Post by Rune Dravre on Feb 6, 2016 3:04:27 GMT -5
Is paved with good intentions....
Runic had been feeling the darkness more and more since her last run in with Vykin. After biting him and drinking his poisoned blood it had been a root of evil that had lingered. No matter that she had been healed and Logen had fed her something had been off. Lucienne had been there though, caring for the woman when she couldn't care for herself. Waking with her when the dreams turned to nightmares and screams filled their room. Tonight was no different. Lucy had shook her gently. " Wake up Rune, it's just a bad dream. " Rune heard her, but she was trapped in the never ending cycle of her torture. Thrashing and tossing, sweat beaded along flesh that was far to pale, even for Rune. Those black and crimson curls seemed to stick to the dewy substance. Not this again. Once more she was trapped in an infernal prison, bound by chains as Vykin ravished and consumed her soul. " Noooo" She screamed out, causing Lucy to jump a bit beside her. " RUNE!" She gave a firm shout finally drawing Rune from her nightmarish slumber. " Hm?" Peering towards Lucy with sleep terrorized hues she tried to fight her mind free of the darkened fog. " I'm so sorry.. " She murmured when she saw the blatant worry etched across the blue haired beauties face. Her hand rose, not worrying about the memories that filtered between them any longer. They had been together long enough that the flow of information from one to the other was shared. Something that didn't cause stress or anguish any longer. It still shocked her and stunned her, but only for a moment. No that palm cupped against the other woman's cheek, thumb gently caressing against soft lips. " How bad was it this time?" Lucy smiled, leaning in to kiss Rune's lips gently, taking more as the other woman to deepened her own kiss. Sighing the women pulled away. " About the same as normal. It is time we do something Rune. You aren't eating or sleeping hardly. You always seem to be in a nightmare when you do sleep. He's eating you away from the inside out. " Rune nodded, she knew that Lucy was right. That something had to be done. Her dream had been different this time... More complex than the other, more meaningful. " I think I know where he is holed up at though. I remember seeing the place when I was out camping one night out by Pincer Lake. " The girls conversed some more in length of their plan after that. Rising and dressing as they did every day, though tonight.. There was a finality to what they were doing. A greater purpose on the horizon. Standing before Lucy she grabbed her hands, giving them a gentle squeeze. " Just know that you have a piece of my heart Lucy and no matter what.. No matter what happens. We will come out of this alright. " She gave a brave smile even when her heart hammered in her throat. It was time to take her fate by the horns and ride with it into the sunset or into hell if that be the case, but the mental torture. The lingering of the male that should have stayed dead... It was going to end tonight. One way or another.
In a clearing that was nestled deep within the woods behind Pincer Lake that Vykin lay in wait. He had so many plans for his unwilling bride. Her insufferable ways had granted him enough rage that he was sure he'd enjoy eons of time torturing her into submission. His power had dwindled slightly when that little gnome had cast him from his other body, but with the new body bag in place he was regaining what little control he had lost. " And to think, she has no idea that she too has become a target. I'm sure one of my little minions needs a new chew toy. " This muttered to himself as he paced. As always he was weaving into his little bride's nightmares, using the piece of her soul he carried in the talisman around his neck it had become quite easy to touch upon her subconscious and force her into submission when she was at her weakest. Her girl toy had proven to be a bother as had that male that hadn't taken his offer to help him be rid of her. He knew the exact moment the women struck out to find him. The exact moment that fate started writing upon it's loom.
