Zeure
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Post by Zeure on Feb 2, 2012 4:33:10 GMT -5
He laughed weakly. "No, sadly... I can't. I don't have my scrolls... And I only ever learned how to do three spells without the scrolls. None of them are helpful here. I should have been a better student... I should have done a lot of things. I could..." *He shook his head* "No, I couldn't. If I did that it would only make it worse. I'd only get tainted faster...."
He was, of course, speaking of using Maho. Maho was not something on scrolls and it was not purely prayer. Of course he would be able to use that here, but he was right. No matter how you used it, Maho always left you a little further in Jigoku's caress.
"But...but.... I'm not going to *cough* die here in your arms. In these arms. Unbind my hands, dearest. Can you undo the knots that are tied on me? If I can get a hand free maybe I can... it seems like it is our only option..."
Haruka knew, this is how they planned on getting Yun. Forcing him to use the forbidden arts that he had long since taken advantage of. They were probably waiting on him to do so, then they would burst in and stop them from escaping.
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 2, 2012 4:38:34 GMT -5
Haruka maneuvered around Yun, and sure enough her hands were able to dig through the knots of the bindings. Quickly the slipping rope yielded the pressure on Yun's hands and legs and he was freed. However she didn't seem to move very much at all, refraining from showing the injuries to her leg off and to the fact that the collar bound her in place. Once she was finished she simply sat back down in the same place she was before. The way she did so almost looked like she was a defeated foe though, her head sinking as she sucked in a deep breath.
"I'm sorry to have asked that of you Yun. I would never want you to pull yourself further into darkness. Forget I ever asked."
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Post by Zeure on Feb 2, 2012 4:49:40 GMT -5
Yun gripped his own wrists trying to assert feeling back into them from where the ropes had been slowing his circulation. He looked at Haruka's neck for a moment trying to ascertain how the collar worked. Unfortunately for him, it was not something he could undo. It was locked, and needed a key.
"Damn it. I can't do anything to this. Oh if only I had my spell scrolls... There is a simple enough spell that opens locks..."
He looked at her and he saw the defeat in her eyes and in her posture. It was agonizing for him, Haruka could see that in his face. He wanted her to be free.
"I mean, if I had a rock I could try and smash the chains... well... honestly... I could let you smash the chains, as you'd probably be able to do it better than I could. Though.... there is that spell that erodes metal...but...again it's..."
It hung there in the silence. He wrapped an arm around her and rested his forehead against hers much as they had done moments ago.
"What to do now.... Just wait, I guess..."
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 2, 2012 4:57:57 GMT -5
"You've already lost enough blood, if you lose any more just to free me you won't be strong enough to survive even if we did escape."
The defeat was starting to sink in now since Haruka saw no other way out of the situation as it was. She could practically feel the frustration boiling up inside Yun, but the reality was still something she was unwilling to do.
"I just don't know what else to do. We're damned if we do and damned if we don't. I can simply hope that at some point they'll become relaxed, maybe content that they've won, and that's when we'll be able to risk it.
For now we can only wait and persevere. But if you don't feel like you can take it another minute... I'll give you my blood so you might have the strength to escape. ..That's the only thing that matters to me now."
Her words didn't echo any other part of her form. While her mind and words breathed a forsaken hope into the air, she simply slumped, unable to even draw enough strength to reach up and reassure Yun with a caress of her arm. Her tone was genuine but it was all to clear how she felt. Haruka's words died off then as she started to go a bit limp from her weakened spirit.
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Post by Zeure on Feb 2, 2012 5:27:46 GMT -5
Yun looked at Haruka hard for a moment as she said that. Like herself, he had not had anything to eat since much earlier the day of the abduction. And in fact when they were taken, they were just about to cook dinner for themselves. He had that look cross his face where he appeared to be starving.
"You would do that for me?"
He was already leaning against her, and the thought was quite appealing to him for various reasons. Not the least of which is that he had not tasted her yet. He had in a dream, but such things are never the truth, one could never be sure. There was something in him that yearned for it, part of the curse he bore. But ultimately, he shook his head.
