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Topic Started: Nov 19 2008, 07:34 PM (194 Views)
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Ten years ago, City of Evil, Rath'Ghul

"Find them! I want those children now!!" A man roared, his officers quaking before running off to deliver his orders...

"Tch.... The hell are we doing out here, hunting for a pair of kids?" A soldier asked after the officer had wandered further down the line.

"Word is, these kids are master Elementalists, and the boss wants 'em. That's all I've heard while eavesdropping on the officers." His pal said as they kicked open a door, looking in the room before turning to leave, stopping as they heard a whimper. "We've found the-!" He said, cut off as the building and both soldiers went up in a column of white flame.

"Damn..." The boy said, carrying the girl on his back. "You know, if you can't fight with powers, at least be quiet..." He said, charging his legs with Earth Elemental energy, launching himself onto the roof of a house, dashing along. He moved as fast as the wind, which wasn't far from the truth, since wind elemental energy was allowing him to run far faster than a normal human should have been able to. He ducked as an arrow went over his head, running faster towards the massive wall of the city.

"You idiot! Stones or thongs! No deadly force is to be used on them!" A sergeant said, kicking the soldier off of the roof, turning as the man's head cracked open on the street. "Well?! After them you idiots!" He roared, the other soldiers dashing off after the two children.

He skidded to a stop, looking up at the wall, spitting to the side in annoyance. "Tch, I can't jump it, and the gate's a good thirty minute dash to the east... And probably heavily guarded..." He muttered, the girl squeezing his shoulders, causing him to look back. "Damn it all..." He thought out loud, dark blue lightning crackling over his left arm before the water in the air around the soldiers turned into spikes of ice. He snorted, the ice impaling them and ending their threat within a few moments, the boy turning on his heel. He looked at the wall before putting down the girl, earth energy crackling along his right arm. "Kah!" He shouted, punching the wall, blowing a tunnel through the wall. He picked the girl back up, running through the tunnel, soldiers in hot pursuit. 'Tch...' He thought to himself, slapping his hand on the inside of the tunnel as he leapt out of it, landing on the ground as the tunnel in the wall snapped shut with the soldiers inside of it. 'Hah!' He thought to himself, running off into the wilderness....

Present day, neutral village of Rarori

"Come on, I'm hungry!" She whined at him, sitting at the table with him, her crimson eyes flashing slightly.

"Yeah yeah, I only heard you the first thirty times!" He snapped back at her, his own crimson eyes flashing back. He scratched at his orange hair, his clothing stained with travel. "Tch, we'll get fed soon enough, now settle down and shut up already."

"But I've been waiting for hours..." She mumbled, her green hair hanging past her shoulders.

"Yes yes, but for pity's sake, can you be quiet? We just got here, I'd like to stay in a town for more than three hours..." He said to her, digging in his pocket for a gold piece. 'Kah, no money...' He thought to himself, breaking off a piece of the table, crushing it in his hand. He opened his hand, the gold coin shining a bit.

"You have to teach me how to do that!" She said, causing him to sigh. "What?"

"I don't particularly enjoy doing it though, but these people get all pissy if you don't pay for food first..." He muttered at her, handing the serving girl the coin, who wandered back to the kitchen to get the food. "Now, do me a favor, dearest sister, and shut up... We already don't fit in because of our eyes and hair, lets not make our talents known as well..." He said, the girl nodding a bit as they sat at the table....
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In the grim darkness of a side-street in Rarori, a claked figure walks ever closer to the twins. "It's taken me years to hunt down these two, they just don't stop moving" the figure thought to himself, his long, black, leather trenchcoat billowing in the cold northernly wind.

"Brrr...iiiit's coooold" the figure stammerred as he stepped into a small bungalo, shutting the door behind him, the figure removed his trenchcoat, underneath stood a man, he appeared to be only 26 years old, he had long brown hair and emerald green eyes, he stood at six foot two inches, and was well-toned.

The man, named Gabriel, stoked a wood-burning fireplace and lit it, using its natural warmth to heat up the house and himself. Gathering a cup of hot cocoa, the man sat down in a comfy armchair and looked outside his window. "I'll find you two, I promise that" he muttered.
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He finished his food, his ear twitching as he looked around before sighing loudly. "Another tracker..." He muttered, standing up and motioning to her to follow him, the girl hastily eating her food and following her brother out.

"Tch, never a moment's peace... Lets go, no sense in dragging innocents into our fights." He said, leading the way out of the small village, his sister following him as well.

"So, how do you know that there's a tracker in that village? Actually, how do you know whenever we're being tracked?" She asked him as they walked along the road, her crimson eyes flashing.

