RP #1 - Jawni. Posted 2-5-06

Forced to draw his weapon and engage battle, drawn forth and towards the heart of the fight, Aros Narnes held onto his trusty weapon, Nalrahk, and fought his way around the Village of New Mizuho. From out of nowhere he had heard a scream and after that a shout that told that aliens had invaded the village only one thing in mind, destruction. Houses were set on fire, blood was spilled across the village square, and men were screaming both of pain and fear. Aros felt necessary to aid the people for some odd reason he found no answer for nor did he think about it at the moment.

Aros rushed through the village square and saw two of these aliens circling a helpless soldier. With haste, Aros lunged towards the aliens and thrust his weapon into the back head of the other alien, breaking its neck with a single well-aimed blow. Surprised of this, the other alien turned his raging eyes at Aros hoping for more blood to be spilled. It crouched and jumped towards Aros its claw ready to slash its foes head off. Aros parried the blow easily with his staff and using the momentum he spun around and landed a blow into the back of the alien throwing it to the ground. Before it knew what hit him, Aros sprung into air, held his staff up high and thrust its other end deep into the alien's spine, paralysing it on the spot. Aros stood up and nodded towards the soldier signalling him to take his weapon and resume his duty.

The blood made Aros sick. The purple colour and the smell of it almost made Aros vomit. Bodies were lying everywhere; human, alien, feline, limbs cut off, covered in different tones and colours of blood. Aros pushed the thought aside and tried to focus. Three more aliens were closing on him. Aros gazed at them and took few steps back and held his staff towards the aliens. The begun circling around Aros, determined to attack him from three sides leaving no room to escape. Aros closed his eyes and started mumbling ancient elven words. The aliens were ready to attack and lunged towards Aros. A split second later, the aliens were left stunned to their tracks. Their pray they saw right before their eyes vanished without a trace. Aros had vanished. The aliens looked at each other questioning one another what had happened. Out of nowhere, a strike threw one of the aliens on the ground. Shocked by this, the others gazed around trying to see where the strike came from. Another one, sending another alien onto its knees holding its breath came from out of nowhere. Determined, the third alien begun slashing around fiercely, hoping to land a blow to this ghost that it thought it was, but in vein. A heavy blow sent it flying on the ground, cursing this thing that attacked it. The others were back to their feet and joined their companions side and quickly formed a plan. They stood right next to each other and started charging a spell. Few seconds later, dozens of bright yellow lightings struck the ground crushing everything in their path and forming a small cloud of dust over the area. As the dust cleared, they saw a man on his knees holding his side, which oozed blood. Quickly, they charged towards the man only to hear one single word before forever closing their eyes.

"Tornado!"

Aros collapsed on the ground of the feat. His invisibility spell had drained almost all of his mana and the tornado spell drained the rest of it, leaving Aros completely helpless. He tried to heal himself, but he was too weak. After taking few deep breaths, he saw from the corner of his eye, three more aliens were closing on him. With his last strength he tried to stand up and face his end standing proud, but hopelessly collapsed on the ground face first. He could feel the aliens breath in his neck waiting them to end his misery with a single blow. He saw his short life flash by his eyes only to regret the things he had done now hoping he'd die swiftly. One of the aliens shrieked as it raised its claw ready to end Aros' misery, but then lowered its claw down as it saw a small glowing figure some yards away from it. Before realizing what was going on it was already too late.

"Air Blade!"

A Razor sharp gust of wind travelled at high speed straight towards the aliens shredding them into pieces and missing Aros by a hair. Aros was barely conscious, but felt something familiar close by as a small boy with a toy like weapon in his hand helped Aros to his feet and said something like '…should stick together…' which Aros barely understood he was fighting of his life which was on the balance. The boy carried Aros next to a house and gave him a grey colored gel to eat, quickly took a look at Aros' wound and tying it up. Then the boy said something, which Aros didn't understand. The boy ran off and left Aros there chewing the gel, slowly regaining his strength.

A minute later Aros was back on his feet, energized, but still wounded. He looked around and saw battle everywhere. He started walking towards the entrance of the village in hope of running into someone who could help him. After only few steps, Aros saw the boy running towards him waving his hand.

"Great! You're up. Feeling better now? He he, they really got you, didn't they?"

"Who, what…" Aros tried to say.

"We elven kind should stick together at times like this. Now, hurry up! I'll take you to a safer place."

