The Beast Inside

[Valmir Silverwolf]

Night falls....a full moon rises. A young elf is walking in the forest not far from the outskirts of the great Duchy of Crimson Moon thinking...of the past, present and future. "Much has changed in my home,if i can even call it that anymore," says the elf with guilt in his heart that he let it get as bad as he has been hearing of late."YOU ARE RIGHT BRAVE HERO,YOU CANT CALL IT YOUR HOME ANYMORE, HAHAHA!!"


"What the?" The elf Valmir looks around, his hand on the hilt of his short sword. "Who is there? Show yourself creature!!"The elf continues to search for the mysterious voice. "YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO AND WHAT I AM ELF! YOU JUST DARE NOT EMBRACE THE TRUTH!" Valmir stops for a second still cautiously looking for the one talking to him, "Apologies, for I know not what you speak of, are you a spirit? A demon? Or are you just my imagination from the stress I have succumbed to as of late?"

"NEITHER VALMIR....LOOK DEEP WITHIN YOUR SOUL FOR I AM THE ONE WHO TRULY KNOWS YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE, WHAT YOU ARE CAPABLE OF!!" says the voice with a monstrous echo. Valmir smiles, "By the gods, why do you talk like this, you have yet to make sense to me, if it will make you quiet your tongue than fine i shall look inside my soul." Valmir sits legs crossed and meditates for a moment......total dark embraces the elf's mind until.......

Pain,Suffering,Screams of agony take over. Fear in a young peasant girls eyes as huge claws tear into her flesh leaving her lifeless on the floor in front of a large silver furred, yellow eyed wolf.
The peasant girls mother runs towards the forest as she tries to escape the sound of her husband gurgling as huge jaws surround his throat removing the last of his fighting spirit as he attempts to protect his family. A monstrous howl fills the air as his mangled body drops to the blood soaked wood floors of his cottage.

The peasant woman stops and turns to see.....nothing, no sign of a large wolf, no monster that anyone would not want to dream of, just the bloody bodies of what was once a happy family that she loved and would do anything to have them back in her arms. She drops to her knees not wanting to believe what has just been laid before her, she weeps in mourning for her lost husband and daughter who on this day celebrates her 16 years of living and on this night received a gruesome fate at the hands of a monster. Crack,crack the sound of twigs breaking behind her stops her heart she immediately turns to the sound hoping and praying to the gods, she sees bushes moving and finally.....a small rabbit comes out of the bushes, she sighs with relief until.....RAWRRRRR, CRUNCH, darkness and a howl fills the air once more.

[Valmir Silverwolf]

The sun rises.....Valmir lies in the forest covered in blood, confused as to how it happened. "Did i get into a fight? Whats going on?" He walks towards a lake not to far from his location to clean up what he presumes is some bandits or creatures remains on himself. He gets to the lake, he stops and falls to his knees grasping his head.

"AHHHH," screams the elf as horrific visions fills his head and the voice speaks again, "HEHEHE VALMIR, LAST NIGHT WAS THE MOST FUN I'VE HAD IN MANY YEARS!! MUAHAHAHA, YOU DID WELL IN YOUR ACTIONS, THEY DESPISED YOU, THEY KICKED YOU OUT OF YOUR HOME!! THE ONLY FAMILY YOU'VE EVER KNOWN."

Valmir looks around, "You again? What have you done? I swear by the matriarch of the forest i will kill you if you hurt anybody!"
The voice speaks again, "OH, BUT MY FRIEND YOU WERE THE ONE WHO DID IT, YOU ACCEPTED WHAT YOU HAVE BECOME, ABOUT TIME IF YOU ASK ME. ITS BEEN FAR TO LONG, BUT ITS OK THEY HAD IT COMING THE ENTIRE DUCHY HAS IT COMING!!"[/color]

"What do you mean? What have I done? Why are you talking this nonsense DEMON!?!" Valmir yells at the unknown source of this voice. "CRIMSON MOON WILL DIE BY OUR HANDS, MORE LIKE YOU HAVE GATHERED AND MORE WILL KEEP GATHERING!! EVERYONE YOU LOVED WILL DIE BY YOUR HANDS! THEY WILL PAY FOR THROWING YOU OUT TO THE STREETS! MUAHAHAHAHA!!"

