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Old 03-20-2004, 04:19 PM   #293
Larry_OHF
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Join Date: March 1, 2001
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Age: 49
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The woman tossed over a charred stick, and as he caught it, he turned to the arrival of another. His eyes were wide with horror, for there were only thee people on this forum that he respected for their power. The Windbringer, who had to send his own daughter in his place, the Druid that was licking her wounds after fighting the Hunger...and HER!

Chani Ravenwood. Even as he noticed her, she was taking aim with those arrows! The ones that had been built so long ago to be used especially against him. He had already been hit by one of those before, and now two were in flight!

He could not even bark out commands fast enough.
Before he could retaliate or order his servants to kill these two, the arrows had found their mark...even before he could flinch and put up an arm to protect himself. It was enevitable.

As the arrows sank into his newlyfound form, the Mage fell to the ground, screaming with the burning pain that those arrows brought...for they carried his own evil powers with them, turned into deadly weapons against him. It was one of few items on this website that could actually deal a blow this powerful.

Screaming on the ground, writhing in pain and shock to his system, his mental hold on the ju-ju zombie Grey was released and it began to wander toward the two women, smelling the life in them and wanting to terminate it of is own free will, which was nothing more than the impluse found in all undead. He dropped his bow and started for them. The giants were in confusion as they saw their great Father dying upon the ground, and looked to Terrakis to lead them again. Terrakis was stunned by the power these women held, for he thought his master unstoppable now that he had arisen. He did not immediately make a move to do anything except stare at Larry as he seemingly died on the floor.

"No! No! Not again! I sh....shall not pass away! Raaaahhh!"

Larry found energy again, trying to stand and stumble across the floor. It was too much power coursing within him to move very much at all. He had to expel this somehow. Again he fell, rolling down the three steps that led up to his throne.

Suddenly, the Mage was aware of something new...and unfelt before. He felt too full and his body seemed stretched by this amazing shock to his system, but there was more. Another voice inside his head was screaming as well. It was screaming to be let free and to be gone from this darkness. The Mage spoke aloud, asking it,

"Who are you, that invades my brain! Speak!"

The voice was screaming and trying to pull away from something, but the Mage understood it not. Then it spoke, yelling in fear,

"Let me out of here! I want to live! Mistral?!! Why did you leave me?! Help me!!! Spree??!! I cannot see you!!!!"

These words were terrible for the Mage to hear, for he knew what they were about. A life long ago left behind, bottled up and forgotten was now again being reborn. How this happened, The Mage was unsure. But there was this fact. It had been reawakened. His skin felt stretched and torn. His mind was thinking of many things at once and he could not distinguish his own thoughts from this new mental power within.

Then it occured to him what was to be done.

With all the power he could find, the Mage pulled himself in a mental battle upward, trying to tear away from the form that lay below him. It was working. He could feel himself lifting off the burdon and his mind becoming clearer.

To the onlookers, they would see the body of Larry lying on the floor while a vapor of black shadow hung over him, seemingly pouring upward out of him.

At last, the shadow was pulled from the body of the tormented one. He could again think clearly and move of his own accord. Yet he was still just a shadow. A bodiless whisp of vapor that had no connection to the world now. This vapor whisped forward and surged into the unsuspecting Terrakis. Then Terrakis spoke with the voice of the Mage.

"YOU HAVE NOT CONQUERED ME LADIES, AND HAVE NOW ONLY CAUSED ME TO BECOME STRONGER, FOR NOW I UNDERSTAND THAT IN ORDER TO HAVE BECOME THE GREAT MAGE OF IRONWORKS I HAD TO DISPOSE OF THE USELESS FORM OF THE BUMBLING RANGER THAT YOU SEE BEFORE YOU NOW.

NOW TIME TO FACE DEATH!!!!!"


Terrakis who was the Mage, pointed to the two who were already being sought for by the zombie and ordered them to attack as well.
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