forum Plagued Kingdoms (Closed / Mature Themes)

Started February 11, 2020 by @CasiCasino group

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Wissian had a very bad feeling. Call it a guy instinct if you will, but it was powerful. He stopped, allowing Raz to keep sliding down towards the forest. “No.. we shouldn’t be going down there.” He mumbled to himself. Whatever was down there, it meant harm. He twisted the two silver rings on his fingers, their numbers glowing. Who is down there, what has happened, and what will happen?
The magician gasped as a sharp pain erupted in his mind, rapid images flashing across his eyes. The bullets…
“Raz!”

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Maerda looked out over her kingdom. It was beautiful, flourishing with bright emerald and magenta. She couldn’t allow the kingdom to fall in a war——they were the embodiment of peace. Everything that her ancestors had worked for sat in the path of danger every day, yet they believed that violence was not the way to protect them.
“Officer.. What do you suppose we will do if the other kingdoms wage war on us?”

”Along the northern lines of ‘the forest’. You know the one, I’m by the withered trees” the assassin answered as another voice came in. Hearing the code, he changed his words.
”Never mind, I’m heading towards Set’s castle. Kreuger might be in trouble” he ended as the sound of rapid footsteps filled in the gap of silence.

The bullets would’ve missed… barely though. They were both safe yet there was no telling where the assassin could’ve been at this point. Though he was definitely within the forest.

”W-Well… your majesty…” the voice of the officer was shaky. He was nervous, anxious, possible scared as well.
”… personally, I believe that peace cannot be the answer every time. We are against a kingdom whose sole motivation is war…” the officer answered.

No longer waiting for Valerie to lock the door, Oscar did so himself… silently though. He started to walk back to his seat but while doing so, closing the curtains of the only window in the room.
”Well, people, I’m sorry to tell you that the meeting will have to be stopped due to a more important mission I must attend…” he took out what he was holding onto all this time; a clean yet threatening relic.
”… now then…” the man closed his eyes and held the relic out in front of him.
”Perish…” opening his eyes, the man’s natural green eyes turned to a crimson red tone with the door and window being covered in blue flames, not allowing the two representatives leave.
”Valerie, don’t worry, you are fine dear. These flames don’t affect us, Setriutans” the man claimed as the room started burning yet nothing was falling apart. These flames were not your normal kind it seems.

"Well, more fun for me," Mara said, taking off. With her NetArmor, her movements were much, much faster, and took much less effort, and it took all her willpower not to scream with delight. She darted through the trees, practically skipping, and skidded to a stop near the castle walls. "So… in the castle, or still getting there?" She asked, looking around for him.

”Getting near” Vincent answered. He decided that, hell, he’s going to be found anyways, why not make sure his princess knows where he is. He deactivated the silencer on his sniper and fired once into the air. The bullet was a reflective one as well so in broad daylight, it was quite easy to see the thing. He quickly activated the silencer again when some Setriutan guards came his way. Firing once at each of them was enough to kill magic-less entities.

Kreuger saw the flame and sigh relieved. "And I thought you were going to kill me there" He smiled and stared at Oscar. He remain seated on his chair, calm as he kept his manner and attitude. "May I ask what you want to achieve from this?" The question was thrown to both the blonde man and the magician. He glanced to the royal guard briefly to see her reaction.

A heavy weight lifted from Maerda’s chest at the officer’s words. Knowing that he believed peace was not always the answer made him a useful ally. “War is coming to us. A lot of my people, if not all of them, are unwilling to fight. Pacifism is like a religion to this kingdom, and I fear that this kingdom will fall.”
The queen, though she would never say the words, felt weak.

Wissian vanished in the direction of the bullets, finding them lodged into a tree. With a bit of elbow grease he managed to pull them out, and scowled upon inspecting them. He had not seen these types of bullets before. He clenched his fingers tightly around the bullets, jumping back up to where he had originally been. He needed to show these bullets to the queen, perhaps she knew more about them than he did.

"Found you." Mara grinned, moving gracefully toward where the bullet had fired. She encountered some guards, who could only stare in shock at her for a moment, before she smiled. "Hello, boys," she said, eyes flashing with amusement.

Before they could raise the alarm, she burst into action. She pulled her Razor from her arm and it pulsed slightly before stiffening into a strong, light blade. Skipping, Mara sliced at the first guard, an overhand cut, and sliced him in half, from head to legs, blood spraying everywhere.

"Well, that wasn't nice," she said, sighing, wiping blood from her eyes. That was all the other two guards needed. They charged at her, and she grinned ferally.

"Let's play."

She darted between the two, her Razor flashing out, chopping the arm off the closest one, who howled in pain and dropped to his knees, holding the bloody stump. She whirled toward the other, who held up his blade defensively. His eyes flashed, and thorns grew from the ground, wrapping around her legs. She pouted. "Hey! That's not fair."

