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As the light fades away Killstone starts losing his power. He senses the power of the night dwellers more and decideds to be more cautios with his ways.

"I agree wtih Septim. Shelter would be good for now. If we do not have enough time t oget to the city we could atleast try and find a cave or some other sort of shelter to hide in for a while."

(Might is right. And anyway, that makes it more interesting.If you wanna play alone, that´s fine...and boring!)

Killstone mumbling some words made a small orb of light appear. the orb flew from his hands and lodged its self in the shadow like figure. The light grew dim but with concentration from killstone the light grew brighter and brighter growing bigger and bigger finally overwhelming the shadow and making cringe on the ground in a helpless state.

Killstone pants at the hard concentration and energy the spell took out of him hoping another person in the team could finish off the shadow

Seeing Shezmu and Killer be pushed back by the shadow, Erunion sent forth a bar of fire, only it's twin came speeding from the opposite direction, the two met in the middle of the shadow, and exploded in a burst of fire and light...

The power of these shadows was surprising. As Killstone and Shezmu squared off against one of these creatures, and Revenge dueled another, Atreides rushed to the aid of Erunion. We will need this elf...if he dies, our quest ends here.  As he rides towards them, they both unleash high level spells of fire.

Atreides quickly ducks behind his shield to avoid the blast of the explosion. His horse, who was much sturdier than Atreides himself, just shakes off the force and continues running. As the shadow focuses on another spell against Erunion, Atreides' mount, Shadow, jumps over a rock, and Atreides nearly loses his hold while he chuckles to himself at the irony. No time for that now....I must focus on the battle. Atreides slashes the shadow across its chest as he passes.

He jumps off the horse and turns to face the shadow. His attack seemed to have no effect...Atreides charges back to the fight and begins an onslaught of sword strikes that seem to simply pass through the shadow. Frustrated, he tries to focus all his energy into one strike. His sword hits the ground, passing harmlessly through the shadows, and he notices the fireball too late.

Atreides gets slammed back and his body flies into a tree. He staggers to his feet. What is this? Nothing I do seems to make a difference. Suddenly, he realizes that his sword, glowing red, seems to be vibrating. What's happening? This...this power......it's....coming from me! What is it? Could it be? My father spoke of a gift...a rare gift that his great-grandfather had....a spiritual power from within. If that's what this is, then I must learn to control it.

Atreides charged back. This time, the point of the sword made impact with the shadow's chest! It didn't pierce the armor, but the force pushed the shadow back several feet. Now the fight really begins.

"These shadows seem to be immune to any melee attacks! You'll have to use some sort of magic to defeat them! Blocknig with your swords is possible though you just cant harm them with weapons! Use magic! The light is their weakness but dark magic will work just as fine!" Killstone bellowed after desttoying the shadow with the spears.

Sigfreid deep in thought took a few moments to realize what Erunion was saying. He finally replied "You know as well as I do Erunion that in business like ours we make enemies and I've made my fair share"

Sigfreid returned to his thoughts with haste ‘While a person with psychic abilities was interesting it was not all together unexpected.  But it made him excited’ A cold smile began to grow as he remembered his own personal type of defense. ‘ He still remembered the man that had tested him on his knowledge of defending himself against intrusions of the mind for the Dark Lord. He had wound up on the floor shivering, after all once you entered my mind your at my control’ thought Sigfreid

*But as time went on Sigfreid realized nothing would happen so he once again felt boredom take over.*

And then the shadows came.

Sigfreid watched them battle the creatures of shadow and saw one of them fall to a spear of light. But one of them had disappeared into the darkness once almost beaten by Gaius and Sigfreid was steadily tracking his movements. Taking out his sword he felt the Shade materialize out of the darkness and charge towards him.

A moment of surprise crossed Sigfreids features and then he sprung into action. Unsheathing  his own sword and blocking the stab sent towards him. Instead of pausing to jump backwards the Shade moved his sword downwards and stabbed through Sigfreids horse.

