awww...I was having fun playing with the butterflies...*tiredly gets up and sends several small droplets of water towards the butterfly-fairy thing* *being unable to see them, she can't dodge them, but the water eventually gets into her wings, soaking them and bringing her down due to the weight of the water* *Rana walks over and softly pets the mad butterfly-fairy's wing* Really, you shouldn't get mad. We were only trying to play...*transmits more water droplets through this light touch, making the weight even heavier and unbalanced, making it even harder for it to fly*

YAY, DIE DIE BUTTERFLY!!!! *leaps at butterfly fairy thing with Sanguine poised to strike, insane look on my face*

fairy butterfly: u have harmed one of our kind and here i had thought you could help us!

YEAH RIGHT xDD *joins silveera* teehee ^^

Hahah *laughs insanely* @Rana, I'm not playing, (bar-if-ra, means butterfly) You were saddly mistaken Fathwey (farth-way)(means fairy in Nathen, which is the native tounge of Netherdarke) I enjoy killing delicate little Barifra.

@Silveera: Well, I don't. But if this...fathwey barifra is planning on hurting my firends, then yes, I'll stop her. IC: *the barifra struggles to fly, but eventually she collapses onto the ground. She stands up and glares evilly at us, her wings drooping heavily* *I have now made them so heavy that it's nearly impossible to move them, let alone shake the water out or fly* You cannot hurt us, faerie. Plus undertand this. Do not take revenge. Leave this place before more of your people are killed. Will you do that?

we will leave, but where to? we have been driven from our lands to here our last place, but we shall leave, take heed though of a creature that has terrorized this land for many years and has killed many of our kind, not just the butterfly folk, but our warriors as well *butterfly fairy tries to leave,but her wings are too heavy, her worry, saddness, and anger showing through her eyes*

(pushed enter by accident xD) * a looming shadow begins to spread over the once bright meadow and all happiness seems to be sucked out of the air and the fairy seems to weaken even more*

Go, GO! *rana shouts at the fairy butterfly, boosting her up with a small water sphere that floats her far away* *rana turns to see the cause of the giant shadow, and gasps*

*a looming mass of shadows swirls in the skies and large red eyes gleam in the massive smoky mass. An eerie laugh that vibrates everyone eches across the meadow* little butterfly friend: he's here! you best get away from here! *flutters safely out of range but still in sight*

*gets ready to help her friends and the poor butterflies* (sorry i've not been on lately, stupid teachers and their homework, plus, my parents took away my internet rights on my laptop)

*stands there clueless* .__. *nomnomnom on twix bar*

(xD the kit-kat bar song is in my head xD @ lom: yep been there before lol) *i change into my dragon kitty form and pose watching the approaching mass of darkness* sry little butterfly buddy , but a dragon kitty doesn't run from danger! *the dark mass laughs harder and louder and the skies begin to change from the once bright blue to a dull reddish black hue* (whoa creepy! xD)

*Rana getsw a super serious scary look on face* OOC: There has to be a nearby stream. That's all I'm saying. IC: *grabbing huge amounts of power from the nearby stream, Rana creates a water tight rope and jumps on* *forming two huge water discs above the palms of her hand, Rana dashes forward, straight towards the gigantic massive shadow* HAAARRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! (battle cry) *Rana throws the two huge discs at the shadow cloud, slicing it completely for just a moment* *coming ever closer to it, Rana pulls out Mizu and begins to swipe furiuosly at it, runing in constant circles underneath* OOC: No, I generally don't run away from danger either, little faerie butterfly ^_^"

*stuffs rest of candy into mouth and morphs into dragon form* rawr. i likes to fight :3

*the dark mass continues to move forwards unstopped and unheeded and then come to a rest at a nearby stream ( ) and the darkness starts to seep off of its body and a faint shape begins to appear and the eyes get even brighter*

O.o

*Rana charges forward even faster, slicing Mizu mercilessly at the body with the bright shining eyes* *Bellowing ferociously, she plunges Mizu into the body, then dives gracefully into the stream* *Becoming Ryisha, she swims back and forth along the stream, coercing it to from huge waves which crash powerfully against the beast* *She does this over and over, calling on the power of the stream to continue to batter at him, forcing him further and further down, and leaving him unable to attack* *When Ryisha has used the last of the energy that the stream will give her, she swoops out and transforms into Rana, grabs Mizu, and in one graceful move, slices straight at the shining eye* OOC: I haz skillz...ya'll better catch up!

o.O *stands there* wows. *suddenly a large green gaseos plume erupts from mah butt* xD serefart *almost dies from laughing and the smell*

OOC:...you're just gonna let me fight this guy by myself aren't you...Can't you come up with some new tricks to counter me or something? No one is fighting for the bad guy... I hash an idea though, but it's kinda a stretch...Maybe the guy could get his power from darkness in the water? It's a strange power, very rare, but also really powerful. Unless anyone has a better idea...

well, maybe he gets his power from shadows.... would kinda suck for us tho....

