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The writing on the note was all murky for a split second, and it rearranged and said,
"Hey! What was that? A magic blast? Lucky for you this note's magical properties-"
Sonia didn't have time to read the rest as she jumped out of the way of another Earth Strike, which ended up destroying the sewing table and making pieces of fabric fly around in a colorful flurry and then landing on the floor.
"...Protect you from magic attacks. I can see you're in a battle. I'll leave you to it." The lettering was now glowing bright red and was readable in the light, as Sonia had just now noticed.
"Die, already! So I can have more to spend on me!" Thessalia shot another Earth Strike at Sonia, and she held up the note and the attack was absorbed.
"What? That note... absorbs attacks? Fine!" Thessalia threw the bag of Runes at the window behind her, shattering it, and all the Runes scattered out near the Staff Shop, where it made many mages trapped in there wish the storm wasn't so raging so that they could fight over the treasure outside.
The stormy air began to pour inside of the store, causing the windows to crack slightly as time went on.
"Let's do this..." Thessalia put her fists up.
Sonia opened up the note and looked for anything to read. "What, you can't fight? For the love of sanity, why are you fighting anyways? There's a tornado about to rip apart-" Sonia couldn't finish reading that either as Thessalia tried to tackle her and missed, and she ran around reading the note while Thessalia ran after her.
"...Southwestern Varrock. You're better off riding the winds to the Sewers than stay there! If you are there, if not, that's fine. Just to let you know."
Sonia stopped moving and Thessalia jumped on top of her, pulling her hair out and punching her face.
"Stop! Ow! Stop! There's a tornado!"
"No! Shut it! Tornado? Yeah, right!" Thessalia hit Sonia again in the face and stood up.
The wind began to howl hungrily and loudly outside...

24-Nov-2007 07:48:49 - Last edited on 25-Nov-2007 06:10:35 by Parakarry267

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"You weren't kidding...!" Thessalia stopped her assault on Sonia and raced for the door, then opening it, gasping loudly to her right, not minding the fact that things were beginning to fly past her like projectiles, and ran across the square, being half-pushed along by the winds.
Sonia would've rushed after her in a mad frenzy to get away from the tornado, but insanity hadn't completely settled over her yet, and she ran into the bedroom to find the Tramp cowering in the corner, whimpering like the scared puppy he really was.
"Come! On! Do you wanna die here?!" Sonia tugged at the Tramp's rags, but he didn't budge.
"It doesn't matter... if I live, what is left for me? Nothing! Nothing, I tell you! Leave! Just leave me here to die!" The Tramp began to sob loudly in his hands.
"Why should I? If you live, I can help you get a future! But we won't have any futures to work with if we're dead! Now come on!" The wind began to pour on the southern side of the building like rocks falling on a silk net, and the boards were beginning to crack and split apart.
"I know I'm going to kill myself for this later..." The Tramp muttered as he ran out of the bedroom into the front, Sonia following straight after him.
They had reached the outside of the store, where a deadly black tornado was spinning right in the middle of the street, wielding pieces of lumber and weaponry from the sword shop that it was now advancing on with great ease, hurling them in all directions, spearing buildings and then taking those apart like it was child's play.
Sonia and the Tramp ran for the Sewers as the note had instructed them to, but as the tornado got closer and closer, it began to get harder and harder to even move a single foot. Soon the whirling vortex had a fit and ate the general store, taking everyone that was housed in it, including the store keeper and his assistant, in a horrific display of nature's power.

24-Nov-2007 07:48:56 - Last edited on 25-Nov-2007 06:11:13 by Parakarry267

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"Don't stop... don't stop..." Sonia thought as she kept trying to move towards the armory, but when she heard the screams and wails of the helpless people that had been taken up in the tornado's wrath, she began to move at a speed that she didn't know she was capable of, dragging the Tramp along as the real nightmare he stared at began to bore itself into his memory forever.
The tornado fixated its hungry gaze upon the clothes store next, which, in turn, lessened its hold on Sonia and the Tramp. Just as Sonia had passed the armory, she started to get hit by flying water pellets coming from the fountain up ahead, which slowed her down and nearly caused her to trip on the slick ground.
"Of all the times for that blasted thing to go off, now?! Ugh!" Sonia looked back and noticed the tornado tearing apart the clothes store, fabric flying into the air and all the jewelry making a pretty ring around the tornado, but the pretty ring soon became a deadly belt of hard gem projectiles as they were flown in every direction. One of them shattered the eastern bank's windows, another one made a hole in the archery shop that had amazingly managed to stay intact from its close encounter with the Angel of Death, and others flew off into the darkness past the tornado.
She yelled at the Tramp, who had fainted at this point,
"Wake up! We have to hold onto that stupid fountain! It's our only hope right now!" she was tired from running so much, and if she had to do it another minute, she swore she would just give up and fly into the vortex along with the beggar.
"Ok... anything..." The Tramp's faint voice was inaudible because of the howling winds, but he nodded slightly to agree.
They were three feet from the fountain when Sonia, mustering up almost all of her remaining strength, threw the Tramp at the fountain like the end of a flail. He landed square on the base of the fountain, and attached to it like an octopus.

