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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Aug 31, 2006 11:12:50 GMT -5
Zealott gave him a confused look for a moment then went back to her book, then she thought of something. Sliding out of her chair she went over to Phelan an started chanting a spell. A arcane glow formed around her hands an Phelan, a cool feeling took over Phelan an the glow stopped. Zealott smiled at him an pointed to a mirror. Phelan stood up an walked to the mirror, but what he saw was not his own reflection but that of Nikkii's.
"Most kids in my class cannot do this yet." She chuckled. "Not even my teacher." Seeing that Phelan was not completely pleased looking like Nikkii Zealott chanted another spell an Phelan's features returned. "I'm sorry daddy.... I don't get to practice alot."
The Forest of Neriak.
Darlena and Aramis made there to the green rift, the trees was no longer burnt an the smell of ashes had faded.
"This is boring Aunt.... this could have been carried out by a servant or some idiot with time on his hands." Aramis protested.
"You need to know what is outside of Neriak.... You can't keep staying in that cave forever. Also I need to see just how responsible you are." Darlena said without looking back to the boy.
"Well I would feel better if I had the swords that my "father" took from me. I mean the stupid halflings running about an the stinking humans....... Then there is worst the elves."
Darlena frowned at Aramis an stopped her horse for a moment making Aramis think about what he just said.
"I mean this Devil- elf is suppose to be one of them but acts more like us... Killing Dark elf, human, an elf alike." Aramis said looking about.
"Oh but I thought you had no equal in Neriak.... It doesn't suit you to be so cowardly.. I mean who is gonna protect me from the evil elf." Darlena commented mocking him.
"Oh your real funny ....."
Something was watching them from behind, stalking them.
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Post by Phelan on Sept 4, 2006 18:13:42 GMT -5
Phelan was impressed by what Zealott could do and prompted her to show him more of the spells she knew. There were quite a few that he hadn't seen most Mages be able to conjure up. As they day slid on Phelan began to grow antsy. Sitting in one place had never suited him much. He asked Zealott for a complete list of the books she needed for her studies and pulled them from the shelves.
"I have to go talk to your Mom, ok? If you need anything send for a servant." Phelan said cheerfully.
Zealott said ok and went back to her studies. Phelan went off in search of Naldany.
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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Sept 4, 2006 19:48:48 GMT -5
Naldany awoke a bit startled as she felt over to the other side of her bed.
"Must have been a dream...." Naldany then realized the time and Zealott was not at her door. She quickly dressed herself an put on her perfumes. She paced down the hallways an class areas looking for Zealott, till she came across Nikkii an Tailu. Tailu was studing Nikkii an observing what she did, she was even dressed like Nikkii.
"Nikkii where is Zealott have you seen her?" Naldany asked.
Nikkii was heistant to answer because she did not address her with a title. But looked over to her niece then back to what she was doing.
"I was told that Phelan stayed in your chambers over the night... an you was outside of the church compound..."Naldany crossed her arms as Nikkii went on. "I was told she is in the library with him..... atleast she can keep her focus when men come around."
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Darlena and Aramis made it to the Gal'saris stronghold with the enchantments. With very limited talk between the parties they was off to Neriak. Aramis was complaining most of the way back till Darlena stopped and sniffed the air.
"Whats wrong..... we are getting close can't we pick this up" Aramis said whining.
"We aren't alone.... someone is watching us." Darlena said looking around and dismounting her horse.
Aramis did the same an unsheathed the sword he was given. Then a sudden crack of a branch an Aramis was struck by someone. Darlena spun around to meet Keyra.
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Post by Phelan on Sept 4, 2006 19:54:36 GMT -5
Phelan heard the nagging voice of Nikkii. He was really begining to loathe her, even more than the last time he had been here. He walked up to see Naldany standing in a door way as Nikkii said "...at least she can keep her focus when men come around."
"What's the matter Nikkii? Angry you don't have puppets to boss around anymore?" Phelan said as he stepped next to Naldany in the doorway.
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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Sept 4, 2006 20:55:06 GMT -5
Nikkii frowned at Phelan for his comment an stopped what she was doing.
"You would be lucky to be my puppet... But maybe not I'd have you skinned and...." Nikkii stopped when she noticed her granddaughter watching and listening to everyword being said. "Tailu , you are done for the day go pplay with Zealott."