"No, even with it, I could never leave you here and I still would not be strong enough to escape on my own. So you will conserve your strength and I will conserve mine. And we shall see what the coming days bring us. Maybe they will get stupid... That Rashiru woman is mad...."
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 2, 2012 5:33:42 GMT -5
"I simply hope you're not letting your emotions get the best of you Yun. Please, remember my offer. I would consider it my greatest honor to give you the strength you need as my last act in this life."
Haruka rested her eyes again with a sigh. For now all she could do was conserve her strength, no amount of fighting no amount of sorrow would change what was. It took a lot of courage to see it that way, but it was the only way she could see it now. Weakness, failure, and submission to the darkness was not an option.
For now she rested with Yun holding onto her, she pulled enough of herself together to wrap an arm around him in return. Haruka kept her eyes closed and tried her best to help keep him warm, to give any sense of sanity in this prison they were trapped in until the next time their captors would come.
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Post by Zeure on Feb 2, 2012 5:43:40 GMT -5
Barely ten minutes later, they did come. It was the same two brutes that were with Rashiru earlier, a new third one, and Rashiru herself.
"Oh, now, see, that is what I was telling you, my dears. One of them tied up is not good enough, you must get both. Take him down... again."
Yun stood up, it appeared to Haruka that he became filled with a righteous anger, something primal and viscious that said "though I have no weapon, I will fight".
"You'll not get my Haruka!"
The brutes descended upon him, he really was no match for any of them physically, and with three of them... He was quickly subdued. One of them held him in place while the other two moved over to Haruka. One of them lifted a key and unlocked the collar while the other made a grab for her arm.
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 2, 2012 5:50:44 GMT -5
Haruka merely grunted, again not resisting as the man-beast-things seized her. They'd get no chance to relish in her squirming so she came along obediently again. But as she was taken away once again she just spoke calmly back to Yun.
"Remember what I said, if nothing else."
With that she simply went along with them onto whatever horrors they wished to unleash upon her next. Her leg was injured enough that it was unpleasant to walk, but not impossible, however the movement agitated her to bleed again.
While they were walking though, Haruka looked at Rashiru instead of turning away. Her eyes studied the tainted woman's features, searching for anything recognizable. Otherwise she just glanced around to see if there were any means of escape. Unlike Yun, Haruka was not bound to him in any sense. She believed if she saw a way to get out he'd want her to take it.
Besides only then could I return with a force great enough to save you.
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Post by Zeure on Feb 2, 2012 18:53:02 GMT -5
Rashiru seemed lost in thought, she was not even remotely paying attention to Haruka as she just assumed her pets had her. The walkway, now that Haruka was trying to pay attention was just a hallway that led from the cell that they had been locked in. As they rounded the first corner she saw a few doors that they had not entered and that she had missed before when they were dragging her back. There were no holes in the door to look into the rooms, so she could not see the content. Then they rounded the second corner, and she saw four more doors arranged two on each wall, and the farthest one on the left had been the one she occupied previously. Directly ahead of her there was a fifth door, which was probably the way out of this place. She was taken to the closest door on the right. This room had no source of light in it. It also seemed entirely bare from what Haruka could see from the light that poured in through the doorway. The two guards brought Haruka in and sat her down, keeping their hands clamped around her arms. Rashiru entered after them. " Oh, you are about to have...so much fun. I earnestly wish I could be here to see it, but... it just doesn't work when someone else is in the room..." It was a sudden flash of movement that caught Haruka off guard, with more speed than you would expect, one of the pets grabbed Haruka's face along the jaw line and pulled her mouth open. She began to struggle, not knowing what was about to happen, but they were so strong. Rashiru produced a small vial of something from her obi and poured it into Haruka's mouth, which the guard then clamped shut and put his hand over. Rashiru gently rubbed Haruka's throat to help the liquid be forced down. " Shhhhh, shhh, it's ok. Shhh, it's ok. It'll all be find in a minute. Don't you worry. I'm so excited for you." As soon as they felt sure that the liquid was down her throat, they abruptly dropped all hold on her and they all backed up to the doorway. Rashiru exited first, but she called back from outside the room. " No one makes fear better than themselves upon themselves." With that, they shut the door and Haruka could hear the several sounds that indicated a well fortified door. Haruka found herself alone in the room, with no light and nothing in it. [OOC] Try and get in touch with me before you post, hun, I have thoughts...and soon you will too. [/OOC]
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 2, 2012 22:52:47 GMT -5
At first the trauma of being forced to indulge the whims of the tainted beings around her made her want to purge her system and her senses. But she found herself unable to vomit, Haruka had started to feel around in the darkness but found nothing but the solid impersonal walls when suddenly her vision started to feel strange in spite of the unlit environment.
