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Post by mtdew4kiri on Jan 31, 2018 0:31:29 GMT -5
Cinder scowled at the woman as she protected Ari, who was shrinking behind Art. In truth, the warrior of old was frightening Ariesti. She bite her lip and continued to try to hide her view from the demon. She wanted an adventure, but nothing like this.. that was for certain.
"You always claim to be working for the greater purpose, General Art." Cinder spat and clenched her fists. "You came to make amends? Ha! Don't make me laugh! You never had intentions like that before, why start now? Those monks tried explaining about this mistake, yet they acted as though they had seen a ghost. They were to tend to this shrine, and yet they were weak. Who places weak practitioners to guard a shrine?" She spat out and growled low. "And I told you before, I didn't die."
"I saw it myself!" Svein finally interrupted and gripped his sword harder. "That scar is the proof, Cinder! The Tanba Shrine housed a great sleeping warrior.... That warrior is you!" He shouted, his voice reverberating off the walls, causing Ari to jump. "You can hate us all you want, but you had been dead! You think you crawled all the way here?" He spat out and shook his head. "I had my suspicions that this tomb was for you, and finding you here now only confirmed it. Many old warriors from all continents came here to pray and ask for the Great Warrior's help in battle, or for strength, or for personal reasons.... I came here many times... and it wasn't until recently I began to suspect it might've been you... since you had no grave anywhere else." He defended.
Cinder stood silent as Svein explained on. ".... Then how was I awake... before the great Art came... to bring me back? She may have the power to create a skeletal army... but I know of only one person who could bring back body and soul... and he is King of Forelock... I don't see him standing here before me." She hissed out, her eyes narrowed, but still glued to Art.
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Post by Lovely on Jan 31, 2018 1:08:39 GMT -5
Art stopped, she paused to think it was clear that Cinder was confused just as much as they all were and it was then that it started to make sense. Undead activity seemed to be more active only recently, piecing it didn't take long. It was the girl. She paused no rebuddle to be sent to Cinder's way. She turned to look at Ari. "The princess. Ariesti must have inherited her father's ability" it was the only logical explaination. "You've must have woken up when Ari set foot in Treset soil"
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Post by mtdew4kiri on Jan 31, 2018 1:19:43 GMT -5
"M-me?" Ariesti finally chimed in, her eyes wide with shock. It was impossible. None of her siblings had such power as their father. It was never brought up before about any of Hades' children having the same 'gift' as him. The young woman visibly shook her head, "No... You're mistaken. None of us have that ability. I merely possess the ability to manipulate shadows... I have nothing to do with the dead." She quickly explained.
"..." Cinder remained quiet and looked between Art and Ari. "... When... did you come to Treset, child?" She questioned her softly, and moved to sit on top of the tomb. It was like yesterday that she was going to the shrine, and she had laid down to go to sleep. It was like she had woken from a bad dream a few days ago; like someone had tried to lock her in a tomb. Slowly, her eyes went wide. She did have to force the lid open, and when she originally emerged, the sages and monks were shouting in a foreign tongue at her. She felt like she were on fire, and that is when she went on the rampage.
"Oh my God..." She gasped softly and covered her mouth. "I was.... dead?" She asked, the realization finally sinking in, and she looked at Ari. ".... Who are you?"
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Post by Lovely on Jan 31, 2018 1:33:08 GMT -5
"The hero of this story" Art chimed in responded to Cinder. "She's going to be the one who's going to help me gather my army and defeat the darkness...I don't know if you've noticed the thickness of it now on Treset but I feels like it's time to show the gods who's really in charge of this Cyllaron" she was implying a revolution, and that only meant the downfall of Hades in the long run. She turned to Ari "with her we can help change the corruption of Forelock and soon after Cyllaron...and Cinder I've come here to originally pay my respects but now...now I want you to join us, he's done nothing more but cause damage and destruction...enough is enough"
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Post by mtdew4kiri on Jan 31, 2018 1:45:05 GMT -5
"You expect me to believe an innocent child like that... is going to save us... rather... you all?" Cinder snorted and looked Ariesti over. "She looks like she could barely fight." She rebutted with another short laugh. "Nothing has changed then, hm?" She asked and folded her arms over her chest. "Forelock as nearly successfully overrun Cyllaron now, then? He has spread his malice to Esfrodante as well? To all the continents?" She asked, anger thick in her voice. "I'd love any chance I could get to kill him..."
