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Post by kaminarinami on Apr 26, 2023 20:43:56 GMT -5
Nami tread the soft, wet ground of Hauntwood. She'd seen travelers on the path looking panicked and asked what they were so panicked by. The group of farmers had explained they were fleeing from a group who tried to destroy their wagon, and were going to attempt to do worse to the forest itself. She didn't want to go galivanting through the woods and give away her goal so soon into a hunt.
While not keen on stealth, she still understood the need to keep your plans to yourself until it was time to act on them. She did her best to blend in, walking the path as any other traveler might. Her gold colored spear was a bit of a giveaway she wasn't just another traveler, but so far no one seemed to be bothering her or anywhere on the road through the wood at all. She quickened her pace, worried this rumored group were already in motion with some nefarious plan.
Hearing voices ahead, the sounds of battle and shouts of orders and chaos, Nami took off in a full sprint. Her hoofbeats kicked up great clumps of mud and debris as the centaur powered through the loose, wet dirt. Leaning into a sharp bend in the path, Nami came upon a spectacle she was hoping to avoid. A wagon of produce was spilled in the road and being bashed by a group of bandits of some sort. They all wore similar vests over their other gear, emblazoned with a symbol she didn't recognize.
Before anyone had noticed the change, she hurled her spear straight at the man stomping fresh vegetables into the muck. As the spear left her hands, it's heavy metal form dissipated into a crackling beam of pure lightning. It tore through the group and blasted the man right out of his soggy bootstraps. Lying on his back, the vest and shirt beneath where charred to ruin and the man lay twitching from the overload of electrical energy. Almost as one they turned to the approaching threat, just in time for the heavy spear to leap back to Nami's waiting hands. She skid to a halt in the mud, rearing and sweeping her spear over the area. One of the others flinched at the gesture, and was met with a bolt of lightning from her free hand.
"Cmon ya bastards... can pick on the poor farmers just fine, let's see how you do when someone fights back!" She shouted, charging with the glittering, sparking spear as if she were a heavily armored cavalry knight.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Apr 27, 2023 2:04:47 GMT -5
Javal had just been passing by the Hauntwood, he had been there because he wanted to get into birdwatching more and decided the Hauntwood would be the perfect place to start. He wanted to birdwatch since Cyran and his older brother Raoul both loved to do it. Maybe if he birdwatched hard enough he'd finally understand why the two found it so much fun. To Javal it just looked like bird watching as having staring contests with birds. He had found out quickly that it was a battle that no matter how hard Javal trained for he always ended up losing. He was growing very very bored very quickly but soon his boredom was cured as he heard the sounds of yelling.
He ran to the source and found it was a group of panicked farmers who told him about some wicked fiends planning on destroying the forest and claiming its resources for themselves. Javal couldn't let this stand he asked them where he could find them. They told him that they would be much deeper inside the forest and hard to miss due to their loud and evil personalities. They also had told him that a centaur woman had come along and gone to fight them by herself.
"Wow, this person must be honorable. I must meet them at once, after I destroy these villains of course".
Javal then ran towards the place he was told and found a centaur woman fighting against a band of mean-looking fellows.
He yells, "Hello there vile fiends! I am here to put a stop to your injustices and protect the forest from your hands", if a battle is what you want then I shall be your opponent".
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Post by kaminarinami on Apr 27, 2023 14:25:34 GMT -5
Looking back and forth to one another, the bandits all break off and scatter in different directions. Nami tries to run one down fleeing her way but couldn't make the turn fast enough and nearly lost her footing. She huffed, catching her breath as she walked over to the pair she'd downed earlier. The first, hit by her spear, was not long for this world. His chest was a charred ruinous cavity where the bolt of lightning caused by her weapon bored a sizable hole. The other, while only marginally better, was still breathing and intact. The tip of her spear hovered above his face as the young, wild centaur woman glowered down at him. He was muscular, but not from hard labor... someone who either was a professional warrior or more likely a thug for some local group.
"On yer feet, 'fore I run this blade through your skull." She said sternly, watching his movements as she gave him just enough room to stand. He was jittery, body still spasming from the electrical shock he'd enjoyed moments ago. Flipping her spear around, she jabbed the man's emblazoned vest with the blunt end.
"What's this mean, and why do you defile these woods?" She asked, growing frustrated by his overly casual demeanor. She'd noticed another man jumping in while she was charging but figured he wasn't with this group since he didn't wear the vest.