Rune and Lucy doned weapons and gear not sure what it was they were walking into, but this was something Rune needed to do. She implored upon Lucy one more time to stay behind. To stay safe, but the woman wasn't hearing any of it so with that being said they had made the trip. Teleporting as close as they dare without actually dropping into the gods only knew what. Stopping Rune looked over one last time. " Promise me Lucy.. If it seems like I am not going to make it you will leave. Go find Logen and stay safe because the moment he sees you, you too will become a target, if only because I care for you " Lucy had been hard pressed to agree and she probably wouldn't have if Rune hadn't gotten that stubborn set to her jaw, refusing to budge if the other woman didn't promise her. With promises given and met out the women traversed forward into the den of darkness. The trees and land itself seemed to weep from the evil that tainted it's grounds. Unnatural shadows danced along, quivering in a sort of anticipation upon the battle that was to ensue. Vykin stood waiting for the black haired beauty, his eyes only widening slightly at the sight of the blue haired vixen at her side. " I see that you have brought another toy.. This one will be as fun to have in my collection as the gnome will be. Tell me girl have you not learned already that everything you love and cherish is fated to die because of you? " His laughter danced out maliciously, inklings of a touch of darkness smoothing across the air to rape their senses. Rune swayed against Lucy at the call, but only for a moment. Shoulder's square she looked the devil in his eyes, smiled to the point it looked more angry than happy. " There will be only one death this night and it shall not be myself or my companions. I have lived beneath your thumb for to long. It is time you foul beast for you to go back to hell and stay there. "
Rune didn't wait for him to say anything else. She jerked that bow at that, letting loose the first arrow as she marched forward. It came to face with a shield that knocked it back towards her.. Lucy's water could be seen rolling in. The night was painted red as magic versed against magic, wills were put to the test. Each lash he claimed upon Rune's flesh was a mark to show he owned her. Each retaliation was something she could neither stop or remember. It looked for a moment as if the women were going to win. Vykin was bleeding badly from several arrows, magic slices, and whip marks upon his flesh. The black blood oozed into the very pores of the plants and grass around and beneath him. With a twist of the nether he held Lucy, trapping her within a containment of shadow that had long ago been forgotten, it wasn't harming her but she wasn't going anywhere either. " Let her go Vykin. " Rune, her voice no longer sounded her own, more feral. More tempting it left her vocal chords, eyes of the coldest red stared at the man that dared touch someone she cared for. " No puppet I think this is what I'd call check and mate.. You will come with me now or suffer the consequences of those actions. " She couldn't chance Lucy, no she just couldn't. " Let her go first, send her back to the inne or to my cottage. This has nothing to do with her. " He gave her a droll look. " And who's to say when I do that, that you will go quietly?" Rune looked up towards him. " Are you so much a coward you cannot fight me alone?" Upon the taunt Lucy was hurtled through the void to Rune's cottage which wasn't that far from the battle itself.. Now it was just the pair or at least it was just the pair for a little while.
Rune dropped her weapons when she saw Lucy safely away. His pride has been his undoing and now he had no leverage. Rune knew that tonight someone was going to die and she had accepted that, that someone might be her. Trudging further into the clearing she felt her feet sink into the black sludge that was his blood. She felt the fetid breath of his upon her temple. Lifting her hand as if to embrace him she grabbed the talisman that held a piece of her soul. Wrenching it away before he could stop her. Using all of her might, everything that she had within her she shot a burst of magic into the hull of the talisman and the world started to bleed red. Vykin screeched angrily, but she didn't care... All Rune could see was herself sinking, falling back into the black abyss that awaited her with open arms. So this is what it feels like to die.. She thought idly to herself as her boy thudded to the ground, blood covered her flesh, curling around to pull her beneath the soil as her soul sought to reconnect with the rest of it's ethereal essence within her form. Vykin paced angrily back and forth across the path just above where she had disappeared, his anger almost maleable in it's essence.
There had been nothing, and then there had been everything. Runic wasn't sure of how long it took before she arose from that grounds keep, but reality it had only been moments. She heard an intake of breath as her body rose from the shallows of blood, each step she took up that onyx blooded staircase drawing her from the very core of evil that had seeped into the land. Her smile pressed those dimples into her cheeks, now unmarred by the imperfections of her scar. Looking at the mere daemon that stood before her brought disgust into those hues. One a solid red, the other a gold so brilliant it rivaled that of most canines. Her runes glowed brightly, casting lights of red upon the shadows that danced, reaching for their mistress. Power thrummed within her, expelling and crackling in the air as she lifted her hand, black nails curled inwards towards her palm and he would be lifted into the air. " You dare try to claim what is not yours?" Her laughter spilled from crimson stained lips, as ringlets bounced with the mirthless sound. " I am no-ones puppet, especially not yours. " With something akin to a growl her other hand lifted, shooting outwards to smash between his ribs. She didn't go for the heart however, but the husk that had once held his soul, ripping outwards she shot all of that power straight into him and tore his body asunder, ripping away the mortal coil only to expose the daemon hiding beneath. " For your crimes I give you eternal damnation. " Leaning forward she pulled that serpentine demon to her, lips brushing his, sealing the scream from the creature with a kiss before she sunk those fangs into his neck. The poison of his blood seemed to have no effect on her as she pulled away his life force, consuming all within her path.
