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Post by Altan Kazimir on Mar 19, 2006 2:01:22 GMT -5
The magic guided him, his staff glowing a moment, but failing to transform. It seemed he was finally out of power, however he refused to give up, and continued pushing himself off the fine line between exhaustion and over-exhaustion. He'd finally pushed not only his magic but his body to the limit and felt a part of his soul wither within himself as his legs finally gave out and he landed in the mud with a soft thud.
Laying in the mud he struggled to get to his knees, barely managing to do so, for, he could shut out the pain that would have otherwise overwhealmeed him much earlier, but he couldn't force his weary muscles to do much more than they already had, nor could he call the tendrils of linger magic within hm, if there was even any left at all.
Again he reached inside of himself, but this time he felt nothing, found nothing that could help him hold on to the battle. he swore loudly then, the emotion that had finally broken through was anger...anger that was currently directed at himself for being useless when he was obviously needed.
It was that anger, that curse that caught the attention of three enemy soldiers, two men and a woman, and, sensing their oportunity, they rushed him.
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Post by Alanna Elensar on Mar 19, 2006 2:15:36 GMT -5
He seemed galaxies away as she watched him collapse.
She began to run, trying to get to her brother as 3 soldiers advanced. Somehow, she knew that it was too late for her to save him, but she had to try anyway..
Ally willed her body to move faster, needing to get to her convulsing brother..
With a sick lurch, Ally watched a bullet being fired through the Wizard's stomach.
As if in slow motion, his eyes widened and his flesh tore as his pale hands scrabbled uselessly at the wound.
Finally reaching the three surrounding Altan, Ally watched the life drain slowly out of her brother in horror.
With a terrible scream, Ally came charging at the Humans who tried to kill Altan and stabbed them in the hearts, earning a sick satasfaction from the garbled groan one made and the sweat that fell heavily from the other's heads.
"You.." Stab. "Tried.." Stab. "To.." Stab. "Kill.." Stab. "My.." Stab. "BROTHER!!"
Rini repeatedly pnctured the three, watching the blood spurt out like a fountain after each wound. They was obviously dead, but she did not relent and proceeded to slice them, all their foul blood pouring around and on the severely wounded Wizard.
Finally, there was nothing left to do to torture the dead body of the Humans who could have killed Altan. Ally stared at the mess that she had made of once living creatures, no guilt present in her veins at all.
"RINI!" she roared, her eyes not moving from the bloody disaster. "GET HIM OUT OF HERE NOW!"
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Post by Altan Kazimir on Mar 19, 2006 2:31:27 GMT -5
Altan screamed as a shot pierced his flesh and another soon followed it. Ulike everything else that he had somehow managed to block out,those he had felt. He could also feel the cold numbness that began gripping him,even as he tried to will it aay. This time he felt that he would go under and he would lose, and so as he saw Ally take out the three soldiers, keeping her effectively busy as another charged him, his eyes widened and then suddenly blazed white fire as his body rose all on its own, floating just a few inches above the ground.
Daith had him now, its magics, had him....or so he thought. In actuality the fesh batch of pain roiling through him, fueling the anger and the raw magical power now eminating from his tired batter, and bloody body, had come from the humans themselves, from when they had captured and experimented on him. Now it was time to see what a monster he had truly become in these years since he'd been away from all that he held dear..the thing that Zane had sealed away to keep him sane.
Large black wings sprouted from his back and his nails lengthened into claws. Normally this would have been possible with certain magics, but this seemed to play on those magics and extend them further. Then both things faded and his hands began to glow, the white hot power around them taking on tinges of red and violet before his body floated higher still and his hands rose, pointing at the larger number of the collected enemy forces and obliterating them in oe blast of raw, unhindered inner power.
He done it, done what he'd been fightng not to, and now he was tired...so very tired, and the things around him began to grow dark as his body plummeted from the air and he landed with a sickening cruch. Once again the cold numbness came, but this time, he knew it would take him. He had no fight left in him, even he realized that now.
"Fight on Alanna," he said, voice getting lost eaily in the wind despite there not being much of, that was how quite and frail his usually strong and commanding voice had been, and then his eyes slipped shut and he smiled as the blackness ungulfed him.
he found himself floating then, floating within th depths of his mind, watching as a younger version, the child version of himself from so many years ago approched him...it too was floating.
"Ally needs you," the boy said softly, his gaze pained and holding far more than any child's eyes should.
Then a mirror image of his current self apperaed behind the boy and frowned at him. "What in the seven hells of Azarath did you do that for?" it asked angrily, causing him to laugh carelessly and shrug.
"It just seemed the right thing to do, he replied, making the boy smile, the sadness still in his eyes, and the mirror image to glare at him coldly.
