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The young woman sprang through the undergrowth of the forest. Her clothing helped her blend in with the forest, but she did not need the camoflage. Her hunting knife lay across her right hip, and her quiver and bow across her back, both within easy reach. Her brown locks flew out behind her, her brown eyes wide with fear. The men behind her must not discover Rihana! She attempted to increase her speed in vain; the day's events had exausted her. Somewhere behind her, she heard a shout. The men were almost upon her! She spun around and halted to draw her hunting knife from it's sheath. A knife shot out from nowhere, hitting it's target in the side. The maiden collapsed, unconscious , just as the men appeared out of the forest now in front of her. As the men carried her out of the forest, her hair fell back, revealing a single, perfectly pointed ear.
submitted by Megan, age 14, Copper Isles (I
(August 16, 2009 - 1:18 pm)
(August 16, 2009 - 1:18 pm)
((@ Megan: Aw! Thanks! :D
@ Emma: Ha! "She felt like she was being shot again and again with Helena's laser." Lol. XD))
//Helena//
Helena hummed a little as she locked the bottom drawer of her dresser. It was where she kept all her confiscated objects from prisoners. Upon the capture of the elves and changelings and whatever else they were, a few new items had gravitated there- some small knives, a locket, a pouch of herbs. The collection always made Helena laugh, though- these were their most prized possessions, these little... knicknacks. Well-nigh worthless, really, you one thought of the dozens of technologically advanced weapons in the amouries, the innumerable riches in the vaults, and the massive stores of ingredients. It was pitiful, Helena thought, how they clung to these miniscule little things. She doubted that a jackknife would be very helpful to them now, incarcerated as they were.
The key to this drawer was rather peculiar. Valour had given it to her for just this purpose. A tiny box hung on the gold chain that never left Helena's neck. Inside the box was a small silvery key. Of course, to get to that one had to unlock the box, the key to which was in Helena's jewelry box, which could only be unlocked by Helena pressing her finger into a small depression in the box- obviously, it would only react to *her* fingerprint.
Helena collapsed on her bed. Sometimes she wondered how soon it was before Valour drove her insane.
Then she sat up and reconsidered. She doubted that Valour could make her any less sane than she already was.
((everyone understand that bit in the second paragraph? ;) ))
(September 23, 2009 - 4:28 pm)
((Yup! Your famous for your ray gun! :D))
"We're nearly there." Surinta said again, but this time, her words proved true. There was their cell, empty and forbidding. Alanna looked at the gap above the cell's bars. There was no way she would fit! She leaned weakly against the bars.
"Selina, can you get into the cell and see if there's any poisoned food left in there?" Selina crawled inside
"It looks like they must have been delivering food when they found we were gone. There's two loaves of bread right here." She tossed them through the bars. Alanna failed to catch hers. She bent over gingerly and grabbed the loaf. She took a bite. The pain seemed to melt away. She managed to eat a few more bites of the nasty bread before the waves of sickness beat her. She breathed deeply, willing them to go away. From Surinta's expression, she was feeling the same way. After a few minutes, Alanna felt better. She tucked the rest of the loaf into a pocket on the side of her dress.
"We need to find the antidote quickly." said Surinta. Alanna and Selina nodded in agreement.
"Should we go back the way we came?" Selina said as she climbed back over the cell. She didn't sound very thrilled at the prospect of going back. Alanna sighed heavily.
"To tell the truth," Alanna spoke after a moments hesitation, her words slow and soft. "I don't know that I'd make it very far." She looked worried. "What are we going to do?!" She was swept by a wave of hopelessness. She sank to the cold floor, her eyes brimming with tears She felt like a small child, so lost and confused. "We're going to die without the antidote, but we have to way of getting it! You can't escape because of me, and there's no way to be safe but to escape, and- and- and-" Tears leaked down her face. She hated herself for giving up so easily. "What are we going to do?"
(September 23, 2009 - 7:44 pm)
//Helena//
"You're going to die," Helena told them coldly.
All three elves jumped. The one, Alanna, was it?, shrieked a bit.