Lucy would find Runic, standing over a corpse and limbs of charred black, blood oozing down her chin as she held a small vial containing something of the darkest obsidian. Power rolled around the area, threatening to destroy the very nature of the place around them with it's volatile ways. Evil had not bled away from this place, only personified and found a new mistress. Her corset in tact, a skirt flowed down around her, made of living essence as the black shifted to conform to her flesh. Rune could not control the darkness, the evil as it consumed what she once was. She was more for it. Having fully embraced this part of her destiny the dhampire no longer could hide what had been growing. For a moment time seemed to stand still as the dual visioned female looked out at a sapphire beauty. For a moment she thought about calling her forward, claiming her. It was Lucy who took the first step, moving across the make shift battle field until she was infront of Rune. A hand lifted fearlessly upwards, cupping a cool porcelion cheek stained with vitae. " Come back to me Rune.. I know you can do it. " There was another harsh moment when Rune wasn't sure she could. Had she been lost forever? Slowly though it receeded, blue bled back into her vision and Runic while she didn't look the same anymore she had a more defined type of beauty to her. A more deadly type of grace exuded from her. Lucy was one of two that could rein her in. A perfect puzzle fitting together. " It will never be the same. " She murmured, finally releasing the power that she had called forth. Her body shuddered and she collapsed against Lucy trustingly. Lucy took the vial of Vykin away from Rune, helping support the other woman she teleported them to somewhere safe. Somewhere Rune could heal from the new power and the new darkness that no longer threatened to consume her, but had rebirthed her.
While Rune healed and became more accustomed to the new her, Lucy traveled to the guild and made sure that Vykin would never return, that he would indeed live the rest of his immortal days in the pits of the hells. Logen helped rein in the backlash of what she had become and Lucy soothed away the aftermath as best she could. Something had changed that night and nothing... Nothing would ever be like it was.
Runic had been feeling the darkness more and more since her last run in with Vykin. After biting him and drinking his poisoned blood it had been a root of evil that had lingered. No matter that she had been healed and Logen had fed her something had been off. Lucienne had been there though, caring for the woman when she couldn't care for herself. Waking with her when the dreams turned to nightmares and screams filled their room. Tonight was no different. Lucy had shook her gently. " Wake up Rune, it's just a bad dream. " Rune heard her, but she was trapped in the never ending cycle of her torture. Thrashing and tossing, sweat beaded along flesh that was far to pale, even for Rune. Those black and crimson curls seemed to stick to the dewy substance. Not this again. Once more she was trapped in an infernal prison, bound by chains as Vykin ravished and consumed her soul. " Noooo" She screamed out, causing Lucy to jump a bit beside her. " RUNE!" She gave a firm shout finally drawing Rune from her nightmarish slumber. " Hm?" Peering towards Lucy with sleep terrorized hues she tried to fight her mind free of the darkened fog. " I'm so sorry.. " She murmured when she saw the blatant worry etched across the blue haired beauties face. Her hand rose, not worrying about the memories that filtered between them any longer. They had been together long enough that the flow of information from one to the other was shared. Something that didn't cause stress or anguish any longer. It still shocked her and stunned her, but only for a moment. No that palm cupped against the other woman's cheek, thumb gently caressing against soft lips. " How bad was it this time?" Lucy smiled, leaning in to kiss Rune's lips gently, taking more as the other woman to deepened her own kiss. Sighing the women pulled away. " About the same as normal. It is time we do something Rune. You aren't eating or sleeping hardly. You always seem to be in a nightmare when you do sleep. He's eating you away from the inside out. " Rune nodded, she knew that Lucy was right. That something had to be done. Her dream had been different this time... More complex than the other, more meaningful. " I think I know where he is holed up at though. I remember seeing the place when I was out camping one night out by Pincer Lake. " The girls conversed some more in length of their plan after that. Rising and dressing as they did every day, though tonight.. There was a finality to what they were doing. A greater purpose on the horizon. Standing before Lucy she grabbed her hands, giving them a gentle squeeze. " Just know that you have a piece of my heart Lucy and no matter what.. No matter what happens. We will come out of this alright. " She gave a brave smile even when her heart hammered in her throat. It was time to take her fate by the horns and ride with it into the sunset or into hell if that be the case, but the mental torture. The lingering of the male that should have stayed dead... It was going to end tonight. One way or another.
