Nargoth

Who remembers nargoth? for those who do!

the tall elf entered the town with a confident air about him
his eyes were a deep blue, to look into them you would think
of a clear ocean.the muscles in his arms were well defined yet
slender, it was however the way he moved that called attention
to him, the movements of a predator, he was obviously quite
sure nothing anywhere near him could even pose a threat.he was
about 6 feet 5 inches tall,with broad shoulders.at each hip
he wore a longsword,across his back was slung a bow of great
size, and most unusual about his weapons was two scimitars in
a cross baldric on his back.his left boot had a dagger in it,
while he had numerous other knives especially intended for
throwing situated about his body.he stood for less than a minute
indecision clear upon his face, he then turned to his companion
sir regnar a duke in the kingdom he was from."to the tavern?
or the town gaurds? i care not which" the elf said.regnar being
used to the elfs manners replied "heh it matters not too much
to me either sir elf",he snickered after his words finding some
private joke in them,"yet i could use a drink after that trip
upon the road"."make up your damned mind regnar"the elf
replied."well to the tavern then high and mighty master
elf"regnar said this with a snicker."fine then to the tavern"
and the elf started off, they hadn’t been walking for 3 minutes
before they saw a dark figure duck into an obscure doorway,
"did you see that clay?"sir regnar asked with some actual concern
in his voice."yes i did,wonder what could be in there
to warrant bared steel?"the elfs voice held a toying note."well
shall we follow clay?"regnar asked finally getting tired of
clays manner."yes i think we shall, this interests me greatly"
the elf replied in an air of absolute certainty regnar would
follow, the elf started to walk towards the door with seeming
unconcern, they passed into a building which in it’s earlier
years could have been a church or a town hall, the walls were
dusty marble, and there were cobwebs across some of the doors,
obviously disturbed.regnar had drawn his bow and nocked an arrow
for quicker reaction,the elf studied him for a few moments and
then drew his own bow and nocked an arrow as well."we ready
yet regnar?" the elf asked, to which regnar replied tI0f course
o ignorant elf i have been ready all this time while you have
not had a weapon drawn"."you know as well as i do that there
is nothing in this town to bother me" to which regnar
replied"overconfjdence will be yer downfall elf".the elf began
moving off down the hallway again with just a slight bend to
his knees, the only indication of his readiness to handle any
situation which could conveivably arise.they passed through
one doorway. into an intersecting hallway, with both a left and
a right passage, on looking though the left passage was untouched
by a human presence or othewise disturbing presence.the right
passageway however had the spiderwebs torn,the elf began moving
along the right passage when he noticed the man standing
there long after the man had already spotted him, the man
raised a finger to his lips to indicate a need for silence and
turned away from the elf with a perplexed look to his face.he
began moving off down the hallway to a room at the end of the
hallway,he glanced behind him a few times to see if the elf and the young human were following him and upon noticing they still were after the 3rd or 4th glance seemed to mentally shrug
at their presence.he entered a room about 20 feet by 30 feet
by 10 feet stopping to once again glance behind him.regnar coul
no longer contain himself and asked in a hushed voice "why oh
why did we ever come in here? what was so interesting in here?"
the dark man replied in a whisper "i saw a man with wings come
in here after a woman of great beauty wielding a bastard sword"
the man looked worried "what in the nine hells has wings?".
