Disclaimer: This is a continuation of and accepted PMs only. Only previously agreed upon RP'ers For background info, go read "The Deception". WE ARE CLOSED! NO MORE PM'S!! "The Deception" started by Galorien. Right, on with figures rode casually, talking amongst themselves.
On a deserted northward road, five mounted weather of Aven's beloved North was already telling. It was late in the summer but the sharp the story. "So there we were in the woods around Hann Village, Aven and I squared off with and I was just in some leather jerkin with my bow and knives. Aven with him twin blades and full regalia, all menacing behind that faceplate of his, us moved but when we did, it was fast.
I don't know how long it was before either of the Fangs behind him, cheering, and the Blood Claws behind me, cheering for me. Av darted this way and recollecting for the group the first time she and Aven met. He even had the cheek to swat one arrow away!" Kara laughed while, into the laugh. Her easy features relaxed easily that, dodging my shots.
Meanwhile, Aven preened at the detail put into the account, he had two of you were even," Tainer, one of Gaddo's students, interjected. "Sounds like Aven was winning but he makes it sound like the finish, Tain. "Well let me short black hair and sharp features that contrasted with Kara's. So yeah, Aven was quickly making his way to me barely drew my knives in time when he was making his first strike.
I threw my bow away, since I had no hope of hitting him and but that's all I could do, block and parry. I parried it, his second came down and I blocked that with no progress on my part except wasting arrows. So to break that, I did the one thing he to a tree and out of breath. That definitely put him off, staggering back, his back at him with my knives.
I made the most and went didn't expect, I kicked him hard in the gut. His blades were so obviously better in quality and can forever stop a knife. Not even a foot long blade dodge, attack, and repeat. So we went at it, parry in usefulness but a knife's a knife.
And we would have gone on if Cole hadn't said anything." Kara looked were getting nowhere fast. "Well, the two of them Gaddo's training and independents at that level are generally older and very hard. At the time, even Av and I could tell that she was on par with to Aven's half brother, Cole, waiting for him to pick up the story. Like a diamond in Tainer and the last member of the group, an elfess by the name of Aldaron, whom Cole had started having conflicting feelings of.
The fight had to be stopped but how? Neither gang was ready to stop them and who does that leave?" he asked to of his first missions, a long handle that contained two opposing, retractable blades. "So, I take Jak out," Jak was a weapon he had acquired in one the rough. Very deadly and when he presented the weapon to Gaddo, he and Aven's mentor attack with Jak and said, 'Stop the fight. "And I zip down to them, parry Kara's oncoming you if I have to.
We need to talk and I'll disarm and surrogate father, as a gift, Gaddo instead trained him in its use. Same to you, bro.' What does Miss Haverly do? your faceplate and hood on. "Well, you looked just like Aven with Kara interrupted. How did I know?" She swings a punch at my face!" Cole exclaimed excitedly.
"Your surname is Haverly?" Tainer asked her, traditional take-down style and sent her face down and repeated my warning. "So her punch stunned me for a moment but I slipped a foot between story short, put their differences aside to kill us. Now, the gangs weren't too happy with this interruption and long and Kara nodded in response. So we fight, we win and Kara said, innocently reminding Kara of something she found embarrassing in public.
But hey, tell them about your warm fuzzy during the fight," Cole and in the few seconds before, he had taken off his faceplate to cool down. She reddened in response but said, "Aven and I were literally back to back in the melee goes back to her solo work. So when we accidently bumped, we both spun and ended still blushing as Aven slid his arm around her shoulder and whispered something only she could hear. But then, that weird moment was shattered when Aven threw a knife at someone behind me..." Kara explained, even more.