Sigfreid paused and spoke up “You dare attack me you miserable creature of the darkness. I who could kill you a thousand times over and  end your existenceâ€� he spoke without malice but filled with disgust.

Then the shade moved with speed and attacked him again moving his sword expertly upwards to try to cut  his head but with Sigfreid blocked it using his sword and moving it sideways to push him back. But the Shade had expected it and already had taken a dagger he had at his side and slashed at his side. The dagger connected and Sigfreid felt pain course through him.

 As the Shade jumped backwards Sigfreid commanded “Darkness bind himâ€� and  the pitch black night came alive as if a beast had taken control of it. The darkness came crashing down upon the Shade.

The Shade was held in place by the darkness around his body. A snake of darkness that curled around it’s body.

Sigfreid stood there for a moment and then moved. He was not worried about the Shade using the darkness against him for of the two Sigfreid held more control of the darkness then the shade.

“You know unlike everyone else here I don’t plan to kill you, instead I want to know why you’re here and who sent you. But I can’t hold you foreverâ€�  Sigfreid was now behind him and paused “, luckily not everything in a Shade’s body is different them a humans.â€� Sigfreid’s voice dropped to a whisper  “Such as if I cut your Achilles heel then you won’t be able to moveâ€�

With these final words Sigfreid brought his sword that had become black as night except for the wolf that was Red down upon the Shade’s heel to cut it in two. The sword connected and the Shade let out an unearthly scream as his tendon was cut. The snake disappeared with  a command from Sigfreid and the Shade fell down and quickly begin to crawl away since he could no longer walk.

Sigfreid did not go after the Shade for he knew one of his companions would be able to get him in time.  Sigfreid mind was moving fast and a forced calmness was in his fast ‘It had been a victory in his favor and with ease but the problem was that the dagger the Shade had used had some sort of poison in it. Something familiar, he had felt this earlier that day.’ Sigfreids mind was racing as he came to a conclusion ‘That Shade must have some sort fast acting Plague bacteria in that dagger. He had to cure himself and fast.’

OOC: Wow  LONG!

OOC: I thought there were only 3 Shades? All of which are currently engaged , Might

[I told you I was picking em off! I didn't say any kind of number.]

POST PPL

As the sun rose up over the plains as the first moents of morning arrived, the aprty could see something on the horiuzon far away. it looked to be the very tops of tall buildings. The still plauged land stretched far ahead over many miles seperating the party from the city. The party rode on to try and get to the city.

[OOC: sorry to psot the finding of the city thats waht i thought we needed to get the story going again and no one was psoting and i amde te city far away so that revenge can change it if needed]

OOC: Killstone what are we going to do with the immobilized Shade?

‘I’ve got two choices’ thought Sigfreid ‘I either heal myself somehow or I destroy the bacteria with a lot of dark energy.’

*Sigfreids hand strayed to his hilt where the blood diamonds were located*

‘I only have 8 of them and I’m using one of them so early in this quest but at the same time I could always “replenish”' my stock.’

“It seems I don’t have much of a choice in the matter” spoke Sigfreid as he dug his hand into his hilt and holding a blood Diamond.

*Bringing the Blood Diamond upon the slash he released it. Suddenly a wail was heard across the campsite, the wail sounded like it came from a little boy in the final moments of his life*

Sigfreid paused for a moment and then stumbled as if drunk and Sigfreid was drunk or at least on his own sudden increase of power.

‘Amazing’ thought Sigfreid ‘The innocence of this child must have been huge.’

*As Sigfreid moved a little he felt no pain from inside or outside which made him feel surprisingly happy.*

*He walked over to his “horse” that had been stabbed and surveyed the damage*

‘I suspected as much’ though Sigfreid as he looked upon the skin that only had a light scar ‘The Dark Lord made it so that it could fix itself from small wounds like this’

*Finally Sigfreid turned his face  towards the crawling away Shade and  a small part of him hoped for it’s sake that someone would get to it before he did*

Interesting....both Sigfreid and Shezmu seem to enjoy killing. Surprisingly, I think I'm beginning to get the slightest tinge of satisfaction from the suffering I inflict.

