Hell on Earth

1. Re: Hell on Earth

   #81

   Lith looked towards the place where he saw two demons on gaurd, right outside the cave where his father's people were camped. "Mother, how I wish you had never given me birth," Lith stated quietly. He then remembered the bow and arrows Morgan had given him. He pulled the bow from his shoulder, and nocked an arrow. "In the name of my new mistress, I send this arrow to fly," he said, and let the arrow go with a twang of the bowstring. The arrow flew high in its arc, coming down at such an angle, it pierced one demons head and heart. The demon dropped, and Lith let fly again, this one directly at the other demon gaurd's heart. The arrow sunk into the demon with a crack like lightning. "Wonderful bow, Mi'lady," he said in astonishment. He drew his blades and crept into the demon infested cavern.

2. Re: Hell on Earth

   #82

   "I it wasn't for me, yelled Shelo, You wouldn't be such a great worrier. You and your father could have ruled this world with me, but you spat in my face. And now it ends! KILL HIM!" The demons started jumping from there posts and with all the weapons they could wield, they came at lith, with a blood-thirsty look, burning in their eyes.
   
   "And now, Let me put you to work," said Shelo as she took the Nova sphere's box from her bag and opened it. Once the box was opened, its brilliant light began to pierce the less-lighten room of the Drow shrine.
   
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   Felicia and Keagen were now miles away from the ruined fortress and now were  traveling through the dreaded dead forest to the south, on their way to the Silent Springs M.R., were Felicia hoped to find Cortez. Little did she know that He was on his way to the fortress.
   
   "So, my lady, said Keagen to Felicia, tell me, who is this warrior you are been chasing? Felicia at first turned to face him, but turned back forward as she walked.
   
   "His name is Cortez," she said. "He is the leader and commander of our clan, the Sun Fire Vanguard. I've been his best friends for years and he's the only true friend I have."
   
   "Sounds like one hell of a leader," said Beurox with a shrug
   
   "He is, she said back, He's kind, generous, and he cares allot about his friends. He once told me that he would sacrifice anything to save someone he loved. At first, I thought he was crazy.
   
   "what changed your mind," asked Beurox
   
   "Well, I was on a walk with him from Silent Springs, a few years back. We then decided to take short cut threw the sulfur slough in Nightmare gorge. We then had a run in with, I guess it one of his old friends and they decided to settle a deal threw force. I ended up getting caught in the middle and the man was armed with a fire blade and almost sliced me in half." Felicia then paused and coughed.
   
   "What happened next? Beurox asked with more interest to Felicia's story.
   
   Felicia then cleared her throat. "Well, He then got in the way of me and tried to get the man back, and the sword, swift as it was, slid down his left side of his face and across his left eye. He had blood pouring down his face, but could still see from the eye a little. I didn't get hurt, really, but I did get a cut on my right hand, because Cortez fell. He then became angered, not because of his eye, but because he saw I bleeding, I guess, so he fought back, but more violently. In the end, the man became injured from a burst of hot sulfur gas that ripped open the from the ground in front of him. And his sword ended up in a tree." Felicia then stopped, "I hope he is alright, I don't now what I would do without him. I hope I find him because I love him." Beurox didn't say anything else but continued along with Felicia to the mountain range ahead.
   

3. Re: Hell on Earth

   #83

   Lith stalked into the cave quietly. He heard a horde of demons running through hallways and doors being slammed open. It's as if they are under attack from a huge army, Lith thought to himself, hiding in acloves and behind tapestrys when he could. He rounded one corner as quietly as he could, and he knew nothing had seen him. But in spite of it all, three lower ranking demons burst out of a door in front of him, one wielding a great axe, another with a huge flamberge, and the third with a customary whip, and not seeming at all surprised, they each ran at him.
   Lith dipped his right shoulder as the axe wielder swung a powerful overheard chop at his head, and getting to close for the axe, and sliding the demon slayer into its skull. As it fell, the great sword of the second cut in a wide arc side to side, so Lith rolled backwards and came to his feet ready. The demon stepped forward and took a backhand swing, but Lith was to far away, and as the sword past its deadly area, Lith darted in and swung the dragon slayer at neck level, and the demon slayer at the demon's gut. The head rolled off the body as the cracking whip caught Lith full in the face. Lith stumbled back, swinging his blades in retreat to ward off further attacks, but the whip wrapped around the left hand blade, and wretched it from his grip.
   "So, young Lith, that is the blade that you stole from my queen?" the demon said with mock interest, cracking the whip again and again. Lith tried to shorten the whip with the edge of the remaining blade, but the whip was made of something from the Nine Hells themselves, and would not be severed.
   "No, this is," Lith stated as he threw the remaining blade at the demon. The demon smiled, then looked confused. It looked down at its chest, to see only the hilt of the katana sticking out. The demon looked at Lith once more, then fell over dead.
   Lith ripped the demon slayer from the wretched things chest, and picked up the dragon slayer from the floor a few feet down the hall. "Pitiful mother, so very pitiful, you should know better than to piss me off," Lith stated angrily, realizing the demons were watching him somehow, and could most likely hear him too. He stalked off, no longer finding any reason to use his superb stealth to surprise the weak demons.

4. Re: Hell on Earth

   #84

   "As do you, wretched boy, if they can finish you off then I will have to do so myself," said Shelo. She then through back her long black cloak and drew her thin-blade shock sword. She struck the ground and sparks shot everywhere. She then opened the Nova sphere's box and took it out, with her sword in her left hand and the sphere in her right. "Time to rid the world of this disgusting human kind." Shelo then raised the sphere up, but only blue light was shooting from it. She then lowered it and gazed at it. She then turned were Lith was but she couldn't see him.
   
   "I not quite sure how it works, She said, but I shall find out!" Sheloryith then launched a lightning bolt down the hallway. The sparks shot all around the room and Sheloryith took off down another hall.
   
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   Zwiryyyrithrow had awoken from his long sleep. He saw that he was sitting on Midous' back and near a small camp he at first didn't recognize. He felt normal at first but then the pain in his side came back to him. "RRR," groaned Zwiryyrithrow with a hand over the wound. "What the Hell happened to me?" He then looked around and He saw his brother, Zion. "Brother, where is my son, and Cortez?," he called out."
   
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   With great haste and a stumble here and there, Cortez came closer and closer the fallen demon fortress. He had reached the foot of the Red Mt. quite then he thought, but then he remember the demonic powers the were drawn to him by Sheloryith, through the demonic armor he still wore.
   
   "FELICIA!, FELICIA!, WHERE ARE YOU!?," he called out among the ruins the had rolled down the bloody mountain. After a few minutes, he then started to get more and more concerned and worried where his dear friend he loved deeply was at. He was beginning to run short of breath so he stopped and sat down on a piece of crumbled stone. He took off his helmet and sat it at his side. He pulled back the chain mail that covered his head and itched his forehead. He then ran his hand through the scare across his eye and where his useless eye still sat. Though unable to see its reflection, it was nearly all red and white in the pupil. "Please God, he prayed, Please let her be alright, I can live without her." Cortez then lowered his head. "Without her, there is no since in living." suddenly, Cortez noticed foot prints in the thick, clumpy ground, human foot prints. He could see them heading into the forest, to were he just came from. Cortez then looked closely and saw that they were of two different people. He recognized one set and knew for sure one pair was of Felicia's armored boots. The other was from an elf, He knew for sure from the style of treads on the bottom of the boots. He then saw that in that pair, it also had the style of writing used in the old kingdom and in the Nyir. Cortez thought to himself, "If she's with a member of the Nyir, it can be good. I need to find her." He then placed back the chain mail onto the top of his head, placed on his helmet and took of back up Silent Springs, after Felicia and the Nyirian.
   

5. Re: Hell on Earth

   #85

   Morgan shifted her weight as Crush plummeted down towards one of the dragons just about to unleash a wave of flame from it's mouth "Oh no you don't" Cried morgan as Crush sunk his claws into the dragons back, The other dragon roared and raised it's great head it's long neck twisting this way and that trying as hard as it could to free itself from the vice like grip of Crush. They rose together their wings intertwinning with each other sometimes making them drop a couple of feet before rising higher and higher. Crush finally let go, the injured dragon fell abit having already lost it's rider it rose slowly it's left wing falutered and dipped as a large rip showed in the upper dorsel ridge. Crush whipped his tail down smashing it onto the dragons back. It was the final blow as the dragon roared and crashed down to the ground. With an almighty thud the beast lay still. Crush and morgan soared through the sky scattering the remaining demons which ran across the ground after losing there dragon mounts with large fire-balls which seared the already blood soaked grass. Crush let out a roar of pain as another dragon clamped down on his tail. Crush turned and snapped at the dragons face the other dragon raised it's claws and slashed at Crushes face. Both dragons rose flames errupting from both of their mouths and searing each other Crush flew above the other dragon and then lowered himself onto it's back biting into it's neck and wrapping his legs around the beasts underbelly pinning it's wings to it's side. Crush lowered his own wings flat against his back and they both plummeted towards the earth. Morgan clung on tightly as the air rushed up into her face taking her breath away. In a couple of the minutes they could see the ground rushing up towards them the other dragon struggled and roared and whipped it's mighty tail trying with all it's might to get away from sudden death. But it was too late the impact was massive. The earth shook as the two mighty beast's collided with the earth. Crush rose slowly the other dragon uderneath rose it's head but not for long it roared but then led it's head down and began it's eternal slumber. the demon which had been on the dragons back being squashed between the two huge bulks of the dragon had been pummeled to death as they crashed to the ground. all of the people in the war would of felt the ground rumble and the earth move underneath there feet. 