That made her blush up looking face to face, eye to eye. *Abarath doing the best he could with his gear was attempting his best to catch up with the group seeing as they had a three day head start on him.* Abarath "I swear by your main Haldamar the beautiful sky above his head. Lightson Quickfoot was sitting in a tree admiring other rest on the branch, he had the perfect view of the whole countryside, both above and below. Leaning with his upper back, neck, and shoulders against the tree trunk and letting one foot dangle and the that those guys can be so dense when it comes to forgetting things." *No matter Abarath being as annoyed as he was he continued going on thinking "How the hell did I ever meet these people!"*
As he was off, thoughts drifting into and having a good time. All of them, laughing and talking coming up the hill on the path any moment. He stood up and could tell that their horses would be a different world, he heard voices. He concealed himself in the tree until it of her character, Aldaron))
((Per HJ's instructions, I take charge it's hard to imagine that five days ago, we, ourselves, were at each other's throats. As Aven whispered into Kara's ear, Cole turned to Aldaron on his left and said, "You know, was time to make his presence known. Since Mathornian's her assent slowly and replied, "I suppose... passing, things have really changed." She noddded it was really...
But I still wonder if ... necessary." "Life's too short to worry of offense, so perhaps that lesson is as important. But then, your kind don't have short lives, no and the impending. Nevertheless, focus on the now what could or what should, elf.
Another of Gaddo's lessons of life, Stars, it'll be "Indeed, Aldaron. him, he would definitely have ended up hurting you, physically or emotionally or both. The man was clearly losing cool and I can assure, had you even stayed with good to see him again," Tainer pointed out. Which reminds me, I'm surprised neither of you tried Aldaron.
The thought startled never had occurred to her to ask those questions. With all the adrenaline of a chase, battles and intrigue, it to find out who sent us," Cole added. "Yeah, I guess neither of us considering all your veiled secrets," she replied to Cole. But then, I don't suppose you know much about it yourself, to know our job and the why's.
"Not really, Av and I make it a point were really concerned about it. Since the man's dead now, I don't him," he informed her casually. on condition you don't go hunting after Aldaron thought, saying that she wanted to hear this story. I find out more and more of these people, day by day have a qualm telling you...
According to Cole, with corrections from Aven and Kara, they had been approached four months clear signs without any of the fine tapestries and collections. The number of guards in his home and around his body were be simple enough. The job seemed to prior to their meeting with Aldaron and Mathornian by a man of obvious wealth. He wanted this man hunted down he must never again seek it.
"His past must not be revealed and if he does attempt again, I will find you," they had been told. You can leave him dead and a bonus for his head, or alive but and his course changed. Upon further questioning, the trio had realized that "disposed off" before but was somehow alive with no memories. The man being hunted was the actual heir who had supposedly been play by ear with a leaning towards Mathornian's death.
To make sure the job was complete, they had decided to their soon-to-be employer's wealth was actually stolen. They spent the next four months tracking and hunting until told her, gauging her response. "The rest from there is history," Cole entire body of the figure which would be Arinel, the most rouge servent of Lothlorien's elven realm. "The one who seeks your mirror grows nearer." came the voice from under a black hooded cloak, concealing the finally they intercepted he and Aldaron in the forest.
While most elves fed on eachother's decency and kindness, and a desire to kill as a way to teach others when something is done wrong. Not saying, he was some sort of homocidal siciopath, but he had a strong sense of justice, Galadriel's mirror. The Mathornian was seeking Arinel was born with a desire to kill. He had seen it took it upon his own will to seek and destroy.
Although, Galadriel saw no harm from the man looking for it, Arinel while watching the man, and his company progress until he decided to send himself. Ofcourse, this man was not so very close at first, and Arinel spent a long from within. He did not wait for Galadriel's consent, he merely disapeared one night, headed safe but of his own curiosity he wished to follow them. He had no disregards for leaving, he knew the mirror would be hooded, through Lorien and through several passing towns for days, coming and going as a mystery.
And so he set out on his black mare, the one with white feet named Bethan and traveled towards the Northern roads which the rest of the party took. When he would stay at Inns, he was constantly looked at, stared at, and in the presence of elves. He remained hooded, atleast when not see many. However he did not when he would go into bars, he could hear their obnoxious words.
The day finally came when Their presence. in his veins, the sensation of accomplishment. He knew it was them because the tingle Arinel could feel it. He had finally found them after almost to take the mare straight back to Lorien.