24-Nov-2007 07:49:02 - Last edited on 25-Nov-2007 06:11:35 by Parakarry267

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Now all that remained was for Sonia to lunge at the fountain herself, and hold on for dear life until the insanity was over.
"I'm coming! I'm coming! I'm-"
A diamond ring came flying from the tornado at the speed of a bullet, and drilled itself into the back of Sonia'* leg, releasing a splatter of blood that flew into the wind like a streamy line of red water.
Sonia felt the intense, searing pain for only a split second, as the pain overwhelmed her tired body, and caused everything she saw to fade away into bleak nothingness, as she was pulled straight towards the tornado with no hope of escape.
^*(- End of Chapter 3 -)*^

24-Nov-2007 07:49:08 - Last edited on 25-Nov-2007 06:12:02 by Parakarry267

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<=- Chapter 4: Levantris -=>
It was all over, from the first moment of pain that she felt. Now she would go to the Realm of the Gods to be judged and be stuck there for eternity while the Tramp probably went back to begging or committed suicide and joined her because of his feelings about life during the storm.
But she didn't see any welcoming light or darkness or anything. There was nothing there. Where was she? Floating in the depths, waiting to be judged like thousands of others who had gone before her? Or had she just plain disappeared from existence and her thoughts weren't really real?
A whisper came from the vast land of nothingness.
"Wake up. It's time to go."
A light came from the top of Sonia'* thoughts. She didn't know how to reach it, so she just imagined it closer and closer, as the voice beckoning her began to gain volume and tone.
"Wake up, already! Are you dead, woman??" the voice sounded annoyed.
Finally, a picture began to materialize for Sonia'* eyes to receive and her brain to decipher. It was very, very blurry at first, but with each passing second, it began to become clearer.
"Oh, so you are alive. Means I won't have to go throw you out." the voice was coming from right in front of her.
Sonia had woken up in a small, uncomfortable room with only crude torches lining the dirty, white brick walls for light. She was laying on a metal platform that resembled a hospital table, only about a hundred times older and a hundred times rustier.
The face was pale, and his light brown hair barely stuck out from under his hood. His eyes held a striking green tint, and something felt familiar about him to Sonia, but she was sure she didn't know this man. She was probably still woozy from the tornado.
"How... how did I survive?" Sonia strained to say. She was very tired, and felt very sore all over. Speaking was hard to manage, and she could barely get up.

24-Nov-2007 07:49:16 - Last edited on 25-Nov-2007 06:12:22 by Parakarry267

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"Well, let's see... I remember talking to someone through the Brisia Note, and then a tornado came up and destroyed almost all of southwestern Varrock, so I had to come down here to wait it out. Then, when it was over, I found you impaled on a spear that was lodged in the ground. Yeah, I know, you're wondering how you could possibly live after that nasty hole in your leg and the spear through your gut, or even why I decided to let you live. Well, let's just say I have my ways and my own agenda to follow... and so I took you down here to recover. That about cover it? Oh, by the way, the Brisia Note is a magical note that allows me to write on it from anywhere with this." The voice had a touch of gentleness in it, but it was mostly emotionless.
The strange hooded figure pulled out a glowing feather pen, that had a green flame at the end instead of a black-tipped point. The feather itself was green on one side and red on the other, and the entire thing looked like something out of space.
"Uhh, I think I got most of that. I had that Brisia Note, but I think I lost it. So you were the person I was talking to that whole time?"
The hooded figure turned around, his black cape making a neat whishing sound as it whirled.
"Aye, that would be true. And the deal is, the Brisia Note is never lost or destroyed. It's a magical note, you know."
"Then why was it taped to the back of the bulletin board that was posted at the back of the general store?" Sonia found speaking a little easier now, and she could move with less pain.
"Oh, so that's where it ended up! Yeah, the Brisia Note has a mind of its own. When it's lost, it goes wherever it feels it should. But enough about that silly note... you need to get up and move around. You have business to attend to very soon and you can't miss it."
"What business?" Sonia could speak very well now, and she could sit up straight without it hurting.
The hooded man turned his head towards the exit.