OOC: Hmmm...shadows would probably actually work better, because there aren't any deep water sources nearby. I will, however, keep that power-type in mind for future bad guys. Oh, and since you all are not playing the bad guy, how 'bout I do that for a bit? I love playing the bad guy! *evil grin* IC: *The monster roars in agony, thrashing back and forth* *suddenly, his whole body turns a deep fiery red, with black shadows swirling amongst it* *he reaches up two massive hands, grabbing Rana and throwing her to the ground* *with each hand, he throws two dark spikes that fly after rana and dive into her arms as she falls, pinning her to the ground* *Rana is unable to move, and the black spikes are permanently lodged in her arms and are sucking out her blood* *the monster roars again and soars into the sky, blocking out the sun and drawing power from his own shadow that he casts upon the ground* *with this extra power, he grows immensely bigger in seconds, nearly blocking out the whole sky*

*Appears in a burst of Void-fire and swings Sanguine at the creature* OOC: I'm very weak against dark element creatures, and they can control me very easily if they're stronger than me (which this thing obviously is) IC: *as Sanguine penetrates it's body, a tounge of the roiling black energy extends and raps its self around me* *I fall to the ground screaming as it disappears into my body* *I lay still for a few seconds, when suddenly my eyes snap open they are still the ordinary red, but the whites of my eyes are black as pitch. I get to my feet and draw a flame wreathed Sanguine in one fluid motion before running at Rana, ready to strike her while she is helpless*

o.O welll...im pretty good at fighting...im not so sure about dark creatures, but ill give it a try 8D *runs after silveera and tackle huggles her* teehee! HUGS SOLVE EVERYTHING!! ^^ xD

i'm not a good ofensive fighter, i'm better defensivly, sooo * rushes to Rana and tries to pull out the spikes, but is shocked with dark power* ouch!!! hmmm, maybe i should try cutting the spikes? *raises uber-sharp tail and tries to slice the spikes, but, beacuse of the power being drawn from rana's blood, my tail only makes a slight dent* nooo! *looks around at the huge roaring creature in the sky, and the possessed Silveera and Serenity* me friends!*trears stream down my face, but as i look around me i get really mad and raising my face to the monster ahead, who has almost compleatly blocked the sun, i suddenly fell a hatred so strong that it turns my blue silver streaked wings dark blue and blood red streked, and i take off into the sky again, as i head toward the monster, one of the few rays of sunlight left hit my blue and red wings and the light hits the monster in the face, the dark creature roars in pain and fury*

*Rana is semi-unconcious, unable to move her body, but her mind is battling furiously with the dark power stealing her strength* *in her mind, great flashes of light followed by overwhelming darkness struggle for power* *in a last, desperate attempt, rana searches out the power held in her emblem, and releases a small amount of it, which, even though it was only a fractional part of the emblem's power, is enough to completely dominate the darkness, at least for a while* *now fully concious, rana struggles against the dark spikes holding her down, but she can't get enough strength to lift them straight up* LOM! Help me!!

*throws serenity off and transforms into dragon form, but now glowing red glyphs cover my body and my eyes are red not blue* *Roars in rage and launches after LOM, catching up in a few seconds I slam into LOM's back sinking my claws into LOM's shoulder and abdomen and clamping my jaws onto LOM's wing arm I shake my head, breaking the wing arm and tearing the membrane* *I release LOM as she plumets into the ground*

hmm... *shakes fist* u have failed me, huggles! lol *flies toward silveera and smacks her upside the head dramatically* WEEEEE! *picks up the injured lom and runs away*

(wow a lot has gone one since i've been gone xD) *notices that the creature's weakness is light and immediately gets an idea * hey you buttmunch (xD) creature come down here and show us what ur made of! *takes flight and flies over to the stream and gathers up some of the water and freezes it into a smallish crystal* perhaps if we can refract the light from this crystal into his eyes we may weaken him!

