Curse

Dac Vin · Aug 27, 2005, 02:43 AM // 02:43

Watch out guys, BIG post coming... Honestly, it's like only me and Alicia and Link now that are left, so it's not really interesting... What am I doing, taking care of FOUR chars now?

(Mine and Omega, and now I'll take over both Sanjinu and Skry

Alicia has her and Vantie, and Link got Mali, although I will use Mali a lot in this next post...)

ownage of teh elite · Aug 27, 2005, 08:58 PM // 20:58

Hey stormy! I couldn't get to you with a private message because your offline right now, so, i'll make this post public, since I know that you visit this place regularly.

Good news, as you already have guessed, IM BACK!

But for a short period of 48 hours or so.

You see, every week, I have a 2 day break, so once i'm finished i can hop on my computer.

I just wanted to say that I didn't forget you, lyndsay, and just wanted to give you my AIM adress just incase you want to talk, on the weekends.

So when i'm done with my homework on the weekends, ill hop on the computer and check AIM, maybe we can meet each other, and talk, just like we did during the summer.!

AIM SN: Vanatiel

Just private message me or post your SN and i'll immediately add once I get it!

I'll try to come back to gwguru later on today, or tomorrow if possible.

If not, you can catch me next week!

Storm Crow · Aug 27, 2005, 09:04 PM // 21:04

OMG!! You have no idea how much Ive missed you! its insane how slow the last week has gone! oh yeah, AIM name, same as IG

Im weird like that. Ill be on some time today, hoping you will be too, Adam!

EDIT:

OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!

*girly screams*

EDIT 2:

Please read my profile over again, and be sure to catch yourself up on the action!

hawk3y3 · Aug 27, 2005, 11:39 PM // 23:39

Thanks guys! I apperciate it!

Name: Eric Kasus
Age: Unknown
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Class: Healing/Inspiration Monk
Weapon: Raven Staff
Armor: Standard Monk Outfit
Bio: Eric Kasus grew up in a monk temple known as the Shrine of Dwayna. He began his teachings around age 5. Later on he realized that he could not keep his energy up and could not heal his party much when they needed him most. He then sneaked out in the middle of the night and ran to the Temple of Lyssa. There he learned teachings on how to steal energy from enemies and convert it to energy for use. After leaving the temple he return to the shrine and continued his teachings. About a month or so after returning to the shrine he was judged on his leaving. He was then exiled from the shrine and all others in the world. Before Eric left however, he was given a permanent design on his head to show that he was exiled from the shrine. After being banished from the shrine he went to his brother's house to stay for a while. Eric then after staying for a while left for a journey to were he was captured by Charr and was then their slave...

hawk3y3 · Aug 27, 2005, 11:51 PM // 23:51

".......what is this place" said Eric in a calm voice. Then he saw two charr walking up to him. The charr stood there for a second and Eric then said "You guys need some mouthwash..." The charr then punched Eric hard and Eric was out again. The charr guards then told their boss of what happened. The boss then came into the torture chamber. "Wake up, filthy human." said the charr. "....what do you want with me....." "I want you to spy on the Ascalons. If you chosse to accept I will set you free." "And if I refuse?" "You will rot here." Eric then thought "Hmmmm should I? *grins*" "Ok big man you got yourself a deal." said Eric. "Good". Then the charr boss let him go to spy on them. "Well? Where is my equipment? You cant expect me to spy on them in case they figure out I am a spy." The charr boss showed him to his equipment and sent him on his way. Eric then said to himself "This is great....."

Dac Vin · Aug 28, 2005, 01:22 AM // 01:22

Woot! ownage is back! Well, hope you like your new "villain" status

(I REFUSE that Dac go evil, goddamnit!)

Anyway, on with the story! As I said, long post...

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Three days have passed since Dac Vin "died" at the hands of Vanatiel and Alicia. Three days since his soul was sealed, broken from his mortal body, then released, in hope that it would become lost, unworthy of Grenth and life. Three days since far from being lost, Dac realized the potential of his new form, and swore to earth, he would spell the end of the Charr and their constant oppression...

Three days passed since all that. During those, he had been busy crafting, along with the help of other, benevolent spirits like him (And yet far weaker), a ritual that would seal, forever and ever, the fate of those unholy beasts, and restore Ascalon to the green it was before the Searing. A ritual that was passed on many Druids, and became more and more powerful with each spirit that added its parts to it. Dac was no exception: he significantly tweaked the ritual past it's limitations, in order to let the whole Ascalon bask in it's spiritual reviviscence...

Now three days passed, and finally, the ritual was complete. It didn't look so much from an human eye: Just a few glowing circles and line, some arcane symbols, that's it. But Dac knew that behind

Now the last thing that was required to start the ritual was a sacrifice of blood, not unlike a normal necromancer ritual. But unlike those, that ritual required blood that was not tainted, and it would not taint it in the process. Also, it required the full blood of a half-grown...

Dac Vin knew there was one person who could be sacrified. And this is where most of it's contribution came from. He implemented a new part in it, in order to cleanse the blood that would be tainted... He also added another part, but that one, he hid it deep in him. No one knew what it was, or how it would react. All they know, is that it caused the ritual to take twice as much time as usual. Not a good thing, but Dac know what he was doing, so they let him do so...