"No need to act like you're terrified of me," smirked Helena. She held up her ray gun. "Now please back against the wall nice and slowly. If any of you try to escape"- she brandished the ray gun at Alanna- "your little mother-to-be dies." Helena would never kill that one, of course, her unborn being the Chosen One* and all that nonsense, but there was no need for them to know that.
The elves did as she said- what else could they?- and Helena nodded approvingly. This time she also chained them up.
"Now, let's try this whole imprisonment thing one more time, shall we?" Helena suggested. "This time, we have a few ground rules. Little helpless elves must eat everything they're given, and do what they're told. There will be no conspiring, and absolutely no trying to escape." She smiled. "Then I'd have to shoot you, and, well, frankly most people don't enjoy that very much." She shrugged. "Can't imagine why... Anyhow, g'night. Sweet dreams!" She blew a kiss and then left the dungeon, her laughs echoing long after she'd closed the door.
*((I personally hate Chosen Ones, but, well, why not? ;) ))
(September 24, 2009 - 2:54 pm)
Silena acted without thinking. She sank down to the ground next to the distraught elf and held her shoulders, forcing the other elf to look at her. "Listen to me. We are not without hope. You just consumed the drug, so that lengthens our amount time and chances considerably. If we can discover where our belongings have been taken, or manage to escape, all of us will survive."
Alanna wiped the tears from her eyes. "But I am slowing you down. You would have a better chance of survival if you left me."
Silena thought about her aching head briefly, but decided not to concern the others. She had experienced worse. "We will not leave you behind, do you hear me? We are all getting out. Together. You are not thinking clearly; having a baby and being drugged will do that. If you were clearminded, you would see that you are spouting nonsense." In fact, it was Silena who was the nonsensical one, for Alanna's words were true, but that was not going to make her feel better. "If we have to stay here much longer though, we will be caught, so I suggest we move now. The quicker we move, the better."
"Alright then." Alanna said, standing up.
((This next part is definitely taking over your character, so if you don't like it, it will just be discarded.))
Surinta, who had watched the entire episode, spoke up. "How do you know what motherhood is like?"
Silena froze. "I-I'll tell you later." Seeing the skeptical look on Surinta's face, she raised her left hand and said, "Eor erintha Aelfin." On my word as an elf.
Surinta nodded and the three hobbled back down the passageway.
(September 24, 2009 - 4:05 pm)
((Conflict! *sigh* How about Megan's post happened and then Mary's))
Alanna was resting when a sharp pain through her stomach ripped her from sleep. She tried to calm herself. It was nothing, she decided, but a dull ache was still there, telling her she was wrong. She gazed at the sleeping figures of her friends. Should she say anything? Maybe one of them would know what to do. She realized how much she had come to depend on them. She smiled. Happy thoughts of her two friends lured her to sleep. She was promptly torn out of it again, when another bolt of pain jerked her awake. She started to reach over to Surinta to wake her, but the pain made her freeze. She cried out. Her friends were instantly at her side. Selina looked at her slowly and nodded to Surinta as though confirming something. Alanna couldn't move, she couldn't talk, she could just barely breath. She stared numbly as Selina slid her to a laying position with her head resting on Selina's lap. Alanna cried out again. Surinta was tearing strips of fabric from her dress. Alanna slowly realized what was happening. She would meet her daughter tonight.
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Alanna looked at the small bundle in her arms. Her baby daughter stared at her with deep green eyes. Alanna looked at her curly black-brown hair, her tiny little nose, her sweet baby face. "What will you name her?" asked Surinta. "Her name is Surina. S-U-R-I-N-A. Surina. A mixture of Silena and Surinta." She smiled at her two friends. "Now," Alanna said, turning to Selina "seems like the perfect time to tell me what you said you'd tell us later."
(September 24, 2009 - 7:03 pm)
Holly was thrown into the dungeon with the other elves. They all looked pitiful. The poor elves. She would help them, even though she had no chance to escape. She used up the rest of her power to scrape the chains off of them, and make a small portal back to the Forests they had been in before captured. She led them through carefully.
(September 24, 2009 - 7:44 pm)
Wait... I thought the elves were travelling to the forest to get the antidote! What happened?!
