Journey of the Elementals RP (Pm if Interested, Started)

[Sehnsucht Engel]

Phebe had been relaxing in her chair after her meal. She had watched most of the other mages leave the dining hall, but she was in no hurry to do so herself. Two guards entered the room and at first she thought nothing of it, but then they shot one of those who traveled with her, drew their swords and went for the remaining mages.

"What..." She couldn't find words. Why were they being attacked here? This wouldn't look good for the prime minister.

She rose from her chair and prepared a fireball in her hand.

"Would you care to explain yourselves?" She backed away from them and considered setting fire to their cloaks.

 

[NeoAC]

The whole evening had been rather heavy, it was the kind of atmosphere Raven loved, but it meant she could not stay focused on the food. As the other people left, leaving the Nightshades and a couple others, it looked like the evening would be rather uneventful. Until the after-dinner show arrived.

While lingering in the dining area, the guards had entered and promptly announced their intentions by slamming a couple of shots into Aden, sending the Pyromancer sprawling to the ground. "Well, at least I can tell everyone else I fucking told them so," Raven muttered to herself as the other Nightshade looked to ready some fire. She seemed to be in the mood for negotiating, but it had been a long day, and Raven's buttons were not in any state to be pushed.

She readied a cone of darkness in her right hand. "I don't think we should give them the chance," she growled, keeping that low tone to her voice.

 

[CounterAttack]

Gabriel raised his eyebrows at Seth's answer. Evidently he didn't seem to be in much of a hurry to divulge what he had told the spirit... In Gabe's limited experience, Pyromancers were often a direct or forward lot. Seth appeared to be the exception rather than the rule. Still, the Pyro could keep his secrets. Gabe was of the mind that all secrets would eventually see the light of day. It would come out in time.

"Fair enough. I won't press the issue," he conceded. Perhaps Seth would fare better on a different topic. "Let us change the subject: what are your thoughts on the trials the Prime Minister told us about? Taking to the air. That would be something, wouldn't it? But what about the prices he mentioned? It sounds like there would be some sort of personal cost, rather than giving up something of value... I kind of want to face the trials, but then I don't. We don't know enough about them."

Gabe too had begun to ramble, assuming the footsteps down the hall belonged to the mages who had remained in the dining hall.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

"I thought we could at least ask them for an explanation, before they're too beat up to answer..." She wasn't sure what she had been thinking, maybe she had been just a bit too surprised when someone was shot down. "Though I guess breaking a few bones is alright, as long as they can talk."

Phebe finished preparing her fireball, released it and aimed it for one of their cloaks. It hit and one of the attackers cloaks burst into flames. The man soon got busy trying to put the fire out, losing his focus on them.

"Well, we would only, really, need one for answers, so killing one is fine..." She smiled and her hand burst into flames. "Who's it going to be?"

 

[NeoAC]

"I don't think they should get a choice in the matter first of all," Raven commented, as she unleashed the dark energy she had been pooling. It fanned out as it spread towards the other guard, catching him flush in the face. The man dropped his sword instead trying to claw at what was now blocking his vision, but there was nothing to take away, nothing to remove to restore his sight. He tossed his helmet to the ground, but it failed to bring any clarity to the situation.

As the other man struggled to put out the fire on his cape, Raven looked over at her fellow Nightshade. "So you've got the fire. Want to finish toasting that other fool?"

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

"My pleasure."

The man in question had begun trying to get his cape off, as the fire was spreading towards his head. Phebe made her way over to him. He still had his sword in his hand and made a swing at her, but she evaded and scorched his swordhand, making him drop his sword.

She hit him in the face next, with both force and flames. He staggered and she took the opportunity to bring him down, by showering him with even more fire. He screamed at first, but they soon stopped as he ended up on the floor.

"I figured we could just ask the blinded one..." Phebe said, while she stood above the dead guard. His body reminded her a bit too much of her past.

 

[blaze96]

Alexander heard a scream and immediately left his room to find what had made the noise. He raced down the hall past the talking group and the two guards in the hallway to enter the hall with Phebe and Raven in it. He saw Aden laying on the ground and one person that appeared to be a badly burnt guard on the ground. Another guard was stumbling around but he figured the others would be able to handle it if they hadn't already.

