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Baron Ogre

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He lunged for the blade, as the commander’s tongue rocketed towards it. As his fingers touched the hilt, the pain disappeared. He stood, dazed. Instinctively, he pushed the weapon into the cloud, which evaporated like a puddle of water in sunlight.

The commander stood like an animal caught in a trap. Sprinting towards the thing, Kale lunged at him a second time. He walked on his broken knee in a physically impossible looking way, but Lear did*’t have time for this. He maneuvered the weapon past the possessed man’s ribs, striking the intended organ. Kale collapsed, his heart beat no more. Several lesser masked creatures stood near him. He continued towards the commander, slicing his knife across the mask of one creature before finally coming into contact with his main target.

Lear pushed the knife into the commander’s thigh - who did*’t seem to try avoiding the attack - and caused him to drop to one knee. Lear moved quickly behind him, and, not unlike an executioner, sawed the dagger into the masked leader’s windpipe, only stopping once he hit spine. A thick congealed blood oozed slowly from the gaping wound.

Running to stand next to Lear, Kath did*’t notice her brother’s body sliding across the ground. As a few dozen of the smaller masked things began their march towards the center of the room, Lear clutched the knife tightly. They wouldn’t make it out alive, he accepted that fact. Plucking the necklace of his father from the severed neck of the commander, he wore it with pride as he waited for his doom.

“What now?* She asked hopelessly.

02-Feb-2011 01:57:10

Baron Ogre

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“I wish I knew.” He grieved. She had retrieved the pipe, so now they just had to wait until one of those things made the first move. The commander’s body contorted in many unnatural poses as it slid and bounced across the ground towards the pair. They stepped aside in time to see her brother’s corpse heading in the same direction. They slammed into the coffin, and stayed pushed against it as if connected by magnets. Abruptly, the corpses simultaneously dissolved into nothing but blood, which seeped through the coffin like a sponge would soak water.

Flabbergasted, they starred at the coffin, not noticing the masked beings which stood next to them.

The coffin lid was shoved off, and landed near their feet. The entity rose to it’s feet using it’s large, bird-like wings to push itself off the ground. It wore a great helm, with the frontal section replaced with a mask of what appeared to depict an angelic and beautiful creature. The other masked creatures depressed back towards the vaults, as it leapt gracefully and landed before the pair.

It was giant. A foot or more taller than Lear, it was unclothed entirely aside from it’s helmet, and a pair of shoulder pads connected directly to the bone. The pads held faces of a man and woman.

“Delivereth this to those of light who lurk above,” his voice seemed to echo from ever direction, changing gender and tone several times as it bounced from wall to wall. He produced a broken shard of a sword from a fold in his wings. Lear guardedly took the object. The creature gushed with malign intent, even if it was of an admirable physique.

“The.. Uh… there’s no way out,” he explained to the hulking general. Lear’s eyes explored his body. Not a thread on him, but it was made up for by more tattoos than he could begin to count. They had been burned on, not traced with ink. It’s head shifted, as he laid eyes on Kath as if just noticing her.

02-Feb-2011 01:57:45 - Last edited on 03-Feb-2011 09:34:37 by Baron Ogre

Baron Ogre

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He waved his hand. Lear fell to the ground, a pair of the general’s grunts beat him unconscious with what appeared to be riot batons. “Lear! Lear!?” Kath ran to see if he was still breathing. The general seized her up by the throat, she piqued his interest for reasons unknown.

The same grunts who had assaulted Lear put all of the items he had carried into his pockets, and began dragging him away, as their leader stood amongst his militia of faceless men.

End of Chapter Six.

“Wake up! Wake up boy!” Lear’s vision slowly returned to him. Feverish pain ravaged his body, but he was alive. Lear leapt to his feet quicker than he should’ve been capable, his hands finding the dagger in an instant. “What’s tha’ hell is that thing? You alright boy? You were down there fer nearly the whole day!” The old man slapped Lear on the back. “So didya find’em?”

“Where’s the high priest? And the head engineer, I need to speak with them both.”

