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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 30, 2023 3:49:34 GMT -5
“Darn it”, Javal shouts loudly as he continues to sprints very quickly through the streets, “I made a wrong turn twice already, crap oh no move out of the way please”, he shouts as he barely is able to jump over a pair of crates being moved by two merchants.
“HEY BE MORE CAREFUL”, he hears from behind him.
“SORRY”, he shouts, embarrassed he continues sprinting through the streets he turns his head to face back once to see if his new friend who seemed to be coming around to see justice as he did. He was nowhere to be found, “Oh no I have failed him I should’ve stayed close to him and guided him through here. I have failed as a mentor I should stop and look for him”, he was about to stop but he quickly saw Mephis walking towards a lighthouse. He barely made it to the lighthouse with a loud thud as he came zooming through the door and made a Javal-sized hole in it.
“Ohhhh that was quite the mistake my knee hurts, I forgot how to stop the spell”, Javal says as he is on top of a bunch of broken crates he then yells, “Hey Mephis are you here?”.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Aug 30, 2023 20:27:38 GMT -5
Mephis side-stepped out of the way as the purple blur left a Javal sized hole in the hatch. He couldn't help but let out a small laugh, he just saved him a couple minutes of poking and prodding around the lock attempting to pop it open. He then reached through the hole to the inside of the door and popped it open from the unlocked side. Once fully open and light flooding the small staircase he could see javal crumbled over a pile of broken crates; that sight alone makes him let out a small snicker "yes Mr. Hero I am here, and I have no idea who this Mephis person is. I'm Dante" he stated once he got to the bottom of the stairs.
It took a second for his eyes to adjust to the darkness but once they were he could see this seemed to be the storage area for the lighthouse above. He walked deeper into the room to investigate further and stopped in front of one of the larger boxes, he rolled up his sleeve and with his bare arm rubbed away some of the dust that had been collecting on the side. He let out a small gasp as the last thing he expected to see was the Ferideh family crest, two silver snakes that wrapped around a blue rose. "No no no no, why is this here, how is this here. They're all the way back in moonglade". His paranoia was kicked into overdrive as he quickly brushed the dust off of an adjacent box, only to see the snakes and rose of his former crest. Even more panicked he went to the next box, and the next, and the next only to keep finding the same crest repeated again and again.
He could only assume that this was a storage area for his family's "goods", but something wasn't right. The Ferideh's never just leave or forget anything, especially when it came to business. "Hero we need to get out of here, Now!" he barked with panic in his voice, for only a figure to obscure the light from the door. They casted a shadow down the stairs and as Mephis recognized the description of this figure, a tall shady elven man. This was the person who sold the journal to the salesmen, and on his overcoat he saw the snakes and rose of the Ferideh crest.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Aug 31, 2023 3:48:31 GMT -5
Javal struggles to lift himself as he feels an immense pain in his back and feet from the crash but he does with some effort and help from the railing next to him.
“Ow that hurts”, he says as he jumps back onto his feet and shakes his body as hard as he can trying to get off any splinters or debris that were in him.
“Hello there Dante I hope I didn’t make you wait too long sorry for the name mixup. I believe I may have some sort of slight concussion from the crash and it made me yell out random words. I should be fine now though that I’m up, I’m raring to go and find this secret fellblood treasure.
Javal walked behind Dante looking around the area for clues until he heard Dante gasp, “Woah is everything alright”, he shouted as he pulled out and unsheathed his katana ready to fight. He had experienced enough
He walks over to Dante and says, “Oh what have you found?”.
“Oh okay but what about the treasure”, Javal says as he turns around and sees some elf man standing on the stairs looming before the pair of adventures.
“Hello there”, Javal waves, “Do not be alarmed. I am Javal and I am friendly and not a criminal. I have only crashed into your abode and looked through your stuff in the name of justice. I’m sure you can understand”.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Sept 1, 2023 12:47:46 GMT -5
"this is not the kind of treasure that a hero like you would want, plus taking stuff from these people will have consequences. Trust me I know how they work" He retorted in a harsh whisper as he slinked behind one of the taller crates. His yellow eyes peeked around the corner of the box as the tall Elven man slowly made their way down the stairs, they then quickly shot to Javal as he began to introduce himself. He let out a muted sigh and widened his eyes in hopes to signal to him that this man is not to be messed with. Once the he got to the bottom of the stairs he clapped his hands together and gave an unsettling smile towards Javal "Oh do not be worried I completely understand the circumstances of you breaking and entering into a hidden storage facility for the Ferideh family. And here I thought that writing in ancient infernal and then selling that journal to some nobody bookseller would get rid of any evidence that this was here." Mephis' eyes widened even further as he recognized this raspy unsettling voice from his past. "Oh shit, why Lucien" he whispered under his breath, he wasn't sure if it was him or not as it had been almost 8 years since he'd seen him but hearing his voice confirmed it was in fact an old acquaintance of his.