"What in the world is going on here?" Alexander asked somewhat loudly as he ran over to Aden and pulled the arrows out of him before setting to work trying to at least make sure the boy didn't bleed to death right away. A small amount of light came from his hands as he tried to help Aden.

 

[NeoAC]

"Why don't you ask Stumbles over here?" Raven told the ugh, Lightdweller, as he entered the room.

The blinded guard seemed to turn at what he assumed was his new name, but that just made things easier for the Nightshade. She went down low, and knocked the legs out from underneath the guard. It hurt a bit, the contact of shin on metal, but it had the desired effect as the guard went tumbling to the ground. Not letting him regain what little bearings he had, Raven quickly moved on top of his armor, not letting him get up easily.

She moved into a kneeling position, knee buried into where the sternum would be. "All right, bastard, you're going to start talking, or I'm going to make sure you never see anything but the inside of your soul for the rest of your days," she threatened. "Now tell us, who ordered you to come in and try and eliminate us?"

 

[UnusualStranger]

The guard that Raven had pinned seemed to show no emotion as Raven spoke to him, only for an odd CLICK to occur, to which the guard suddenly swung his apparently metal arm against Raven, knocking her off of him simply and making her slide some small distance from the hard impact along the smooth floor. With the blackness gone, and realizing that they had been taken by surprise by the strength of the odd mages, he gave out a low whistle as he moved his arm which had fired the bolt before towards Phebe, and fired it again as if nothing had happened before that moment, the bolt slamming itself into her leg as he started to attempt to rise.

Hearing the odd whistle, the two guards who had been observing went back to the hall, already not caring for the other mages which had stepped past them before in favor of doing damage to what was discovered now. Slamming the doors open now, they noted the situation that had apparently occurred around their now fallen comrade, and turned towards the only Pyromancer who was still largely unhurt and preparing to launch fire at the guards.

They did not give Jacob the chance to let his fire to fly, the pair of bolts form their arms slamming once again center mass, knocking him to the ground in nearly the exact same fashion as Aden had hit the ground. In another similar fashion, which Phebe and Raven would likely quickly recognize, they drew out their blades again, but this time instead of the leisurely walk that assumed they were helpless, they sprinted towards those who were deemed unhurt and likely the most dangerous. Unfortunately, that meant the slowly rising Raven and Alexander who was doing his best to heal Aden.

[hr]

Seth shrugged, somewhat surprised that Gabriel had dropped the topic so easily for himself. While he figured that it would come back later, which he had no idea what he would do then either, it would at least give him a bit of time for now. He could switch to the next topic easily enough.

"Wings and trials? It would be something, but I get the feeling that the price is just too....difficult. I would prefer to stay on the ground myself, because these people seemed to have..." Seth stopped as suddenly a scream came through the halls, with Alexander suddenly sprinting past to see what was going on. Seth would have sprinted after, but he found himself pausing.

The others....Maybe I should stay here? Is the threat a distraction?

"Gabe, I'm going to go check that out. You fine with staying here, or want to come along?" Seth said quickly. He figured that was a death howl, having heard it plenty of times before, but there was no time to explain such things. He needed a quick answer, and hoped that Gabriel wouldn't freeze up. He had already drawn out his blade after he had asked the question, prepared for a fight.

 

[blaze96]

Alexander noticed the man running toward him poised to attack and he threw Aden's chair towards the legs of the guard rushing toward him with one hand while immediately focusing a blinding white light towards the guard. Forcing him to instinctively close his eyes and trip over the chair. This gave Alexander time to properly stand up and he used a laser to knock the blade out of the guard's hand while he remained on the ground.

"Don't move an inch. I have no problem making sure you are blind for the rest of your life or knocked out and leaving you to the real guards here." Alexander said. He really didn't want to have to hurt anyone but he needed to make sure he would get the chance to heal his injured teammates.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

Unfortunately, the guard didn't stay down or blinded. Phebe felt the bolt hit her leg, with quite some power, forcing her down on one knee. She wondered if she should leave it in or pull it out. They were still in battle though and she'd rather have an arrow in her leg, than a wound that wouldn't stop bleeding. The lightdweller handled one of the guards pretty good, as long as the guard didn't decide to use any more tricks. A second guard was rushing towards Raven, but she hoped the girl could handle him too. .