Tailu Nodded an mimiced a frown at Phelan before leaving. Nikkii was amused by this an patted the girl as she left, Nikkii then took a deep breath before starting another verbal assault on Phelan.
"So how long do you plan to stay? Or are you going to continue with that rebuilding that dead house?"
In the Neriak forest Darlena an Keyra stood in a face off, Darlena was ready to make the first strike at the elf.
"So we finally meet face to face..... after all these years." Keyra said showing a gleeful smile. Her hair was the green color she had originally, she looked like a wild animal,she was completely ungroomed.
"Keyra, I'm surpised the hunters never slayed you...." Darlena said as she made the first attack. Keyra fliped out of the way of Darlena's attack an laughed.
"It's not like they haven't tried... you have done well yourself.." Keyra replied.
Aramis was up now an angry as he usually was an rushed right for Keyra. Keyra countered him an unclipped her swords from her belt. Aramis took swing after swing at the elf, but found himself outclassed by her speed. With a kick to the midsection Aramis was down again, but Darlena pressed forward prevent further harm to come to the boy.
"Why are you here Keyra ... go back to the north where you belong." Darlena said backing the elf off.
"I'm not welcomed there anylonger... so I claim this forest as my home, and I kill anyone that intrudes into my home." Keyra said while removing the sheathes to her swords, her blades glowed a sicking green with poison an infection.
"So your the devil elf of rumor?"
Keyra laughed a bit as she spun towards Darlena." So that is what they call me... What an honer." A flash of blue passed between the women an destroyed a tree. The tree fell between them leaving Aramis an Kerya momentarly to themselves.
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Post by Phelan on Sept 4, 2006 21:28:58 GMT -5
"What do you mean how long do I plan to stay? My life is here, with my wife and children. If I remember right, I died fighting for this house did I not? Fixing your problems, was I not?" Phelan smirked as Nikkii shook with rage, but said nothing.
"Naldany, may I take you for a walk?" Phelan said to his wife, offering his arm to her.
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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Sept 4, 2006 22:33:19 GMT -5
Nikkii turned her back on the two an stormed out of the room. Naldany smirked a bit before taking Phelan's arm.
"Sure where did you wish to go ...... my love." She said kissing him on the cheek.
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Aramis smirked at Keyra as he rolled at her with remarkable speed his blade met hers sending sparks into the air. Again he swung but it was either parried or dodged, this frustrated the boy to no end. He finally let his anger get the best of him an rushed at her with sloppy form, Keyra leaped over him an landed behind him. Before he could do anything she had disarmed him an held his arms behind him,she sniffed him an licked her lips.
" Your the baby ........ Oh how I remeber your smell." Keyra said rubbing her face along side his.
"Let go of me you freak." Aramis struggled to free himself but Keyra was holding him to tightly. "Your strong for a skinny elf."
Darlena had shook off the shock of the fall and had lept over the fallen tree to see what was going on.
"MMMMmmmmmMMMMmmm....... I'm not just a skinny elf my boy." She said still rubbing her face on his.
"Then what are you?" Aramis demanded.
Keyra's hands turned to claws as she licked the side of his face. "Your so yummy I could eat you up right here..... an a piece of advice, you fight like I use to.... With anger, but when you play with anger you play to lose.."
"Let him go ...." Darlena demanded her hands glowing ready to give Keyra a taste of her harms touch.
"She is like me too..... don't worry you can have the boy for now.. I'll eat him later." Keyra loosened her grip an as his arms dropped she kicked him in the back sending him into Darlena's arms. As Darlena focused on catching the boy, Keyra lept over an clawed Darlena down the back before cloaking herself an running off with insane laughter. Darlena winched with pain but looked Aramis over for any damage. He pulled back his hand covered with Darlena's blood.
"No this is my fault , I'm sorry aunt Darlena.. " Aramis chatted a spell to teleport them back within Neriak outside the church. Aramis helped Darlena to one of the gaurds at the gate. They took Darlena from him an rushed her inside. Aramis took another look at his hands an went running inside pushing everyone out of his way till he saw Phelan an Naldany.
