Re: Dirge of the Dragon (Closed to Anime, Sean and one O.C.E.A.N)

by **Zell** November 2nd 2013, 11:43 pm

This boy was foolish. He was nothing more than a child, a child wielding more power than he knew what to do with. When you give a child power they feel obligated to use it, and as such they show no restraint. The second that the child was doubted, or ‘threatened’ or hurt emotionally he gave in to his emotion. Shi sighed at the blades rained down towards him. Shi’s eyes opened and he gave an unimpressed scoff. He finally displayed his power over the energies of Death, mirroring Sean, and sending out his own energy in an exact replication. The blades canceled each other out, but despite Shi’s best attempt he was still scraped and scuffed by a stray blast of energy. The ground around them began to die, the air reeked of death and the rain only increased the burden.

      Shi jumped back and looked to Sean. He brought his katana, chipped, frail and antiqued, and placed the sharpened edge up to eye level, as if he were envisioning his blade as a divider of Sean’s head and his body. He still showed no emotion, he had no emotion at the moment. There was no time to Mourn the loss of his son. No…there was no time to mourn. For Yam passed on, and when he passed on Shi was able to keep his son from furthering the goals of a maniac. Shi closed his eyes and felt a sudden surge of Death energy within him.

   ”The winds blow…and the flames of life extinguish.” Shi said and when he did a small gust of wind seemed to exit from him and push up a little dust. Shi’s blade would glow a deep purple black and blood red, the colors of the death energies he commanded. The blade morphed and reformed as black blade, glistening with a beautiful yet eerie sheen of souls that seemed to coat over it like a venom. Shi slashed out again, sending two nether blades at Sean. He was toying with him now. Shi had the advantage, or so he believed. Sean proved ALMOST as vain as his little “friend” Ouroboros. Sean didn’t like feeling helpless, he didn’t like the concept of being powerless. Shi could work with that.

        ”You are a child. You are given some power and you screw it up. Then like a little kid who was just scolded you abuse your power and establish yourself on a pedestal. You’re a small child in a big pond Sean. You act all high and mighty, yet you have never had to actually fight back.” Shi taunted him Shi scoffed at Sean. He blatantly scoffed at him. ”When are you going to grow up?” He said, just as stoic as ever as the ground behind Sean seemed to be covered by pure death, spawning several spiked to try and stab the child in the back. Meanwhile he would let the tip of his blade touch the ground for only a second, leaving a small purple flame where it had touched the ground.

by **Arcana** November 3rd 2013, 12:21 am

There was no time to think, and no time to do anything else but act. His energy did something that his mind itself barely even had to register, which was attack the death incarnate, as his own senses seemed to push themselves into overdrive, everything slowing down as his eyes darted about and took them in. Nothing was moving too fast for him to keep up with, his body and reflexes all ready to look things over, and produce some kind of counter measure. His attack found itself canceled out by his foe, something that was not within itself surprising, but then again he was more than aware that was a possible thing, but then again there was no thought behind he was doing; just raw aggression. He could feel the rain above him increasing in intensity, almost as if cotinuing its outrage at what he had done, as if trying to aid Shi in what small way that it could.

It seemed that even nature intended to turn against him, but that did not really affect him in the least, eyes narrowing as the water threatened to run into them and blur vision. Fingers tightened more around the hilt of his katana, the strange material feeling welcome within the fingers that now throbbed. Adrenaline coursed through his veins, and strengthened the Titan more than ever, as he prepared for another attack, one that was perhaps going to be only something that covered up the clincher. That was when he took note of the blade, twisting and morphing into something else entirely; a new form with something else that would only add danger to the foe he was facing. Sean raised his katana, preparing for whatever the male had in mind.