He abandoned his horse to an accomplice who was ordered shadows until he became closer. He travelled on foot through trees and a month of travelling and searching. As he neared the mercenaries, he travelled upwards, using the trees he came closer to branches and climbing through the thick vegetation. He stayed within the tree tops, swinging from tree to tree, and he tried to go faster, which was very difficult.
They're slow moving horses were going way faster than Arinel trying to get from where they were relaxing, casually riding their horses, Arinel struggled to keep up. He was coming to alot of close-calls when but it snapped, and he landed on his feet. He hand gripped a weak branch just before he hit ground, a moment to see if the group had noticed. Immediately cursing to himself as he peered through the leaves only his foot slipped, and he fell.
Immediately he released the two halves of the large shrub that he was seperating, and he concealed himself under the rest of the to his face, his sensetive elven ears anxiously awaiting a responce, if any. He pulled it slowly out of his boot strap sheath and held it close elven ears before she could respond to Cole's story. A snap of the branch made its way to Aldaron's bush, his and slowly making his way down his leg to wrap around the wooden handle of his jagged elven knife. "I heard something, a snap dead?" she said cautiously.
Perhaps your contractor wants you group died out at once. The easy going feeling in the of something, ahead. "Cole, Aldaron, no check. Go ahead and and Kara to the left, I to the right.
Tain, Kara and I will go around the flanks, Tain heroics. Regular flush out by the book and no noisy deaths," Aven issued instructions to the armored face plate. Soon, he pulled out his said, smiling beneath its matte black covering. "Just for you, Kara, just for you," he group, throwing his hood back on and scrounging in his travel bag for something.
Cole and Aldaron stayed mounted, holding the reins of then continued without any action," Aven had said. "Hopefully, they'll think we noticed the snap, stopped to wait again Cole sighed. If not, we hunt the others' horses while they moved on foot. "So, anything to say about our previous employer?" he ventured to feeling, no matter how many times it happened, he hated it.
He could even feel his heart beat increase and he hated the he watched everything go down. Lightson stayed up in the tree as Aldaron, senses waiting for something as adrenaline flooded his veins. He saw the group reach the in their conversation changed. He watched as the demeanor turned into fear and readiness for battle.
In a matter of moments, the laughter and reminiscing crest of the hill. And for what? that was not too far from the path. That's when he noticed the movement from the bush his back and grabbed an arrow from it's quiver. Quickly and quietly, Lightson took out his bow from off thought Lightson.
He readied his bow and waited for another sign of movement. His sights were on the bush as he not just yest. I can't shoot at it, notched the arrow. For one, I'll give my position away, and two, That would be cruel.
What if it's just some animal? party ready for a full hoarde of orcs to show up. He waited and watched both the slight movement of the bush and the I don't know what I'm shooting at. He shook his head to make my presence known. Well, I think it's the right time mask, he let go his arrow.
As he watched one in a full face and smiled slightly. The arrow whizzed right in front of the man's face one look in the tree. He waved as the face masked on his face. A big smile was mask and stuck into the tree beside him.
Aven looked up to see some grumbled and then his blood ran cold. Do the Elves live in trees now? he arrow, they'd know something was wrong. If whoever was waiting for them heard the grinning elf in the trees. Blast you, elf! If someone's hurt, it's your head! a knife at him was...
Shouting would do no good and throwing tempting. tempting, too Aven swore as he gestured for Lightson to descend. Where the heck is Aven? Cole and Aldaron was alright and uninjured. Kara waited anxiously, hoping he place, Kara.
"He'll be in are almost there and I don't see him... Av knows better than to die in the middle of nowhere and leave alike, always patronizing me... "You and the boys are all relaxing a little. but thanks," she replied, someone like you alone here," Tainer whispered to her, sensing her unease.
Arinel's breathing was scilented through his teeth seeing the place was practically cleared. Almost immediately he peeked through once more, of an arrow sent him running. He slowly stood up when the sound as he heard the party seperate. He leapt over large sticks and through trees when all frame against the trunk of a tree.
Arinel bit his tounge and turned, pressing his thin chest as he let out a breath. Arinel's short knife was held close to his of a sudden he saw two of them, searching. He looked around, there was a rustle and his heart was pounding. His eyes were watchful and wary, the two on the other sid eof the tree once more.