"Father!!!" Aramis yelled as he gripped Phelan's shirt, Naldany stepped back seeing the blood on his hands. "Teach me to fight like you... I must get revenge on the devil-elf."
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Post by Phelan on Sept 4, 2006 22:43:54 GMT -5
Phelan pushed the boy back to make sure he was alright. He could see the boy was distressed.
"I told you I would teach you. However, you should know that revenge will not bring redemption. It will not fix any problems that have occured. I will teach you, but if you fight with emotion, you will be defeated."
Phelan hugged the boy to him and looked at Naldany with an appologetic look. He blew her a kiss as he led Aramis down the hallway.
"Let me get you started on some drills and then I need to go see Darlena." Phelan said as they walked into the training room, which was filled with wooden weapons.
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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Sept 4, 2006 23:06:28 GMT -5
Aramis was still reliving the fight in his head, tears continued to roll down his face, he clitched his teeth an dried his face.
"She was an animal...... green haired pyscho... I couldn't keep up with her speed... and she was stronger than me. " The anger started to get the better of Aramis again as he looked at his father. "She is not a devil but a monster... she had claws."
Darlena's recovery was being seen over by Nikkii, an her handmaidens. They applied bandages to her back as she laided on the table.
"Mother Keyra is the devil elf... an we need to do something about her."
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Post by Phelan on Sept 4, 2006 23:57:28 GMT -5
"Well, just because she had claws doesn't make her a monster." Phelan said in a soothing tone.
"However her choices do." Phelan let that hang in the air for a moment.
"Now, pick up two of the practice swords." Phelan said and gestured towards the rack of wooden weapons. Phelan grabbed two of them for himself.
"You are used to using your swords as tools, as objects. This is a downfall, they must be like part of you. When you fight it should flow like a dance, it should be gracefull and smooth, flowing like water." Phelan said. "Follow me through this set of moves."
Aramis copied his father's movements awkwardly. He didn't understand what his father was saying to him.
"Why don't you show me how to fight? This prancing about doesn't teach me anything!" Aramis shouted.
"You wear your emotions on your sleeve... that's an admirable trait, however when it comes to swordplay it is a weakness. It is one you will have to overcome or die because you didn't. If you do not wish to learn, then by all means leave." Phelan said queitly.
"ARRGH!" Aramis charged his father, letting his anger and embarassment lead the way.
Phelan easily batted aside the swords as they flew at him rapid fire. Again and again Phelan side stepped parried and twirled out of the way.
"See, your rage blinds you, it takes away your sensibilty." Phelan said while he parried yet another blow.
"SHUT UP AND FIGHT!" Aramis screamed.
"So be it." Phelan said.
The boy pressed his attack a flurry of wicked blows came at Phelan from multiple angles, each one being easily deflected. The boy over extended and Phelan used the mistake to push up under his guard. The boy responded quickly and barely blocked the blow.
Phelan smiled and pressed his attack, easily gliding from form to form as he had been taught as a child. Aramis concentrated on each blow which caused him to lean further and further back until he was on his heels.
It was then Phelan pounced. He threw a few more blows as he launched himself into the air in a flip. He landed with both of his feet squarely in the boys chest. The boy cried out in pain and fell to the floor. Phelan's momentum took him along the same path. Phelan tucked and rolled out of the fall and came up on his feet facing Aramis.
Aramis lay on the floor in a ball rocking back and forth. Phelan walked over to him and helped him to his feet. Aramis glared at him with tear swollen eyes.
"Why can't I hit you?" He whispered fiercly.
"I told you, right before you stopped listening to me. Now if you are willing to do what I tell you and take it to heart you can be far better than I ever dreamed of." Phelan said putting his hand on Aramis' shoulder.
Aramis grudgling acknowledged he would and Phelan set him to work on some basic forms. He then left the boy to practice and headed down the cooridoors to where the healing was normally performed. He knew Darlena was ok, but Aramis' description of the person that attacked them triggered a memory within him. One of a wicked, twisted elf, Keyra.
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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Sept 5, 2006 14:38:37 GMT -5
"What would you have me do? Search the entire kithicor forest for one demented girl? My child we cannot spare the effort to do so." Nikkii said as she finished dressing the wounds. "Now I will have you lay there for a few hours before trying to move."