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Post by Rini Hatari on Mar 19, 2006 13:00:17 GMT -5
Rini heard Ally's crys, and watched in pain as she sliced through the humans. Then she heard the command. "RINI! GET HIM OUT OF HERE!" Her freind screamed. Rini obeyed immediatly, running swiftly to where the now motionless Altan stood. As she neared him, she felt a prescense of magic, strong magic, engulf her. She watched,bewildered, as Altan rose to they sky, blasting the remaining humans with a bolt of magic so strong, Rini couldn't imagine the pain that the multiple two legged creatures the fell to the ground, there eyes just losing the light of battle.
As Altan fell to the earth, Rini did her best to become between him and the ground. As she heard the heart wrenching crunch of bones, she knew that she hadn't got there in time. I still must go on. She thought, pushing her head under the breathless body's rams, hoisting the man onto her back. She looked for a safe way out, most of the humans were gone, giving the fairys the newadvantage. Small, cute, fairys with pink wings you would have thought to have no need for violence, or a thirst for blood, were hacking the humans apart.
Finally, an opening appeared. Rini pushed herself forward, her paws slipped against the now crimson grass. After much panting, Rini arrived on the hill over looking the battle feild. She shifted her weight, causing Altan to fall limply onto the grass. No... he can't be... Rini thought, pushing hernose against Altan's arm. It was cold. We have to revive him... She thought, watching in pain as the man grew colder, and colder.
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Post by Altan Kazimir on Mar 19, 2006 13:14:58 GMT -5
Altan continued to float in the darkness with the young boy and the mirror image, both of whom looked rather grim now, and had, for the moment, fallen silent. Now they just watched him, one angry, and other sad, and both with pained gazes. The boy reached out and took one of his hands, and that was when he kenw that he was going to die, when he truly knew, that there would be no going back this time.
However there was no fear, instead he nodded at them. He understood, and somehow, making them know that right now meant everything in the world....though he didn't quite know why.
Outwardly he as now dead weight atop Rini and when she rolld him over in the grass she was able to feel just how cold he was, how much colder still he was becoming as he lay there. "Zane?" the questioned name escaped his lips in a faintly broken whisper as his pulse slowed until it was at a point whee one could barely notice it was still there.
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Post by Rini Hatari on Mar 19, 2006 13:21:40 GMT -5
Rini's strong ears picked up nthe quiet pulse, but she knew it wasn't good. She heard a faint whisper. "Altan? ALTAN! WAKE UP!" She said, shaking him with her paws, trying to bring him back to life. "I can't leave Rini with no family." She said. Inside she was crying, but in wolf form she couldn't. However, he cheeks felt wet, possibly from the blood, but she didnt' know. She pawed at Altan. "WAKE UP YOU JERK! WAKE UP!!!! DON'T LEAVE ALLY HERE! SHE NEEDS YOU!" She barked, growled, and whined at him in wolf talk. "JUST WAKE UP!" She whimpered, nudging him onto his back. His leg was at an akward position, and Rini knew it was probably broken.
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Post by Zane Altec Aligheiri on Mar 19, 2006 13:32:28 GMT -5
Zane sat now at a desk in his personal study, his eyes fixed on a map, and a piece of parchment that he had set upon it and was now filling with his elegant scrawl. No one would have thought that the man was writing out orders for his troops by the calm, lazy way that he was writing.
However had they seen his eyes, and the grave seriousness in them, they might have. Everyone knew that this man preferred that everything be at peace, or at least that his people be left out of the war of the other races. However, this time, being left in peace was clearly not an option. The humans wouldn't stop until they got their hands on everything, every land, every artifiact, and anyone they could kill or enslave, not matter what their race.
He growled angrily at this thought, his writing speeding up, and then slowing once more when he had calmed himself again. This was not the time to get worked up, there would be time for that later.
Later though, was about 7 minutes or so when a single pained and broken mind whisper cut through his thoughts, nearly toppling the fairy lord from his chair. It had been Altan, and he sounded so faint. Where was he, what was happeneding to him.
'Altan where are you? What's going on?' he sent the message back along the fragile mind line that had formed between them, and then he waited. 1 minute, two, three, no answer. Five still no answer, and he was growing increasingly worried.
Finally he did the only thing he could think of. He concentrated on the two girls, Ally and Rini, hoping that one of them would recieve his message. 'What's happened to Altan?' he asked, sending the question from mind to mind, through an even more strenouous link.
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Post by Rini Hatari on Mar 19, 2006 13:39:11 GMT -5
Rini felt a thought that was not her own fall into her mind. Wha? Who are you? She thought. Who would want to... oh, it's probably that king... yes... I should let him know. She thought, nudging at the wizard. He's dieing! Please! COME QUICK!!!! She thought frantically. I'll let you know where I am, just listen. She thought to the king.
