Ether Alzen
Wyvern Rider
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There's nothing faster that Vyer! He's the fast thing in the air and I'm the best rider there is.
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Post by Ether Alzen on Jun 28, 2011 11:26:47 GMT -6
As Ether flew above the fortress he could see Michelle being dragged off by Jole and Treve, who he had recognized from squire training, and one of the bandits hauling a large crate. Ether continued watching as the bandit stopped moving for a moment and Jole and Treve kept walking to what Ether suspects is Jack's office.
"Alright Vyer this is our chance that bandit is hauling what we came here for so let's go get it!" Ether exclaimed as his wyvern took off diving toward the courtyard of the fortress.
"What in the world is that?" The bandit question as Vyer swooped down over his head. The bandit went to reach for his axe but it was too late Ether had already stabbed the man in the skull. Vyer then grabbed hold of the large crate with his two front set of claws and then flew off out of the fortress.
As they landed not very far from the fortress Ether used his lance as a crowbar and popped open the crate. To his surprise the crate was filled with armor. Not human armor but wyvern armor Ether had never seen such armor like this before it seemed to cover most of a wyvern's body.
"Vyer this looks like it could be useful," Ether said to his jet black wyvern as he picked up a piece of the armor. Luckily for them the armor was a black color so it would blend in with Vyer well. It was also extremely light and it felt as if it could withstand anything. Ether quickly put it on Vyer and the wyvern was surprisingly going with it.
Vyer was now covered in black shinny armor looking ready for battle. He had armor covering his giant wings on the top and inside and armor on his legs including his claws making them just as sharp as any blade. Armor on the wyvern's back going all the way to the tail which had a pointed tip great for piercing though armor. Armor on his under side and a little bit on his neck. There were little gaps in between the armor but not big enough that it would be a giant "hit me here" spot.
"Alright now we're ready," Ether said to himself as he put on the final part of Vyer's armor the part that went over his head. Ether feeling ready for anything mounted Vyer and then the two took off into the air and glided over the fortress ready to execute a rescue mission.
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Post by Michelle on Jun 30, 2011 4:12:08 GMT -6
OoC: Sorry for the one day late reply. I was busy yesterday with an unreasonable amount of homework.
BiC: Michelle woke up with a start. Her neck felt sore. She couldn't remember much of what had happened. She looked around her. She was lying on a bed. Weird... Michelle didn't remember falling asleep in a bed like this. She took another look around the room. The room was wonderfully decorated, it had a chandelier lamp, giving the room a comfortable dim light. There was a nicely furnished gold carpet on the floor. Whoever loved in this room must have a pretty good taste and know how well to appreciate life.
Michelle took yet another look around the room. She saw a white dress on some hooks on the wall to her left. The dress was not really that long, and she estimated that it would probably only reach a few centimeters below her knees if she wore it. Hmm... If she wore it? That dress started to look ever more familiar to Michelle. Furthermore, the dress looked to be around Michelle's size.
Hmm... It seemed to spark something... Michelle knew that dress from somewhere... Where was it from?
And then, in one vital second, Michelle remembered everything, of her mission, of the wyvern knight, and of her sneaking into the stronghold. The sore feeling came from the blow she had received to her neck that had knocked her out. That dress on the hooks was hers. But if it was... What was she wearing...? Michelle looked down, there was a blanket draped over her body. It went only up to her chest though, and at once, Michelle could see that she was completely naked. That meant that someone had undressed her. But why? And who?
Michelle didn't have long to ponder though, as the silence in the room was broken by a voice that Michelle knew all too well. "Hello Michelle. How are you enjoying your stay here? If you could call it a stay.", the voice went, sending shivers down Michelle's spine to hear his voice in such a situation and saying such things.
"Jack...", Michelle responded. "How long were you with this bunch already..?"
"A while already... It seemed much more interesting than being loyal to the Bern army. Their commanders are just a bunch of old fools who cannot accept having been under Ilian guidance for a while, even if the Ilians had improved things in Bern. Their eyes are just blind to the obvious facts...", Jack responded, as he walked from the door to the room over to Michelle, a smile showing on his face.
