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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2011 18:32:00 GMT -5
"Thank you..." Tears ran down Xandra's face.
(OOC: When's Kass coming?)
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Jan 16, 2011 18:46:54 GMT -5
(I like the idea of Hunter and Xandra having to team up, so... Now.)
"... GET DOWN!" Hunter tackled Xandra to the ground as a bolt of dark energy crashed through the window of her library! "*cough cough* Are you okay, Xandra?"
"Oh, sir Hunter. You'd take the word of a madwoman like her?" A familiar voice echoed throughout the library. "She destroyed Faerieland! She's obviously a psychopath. Take it from me." A Darigan Eyrie clad in black armor walked through the burning wall, and the fire seemed to not even touch him. He snapped his fingers, and the fire blinked out, leaving darkness.
"No... It can't be you... The Three killed you!" Hunter got back up and readied his sword.
"True... From a certain point of view. You see, I was their most valuable client, you could say. They decided that I would be their 'field agent,' so to speak. They can't directly effect Neopia, but I can bring others into their thrall. That... And they gave me command of some new minions who might be quite familiar to dear Alyxandra over there." Kass snapped his fingers again, and a swarm of wraiths rose up from his shadow!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2011 19:46:16 GMT -5
(OOC: This is the Altador Palace library, actually. Not Xandra's.)
Xandra gave another yelp as Hunter knocked her to the ground.
"I'm...I'm fi - " she began to say before Kass interrupted her.
"'Alyxandra'?!" she gasped. No one had ever called her that except her mother, Kalara and...
"You didn't happen to run into certain Fire Faeries, did you?!" she snarled as she shot a bolt of green light at the wraiths.
It so happened that King Altador happened to be walking by the library. He had been watching Cassile, and when he saw the attack, he ran up to her room.
"Cassile," he said, "I'm sorry. Xandra didn't trust you because she saw you climb the wall. She's in trouble! We have to help!"
"I'm on it!" shouted a girl's voice.
Princess Saeryennan's green skirt had been sliced in half. She had done that on purpose so it wouldn't drag her down. Carrying a sword she'd snagged from a random guard, she made a run for the library.
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Jan 16, 2011 20:02:52 GMT -5
"Who, Katriana? She was another client of the Three. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to repay her debt in time..." Kass smirked, withdrawing Naralus from its sheath. "You see, I'm... How could I put this... I'm the repossession man for the Three. They let me do whatever I do, as long as I make sure those any of their clients who didn't keep their end of the bargain are... Put on ice."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2011 20:10:10 GMT -5
Of course! That Fire Faerie was certainly spiteful enough to team up Kass's people. But of course, Xandra had never known why Katriana had wanted her in the first place. Why her and not Kalara?
Whatever. There was no time to think about this. She fired another spark at the wraiths.
"I'm coming, Xand - Lord Kass?! But I thought you died!"
Saeryennan, although not too terribly fond of Xandra, didn't hate her so much that she wanted this. She was her aunt, after all.
Putting Kass's mystery aside, Saeryennan struck down on his sword. She shot a glance at Xandra that said "You realize I'm only doing this because we're related and I still don't really like you."
Queen Kalara poked her head through the library door.
"Xandr - AA!"
The Queen, being completely unarmed, ran out of the room. Sure, she knew a little bit of archery, but she didn't know what she could do against an army of wraiths. She worried for her sister and her daughter.
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Jan 16, 2011 20:23:13 GMT -5
"Kass!" Hunter's sword, Avalon, cleaved through wave after wave of shrieking wraiths. "Your fued is with me, not with Altador or Xandra!"
"Oh, shut up, you little whelp." With one mighty swing of his sword, Kass cut right through Hunter's armor, leaving a cut right on the knight's chest. "Just because I'm here for business doesn't mean I can't have some fun." Kass kicked the downed Lupe to the side and proceeded towards Xandra, lifting the sorceress by her right arm. "I'm sure Katriana will love seeing you again."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2011 21:33:11 GMT -5
Xandra gasped. Katriana...
"NOOO!" she screamed, firing sparks all over the place. One of them accidentally hit Saeryennan, knocking her unconcious.
King Altador arrived soon after that.
"Kalara said - Saeryennan! Sir Hunter!"
All of a sudden, an Air Faerie appeared.
"Let me," she said, picking up Saeryennan. "She's just knocked out. I'll take her to her room."
"Thank you, Nyvenne," the king sighed as the Faerie vanished. He then rushed to Hunter.
"Are you okay, young lad?"