(September 25, 2009 - 12:37 pm)
After you posted, Mary posted that Helena captured them, and Megan, not seeing Mary's post, said they walked back down the tunnel after Silena camled Alanna down. I said that we should have Megan's post happen and then Mary's so that they started to escape, but were caught. Then I posted that while they were in the cell, Alanna had her baby, who she named Surina (half Surinta, half Silena). Then Holly posted and said she made a portal to let the prisoners escape into the forest.
(September 25, 2009 - 5:47 pm)
Eep. So who's will we use? (Ha, I'm a poet and I didn't even know it!)
(September 26, 2009 - 12:10 pm)
Well, how about they started to escape, then Helena caught them, then Alanna has Surina, and then Holly makes a portal so they can escape, and now they're in the wood?
(September 26, 2009 - 5:56 pm)
((Zat was a tad confusing... *is using French accent for no apparent reason*))
//Helena//
"Oh joy," Helena pouted. "Oh *joy*."
This was a lovely birthday. Just lovely! Directly after Valour had (thoughtfully, for once) given her a truly marvelous new ray gun (not only was it deadly, but one could also put it in torture-mode, which was extremely painful but wouldn't kill), they had found out that the prisoners were gone.
"That doesn't happen," Helena scowled. "It doesn't! Prisoners don't vanish!" She knew she sounded like a cliche fantasy villain, but she couldn't help it. Too much Paolini wasn't good for a body.*
Now Valour had furthered his opinion of her incompetence. He had announced in loud vocal tones that those prisoners had been HER responsibility! If she was such a "lieutenant" then for heaven's sake why didn't she act like it?!
At which point Helena had stuck out her tongue at him for loss of anything better to do. Now, though, alone in her bedroom, there was no show of bravado. All she wanted was to be accepted by the rest of the King's assassins, especially by Valour. Was it too much to ask? Why was everything so difficult? Her life was so hard already, and everyone had to make her miserable and try to make her watch prisoners to prevent her for no reason from doing the one thing she was good at and enjoyed. The fact that this involved lots of death shouldn't make any difference. Why was everyone out to get her?
Helena put down her new ray gun and began to cry.
*((I'm sorry. I had to put that. No offense to anyone.))
(September 27, 2009 - 6:31 pm)
((Sounds good. Because I saw that Mary Liz just posted, I won't write anything except the secret. (See? I don't always create conflicting posts!) That okay with everyone?))
Silena took a deep breath. She had never confided in anyone her secret since she had been banned, but these elves had risked their lives for her. They had entrusted her with their secrets, and she had to return the favor.
"Very well. This is- difficult for me, so I will ask that you do not interrupt me, or I may not have the strength to finish."
Those around her nodded, and Silena began to tell the story that had haunted her for many years.
"I was not always what stands before you now," she began. "I was once oblivious to the cruel ways of the world. I was young and foolish, my only concerns like those of a butterfly, few and fleeting. But then he stumbled into my life, and I fell in love. My mind was dulled with my love for him, and we soon had a new addition to the family: my precious daughter, Rihana. As you know, holding a human is not against our code, though discouraged. But then they came, demanding that I give up Rihana, to be taken to the humans, to become a changeling. Tell me Alanna, what would you have done, having felt your precious baby cling to you, to know that you would die for this child, to be told that she must be taken, destroyed? I could no more let them have her then slow the raging river. The pain would have killed me. So they banished me."
A gasp. To be banished was the worst punishment in the Elven Code.
"And so I have lived with Rihana as an outcast, watching her grow, nurturing her. And though she may be a Haelven ((elven word for half-human, half-elf)), neither human nor elf would hesitate to kill her. And I must tell you this: our perception of the Haelven is construed. Rihana is no monster! She is my most precious gift, and no one will ever take her away from me. If you hate me, I could not care less. My only priority is to care for Rihana. If need be, I will harm you to protect her. I have nothing but contempt for the Code any longer. Make of this what you wish. I have said my peace."
Having finished, Silena strode off aways for some privacy, where she then sat and cried silently.