All that remained was waiting. He was not sure if they would come, but he would, no matter what happened... And then he would strike two birds with one stone. Two ignoble birds which caused pain and desolation wherever they roamed...

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"I can feel him. He's near."

Just a bit south, Sanjinu, Omega, Skry and Malikai were making their way north, going only Malikai knows. All they knew: Dac Vin wold be there. And he needed them to help him...

"I'm still shocked at his 'demise'," Sanji said. "Who knew Alicia and Vantie would fell as low as abandoning us and kill off any help..?"

Skry quickly replied. "I don't find it too surprising. I mean, he broke his promise, right?"

"I refuse to believe that!" Sanjinu was boiling with rage. "Sure, he might have broken a promise, but the other way, I would expect him to EXACTLY do that if I ever jumped ship!" He then paused to get back some air. "I don't know, but somehow, I feel like it was all set up to get rid of him. Yeah, it was that. They were jealous of him being liked by Mali more than his father, and hoped that killing him would bring Mali back to them..."

Omega slightly nodded. "...But they didn't consider Dac's free nature. So the assassination backfired in their faces, and shifted our goal from finding both Ali and Van to find Dac-"

The group was suddently interrupted by Malikai screaming. "He's there! He's there!"

Everybody looked out of the caravan. Dac Vin was there, in all his spiritual glory.

"I'm glad to see you all here to see the beginning of the Cleansing. Come, my friend. The sooner we do this, the better..."

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And so everything was in place for the ritual to begin. The moon was full, the sky was clear. Perfect time.

"Spirits of this world, can you hear me?" Dac's voice boomed through the land. Yet he was making sure that some would not hear it.

"Can you hear me? Or can you only hear the cry of this land, still suffering after all those years?"

"This land has been mauled, mutilated, raped by an otherwordly force. I cannot stand this, do you understand me?"

"So I'm beseeching you, help me cleanse those lands of it's vermin!" He raised his spiritual hand up to the sky, and the symbols brightened.

"Step in the center, Mali." he told the kid. And Mali stepped in. Immediatly, he started glowing, and floating.

"Do not worry, everything will be safe." Then Dac said the arcane words.

"Als Ico Vas Nao!"

Suddently, blood started flowing down Mali's hands, landing on the ground in big droplets. still looking in awe, Sanjinu couldn't help but notice one thing:

"The blood... he got BLACK blood!"

As expected by Dac Vin, the blood didn't get out of the circle, completly filling it as the last drop flowed out of Mali's veins. Malikai was still there, still floating, but his life was on the ground...

"Alsticor!"

No reaction could be immediatly seen, apart from the runes shining even further. Yet as time advanced, the blood slowly turned to black, from dark red, and then to the brightest red Sanji and friends had seen

"Valenait!"

Then droplet after droplet, the blood came back to Mali, following the reverse way from whence it came. Then when it was completly in him, he stopped floating, and fell on the ground. And then he opened his eyes, and looked toward Dac.

"Stay in the circle, Malikai" he told him. Then he shifted his gaze to Sanji and friends. "This is only the beginning. The ritual is powering up now, and when will come the time, I will unleash it's salvation on Ascalon. Meanwhile, we have to wait..."

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Vanatiel was sleeping when something woke him up.

"Huh? What's going on?" Yet when he stood up, a powerful pain exploded in him. Silently screaming in agony, he could only know what was happening...

And an eternity later, the pain was gone.

"Vantie! What's going on?" He could only hear Alicia's sweet voice.

"It's Malikai! He... Worse than death..."

Then he fainted.

"VANTIE!" Alicia fell on Vantie, only to be relieved he was still alive. Yet she knew what happened.

Malikai's bond had been broken. He had no longer the mark of Vanatiel in his blood...

"Dac Vin..."

And then her rage exploded. Spying on them, he could understand. Trying to kil them, that would be normal after what happened.

But Malikai... If he killed him, she would have hunted him down and killed, even if she had to go to the Mists to find him! And yet... What he did was, indeed, worse than killing.

He erased all sign of Vanatiel and her in Mali's blood. He now was the children of no one, not of them, and not of Grenth anymore.

"I will kill him, I will maul him down, I will crush him like the insignifiant insect he is! Take my word on it, Grenth!"

Storm Crow · Aug 28, 2005, 02:02 AM // 02:02

Her anger overtook her. She swore she would kill him. Her hands were clenched so tightly into fists that her nails reopend the scars on her hands. Slowly she opened them, staring at the blood dripping down to the ground. That was it. The blood. It was all she had left.

She rutted through Vantie's bag, caring not of all the spells and vials he carried, only of the candle. When she found it, she put it in the place it had been before but this time, she drew the one symbol that meant anything, the one thing that had been stripped of Malikai, the one thing that bound her to her master, upon the ground. She repeated the ritual that had been done the night before, this time adding the arcane words that came to her in the dreamlike state.

Using her own blood, she drew upon the strength of her master, calling him forth.

He answered with the flame of the candle, making it burn in a black light, using the smoke to conjure an image of himself.

