Quest for power

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 1:51 pm

Lets go of Zarah's neck, seeing the fear in her eyes, not being able to respond to Damien, as he mutters a few words

Zarah....I...I'm sorry

He then goes unconsious again, as thoughts begin to roam his mind once again

What have I done.....Good Misjbar, good........No!.......Feel the anger burning in you...feel the HATE!!!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:09 pm

Damien raises an eyebrow under his coat, shrugs, and turns around, hoping to find out if there was really someone watching him.

Zarah · Post by **Zarah** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:44 pm

When Misjbar releases her neck she crawls away quickly as if she fleds from a monster. Her neck red with some traces of his hands she is still gasping and looks highly exhausted.
There is a shock in her eyes. She glares to Damien. Unbelievingly she eyes Misjbar who she thought of a as a fried, someone to trust in, a dear person.
But what is he? Did he change or was he simply like this? Zarah crawls further making her thoughts when she quickly gets up and runs from him in pure fear. Always looking around if he may follow.

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 7:26 pm

Shakes his head violently, and glares at Zarah

You stupid naive elf....YOU THINK EVERYTHING CAN BE ALRIGHT?
May you burn in the realms of Moshran, and may Tanora refuse you help....MAY YOU ROT IN HELL!

Breathes heavy after his words, astonished at them. He quickly runs after Zarah, tripping over tree stumps, and crawls back up, runnning after her

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:42 pm

As Misjbar jumps up, Damien's Head turns, and the wand releases a lightning-fast, glowing flash or bolt into Misjbar's direction.
Damien jumps a step aside, ready to follow both if the spell misses.

Zarah · Post by **Zarah** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:08 pm

When Misjbar spoke to her she turns around shocked, opens her mouth - but unable to say a word she runs on, now and then stumbling and facing Misjbars face, his new features everytime she almost hits the ground.
When she finally reaches the door of the house of the druidsshe searches confsed for the key in her bag when she realizes that she gave it to Misjbar, the one she trusted in.
She rattles at the door triing to open it desperatly. She knocks at it with her feasts - is there maybe someone in - ? But nothing.

She looks around hunted like an animal.

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 6:14 am

Gets hit in his arm by the spell, and quickly turns around facing Damien. Surprised at the sight, but not really interested he clamps his hand over the wound of the spell, and runs towards Zarah, just a mere 50 metres away from her, looking at her with ferocious eyes. Thoughts of someone other then himself spin through him

Hurt her......Kill her........Make her feel like yourself........Make her believe.....

Zarah · Post by **Zarah** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:41 am

She feels like trapped between the closed door and Misjbar. With a hunted look in her face she looks at Damien. Is he willing to help her? She doesn't really know him, but what she heard of him was more than noble.
When Misjbar gets nearer she looks at him, pleasing, like a little child, unable to defend herself, although there is a bow on her back. But obviously she forget to use it in all that struggle or she wouldn't want to hurt him.

"Misjbar...no...what are you doing?" she whispers towards him. There are tears in her eyes when she realizes that this could be her end but the more she realizes is, that it's her good friend Misjbar who will probably end her life.

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:07 am

Nearly crawls over the ground, glancing at Zarah with a mischevious and angry look, his eyes swollen and red. He then jumps up, right at her, and places a hand around her neck, holding her up and pressing her against the door.

Thought you could get away you foolish little elfess, thought you could get away....But I have you now, I can teach you now...

Smacks her hard against the wall, his hand clasped around her neck. He moves in close, as he whispers staring straight at her

Afraid that your friend might kill you? Well, your friend isn't here, it is just me......

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:32 pm

As Damien approaches, his face cannot be seen under his cloak - there are simply no light sources hitting it- and his voice seems cold, without any emotion. The word is not spoken loud, but somehow intense enough to burn into everyones mind.

"Enough."

The tip of damien's wand still emits a low, pulsing light, while his other hand remains free. A soft gleaming surrounds his hand, though not even elven ears can catch mumbled words.
Silence covers the place.

Zarah · Post by **Zarah** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:34 pm

Like tied on the door of the house from the druids of the forest, Zarah stares into Misjbar's face. Just now she is recognizing that it's not Misjbar speaking out of his mouth but some cruel power that took over him.
When she realizes her forehead changes and her thoughts are running all over.

