When The Darkness Returns

[Kith]

He mentions the name of my mother..Astilith...I have never heard him mention her. She was a drow preistess. She was the mother I never knew. What happened to her? I feel a profound sadness.

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I will concentrate and rid myself of this internal darkness. I will be liberated, and claim that other half of my herritage...the good half.

Eric throws a rose at me, but I ignore it. I am too focused on releasing this burdon.

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I can feel it, it is swelling slowly a black tide washing forth from my soul.

It is slow....so slow and painful....

my body is surrounded by a black aura, but that is all that has happened thus far....

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"I WANT LIBERATION!!"

[Eric]

((...., ah. you do realize im about two miles away from you...))

i grin slightly, still feeling their energy, and seeing their heat signature. ... deceptive little fey'ri isnt he...., . *wonder how he knows about kith's life...., and yet, he knows nothing of me, i dont remember seeig him read the file....*

[Damon]

Damon gazes at the aura surrounding Kith. His eyes almost dry in their sockets as the power of the aura turns the water into steam.

Damon (in Keitoleinen guise): Release that anger, never feel the burn of darkness. Embrace the light that you never felt. Feel the pulse of the forest around you, and simply leave your past behind you. Enter this world born anew, with the loss of the darkness only your light will be left to help the mortals you care so much about

Damon takes a step closer, the dark energy almost touching him, yet if he knows he can't touch it or he will die. It must be given to him.

[Set]

"My evening is free so long as you aren't in need of a bodyguard, my lady... Although duty is no stranger to me, recreation is."

I have always admired Violet, it is an honor to be even a meer underling to someone such as her.

[Kith]

And so I simply release it. I release it with all of my sorrow and heart ache. All of my weakness and disappointment. Just as I was purged from the party, I purge this energy from my body.

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Then something happens.....

My mind slips...I feel like I am falling apart...torn assunder by some unknown force.......
and I lose all sense of myself
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My body changes, I gain black markings upon it....my ears grow longer and my teeth become fanged.....

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And I feel...I feel only the need to destroy....I look at the person before me, who I no longer recognise....

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"Hssssss..."

[Lady Violet]

"Well, perhaps you would be so kind to go out with me this evening. I can not be seen in public with Lin-Sat, and since I hardly know you, it would be a good way for me to get to know those who work for me."
Set has always been very loyal to me. I think it would be a good idea to get to know him better.

[Set]

"I would be honored, my lady. Where would you like to attend this evening?"

I am not used to being this informal...

[Damon]

The look over Damons face us utter and total fear. He steps back five feet, and then stops.

Damons Thoughts: Fear is only an illusion, it is an illusion that lets us know that we are alive. Fear is the only way that we know that we are really not dead. Fear lets us understand that we are mortal, and understanding our own morality, is the one thing that sets us free.

Damon stands his ground stares the beast right in the eyes. Both heads move simotaniously eyes deadlocked, both creatures knowing that when either blinks the carnage will ensue. Damon maintains his hold for 21 seconds. Buying himself enought time to enact Give the D,evil his Due.

Damon (in Keitoleinen guise): I may not have the power to defeat you, you vile sack of flesh. I know that your strength is at least 4 times of my own. Your claws are weapons that you have mastered, weapons that you have slaughtered thousands of innocents with. Yet I also know that inside of you is a elf of noble blood. A kind person that takes care of the innocents of this planet. I know you can hear me Kith, I knwo that you don't want to be responsible for the deaths that this creature cause. I have laided the ground work for you to dispell the darkness from your body, yet you know that it can not, it shall nto be let into this world without a soul to keep it in check. Expell the beast, send the abomination of darkness into me, I can comtroll it.

Damon stands on the balls fo his feet, ready to dodge at a moments notice.

Damon's Thoughts: I only hope that teh combines effort of Kiths will and my bloodmagic can force the darkness out and into a more willing receptical.

[Lady Violet]

"This may sound a little odd, but I would like to go to a museum. You see, I love history and the Beijing Natural History Museum is featuring some interesting fossils found in the Gobi Desert. One is a complete Velociraptor in combat with a Protoceretops. Also, there is a display on the first bird..Archaeopteryx. The bones were found along the Xiang Xi river. I would have asked you to dinner, but I prefer to eat in. So the museum will do well. We could always go back to my home later and order out."
So I am the world's number one female player. Oh well, I don't mean to be this way of course. There are just so many interesting men in the world. It is only suiting that I would not want to settle for one.

[Kith]

The words mean nothing to my now chaotic mind. The darkness has me absolutely.

I jump into the air....

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"Meteor!!!"

From the sky falls a shower of cosmic rock, which creates enormous explosions, and sends dust and rock into the air.

The ground shakes and trees ignite as the cosmic rock pummels the land.

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And when the deadly shower has passed, I look down at my destruction and laugh. I look over the smoldering craters for my target...that annoying man...who my chaotic mind does not recognise.....

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Finally I spot him behind a plume of black smoke.
I teleport behind him.....

"Banishment....." I hiss into his ear.

[Set]

"The museum sounds... Fun."

...Fun?

"I too, have an avid appreciation for history. Shall we?"

I gesture for her to take point. I know of the museum she speaks of, but have never been there myself. Seeing fossils of creatures as large as I am leaves me a little unsettled.

[Lady Violet]

We walk to the natural history museum, and enter through the large entry hall of Dinosaur bones.

"To think that people thought that dinosaurs were dragons. They would grind the bones for medicines and such..." I say as I look up at the large brachiosaurus fossil display.

"But when you are a dragon, you are much larger than these dinosaurs. I suppose you do not like to take that human form. I suppose I would not if I was a creature of your power and stature. I would find it confining. Though, polymorphed dragons are always quite attractive."

[Damon]

Damon hears those words echo in his ears. Next thing he realizes is the heat, the acidic taste in teh air and the smell of brimstone in his nostrals. His blood boils as part of him realizes it has gone home.

Damon: Ohh SH1T!!!!!

Damon dons his normal shape as his wings rip free from his back. Caedes materializes into his hand. His teeth grind as he looks at the sea of demons that have turned their attention towards him.

[Set]

"I actually enjoy my human form, for it draws less attention to myself."

I try not to acknowledge the indirect compliment towards me, since I wouldn't know how to respond anyways.

"I do not envy these dinosaurs, while they may have been magnificent creatures, they were unable to interact with humans, who are the most fascinating of all creatures on earth."

[Eric]

i lean backwards and fall back off of the branch, going headfirst to the ground, i push off with energy from my hands and flip into the air, a meteor strikes a few meters from where i was and the explosion knocks me back i put a barrier over me blocking out the heat and any flying debris. i put it down once i hit the ground. .... he expects to beat that on his own?..... i glance around and jump back onto a branch. not even i could do that alone.... i focus energy into my hand and it starts glowing, i put it up to chest level and it turns to a black flame. ... i doubt this would work..., i concentrate sending more energy into my hand, i look forward with all three of my eyes open, i grin and jump down to the ground, i glance around holding the energy into my hand. i start to glow and more shapes come out on both sides of me, three on each side and one behind me. i step aside and let the one behind me stand next to me. all of us holding a dark flame. i open my hand and it flares higher. i slide my foot back the others following my movements. i punch forward with the hand holding the flame and the two glowing dots shoot forward carrying the darkness around then into a long beam which seemed to get thicker. the other seven replicas stayed still holding the flames as mine shot forward towards the beast, the trees it touches burn as if it was acid. its front forms a mouth and head like a dragon and continual to come from my hand