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Post by Phelan on Apr 4, 2007 18:22:48 GMT -5
Phelan was vagely aware of being carried as horns sounded. His eyes slowly openend and he saw that he was being carried by a few elves back to his house.
"Where is Naldany?" He croaked.
"We're not sure Master Phelan." The said looking at one another.
"Send someone to find her, please." Phelan asked weakly as they brought him in and set him on his bed.
"Of course, but you need rest right now, there is still some poison remaining in your blood." With that the two elves left.
Phelan lie in his bed staring at the ceiling hearing cheers and yelling as the horns sounded again. Phelan was very aware at how alone he was, he felt depressed. His mind began to run wild with what was going on out side.
Did Nikkii die? or did Naldany? Where are the children? ..... Perhaps Naldany took them back to Neriak, because of what I have become... His mind continued on until he drifted into a deep sleep.
Phelan was awaken by the creaking of the door...
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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Apr 4, 2007 20:27:26 GMT -5
Darlena and Elindar began seraching for the children, the ones left in charge told them that they wandered away saying they wanted a book from home. Naldany was missing as well and the search went on for her as well. Furess and Lord U'dedne now was out looking amonst the dead for any J'narus officers.
Back in the cabin the door came open and a scout came in breathing heavy. He was injured a bit but wasn't letting him be slowed by that. "Sir.... Blexanu took her..... Naldany was taken and Nikkii took the two girls... We tried to stop them but we was pushed back and lost a few scouts."
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Post by Phelan on Apr 4, 2007 20:54:06 GMT -5
"Are you sure?..." Phelan asked.
"Y..yes sir, I'm sure I was there."
"Get Olantar and tell him to find me." Phelan said gruffly as he stood from his bed.
Phelan's eyes flared red and his hands shook. Tears welled in his eyes and ran down his cheeks.
Phelan bellowed "NI-KK-II!!!!" and smashed the window out. He stormed out of the house grabbing his sword belt off the bed on his way out, the door shuddered on the hinges as the door slammed shut.
People were milling about in confusion. Some were piling up the dead, others wandered about aimlessly, fires burned on a few houses and were threatining others.
"Listen up people!" Phelan yelled loudly.
"I need the males of every family over here right now!" He said once he had everyone looking at him.
The men gathered and the women started milling that way too.
"First things first, everyone from here over that way," Phelan said pointing to his left "to go and put those fires out. Find the druids they should be able to make some rain to help. You," Phelan pointed to an elf, probably a ranger "you're in charge, now get a move on."
"yes m'lord." The elf said and started getting people moving.
"The rest of you go to sleep and repair your armor. We are leaving in short order to get back my family. Olantar will let you know when, report to him now." Phelan said.
"As for you women, sorry, but we need you to take care of the dead. Burn them all, there will be no burrials. We will survive this, we will grieve, but not today. We have to get back up and strike swiftly." Phelan said and then headed off toward the battlefield to see who had fallen.
Phelan felt his heart tug at him with every face from his camp. He knew them all, servants that had come looking for a better life. Supporters of Seladria and even elves that were looking to reforge a connection with their estranged cousins. Though these faces caused him great pain, he pressed on looking for a specific few, Aramis, Andrea and Keyra.
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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Apr 5, 2007 0:03:25 GMT -5
Darlena was enraged, throwing everything that she came across.Elindar tried to console her but his anger was nearly equal to hers. Nikkii was so close and he could have struck her down had not Zinthel interfered with him.
"Calm down Darlena, I'm just as angry as you but doing what your doing now isn't helping..." Elindar spoke with a calming voice.
Darlena knew that tone, and what he was about to do. "No .... stop that I want to be angry. " Darlena went to try and stop him but felt her legs become weak and her eyes got heavy as she fell into Elindar's arms. He picked her up and two other elves lifted her beheader sword. He took her into their room and looked back out to the repare work starting.