"It means we're gonna burn this place down little fawn, we're gonna kill all ya prancin' pansies, eat yer rotten corpses for dinner, and bury all memory of this place beneath the finest gamblin' and brothels you ever saw!!" He spat in her face, eyes wild and incomprehensible. A zealot perhaps? She couldn't tell, but still thumped his chin shut with the blunt of her spear. He shouted and cursed, nearly biting the end of his tongue off.
"You're a waste of good air, you shouldn't be breathing it." She said with the cold, distant tone of someone used to taking life. While not her favorite activity, she was a hunter, a survivor of the wilds and more encounters with things trying to eat her than she cared to recall. Her spear sank into his chest, she gave it a firm twist and wrenched it free. Catching his sternum on the way out, the sharp wet crunch of breaking bone followed. He fell to his knees, then face down in the muck.
Leveling her spear at the other man, a crackling spark of electricity ran up her arm and gathered in her free hand. She addressed him with the same cold, killer tone. "What is it you're doing here, and who are you? If you're one of them, I will see your end just as swiftly."
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Apr 28, 2023 1:37:29 GMT -5
Javal’s face turned cold as he heard about what these damned villains were planning on doing to the poor innocent forest. Burning it down and taking its nice inhabitants as slaves wasn’t writing it was downright cruel. Javal would not stand for this injustice as he saw the centaur woman interrogate one of the maniacal villains he slowly approached trying to listen to more of what he heard.
As he finally approached right behind the centaur and criminal he saw the centaur plunge its spear into the villain's chest. Although Javal thought that was a bit much he felt like he honestly deserved what came to him. Someone as vile and despicable as he needed to be removed at any cost necessary.
Javal looked away immediately as he saw the dead villain but then turned back to face the centaur, “Hello there Madame, my name is Javal, I’m just a passing by traveler who ran over here to try to help take down these monsters from doing any more harm to the forest and its inhabitants. Although I can respect your uneasiness about myself I can promise you that you and I are here for the same reasons. To bring these evildoers to justice and save the forest and its people”.
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Post by kaminarinami on Apr 28, 2023 14:51:32 GMT -5
"Very well... but if ya think ta double cross me, yer gonna end up like this one here... wondering where the rest of ya went." She warned. Looking around, she noticed that the others had all left on different angles but all in the same direction. Curious, and unusual, it reminded her of the way wild wolves would hunt in the hills but in reverse. They scattered away from the group and fanned out, making it harder to catch an individual and keeping the group hidden... or at least that's what her instincts told her. She traced their paths to a point, then drew a curve through them. This formed a sort of arrow, giving her the rough direction they were trying to keep others from going. Tapping next to the drawing with her hoof, she snugged her gear down and took a few deep breaths.
"I'm a bettin' lass the bulk of 'em is this way. Yer free ta go chase the others if ya like, but I want the leader's noggin ta feel the shock of me spear... quick like." She said to Javal, remembering only then she hadn't told him her name. "Nami, that's my name by the way..."
She took off running, kicking up dirt as she darted through the woods. Having no idea what she would find, she charged recklessly through the trees. There weren't many creatures on land that could keep up with her speed, though she did try to take it slow both for the sake of terrain and Javal if he chose to follow.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Apr 29, 2023 1:27:30 GMT -5
“I would never even think about double crossing you dear Ms. Centaur Warrior Lady, for betraying you and mother nature would directly go against my code of honor”.
Javal then turns to look around the area trying to spot any clues or tracks for where the rest of the criminals ran off to. During the skirmish, it seemed that all of them ran their own different paths in order to save their own individual skin.
“To betray your own fellow criminals so dishonorable at least one or two of them should’ve stayed back to face the hands of justice”, Javal says as he cups his hands and puts them over his eyes trying to imitate binoculars in order to see better.
As Javal’s binocular idea wasn’t working he walked over to the centaur lady who was drawing on the ground, “What are you doing is that some sort of magical spell to find them”, Javal asks curiously, “Because although I’m trying my best to look for where they went with my hands it seems there’s no trace of them”.
After listening to Ms. Following Nami's observations, he decided to sprint after her; he was going to join her in this righteous mission to thwart the efforts of the dangerous villains. He struggles a bit to catch up, Javal was decently quick but Nami was way faster. It was especially hard to keep up with Nami just charging straight into the forest.
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Post by kaminarinami on Apr 29, 2023 19:52:03 GMT -5
Seeing Javal following, she slowed to a trot to let the man catch up. Nami saw no sense in getting the man lost in the woods, particularly if he meant to help. The dense canopy overhead let little light through, giving the forest a deep shade that wasn't as friendly to vibrant greenery. Instead mosses, mushrooms, lichen and other plants that favored low light grew in droves. Vines slithered up the twisting trunks, trying to find their way out and to sunlight.
