Animefreeze
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Post by Animefreeze on Jul 4, 2008 7:43:22 GMT -5
Rovan immediately blocked the attack, and sent a counter strike to Alyce's knees. Mal jumped over Alyce, an amazing feat with her carrying that amount of weight, and bopped Rovan in the head. He stumbled backwards.
"Ouch! That hurt!" He started to rub his head and couldn't help but laugh at the situation, Rovan was being a baby while Alyce, the youngest of the group, had just been slammed in the knees and didn't even shed a tear.
"You'll be paying for that Mal!" Rovan jested. He took his weapon and took a seemingly different stance. Instead of wielding it with two hands and whacking people, he held it with one and would jab it.
"No no no, you beat me, I surrender, Now it's you against this little girl." Mal stated, laughing at the end.
"Well that's no fair, Fine i guess it's just you and me kid. I won't hold back." He looked at Alyce, bowed, and took stance again.
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Post by Alyce on Jul 4, 2008 18:56:46 GMT -5
Through the pain of being whacked in the knees with a metal poll, a laugh bubbled up from Alyce's chest. Mal had popped her poll ontop of Rovan's head, and he rubbed it with a child like innocence.
As Mal surrendered and Rovan took his stance, Alyce couldn't help but flatten her ears under her hat. She was getting rather tired of the child accusations. Rovan wouldn't judge her wrongly. Not by her appearance at least. He seemed to be kind enough... Shrugging and throwing caution to the wind, Alyce slowly removed her coat, the inside slightly damp and smelling of sweet sweat, and let it fall to the ground, placing her hat ontop of it. A chestnut tail curled absentmindedly around Alyce's legs and furry ears twitched atop her head.
"I'm not as young as you would think," she said in a small voice toward Rovan. She avioded his gaze, afraid that he might find her repulsing. "I'm a middle-aged mother in human years..."
Quickly, she ran forward, her poll ready to strike as she tried to change the subject, not wanting to see a bad reaction.
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Animefreeze
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Post by Animefreeze on Jul 6, 2008 14:03:12 GMT -5
Ha. look at that, a Chimera. Rovan hadn't seen one of these since his glory days. The pole whacked him straight in the chest, quite odd seeing as Paladins were rarely caught off guard. He started to spit up blood, he wipe it off his mouth.
"Great hit, I apologize if I offended you when I called you a child, But it doesn't really surprise me that you're a Chimera. I have seen far more shocking things than this. You said mother....You have children?"
Rovan struggled to stand up straight, the sting of the hit was still making his body tremble, although he did take his weapon and lunge hit forward at Alyce.
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Post by Alyce on Jul 6, 2008 16:07:14 GMT -5
The metallic thwack! the poll emitted when Alyce hit Rovan slightly rang through the air and shock vibrations sent tingles through the girl's arms. She felt slightly accomplished at seeing Rovan cough up a bit of blood, but then felt sorry. This was training, not combat.
Alyce did feel another sensation though. A small bubbling feeling lingered in her chest. Rovan took what she was with politeness and wasn't shocked at seeing it. With a mental sigh of relief, she tried to jump out of the way of his attack, but the poll caught the back of her left knee, causing both to buckle. As she landed on her butt, she let out a laugh. "No, I'm not a mother. I was just using a comparison of ages. Anyway, why would I want to doom a child to being a freakish thing like me?"
Using her poll to support her weight, Alyce stood. They must have looked comical at the moment, both of them shaking from blows, moving as if their bodies were jelly. Alyce did a hop forward, poking Rovan in his midsection with the end of her poll, and quickly hopped back, all the while talking.
"It's my turn for a question. You said you've seen more 'shocking things'. I've traveled a long way from where I started out in life, and I've met some of my kind, a few vampires, and elemental benders, but nothing more. Would you mind sharing a story or two?" Stories of other beings, creatures even stranger than her, excited Alyce. That's the whole reason she left the safety of the Moscovy caves. Maybe this Paladin could tell her of more.
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Animefreeze
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Post by Animefreeze on Jul 6, 2008 18:44:16 GMT -5
((Finally an opening! *hugs* This "battle" was getting repetitive lol)) Mal interrupted before she let Rovan speak, she couldn't quite stomach the whole situation, she never met someone that wasn't human, but tried to be polite. "Yes...please...Tell us a story of creatures beyond our imagination!" She said excitingly, it was like walking into a whole new world for her. "Well then...Why not. Anything for a break." He jested. He sat down and put legs in a pretzel, The weights made him drop to the floor. He put his weapon between his left arm and his chest, pointing upward. "Now let's see, I've seen dwarfs, dragons, dark wizards, minotaurs, elves....Ah, But I bet you two would love to hear about my encounter with a group of Chimeras who were renowned fighters!" He stretched and shook a bit. He rubbed his chin trying to remember the most specific of details. "OK, I'm ready...It was about 230 years ago, around the time I met Eros. " Eros perked his ears up at the sound of his name, He stood up and dropped to the floor next to Rovan to listen to the story. "We had just been paid for our duties as mercenaries for the Armadian army, Eros was still trying to get over the fact that he was a fox. It was a quiet day, it had just rained and clouds still filled the air. The wind was moist and air was clear. We had just been paid and left camp, we had the choice of continuing our duties as mercenaries but we decided it wasn't the best of choices, We wanted to travel the world, learning more about life while trying to cure our curse." "We left to the forest, to settle down and get some res when out the woods came a beautiful horse, But it wasn't a horse, when it came out more I realized it was half human half horse! Haha! I remember that I was drinking some hot tea and spilled it all over myself. Then..." "Wait! Mal exclaimed. "We have some questions!" "Oh sorry, I forgot. Hehe. Anything In particular you guys would like to ask me?" Rovan replied.