She sliced the thorns away easily and swung at him, decapitating him neatly, before jumping on his chest a few times just to be sure. Then, she turned to the injured guard and cut his other arm off, before chopping his legs off, so he was a bloody, limbless mess. Then, without killing him, she ripped a piece of his tunic from him and used it to wipe off her blade, before tossing it aside and looking down at the guy. He was crying in pain. She sighed, bent down, and cut his tongue from his mouth, wiping her blade again before heading to where Vincent was.

"I'm coming. Just got held up."

Oscar gave the scientist wide eyes as his hands go up in similar flames. The arch magician vaulted over the table and grabbed the scientist by his neck. The magician threw the scientist at a wall that soon went up in flames with a glare from him. He sent another wave of flares towards the man before paying his attention to the royal guard from the ‘peace’ kingdom or whatever they call it.
He appeared next to her and, like what he did to Kreuger, grabbed the guard by her neck, causing a painful burn.

The officer had noticed the loud screech through the air when a bright… ‘bullet’ came up from the middle of nowhere in the forest.
”Your majesty… could Cershestin and Setriutan be…” the officer started. He, though, passed his fears and smiled. Unsheathing his blade with his right hand and turning his left hand into a large tree trunk, he turned to his kingdom’s monarch.
”Excuse me but I will go ahead” he said, jumping down the ledge and into the forest.

Vincent soon spotted his princess through his goggles and he also saw the corpses she left behind.

”As expected. And I wondered where I got the decapitation part from” he teased as he looked through his goggles again.

”Kreuger’s fighting one of Set’s, he’s probably gonna win though. That magician doesn’t know how to move effectively” he commented before aiming his rifle to the left and firing twice, hitting a Setriutan’s guard’s shoulder and ankle.

”Lesson number one, make no sound whilst walking in danger zones—“ the assassin walked up to the kneeling guard, touching the barrel of his sniper against the guard’s forehead, pointblank, as the guard teared up and showed clear breakdown ”—lesson number two, don’t mess with a royal assassin” pulling the trigger, a crimson splatter dressed the trees around with a color both the princess and the assassin loved.

“No!” Maerda shouted, but it was too late. The officer had gone. She was alone on the balcony…
Desperate times called for desperate measures. Without hesitation, the Queen picked up her dress and ran through her palace. Officers passing looked at her in concern. “My lady?”
Maerda’s expression was lethal as she glared at the officers. “Secure the kingdom, don’t let anyone, or anything in or out, unless I give you the code!”
She continued running until reaching her bed chambers, and changed into something a little more suited for unladylike business. She threw open a dust covered chest, carefully removing what weapons she had stored inside, and leapt from her open window, following the officer’s direction from the tree tops.

As Kreuger hit the wall, his body started to blink and become fuzzy. He was burning and was severely injured, he lied dead. The scientist suddenly disappeared as a broken and burnt drone dropped down creating a clank noise as it hit the floor.

"This calls for WAR!" He laughed inside his ship as he talked through the badge for both Vincent and Mara to hear. He had the evidence all stored in his device.

The figure of the guard that the magician was grabbing on was starting to fade away and reappeared in the middle of the room.

. ”Well well well~ Looks like the peace is not an option anymore, I’ve already saw what you’re going to do”

”Now DIE….”

As soon as Varsha finished speaking, She emitted a dark aura around her body, various kinds of weapons appeared around her back. She stomped the ground and stared at the magician.

”Come forth, Dragvandil”

A giant Prussian colored sword appears in her hand, she holds the sword tight and slashed it on to the magician.

The officer who had gone down was soon sent back into the kingdom; not as a living person anymore though. The corpse showed a bullet through head and several cuts down the body. The motionless and lifeless body was shot far, far enough that it had fallen amidst the roads of Atruxiavir, shocking the civilians.

Vincent turned towards the ship and chuckled after he had shot a random guard through the head and sent him flying with his shockwaves.
”That man did it again” he took off his goggled and hung them on his neck for the time being. However, he had something else to do.
”There is another person in there” he mentioned to his princess as he set off towards the palace. He held his gun tightly as he ran.

Oscar, being a fire magician, had the ability to turn himself to flames. Upon doing so, he was able to dodge the slash and stand by the window, trying to escape.
”See you later, I’m getting out of here—” upon opening the curtains and opening the window, the barrel of a sniper was aimed straight for his head.

Vincent smiled before pulling trigger after seeing the magician’s comically shocked face. He vaulted over the window and walked towards the drone Kreuger left inside the room.
He eyed it a bit before realizing that the machinery was burnt and that he couldn’t extract anything useful from it. Turning back towards the window, he finally saw the two other figures within the room; one of which he had met before.