"They make an abnormal pulse in the flow of elemental energy to me, and its not that hard to identify them after I locate the pulse..." He said, his pointed ears twitching slightly as his crimson eyes flicked around the landscape.

"Oh... Makes sense I suppose. Though, I guess I notice it too... Like a discord of wrong notes in a musical piece, though..." She mused, her own pointed ears twitching as well. "Hey Xypher... Why do we have this power?" She asked him.

"I don't know Tera... That's part of why we're out here, to find an answer to that question." He replied.
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Gabriel watched as the twins walked away from the town, he took a deep sigh. "Those two never stopped moving, even when they were young..." he muttered, and grabbing his long coat, he ventured outside, the bitter wind pressed against his body as he put on his shoes and locked up the bungalo.

Gabriel trudged on, following the twins out of town, his black coat providing a relaitively small amount of protection against the cold winds.
"Next time, I'm going to go running after a set of twins that my wife had died giving birth to, remind me to look for them somewhere warm" he muttered to himself, following the patterns in their tracks.
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Xypher stopped, looking over his at the tracker, his crimson eyes flashing viciously. "Tch, he's persistant..." He muttered, white flames licking off of his left arm as he watched him, his orange hair standing up from the hot air that rose swiftly.

"Who is that?" Tera asked, hiding behind her brother, looking at Gabriel over his shoulder, unbothered by the flames that were licking off of his arm.

"Bugger off, before I turn you into a pile of ashes." Xypher snarled as Gabriel came within talking distance, sliding his foot backwards.
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Gabriel stood still as the two twins talked to him, smiling he walked forwards slowly, palms up. "Xypher, Tera, come, you must be cold" he said slowly and clearly, "I'll explain" he said.

Gabriel shifted his weight across his feet as he waited for the twins to make up their minds "All I can offer is a warm bed and an explanation" he said, lowering his hands.
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Xypher stepped back, the dirt road bubbling slightly. "Uh, no, you can explain here if its so blood important." He said, keeping himself between Gabriel and Tera. "Now, what's so important?"

Tera watched Gabriel, lightning crackling along her arm. "And no, we're not cold. We're quite comfortable." She added, glaring distrustfully at Gabriel.
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Gabriel lifted an item from his coat pocket, a small rod with a catch. Gabriel pressed the catch and the rod extended into a metal-like cane, he dug the metal-like cane into the ground and a big canvas opened out, giving a small shelter from the cold between the two sides.

Gabriel sat at the foot of the tent, placing his coat on the gound inside the tent. "You'd better make yourselves comfortable then, I've got a lot to tell" he said, taking a few wooden staves from another pocket of his coat and laying them in a circular position.

Muttering something under his breath, the fire lit up, gving a weak warmth in the cold wind. Gabriel stretched his body as he began his tale.

"The first things I knew when meeting your mother, was that life would never be the same again, true to my thoughts, your mother and I enjoyed the company of the other for a long time before we were attacked." Gabriel said, painting a picture with his words.

"It was a cold winter's night, the snow had piled in places, leaving few trails walkable. the thin forest provided little protection from the raging cold winds, we were sitting, safely in a warm house nearby." Gabriel explained, shifting a bit so that he would remain comfortable on the hard ground.

"Your mother and I decided to explore the forest, we had heard rumours that, should any person reach the centre glaves and make a wish, that the wish would come true, needless to say our plan did not go overall too well" Gabriel lay back, stretching his back before continuing.

"We trudged through the snow drifts, making little progress through the blizzard-like conditions, it was so heavy we could not find our way back, so we continued on, it was then that we heard piercing howls that cut across the otherwise quiet night. Wolves were on the prowl"

"We had heard rumours that these wolves protected the glades, and that the wolves were not ordinary wolves, but..." Gabriel continued until he reached this point. a gloved hand wrapped around his body, extinguishing his rudimentary camp and pulling him into the darkness.

"You'd better do as we say, or we'll kill him" a deeper, gruff voice called out to the two.
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Xypher had listened to the man, tilting his head to the side as the story was unraveled before the man was cut off, the gruff voice calling out. "Now... You see, you goddamned trackers a really beginning to piss me off!" He snarled, the area bathed in blinding light, revealing the trackers. "Let him go, and I might consider not turning you into char-broiled meat sticks." Xypher said, stepping forward.

He turned as he heard his sister scream, his crimson eyes glowing in rage.

"Haha, got your... sister... now..?" One of the trackers said, watching green and black lightning crackle over the boy's body.

Tera watched before smirking a bit. "Now you went and pissed him off..." She mumbled as she got free of the trackers, backing up slightly.