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Post by Alyce on Jul 6, 2008 20:08:32 GMT -5
{^ ^|| I noticed too}
Alyce could feel Mal's slight nervousness about seeing something like herself, and that put a small damper on her mood. But as Mal happily settled down for a story from Rovan, Alyce fell to the floor too, her legs bent into two mountain points and her body leaned back, her arms supporting her weight. Again, her tail curled to its usual spot around her legs.
As the Paladin started to name off creatures, Alyce's head tilted to the side. Dwarfs? What in the heck was a dwarf. She was slightly acknowledged to what a dragon was, and she knew the wizards, but a minotaur? Elves? Rovan was talking so excitedly, apparently happy to be sharing fond memories, that Alyce almost missed him say chimera.
He knew of chimeras!? Some of her own kind! With the shock of hearing the word, her arms had slipped from beneath her, causing her to fall onto her back. Immediately she rolled forward, her legs tucked beneath her and her ears perked forward to catch every word he said. The mentioning of a horse made a violent shudder rack Alyce's body, bringing back memories of the deformed chimera. But it couldn't have been the same one. That chimera was disposed of and after all, Rovan had called this one 'beautiful'.
Mal's exclamation made Alyce jump and give a small squeak. She had been to absorbed in Rovan's story. She was grateful for the pause though. She could ask the one question that was tugging at her mind.
"Er... Did this chimera have one of these?" she asked as she fingered the tag on her ear, "Or one of these?" She asked again, pointing to the band around her ankle.
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Animefreeze
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Post by Animefreeze on Jul 8, 2008 18:40:27 GMT -5
Rovan looked at what Alyce pointed to. "Errr...no. This was a VERY long time ago, I doubt the any of them had anything to do with you. I'm sorry..." Rovan looked down a bit. "No more questions?"
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Post by Alyce on Jul 8, 2008 19:48:15 GMT -5
Alyce's shoulders slumped a bit as she realized how stupid it was to think that these chimeras were somehow connected to her. Of course they weren't. The Labs weren't around 230 years ago. Neither was the technology of the trackers she wore.
Quietly sitting back, she shook her head at Rovan's question and settled into a different position, one that put less weight on her legs. This story should be interesting, seeing as Alyce didn't know about any other chimera than the ones she was created with.
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Animefreeze
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Post by Animefreeze on Jul 12, 2008 19:23:50 GMT -5
[Oh shikes! Really late! Sorry!]
"OK, Then a chimera ran out the woods and tumbled right over me! It turns out he was hunting and a small game animal had passes by me, and the chimera didn't even notice me! Haha. Well it wasn't so bad, He and his friends invited me in for dinner after I had spilled mine all over the floor. It was amazing, they lived like normal people, yet in secret, they didn't even let me know where we were, I had a blindfold going in and coming back. Ehhh...Wow i can't remember exactly the rest." Said Rovan.
An embarrassed look came over his face, he had never forgot something before.
"Sorry..."
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Post by Alyce on Jul 12, 2008 21:49:39 GMT -5
A small giggle came from Alyce as she saw the embarrassed look on Rovan's face. What was the matter with forgetting something that happened so long ago? Alyce forgets things that happen only days ago...
"Wow, that was interesting, Rovan. I didn't know my kind were alive such a long time ago..." Alyce then cocked her head to the side. "Er...if you were alive 230 years ago and REMEMBER something like that, then what exactly are you?" Again with the curiosity.
Before Rovan could answer her, however, Alyce's ears perked at a sound. Listening closely, she could hear a pair of heavy boots clumping the way up the stone paths to the temple. The familiar small clinks of guns accompanied low, male voices. Ones she remembered. Ones that always were either talking with hate and sneers or yelling in anger.
Jumping up, she sped to the window of the training hall. She was right. Two men dressed in black, shining fire arms slung over thier shoulders, were walking to the temple entrance. The one thing that made Alyce start hyperventallating, though, was the swirling lines on a red patch that they wore on their chests. The Security.
Spinning back around, Alyce returned to the spot where her shortly known friends sat and grabbed her coat and hat. As she pulled them on, she fumbled for words. "Uh... S-sorry! I have to go. I can't tell you why though." She turned to Rovan, yanking her hat down farther on her head. "Thank you, Rovan. I'm sorry for leaving so suddenly, but I hope to see you again. But I really have to go!"
Giving the three a last nod, she darted across the room, pulling off the weights that she forgot were even present, and slid quietly out the door at the opposite end of the hall, running south, away from the Security.
Exit.
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