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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:41:56 GMT -5
(Kurai) *she walks up to a marble platform with strange symbols engraved on it as she touches it she says*
Magical Beasts Sealed since Antiquity... Three Dragon Sisters, Masters of the natural world... As the 14th rightful princess of Gehenna... and the true dragon master... I command you to rise! Dragons Appear!
*three dragon sisters appear from a white glowing light infront of her each with their own personality and sarcasm the three dragons of the Past, Present, and Future*
Dragon of the Future Jade! I wish to know what will happen in our battle for the earth... Will we reign, or will we fall?
*the blind sister dragon Jade takes a moment to see*
I see many deaths, many heart aches and pains...this will be by far the end of the world...and its beings on it....Alexiel and Rosiel will fight...Rosiel will win and more blood will be spilt than anyone could imagine...
*her eyes grow wide with fear and worry, as she calms she thinks to herself as Jade speaks again*
Setsuna will die if Alexiel is to finally awaken...and when that happens everything else will die too...
*she worries even more trying not to panic and asks Jade calmly*
When will all this take place?
*the dragon immeadiatly says*
on the 12th day, on the 12th hour, the stoke of midnight...
*she puts her head down thinking to herself as the other sisters say*
please try not to strain yourself lady Kurai, your only going to hurt more...
things might change...maybe...
*Kurai lifts up her head and bows to Jade and the others*
Thank you for your time... You may go back to sleep now...
*she touches the marble platform again as the dragon sisters fade*
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:42:17 GMT -5
(Onizuka) A soul fell to the mud under the force of the drenching rain, rain that chilled the bone and pounded the flesh.
The soul looked up, eyes swirling maws of needy void, twin nexuses of slowly spinning energy. These were the eyes of no simply punished soul.
The Great Vulture demon had fallen to Hell.
Tenia crouched in the onpour on his hands and knees, his noble robes turned black with rot and hanging limply upon his gaunt frame. His skeletal face was framed by a dead, wisping goatee.
The puddle this demon sank in was one of thousands, stretching across the bleak landscape under the eye of the roiling dark sky that churned overhead. Somewhere here dwelled the lord of this domain, Cerberus, the twice and again headed dog that kept with fierce pride the oath made to the lord Lucifer.
Others writhed in the mud, moaning and suffering beneath the cold, stinging rain and wallowing in the mud of their own failure.
The Vulture Demon Tenia's softly glowing eyes found a form nearby and crawled to it.
A pitiful fat glutton lay crying in the muck and filth, unable to shield his body from the stinging frozen water. The man's shrieks intensified as Tenia lowered his teeth and sunk them into the flesh of the sinner.
The demon fed on the pathetic man, who was unable to resist or even raise his head against the pouring wet onslaught. The shrieks ended and Tenia sat back on his haunches, feeling the pain of the punished strengthen himself.
Black feathers sprouted from the demon's cloak, and his form twisted ever so slightly, his eyes growing brighter as the spinning pools grew even more insatiable.
Tenia stood alone in the wasteland of shallow pools and puddles, among those writhing and unable to rise. He began to laugh, a twisted, harping bay that echoed in the volume of the screams of those nearby enough to hear it.
And the cold rain fell.
~To be continued~
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:42:40 GMT -5
(Onizuka) Tenia looked up for an instant, his gaunt face smeared with blood from a glutton's neck. The glutton had stopped his rasping pleas but continued kicking his legs, his eyes open and wildly twitching from point to point, seeing nothing.
The vulture demon scented the wet air, leaving off the fading soul and stumbling away through the dark puddles.
The glutton, neck an open mess of chorded vein and pooling blood, writhed his last in the cold puddle, denied the quicker ending he would have recieved had Tenia continued his meal. As his wide eyes darted about their last it saw a blurry sillouhette against the roiling sky.
A scarred hand carressed the open wound of the glutton's neck in rememberance for a moment before breaking the man's neck with a wet snap, ending even this pitiful form of existence.
Tenia slowed his running and fearfully turned, eyes tracing the limited view he had, several of his own rain filled footprints, cold dark rain drowning out all view beyond them.