She begins to whisper: "Fight Misjbar!" and closes her eyes to encourage herself.
When suddenly she totally ignores his hand as if it wasn't there and shouts like she never did before in fear of her friends mind: "Fight! You are stronger than this! Don't underestimate yourself! You're stronger!"

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:41 pm

While Zarah speaks, the same low silvery light gleam surrounding Damien's Hand, now opened like gripping something, starts to engulf Misjbar.

Carahawen · Post by **Carahawen** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:05 am

Carahawen climbed down from her tree, not being able to sleep. Too much thoughts were whirling in her mind: her new duty, the current situation of Troll's Bane...
She roamed through the town, where it was silent, noone on the streets. Not knowing exactly why, but an inner voice led her to the western wood.
She enjoyed the silence and the presence of the trees, yet her thoughts were somewhere else.
Suddenly she stopped. The cold wind brought voices to her elven ears. They came from the house of the druids. She frowned as she heard a "might kill you" from an unknown voice, then an "Enough!". She knew this voice.
Then she saw the scene: her best friend Zarah leaning against the door, an unknown elf in front of her. In horror she saw that his hand was lying at her neck, as if he wanted to choke her.
And there was another figure, not far from them, he seemed familiar, but Carahawen wasn't quite sure. And there was light, obviously magical.

She didn't hesitate a second, while grabbing her heavy axe and storming forward she sent her clear voice out: "Hands off her, now!"

Zarah · Post by **Zarah** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:21 am

As if she knew Carahawen would come in her inner heart, she barely recognizes her and her glancing axe from her unconvinient position. She begins to look between her and Misjbar and shouts:

"Don't kill him Carahawen! It's not him! It's a dark power! Please don't!"

Her look is despeared. She still is more in fear of Misjbars life than of her own.

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:26 am

Clamps his teeth, trying to fight the engulfing light of Damien. His hand around Zarahs neck weakens a little, but still tight around it. He glares to his side, noticing Carahawen shouting at him, but completely ignores her, then back to Zarah. He then throws her away with a slight movement of his hand. Quickly he turns around, and raises his cloak, to block the light of Damien, the light hurting him to deep in his soul. He ducks in, sitting on the ground with his cloak covering him

Arkadia Misella · Post by **Arkadia Misella** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:17 am

Arkadia found the growing situation more and more humurous with every passing moment. Tucked away behind the trees, her wide eyes watched as she pondered what her next move should be. She smirked a bit and decided to let the Gods choose the fours fate. She closed her eyes and fired three arrows, one after another, at the group.

Zarah · Post by **Zarah** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:14 am

Zarah fell on the wooden, rather hard ground and loses her consciousness. But you can still see her eyes moving somehow, like in a wild dream. She lies on her back. Her arms and legs clumsy.

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:14 am

Hiding under his cloak from the seering light, he thinks about how to get away from there. Then suddenly his cloak gets pierced by an arrow, the arrow goes through his leg, ripping the flesh. He quickly throws the cloak off him, and crawls towards the nearby door to the house of the druids, desperately searching for the key. He turns his head, screaming:

Foolish creatures!! Get away from me!

Abigale Firnisflower · Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:56 pm

She opens the door, a soft light shining around her. She steps out of the house, and makes her way towards Misjbar. She quickly lays her hands over Misjbar, softly whispering.

"Misj....it is not time to serve the Lord yet. Fight these people, and get away as quick as you can. The Lord has patience....

She walks back towards the door, closing it secure, and is gone

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:27 pm

The old elf, standing with his back to the bushes where the arrows come from, seems to sense the attack somehow. Losing his concentration on the spell, he bends aside to avoid being hit, rolling aside to avoid being a goal while the first two arrows hit Misjbar and Zarah.
The third arrow, however ( since all three arrows have been shot randomly, without really having been aimed at someone ) flies by, close to Damien's head.
Ducked on the floor, Damien faces the direction where the arrows came from. He lets his wand fall to the floor, in a gesture, pointing between the trees, where an unknown figure with a bow can be seen, at least by elven eyes.
An expanding fireball leaves his hand, growing hotter and bigger while raging towards the archer. It's heat causes nearby leaves to shrink, or even burn a little...

Zarah · Post by **Zarah** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:30 pm

While still lying on the ground and barely breathing, an arrow hits Zarahs arm. She is just wearing a leather armor. The arrow seems to stick in her arm, but it's unclear how deep. Slowly, there begins blood to dripping out of it.