In an instant what looked like two blades of Nether was launched at him, Sean keeping up with both as well as he could. With as swift of a movement as possible, he stepped forward, black metal of the blade flashing as it shore through the first of the blades, Sean putting as much strength as possible within the swing as the black energy dispersed, and the second narrowly missed him, cutting through the excess fabric of his hoodie. With that done, Sean paused for a moment as the male would continue speaking, heart beat racing within Sean’s ears still. His teeth ground harshly together, anger blurring his vision; he knew that everything the man was saying was true.

However, no matter what the truth was, he was too forgone now, there was only one path ahead of him now, and that was the death of Shi. That was when he felt it, the stirring of death behind him, and without the proper chance to really survey the danger, Sean whirled around as the spikes were already upon him, and he barely had any time to really react. With what little time to move he had, Sean felt the dark energy bite into his flesh, around his side and upper thigh on his right leg. He bit back a curse he barely managed to regain his footing a few feet away from where the spikes had spawned. The muddled blood stained his clothing as he glared at the other death incarnate, knowing that this would only end when one of them died. He took a deep breath, trying to reign in the unwieldy emotions, chewing lightly on his lower lip.

He would not fail, especially not for one that he had given up everything that ever mattered to him for. He had to remember one thing that he learned within his magical training, one thing that seemed so far off now. ”If you give into emotions, into flights of passion, you have already lost.” Sean mumbled to himself, body still overcome by adrenaline, and still controlled by the emotions that had overtaken moments ago. In an instant he moved, spanning the distance between them within seconds. Two appendages of Nether forming from his back as Sean made a swift strike at his face, while the two superfluous parts seemed to only function as secondary defenses.

by **Zell** November 3rd 2013, 8:42 pm

Shi looked at the "Gate" at his feet and he shifted his back foot, brought his arms up and a bent knee in the front. A typical defensive stance that he had taken. He glared at the appendages, and his eyes narrowed. He kept his breathing stable, and his energy became visible, radiating off of him like a beacon of darkness and eternal slumber. Leaves fell from the tropical trees, and the gray sky cracked out with black lightning with bloody red lining. It seemed like an eternity had passed...maybe it was...Shi didn't know, his discipline was almost too great as he watched Sean, tracking him, trying to predict which way he would move next. Battle is the Dance of Death...Do not think....only react. the visage within him growled into Shi's mind. Shi trusted the spirit within him, and he numbed his mind, sending a sleeping tingling sensation through his brain.

"Shi no Kane" He said. His eyes narrowed but the bloody colored iris' illuminated like suns of eternal fire. Suddenly purple lightning shot out of the little purple flame in the soil, spreading out like vines and roots. Bright lightning form the pale purple flame shot out, forming about three foot around, and the thick "Roots" began to twist and reached the tip of Shi's blade, forming a large inky black sphere full of the energies of Death. "Mourining Star." Shi propelled the sphere forward, adding his own energy into the little sphere that was aimed right for Sean. The air around the sphere seemed to rush out, as if the propulsion of the sphere were creating a vacuum, proving that his was either incredibly powerful, incredibly fast...or both. Shi kept in his current stance, he used his Nether energy to form an invisible field around himself, allowing him to sense shifts within the energies when one moved through them, hopefully buying him another second when Sean moved at him.

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by **Arcana** November 3rd 2013, 9:01 pm

The wind whistled past his ears as everything seemed to blur slightly, hair whipping about as he felt the rain pelt hiss kin even harder, and yet it was ignored as everything else was. Thunder still cracked across the sky, as both large sources of the death energy would drain away almost all life from this area, leaving it as something that was riddled with necrosis. Now it seemed that the area itself had become ripe with nether, and that was something that allowed the male to keep going despite the blood that was slowly trying to force its way from his body, as Nether would slowly try to bandage said wounds. He had to keep an eye on each movement that the death incarnate was making, trying to think of ways that it could potentially kill him, and at the same time that he could counter it.

