Darkness Skies RP

[Raja]

Ami didn't seem to notice the cloaked man that passed by her. She just stood out in the rain, embracing every drop of rain that spluttered against her face. She turned her head upwards and looked up into the dark sky with her arms wide open.

"Nature and their lore.." Ami whispered,"is so beautiful the way it's executed." Ami started chanting and a glow started to appear around her as she lifted a few feet off the ground. She then sowly descended back to the ground and fell with a thud. she laid on the ground almost helpless but had a slight smile on her face.

Nearby around her, some of the flowers she touched started to flourish and glow beautifully.

[darkeclipse21]

-darkeclipse suddenly felt drowzy. once again he tripped over the floor. cursing he got back up and sensed the fairy in the rain.- i don't want to go to the rain. -he ran until he saw someone else.- ummm..... hi.
(that would be shakon'dar.)

(amazing how many people come to this hotel)

[Shakan'Dar]

Shakan'Dar turned to the clumsy person who had addressed him.

"I have no desire to converse at the moment. I'm tired, hungry and travel sore. Perhaps once I've settled in we may see each other in the common room, but I really don't want to speak. If you're going to follow me, please try not to trip. I'll be very displeased if you cause me to fall on the stairs."

With that, Shakan'Dar collected his room key and thumped up the stairs, hoping that he'd made his intention to be left alone for the moment clear.

[darkeclipse21]

-darkeclipse was sneaking around shakan'dar. he tried to pickpocket him. worrying he might get caught he ran up to his own room. he locked it and checked to see if he had stolen the money.-

[Raja]

Ami sighed a sigh of relief and got up off the ground and washed herself off in the rain.

"I guess it's time to continue on," Ami thought to herself. She continued on through the deep forest and touched her surroundings. They all started to glow brightly and she gave a beautiful smile which enhanced the beauty of the forest.

Up ahead was a town...

[Shakan'Dar]

Shakan'Dar's eyes widened as the fool man tried to rob him in public. He felt on his right, and noticed a pouch gone. He couldn't help but give a laugh. The innkeeper came up to Shakan'Dar.

"I'm so sorry! Shall I call the guards?" He wrung his hands, hoping that Shakan'Dar was not going to take it out on him.

"No, no. There's no need for that. You see, the pouch that he stole contains nothing but a small lump of cheese and some half moldy bread. It was to be my last meal on the road, I've been traveling for months you see and this pouch was to see me through the last leg of my journey. I doubt the lad will enjoy it as much as whatever you're serving tonight."

The innkeeper roared with laughter. "Indeed he won't, but all the same, I'll be having a word with him about keeping his hands where they belong."

Shakan'Dar nodded and climbed the stairs to his room. He entered, and soon after, as good as his word, the innkeeper had sent up buckets of hot water and a copper bath tub. Shakan'Dar was soon relaxing in the steamy water, soaking out all of his cramps. After about half an hour, he finished up and got dressed again. He left his breast plate in a chest in the room, locking it with the key provided. He locked his room and went down the stairs to the common room again.

"How about that meal now?" he called to the innkeeper.

"Oy! Delara! Bring a meal out will ya?" called the innkeeper into the kitchens. "Can I get you an ale?"

"Thanks." said Shakan'Dar as he settled at a table and sipped at his ale while he waited for a meal to be brought out.

[The Dude]

It was dusk once again and Gareth decided that it was time to prepare. He had followed the two guards the entire day as they went on their rounds and watched from a distance as they went to a tavern for dinner. After they headed back to the barracks he went back to the inn. He noticed the cloaked stranger sitting by the fire but thought nothing of it and went up the stairs and knocked on Aki's door. There was no answer although he thought he heard something stir in the room. Shrugging, he went back to his own room and got ready.

He pulled out his collapsable bow and the pouch of arrows setting to work. Locking all the settings into place and screwing in the pieces until he had a full bow and five arrows. Next he suited up, tightening up all the strappings and fastenings. After he closed the final fastening to the shoulder guard and the armor was together, he pulled out the throwing knives he kept in the secret pocket of his overcoat along with a small leather quiver in the arrow pouch and his special dagger, The blade of Woe. He strapped the throwing knives to his left thigh and the five arrow quiver to his right, and fastened the dagger onto his belt on the left side of his waist.