There was something that Michelle noticed as he walked. He was covering the right side of his shoulder, as though it were painful to expose it too much. Michelle didn't see it on Jack before, so he had probably got it from a recent scuffle. Michelle hoped that it was one with the knight from earlier.
Michelle had not stared long but it had already been noticed by Jack, who immediately responded, "You're looking at this wound on my shoulder? Heh. That good friend of yours, Ether, did that. The two of you really should have waited a few days like we've asked you to. Especially you, Michelle, it'd be a waste to just have to kill you. This is why I have planned to do this now, before Commander Wedner comes over to kill you. I'll peruse your beauty and at least have someone on this Earth appreciate your beauty before your death.". Jack walked another step closer to Michelle.
Michelle, upon hearing his words, said aloud, quite loudly, actually, "You... You monster!", before trying to get up and realizing for the first time since she woke up that get arms were tied to the bedframe.
"Monster, you say? Hahahahahahahahah! You have not met Commander Wedner, yet, have you? He's what you'd call a monster. I promise you, he is really much worse than me.", Jack answered, his smile growing bigger and taking another step towards Michelle.
Disgusted, Michelle could only try to struggle free Jack walked ever closer towards her.
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Ether Alzen
Wyvern Rider
[M:0]
There's nothing faster that Vyer! He's the fast thing in the air and I'm the best rider there is.
Posts: 53
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Post by Ether Alzen on Jul 3, 2011 10:10:14 GMT -6
As Ether and Vyer landed in the courtyard of the fortress they figured they had the element of surprise due to the fact that it seemed quite. It was too quite for Ether he began to think he just landed in a trap. He walked into some rooms to find no one there it seemed as if the place was deserted. As he entered one room it seemed as if the people who were in hear dropped everything and left. He then heard Vyer roaring and he quickly ran back into the courtyard to find he's wyvern surrounded by bandits. They had ropes wrapped around the wyvern trying to bring the large lizard down but Vyer was more trouble than they thought. Their attention then went to Ether as the wyvern rider ran up to his wyvern and pulled his lance out of its resting place on the wyvern's saddle. More bandits poured out of the fortress and surrounded Ether.
"Vyer I want you to fly away ok I know you don't want to leave me hear but I need you to get out of here!" Ether commanded his wyvern as he blocked a bandits attack with his lance. The wyvern didn't listen to Ether because he was to loyal to leave his rider to die but Ether wanted otherwise.
"I said get out of here!" Ether shouted this time getting through to Vyer as the wyvern let out a deafening roar and then he spread his wings knocking the ropes off him. As the wyvern flew off into the night's sky Ether dropped his lance and put his hands up.
"Take him to Jack!" One bandit said as another tied Ether's hands up.
"Ya know what I'll go get Jack," A bandit said as he ran off to Jack's room. Ether didn't know how he'd get himself out of this one but he knew he wasn't dying tonight.
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Post by Michelle on Jul 3, 2011 18:07:54 GMT -6
Michelle struggled hard, she tried pulling on one of her hands with all of her strength but the thin rope they used to tie her hands to the bed authentic not give way. It was probably made of some really strong material, probably nylon or some of the tougher kinds of silk. Jack was walking closer, slowly, step-by-step, enjoying Michelle's fear and anxiety and taking great pains to prolong it so that he could see the scene for a longer period of time.
After some time, Michelle stopped struggling. Looking up at Jack, she smiled and tried to make herself look strong and fiercer. She could see that as she had done that, Jack's initial display of calm enjoyment slowly faded away, as Jack said, "Enough playing! J want to get this over and done with before he returns!", and started walking even closer to Michelle, starting to strip off his shirt as he walked over.
Michelle kept up her false smile, and as Jack walked closer, she aimed a kick at his right shoulder, attempting to cause him as much agony as possible before he got what he wanted. At least they had not tied down Michelle's legs so at least she could use her legs for a little extra defense.