With that confirmation he retreated fully behind the crate to keep himself hidden. "Oh and Javal was it? I know you aren't alone, why don't you introduce me to your little thief friend.". Before Mehpis could even react Lucien reached his hand out and telekinetically ripped the crate he was hiding behind away, sending it crashing into one of walls. Now that he was exposed he tried to scramble away, but Lucien grip his hand into a fist and caught the blue teifling by the collar of his overcoat. He then pulled his fist towards him Mephis floated over to him, he was struggling the entire time even though he knew he couldn't break out of his grasp. The elven man stopped him only a foot away from him as he hovered a few inches off the ground; and with his free hand he grabbed at Mephis' face inspecting it. A hint of recognition flashed in his eyes "Well, if it isn't the runaway son himself. still wearing his old overcoat, though I see that you had the crest removed." His eyes quickly glanced down to the ornate dagger that sat at his hip "And don't think I don't recognize your old dagger as well. Gods, for being someone who wants to leave this all behind you're really bad at letting go, Mephis Ferideh" Hearing his old name sent a shock through his whole body, yet his cold eyes never left Lucien's "Well if it isn't Lucien Highwater, still playing lap dog to Enzo Ferideh, Hm?"
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 1, 2023 20:22:57 GMT -5
Javal scratches his head in confusion as he says, “But hidden treasure though, who does it belong to? That guy? Do you know where we are? I am so confused, he says pointing at the fellow on the stairs.
Javal looked over to Dante who was hidden behind a crate as he stood in front of the wall just standing around confused. He looked back at Dante and made signals with his hands pointing at him then pointing at the guy approaching him before looking back at the man as he introduced himself.
Javal then smiles and claps slightly, returning the gentleman’s clap, “What are we clapping for? Oh wait, is this some sort of celebration we interrupted and you didn't tell me, Dante?”.
Javal’s eyes widen as the man explains what they had just done he stammers before saying, “Uh, um I didn’t know the paper said treasure here but it's someone else’s” he freezes as he suddenly questions another person’s presence and ripped the crate away from Dante.
He was currently frozen having his ideology completely challenged, He had accidently broken in but his friend needed his help.
He is also shocked to hear that Dante’s name is Mephis Ferideh; he turns to face the man holding him and is confused about what he should do.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Sept 4, 2023 17:22:45 GMT -5
"I am no lap dog, I am the right hand man of your father! you will show the respect that I deserve you insolent little bug!" Lucien tightened his grip on mephis' face as his cold stare shifted from Mephis and locked onto Javal "and what part does he play in this? hm? Did you actually let you guard down enough that you made a friend, you know how your father feels about friends" Remembering the last time he made a friend and then his father ordering their execution, Mephis' leg moved without him thinking and delivered a rather weak but quick kick to Lucien's leg. "He's nobody, leave him out of this!" He's not quite sure why he felt the need to protect Javal but something in him screamed that he shouldn't be involved in anything Ferideh related. The elven man's eyes darted back to Mephis and he let out an small laugh "oh Mephis, hand to hand combat was never your strong suit so why even bother if he's a nobody" He could feel he was about to do something to Javal so in a last ditch enough to break free he bit into the hand that was gripping at his face, with his sharp tiefling teeth it left as sizable mark as Lucien let out a pained yelp.
