Aeros
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Post by Aeros on Jul 10, 2009 14:19:57 GMT -6
Their defenses are pathetic, Aeros thought, surveying the courtyard. Instead of finding it filled with blood-thirsty bandits, Aeros had been attacked by a half dozen very scared bandits, a very lax watchmen with a lance, and a stableboy (who had seemed to be the best fighter of the lot). It was a bit depressing, but at least it made things easy. Now where could Tut be? I hope they didn't have too many guards inside...nah, he probably found the treasury or something idiotic. Aeros sighed, again looking over at the two, thoroughly pathetic bandits that were still conscious. He hadn't seen any need in killing any of them, so he had settled for several minor concussions and a panic attack (for a bandit; the main watchman had fainted on sight). Now it was time to see what he could do...where would Manuel be? Fortunately, his old friend made it easy for him, shoving a bandit through the wall onto Aeros' head. They stared at each other for a moment, and then Manuel smiled. "Good to see you." "Good to see you, too. I'm assuming Tut has another several items I'll have to throw away?" "I see a few bandits missing weapons." "We'll deal with that later." Aeros flexed his recently recovered wings, still enjoying having the ability back. "Shall we go?" "If Tut and Komodo are ready." Aeros didn't ask who Komodo was; he would find out soon enough.
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Post by Tuatara 'Tut' Yamen on Jul 10, 2009 18:17:28 GMT -6
Tuatara ran out of the corridor wiping his blade clean with a rag "Why'd ya end the party without me? I wanted to show you my moves and 'kick butt' action!"he said, sheathing his sword. Tuatara started digging through pockets and things and by the time he realized what he was doing he had colected a comb, a hunck of bread, and what he thought might be a dinner plate but he wasn't sure. "Well I'm hungry" he said as he started digging in 'Bob'. He suddenly pulled out a rosted chicken, "Emm...", he said as he laid it on the plate thing," This looks good." He pulled out a knife and started cutting it up."I could go for some gravy right now." He then began to eat.
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Post by komodo on Jul 11, 2009 9:38:51 GMT -6
"Hey wait don't eat it yet,"Komodo told Tuatara,"there is gravy on the floor!! Wait, thats not gravy... Who pucked??"Komodo saw a bandit climbing up the wall... he saw the guy slip. "Thays gonna leave a mark, hey Tuatara there could be gravy, and if were lucky chicken!!!"
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Post by Tuatara 'Tut' Yamen on Jul 11, 2009 10:19:03 GMT -6
"What?" Tuatara asked while he ate. In the corner of his eye he saw a bandit 'sneak' out of a door with a bag of gold and head toward the gate. "Oi, your the guy that hit me and thew me to the ground!" he yelled as he ran, throwing the chicken.The bandit then started running to the gate. Tuatara suddenly stopped and looked into the room the bandit had come from and saw that it was the kitchen,"There's the kitchen guys!" he said as he ran on past. The bandit was already out of the gates and running down the hill. Several seconds later Tuatara was running(more falling than actual running) while yelling,"Nobody beats me up and gets away with it!" Besides Aeros he thought. Tuatara got to the bottom and threw a rock at him, hitting him in the arm and some how caused him to trip. The bandit looked for his ax but found it gone. He turned to see Tuatara struggling to hold the ax up."Man this is heavy!" he exclaimed as he dropped the ax, making it land on the bandits foot. While the bandit was screaming(if holding your foot, jumping-up-and-down, while screaming at the top of your lungs counts) Tuatara tripped him."Now were even",he said walking away.He had a sudden thought and ran back over to the bandit. He then kick the bandit in the shin,"And that's for ruining good chicken!" Tuatara then picked up a few coins and headed back to the fortress.
