Verikk
The "Before" years
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"Man knows not the intelligence of nature.."
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Post by Verikk on Aug 15, 2006 17:47:08 GMT -6
Verikk and Kida found themselves looking onto the desert of Nabata. "Where to start" He said, overwelled my the lack of vegetation and animals. "We should go down the middle, and double back on one of the coast" Kida said finnaly having hold of the map. They started walking, and already Verikk wanted to go back. It was going to be a long journey. They might finnaly get to whipe out the group that they kept running into. it was only a time before they affected another group of bandits, all of them had joined forces, the storys of them must have traveled far already.
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Post by kidatashi on Aug 15, 2006 17:53:10 GMT -6
Kida was glad they were married. Wherever they went, they held hands, a sighn that thier love would stay strog and wilful over the years and battles they faced ahead.She knew Verikk wanted to get his insturment back, but she had another reason for coming to this barren wasteland. Arcadia. It was the thoguht of the fabled utopian village that drove her day in and day out, to get to it. It was where her mother was. She could finally meet her mother. She and Verikk barly ran into any trouble as thay ventured through the desert. "Where do you think Larten is?" she asked Verikk. "I dont know. Hopefully hes safe at home." Little did they know that He was starnded on Valor, the dread isle, the isle where the Dragon's Gate lies.
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Verikk
The "Before" years
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"Man knows not the intelligence of nature.."
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Post by Verikk on Aug 15, 2006 18:03:25 GMT -6
The sun was beating down on Verikk's black robes, and he desperately wished he had something else to wear. Every step hurt as he slid into the sand just a little. Verikk's crow was feeling the heat too, and although it hurt him, he let him go flying to the forest into the distance, they'd one day meet again. Verikk rolled up his sleaves, but that just concentrated the heat on his upper arms. What torture this was. They came to a cactus, and finding themselves without a knife, Verikk hit the top off with his flux tome. They shared the cactus water, saving there real water for mroe desperate times.
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Post by kidatashi on Aug 15, 2006 18:09:02 GMT -6
That night, they slept under the stars. It was very cool at night in the desert, but they had their cloaks for cover. The next day, they saw a little girl lying in the desert sands. They rushed over to her. Kida took some water from her waterskin and dripped it into the girls mouth. Verikk checked her vitals. "She alive." He said. "Poor thing, lets take care of her, she might live in Arcadia tell us how to get there. They lifted her up and dropped her instantly. She had a piar of blue-white wings on her back. "A mamkute!" Kida excliamed.
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Verikk
The "Before" years
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"Man knows not the intelligence of nature.."
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Post by Verikk on Aug 15, 2006 18:19:36 GMT -6
Verikk picked her up and slung her over his shoulder. The slowly made there way through the desert. They came onto half covered ruins, Verikk lay the mamkute girl onto the top of a building which was now only two or three feet high. Verikk looked around the ruins, only finding a smashed pot. "Nothing we can make any use of" He said. "Thats alright, we've got just about everything we need" She said looking onto the positive side. The ruins was a good break from roaming an empty desert.
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Post by kidatashi on Aug 15, 2006 18:24:14 GMT -6
The girl awoke the next morning. "Where...am I?" She asked. "Kida answered her. "Your in Nabata desert. Im kida and this is verikk, Who are you?" "My name is Jenna. Im from Arcadia." The girl answered. Bingo! Thats what she was lookinf for. "Funny, we were headed there. Will you show us the way?" Verikk asked. "If you can get my dragonstone back from bandits...Oh look, there they are!" Jenna shouted. Kida turned around to see bloodthirsty bandits coming over a dune.
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Verikk
The "Before" years
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"Man knows not the intelligence of nature.."
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Post by Verikk on Aug 15, 2006 18:28:55 GMT -6
Verikk ran out for them, too fast he ran, then sun immediatly sapped him of his remaining enery, and he fell to the ground, sending out one blast of his flux tome, just in time to strike a bandit down. He awoke to find a large dragon killing many bandits, and Kida backing up slowly. He rubbed his forehead, and understood what had taken place. He stood back, knowing that this small group of bandits couldn't kill the dragon before him. Soon she became human once more, and fell to the ground in her exhuastion. Verikk picked her up in his arms, and walked as Kida gave her some water.