Suddenly Zarah shows movements. Her eyes are opening and her first move is to hold her left arm, that seems to hurt her hard. Still lying on the gound she creeps to the wall, leaning herself at it and gets the bow from her back with slowly, strengous movements. She points it at Misjbar, heavily breathing and unsure if she should shoot the arrow.

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 6:37 am

Misj glares around, still lying on the ground with his bleeding leg. He suddenly notices Zarah, pointing at him with the bow. He drags his leg along, getting a little closer. Then he softly whispers

Do it then you foolish girl...I know you won't do it. You are to naive and too scared, I can see it in your eyes. Your friend over there isn't that afraid, but you are.....you won't kill me! You are too afraid.....

He crawls closer, clamping his teeth together against the pain

Arkadia Misella · Post by **Arkadia Misella** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:06 pm

Arkadia had let the last arrow go. She opened her eyes and took in the scene. Panic struk her. Dominating everyhting her eyes took in waas a ball of fire heading straight for her. She only had time to blink before it struck her in her chestplate, knocking her backwards a few feet into a tree. She bracced herself on the trunk of the tree, refusing to let herself fall over. She raised her bow and took in the damamge. Both her hands had been blackened and burned, and her bow destroyed. She dropped it to the ground and pushed herself from the tree and stagered a few feet before falling limp to the ground. Leaves and dirt stuck to her oozing and blackened face as she attempted to crawl. She mananged to drag herself a few more feet and sit up against a tree, but alas that was as far as her body would take her. Exhausted and overwhelmed by pain she knew she would ahve to make a stand if the others came for her. She began to mutter encantations silently to herself and magic began to weave and dance all about her.......

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:19 pm

With a cold smile and a strange fire burning in his eyes, Damien raises his hand as he sees the stumbling person. Small ice crystals start floating in the air around it - but then, he relaxes as he recognizes the healing spell Arkadia weaves. He shakes his head, then turns towards the other two persons. Keeping an eye on the hurt archeress, he first picks up his wand, then quickly approaches the crouching Misjbar.
The end of his wand hits the floor directly in front of Misjbar's face.

"So, what do we have here ? You are not... quite... Misjbar, concerning your words..."

Zarah · Post by **Zarah** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 7:02 pm

One can hear the exhaustion in Zarahs words when she says rather wispering:

"No, Damien, it's not Misjbar...something..." Zarah tries to sit straight and aims more carefully at Misjbars legs

"...took seizure of him...we mustn't kill Misjbar...but HIM..."

With this she shoots the arrow exact into his left leg and leans back on the wall trying to recover and to be able to get up again.

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 11:49 pm

Screams out in pain, both legs got wounds from an arrow. He then glances at Zarah, seeing the threat of her bow, and crawls towards her, al the while excerting strange cries into the night. He crawls to a mere meter in front of her, and stops, holding his leg tight as he hurled himself as a ball, clamping his teeth together from the pain

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 11:36 am

"Well then... THIS could help."

Damien opens his pouch, and takes out leather. This leather is cut into strings, like those strings usually used for leather armors.

"We should tie him up, and keep him somewhere safe, for his own sake."

Zarah · Post by **Zarah** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:13 pm

Zarah nods to Damien and crawls along the house wall to escape Misjbar. Her movements are slow for she knows he is to weak to follow her faster.
Thoughts are running to her mind.

What should we do with him? How can we bring the old Misjbar back? What if...?

Zarah looks into Misjbars eyes, not knowing the one she faces anymore.

Where you just are?

Misjbar · Post by **Misjbar** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:02 pm

Lies disgraced on the floor, shivering from an intense cold inside him. He is curled up to a ball, his cloak covering him half. He hears nothing anymore, he thinks nothing anymore. He is just caught up within himself

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:41 pm

"...a perfect opportunity."

With a movement of his wand, Damien paralyzes the shivering Misjbar. Then, he bends one arm on the back and binds two of the leather strings around one wrist, leaving just enough space for the blood to flow, but tightening the knot carefully and as strong as possible.

"We should care about your wound immediately after he is taken care of." He says to Zarah, quickly looking into the bushes where Arkadia Misella should sit.
Then, he takes Misjbar's other wrist, about to bind the strings around it too.