Vampire-Tavern

[Shadowheart]

I'm alive, just a few comp problems lately and waiting on a reply from Skye. (sent you a PM [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) But Whacky, a fight would be fun... ^_^

EDIT: btw, how do you all like the new sig? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 01-07-2003, 06:14 PM: Message edited by: Shadowheart ]

[vampyress-of-shadows]

she take out a cigg from an unseen place and lights it she takes a long drag on it and exhales she smiles and looks around once more before vacating to the lake
she stands and walks out there she stands by the lake and looks up at the moon. the reflection off the lake makes her face and skin light up her eyes closed she humms a very melodic tune.

[Shadowheart]

"It's amazing how you're so calm at a time such as this," said Laisrean to Vampyress, "I wonder sometimes if you're without care, or perhaps, Skye's life has no meaning to you?" He appeared from the shadows of the forest, glaring coldly at her. He had tried to hold the word's back, but he felt it was something he had to say.

He appeared in front of her, staring down at her, cold and stern. Though he easily oversized her, he realized that perhaps it was a mistake to speak to the Vampyress so harshly. Perhaps she only needed a break, Laisrean couldn't be angry at her, for it was not her place to find Skye.

"I have offended you... for that I am sorry." He nodded his head to her, and met her eyes again. "The melody... it just reminded me of..." Quickly, he turned away from her and dashed into the forest. "I'll find you, Skye... I'll find you.

[ 01-08-2003, 06:18 PM: Message edited by: Shadowheart ]

[Skydracgrrl]

ooc- FINALLY pmed you back Shadowheart sorry, rl's been super busy recently

ic- Duo slammed a fist backwards into a tree, causing it to splinter. Growling, she looked about angrily. "Damned creature gets smarter every time... By the time I find the trail again, Skye will already have been..." she did not continue the thought, a shudder of horror spasming her pale frame. "I must not give up," she said to herself grimly, and continued to search for her lost companion.

[shadowhound]

Shadow scans the forest from the top a tall tree, suddenly he sees a darting movement nearby. He drops down onto the ground and skitters over to behind a nearby bush. Seeing the movement again he dives foreward and tackles the figure.

He struggles against his opponent eventually managing to seperate himself and see who he is fighting clearly... "Oh sorry about that Duo... A common mistake.. are you ok? I think you almost took out one of my eyes."

[Shadowheart]

Meanwhile...

Laisrean came to a clearing a several miles through the forest. The air was dense and think, a heavy and unclean atmosphere surrounded it heavily, the moon overhead hung as an ill omen. Mangled tree branches hung down, twisted and wrapped around what seemed to be a... large wall, a very, large wall.

...Water? He walked down the wall of the castle a good seventy yards or so when he saw it. Lairean was standing by a castle, which oddly enough had no windows at all. The castle doors we're open, a large portcullis with jutted steel spikes hung overhead. It was rusted and old, though that made it no less dangerous. Laisrean slowly entered the castle, observing his surroundings.

Candles were lit and placed all across the far back of the room, and they were placed going up two flights of stairs on the left and right of the room. Large red draperies trimmed in gold lines the second story, covered in webs and worn of old age. The floor he stood on was made of black marble, which was scuffed and untreated for many obvious years. In it's time, Laisrean knew, it was a quite remarkable place of dwelling. Though beautiful, the aura and essence of it was that of horror and pain. It's looks were inviting, but its walls hid many secrets.

A deep, guttural groan cut through the silence. Silhouettes of three, maybe four creatures appeared in front of the candles, creeping towards him slowly, eagerly. They drug their legs under them, limping and staring blankly at Laisrean, who instinctively had his sword drawn. Ghouls were in this room, and he could feel that more were coming. He ran in, and with a crouching swipe robbed one of the ghouls of their legs. Unphased it kept its pursuit, dragging it's torso with its arms and staring at Laisrean's feet. He spat, and leaped to the banisters on the second story only to be confronted by more of the undead horde. He stood still, strangely, though after only seconds of concentration his moves were as liquid, though much faster obviously, and he struck without sound. The Assamite used his training in Quietus and Celerity to win the battle, at least, to disable them.

Eleven of the creatures lied on the ground, squirming and limbless they still tried to wiggle their way towards him. With a cold smirk he enterred a tall, thin door, engraved with ancient symbols across the border. He couldn't read them, but he felt that Skye was very close...

Inside the room was a stairway, leading upstairs, moonbeams shone through the room from the top of the stairs which obviously led outside. He walked upstairs... Skye was standing at the top, staring down at him...

Skye! He quickly ran up to her and smiled, which quickly faded when she looked back to him unphased, expressionless, almost hauntingly. He opened his mouth to say something, but it was caught in his throat. He approached her again, closer to her, he felt something dreadful, mysterious about her aura. Something obviously was not as it seemed. "Skye?... It's Laisrean!" He took a step down the stairs, confused.

Her eyes widened and quickly darted down the stairs, she could not feel Laisrean's presence, but felt another. Laisrean found himself flying through the air to the edge, though he rebounded himself on a spire. The Vampire was here, strong, and powerful.

Duo! I've found! again he was thrown aside. Come...quickly!

ooc: yep, that's telepathic communication alright [img]tongue.gif[/img]

EDIT: PMed you Skye

[ 01-09-2003, 06:57 PM: Message edited by: Shadowheart ]

[Skydracgrrl]

ooc- *claps* wonderful job shadowheart! [img]smile.gif[/img] I applaud you! ^__^

ic- Duo stopped struggling and lashing out at her attacker, and stared up wide-eyed and bewildered, her hair and clothing in disarray. "Oh, shadow, it's only you," she said, with a tinge of relief and disapointment creeping into her voice. Standing up, she brushed off her clothes and ran her fingers through her bangs. "Well, we better contin-" she broke off in mid-sentence, the pupils in her eyes contracting and dilating. "Come, we must hurry, she said urgently to shadow. "Find the others searching, and tell them to follow my aura. Laisrean's found Skye." With that, she rushed off, disappearing before shadow could say anything.