All my morals and ethics...but.....who cares?

The power I feel now, with it, what do morals matter? Damn Erunion! I wanted to fini*beep* myself!

But no...it's not right....I mustn't kill for pleasure...Why not?

Why not? With their death, my power can only grow. Every fight can only make me stronger!

But this is wrong!

It doesn't matter...ha ha ha....no. It doesn't matter at all. I must get to know these two...they might be useful.

revenge you should nt make a game if ur not active for it

*Erunion stares at Might.*
Poor fellow, him. Doesn't seem to be too much of a nice guy, but he's turning dark.

[ Sorry I havent been active, my family has been over and that, I will right a HUGE bit soon ok ^^ Im sorry again, If anyone wants they can say that we arrived etc then I will continue, no more baddies now until after, merry christmas ^^ ]

*Slowly walks back towards his shadowsteed and carefully looks at the others as he passes them by*

"hmmm...these lands...there's something not right about it...I'm feeling...more...evil..." Shezmu slowly speaks to himself..."it must be these lands...it's corrupting everything it comes in touch with!!!"

*Shezmu looks at his shadowsteed for a few seconds*
"Sorry my faithful compagnion...I can't use you anymore...it's just too dangerous..."

*Slowly he starts to chant yet again in an ancient language and a dark whirl of dust and smoke surrounds his shadowsteed...the others watch in awe as he performs his seemingly dark ritual when a bright green flash blinds them for a few seconds...as they slowly open their eyes again, they see a magnificent flying beast hovering in the air above the ground...it's wings feathered, yet seemingly made out of scales, it's legs are armed with sharp talons and it's beak looks mighty sharp...it resembles a gryphon...only darker...and more dragonlike*

"This should keep me from losing my touch with reality...or at least slow down the effects of these wretched lands...hopefully the others will not succumb to the corrupting effects...I've already witnessed some unfortunate change in their behaviour...which is...disturbing...we better get to that city...fast..." Shezmu spoke once again to himself as he mounted his flying beast...


"Well don't just stand there staring at me...it's that city overthere we should be staring at...preferably from up close!!!" Shezmu yelled at the group, his eyes glowing brightly...

Impressive....Sigfreid seems to have similar abilities as well. Interesting...or dangerous. We shall see.

Atreides mounts his trusty steed, Shadow, and sets out in the direction of the city.

It seems the rest are in a hurry to reach the city. But what's the rush? Encountering more of those shades might not be a bad thing. I personally would like to fight, and kill, one of those creatures. Perhaps I could learn something from them.

Gaius continues to ride trough shadows. "Showoff... They shouldn´t be so *beep*y, they should be embarrassed they even need other creatures to ride. Still,  they seem to have some interesting powers, I shall see what else they can do", he thought to himself. Suddenly, Gaius  saw a bird come from the north. Creatures were coming back to these lands... It seemed that with the destruction of the two shades, the evil that corrupted these lands was disappearing.

*Killstone pulls Xiax onto his horse.* "come on mate we need to get to that city fast and running jsut doesnt quite cut it.

"Come on everyone that city needs to be reached soon!" *after galloping with the rest for a few hours the city seems much closer* "that city must not have been as far away as it seemed before! We wil lreach it by night fall.

*as the sun was setting the party reaches the city and goes to the place of safty forthe night*

{"after galloping with the rest for a few hours" By this time, all but the magical beasts are dead from exhaustion, because no horse can gallop for more than half an hour, and most would be dead after 10 minutes.}

The horses were being used well, trot for a while, canter for a while, then the riders dismounted to walk, then they repeated the whole process. It was the only way for them to go at a good clip without killing the poor horses. The few that were living, that is.
Erunion kept jogging along beside them easily.