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 Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:07 pm
Named for the snowy peaks, Shiro mountain towers above the nearby forests and natural park. It can be seen from almost anywhere in Kuro Shiro and is home to all sorts of mountain and cold dwelling beasts and creatures and riddles with caves, crevices and pit falls.
It is said that there are some caved that go deep into the ground while other go straight through the mountain to the side that faces the city.
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:18 pm
Kuro the Twin Heiress, Aura the Forest Elf, Sol the Golden Twin,
Luna the Silver Twin, Malum the Dark Elf, Topaz the Dragoness, Okami the Town Guardian.
______________________________________ Lizbeth Topaz Flame, as she went in the human tongue, alighted atop a mountain peak once her flaming scales put themselves out. She was tired from in but the cool mountain air quickly fixed that. She looked around, hoping to spot Chua making an escape.
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 3:19 pm
[Enter Fuyuki from the Inn Lobby.]
Fuyuki finished eating an old buck in the forest when he heard the roar. It was Lizbeth, the crimson dragon he had angered when he first met Zaya. From the sound of her roar, she was searching for the purple dragon. I'll go talk to her, see if I can help, he had thought before trekking up the mountainside. Despite his naivety, Fuyuki knew better than to shift into a dragon and fly in the sky with the slave-master around.
As he climbed the mountainside, nearing Lizbeth, Fuyuki noticed a figure dart out of a cave in the mountain and knew it was trouble. He needed to warn Lizbeth. But if I do that, I'll miss a chance to investigate the cave... No, Lizbeth would be able to fly away if she needed to. The big black dragon wasn't around, and Fuyuki remembered how much pain he suffered from the fight the previous night. Lizbeth should be okay. But I'll stay and watch just in case. He didn't want anyone else falling under this man's grasp.
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:27 pm
Porath was going from boulder to boulder as deliberately as possible, he didn't want a handicap with this rare treat he found. He couldn't remember the last time he had one of this dragon's breed to tame, he would not allow this one to escape. Whenever he had the chance he examined the beast: she seemed a little tired from her fire-starting but she was a fine specimen nonetheless and promised to be a good addition. He kept his sword firmly in his hand, even as he climbed down. At last he found firm ground to stand opposite the dragon. "How kind of you to come to me, looks like I don't have to go searching for such a rare little beast as yourself." He sneered, not even bothering to guard himself. If that female up in the cave is anything to go off of, this region's dragons are slightly above the average beast. She'll bluster or talk a bit. Probably throw a bit of fire, he thought confidently as above clouds seemed to be forming
Ollor flew over to the Shiro Mountains as soon as he warned the water elemental. He was not done doing his best to deal with this Enslaver. He called out to the biggest mountain storms he could find on such short notice and asked for a favor. "I want you to give the biggest rainstorm you can give me, torrential downpours, the works. A little bit of lightning, but only directed at that Enslaver. A water elemental is coming to help take care of this vile... thing, you're gonna help." Ollor demanded with all the force he had. And then he flew off, satisfied for now.
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:33 pm
Kuro the Twin Heiress, Aura the Forest Elf, Sol the Golden Twin,
Luna the Silver Twin, Malum the Dark Elf, Topaz the Dragoness, Okami the Town Guardian.
______________________________________ "Unless you intend to stay over there, tell me exactly where my friend is or turn her over, I have no buisness with you." She snorted, a quick little jump put her in the air. "Your sword's fire won't do me any harm either so you should just settle down." Topaz was doing her best to stay calm, but she really wanted to eat this brute despite promises to herself she'd never eat a human. "Whatever it is you value that separates a brute from something intelligent, I am afraid it is you, not I, that lack it. What most humans assume separates them from animals is the knowledge of good and evil, the choice of mercy and free will greater than animals. However I possess everything that a human does on all levels, and you do not."
It was clear, as she spoke, she got a little farther away each time. She was not picking a fight with him, alone she could not handle a man with a large male at his beck and call. "You are just as easily broken as the male under your keep remember that. A dragon and a human are very little different. A pet and a slave are far from the same thing. When you bite off more than you can chew, you will be the one with the rebellion on your hands and that sword would do nicely in my fire bladder. A bit of metal always aids the scale's growth."
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 8:41 pm
Fuyuki watched as Miss Lizbeth and the slave-master faced off, listening to the conversation with raised defenses. Though the man spoke little, Miss Lizbeth spoke a bit in retort. Fuyuki had to silently agree with her. And it looked like she backed away from the despicable human. I'll dart in and out of the cave, check it out, maybe talk to the black dragon, and then dart out. He could see Miss Lizbeth would be okay long enough for Fuyuki—in his human form—to investigate while the human was distracted.