6. Re: Hell on Earth

   #86

   As Shelo ran up a flight of stairs, She felt the earth shift from under her feet. She tried to mantain her balance but she fell from the stairs and tumbled down to the landing. The Nova sphere had flew from her hand and came crashing down next to her. "Damn that hurt, she said to herself. "Wait, the sphere, where's the sphere?" she looked all around, expecting it to have shattered onto the stone landing but she could see it sitting still next to her. "Hmm, I must be made of something stronger then glass," she said as picked it up and continued up the stairs.
   
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   Once the ground shook, Midous went into a panic and started thrashing about, sending Zwiryyyrithrow into the air and back onto the ground. He yelled from the pain but came but was able to return to his feet. "MIDOUS, YOU STUPID ASS!, NEXT TIME, WHY DON'T YOU THROW ME OFF THE DAMN MOUNTAIN!" he yelled in fury. Midous then took to the air and out of sight. "MIDOUS, WHERE THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUR GOING!?, he yelled as he watched as his dragon disappeared."
   
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   After the Earth had shook, Cortez had got back up after tripping over a rock. "What was that? What ever it was, I hope it dosn't return or get worse," He said as he continued. He was at the top of the hill were he thought were he was before. I was now a few hours into the afternoon and into the distance, he could two figures. It was Felicia and the Nyirian that he had been chasing for the past hours. "It's Felicia, I've found her," he said as he straightened his helmet that had became loose when he fell. "And that Nyirian. He should be delt with. I know that they can't be trusted, Their loylety is to evil in its puresty form and to power." Cortez then took out his axe and continued his way but through the brush, out of site.

7. Re: Hell on Earth

   #87

   Zion tugged at the reigns on Midous but the dragon couldn't be moved from his course and Zion was forced to jump off. He landed on the ground with a thud and watched with helplessness as Midous flew away. He cursed the misfortune and went over to his brother.
   
   "Cortez has gone to look for his female friend once more and Lith has gone after Sheloryith. Are you alright?" Zion asked his brother. Zion suddenly remembered that Nyel was still after them and when he turned around there she was. He drew blood red, glowing swords and got into his battle stance.
   
   

8. Re: Hell on Earth

   #88

   Night was soon to come and Felicia and Keagen now stopped in the middle of a clearing. Was sitting on a rock and Keagen just got done starting a fire. From over the light of the fire, Keagens eye's blased as if they were fire. He took off his helmet and sat his bow at his side. Felicia took off her Helmet and hung it fire the hand of her long sword that she stuck it the ground. Next, she removed her armored gloves, first the left then the right. She paused and ran a fingure across the scar on the top of her right hand.
   
   "I wish we can find the others, I just hope they decide to stop for a rest," she said to Keagen on the others side of the fire.
   
   "I hope we find them too, he said back, I'm just worried that it will be too late." Felicia look back up confused.
   
   "what do mean, Keagen?," she said.
   
   "Well, I fear that they are being followed by a spy or something, he said, Someone is leting the dark forces now all about Nova sphere."
   
   "What is the Nova sphere," Felicia asked.
   
   "You don't know, said Keagen, It was this whole war is about. It is a sphere of great power that can destroy or save this world and I fear there is someone that dosn't want it to be in good hands. I also know that Sheloryith, the queen of the demons wants and will stop at nothing to get it."
   
   Felicia thought for a second. "Sheloryith wants it? Do you have any idea who would want to help that witch?" Keagon bowed his head, then looked back at Felicia.
   
   "My lady, I wish I could have told you sooner but I have got where It was one of your clan members, the one that you have been looking for.
   
   "Felicia got up. "Cortez? You got word that he's is a treator? Who told you these lies, this," Keagon could now see that that Felicia's mind was burning with anger. He then saw her reach for her sword and ripped it from the earth and pointed it at Keagen's throat.
   
   "IT'S YOU, YOUR THE SPY!, ARN'T YOU?," she yell with great anger. Keagen then got you with his hands up, only with his hands at the same level as his head.
   
   "Now, Now Felicia, I'm sorry about Cortez but I'm telling you the truth, the Nyir elders sent me to protect you from him. I would be a shame to see you destroyed. It's also true that I saw him in the very armor of Sheloryith myself. I'm sure he didn't want it to happen but he is working for the demons now. We could try to save him but I not giving you a promise that he could be helped. Felicia didn't say anything, only a tear could be seen falling from one of her eyes.
   
   "...Your not lieing to me, are you," she asked, trying to hold her saddness in. "never," said Keagen, still with his hands up. Felicia stold for a while, still with the blade at Keagen throat but then slowly began lowering it only it touched the ground. Felicia then dropped the sword and imbraced Keagen and began crying. Keagon patted her on the back.
   
   "Can you help me try to free him?, she asked with tears pouring from her eyes like small water falls. Keagen looked down at her and said with a sad look. "I regret putting you through tears and sarrow but I will help you save Cortez."
   
   And above the two, stood Cortez, on a branch of the massive trees of Silent Springs. Cortez had his axe in hand, ready to vanquish the Nyirian, but he stopped and listened to the two discuss that he was a treator and was to be stopped.
   
   "Damn it, he swore, That damn Nyirian is trying to think that I'm the bad one. I wish she would know that the Nyirians are part of the dark forces. Cortez then thought for a second. I need to get back to Zwiryyyrithrow and find Lith."

9. Re: Hell on Earth

   #89

   Crush swung himself around and zoomed off towards where the others were. Out of nowhere a dragon rushed at them knocking Crush in the side, Crush spun managing just to catch himself before he turned right over onto his back in midair, Morgan fired an arrow towards the oncoming target but it just bounced of the dragons strong hide, Crush flew at the other dragon and tore at its side digging his claws deep into it's gut Crush began to swing it around and then let go, the other dragon went flying towards the cliff smashing into it and causing rocks to slide from the top onto the dragon. The cliff jolted and many rock's slid down it's face knocking unsuspecting demons onto the ground to be pummeled by the ever increasing weight of the stone. Morgan sat up straight and then pushed Crush on to find the others. It wasnt long before Morgan could see them moving about in diffrent directions Lith had gone after Sheloryith to try to get the orb back the others had scattered themselves around doing what they needed to do. Crush raced on after Lith. "You like him don't you" said crush in a matter-of-fact tone, "keep your nose straight Crush unless you want us to go into the side of the mountain just like that other dragon" Crush who had turned his large head to eye Morgan turned it back and swerved to avoid colliding with a part of the mountain which jutted out further than the rest.

10. Re: Hell on Earth

    #90

    Shelo had reached a third floor room and the door was just around the corner and two drow walking down the hall as if they came from the room. She looked around the corner and saw that they had cross bows. "Hmm, their must be reinforcements behind that door," she thought to herself.
    
    "But only if I could get this damn thing to work. Wait, I know. This orb was used to put me in this shroud, how, Because there was the army of about hundred that found me and they put their lives on the line to get me captured. And I believe if it is reversed the curse by sacrificing a hundred people, that should get it working, perfect."
    
    Sheloryith then ran pass the corner and was face to face with the two the drow. She then pulled out her shock sword and launched two bolts of lightning at them, killing them instantly. Next, she took out the Nova sphere and held it above the dead bodies. The bodies seemed to get foggy. They then became broken down into little blue particles of light and was absorbed into the sphere. Sheloryith gazed at the sphere and saw that it became brighter.
    
    "Now, all I need is ninety-eight more, haahaha, " she said with an evil. She placed the orb back into the box and threw the box back into its bag. She then armed herself with the two cross bows and stood in front of the door. She listed to what lied on the other side. All see could hear was voices, as if there was a crowd of drow on the other side, speaking in strange voices. She didn't wait any long, stood back, and kicked down the door. As the door fell, see could see everyone turn towards her. Once she was in the room, she fired one arrow, which hit one drow in the chest and hit another as it went through. She then turned to see a charging drow and fired the other arrow, which hit the drow in the head at close range and stuck into a wall on the other side. Sheloryith then quickly drew out here shock blade and began the slaughter of the reinforcements that never reached the keep when they had the chance to.
    
