Part 3 of - The Shadow of Love

[Morgeruat]

Rodie 39/70

Standing up unsteadily, Rodie carefully cut the web away from his face, it would take some time to get it out of his hair however. He looked at the mage of shadow before him and nodded at the words spoken by him. "I could use some healing, I don't want my body to die while that bastard has control of it."

[Skydracgrrl]

Liam

Falling backwards, Liam's mind raced as he thought about all of his past "jobs." He was pretty sure that none of the dead knew who he was, nor had a were-tigress offspring.

"I know not of what you speak of," Liam growled at the tigress as he shifted to hybrid form and jumped forward. "You must have me confused with someone else... I was not the one who killed yourr motherr, and I have no brrotherr rrelated to me by blood... I used to have a sisterr, but she and the rrest of my family werre killed by..."

He stopped, his face distorted by old anger and pain. But that happened a long time ago, and is none of yourr business. I have no wish to continue this pointless fighting with you, it solves nothing."

[Skydracgrrl]

Sabbiel (Sand Cat) (and Chisa, the mis-guided tigress)

Sabbiel's brow furrowed as he thought over what the She-wolf had told him. Shaking his head in puzzlement, he stalked over to Chisa while the others were distracted. He would think over the strange statement later. Right now, action was needed.

Chisa, my sister, you acted foolish!" He scolded the larger tigress while looking over her wounds. She rolled bloodshot eyes to look at him.

"She is a threat, I will not let any female take Him away from me," she growled. Sabbiel gave a cat-like snort.

"He can handle himself. He knows about two-leggers and their strange ways. And you are not his mate," he addressed her sternly. Chisa wheezed a laugh while the smaller sand cat attempted to push the tigress away from the fight with his head.

"No, He is not my mate... yet. But I will make Him change His mind. Ah, small one, stop your fruitless efforts. When some of my energy returns I shall rejoin the battle. Until then, let me be."

Sabbiel hissed in response but sat himself at her side, his tail lashing in aggitation as he turned his attention back to the fight.

[ArcadesSabboth]

Seeing the battle, Arcades shapeshifts faster than ever before, turning back into a half-sized dragon form and stands taller than the were-tigers. A deep growl escapes his throat as he watches, bareing his knife-like teeth.

"Two on one is hardly an honorable fight." He watches Nanashi struggle, and keeps his fire breath ready should she escape Tao's bindings.

[Larry_OHF]

Mage of Shadow

"Why of course, Rodie, Boy! I can certainly take care of that for you..."

The Shadow Mage was a mage, and not a cleric...so he should not have had powers to heal. However, he no ordinary mage, either. The powers he worked were beyond what most people on this forum had dealt with before, and the point that he was a demi-god lent him untold authorities beyond the norm.

Therefore, the Mage could do as he wished with this form of unending magical supply. Even alter the past if he so chose.

The Mage rose into the air once again, calling upon his powers to do his will. A dark and swirling mist began to vortex in the middle of the room and a cow stepped through, obviously surprised at its new surrounding. It began to pine for help as it ran to a corner of the room. No sooner had it done so that the shadows around it formed eery dark claws that grabbed the cow and held her in place. She began to scream with terror, which did not last long. One of the shadows poured down her throat and she began to convulse.
When the mist of darkness poured from her nostrils, she was dead. The mist looked like a ghost in cow-shape as it formed on the ground, and began to walk to a now-nervous Rodie. The cow-ghost's eyes were black obsidian and her form was fiery and unnearthly.

She stopped. The Mage smiled. Then the cow-ghost leapt into the air toward the horrified Rodie and flew up his nose, turning to mist again as she went.
In an instant it was done.


The mage looked at Rodie who was not quite sure what had happened by the look on his face.

"I gave you her energy of life. The strength she had has been transferred to you and you have now been healed.

Now the fun begins with Roderik. Roderik! I call you forth to fend for your life!"

The Mage clapped his hands once, and was gone in a dark swirl.

[Larry_OHF]

Nanashi

She stopped squirming against the hold on her heels by the plants and looked up at her brother...he not even knowing who stood before him. She turned then to human-form, and stared him in the eye with her own fierce and beautiful glare.

"I see that yourr past crrimes haunt you to this day, foolish one. What you have lost leans on yourr conscience too heavily for worrds."

She smiled, but it held no happiness, for it was twisted with sinister thoughts.
The contrast against her lovely face was as an eclipse of day and night together.

"Howeverr fun this has been forr eitherr of us, I do not have time to enterrtain yourr frriends anymorre. YOU arre not the one that I have been asked to deal with and so I shall let you go for now until another time is arrranged forr YOURR funerral. Until then, I must be on my way."