Fuyuki mentally prepared himself before he climbed to the cave, glad his hair was still dyed brown so he wouldn't stick out as much. He glanced one last time at Miss Lizbeth, hoping she wouldn't accidentally give him away, before he went into the cave.
[Exit Fuyuki to the Dragon Roost Mountain Cave.]
[Enter Aoi from the Inn Lobby.]
Aoi climbed up the mountainside and spotted a large figure in the distances. It looked red and when he used his phone to zoom in on it. The figure was the crimson dragon Topaz, the one he met the day he met Sol and Luna. And she was facing off against the psychopath. "Well, isn't this the s**t?" he grumbled to himself as he put his phone away and started formulating a plan to separate the two while preventing the man from returning to the cave containing the two dragons. He couldn't chance finding much water in the soil, and it took time and energy to pull a significant amount of water from the atmosphere. The same was to be said of taking it from the ocean. He only had the water from his canteen with him. s**t, he needed to act fast, but not rashly.
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:52 pm
Porath laughed as he stayed put, letting the dragon back away. It staying away from him meant that it would probably use fire on him, and that didn't work on him. So he laughed at her cowardice and monologue. "I'm impressed with that little speech, must have taken all night to figure that one out. But it appears I have to teach you few things as per usual: you believe I have no mercy, no knowledge of right and wrong, and that I have no concept of will. And because you believe you have all these, you are superior." He sighed at that and shook his head. "Well, I think you're missing a few details. If memory serves correct, wrong and right is subjective, everyone has a wrong that is right for another. And in some places, mercy is in the hand of someone with a knife, would you tell me that they are unmerciful for something you believe to be cruel. My concept of mercy is in relief, the dragons I tame no longer have to struggle to maintain a semblance of intelligence, no longer have to struggle to keep up with its superiors. My concept of will, another thing that is subjective, is that will is a game of dominance. Its always have, always will be. The superior will will always come out on top and subjugate the weaker will."
Then he laughed, "And the fact that you think I can bested by that pathetic beast is priceless and a great show of how prideful you are. That beast has been with me for two thousand years, my will keeps him in place as concretely as the fire in my sword. My will has kept me alive for all that time, facing against all manner of your kind. So go ahead try and take the dragon, you'll end up right beside her." Thunder accented his statement, and surprised he looked up to see that a massive storm had rolled in. Not soon after he looked up a torrential downpour came down.
{small breeze drifts over to where Aoi hides and whispers "Ollor sends his regards" before drifting off again}
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:13 pm
"I do not struggle in any form or fashion, and I can do whatever I please without harming anyone. I am free. That is what makes me who I am. I would never wish to harm or enslave anyone. I only hurt or kill what I must to live. You will find this out the hard way in due time I assure you." She wasn't going to stick around though, and hearing the storm had been conjured, she felt a sense of relief and flew away.
He had Chua in the mountains with that great brute. He would be nothing if he didn't have a large male at his beck and call. Any dragon with a strong will could just eat him up.
She needed help since she had to deal with the male too, and she knew where she'd seek it.
[exit]
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 10:37 pm
After so many years of dealing with wind spirits and air elementals of all sorts, Aoi was used to them suddenly coming and going as they pleased as well as their quick little messages. In this case, the small breeze that whispered to him carried a message the water elemental understood with the changing of the sky. Standing straight, Aoi pulled at the water molecules in the storm clouds, shifting them so they could create a larger storm. He hoped the wind spirits understood that he needed high-speed winds as well. This wasn't like anywhere else, his powers were limited, if only slightly, in Kuro Shiro, but he could still summon a storm if he tried. It'd take a toll on him, but it was worth it if he could kill this man.
As he watched Miss Lizbeth fly away, relieved she was out of harm's way, Aoi would be grateful to end this man's awful existence. "Let's make it rain," he muttered as he gathered all his energy and forced the clouds to give him an even greater downpour. Water was his advantage, and it wouldn't take long to skewer the man with torrents of ice spears or erode the ground at his feet so he'd fall to his death. Maybe he'd stab himself with his sword along the way.