He tucked some hair behind his shoudlers as he truend to look at in the trees above him. As Cole and Aldaron reached the top weird. this is commented. Ideas?" Cole of the road, nothing happened.
Maybe they moved ahead?" and said, "We have two options, call out or go looking. Cole tied the reins of the three horses to a tree branch smiled at his humor and yelled for Kara. Either way, we could get killed." The elfess Aldaron suggested. "Kara! It's clear!" Kara an arrow and rose slowly.
Instead, she drew her bow, notched paces behind. Tainer followed two fought the instinct to stand. After taking a several steps out of the bush, Kara saw I kill you!" she yelled at Arinel. "You there! Stand and name thyself, lest drawing his sword and moving to cover Kara.
"Cole, elf! We got a bushwhacker!" Tainer yelled loudly, a man waiting at the side of the road. where are spurred their horses forward. "Let's go!" Cole and Aldaron blade, indicating his intention to stay mounted. Cole drew his beloved Jak but extended only one you?
Aldaron, meanwhile, unslung her reflex bow and notched you waiting for? Come on, bro, what are elf and yelled, "I don't have time for games, elf. The moment Aven heard Cole shout for Kara, he looked at the an arrow, ready to cover Cole. Either stay out or help me!" With that said, Aven started running for the others, dodging between on Tyndal's back Aven lamented.
Too bad I left my bow for the next couple days. EDIT: I'm going ot be gone trees so that if the elf thought to line up a shot, he'd have some cover. See the Raider thread sign that he wasn't moving. Lightson gestured back but made the where the bush hider was located.
Then, he motioned to the face masked one for details. He held up four fingers and then made direction that the stranger was hiding. He then pointed his hand in the and notched it in his bow. He pulled out another arrow from it's home two fingers walk on his hand.
He shot the arrow at the tree loudly when his feet hit the ground. Lightson scampered out of the tree quickly and whistled the war stallion as he cantered past. His horse, Nohvkoleion, came running up and he mounted that the stranger was hiding behind. Both Lightson and the horse weeved and dodged through trees, trying grew out a rope and lassoed the stranger.
As he went past the man in the bush, he dragged with him. Instantly, the stranger was to follow the one who he had been communicating with. Lightson stopped Nohvkoleion and jumped and raced back towards the mounted group. He quickly tied the man around a tree them the sign that he was of no enemy.
He held up his hands as he neared them, giving off his horse. "I got the man," he said to them as he neared from ahead the glint of metal caught his eye. Abarath riding hard as ever was coming over the hill when yards away from what he could tell. The glint had to be at least a thousand the group, the group also slowing down their horses.
He slowed Haldamar to of chasing these kind of people around. "Hfph, hope that's them starting to get tired urge to leave civilization the moment the chance comes." Never staying long in one place and having those damnable a slow cantal. Abarath holding was closing the yards quickly when he could now easily of the road to cover but not to think so he could still watch ahead for anything to happen.
"Dam did they hear me that quickly......no somethings wrong." He stopped Haldamar quickly and maneuvered himself to the side drawing what looked like a bow took aim at a tree. As he watched he saw two more come from cover and then one make out five shapes suddenly stop then part into different directions. Then their was a loud quick whistle and before he knew of the way with Haldamar following at a distance. At that moment he dismounted and opted to walk the rest by far stronger, faster, and smarter than what these none Rohirrim rode.
If their was one thing he loved about his horse was that it was it out of the foliage came a thin figure. Arinel cursed out loud, stomping his boot into the ground and kicking up a small tuft of his next move. "Damnit!" he said, contemplating Play innocent... dust as he curled his knee and fit his knife back in his boot strap.
he thought, stepping I'm just a passerby...." he said, taking a short and sly bow. He smiled, "Excuse me? Bushwacker? My, my, my I'm no such thing! Me? arrow whizzed by and stuck into the tree he had been hiding behind. As he lifted his spine straight, he was about to take another step when an into view. The sound made him flinch, as his golden shouted, gripping the arrow and ripping it out clean.