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Post by komodo on Jul 11, 2009 19:50:25 GMT -6
"Hey does anyone know where Tuatara is?"komodo asked."Until we find out, I shall be in the kitchen if you need me..." Komodo eats a chicken leg, mashed potatoes and gravy, and some turkey as he wonders when Tuatara is."This is real good turkey, you guys should try it!" Komodo exclaims as he scarfed some cake, while wondering if they understood a word he said."Really good food... oh! Cheese! I always wanted to eat some cheese! Bread too! let me see if i remember right, bread+turkey+cheese=yum! ;D
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Aeros
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Post by Aeros on Jul 15, 2009 14:36:17 GMT -6
Great. I have yet another person to speed along my fall into insanity. Aeros knew he would be in for it if he had to fly with these two. Scratch that; walking would be bad enough with them, and he would probably have to do that often to preserve his dragonstone. If he didn't find someone with enough power to help him with the spell, that is, which he likely wouldn't do for a while. It would take a mage of a decent caliber... He mentally shook himself; he had work to do, namely getting Manuel back to his village. "Manuel, grab the archer while I get Tut. I would rather not be here by sundown." Manuel nodded and proceeded to fetch Komodo, while Aeros turned to human form and flew out to Tut. "If you're done messing around, we're ready to leave," he said to the thief.
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Aerious
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Post by Aerious on Jul 18, 2009 22:35:28 GMT -6
A deafening sound, akin to thunder swept across the desert. A shadow flew along the sand, passing over the fortress and made a quick sweep before returning to the front of the fortress. There the large dragon slammed down, kicking up dust and dirt. He was larger then Aeros, but he was not seeking a fight with another dragon.
"These people are dead, a fitting end to their ilk." The dragon grumbled, seemingly speaking to itself before he turned his eyes down. For some reason they settled on Tut. He looked cowardly, and the cowardly people always broke first.
"Answer me human, was there anyone else here?" His voice made no attempt to hide the threat he meant to them.
Humans would never amount to anything, just a bunch of playground bullies. Strong in groups, weak and cowardly alone.
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Post by Tuatara 'Tut' Yamen on Jul 20, 2009 7:35:35 GMT -6
"Don't talk to me that way!You dragons always think your big and bad, 'Look at me, I'm a big ole dragon and everyone should fear me' Well I'm not taking it. It's bad enough that lizard-boy over there is to lazy to say my full name.Your just a fat old lizard!" Tuatara started walking away,"And we haven't searched the whole castle yet." Tuatara walked toward the kitchen.
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Aerious
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Post by Aerious on Jul 20, 2009 10:03:18 GMT -6
Aerious barely heard the words the little human seemed to throw at him unknowingly. He had to either be brave or stupid to say such things to something much larger and stronger then he.
Never-the-less, he might learn the error of his ways. Before the human could retreat back inside Aerious' clawed hand reached out and snatched him up, though he was not actually clawing him. He raised the insect in his claw to within inches of his maw so he could feel the dragons breath bearing down on him.
"You, human, are either very brave, or very stupid. But I have seen enough of human arrogance to know how to rectify it." He squeezed slightly.
"If you fight half as good as you boast, it should be no problem to escape from the grip of a 'fat old lizard', isn't that right human?"
And he applied a little more pressure into his grip, it wouldn't be fatal, but it was going to be painful.
"Those who can't control their tongues will have short lives." He added with a toothy grin.
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Post by Aeros on Jul 20, 2009 13:53:56 GMT -6
Two thoughts passed through Aeros' mind as Aerious landed. First: Another Manakete?! The second came in the expected way: He' huge. Aeros stood by as the newcomer questioned Tut about the bandits. And, in his usual way, Tut kindly replied with a stream of uncalled for and faintly pathetic insults. Of course, Aeros knew that this was just another weird, harmless thing about Tut; Aerious didn't. "Put him down," Aeros said calmly, just loud enough. "There isn't much you can do to scare him, and he's harmless, anyway." He doubted his words would do much, and he was prepared to fight if need be... No, he couldn't let it come to that; a monstrosity like this one would take him apart easily. One fight with a dragon as big as that was enough, he thought, remembering the pain of his last fight with another dragon...it had been five years ago, but he still remembered how outclassed he had been. No, it wouldn't do to fight this dragon. He would have to do better than that. So he tried again, "And, I'll have you know that he probably hasn't had an arrogant thought in his life."