He looked at himself from a mirror and admired himself. The speakers voice echoed on the night he aquired the rank of Silencer. "You are the embodiment of death. Your form will strike fear in those who have been sentenced. You will cut the tounges of our enemies so they will be unable to cry out in their final moments. You will speak no word of mercy. You will hear no plea. You will see none that deserve to live. Go forth, Silencer." With those final words, he cast the spell of night vision and invisibility and went out the window.


Sanders had just gotten back into his room at the barracks. It had been a slow day mostly but the morning rush had tired him out. A murder in the waterfront was the last thing he needed. Busy at dawn with marching through the streets, questioning any witness, taking down any claim, endless paper work. Thanks to that idiot recruit who kept shooting his mouth off, rumor was going around that the Dark Brotherhood had made their way into the city. That rumor had been put to rest when the general had given a public address earlier claiming that there was no way for the brotherhood to make their way into the city and that it was at most a drug deal gone bad and already several suspects had been apprehanded. The city watch finally lifted it's bar from anyone leaving the city and traffic was beginning once again. Now he just wanted to rest in his bed.

He closed the door to his room which was pitch black. The rain could be heard outside. He lit the central candle in the room and stood aghast as he saw a black shadow. His eyes followed down to the origin of the shadow. Crouched on a night stand there was a hooded figure with a bow in hand staring down at the floor. The figure looked up and Sanders glared to see it was the beggar that he had a run in with the other day.

"Penny for your thoughts." Gareth sneered. With that, he flicked the gold coin he had into the air and launched an arrow. The arrow pierced the center of the coin as it came down before it found its home in Sanders chest; causing him to fall back and crash to the floor, sending a table crashing down aswell.

Terrance ran to Sanders room at the sound of the commotion. He thrust open the door and saw Sanders dead with an arrow through his chest. He saw the gold coin that the arrow had pierced before killing his comrade. He heard the door close behind him and saw Sander's murder crouched where he was.

"You!" He shouted. "It was you! And the merchant aswell!" Gareth only smiled and replied. "So tell me, soldier of the imperial legion, tell me how does it feel to know that you are about to die at the hands of a street rat!" Finishing his sentence, he flung one of the throwing knives at terrance that struck his left hand. Terrance let out a cry of pain but kept on, reaching for his sword. Gareth lept from his position and took Sander's sword from where the guard had layed it in his final moments on the planet.

Though Terrance was injured, he fought rather well with only one hand but he was still no match for the assassin who side stepped him and cut one of the tendens on his left leg. Terrance let out another yell. Outside of a room there was a commotion, the yells and the sounds coming from the room had woken up the guards. Gareth knew that now was the time to end it now. He side stepped the guy a second time and with a hard strike, cut the guard's sword arm clean off.

Terrance letting out one final yell sank down. "Please! Have mercy! I only do my job. I only do my job!"

"So do I." Gareth replied. He brought the sword above his head and brought it down hard.

The guards finally managed to bust through the door just in time to witness the grizzly act. The sword did not go through Terrance completely. The sword had been brought down at an angle, and had gone through the tenden between his neck and right shoulderblade. The sword had gotten stuck middway through Terrances chest.

The general who was off duty, looked at the grissly sight then saw who had committed it. They couldn't see his whole face, just the murderers smile. "Dark Brotherhood!" the general shouted and at once a wave of guards poured into the room. Still smiling, Gareth lept from where he stood and crashed out of the window sending glass to fall to the ground below. As he ran, he glanced back to see hundreds of guards and soldiers were now after him. He lept upto the town wall, reaching for anything. His fingers found holes in the bricks big enough to be used as climbing indents. He scaled the wall a part of the way and lept onto the closest rooftop and ran from rooftop to rooftop until he was confidence he lost the guards.

Crouching down, he again cast his invisibility spell and dropped down to the ground. He manuevered quietly as guards rushed about him. They were knocking on doors, searching back alleyways, looking for any clues. He quietly made his way to the town gate. He would pick the lock to the chest and take his things and be on his way.

As soon as he was outside the gate, an explosion sent him flying. He landed twenty feet from the gate. He looked to see that the guard house and a good chunk of the town wall were now smoldering. He looked infront of him and saw a large army of orcs, goblins, and other beasts, some of which didn't look like they were apart of this world marching to where he was. He immediately ran to the guard house and saw that the chest remained intact. He opened it and took his contents but stopped. The girls bow... Sighing one last time he took the bow and arrows and made his way back into the town. The soldiers were too busy preparing to defend the city to notice him.