Naldany was tossed into a cage in the back of a wagon her hands bound and mouth covered, both Zealott and Tailu was in the back layed just out of Naldany's reach. Aramis rode on a horse with Nikkii as Andrea rode with the wagon.
"Well Denouncer..... You never mention that you have a halfbreed grandchild." Zinthel said glancing over to Nikkii.
"What of it? She is more Teir'dal than anything...." Nikkii snapped back at him.
Zinthel chuckled for a moment before he responded. "That child is the closest thing I've seen to an ancient elf....... before our races divided... the enormus potiential that could have."
"Well she belongs to me and I thought of that .....it's why I didn't kill her right after she was birthed."
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Post by Phelan on Apr 5, 2007 1:02:13 GMT -5
Phelan spent hours among the dead looking and found none of the faces he was looking for. Olantar had come to talk to him, but Phelan sent him away until he was done. Now he was done and needed to talk to Olantar about thier attack.
Phelan found Olantar waiting for him on Phelan's own porch.
"Phelan, we must rethink this plan. we don't have the men to do this."
"Then we will find them, come with me." Phelan said as he walked inside.
"Find them where?"
"The human city of Freeport, other houses in Neriak, there are always places to look and people who are looking to benifit from a house falling in Neriak."
"True, but who do we send and how long do we wait. Nikkii is surely preparing defenses as we speak." Olantar pleaded.
"We will take as long as it takes to be ready, this is the last time we are dealing with Nikkii." Phelan said crushing the metal cup in his hand as if it were a stick.
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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Apr 5, 2007 16:34:31 GMT -5
"Even when you do find these members to help you fight her, in your current state she is sure to crush you one on one." Furess said slipping up behind the two. "She still has her knowledge from those human hunters and talismans that I'm sure you have seen on her before, maybe one of them she wears around her neck."
"Lady Furess if you are hinting at removing such jewlery from Nikkii that will not be an easy task at all.... for one just getting that close without being crippled in the process. Another think is she is mostly accompanied by other handmaidens that are pretty adept in spell casting." Olantar said turning to Furess.
"I never said it would be easy .... after all I haven't got rid of her after near seventy five years. But I can have you sent to Freeport later on.. but don't take too long I have to go back to Neriak to inform the counsil of the turn of events."
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Post by Phelan on Apr 5, 2007 18:57:31 GMT -5
"And just what will you inform them of? That Nikkii has taken my family from here? That her house is barely scathed even though we killed most of her force? Furess, if you want Nikkii gone, then you will tell them that Nikkii has suceeded, that I am dead and this place is no more. In return, I will bring Nikkii down and the entire house O'Seth, with your help that is." Phelan said.
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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Apr 6, 2007 0:35:18 GMT -5
"Very well then I'll do as you wish but that old fool will want some type of proof that this is done to help keep any probes from Seriak comming over here...... Maybe a few severed heads of the elves. " Furess looked over to the bodies of the slain. "How will you help the families that lost loved ones.... And is there any other houses of Neriak that might help? My husband and myself have many duties to see to in Neriak but I will speak with my cousin about diverting a few cadets to do gaurd duty around Seriak."
Elindar returned to the cabin with a weary look on his face the stress from the attack and the loss of a child started taking it's toll on him as he pulled up a chair and sat down. "I hear Keyra had a hand in tonight's events..... and she was last seen heading towards the Kithicor forest. I've herd some rumors of a village of Lycanthropes that live there, perhaps she might have something set up there."
Furess shook her head. "If that is so they would kill you if you got near it to keep it a secret.... The Gal'Sarus house works in that area, they are the first house of Neriak and speak with the royal house of Do'vexes, if you want their help better bring a few halfling corpses."
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Post by Phelan on Apr 6, 2007 20:48:46 GMT -5
"Just make sure everyone will turn a blind eye to a many race contingent moving into Neriak." Phelan said and walked away.
Phelan felt as if he were in a dream. In some ways it all seemed so unreal to him, but he knew that it wasn't a dream and that his wife and daughter were missing. A few moments later he was knocking softly on Darlena and Elindar's door.
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