In need of a hero [Random]

OOC: I'll be using Khaagas Naladak, just approved this morning, and some NPCs non-combatents... which for this battle will provide some extra motivation for both characters.

Begin In Character:


There is a road.

This road stretches between two distant cities, and winds to avoid forests, find springs of water, and find the safe passage within the mountains. This road has once upon a time seen far greater travel than these days. Once, the rulers of both cities took great pains to care for the road, keeping it clear of bandits and maintaining the tremenous stones that ensured ease of travel, even during the wettest seasons.

In recent years, however, the roads have fallen into further and further disuse as the relations between the two cities grew cold. These days the stones are full of cracks and pits, the forest has overgrown some of the passage, the springs have dried up, and even the mountains are more trecherous than ever. Few travel the road these days.

But now as we overlook this road we find a family in transit. Carried in a finely wrought ornate carriage drawn by expensive white* horses which navigate the bumpy road with as much grace as is reasonably possible, given the circumstances.

Sitting on top of the carriage, driving the horses, are a man and his eldest son, who is about sixteen or seventeen years old. They are both belted with swords and are keeping a close eye out for bandits. Inside the carriage is the man's wife, two daughters, and yougest son, who is too young to use a blade yet.

At this time, they are making their way through the forest. The dark and mysterious Fyrillys Wood, with tall magestic trees lining either side of the road, and powerful oaks ripping apart the stones of the road with their roots, making the ride rough indeed.

But we are not the only witnesses to this scene. Another watches as well, from the shadows further up the road.

Were the traveling familiy close enough to hear, they would have heard the sound of cracking stone, as a pentagram is etched into the roadway. Crack! goes the stone as a line is formed. Crack-Crack-Crack! it continues, an eerie red light pulsing from the rents in the stone. And then a final Crrrack! as the final line is put into place, completing the star. And then a spark flares up from one of the points, and starts encircling the star, etching a black ring into the symbol.

The portal was complete, and the creature watching from the shadows stepped through. It waited for a moment then, sheilding its glowing red eyes from the light of the sun filtering through the trees. And then it slinked off into the bushes.

Its eyes FLASHED brightly as it began the next spell. The carriage was approaching now. A second circle began to burn itself into the stone. Seconds pass. The horses are now ontop of the circle. A column of red light bursts upwards, stretching up, up, UP, to the very heavens in the sky. The man and his son attempt to get the horses under control. Hell breaks loose.

Within the light, a fire burning with the power of the very sun in the sky burst through the rear of the carriage, still caught within the circle at this time. The force of the heat alone was like an explosion, and the rear of the carriage lifted up off the ground, dragging the fron the the carriage with it. Then it came crashing down, nose first into the horses, throwing the man and his son from their seat, battered and bruised on the stone road. The carriage continued its fall, bringing the rear of the vehical forewards, now flipping it entirely over with the roof skidding along on the ground.

The carriage was burning. Inside, the mother had taken serious burns from being caught in the edge of the circle of flames. All four of those inside were tossed around pretty brutally, and the carriage was still on fire.

And the monster approached the carnage it had created with an evil looking grin on its face. It made an evil sound, "Kharzagat Khalacht!" and laughed.

A hero is needed in times like this. There is still time left. The family still lives. How long will they last, though? How long can they survive?


* Amongst horse enthusiasts, there is no such thing as a white horse. In the real world, all "white" horses are called "grey". The horses described here, however, are unmistakably WHITE.

ooc: dern boy! thats a fighter! heres mine: Samku

bic:
A beam of plasma shoots into the fire and a sudden rush of air puts out the blazing inferno. Samku flew in and ripped of the door of the carriage, pulled out the five people and laid them on the ground beside the father and son duo. Samku then unhooked the horses, one of which was still alive. He then sped back to the family and found the mother was dead from serious burns.

The children suddenly screamed and Samku turned around to see a huge claw streak in and throw the mighty saiyan thirty feet through the air and slam into a rock. He lept up and he saw the horrible creature who sent him flying...

For a moment, the creature was slightly... dissapointed. It had been looking forwards to this hunt for some time, carefully picking the location for the slaughter to be as far removed from the civilized world as could be managed. If it had known that there were any beings which might provide competition, it would not have used its fire. The beacon has attracted most dangerous foes on occasion.

Which isn't to say that a "romp" through the woods wouldn't be enjoyable. But the enjoyment it wanted right now was to see the stark terror of its prey, drinking in the screams it cannot hear. And so it was without very much cerimony that it tossed the intruding one aside. And then it turned back to the family which was to be killed.

Actually, it was simply the father who had been ordered dead; but of course, all witnesses would have to be extinguished as well, and it was so much FUN to play with toys...

"Ghachaktcha Karat le'thock!" it exclaimed harshly, turning briefly away from the warrior. It wasn't that it completely disrespected the newcommer... but more that it had no fear. It was clearly magic that put out those flames, and it had no fear of magic whatsoever. The young enthusiastic mage could be dealt with at lesiure. But the target must be hunted, and slaughtered, NOW.

Heroes could be such a pain. Interfering scoundrels. The man was ITS prey. Its own, and none other's!

Stalking forewards, enjoying the fear, Khaagas hardly even noticed the tickle on its back as it picked up the older man by his head. The light show was slightly more impressive, flashing by, forming an outline of the creature on the next tree over. Khaagas turned its head, still holding the man up off the ground in that painful position, glancing at the interloper.

