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Post by Mai on Apr 24, 2009 6:08:38 GMT -5
Still to violent Zarza. You're lucky they would jsut as quickly hunt me, or they would live to find you again.
She replied, a ball of fire glowing in her mouth a moment before she breathed it over them. Some scrambled to get away and slipped, falling. It saved them from the initial flame, as Kit was aiming up just enough to avoid setting the building on fire. But those who were missed were also inexperienced and, instead of crawling away to stay below where the flames would be, got up to run again. One of more burst of fire, and they were dead. She hovered next to the building, and, though she was sad that they had to die, she didn't show it.
Old friends are in town, by the way. You remember the Doctor and the others?
She had figured out months ago that Zarza had been the boy she had saved. He had never told her outright, but she had figured it out. They never talked about the ancient city, but then again, there wasn't much to talk about. Neither of them had visited it in a long time.
Would you like to come back with me to see them?
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Post by niko on Apr 24, 2009 9:30:04 GMT -5
"dont think you are above me dragon. You love fighting just as much as I. I have felt it before. The surging joy in your chest as your opponent falls"
He lept off the edge of the building onto her back and ran with expert guile until he plopped his but down between her spikes near the base of the kneck. "Friends huh?" In due time. First I got to have some fun"
As she started to fly away a young hunter with a dagger in between his teeth dove off the edge and grabbed hold of her tail. Like a annoying tick the youth held on tightly and used Kits spikes to climb along.
He seemed little intrested in her and more into Zarza. Alas the youth lost his grip and fell to the ground with a hard hit. Miraculously he survived the fall and looked up at the hovering kit. He just stared coldly and took one of the small vials lining his belt to drink from it. All the veins in his body turned black for a second before returning to normal.
Unable to reach the reptile the young hunter made some hand gesture that seemed symbolic more then threatening and turned around to leave.
"Annoying ants. I wonder who they are. Ha. Apparently my actions when I use to be a rebel earned me a hit on my head. No matter. I'll show you where i want to go." Directing Kit to a building in a bad part of the city. He hopped off her back when she landed. Citizens on the streets kept back at the sight that was almost unheard of outside of storys.
"I'm going to indulge my eyes on flesh" He said and looked to pink sign on the building that read "LOVELESS". A strip club and bar no doubt. "Come. Wait here. I dont care. I need a few drinks before I go meet the others"
Not waiting he entered the building but not before dropping Kits PDA (personal data pad) on ground. She hardly ever used it and he kept it for playing with if nothing else. For now the device that was directly linked into the NSA master computers would be of use.
When Speaking the word "Hunters" A list of choices came up. Speaking Monster hunter. A hologhraphic image came up of a human with all the monster hunting gear.
A computer voice started to give a profile. "Monster hunters. Not much is known about the secretive group. But according to old scrolls aquired during the time of the "cleansing". They were origenly orphans that survived there familys from wild dragon attacks on villiges.
Training in the Thiara monestary in the Rachis mountains they grew in power and sold there services to the public in ridding of man eating mythical creatures. Some believe that this 'whoring' of themselves was used to develop there own power and wealth. But archeological digs have yield that the money was used for the funding of equipment so that they could help there fellow man. Monster hunters quite ironically were considered monsters by society as they genetically altered themselves through the use of secret potions. A secret they took to there grave.
"At the begining they numbered in the 20's and grew through the decades until the guardians reached there height of power. A massive attack was led on the monestary in the moutains
The image of the man shimered away and a video looking footage came up of a great batt around a small looking castle in the moutains. The words in the hologhraphic image read.
"Computer simulation from Battlefield Foresic archeologists'
The image shimmered as child hunters in the castle courtyard were cut down like dogs. The footage went on and started over again as it was set on 'loop'
"The guardians were wriled up by there religious leader and the hunters were killed down to the last child and thus rendered extinct having been accused of helping the draca during there war with the guardians. No evidence has yet been uncovered to prove the claims. But many agree the hunters gave draca sanctuary during the war.
The simulation footage faded away and the hunter image came back up again.
"In conclusion Hunters were enigmatic and history will never know really who they were other then men and women who dedicated themselves to sparing a child the same grief of losing onces family as themselves. The Hunters faded into history. From history to song. From song to myth. All but forgotten until recent history. But that is another tale....
The image faded and words read. "End of Archive profile. Further access into monster hunters requires top secret security clearance level 6"
It must have been irritating but no surprise. Sector six only got that clearance. The Now all that was left was Zarza. But he had no intention of coming out soon. Not unless someone got him.
