Peaceful Exploration (Completed)

[hotsmoke]

Lord Xan ponders the situation.

"Hold on. Im quite sure we do not have the sufficient medical supplies here to heal his jaw. Lets pick him up, midly bandage his jaw so that it stays in position, and then head to base camp."

Lord Xan looks troubled. He picks Kravis up and asks two soldiers to carry him. This was not going well. There were only two options now. Either regroup and retreat or, take all they have and push deeper towards the realms of death. He thinks its time to break the news to them. No not yet. He'll keep this for later.

[Arvind Pillai]

((Ok, before we continue. What base camp is everyone talking about? Didnt we pack up and leave?

"The soldiers begin packing up the tents and gathering their weapons. "))

[Kravis]

Inside the mind of Kravis :

Kravis opened his eyes. He saw that he was descending slowly. He looked down to find ground. He saw nothing except darkness. He realized he was unconscious and was hallucinating. He closed his eyes.

Later, Kravis opened his eyes. He stood up, he looked down and saw the same thing. A black abyss. Frightened he braced himself. He spread his legs and arms across. He wasn't falling.

There was a sudden light on him. He looked up.

"What is this?"

Kravis spoke but no noise came out of his throat.

Suddenly some one whispered .

"Kravis! can you <Silence> Kravis?"

Kravis was shocked and terrified.

"Aten? Is that you?"

No reply.Kravis looked around.

"Hold on <Silence> heal his jaw <Silence> base camp"

Kravis was again shocked!What was happening?

"Who is this? Hello? Say something! Stop playing with my mind!!!"

Still no reply. Yes, portals, yes base camp. Kravis can portal himself out of there.He stands waves his hand. Nothing. OK try again. Waves hand, portal ! Portal ! Portal!

What?Where?Why? How? Who?When?Magic didn't work. Questions in his mind.

"What? My Swords? "

He noticed that his swords were missing.

He could not bare this anymore! He fell to the floor. No one knows for sure but maybe he was crying.After that he didn't get up again.

[Arvind Pillai]

((OK, I did some editing. A few soldiers stay behind at the camp just in case something like this happens))

The remaining troops head towards the camp. Two soldiers carry Kravis. He was muttering something, though no one could make out what he was saying. Aten spots some blue tents in the distance. The snow had blurred his vision but he could still see some figures moving about.

"Its the camp site!" he yells.

[hotsmoke]

Xan Yells " Pick up the pace men!! We are almost there!!"

The men hurry.


They have arrived at the campsite

"Yes put him down over there and call the doctor, thats if we have one, i really doubt we do." Lord Xan looks worried.

[Kravis]

Kravis thought and stood up. This place . There has to be an exit. There was noway he could have landed here. Perhaps up ahead he could find and entrance. Whispers still haunted him, he paid no attention to them. He ran ,ran and ran. No exit, no wall, this was impossible. Everything had to end.

Kravis took a short pause to replenish his energy.

"Go on, run , thats all you can do."

Kravis heard this clearly.

"Who are you? Show yourself!"

A sinister laugh, he had heard this before, this voice, these pronunciations, they were his!
Suddenly a figure of a man.Wearing white clothes.
"Very well - "

"How did you get here?!"

"Ask yourself "

What is he mad! There was no way he could have done this. Wait a second. Portals!

"You used a portal?"

"Yes"

"How?"

"Ask yourself"

He stole my powers. How is that possible? No one can do that!

"Thief! Return my powers back! Why did you take then? How did you take them?"

Again he laughed

"Fool! I am you. I think what you think! I do what you do . Except when confronted, I am more powerful as I am righteous."

"Liar! There is no way one person can exist at two places at the same time. We are not one! You are a mere imitation of me."

"Hahaha. Yet you do not understand. I am you. I have been trapped under your mind for years. I have learned what you have, yet I learned them to use it in this reality.I am powerful here. You could say i am your conscience."

"Oh yes? "

"Yes."

"Prove it"

"How?"

"Tell me what happened before i came here."

"You led your small army to death. "

"Liar!"

"All the troops died, Aten and Xan ran leaving you to die in this frozen wasteland."

"Xan and Aten are to honourable to turn on me!"

"Yet it is not imposible."

"It is!"

"Well, your judgement day has arrived, whether you live or die is up to the Jovine Ancestors."

"I am a good man! "

"You killed over 20 people! You want us to believe you are good? Those soldiers, everyman had a family, everyman had a child. What will happen when those children are told there fathers are dead?! You are a evil man."

"No. It was a miscalculation, I am not to be blamed!"

"You are to be blamed. Aten abandoned you because you treat him like a toy. Xan because he just doesn't like you. You can either die or slowly die as you walk down the mountain. The ancestors can only grant to you a hours life. Death inevitable."

"Noo!"

Kravis ran and threw a punch at his other. He jumped out of the way and grabbed Kravis' hand throwing him feets away.

"I told you, I am you, I know what you will do. Your ambition will be your downfall.Your dreams of immortality will die with you. Aten shall inherit the book. Your life was a waste."

"Noo! That cannot be true."

"Fool it is!"

