Post by Dark Emporess of Fury on Feb 19, 2003 4:31:35 GMT -5
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Myst feared she would not have long to wait before her death would become inevitable. The grasp of the tenticles slowly slid free dropping her body to the ground. She layed wobbling upon her elbows as the tenticles lashed out in rampage. The virus that had filled her veins was dying, losing its source of life. She focused the last of their energy to pull her limp form back to the pool's edge. She layed there between her two friends watching in horror as the tenticles she was cursed with shriveled to nothing more then piles of melted green spores. Sigh slipped for part of her had died, she lowered her head upon the edge as she stretched out her palms to Valianna & Katya. "Now, we must do this now. For I fear soon it will be too late." Pain rippled throughout her body as another cough tore from her lungs sending more of her vitae to slip from her lips adding to the trail of crimson she left marking her path.
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"Now.. I agree, it must be now, for I shall not last much longer." Katya choked more on the blood that gurgled up her throat. A harsh hack and more of it was spit up, covering her further in her own blood. She reached out for Myst's hand and forced her body to curve enough that she could grasp ahold of Valianna's free hand as well. "Just.. tell me the words we need to know. Tell me them now." She gasped in pain more as her body shuddered, draining itself and slowly killing her. With her last bit of strength, she squeezed their hands. "What.. is our wish?"
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Conscious was a fight for Valianna for her body was dying. She knew that they lived only because they had defeated the beast. Had they not won they would be fully dead now. They were granted this final bit of strength to complete the ritual. She struggled to breath as she held hands with them both and squeezed. "I speak for us all, for we are one. Our wish is to be connected, as one. To be the strongest of what we once were, what we were meant to become, and what we are destined to be." She choked out the words as the book erupted with light.
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"Granted. Cast thy spell."A voice rumbled outward from the tome's pages. Releasing the spell for them to behold.
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Valianna's body shuddered as the last of her life seemed to rip out and the spell's words came before them for each to say. She spoke them clearly, suddenly full of reassurance. "Our fate. The unity of three to one. The destiny of what we and you once were. What we should be, you will give, the ultimate gift of creation, your past living within us. Give us what you see we should be." As she spoke the words, a second flash of light rained down from above to hit the pool of blood, only to cast into her body, to allow it to absorb the energy and essence of her ancestors. A scream of pain, and she collapsed, waiting for the others to speak the spell.
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The voice rang through her body, draining the last bit of energy from herself she spoke. Her voice was filled with newfound strength. "Our fate. The unity of three to one. The destiny of what we and you once were. What we should be, you will give, the ultimate gift of creation, your past living within us. Give us what you see we should be." Repeation of the spell's words sent another flash from the light, this time it ripped into Myst's body, cascading the energy & entrails of all her ancestors into her. She matched Valianna's scream it fading as she too collapsed.
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Then there was one. It was time for Katya to make her decision, and she did not hesitate to scream out the words. "Our fate. The unity of three to one. The destiny of what we and you once were. What we should be, you will give, the ultimate gift of creation, your past living within us. Give us what you see we should be." Her words echoed out as the final beam of light slammed into her frail body, a scream ripping from her as it literally killed her, only her soul remaining in her body.
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"Now drink!" Words of resurection bellowed out from the pool. Giving them the final task for their rebirth.
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Greedily Valianna began to drink from the pool, the words sent new strength throughout her as she excepted her fate. Shards of glass were slicing through as she did, but she did not stop, knowing her body must be fighting the invasion of this new source of life. She felt her energy rising as she grew in strength. She stopped only when the pain began to ease and she learned to accept the changes going through her. Pulling back, she huddled on the floor, curled into a ball as seizures began to rack her body.
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Screams ripped from Myst's lungs as final drop of life fell in unison with her lips to the pool's surface. She drank the blood, chose the new fate that had been blessed upon her. It burned throughout her body, tearing her apart from the inside as it refilled her veins. Sealing off the wounds from her trial, leaving only the scars to remind her of her feat. She threw her body back, bloodied strands of ebony flew backwards spraying up into the air as her form fell back upon the ground, the droplets of vitae fell to coax over her body. Blinding light surrounded her body only to become engulfed within the darkness of shadows silencing the screams as she began her rebirth.
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Katya knew this was going to hurt like nothing else could, for she had been here before, although not actually dead when it occured the first time. Her lips moved instinctively to let her drink the blood, to regive her life as a tidal wave of pain cascaded through every inch of her body. She drank until she could drink no more literally collapsing into the pool as the changes began. Earth shattering pain riddled her insides, ripping and shredding with no regard for the being that encased them. She felt the rips, that slivered her body almost into shards, beginning to heal and she wished for that pain again, not the new one she felt.
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A new legacy has befell the lands of Rhy'Din. Lifes joined by the bond of the same blood, three new creations have been set lose about the realms. An Angel corrupted & fallen into a new plague of sin. A Vampric entity, forsaken as none before, a new shadow lurks behind you in the night. Lastly, a creature of Light & Dark cursed with a Daemonic pressence, raging with new found Fury. Before you stands the destined three to restore a past once forgotten ... Fürøré.
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