the elf replied "in the nine hells i’d have to say demons"
the man turned and began looking around the room.there in the
corner was a door through which they all proceeded, in the next
room they found a man standing wearing a cape and holding a
sword drawn and a shield in his left hand, the man heard a swif
intake of breath from the man who was in the lead and spun
quickly "whos therei???!??!".the elf stepped forward "who are
you and what are you doing here?" to which the mysterious new
stranger replied "i am angelx" he replied in a voice filled
with smugness before asking his own question "and you sir elf
are?" the elf replied "i am claymored crown prince of whitehave~
and heir apparent" this said with a straightneing of his
shoulders.the new man had no visible reaction to this however
the man regnar and claymored had previously met stared at the
elf with widened eyes.the elf ignored his wide eyed reaction.th
elf looked past the man and there lying unconcious and tied
upon a bed was a young human of some beauty obviously beaten
quite brutally.the elfs face twisted. "and her?you had better
talk fast friend" the elfs knees bent a half an inch. the caped
man replied "she attacked me with her sword so i shield bashed
her". "oh then why is she tied up?"the elf queried. "i had
to tie her to be sure she wouldn’t just attack me when she woke
up" the elf straightened slightly,"hmmm that sounds like a good
reason, but it better have been the way things happened.now
release her"."fine fine" replied drake.he turned to cut the
bonds on the woman, and regnar nodded at him to clay,a movement
to which clay responded by shaking his head a fraction of an
inch.angelx finished slicing through the rope bonds which held
the woman and then stood looking at the door out of the
building."she is free to go anyways, i doubt she has informatioi
valuable to my quest" angelx said this in a bored tone.he began
walking towards the exit and then turned "i am heading for the
tavern care to join me?"clay looked at the others and turned
to regnar "go with him to the tavern, i will meet up with you
there".clay turned and walked away back down the hallway.regnar
and the other two men left.clay began pulling a small 5 gallon
cask from his back pack, and then pouring a small puddle of
thick liquid,he then set the cask in the very center of the
pool of liquid and pulling out a flask of lamp oil began to
walk backwards pouring oil upon the floor leading from the pool
of liquid.when he made it back to the exit he looked for the
girl, she was nowhere to be found, he shrugged and continued
to back and pour the liquid, when he got to the door he drew
the longsword from his left hip,spoke a word, and a spark was
generated from the very tip of the longsword igniting the lamp
..i1 trail,cLdy burned and ran,knowing he didn’t have much time
to get some distance between himself and the pool of strange
liquid.clay had made no more than 40 steps when he felt the
world seem to shake behind him and a roar filled his ears.he
looked back to see flame coming to claim him, a fate he had
always known would someday occur.he slowed for a second and
then burst into even more speed thinking to himself
"someday but not today". he caught up with the others
just outside the tavern, where regnar cocked an eyebrow at
him.clay gave yet another fractional nod and shake of his head
which only regnar saw. "what the hell was that noise claymored?"
angelx asked. "i don’t know really i was walking along when
the whole world seemed to erupt in fire and destruction" clay
said this as if it was a unique event in his life.regnar simply
got a bemused expression upon his face.they all entered the
tavern together yet seperate.they seated themselves at. a table
claymored walking to the bar to order their drinks.as clay turned
from the bar he noticed a now fully concious and much recovered
young woman he recognized telling a small crowd about how she
had been captured and raped by a demon of fire.now to understdnd
what clay was thinking at this moment you must understand he
had no idea if the girl had been raped or not, yet the words
"a demon raped me" opened up many doors in his mind, one of
which was a way he could end up in bed with the lovely young
woman.he walked back to his table and dropped off the drinks
with a few whispered words "the girl is here follow my lead
at all costs"he then turned and walked back to the bar.he sat
listening intently to the girl speak of how she had been raped
and left for dead his mind running at an amazing rate to churn
out a plan a second.he stood and walked to the group saying
when he arrived "did i just hear you correctly?you were raped
by a demon with wings?"he looked into her eyes."yes i was but
i am alright now" she replied with an air of injured pride.clay
then turned to his table and motioned regnar over "looks like
we have run into yet another possible demon spawning"clay said
this as if he actually dealt with such frightening things daily.
he turned back to the small crowd which was growing larger.
"i am claymored priest of suerlista warrior goddess of light,
this woman has been raped by a demon which may have left seed
to take root and become a destructive force beyond all measure~1
he let those words sink in. "we can possibly avert this tradgedy
however" the crowd began to stare at her and a few even seemed
to want to make threatning movements at her, clay noticed this
and made sure he made himself clear when he said "take her to
a room upstairs and i will see what can be done for her" the
crowd grabbed ahold of the frightened girl and began to convey
her up the stairs, clay began to follow when regnar grabbed
his arm and whispered a harsh question "what the HELL are you
doing? you know as well as i do you are no priest, warrior maybe
but not a priest" clay raised an eyebrow "i am a priest of
suerlista you know that" the others had noticed the two speaking