After a good hour of moving away from the road, the first signs of life and movement started popping up. Sticks snapped aside, rocks pushed through the mud instead of being overturned, and the scent of smoke and burning meat. Nami pointed them out to Javal as they passed by, trying to teach him the basics of tracking. The woods were the easiest place to learn, lots of obstacles and soft ground to encourage and preserve changes as things passed through. To her it was also a test of his character and intent, teaching someone a skill was also a fine way to gauge their integrity.
She stopped suddenly, dropping low behind a fallen tree that was being devoured by mushrooms and insects. Ahead, muffled voices slowly grew louder, signaling the approach of people.
"Oi, they shoulda been back by now."
"Yeah yeah... I know, ya knickers are a twistin'... gonna make us stop workin' and go chasin' dem idjets through the dark."
"Shut it, both of you, before I cuff you to the floor and leave you here to fuel the conflagration."
"Eh?! piss off, mr. I'm so important... I'll gut you like a rat."
"Ye... yes, sir."
"What'd you say to me, scum?"
"Oh pardon me... I guess all that grease is globbin' in your ears after it leaks out of your brain... PISS... OFF... MISTER... I.. AM.. SO... IMPORTANT!"
"Stop you two... we're all on the same side here..."
"No, we aren't, you're a couple of groveling street rats looking for a pay day... and yes, I am important you shit sucker... Without me, you lot would still be picking pockets and getting hunted by every guard and bounty hu--"
The voices went silent, a soft grunt, followed by a heavy thud of something hitting the ground... or perhaps someone.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Apr 30, 2023 1:51:02 GMT -5
Javal was getting a bit tired after running for an hour straight but that was alright he had to run to save the forest from these criminals. As Javal had a better time catching up behind Nami he was amazed at the beauty of the forest that they were in.
“How dare those criminals attempt to destroy mother nature, they will rue the day that they attempt to commit criminal actions. The fists of justice shall punish them and the forest will be saved on our watch”, he said as he sprinted behind. Javal tried to spot what Nami was pointing out at him; he was able to catch a couple but not all, “You surely are a great tracker Ms. Nami”.
After a bit Javal started to get the hang of it, not using all of his energy and being able to dodge and avoid oncoming trees and various forest obstacles.
“You know what Nami? It seems like the forest is the sea of the land, I can understand the movements and sways that are going on now a bit better”.
“He had to go faster,” he thought for the sake of the forest he started to gain more speed until Nami suddenly stopped ahead. He was confused for a bit about what she was doing, “should I stop” he thought. But this thought was too late as he was going way too fast to stop safely. Suddenly he dug his heels into the ground attempting to stop himself before he got hurt. It was too late and he slammed into a fallen tree and suddenly insects and mushrooms got all over him. He then jumped over the tree and into a weird campfire.
“Wait you guys are those fiends from earlier I Javal am here to put a stop to your villainy, have at thee vile fiends”, Javal says pulling out his blade still covered in insects, mushrooms, and tree parts.
“Who’s he?”, one of them yelled
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Post by kaminarinami on Apr 30, 2023 2:59:43 GMT -5
Watching Javal slam into her cover was like watching a ship capsize in slow motion. She had no way of stopping it, but couldn't peel her eyes away. His recovery was marvelous, but now there was no chance to find out more before having to act. She popped up beside Javal and charged the men, whose jaws were hanging slack at the surprise distraction. She toppled one over, shoving him down with the haft of her spear and gaining a bit of open ground to maneuver. One man was standing, square shouldered and shakily drawing his own weapon.
Face down in the muck was the third man, whose neck was a grisly ruin. Whatever blade had cut the man was not well kept, or made with some wicked serration. His life spilled out on the soggy ground, something Nami found ironic. She leveled her spear at the man she'd run over, stomping her hoof and making ready for another charge.
"Up with ya, lousy bastards!! I'll show ya how kindly us wild ones take ta getting burned out... All the storms in the world raining down on yer head will feel like a pleasant day in the sun when I'm through with the lot of ya!" Shouted the centaur to the man on the ground. He grunted in protest and pulled himself from the muck. A wicked short, broad blade in one hand. It's edge looked more like that of a lumber saw than the blade of a sword, dripping crimson into the mud. The bandit wore a vicious grin, and looked at Nami as if she were a young lass in a brothel, ripe for the plucking. She glared at the man's look, having seen it countless times as a teen. Why such men thought that way, she'd never know, but she could make sure this one didn't harm another with their sadistic cruelty.