She tilted back her sleek muzzle and let out her sad song. Her howl swam through the battle feild, momentarily stopping all the battle. Listen to the music... She thought, lifting one of her paws, closing her eyes. Please, Ally needs Altan. She thought, then losing herself in the music.
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Post by Alanna Elensar on Mar 19, 2006 13:40:35 GMT -5
Ally stared at the crashing fighting, her eyes wide with panic and horror.
"I DON'T KNOW!" Ally screamed out, falling to her knees. "He's gone!! Someone attacked him.. And I killed them.. And then he fell over and started turning so cold.. And he flew away and used magic that he didn't have.."
The girl was wildly trying to remember what exactly had taken place, but she could only envision snatches of the quick scene.
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Post by Rini Hatari on Mar 19, 2006 13:46:19 GMT -5
Rini continued her song, losing her soul to the music as she often did when her howls were this heart wrenching. Ally, follow my music, Altan's here. She thought. She knew Niki would respond to the howl, being a wolf her self, but she had to possibly let Ally know.
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Post by Alanna Elensar on Mar 19, 2006 13:49:53 GMT -5
Lifting her head, Ally heard faint melodious cries. She used her sword to get her to her feet, and she ran wildly in the direction where it was coming from, somehow avoiding all attackers coming her way.
"RINI! NIKI! WHERE ARE YOU?!" she shouted, desperately trying to find the howls. "I NEED TO FIND YOU!"
Ally somehow knew that the song was important to her, and she had to find it in order to understand.
Finally finding the gray wolf, Ally sank down next to Rini.
"Where is he?! Where is my brother??" she cried out, her eyes full of worry and panic.
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Post by Zane Altec Aligheiri on Mar 19, 2006 13:50:22 GMT -5
The voice the reached him seemed confused, and then suddenly it was clearer, more focused, and the words that came to him made his heart race as panic set in. 'He's dieing! Please! COME QUICK!!!!' her mind voice had screaming, filling his head with the words...and then came the song. Sad, mornful howling, wolfsong,wolf's sadness. Though too far away to hear it himself, it was in his mind, singing in his blood, and he nearly became as lost to in as she had become.
However he allowed his eyes to slip shut for only a moment, and then projected himself before them. 'You must get him back here...Ally...she is part wiazrd, she must know the spell of transportation...she must,' the words had trouble being focused, but eventually they were sent loud and clear to the other, and he hoped against hope that Alanna would know, for if she didn't figure it out and bring Altan back soon, there would be nothing he could do. Already he could not leave his kingdom, for fear of letting the barriers drop for too long.
His fists slammed against his desk, scatter various quill pens and sending the an ink pot crashing to the ground, firing sharp shards in every which direction. His wings even appeared, and the four of them changed colors rapidly, keeping their tansapency, but glittering and glimmering strangely nonetheless. He felt so helpless now, , and from where he was now, he was. he couldn't leave the kingdom, no matter how much he wished to.
An idea hit him then, s he tried to force himself to calm down and then moevd to sit cross-legged on the floor, sensing the tiniest bit of flickering lifeforce energy that was Altan Kaimir's essence, and slipping himself inside the man's mind, piercing the darkness. "Altan, you must hold on." Then a pain shot along his wings as the darkness forced him out, he felt the stronghold's shields falling from the momentarily concentration elsewhere, and quickly returned to himself, vanishing from the darkness within Altan's mind. He could do no more.
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Post by Alanna Elensar on Mar 19, 2006 13:59:34 GMT -5
Turning frantically, Ally spotted her brother's body, and she gave a strangled cry.
Leaping over to him, she violently shook him, trying her best to heal his wounds to the best of her ability.
A whisper of a thought then entered her mind. It seemed that it had been meant for Rini, but Ally still recognized the firm voice of Zane, and she listened almost hungrily to see what she must do.
After the message had replayed in her mind, Ally began to think as hard as she could with her dizzying thoughts and mangled dreams.
"Teleportation.. Teleportation.." she began to think wildly.
"Atailirsen palang dorsa!" she suddenly hissed in a voice that was not her own. She had no idea where the strange words had come from, but they were, in a sense, familiar..
Quickly gripping Rini and Niki's paws and Altan's cool hands, she felt herself spin before landing on cool marble floors.
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Post by Rini Hatari on Mar 19, 2006 14:01:09 GMT -5
Rini blinked. "You did know it..." She whispered, proud. She let out a howl, a shorter one, to let Zane know they were here. "We have arrived fairy lord." She cried to him. "Where are you?" Her howl communicated all of this in various tones, they had arrived, and Rini knew in her heart one slip could cause Altan an eternity of death.
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Post by Alanna Elensar on Mar 19, 2006 14:08:32 GMT -5
Ally began scrambling around, calling for Zane.
"I DID IT! WE'RE HERE!! MY BROTHER HAS TO BE RESCUED!" she shouted so that someone may hear her. "Somebody, please! Help us!!"
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