*A loud roar is heard in the distance, in the direction of a large forest* *At the sound of the roar I start to roar in pain, and the glyphs on my body start to flicker, as though something is fighting them off* OOC: You guys are about to meat one nasty character ^^

o craps O_O *ditches lom and runs at least five miles away*

*as catc flashes light in the eyes of the dark monster, his spikes weaken their hold on Rana, and she is able to forcefully pull them out* All righty, shadow beasty. If you want light, I'll give you light! *Rana creates a water tightrope and dashes off towards the shadow creature* *before she can get there however, a huge roar fills the forest again* *turning around, Rana sense a great disturbance* Uh-ohz...*she dashes off towards the noise, trying to slow it down* OOC: Silveera, I need to know what it is...

*A colossal dragon comes crashing out of the forest, he has no wings, instead he has an extra pair of arms* *two imense horns curve backwards from his wedge shaped head, at the end of his left horn is gold clasp with a chain of rubies and sapphires the size of mens heads. Cat-fish like whiskers curve from his bottom jaw and behind his nostrils* *He roars again, and the glyphs on me disappear completely and a cloud of darkness burst from my mouth* *The dragon stops about 50 yards from the weakened shadow beast, he snarls revieling huge sharp teeth* *His neck arches and a glow begins in his chest travelling up his neck and burst forth as a torent of white flame, engulfing the shadow beast* *A shrill cry is heard as the shadow beast is destroyed by the dragons flame* *the dragon closes his massive jaws, cutting off the flow. He turns to our group and considers us with his enormous Sapphire eyes* *he speaks in a voice like thunder* I am Raide.

OOC: Wait...2 questions. Is he a good guy or a bad guy? O.o And are you still in evil scary form Silveera??? IC: *Rana breaths a sigh of relief when the dark monster is destroyed, and crumbles and falls into the ground* *But then rana looks back and forth between Silveera and Raide, utterly confused*

OOC: Generaly speaking he's a good guy. He is the original dragora, except he's not a vampire like the rest of us. He's about 4000 years old. He has complete and utter controll of all dragoras, which is why the shadow beasts possesion of me was dispelled. So i'm reasonably good normal Silveera now. IC: *I'm shaking with utter terror, Rama (Raide's daughter) made the entire dragoran race believe that raide was a traitor, bent on destroying our race* crap *I start to back away, which causes his eyes to lock on me in an angry glare* Raide: Stop! *An invisible force prevents me from moving* How is it two dragons, a Human-Valden (Valden means mermaid) and a tainted dragora come to be in my hidden valley?

*has fallen to the ground and blacked-out, but upon hearing the voice of the dragora, i struggle to consiousness and find my wing nearly ripped off, the strange dark creature gone, and a new challenge waiting**wimpers*this just hasn't been a good day *this causes the dragora to look at me, taking his attention away from Silveera for a split second, as his gaze makes me freeze in fear*

OOC: Actually...I'm human elf. But Raide can call me a Human-Varden if he wishes. Also...I thought this valley belonged to the butterflies...????? IC: *Although Rana is not affected by Raides power, she cautiously takes several steps backward, waiting for his next move* *looking around for just a second, she sends a small yet powerful healing sphere towards lom, fusing her wing back together and unfreezing her*

O.O dats one big dragon * lands down beside of rana and silveera and gives Raide a curious look*

*places one hand on catc's head, the other on Silveera's shoulder, and sends them both huge waves of healing power for future use if need be* *approaches Raide* What do you wish of us? We are only hear to free this valley of the tainted dragon and return it as a home to the faeries. If you wish us to leave, we shall do so, but only with your consent that you will allow the faeries to live here in peace. Will you do so?

thankies rana n.n *stands a little taller even though Raide is still like 2 times bigger than me and arches tail up a little but the blade tip down to not seem threatening*

*rana floats upward on a swirling disk of water so that she is face to face with Raide, a most serious and determined expression on her face* Well? Do you accept, or do you wish to fight?