The guard who had shot her, was almost back up on his feet now.

"I'd better return the favour."

Phebe reached for her bow and an arrow. She didn't need to aim carefully. The distance between them wasn't that large. He looked her in the eyes, but didn't attack. If he needed to reload his weapon then that would explain it.

"If you valued your life, this is the moment you wish you'd stayed down."

He made a move in her direction, but she could pull the string of her bow faster than he could make his way over to her. The arrow lodged itself in his skull, but his body didn't slow down and came crashing into her, knocking her over.

Maybe I should have used my magic instead.

She had just burnt someone to death, his screams were still fresh in her memory. Another one would have made the coming nightmares worse.

It makes no difference as long as I live.

She began moving the body away from her. The leg hurt more after the corpse in armour had tackled her.

 

[Mr.Ivebeenframed]

Before Nydia could say anything, he felt the vibrations in the ground and they weren't the normal footsteps. Earthshapers train in sensing movement by just feeling the ground beneath them and it didn't matter if it was dirt or rock. Although with metal, the surface was very difficult to detect but still possible.

The vibrations weren't normal steps and they were loud to his feeling like sacks of meat falling on the ground. What followed was a few screams back from the dining hall and Cale darted towards the noise without hesitation. Part of his quick dash to the hall was part curiosity and another intuition. He didn't know if Nydia followed him or not but all he cared about was what was happening much farther down.

When he arrived to the scene, he was greeted with the sight of fallen mages and burnt people. The sight horrified him and it was probably the first time he had seen another human being charred or killed. He had seen burn scars from the pyro mages but nothing to the point of death. He looked down at the corpses and then up to a wounded mage who had a arrow lodged in her leg. Cale quickly moved to her and looked to the wound, then asked.

"What in the name of the Gods happened?" He looked around for a light dweller but his eyes fell again on the burnt corpses. It was all a blur to Cale, a smoky, bloody blur. That's when he saw one of the light dwellers. "Light dweller! Please can you heal her? And who are these men?"

 

[NeoAC]

The shot from the metal arm caught Raven well off guard in her current state of new found bravado. Unfocused and unbraced, she was sent flying across the dining room floor, skidding to a stop thirty feet away from her victim. That's what I get for actually doing something. Figures.

As she slowly pitied herself for taking a hit like that, she staggered back up to her feet, just in time to see another guard charging right at her with his sword drawn. Oh come on... He was rushing at her, not looking once like stopping. Fuck this.

Raven tried to make a beeline for the open doors, rushing forward, but the effects of the blow were still evident. The pain caused her to fall, just a short distance from where she landed. However, this ended up working out in her favor. The guard had cut the distance rather quickly. Too quickly. As Raven fell to the ground, her opponent couldn't halt his charge, and he tripped over the Nightshade. Raven took a leg to the shoulder, but the guard took much worse, flying over her, skidding towards the nearby wall which he collided with at full speed. His armor shielded some of the damage, but he was still very woozy from the impact.

Looking behind her at the fallen guard, Raven saw her opportunity to eliminate someone from this matchup. Fuck it. Let's see how well this spell has been coming along. As she slowly moved over to the man on the ground, she readied another orb of magic in her right hand, this one was lighter in color than her usual blindness shots, this one looked more a sickly grey than pure black. She ripped the helmet off of the guard with her left hand and jammed the spell right under his chin, grabbing hold like a vice.

The guard immediately knew something was wrong, but there was nothing he could do. The mage had him pinned down against the wall, and he could feel the energy to fight back leaving his body through his face. His legs were already fading away. He tried to knock her off of him, but his arms were following suit, all extremities losing power.

"Your buddy over there forced me to make this move," Raven informed the man as she held his face up to maintain the eye contact. The energy she was draining from the man was restoring her status, the pain from the hits she took diminishing. "I want you to know who caused your demise here." The man's body was going numb. "It was not him. It was not me. It was not even yourself for making such a reckless charge. It was whoever was foolish enough to send you on this attack. Blame them as death becomes you." The guard's eyes rolled back in their sockets as his head was drained of life. Brown hair faded to white and the skin of his face puckered like a prune. There would be no more battles for him.

