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Post by Kyrea on Apr 10, 2009 13:45:51 GMT -5
Kyrea watched the horse and the moment he accepted her as no foe, she moved forward and knelt beside Nereis. “He’ll move again.” She said, talking to the horse to try and ease him as well as herself and then she set to work, first at the rip in his neck, doing something that if Nereis would be conscious would probably set him unconscious anyway. She reached over and with her quick nimble fingers, reached into his open wounds and slid the torn flaps of skin out from under the good flesh and laid it out flat over his open wound again, though this would not keep his from bleeding totally stopping, it would help once she had folded and tied a bandage to the wound.
The little Queen worked fast, or as fast as she could without making things worse and for a vampire, that was quite quick. The entire time she murmured softly, kind words of encouragement, to herself as well the horse lying beside its master. Once Nereis’s wounds were all closed and bandaged, the one at the back of his neck being the one that at first gave her problems, but after making a few more rips from her long, well, now short skirt, She managed quite a good way to both bandage and hold pressure against the wound by wrapping long pieces of material around his shoulders that would press against the back of his neck without the worry of choking him.
Kyrea then lifted his body slightly, he was still breathing, a very good sign she wasn’t too late. She knew he was weak though she’d drained enough humans to this point to know he’d be fine in a few hours, though a few hours they didn’t have, she needed him to wake up, and she needed him to do so quickly. Drazens’ horde of wild vampires would be upon them soon enough and she had to have him back on that horse and on his way to her own home, the only safe place she could think for him right at this moment. If he didn’t wake, then she’d be forced to fight off the creatures on her own while at the same time trying to keep them away from Nereis, and even as strong a she was, she was no match for several dozen wild vampires coming at her at once and if she could get him out of the area, she could slow them down and catch up to the pair once she had.
“Come on wake up.” She stated, holding him and shaking him slightly, patting his face from time to time. This she did over and over, wishing for everything she knew his name as that always helped when trying to wake the unconscious. “Please…” She pleaded. “Please, you’ve got to wake up.” She pleaded with the human. “Come on, you’ve got to get going.” She went on like this for a bit.
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Post by Ammodytes on Apr 11, 2009 8:59:04 GMT -5
"Father...." Nereis murmured as he opened his eyes, at first he saw only black but soon small spots of light appeared as he started to recognize the stars.
For a few seconds he didn't feel the soft hands of the lady, nor did he hear her words, but his eyes stopped on her face which in the soft light of the stars seemed of a pure white. He saw her lips moving and he focused his mind to try and understand what she was saying. At last her words reached him.
"Yes..." he spoke with half a voice. "I am..."
He almost passed out again but a light slap over the cheek from the vampire woke him up.
He tried to move his hands, his right didn't respond at all, his left palm closed into a fist and opened again spreading his fingers as widely as they could.
He raised his hand and placed the shaking fingers on his face, letting them slide down to his neck. When they reached the bandage he pressed on it slightly, feeling a sharp pain that made him clench his teeth, but then he placed his hand on his chest and after feeling his heart beat he smiled and turned his eyes towards the lady that was holding him.
"Thank you!" he spoke as loudly as he could, but he couldn't continue because Vasar started pushing his face with his cold large nose, covering his face with drool. This was a sign of happiness, the horse was grateful that finally his master awoke, but Nereis couldn't share his enthusiasm.
"Yes boy, yes I am fine!" he said with an annoyed voice as he placed his left hand behind him in order to sustain his own weight and to relieve his savior's hands. He realized that he still couldn't move his right palm which had turned blue around the wrist, but he managed to bend his elbow and place the palm on his lap.
He now arched his back and bent his knees, allowing the body to sustain itself. He reached with his left hand and dragged his sword with the blunt side over his legs onto his left side.
He tried to turn his head towards the lady again but the pain was too great, so he turned his entire chest to look her in the eyes.
His face was pale but his eyes were honest and piercing.
"Thank you! I never hoped to be saved by someone!"
He then looked around searching for his foe, seeing nothing but a cracked tree and bloody splinters he was unsure as to what had happened.
"Where is he?" Nereis asked with a startled voice. "Is he dead?" He asked quickly. "What happened? How long was I out?"
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Post by Kyrea on Apr 11, 2009 18:31:22 GMT -5
Kyreas’ heart would have leapt if it were beating when he began to animate once again. It was time to get him out of here, perhaps getting along the lines of cutting it very close. She stood as he did, flashing a relieved smile over at the horse and held the humans’ left shoulder steadily as he stood.