*floats up a little ways but stops as Raide's eyes slowly peer at all of us straight into our eyes as if looking through our very souls and thoughts*

*Raide smirks obviously ammused by Rana seriousness* Raide: The Farthwey and Barifra have always been welcome in my valley. It is as much there home as mine.... And besides *suddenly Rana disk of water bursts apart and she falls into one of raides massive hands. His gaze flicks to me briefly* I can't let you leave now that one of my daughters underlings knows where I am. *Vines suddenly soot out of the ground, wrapping around us, preventing us from moving* *In a vain attempt, I breathe a torent of Void fire at the vines holding me. A shocked look flickers across Raides face, before he scowls angrily* Raide: I see, so you have a rare tallent Varus. *His last word causes me to his in anger, and start struggling against the vines holding me*

OOC:@rana, thankies for healing me RP: *struggles against the vines, and manages to start sawing away at the vines with me uber-sharp tail, but very carefully so as not to draw attention to me self, i has soon got most of them cut at the base, so their still draped over me, but not holding me**pauses to look around at everybody struggling against the vines, and wonders what to do with out drawing the wrath of Raide*

O.o there is no need Raide to bind us in these vines! *tries to no advail slash through the vines, but as I struggle the vines get tighter and tighter until they are so tight I can no longer struggle. In haste I breathe out an icy breath that crystalizes over the vines and the vines seem to weaken but they repain themselves after a few seconds. My scales slowly start to change a new color from the purplish blue to a darker color*

OOC: @Silveera: Umm...just to let you know, it's physically impossible for Raide to control my water. It's linked with me, permanently, and the only way to make it do something I don't tell it to do is to kill me, but I'm not dead yet. Just for future reference, don't steal my water. IC: *rana stays very very calm, holding all her water power within herself so that the vines do not sap that power* *eventually, the vines begin to loosen, and rana quietly slips out, also trying to avoid attention like lom* *siliently uses three water disks to slice all the vines choking Catc*

*as the vines loosenmy color leaves its blackened color my eyes changing back from a pale blue to their usual lime green* thank you rana *takes in a deep breath and watches Raide warily for his next move*

*very slowly, so slowly that it looks like i'm not moving, i inch my way over to everybody else, the vines still covering me*

(sneaky sneaky! xD)

OOC: I think Raide would have noticed us by now... IC: *Raide snorts and sends a torrent of flame (Can he breathe fire??) vrashing just above our heads* *the heat is nearly unbearable, but by flinging herself to the ground, Rana is able to not get burned* OOC: As in...hint hint IC: *The flame stops, and Rana jumps up, and begins to tightrope-run around Raides head, constantly distracting him with water tendrils and discs aimed at his eyes* NOW!!! GET THE JEWEL!! *Rana flies down and punches Raide on the nose...not doing much damage but definitely infuriating him*

*Suddenly, I somehow manage to summon enough energy to teleport in front of the jewel, Turning into my Vampire form, but still with my wings, tail, horns and claws. Sanguine appears in my hand in a burst of black fire and I summon a ring of fire surrounding the jewels, but I don't attack them. Instead I ready my self to stop any attemp at damaging them, even if it means killing one of you*

*veers away before attacking the jewels* *in a loud voice* I THINK WE SHOULD ALL STOP AND TAKE STOCK! now Raide what did we do to deserve being trapped in those blasted tight vines for? *is at eye level with raide*

Raide: I can't let you leave when one of Rama's underlings knows my where abouts! *at being called one of Rama's underlings, I lose it* Klaarg damn it, I an NOT one of Rama's underlings... I was trying to kill that homocidal B**ch before she banished me from the citidel! *Raide turns his head, the ring of fire still hovering around the jewels. He looks at me doubtfully* Raide: Do you realy expect me to believe you?

OOC: Rama?? Oh, wait differnt person, sorry. At first I thought you were talking about me...and wait a sec....why are you protecting the jewels??? *is very confuzzled* IC: *Rana floats downward, looking very warily at both SIlveera and Raide as they...debate heatedly, and prepares to step in should the...conversation...get violent* *other than that, Rana is just very confused*

what if we were to promise not to tell where this place is n.n *stays hoovered in the air watching the debate as well but strangely my eyes keep flashing slightly to the light blue*

OOC: I doubt Raide would trust us with that promise, even though I, like you, would never try to seek out this...Rama...to betray Raide, even if he did try to hurt us. IC: *Begins to meditate, drawing out the power in her emblem, and transferring some of it to Silveera and Catc* OOC: This is a huge gift, I have a ton of power in there... IC: *Both Silveera and Catc are greatly strengthened...plus you both also have some portion of my healing powers* OOC: I'm going to take this back after we're done...twould be awful if I had to fight against my own power.