With his hand now bleeding Mephis could see the rage rising in Lucien's eyes as he raised him to be at eye level to him "How ... Dare ... You, you really are a blemish on the Ferideh name!" he shouted as he he ripped his hand towards on of the walls, and flung the blue teifling along with it. As he flew across the room he smirked as he realized that Lucien hadn't changed and he could prey on his ego. He turned his body midair so he could kick off of the wall and land back on his feet "oh after all these years you haven't changed at all you sad angry man" he joked as he slinked into a shadow. Lucien became visibly more angry and held out both hands, crushing one of the crates that was close to Mephis. In the darkness Mephis was just a blue streak as he darted between boxes in hopes to disorient Lucien, and it seemed to be working as Lucien crushed more crates with no blue tiefling behind them. 1Slinking behind another box, he made a hand sign and with a small puff of smoke another Mephis appeared behind the crate, they both nodded to each other as they both emerged at the same time. "Javal get out of here, I can handle him" both shouted towards the purple tiefling. As they darted towards Lucien they swapped places between each other to confuse him further which seemed to be working as he decided to throw a box at the fake one, allowing mephis an opportunity to slash at his leg and then retreat into the darkness once more.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 4, 2023 20:05:30 GMT -5
Javal stood there for another minute listening to Lucien’s words as he held onto Memphis or Dante at this point he wasn't quite sure who was who, as he even knew Javal that he did not know.
His eyes sharpen as he matches Lucien’s gaze and observes the conversation as it plays out, finally making his decision in his head on what to do.
He takes out his sheathed katana from his waistband and unsheathed it tucking its sheath into his pocket.
He yells over, “No, I’m not just going to leave you here Memphis or Dante or whatever your name is. I’m not gonna leave a friend to take on a dangerous foe like that guy over there. You just were on the path of justice. I'm not gonna give up on you here, don’t underestimate me”.
He then touches the bottom of his feet imbuing them with cold energy increasing his speed dramatically he zooms straight into Lucien and as he nears him whispers, “Javal Style: Divine Tide” as the runes on his sword glow a bright blue and a faint line of water surrounds it as well as a glowing ethereal appearance of his sword.
He slashes diagonally at Lucien before lowering his blade to defend himself in case Lucien can retaliate.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Sept 6, 2023 19:35:52 GMT -5
Lucien winced as he as Mephis slashed into his leg, his eyes darted around looking for the blue tiefling as he slinked back into the shadows once again. The elven man's attention was soon brought upon Javal "Ah so you are a friend of Mephis', what a pity I'll have him kill you once I apprehend the two of you-" His gloating getting cut short as the purple tiefling quickly brought his blade down on him. Though he said a single arcane word and disappeared, reappearing a couple feet to the left of Javal leaving the space he was slashing into empty "Oh my, what a straight forward approach. I will give you props that slash could've done some damage if I hadn't blinked away, now give me that blade!" He brought his hand up as he attempted to telekinetically rip his blade out of hand, yet he had underestimated the strength of Javal's grip as he struggled to pull the sword away from him. He pulled his hand slowly towards him as he started to pull the sword closer to him and by extension Javal along with it.
Seeing that his attention was solely focused on fighting Javal, Mephis slowly circled around the outskirts of the fight waiting for a single opening. He grinned as he spotted one from behind him, and as fast as his nimble legs could carry him he dashed towards him with his illusionary double in step with him. He spun his dagger once again to deliver another slash to his side, yet the elven man's eyes caught onto Mephis and a few uttering of incantations followed. Soon after the final word was mutter Mephis could feel his body tense up and he stopped all momentum as a faint outline held the tiefling in place. Lucien grinned as he had caught Mephis in his tracks but he didn't account for his concentration on the telekinetic grip he had on Javal's sword being broken, leaving him wide open for a slash from Javal.
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 7, 2023 2:51:39 GMT -5
Javal yells out at Lucien as he holds his katana in front of him hoping to counter any incoming attack from the elf man, “Yes I am indeed a friend of this Mephis or Dante fellow, Mister Lucien and I would love to see you try to kill me, good sir. I’ve faced and beaten a lot of guys, some stronger and tougher looking than you, during my travels across Charon. I’d suggest you not underestimate me and my power or you’ll find it the last mistake that you make”.
He is then shocked to see that the man simply teleported away from his slash and annoyed as the man gloats and attempts to telekinetically pull Javal towards him he struggles a bit before gripping his blade with all of his strength.
He opens his mouth wide and sends out a large cone of ice (1) at him to try to get him off of him and give him and Mephis enough time to escape.
He then follows that up as he sees Mephis holding the evil guy’s attention and charges forth slashing the man with a double slice of his blade as he whispers, “Javal Style: Double Divine Tide (2) ”.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Sept 8, 2023 14:38:55 GMT -5
Lucien whipped his head around as he heard the footsteps of the approaching Javal, He attempted to blink away again to dodge his slash. Though his eyes widened as he went nowhere since his blink was still on cooldown, this quick lapse of hesitation allowed for the steel of Javal's blade to slice across the man's torso. The surprise at feeling the pain of the slash made Lucien lose concentration on whatever spell was holding Mephis, as blood spilled from under the elven man's blue overcoat. Mephis let out a gasp for air as he could feel his body moving again, soon after smelling the recognizable hint of metal that carried with spilled blood. Lucien dropped to one knee clutching his chest as Mephis glided next to Javal.