A strange shadow filled out the cold falling rain and began to darken. A familiar shadow. Tenia turned and fled, splashing and swishing his black feathery cloak closer about his shoulders.
The shadowy girl watched the vulture flee before her across the wasteland until she too was swallowed from sight by the rain. The girl was warmed by the hatred burning inside her, and she felt no hunger, immune to the fate of the gluttons of whose punishment she had no part of.
Kurai crouched to the puddle at her feet to regard Tenia's footprint, which had filled with cold freezing water. The shape was no longer that of a human's foot, but resembled now slightly the talon of a vulture.
Swiping her hand across the print, erasing it in a smear of numbing cold water and black mud, Kurai stalked carefully after her prey into the darkness.
And the moans of the suffering were lost to the sound of the pouring rain.
~To be continued~
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:43:18 GMT -5
(Onizuka) Tenia splashed through the darkness of Hell, heeled by the girl who had killed him in life. The demonic girl's drawing gaze flitted back in forth, unblinded by the flowing water. He needed souls. Just a few more souls would prepare him to face his killer.
Just a few more...
He was still vainly searching through the fetid pools of water through the downpour when six red pinpoints of light burned through the falling water, unmistakably clear.
The vulturous man stopped in his tracks and fell to his feet, sinking into a chilling puddle. Before him rose an enormous sillouhette, an arching tail flicking through the air.
Cerberus had found him.
Tenia didn't seem to notice when Kurai caught up with him, wrapped strong hands around his neck. Tenia's spinning pools of eyes were entranced by the red glint of Cerberus's gaze.
As Cerberus faded into the rain with a disturbing howl, Kurai's grip on Tenia weakened, and was lost as the Vulture Demon stood. Tenia grinned as new power and something almost like life coursed through his veins.
Cerberus had chosen the new lord of this circle of Hell.
Tenia backhanded Kurai viciously, sending the larger man end over end sprawling in the mud. As Kurai regained his footing, she wiped blood from her lip.
The spinning vortexes of Tenia's eyes had intensified, his very gaze sapped Kurai of her strength, her essence. The vulture demon's cloak had completed its transformation, a ragged set of vulture wings that wrapped tightly around his birdlike frame. His beaklike maw was framed still by the wispy goatee he had sported in life.
Baying, cackling as he spread his wings and swooped at his prey, gripping him with scaly talons and bearing him to the muddy water, forcing him under, Tenia leaned in with his head close over his downed prey, a twisted grin over his birdlike features.
The wickedly curved beak was about to rip into Kurai's throat when from out of the rain shot a bright red tail, bladed and segmented with jointed spines. The tail bit into the vulture's face, knocking her aside as Blood Carver splashed into view and grabbed the sputtering Kurai in her talons.
The fanatically loyal demon bore Kurai through the puddles, stealing away from the Third level of Hell.
And for many hours Tenia circled in the stormy rain, eyes blazing and face bleeding.
~To be continued~
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:43:51 GMT -5
(Onizuka) Tenia fed on the souls of his realm, with a grim satisfaction and half sense of fulfillment.
Crouched in the marshy pool that was his sanctum (It reeked of the blood of his meals, the only way to differentiate it from any other part of his domain), Tenia felt thirsts for desires no simple meal could provide.
Revenge. A fool had killed, him, a fool had followed him into the depths of Hell, and now both he and Tenia were again as equals in power. Tenia's wicked beak twisted into the vulturous grin.
Sweeping through the stormy downpour, searching the rank puddles, searching through corpses of gluttons, searching through mud and water, searching through the filth of the realm.
There. Tenia's swirling vortexes of eyes locked onto a single line of shadow, difficult to discern as it floated in the spattering puddle under the pouring rain. The vulture demon lord dove down and plucked the thick black hair from the filthy pool.
Hobbling over to the nearest suffering glutton on his talons, the vulture in a swift peck tore out the sinner's throat. Tenia gently laid the hair in steadily bleeding oriface as the soul crept out.