“See, told you he’d come around.” She looked over at the horse and smiled softly at the animal. She knew he didn’t understand her, but at the same time she was talking to him, she was talking to herself too, sort of telling herself that things might just be ok after all.
All at once the human began asking far too many questions, there was no time just now to answer all of them, any of them actually as she could feel the others coming their way and they would be here soon enough and she had to get him out of here without them seeing him leave.
“I’m sorry, your questions will have to wait until later, I need you to ride, and ride as quickly as you can out of here, this isn’t over yet but I am afraid my friend, that you are not in any condition to deal with what is on its way.” She then said with a sort of commanding tone in her voice, but in that tone was a pleading sound, almost as if she wanted to command him but at the same time asking that he cooperate for his own good, if not for hers as well his mounts.
Kyrea reached up to her neck and grasped a small chain that had a pendant hanging form it and pulled it off her neck with a small jerk of her hand. “Take this to the mansion on top of the hill at the other side of town, show it to the huge man that will be guarding the gate, he’ll let you in and tend to anything you may need from there. His name is Drannis, he doesn’t talk, but he will understand you just fine.” She told the human, not giving him much chance to argue. “I will be along shortly, but you must go and go now,” She then stated, looking about the clearing, her tone trying as it would to remain calm, but knowing the urgency was pouring through as well.
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Post by Ammodytes on Apr 12, 2009 11:00:38 GMT -5
Nereis was no fool, he didn't argue about leaving the lady alone, he didn't want to, but he understood that he would only get in her way. After all she fended off an attacker that had knocked him out.
Vasar was still laying on the ground beside him, Nereis strapped the sword to the saddle with his left hand, then he arched his back again and lifted his body onto to the horse, it was painful but he understood that time was important.
As soon as the horse felt his master on his back he got up, although his front left leg was injured. The horse got up and turned towards the road even before Nereis commanded him to.
With a dizzy face Nereis turned to the vampire and spoke honestly although his voice was trembling with pain.
"I am forever in your debt, and I will repay! I promise! Please come to this refuge you are sending me soon, if not my honour will be forever stained."
The pale young man started riding as fast as the injured horse could take him, his pride was hurting more than his injuries, but he had no choice, he knew he would pass out again soon because his wounds were still bleeding even if they had been skilfully bandaged.
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Post by Kyrea on Apr 12, 2009 18:32:51 GMT -5
Kyrea smiled softly at the human almost as her thanks for his cooperation in the matter, so many men would try and be macho and had argued with her, she was honestly grateful that this one at least had the brains to know when he would be more of a hindrance than help, even if it did hurt his male ego a little bit. She knew he was still in for a surprise when he would enter the mansion to be aided by obvious vampires and only hoped she would be there before it got that far. Drannis would be fine, he was human and perhaps he would call his wife to aid him instead of the resident vampires, either way, she knew this human was in for a surprise when he got there, how he would handle it, would yet to be known, as Kyrea no sooner looked vampire as Nereis did. However there was no time to stand around worrying about that just now.
“If I do not show up, then there will be hell to pay in the city of Celesta….” She left it hanging he would get her meaning that if she did not show she would be dead. “So until later, we have plenty to discuss.” She said to his retreating back.
The little queen felt them nearing, they would all come to the clearing, it is where their master called from and when they got here, there would be hell for her to pay if she was not prepared. She stepped into what was about he middle of the clearing and began her preparation. It would take the queen several minutes to prepare for what she had planned to do. She would have just enough time to call upon the winds force to aid her in this one and only attack she would have to fend off the massive strike and should she fail, it would be the end of her as she would have nothing left to fight with as this one strike would take from her near every last amount of strength the vampire queen held within her and leave her with just enough to, if she was lucky enough, make it back home to safety.
The winds began to blow, the clouds moved over the sky now covering it in total darkness leaving no space for the moon or otherwise stars about the city of Celesta as the small vampire queen gathered her will, called on the forces of the wind around her. What was once a peaceful night becoming more and more stormy by the second, wind whipping through the clearing and from all over, gathering around the small figure yet not touching her, the wind tightly captured within some field, or perhaps forming one that would sooner or later have to find release, and release it would, but not until she was over taken, it was her only chance against so many and the creatures that came for her were in a pack of thirty or more. It was dire that she concentrated everything she had to offer on this one act as there was no other means that the vampire Queen, even as powerful and quick as she was, could defeat so many all at one time and there would be no escape for her without putting the human at risk again and for that, she was not willing to do, in short, she was putting her life up for his; something she was more than willing to do.
