Bloody Dawn: Chapter 7: Crouching Kain, Hidden Motive|
Kain raised his arms and began the Unbinding Spell. His mystical words resonated ominously around the Sanctuary of the Clans, and his claws glowed with a blue light. The very air around them seemed to warp with the massive amounts of magical energy. The past Kain appeared from behind the Pillar of Balance as his six sons were brought back into unlife with a loud *bamf*. Future Kain and Raziel hastily escaped to a different age- Nosgoth's past, after the death of the Sarafan Brothers and before Kain's resurrection as a vampire.
They were in the town of Steinchencroe, a town a ways south of Nupraptor's Retreat. Raziel turned to Kain and asked him, "So. what now?"
"Well, for the sake of story continuation, even at the expense of a plausible plot line, I'm going to go seek out the martial artist Genkai, master of the Spirit Wave technique. (reference to the Yu-Yu Hakusho show) Wanna come?"
"No thanks. you know, I never had a puppy as a fledgling."
"So? What does that have to do with anything?" Raziel straightened up and gave Kain a nod. "I'm gonna get myself a puppy." Kain shook his head and waved Raziel off. The Wraith Vampire began to depart into the city, looking around for a puppy for himself. The Vampire Lord Kain, however, bounded off into the city towards the forest in search of the mystic Genkai.
|Kain's Story|
I left Raziel with but a single thought in my head: "A puppy? What the hell?" With a single supernatural leap, I managed to land on a rooftop in Steinchencroe. All of a sudden, I heard in my head, Raziel's voice saying, 'There I was, looking for a puppy to call my own in the streets of Nosgoth.' I used my vampiric Whisper gift and spoke into Raziel's mind: "Didn't I tell you to cut out the goddamned voice-overs?! Now you stay off voice-overs or else I'll get over there and beat you into the dirt so hard your defiled, Sarafan corpse will feel it!" I shook my head once more and leapt from rooftop to rooftop. Suddenly, four black-suited Sarafan warriors, each armed with a katana, leapt up from the streets. I whipped out my Iron Sword and shouted a menacing "Vae victus!" to them; they responded merely with karate shouts.
I leapt at them and swung my blade. Metal met metal as the first human brought his sword up to block. I deflected a side attack with my bare claw and performed a split-kick to the warrior. He dropped the katana and fell off the building. Falling out of blade-lock with the first, I parried an attack from a Sarafan on my right and cleaved him in two with my sword. Entrails and gore drenched the roof and myself as I grimaced at the next victim. I grabbed him by the throat, blocking attacks from the first Sarafan as I strangled my captive. I flung him off the roof as well and pointed a single, bloodied claw at the final warrior. Blade clashed against blade, casting sparks across the roof; at last, the fatal moment- he thrusted, and I responded with a riposte, my blade slicing cleanly through his mortal flesh.
As the warrior slumped to the floor, I said to him simply, "You're lucky. I could've done worse." As his life ebbed away, I drained the two corpses of their precious blood; how I loved the taste of that crimson liquid- warm, salty, with a hint of iron taste, bitter and hard to get used to at first, but quite palatable after a while. But enough of that. I continued across the rooftops, when all of a sudden, more Sarafan burst from the streets. "I don't have time to deal with you guys." I snarl, and jump off the side of the building, landing on the side. I started running walls through Steinchencroe, with Sarafan warriors in close tow. Just as they are about to catch me, I leap off, over the city wall, and into the woods. I turn to see the warriors look at each other once, then leap after me.
I fired an energy bolt at the nearest one, but he used his sword to deflect it. The deadly burst struck a tree, and the clearing burst into flame. Now, being a demi-god, I am immune to such trivial things as fire. These humans, unfortunately- are not. Proving said point, I grabbed the human who deflected my attack by the throat and hurled him head-first into the roaring inferno. He screamed in agony as fire engulfed him, a conflagration of death enveloping his body. He collapsed on the ground, his smoldering body still. smoldering. With lightning speed, I leapt into my enemies, hacking and slashing with such swiftness that I could not be seen. As soon as I sheathed my sword, my foes collapsed, battered and wounded, upon the ground.
I charged forth, past the searing heat, heading towards a hidden cave not far from here. There, I would find Genkai.