(Every single one of my story is like this. It goes from 0 to 100 real quick. Though I’ve got to tell you… there is more to come. A lot more to come)

-Kreuger is in his ship outside of Setriutan's palace.
-Vincent is in the Setriutan meeting room with Valerie and Varsha.
-Mara is in the forest with the two magicians, Wissian and Raz.
-Phoenix is inside Cershestin palace.
-Galen is in his room I think.
-The bard(Aesthetic) is investigating the murder in Atruxiavir.
-Maerda is also in Atruxiavir.
-Dunno about the sorceress

(Lord I wake up to all these replies.)

Valerie had watched in horror as the other magician began his attack. She hadn’t been expecting that and was almost star struck as the scientist disintegrated though it was clear to her now he had never been there in the first place. She smudged the sigils on her arm as to stop her energy from draining further. Then the shot came and Oscar was dead, while Valerie was loyal to her kingdom. This was unacceptable in her eyes. There was no reason to provoke or attack, her lady had said nothing to her about it. She opened her spell book and flipped through looking for the right spell. She spotted yet another figure enter, male decent looking. She shook her head. While the old magician there still enemies in the room. She found the spell and held out her hand, “CONTANIUS” The spell created a magical barrier around them so they couldn’t leave the circle nor attack from inside of it. Val saw the sigil appear beneath their feet and watched as the transparent columns rose from the ground around them. She saw the sigil on her arm and looked between the two of them, “Now then. I am unaware as to why Oscar did that, but I refuse to be slaughtered for his actions. If we could all forget that happened, that would be quite lovely.”

”Now…” Vincent had used his ‘second tone’, also known by his princess as his ‘gentleman’s voice’ ”… young lady, would you be kind enough to release me? I killed that magician because he tried to killed my fellow comrade and if that drone was actually him, he’d be a dead man” the assassin persuaded.
”It is not in my intention to hurt nor to kill someone innocent so… please?”

At that moment, a knock came from the door. As the kingdom of magic had its own spells to it, the fight that had happened was not heard by anyone else.
”Hello? Are you done? Oscar?” it was the Sorceress.

Vincent’s eyes, upon hearing that voice, widened.
’Please, I beg you, Let. Me. Go.’ he mouthed to Valerie.

Valerie saw the man go from confident to frightened the moment he heard her lady's voice. She knew it would be wise to open the door and explain the situation with what was therez but the assassin wasn't there intially. She thought for a long hard moment and stepped towards him whispering, "Give me on good reason to let you go and lie to my lady and then maybe I will."

The assassin whispered: ”I-I don’t have a reason that would benefit you… but open that door and I would most likely be dead…” another knock came from the door.
”Oscar? Weird…” the voice of the Sorceress came into the room once again.

Vincent gritted his teeth in a stressful way.
”Please… I’d owe you one” he glanced around nervously. He saw the open window… if he could leave, he’d vault through there and head back into the forest.

"Go, though tell me your name before you run. So I can reclaim my debt," Valerie went and smudged the sigil beneath his feet. She turned and walked back to the door going to unlock. She managed to open the door up, "Um, my lady. Something terrible has happened."

Phoenix was a little upset that the princess went running off without her. However she made quick work to dismiss the meeting and head back to her study. She would catch up with the princess in time, though given it was Vincent who had called her, the princess might be fine. She sat down in the study and decided that there was no ways her legs would cooperate long enough for her to catch up with them and decided to wait patiently for their return.

"Hey buddy, want a lift?" Kreuger said through the badge with a smirk, the assassin could definitely tell from his tone of voice. He closed the door and directed his personal guard to ascend. He hovered in the sky at a low altitude waiting for Vincent's response.

”It’s Vincent… thanks…” the assassin unsheathed his blade, activated its electric capabilities, and broke the forcefield which locked the royal guard from Atruxiavir. Upon the barrier breaking, the assassin swept the royal guard off her feet and vaulted through the window with her in his arms.
”No thanks mate, need to do something” the assassin spoke through the badge so the scientist could hear him.
He ran as fast as he could, passing some of the Setruitan’s guards while kicking some of them who were going to attack him.

When he was sure no one followed him, he let the royal guard down and her stand on her own. They were up on the ledge of a tree-filled plateau, much higher than where the corpse-filled forest was.
”Are you alright…?” he turned to ask the royal guard while standing only inches away from her. He reached his hand out to her cheek.
(Happy Valentines, people :P)

The Sorceress came in after the two had left and was shocked at what had happened to the room. She looked around and saw Oscar’s corpse on the floor with a bullet hole through his head.
”Oh dear…” she used a hand to cover her mouth.
”Vincent… that man…” the Sorceress complained silently before turning to Valerie.
”Valerie, contact either Galen or the other arch magicians for me dear” she asked with an innocent grin yet it was clear that she was pissed off about the situation… yet… it does raise the question as to why something so weak as Oscar became an ‘arch magician’?