    A few minutes later, shelo had cleaned the whole room of life, resulting with the room, painted with a thin coat of blood. Shelo ripped a piece of cloth from a dead drow and wiped the blade from the blood, without caring if she was shocked or not. She then took out the Nova sphere and set it on the ground. At first it didn’t seem to do anything but within seconds, the bodies began to evaporated and absorb into the sphere. Once all the bodies were collected within the sphere, shelo picked it up. The light from the sphere became brighter. She looked as the light shinned from the cracks in the box when she closed the lid over the sphere.
    
    "Now, I think I have enough souls," she said as she turned to another door which should have led to the roof above the city and to safety.
    
    "Wait, I just remembered something. During the ritual that imprisoned me within this shroud, the one that had the sphere was suited up in that demonic armor. He was the one soul that was the key. Cortez," she said to herself. "I need to find him and kill him. His soul is the one, the key. Once I have his soul, THIS WORLD WILL BURN!"
    

11. Re: Hell on Earth

    #91

    Deep in the drow fortress, Lith and Sheloryith's army weren't the only ones.
    
    "Mee thinks mee smells something...something good." an earth goblin said. (Earth goblins are the cousins of the regular surface goblin and were practicaly the same too except earth goblins were more tacticall, more agressive, and had an increasingly larger appetite.) All the other goblins took a whiff of the air and cackled evily.
    
    The earth goblins usually don't rely on eyesight all though they can see perfectly well underground and on land, so they started sniffing their way until they came to the exact spot. "Halt!" the goblin Cheif commanded. He peered around the corner and saw plenty of demons to feast upon.
    
    Before the Cheif even had to signal for his clan to go they were off and slaughtering. The tribe dispatched of the firs line of defense easily and were dragging dead demon bodies into corners and feasting. Once they had had their fill they went out to battle once more for desert.
    
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    Arez and Thorgon in moments were surounded by an army of orcs with spears held high. Arez looked around frantically for an escape. Luckily, he found a tunnel that he and Throgon cuold squeeze through that was almost completely covered by debris.
    
    "Follow my lead." Arez said.
    
    Thorgon didn't question him at all. Arez slowly crept toward the tunnel and then darted for it with Thorgon right behind him. The orcs were completely caught by surprise and didn't know what to do. Some followed the two but were easily cut down. The two were so busy running and thinking what would happen if they stopped running that they didn't see the end of the tunnel and the person on the other side (which is Lith) that when they did notice they had already colided with the man at full force.

12. Re: Hell on Earth

    #92

    Lith walked a steady pace around the caverns and passages. "D**n it all, why do my parents have to put me through so much trouble, I feel like I'm the d**n parent in this relationship", Lith muttered to himself. He rounded one corner and was instantly assaulted by orcs. "Orcs?" he said in true surprise, expecting to be attacked yet again by battle tested demons. Two orcs rushed him with a pair of rusted short swords, while the one behind them leveled his spear to throw. Lith easily blocked the two sword wielding orcs, and spun them around, and deciding to have fun, swatted them on the rumps with the flat of both blades. The spear flew in and lith caught it with his blades, then spun it around, leveled it on his right blade, he hooked his left katana into the shoddy wood and launched it back, taking the thrower in the chest. He kicked one of the sword orcs down and kneed it in the face while cutting the other throat with a backhanded slash. He flipped both blades around and released all his anger into the face of the remaing orc, slugging it again and again untill, finally, punching it in the neck and crushing its windpipe. Lith backed up from his bloody work, and was caught in what felt like a tackle from the side. He slammed into the wall, dropping both katanas, and quickly rose while rremoving a new dagger from his boot. "Who are you, and why did you run into me?" he said cautiously. Lith had the dagger by the blade, and was very ready to throw the weapon.

13. Re: Hell on Earth

    #93

    From a corner of the room were Lith was, Stold a Drow knight, who had escaped sheloryith, but was wounded from an arrow that had gone through another to get him. He was slumped over to the wall as he walked out of the shadows, leaving a trail of blood along side the wall. Blood was flowing from his chest and his mouth, His hand over the wound and his loaded cross bow in the other. He could see kind of see Lith but his vision was fadeing for he was soon to die. "....Lith, the drow said, ....Is it..really...you? I.... haven't seen you..in a long.....time." The drow then fell to the floor and still leaning against the wall coughing up blood.

14. Re: Hell on Earth

    #94

    Once Arez was able to see clearly he drew out his sword (not knowing hte wounded drow was in the room) and looked at the Lith. He realized though that this half-drow half-demon mix could possibly be a potential ally. "Terribly sorry, my name is Arez Copare from the human city of Cullcasia to the north and this is my associate Thorgon the dwarf from the mines of Mithral Hall." Throgon gave a slight wave to Lith."What might you be doing in the heart of an orcan base...this the base of the orcs right?"
    
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    Zion dove out of the way of Nyel's snake whip. He had felt the sting of that wretched thing to many times. "I have waited for this fight for a long time." Zion said.
    
    "As have I brother."
    
    Nyel swung her dagger at Zion then, slicing a chunk form his cloak. Zion got up quickly and tripped Nyel and before she could get up Zion's blood-red sword was at her neck.
    
    "I expected you to be better then this sister, HA HA HA HA HA!!"Zion laughed. Just as he was about to plunge his sword into his sister's neck Nyel's soldiers tackled him to the ground and started attacking him. "Zwiryyyrithrow!" Zion screamed as he tried to fight off the plunging swords.

15. Re: Hell on Earth

    #95

    Zwiryyyrithrow painfully got up just as a few elves came out to help with his wound.
    
    "You can't help me now, he said, I first must stop my sibilings from killing theirselves."
    
    Zwiryyyrithrow drew out his fire blade and started at the two. He started limping but tried to ignore it. As he approuched Nyel to try to pull her sinister whip from her hands, He fell to the ground infront of her. He clasped the deep cut in his side, and it started bleeding again.
    
    "AAAhh!, screamed Zwiryyyrithrow from the pain."
    
    "YOU TWO, WHY DO YOU FIGHT? YOUR BROTHER AND SISTER, AND WORSE, YOU WANT TO KILL EACH OTHER AND FOR WHAT, GLORY?" Zwiryyyrithrow then returned to his feet again, blood still pouring from his side. He had his sword in hand, but sheathed it.
    
    "I'm already at war with my own wife, And if she ends up destroying herself and if you two kill each other, I'm going to have a hard time getting my life back together." He then turned to Nyel.
    
    "Sister, he said, You know I would and never had turned my blade to you. And you Zion, my only brother, you have been there for me, helping me, and I thank you for all you've done, But now I must ask you and Nyel something. Please, put all your differences and anger towards each other aside and work together with me. I had much hate for Cortez once, but that was years ago and now I now see that the real one that is the problem is Sheloryith. She has betrayed all of us, the very name of the drow, our house and now she stands at the side of those that hate and have imprisoned her in a blinding light of lies. But I tell you, I haven't betrayed my trust to her, I have broken all my promises to her. I still love her and I will always will, but right now, I need help to go and save her before it is to late, not just for her, but for all of us."

16. Re: Hell on Earth

    #96

    Lith heard the drow speak, but knowing that humans couldnt see as well in shadowed areas, kept his mouth shut for a little while longer. "Well then Arez, Thorgon, well met. But this is not an orcan base. This is the drow command post, and it has been infiltrated by demons. So, if you'll excuse me, I have an old friend wounded over in the corner, and I would very much like to keep him alive." Lith stated quickly, not having time for any better pleasantries. He walked over to Stold and knelt beside him. "Stold, you came with my father? You were never the type that like blades. I remember you getting beat once for practicing magic," Lith said in a low voice. Stold was in very bad condition, Lith saw that right away. He pulled a small flask from his belt, and tipped Stold's head back. "Drink this, it will quicken the healing so you can walk within a few minutes," Lith said holding the flask to Stold's lips.

17. Re: Hell on Earth

    #97

    "No scene in trying, I lived a full life, I don't have much time, " He said with his eye wondering, Your mother... has found....aah..how to....get the...ahhhh..Nova sphere to...to work....She killed the reinforcements and...she took...." Blood was now flowing all around. “Here, take my crossbow, if she gets full control of the sphere, her life becomes linked to it and .......your better chance of ....stopping her...is from far ranges...Don't worry about me, Lith, My time has come to an end, ha, We had fun times when we were little, hope you have kids one day... and maybe...you can tell them....about the time we.....nearly became banished from the city...when my pet dragon got loose... and wrecked the...place, that was...fun. Stold coughed for a while. "oh yeah, I must tell you,... nobody really knows but,..you know..Nezella,do you? she grew up with me, ...and she's baring a child, and I'm the father. She's at the base camp at Silent Springs,... will you watch over her, until our child is born? it would mean allot to me. ...well, go save the world, and goodbye, friend......"
    