When the kick had landed, Jack's face scrunched up in pain, stepping back hurriedly and clutching his right shoulder. The kick had obviously caused the man some grief, and Michelle was glad to see that there was a red colour seeping through the bandages on his shoulder, signalling that the wound had reopened.
"You... You...", was all Jack could manage as his face pales over immediately. He clutched his shoulder tightly and walked over to a drawer, taking out some roll of bandages. However, Michelle could tell that he would not be able to tie up the bandages on his own, and that Jack would not be able to stay conscious much longer. That would leave Michelle all alone on the bed and horribly exposed to any bandit who came in.
With a final burst of strength, Michelle pulled on her hands so hard that the string broke. She was rewarded by a small cut from the string in her hand, though. She struggled a little with the other string but eventually managed to break it without cutting herself on the wrist of the other hand. The moment she was free, Michelle sat up, holding and wrapping the blanket around her as she walked over to Jack and gave him another strong hit on his shoulder, causing the red to appear on the bandages much faster, as well as for Jack to lose consciousness and start foaming at his mouth.
Michelle smiled at a job well done, and quickly went to wear her clothes before there was a knock on the door, and a voice asking aloud, "Hey, Commander Jack, we have caught someone with a Wyvern in the courtyard, shall we bring him to you as with the girl?".
Michelle took a look at Jack, he was still bleeding from his shoulder, the blood flowing off of the drawer he had collapsed on and onto the floor. His bandages were already completely soaked up with blood. In a last ditch effort to imitate Jack's voice, Michelle covered and muffled her mouth with the blanket and spoke in a low tone, "Bring him to me now!"
After she had said that, there were some fading footsteps outside and Michelle breathed a sigh of relief. That bandit had been tricked. These bandits were decidedly stupid. The person that they had caught had to be Ether. By asking the bandits to bring Ether here, she would be able tonmeet and help him, while discussing a plan to escape from the stronghold together.
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Ether Alzen
Wyvern Rider
[M:0]
There's nothing faster that Vyer! He's the fast thing in the air and I'm the best rider there is.
Posts: 53
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Post by Ether Alzen on Jul 5, 2011 23:30:21 GMT -6
As Ether was moving to Jack's room he watched as some of the bandits ran out of the fortress to go find Vyer. Yeah good luck with that. Even if they had found the wyvern Vyer would easily kill them or he would just fly off somewhere. He also knew if he had to call Vyer at anytime all he would have to do is whistle a tune that would always bring Vyer to him, always. Ether found it really dumb of them not to tie up his arms all the did was point a lance at him but, they had the nerve to use his own lance.
"You know when I get the chance I'm going to kill you," Ether said the bandit as they walked closer to Jack's room. The bandit just laughed and poked Ether with the tip of his own lance. As they got closer Ether could hear something fall over sounded as if a person was just knocked into something.
As they walked in both Ether and the bandit was surprised to see Jack bleeding and knocked out on the ground. The bandit enraged by the condition of his boss charged at Michelle lance pointed out as far as the bandits reach could go.
"Oh no you don't," Ether muttered as he grabbed a vase off of the drawer that Jack laid up against. With all his strength Ether smashed the vase on top of the bandits head knocking the man out.
"That's what you get!" Ether growled as he took his lance from the unconscious bandit. He then looked up at Michelle with a big grin on his face. He was happy to see her safe and sound for now.
"I'm so glad to see those pretty gold eyes of yours again," Ether said as he walked towards Michelle.
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Post by Michelle on Jul 11, 2011 23:01:14 GMT -6
OoC: Sorry for being slow, was busy preparing for my prelim exams.
BiC: "Glad to see you alive too...", Michelle responded, having just escaped being taken advantage of with just a very small margin. She turned around and faced the wall opposite of where the door was, and righted herself. She probably looked too pale and unlike herself right now. As Michelle righted herself, there was a momentary silence within the room, no one speaking or saying anything.
"So, how did the great wyvern knight Ether get caught, huh?", Michelle broke the silence herself, with a little of her usual playfulness and recklessness showing in her voice again. It was just as well that Michelle was used to such situations and was therefore able to right herself quickly, but she still felt that a part of herself was still brooding over the situation earlier.