and the crowd leading the young woman up to a room. The tall elf smiled at regnar and turned to follow the crowd.... regnar and angelx and eric the mage followed as well.At the top of the stairs the crowd turned right past three doors and commandeered an empty room, leaving the girl inside and locking the door behind clay, regnar, and angelx... eric stayed outside. as clay turned from the door, angelx started forward towards the girl demanding "why did you tell those people i was a demon? and why did you tell them i had raped you?" the girl cired out in shock for she recognized angelx in that moment. "oh god it's you" she said with a slight tremble to her voice. angelx raised a hand as if to slap her, but his hand was stopped by a powerful grip upon his wrist... he turned to look at the elf who was stnding there looking at him quite calmly "what do you do elf?" he asked. "i rescue my prisoner" replied the elf.angelx was infuriated by this "she slandered me, the bitch."clay replied in a nonchalant voice "nevertheless, she is my prisoner and is under my protection." angelx spluttered for a moment before saying "you can't stop me from taking my vengeance". "oh, no?" replied clay.he turned to the door and yelled for the crowd, telling them when they came in "the demons essence has escaped into this man, he must be seperated from the girl, or else she will be untreatable." the crowd turned on angelx with a dangerous air of purpose. clay said "do not harm him,for he will be alright after she is cleansed"
the crowd grabbed angelx and began dragging him away by main force. they released him outside, whereupon he revealed his wings and flew up to hover out side the window of the inn.Clay had turned back to the girl after drake was dragged from the room, and said "so young lady... what is your name?" she replied "my name, sir, is thalerial. and i was just lying about the rape, he didn't rape me" clay looked at her for a moment before saying "you lied about it?i can't believe that, it's proabably just the demons influence speaking" she looked angry for a moment "i am NOT influenced by a demon"
he looked at her for a few moments appraising her "well be it as it may be, whether you are telling the truth or not, i must work to purify you of any possible influence" she looked at him, uncertainty growing upon her face "how can that be done?" to which he replied "either we can spend many hours in a painful ritual cleansing,o we can do things more directly,thankfully i am a priest of a warrior goddess who is quite blunt with her remedies" he broke off at this moment for angelx had come into view through the window. "regnar... please go handle our associate mister angelx"
regnar nodded and left the room, gathering hunters in the common room below he walked out into the courtyard and fired an arrow at angelx "die abomination" the arrow missed and flew past angelx, immediately afterwards angelx landed on the roof of the inn. regnar climbed to the inns roof as the hunters climbed to a nearby roof, keeping angelx from attacking regnar as he climbed to the roof. regnar attained the roof and crouched to deny angelx a target while nocking an arrow to his bowstring. a hunter hit angelx in the chest with an arrow, embedding itself deeply, and regnar took angelx's moment of sever pain to stand and fire the arrow he had readied directly into angelx's leg. angelx launched into flight, trying to attain high altitude, while regnar calmly nocked another arrow and fired, hitting angelx in the wing. angelx stopped ascending and began having trouble maintaining his height, and he reached over his shoulder to pull a rod from his pack,pressing a stud on the rod. the rod was frozen in space at the point it was when the button was pressed, and angelx pulled himself up to sit on it. regnar nocked another arrow and fired, narrowly missing, while angelx fired an arrow from his bow scoring a hit on regnars outer thigh. the hunters began to fire in volleys hitting angelx again and again, after the 5th hit angelx was faltering. regnar nocked another arrow and let fly hitting angelx in the ribcage, whereupon he fell backwards off the rod, and falling 60 feet to slam into the roof of the inn. he lived through the first fall to the inns roof, but rolled off the roof to land upon his neck killing him. clay meanwhile had spent this time speaking with thalerial.she asked "what is this direct method you spoke of?" to which clay solemnly replied "evil seed was deposited within you, so the fastest and easiest way to fix this would be to cancel out the evil seed with seed of goodness equal or greater to the power of the demons seed"
her eyes widened "you don't mean..... you aren't suggesting we.... well you know, are you?"
he looked at her "actually yes i am suggesting that"
she stared at him for a minute "i'd rather do it the other way you spoke of."
"well that way involves many many hours of extreme pain.... for that way is the way of cleaning the seed from your body by physical methods"
her eyes began to tear as she said "but i already told you... i didn't get raped"
he looked at her and feigned pity "yes.... but i can't be sure that you are telling the truth when you say you didn't get raped,
the crowd downstairs... you know they would like to burn you until you are dead right? to cleanse the possible evil within you"
she burst into tears again "but.... but.... i'll never be able to marry"
clay replied "well actually if that is the problem, i will have you moved to another town, where you will be matched with a husband, the fact you are not a maiden will not be payed any attention, for you will be losing your maidenhood to a priest.
she looked at him with hope "o i could still be married?"
he decided to throw in some extra bait "and perhaps we could have your maidenhood restored"
she looked at him her resistance faltering "but.... you'll tell them all it was only a joke right? and that i am not possessed?"
he looked into her eyes and spoke earnestly "of course i will"
she seemed to think for a moment "will.... will it hurt?"
he replied "not very much i don't think"
she seemed to make up her mind, laying back on the bed and looking at him, as he moved to the bed next to her and laid down beside her.
"i might even take you to wife myself" he said as he began to carress her body
"can't we just get it over with?" she asked
"if thats what you want.... but it will not be as enjoyable if we do" he said this trying to seem like he was talking about her enjoyment, but he really meant his own.
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