OOC: Seeled in each jewel is the soul of the one of the last dragons of Netherdarke, There was a HUGE war between the humanoid races and the dragons, it was started by a group of youger dragons, who believed that they were the most powerful beings in netherdarke. So they began killing the livestock of the humans, chased the elves and Braag(cat-men) from their homes and killed many Valden. After many years of fighting there were only one dragon left, Klaarg, who had sealed the souls six other dragons with in six flawless gems(the ones Raide wears on his horn). The only race that didn't fight the dragons were the Elthren, who were a long lived race, with ancestors of both elf and human. Raide was the leader of our race, he found Klaarg dying in a secret valley and they made a pact. Klaarg gave Raide and his kin the ability to take the form of dragons, so that the memory of them would live on, in return Raide promised to protect the dragon stones (thats what the jewels are called) and someday bring back the true dragons. IC: *stops arguing with Raide long enough to talk to the others* You guys may be able to keep that promise but I can't. If Rama finds me she can force me to tell her. She has the same control over the dragora that Raide does. *looks... glares at Raide* How about, instead of arguing about this, you turn into your normal form and we talk about this like civilized beings? *Raide seems to think this a decent idea, as a vortex of wind surrounds him, and shrinks down and disappears. Revealing Raide in his Elthren form. (Picture Byakuya from bleach, only with longer dark silver almost black hair, yellow eyes, slightly pointed ears and dressed in a forest green tunic, loose brown pants and grey, hooded cloak)

OOC:BLEACH!!! ICwell, so much for the subterfuge, *shakes off vines and prances up to everybody as we all gather around Raide and Silveera* so, let me see if i got this straight...

OOC: *unplugs ears* I take it you like Bleach? IC: *Lands on the ground beside Lom, wings, tail and horns deisappearing in a burst of black fire*

Ooc;u think? it very good manga and anime!! oh, yeah, about comment before, aciddently hit wrong button, sooo, to continue IC: raide doesn't much care if we *points to catc, rana, and myself* leave, but u expect us to be able to leave one of our own*points at silveera* just because some other called rama can get ur location form her? first, that stinks and i'm not leaving Silveera and i'm not staying here with u Raide, no offense tho *looks at raide catiously* and second, if u have such power and control over dragoras oh powerful raide, y can't u just take away Silveera's memory of this particlular place? it would solve a lot of problems peacefully. *turns to Silveera* course, it would mean the loss of a part of ur memory, sorry bout that...

OOC: How far are you in the manga? IC: *raides face doesn't show any emotion as he answers LOM* Raide: Do you know what it does to a person when you tamper with their minds?

OOC: not very far, but my friend has a jacket with the bleach characters on it, thats how i found out, but that twas only a little while ago IC: *is a little nervous* well, i'm guessing its not a very precise art, and if something were to go wrong, they could probably lose the mind entirerly, or at least, not remember anything at all, but, well, can't u not do that considering ur like, u know able to control practically everything she does? *looks at Silveera real quick* not that i want to put u in any danger if Raide can't do that, but i'm not fond of u staying here with Raide *looks around at Rana* what do u think?

OOC: Way to come in at the perfect time, lol IC: What I think? *slowly steps up to Raide and looks at him squarely in the eye* I think you are a rather despicable dragon, keeping us imprisoned like that, and then trying to hurt us. However, I think you fight for a good, even if it is not for our good. So, I shall not fight you, nor shall I attempt to steal your gems, or destroy them. Instead, this...Rama, it seems, has an uncanny amount of control over both you and our friend Silveera--a control so great I shudder to think what she will do with it. So...with your permission, I would like to seek out this Rama and destroy her. *nods at LOM* That's what I think

A swell idea, Rana! (hehehehee i said swell xD such a funy word) I think it sounds like a cool journey what do you think Raide since you are the in a way the deciding vote here…. *flies back down to the ground and sits patiently and swishes tail softly across the grass watching Raide with bright green eyes* n.n

hmm, that sounds good to me too *nods back at rana, waits to hear from Raide* OOC: mes agree with u catc, swell is a funny word to say

