Ello ello. You all remember my "short" story Companions of the Sword? Well I'm working on the second part to it. Here is what I have so far. Tell me what you think.
The scent of blood drifted along with the wind. Total carnage covered a deserted battle ground. The carian crows feasting off the dead corpses of so many diffrent races of creatures. Only one lone soldier walked the grounds. Her cape billowed behind her in the wind as she slowly walked through the corpses. She wore a blood red and black riding outfit with some bits of armour on her arms. She didn't have to worry about armour on her legs due to her knee high black boots. Her vibrant blood red eyes followed the crows then drew down to the dead. Many were her comrads; Her fellow kinsmen. Her jet black hair that was slightly streaked with silver blew in the wind. Her pale skin looked even paler in the fading sunlight.
"A pitiful battle over something so small..." Her voice carried a melody of a Romanian like accent and ice all at once. A coy smirk crossed her face. A single crow with a missing eye landed on a ripped and broken flag pole in front of her. In it's mouth, was an amulet.
"If only Allestar gave that to me when I asked, he would still be alive." She took the amulet from the bird's mouth and it flew away. She gently put it in a black velvet pouch that hung at her side. Aside from all the dust, blood, and dirt, that black velvet pouch remained completely clean. She started walking off the battle feild when a voice reached her sensitive ears.
"I see you managed to kill many more again Shana Dragonfire." Shana turned to face the new comer. There in front of her was a demon she knew all too well. The girl was three inches shorter then her and had long wild dark brown hair. Her eyes were large and also a dark brown. Her skin color was an even shade of olive and a simple fighting kimono decorated in flames and ankle high black boots was all she wore.
"Long time no see Nira. It has been so long, I though you were dead." Nira laughed.
"Me? Dead? You must be joking. Say...something is diffrent about you..." Nira looked her friend up and down trying to find the source of what made her friend diffrent. Shana chuckled. The air around them grew colder and Nira shuddered due to the sudden chill.
"Nira...Nira...Nira. And I thought you could see auras?" A swirling mass of black raging flames surrounded Shana for a minute then disappeared. "One hint for you. Here is another: What is my natural eye color?" Nira gasped when she put two and two together.
"I can see auras Shana. But yours was hidden....I now know what is diffrent. You're evil again..." Her voice trailed off in sadness. Shana laughed a spine chilling laugh.
"So true my kitty friend!" Shana lept into the air as black and silver dragon wings appeared from her back. "I'd love to stay and chat, but I have more pressing matters at hand! Farewell!" She began to fly swiftly away leaving Nira standing in shock.
"I thought it would never happen again...She promised it wouldn't...." Nira walked off the battle field, but before she could go, she snapped her fingers causing the entire battle field to burst into flames. The smell of rotting flesh and smoke began to drift in the wind as Nira slowly disappeared with a slight smirk on her face.
Shana landed back at her dark and desolate castle. Her wings disappearing into her back. The gothic style aritecture of her castle matched her perfectly. She kicked open the heavy metal doors and strode in. Many of the servents there bowed their heads as she passed. But she didn't notice them. She headed to the library where two certain people were there...waiting. She stopped just outside the door and heard their voices. A smirk crossed her face as she opened the door silently. The two people were deep in conversation. The one was a man. He was quite tall and had shoulder length white hair. His eyes were two diffrent colors...one red and one white. A decayed angel wing and a demon wing sprouted from his back. He was quite pale and wore all black. His red eye glowed a blood red more the usual. The other person was a woman. She too was three inches shorter then Shana and had dark hair. Her hair was down a bit passed her ears. Her eyes were blood red, but not so deep a blood red as Shana's were. She wore a dark purple robe with silver markings and had dark skin. Shana leanded against the wall between them with her arms crossed. She cleared her throat and the two people jumped.
"Nice to see you noticed me you two." Her voice held a lingering sense of scarcasim.
"You made it back alive I see. What of your men?" The man inquired.
"All dead Vergil...All dead. And Sehara, I have that amulet." Both Vergil and Sehara's eyes widened.
"I thought you wouldn't be able to get it from Allestar..." Sehara barely whispered out. Shana began to coyly laugh and made her way over to an empty black velvet chair. She took out the amulet and began to twirl it around her fingers. In one swift motion she crossed her right leg over her left.
"Oh Sehara my dear...Allestar is a weakling compared to me. It was like taking a toy from a baby. But a baby would give a better fight then he did." A coy smirk arose on her face as she looked at her two bewildered companions.
"But his army is undefeatable..." choked out Vergil.
"Was undefeatable. But his army was defeated. Even though my whole army is dead." Shana continued to twirl the amulet around her fingers. Vergil and Sehara still sat there with shock painted on their faces.
"Wow...you really are one of the feircest fighters I know..." muttered Vergil.
"I forgot to inform you two that I shall be usuing my old name once more." Shana announced.
"And it is?" asked Vergil. She smiled as she saw Sehara smile and nod. She knew the name well.
"Tallenessa Blooddagger." The room grew to an unatural coldness. The flames were licked out and a shadow floated around the room with the setting sun.
The winds began to pick up and shake the trees violently. Something was wrong with the land. Villagers ran to hide in their homes as objects began to fly about the land. A great black dragon with a vibrant red scar down his right eye emerged from his cliff top cave. His deep ocean blue eyes looked around the landscape until a scent reached his senses...chaos. He roared and flapped his wings then settled down again.
"This has not happened for over two thousand years. Why would it happen? Why now?" he asked himself. His deep voice lingering with a sense of worry. He turned around and headed back into his cave. But suddenly her paused and looked back towards the dark and looming gothic castle to the south.