"Grenth, the ritual must prove true. I wish to use the first of my five favors."

"Go on." he said in his dead man's voice.

"Dac Vin has proved himself to be a traitor. He has stolen your mark from Malikai's veins. He wishes to make himself the hero by tearing us apart and saving Ascalon himself. I beg of you Master, set upon his soul the deepest of suffering. Kill it, slowly and painfully, and send it to the deepest parts of the underworld to float in the Mists, never to find rest."

And as a second favor, reset the ritual he and the other spirits have created, make it never to be used again. Never shall your mark be removed from my family, Grenth. Kill all those who try."

"So it shall be done, my child."

As she spoke these words the rage grew inside her. Slowly her misty grey-green eyes turned to black, marking her forever as a Child of Grenth. She did not care if she was marked, she was proud of what she was. She and Vantie stood as the links. Death not yet happening, but life behind them. They alone were the true Children of Grenth, and they alone could stop Dac Vin from commensing in his evil rituals.

Attempting the murder of Alicia was his first mistake, thinking he could get away with it his second. And his third mistake was thinking that he could remove the Mark of Grenth from Maliaki without being punished. He was soon going to find that these mistakes, would be his last...

hawk3y3 · Aug 28, 2005, 04:35 PM // 16:35

After Eric had left the charr camp he made his way to Ascalon and started doing his work. Eric knew that he could just lie to get himself out of that chamber but he knew eventually that the charr would come out and find him. Then kill him. Also Eric never turned down a deal. Along the way to Ascalon he took a little break at the broken down wall and fixed him some lunch. While he was sitting there he remembered a prophecy that was told before him. The prophecy said
"On a long journey to a city, your mission will be wrecked and you will fall beneath your combantant."

Eric knew that this was not true and said to himself
"I dont believe in prophecies. They are fake. None of them come true." After eating his lunch he headed off again to Ascalon. He did not realize that his body was being feeded off of an evil force. A force so sinister that the only way it could be defeated was by death.

Eric soon became very tired for an unknown reason and took a nap on the side of the wall and thought "Why am I tired so soon? This is odd. My endurance is much highr than this." Just then his hand started glowing black.

"What in the name of Dwayna?"

The glowing hand then produced an evil figure. The figure was of a human shape. It had an arm for a blade and another arm for a shield. Its body was covered in a dark magic unlike anyone has seen.

"MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

"You have got to be kidding me. Im tired and look what happens. Some evil figure comes out and wants to kill me? Is that correct or is there more to the story?"

"You are the one who I have feeding off of. I am Filn, stealer and keeper of souls and you are my next victim. MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Divinity · Aug 28, 2005, 05:05 PM // 17:05

good posts people (for the most part)

hawk3y3 · Aug 28, 2005, 05:11 PM // 17:11

huh what does that mean?

Dac Vin · Aug 29, 2005, 12:28 AM // 00:28

Just a lil update to the story.

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Traitor, huh? Dac Vin NEVER abandoned his group, and yet you call him a traitor?"

Those words infuriated Alicia more than anything else. But looking around, she could not see the shadow who said it...

Storm Crow · Aug 29, 2005, 12:52 AM // 00:52

"You make it sound as if you are protecting him. Is this so shadow?"

...

Storm Crow · Aug 29, 2005, 10:28 AM // 10:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divinity

good posts people (for the most part)

VINITY! It's been so long since Ive seen a post from you! Well, obviously we've moved much further in to the story *make sure you read it all or the most recent posts wont make sence*

everyone is coming back!

yay!

hawk3y3 · Aug 29, 2005, 11:40 PM // 23:40

thats great means more post and more post mean more fun.

Divinity · Aug 30, 2005, 02:15 PM // 14:15

Yeah I caught up. Woo!! This story is getting long

Storm Crow · Aug 30, 2005, 08:44 PM // 20:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divinity

Yeah I caught up. Woo!! This story is getting long

80 pages in word, standard book font and size (TNR size 12), to be exact

hawk3y3 · Aug 30, 2005, 09:55 PM // 21:55

well lets get back to our stories shall we?

Dac Vin · Aug 31, 2005, 12:36 AM // 00:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divinity

Yeah I caught up. Woo!! This story is getting long

Not to say confusing

Anyway, I got one hell of a headache, so I'm gonna continue tomorrow. But I can already see the "The End" coming for the story, so...

Dac Vin · Sep 01, 2005, 12:17 AM // 00:17

Here we go:

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Meanwhile, the ritual was nearing completion. Water was raining all over the surroundings, and already, some grass could be seen where Malikai was standing. It should be said that the ritual advanced far faster than Dac Vin expected it: Sanjinu, Omega ans Skry were lending a helping hand in the process, thus cutting a lot of time in it. Also, Dac had calculated the duration in spiritual time, which is way longer than normal, human time.

Slowly, the sun was rising. When it would reach it's highest point, the cleansing would be unleashed on Ascalon. Charr would die, the peoples would rise. At least, that's how Dac and his friends expected it...

Alias_X · Sep 01, 2005, 12:49 AM // 00:49

umm, are you a moderater making these rules?