    And before Lith, came to rest Stoldronith, a good childhood friend that grew up with Lith.
    
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    Felicia had awoken from her sleep, She couldn't remember when she fell asleep. She looked around and she couldn’t find Keagen. She got up and picked up her sword that sat on a log next to the fire that site burned but poorly. She then found her helmet sitting next to one of the many big trees that were everywhere. Felicia could remember when the helmet fell from the sword's handle when she became angered with the comments that Keagen had made of Cortez. "Were the hell did you go, keagen?," she asked.
    
    Suddenly, from above came Cortez, Shielded from the site of Felicia, so he wasn't recognized.
    
    "My lady, he said, Don't be alarmed, I have been sent, to return you to your friends."
    Felicia didn't say anything but drew two throwing knives that where sheathed to her sides and threw them at the stranger that wore the demon armor. Cortez then held out his hand and the two knives came to a halt it thin air. Cortez then took them from where they floated and offered them back to Felicia. Felicia only looked at them and then back to the masked Cortez.
    
    "Who are you and what did you do to my friend?," she asked quickly snatching the knives and putting them back in their sheathes.
    
    "I am a but masked stranger sent to return you to your real friends, for they could use your great skills. And as for the Nyirian that was once here, is now somewhere alone and most likely in pain, for he only gave you lies about your friend, Cortez." Felicia was then surprised.
    
    "What did you say?," she asked with much concern.
    
    “Cortez, is well alive and he's out looking for you. He has been looking for you since the attack by the drow knight, you can say he has been through Hell and back again. I also have been looking for his because he has control of great powers that might be of good use against the demon queen." Felicia at first didn’t seem to care of what she was being told, but when she was told that Cortez was well and that he was looking for her, she became more concerned.
    
    "You know where Cortez is know, can you take me to him?," she asked.
    
    "Of course, my lady, it is my mission to, Please take my hand." So Felicia, took hold of the friendly stranger and she began to float. And within moments, the two where now high in the sky, off to the drow city.
    
    
    
    

18. Re: Hell on Earth

    #98

    Lith looked at his friend Stold as he talked, and a single tear ran down his face. He watched as the life left Stold, set him down gently, and threw the flask into the wall across the room where it shattered. "Yes, my friend, I will watch over Nezella untill the child is born, and I will tell it of the great deeds to did for our people, and of all the trouble we always got into," Lith whispered. Feeling pain like no other, he gently closed Stold's eyes and then, using a small spell he had learned from his aunt as a kid, immolated the body. "Better to be ashes in the wind, then in the belly of a demon," Lith said to himself as he watched his friends body burn. Lith looked at the human and the dwarf, started to say something, but changed his mind and walked past them, on his way to tell his friend's wife her husband was dead. Lith walked out of the room, the shadows flickering on the walls from the fire he ad created, and ran into the orcs that were looking for Arez and Thorgon. "Right now is a time you will regret you ever met me and my blades," Lith yelled in orcish while drawing his blades. Within a few short moments, all the orcs were dead at his feet, half burned to a charred black, the other half chopped up to little bits. Lith walked out of the underground complex into daylight for the first time in hours, and it felt like it had been years. Lith looked up, and then at the battles that were still raging. "Stold, I will avenge you," Lith said to himself. And he rushed off down the mountain, killing everything in his path that tried to attack him, including a few elves and a human or two who mistook him for an enemy. He reached a small clearing and was assaulted by two dragon rider demons. "Xen Toa Ki Sho!" Lith yelled, and watched as a bolt of lightning took down one demon, and then changed direction to kill the other, then bounced back and forth untill both dragons were dead. Lith walked past the corpses, his eyes red from rage.

19. Re: Hell on Earth

    #99

    Sheloryith had made her way to top layer of the drow city. She approached a large wooden door. She quickly opened it slammed it and ran to the daylight ahead of her. And after a few minutes, she finally reached the other end and below her she could see the entrance of the drow city, and suddenly, BOOM! the top layer had exploded in a burst of rock and dirt. Had destroyed most of the upper levels of the city but it sit remained.
    
    "Not such a great idea to have explosives laying all around the mining tunnels, is it?, you stupid drow," Shelo she said with a laugh. "The demons are of no use to me anymore and now I am on my own from here now."
    
    Sheloryith then skimmed the sky seeing something flying high over the great battle field, known to her as "Hell's Valley" for it stretching length stretched all the way to the south of the red mount in which the demon fortress once stood with its shadow looming over it and the heat waves from its fires were reflected back down to the valley, making it look like it was on fire when the sun shinned. She knew for sure it had to Cortez but she didn't think he had Felicia with him.
    
    "Great, the chosen one, on his way to the city," she said to herself, He's in for a surprise when he notices that the city is mostly destroyed and decides to turn back, but he will to late, when I send an arrow flying straight for him a pierce his heart."
    
    And with a blaze of burning fire, bow made of dark, burning, wood appeared in her left hand. In the other, she held an long, dark, charred arrow with a  dark metal arrow head and burning feathers at the end. She place the arrow along side the bow and pulled back the tight bow string and aimed it so that Cortez would be flying in front of it, and released it. Arrow was fast, leaving a trail of smoke behind it's burning feathers. "Soon, your soul will become mine, and next, the world," Shelo said as the she watched the arrow.
    
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    Cortez had stopped in mid-air and looked at the nearly ruined city. Felicia didn’t say anything.
    
    "My God, he said, What did they do?" Cortez then looked down and he could see the battle rage below him. Suddenly, Shelo's arrow flies right next to him, nearly hitting him in the side. He looked around trying to find the shooter.
    
    "What's wrong?," Felicia asked. "Somebody is trying to snipe us," said carefully scanning the mountain tops. Then, Sheloryith fires to more arrows and then a third. They silently began there way to the floating target. Cortez tried to  find where the shooter was but his back was to the arrows, but from the corner of her eye, Felicia could see the first arrow in site.
    
    "STRANGER, She yelled, LOOK OUT, IT'S BEHIND YOU!"
    
    Cortez quickly turned and in a moment, his vision became focused on the arrow. He tried to slow it down, but his powers were useless so he quickly pulled out his axe in his left hand and blocked it. He watched as the arrow fell. He then blocked the arrow then turned to Felicia. "No worries my lady, I'll get use to safety," said Cortez as he place the his great axe back on his back. Suddenly, without warning, the third arrow had stuck Cortez in his chest. He jolted and tried to take off out of line of fire, but he lost his scenes and blacked out. Felicia could see that the stranger she was with was hit and was loosing his grip on her hand,
    
    "stranger, wake up!," she yelled to awake him but didn‘t work. Suddenly the two began to plummet back down to earth. Felicia didn’t know what to do but try to brake free from the tight hand of the stranger. little did she know that in the distance returned a ally who took off seemingly for no reason and was on his way to save them.
    

20. Re: Hell on Earth

    #100

    Morgan looked around Lith had vanished from site but she could still see the battles waging on beneath her "i can sence them" came Crush's deep voice "Felicia and Cortez are in the Drow city as well as Sheloryith, she has learnt how to activate the orb. Lith is on his way to the Drow city, but i do not think he knows the others are there" Morgan nodded as she listened to the information "Well i guess we better go to the Drow city then" Just as Morgan finished talking a searing hot pain shot through her right arm, she yelped and turned her attention to the arrow now sticking out of her arm and then down and around, an evil laugh cackled round the sky as out of nowhere a large black dragon appeared beneath the clouds. Riding on this dragon was a tall thin-looking Demon his red eyes sparkling as he loaded his bow again and aimed it at morgan. This Demon was the Head of the Demon army he took orders from Sheloryith and then relayed them to his army. Relak was the most feared Demon of all and his dragon Mardra was agile and deadly, Crush spun round to face them as another arrow flew towards them this time Morgan with her uninjured arm unsheathed her sword and cut the arrow out of the sky "My mistress would like to see you dead along with your other friends most of them are dead now anyway i killed that Lith myself" lied the demon, Morgan stared at the demon trying to define wether he was lying or not "You lie Crush has already told me that Lith is alive and that he was travelling to the Drow city" shouted Morgan "But can your dragon sense him now" Called Relak grinning, Morgan looked down at Crush "He's right you know Lith's life force has vanished i cannot sense him anywhere" Morgan closed her eyes and gripped her sword tighter "You have been left all alone now my dear and you will not be able to stop Sheloryith she will rule this world and there is nothing you can do about it, you might as well let me kill you now get it over and done with" Morgan opened her eyes slowly tears rolling down her cheeks "you lie" she whispered to herself "What was that i didnt quite catch what you said" Morgans eyes blazed "You lie" she screamed at that another arrow was fired but this time Morgan had got there first her arrow flew through the air and hit home in the Demons chest, Relak screamed as blood began to gush around the arrow. Crush flew straight towards the dragon hitting it in the side as Morgan slashed with her sword once again catching Relak in the chest with a backwards slice the head of Relak rolled to one side then began it's decent through the air. Mardra roared and vanished from the sky. Morgan wiped her eyes "Can you sense him crush? can you sense him?" Morgan asked quickly. The dragon shook his mighty head, "I'm so sorry Morgan but i believe he was telling the truth" Morgan had completly forgotten about the arrow in her arm "No" she cried as she threw herself forward so she led down on her front on the dragons back, thats when the arrow began to hurt again she turned to it tears rolling down her cheeks and just yanked it out, the shaft of the arrow broke away but the head stayed in "S**T Poison" she stated looking down at the wound, she dipped her finger in the blood and tasted it "It's not extremally strong but it's leathal. It will take some time to start taking effect. We have to go to the Drow City" Crush nodded and turned to fly fast and true to the Drow city.   
    
