Location Forest Eighty Five Miles North of Drekford
"These...wounds...are...catching...up...with me..." Grumbled Sepheil to the horse and to himself.
Slowing down his midnight black colored steed, he stared around at the surrounding area which was hardly seeable due to the poor light the moon was providing, then again it was only a sliver in the falling darkness. Sepheil's ears suddenly perked up at the sound of a broken twig. Sniffing the air he caught the scent of steel and flesh, which could only mean one thing. Sepheil slid down the left side of his horse and drew his elven broad sword, which wasen't visable in the shadow of a tree. Sepheil stepped a few feet away from his mighty horse, and squatted down checking the ground for tracks.
"Chaarrrgeee!" Cried a human voice
Suddenly the forest was filled with movement, branches and leaves were broken through revealing a little over twenty five knights in platemail. Sepheil groaned, knowing this wouldn't be as easy with his damaged shoulder and broken ribs.
"Why don't you give up, I've defeated hundreds of you before." Growled Sepheil at an attempt to scare them off.
"Yes, but now your injured you foul creature of the moon." Replied one of the knights who had also called the charge.
Grunting in slight pain, Sepheil hefted up his broad sword so that it rested on his shoulders, his left one nearly faltering from the immense weight of the sword. Without any warning or premade movement, they charged down on him swords raised and shields held forward. Sepheil slammed his sword down on the first foolish knight, who had moved faster then his brothers in arms.
Raising his foot, Sepheil slammed it down calling out the words "Warstomp!" which caused the ground to rip open around him in a wide area, throwing any knight close to him into the brush around them. But with this move, his mount was also tossed aside impaling it on a sharpened tree trunk. The horse whinned shortly before dying away.
"Da-Damnit..." Sepheil grunted hardly able to stand anymore. But he lifted his sword from his shoulders, and stabbed it into the ground.
"Nak'ronal!" Shouted Sepheil, which suddenly caused him to fall on his knees in pain. His spell went through though, and several large Shadow Wolves were now surrounding him.
"Eat them alive..." Commanded Sepheil, and the Shadow Wolves, willingly obeyed tearing up a good number of the knight's before they disapated.
"That...didn't...go..well.." Commented Sepheil, who was in dire need of medical attention. But he stood anyways, raising his sword, and slashing it through a knight who had hopped to get him while he was down, the knight only stood before Sepheil kicked the upper half of his body off, the legs simply fell forward, gushing forth blood. Sepheil then fired off two ice shards, which impaled an unlucky knight to a tree. The knights now down to three, were hardly a match for even a wounded Sepheil. Sepheil stepped forward, and punched an ice crystal through the impaled mans chest, causing blood the leak from the wound, coloring the ice crimson. Sepheil turned, and caught an arrow straight in the chest which had caught him unaware. Falling back and crashing into the tree, and the dead knight on it, he slid down blood bursting forth freely of the shoulder wound again. Jumping back up onto his feet in anger, Sepheil raised an open hand toward the knight who had shot the arrow's postion. A sudden dark energy lept from his palm, and slammed into the unsespecting knight, devouring his muscles, and breaking him into peices under the heavy weight of the platemail.
"There...I...got...em...all.." Sepheil groaned out, and began walking forward, but was caught unaware from behind when a spear suddenly protruded from his stomach, causing him to cry out momentarly in searing pain.
Roaring Sepheil turned around, and grabbed the knights neck, who in his victory thoughts hadn't thought that he'd be able to kill him, which Sepheil did crushing his wind pipe with his plate covered hands. The knight gurgled up blood, and fell backwards when Sepheil released his throat. Cursing his stupidity, he reached down, and tore loose the spear, which slid out with a horrible noise and a gushing of blood.
"D-D-Damn...knights..." Mumbled Sepheil before turning and continuing to walk forward.
Location Two Miles from Battle Grounds
"...I'm...gunna...die...from...those...stupid...knigghhhttss!" Roared out Sepheil, before falling onto his knee's and raising his fists in the air. dropping his arms, he howled much to like a wolf into the midnight air, silencing all animal noise. Falling forward onto his chest, he fought for breath.
"I-I-I...would've...rather...ha-have...died...from...Sara.." Were Sepheil's last words before passing out in a puddle of his crimson blood.
Location "Unknown"
"Nooooo!" Cried out what looked like a much younger Sepheil, with brown hair and in a pair of trousers, who was being pulled away by men in chainmail armor.
"Mommy! Don't let them take me!!! Mommmmyyyy!" Whined Sepheil, reaching out towards his mother who was only staring at him in disgust.
"I'm no mother of your's you monster." She said before turning and walking back towards a small farm house.
Falling silent after hearing those words, he allowed the large brutes in chainmail to carry him away, tears dripping down his face and blurring his vision. Sepheil looking back up at the house in a blind bloodlust of rage, held out one hand the palm facing towards the house, and fired off a Shadowball, which tore into the house and exploded it, throwing his mother away from it who was only moments from entering it.