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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 10:15 pm
Porath snarled his frustration as he dragon ran away, nearly launching after it, but was forced to stop his attack as the ground underneath him collapsed from the sheer amounts of water pouring down on him now. He was forced to sheath his sword as he scrambled to gain footing in the now slick mud that was beginning to slide down the mountain, keeping low to avoid getting his massive frame toppled from the wind that was beginning to pick up. Porath was swearing profusely, near roaring rage at the storm, before he finally found enough purchase to take a small breather within the storm. He took that time to ponder the storm and eventually came to the conclusion that the storm wasn't natural. This thing rolled in too quick and is much too fierce and wet for a mountain storm in these climes, something's tampering with the weather. That something's going to pay for this setback tenfold, that's for sure. Porath decided before taking a step from his small purchase, only to slip once again and take a rather thrilling (if it wasn't so frustrating) slide straight off a boulder to land in a small flat landing. He stumbled up blindly, swinging heavily to maintain some semblance of balance on the unsteady ground while simultaneously clawing at his eyes to remove the gunk from his eyes. He tilted his head up and just let the rain take care of the rest before opening his eyes, to see that visibility from the storm was terrible. But in front of him was probable cause: the water mage from the night before, the dragon slave that tried to keep him from his female dragon.
He rose himself to his full height like a lumbering bear, his streaming hair and glaring eyes—accented by intervals of lightning—cut a terrifying caricature as he drew his sword eye-level and faced the man. "You traitorous worm of a man! Is it you causing this, it is isn't it! So, is it that female you were pawing all over last night, or that little firestarter, you serve now I wonder. I bet it's the firestarter, you two have complimenting natures." Porath laughed harshly. "Perhaps I took your lover last night? I don't see why else you would have such a look in your eye Boy. What are you planning to do here, make me catch a cold?" Porath roared in laughter at that, never truly taking his eyes off the half-man. Then he grew still, readying himself. "Well the dragon's left, I got the other one up the mountain, I need to blow some steam and it's either you or the female. I got all the time in the world for the female and I don't like you... and it'll stop this damned rain. Come on half-man, lets finish what we started, shall we?" And with a roar, he lunged at the mage with a downward slash at his head
{ROUND TWO, FIGHT!!!!! emotion_donotwant }
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:54 am
As he watched the psychopath take a tumble down the mountain, Aoi saw that he wouldn't need to travel up the mountain to face him. He simply had to wait until the man finished his humiliating fall. It was amazing how a little mud and rain turned a fearsome monster like this tamer into a pathetic piece of trash. The elemental wondered if the man was aware of how disgusting he looked covered in mud—though the rain quickly washed most of it away—but he highly doubted it. People as full of themselves as the tamer didn't understand the concept.
And a prime example of this from the man was when he finally noticed Aoi after he finished wiping the mud from his face—he looked beyond ridiculous—and started insulting him. Honestly, he didn't know what he expected of this man. First, he stated the obvious—well, the wind spirits had a hand in this storm as well—and then he went right into the sexual relations. But he said it in ignorance. If the man really knew how much of a dragon's whore Aoi was in his early years, then his words could have hurt. Ah, but that was a time better left forgotten as the present was more pressing at the moment. It was difficult to tell if the psychopath was angry at him for existing or for the storm, but after he finished ranting and insulting him, he charged at the elemental without so much of a thought to his surroundings.
Sighing, Aoi sent a torrent of water and mud into the man's face, mere centimeters from the man slashing him in two. Of course Aoi sidestepped him, just in case. Then he sent a few more torrents of rainwater and mud from varying directions. It was exhausting using so much energy, more so because he was not completely rested. However, Aoi survived in worse conditions in the past and would continue to do so in the future. "You're really full of yourself, aren't you Mr. Crazy Man?" the immortal elemental asked with a degree of haughtiness in his voice. Guess he really wanted to piss the man off. Anger often clouded judgement. "If you can't defeat a weakling like me, how could you ever hope to defeat other dragon slaves? My master wouldn't even consider you worthy of a simple foot soldier's mark, much less an immortality mark." Yes, egg him on because that's what smart people did when facing a crazed lunatic who enjoyed torturing creatures of all species. Aoi needed a better hobby than these smart remarks.
[BOO-YEAH! How will this end, Ikurmo? Who shall die or become severely maimed (if only temporarily in Aoi's case) from this battle?]
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:18 pm
Porath's temper mounted as the man dodged him by throwing mud like some child in the playpen, and continued that same tactic while throwing a few dry insults as well. But it did put in a little nugget that the man was immortal. That gave him some ammunition to use. "If I remember correctly, the last time we fought it was a draw because you went and hid behind the skirts of the town's owners. And as for that immortality, here we are the same, we've both obtained immortality. But the main difference here is that I took my immortality with my own hands, by my own willpower; I didn't become some dragon's b***h to obtain it." Then he proceeded to launch into a maddening flurry of swipes at the man, taking aim at whatever body part that came in range of his sword. All the while he was silently forcing the fire elemental in his sword to get hotter and hotter, despite the cold and rain. The sword slowly began to glow almost blue-white with radiant heat, and unheard to Porath or anyone unattuned to spirits or elementals, the air began to fill with a startlingly feminine wail of a fire elemental pushed to its limits.