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Ether Alzen
Wyvern Rider
[M:0]
There's nothing faster that Vyer! He's the fast thing in the air and I'm the best rider there is.
Posts: 53
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Post by Ether Alzen on Jul 12, 2011 20:00:09 GMT -6
Ether laughed a bit at what Michelle said. "The Great Wyvern Knight Ether" he liked the ring to it. Despite being happy for a moment Ether realized the situation they were in, surrounded by hundreds of men no where to really go. The one thing that but him back in high spirits is the fact that Vyer got away and all he had to do to get him back is whistle not just a normal whistle a high pitched whistle that would get the black wyvern to come swooping in and get the two out of here.
"Well you see I had this awesome amazing plan to swoop in kick everyone's ass including Jack's and save you and wisp you away on Vyer flying off into night," Ether said making a cheesy smile trying to look cool.
"But despite all my valiant efforts I was outnumbered. Vyer and I took out a few but we sadly got surrounded. So I sent Vyer off to wait for me to call him so he can swoop in and be our ticket out of here," He added while he shook his pointer finger back and forth and ended with giving Michelle a thumbs up as if everything was going to be alright. He lied though about really taking any of the bandits out but he still wanted to sound cool so he made it up.
"Anyway besides me being awesome what happened in here?" Ether asked as he looked down to a knocked out Jack
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Post by Michelle on Jul 16, 2011 4:20:45 GMT -6
OoC: Sorry for being slow again... Was busy preparing for my prelims...
BiC: Michelle smiled, glad that despite their circumstances, at least there was still a side of them that was able to joke around and stay friendly, no matter how much Michelle did not really like the knight during the beginning of their mission.
As the knight asked her about what had happened, Michelle lost her smile momentarily, her mind returning to the events of barely more than 15 minutes ago. "Well... something happened..., but I settled it well... As you can see..."
It was an answer that was furthest from the truth that the knight wanted, yet could be answered without needing a single lie from Michelle.
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Ether Alzen
Wyvern Rider
[M:0]
There's nothing faster that Vyer! He's the fast thing in the air and I'm the best rider there is.
Posts: 53
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Post by Ether Alzen on Jul 17, 2011 19:40:56 GMT -6
Ether could tell whatever had happened in her Michelle didn't feel like talking about it. He would ask her about it later but now they had to get out of here. Ether slipped his head out of the room to look around to see if the coast was clear. Unfortunately their were bandits all over the courtyard which was the only place that Vyer could safely land and get the two of them out of here. Ether turned back to Michelle smiled and thought maybe she knew a way out of here.
"Hey Michelle you've been in this fortress longer than I have got any idea where we should go to get out of here?" Ether asked.
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Post by Michelle on Jul 30, 2011 18:22:16 GMT -6
OoC: Sorry for holding up so long. I have a while online now in the morning before my parents wake up, so I'm gonna post here first to not lock up Ether any longer.
BiC: Michelle looked at the knight with a blank stare, and answered, "What do you think I've been doing in here? Looking for a way out or looking for that box you wanted?".
After her initial outburst, Michelle cooled down a little, thought about what she had seen of the stronghold so far, and very quickly deduced that there were probably two entrances into the stronghold. However, having been unconscious when she was dragged to Jack's room meant she had no idea where they were. There had to be another entrance though, as the main entrance was facing away from the path up the mountain, and therefore, would be hard to reach. Which meant, there was probably an entrance further down the mountain.
Michelle took a breath and answered the knight with what she had deduced in that few seconds of time, "Well, there might be an entrance that leads further down the mountain. Logically speaking, there should be an entrance there. Or we could just head to the clearing and call Vyer, but that'd be more risky. Only problem is, I was dragged here unconscious, so I have no idea which part of the fortress we're in."
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Ether Alzen
Wyvern Rider
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There's nothing faster that Vyer! He's the fast thing in the air and I'm the best rider there is.