His eyes spun and glowed brilliant shades of sickly radiant green and his scaly beak parted in incantation as he worked his magic upon the single black hair, infusing it with the fleeing soul of the condemned glutton.
Sparks of brilliant sickly green shed through the pouring rain, bursts of flame and gouts of steam. Tenia concluded the incantation and spread his dark vulture's wings, as from the swirling smoke before him a pair of red eyes gleemed from their bloody birth.
A bloody, torn muzzle, red, penetrating eyes, ears that stood rigidly at attention, listening through the roar of the rain for sounds of prey. Born from a single hair of Cerberous and infused with an undead soul, the Hell hound turned to regard Tenia.
It's single head twisted into a ravenous snarl, filled with the hunger of the gluttonous soul it had from hence spawned. It yipped at the Vulture lord, who grinned and patted its raw and bloody head with a talon.
In time, Tenia would raise scores of fiends, an army with ranks of hungry hounds to devour his enemy, Kurai.
Death has been good to me, Tenia thought.
~To be continued~
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:44:25 GMT -5
(Onizuka) A small but growing pack of hounds hunted through the falling rain, oblivious to the cold and darkness. The alpha, noticably larger then his brothers, led the pack splashing through the filthy chilling water, to find and bring more gluttonous souls before lord Tenia.
A chubby boy tried to wriggle away through the stunted reeds, but unrelenting jaws clamped deep through the glutton's fat and met solid bone. With the help of several packmates, dragged the sinner through the sloughs of water and muck, dragging the screaming boy through the darkness and spattering pools.
Soon they were before Tenia, the glutton raw and numb from the bites. Tenia wickedly grinned and stroked his wispy goatee with a scaly talon. His voice, a raspy cackle not unlike static, carried down onto the alpha male Hell hound.
"You've done well. Yesss, very well. I can see it will be you who will lead my forces against those who would oppose me." With a stroke of blinding speed, Tenia plucked out the Alpha's right eye with a wet talon.
The Hell hound didn't even flinch.
Tenia cackled vulturously and swallowed the eye. "Now are sights are one, I share in your bountious slaughter and see all which you see..."
The alpha Hell hound blinked its eye at Tenia.
The vulture leaned down and patted the hound with a ragged wing. "I name you Asvhor, and your eye will lead the teeth of our armies to the throat of our enemy..."
Asvhor spoke, a deep, throaty growl, "I will please you, my father. I will deliver Kurai's pelt to you." Tenia cackled wickedly and leaned back. "In time, my young pup, in time. You are as yet but few. Go forth and bring me more souls to swell the ranks of our dominion."
Asvhor trotted off, followed by his brothers, into the pouring rain.
~To be continued~
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:44:50 GMT -5
(Onizuka) Death continued to smile upon Tenia, feeding him, giving him strength.
His small coven of Hell hounds had grown and branched, numbering nearly sixty. And the pile of writhing gluttons they dragged before him through the mucky rain provided the Vulture lord with souls for his own consumption.
The third circle of Hell was flourishing. The rains poured down upon the savagely disciplined Hell hounds, led by their alpha Asvhor, who in their numbers had begun to thin the immediate hunting grounds around Tenia's blood filled marsh.
Then and again Tenia would birth more hounds through his sorcery, sometimes using one of Cerberus' hairs, sometimes with water taken from one of his enormous footprints. More and more, though, Tenia used the souls his hounds brought him for himself, instead of swelling his army.
The vulture lord of Hell had indeed grown powerfull. He was twice again as large as he had been in life, his wingspan now enormous, but most noticably his eyes were swirling vortexes of energy which could now be seen even through the rain, almost anywhere in his domain.
Just a few more, Tenia thought to himself. A few more souls and my army will march upon the Styx and rip apart Kurai, devouring the scraps.
Tenia grinned and sank his twisted beak into the belly of his latest meal...
~To be continued~
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:45:24 GMT -5
Level 5 - The River Styx (Onizuka) What can be heard here are accounts from the dead of the taking of Hell. The accounts are few and often have gaps between them that cannot be filled, for few dead remain who could recall such a tale. The rest have sunken into the madness of the Styx, lost in their own tales of misery and self-hatred..