:::Well, that's it! Kain's gonna find the martial artist Genkai and learn her technique; Raziel's looking for a puppy. What happens next, you ask? Sit tight and find out! More info on Genkai and Yu-Yu Hakusho: :::
Kain raised his arms and began the Unbinding Spell. His mystical words resonated ominously around the Sanctuary of the Clans, and his claws glowed with a blue light. The very air around them seemed to warp with the massive amounts of magical energy. The past Kain appeared from behind the Pillar of Balance as his six sons were brought back into unlife with a loud *bamf*. Future Kain and Raziel hastily escaped to a different age- Nosgoth's past, after the death of the Sarafan Brothers and before Kain's resurrection as a vampire.
They were in the town of Steinchencroe, a town a ways south of Nupraptor's Retreat. Raziel turned to Kain and asked him, "So. what now?"
"Well, for the sake of story continuation, even at the expense of a plausible plot line, I'm going to go seek out the martial artist Genkai, master of the Spirit Wave technique. (reference to the Yu-Yu Hakusho show) Wanna come?"
"No thanks. you know, I never had a puppy as a fledgling."
"So? What does that have to do with anything?" Raziel straightened up and gave Kain a nod. "I'm gonna get myself a puppy." Kain shook his head and waved Raziel off. The Wraith Vampire began to depart into the city, looking around for a puppy for himself. The Vampire Lord Kain, however, bounded off into the city towards the forest in search of the mystic Genkai.
|Kain's Story|
I left Raziel with but a single thought in my head: "A puppy? What the hell?" With a single supernatural leap, I managed to land on a rooftop in Steinchencroe. All of a sudden, I heard in my head, Raziel's voice saying, 'There I was, looking for a puppy to call my own in the streets of Nosgoth.' I used my vampiric Whisper gift and spoke into Raziel's mind: "Didn't I tell you to cut out the goddamned voice-overs?! Now you stay off voice-overs or else I'll get over there and beat you into the dirt so hard your defiled, Sarafan corpse will feel it!" I shook my head once more and leapt from rooftop to rooftop. Suddenly, four black-suited Sarafan warriors, each armed with a katana, leapt up from the streets. I whipped out my Iron Sword and shouted a menacing "Vae victus!" to them; they responded merely with karate shouts.
I leapt at them and swung my blade. Metal met metal as the first human brought his sword up to block. I deflected a side attack with my bare claw and performed a split-kick to the warrior. He dropped the katana and fell off the building. Falling out of blade-lock with the first, I parried an attack from a Sarafan on my right and cleaved him in two with my sword. Entrails and gore drenched the roof and myself as I grimaced at the next victim. I grabbed him by the throat, blocking attacks from the first Sarafan as I strangled my captive. I flung him off the roof as well and pointed a single, bloodied claw at the final warrior. Blade clashed against blade, casting sparks across the roof; at last, the fatal moment- he thrusted, and I responded with a riposte, my blade slicing cleanly through his mortal flesh.
As the warrior slumped to the floor, I said to him simply, "You're lucky. I could've done worse." As his life ebbed away, I drained the two corpses of their precious blood; how I loved the taste of that crimson liquid- warm, salty, with a hint of iron taste, bitter and hard to get used to at first, but quite palatable after a while. But enough of that. I continued across the rooftops, when all of a sudden, more Sarafan burst from the streets. "I don't have time to deal with you guys." I snarl, and jump off the side of the building, landing on the side. I started running walls through Steinchencroe, with Sarafan warriors in close tow. Just as they are about to catch me, I leap off, over the city wall, and into the woods. I turn to see the warriors look at each other once, then leap after me.
I fired an energy bolt at the nearest one, but he used his sword to deflect it. The deadly burst struck a tree, and the clearing burst into flame. Now, being a demi-god, I am immune to such trivial things as fire. These humans, unfortunately- are not. Proving said point, I grabbed the human who deflected my attack by the throat and hurled him head-first into the roaring inferno. He screamed in agony as fire engulfed him, a conflagration of death enveloping his body. He collapsed on the ground, his smoldering body still. smoldering. With lightning speed, I leapt into my enemies, hacking and slashing with such swiftness that I could not be seen. As soon as I sheathed my sword, my foes collapsed, battered and wounded, upon the ground.
I charged forth, past the searing heat, heading towards a hidden cave not far from here. There, I would find Genkai.
:::Well, that's it! Kain's gonna find the martial artist Genkai and learn her technique; Raziel's looking for a puppy. What happens next, you ask? Sit tight and find out! More info on Genkai and Yu-Yu Hakusho: :::