Elsewhere...
Skye felt herself floating in darkness. A cold, cruel gloom of penetrating shadows. "Please, please don't leave me in here alone," she cried out, the sound of her voice being absorbed by the impenetrable, opaque dark, transforming into nothing more than a whisper. Suddenly, she saw a part of the ever present bleakness turn almost gray in shade. "Please, come help me!" she entreated the coloured light, recognizing it to be Laisrean's aura. The light quickly turned threateningly bloody red and black, and she covered her face. "What do you want from me?" she asked the horrible creature. She could sense the presence smiling vindictively, and Skye felt a burning sensation where her scar was.*

Laisrean saw Skye's body shudder violently for a moment, then blood started to well up from a scar on the side of her neck, dripping down slowly. Her eyes dilated with fear, but her facial features remained frozen, and Skye's eyes still refused to focus or acknowledge Laisrean's presence.

ooc-
*- this paragraph is all in her mind, so Laisrean does not see anything except what happens in the paragraph after. [img]smile.gif[/img] If you want, shadowheart, he can perhaps think he heard her mindspeech to him, but then again, maybe it was just his imagination.. ^.^

[Shadowheart]

Laisrean's expression went into sheer anger, the darker side of the Assamite was shown through his cold, almost heartless glare. He pushed himself off of the ground with his arms, vision shifting to shades of dark blues and shades of greys and black. He was seeing auras rather than normal vision.

Skye's aura shocked him, an astounding, brilliant blue surrounded by an inpenetrable opaque black... and glaring into the aura he knew that he heard her, somewhere lying in the dark abyss. Quickly and angrily he threw his cloak aside, revealing a chain mesh shirt joined together at a single crimson red stone at his chest. 'Any time now...', Laisrean thought to himself. This crazed Vampire was playing with his mind, and he was doing well.

Quickly something moved from the corner of his right eye, and Laisrean saw his enemy. He was standing nonchalantly by a spire by the edge of the castle, glaring, and grinning with a dark expression. The darkness surrounding Skye increased heavily, and the blue began to fade...

"Release her!" Laisrean growled. He clenched his fists angrily against the hilt of his sword and felt the urge to utterly destroy this creature. He was waiting for the right time to strike his opponent, but perhaps there was more to him than he may assume. The creature evaded Laisrean seconds after he'd left her on the rooftop, as well as every Vampire's senses inside of the Tavern.

The Vampire's eyes flashed a deep crimson, as his grin dropped to an expressionless, monotone rendition of what it was only moments ago. A chill covered Laisrean and went through his spine, not from fear of the creature, but from the fact that her brilliant blue had faded significantly, and looked as if it were almost gone.

Laisrean took a step towards the creature, as it mockingly took a step towards him the same way. It grinned. Skye's life meant nothing to him, she was merely the next meal. Laisrean quickly whipped a dagger from the belt on his side towards the creature, it leaped and balanced on top of the pointed spire and lunged just as quickly towards the angered Assamite.

Laisrean quickly evaded and went to stab the damned creature and send it to whatever hell he had Skye placed in, when he quickly remembered the situation. His eyesight returned to normal, looking over to Skye, her face was losing its color, cheeks a chalky white, pupils faded and red, and her body emanated an icy cold aura. Laisrean felt a quick blow to his midsection and quickly brought himself back to fight. He staggered backwards and went to a knee, upper body heaving heavily, he brought his sword up across it's face. It shrieked, and clawed at Laisrean again. They traded cuts and punches continuously when he felt another presence, Duo, was near...

On top of the castle, come quickly! He called out to her with his mind, swinging angrily towards the creature in another flurry of blows. Skye was fading quickly...

ooc: work your magic Skye [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 01-10-2003, 04:19 PM: Message edited by: Shadowheart ]

[Shadowheart]

testing

anddd BUMPING ^_^

EDIT: well uhh, this font color stuff isnt working. -_-

[ 01-11-2003, 12:56 PM: Message edited by: Shadowheart ]

[Skydracgrrl]

ooc- I'll try, but I don't know if i can follow up that well..
as for font color stuff, type [font color=red]words here[/font] but replace the []s with <>s so it should be like words here. if you're still having trouble, click the "quote" button on someone's post who's using font colour, and see how they did it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

ic- Duo burst into the rotting door below and looked up, sensing the two battles commencing- Laisrean's and the vampyre's physical one, and Skye's mental one. Cursing to herself, she rushed upstairs and ran into the vampyre, sending him off somewhere into the darkness of the room. "I can handle him until help arrives, if Shadow can find us," she yelled at Laisrean. But you need to help Skye... she may be starting to give up in her mind. You have to make sure that she doesn't. Take her somewhere out of harms way, I don't want her getting involved in this."
As soon as she finished speaking the cursed creature bounded out of the inky blackness with a snarl, slashing at Duo's arm. Hissing with pain, Duo exchanges blows with the monster at an inhuman speed. At the moment they seemed to be evenly matched, but it was obvious to any experienced vampyre that she couldn't keep it up indefinitely. "Go!" she yelled out at Laisrean, who was watching the fight. "Take her somewhere safe!"