It was true that Sean outdid him when it came to pure movement, but they were equal in power, and that was something that made this foe dangerous. That, and he was dealing with someone skilled within the use of Nether, and that was more than enough of a reason to be careful. The tendrils would have given him some kind of help, though they could only get him so far, seeing as how this was a foe that he knew little about when it came to combat. He was performing some kind of strange move, something that formed what looked like a sphere of Nether and within moments of it being in blade, and Sean only being a few feet from his foe, it seemed that he had no real room to maneuver. In an instant his legs tried to stop moving, as the appendages dug into the ground, and Sean came to a sudden stop as his body jerked painfully forward.

Within those few seconds he pulled back as the energy construct only moved forward at an incredible speed, and with little room for him to move; and then the attack exploded, but he…..wasn’t injured. Everything else seemed to take a painful hit, but when it came to him, Sean found that the Nether did not injure him. Large amounts of dust where thrown up in the wake of the attack, and Seanb had a vague enough of an idea where his foe was, silver pools narrowing as he once again rushed, this time aiming for something more convoluted as small spheres of Nether launched into the air above the two, where he would allow them to simply float, and increase in power, while he would unleash a flurry of well placed slashes upon the death incarnate.

by **Zell** November 3rd 2013, 10:23 pm

Sean wised up. Shi used his command over the deathly elements and shielded Salone and the corpse of the fallen king. He realized that Mourning Star was not meant to deal with the dead, rather with the living. Shi let out a steady and even breath through his nose. In truth that attack was not meant to harm Sean, rather it was meant to level the area, keep him from hiding. With Sean on the other end of the Mourning Star bomb, Shi took a to the side making an audible step in the direction opposite of Salone, keeping the blasts form their general direction. Sean did exactly as Shi had thought he would, and he unleashed a barrage of nether on his location. Shi scoffed as he focused his own energies into his feet and he stepped with great speed and precision, able to stop on a dime even with the blinding speeds he used. Before he did, however, he allowed his blade to tap the ground, leaving a lingering purple flame as he passed. He stepped again ten meters to the side, pressing his blade at the ground, leaving another flame, he stepped again ten more as a he repeated the process. He stepped one last time, stepping thirty meters to the other side of Sean, so not Shi himself was facing the shielded Salone and the back of Sean, providing he hadn’t moved since the impact of the Mourning Star technique. Despite his ability to continue stepping he decided that now was not the time to run like a coward, oh no...now was the time to take a stand. When the smoke all cleared, Sean would be in the center of a triangle, three flames, three Death Gates into the Netherverse.

      ”Shi no Kane” Shi said. He placed his blade vertically up towards the sky. He heaved a breath as a single bead of sweat formed. ”Dragon’s Dirge” He said. Suddenly the Death gate that had been where Shi was before he stepped, it manifested into a large Dragon head protruding from the gate and consuming a decent portion of the ground, a good ten to fifteen feet. The Dragon was made of pure deathly energies and it let out a powerful roar.


       ”Mourning Star!” Shi said again as he pointed to the second Death Gate, producing another Mourning Star sphere. The Sphere was not able to hurt him…like that anyway…but Shi had other plans in mind. Pointing to the last Death Gate he stood straight up and flourished his Katana, and the Gate transformed into a rune on the ground. The ground beneath the rune turned into pure darkness with the appearance of dark waters, the waters of the nether verse came alive. The waters spider cracked and turned into veins as they sunk into the earth around the runic area, and before one knew it, every weapon that belonged to Shi or his allies now had necrotic energies flowing over them. ”Decay.” He concluded. His next order of business was to infuse the Dragon’s Dirge with his own Nether energies, making it that much more potent. The Dragon shot out spheres of Death energy, and these spheres….these spheres hurt everything. After the first warning shot, the Dragon had displayed it’s effectiveness.

        ”That is just to…discourage any of your backhanded tricks.” Shi said as he took his stance. The Dragon's Dirge would defend Salone and the body of Yam were protected. Shi let out another levelheaded deep breath through his nose, calming himself. Part of him wondered if Salone were going to try and jump in the fray. He did not like such thinking, but it did in fact crossed his mind.