"The dark commander has returned..." With a swish of his great tail he retreated back into his cave deep within the mountain. Below him in the village, the villagers were in a panic save for one, a man cloaked in a dark green cape. Behind him was another shadowy figure.
"Here. This is her castle. I haven't seen her ever since that horrid day..."the man sighed sadly.
"Pull yourself together. She is your sister remember?! You did right bringing me here. She never told me or showed me where she lived..."This voice belonged to a woman. The man drew down his hood and sighed.
"But I never thought that she would do this once more. She is...was...stronger then this. But now Shana is...not the sister I loved." The woman sighed in annoyance and drew down her hood as well. It was Nira.
"Sanada...OPEN YOUR EYES!!! You shouldn't fully trust the ones you love! It only shows you a quicker way to death then you ever imagined." Her temper had enough with the foolish elf boy. He clenched his fists and whipped around to face the arrogant demon.
"Watch your tounge demon! Around here, your kind is carefully watched. My sister trusts everyone who is close to her. She trusts Kallar with her heart and soul as she does me. What does that tell you?! Say it!! My sister is near death?! Well she isn't...but I have a feeling you are!" He turned away from her and disappeared into the shadows. Nira stood there annoyed and worried.
"That damn fool is going to get himself killed. By his own sister none the less. Why doesn't he listen to me?"
"Maybe it is because he has heard things about you that he doesn't trust huh demon?" The voice...cold as ice with the hint of a vampiric accent. Shana. Nira whirrled around to face blazing blood red eyes, a pale face, and a firey red star.
"Hello again Shana." Nira took one step back, but Shana took one step forward.
"How nice of you to join me in my beautiful lands." A wicked smile crossed her white face. Nira cringed at her aura. The buring black inferno was now visable to her. Shana had really unleashed a darkness that even Nira couldn't handle.
"Shana. I'm sorry. Your brother knows what you are now, and so do I. We cared about you...but now...I'm not so sure." Shana laughed that bone chilling laugh causeing the air to grow colder. Nira began to back up slightly, but Shana kept advancing from the shadows. Another pair of red glowing eyes appeared behind her followed by a blazing red eye and a blazing white eyes.
"I see you brought your little minions with you...Shana." Shana smirked and stared coldly at Nira.
"Oh on the contrare my lady. They are not my minions. But first. Don't call me Shana anymore dear one. Call me...Tallenessa. A name you might recall. Secondly..." She motioned for the other two creatures to emerge from the shadows. On her right stood Vergil and on her left, Sehara.
"These are your so called friends." Tears of sadness and fury welled up in Nira's eyes. Her hands balled up into tight fists. The tears she tried to hold back fell down her face as Tallenessa locked eyes with her.
"How dare you!! Why did you drag these two into this mess devil?!?" Her cries of anger only made Tallenessa laugh.
"Why do you care? You hide from us all." Her eyes squinted to a feirce glare. Her hands balled into tight fists. Her dagger like nails digging deep into her palms and her blood dripped through her hands to the ground.
"I'd leave now if I was you demon. You do not belong here." Nira reached behind her back and pulled out a secret dagger.
"Oh I'll leave alright. When you are dead!!!" Nira sprung at Tallenessa with pure white hot anger and plunged the charmed dagger deep into her heart. Tallenessa screamed out it a sheriking pain. She ripped the dahher out of her chest and threw it in the ground. Sehara held her as she fell to her knees. Vergil growled and unsheathed his deadly sword and advanced towards Nira. Nira's anger turned to panic as she realized what she had done. In a flurry of flames she disappeared as she saw Vergil advancing towards her. Vergil sheathed his sword once more and knelt down besides Tallenessa and Sehara. The dark commander clutched her heart and was gasping for air.
"That damn demon. Her dagger is charmed." She screamed as the wound began to burn. Tallenessa passed out for the pain.
"Come Vergil. We must get to the castle medic right away. She might actually die this time." She began to make her way through the dark alleyways. Vergil picked up Tallenessa and followed Sehara into the darkness.
Far off in the western kingdoms, a she elf rode in a flower filled field. A long flowy green cape billowed behind her as she rode on her beautiful unicorn Curion. A simple yet detailed riding outfit is all she wore, This elegant elf was the Lady Bri. She made her way back to her castle to see her two dear friends now. Kali and Frozen. She rode Curion into the stables and locked him into his stall. She made her way to the great hall where she heard laughter through the heavey wooden doors. She smiled and opened the doors.
"I'm back guys!" She called as she skipped over to her laughing friends.
"Bri!!!" yelled the girls as the ran over to her hugging her. They all laughed together. Happiness filled this castle. For Lady Bri's castle was full of love and pretty colors to say the least. The outside was a beautiful and gleaming white while on the inside there were rainbows of colors everywhere. Elegant tapestries hung about the castle while flowers were placed everywhere. The three girls sat down at a table still giggling. Frozen handed Bri a goblet of some sort of fruit drink.
"Here! Try this! Kali and I came up with it today while you were out riding." Bri took the goblet and looked at her friends with a suspicious eye.
"Oh come on! It isn't poisonous at all trust us." Kali announced. Bri giggled.
"Thats what frightens me." She took a sip from goblet and her eyes widened. She took another sip.
"This is..." She paused and a big smile streched over her face.
"GREAT!!!!" The three girls once again broke into laughter. For the rest of the afternoon they remained in the great hall laughing and just having fun.
Hours passed when there has a knocking on the great hall's heavy wooden doors. The girls turned and looked at the door.
"Who is it?" called Bri. A young man's voice returned the answer.
"Lady Bri! It's me Adre! May I enter? I bring news!"
 ~The~Blackest~Rose~ · Sat Jan 07, 2006 @ 11:53pm · 1 Comments |
