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 Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:07 pm
Tori was getting dizzy. She was spinning around so much and all of the soliders were burring. He didn't know that his families army had so many people! There were so many things that he didn't know.
He felt used for some reason. Was this the reason his famliy had never told him anything about outside the castle? Because they needed a perfect little puppet king when his Father died? Tori didn't like this. Not at all.
The exits were secure and Fang didn't know what to do. She was searching for ways to get out, and it made Seith laugh out loud. She looked like a confused little bird. The grander sight was seeing the Prince looking apologetic on her back, his wings tucked in. He must have really wanted away.
Without a word, Seith motioned for his shifters to start restraining Fang and Prince Tori. Ropes flew and Seith chuckled to himself.
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:17 pm
Fang couldn't transform again until Tori got off her back, and right now that would be too dangerous. She growled at the man and staggered as a rope was thrown around her neg and she pulled back roughly making it snap, but it was to quickly replaced for her to make any progress. "Bastards!" She snarled pulling this way and that, until there were ropes practically covering her, and she fell as her feet were pulled from under her, making Tori fall with her, and she started taking new forms once he was off. First a leopard, then a snake, and then a large, pre-historic bird, snapping at the tightened ropes.
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:27 pm
Tori fell off Fang's back and was snatched up by the guards. Thrashing wildly, ignoring his wing, he yelled and tried to get to Fang.
"Fang!!!" he yelled frantically, getting one arm free and having it grabbed again, "Stop this at once! She has done nothing against me!"
Seith smiled and walked up to Tori, watching as Fang was finally pinned on the ground with the ropes.
"My Lord," he said with a sadistic smile, "She has injured your wing. We cannot let her go unpunished." With a glance at Fang, whom was snarling at him, he yelled, "Take The Shifter to the dungeons and the Prince to his chambers! Neither are to go unwatched!"
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:59 pm
"No! You can't do this! You have no proof!" Fang was desperately squirming, now, cutting as many ropes as she could before they were replaced, and at Seith's orders, she was hit over the head, blacking out.
Her body went limp and she was in her human form again, as she was hefted up by a large soldier and thrown over his shoulder, headed back to the castle. Meiyu spotted the happening, and ran out, stopping at the edge of his drive way...what could he do? There were too many of them and he watched as the prince and Fang were taken away.
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:48 am
Tori clawed at the guards all the way up to the castle, trying to get to Fang in her unconscious state. He wouldn't leave her. She helped him! She hadn't hurt him! This was beyond infuriating for him. He felt something ugly rise in him, and a malicious smile appeared on his face.
'Willing this time?' said his bloody other self with a smile, 'Good. What do you want me to do?'
'Save Fang!' he begged his other self.
'And what do I get?' his other self asked.
Tori had to think while he struggled. They were almost to his room, and if they got him there, then he wouldn't be able to get out.
'You can bathe in the blood of some of these guards,' he said sadly.
"Deal!" His other self yelled out-loud in his voice, making him go blank.
Torisen had finally let him free. True, it was for the small price of saving the little shifter girl, but he could live with that.
With a spin and a few punches, he was lose of the guards and was running for the girl.
It took him a few seconds to get there, all he had was his fists to rely on. Kicking the guard that had Fang, he grabbed her away from him and ran. With a jump start, he raised into the air, flying on his broken wing. It hurt, but it would help him get to where he was going.
He dodged a sack of sand shot at him and landed safely in front of the healer's house. He was outside the house. Good. It made things easier.
"Here old man," he said, tossing Fang and her belongings to him, "Take care of these. Torisen was hells-bent on saving her."
He took off into the sky again, not hearing reactions from the old healer. Close to the Castle, he was shot down again, caught by guards. He was escorted to his rooms, and for at least half an hour, the city rang with Tori's hysterical laughter.
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:35 pm
Meiyu caught the girl easily, with a shocked look. The prince barely resembled himself. "uh...." was all he got out before the prince was gone, and he quickly brought Fang inside, wrapping the rope burns, and the small bloodied spot on her head, crimson spot in her violet hair. Fang always put up a fight....but she'd never been returned before...he remembered about a year before, her stumbling up the road after being missing for a week, and she had been battered and beaten but still looked angry enough to kill a dragon. He re-dressed her in a pure white sleeping gown, and laid her on the cot, covering her in a blanket, and hid away in his herb room, on his own bed, hiding from the evil sounding laugh.
