The Winds of Change Ch11

From: "Delith"
Date: Thu Feb 13, 2003 10:39 am
Subject: Admin-sama posts

The wall of water was at my back, and I slashed and flailed wih my sword, trying to clear an area around myself. I felt awkward, uncertain in this world that was, it seemed, without magic. I could feel magic energy only in the Millenials, or others from that era. I knew where Yami was, and I could sense Kai, as well as another form, but it was to hard to tell who it was.

The creatures around me backed away, and I turned, to see the leering face of a freakish creature, one I had fought in Deus' lair, and one that had nearly killed me. Had it not been for Yami, Fieren and Kai, it I would have died.

"Sindrial..." I whispered, my stomach feeling cold and empty. The creature struck me in the chest, and I flew backwards. I flipped over, and landed on my feet, sword held out behind me, reversed. I began to pour my essence into it, charging it.

Sindrial approached me, ready to tear me apart.

A burst of steel bees slammed into it's chest, spraying blood away from it's grotesque body. I threw a glance up at a nearby rooftop, and saw it lined with police, each one holding what Carl called an automatic rifle. Sindrial roared with rage and pain, and leapt forward, but the police had done what was needed.

They had let me finish charging my attack.

I leapt into the air, high over the police, nearly to the top of Yami's wall of water. I brought my sword forward, bringing it upright, and dropped, sword over my head.

Sindrial split in two, and I bounced off the ground, into the air, and sped after Yami...

- From: "shiningsun_820"
Date: Thu Feb 13, 2003 11:10 am
Subject: Some Fecked up shite

I slashed the little bastards from saround me but they wouldn't stop comeing forward, and to make things worse,i was breaking a sweat......

"Little fuckers stop poking me."

Little rattacats were nibbling at my feet so i crushed there heads with my heel. just then i noticed a large beast of abnormal proportions chargeing towards me. I didn't know just what it was or why i should fear something whose right arm was bigger than his left and hobbled.

But i should of ran.....

"Smack." Before i knew it it was at me and i got slammed through a post right beside me and into some parked car.

Lucky for me it had an alarm and the ratacats were scared of it, so they ran leaving only me and this beast.

Then i noticecd why it was so fast, it could change the proportions of it's limbs at will.

I attacked it at top speed and slashed at it's arm, but it shrunk it's arm and i missed.

"crack" over my head with the pole i broke.

I was getting my ass kicked, badly.

And then before i knew it i saw the beast get slashed in half and behind it was a man with long golden hair and a white cape with a really strong looking sword.

He flew towards me, yes,FLEW and grabbed the back of my shirt and carried me off.

"Who the fuck are you"

But he just ignored me and sped off.

I felt like i knew him from somewhere and i kept getting a strange aura from him almost magical.

But then again there was all this shit happening so i wouldn't be suprised.

From "Chys Lattes"

I think it's alive...I am not sure... (Marick/Yami Pov)

"She's nearby, Meriko." Yami said. I/Marick, didn't like this at all. Yuri had been in the other direction, not this way! It wasn't right! This woman could probably take care of herself, yet Yami was so determined to meet up with her that he would chance sacrificing my best friend just to go to this bitch that probably died some millenia ago.

I tried to get control again, but found that if Yami really wanted something, he was going to get it. I wasn't as strong as he was in that respect.

He landed on the roof of a fast food restaurant that was surrounded by a wall of mist on all sides but the top. There was some sort of winged creature fluttering around below, shrieking and chasing after the humans on the ground who could not run away fast enough to avoid their assaults. The creatures looked like women, with breasts and all, but they had wings instead of arms. They reminded me/Marick of some kind of mideval drawing of a harpy or something like that. They seemed to love just circling the small crowd of bystanders below and shooting humongous balls of flames in front of those who tried to escape. When the fireballs impacted with the earth, it shook the building to it's foundation. From the looks of it, it would probably hurt like hell to be hit by one of them, provided you lived through it, but something told me that Lucien, Yami, and anyone else with such amazing powers would probably make it out with only a burn or two to show for it... It seemed that Deus was dishing out some meaner monsters and letting his real power start to show.

