Return Of the Blight

Stephen smirked as he was challenged to keep a count of how many Darkspawn they killed and let out a chuckle as the two elves rushed off to compete with each other. "nah, I'm good" Stephen muttered, his mood had been significantly lightened. he began the long walk to the Circle of the Magi, he knew it would be long and filled with Darkspawn. but off he went, Glancing back over his shoulder to see if Ascalon would be joining them, never stopping in his forward motion.

Stephen had a smirk under his helmet as he strode in his usual manor, he left his sword sheathed and knew that the other two would take down any Darkspawn that approached on the hike, he knew that he wouldn't have to worry as the others were skilled with their weapons.
 
Luca laughed at the hyper elf's comment and run ahead to catch up with her. Tightening her senses to try and locate the darkspawn and looking around herself for stragglers, she walked in step with Dessa and began conversation. "You're really good at fighting, i thought you were gone when that axe came down, filthy darkspawn haha," she laughed. "Gotta teach them a lesson," she gripped her weapons tight.
 
"You felt well for one so young, in my tribe we train alot for fighting" Dessa said forgetting herself. "Well we did train alot" She added sadly. "But that is a story for another time, we shall teach the darkspawn a lesson, and here is our chance!" She exclaimed pointing with her left sword 'KAZE' at two groups of around 10 hurlocks one of which was heading for the two elves the other group had broken off to fight the two shemlen that were still on the main path to the tower.
 
"As did i in my clan, i was also training to be-" Luca was cut off as an arrow came hurtling down next to her. "Not good aim these guys eh?" she laughed and set off towards the single darkspawn, drawing her twin blades and holding them in the shape of scissors. Luca paced herself and tried to remember one of the styles she was taught, though she couldnt remember the name of it. She knelt low, getting ready to pounce and readied her weapons.
 
Stephen continued down the path, as the other two other wardens were charging around killing darkspawn. Stephen noticed as Hurlock alpha jumped out from a bush behind him and charged towards him, wielding a greatsword, as the Alpha swung the sword in a downwards verticle arc towards Stephen who spun and blocked the attack with his shield, smiling "awww, bless you" Stephen announced as the Alpha swung at him again, Stephen dropped to one knee, causing the blade to miss his head by around three inches.

flicking back to his feet Stephen stood looking the clearly angry Alpha in the eye, the Alpha lunged at Stephen blade first, Stephen spun avoiding the attack, he also grabbed the hilt of his own blade and slid it up into the Alpha's stomach causing it to grab his stomach and fall to it's knee's, Stephen slid the blade back into it's sheath without fully removing it.

he then grabbed the Alpha's head and twisted it very hard 180 degrees and giving off a loud snap. when Stephen released the Hurlock Alpha it hit the ground dead. causing Stephen to smile under his helmet. "to easy" Stephen muttered as he returned to his previous direction.

Killing Darkspawn is what he did best, be it in large amounts with quick kills and precise blows, when it was just one on one he took his time, and enjoyed the kill.
 
Dessa saw her own techniques being almost mirrored in the younger elf. As the young elf ducked down She used her as a platform to launch an aerial slash at the darkspawn that were in the vicinity and within reach of her blades. "Come on then scum" she said almost dancing and spinning around the monsters laughing at their futile attempts to strike her. Every now and then she would strike out at a darkspawn mortally wounding it but purposely not killing any yet, this was her game now and she never lost
 
OOC: I think there has been enough fighting for this journey, it would seem all we have done over the past page or so is fight, and so, this is it for Darkspawn until we reach the Tower of the Magi, but don't worry there will be plenty of Darkspawn to kill in there.

IC: as Stephen strode through the piles of bodies on the floor, he gave a finishing stomp to any that were left alive, he look at the others and smiled "I think thats it for Darkspawn, we shall move on now" he announced striding off in the direction of the Tower of the magi.

OOC: sorry it is a short one.
 