((Just an afterthought- If the elves could have escaped through a portal all along, why didn't they do so? And also, what about their weapons and supplies?))
(September 27, 2009 - 7:33 pm)
((Hi. I used to be on Chatter box, but I left a while back. I'm now back again for another try. Can I join? Sorry in advance if I drop out after two posts... My character's evil, by the way.))
Ithale strode into the cleverly hidden building without pausing, and she didn't pause until she got to someone that looked official. "You're the Royal Assassins of this country." It was a statement. There was no point in asking it if she already knew they were.
He looked somewhat startled. "Um... Yes we are."
Ithale nodded. "I'm joining you."
He stood up to survey her, just as she tossed her loose black hair over her shoulder. His eyes fell immediately on her pointed ear. "You're an elf."
"I can't help that." she snarled back.
"You're just coming to spy on us. I know you are."
Ithale rolled her eyes. "Of course. Darn. Now you've discovered me, so maybe I'll just lie down and die so as not to put up with torture." She paused to scowl. "I always run into this. Always. I'd volunteer to tell you all about elven society, if I knew anything! I was cast out the moment I was old enough to fend somewhat for myself, simply because I had a weird birthmark. So they all start freaking out and half the elves want to kill me and half just want to leave me to die, and while they're arguing, I get old enough to fend for myself when they finally do abandon me! As if they needed to abandon me at that point. The incompetence alone would've convinced me to leave, if I could've. I'm staying here. Even if you don't let me. You can capture me, of course, but I recommend not putting me in a cell that you want to keep."
The man sighed. "Fine. You can stay. We just lost several captives, all of which were elf. We could use an elf on our side, for once. If you're loyal. But I don't suppose we have a choice. You know where our building is, but I'll give instructions that you aren't to be told anything else."
"Fine. That might just convince me to spy on you, but it's your choice."
She turned and strode out of the room before he could change his mind.
(September 28, 2009 - 8:47 am)
Surinta bowed her head at Silena's story. She knew what it was like to be an outcast- she had been one, after all- but never before had she thought that watching one's child become an outcast could be more pain than being one yourself. Surinta's mind flashed back to the past as she recalled the day when she had decided to be a spy:
She had been packing for the long journey when the others found out. Well, not really- they had only found that she was pretending to "betray" them. Unfortunately they had believed it, and they swarmed into their hut like fireants with their hill knocked down, setting fire to everything. Surinta, coughing and charred, only managed to escape in the nick of time. But even then she had used it to her advantage, and for the good of the people who had been so hurt by the hunters. It made a more convincing story when she had "joined" the asassins- but even then, one man- Bo, was it?- who hadn't believed her all along. And it was he who found out her true story.
Surinta was jolted into the present by a hand on her shoulder. She turned her head and saw Alanna, looking concerned. "Are you all right?" she said gently. "You seemed.." Surinta tried to smile. "I'm all right. Just...thinking." Alanna nodded and turned away. Then Surinta felt a pain in her head. Groaning, she fell to the ground. Looking up she saw Silena and Alanna look up with alarm. Surina, who had been sleeping peacefully, started to wail. "Oh... oh..." Surinta moaned, trying to catch her breath. "Surinta! Talk to me!" Silena urged. "I.... I-" Surinta started to say, but she was overtaken by a coughing fit. The two other elves pushed her into a sitting position. "Th-" was all she got to say before she lost conciousness.
(September 28, 2009 - 3:53 pm)
((Umm, are they in the forest or not?! Zat eez very confusing! *is also using very random French accent*))
~~Before Surinta collapses~~
Alanna put her arm around Selina. She looked at baby Surina, so fragile, so inoccent. She had to keep her safe!
Alanna knelt down by Surinta, rocking and "shhh"ing the sobbing Surina. "Surinta! Surinta! She pulled out the food supply from Surinta's cloak. She took a small bottle of the precius water. She poored a little bit on Surinta's face, her hands shaking. Surinta's eyes opened. She blinked rapidly and stared, looking disoriented. "Surinta!" Alanna cried "What's wrong? What happened!"
(September 28, 2009 - 7:55 pm)