Tucking her spear under her arm like a jousting knight, the man took a wide defensive stance. He spit on the ground, blood trickling from his lip. He grit his teeth, held firm to his blade with both hands and readied to meet her charge head on. Nami had other plans, an arcane word left her lips as her free hand spread, palm first at the man. For a split second, the small clearing outshined the sun as a flash of lightning cut a path through the air. It slammed into the man, hitting him squarely in his grinning face.
A peculiar sizzling sound and the violent boiling of fluids was drown out by a loud clap of thunder and the blinding flash. Once again he fell to the mud, only this time his head was a smoldering ruin. At such close range, Nami herself was surprised at the potency of her own magic, staring wide eyed at the effects of the spell she'd unleashed. Reeling from the outcome, her spear lowered and she stood frozen in horror at her own actions. Something about being so close to the effect for the first time unsettled the young centaur. She wasn't unaccustomed to Lightning Bolt's wrath, but this was the first time she'd used it in such close proximity to her opponent...
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Apr 30, 2023 9:51:52 GMT -5
Javal was impressed at Nami’s quick thinking and reaction time he himself charged the man standing around shakily drawing his weapon and slammed him into a tree across from them. He then chuckled, “When you draw your blade in an attempt to kill you put your life on the line”, Javal then draws his katana and slashes the shaky thief right through the chest in a diagonal pattern, “Javal Style: Single Slash” he whispers as he does this.
The shaky man then drops to the floor shrieking in pain he then lunges upwards trying to catch Javall off guard by surprising him too bad for the shaky man that Javal had been versed enough in combat not to lay his guard down so as he saw the been moved towards him he kicked him in the head sending his head straight back to the tree behind him.
The other standing criminal yells and charges forth at Javal screaming, “Jasper I’m coming just hold on let’s get this guy together”.
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Post by kaminarinami on Apr 30, 2023 15:08:51 GMT -5
Shaken from her stunned state by the shouting, she shouldered her spear and started laughing maniacally. Rearing, she hurled the golden haft at the sprinting man. As it left her grip, it's form dissolved into another bolt of electricity. Hitting the man's leg, it blasted his frame with thousands of amps worth of energy as the golden spear impaled his outer thigh. Unbalanced by the weight and impact, he toppled into the mud and slid to a stop. The handle of her weapon caught on a buried root and tore itself free from his flesh, widening the wound beyond repair.
"RAAAAAAAAAAGH!!! FUCKKKK!! You TROLLIP!! I'll fuckin' roast ya in the flames when I get up!!" The man raged at the pain, the audacity of someone interrupting their plans, and most importantly, the hopelessness of his flayed muscle and flesh. Only the shaking man remained standing, slashed from Javal's attack earlier. Nami hadn't expected another to be present, but the man hadn't said a word and barely made a sound with their footfalls. He too carried a jagged blade like the other man, which the centaur figured might indicate their status in the group as some sort of on site leadership.
She walked over, recalling her spear as she approached the fallen man. To preserve the information he might be worth, she scooped up a large ball of muddy grass that had been kicked up in the fight and stuffed it in his opened thigh, stifling the bleeding vessels in as brutal and painful a way as it was insulting. The man passed out from the pain and sudden shock to their bare nerves.
"Seems to me that yer the Trollip, face down in the muck and slow to react..." Her tone was chiding and distant as she watched the rest of Javal's duel, ready to help if he needed it.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Apr 30, 2023 23:53:02 GMT -5
Javal didn’t even dare look away to see what Nami was doing, he trusted her to get the job done. All he had to do was bring these two to justice.
Javal suddenly gets grabbed by the clammy pathetic guy that was on the floor, “Get him now Jibbs”
“With pleasure, Jasper” the man running at him with a short sword yelled as he charged Javal
Javal struggled not to crack a smile although these two were pathetic lowly criminals they were bound by a brotherhood of survival. Perhaps they could be rehabilitated towards the side of good he thought to himself.
Soon the charging bandit gets decently close Javal then grabs the bandit holding him by the head with his incredible strength and then slams him into the charging bandit with a sword.
The two are now on the floor one on top of the other struggling to get back but they both get up eventually and charge again at Javal.
He then chuckles, “That last attack was my final warning, looks like it’s time for me to get serious on you two”, he then prepares his katana to attack.