NRP: In seriousness, Kurai went on a deleting spree on that thread a while back and I had only saved a couple of posts.
RP:An ichorous reeking demon of teeth and spines perched atop a rocky pinnacle, surrounded as far as sight on all sights by smoking, burning black water, which was sludgy and sluggish with the dead.
This grinning malicious entity forever grinned its dead smile down upon the chorus of raw and bloody hands that tried to purchase hold of his position, vainly, for the base of this stone was sharp as coral, and none could climb upon it.
Reeking bubbles lazily rose to the surface as the gloomy souls of sinners slothfully battled forever to push above his companions to at least reach the surface of the Styx.
The pinnacle demon turned and shrieked at his sister pinaccle, planted firmly in the shallows nearer the City of Dis. There crouched his like in red, watching the malicous dead tear at each other and eat each other's flesh, although the meal gave no repast, made of the dead and turning to ash to be spat out.
Between these towers the ferryman's craft slowly carried those meant for deeper levels of hell onward towards the City of Dis.
The same it was, endlessly, for time did not pass in this place. Untill now.
The spiny demon of sludge and black mud turned his barbed, insectile head from his sister's post and regarded the distant form of the Ferryman passing through the waters of the Styx.
The spiny demon of sludge and black mud turned his barbed, insectile head from his sister's post and regarded the distant form of the Ferryman passing through the waters of the Styx.
Unused to seeing what appeared to be a living form this deep in Hell, the monster on his perch peered deep into the man's soul, to ascertain what level of Hell he was bound to. Burning shock and rage coursed through him as he discovered that one in the ferryman's charge was still alive.
For the first time, ichorous Styx demon spread his enormous wings, flicking off the caked crust of an eternity and sweeping down close over the crests of black waves and grey rotting hands.
The ferry rocked as its charge leapt off the craft and met its foe in midair above the Styx. Teeth scissored flesh and talons met bone as the pair grappled, falling with a sickening plurp into the black mud.
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:45:47 GMT -5
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Alucard) Among thu Unholy City, a figure emerges. A very pail man with red eyes, vampiric fangs, a black robe, long black hair, and black bat-like wings. Alucard the Vampire Lord of Dis.
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:46:07 GMT -5
(Kurai) *walks into the City of Dis and comes upon Alucard...bows and speads her demon wings*
"i trust you'll keep order around this City...remember only demon's and those who are to be punished can only enter here."
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:46:51 GMT -5
(Alucard) Than it shall be done...
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:47:59 GMT -5
(Onizuka) Blood Carver swept on her red wings through the narrow tunnels and causeways of stone, on occasion brushing close enough to smear the passing rock with her blood.
In her talons she cradled the pouch Onizuka had commanded her to carry, carefull not to puncture it with her spiny claws. In her head she carried the message, to be heard only by the lord of Dis himself.
Acrid smoke billowed along the ceilings of the catacombs, and she knew she was nearing Dis. She swept from the tunnels and came to a lurching halt as she came into a vastly arched room lit by dozens of torches. At the far end an enormous barred gate led to the City.
Between her and the gate towered three hulking knights, thick plated armor covering every inch of their bodies, enormous shield and sword, blazing fiery eyes that turned now to regard the Blood Carver.
One of the Demon Knights turned to its fellow. "What comes hither?" Its voice a rumble that echoed deep in the plated armor. The other Knight blinked, sending sparks across its helm. "A demon of some sorts, I would guess."
Blood Carver strode slowly towards where they stood, flames flicking up to the tops of their helments as they stared at her. She was within a foot of them, almost past, as one boomed, "HALT."
The inquisitive hulking Demon Knight turned back to its fellow and whispered, "Where does he think he's going?" The other annoyedly swatted its shield against him with a loud CLANG. "He's standing right there, ask him yourself."
"Sshe," Blood Carver corrected with a drawling hiss.
The trio of Knights stared at her for an uncomfortably long time.