He coldly glared down upon the elven man, disgust clear in his expression "Oh how the mighty have fallen, the other enforcers always said you were a glass cannon but I had no clue it was to this degree. You used to scare me you know but that was the past, but now I need answers." He slowly squatted down to get to eye level to him, still with the cold glare of disgust he brought the tip of his dagger up to his neck. "Now tell me, how long has this storage area been a thing? how long had you been stationed here and what kind of contact have you had with my parents?" He pushed the tip of the dagger uncomfortably closer to his neck, "F-fine I'll spill just don't kill me. This storage spot has been a thing long before you were even born Mephis, and I have only been in Sol City for the past couple of days. I was sent here to keep an eye on this since the last guard just up and abandoned their posts, and since your father trusts me I have had minimal contact with him." Mephis smirked in surprise at how easy it was to get the man he once feared to spill information, his face dropped and he let out a heavy sigh knowing what he had to do next.
"You know I have a little dilemma here, you see if I leave you alive what's stopping you from running your mouth as just did to my father, but if I kill you then you'll stop responding to my father. Which will result in more of his hired hands being present here meaning that I would have to leave, and in all honesty I quite like this place. Hmmmmmm? what to do, what to do?" he tapped his pointer finger against his chin as he weighed the options, he didn't exactly like killing and it had been a while since he had. However that didn't mean he didn't know how to, He looked over his shoulder to Javal "What do you think I should do, Mr. Hero?"
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 10, 2023 1:09:07 GMT -5
Javal smiles as he sees the man fall on his knee, “You have been bested by me, strangers now apologize for your actions and you shall be forgiven by me. I’m sorry my strength has made you kneel. I can't control my power”, he says earnestly.
Javal bows his head and holds his arms to his side as he faces Lucien and says, “My apologies good sir for damaging your establishment here, it was not my intention. I hope beating you up for the sake of helping my dear friend Mephis or Dante here does not make me a villain in your eyes after breaking in here by accident”, genuinely feeling remorseful for the mess he felt he had made.
He stood alongside Mephis as he threatened the elf man, heard his words of harm, and responded to Mephis’s question, “That’s enough my friend. Let’s just let this poor fellow here, I think we’ve done enough to beat him down”.
His eyes sharpen for a second in seriousness, “I’m giving you a single chance to better yourself, if I hear that you use it to become a worse fellow or that you track us or hurt my friend in any way, I will find you and I will hurt you”.
Before they quickly go back to his usual joyful smile he turns to continue to stand there waiting for Mephis’s action.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Sept 12, 2023 16:48:33 GMT -5
He grimaced slightly at Javal's apologetic bow, "Javal, don't be nice to him, He doesn't deserve an apology. If you had only seen a fraction of what I've seen him do, you would know that he is absolute scum." Keeping the tip of his dagger pointed at his neck his eyes drifted around the room, focusing on the broken crates and loose goods littering the ground. "What does it matter if we are the villains in his eyes, I think we did a good thing wrecking up this place. With it essentially nonfunctional it means that my family has taken a hit in profits, which is always a good deed in my book, but back to you" He turned his attention back to the trembling elven man, he smirked at the sight of someone he used to fear quake before him.
Then the whole atmosphere of the room changed as Javal's face went stern, it felt like a sack of bricks was placed right onto his shoulders. As Javal spoke a feeling shot through the normally composed fellblood, it was one that he hadn't felt in long time: genuine fear. Then as quickly as pressure in the room increased it left as he returned to his happy-go-lucky smile, Mephis swallowed the lump on his throat and reset himself. "Right, we are giving you one chance, he's giving you one to better yourself. I know you'll never be better so I'm giving you one to not run your mouth. If you say a word about me being here, well he put it in good words so I feel like I don't have to repeat what he said. Oh! and to remember to keep you word I'll give you something to remember me by." He takes his dagger away from his neck and in one swift motion left a slash across Lucien's right cheek. "now you'll remember us everytime you look in the mirror and see that mark, now get out of here." He motion with his head towards the door, "R-right I promise on my life to never speak of this to Enzo, you have my word." then he scrambled up to his feet and ran up the stairs and out the door.