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by **Arcana** November 3rd 2013, 11:15 pm

As soon as he moved to deal the first strike, Shi seemed to disappear and the metal whistled through the air cleanly. For a moment he was shocked, before his grip once again tightened around the handle of his weapon, and Sean whirled around looking for his foe, until he saw what looked like the male disappearing around the field. It seemed that his little teleporting trick as still useable, and that was a problem for the male. It meant that while he had the speed advantage, the bastard could just port about before his speed was any use, so that meant only more forethought had to go into anything that he did. One thing that he did take note of was that he was leaving behind what looked like fiery markings on the ground, something that foretold a deadly attack of some kind; and here he was in the middle of the entire thing.

Three markings that he had no idea about what they did, but all of them perhaps were deadly within their own rights. The first of the three ring circus being what looked like a dragon made of pure Nether, one that roared loudly, cry reaching high into the heavens with the boom of thunder. Following this strange draconic construct was what looked like another of his little exploding spheres, ones that did not damage to him, but then again that could have been a fluke, this one could have been different. The last however did something else, a something that Sean was not quite sure of, but something about it sent his skin crawling. Upon revealing the final rune, the dragon unleashed a powerful burst of Nether energy and, Sean could only side step as it barreled past him.

While he was unharmed by the attack itself, Sean found that the ground turned black from the meet contact with the attack, which meant it was on the same level that someone like him could create. It was then the matter of the other spheres, which Sean found himself trying to hack through amidst sidestepping, and all in all it went pretty well. Sean felt himself growing tired, muscles growing weak as his breathing began to pick up somewhat, eyes narrowing ruefully. What perhaps caught the ire of the Titan more than anything was the fact that he was accused of thinking of underhanded tricks, oh this bastard had the gall. ”My backhanded tricks?” he couldn’t help it, he laughed at the absurdity of it all. ”That’s rich coming from you, very rich. So far I’ve been fighting you as fair as possible, treating you as an equal but it seems you can only resort to petty taunts. Child I may be, but all it takes is a child to kill someone as worthless as you.”

Sean didn’t move, adjusting his blade, and changing his stance as all ten of his digits wrapped around the handle. Plunging the blade tip first into the ground, Sean let Nether course through the ground,, twisting and contorting into something, a large shadowy figure that towered over everything as Sean poured large amounts of Nether into it, molding it like clay. It was a large humanoid being, with grasping fingers, and a large mouth that breathed out black mist like a steam engine would steam. In an instant it would fall upon the death incarnate, aiming to crush him, and him alone. He would see how the bastard dealt with a fifty foot tall construct such as this.

by **Hanna** November 4th 2013, 11:55 pm

Salone swallowed, leaning her head against the wall, desperately trying to pull herself together. She closed her eyes and counted to three, letting her mind clear.

One… Jake dead on the ground… blood everywhere… Two… losing him hurt so much, almost like being stabbed except much more... Three… Salone took in a lungful of air, opened her eyes and her mind was startled by a roar. A dragon of pure nether pulsed and rippled between her and the titan, effectively blocking Salone and the fallen from Sean’s view. She scrambled to her feet and peered around the dragon, seeing the creature Sean had summoned.

Salone reached for her two knives that had lain hidden on her body, strapped around her calves. Then she moved forward, darting around the dragon’s legs, taking careful aim her arm snapped back and then forward, releasing one of the blades at the exposed back of the titan. Salone wasn’t aiming to kill, only maim or seriously injure. The titan deserved as much and this battle had gone on long enough. The dragon pendant winked around her neck as she strode forward, her face had settled into a stony expression, eyes glowing gold. She wasn’t as fast or as powerful as these two beings battling but she was just as smart. The battle was clearly taking a toll and all would be eager for its end.