Kyrea was totally focused, her extraordinarily strong will and immense study of the one element she controlled, the only things allowing her to create what was to be a very destructive force. She breathed heavily and even began to sweat under the pressure of the pure energy draw she was using from within her small form. Had her heart beat within her chest it would have been pounding so hard it would be threatening to rip out of her chest in the strain. Her hands clenched into fists, her mind screamed out in pain as the night turned into a fierce storm by her sheer will and knowledge alone, commanding the element of the wind to surround her, to form about her tiny form and use its energy as the eye of the storm she created.
She couldn’t hear them through the massive wind storm about her small form but she could see them, feel them as the dark creatures gathered themselves in a frenzy for her death, each wanting to be praised by their master, each willing to prove their worth to Drazen, each not understanding what was held forth before them.
Then they came a fierce attack of thirty and more crazed vampiric creatures all at once, descending down upon the one small queen standing in the middle. Kyrea held still the force about her, she had to wait, she had to be certain most would perish and the remainder would be put out of commission at the least. She trembled under the pressure, her small form barely able to contain the element about her, her pure will and strong resolve the only things keeping her from letting go too early. They were upon her quickly, reaching her with ripping claws and gashing fangs, some getting through to slice the small queen, ripping her flesh open in several deeply gouging wounds and then thrust backwards in the fierce wind about the small queen and that was when she pushed outward with everything she had left inside her.
A loud sonic boom sounded throughout Celesta in her release, perhaps waking some sleeping humans from their beds, the closest of vampires were ripped in half at the force in which she released the force of the wind about her, the rest being swept so harshly through the air that they tore down trees or crashed through stone tombs tearing trees out by their very roots, our cut in half others as their bodies smashed through them with the force of the wind as its destructive force pushed through the clearing and sent out a shockwave of slicing wind that would destroy most everything in its path for a small distance before it would calm to mingle with the rest of the winds that blew through Celesta. When it was over, the small form crawled out from what was now a small crater in the center of devastation.
The clearing had been cleared of trees for the most part, though some still hung on, barely, now leaning against others that kept one another from falling to the destructive force of the wind. Tombs were smashed to rubble and the once still standing rusted fence of the tattered tomb bent and torn from the ground. Where there was once grass now nothing more than dirt with small patches of grass not torn up by the force. Bloodstained broken trees and stone lay about and the bodies of vampires either knocked out or dead scattered the outskirts of the area.
She had done it, she had been able to put them out of commission but at what cost? The small Queen shook violently as she moved from the crater and laid on her back for a few moments to gather what ever strength she had left, she still had to make it back home and make it back before the sun would touch her skin and force what would surely be a deadly change for her in this extremely weakened state. With one more, vast feat of sheer will power and resolve, the small creature was able to force herself to stand and begin to move towards the road. She did not have much time left; this would now become a race against the rise of the sun.
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Post by Ammodytes on Apr 13, 2009 5:03:26 GMT -5
The young man was giving all he had to stay focused on the road, so focused that it took him some time to notice the clouds gathering over his head. He lifted his eyes and saw that they were gathering towards the small clearing he had just left behind.
Nereis stopped his mound and turned him around, a strange feeling engulfed him, similar to the one he had when he met the mage in the white tower. He could actually feel the power that was being gathered.
"What is this?" he whispered, but he didn't have time to think again.
A strong gasp of wind followed by a sharp sound hit him in the face, and made Vasar lower his head. This made the man certain that something important happened in the clearing, and the silence that came afterwards told him that the conflict was over.
For the first time in many years his pride got the better of him, he knew that he should go on back to the city but the thought that his saviour was now hurt or in danger forced him to turn back at the risk of his life. He was in great debt so he decided to forfeit his own existence to save the one that had been so kind to him.
He started riding back, he was feeling better now, the thought that he was doing the right thing gave him strength to overcome the pain.
Upon reaching the clearing he didn't recognize anything from all the devastation, just the thin silhouette of the now injured lady seemed familiar.
He brought the horse by her side, smiled and extended his left hand. He helped her up on the horse in the small place on the saddle behind his back. As he turned Vasar towards the city again, his head started to spin slowly. He managed to open his mouth and speak.
"Again... I must leave my life.... In your... han........"
He didn't finish the word before his chest and head collapsed over the horse's neck, the adrenaline had run out. Vasar started racing towards the city even before the lady could grab the rings, it would be up to her to steer him to the destination.
Much pain had been delivered that night, but the young man was at last asleep...
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