Xypher snorted as his canines grew longer, Earth and Dark elemental energy flowing into his body. He smirked before his body shifted, a blood-chilling howl ripping through the air as the orange furred creature flickered, all of the trackers screaming as they looked at their own entrails, dying from blood loss after a few moments.

The orange werewolf stalked towards the tracker that had Gabriel, shoving its muzzle into the tracker's face, its crimson eyes flashing ferally. "D-demon!" The man screamed, running away from the place as the fur of the werewolf fell off, Xypher shaking his head violently to get the last of the fur off.

"Pwah... fwur in mah mowutf..." He complained, digging a bit of fur out of his mouth and dropping it on the ground, his sister coming over and brushing fur off of his back.

"You know, whoever you are, that we have absolutely no reason to believe or trust you. We have never met our parents, or even knew who they were. How many people do you know that have crimson eyes with no pupils and orange and green hair? You certainly don't have eyes like that or hair like that." Tera said, patting her brother on the back gently. "Sorry mister, but we're alone in this world, and we have no reason to believe that our parents are still alive." She finished, her crimson eyes flashing slightly.

"Yeah... so... We're gonna go then. Nice story and all." Xypher said, turning to leave, his sister turning as well.
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As Gabriel was released from his captors grip, he backflipped, landing in front of the twins with an agile grace, on the balls of his toes. "My wife, Naomi, god rest her soul, bore the full brunt of the wolves attacks." he continued as if nothing had happenned.

"I made a wish, a wish that no matter what the outcome, we would always be together, the glave granted me that wish, it seemed as though we had stumbled upon it by pure fluke, I had passed out from wolf bites, but we did not die, when we awoke, we were back at the house" Gabriel paused to shuffle about

"Naomi had lost too much blood to remain living for very long, but she gave me one final gift before departing, you two, it seems the glaves knew Naomi wouldn't make it, so they bore us children, a boy and a girl" Gabriel said.

"In memory of Naomi's grandparents, I named them Xypher and Tera. When you were born, I knew it was the magic of the glaves that bore you, for you, as you have rightly said, bore no resembelance to myself or my wife." Gabriel finished.

"Still, you probably want to see what the wish did to me, I suppose?" he said, laughing as his eyes flashed crimson. his body contotred and stretched, becming lupine, white fur pushed its way through his body, his feet becoming paws and hands becoming half paw/hand hybrids.

A furry, white tail burst the seat of his pants, and his chest barrelled outwards, giving a toned definition to his lupine body, finally his muzzle grew in, along with his teeth being changed into razor sharp fangs, and unusually two furry wings burst from his back.

"Told you so." he said smugly.
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Xypher watched Gabriel for a bit, unamused by the transformation. He shrugged before he spoke. "Maybe you're telling the truth, maybe you're just trying to get us to drop our guard. But, while your transformation is born of a wish, mine is made possible by the use of elemental energy." Xypher said before shrugging again.

Tera looked at the wolf form of Gabriel, watching the wings for a bit before she sighed. "Look, its all well and good that you might be our dad, but what are you going to do? Stop the full force of two major political powers? We're on the run from everyone on this stupid continent. Good. Evil. Neutral. It doesn't matter, everyone only wants us because of our power." She said, patting the white wolf gently on the head. "Unless you have undeniable proof that you're our father, like knowing something about us that only we, ourselves, know, then I will just have say I don't believe you." Tera added, looking at the sky boredly.
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Gabriel enjoyed his petting, as a wolf, it was the simple pleasures that made his form easier to bear. "Well...now that you mention it, there may be something." he said, using his wings to lift him a few inches off the ground, and placing him upright, his furry tail stabilising his centre of gravity.

"On your lower backs there should be a birthmark, it is in a star-burst shape." Gabriel said "Sound right to you?"
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Xypher cocked his eyebrow at Gabriel's statement as his hand went to his mark, noticing that his sister did the same thing. "Tch... Fine, you might be our dad, but that still doesn't explain why you haven't bothered to show up until now." Xypher said, his crimson eyes flashing slightly. "We're nineteen now, soon to be twenty in a few weeks. We escaped from that hellish city, Rath'Ghul, ten years ago, almost eleven years now." He said, the memory of that night still as fresh as it was when they first escaped.

"Yes... He has a point. Why haven't you shown up? In all these years, you never once even made a passing attempt to let us know you lived." Tera said, standing next to her brother. "Why didn't you do anything at all to rescue us? Why did my brother have to get hurt to get us out of that place? Why is it, if you love us so much, that we are forced to move, place to place to place, always having to move because of Trackers, or because of our appearances?" She asked, her tone harsh and scathing, her crimson eyes flashing with harsh thoughts.
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"It's extremely hard to explain" Gabriel said, his fur keeping his body from going numb from the cold as he sat down on his haunches. "when you were young you were kidnapped, and I feared you dead, how you guys ended up in Rath'Ghul i'll never know, but I never stopped looking, I heard rumours of demons, and sorcerers, I have been following the trail for ten long years" Gabriel said, using hand motions o accompany his words.