Not feeling any more essence in the body, Raven let go of the corpse and stood back up, now feeling no effects from the earlier combat. Well that worked remarkably well. I guess studying actually pays off sometimes. Looking over, the Lightdweller was battling the other new guard, but she cared not for his kind. Instead she looked for the other guard who had delivered the blow from the ground. Let's see if he wants to join his friend in the world beyond.

 

[blaze96]

"I don't know who they are but it is obvious they aren't friendly. Keep an eye on this one and I can get to work on healing not just her but any other injured as well." Alexander said as he slowly started to back away keeping his hand pointed at the guard ready to hit him with a laser if he tried anything.

'Of course this would happen on our first night here as well. Hopefully somebody friendly who isn't a mage will show up soon so we can get some help.' He kept carefully backing toward the voice until he reached Phebe. He first got the dead guard off of her before looking over her wound.

"I'm going to need to pull the bolt out so that I can heal you alright? On three. One...two...three." He said calmly before pulling the bolt out of her leg. He knew the act was going to hurt which was what he gave the warning for. As soon as it was out however he could actually work. Light came out of his hand and immediately caused the pain to stop as the wound quickly started closing.

"You should be ok. You were smart to leave the bolt in, but given the current situation this is going to be mostly a patch job. There are other mages I need to tend to who are far worse off." He said as the wound fully closed and the bleeding stopped. The job was relatively simple given that there wasn't bone he had to put back in place or an artery he had to close. In comparison to the guards from the dragon attack, this was rather easy if he had proper time.

With the wound closed and largely healed he got up and quickly but carefully dragged Aden to Jacob then he slowly moved the both of them away. Jacob was in worse shape since Alexander hadn't spent any time fixing him up so he set to work on healing Jacob. Both of them would be far harder to heal since the bolts had hit them center mass. Likely damaging an organ or breaking a rib at least.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

"We were attacked." Phebe answered the earthshaper, who must have noticed the commotion and come to check it out. "I'm not sure why. I burnt one of the attackers and we planned on questioning the other, but he broke free and called for help, so I killed him as well."

The lightdweller made his way over to her, after the earthshaper had asked him to help her. She thought about protesting and telling them to take care of the others before her, but if more attackers would be arriving soon, then it was probably for the best if she was healed.

"I'm going to need to pull the bolt out so that I can heal you alright? On three. One...two...three."

The bolt was pulled out of her leg and she cringed, even though she had been prepared for the pain. He quickly started healing her after that and the pain soon subsided.

""You should be ok. You were smart to leave the bolt in, but given the current situation this is going to be mostly a patch job. There are other mages I need to tend to who are far worse off."

"I'll be fine." Phebe reached for her bow to make sure it was still in good condition. It hadn't taken any damage luckily.

She got back up on her feet, a bit unsteady and quite soar from the tackle she had recieved.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Drew was still oblivious to what was going on, but there was more and more noise. "What in the world are they up to...?" he muttered before turning back to Fei. "I suppose certain combinations could cause an explosion. And one could use magic to make food. But better than this?" he said, making a few sparks fly from his fingertips. "I doubt it." he took a quick shot at the target, the tiny sparks going around haphazardly, only a couple hitting the paper. "But maybe you and that other water guy... what was his name, Gabe or something like that... could practice some stuff together."

 

[Mr.Ivebeenframed]

Cale stared angrily at the fallen bodies of the attackers. Angry and shocked at the fact that these men would attack them in such a place like this. Cale hadn't been in war and only read about it in scrolls or books but now it was hitting home. Then he looked to the mages who had also been struck down by these assassins. His fists clenched tighter and a thirst for vengeance was a new flame in his blue eyes.

If there were more men like this then they would no doubt be attacking the other mages in the halls or in their rooms. Cale would have none of that, especially when the quest for the ruins was looming over the horizon. They would need as many able bodied mages as possible for a daunting trip like that.