Posts: 53
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Post by Ether Alzen on Aug 2, 2011 16:01:04 GMT -6
Well they were not far from the courtyard but getting there would probably be a hassle since all the guards are on alert for Vyer. If they could make it to the courtyard and call Vyer they would get away safely but Ether wasn't sure how they would do that. Ether then quickly poked his head out of Jack's room to see what was going on. It was strange as he didn't see or hear anyone. He then let out a high pitched whistle which would call Vyer back to the courtyard. He could hear the flapping wings of his wyvern.
"Alright Michelle we have one chance on this we need to make a mad dash to the courtyard. As soon as we get there Vyer should be waiting for us so we can get out of here," Ether said still a bit paranoid about the silence.
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Post by Michelle on Aug 8, 2011 5:33:03 GMT -6
Michelle turned and looked at the knight with a look of annoyance as he whistled, and then becoming even more annoyed, and also feeling that the knight was slightly too reckless, grabbed his arm and shook him hard.
"Excuse me, did you realise how deep in the fortress we are? It'd be too risky to try and head into the clearing within the stronghold. Not after all of them had seen you land there and had probably already deduced by now that I had entered from there! I wouldn't be surprised if they have already increased security around that area!", lowering her voice slightly before continuing, "I suggest we head by that secret entrance out then hop off on Vyer, its less risky. There's a chance that security there might have slackened too."
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Ether Alzen
Wyvern Rider
[M:0]
There's nothing faster that Vyer! He's the fast thing in the air and I'm the best rider there is.
Posts: 53
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Post by Ether Alzen on Aug 8, 2011 21:23:49 GMT -6
Ether was never good at making plans no matter what kind they were. So his plan to escape was kind of dim. Michelle's plan was all good but Ether had no idea there were secret entrances and such so she would have to lead him.
"OK Michelle let's go through one of those secret entrances," Ether said. He began to fantasies about how much better he would feel once he was out of here.
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Post by Michelle on Aug 19, 2011 7:36:32 GMT -6
OoC: Hey, sorry for my absense, it's hard for me to get on through my busy school schedule and it's hard to get inspiration to post too. If you feel that I'm dragging you a little, you may control Michelle for me to move on the plot.
BiC: Michelle looked at the knight with an inquisitive stare. He really was such a knucklehead, wasn't he? He did not seem to have thought out of any plan whatsoever to get them out of the stronghold. All he had was just a little 'go with the flow' attitude.
Angered, Michelle spoke up, probably slightly more angry than she would like to have sounded, "I have no idea where the exit is, but it's a good guess that it'd be away from the main entrance. Also, it seems that it is possible to get into secret passageways in the walls, by flipping a switch somewhere nearby them. We'll have to try and investigate to find the exit."
Stepping away from the knight and opening one of the wardrobes, Michelle was pleasantly surprised to find that Jack had in his wardrobe some of the bandits' standard clothing. Turning back to the knight, Michelle spoke again, "Maybe we could disguise as bandits and ask around. I'll tie up my hair so I'm less noticeable, but because of my higher voice, you'd have to do most of the talking here."
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Ether Alzen
Wyvern Rider
[M:0]
There's nothing faster that Vyer! He's the fast thing in the air and I'm the best rider there is.
Posts: 53
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Post by Ether Alzen on Aug 20, 2011 9:58:56 GMT -6
Ether saw the angered look on Michelle and felt bad that he wasn't the greatest escape artist in the world. Heck he wasn't good at thinking under the pressure of what was going on but he would have to change that. Her plan sounded good though so Ether quickly grabbed a bandit out fit and tossed it on leaving his other armor on the ground. It was standard armor so he could get a replacement later when he was out of all this mess.
"That will work well just ask one of the bandits for the exit but will have to come up with an excuse on why we were leaving," Ether said as he finished changing. He paused for a moment and then thought of a perfect plan.
"We could say I told Jack the location of Vyer and he was sending the two of us to go find him and wants the rest of the bandits to stay in the fortress to await orders," He suggest as he then dragged Jack's and the bandit's body under the bed and tossed his armor in the closet.
"What do you think?" He asked as he put a bandit helmet on.
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