Elswhere on a major highway leading to the capital a unmarked cargo truck was driving along. Inside the back was a torture chamber with a monster hunter strapped down to a metal table. Sector 6 often used unmarked trucks for transportation of military grade weapons as well as for mobile labs.
Electrical strands of energy covered the prisoners body as it flowed through his body. The Sector 6 operative torturing him released the power button. "Tell us where the others are. Where do your kind keep the secrets of your potion making" The adult hunter laughed. "Asura will find me and kill you" The torturer smirked. "You dragon riders are a dying breed. You can go on calling yourself monster hunters or slayers. But it still does not change what you are.
So the monster hunters were a dragon rider group. The youths kit killed earlier must have been trainies. Younglings no less. The monster hunter taunted his captor. "Do what you will." The captor pulled down the lever on the wall causing veiny strands of electricty to once again dance over the hunters body. "Oh I will. We will obtain the elixer of life and the ancient artifact then finish off what the guardians failed to do so long ago. The age of magic and magical creatures is at its end. The time of science and man has come. Even those foolish alchemists will join you. Magic and science cannot co exist as they think"
The radio on the wall said. "Uh we have a dragon coming in fast. What should I do?" The torturer sighed and rubbed his temples. "Do some evasive driving you idiot! And try not to flip us! These things tip over easy"
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Post by Mai on Apr 24, 2009 20:59:38 GMT -5
Kit sighed, shimmering her clothes between her uniform, and other options. She made the bricks reflective, to act as a mirror. It had been a long time since she had been out of her uniform, not including when she went to bed in pajamas. Which, in itself, was rare. Usually she got home and flopped down on the bed, falling asleep almost instantly. Working long hours, then going out to drink until late in the night never worked out well for staying up long enough to change.
She decided on sticking with a jean jacket(not baggy, of course), and some black jeans. It was better than the uniform, comfier too, not that she thought about it. She glanced at her watch. It had been and hour and a half already. She shook her head and, bracing herself for sights she might not actually want to see, walked in. She ignored the lady at the front desk, using her and Zarza's connection to lead her to him. Keeping her eyes averted above mostly everyone, she grabbed the back of his collar and began dragging him out the door.
Waited long enough. We're leaving, and we're leaving now.
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Post by niko on Apr 24, 2009 23:15:33 GMT -5
Zarza was sitting at a table with a dwarf friend of his playing a dice game and gambling. "Beard'n you crafty little bastard. You will make me a poor man!" Zarza complained. Beard'n pulled all the mony from the center of the table towards him. "Easy lad. Tis just luck. Lets go again"
Zarza was not having fun anymore. "I'm done tonight" A stripper that had come off the stage to there right to walk among the people went over to start giving Zarza a lap dance.
"Oh yeah. Time to turn my attention to something that matters" He thought childisly before she got off him and started to make out with another coworker. "WOAH! Girl on girl action.You two close? Does your mother no you do this?" He said cheekily and put some mony in the puffy cloth around one of there thighs.
It was then he felt the sharp grab to his ear and could not help himself as he got up and went with Kit outside. Went she let go he yelled. "Stop babying me dragon! Go see the others without me and what the hell are you doing? You know how I hate it when your in human form. Its disturbing.
He turned and saw the stripper workers needed flyer on the side of the building. "Well, it wouldent be disturbing if you put it to use"
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Post by Mai on Apr 25, 2009 10:27:43 GMT -5
Don't even think about it. And I happen to like this form. I am not a tool for you to use, I have my own mind. And, anyway, you may want to check the file on Monster Hunters.
She replied, her voice scathingly angry at him thinking her could control her. She shoved the PDA in his hand, and, knowing he'd feel her anger just as she felt his annoyance, she turned to walk away, scowl on her face.
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Post by niko on Apr 25, 2009 14:51:18 GMT -5
Zarza grumbled and stuck the PDA in his pocket with no intention of looking at the files. "Yeah, Yeah, whatever you fork tounged snake" With that said he went back in the building to get sloshed and later return back to Kit and his apartment drunk.
Zarza came stumbling through the door after standing for a lengthly time outside trying to fit the keys in. He stopped in the entrance and swayed a bit as he smelled at the air. "Goddammit! it smells like dragon in here"
He yelled and dropped the empty liquer bottle from his hand onto the floor with a clatter. "I hate your kinds stink" He continued to grumble to no one in particular as he made his way to the couch.