They didn't even care that as they tossed their powerful fires out at the people, they often times took out a small pack of Rattacats, or Cattarats, whichever was taunting the people on the ground at the time. (And yes, there did seem to be a difference between the strange creatures. Marick recalled that the Rattacat was the thing he had seen first, with the dismmbered foot, and the Cattarats had the spines, most often, and went after the millennials more often.)

"She's inside..." Yami was muttering, as he flew down and broke a window to gain entrance to the building without getting caught up in the flames that were shooting by. Inside, the building was on fire. The counters were burning and there were people huddling in the corner where the fire alarm had set off the sprinklers. "Go out the window, but watch out!" Yami yelled at them. They hesitated then ran for it when the fires seemed to die down outside. The harpyladies seemed to have found someone else to bug now. Yami began to head for the back of the building, where he still sensed the woman he was so desperate to meet up with. Apparantly, she was in the rest room. Figures. Girls always spend all of their time there, so why not girls from the ancient past too?

Anyways, he busted the door down to see a woman with a very dark blue type of body armor, holding a sword, pinned down beneath a very ugly looking snake type creature. It was another Naga. Yami flexed his wings and stepped into the room, making sure that they didn't get caught on the narrow door frame. "Let. Her. Go." He ordered. The Naga looked up and hissed at Yami. I/Marick recognized the woman now that I had a good view of her. It was the woman from the dreams I had been having, but now she had a terribly ugly scar on her face, from that incident in the rain, long ago. Jena. It happened when Jena had been killed.

The Naga grabbed Meriko around her neck and wrenched the sword from her hand, tossing it to the ground. Yami had his Shiroi out, ready to use it against him.

"You again." The Naga hissed at him. Again? I/Marick thought. Had they met before?

"It's been a while, no?" He hissed. Meriko tried to get free and he wrapped his tail around her legs.

"Die you bastard." Yami encased the creature in a block of Ice and then proceeded to free Meriko, who fell into his arms, tired. "Now I can..." She smiled and touched Yami's arm, then suddenly the lights in the room began to flicker and a bolt of lightning shot up from the floor and fried the sucker. The floor was covered in water and ashes. Her lightning didn't even touch us, I/Marick thought.

"Now, for Yuri!" I managed to say. The woman looked at my/Marick's face in confusion, then said something inaudible before passing out. Yami smiled and carried her into the next room, which had grown quiet, as the monsters had all ran after one who had followed us here. "Marick, I think you have little to worry about."

"What do you mean?" It must have looked odd, well, providing anyone could see me talking to myself like that.

"Yuri's in safe hands. You're holding her right now." Yami informed me, his voice loud over the sprinklers. The smoke and heat in the room didn't seem to bother him at all. I/Marick would have been choking.

"What??"

"Just like you are my body in this world, she is Meriko's as well. You see, we didn't live throughout the millenia, we were 'reborn' in you."

'Oh, that's just nice...I got a ghost in my head...' I/Marick thought.

'I heard that, Marick.' Yami started to laugh as he walked out of the building, presumably towards a safe place to hide Yuri.

From: Delith Nightblade
Date: Thu Feb 13, 2003 6:34 pm
Subject: Re: [Wind_of_Change] In the fires... (Marick/Yami Pov)

I held Domoen by one arm as I sped through the air, moving and seeking Yami's mind. i found it, and Meriko's as well. I set Domoen down on a rooftop, and turned to find some Harpies blocking my escape path. I smiled slightly, and drew Excalibur, which I had sheathed after hacking the Membermorph into two. "Stay here domoen." I said, my voice rich and melodious. I loved the sound of it after a millenia.

"Like hell I'm just going to stay here bub!"