"She's got to be involved." Gareth thought to himself as he ran back. "I don't know how. But she has got to be involved.

[Akira Avelon]

The explosion made Akira shift.. now wasn't the time.. she knew something was up and hearing the cries of the townsfolk and the roars of the orcs and goblins. Akira knew she needed to get out of there... 'Why were they here?' She asked herself as she looked out the window. Her neck felt like it was one fire, as she gathered all her things as she ran down the stairs and went into the common's room, looking for Silencer.

[darkeclipse21]

-darkeclipse had already thrown the "prizes" to a junk pile outside. he sighed, everyone was poor right now.- a dark aura and an empty wallet. -he sighed again, what had happened to rich people? no one seemed to care that they still keep their dark aura on.-

[The Dude]

Gareth ran back to the area where the inn was located. The inn looked intact but the area around it was being engulfed in flames. There weren't any guards around, they were too busy tending to the areas where the inading forces were entering in. He ran through the entrance of the inn and found her standing there. She looked at him in a different way. No longer in the way of a naive girl that he had gotten used to.

"So you know." He said in a serious tone. "I'll explain later. Now we must go. I don't know why I'm doing this and I could care less that there's an invasion happening right now but that army tried to kill me in the forest. I would like to know why." He tossed her her bow and quiver he had recovered. "Now let's get out of here."

They stepped outside. Again Gareth eyed the area, his night vision spell still active. Smoke clouded most of the area. His night vision however, caught site of a glint of light. A second later, he felt something striking at his shoulder guard and bouncing off. He looked to find a throwing knife like his lodged into a brick wall of a house.

"Seems my aim was a little off." A voice came from the smoke. "Well. That won't happen again." A figure emerged from the smoke. It was a wood elf dressed in the same armor Gareth was wearing. "Evening Brother." He said with a smile.

"Jarmal." Gareth thought to himself with a bitter taste as he replied back in the same "Brother." with a nod. The elf had been part of the brotherhood for over a decade. Yet he had risen in the ranks even quicker than Gareth had. Becoming Silencer in only a year. "So what do I owe this pleasure to for recieving such a "warm" welcome?" Gareth said sarcastically, moving his hand up to where the throwing knife now rested. Jarmal smuggly walked up to him. "Oh that. Don't take it so personally. I was merely just trying to help you with your job."

"What Job?" Gareth asked, his tone shifting from sarcastic to serious. "Oh where are my manners? I have a message. From your speaker." The elf took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket. It had been sealed in wax. The insignia was that of the black hand and handed it to Gareth. He cracked the seal skimmed the opening of the contract and stopped and stared at it for several moments before folding it up.

"Who ordered this?" Gareth asked, his eyes still wide open. "You know full well that only speakers deal with clients dear Brother." The elf replied. "Besides, it doesn't matter. The gold was exchanged and the contract was made. It's your duty to see that the contract is carried out. Your speaker specifically chose you to carry it out. He holds you in high regard. I suggest you don't disappoint him."

"I will see him about this." Gareth answered in an angered tone. "I told him that I would take care of this problem my own way."

"You know that we don't have "problems" Brother. We take care of them. If it's so hard for you to do it then I can do it for you." Jarmal offered.

"No!" Gareth shouted. "I said I would take care of it my way. I will do it."

"It seems that your way failed dear Brother." Jarmal noted eying Akira. "It seems that ignorance she once possessed is now gone. Fine though. Do whatever you want. It's really no concern of mine. Shame though. I actually did like you if it makes you feel better but business is business." With that the elf backed away into the smoke and was gone.

Gareth turned back to Akira. She remained silent the whole time but he could tell she atleast had an idea of what had transpired. "We have to go." was all he said.

[darkeclipse21]

-darkeclipse saw the fire raging on. he narrowed his eyes, something bad was coming. he got out of his bed and toward the place in the inn closest to the exit to announce what he's seen.-
"hey you, stop." one of the men shouted at darkeclipse. "what are ya doin?"
"just running away from a fire if that's all right." he replied that was the best way to settle it. then, he felt a large, evil, and dark aura enclosing.

[Raja]

Ami heard chaos erupting in the town up ahead. She started to worry and ran as fast as she could, not thinking about using her wings. Once she arrived, smoke and fire had engulfed the town and people where running around mad and crazy.

"What's going on?" Ami cried with tears. She couldn't handle the pain. She fell to her knees and a dark aura started to emit from her.