The massive creature however was now a problem, Salone scowled at it, debating on its weak spot while most of her attention was focused on Sean and if the knife had hit home in the shoulder or not.

by **Zell** November 5th 2013, 1:00 am

”Treating me as an equal? Maybe I should visit your son then?” Shi said as he pushed off his front foot, The Dragon turret form behind Sean and his new construct began firing like a machine gun turret, pelting the large construct with ungodly powerful nether bullets. Shi pressed off from the front of his feet and began jumping back little bits at a time as the construct came forth. He noticed Salone wander out form around the Dragon’s Dirge, of course she wouldn’t stay put. Staying put wasn’t something Yam would do either. He looked up to the large construct and stood his ground. Using his own energies he shielded himself, but no matter how strong his shield was, this thing was full of equal energy, and was much heavier.

The Construct fell upon Shi, but before that happened he activated his second Mourining Star, exploding and sending dust and dirt everywhere, blocking Sean’s vision right before Salone threw her knife. Shi had fallen under the construct’s weight, and in the process he had to try and break free. With a slash of his powerful nether energy he managed to get out, his armor scuffed, shipped and his own body bleeding. Shi wasted no time, getting to his feet and standing, feet shoulder width apart and he extended his blade across from his chest. He released it, finding his center. The blade floated in the air. Shi placed his hands together and folded his ring and pink fingers, leaving his forefingers and middle fingers up, his thumbs straight ahead and slightly curved. His blade glowed, beckoning him to accept his role…to accept that he was Death. His eyes flew open, and with his left hand he reached and took the floating blade, in the middle of the incredibly sharp sword. He clasped down on it, drawing blood form his hand and he ripped the blade form the air. His blood seemed to flow through the air, arching in a cresant shape blood also rushed down the hilt of the blade solidifying into a black pole. The blood remained in the air, and hardened into a black arch, allowing a wing like expansion to shoot form the blade, revealing a new weapon, the Unholy weapon of Death itself. The Scythe. ”Shi no Kane. Tokihanatsu!” Shi whispered as he began twirling the scythe in his hand as if it were a propeller. The Scythe began to glow and suddenly nothing was as it seemed any longer. When the dust cleared, Sean would not be where he was when he had entered.

Within this illusion, Sean would se his construct fade away, and Shi left on the ground in a pool of blood, his katana up as if he had tried to defend himself. The Dragon’s Dirge faded away, as if the thing sustaining it had left. Shi needed not worry about Sean’s sensing of Nether either, as Shi dying would not cause a shift in the nether energies, it would simply persist as if Shi had been there still animated. When Sean took a look at the corpse it would be interesting to see how he reacted to such a victory.

by **Arcana** November 5th 2013, 1:28 am

Bullets of Nether battered against the larger construct, making small holes where more of the energy would simply move to refill. It was not something that would be so easily destroyed, not when he was putting all of his concentration into keeping it upright. His eyes narrowed, as he watched the large thing falling upon his opponent, ready to destroy him within one swift stroke. However, before that happened, something exploded and then sent out a large cloud of smoke that was perhaps even reaching him and obscuring his view of his fellow death incarnate. It was within this that Sean felt something painful within his left shoulder, the back more precisely and Sean had to bite back the rather expansive curse that almost flew unbidden from his lips.

The sound of his construct hitting the ground hard could be heard synchronizing with the clap of thunder, as Sean reached back and yanked the dagger from his back. Blood spurted from the damaged flesh, and continued to stain his jacket further in the black colored liquid, as his vision grew blurry with pain. An attack from behind and something that seemed more along the line of the woman that was not long ago sitting in the sidelines. ”Dammit.” Sean muttered looking at the blood that now stained his hands, blood that was his own and one that seemed to join with everything else as it blurred. When the dust faded, Sean saw what looked like the Death Incarnate, but he was on the ground,