I spun, and kicked him in the chest, knocking him head over heels. I pointed Excalibur at him. "Stay."

I spun, and attacked the Harpies. They fired huge fireballs at me, but Yami, Kai, Fieren, and I had long ago learned how to counter it. I simply spun my sword in tight circles, and slammed them aside. I hit the side of one building, actually shaking the whole structure, then bounded off, Excalibur flashing. I dropped four of the five harpies, and turned to face the last one. It scowled, and fled. I cast a minor healing spell on Domoen, him being a human, he would need it, then picked him up, and leapt to the ground, landing by Yami. He gently held Meriko in his arms.

"Yami. How is she?"

"Tired. We ran into Naga again."

I frowned, then said, "I think I'm starting to figure Deus out here. he can send anything we've fought beore at us, again and again, because he can take them from whenever they died."

Yami nodded. "You're probably right."

-Sorry to interuppt, but a street in the middle of the mist isn't really a good place to talk about this.- Carl said.

"Carl just brought up a good point. We should get the youngsters out of here, then start cleaning up."

"Youngsters?" Domoen exclaimed.

"We're about several thousand years older than you boy." Yami said acidly.

Domoen scowled.

From: "Fieren Lochan"
Date: Fri Feb 14, 2003 9:58 am
Subject: Continuing to Summon

Deep underground, in an abandoned subway station, we stood chanting the summoning for the next wave of creatures, but our power reserves were dwindling away. It wouldn't be long until we needed to find a replacement, which would be easy enough. We stopped chanting and the pentagram on the floor disappeared. More creatures had come forth, and I knew Yami wouldn't like the dozen Naga's we summoned especially for him. We pushed our hood back onto our shoulders and ran back into the streets, none of the Millenials were in the area so we had free run of the place, it was time to find a place to rest until our reserves had built back up. We drew the hood back over our head and ran into the system of alley-ways that we had discovered were very common in Zanarkand. Left. Right. Right. Left. It was never ending, and before long, we wondered where it would end. So we stopped running, and leapt into the air. Dragonwing wasn't far from here. We could recruit some followers there.

When we arrived on campus, we were surprised to see that there were no monsters here. They must be following Kai. The Master had told us that he had given Kai some recent orders, and informed him of the plan, never once saying our name. We liked it that way. Then we saw Vash's simpleton brother, Knives. He had some friends with him, excellent, with their combined power, we could control them and make them summon for days on end! It didn't matter to us whether or not they died (don't worry shadow, Knives isn't going to die). We stopped and began the laborius task of taking over several minds at once. It was extremely difficult, and we didn't think that this current body was capable of it, so Fieren took control.

Taking over all of those minds was easy. Now to take them to that abandoned station where I of course, would not be. With my powers, I could control these fools from miles away. I sent them in the direction of the station, while I went back to Bakura's dorm room. The first mind that would summon, would be one called Michael, then Chad, then Brad, then John, then Knives. In that order, no sense making them all summon at once, that might even weaken my hold on them. So far, this plan was working like a charm, the Millenials can't hold out much longer, I can feel their power slowly draining away. Then, they will die, and nobody will stand in the way of Deus...

- From: "shiningsun_820"
Date: Fri Feb 14, 2003 9:59 am
Subject: Time to rock

I was grabbed by the man known as yami this time and yanked back into the air.

"Who are you guys?"

"We are Millenials." Answered Yami.

"Those things Carl and Marick were looking into?"

"Yes and you should probably know we they are reborn forms of us."

"I don't think i understand."

Just then Yami gave Marick voice control and i understood what he ment by they are reborn forms.

"So what will happen to Carl and Marick now that you are free?"

"I don't know, they seem to be pusshed back in our minds right now, able to see and feel what's happening but not control anuthing."

"Ooooohhhhhhhhhh."

We flew on for a while then finally landed just beside Tech star university and i was put down.