"Damn these...assassins. There are probably more nearby, probably trying to slit out our throats while we sleep. We need to find them, and more importantly tell the Prime Minister what happened." Cale said before he walked off in search for anymore assailants and if he saw the guards then he'd have a chat with them as well. He didn't care if they'd attack him because Cale was not a man to go down without a fight. As he walked back he readied his jar of sand in case anymore assassins pop out.

 

[UnusualStranger]

The last of the assassins, who was laying on the ground with a singed hand from Alexanders strike, suddenly heard a familiar click, which brought his arm forward directly at the small group of mages who had gathered around Alexander and his healing. Almost casually, he fired the bolt at the people, and then rolled to collect his blade. Rising to his feet after doing that, he turned his attention to the now single mage in the room: Cale.

Not wasting any time, he charged, his blade ready to strike and quickly closing the distance. Just several steps, and Cale would have to deal with the steel...without any armor.

[hr]

Seth quickly noted that Gabriel was hesitating, which he really should have seen coming. Deciding to instead get moving and see what had been going on, he walked down the hallway and turned the corner.....to nearly run into a somewhat surprised Nydia, who had probably been quickly passed by Alexander. As Seth paused for a moment to see if she was alright, there were soldiers coming from the opposite way down the hallway. These guards did not appear to be the same as the usual ones watching the halls, and two of the four carried crossbows in their arms. Upon seeing the two in the halls, one of the men raised a crossbow, and fired, hitting Seth, luckily, in his shoulder.

Seth stumbled forward, his mind quickly running through what had just happened. He had been stabbed and beaten before, but being shot at wasn't exactly a common occurrence. Stumbling into Nydia, who probably kept him from falling to his face, suddenly realized that they were both quite the target now. Grabbing Nydia, he half tossed her and himself back into the hallway with Gabriel, letting out a shout as he landed from the pain that lanced through him as the wound on his back already making itself apparent. The men in the hall had already drawn their blades, and could be heard now approaching the hall, likely to finish what they started.

"GRAH! GODS DAMN IT ALL!" Seth cursed, doing his best to rise, gripping his sword tightly as he did so. While it did hurt to even rise like this, his already overflowing rage more than made up for it. Pushing himself up using his sword, he readied himself, bringing his blade ready to swing around the corner at whomever had decided they could shoot him and get away with it.

 

[SkyeNeko]

Fei was jumped when she heard a crash and shouting outside. "Drew...? What are they doing outside?" She was quite content to stay on the far side of the room, away from the door. "It sounds like... something's happening." She thought maybe one of the mages got in trouble. Even the electricity in her hands seemed to jump around nervously, although she kept her control over it. "It sounds like there's a lot of people..."

 

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

As she and Cale were walking down the hall, Nydia slowed her pace and hesitated momentarily when Cale asked about her family. She was well aware that her mannerisms set her apart from many others and made it obvious that she came from some form of wealth or power. It was a subject she had discussed with few others before, but if she were to tell Cale more about her circumstances now, it would be an excellent opportunity to bring up her vow that currently made his feelings for her so difficult to respond to.

While she was thinking of a suitable response though, Cale seemed to have noticed something and headed back to the dining hall they had just came from. Puzzled, Nydia was wondering whether to follow after him or not when Seth rounded the corner in a hurry and nearly bumped into her. Nydia gave him a polite smile and began to greet him.

But any conversation that would have began was quickly ended by a crossbow bolt whizzing past her head and burying itself in Seth's shoulder. The horrifying sight involuntarily caused Nydia to scream before being interrupted by Seth half-falling half-lunging forward and roughly dragging the two of them back around the corner and out of harms way before they could be fired upon again. As Nydia regained her balance Nydia noticed Gabriel was there as well, but Seth's wound was at the fore of her thoughts.

Her first instinct was to remove the bolt and heal the wound as quickly as possible but Seth rose to his feet, blade in hand, before she could act. His intent was to face their aggressors and Nydia quickly realized that he had the right idea. Conjuring light in both hands, she moved closer to Seth and prepared to use it in whatever manner necessary. "I shall assist you as best I can Seth. We can do this." She whispered quietly, partially to reassure him and partially to reassure herself as she waited anxiously for the enemy to round the corner.