With a heavy sigh of relief, Sean sheathed his blade as he approached the corpse, till he stood what looked like a good five feet away from him.”I could say that it didn’t have to be this way, but I would be lying to myself. I knew that someone would have to die today, but I hadn’t guessed that he would be one of them” He paused for a moment, wincing as a purveying pain ran through his shoulder, perhaps something from that damn dagger and his vision grew fuzzier; that was when his arm grew numb, and refused to react to the simplest of mental commands. If it was something on the dagger were causing this, Sean considered that he would need to get some kind of medical attention before it was too late.

by **Hanna** November 5th 2013, 10:10 pm

Salone would have smiled at the blade stuck Sean in the shoulder but she didn’t have much to smile about, Instead a flash of triumph in her gold eyes.

Shi stepped out from behind the monster while Sean was still intently stared at some spot in the ground, pulling Salone’s knife from his shoulder. The titan blinked and suddenly didn’t look to good is if something rather unhealthy had entered his blood stream.

“You should leave,” Salone suggested. “From the looks of things you should have an hour to live… maybe less. I am guessing you have some pretty top notch medical staff.”

The black blood rolled down the blade, dripping onto the ground. Salone’s face held no emotion, it was curiously cold. Given she were left alone she would crumple but now is not the time for weakness… A low predatorily growl rumbled in her throat as her body longed to shift. Salone fought it however, the ruminants of her disease, the creature that longed to kill.

by **Zell** November 6th 2013, 8:28 pm

Suddenly the illusion shifted, there was nothing but blackness. Total and utter darkness as black walks of ink and corruption. The blackness was slowly glowing with a neon blue lights as souls swirled like a maelstrom. Shi's scythe touched the ground, letting out a loud "GONG" as it touched. Shi no Kane...Death's Bell. Every strike the bell made released a Death Knell to his opponent. This was not an illusion...Many wondered for whom the bell tolled. It tolled for thee...

      Shi was behind this darkness, behind the illusion itself, remaining unseen thus far. Shi's illusion began to take even better effect. The illusion began to affect his hearing, allowing Shi's thoughts to be spoken directly to him. It was as if it were a chorus of souls were speaking out to him. They were chanting how he was unworthy, about how he was too proud and arrogant. About how he had failed. Shi anticipated the Titan to react calmly, but before any dispute could be made about him failing...an illusion of Shi himself stepped forth, unscathed, laughing. Openly mocking the Titan. This Illusion shadow-stepped, and where he appeared there was one more left in his place. These two shadow-stepped, and created two more, and each one shadow stepped one more time. Each time, Shi conjured a small orb of Nether to deceive yet ANOTHER of the senses that the Death Incarnates shared.

     Shi placed a hand on his necklace, with the fang of Yam on it. He solemnly thought to himself about Yam, and all he stood for. Despite his at times questionable methods...he was a good man...and a good son. Shi felt a glimmer of pride as he began to heal over, the rain had begun to heal him, and the moisture in the air served as a healing agent to his wounds. Shi smiled and thankfully held the tooth to his chest with a clenched hand. "Thank you..." He whispered to himself. He then activated his own Deathtreads, and shadow stepped himself right behind Sean as the Illusions mocked him, when he stopped his shadow step, Shi's throat was lined by the blade.

      "So tell me...what do you intend to do with me? My Discipline did not help me? No, it is you who lacks Discipline. Whomever trained you should be ashamed." Shi said, the illusion faded away, and where it faded there was a new one in it's place, an illusion that projected an area where Salone did not exist, giving off the appearance that she herself was just another illusion. Shi twisted the handle to the scythe and placed the little sphere of Ethereal energy letting it roll down and rest directly before Sean's nose.