Grappling onto her head Haruka did her best to control the spin she felt like she was going into, with a dull and awkward thud she fell back onto the floor losing her balance as her senses started to twist like never before.
There were footsteps, though it felt faint at first, Haruka felt the urge to pick herself up. "Wh-who's there!?" Her fingers felt the ground beneath her, somehow she could feel the twisted earth melding in her fingers. Looking around her vision started to come to and she was well in the open but in the most unsavory of places, left out in the open of the Shadowlands. Unable to determine which way to go she felt helpless and exposed when she started to hear the snarls and calls of the most unholy creatures now having picked up her scent, her fear.
Haruka started to run, but she only seemed to pain herself not realizing she was just slamming into the walls of her dark cage. Clawing and scratching at the ground to regain her balance she dug her fingers into stone and bloodied her digits in the process.
Run.
A voice pierced the void of it all making her freeze in terror. Turning back to face where she thought it came from she screamed back. "Who are you!? What do you want with ME!?" A thundering rolling laugh started to echo as the shadowy mist started to swirl and collect forming into a body she knew all too well by now.
Shoju stood before her with a sick grin on his face, "I have you right where I want you little Haruka. By the time we're through with you, you'll be begging for death... And you should already know by now, there is no death for those that fall in the Shadowlands!" He cackled a bit but simply stood there. "A perfect fate for such a wretched woman. You gave me happiness and you took it away, now I will consume your soul for it."
Haruka screamed back at him to silence his tone, unable to tolerate the insult to her deepest desires. "Shoju! I only ever wanted to help I only..!"
But the vision tutted back at her, his head tilting as he looked past her with a continued smile. "And no better a soul to send you to your new fate as a vassal of Jigoku. Oh you will make a fine thrall." Haruka shook as the sound of more footsteps came, but they changed into hoof beats once she strained to listen. Her heart started to pound as she forced herself to turn. Breaking through the mist was a horse and rider, Shoju gave the clarification Haruka needed. "Perfect timing as always, Senshi. Are you ready to dispose of the filth your clan has endured since you first laid eyes on this woman?"
The rider stopped at a decent distance, and as he approached the colors of Senshi's armor and form started to cement. His blonde hair swishing along with his movement and the frigid breeze. Haruka was absolutely paralyzed, scrambling back as Senshi continued to stomp towards her with that fiery determined look in his eyes. But hitting a point she felt she couldn't crawl any further back, and the feeling of being trapped set into her mind once again.
She watched helplessly as Senshi drew out his favorite blade that showed his station as champion, the legendary Churetsu, and approached without ever stopping, without hesitation. Shoju seemed disappointed though at Senshi's silence. "Come now, surely you have some parting words for the woman you gave your heart to?"
Senshi continued until he was standing over Haruka's trembling form. No matter how she scrambled it didn't seem to matter. Her desire to flee from him only seemed to irritate him, though she couldn't see his emotion past his mask, only his ever burning eyes as he slammed a kick to pin Haruka down by her stomach. She cried out in agony, crying, becoming hysterical, losing herself in the emotion. With no change in his gaze, he stared into her as he lifted Churetsu aloft with his remaining arm and whispered to her.
"I never could love a beast, die and join the rest of your kind."
And with that his blade fell, Haruka lost herself to the screams, her throat went hoarse and all went dark.
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Zeure
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Post by Zeure on Feb 3, 2012 0:47:39 GMT -5
Haruka was bobbing and weaving suddenly. She could feel the motion, but was not aware of the source at all. It finally occured to her that she should open her eyes, and eventually she did. As her eyes blearily opened she could see a vague figure looking ahead of itself and somehow she was connected to it. Her vision began to clear and she could see that it was Yun. As all of her senses began to focus she realizes that he is carrying her.