He slumped on the couch and lied down to continue bitching. "For years I spent hiding from your kind. For years I had to linger in that intolerable sour smell. And when I thought I got away from it all I find myself stuck with you" He glanced over to the frige and the memo stick up that said the time she was having dinner with Rico. Zarza could not read well at the moment though.
"Your no good dragon I" He stopped talking as the shadows in the room started to act funny. Kit would know something was wrong in her bedroom when Zarza stopped talking. That or he passed out. "What the hell!" He yelled as a little girl with black hair started to crawl on the cieling over him.
The aperation stopped over Zarza and her head turned around very unaturally with cracking sounds to look at him. "Oh naw, you again" He complained. The aparation opened her mouth and a unearthly spine chilling scream came out that caused the lights to flicker and the windows to explode out.
The apartment walls creaked and the aparation disapeared returning everything to normal. Zarza reached over to a bottle left over from earlier in the day to look at it then back at the cieling. He put it back down deciding that the drinking was only making the ghosts worse.
For some reason they always bugged the hell out of him. Not that Kit knew. Zarza was to proud to tell anyone. After all, when was seeing things 'normal". He figured she would be quick to send his ass to the loony bin.
In the morning Zarza attempted to get up from the couch but managed only to roll off onto the floor. "Oy me head" He complained. And looked around in confusion for a second before yelling to Kits closed room door. "I'm hungry! Wheres breakfast!"
Zarza was worse then a kid now adays with his alchoholism. He use to be a good rider. Always going out with Kit and praticing not that it was needed. But now he prefered to drink rather then fly with her.
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Post by Mai on Apr 25, 2009 20:52:49 GMT -5
I am not your mother, or your girlfriend, or your wife, I do not have to make you breakfast! You want to eat, you make food for yourself!
She grumbled, shimmering her jacket on and grabbing a bun off the counter.
You had better be at work within the hour. I'm not covering for you today.
She told him, stuffing the bun in her mouth and going out the door. Locking the door, she tore off a chunk of bread and chewed, slipping her phone out of her pocket and dialling up the firehouse. The personal phone, not the one for emergencies. She asked for Rico.
Hey, it's Kit. Sorry I didn't come back last night. Zarza's gone nuts. But about that supper...I'm working late tonight, but I've got a lunch break or there's always tomorrow. Any preferences?
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Post by rico on Apr 25, 2009 21:57:57 GMT -5
Zarza just complained about how much useful Kira was right up until she left. Standing up he started to open up various cabinets and found nothing. Going over to the pantry Zarza opened it up and saw the little ghost girl again. He paused for a second but pretended she was not there to grab some liquified eggs to close the pantry door.
Rico was inside the firehouse playing cards with his buddies when Kit called. "yeah, thats fine. I understand your job can take up your time. I know this great place near the walkway. Its near the building with a fountain in front of it"
"Asshole" he said into the phone as he pushed a buddy away who was trying to see his card hand. "Oh, sorry, wasent talking to you. I look forward to seeing you again"
The firehouse alarm blared and everyone groaned at a fire this damn early in the morning. The chief just happened to walk in and saw his men all sitting there at the card table. "What is this? Quite sitting around with your dicks in your hands! Theres a fire!"
Rico jumped up and said to Kit. "Duty calls. We'll talk later" Rico got into his uniform and gear to slide down the firepole. A buddy slid down and punched Rico in the arm. "When we have the baseball game with the cops we should call ourselves the 'pole smockers". Rico just stared at him.
"You know. Cuz we go sliding down the poles so fast were on fire" Rico put the oxygen tank on his back to say. "God your such a fag"
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Post by Rico on Apr 27, 2009 11:39:44 GMT -5
"Just another day in paradise" Rico said as there firetruck stopped in front of a office building. "Looks like the fire is on the 23 floor and up" Putting on his oxygen mask Rico and his friends started the painful movment up the buildings stairwell.
Zarza came in late to work and his tie was crooked as hell. Yawning he got off the elevator on his work floor. "I hate my life" He said to kit as soon as he entered her office and sat down. "I cant understand how you actually like this job"
He reached over to the cord for the closed blinds and opened them. "And what is with you dwelling in the dark? You aint turned into a vampire have you?"
Zarza noticed the trail of black smoke in the distance. "Woah, Looks like a bad fire. Pitty the poor bastards that have to put that out"
Rico was in front of a office door and grabbed a metal tool from someone next to him. "Pop it rico!" His buddy said. Rico was about to but stopped to touch the door handle. "No good probie. That rooms done for. Move on"
The newbie foolishly took the hooligan tool out Ricos hands and popped the door open. Rico tryed to warn him but it was to late. "BACK BLAST!" He yelled and dove for the ground as fire exploded out of the room they just popped the door to.