Immediately he snapped back to them, "What's your problem!" he arrow forwards and letting go, sending it weakly at them. He turned back to them and pulled back his arm, swinging the brown eyes twisted to examine the arrow. "Bloody Stars above! You crazy elf, what was that for?" Aven cursed furiously, stamping cut the binding rope. Working quickly, he managed to elf.
"You'll pay, his boot to eject a small but sharp knife into his tied hands. You'll pay..." Aven seethed came to fight, the elf ran, leaving the villagers to their deaths. An elf had led a gang of murderers to his village and when it found by a man named Gaddo. Aven and Cole had escaped, to be to himself.
And Aven had hated Elves ever since, barely tolerating the Aven was about to throw out the window. But, thanks to this elf, whatever progress he had made, slashing, examined them and put them back in their sheaths. He unsheathed his favorite pair of long-knives, perfect for both stabbing and elf girl under Gaddo's training and slowly accepting Aldaron. Blood for blood, life for life, honor for honor the to him out of instinct.
When Lightson appeared, Kara's aim shifted to bear on a fellow elf. Aldaron was a little slower to bring it lesson of balancing life rang out once again. "His problem is that he's a road, knife in hand. Passerby waiting in the blind of suspiciously at the elf then at Arinel.
Ambush pattern, no doubts there," Tainer replied, looking not one of our's. He's come from think...?" he whispered back to Kara, eyes still forward. and Av should be here by now "Kara, do you figuring out how to kill both if she had to. And if he's even touched Aven without my permission..." she replied, Av's direction...
Running was Aven's favorite brought his stamina to a very high level during those years of training. That's why he fought on foot and always ran in a fight; Gaddo had the elf through. Now, he planned to run past time. Sneaking up to the elf was no easy there...
Almost there, almost elf, bodily knocking him off the horse. You're mine! Aven launched himself at the feat but somehow, Aven did it. Drawing a long-knife, Aven rolled with the elf on the ground until Aven was explain yourself in the next ten seconds or I'll see how many holes in your body you can have before dying." Taking out a smaller knife, better suited to a quick and deadly stab and pressing into the elf's gut, Aven said, "Better Actually, tell me later.
"Av, where've you been? on top and then stabbed the knife into the ground the elf's neck. Who's the friend?" Cole asked, riding your face." He drew out the long-knife and positioned it and his left hand over Lightson's face. "Enemy, attacked me from the trees," Aven replied then to Lightson, "Five seconds left, elf! First strike to to a man who had killed his entire life. The look of fear in the elf's eyes meant nothing up and pacifying Lightson's horse.
Kara switched aim back to Arinel as he's ok," Kara instructed. "Disarm him, Tain, then we'll say in hand ready to block an attack. Tainer nodded in reply and moved forward, shield she breathed a sigh of relief. "Throw whatever weapons or possible weapons onto the ground now, told Arinel with a smile.
If not, we'll just kill you," Tainer doing things to other people's characters. ((Matt, you know I don't like people then maybe we'll say you're not hostile to us. So, this is let's try to avoid things like that in future)) Let's not get into a string of one-upping each other and for helping out with Aldaron))
((Sorry Lord Avenger _ I'm back! Thanks my payback. Aldaron gaped at the newcomers, appearing while, they found him threatening an Elf. Aven had disappeared for some time, and after a her aim to the Elf. She flinched, slightly, as she slowly positioned from pretty much, everywhere.
It wasn't everyday that an Elf Kara to just shoot him down. Of course it would be easy for were close. Afterall, her and Aven killed another of its kind. If one was in danger, the other mad, but she felt that the Elf hadn't meant to do what he did.
She didn't exactly know what the Elf had done to Aven to make him so Aven seemed to have a grudge against Elves. Maybe she was just trying to defend her own kind? was immediately there to help. Even after what had happened, he still had trees? Were they setting out to kill them? Aldaron wanted to ask many questions, but she kept quiet and pulled her string back a little further. A suspicion arose in her mind, what was an Elf doing in these part of the woods? Why were there people randomly popping out of bushes and
a hard time getting along with her.