Then with a flash the other vanishes. Followed by that Kravis goes into another blackout.He spoke as this happend his words were.

"I need another cha....."

[Arvind Pillai]

Meanwhile:

"Fortunately, we do have a doctor. Giles here received his education in medicine at Shandon. He's a good healer. He worked in the king's army during the 4th crusade."
Aten points towards a scruffy young man who had just entered the tent

"Whats wrong with Kravis? What happened?"

"We were attacked by an odd coalilition of Sabers and Trolls. Kravis has broken his jaw and is unconcious."

Giles inspects the man's jaw.

"Its bad... but nothing we cant do with a healing potion and some rest."

Giles reveals a red vial. He tilts it, allowing the potion to flow into Kravis' mouth.

"The effects are not instantaneous. He will have to be here for a while I'm afraid. Where are the rest? I hardly see even 5 men."

"They are all dead, Giles. You know that. It was a massacre. And to think, all this weaponry was brought along to prevent this sort of thing from happening."

OOC: Hey, I found an awesome pic of a Frost Wyrm :

[hotsmoke]

"Aten, do we have no men left? None? As for kravis, I feel our potions can do nothing for him. He seems lost within himself. More like an internal conflict. It has happened before. I have witnessed it before. It generally happens to mages. The are only two ends to it, Life, or Death. Yet, we cannot intervene. It is his struggle. He must find the truth within himself and beat his inner concience." He suddenly goes silent.

[Kravis]

Suddenly, Kravis felt a boost of power flowing through his veins.What is this sudden energy? He stood up. Certainly, giving up won't help.

"Other! Show yourself"

"What?"

A man dressed like Kravis appeared. He had two swords just like Kravis use to.

"What do you call yourself?"

"Sivrak, wht do you ask, your dead anyways."

"I like to know the names of people I kill"

Kravis runs towards 'Sivrak' and unleashes a kick. But too far behind, even Aten( The Great Martial Articst) could not reach his opponent this far. But a unexpected portal opened at the right time delivers that kick to the head of 'Sivrak'.

"And that tells you, I got my powers back."

Kravis throws a lightning bolt at his other. He hurls eight of them before he opens a portal. The bolts now heading to his right . DODGE!. Portaled them to another place. There was a vigourous survival battle going on for Sivrak. He tried his best to dodge all attacks of Kravis. Then his stamina ran out he gave up and was hit with eight lightning bolts..

"Feel the pain Sivrak."

Sivrak got up and was astonished.

"How are you stronger than me."

"Ask yourself"

"Ahhh, you have more battle training than me. I'll try the samething at you "

He threw the same lightning bolts at the same speed and opened the same formation of portals.But kravis thought quick and opened a portal beneath him. He appeared behind Sivrak, Grabbed a sword and killed him.

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Kravis opened his eyes.

[Arvind Pillai]

"He's concious again!" yells Aten.

Giles greets Kravis with an nod and a warm smile.

"Nearly everybody is dead Kravis. Only 3 knights and 2 crossbowmen remain."

[hotsmoke]

" Welcome back. Now that you know what has happened, what is the future plan of action?
Are we going to retreat or die. You tell me. Since we have already lost most of our men for your cause. The decision is yours." Said Lord Xan

[Arvind Pillai]

Suddenly, a mighty wail echoes through the mountains.

The three look at each other, thunderstruck.

"Oh no.." Aten mutters.

"Giles! Round up our men! Tell them to be ready in case the Wyrm attacks!"

He turns to the burly man who lay on the bed. They had been in the tent for an hour and Kravis' jaw had healed almost completely.

"Kravis.. you think you're able enough to fight?"

[Kravis]

Kravis stands up and speaks. This time, his voice had humilty and shame.

"The death of many, and we have nothing to show for it."

Kravis looks around, clearly depressed.

[Arvind Pillai]

"There's nothing we can do for them Kravis. I'm sorry. Life is but a frail thing, so easily destroyed."

Suddenly Aten feels his body temperature drop. His heart begins to slow.

"Did you feel that?" he whispers.

He spoke in a strange, slow manner. Almost like his vocal cords were freezing.

"So.. c-coldd. The Werm is nearrinng. I've herd off thiss sort offf thingg."

Aten stops, remembering that Xan and Kravis had fought a Wyrm before. He staggers towards a large sac of supplies and takes out three bottles. The man takes a deep drink from one of them.

"They're thawing potions." he says, seemingly re-vitalized. "They raise your body temperature for a short span of time."

He hands bottles to both of them.

"It cant be far. I wonder why we didnt feel the coldness before. Maybye it can turn its freezing effect on and off at will."

A knight bursts into the tent. His face was slightly bluish. He felt the coldness too.

"The Wyrm's visible! Its heading towards our camp from beyond the next mountain!"

"What? That far? And we're this cold?" Aten says. "Things are going to get a lot colder, if that thing moves towards us . Take all the thawing potions you can, soldier."

Aten points to the large sac.

"God be with you."

[Kravis]

"I am not going to risk any more lives. I will open a portal here. Everyman leaves. This is my fight, not yours."

With this Kravis opened a portal to the outskirts of Ras Kar.

"Leave,leave the wyrm for me"