“What’d ya find boy?” He asked, his face changing to great curiosity.

“I wish I knew.”


It took a half hour or so for Lear to finally sit down and talk with the men he wished to see. And then he explained every detail of his journey into the tunnels, he told them everything he did and saw and heard and felt. He talked well into the early evening, and showed them the weapons he had returned with. And when he was finally done, the priest he had been referring to as ‘brother’ spoke after a bout of silence.

“Keep that dagger on you, I wouldn’t leave my home without it. What was buried there should have never been found.” He glared at the head engineer, “I told you, I begged you!… not to dig there! I want your men to go about filling the whole place back up. I want it airtight, do you understand?”

02-Feb-2011 01:58:03

Baron Ogre

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“What about Kath?” Lear was astounded that a man of faith would allow another life to smolder underneath this holy land.

“Brother, I am certain she is no longer a member of the human race, Saradomin rest her soul, for it has truly been damned by her experiences there.” He said a quick prayer.

“You seem to know what the hell is going on down there, what? What then? Who did I encounter, what long forgotten tomb was that? What the hell is the purpose of this sword shard?” He was seething with fury as he asked question after question.

“His name, his purpose, his very identity.. It’s been lost to legends and time. I can tell you this much, I can tell you a race of creatures winged and long extinct were required to put him in his grave. I can tell you they feared him enough to bury him hundreds of feet underground, I can tell you… this island was once his domain. I say his, since his appearance is male, but… he was never classified into a species.”

“And I can tell you, you’re alive. He did*’t kill you, which may mean something. Please, Lear, please.” The monk begged.

“What?!” He shouted at him.

“I will pay you a fortune if you so desire, but I feel like you may have a purpose, a reason. If I need your assistance once more in the future, could I call upon you?” His eyes pleaded as much as his hands.

“…Brother Larw knows where I stay. I work at sea* so I could be away for a few weeks at a time, but just send him if you do need me again,” he pondered why on earth a sailor like himself would be the choice mercenary for a situation like this “I really don’t know why you expect me to know what to do though.” He slipped the dagger into his belt, and left the chapel.

02-Feb-2011 01:58:22

Baron Ogre

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Lear hadn’t entered the church his mother took him to since he was seven or eight. His thoughts set on those tunnels, replaying his experience over and over again in his mind. He almost felt like a piece of himself was lost down there, and like he may need to retrieve it someday. He stood from the altar, feeling no safer or with any peace of mind after praying for hours. Was anyone… anything even listening?

For the first time in two decades, he had come to this place in hopes of finding enlightenment, some inner peace. Finding neither, and adding more doubts to his cluttered mind, he eyed the dagger for several minutes. Finally, he sat on the rug before the altar, and there he slept with his back pressed against the place of worship, with the looming statue of Saradomin gleaming down at him.

The End.

02-Feb-2011 01:58:31

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*crashes a longboat through the roof*

*cue barking dogs and car alarms*

...If anyone asks I wasn't here...

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02-Feb-2011 02:03:29

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read everything up to this post.

at first I was like, "Hm, K" but then the story got more and more interesting.

how weak are those frog-like people? They just get kicked and their boens fall to pieces, maybe from being famished?

and then the other mask-wearing ones, also a bit unusual. I like how the story sort of sets on 'no time to cry' and carries one despite loses, just the way I like it.

we can't have tears, it's a waste of good enjoyment.

other than that I like the story and I know that it's going to get better.

I'd just like to point out that you got mixed up with it's and its, because I think every its was put it's, so:

it's = it is
its = its

it's just a reminder :P until next time.

03-Feb-2011 05:19:32

Baron Ogre

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Fairly weak out of the water. Chances are he wouldn't have made it out alive if they didn't want him to.

That was my intention, glad you liked it.

I still haven't decided on writing more or not yet, but we'll see. ^_^

Annnd yeah. I'll probably re-read it soon to butcher grammar issues. Don't you love how you can re-read 2-3 times and still miss stuff like that? O_o

04-Feb-2011 01:10:31

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