"I found myself in Rath'Ghul, about a year after you left, or so the rumors said anyway" he explained "the rumours were that there were two demon-like sorcerers who the government waned for testing and evil wanted for mass-producing"

"It was then I realised that you had already moved on, so I followed, I eventually caught up with you in Rarori, and here I am now, explaining"
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"Tah, rumors are rumors... I was the only one to fight while we escaped that hellish place...." Xypher said, watching Gabriel intently after he had explained, drawing a circle with his hand and slapping his palm into the dirt of the road, the dirt shifting and molding itself into a perfect replica of the piece of the city they had used to escape.

"Shh, watch..." He said, the events of the twins' escape from the city being played in miniture, a mini-column of white fire erasing a building before a small figure carrying another leaped onto the roofs, dashing across them as an army of larger figures chased after them, arrows skipping around the two small figures before they came to the monstrous wall of Rath'Ghul. Xypher dispelled the magic, the moving model crumbling to dust as he stood up.

"We escaped from that hell-hole, me and Tera. Father you might be to us in blood, but for me, I have no family besides my sister. You may have a special talent, but you can't erase an entire country by yourself. We are two of a kind, and there is no one else like us in this world." Xypher said, sticking his hands into his pocket as he looked at Gabriel, his orange hair flashing slightly.

"While my brother might not show it... we're kind of glad to know we did have parents... That we just didn't spring out of the ground... But, I have to agree with him. He's the only family I know of, and he has protected me for the entire time we've been alive. And, he's the only person able to stop my temper tantrums." Tera said, smiling at Gabriel a bit before sighing. "I mean, you can come with us if you like, but its not a fun adventure..." She added, her green hair moving slightly with the breeze that blew by them.
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Gabriel shook the snow from his fur. "Xypher, you don't change much, do you?" he said, laughing slightly.

"You are right, there are only two of you, and together, there is nothing you two can't do, I would be honoured to accompany you, just knowing that I found you after all these years makes me realise that my searching was not in vain" Gabriel said.

Slowly, Gabriel got up, and using the cane from the previously demolished tent, he leaned on it, digging it into the ground. "Hopefully, in time, you will allow me back, until then, I will accompany you"
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Xypher shrugged before hissing a bit, glaring at the arrow in his shoulder. "Tch, smart ass little shit..." He snarled, black and green lightning crackling over his body before he stopped, his ears pricking a bit.

Tera yanked the arrow out of his shoulder, her hand glowing brightly as she sealed the wound up, tracing the path of the arrow before a tree half a kilometer went up in bright white flames.

Xypher sighed a bit, looking at the hole in his shirt. "Just got this fixed too..." He mumbled before turning and walking down the road, Tera following him.

"Come on then... Unless you want to be left behind?" She called over her shoulder to Gabriel, the twins walking down the road slowly.
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Back on all-fours, Gabriel followed the pair as they moved, at odd occasions sniffing at an oddly shapen leaf or stopping to take a leak. "What?" Gabriel asked, after the fourtieth time he'd stopped to sniff a peculiar coloured and shaped leaf "It's relaxing" he muttered, catching up with the two.

Night drew in and the winds died down long enough for the night to be pleasant, and the full moon, in absolute perigee (closest point to the Earth) to be seen. Gabriel lifted his muzzle to the moon and took a deep long howl that pierced the night.
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Xypher watched him howl, sighing slightly. "Done?" He asked, his orange hair taking on a milky shade from the moon's light. His crimson eyes flashed as he shifted, stretching his paws a bit as he dropped to all fours, Tera leaping onto his back. "Faster to run like this..." The werewolf said, its jaws split into a grin as he kicked off, running along the road at an easy lope, his orange fur rippling with the muscle underneath and the wind above.

Tera grinned back at Gabriel before her eyes flashed a bit. "Hurry up or we'll leave you." She shouted over the wind.
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Gabriel's eyes lit up with joy, "Yes! this is more like it, having a family again, even if its like this, it makes all my searching worthwhile" he thought, bounding along after the twins, tail wagging. when he reached them, he was carrying a stick in his mouth.

Gabriel looked up at Tera, his mouth too pre-occupied with holding the stick, that he couldn't speak, slowly he got up and placed the stick in her hand "throw it for me please" he asked.
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