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Post by Ciel on Aug 15, 2007 13:32:32 GMT -6
As Regent opens the device and gets it started, Ciel nods and slides off the rock she was sitting on. She looks into the laser light show made by the contraption and puts the goggles to her eyes.
She saw the bright energy zipping around and sliding in and out in the light cage. Then she lost it for a bit, but saw it again. The energy then begins to ooze into the crack. Ciel is concentrating and all of a sudden she hears a sweet, faint, yet familiar voice.
She breathes out. "My...My Queen?" Her whole body shivers as she races to be closer to the crack. "I...I am here my beloved Majesty....please...please, come to me..."
Even as nausea hit her, she held it back and kept her face as close to the crack as possible, perhaps to catch another listen to the voice of the only person that her heart could ever belong to.
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Post by Thane on Aug 18, 2007 10:21:02 GMT -6
Thane barks to Ciel. "Hey... what are you doing? Are you trying to get yourself killed?" Thane says as he is about to leap into the beams and pull her out.
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Post by Regent on Aug 18, 2007 10:33:13 GMT -6
Regent sees Ciel go to the rift they have just spotted in the light. Regent hears her words as she kneels down before the fissure. He is not surprised as it is the same thing he has heard in his thoughts. Ghostie calling out for anyone.
As The rachet is about to enter the energy field, regent shoots out a long tentacle to restrain the hound from entering. Regent simply turns off the machine and the channeling beams cease and with them the voice Ciel has heard.
Regent calls out softly to Ciel. "Ciel my dear, that was not the safest thing to do. I understand what you must feel but remember that rash haste can be deadly."
Regent walks around the device and releases Thane from his tentacles grip. "What did you hear to spur you so to brave the beams of the field matrix?" He asks knowing full well what she heard.
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Post by Ciel on Aug 18, 2007 23:35:20 GMT -6
Ciel made a longing gesture when the field, and the voice, disappeared. She then turned to Regent and Thane and her face was wet with tears.
"I...I heard my Highness...she was...she was calling to me...to anyone...." She hid her face in her hands.
All Regent and Thane could hear as she began to rock back and forth was, "I should have saved her.....should have saved her...so sorry Highness..."
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Post by Thane on Aug 23, 2007 14:09:36 GMT -6
Thane is standing at ease now as Regent let's him go. His eyes wander over to Regent and he shrugs. "Now what?" the hound says quite uncertain what to do next. "We now know where the portal is... how do we proceed from here?" Thane says with a snort as he crouches down to the floor looking rather disturbed.
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Post by Regent on Aug 24, 2007 10:07:47 GMT -6
Regent lifts off the floor in a swirl of black cloud and drifts over to Ciel. He reforms beside her with a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "We seek out the blade." Regent says coolly to answer Thane. His ghostly voice spreads throughout the ballroom and echoes some in the cavernous room.
"The blade is the key, we must find it to be able to study it... and with some luck, decipher a way to use it to retrieve our beloved.
Regent looks to Ciel, "To do that, I'll need you both to be steadfast and diligent to the effort. Faltering is the road to failure and that is a luxury Ereshkigal cannot afford. She is depending upon you Ciel. You have heard her voice crying out for help. She Wants to be rescued... So will you help me save your love? You must trust in me enough to do as I ask, and in time we shall work hard to find a way to free our Queen of Darkness."
Regent rubs his hand up and down Ciel's shoulder and arm as she is very cold to the touch. His hands light in a halo of soft flame to warm her softly and bring her back from the edge of despair.
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Post by Ciel on Aug 24, 2007 20:29:04 GMT -6
Ciel closed her eyes listening to Regent's speech. A few more fresh tears fell from her eyes, but she listened, nodding as he finished.
When he rubbed her arm and shoulder, she shivered just the slightest bit and raised her face to him as though he was the sun, just come out to warm her. She warmed enough to be comfortable and rose slowly, arms at her sides.
She spoke without opening her eyes and placed her hands softly on her legs, back still straight. Her voice sounded much older, much more free of the usual mirth that it held. "Yes, Chancellor. I wish to free my love. Shall we begin?"
She slowly opened her eyes and looked to Regent and then Thane. Her eyes were alert and hard, as if she could pierce the void and curtain that hid her Queen just with that stare. She said nothing else, but waited, hands staying on her legs. She was a Devilcat on a mission... and what a cause.
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Post by Thane on Aug 25, 2007 11:18:07 GMT -6
Thane's voice booms as he affirms his devotion to the cause. "AYE!" Thane looks around to the area where the wings lay. "Logically, if the portal were opened with the blade...here... It should be right here." Thane says looking perplexed. "Yet it is not." he says with frustration in his voice.
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Post by Regent on Aug 25, 2007 11:28:39 GMT -6
Regent is pleased Ciel is coming around to accept the situation and her role in it. He then removes his hands as his eyes change to steel orbs instead of the electric storms they usually are. His form transfigures before Ciel and he becomes a giant black pit viper,
"To ssssseek a blade of fire... One musssst be resssseptive to the heat..." his black tongue flickers as he begins to serpent dance to catch the heat sensory in his flared pit sensors. His slited eyes search the cracks piercingly as he seeks the heat of the blade.
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Post by Ciel on Aug 26, 2007 13:44:45 GMT -6
Ciel stiffens just a tad. She moves back ever so slightly and more towards Thane. She moves her eyes away from Regent and turns her hard stare towards the place where he will be going. Yet again.
She nods in agreement and keeps stiff. She made need that stiffness if anything comes out of that hole that , by all rights, shouldn't.