Her form changed to Hybrid as she leaped straight into the air, and the vines that held her ankles came with her upward. In an amazingly agile move that astounded all but Liam, she reached down with her newly-formed claws, tore at the bindings that could not grow back fast enough into the air to retake thier position of hold on her, and then she continued upward and grabbed onto a particularly high branch of a tree with her outstreched claws.
Swinging into the tree brush, then leaping into the next, she made her way in the direction of the city at an unbelievable speed and agility. Too quickly, she was out of sight from all. This was how she could get by the outer perimeter of wolves standing guard down below.

OOC>>>Arcades....I am sure you would not have attemped your fire on her during her flight away from everyone, seeing as how you would have set the trees on fire. That is why I let her get away without your confrontation. I hope my opinion was correct.

Tao

As the spell on the vines were broken by the were-tiger's sneaky move, Tao had tried to speak to the tree that Nanashi had perched in, to ask it to throw her down. However, the agile female was faster than Tao's words could be spoken, and too quickly was the were-tigress on her way towards an unkown mission in the city. Why there? she wondered.

"Still think it was an uneven fight, Arcades?"...she asked her old friend.

"That young one has potential...if only she could use it for better purposes than some plot of revenge."

OOC>>>It is hard! hard! hard! not to use Tao's power to their potential against Nanashi, but instead having to suck it in and let things happen as they just did. I RP'ing against myself! I know the plot, so its not fair!

[Larry_OHF]

When The Mage saw that Rodie had faded away from the face of the man that stood before him, who took on a totally different visage, he knew that Roderik had woke up.

The Dark One smirked and faded away, leaving behind something standing in the shadowed corner on the other end of the room where Roderik found himself trapped. Having a high Lore told him immediately what he was facing.

A neogi, which appears as a cross between a wolf spider and a moray eel.
The short, furry, eight-limbed body is topped by a lithe, bare, fleshy neck with a serpentine head, its mouth filled with needle-sharp teeth. The ends of its limbs are tipped with small claws. The fur of the neogi is a light tan color.

[Skydracgrrl]

ooc- think of it this way, Larry. At least you don't have to rp my characters as well

Liam

Liam collapsed to the ground on his knees, his hybrid form melting to human as he fell. The amount of shape changing had destroyed his clothing, but he is still covered in the black wraps and armour that were able to change shape with him. Liam's blonde bangs hide his expression as he leans forward on his hands, his unusually sharp fingers digging into the earth. The strange teeth-scar ringing his right wrist looks red and angry, in stark contrast to the rest of his pale skin. His body quivered as if he was crying, but no tears fell to the ground.

Abruptly he stilled and stood. The amount of emotion the man had shown in the past moments was more than any of the others had seen him express before. The look on his face was blank and withdrawn, and he almost mechanically strode over to Chisa's side. After stroking her face for a moment, he gathered the wounded tigress into his arms and turned towards the direction of his cabin, not bothering to see if the others followed.

Sabbiel continued to sit on his haunches, looking after the slowly retreating back of the were-tiger. His tail curled in confusion and agitation, and he turned his head to peer at KayLisa. He rose, and once the others were ready to follow, he led them back to the cabin.

Upon reaching the cabin, the group could see Liam boiling some water and preparing dressings for Chisa's wounds. His movements were less mechanical, but he still had his withdrawn expression on his face. All the cats were noticably avoiding him, but a few tentatively touched noses with and sniffed Chisa. Larry and Vincent could be seen with confused and questioning expressions on their faces, but it is obvious that they would get no answers out of Liam. The only reaction he had made was when he accidentally brushed against Vincent's newly made arrows. He flinched, but continued to tend to Chisa's wounds.

ooc-keep in mind that neither Vincent nor Larry know of Liam's transforming abilities (besides guesses). All they know is that he came back roughened up and only in armour, with a badly hurt tiger in his arms. Although they can probably sense that something bad happened, since the withdrawn aristocrat is more withdrawn than usual. [img]smile.gif[/img] *dances around, throwing angst over either shoulder* ^^;

[ 08-07-2004, 12:02 PM: Message edited by: Skydracgrrl ]

[RoSs_bg2_rox]

Silt 80/80

Rong: "The man who was looking for Larry is at the tavern, and has just given a beggar a coin. Do we want to go ahead or stay back and let him leave first?"

"I think we should stay back first, and wait to see what he does, but bear in mind he also knows who we are, so maybe we should stay out of sight; we don't want him changing his plans because we are around now do we."



[ 08-09-2004, 05:19 AM: Message edited by: RoSs_bg2_rox ]

[Skydracgrrl]

Originally posted by Skydracgrrl: Lyulfe Lyulfe rubbed his chin and looked off in the direction Rong had seen the man. "I think we should let him go ahead of us, perhaps get close enough to watch him but not let him sense us... That way we can get an idea of what kind of guy he is, and whether we want to be wary of him, or if it is someone we and Larry can trust. How's that sound to everyone?"

ooc- way ahead of you, ross

[ 08-07-2004, 01:06 PM: Message edited by: Skydracgrrl ]