a much larger boy tried to push him around just because he could and Jim did the first thing that came to mind...... He kneed the bully in the crotch. Hard. After that, most bullys left him alone. Just thinking about that memory caused, both a smile and a wince to the Knight's face.
"Wong for your thoughts"
Looking up, he saw Odana standing next to him. She had bent over and had moved her head so that it was right in front of the patch of ground, he had been staring at, her face was mere inches from his and was wearing a broad smile.
"Sorry, just reliving past memories" he said smiling back. She took her seat.
"What's brought this on?"
"I met some Jackass, who tried to kill me earlier today, which reminds me." Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out the amulet he had taken from the body earlier. "This is for you." He handed it over to her.
Taking it off him she raised it to the light and began mumbling slightly, when she finished her eyes widened slightly. "Do you know what this is?" She said gesturing to the amulet.
"No, i just thought that, as i got the one yesterday, you should get this one." Jim was unprepared for her reaction, she squealed and threw her arms around him.
"I've been looking for one of these for ages." Letting the Knight go, she placed the amulet around her neck and for a few seconds there was a white glow about her.
"What is it?" Jim said looking at the aura around her.
"Amulet of Holliness" Odana said with a grin "It increases the power of all Holy spells. Easily one of the best cleric items in the game." She looked over at him. "Where did you get this?"
"You remember that guy I told you about? The one who attacked me?" She nodded and gestured him to continue. "Well after i won, this was what was left afterwards."
Odana looked at him, with a concerned look in her eyes "Are you ok?"
"Yeah i'm fine" absentmindedly he rubbed his mid-section where the blades had cut him earlier. I had to use a potion after it and i only won, because I got a lucky hit in at the end of the fight"
"Who was it you fought?"
"Some Jackass called Baliv. Kept going on about how he was the best and so could do, whatever he wanted" Jim leaned back in his chair and, with a smirk on his face said: "He won't be doing that again for a while."
"Sounds like you've had quite a day allready" she said smiling back. "So what would you like to do now?"
"Um... I don't really know" Jim admitted looking a little embarresed.
"In that case, I do have something that I want to show you." With that she walked with him back towards the portal.
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As Jim looked around the new landscape he was shocked. It was like nothing he had ever seen before, in or out of Illusia. It was a meadow with flowers as far as the eye could see. The only part without them, was a small path which weaved amongst the plants, leading up to a small thatched cottage. Jim looked back at Odana.
"What is this place?"
"This is my home" with that Odana began to walk up the path to the small building.
Jim swallowed his surprise and began to jogg up to try and catch up with the cleric. As he slowed his pace to meet hers, she turned to him and smiled.
"I was a member of a party a while ago which completed one of the major quests of the game. As a reward, each of us were given a small part of the world to build a permanent base. This," she said gesturing to the house, "was what i chose to make of my part."
As they walked down the path, Jim found Odana working her hand into his. Turning his head to look at her, he saw her smiling up at him.
"So whattaya think?" She said. Jim tightened his grasp on her hand.
"I think, that this is one of the nicest places I've been to in a long, long time, and its not just the scenery, the company is what makes it all the nicer."
With that they walked up to the door and through, to the cottage.
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Thanks to both Breakaway Republic and A.Amishi . The reviews are really helping and giving me loads f new ideas. I've been told that Hack Sign has recently started in the US. I gotta confess that it was the inspiration behind this fic and that Biliv is kind of a rip of Soura from the series itself. Any way, more to come, thanks for reading,