    
    
    OOC: Crush can not sense Lith's life force beacuse Relak has a special abiltity to hide anyone's lifeforce that he likes it doesn't usally come in handy but i guess it did this time hehe, so don't worry i haven't killed Lith off that would be improper.  :D

21. Re: Hell on Earth

    #101

    Like a flash, Zwiryyythrow's dragon Midous, flew right past Crush, almost flying right into them. He kept his eyes on the two that were now only feet away from doom. He was now starting to get lower in allititude to get were they were, and just before they hit the grown, he swooped right under them and caught them with large claws. Felicia had her eyes closed but when she knew that she was still alive she opened them and threw her arms and the dragon's arm.
    
    "Thank you, very much you saved my life, and my friend's too," she said has she turned to Cortez.
    
    "Stranger, are you awake yet?" Cortez opened his eyes and found himself in the claws of Midous.
    
    "Midous, you came back," He said clasping his side. Midous only looked down.
    
    "Wait, you know his dragon?," Felicia asked, confused.
    
    "Yes, he is my, my friends, Cortez said nervously, Midous, you must bring me to that mountain top, I must follow Sheloryith before she escapes. Felicia, you must remain with Midous, you will be safe with him."
    
    Midous then approached the hilltop were shelo was once at and dropped Cortez off. Felicia climbed onto Midous' back and then looked down at the masked Cortez.
    
    "Do you think you would be able to go on with your injury?," she ask with great concern.
    
    "I'm not worried about a little scratch, you go with Midous to find his master and to locate Morgan and Lith, I shall return soon." Midous started to fly.
    
    "Wait, will be able to help me find Cortez?," she called out over the great beating of Midous' wings against the air. Cortez smiled from under him helmet and then answered Felicia,
    
    "You've already have." Midous began his way with Felicia on his back.
    
    "WAIT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN?," she yelled, but Midous was now too far from Cortez. Cortez watched as Midous flew away.
    
    "Take care Felicia, take care," He said before he turned back to the mountain top were Shelo took off to. As he walked, the pain in his side grew worse, he new that the arrow that hit him left now scratch but a deep lethal cut, for the magic arrows that Shelo used had arrow heads forged from a toxic material, mixed with molten steel, that would sure drain Cortez of the power that ran through his blood, but not kill, for Shelo would need his soul to power the orb and turn the world into a land of death.
    
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    Zwiryyythrow woke up, inside the base camp on Silent Springs. He noticed that he was wearing the worn, shoddy cloths he had under his armor and that his armor was removed.
    
    "Excuse me, He yelled, but where is my armor? and were is my brother and sister? has the wound in my side been fixed up?," An Elvin maid in a white cloak came into the room.
    
    "Oh, I see you are awake," the maid said. "your side, it should be fully healed in a few days." Zwiryyythrow life up his shirt a looked at the wound. He saw that it was stitched up.
    
    "Thank you...," he said with a pause.
    
    "My name is Nezella, and your welcome. Your supplies is in the other room, I have someone bring it to you." Zwiryyythrow wanted to stand up but his side site hurt so he laid back down.
    

22. Re: Hell on Earth

    #102

    Lith arrived at Silent Springs, bleeding badly from many different wounds caused by many different things, and all having one thing in common, his recklessness had caused him to suffer the hits. He limped through the area, looking at all the people, his blades in their respective sheaths. He saw a medical tent, and moved toward it, only to collapse down to one knee. "Gah!" he yelled in pain, his right leg severely fractured from a giants club, even though Lith had dodged the brunt of the blow, he had tried to leap to late, and caught the club fully in the legs. The giant had been struck down by a dragon riding human and the large crossbow he had held. Lith finally got back to his feet, his adrenaline kicking back in from the severe pain. He walked in and fell to both knees, growling in pain. He asked one of the nearby nurses if she knew a Nezella. "Nezella? Sure, shes taking care of another drow, one named Zwiryyythrow, I do believe. Do you need help, you seem to be limping hard?" the nurse replied in one long winded breathe. "No, my wounds can wait, where is this other injured drow?" Lith asked, his teeth gritted in pain. "Three tents down on the left, and here, this should dull the pain in whatever injury you have," the nurse said without a smile, grabbing a small bottle from the ground to her right and tossing it to Lith. Lith caught the bottle, uncapped it, and drank deeply. "My thanks, good lady," Lith said as he limped out of the tent. He limped to the next tent, and then the pain is his leg started to waver. He walked to the third tent on the left, as the nurse had said, and walked in. "Father!" Lith yelled in surprise. He hadn't been expecting it, he realized now exactly what the nurse had told him of the drow in the tent. "Father, are you alright?" Lith asked, then realized his father was sleeping. A nurse walked in at that moment and seemed startled to see him. "Nezella? Is it really you? I've come with a message. I'm sorry, Nezella, but Stold was killed by my mother," Lith said, realizing at once this young drow maiden was Stold's wife. "He asked me to watch over you untill your child is born," he stated quickly, knowing what was to come. He grabbed Nezella and hugged her, and waited for the tears to come. Morgan, where in the devil's name are you? I could really use your help right about now, Lith thought to himself. He had no idea how to relieve the pain the lost of a spouse caused someone. He sat there and hoped, with all his heart, that when all this was over, his father would be the king of the drow, his mother would be dead, his friend's child would be born in good health, and that he could protect Morgan for the rest of his life. He wished it, all the while knowing, that it wasn't likely to happen.

23. Re: Hell on Earth

    #103

    "Master Master!?" a shriveled up, tortured goblin yelled with glee. "The demon queen is doing exactly what you said! Your plan is working perectly!"
    
    "Good Eik," the master said in a booming voice. The master patted Eik on the head. Eik giggled, his master had never been so proud of him before. His master tossed him a deer leg. Eik caught it and went to look for a place to feast, snickering in glee all the while.
    
    When the master was alone he began to plan the next steps in his plan. "Yes yessss......hmm....." he mumbled to himself. "Yes, HAHAHAHAHA!"
    
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    The earth gobling tribe had killed most of the demons and were looking for more things to feast upon. "Huuulllt!" the Cheif yelled. "Mee smells more." The other goblins snickered. "Follow." the Cheif then commanded. Little did they know they were following the trail of the demon queen herself.
    
    OOC: The tribe is far away from Sheloryith but I will have them catch up with her eventually and they will battle.
    
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    Zion woke up in a tent, next to Nyel. He quickly got up, he had never wanted to rest that close to his sister! He then realized that he was very sore. He winced some and walked out of the tent. He must've gotten a good beating  form the ambush of drow soldiers.
    
    Eventually, he found his supplies and his brother's tent. He walked in but quickly stepped out. Touching moments weren't his thing, so he patently waited.
    
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    "Uggggghhhh! I wished elastinoids weren't so slow!" Aizol whispered to Nosheen. They were about half way to the battle.
    
    "Don't worry, we'll get to the battle soon enough. I'm sure are armies are hanging in there."
    
    "Uhhh... I hope your right." Just then Aizol bumped into some boulders which caused him to look around and see that "Sh*t! We took the wrong trail!"

24. Re: Hell on Earth

    #104

    All around were the sound of trickling water. Keagen had woke up, with a throbbing pain on his forehead.
    