The two bandits tried their best to attack him together but they were no match for Javal as he quickly swung his sword horizontally hitting both in the abdomen. He soon gets on top of one of the bandits and starts punching him very lightly in the sides and his stomach, “These are the fists of justice hitting you not me”, soon the bandit is knocked out from all the pain of the final headbutt Javal gives him.
Javal then gets off him and turns to the scared companion from earlier he sprints at him grabbing him by the head and slamming him into a nearby tree knocking him out on impact.
Javal then starts laughing, “You two put on a commendable effort but it doesn't matter any person who does evil shall be punished by the hands of righteousness. Turn your lives into positive ones and maybe you shall stop getting beaten up by justice” he then turns to face Nami, “So what do we do next”?
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Post by kaminarinami on May 1, 2023 16:58:30 GMT -5
"We should give this one a good kickin' til he tells us all he knows, then go drive a blade through their faces." She spat the words at the man, slapping his injured thigh with the blunt of her spear and digging the grit into it. He howled in pain, paled and started sweating profusely. Nami wasn't usually a cruel person, preferring a quick, clean and nearly painless end to her prey... but attempting to burn down the woods, or otherwise destroy the natural beauty of the world brought out the worst in her. She wouldn't give any of them quarter, show even a tiny shred of mercy or stop until they were all hunted down and slaughtered as savagely and recklessly as they desired to destroy the wilds.
"Go on sleaze bag, spill ya guts and maybe yer pain will end before ya get eaten alive... time's wastin' and I'm not waitin'" She said, watching those in the group who could hear her grow more nervous and unsettled. It was a sight to behold, a slender girl who didn't look like she had the muscle to even wield her weapon just ran over their group and fried their commander without a moment's hesitation. She followed this up by maiming and torturing one of their fellows and threatening the rest with a similarly brutal fate... Nami was on the war path, and a centaur's spite and rage were almost mythological... Earning the respect of even the most warmongering and hardened foes.
"Go piss on a tree ya hippy bitch... *cough*... ain't tellin' ya shit. No one will... no...azeaaa a azzz a aa a" He tried to finish, but arcs of electricity once again crawled over the centaur's skin. She had cast Lightning Armor and was standing overtop the man, who began to convulse and spasm, flopping like a fish trying to get back to the pond. She pressed the end of her spear to his forehead, shoving him down into the loose, wet mud until only his face remained above the surface. The smell of burning hair and scorched leather arose quickly filled the small clearning.
She let up a few moments later, leaving him stunned and half buried in the muck. She walked over to the man Javal had tossed around like a sack who was still conscious.
"Yer gonna be a good lad n tell me everything, aren't ya?" She said, leaning down to get face to face with the sorry excuse of a man.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on May 8, 2023 23:58:27 GMT -5
Javal grabbed the two knocked-out men from their respective positions and hoisted them on his back and dropped them close to the man that Nami was talking to. Although Javal was a bit apprehensive at the brutal interrogation of the man Nami was giving he understood her frustration. Villains like him had no sympathy or mercy against the goodness of this world; it was only fair that they received the cruelty they spread back onto them. Javal then continued to watch quietly observing Nami’s exchange with the howling man; it seemed that Nami was very powerful; he respected her strength as a fellow warrior. He turned his head away at the man’s final moment; he was never much into the killing thing only whenever he entered “that state”.
Javal then turned to await Nami’s further interrogation hoping the pathetic duo would give them the information they needed to bring the rest of these evildoers to justice.
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Post by kaminarinami on May 9, 2023 2:02:01 GMT -5
"If ya both wanna see the stars again, or another sunrise... ya best start talkin'" Nami said, glaring at the pair. Her body crackled with lightning, sparks leaping from her hands and skin as they traveled down the haft of her spear. Time was of the essence, and she was out of patience. Battle of any kind could set Nami into a feral mood, but harming nature was a line too far crossed. She loathed the peoples of Charon who chose to destroy for their personal greed, uncaring to the world itself who paid the price for their evils. A swift end was a gift in this state of mind, and nature itself rarely was so kind to those who perturbed it's balance. Traveling on the outskirts of civilized lands, the centaur had encountered all manner of pain, abuse and debauchery... some even targeted at her. She wasn't like others of her kind, and her parentage gave her an exotic look that most took notice of. Her fae heritage meant she had to contend with many of the darkest and most heinous desires of others, and her animalistic aversion to large groups of people meant only a few really knew who she was. Each time she approached roads, farms, even remote outposts in the wild, she was cautious in the extreme and ready to vanish just as quickly as she appeared.
She stepped forward, splashing them both with boggy muck. "Well me little canaries, let me hear ya sing a tune..." She said in a menacing, low tone.
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