"Tell me Domoen Kashu, what has happened to the magic of the planet."

"What do you mean magic? i've never seen magic until now."

"Hmmm something must have happened to it before your time then, although it makes it easier to sense each others magic it will prove easier for the enemie to find us as well Lucien."

"Yes i agree Yami we need to think of a strategy as well as find the others."

Yami and Lucien just sat there, with a strange look as if they were feeling for something in the city.

"Over that way, about 4 miles south by south west, there is a great magical essence, it may be one of our own." exclaimed Lucien.

"I sense it to, let us go but be cautious you never know what else may strike us when we are least expecting."

So again i was grabbed by Lucien (What are they taking turns or something) and i was pulled back into the air, we flew by people running in terror, and police trying futily to kill the monsters.

" Something approaches." Yelled Yami.

Quickly acting Lucien threw me towards the roof of a nearby building as he motioned to Yami. He snapped his fingers and a patch of gel like water stopped my fall.

Just then it looked like maybe 20 or 30 Harpy things came flying towards them. They dissapeared from my sight and before i knew it 15 died then 20 then the rest.

"Damn what are you guys on speed or something?"

"Speed? what is that?" Asked Lucien.

"It's a....... o well nevermind."

"Hmmmmm speed, it sounds like a form of magic."

"Ya the same kind as magic mushrooms."

Just then it looked like he was thinking to himself, i guessed Carl was explaining to him. Then he finally got the joke and found it rather amusing.

"I like you boy perhaps you can be of use to us."

I was grabbed yet again and we again sped off towards wherever we were going.

From "Chys Lattes"

Meriko Awoke (Yuri POV)

Yami was standing there just watching Lucien talking to Domoen. They didn't seem to notice that I had woken up. I stood too, stretching my arms and legs, and wondering just what the hell happened. Meriko was quiet, letting me walk around as her. Strange, that it felt so heavy, the armor she wore, and the scar on her face seemed familiar but far away. I had seen it in a mirror before and known what it was from. Bad memories. I didn't want to think of them. She seemed to be a bit confused, sensing something far off that the others were neglecting to realize was approaching from deep in the ground.

"Yami..." Meriko said. "I think there's a Naga on it's way... no... make that more than one..." Yami looked up and raised his right eyebrow. he twitched his wings then reached for his sword. Stupidly, Meriko reached for hers, but forgot that it had been dropped in the restaurant's bathroom after the incident with the male Naga. Wonderful.

Domoen was looking around and not seeing anything. Lucien was quietly staring at the ground below, seeming to sense the same thing that Meriko and now Yami were keen to...

From: "shiningsun_820"
Date: Sun Feb 16, 2003 7:50 pm
Subject: 10,000 Strong

I stood there looking around at my strange yet powerful companions who were staring off into the north, awaiting something. Then i noticed something that filled me with dread. There was a vast army of those naga creatures pouring towards us. We could see them emerging from the mist in vast quantities.

"There must be hundred's of them." i yelled.

"Actually there are 9839 so far." Yami exclaimed unserprised. "As well as 20 females."

(OOC: Chys had to edit, sorry, for post continuity...)

"Your not afraid of that in the least?"

"Of course we are but we learned long ago that theres no point in being afraid of death, we all end up there anyway."

"Hey Domo, can i ask you a favor." Yami asked.

"Whats up?"

"Watch Meriko for me when they get here."

"..........sure."

The Naga's came closer and eventually reached the building we were on. They began to shake the building in unison, so much it almost knocked it down.

Lucien took the light from the neighbouring buildings and formed it into a ring around the building and used it to push the Nagas away.

Meanwhile Yami was Creating huge ice chunks to smash the nagas with.

The Nagas flew back about 30 feet from the blast while huge ice chunks were pelting them.

Meriko moved forward and began to summon lightning from the sky, she zapped about 100 of them before she passed out from the pain.

I took Meriko and layed her in my Cloak on the ground and pulled out my handguns.