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Post by Tuatara 'Tut' Yamen on Jul 21, 2009 6:55:17 GMT -6
Tuatara was looking into the dragons big maul.Wew... what did ya eat last night?Definatly not some nice roasted chicken!" he said as he wipped out another chicken and started waving it around in front of Aerious' face."Got chicken?"he said as he started eating a chicken leg,"Y know, the only thing squessing me is gonna do is make me hurl on ya."Tuatara said in a mater of fact tone."Now if your done being a rude guest,yes we have manners out in the middle of nowhere,we can help you find your 'person' and then we can go off to the village where real people live."Tuatara said while reading a card he had hidden in 'Bob'.
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Aerious
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Post by Aerious on Jul 21, 2009 10:08:23 GMT -6
OOC: I would be amazed how he could grab anything from his pouches when he is being slowly crushed by the claw. Think about it, his arms are pinned to his sides. Also, he has a lot of lip for someone inches from death, are you sure that is appropriate? You don't have to change anything, just figured I'd mention those points.
IC: Aerious was about to flick the humans' puny head right off of it's shoulders. The foolish would never offer anything to the world, but the human below had addressed him with courage, and without insults. He glanced at the runt in his hand before and grumbled softly.
"You should thank your companion, he may have just saved your life. If you are lucky." And with that he flung Tut over his shoulder, it was probably a good 15 foot drop to the sands below. He glanced at Aeros and a familiar glint caught his eye, a Dragonstone? Did he know something? No no...that would mean it would not be glowing. A Dragonstone only glowed with it's inner fire in the presence of it's owner.
"I see, I thought you were brave for a human, now I see that is not the case...Perhaps it would be easier to speak in a more...compact state." And with a small flash he had reverted to his human state, standing before Aeros.
"I had not expected to find another out here, are you from Arcadia?" He said the name as if he was spitting it.
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Aeros
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Post by Aeros on Jul 21, 2009 19:22:10 GMT -6
Aeros had already seen how big the other dragon was, so he wasn't at all surprised as to what he saw when the other transformed. What surprised him was the fact that Aerious had transformed; apparently, his words had done something.
And now he was being asked something...
Aeros had no idea what Arcadia was, but he didn't need that to recognize the tone in the other manakete's voice. It was...hate? Had the people in Arcadia wronged him?
The venom in Aerious' voice made Aeros glad he could be truthful. "No," he said. "And...to be honest, I've never even heard of Arcadia. Is it around here?" He probably sounded ignorant, but he wanted to know...and really, he was ignorant to many things, having only a few years of memory...
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Aerious
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Post by Aerious on Jul 22, 2009 7:46:57 GMT -6
Aerious scowled, not sure if he should mention the town by humans. "It is a lost desert town...you might find something there, perhaps...very few humans know of it." He left it at that.
He looked around, and glanced at the sky. "Damn...where are they? I have no time to wast here." He said to himself.
"I appologize for...roughing up your pet. But I should leave then. I would beware of traveling with humans, they are not to be trusted." He turned to Aeros and offered his hand to him.
"A meeting of kindred is something to remember, especiaslly in this day and age. They call me Aerious."
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Aeros
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Post by Aeros on Jul 23, 2009 9:22:33 GMT -6
He has no love for humans, that's for sure, Aeros thought. Or for Arcadia, for that matter. I wonder if there's a link, there... He dismissed the thought and kept his face neutral as he shook hands with...Aerious? That was what he called himself...
"They call me Aeros," he responded. He decided to ignore the "pet" part; no sense in alienating Aerious for something that trivial. He kept silent after that, not knowing what else to say.
Then again..."Are you expecting someone?" he asked.
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