Xandra, not wanting a repeat of what had just happened, tried to focus her sparks on the wraiths near Altador and Hunter.
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Post by Dju on Jan 16, 2011 21:47:57 GMT -5
"Oh no!" Cassile gasped and ran to the library, the place was partly destroyed, there hundreds of books around...not to mention wraiths and many other neopets. Without thinking twice, Cassile ran to the eyrie that was holding Xandra and kicked his chest, a normal neopet's weak spot...but nothing happened, it was as if he was made of iron or even worse...maractite!
"Drop the Xweetok, psycho!" she hissed, but was caught by a shadow wrath, the creature was holding her neck tight "Arrck..." she strangled, kicking the shadow who seemed to be...laughing?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2011 19:44:38 GMT -5
Oh no!
Xandra couldn't let this wraith do anything to Cassile. Despite the fact that a rather strong Eyrie was holding onto her, she focused her magic on the creature holding Cassile. She then fired a spark at it.
Far away, in another realm altogether, a Fire Faerie with braids sat in a shadowy prison cell. She was now mad; her quest for power had failed and now she couldn't help but blame that little Xweetok, the one who wouldn't become her accomplice.
(OOC: I'm only going to write a profile if a character becomes pretty major. Katriana, Kalara, Nyvenne and Saeryennan aren't really major characters so far.)
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Post by Dju on Jan 18, 2011 15:57:43 GMT -5
Cassile landed on the floor, did Xandra just...save her? She didn't ahd time to ask, the shadow beats were keeping her away from the eyrie holding Xandra, were they leaving?
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Jan 18, 2011 19:26:15 GMT -5
"Now, I think it's time you and I left." Kass warped away, still holding Xandra, and the Wraiths vanished.
"No!" Hunter was left in shock, and collapsed on the ground. He failed to defeat Kass...
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Post by Dju on Jan 18, 2011 19:42:17 GMT -5
"ARGH!" Cassile kicked a block of stone that once belonged to the library's wall "She was MY responsibility and I let her GO!"
"Control your emotions, Cassile." an old gnorbu entered the destroyed library, he seemed to be calm though all the mess.
"I...forgive me, master. Xandra is gone." Cassile knelt down in front of Master Gnorbu.
The gnorbu thought for a moment, touching his white beard, his blue eyes scanned the place and stared at Hunter when he found him.
"So I believe it's up to you two get her back." he said "How interesting, both white lupes!" the gnorbu laughed like a little child, he seemed to be reacting so...well, as if he was expecting that to happen.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2011 19:49:05 GMT -5
"I cannot let my wife know about this," King Altador sighed. "She would be heartbroken."
Xandra kicked and screamed.
"YOU LET ME GO YOU EVIL - wait, where are we?"
The world seemed so...celestial and stellar, but in a dark way. It was as though this was the home of the Darkest Faerie herself. All she could see was Lord Kass, who oddly was clearly perceivable in a black mist, dotted with small stars of purple and dark blue.
Xandra readied her magic. She wasn't risking letting Kass drop her when she could fall into oblivion (pun intended), but she wasn't going to let Katriana lay a fingernail on her ever again.
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Jan 19, 2011 15:44:47 GMT -5
"Welcome to Hell." Kass smirked at Xandra. "You see, once, Ambition was its prisoner. She clawed her way to the top, and then she took Revenge. So on, so forth, Greed joined, and they became the Three. And if I gather enough souls - and kill the Lightbringer - I'll join them. As Hate." Kass laughed icily. "And you... Let's just say that some of the souls in here have been dying to meet you."
Shadowy hands of all species - Lupe, Skeith, Kougra, Faerie, Chia - all of them reached for Xandra. "And, I've forged what you could call an alliance with some other agents. We have a plan, you see. We want to overthrow the Three. Why should they rule when they can't even leave their own realm, and we can?" Kass scowled. "They're weak, blinded by ambition and greed. Revenge... Yes, he's strong, but he's the only one of them worth anything."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2011 16:18:19 GMT -5
"So..." Xandra said. "This is...where the Shadow Spectres came from?" She had a lot of questions. Who were these Neopets, and why were they reaching for her? And where was Katriana? She had no doubt that this was another dimension all together.
Katriana was confined in strange way. It was as though her cell was floating in thin air, and she could only see the barely-there very dark purple bars because of her own Faerie fire. She thought she could spy that Eyrie...Kass or something...walk through the Dark Realm, as she had come to call it. And he was carrying -
"Alyxandra," the Faerie snarled, "this time you won't get away!"
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