*Can't resist grinning in a very happy way* That's a perfect Idea Rana, *looks at Raide* If my friends plan is agreeable to you, will you alow us to leave so we can hunt down Rama? *Raide looks thoughtful for a few minutes* Raide:You would each have to give me something that guaranties you will carry out your promise. *I nod* me: I expected as much *I take of my choaker with the black, pointed, sideways cross. As I undo the clasp, my skin turns slightly gray, and my eyes dull from bright glowing red, to a pale brown-ish red. Sanguine also disappears from my hand* Take my Void cross, If this doesn't guarenty I return, nothing will

OOC: I just love making rp's progressively more and more interesting. Tis part of being an author I guess, lol. @Catc: Swell is fun, but the best is flabbergasted. IC: I was rather hoping you could come with us Raid,e since your powers would be most beneficial but...if this is what you wish... *draws out Mizu and places it before Raide, bowing in the process* I will not leave this in your possession for long, that I promise. *steps back and waits for Lom and Catc to produce their gifts*

OOC: want a wird word?... how about Snottygobble XD bet you can't guess what it is... IC: Raide: As much as I would like to accompany you, my daughters strength has far exceeded mine since the day she became a Vampire. Though, mind you. She is weak to all elements except earth, lightning and ordinary fire.

OOC: Snottygobble isn't an english word... IC: *Adressing Raide* And you expect us, who together are weaker than you, to defeat your daughter with only a fraction of our powers as you horde our weapons? Why do you expect of us that which you yourself cannot do? Join with us, combine your full power with ours, and we will surely defeat your daughter.

OOC: Yes it is, It's a type of tree that grows in south-western Australia. IC: *Raide looks as though he is battling internally with himself* *after a few minutes he sighs* Raide: Very well. I will come with you, but you should know that while I am gone with you, this valley will be vulnerable to beasts very similar to the one I just killed.... However freeing my people of my daughtrs insanity is more important

OOC: Wow...that difenitely IS a weird word then! Silveera pwns the weird words!!! *hands silveera trophy* IC: *Rana smiles happily* Then when we come back we can always beat the crap outta them anyway! ^-^ OOC: Btw...I did most of the killing of that dude... IC: *Rana picks up Mizu, and does a mix between a skip and a soldier's march, chanting in a sing-songy tune* Off to beat Rama, Rama here we come, we're coming, oh Rama, to beat the crap outta you *Raide makes a coughing/snort noise, and points in the opposite direction* Rama is that way. *Rana turns around and continues the same gait in the direction that Raide points* ^_^" I knew that...

n.n heeheehee we be goin on a journey yays *prances forwards following Raide and the others tail happily in the air* butterfly friend: (yes he has been there the whole time xD) farewell friends may luck be on your side!

OOC: ...I thought butterfly friend left...huh... IC: *skips a few days as we travel closer and closer to Rama* *As we travel, the landscape becomes noticibly darker and harsher, with more rocks, less grass, mountains draw nearer and nearer, their foreboding presence discouraging the travelers* *these mountains cause the sun to take longer to rise, so each morning is darker than the last* OOC: I don't know what kind of environment Rama actually lives in, so I'll wait for Silveera to show us exactly how we meet her.

OOC: oh the butterfly friend was watching the whole while froma distance.... IC: *notices that change in scenery and sees different wildlife as well. my eyes still keep flashing briefly to a bright blue and back to their usual green color*

OOC: *Takes trophy from rana* Thank you, thank you... and Knock before you enter my mind rana, 0.0 you described EXACTLY what the outlands look like. IC: *As we travell further and further into the outlands, the sides of some of the mountains take on regular, un-natural patterns surrounded in heavey fog. As an intense, howling wind picks up, they are revield as ruined stone door ways carved into the mountain side. Where two mountains meet there is a huge gate, that greatly resembles the front of a huge cathedral. At the very highest point of the gate is a sideways, pointed cross, exactly like the one on my choker* We should stop here for a rest before we continue, the citidel is on the other side of those gates. *Raide nods in agreement* Raide: Also, if the laws of the citidel haven't changed, if you have alternate forms, you should change now, you cannot enter the citidel as dragons. *I nod* Me: The laws haven't changed.... I'll be back in a minute. *I walk of into the gloom, coming back a few minutes later with a root of some kind* I have to dye my hair..... *after a few curious looks, I explain* ^^' I'm the only dragora with white hair (Most dragora either have black, dark silver or gold-blonde hair)