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Post by Lovely on Jan 31, 2018 2:08:43 GMT -5
"With proper training she will be the proper person for his seat...prophecied years in the making Cinder. This is the coming time when the darkness can either be cleansed, or fully eliminate the light of hope. The gods of chaos will be awaken soon...its time we plan accordingly, "I've been summoned to gather 7 hero's and to form an army to save all of us" she implied her eyes never leaving Cinder. "Then this means you are in?" She questioned her stance eager and now more confident that she was finally getting somewhere.
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Post by mtdew4kiri on Jan 31, 2018 2:36:05 GMT -5
"I am the first person you have found? Even if by accident?" Cinder asked, then looked at Svein. "Well, second." She corrected and took her whip out once more. She played with the end of it, her face dark as she thought. "There... may be another person I know would... possibly come in... However.... she isn't.. army material." Cinder said, carefully choosing her words. "Have you thought about going to the sand demon?" She finally asked as she took a few steps toward the exit. "Or has she died as well?" She asked.
"Sand demon? Who is she talking about?" Ari asked and looked between the two other women.
A dark look clouded over Svein's place. Even he knew better than to bring her up. It was almost like the name was taboo. "Why would Art even want to try talking with her? Like you said, she isn't one for an army.... she is best left alone. She is always alone, and will always remain alone. In short, she's an assassin... We don't need assassins." Svein interjected and started to follow out of the crypt. Ari was following behind him closely.
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Post by Lovely on Jan 31, 2018 2:47:24 GMT -5
"Even then..." Art began responding to Svein's comment "assassin or not Kylia may very well want the same thing as we do. This isn't about who can be in what army there's no such thing as that" Art's voice growing more determine as she spoke. "This is a planet that may very well require all the help it can get...besides is Esdrodrant the place where the lost queen sleeps as well" it's started to look like the tiefling indeed knew what she was doing.
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Post by mtdew4kiri on Jan 31, 2018 2:56:13 GMT -5
"Lost Queen? What are you talking about for that?" Ariesti came in again once they had cleared the crypt and stood in the large hall of the shrine. Confusion was evident in her voice and face. "I've never heard of a lost queen." She added and looked at Art as she came out.
"You sure ask a lot of questions..." Cinder grunted as she put her whip back on her hip. "She won't follow orders is what I'm saying. What good will an assassin do you in an army, Art?" "I think she has a point." Svein sighed and rubbed his temples. What did he get himself in to.
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Post by Lovely on Jan 31, 2018 3:13:35 GMT -5
"She won't need too...and assassin is paid to hire with a set task...oh little one" she started her eyes met with Ari's. She had alot to tell her but with time she would eventually get to know what she was talking about. "She's a former queen, kicked from her kingdom over 19 years ago...almost around the time I would say you were born" with that said she exited lraving so many options left for her to choose from .