"Well if you won't pursue her then what will you do about Keyra?" Darlena said as she put her head down. Nikkii said nothing in responce an had everyone leave the room. Naldany had stepped in as Darlena mentioned Keyra's name.
"Why are you two talking about her......." Naldany looked closely at the bandages on Darlena's back. "Did She do this? I thought she was to the frozen north amongst the other dangerous lycanthrope."
"Well she must be an outcast from them an probably for good reason.... She was far too unpredictable as a hunter when not watched, so think how bad she is now with the lycanthrope curse." Nikkii said without turning to see Naldany.
Naldany pulled a chair up infront of Darlena. "I have a counsil meeting to attend soon, perhaps I can say something to them about this."
"What will they do but spin this around an make it look like mine or my mothers doing."
"Aramis took this one pretty hard, I guess he felt this was all his fault that you got hurt. But I'm glad to see that he does care...... I was starting to think he was completely uncapable of that, the part that worries me is he will sneak out again to go after Keyra on your behalf."
Darlena looked up at Naldany after hearing that. "I forbid him to do so cousin....... Keyra would kill him without a second thought an had I not been there she would have."
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Post by Phelan on Sept 5, 2006 19:00:31 GMT -5
Phelan walked into the room and looked at Darlena. He heard her last sentence as he was entering the room.
"Aramis is going to seek revenge. Either we deal with her now or we will have to deal with her when he does. He is far from ready." Phelan waited a second and let that thought settle in before moving on. " I have tried to talk him out of it, but his arrogance and pride keep him from common sense. Someone has taught him to lash out in anger rather than to control his emotions... It will take all of us persuading him, to keep him here until he is an able swordsman." Phelan glanced at Nikkii. "yes Nikkii, we need your help too."
Phelan looked at Naldany and searched her eyes for what was running through her head.
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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Sept 5, 2006 22:52:19 GMT -5
"Well Phelan and my two girls Aramis doesn't fully understand what he is up against, maybe a sample of what he would potentially face might make him rethink that a few sword tricks are enough." Nikkii looked right at Phelan with an evil smile getting the chance to rub his nose in the subject. "Phelan correct me if I'm wrong but you never could take Keyra one on one.... she was evenly matched with no care for herself or others, which I might add made her more dangerous than you."
Naldany couldn't stand hearing what Nikkii was saying about Phelan an Keyra.
"Shut up, I won't have you comparing him with that twisted elf YOU made.... and I won't have my son fighting her...atleast not in the state he is in now... If Keyra was to turn into that beast an bite our child then what? He is too young an the infection would kill him.... an if he lived thru that madness could claim him." Naldany gripped Phelan's arms.
Darlena had nothing to offer them. She hated her lycan side and tried to bury it an keep it locked away. It was then that they noticed Zealott an Tailu standing in the doorway.
"What's wrong with my brother? Why are you all upset an aunt Darlena hurt..... Did Aramis do this."
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Post by Phelan on Sept 5, 2006 23:07:52 GMT -5
"No he didn't, you two need to go play somewhere." Phelan said shoeing them out of the room and shutting the door.
"Nikkii is right, I never bested Keyra, but then again none of us alone ever did. Sure we have each made her back down and her us, but no one of us ever did. Of course he can't go fight her or he will lose. I am sure that some day with the proper training he will surpass all of us, by blending magic and blade together. That however doesn't help us with the problem at hand today.
The council will mearly decree that trips from Neriak that are unessicary be cancelled and caution to be taken when traveling out of our lands. None of Neriaks inhabitants are going to stay locked up in this cave untill the threat is dealt with. Surely there has to be something we can do." Phelan said.
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Post by Nikkii O'seth on Sept 5, 2006 23:33:06 GMT -5
Naldany thought for a minute. "Her fears....Its a long shot but what if we could use her fears to atleast drive her to the elves or gnomes..... What about the hunters, Aunt...... couldn't we use them."
Darlena interupted. "The hunter's ask too many questions and mother isn't exactly on their good side having myself being her offspring.... but hunting her will make her less aggressive an most likely distance herself from the neriak area. Just bait her out."
"Ok, that could work...she was never known for her thinking ability but what could you use to bait her into comming to you.?" Nikkii asked.
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