The boy grabbed Aros' arm and led him out of the village and towards the edge of the forest where a small bunch of soldiers were healing the wounded. He told Aros to sit down and said that he'll be back later. The boy ran away waving the toy like weapon and fired fire balls towards some aliens as he went away. A nurse came to Aros and told him to stay still and placed a staff on Aros' wound and muttered few words. A bright light emerged from the staff. Aros felt blood raging back to his veins and flesh growing back in his arm. Few seconds later, Aros felt ready to take the aliens on again. He stood up and thanked the nurse, which he now recognised as an elf. The nurse tried to tell Aros to rest, but it was too late, as he was already far gone in the village radiating new strength. This time, he was determined to pay back the aliens for what they had done to him.

RP #2 - cepussinboots. Posted 2-6-06

Merlin knew he had seen that man, that hero before... but he couldnt remember from where, he made his way towards the struggling warrior.

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Quandy continued fighting through. It was hard as their were so many that it was hard to see where you were fighting. Just then, a figure came running towards Quandy, just as he had cleared his area. It collapsed at Quandys feet, and looked up at him. It was Kishen.
"my army... at the eastern border... dead" he gasped.
Quandy stood there shocked. half his men were gone, and he had to do something. "what happened?"
Kishen looked up and fell unconcious, so Quandy reached into his pocket, withdrew a pellet, and fed it to Kishen, who soon recovered and stood up. Quandy repeated "what happened?"
Kishen looked up "the creatures, they saw our reinforcements, and hundreds more came... and, now the way to the eastern area is blocked.. and their are people trapped there... lloyd irving... and his wife... they are the only ones there"
An old man walked up and looked down, tears dripping from his eyes. he said "if what i here about lloyd and colette is true, then... please, can we save them?"
Quandy looked at Merlin, then at Kishen, who nodded back.
"the way may be blocked, but we'll do what we can"
Merlin decided to come with them.
They approached the eastern border and stopped, as they saw at least 500 blocking the way to lloyd and colette.
"ready your weapons" kishen said. "Charge"
They ran into battle, and soon got engulfed by all of the creatures. they had no choice but to retreat, so they ran back outside of the ring of creatures, and made it safely to clear coverage. As they got back, 3 Tarivians appeared in front of the warriors. "let me handle this" Kishen said couragesly, stepping out with his weapon. He started slashing at the Tarivians, who managed to dodge,as kishen was not the best of fighters. One stabbed kishen straight through the stomach, and he fell to his knees.
He held his wound, and got up again, be heading the one that slashed him, when another stabbed him through his stomach in a different place. This time it was fatal, and kishen was thrown back.
He jumped back up, and killed it, leaving one Tarivian left, that stabbed him very close to the heart. He fell back to quandys feet, who drew his sword and destroyed the Tarivian that harmed his friend, and he went back down, and held kishen in his arms.
"are you... ok?" Quandy asked, realising it was a stupid question. Kishen started coughing up blood, and spluttered the words "Quandy.. thankyou for all youve done" quandy reached into his pocket, and took another pellet out, but Kishen refused it. "Quandy, its my turn to die... this is something i have to do ive decided..."
"but what about the people of Ozette?" asked Quandy
"theyve got you now, listen Quandy, i came to battle with you, so i could die... i wanted to"
"you... stupid fool" Quandy said, punching the ground.
"im sorry... Quandy" kishen gasped, and with that, he died.
Quandy rested the Generals head down, and stood up. "not again" he said quietly.
As Quandys rage built up, his spirit angered. He screamed with anger, and in a burst of white light, an explosion that could be heard for miles was heard. It was quandys spirit awakening again. And Quandy looked up, eyes glowing white, with no pupils showing, and his body giving off a vibrant glow of blue.

As he saw this, Merlin smiled, and looked at the glowing warrior. "at last" Merlin said "the Meditator has once again awakend

RP #3 - Re'Ya'Salkas'Yassin'Huine. Posted 2-6-06

Anna lay out cold for a long time on the mat the villager had placed her, they had called a nurse to help her. While a nurse tried to revive her. After several attempts, she conceded that Anna's body had to take it own time to recover from the ravages of the smoke and flames.
Meanwhile within her mind, Anna fought with her feelings for Deadin as L'Fuer'yon a dreaded creature of mindless and ruthless killing.
She felt alone, with no-one to turn to, hatred all around her, a child rejected by elven and human alike because she looked like a humanoid panther. Accept grudged by creatures like herself that wanted nothing to do with her, she lived basically alone.
Her father appeared before her Ussta dalhar, dos ph' naut maglust. Dos inbal abbilen nindel kyon whol dos. (translation: My child, you are not alone. You have friends that care for you.)
Anna: That maybe so... but without you or mother... I am alone. I have no-one to turn to. cry of anguish no-one that cares... I am a crossbreed that no-one wants. And no one desires.
Her Father: in common tongue What of the one known as Deadin?
Anna: Father, I know not if he truly cares for me… and at this time he is L'Fuer'yon…. lowers her head
Her Father: Yet, young one you care for him. The Beast scares you so rightly, but do not turn your back on your friend. But you must awaken and battle to save the people that helped you. Learn the magic that is within you, for it will help you. Your mother and I will always be with you. With that he hugs Anna transferring his magic to her as he fades away. It will be several more minutes before she would awaken, weak but refreshed with Deadin on her mind.