"Knock the damn kid out Greg!" commanded a third man, who was waiting impatincely for the two to put him in a carraige, which had four frightened looking horses attached to it. The man who must've been "Greg" slammed Sepheil's head on the side of the carraige, knocking him out cold.
Location "Still Unknown"
Fluttering open his eyes, Sepheil stared around his tiny form locked in against a metal plating, his chest having a diagram drawn on it.
"Why...can't...I...move..." questioned Sepheil to himself, but someone anwsered from his right.
"Because we've put you under a little spell to make sure your cooperative, we don't need our little monster dying, now do we?" said the man with the voice of the one who had commanded the two to grab him earlier.
"Why...are...you doing...this?" Questioned Sepheil, who was trying to move, but couldn't to any prevail.
"Shut up-(back hands Sepheil)-Begin the operation!"
Several people appear and begin removing strange items, out of the items, a few rib's, muscle mass, and and half of a heart stand out, which are in seperate jars.
"Know what this is?" Asks the commander in an evil voice, which fill's Sepheil with dread.
"N-n-n-n-no.." Replies Sepheil, beging to shiver from the cold metal on his back.
"These are from a dangerous werewolf that was killed only an hour ago, so that we could implant them into you." Grins the commander.
Suddenly one of the people takes out an obsidian dagger, and presses it against the top of Sepheil's chest.
"W-w-wait, noo!" The man presses it down, slicing into Sepheil's skin.
Location "Log cabin"
"Nooooo!" Sitting up in a flash is present day Sepheil, his brow covered in sweat, with driplets dropping onto white sheets. Sepheil clutches at his chest where the dagger had penetrated. Feeling the same small X there, he knew it had just been a dream.
"Where the hell am I?" Suddenly questions Sepheil, notcing there's a blazing fire going on, and that his armor is sitting on a rack, his dried blood caked onto the chest peice. Staring around, he spots another person sleeping on the floor only a foot from the bed, who is snoring quietly.
"Alright...this is strange..." Mumbles Sepheil, before remebering his wounds, and reachs up to his shoulder, no sign of the earlier wound. Looking down, his stomach is also fine. Feeling his ribs with his hand, they seem to be completely healed.
"...Great...now I'm in debt to someone..." Thinks Sepheil outloud.
"HI!" Shouts out the female, who Sepheil had thought had been sleeping, who is sitting up, staring at Sepheil with almond shapped eyes, which are strangely violet-red, and silver pupils staring out, surrounding the violet-red was pure darkness.
"Hello?" Says a bit of a suprised Sepheil, who is staring down at her.
"It's about time you woke up ya know..." Says the girl
"...Why how long have I been out?" Wonders Sepheil.
"Well since I found you, three days."
"...Damnit!" Curses Sepheil, who jumps up, and regrets that he does, finding that his clothes are gone, and jumps back beneath the blanket.
"Where the hell are my clothes?!"
The girl giggles, and points to his right.
A Few Moments Later
Sepheil is suiting up, his leggings on.
"So what should I call you by?" Asks Sepheil, not even turning around to face her.
"Athena, and like I heard you earlier, you owe me a life debt. Sooo I'm going to stick around untill you repay it." Says Athena, which causes Sepheil to freeze up momentarily.
"I don't take well to company."
"Well get used to it."
"...(Grabs from his pouch, a handful of blood rubies, sparkling in the firelight)..here, that should cover my life debt."
"I don't think so, I'm gunna stick around with you."
Grumbling Sepheil places his chest peice on. Then turns around to face her, the only peice of armor missing is his helmet.
"Seeing as your probly not going to give up on this issue, fine. But don't come crying to me when your in trouble."
"Soooo what do I call you by?"
"Sepheil."
"Well then Sepheil, you should know I can take care of myself! And I even can take care of people like you too, you stubborn jackass."
Sighing, Sepheil grabs his cloak and throws it over his shoulders, shrouding his armor away.
"Your just an annoying kid, ya know that?"
"Actually...I'm about fourty-eight...well thats about as far as I can recall..."
Sepheil raises an eyebrow, staring at her in wonderment.
"So I take it your not human then."
"Ya could say that."
Sepheil removes the eye patch which has been forgotten about most of this time, and stares Athena in the eyes. The cold hard stare of that strange eye causes goosebumps on her, and she pulls her gaze away.
"Would you mind not staring at me like that..." Demands Athena.
"Hmph." Sepheil ties the eyepatch around his eye again, and pulls his helmet over his head, and the hood over that. Turning, he opens the door and begins walking out. Which causes Athena to quickly grab her things, and chase off after him telling him to wait.
"We've got to move, if you haven't realized it yet I'm being hunted."
"You could've told me we were leaving right now!"
The two walk through the forest, a silent figure watching them from the tree's, a firmiliar figure...Sara.