    "uhhh, what the hell happened?," he asked himself, "wait, how the hell did I get all the way over here?" Keagen found himself next to the long stretching stream of The Silent Springs, which were the mountain range got its name from. It was a spring, which sprang forth from a stream of water flowing from the mountain and into a basin. Keagen then remembered that later that night he set up came with the she-knight he found and was beaten down by Cortez when she was asleep.
    
    "Damn that fool, he swore to himself, I have brought shame to the name of the ones I serve in the name of the Nyir for being knocked out by that, that, FREAK!" Keagen then picked up his oak bow and his quiver of arrows.
    
    "Little use you have become to me, he said, I now must bring out the weapon that I should have had out long ago." Keagen then threw the bow and quiver into the stream, where it was to remain lost forever, until one would end finding it. Keagen then threw back his cape and drew out a sword, a sword of silver, five feet in length, and with a sharp gold edge.
    
    "NOW, I will show those fools never to mess with....BEUROX OF THE NYIR!"
    
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    Sheloryith was now a few miles north of the drow city. She was beginning to get tired, so she slumped against a tree and rested.
    
    "I maybe far, but I feel them getting closer, " she said sheathing her dreaded shock sword.
    
    "I must get Cortez to follow me further from the city and closer to me, and I will kill him. He must be nearly drained from powers by now and almost pasted out from the deep cut in his side." Shelo the turned to a different direction.
    
    "Though I scene Cortez getting closer, I feel another threat stirring."
    

25. Re: Hell on Earth

    #105

    OOC: Chuckanator and I will be going on a trip for a week. We will try to post if possible but don't count on it. Peace. :up:

26. Re: Hell on Earth

    #106

    Crush flew fast, the air wiped at Morgans face. Morgan had began to sweat, tears still rolled down her cheeks and she looked awfully pale, "We should get you to a nurse as soon as possible Morgan" Morgan shook her head "No we must find the others before i go and get healed" Crush sighed, a large ring of smoke driffted out of his nostrils. "look there!" Crush said pointing to another dragon flying away from them. Crush flew closer and closer "Felicia, I found you" Called Morgan from Crush's back as the two dragons flew side by side. "We shall take you to a safe place then we must go and search for the others, the cliffs are safe." Crush had been talking to Midous for a while now, "midous say's that Cortez has gone after Sheloryith on his own, even though he is the one that she needs to complete the orb's power source. Cortez told Midous that he must take care of Felicia and not to let her get hurt. Unfortunatly Midous can not sense Lith's lifeforce either." Morgan closed her eye's and nodded "We must go now" Said Morgan bluntly, The two dragons roared a farewell to each other and flew off in opposite directions, Morgan shivered as the wind blew through her long hair, her face has gone as white as a ghost but she had stopped sweating, Morgan coughed loudly clutching her chest as she did so, all of a sudden her head began to spin Morgan held on tightly to Crush's rough scales "Morgan are you alright?" Came Crush's worried voice, his words seemed to echo around Morgans head, her eyes closed and she tipped sidewards slipping right of Crush's back and hurtling towards silent springs which was just underneath them, Crush let out an ear-piercing roar and flew after her as fast as he possibly could go. 

27. Re: Hell on Earth

    #107

    Lith held Nezella for what seemed like years. Finally, the tears ended. Lith looked into Nezella's eyes. "Nezella, I am sorry for your loss, I lost a great friend in Stold. You have my protection whenever you need it, just send word. Now, I must go. The battle rages, and I must help out the goodly people of the world," Lith said to her. He gave her one last hug, and walked out of the tent. "Tell my father to find me when we wakes up and has recovered," Lith called back. He walked to the springs and drank deeply, then looked up at the sky. He saw a familiar figure. "Crush?" he asked himself. He then saw the falling body, Morgan's body, and watched as Crush dove after her. Lith instantly went into one of his few spells. Calling upon the magic of the drow, and transformed in him by his mother, he granted Morgan levitation for a short period, and Crush was only a few short feet from her by his eyes. Lith staked his katanas into the ground and launched his fire-stream spell into the sky, hoping Crush would see the signal, and hoping Crush would bring his his Commanding Mistress. "Morgan, if anyone has hurt you, I swear by the Nine Hells themselves I will untterly destroy the offender," Lith vowed quietly to himself. He sat and watched, and hoped all went as he had planned.

28. Re: Hell on Earth

    #108

    Crush saw the spell fly up into the sky and hit Morgan, her descent slowed and Crush managed to just get underneath her thin body. Crush looked towards where the spell had come from "Lith! but how? i could not sense his life force how is this possible?" Crush soared down towards Lith and landed softly on a large span of grass by the waters edge. Crush turned his head and gently picked morgan up and led her carefully on the floor before Lith. Crush let out a low rumble and nosed Morgan, making her slide over the wet mud of the damp earth towards Lith. Crush closed his eyes and relayed a message to Lith hoping that he would understand "Poisoned arrow, taking her life force, She's fading fast. Must do something before it is to late, Relak captain of demon army, he's dead now, he said you were dead, he had orders from Sheloryith, to kill us all" Crush lowered his head so that his many faceated eye was looking straight into Lith's face. The light blue of the dragons eye was outstanding and what looked like a dragon sized tear rolled down the scaly cheek of the mighty beast. 

29. Re: Hell on Earth

    #109

    Felicia as Morgan disappeared from her site, far below her. Midous had now landed back down onto the earth, out of the site of the rageing war. She watched as the races of man and monster fight with full force. Then from the far south-west corner came forth the remaining warriors of the Sun fire Vanguard. The had came out onto the field, riding on there horses, cutting down all those that stood in their way.
    
    "They have returned, She said to Midous, "Thank you God, We just may have a chance to finish this war." Felicia then turned back to Midous.
    
    "Midous, that stranger that said he would help me locate Cortez, do you know who he is?" Midous, mute but able to understand someone and to communicate in his own strange gestures only answered her with a bow of his head.
    
    "Really, she said surprised, well who is he? he said that I already found Cortez, What do you think he meant by that? Midous then laid down onto the ground, rubbing his in the dirt growling. Felicia then remembered what Keagen told her.
    
    "He is wearing the very armor of Sheloryith, He works for the demons know. We could try to save him, but I'm not giving you a promise that he could be helped." Felicia suddenly became frozen.
    
    "It was him, I can't believe it," she said. "She then took out her long sword and gripped the handle tightly. "He lied to me, and that infuriates greatly." Several tears came down from her eyes. She then turned to Midous. "But I can't be angry with him now, We must find the others, we're going after him." Felicia then jumped onto Midous' back and the two headed to Silent Springs.
    
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    Beurox watched the Silent Springs Camp. He had his sword of precious metals in his hand.
    
    "I should storm the camp and cut each and everyone of their throats, the elders would be most pleased, they would have to make me a Nyirian Knight." Beurox was now just about to leap from his hide out when Midous along with Felicia came into site, so he quickly jumped back behind a tree. Felicia jumped off of Midous and ran into the nearest tent. Inside she found Zwiryyythrow. Felicia recognized him from the past so she readied her sword and took out one of her throwing knives and threw it at Zwiryyythrow hitting one of the wooden polls of the tent next to him. Zwiryyythrow looked at the knife and then back at Felicia.
    
    
    "Well, well, well, look who I found, she said. I come her looking for Lith and Morgan, but instead, I find the creep that put Cortez in an eye patch." Zwiryyythrow stood up.
    
    "Now, now, I mean you no harm, dear Felicia, I realized what I've done in the past so I asked Cortez for forgiveness and He did as I forgave him for what he wanted to be forgiven from." Nezella then came into the tent.
    
    "excuse me, but if your looking for Lith and Morgan, come with me. Sadly, Morgan is in a bad state of health. Felicia then walked over to Zwiryyythrow bed.
    
    "You just prey that you get forgiven for what you did to my hand. Sometimes it hurts as if it is still burning." Felicia then reached out and pulled out the knife from the poll and followed Nezella out of the tent.
    
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    Cortez was now less then a mile from Shelo. From behind him, blood trailed. Up ahead he could see a large cliff, and Shelo was on it.
    
    "I’ll have you now, Sheloryith, he said." He now struggled to run up to the edge of the cliff, but slumped to his feet every few steps. When he reached the edge, he yelled out to her.
    
    "SHELORYITH, YOUR END IS HERE!" Shelo turned around to see the chosen one of the Nova sphere.
    
    "IT IS YOURS TO END NOW!," she yelled out. She then drew out her shock blade. "Come, give me your best shot!" Cortez then helled in his pain and charged at Shelo with his axe in hand. The two had clashed their blades, both even in power. When Cortez attacked, Sheloryith quickly blocked it and when she attacked, Cortez blocked.
    
    "I see the demon armor and axe is serving you well, but soon your powers will be gone, including your life. Too bad you could have been one of us but you where too weak. Always warring about your stupid friends and your she-knight. But guess what, they will be dead sooner then you know it!" Cortez became outraged.
    