Valmir trembles with fear for he now knows what has happened. He hurries and cleans himself and runs back towards crimson moon to warn his loved ones of what has been told to him.

[Lady Artin]

Having heard the screams coming from the forest, Artin was waiting on the road at the entrance of Crimson Moon for Valmir. What poor family had died already before he could even make it back to town? Everyone knew of his beast except for him and she was hoping a cure could finally be found having heard whisper of it across the land. Artin tightened the grip on her bow as she could hear someone running towards her, waiting to see if it was only Valmir running away from another nightmare or some poor victim trying to escape him.

[Valmir Silverwolf]

Valmir reaches the edge of the forest. To his surprise he sees lady artin standing there with a bow in hand hoping and praying to the gods that the next shot from it would not be the one that ends his life before he can explain what he has heard. He stops at the clearing outside of the Duchy gates and walks calmly to meet his shield sister. "M'lady..." Valmir walks to Artin with tears of guilt in his eyes, "M'lady, i fear I have done something that will forever scar my soul." He drops to his knees in front of her, head down, he looks up and asks "Please sister.....what..am.....I."

[Tetsuya/Robot Fighter Casshern]

The edge of the forests that border the duchy. A quaint setting all too familiar to the man who's bare feet now make their way along its trails. Carelessly he wanders with a fox trailing behind him, with nothing more than the garb on his back, a sword on his belt, a half filled cloth sack slung over his shoulder, and what looks like a broken spear in his hand in use as a walking stick. He makes his way to the others who he wasn't expecting to see there, but didn't find it any bit unusual or out of place to see them there.
"I knew I smelled dog!" He says as he looks at Valmir.
"How hath thou been, my boy? You don't look so well. Have you eaten today?" He asks as he drops the cloth sack to the ground and begins to unload the contents. A half loaf of stale bread, a wedge of cheese minus a few bites, a few carrots and potatoes, a dead rabbit, a bottle of whiskey, and a bag of wild elven tobacco.
"Go on, friends! Help yourselves! Tis not much, but it should hold you over till your next proper meal!" he said smiling as if he were presenting a banquet. "And when y'all are done feasting I'd enjoy hearing the tales of your recent travels!"

[Valmir Silverwolf]

Valmir slaps the stale bread away as if it was poisoned, he turns to bren, his eyes have turned yellow and in a deep demented voice he yells, "NO!!!". He grabs Bren by the cloak and picks him up into the air, he stops, regaining himself he gently sets bren on the ground. "By the light, im so sorry brother, I did not mean it. If I told you of my recent actions you would shun me as a Daemon." Valmir looks back at Artin who by now has an arrow pointed at Valmir's head. "Please sister do you see now what i mean? I can't control it like I used to, I...NEED...HELP.." He falls back to his knees head down.

[Lord Master Godric Greywolf]

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[Lady Artin]

"Get up. Now," Artin said as she put her bow and arrow away and grabbed Valmir by the shirt, yanking him up off the ground. "Come on Bren, we have to take him into Crimson Moon and find the VooDoo Prince," she continued while basically dragging Valmir by the shirt into the town while looking around cautiously. "Just stay calm Valmir, we'll take care of everything. Follow us and all of your problems will disappear."

[Valmir Silverwolf]

" Artin," Valmir says, "I don't know if i can be helped.....this monster, he has my soul in a death grasp it may be too late, even if this voodoo prince can help i will turn into a pile of nothing. My soul will be too mangled to even keep life within me." Valmir catches his balance and follows Artin. "Bren im sorry, i didnt mean to snap at you like that my brother."