((ooc: i can understand you did it for the purpose of moving the rp on, i also felt it was going on a little too much but i am merely doing it to increase my characters realisation of sapphi's fighting style, anyway moving on))

"I was going to kill them you know" She said with a sarcastic sad face. "Anyway why arent you joining in the competition, frightened that the elves would beat you in a test of skill?" She said jokingly, She decided to get something off her chest "Hey listen, i want to know why you were so short with me earlier? i mean we are on the same side after all!" she realised the forwardness of her statement "You dont have to tell me the real reason just give me any reason so i can put it in my head that you dont just hate me" Dessa may seem it but she is actually alot softer inside than she lets on to anyone who knows her.

She thought back over her life growing up with the taint, how she never had anyone to talk to and remembered the stories of the blood dragon knight and how she aspuired to one day meet them, it seemed that the saying 'never meet your heroes' rang true but dessa felt that there had been something more to it, She understood ascalons hatred of the elves but one as great as the blood dragon knight would surely not be so biased.
 
Stephen stopped in his tracks as he was asked why he was short with Dessa. Stephen looked in the opposite direction to Dessa as he though momentarily "well your going to find out anyway" he muttered before turning to face her completely.

Removing his helmet, Stephen's face was shown completely, "the rumours of the Darkspawn at the tower of the Magi, are understated somewhat, from what i have told you, yes i informed you that there are several Mages who have been taken Hostage, but that isn't the whole story" Stephen Explained, a look of disgust in his eyes "their co-ordinated and a last week i found out why, the Darkspawn at the tower are a sort of A-team, chosen by the Archdemon itself, he has a few of these factions under his control" Stephen continued to explain, the situation looking more bleak as he went on.

"the Fact of the matter is, there are over 100 Darkspawn currently inside the magi tower, and all of them can speak" Stephen announced as he tightened his grip on his helmet "they have drank the blood of Grey Warden's, and now they speak Shem, they take orders and follow them, they speak to make more co-ordinated strikes, it's horrific, Abominations" Stephen announced

"and they have her" Stephen muttered as he slid his helmet back on, before moving on, at an increased rate.
 
"Aha!" she said quietly so as not to draw the attention of the other two in case stephen wanted her to keep queit about the situation "So you have girl trouble, Well no matter im sure we can rescue her, ive been killing darkspawn for a while now, it will be interesting to understand what they say before they die instead of that grunting speech they usually have" Despite joking around Dessa knew how serious their situation was, 100 darkspawn that were more intelligent than the others, it was very grave indeed, but the person Dessa was that just made her try harder to lift everyones spirits
 
Stephen stopped again when Dessa mentioned he had Girl problems "who said she is a girl?" Stephen asked as he returned to walking, he knew what he was doing, well he hoped he did anyway.

as Stephen crossed the next hill he saw it, the Tower of the Magi, the spoiled princess was small next to it, but it was in view, "we are nearly there guys" Stephen announced to the other two, it would only take a while from where they were, but Stephen was always cautious of Darkspawn ambushes.
 
Luca laughed at the childish arguments of Stephen and Dessa quietly then set back into her quiet daze, thinking about her and Dessa's fighting styles. It seemed as though Dessa had coppied from her, or vice versa, 'but i learned mine in my tribe when i was Hahren to be' she thought contradictivly. She put the thought out of her mind, preparing herself as she trudged up to the tower. "Circle of Magi..." she muttered, with no intention of meaning anything.
 
Stephen Strode over to the boat master at the edge of Lake callenhad, "Warden" the man muttered with an extremely serious tone in his voice "why have you come here? we Templars have the situation under control" he added, gritting his teeth "well, you guys are incompetent enough to allow your tower and your mages to be taken by the Darkspawn, and you think because one of them talks you think you have a reason to fail?" Stephen announced firmly.

before standing next to the man "allow me in, and i shall deal with not only your Darkspawn problem, but also any blood mages that may have reasoned with this talking Darkspawn, and anyone else who believes the Wardens and the Templars were to scared to come to their aid." Stephen explained.

"so be it" the man announced "you and your companions may journey across the lake" the templar muttered before standing aside, "but once over there you will not have any support from the outside, you will be completely cut off" the templar added causing Stephen to smile "good, thats just how i like it" he announced.
 
"FUCK YOU HELLSPAWN! YOU AREN'T TAKING ME WITHOUT A FIGHT! HEEEYAH!!!"