"What's happening to me?" she thought to herself just before she fell unconcious.

Suddenly, a dark light emitted from her and she no longer looked like a good fairy. She looked corrupted and pure evil. Her hair turned snow white, and her eyes turned such a light blue that it almost looked more white. Her wings shined more brillantly than ever, but not in a good way. The leaves that covered the very few parts of her body rotted to a brown, but still remained. Pieces of buildings tore off and ground cement tore out of the roads and swirled around her.

All of a sudden, Ami emitted an almost non-human high-pitched screech at the top of her lungs, and all of the objects that swirled around her shot out in different directions striing people and killing a few.

Ami's corrupted self chuckled an evil chuckle and floated in the air.

"The death of others is so enjoyable to watch," she said while licking the blood off her fingers that came from a dead body.

(remember, Ami is being corrupted and controlled by what is thought to be the evil in her. This is not the normal her)

[darkeclipse21]

(oh good! cause she's the dark aura he was scenting...............)

darkeclipse took off his hat revealing his fox-like ears. he ran towards the aura he scented (transforming into his demon form he ran until he saw the girl with the dark aura. she had snow white hair and blue eyes that were almost white. he noticed the ground around her had eroded away.
" who are you?" he asked hoping to avoid a fight.

[Raja]

Though the real Ami was unconcious, her evil self was active. Ami noticed the being looking up at her.

"I am Ami," her voice sounding different and like a mechanical female,"and I shall rid this town till I find my parents!" she did the screech again and eroded pieces flew different directions. Ami slowly decended to the ground, but she was still corrupted. She walked away from the man and took a turn down an alley.

The town suddenly fell under a heavy dark mist and smoke from the erosion was everywhere. it was hard to see

[darkeclipse21]

-darkeclipse had completed his transformation and now looked like some cross between a wolf and a fox.-
"your parents aren't here. they might be dead or otherwise but you don't need to destroy a town to find them."

[Raja]

(remember, she is not only destroying to find her parents, but also because she could possibly could have been born from evil roots. She doesn't know much of herself)

Ami's white hair flayed in the wind swirling around her. Her dark wings shined as she headed further and further down the dark alley down into the underground sewers.

She turned back with her whiteish-blue eyes to see if darkeclipse was following. seeing no one behind her, she continue on down the sewers.

[darkeclipse21]

-darkeclipse tried to understand the situation. he could follow her, seeing as she needed to recover something as well, r he could steal his way through life again.- blink. -the spell suddenly came to him. of course, he could tail her and keep out of sight at the same time.- "blink" -he shouted and became invisible.- i don't know how long this will last so i better hurry up.. -so he followed her.-

[Akira Avelon]

Akira hesitated, as she looked for the other assassin. She looked down to the ground and clasped her bow tightly. "I'm your next mark aren't I?" She spoke softly. Akira knew that the gig was up. But, like Silencer, she knew that this wasn't the time. In fact, they both didn't see the three snipers come forth with more than just goblins...

"A troll!!! There's a troll here!!" A villager screamed as they were cut clean in half by a crude battle axe that was almost as wide as a cow's waist. Screams and roars were the only thing that could be heard as more orcs flooded through. Akira thought she even saw a black knight on horseback, slaying countless people. He was moving away, however, as the smoke got very thick and Akira jumped off of the porch of the inn, as the battle axe flew through the air towards her, when the Troll saw her and yelled.

Akira got up off of the ground, just before hearing six sets of goblin feet and that of the troll's comming towards her. She ran into the smoke and tried to look for Silencer. She had gotten her bow ready. But it was broken by a goblin's club, as it came down at her, when she was in an area that wasn't completely filled with smoke. The troll's footsteps pounding on the ground, comming ever so closer to her.

Her neck felt hot as she got out of the goblins grasp and found a... a... frying pan. Hitting the goblin over the head and smashing it into every goblin that tried to grab her. It was also a good shield from arrows.... But It was thrown away as the troll had now come into view, along with three orc's wielding swords.

One orc came charging in, as Akira screamed. But there was a flash and the orc started to look like it was overheating. It stood dead in it's tracks as it looked wide eyed at Akira....

She was holding the sword in one hand and a strange wisp of energy could be seen. It was of a shadowy black, deep purple and a deep crimson that was darker than blood spilled onto the ground itself!