[Tetsuya/Robot Fighter Casshern]

"All is well, my boy. I've survived worse." said Brenethor with a smile as he dusted himself off. HR gathered up his things and slung his bag over his shoulder as if ready to head out. "Voodoo prince, eh? I think I may have heard a little something of such. Aye, a man who specializes in matters of dark magic. Some even say he was resurrected a time or two! Then again I don't find that hard to believe around here. I get rezzed at least once every other fortnight or so. Let's go seek him out, eh?"

[honeybadger]

The badger quietly follows in the shadows, hoping to see the true beast show itself!!!

[Sebastian]

:: you can find me in the church ofxst bastard :::

[Lord Master Godric Greywolf]

:: Help is coming guys::

[Lord Master Godric Greywolf]

It is late. The moon is full, but hidden behind the clouds of the upcoming storm. Vlad said that the horses where going to keel over and die if they did not slow their pace so Godric slowed them and decided to just dismount and walk them for a while. still upset that Vlad would think about killing vlamir godric hadn't really talked much. The silver tipped arrows would only be a last resort. They had walked until the sky started to brighten with the promise of a new day. " the one thing that i love about a sunrise is that it brings out so much life with the morning light " Godric said. Vlad turned and looked at godric with a grim face and said, "the one thing that i like about the sun light is that our were wolf friend wont kill us as fast" Godric smiled " True that." after the sun had started to warm up the morning Vlad stopped dead in the middle of the trail and sniffed the air. " The smell of wet dog is faint but i know about how far they are ahead of us." he sniffed again. " They are walking towards us, maybe about a half a days ride." Godric mounted up and said, " then we shall ride hard to them now!"

[Lord Master Godric Greywolf]

The sun was bright as it rose over the tree tops. The storm from the night before came and went quickly. The trails were not dusty anymore so that was a plus. Vlad and Godric had been riding for most of the morning when the horses started to act scared. they were reluctant to go forward but they did. As they rode on Godric got a feeling in his gut. Much like the one he got before the Kraken attacked the ship. When they reached the top of the next hill Godric stopped and looked around. "Why are you stopping? We are almost to them, i can practically taste the smell of him." said Vlad. Godric looked around and seen nothing down the trail in front of them. Then he asked " You can smell him, but what of lady artin? I have this bad feeling like i had before the kraken attacked us, and i do not like it." So Vlad lifted his nose to the wind that was blowing into their faces and took a whiff. " I smell the dog of course..." Godric looked at Vlad and said " If you call Valmir a DOG one more time i will have to explain to Your Master why I'm bringing you back to him in a urn!"
Vlad didn't seemed to be phased by the threat but the point seemed to have been made. " I also smell the aroma of Lady Artin. But there is a smell that is familiar to me but i can not place it."
"must be Bren" godric mumbled
" No I smell Bren, there is no mistaking him. for a druid he has the worst hygiene. no there is a forth person with them. " Vlad looked concerned. " We must proceed with caution from here"
"Are they between here and the next hill?" godric asked. Vlad looked as her never heard him, then his face took on an even more worried look. " There are things in the woods, Dangerous things."
" No crap there mister obvious. We are in the untamed wilds! I'm sure there are lots of things that want to kill us here."
" No not us" Said Vlad. then he pointed towards Valmir and Artin and Bren. " They are heading for them."