    "You lie!" Cortez then forced shelo back to the edge of the cliff and he struck the ground, which began to crumble into dirt below Sheloryith feet.
    
    "NNNOOOO!," she yelled as she fell. "d**n YOU CORTEZ!!!!!!.........." Cortez then looked down at the bottom of the crumbled cliff.
    
    "No your majesty, d**n you!"
    
    OOC: oh, don't worry about Shelo, she isn't dead just yet....

30. Re: Hell on Earth

    #110

    Morgans body convulsed sending a wave of ripples through her slender frame, Her eyes flickered but remained shut Crush watched her intently as once again her body shook. Sweat had began to pour down her face making it glimmer in the dim light, Crush mewed softly resting his huge head on the soft ground by Morgans side. Morgans mind had gone into overdrive images flashed up in front of her as she led there not being able to open her eyes or say a word. A picture of Crush aloft in the sky ducking and diving out of the clouds, a picture of Lith smiling holding his blades high and laughing, a picture of Felicia cuddling into Cortez, a picture of darkness, bodies lying strewn everywhere faces mangled limbs away from there residing body, blood soaking into the grass around them and a dark face laughing above them. Morgan screamed the high-pitch vibrated through her form her mouth fixed open and the sound just pouring out. Her back arched away from the ground forcing her body up which was then supported by her shoulders which still lay on the ground digging into the wet earth. Her eyes shot open momentarily before closing as the sound vanished and the limp body of Morgan fell to the ground once again, her breathing came in short rasps shuddering her each time. 

31. Re: Hell on Earth

    #111

    OOC: I'M BAAAACCCKKKK!
    
    Zion was woken up suddenly by a cold breeze, he had fallen asleep while waiting outside the tent. He got up and walked in but not to his surprize, Lith wasn't there, but his brother was. Zion saw that Zwiryyythrow was awake so he sat down and said to him "So how you doing big brother?"
    
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    Eik came running into his master's chamber all of a sudden. "Master Master! I gotted word that the demon lady has died."
    
    "What, this can't be!" came the booming reply. "I have seen the future, this isn't supposed to happen..... I musn't  abanden what the Hikclusse told me, she can't be dead."
    
    The master tossed Eik an eyeball and instructed him to go. Eik ran away less happy this time but happy nontheless.
    
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    The earth goblin cheif suddenly came to an abrupt halt. "Mees cannot smell prey any more." The cheif took a few long, hard sniffs then instructed his tribe to go back. They had to go all the way down the cliff they were coming at and go to around to the bottom of the to get Sheloryith. But that was a some price that the tribe was willing to pay.

32. Re: Hell on Earth

    #112

    Suddenly, the rubble began to shake. The shaking grew bigger and bigger, and then CRASH! A fist came crashing out from under the rocks, then came another, next a whole cloaked body, covered in dirt arose. Sheloryith still had the Nova sphere and shock sword in her hands. Though shielded behind her indestructible mask and cloak, she could feel dreadful pain all over her body.
    
    "CORTEZ!, she yelled out, I WILL FIND YOU, AND YOU AND ALL YOUR DAMN FRIENDS WILL FEEL TRUE SUFFERING!" Sheloryith looked up and could see the goblin tribes leaving, and without fearing for her safety, she called to them.
    
    "YOU, DO NOT LEAVE, IF YOU RETURN AND ASSISST IN THE DEFEAT OF THE HUMAN ENEAMIES, I ASSURE YOU WILL BE GREATLEY REWARED!"
    
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    Cortez was near the Silent Springs camp, with hand at his bleeding side. He noticed that it had stopped bleeding but still was cut opened. He could see Felicia near Midous talking to Nezella. At first he started slowing down in his approach, but continued.
    
    "She will be made with me, he said to himself, but I hope she will understand. I didn't want to have to lie her, but I didn't want her or anyone else to get hurt. Well, Here I go." Cortez had reached the tent she was near. He bowed his head and took off his helmet and dropped it on the ground. The helmet made a small crashing sound when it fell. Felicia, with her back to Cortez, heard the sound so turned around. And there in back of her, stood the one she was searching for a long time, Cortez. Her captain, commander, best friend, and the she truly loved. Cortez only smiled when he could she her face.
    
    "Hello Felicia," he said quietly. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth when I found, but I just wanted to make sure that Sheloryith wasn't going to get in my way. If you don't forgive me, I will clearly understand." Felicia only stared at Cortez for a moment, but then, more tears came to her eyes. She still had her sword tightly in her hand. Then, the sword, slowly started to slip from her hand and fell to the ground with a THUD. Felicia then ran to Cortez and embraced him tightly, and began crying softly. Cortez then looked down at her.
    
    "I glade I can she you again, Felicia. I hope you didn't get worried." Felicia then looked up at him. A smile then came to her face.
    
    "I saw blood and found your axe. Worried greatly, but never feared your death. I knew you would return in one piece. Cortez then pulled her closer.
    
    "And I knew you weren’t going to stop looking for me." Cortez then leaned down to kiss her lips but hesitated and kissed her right cheek. Felicia then looked back up at him.
    
    "Your dizziness must have through you off balance." Felicia then pulled his head closer and kissed him on the lips."
    

33. Re: Hell on Earth

    #113

    Lith watched as Crush descended towards him. He watched as the dragon put Morgan in front of him, and heard in his head the dragon's words. He saw the dragon's tear, and was enraged. "Relak, you are lucky you are dead already," Lith said in a disturbingly calm voice. He picked up Morgan gently and motioned for Crush to follow. He headed back towards the Silent Springs camp. When they arrived at the very edge, Lith told Crush to stay back a bit, these people would never know if he was friendly or enemy, and explained it better not to test to see the reactions. He walked to where he had just seen his father, and walked in. "Uncle, Father, meet Morgan," Lith said in mock cheeriness. He called for Nezella and told her what happend, "Please, Nezella, please find a way to get rid of the poison," Lith said as he fought back tears and sobs. He looked at his uncle and father and dismissed his pain momentarily. "Where is Cortez?" he asked simply, then collapsed from sheer exaustion.

34. Re: Hell on Earth

    #114

    Just as Lith asked of Cortez, Cortez, followed by Felicia entered the tent in which he was.
    
    "Why, I'm right Lith," he said as he flung open the entrance flap of the tent.
    
    "I got word that Morgan has come in contact of one of your mother's arrows." Nezella turned to Cortez with a sad look. She then whispered into his ear.
    
    "Indeed it was an arrow and she is being poisoned. We've tried everything, but nothing seems to work. I fear she will not be saved. Cortez then turned to Morgan and then back at Nezella.
    
    "Don't fear for her, she will be saved." Cortez then looked over at Lith. "I promise you she will be saved." Cortez then remembered his bleeding side that had stopped. he then looked down at it and it was just about gone.
    
    "Hmm, strange," he said. "I two have been struck with a lethal arrow, but for some reason, the wound has nearly recovered.
    
    "There is something wrong, I don't think what is happening is supposed to happen. Sheloyrith must not be dead. She needs me for the final soul count in the Nova sphere but she has not killed me yet. That must be because I knocked her down that cliff back there and she needs more time, but why is Morgan still ill? The arrows both Sheloryith and Relak could just be the same type, by why is it still poisoning Morgan? Relak must want her dead for some reason, but what?"
    
    Felicia then turned to Cortez. "Besides the arrows, could you find a cure? you did work for Sheloryith, didn't you learn any of her powers of healing?"
    
    "I don't know. These powers just came to me. But though the arrow drained me of most of all the power and blood I have, I can still feel the power." Cortez then remained silent for a second.
    
    "I’m not quite sure of what I going to do, but I think what we need is the Nova sphere. Though it is consistered a weapon against us, I could just be the source of power that we need to save Morgan. I'm going back to where Sheloryith had her fall and get the Nova sphere back."
    
    Felicia's eyes lit up. "your crazy, what if you get hurt again?," she asked.
    
    "That is another risk I need to take. He side without looking at her. It's either die trying to save the world or die doing nothing at all, I’ll take my chance facing death."
    
    Zwiryyythrow stood up from his bed. "Then if your going, I will go. Though she may appear to be weak, you must not underestimate her powers. She feels no physical pain or any sense of emotion. I must go with you, because if there's going to be someone kill between the two of us, I would rather have it be me. I’ve lived a full life and I wish I would have live it wisely.  And besides, she's my wife and if she dies, I would like to die next to her, either with her of against her, I don‘t care."
    

35. Re: Hell on Earth

    #115

    Arez and Thorgon stumbled into the Silent Springs camp and saw a doctor. "Exuse me, would ye be kind enough to point me in the direction of the one called Nezella? We've been told she's quite good with wounds." Thorgon asked the doctor.
    