       "I give you what you have come for...the safety of your precious ally. But when you give it to him I would like you to relay this message...." He said. It appeared as if reality itself had altered before Sean's eyes. The featureless faces with no eyes all seemed to be phasing in and out of existence. Each wone letting out a raspy and chilling voice, threatening and ominous. "It's only the beginning." They said. Before anyone knew what had happened, Shi had shadow stepped away, and the sphere dropped into the dirt, ans without further hesitation Shi grabbed the body of Yam, and Salone if she were willing, and he shadow-stepped away with them...or his son's body at least.
      (Shi has Exited the thread)

by **Arcana** November 6th 2013, 9:12 pm

Muscles grew rigid, becoming painfully stiff, his body unable to really do anything as it stood painfully still. Whatever was coating that blade had done its fair share of damage, and the death incarnate took this time to do what it seemed that he did best, and that was taunt him. The world in front of him grew dark, slowly filling with what looked like a maelstrom of souls, his own eyes growing distant in the process of the whole hallucination. Within a matter of seconds his own heartbeat became apparent, like a loud thumping that threatened to destroy his sense of hearing, and Sean could not stand it. He broke out in a cold sweat as the voices chanted in their haunting chorus, saying many things and some of them he was more than aware of. He was proud, arrogant and more than anything…he had failed. Oh and the bastard was likely getting some kind of sick twisted satisfaction out of doing this, out of taunting the Titan as if he himself were faultless.

More mockery, just spilling forth with no filter, and he would only continue with it. Yet, Sean could only feel a sense of apathy, as if all of it truly did not matter, as he felt his heartbeat slow, growing slower and everything was growing darker until his vision was a tunnel. Even the rain was something that he did not feel, everything around him growing cold and distant. His body felt rather heavy, and at the same time he couldn’t move, as if his body had simply died long before his own mind accepted it, but he knew that he was not dead. More shouts came within his ears, once again reminding him of his own weakness, his own pathetic pride that Sean was more aware than any other.

It seemed that even now he had failed, that he was unable to do it, to stop the suffering of one that he had given so much for. It was then that another voice spoke, no, it was someone, Shi to be exact and it seemed that he could not help but rub salt into the wound. That was when his eyes fell upon what looked like a small sphere rolling in front of his nose, a small orb of energy that was so familiar that his skin crawled from its nearness. Sean attempted to move from his stupor, vision still painfully narrowed as his muscles seemed to scream in protest, simply wanting to keep him still. More words spoken, and then he said something, that this was only the beginning. Was it the beginning of some kind of convoluted plot for revenge? No, if so he could have just removed his head here and now, but there was something more to it than that.

It was within that time that Sean found himself alone within the oppressive rain, body finally losing all strength and he hit the ground face first. There was no pain however, only weightlessness and the darkness around his vision seemed to fade away, body shaking lightly as he once again became painfully aware of how wet he was. Pain unbidden coursed through his body within that moment, and Sean roared loudly as lighting flashed across the sky, and thunder boomed loudly. Sean attempted to move, pull himself from this position, but his body spasmed for a moment and he fell once again. Everything seemed to spiral out of control and Sean found himself retching, a dark fluid that pooled on the ground lightly, as the rain continued to fall.

It was after that spell that he felt a semblance of strength returning to him, and he could push himself into a crouch, wondering how long this strength would last. The small orb of Ethereal energy lay on the ground, sparkling in the gloom, Sean reaching down and picking it up with the only arm that was responding. It was something, and Sean couldn’t help but smirk within his poison induced stupor. ”Eureka.” He muttered pleased as possible within this condition, concentrating as much as possible before ripping a whole within the air, and stumbling through; Ouroboros was likely to be pleased with how he did. If not, then he was sure he could change his tune soon enough.

by **Hanna** November 6th 2013, 10:50 pm

Abruptly, the world around Salone blurred, taking her from one place to another in seconds. It was Shi, he had teleported or flash stepped or something, and she wasn’t quite sure what. Then she focused on the area around her, suddenly feeling queasy she covered her mouth, face paling considerably. Then she spotted Jake’s body once more and she felt her throat tighten, tears springing to her eyes and rolling unbidden down her cheeks. These were quiet tears this round and she wiped them away, looking around for Shi, the major question on her mind being, ‘what next?’

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