Mephis rose from his squatted position and looked up to Javal with a grimace know now that he roped him into his baggage with his family. "You probably have a lot of questions to ask don't you, and normally I would not answers them but seeing that you saved my life and help me with barely know me. I feel like you deserve an ounce of the truth."
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 13, 2023 2:46:09 GMT -5
Javal nodded along as Mephis reprimanded him for apologizing to Luciena and said honestly, “I can understand where you’re coming from my friend considering it appears you two have some unfortunate history however I still damaged someone’s goods, and that and that only I’m sorry for”.
He then turns his head to the right slightly as Mephis mentions that the damage to the place would cause some grief to his parents. Doesn’t he like his parents? Is this place this fellow’s property whoever he is?
“Isn’t that a bad thing? I would never want to cause someone’s parents any sort of distress my friend”, he says, a bit worried about breaking up the place now.
Javal then tapped his foot and happily smiled nodding at Mephis's addition to his threat and proud to see that the man decided to keep his mouth shut to not warn this Enzo fellow.
Javal then chuckles as he begins walking away, “Oh of course I do but let’s get out of here first”, As they leave Javal begins his questioning, “So who even are you? Are you Mephis or Dante or even some other person? Why and how do you know that mean guy? Your families involved in this can you explain that?”.
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Post by Dante (Mephis Ferideh) on Sept 16, 2023 21:30:24 GMT -5
Mephis doesn’t initially answers the questions asked of him, instead he darts his head around looking for a place to duck into. He planned on telling him most of the truth of who he was and he didn’t want any other hired hands from his family to be eavesdropping on them. His then locked on to an alley with a couple of empty crates, and nodded to himself “follow me, I would rather not have any extra ears listening in” he said quietly motioning for the other fellblood to follow along.
Right as the two entered the alley he scanned every inch of it for evidence of anyone else being present, after a minute of poking and prodding Mephis was satisfied with the lack of others. He sat himself up onto one of the wooden crates and crossed one leg over the other as he tapped his chin thinking of where to even begin. He wasn’t used to revealing anything about himself that was a lie so he had really no clue where to begin. “Well, let us begin with my name. My actual name is Mephis Ferideh, but Dante was the name I gave myself after I saved a man who called himself such. I know that elven man back there because he used to work for my family, Lucien and I actually used to be co-workers I guess. We used to work under my Father, Enzo Ferideh and he had us doing whatever dirty work he didn’t want to do himself. Which for me included killing, lots of killing, and what’s worse is that I was really good at it too.” The normally pretty outgoing person that Mephis was, soon was giving way to a more frightened sounding individual as the memories of each death caused by his hands flood his mind.
He soon took a deep breath to compose himself “I was good at it because Enzo made it abundantly clear to never come back empty handed lest there be consequences” his hands slowly moved up to the gold plates that covered the tips of his spiral horns, and slowly slid them off. What would normally be a sharp pointed tip was malformed and dent, signs that they had been broken enough times without giving them time to fully heal. Placing the gold plates to his side he continued not really keeping eye contact with javal “one day I had enough of that life and I by some miracle was able to leave, but my family doesn’t like have loose ends waltzing about Charon. So they have been sending people after me to bring me back to Moonglade to either kill me themselves or have me return to the family business as Mephis again”
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Post by Javal Zarrias on Sept 18, 2023 3:15:29 GMT -5
Javal nodded at Mephis's order and walked over quickly into the alley, trusting the man and sitting down on a random crate looking at him awaiting his answers.
He looks a bit quizzically at the other fellblood as he looks almost takes apart the alley to make sure no one is listening, “Man this fellow seems paranoid”, Javal thinks to himself.
Javal listens intently to Mephis’s explanation, not making a single sound, just looking intently at Mephis while collecting his own thoughts.
His eyes reeled as Mephis revealed his pair of dented horns, to a fellblood one’s horns served as an important part of their being. Javal hated when his old fellow pirates used to play or mess with his horns and felt saddened as he realized just how evil this Enzo man truly was.
He then sits in silence for a second and Mephis finishes before saying, “Well it’s nice to remember you my friend for starters. What was this Dante fellow like? As for your string of murders that’s understandable if this Lucien guy is anything to go off of, I can only imagine how evil your father is for you to have my sympathies. How did you leave? I promise you my friend that they won’t hurt you just let me know and I’ll beat them all up”, he says with a smile trying to lighten the mood while also being completely honest in his words.
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