A dagger whistled through the air as it came to cut through the neck of a darkspawn, a second one coming up to block an incoming hatchet. With an evil grin the dwarf's boot slammed upwards into the Darkspawn's groin, sending it stumbling back and allowing Karuta to stab it in the throat.

"Little bitch... Ah well. Best clean this up..."

Besides the two Karuta had killed, two others lay on the floor dead. Karuta had a reason why he was able to travel alone unbothered. Unfortunately a bad idea in this case. Note to self: never, ever, visit Mage tower without back-up. As is, he was thankful for his ability to defend himself. Bending down, he wiped the blood off of his daggers on the cloth of one of the darkspawns before sheathing them both.

"Grah... where the hell would be people to talk to... let's try this door!"

With that, Karuta proceeded to the nearest door and opened it...

Only to perform an anime sweat-drop as 6 darkspawn turned towards him.

"Oh... ah. Well, seems like my friend isn't here... you gents go back to what you were doing! Bye!"

Door slam. Karuta turning and bolting for the entrance.

"I HATE YOU MOTHER-FUCKERS!"

Roar of darkspawn behind him.

OOC: Help?
 
as Stephen got off the Boat and entered the Tower, he noticed a distinct lack of Templars "I wonder if the boat guy is aware all his friends are dead" Stephen announced snickering before he continued in the direction of the main tower, he heard a cry for help as a Dwarf ran towards him, 6 Darkspawn in toe. "pathetic" Stephen announced to himself as he strode Forwards sword in hand.

he went past the Dwarf and towards the pack of Darkspawn, Parry, slash, block, slash, and two were dead, the remaining four hesitant "come on" Stephen muttered before one charged at him, Stephen brought his right boot up and planted it in the Darkspawn's left knee buckling it backwards, then with a swing of his sword the head came from the Darkspawn's shoulders.

Stephen spun his sword around a couple of times before sheathing it "how about now?" Stephen asked as one of the remaining 3 Darkspawn charged at him, for it's efforts it got a shield to the throat, and then it's head twisted around so brutally it's neck snapped, and it fell to the floor lifeless. Stephen rotated his head almost as though he was cracking his neck.

he took a step forwards and the Darkspawn took one back, and so Stephen threw his shield at the closer on, knocking it on it's ass, before sprinting towards the second, he unsheathed his sword, and pull off some sort of spinning parry as he got close enough for the Creature to before ramming his sword into the beasts chest, causing it to spew a large mouthful of blood out.

Removing his sword from the Darkspawn he walked towards the Dwarf, picking up his shield and decapitating the final Darkspawn in one fluid motion. Sheathing his Sword Stephen looked at the dwarf "If you tell me your a Warden I'm just going to kill you" Stephen announced, clearly annoyed by the fact of this man, a possible warden had ran from Darkspawn.
 
"If you tell me your a Warden I'm just going to kill you"
"I'm not a warden, and I don't want to be one, thanks. I just got tired of fighting darkspawn and was hoping that someone would come along to help me. Never expected a Warden, though."

Karuta turned back to look at the human who had neatly dispatched the darkspawn. True, it's not a battle he would fight if he needed to... but he doubted he would need to.

"Either way, it seems I owe you one. My name's Karuta, and I'm going to guess your a warden. That aside, mind telling me who exactly you are and why your in this hell hole? If I'm stuck fighting alongside a guy, I'd like to know his intentions."

Karuta's hands dropped down to the twin daggers at his waist, gripping the hilts calmly, yet firmly. His eyes constantly wandered, watching for any doors that may open unexpectedly and pop out more bad guys.
 
Stephen smirked as the Dwarf gave his name and then asked why he was here "Wardens end the blight, which involves killing darkspawn, Darkspawn are here, so us Wardens are here to kill the Darkspawn" Stephen Explained "also there are reports of a talking Darkspawn leading them, so I'm here to figure out what the hell is going on" Stephen explained as he rested his hand on the hilt of his sword.

Stephen then began walking towards the Stairs leading to the next floor before pausing and turning around "Now where did those elves get onto?" Stephen announced rhetorically.

OOC: where are those two XD
 
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