In a clearing that was nestled deep within the woods behind Pincer Lake that Vykin lay in wait. He had so many plans for his unwilling bride. Her insufferable ways had granted him enough rage that he was sure he'd enjoy eons of time torturing her into submission. His power had dwindled slightly when that little gnome had cast him from his other body, but with the new body bag in place he was regaining what little control he had lost. " And to think, she has no idea that she too has become a target. I'm sure one of my little minions needs a new chew toy. " This muttered to himself as he paced. As always he was weaving into his little bride's nightmares, using the piece of her soul he carried in the talisman around his neck it had become quite easy to touch upon her subconscious and force her into submission when she was at her weakest. Her girl toy had proven to be a bother as had that male that hadn't taken his offer to help him be rid of her. He knew the exact moment the women struck out to find him. The exact moment that fate started writing upon it's loom.
Rune and Lucy doned weapons and gear not sure what it was they were walking into, but this was something Rune needed to do. She implored upon Lucy one more time to stay behind. To stay safe, but the woman wasn't hearing any of it so with that being said they had made the trip. Teleporting as close as they dare without actually dropping into the gods only knew what. Stopping Rune looked over one last time. " Promise me Lucy.. If it seems like I am not going to make it you will leave. Go find Logen and stay safe because the moment he sees you, you too will become a target, if only because I care for you " Lucy had been hard pressed to agree and she probably wouldn't have if Rune hadn't gotten that stubborn set to her jaw, refusing to budge if the other woman didn't promise her. With promises given and met out the women traversed forward into the den of darkness. The trees and land itself seemed to weep from the evil that tainted it's grounds. Unnatural shadows danced along, quivering in a sort of anticipation upon the battle that was to ensue. Vykin stood waiting for the black haired beauty, his eyes only widening slightly at the sight of the blue haired vixen at her side. " I see that you have brought another toy.. This one will be as fun to have in my collection as the gnome will be. Tell me girl have you not learned already that everything you love and cherish is fated to die because of you? " His laughter danced out maliciously, inklings of a touch of darkness smoothing across the air to rape their senses. Rune swayed against Lucy at the call, but only for a moment. Shoulder's square she looked the devil in his eyes, smiled to the point it looked more angry than happy. " There will be only one death this night and it shall not be myself or my companions. I have lived beneath your thumb for to long. It is time you foul beast for you to go back to hell and stay there. "
Rune didn't wait for him to say anything else. She jerked that bow at that, letting loose the first arrow as she marched forward. It came to face with a shield that knocked it back towards her.. Lucy's water could be seen rolling in. The night was painted red as magic versed against magic, wills were put to the test. Each lash he claimed upon Rune's flesh was a mark to show he owned her. Each retaliation was something she could neither stop or remember. It looked for a moment as if the women were going to win. Vykin was bleeding badly from several arrows, magic slices, and whip marks upon his flesh. The black blood oozed into the very pores of the plants and grass around and beneath him. With a twist of the nether he held Lucy, trapping her within a containment of shadow that had long ago been forgotten, it wasn't harming her but she wasn't going anywhere either. " Let her go Vykin. " Rune, her voice no longer sounded her own, more feral. More tempting it left her vocal chords, eyes of the coldest red stared at the man that dared touch someone she cared for. " No puppet I think this is what I'd call check and mate.. You will come with me now or suffer the consequences of those actions. " She couldn't chance Lucy, no she just couldn't. " Let her go first, send her back to the inne or to my cottage. This has nothing to do with her. " He gave her a droll look. " And who's to say when I do that, that you will go quietly?" Rune looked up towards him. " Are you so much a coward you cannot fight me alone?" Upon the taunt Lucy was hurtled through the void to Rune's cottage which wasn't that far from the battle itself.. Now it was just the pair or at least it was just the pair for a little while.