RP #4 - Newtype06. Posted 2-6-06

There was no Deadin, only the Beast. The two psyches battled for control over the ferocious body. Deadin grappled with the Beast in the corners of his mind. The Beast struck first. Where would you be if not for me? Look at yourself! Four of them managed to cripple you! What I have done today was nothing short of miraculous! I am coming up on a dozen victories! Deadin had no answer to this. For now, the Beast had won.

A black shape flew over the Beast. It was Anna. The Beast wheeled about. This was a foe it wanted to fight. The beast was tired of the redundancy of the Tarivians, and wanted a real challenge. However, a fresh wave of Tarivians got between him and Anna, and the Beast was forced to end their lives. In the time it took to kill off the Tarivians, Anna had disappeared inside a burning building. The Beast decapitated the final Tarivian, but was too late. Anna was deep inside the building, and the entrance was blocked by burning debris. The Beast cursed the agility of the Panthers, and tried to find something to kill. It was not paying attention to the yells from inside. Deadin was. Deep inside the burning building, Deadin heard someone yelling in a strange language. It seemed so familiar, but at the same time so foreign. It sounded like elvish, but at the same time did not. However, the voice was as recognizable as any Deadin had ever heard. It was Anna. The Beast, probing Deadin's thoughts, wheeled around, trying to see where the shouts came from. At that moment, the building collapsed, spraying the Beast with cinders. The Beast laughed. Deadin screamed.

The Beast began to shake. Something was wrong. This was a sensation it was not familiar with. The Beast clasped his head, looking for the throbbing pain that was there. Hiding, deep within the recesses of his mind, Deadin fought back with unbridled passion. His sorrow of seeing Anna's death gave him a limitless fuel, driving the Beast back. The two creatures fought violently, until finally Deadin flung the Beast back to its dark prison in the dark corners of his mind. In control again, Deadin broke off from his rampage, and looked for Terra.

Anna was dead. Nothing could have escaped that crash, not even a panther as agile as she. Deadin's heart panged with sorrow. She had been a great friend, and in time might have been something more…Blinking the blur of tears from his eyes, Deadin endeavored to find the only other friends he had: The Irvings. Lady Terra was the top priority. She was young, and was an easy target for the Tarivians. Deadin smiled to himself. If he had a few months, he could make Terra a force to be reckoned with. The night was waning, and the great battle had reduced to small individual combats in the streets. Deadin raced past them, narrowly avoiding a great number of cavalry.

Finally, Deadin locked onto Terra's scent. Discerning her from all the other ambient smells was simple. Terra was a flower amongst brimstone. Her scent stuck out like a sore thumb. Deadin raced to her, intent on protecting her to the death.

Deadin found her huddled under a pile of Debris with an unconscious young Mizuhoan boy. Deadin sheathed his sword, and knelt down to her. "Are you alright, Lady Terra?" Terra nodded, and went back to resuscitating the young boy. After several tense seconds, the boy coughed up a heap of black smoke. Terra seemed to let go of a breath she had been holding for ages, and Deadin seemed to relax as well. Every life saved today would pay dividends down the road… Suddenly, there was an explosion outside of the village. Beams of light streaked from the sky and hit the ground. Deadin flinched and turned away, but Terra looked straight at the impacts. Down at the bottom, seemingly calling the strikes down, was Colette. Terra gasped, and screamed "MOM!" Terra tore off towards the battle. Deadin picked up the semi-conscious boy, and raced after her.