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Post by Thane on Aug 28, 2007 9:20:49 GMT -6
Thane listens to Regent and watches carefully as he transforms into the giant serpent. Thane's eyes also flare up as he tries his dark sight to aid in the search for the elusive blade. He feels it may be a waste of energy but it wouldn't hurt to try. He scans about but he can see nothing of interest... though deeper into the shadow he peers anyway.
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Post by Regent on Aug 28, 2007 9:39:01 GMT -6
Regent serpent dances for a bit with his eyes closed allowing the heat from any faint sources filter in his heat pits. His eyes open sharply and his scaly body moves swiftly over the broken stone toward Thane. He slithers up to the hound and peers into the void before him.
"Do you sssee anything Elite?" Regent says still looking into the void. "Ssssomething isss here.... yet it isss not here." Regent reforms into his usual form as his hands extend to the thin air. His eyes flash toward Ciel. "Ciel... Please dial the goggles to setting 446 and use the dark crystal lenses. Look here..." Regent mumbles aloud as he searches for something that is not there, pointing ahead of himself for Ciel to focus the lenses.
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Post by Ciel on Aug 29, 2007 23:31:04 GMT -6
Ciel steels herself, but settles as Regent returns to normal. She does as Regent asks and dials the goggles to the correct setting and looks through them.
She could make out an outline. It had some lines to it missing, as though someone was trying to trace it and was skipping some areas. It shifted and swayed in the ethereal nether that was swirling beneath them, making the missing areas shift so that it looked as though the whole outline were there, but different sections were being covered by smoke or some other material of the same kind.
Ciel stayed on it slightly and looked up, telling Regent what she had seen and asked him softly, "Is it her Chancellor? Is that my Majesty waiting to be saved?"
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Post by Regent on Sept 8, 2007 11:00:06 GMT -6
Regent stands silent as Ciel tells what she sees. He shrugs at her question as he continues to feel the object in the void. "Some how I doubt it, the energy is absent like a dead weight, if it was not suspended in the nether it would be lifeless. This object is on this side of the barrier that separates our worlds."
Regent opens his hands and closes his eyes for a moment. "I can feel it in the void... if I can only... find the... right... in a blur Regent reaches into the void and grasps the object.
The force of his grasp and the resistance of the object is creating a storm like disturbance. As Regent struggles to free the object he is being drawn into the void. "Thane... A little help please..." Regent says gritting his teeth fighting the gravitational pull drawing him into the void.
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Post by Thane on Sept 8, 2007 11:08:09 GMT -6
Thane reacts instantly to Regent's call. The burly hound seizes Regent by the waist and pulls with all his weight. The effort appears fruitless as both of them are being drawn into the void now. Thane realizes this and he knows he must react fast. Malice slithers around Regent and with a quick flick of Thane's arm, a long length of the black chain larches forth and anchors deeply into the nearest unbroken column. This only stops them from being drawn in further. Malice has a firm hold but the crushing force is drawing hard against Thane as he growls fiercely fighting the forces against him.
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Post by Regent on Sept 12, 2007 8:44:36 GMT -6
Regent feels the weight getting heavier and though Thane's chain is holding fast, the gravity pulling on him is becoming too great to bear.
His back begins to transfigure and several tentacles begin to search out whatever they can to get a grip. Once they have secured to a solid object, Regent pulls with all his strength and as the object begins to free itself.
Regent pulls harder. And with a mighty heave, the object becomes free of the void while Regent and Thane fly backward and land hard on the ball room floor. Regent looks up from the impact and he is holding a large heavy blade in his dark grasp.
The storm subsides as the fisure to the void closes slowly.
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Post by Ciel on Sept 12, 2007 17:31:40 GMT -6
Ciel gasps as the blade is pulled from the floor. "Is that the...the angel's?"
She sat with her knees pulled up under her. The devilcat stayed pulled into herself and watched them with the utmost fear in her eyes.
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Post by Thane on Sept 14, 2007 9:54:11 GMT -6
Thane squirms to get out from under Regent as they both lay flat on the dusty floor. "I don't remember you weighing so much Chancellor..." Thane huffs as he holds his sore ribs. Thane moves to his knees and takes a few deep breaths.
He rests his paws on his thighs as Malice begins to retract from Regent and recoil about Thane's massive frame. The part of Malice that Thane stuck into the pillar is still firm and the hound uses that to pull himself up off the floor. A paw comes down to Regent to aid him to his feet.
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Post by Regent on Sept 15, 2007 10:49:42 GMT -6
Regent lays still as the Rachet Hound pulls himself free from beneath Regent. Regent looks about as he hears Ciel speak frightened about the blade now in his grasp. As the paw is presented Regent takes it and stands slowly. He straightens himself as a pulsar wave re-transfigures his form to the perfect form it was before he became all tentacles and disheveled before his subjects.
"I'm not sure little one..." Regent says as the heavy blade responds to Regent's display and begins to rapidly drain vast quantities of energy from him.
Regent can't let go of the blade and his form begins to droop as if a new weight has seized him and is drawing him down. The revived blade begins to glow but not as it did before. This time a dark flame emerges from the blade and engulfs Regent like a fire storm. Regents flaming form drops to the floor in a blazing torrent of dark matter fire.
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Post by Ciel on Sept 16, 2007 12:03:45 GMT -6
Ciel's eyes go wide and she pulls even farther back from the sight she has just witnessed. She frantically calls out to Thane in a tiny , scared voice. "Please, Elite. Do something...."
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