    She pointed in a direction and the two were off. They slowly stumbled into the tent and saw Lith! "Ah, well met again Sir Lith." Arez greeted cheerfuly. He looked around. Suddenly feeling quite embaressed, he tried to apologize. "Oh! Terribly sorry! It seems that we have interupted a meeting of some sort. We'll just wait for the doctor's asisstance outside."
    
    "Hold on," Zion ordered. "What field are you in human?"
    
    "Archery" Arez responded.
    
    "Hmm...and the dwarf?"
    
    "Kick Ass-ery" Thorogon huffed sarcastically.
    
    "Well to my knowledge we don't have anyone in the field of archery or...Kick Assery so it would be a great honor if you could help us on are noble quest to defeat the demon queen."
    
    "If it has the word "quest" in it count us in." Arez repleid. Throgon nodded his head in agreement.
    
    "Well then it's settled, I shall go along as well and grudgingly wake Nyel up to come." Zion then started walking out of the tent. But just as he was he noticed something ont the floor. He picked it up and it was a statuette of a cat. "Who's magnificent item is this?" Zion asked in true curiosity.
    
    OOC: The statuette is the thing that can turn into a living tiger (I think it's a tiger) if called upon. Lith gave it to Morgan earlier in the story and it was kind of forgotten. So Morgan dropped it or something and Zion found it. Just trying to bring an old idea back into the story.  :)
    

36. Re: Hell on Earth

    #116

    Keagen listen to the those that were in the tent in front of him. Despite being far from it, his pointed elf ears were of great help.
    
    "So, Sheloryith is still out there," he said. "And she still has the Nova sphere. Hmm, I must find her and maybe we could work something out." Keagen then took off to through the woods, unseen, to find the one that would finally bring back glory, respect, and power to him and his elders of the Nyir.
    
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    Cortez took out his great axe. He then ran a stone a cross its blades to renew its blade, after all the flesh, bone, and metal it had cut through.
    
    "So then we have it." He said to the rest of the group. "We will find Sheloryith and finish her off. And we if possible, return the Nova sphere to the drows, if not destroyed." Felicia then took out Cortez's old battle axe that she had been holding on to.
    
    "Cortez, I found your old axe," She said holding it out to him. "I used it a few times when you where gone, but other then that, its still the same." Cortez smiled as he took it into his free hand.
    
    "Thanks Felicia, I thought I was never going to see it again, But now that I'm glad to see it again, I want you to have. Cortez then held it out to Felicia.
    
    "You are a great warrior, one of the best I've ever seen and I would be honored if you would take it." Felicia was surprised to see the same axe that was first Cortez's father's and then his and now was being offered to her.
    
    "But this was your fathers and you would think you would have it handed down to a son one day," she said as she slowly took the handle.
    
    "Yes, it was my fathers, but now it is mine to give to you. My father would have like you and there wouldn't be nobody else better then you to take it. And if I did have a son, well I'm sure he would have it one day after you." Cortez then gave Felicia a wink, though he only has one eye, the blink was intended it to be a wink. Felicia got the sign and gave him a smile.
    
    

37. Re: Hell on Earth

    #117

    Lith listened to everything said quietly from his position on the floor. He looked up when he heard something about an item on the floor. "Wait a second, thats the statuette I gave Morgan before I had to run off. She must have dropped it when I carried her in," Lith said quickly. He took it from Zion and set it next to Morgan. "Hold on, something isn't right," Lith said with a grimace. He closed his eyes and ran a quick check over everything in the area. "Something just took off, fast," he said quietly. He looked at all his new found friends, and was honestly surprised they were all still alive. He felt the pain in his leg start to return. "Ya, giant club, leg, need, help," Lith just barely managed to get those simple words out before he passed out cold from the pain.

38. Re: Hell on Earth

    #118

    Nezella came into the tent, along with two other nurses. "He's knocked out, said Nezella to the others. Quick, lets get him to the other tent." Nezella then picked up the limp body of Lith. The two others carefully picked up his legs and carried him out of Morgans tent. "We'll fix up his leg, you may see him when he's awake." Zwiryyythrow watched as they took away his son. He then stood up. "Please, take care of my son." he said with great worry. "He's my one I have."
    
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    Sheloryith woke up. She didn't remember when she fell asleep. "Damn it, I need to find those goblins, they maybe of good use to me. I'm no longer fighting side by side with the demons, so I must find another army." Sheloryith started up from the cliff. "Cortez isn't dead yet, but that women still is suffering. Relak did well, but I can't worry about him right at this moment. Within minutes, Shelo had reached the top and was now on the search for the goblin tribe. "They are somewhere around here, I can feel it like the blood in my vains." Shelo then took off back through the woods.
    

39. Re: Hell on Earth

    #119

    Zion took a bucket of water and threw all the water at Nyel. He snickered but his happiness turned into agony as he felt the jaws of a snake dig into his flesh. He knew it was Nyel's whip so he kicked the bucket at her.
    
    "You shall pay dearly when we get back to Mennzoneranzen." (I don't know if that's spelled right.) Nyel complained.
    
    "Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.....! You think that we will ever make it back there? If we do we shall be exicuted." Zion repied.
    
    "What have I done to deserve exicution?" Nyel protested.
    
    "Have you forgotten about your whole entire army that Matron Shookai granted you? Now as you should know they are probably destroyed by now and I don't think that she shall be very pleased by that."
    
    Unfortunately for Nyel, Zion was right. She could never go back to Mennzoberanzen.
    
    "Well, what am I going to do?" Nyel asked Zion.
    
    "The humans, with the exception of your nephew and brother, are going on a little mission to destroy the demon queen, Sheloryith. In other words the one who has been causing all this havoc. So the way I see it is that if we go on the mission and die we won't have to deal with Matron Shookai, and if we succeed then the humans might let us stay here. It's a win or win situation."
    
    After some more talking Zion and Nyel eventually got over to the tent where everyone else was.
    
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    Eik came hobbling to his master's call. "Yes master?"
    
    "Eik, fetch me my armor and then get Hunter," the master replied. He then threw Eik another deer leg.
    
    Eik hopped away with glee and soon brought Hunter and his master's armor.
    
    "What do you want this time Zinn?" Hunter asked, hoping it involved pay.
    
    "I want you to go down to the war and finish off the demon queen." Zinn explained.
    
    "Okay, so what's the pay?"
    
    "This," Zinn pulled a lever and a wall opened up revealing a 15 foot 1 and a half ton orc.
    
    "Throw in a 100 gold and you got yourself a deal." Hunter bargained.
    
    "Uhhh...Fine" Zinn compramise.
    
    Without another word Hunter was off, determined to get his prize.
    
    OOC: Zinn (full name is Zinnbarrox) is an extremely powerful being. His origin is still to be determined, but he wears an iron mask to make sure sure his origin stays that way. Whoever he really is he is very powerful and ownes may crime guilds in cities and such. Hunter is sort of a bounty hunter except he does more that collect bounties. He'll steal, kill, do anything you want as long as it involves good pay. Hunter to has something to hide so he wears a giant black cloak every day.
    
    

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    #120

    Sheloryith stopped in the middle of a fork, breaking into three separate paths.
    
    "Damn, where did they go?," she said quietly to herself. She looked at the paths and all where very much the same in worn ground. Suddenly, there was something came moving in the bushes behind her. With hesitating, she quickly drew out her bow, ready to fire, turned around and fired. And in a flash, the arrow was deflected by something and came flying back at her and she grabbed it in mid-air, inches away from her head.
    
    "who goes there, she said sternly, show yourself, or die." Seconds later, out jumped Beurox, with his mighty sword.
    
    "Your majesty, Queen Sheloryith, I presume," he said with a bow.
    
    "A Nyirian? I should have known. All you sound a like, and look alike," she said as she place her bow away, which disappeared in a cloud of fire. "What do you want?"
    
    "First off, I was sent to make sure you killed the head of the Sun fire Vanguard, but you held back, and know I must help you." Sheloryith laughed.
    
    "You idiot, Do I look like I need help? Yes, My first plan to get the Nova sphere didn't work, but I have it now and all I have to do is kill the head of the Sun fire." Beurox sighed.
    
    "Your great in power, but you lack in knowledge. Cortez has joined forces with your son and husband. His brother and sister are with him. I don't need to know everything to see the outcome, You will fall. But if you are willing to, we could join forces and stop them, your powers and my strength, what say you?"
    Sheloryith thought for a second. She knew that Cortez still had the demonic powers and that Lith was still a threat to her.
    
    "Fine, you have deal, she said as she shook his had. But don't think that you will wield the Nova sphere, It is mine to control."
    
    "Never will I dare," he said.
    

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