RP #5 - Re'Ya'Salkas'Yassin'Huine. Posted 2-7-06

Anna lay on the makeshift bed in the forest, she could hear the sound of battle in the village, she felt guiltly for not being out there fighting but she couldn't figure out how she got from the burning building to the forest until one of the refuges explained. She was dumbfounded, she had used magic to be specific an elven teleportation spell. Slowly sitting up she could just see the village from the trees, there were several Tavarians sniffing out the scents of the people that had fled in the field another set of panthers were protection for this group. As she was about to rise, she was stopped and told to rest for now, the man named Reggie would attempt to get a message to the person, who name she was mumbling for while she was out cold. She looked at Reggie in confusion then her eyes widened and she began to laugh with embarressment, realizing that she had called out for Deadin while she was unconcience, smiling she agreed. Reggie winked as she laid back down as a nurse came to check on her progress. Anna knew she had to get better in record time to help her friends, she hated what the fire did to her fur but that would heal in time as well. Anna began coughing up black junk from her lungs that she inhaled while she was in the fire.

Reggie: My grandson is doing fine, thanks to you... We owe you and your people.

Anna while coughing could not respond, confused by what he meant by her people. She was dark elf and panther... those people were here on the behalf of her mother not her or so she thought.

RP #6 - Dragoon Taryn. Posted 2-7-06

Anyone who had seen Luin destroyed twenty years ago wouldn't recognize it now. The city was flourishing, and busy with the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

Ellyria sighed, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. She had managed to make it to Luin, but she still had to make the trip to Asgard to finish her job. "Well, looks like I'd better get a move on," she told herself aloud as she made her way out of the city.

A while passed before she made it to the Luin-Asgard border. The Palmacosta government several years ago thought it was being clever, and built a blockade between Luin and Asgard. Ellyria saw it as an inconvenience to some, a pain in the ass to many, but she was allowed to travel freely past the blockade. This, of course, was only because she had bothered to register with the Mercenary's Guild in Luin, which had agreements with all major governments in the world to allow mercenaries with proper ID to travel anywhere.

Slipping her hand into her hip pack, Ellyria fumbled around for her ID as she approached the guards at the entrance. They looked at her with curiosity, and perhaps a little lust, which Ellyria was used to. "You want to go to Asgard? Sorry, but no one is allowed through her right now, as per the order of the Palmacosta government," one of the guards told her.

She pulled out her ID and held it up. "Ellyria Highwind of the Mercenary's Guild. I've been given authorization to pass."

"The guard shook his head." Sorry Miss Highwind, but due to the nature of the situation at the present time…"

"What situation?" Ellyria asked, cutting him off. "Unless the entire Asgard region has been blown to hell and doesn't exist, I see no reason why I cannot pass."

"Well, you see… Palmacosta is currently engaged in military actions, and has closed off all borders, to prevent spies from slipping through. Please understand, but you'll have to return the way you came."

Ellyria blew some of the bangs off her face in frustration. Of course Palmacosta is attacking someone again. If they didn't, they'd probably get bored, she thought.

Without a word of reply, she spun around and headed back towards the direction of Luin. After traveling such a distance that she couldn't see the blockade or Luin, she sat down in the grass, frustrated. "Goddammit, I'm not going to wait around for Palmacosta to finish playing their war games, I think it's time to jump to another continent."

A blast of energy suddenly singed the ground, inches away from where Ellyria was sitting. "Yikes!" she exclaimed, jumping to her feet. "What the hell's happening now?"

A small group of creatures were advancing to her position. Ellyria recognized them as the same type that attacked her at the crash site. "Dammit, are you uglies back for more? I'm vicious you know!" she shouted.

The creatures turned to each other, saying things to each other that Ellyria could not make out, then focused on her again and continued advancing.

Great, I couldn't even take one of these things, not to mention six of them! She thought, frowning.

Determined to maintain her position, she began chanting. "You baddies are in for it now…. FLA—"

"Judgment!"

Pillars of light seemed to rain down on the creatures, making them shriek.

That... wasn't my spell, Ellyria thought, dumbfounded. Oh well.

"FLAMES OF DESTRUCTION!"

Dancing flames appeared and scorched the creatures' flesh. Three of them fell, the remaining three decided to retreat.

"Haha!" Ellyria smirked, "You freaks of nature are afraid of little old me… huh?"

Turning around, Ellyria realized that there was a group of people behind her, looking prepared to attack if the creatures were to return. She put her hand to her forehead. "Okay… maybe not."

Someone from the group approached her. Ellyria assumed he was the leader, he was dressed different. And he seems to radiant authority… okay, maybe I'm making that part up, she thought.

"Are you all right?" he asked.

"Peachy," Ellyria replied, "Thanks for the help. Who are you, anyway?"

The man shook his head a little, then said, "I am Yuan, I'm the leader of the Renegades. And you are?"