[Lord Master Godric Greywolf]

As Godric and Vlad raced towards their brothers the could sense something powerful was coming towards them. But it was not just one being. when Valmir, Artin and Brenethor seen them coming, their faces brightened ten folds. "Godric! Vlad!" Artin said when they rode up.
" Look, i would love to stay and rest for a moment but we are in a lot of danger and need to get out of here. Like now!" They could sense the Godric was almost scared and they all mounted up. Except valmir. " I can not ride on a horse. They get scared and try to buck me off, but don't worry i can run just as fast."
At that time another being stepped out of the shadows and said " Well if your not going to ride back flea bag then I'm taking your place." Everyone but Vlad jumped because they didn't know he was there. Then Vlad said, Honey Badger. I knew i smelt you but couldn't pin your sent." Honey Badger looked at him and said, It's just Badger now. And Duke at that. " Everyone looked still surprised but the imposing danger brought them around.
So they all mounted up and started off back towards the Duchy. As they rode they seen two figures in the distance on the trail. "Halt in the name of our lord!" Duke Badger rode up beside Godric and Vlad and said " Run them over if they try to stop us." But as they got closer the two men didn't budge a muscle. Then they Heard a roar from behind them and they seen Valmir transform into the beast.

The beast ran faster than the horses and got to the two men first. With his claws and power full muscles he knocked one of the men off to the side and then grabbed the other and tore off his head as easily as plucking and apple. The other man started to get up and Valmir ran over to him and stomped his face in and howled. the man's face was unrecognizable when Valmir moved his foot.

Everyone stopped and was stunned at what they had just witness. Even the vampire was shocked. Then Godric spoke to break the silence, " Well I guess that's one way to do it" They blood covered wer-wolf looked at them and and sort of smiled. At least that what it looked like. Then his ears perked up and he ran off into the brush. the next thing the company heard before they could dismount was the screams of about 6 or 7 people. this happened for about half a minute and then Valmir came stumbling out of the woods. in human form. Naked and covered in blood, Valmir passed out from exhaustion. Godric then picked him up and put him on his horse and and mounted up. "Lets ride" godric said.

Towards the end of the day they stooped to make camp. as they were sitting around the fire they heard the forest all around them rustle. Then when they looked around they could see Hundreds of Goblins.
Artin was the first to speak. " There must be at least 300 goblins."
Godric Looked at her and said "Good. That is good." Then a huge Goblin walked right into there camp. " Do not be alarmed. we are just passing through on our way to the Big Job. "
Artin Looked at Godric surprised," Big Job?"
Godric smiled, " Yes, These Goblins are working for The Deloki's. We hired them to build our keep, Fort Red Hand" The goblin looked at Gordic and asked, " Are you Godric Greywolf, Captain Of the Red Hand?" Godric Nodded and said that he was impressed to see so many going to work. They parted ways and after wards everyone relaxed.

With the Morning sun came the slow ride back to the Duchy. At the end of that day they were less than half a mile from the duchy gates when the party was come upon by 5 werewolves.
" Give us Back Valmir!" The one in the middle said. Right as Godric was about to protest there was a Man behind the werewolves. Almost like he just appeared out of thin air. Teleported more likely. " You can not have him." The werewolves all turned around to look at the man. then the leader spoke. " We can and we will. He BELONGS with his own kind." The man through back his cloak and let the White Phoenix be clearly seen. " You see that belt around his waist, that belt is my belt. That means He BELONGS TO ME! I am Baron, Sir Katsu Farquestor and I am telling you to move aside or you will all Burn." The leader snarled and Replied " Never!" Then the best warriors that the Duchy had all appeared at once and yelled in a veracious battle cry mixed with "God Wills It!" and "In the name of the White Light!" and slaughtered the 5 were wolves" as the battle raged on Godric and the rest of the party helped by Master Chunko, race onward and brought Valmir safely to the duchy. Now there was the problem of curing Valmir. If it was even possible.

[Baron Sir Katzu the Farquestor]

((OOC: White Light Wills It!))

[Lady Artin]

As everyone reaches CM, Artin tells Bren to go and fetch the Voodoo Prince while Valmir still sleeps to try and cure him before he wakes. "There has been enough death because you two decided to hurry us along," she tells Godric before walking away into the tavern for a stiff drink.

[Valmir Silverwolf]

[[so is the rp being continued in the tavern?]]