*looks at Raide hesitantly* did u say we couldn't enter as dragons? Raide:*nods head solomly* Me: uh, well, this is gonna be kinda hard then, *looks around at everybody* u see, my people are all dragons, be we do have this latent ability to leave our bodies, and become little more than wind. the only problem is, its very hard for those of us with this power to come back, we get lost in the air, and have little to tie us to our selves, only 3 of my kind have had strong enough bonds to come back to their bodies, many others have been lost. *seems to shrink even smaller**wispers* my sister was one of them that never came back

*Looks troubled for a few minutes* I could use a spell to turn you into a human.... at least until we find Rama.... *a pained look flickers in my eyes for a second* but it means I will be linked to Void the entire time your human... OOC: Though I use void energy to produce void-fire, i'm only linked to void for a few seconds. Using an extended spell, means drawing constant energy from void.... which means a constant link to void. And void is NOT a friendly place. It is an endless black space, the only thing that exist there is a constant howling wind. And you are in agony the entire time your linked to or are in void. IC: *Raide looks at me suspiciously* Raide: How is it you can do spells and control void energy..? and now that I think about it, that sword you used before, looked alot like a priest's blade. *I look away, a guilty expression on my face*

OOC: whad u do to the preisty Silveera? IC: i don't know if a spell would work, i mean, I've never been human before i might not know how to walk and stuff on those spindley back legs.. it doesn't look that hard tho

hmmmm...... could u changing into another animal not nessicarily a human? @silveera: should I as well die my hair since it too will be an odd color? it will be a mix of black and then smallish streaks of pale purple? *gazes at the large gates intrihued by the symbols adorning the massive gate*

OOC: Umm...sorry, I didn't mean to describe it exactly...it's just that in sotries whenever you get closer to danger and evil, the landscape almost always changes like that...so I was just kinda guessing...wow...O.O IC: Hmm....I might have an idea. I've never tried this before, but lets see...*Rana closes her eyes, concentrating fiercely on something* *slowly, two small gems emerge from Rana's forehead* *one is a bright silver with a black dot, the other is pure black with a silver dot* These are my best anchor devices, they are always able to find where the other is, and they are always connected to each other. If you swallow one in your body, and hold one in your spirit, so long as your spirit stays intact and touching the gem, it should always find it's way back to the body. One problem, since they're always trying to attract each other, the farther away you are from your body, the more force you have to use in order to move or attack. It's the only way I can think of though to allow you to escape your body with full assurance of returning. Also, since it uses none of my own power, you may keep it as long as you like, but I expect a huge boon in return, as these gems are one-of-a-kind and very powerful. *nods toward the door* So long as this Rama has no problem with the...Variya (just made up that name to describe human-elf), I should be ok.

*is trying to avoid answering Raide's question* @Catc, animal forms are fine, as long as they look.... reasonably normal. And dying your hair isn't necessary, many dragora streak their hair so you should be fine.

whew okays and hopefully lime gree eyes are okay too n.n *decides to go ahead and change into my other form and in a few seconds I am no longer my usual form and it feels strange to be one two legs and have no wings. My clothes are a black with a few purple lines along the collar and the sleeves and my hair goes down to just below my shoulders and is a bit curly and a necklace shaped like a diamond shape appears around my neck witha cat's eye in the center* so raide how abouts to we go in battling this rama? do you know og any weaknesses that may help us?

*raide completely ingnores catc and continues to stare at me coldly* *I start fidgeting (I hate being stared at, it creeps me out)* *Raide finaly loses patience* Raide: Answer me! *despite how much I fight, I can't disobey his direct order* Me: before you jump to any conclussions I didn't kill any priests....

<.< >.> *watches both silveera and raide as they speak*

I...I'm.... I'm the high priestess of void, I was born with the ability to controll the very energy of void, as well as Slaya, the queen of Void. *Raide's jaw drops and he looks completely shocked..... it would be funny if the circumstances were different* Raide: Y...You can controll Slaya?

*laughs in my mind silently at Raide's face* don't want to sound like the dumb one but what is the void persay?