And it grinned, showing a full rack of glistening teeth, already dripping with what appears to be blood.

"kamehame-HA!" A huge beam of pure energy flew from Samku's hand and struck the demon in the back. The demon, taken by surprise at the use of magic, was thrown forward into a huge boulder. The horrible hellspawn picked itself up, irascible, after an act so strange to him had been enacted, pain!

The hellspawn beast roared its defience at the warrior and rushed forward. Samku knew he was in over his head but jumped into the air and flew forward with all speed. The two behemoths collided in an explosion of fire and began trading slashes and blows.

The creature struck downward with his razor sharp claws, expecting to flay the magician alive, but found his claws bounce harmlessly off the saiyan's tough skin. Samku clenched his fist and pushed forward into striking range and punched the beast square in the chest. Khaagas slid backward, still on his feet, surprised by the incredible power of the man...or was it man?

"Run!" the strange warrior yelled at the family. The father pushed the eldest son towards the rest of the childen, after wispering something in the boy's ear. The son turned back to his father, terror written on his young features. He started to step away, but the creature lept in front of the fleeing family and bent down to snatch up a young child. Samku took a running tackle into the creature and both went down hard. The creature slammed its claws into the saiyans unprotected back and, this time, was rewarded by a short yelp from the saiyan and the feel of hot blood between its claws.

"Ow...that hurt..." The monkey man looked up and pooled his power into an explosion that sent the saiyan flying and left the creature slightly stunned. Samku landed like a feather several feet away from the grounded creature and ascended to a new level, the level of Super Saiyan.

Yellow flames erupted from the saiyan's pores and strengthed him with a supernatural strength and speed...

OOC: Hey... um, can we be slightly more consistant? Either the massive ki-style attacks such as the kamehame-ha are magical, or they aren't. Which is it? If magical, Khaggas should be immune. If not, then we should still be fighting in the middle of an inferno... I'm confused. I'm fine with either method, I'd just like to be consistant. Before I write my next post, I'd like to know how I should play it. Clarification?

ooc: the way the plasma blast (not the kamehameha wave) put out the fire was because the sudden rush of wind accompanied by the small explosion. The chi style attacks that Samku and other saiyans use are that of inner strength and are an extention of one's soul. And the reason why it hurt Khaggas is because of the sheer enormity of the blast and the unexpectedness of the strike. Besides all the chi blasts are not equal and are very different.

OOC: Ah, I'll go with "not magical" then, and act accordingly. Slightly more dramatic this way, as roaring flames surrounding a duel where the two fighters can hurt each other is more interesting, I think.

Khaagas treated the internal explosion of power within the hero the same way it treated the man's appearance in the first place. With casual disregard.

Flames knocked back temporarily earlier were flaring back up, fully renewed and spreading to the surrounding trees, catching them up with fire as if the hundred year old oaks were made of wads of dry newspaper. The mighty forest sentinals did not collapse instantly under this inferno, but over the course of the previous moments, already were dropping limbs in the most inconvienent locations, as if they knew what they were doing. Which, in a very real and magical way, they did.

The surrounding forest, quite frankly, was slowly... or not so slowly... becoming quite the death trap. Another falling branch came down, seperating the family. It blazed hot.

And now, the red monster casually stepped into these flames, into the hottest areas of them. Laughing in a horrifying dark manner, the rising fire hid its body as well as tall savana grass hides a lion. And within these flames, it stalked around.

From this position, it considered the situation. It wasn't feeling all that good... there was a large hole in its back. Khaagas had lost a considerable amount of mass. It would return within a day or so, so long as Khaagas stayed within flames, but right now, at this moment, it was upsetting the creature's balance. At least it hadn't lost any limbs right now.

Running around in circles within the rising flames, Khaagas filled the forest area with echoing sounds. Eerie, creepy, terrifying. Samku looked round and round, trying to pinpoint the beast. Sending blasts of energy into the flames.... beating them back, causing them to subside for mere moments before they would rise again double, spreading even further into the woods.

A scream rang out from the younger girl. The boy, her brother, that she had been standing next to just a moment earlier hadn't even time enough to cry out before Khaagas's sinuous tail had severed his neck. Samku then dove towards that location with unbelievable speed, finding the girl and the dead boy next to her, but no monster. Instead, there was a pentagram inscribed in the ground, glowing red.

The flames roared louder. The beast could be anywhere. A clawed hand lays there on the ground within the flames. It seems that not all your blasts missed... and the strength of them completely cut through the thing's wrist.

But the beast watches and waits from another world, planning the next strike. The surviving family was going nowhere for the moment, not without help. Even with help, where is there to go that the beast cannot follow? Even with the power of gods, how do you fight a creature you cannot find?

The flames roar.

The pentagram still shone with an unholy light as the inferno raged on. He acted quickly and grabbed the girl and thrust her out of the flames. He could feel the flames licking at his skin, but he paid no heed. He dashed back to the pentagram to find it slowly fading away.

"Not this time...HAAA!" Samku channelled the latent energy in his body and fired it into the pentagram. The ground shattered where the symbol was and the saiyan didnt hestitate before he jumped straight into the portal.

He entered a dimension of terror and death. The fires he had felt before where only candle light compared to this hellish inferno. He looked about but all he could see was red, the creature was red as well...
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ooc: my avy is an example of the charging up saiyans do. It is a focusing of the latent energies in one's body and the power released is incredible...