The next morning, Fang woke with a start, immediately taking in her surroundings, and yelped, "Where is he!?"
Meiyu was sitting in the corner grinding rosemary, "Brought you back here and flew away...what a creepy lad."
"But what about the guards? I don't get it."
"Neither do I."
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:20 pm
Tori woke with a start, looking himself up and down. He was blood-drenched...again. Of course, this time he had made the deal, so he knew what to expect. Sitting up, he had maids come near him and tug at him, leading him to a bathing area. He stripped and got in, guards watching.
"This is kinda akward,' he thought to himself, watching the guards give him blank expressions, 'I've never been watched this much before.'
Trying to move his wings, he found one aching and the other one splinted. He must have been shot out of the air again. Oh well. Fang was safe...as far as he knew.
"Where is Fang?" he asked one of the guards, who told him she had escaped, thanks to him. He smiled to himself. Good.
"Summon her to the Castle," he demanded, giving the guard the reason that he wanted to reward her and the healer. It was true. But he wanted to offer her and Meiyu new homes too. They were hard-working and deserved them. Tori wanted to give them something they could use.
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:31 pm
Fang rubbed her head, slowly, "Ouch. Damned nobles. How exactly did I get caught up in this?"
"Not sure, Angel."
"Don't call me that! It's not my name anymore." she growled making Meiyu laughed, and she caught glance at the clock, "Oh my gods, I'm late for work! Margy will kill me for keeping shop closed so long!" she jumped up, looking for her stuff, and grinned thankfully when the huge-yet-gentle healer man tossed her a pair of cargo pants and a shirt that was waaay to big. He left her to change in peace, and soon the shirt was tied at just about the end of her rib-cage, "Thanks for the fix up, Meiyu." her mind was still on the injured prince as she threw her bag over her shoulder and started running down the long country road, back towards the iron-mill.
As soon as she got there, she was scolded and put to work immediately.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:11 pm
Seith sighed, walking out of the castle. He was slightly annoyed. One day out and Prince Torisen was acting like he owned the castle and everone in it. Which he did. Seith was just annoyed that he finally had the guts to order him around now.
Coming outside Fang's place of work, he bowed respectively and asked for Fang, telling the owner that she was to be summoned to the castle.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:19 pm
Fang looked surprised when Margy came to get her. She was already coated in a thin shiny layer of sweat, so she wasn't especially good looking when she was lead to the door to face the guard, and she instantly snarled at Seith, "What do you want?"
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:25 pm
Seith wanted to punch her in the gut and just take her to the castle, but he was under strict orders to be polite.
"His Highness Torisen has summoned you to the castle to reward you for your help the other day," he said lightly, holding back the urge to growl it out at her. She really annoyed him.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:32 pm
"re...ward me?" Fang asked, completely shocked. She hadn't expected anything but trouble...she was at a loss for words, so she just nodded to him, careful to keep her face emotionless.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:36 pm
Seith nodded, motioning towards the castle and walking.
"Follow me." He started to move toward the castle, not watching to see if she was coming along as well. He already had the gates opened for him and the little Shifter, and it annoyed him to no end when he heard her footsteps behind him.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:46 pm
"sorry Margy." Fang waved good-bye to her boss, and followed Seith, mutely. She refused to speak further to him, and in fact, she didn't think she could without hurting him. He'd wanted to put her in the dungeons on false charges! As they entered, she stared about, before looking ahead. She had no clue where Seith was leading her.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:50 pm
Seith walked up the steps into the royal receiving room, where commoners would voice their opinions once a month and raise petitions. Sitting in his respectful seat, his mother and father absent, was Prince Torisen in full Maroon Royla garb, wings splinted and all. Seith bowed low, getting one knee.
"Your Highness, Fang, as you requested."
When Tori saw Fang walk in, a smile raised on his face and he ran over, wanting to hug her and unaware if he should.
"Um...hi Fang," he said sheepishly, scratching the back of his head, "How's your head?"
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