*Rana nods knowingly, since I kind of already know, but I'm still a little confused* And...why is this such a big deal? *is anxious to enter the gates and confront Rama, but decides that for the moment this is more important*

Well.... put it this way, Void is an endless dimension of pure darkness, it is full of the most fearsome beast imaginable.... and I have complete control over them all. That means, if I ever wanted too, I could call forth an army that would cover half the earth, and would be indestructable. I could even collapse Void its self, which would result in the world being destoyed. *Looks at Raide* It's only logical that I can controll void and Slaya..... She's my mother, so I'm half void-spirit.

O.o thats awesome! *has a funny look of amazement and an expression that express awesomeness xD*

OOC: Ummm...not everyone thinks it's logical to have control of one's mother...just to have that on the record. IC: *Rana looks at Silveera, completely serious* Allow me to assume that if you used all your Void powers, you could create an army so gigantic and monstrous that it would destroy Rama with a single breath. That, at least, seems to be the situation here. Yet you also seem to hesitate at using your powers...why? Is it because you are in pain the entire time? Are you not fully in control of the monsters you summon? Or is it something worse than that?

OOC: I didn't finish the sentance before, I hit enter by accident. IC: Nearly all void creatures have no material body in the mortal world. When I summon them here, they must steel the body of a living creature, which they morph into their prefered appearance. They bodies "owner" dies in the proccess. If I were to summon them, they would kill everyone here, all my kin, all of you.... even Raide. The only ones that have a material body in this realm are forigan, which have zero chance of hurting Rama.

*has already accapted the gems mentioned earlier and has promised Rana anything she ever wishes for in thanks and has been staring at Silveera with a very awed expression until she hears this particular piece of news* well that sucks, tho its really coll at the same time..... hmm, maybe we could lure Rama into the void and u could tell all of them that inhabit the void to attack while we are outside of the void?

OOC: @Lom: Saving my butt a couple times would do the trick methinks. I'll be sure to get in trouble. IC: *shakes her head slightly at lom's words* Perhaps Silveera would be able to control Rama there, but for how long? And when Rama came back, she would gain all her powers back, and that's assuming that she doesn't have control over Silveera even in the Void. Also, I doubt that SIlveera can keep Rama in there forever, for two reasons. 1) Silveera mentioned before that she is in pain whenever she is inside the Void, so to be partially in there constantly to control Rama would bring much unwanted pain. 2) While being left mostly unsupervised in the Void, who's to say that Rama won't take over it, like Silveera took control of her mother? 3) While in the Void, Silveera won't have any of our powers to fall back on, so she'll basically be fighting by herself. For these reasons, I propose that we fight Rama head on, and not fight in void! *Does a battle cry and charges the gate, breaking through suddenly and with a huge amount of force*

hmmm so wat to do wat to do......

oh yeah, that wouldn't work.... well dang, i'm kinda out of ideas...

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wow that would stink! we would all be liek YAY and then a few minutes later see her again and be like NUUUUU! xD (no more sugar for me today xD) IC: *paces a little and stops in front of the gates and peers at the symbols that adorn the gate decifering if they mean anything....*

*Is already racing through the tunnel, not caring if anyone is behind her or not* *I'm in full battle rage mood, two water tendrils are flying out behind Rana as she races forward* *the valley that Rana is running through is very very narrow, and two mountains shoot upward on either side, both impossible to climb* *it's very dark, even this late in the day, so Rana doesn't notice anything is changing until Rana is suddenly confronted by a huge line of various dragons, demons, and other enemies, including perhaps a chimera* *Rana looks at the vast horde of enemies before her, eyes widening in fear* Uh-oh...

oh crude, come on guys*dives after rana in air-spirit mode, making me mostly invisible, except for the gems that is inside me and comes upon rana surrounded by a huge horde of enimies* thinks to self*dammit rana, u couldn've waited* *floats above and stops above rana's head* *my voice in the wind so soft that only rana can hear says* *the others will be here soon, we just need to hold them off*

*looks around and then takes a double take after seeing both rana and LOM missingfrom the group* Hey where's Rana and LOM at? <.< >.> *is now not concerned with the symbols and looks around franicaly and then notices a small pathway through two large mountains* hmmm never noticed that there before.... wonder if that's where they went.... *cautiously walks towards the passage way and here's clangs of battle and then sprints down the passage and sees the massive army of creatures and in front of them Rana and LOM each battling a swarm of enemies* we have visitors i bet they were sent here by Rama guess she knows were here! O.o OOC: are we able to be in dragon form here or is it past the gates?