{Honestly I'm expecting a little Freddy Kreugering of Porath by his own sword. Major injury and loss of that sword to a new character? It could work}
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:52 am
Aoi continued to dodge the psychopath and ignore his petty insults. Really, he wasn't the brightest of fellows and not much of a fighter from how he recklessly attacked him. "Eh, yeah, it was a draw, but I'm perfectly okay hiding behind skirts of the wearers are pretty." The elemental smirked. "Oi, oi, but you haven't lived until you've had a dragon's c**k deep in your throat and a**. Really, you should try it. Once you've had a taste, you never want to go back to humans." A wild grin as he commanded the mud underneath the man's feet to move and cause him to slip. However, the grin soon faded as the man's sword turned blue-white.
Aoi had thought the sword was simply enchanted to produce the powerful flames that it showed, but it wasn't. A faraway memory came crashing back into the water elemental's mind, his sister screaming in agony as she fought against legions of the Hiryū Clan. He had been bound by his master not to fight alongside her, to let her win the battle on her own. All on her own. None of the Kuò Clan dragons or soldiers were allowed to interfere. Akane had been pushed to her limits, near death, her flames turned the same color as this man's sword. Aoi hated the man more now than ever. Intense loathing for this man became apparent from his facial expression. He was just like his master, enslaving everyone he wanted and taking no consideration to their own will. "I hate you," said the elemental as he opened his cigar case and pulled out one of his favorite broadswords he liked to use to behead his enemies.
[Ooooh, that would work and it would be interesting to see how Porath handles the situation, too.]
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:33 am
{I'm loving this string of insults we've got going on here, but it's a good thing we're the only ones on this thread right now sweatdrop }
Porath was mildly amused at the man's insinuations while under fire and between grunts he replied with. "To each his own, but should have figured you plowed the other row." Not soon after his remark, Porath slipped on an errant patch of mud, one that must have been put in place by the mage. He steadied himself by using his sword as a prop up, baking the ground underneath him. He looked back up at the man and was surprised to see that the man was now serious and had a broadsword in his hands. The mage made a declaration to Porath of hatred, and he wondered what must have occurred to make such a change.
He shook his head as it didn't matter, though he did decide to change his tactic and actually employ some skill and forethought. Porath studied his opponent: the mage could employ water and anything related to it, there was a torrential downpour still occurring that assisted the mage's advantage, and the mage was now using a broadsword. He looked the sword up and down, it appeared to have seen some use and the mage was comfortable with it, but with a broadsword you had to use two hands and no matter how comfortable you were with it you would inevitably tire. Porath himself used a hand-and-half sword, and while it had none of the length of the broadsword, it did allow for some versatility in battle. And there was the elemental within the sword that allowed for another advantage, at its current state, it was possible to get it to melt that broadsword after a few contacts. Porath sneered at that, he had this.
"About time you got interesting, you dragon ********> Porath stated, slowly advancing on the man, mindful more than before of his footing and on guard for the first move by the mage.
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:40 am
[Agreed. Aoi wouldn't say any of this stuff if anyone else was around. redface ]
Aoi mimicked the man as he finally saw a change in his tactics. At least he wasn't a complete fool, he could think of something aside from wildly swinging his sword at him. Though he used a broadsword against him, Aoi would not be at a disadvantage, not really. The wailing of the man's hand-and-half sword indicated the fire elemental—whoever she was—would meet her demise in this battle and that meant his sword would revert to its normal state. Or break. Whatever came first. For the time being, the elemental simply needed to wait it out. He rather end the fire elemental's suffering now than prolong her life in servitude. Anyone who knew the life of a slave could understand.
However, it wouldn't be easy, Aoi knew it. The man in front of him wouldn't go down without a struggle and a few severe wounds to boot. He didn't look forward to another gash on his body, but it would be worth it in the end. "Why do you enslave your fellow humans?" he asked the man as he commanded the mud and water around his feet to engulf his legs and freeze him in place. It wasn't much, just enough to momentarily pause him and rouse his anger as well as give Aoi time to swipe at the hand that held the fire elemental sword. He didn't want to hear her wailing for much longer, it brought back so awful memories. "But I guess that's useless to ask. Never mind. I'm just wasting my breath." He kept the ground beneath his own feet dry and mud-free as he went after the crazed man. "Though I'm still curious. Shame on me," he said, but his voice was monotone and his expression mocking. He knew the reason why the man would enslave other humans: He thought they were weak, that they made good pets, that he deserved to use their powers for his own selfish desires. Aoi really hated this man for all he did and stood for.
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