Rune dropped her weapons when she saw Lucy safely away. His pride has been his undoing and now he had no leverage. Rune knew that tonight someone was going to die and she had accepted that, that someone might be her. Trudging further into the clearing she felt her feet sink into the black sludge that was his blood. She felt the fetid breath of his upon her temple. Lifting her hand as if to embrace him she grabbed the talisman that held a piece of her soul. Wrenching it away before he could stop her. Using all of her might, everything that she had within her she shot a burst of magic into the hull of the talisman and the world started to bleed red. Vykin screeched angrily, but she didn't care... All Rune could see was herself sinking, falling back into the black abyss that awaited her with open arms. So this is what it feels like to die.. She thought idly to herself as her boy thudded to the ground, blood covered her flesh, curling around to pull her beneath the soil as her soul sought to reconnect with the rest of it's ethereal essence within her form. Vykin paced angrily back and forth across the path just above where she had disappeared, his anger almost maleable in it's essence.
There had been nothing, and then there had been everything. Runic wasn't sure of how long it took before she arose from that grounds keep, but reality it had only been moments. She heard an intake of breath as her body rose from the shallows of blood, each step she took up that onyx blooded staircase drawing her from the very core of evil that had seeped into the land. Her smile pressed those dimples into her cheeks, now unmarred by the imperfections of her scar. Looking at the mere daemon that stood before her brought disgust into those hues. One a solid red, the other a gold so brilliant it rivaled that of most canines. Her runes glowed brightly, casting lights of red upon the shadows that danced, reaching for their mistress. Power thrummed within her, expelling and crackling in the air as she lifted her hand, black nails curled inwards towards her palm and he would be lifted into the air. " You dare try to claim what is not yours?" Her laughter spilled from crimson stained lips, as ringlets bounced with the mirthless sound. " I am no-ones puppet, especially not yours. " With something akin to a growl her other hand lifted, shooting outwards to smash between his ribs. She didn't go for the heart however, but the husk that had once held his soul, ripping outwards she shot all of that power straight into him and tore his body asunder, ripping away the mortal coil only to expose the daemon hiding beneath. " For your crimes I give you eternal damnation. " Leaning forward she pulled that serpentine demon to her, lips brushing his, sealing the scream from the creature with a kiss before she sunk those fangs into his neck. The poison of his blood seemed to have no effect on her as she pulled away his life force, consuming all within her path.
Lucy would find Runic, standing over a corpse and limbs of charred black, blood oozing down her chin as she held a small vial containing something of the darkest obsidian. Power rolled around the area, threatening to destroy the very nature of the place around them with it's volatile ways. Evil had not bled away from this place, only personified and found a new mistress. Her corset in tact, a skirt flowed down around her, made of living essence as the black shifted to conform to her flesh. Rune could not control the darkness, the evil as it consumed what she once was. She was more for it. Having fully embraced this part of her destiny the dhampire no longer could hide what had been growing. For a moment time seemed to stand still as the dual visioned female looked out at a sapphire beauty. For a moment she thought about calling her forward, claiming her. It was Lucy who took the first step, moving across the make shift battle field until she was infront of Rune. A hand lifted fearlessly upwards, cupping a cool porcelion cheek stained with vitae. " Come back to me Rune.. I know you can do it. " There was another harsh moment when Rune wasn't sure she could. Had she been lost forever? Slowly though it receeded, blue bled back into her vision and Runic while she didn't look the same anymore she had a more defined type of beauty to her. A more deadly type of grace exuded from her. Lucy was one of two that could rein her in. A perfect puzzle fitting together. " It will never be the same. " She murmured, finally releasing the power that she had called forth. Her body shuddered and she collapsed against Lucy trustingly. Lucy took the vial of Vykin away from Rune, helping support the other woman she teleported them to somewhere safe. Somewhere Rune could heal from the new power and the new darkness that no longer threatened to consume her, but had rebirthed her.
While Rune healed and became more accustomed to the new her, Lucy traveled to the guild and made sure that Vykin would never return, that he would indeed live the rest of his immortal days in the pits of the hells. Logen helped rein in the backlash of what she had become and Lucy soothed away the aftermath as best she could. Something had changed that night and nothing... Nothing would ever be like it was.