The third giant armored knight spoke, "Excuse me, erm...my lady, but where are you going?"
Blood Carver shifted the pouch delicately in her hands, turning to face them. "My mAsTeR hAs a mEsSaGe fOr tHE loRd oF DIS."
Another long silence punctuated only by the sputtering flames of the torches on the walls of the cavern.
"Well then, what is it?" the second Knight said impatiently. Blood Carver leaned back on her bladed tail and twisted her face into a frown. "mY mEsSaGe iS fOR hIM oNLy."
The Knights turned to confer with one another. The first one leaned close to his fellows and whispered, "We can't let her in, the master is travelled to his domain in the second level of Hell." The third one nodded. "Who knows what business she is about." The second shook his helment skeptically, "I still don't think it's a woman."
They turned back to face Blood Carver, who had continued on and was just reaching for the gate. "You there! Halt!" The three Knights dropped into their hunched marching stance, lining up their armor plates for a more perfect defense behind the enormous shield, the giant serrated sword swinging at the other side.
The Demon Knights surrounded Blood Carver, and the iron gate locked behind her, barring her passage.
"You'll wait here for the master's return, be you what you are or aren't."
Their burning eyes flicked the rims of their helms as the watched her unblinkingly.
~To be continued~
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:48:18 GMT -5
(Alucard) Alucard, the lord of Dis, burst the gates of Dis furiously.
He had heard the news of an intruder from one of the higher ranking demon knights.
Many demons ran franticly out of his path, for fear he might take his anger out on them.
He entered the room of which the Blood Carver was being kept.
"What the hell is going on, and why are you here!?"
He said, his furious look still about him.
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:49:02 GMT -5
(Onizuka) The towering hulks of armor parted before Alucard as he strode forward to the Blood Carver. Could this be the creature who slew Nerui? Alucard wondered. His red eyes flickered with a slight luminence at the prospect.
Blood Carver bowed her spiny mantle in respect as she had been instructed, and offered the worn pouch to Alucard.
The vampire lord stared at it disinterestedly for a moment before motioning for a Demon Knight to take it. The armored giant delicately snapped off the stopper and poured a tiny bit out onto his opposite open gauntlet. Dull red blood dimly reflected the light of the flickering torches.
"a gIfT, fRoM tHe LoRd oF tHe sTyX," the Blood Carver rasped. "iTSs SstIll wArM..."
Alucard crossed his arms narrowed his eyes. "Oh? And what does he want?" The Blood Carver took a moment, clicking the joints of her spiny tail before reciting carefully her master's words.
"LoRd of DiS; war has come to Hell, between the ancient and eternal domains. The BaStArD lord of the third circle has incited miSdeEds that caNnOt be OveRlooked. Join Me in the bLoody vIoleNce which will ensue, perHaps an arranGement can be made between our doMains that wilL muTually satisfy. Should bAttle your thirsts Satisfy, send word to the Styx witHin fIve passing days of the eaRthlY world."
As she finished she let a rattling cackle burst out, and with blinding speed and flare of wings, flicked from where she had crouched to the tangle of hanging rock above, swinging over the Demon Knights and dissappearing down the tunnel towards the Styx.
Slow to respond, the enormously strong Knights began to clank after her down the tunnel, when Alucard murmured, "Don't bother."
His eyes still narrowed, Alucard had been completely unmoving throughout her recital, unflinching even as she burst by overhead. If these new lords share a power as great as mine...surely one of them must be Nerui's murderer.
A Demon Knight stepped before him with a low Clank and opened the armored gauntlet, therein the Knight had held the pouch of blood, unspilling.
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Post by Jack on Jul 11, 2005 14:50:00 GMT -5
(Alucard) Alucard gave much thought into the offer. Although the mere gift of blood that was always within his reach was crude, he still thought this to be an interesting oppurtunity. If he allied with them, he could find out for sure if the Blood Carver's lord was truely the one who killed Nerui...Alucard's blood boiled at the thought. So, he decided he would accept the offer, if only to find the truth... so, he spread his black wings, and flew off threw the tunnels of hell to deliver his reply.
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