I went to the edge of the building and shot down at the Nagas and i took down about 30 of them with shot's to the head.

Light energy water and slashes and explosive sounds filled the night air with a power id never seen in my life.

We realised it would do no good to continue fighting them as more were emerging from the mist.

They eventually overwhelmed us and they got hold of the building.

Yami and Lucien barely managed to grab hold of Meriko and me before the building crumbled to the ground.

"You have just witnessed the power Deus can command, he could fill this city with Much more devastating creatures than that if he felt the like it, the question is, when will he." Lucien Said to me and Yami.

"He's Toying with us Lucien." Yami said.

"I have a question you guys." I asked.

"What is it?"

"How does Deus get all this mist here in the first place?"

"Thats a good question, he must have either an Avatar of some sort or a willing being to dispense it, but who."

"We must find the source quick Lucien or we will soon find ourselves with horrors the both of us cannot defeat alone.

From: Delith Nightblade
Date: Mon Feb 17, 2003 10:06 am
Subject: Zanarkand subways...

ooc: Heh, 10,000 nagas, male or female, would still be more than we could handle.

ic: We flew away from the shrieking hordes of Naga's, and they never saw us go. Yami and I were locked onto the magical energy, and we went there. We arrived over it, and saw nothing. I turned to face Yami, who held Domoen, while I held Meriko. "Domoen, I want you to get out of here. Find a secure place, and hide. I doubt Deus wants you. It's us he's after." My tone left no room for argument, and I continued, "Take Meriko with you. She'll only be in more danger if she goes with us."

He nodded, and we landed. I handed Meriko to him, and he sprinted off down the streets.

"are you sure about this Lucien?" Yami asked me. "Yeah, I'm sure. We just have to be careful, that's all."

Yami looked around. "The magic is right here Lucien. But I don't see anything."

I smiled slightly, then slammed my fist into the ground, relieing on my inherited strength to put my fist through the ground.

It did.

I could feel the light down there, and I gathered it into my hand, creating a platform with it. I told Yami to stand back, and I wrenched my arm backwards. The chunk of street ripped away, leaving a jagged hole. Yami raised both hands, and a massive water cyclone appeared, surrounding us, keeping the monsters away. We leapt into the hole, and I saw a symbol on the floor. It was a box in a circle, with a smaller circle farther in. Four long golden, the whole thing was golden, spokes extened in the four directions, one to each corner of the box, where the box touched the circle.

It was called a Grace, and I knew two people capable of creating one.

Deus Soulreaver, and Fieren Lochan. I doubted any of the others knew, because Fieren had told me before I had met up with any of the others.

A man stood shaking at the center of the circle, panting, exhausted with the effort of summoning so much. I didn't know him, but he had a glazed look in his eyes, one that said he as unaware of our presence. Several others were in the room, but they were already dead. I gathered a small ball of light, and fired it at the man.

It took him square in the chest, and sent him out of the Grace, which soon vanished.

Then, from behind us, I heard a ghostly, metallic chittering sound. I slowly turned, and saw a black-robed creature, flanked by several large, brutish creatures. These things looked like Trolls, but weren't as hairy, nor as smart. They were called Dawn-men, and the thing in the black robes was a Seeker, a bug-like creature that Deus had created from a fly, and one of my best friends, Kiran Selvin.

With a wave of it's amr, it sent the Dawn-men towards us, and Yami and I stepped apart, giving each other room to work.

I drew Xecalibur, and Yami drew the Shiroi sword. We stood our ground, and attacked. The trick to fighting the Dawn-men, as we had learned, was not to hack them to bits, but to thrust low into their bellies, where their hearts were located. The Dawn-men fell quickly, and then the Seeker, ripped away the robe covering it. It's body was segmented, and slimy. It had two bulging black eyes, and a gaping mouth, filled with needle-point spikes.

This creature, was much harder to kill...

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