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"Oh, I see. But with who? About what?" Sonia tried to get off of the table, but it still hurt and she sat on the side of the table looking at the hooded man.
"What's your name, anyways? I never asked for it."
"Oh. The name's Levantris. Don't forget it. Seriously." he looked at Sonia straight in the face, his green eyes making contact with hers. His look was hard as stone, and it showed only an atom's worth of caring.
"Alright. I better get off of this table. Whoa!" Sonia could stand upright, but it felt as stiff as tight plateleg armor and it was hard to stand without falling over.
"Get over it. Time's starting to run out and I don't want to be late for the meeting."
"Hmm*h." Sonia walked around the small room like a drunken dwarf, nearly stumbling over and hitting her head on the dirty wall until she could walk as normal.
"Levantris?" Sonia asked him, the question a mix of worry, wonder, and relief.
"Yeah? What do you want?" Levantris began to walk towards the entrance to the tiny room.
"I know you already said this, but why did you rescue me?"
Levantris was silent for half a minute. Then he grabbed Sonia by the wrist and took her along the grimy hallways, lined with torches and had piles of dirt lining the walls and filling the cracks in them. It went on for a long time, passing many doors that may or may not have been bronze, due to the eroding metal coating each door. Finally they came to a dead end, and to the right was another door, strangely a lot better-looking in condition, its silver coating only just beginning to rust. To the left, there was another hallway. Sonia had a feeling that if you got lost in this place, you wouldn't last more than two days before you died of hunger or maybe a disease from the dirt.
"This is it." Levantris gestured towards the silver door.
Sonia opened her mouth to say something, but Levantris shot his hand out and covered her mouth, rolling his eyes and sighing.

24-Nov-2007 07:49:29 - Last edited on 25-Nov-2007 06:13:09 by Parakarry267

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Cool beans on making it this far. (Yes, beans.)
If you truly feel that you're up for more of the story, then by all means, go on. But if you're tired from getting this far and want to stop or need to go do something else, then leave! This story (or this bookmark) isn't going anywhere. ^_^

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24-Nov-2007 07:49:43 - Last edited on 25-Nov-2007 06:13:36 by Parakarry267

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"Ok. Here's the deal. You shut your trap for the entire duration of the meeting. If you have any questions, you ask me after the meeting. Got it?" he nearly spat at her.
Sonia nodded. Levantris didn't seem like the type of guy that would joke around about these things. She almost thought of escape, but the hallways felt like they could create an inescapable labyrinth if you took a wrong turn. She also didn't know what weapons Levantris could possess, seeing as he had the strange pen.
"Fine. Let's go..." Levantris tapped the door once, and a second later, tapped it twice. He moved his hand, a black crescent scar on the top of it showing easily in the dim light, and knocked on the upper-right corner of it three times, and then proceeded to speed up his knocking, hitting it almost everywhere in random directions and with varying numbers of strikes, the tapping noises beginning to gain a haunting rhythm in the emptiness of the hallways. Sonia thought Levantris couldn't get in and was just mad at the door, until he slowed down his quick strikes on the door and hit the center of it once more, and it fell down, making a clattering sound of metal as it landed on the floor.
Levantris looked at the door and shrugged at it as if that was normal, which it probably wasn't. He jumped over the fallen door with incredible stealth, his boots barely making a sound as they landed on the floor.
Sonia looked at the door and stepped over it carefully, nearly falling over. She entered the next room, and she saw:
A lot of grubby men were sitting in crude wooden chairs of varying ages, skin and hair colors, heights, and weights. They sat under an ancient wooden chandelier-type torch holder that lit the room, and the one thing that they all had in common was their worn Rogue armor.

24-Nov-2007 07:55:35 - Last edited on 25-Nov-2007 06:14:12 by Parakarry267

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One of the taller, thicker men snickered at the sight of Sonia. He wasn't wearing a mask, and neither were any of the other men lined up in the row. Sonia didn't like the look of this place from the first moment she saw it, and with the men dressed in armor that only rogues would use, it only heightened her suspicions.
Levantris stood in front of the entire group, and he removed his hood, showing his entire head. His hair was either a really light tan, or a really dirty blonde; no one could really tell. On the back of his neck was a strange black curved line that seemed to go down his back. He was looking fiercely at the row of rogues, examining what each one was doing and only turned his head occasionally, his tough gaze never letting up.
Without taking his eyes off of the rogues, Levantris beckoned Sonia over with his finger. She walked over slowly and carefully, as if there were traps on the floor. Levantris took a deep breath, and addressed the group.
"Ok, all of you pathetic excuses for thieves. This woman is our newest recruit. If you don't like the fact that we have a female team member, nobody cares. So... anyone have anything worth reporting?" Levantris's voice was full of apathy, as if he could care less if the thieves started to bounce off of the walls and sing obscure songs like merry drunk men.
The man that had snickered at Sonia earlier snickered again, trying to hold back a full-on laugh, but he lost the battle and laughed out loud in front of Levantris, falling off of his chair and laughing while on the floor, his dark face looking real happy and his teeth looking real slimy.
Levantris looked down at the thief.
"Vinnin, if I wanted your opinion, I'd ask you for it, not to hear your abusive laughter at a meeting!" Levantris moved his left leg back and forward towards Vinnin's head at such a speed, that Vinnin wasn't even aware that he had been hit until a few seconds later when he stopped laughing.

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