"I told her not to go off on her own.... I knew they would come for her.... I told her.... Kami, please let it have worked...."
He continued to walk forward, trying to take her somewhere. She realized that she was very wet, bleeding, she was bleeding badly. It looked like Yun had scrapped some fabric to make some bandages for her, but the wound was severe. Churetsu bit deeply when it cut. Yun noticed her twitching and saw that she was awake. He looked down at her and he smiled elatedly.
"Haruka, you're awake. Don't move a lot. I'm trying to get you somewhere that I can help you, but you've been alone in the shadowlands for who knows how long...."
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 3, 2012 0:59:09 GMT -5
Haruka attempted to move but found herself unable to, her entire form was just ripped to shreds, but her eyes saw the vast amounts of blood. Her eyes kept crying but her tears were blood. Whimpering she just laid helplessly in Yun's arms.
"Senshi... Shoju... they all... they came... I."
Her breath was fatigued and her vision was weakening significantly. Her blood was far darker than she remembered, and she could swear that there was someone following them. Shaking her head back and forth she saw that there was nothing.
"Yun please... what have I done... what can I do... Just let me die, I beg you. Take my blood... and... run."
Haruka found herself fading time and again, always awakening to look up at Yun.
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Post by Zeure on Feb 3, 2012 1:23:16 GMT -5
"Not a chance. Though I may have to... do things.... I'm getting a lot more comfortable with the idea..."
He kept walking forward, ignoring her protests, ignoring the common sense and better judgment. Which tended to happen when one deeply cared for another. It was about that time that Haruka realized that Yun's eyes were burning green. They looked vibrant, as if something were making them stand out even more so than they usually did. The thought occurred to her that the fact that they were green was a symbol of his affliction, and the fact that they were stronger in that color....was he getting more tainted? Perhaps at an accelerated rate.
And what had he meant when he said "I pray that it works"? Her mind was wandering in this way when Yun stopped moving forward. He was looking over his shoulder and he moved down to one knee. He sat Haruka down on the ground gently and turned to face away from her.
"Haruka, you wait here, I'll take care of them..." She could see him cut open his arm and he began shouting in an incoherent way at the approaching goblins as it seemed that he was using maho to defend her.
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Post by Bayushi Haruka on Feb 3, 2012 1:41:29 GMT -5
Haruka looked on in horror. "No, kami damn it all! No you can't do this Yun, I won't let you!"
Painfully she pulled herself over, crawling slowly with a trail of blood with every move she made practically feeding the pulsing dark earth beneath them. Her fingers dug into his leg as she tried to pull herself up to him.
Her bloody tears continued to stream down as she gripped onto him. "Just let it end Yun... stop the suffering, stop the struggling... there is no point!" What strength she had left kept her clinging to him, otherwise she was as limp as a rag doll. "Let them come, or I will go to them. I will not fight anymore... let it end, if only that I may lose myself and forget this life.. Please, Yun.." With that she gave her last ounce of strength as her fingers gave way and she slammed face first into the ground. Her eyes were the only thing that remained open as she was powerless to act. Barely breathing all she could do was bear witness.
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Post by Zeure on Feb 3, 2012 1:53:57 GMT -5
Yun held his hands outstretched away from him facing the goblins, and the very earth seemed to rise up at his chanting command. A wave of fire and earth moved away from him towards the goblins, and all they could do was scream and try to get out of the way as the force of the spell and the fire that it produced began to bash, tear, or burn them to death.
"Oooohh, why did I ever stop..." Yun said this in a tone just above a whisper, but it was all too clear to Haruka. Yun raised his arm up that he had cut into and licked the wound. He rubbed the blood across both hands and then held them out again. This time he was picking off survivors of his rigorous assault and the blood lashed out for him, literally forming projectiles from his own blood to kill those left over. There was something oddly fascinating about it to Haruka. Even though he was bleeding to pull this off, it didn't seem to phase him as much as it should.
"STAY BACK! If any of you are left, you may run now! But if you take another step towards her, then I will finish each and every one of you off!"
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