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The first of the shadows reached the edge of the village. It barreled right through the wooden side of a house, which made a thunderous crack in the silent of the night.

Sounds of surprise, followed by those of struggle, erupted from the house. Some of the neighboring shades opened their doors to peer out into the street to see what the fuss was about, and more of the shadows swiftly made their way towards the easy targets. The shades that didn't react fast enough were slaughtered in their own doorways, while the faster and stronger ones either began running away from the shadows, or ended up wrestling with the things.

Phalarax didn't like the scene. Despite his violent nature, something seemed…wrong. These didn't seem like any natural wolves he’s seen before, and he had seen a lot during the course of his service to his lord.

“Lord…what’ssss wrong with thissss picture?”

The shadow didn't move at all. A grumble answered, “I’m... not sure. This worries me greatly.”

Before Phalarax could ask what his patron meant by the comment, the shadow took to the sky with a beat of its massive wings.

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Koreth Tosir had awakened in the middle of the night to the sounds of fighting in the streets. The young shade had risen from his meager bed, scratching his back and grumbling to himself about damn drunks and their annoying fighting.

His room wasn’t big at all, just like anyone else’s room in Egrissa was. All he had was a straw bed, a dresser, and a trunk in which he had kept his belongings in. His room didn't even have windows, which made peering out into the night all the more easier.
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21-Sep-2010 03:56:24 - Last edited on 20-Jan-2011 02:28:20 by A Mad Hatter

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What he saw made no sense whatsoever. His neighbors seemed to be under attack by some kind of wolf, but they looked like no wolves he had ever seen before. The last he checked, they didn't have horns, let alone some kind of exoskeleton on select parts of their body. Seeing the carnage below, Koreth shrank back into his room.

As he turned around, he saw one of the creatures standing on his bed. He didn't have time to wonder how it got there without him noticing, because it immediately charged him.

Before it got close, Koreth threw out his hand and shouted a word of infernal power. A pure black ray shot from his hand and hit the wolf thing squarely in the head, which disintegrated on contact with the fell energy.

The headless body slumped to the ground, and Koreth stepped around it as he made his way to the chest. He flung it open, and inside lay some blood red fighting leathers, which was accentuated by serpentine designs of hellish making. Next to the armor was a scepter topped with an iron cast skull, which seemed to grin evilly at anyone looking at it. Taking both items, the warlock quickly donned his armor, and hooked the weapon to his side.

To say the least, he cut a somewhat terrifying figure. A shade of medium height, Koreth’s face donned a graying goatee which made him seem somewhat demonic, and the effect was heightened by the shadows swirling around his eyes and forehead constantly.

Looking at his reflection in the iron scepter, Koreth couldn’t help but be impressed. After all of his long years living with his ancestor’s curse, he still couldn’t believe that he looked more like the devils they worshipped than an actual shade.
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21-Sep-2010 03:57:14 - Last edited on 20-Jan-2011 02:29:38 by A Mad Hatter

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Wasting no time, Koreth ran downstairs, and stopped to listen at his door. After hearing nothing, he opened it and made his way into the street. His neighbors were still under attack by the wolf creatures, which he saw loping through the streets and into random houses. He technically could save them, but then again….was it worth it?

“To hell with this,” he muttered in a soothing baritone voice. He had always wanted to get out of this hellhole of a town, and now seemed like as good a time as any to do it.

The warlock turned and began to make his way to the edge of town that wasn’t surrounded by water. Every now and then, a wolf-thing would attempt to attack him, but they didn't last long against his fell magic. The ones that he missed were quick to back off their attacks, as if they knew what he was. Not that he was complaining at all.

After what seemed like an eternity, Koreth finally reached the houses on the town’s border. A majority of the houses were completely demolished, and the ones that weren’t were barely standing. Oddly enough, the warlock noticed that there weren’t as many dead bodies on the ground as he had expected to see.

The sound of beating wings sounded from above. Looking up, Koreth saw a massive shadow pass above him. His gaze followed it as the thing landed a few yards in front of him. At first, the thing did nothing, though an orange glow seemed to emit from it.

Koreth, with his scepter at the ready, began running to meet the thing. He didn't get more than halfway to it before he saw a stream of fire surge toward him, which he had rolled to the side to evade.
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^+^ If the Gods see fit to curse us with the Blood, then we shall raise ourselves above them ^+^

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The warlock picked himself up, dusting off bits of mud that had gotten on him during his evasion. He was happy to see the curse of his ancestors at least carried some sort of resistance to the elements, at least.

He heard the whoosh of flames as they engulfed the wooden structures of the town, and he saw that the flames were bright enough to the point where the shadow stood revealed.

Before him stood what looked like a creature that had a dragon’s head, but instead of the traditional body the scaled creatures boasted, the body only had two legs on which to stand. The arms were shriveled husks of what once might have belonged to a mighty serpent, and instead of scales, the entire body of the creature seemed to have been covered in needle-like protrusions which gave off a metal gleam in the firelight, save for the pits surrounding where its fire-like eyes dwelled.

Wings were present on its shoulders, and they appeared as little more than slender bones covered with the flayed skin of some sort of humanoid. The tail was no less terrifying, as it appeared to be little more than a barbed, skeletal whip with a stinger on the end of it.

The creature stared at Koreth and smiled, revealing teeth which appeared as large as broadswords. Probably just as sharp too, he thought to himself. The creature belched another ball of flame at the warlock, which he had managed to barely evade. As Koreth began collecting himself from the ground, he heard the massive wings begin to beat. He looked up to see the creature fly off into the night sky.
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^+^ If the Gods see fit to curse us with the Blood, then we shall raise ourselves above them ^+^

21-Sep-2010 03:58:29 - Last edited on 20-Jan-2011 02:32:12 by A Mad Hatter

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Koreth looked back at Egrissa one last time, and sighed. The town was more or less gone, and whatever remained of the citizens from the wolf creatures attack would most likely perish in the flames alongside their attackers.

The warlock bid one final farewell to the home he never wanted, and began to make his way into the wilderness. If he was lucky, he’d be able to make it to the Bloodgrove Forest by daybreak, and from there...well, he’d think of what to do when the time came.

However, one thought kept filling his head as he walked. “So, Lord Talon,” Koreth said to nobody in particular as he walked. “I wonder...what the hell was a Jabberwocky of your power doing in Egrissa as it fell?”

He knew he most likely wouldn’t like the answer. Then again, he thought, maybe he'd never find out. A warlock could hope, couldn't he?

^+^ The End of Chapter 12 ^+^
^+^ Antediluvian of the Draculesti Bloodline ^+^

^+^ If the Gods see fit to curse us with the Blood, then we shall raise ourselves above them ^+^

21-Sep-2010 03:59:53 - Last edited on 20-Jan-2011 02:32:43 by A Mad Hatter

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Right, it's been a while since an update for this, so just gonna pop in here to say that it's coming within the next week or so. Unfortunately I've been busy with exams alongside playing phone tag with a few people so I can set up some work-related stuff (always fun >.> ), but now writing's coming along fine again.....just very, very slowly.
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01-Oct-2010 21:22:15

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Update: new chapter is almost done. It took me longer than expected to write out, and is sorta long...hence the long wait. But I will say it's also a very important one, so I don't really wanna mess it up either >.<

ETA: next couple days. Have some family birthday parties to go to during the weekend(not my choice), so expect it either sometime before or near the end of it.
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14-Oct-2010 05:23:10

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Gonna start the next chapter on the next page. So ignore the arrows on the next couple of posts.
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15-Oct-2010 04:39:11

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