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Post by kidatashi on Aug 15, 2006 18:32:34 GMT -6
Kida was amazed at Jenna's powers. Kida had killed one bandit and found a strange red stone on him. Jenna took it. it was her dragonstone. She soon obliderated all the bandits. "South and east. Go...until you...see a huge...sandcloud. Beyond it is...Arcadia." jenna said before she fell asleep. kida wondered if they should start moving out now, but verikk was tired so they decided to rest another night.
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Verikk
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Post by Verikk on Aug 15, 2006 18:44:28 GMT -6
They awoke late in the evening, Verikk was still feeling crummy but he felt he had the strength to move on. The three of them walked into the direction of Acadia, and Verikk studyed the map trying to figure out it's location. A single cloud moved across the sky, it's shade could be see moving across the sand. It was quite a sight. They came upon a small oasis, Verikk ran over and dove into the small pond, he found out the hard diving into two feet of rocky water wasn't a good idea. He got out, and salvaged all the beautiful nature.
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Post by kidatashi on Aug 15, 2006 18:48:04 GMT -6
Jenna supressed a giggle as she saw Verikk jump headfirst into the oasis. She liked this man, he was funny. Kida ran over to help Verikk up and started to ask him if he was okay. He said he was, and after another night, they moved on after filling thier waterskins. They walked in the seemingly endless desert for days untill they finally say a tan shound in the distance. They headed out for it, Jenna talking about her home the whole way.
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Verikk
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Post by Verikk on Aug 16, 2006 11:27:23 GMT -6
Kida seemed to be very excited over Arcadia, Verikk didn't see the big deal. A village in the middle of the desert didn't sound so great. Yet, he moved on, for Kida's sake, and for the sake of Jenna. Verikk opened his pockets and took out an assortmen of leaves. None of them were edilble but he enjoyed there company. He could never survive in a place like this, without any plants beside the cactuses, they could be pretty, but mostly there we're hard, sharp, and bulbous. Not the kind of plant you'd plant in your garden.
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Post by kidatashi on Aug 16, 2006 11:39:35 GMT -6
Kida saw Verikk holding plants and smiling. She looked around at the barren surroundings. She wished they were in a forest right now. The thing she missed the most was the plains of Sacae. The memory of her home broguht tears to her eyes, but she wiped them away and kept following Jenna. "I cant wait untill you meet my brother." She said. He is a manakete too. hes so much more powerful than me. maybe he'll help you!" She said. Kida lauged at the girl's enthusiasum as they trudged on throught the wasteland.
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Verikk
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Post by Verikk on Aug 16, 2006 18:09:11 GMT -6
The horizon was flat, but as Verikk looked closely a peak of something peared over it. Consulting his map, the sky, and the ground, and estimated that they had three days of walking till they got there. He gently nudged Kida and pointed into the distance, they were almost there. "The fabled utopia that is Arcadia, I'm looking right at it, to think I get to go there" She said with a beaming smile that gave the sun some competition. Jenna seemed excited to go home, he wondered just how long it had been.
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Post by kidatashi on Aug 16, 2006 18:35:03 GMT -6
A few days later, they saw more of thet saw it. "Its the sandstorm!" Kida yelled. "The protector should be here, He knows me and he said He would come for me when i ready to come back!" Jenna screamed over the roar of the storm. "He knows they way to pass through safely!" She yelled. "We cant wait! Cover your eyes, we're going in!" Verikk shouted. They ran head on... into the everlasting storm created by Athos to protect Arcadia.
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Verikk
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"Man knows not the intelligence of nature.."
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Post by Verikk on Aug 18, 2006 8:08:55 GMT -6
Verikk covered himself in his robe, and walked against the sand's great force. Step by step they walked, untill there legs gave out, and they had to lay down. Hiding in the sand, trying to breath in the safety of the robes. It was one of the worst things to happen to you, but Verikk got a sense of adventure from this, and felt a bit of adventurous satisfaction. Verikk told Jenna to transform into a dragon, and she did. Her strong form, created a wall to the sand where Verikk and Kida could walk safetly.
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