RP #7 - SuperSonic88. Posted 2-7-06

The battle in Mizuho raged on. "Want some more?" Salan said, jabbing Sange into yet another of the creatures. It let out a gurgle, then fell to the ground. He pulled his sword out of the creature, and spotted his next target. It saw him too, and swung its claws at him. He brought, Sange up to block the attack, then severed the limb with his other sword, Yasha. "Just how many of these things are there?" He thought to himself. "Well, don't have time to lose, gotta keep going!" He said, finishing off the wounded beast.

RP #8 - Re'Ya'Salkas'Yassin'Huine. Posted 2-11-06

As things calmed down in the forest, Anna woke up from her slumber, she could still hear fighting outside of the forest. As she sat up, she noticed that the panther group had retreated into the forest, as she slowly rose to her feet, walking to the edge of the forest, she noticed that the other creatures of the forest were quiet, she leap up into the canopy and and watched silently. She could see the smoke from the village deminished and there were few houses, she scanned the fields noticing the dead bodies of motey crew of creatures and several fights still raging on.

RP #9 - Newtype06. Posted 2-11-06

"Terra! Duck!" Deadin screamed, suddenly tackling Terra. Terra felt a swishing sensation ruffling through her hair. Deadin felt something different. Perhaps it was the three Tavarian blades raking his face. One of the deadly fingers traced a crimson line across his muzzle, the other two running diagonal lines across his eyes. That ones gonna scar, Deadin thought as he and Terra completed their fall to the ground. Even as the two of them hit, Deadin was rolling into action. He really wasn't sure what was keeping him going. The Beast had expended all his energy. He was running solely on will power. He had enough energy perhaps for one useful spell, but that was it.

Rolling about, Deadin pushed Terra away. Scrambling to his feet and drawing his sword in one motion, Deadin parried another attack. Knocking the blades away, Deadin flipped his sword into a backhanded form, and swung upwards, amputating a wrist. Reduced to counting in base five, the Tavarian stumbled backwards. Deadin remembered his promise to Lloyd, and decided that this was as good a place as any to start teaching. Deadin stepped back a few paces, and turned to Terra. "Watch this." Deadin turned back to the one handed Tavarian, and goaded him on. It charged, and in his mind Deadin readied the technique he would use.

The slap-and-parry is a simple and energy-efficient sword technique. When an enemy strikes, the defender "slaps" the enemy's weapon with his. It isn't so much a defense as much as it is an attack on the enemy's weapon. The unexpected ferocity in the defense will often send the attacker's weapon to his side, leaving the torso exposed. Deadin executed a textbook slap-and-parry. The Tavarian charged, bringing his remaining had to bear. Deadin slapped it to the side, and swung his mighty sword, aiming for the head instead of the torso. The Tavarian fell backwards, several inches shorter. Brain fluid, or its Tavarian counterpart, spilled everywhere. Terra took a few tentative steps backwards. "Ewwww…"

Deadin went back to the Mizuhoan boy, who seemed to have been totally forgotten in the midst of the battle. He slung the unconscious lad over his shoulder, and stood next to Terra. Her attention had shifted back to Colette. The heavenly artillery had ceased, and an eerie silence pervaded. Terra looked at Deadin, and continued running towards her mother. Deadin took a moment to check one of his cuts. If he survived, the scars would run all across his face, even during transformations. However, he knew a day would come when he could proudly say, "I received these blows protecting Terra Irving." Deadin interrupted his delusions of grandeur, and followed his charge.

RP #10 - cepussinboots. Posted 2-15-06

Quandy, finally had awoken again. He looked around, and looked at his hands, and then his arms, and then his body. He was glowing a luminous light bluey/whitey colour.
"so this is what it feels like," he said softly to himself "after all these years, ive actually awakened as a proper meditator"
Before, Quandy could use his powers, but not to his hearts content. Now that he had awakened fully, he knew would be stronger then they ever have been in his life. He drew his sword, and twirled it around abit. He could see that his sword had grown with him, and had more enscriptions written on it then before. This time it had, 'the final task is complete', written underneath 'eternal life'.
A Tavarian rushed towards Quandy, "time to test this power!" he said to himself.
As it came towards him, it stabbed at Quandys chest, but its claws just shattered, and the creature came to a hault.
"heh" Quandy laughed "here we go"
Quandy punched the creature in the stomach, and his hand broke right through, killing the beast.
"wow, better then i expected" he muttered, wiping the Tavarian gunk off his hand.

Merlin stood watching. This was the second awakening he had witnessed before. One of a predecessor to Quandy, 1000 years ago, and now this one. Merlin sat down to watch the spectaculour fight show, that was about to happen.