Akira didn't move but the once nice blue and white choker she was wearing burt away.. the mass of flesh was moving rapidly as a deep red eye glered... the blade of the sword that was in Akira's hand started to turn red and then pure white. It had become superheated as it had been when it had been forged by a orcian blacksmith.

Sweat could almost been seen on the Orc swordsman.. but he couldn't move, the dark aura was preventing anything near it to leave or advance...

A stalemate had occured. But the slight laugh and unearthly chuckle comming from Akira's body.. it wasn't her's but of someone else... a male... but, to all who was on the scene that was intelegent enough, who's?

[The Dude]

Gareth quickly reached for his Shadowhunt. He was glad to have it back. The collapsed bow did its job but with all the locks and joints, it wasn't as accurate for long range that Shadowhunt was. After sending an arrow through the eye of an orc sniper, he lept to the rooftop of the inn to get out of the reach of the goblins that were closing in on him. His mind was in a furvor. "Why did Jarmal come just to deliver a message? And why wasn't he attacked?" Was all he could think before seeing Akira standing there in a middle of an onslaught. He fired several arrows at her attackers but the arrows never made it, they either broke or caught fire in mid air. "What the hell is going on?" He whispered to himself.

Finally another explosion sent him flying to the ground below. This time he wasn't so lucky about being far away to escape harm. He was losing conciousness as he flew. The last thing he heard was the laughter of someone before blacking out.

A slow moaning brought Gareth to conciousness. It was his own moaning. He was surprised that he survived the fall and he was more surprised that he was still alive. Having landed right into the enemy. Yet nothing could prepare him for what he saw when he regained full conciousness.

The entire area was a blood bath. Bodies of both the invading forces and innocent town's people were lying on the ground. Their blood had washed over the pavement. He could hear the battle still going on. But it wasn't anywhere near here. It was quiet here. A peaceful calm after a terrible storm.

He tried to remember what had happened earlier. The army that he met in the forest had severly multiplied. A member of the Brotherhood had shown up. "But why?" He asked himself. Then Aki... "Aki!" He swore to himself. He remembered that something had happened to her. But he couldn't remember. He carefully treaded around the area, being careful not to disturb anything until he saw one of the bodies shuffling on the groung. It was Aki. But she had lost conciousness again. He found his overcoat, now ragged and burned and covered her in it. He snickered at the irony of the coats appearance. As if it was mocking him about his roots as he then picked up the unconcious girl and made his way out of the city.

Outside. He made a small encampment on a clearing overlooking the city. The fires burned bright and screams and howls could be heard. He heard a moaning coming from behind her. "You're coming to." He said in a serious manner. "Could be good news, or bad." He walked towards her and tossed a book down next to her. It was one of the books she had brought from the library that he had managed to find on her.

"The person who wrote this book." He said quietly while staring at her coldly. "Used to be a member of my order. He was found in his house, hanging on a rafter. His own intestines were the noose around his neck for revealing our secrets. The second." He tossed another book. "Had lived in a town where a sanctuary was located, he followed a brotherhood member into the sanctuary and wrote about our livelyhood inside our home. He was discovered at the town square. His body had been shattered, as if he had jumped off the top of the steeple of the local church. This one." He dropped the final book. "Tried to perform a purification ritual on us. We returned the favor on him and his family."

He got closer to her. His eyes bearing down. "Read on if you wish. But be warned. There is no going back if you do. Those that possess the knowledge inside those books are forever changed. For us, it is a business. People need to eat. This is why people open taverns and bars. To fulfill a basic human need. Essentially, that is what we do as well. Fulfilling a basic human need..."

He turned from her. "After you have regained enough strength. We will leave. There are some people I need to speak with. People you will meet. Whether you like it or not or they like it or not. I want information from them and from you."

He crouched down so that he was at eye level with her. "So tell me." he said in a sternly voice. "What happened back there when I blacked out? And what is that on your neck." He motioned to the fleshy spot.

[Akira Avelon]

Akira's eyes stayed closed and her head was hung lifelessly. She didn't say anything but quickly grabbed onto Silencer's neck guard and pulled him close. A sadistic smirk could be seen over her face, but the sound that came next was definately not Akira's. "Do you really want to know?" A male voice reverbrated through Akira's throat... but the thing that would catch attention was the mass of flesh.. it pulsed and an eye. A large red and black eye opened and looked straight at Silencer... it peared right into His soul and made Akira smirk again. Letting go of Silencer's collar and sat there, pulsating....