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Post by mtdew4kiri on Jan 31, 2018 4:16:51 GMT -5
"That makes it sound like you are just hiring her, instead of convincing her to join this cause." Svein pointed out. "I second that. However... someone with her skill set may prove useful in gathering information." Cinder added on as she looked over her nails, the various chains shining the the lighting breaking through to the shrine. "What do you mean, 'skill set'?" Ari asked, earning her a stern look from the demon woman. "She is an assassin, as we've been talking about... but she is also a ninja. While Art and Svein and myself my have the skills in sword fighting, she is really unmatched with her weapons. Long before I joined the Forelock army with Art.... I would spar and practice with this woman. If you think Art is strict... well... if you meet Kylia.. you will see. Demons will clash, that is all I will say... and that is briefly calling Art here a demon. There is a reason why she is called the lone assassin of Van Royo." Cinder explained with a sigh while examining her claw-like nails. "She has a sad story... and no one knows the truth. Some say she left on an assassination mission and planned for her town to be destroyed... others say she was framed to look that way. Either way, to be the lone survivor of an entire city... And to be driven in to the wild and madness by no one hiring you for fear of what you may o may not have done... it's enough to harm anyone and drive them to death. But she has battled it out, and worked with what she had been offered. She is a wanderer, across all the continents." Said the man as he walked to the entrance of the shrine. It was very clear this man knew many, many things of all the continents.
"That is rather sad..." Ari frowned and looked down. "To be blamed for such things.... I don't think she would sabotage her own city, no matter what." "Right, and not everyone thinks she did. I don't think she did either. I think she was set up. She was hired out, and the village fell. How? That's another story... but i feel she knows, and had figured it out."
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Post by Lovely on Jan 31, 2018 4:25:25 GMT -5
"Whatever the case may be we venture forth to Esfrodante only thing is with the princess here it might not be a great idea to go out of our way to Port Caan. She looked at the 3, "we need to find a way to gide you. Svein do you mind if we return to your tavern, the princess shouldn't be looking the way she does...we need to find means to make her look more demon like us if you understand want i mean" Art walked out now holdimg onto Ari's hands determination evident across her face.
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Post by mtdew4kiri on Jan 31, 2018 4:39:26 GMT -5
"I don't think it will be too hard. She definitely needs lower armor, compared to ours." Svein nodded as he actually turned to look at Ari. "I had tried telling you before. And that attitude of yours needs to change too. You need to be harder, and perhaps even a little seductive if you are to pose as a demon like us." The man added.
"But I am a demon... I'm a shadow demon..." Ariesti reasoned with a small frown.
"She looks too much like Hades... she sticks out like a sore thumb. " Cinder chimed in. Svein, without waiting for another suggestion, began to head back to the town of Van Hallen, to his tavern. "We really need to dress her down. I also think times while traveling, she should be trained in some fighting. Her getting bruised and cut up might not be a bad idea with training." He said as he looked up at the sky. It's like the sun way desperately trying to make itself known there. He narrowed his eyes... was this child really of a prophecy?
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Post by Lovely on Jan 31, 2018 12:00:51 GMT -5
She agreed with him everything about her stuck out like a sore thumb from her manneurism and fear of getting hurt. How is she to rule without proper training. They were on route silence still making itself known Art knew things that the others didn't. "Ari what do you know of your mother?" Her question was out of place, but it was planned to be asked. She looked ahead Van Hallen merely foot steps away. Behind them was Cinder, ahead was Svein she stopped in her tracks sensing a presence making itself known. "A Forelock soldiers is near I can smell him"
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Post by mtdew4kiri on Jan 31, 2018 15:35:33 GMT -5
"I don't... know anything about her, actually." Ariesti admitted after a long silence. She never really gave much thought about who her mother miht have been. The woman was never, ever in her life. "She was never in my life, I don't know." Ariesti shrugged and licked her lips. "... A Forelock soldier?" Her heart began to race. Edwin.... "N-no. I want to see who it is. It might be Edwin..." She stated, clearly adament about wanting to stay to see who it was.
"I don't see a problem... How about we hide off the road?" Svein suggested. "It will ease her mind, Art. Come." He suggested. "Cinder, why not stay out on the road, posing as a traveler to get a look at this man?"
Cinder nodded, and took the cloak Svein had on. She wrapped up in it and took a seat at a tree, the tips of her horns poking out; the charms dangling and shining in the light. The others disappeared in to the tree line.
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