The probie was incinerated on the spot. The backblast caused windows to break out and with the fresh supply of air all the floors near the top of the tower suffered a big explosive backblast that to the average watcher would look as if a bomb exploded.
Rico was surrounded by fire and stood up to listen to his chief on the radio. "Everyone get out! The building wont hold! Get out of there now! Rico started feeling around with his hands in the smoke filled office rooms to make his way to the stairs. The roof started to drop in all around him and Rico tripped over some burning ceiling. "My suits melting!" Rico yelled into the radio. "Chief I'm not gonna make it
Outside the fire chief was standing near the mobile command center they set up near the base of the office building. "Hold on. Get to a window" He waved and yelled at the ladder team. "Get the ladder up there! We got men burning alive in there!'
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Post by Mai on Apr 27, 2009 15:10:27 GMT -5
At the mention of the fire, Kit was about to brush it off, and then remembered. Her blood ran cold when she looked out the window. Windows were shattering from the heat.
I'm taking my coffee break. Be right back.
She mumbled, struggling to open the stiff, unused window. Growling under breath, she just shook her head and gave up fighting with it, using the barrel of her gun instead. Knowing the heat would likely ignite the gunpowder, she left it on the sill as she jumped up and then out, spreading first just wings. As she got closer, she was forced to change into her dragon form, which could handle the heat so much easier.
She began circling the building. She was primarily looking for Rico, but knew she could easily carry three or four people on her back, and another few in her claws. She saw one man, preferring to fall to his death than to burn alive, jump out the window. She swooped in and grabbed him. The heat from the fire scorched her scales, but right now she wasn't particularly caring. Scales would grow back. She did through up a small shield around the human she was now carrying though.
She finally reached the window closest to Rico and back-flapped a bit as she almost passed by it. She shoved a claw it.
Rico! Grab on! Quick!
She could keep a shield around him in there for a short while, but a shield against heat and a shield against an out-of-control fire required two different strengths, and right now, with one of each up, it would drain her quickly.
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Post by rico on Apr 27, 2009 23:18:25 GMT -5
Zarza did not catch onto what Kit was doing until he went to look at a TV hung on the cieling. Sure enough Kit was there. It made no sense to him. He thought she was deafly afraid of fires.
Rico in his blind stumbling came across some office workers they missed and another firefighter who got seperated from the group.
He helped to direct them a window and switched off his oxygen mask from himself to the others. He was quite startled to see a giant claw come in. Ignoring the familiar voice.
He helped to guide the others to her grip. One after the other he watched as Kit took them to safety until his turn came. Sadly just as he was moving to her the floor gave out with a crack and Rico disapeared in the flames below to reapear near a window. And once again as Kit came to help the floor gave out again. He was near the buildings concrete stairwell and decided it the better choice. On the way down Rico found an uncousious office worker that sucumbed to the smoke. Lifting the women over his shoulder Rico continued his decent.
Making it out he gave the women to some paramedics and let one look him over. "Youl be fine, just some heat boils and smoke inhalation"
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Post by Mai on Apr 28, 2009 6:02:22 GMT -5
Kit landed when she saw him come out, and changed back, her clothes shimmering into place. She jogged over to Rico, trying to stop herself from shaking at being so close to the fire. In the adrenaline, her fear had been forgotten, but now that Rico and the others were safe... Well, there wasn't all that much to keep her mind distracted from how she had almost died before in a fire.
You okay?
She asked, missing the paramedic's diagnosis of how Rico was. Luckily, the paramedics had situated everything a bit farther from the building so that if it did collapse, they wouldn't have debris flying out at them. She could ignore the fire, for the most part.
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Post by niko on Apr 28, 2009 8:27:33 GMT -5
Rico was a bit taken aback at the identity of his rescuer. He took the breathing aparatus off and waved the paramedic off. "I'm fine" He looked at kit and said. "Your a draca? heh, well that explains the red eyes. Looks like I'm not going to make that meal apointment." That was obvious enough. "thanks for saving my bacon back there. Our suits are made to withstand great heat but it was starting to melt" The paramedic went back to examining Rico as he talked. "Looks like some of the suit melted to your body."
They picked him up in the stretcher and loaded him in the back of the ambulance. "We need to get him to the burn ward" Rico put the breathing aparatus back on so he could breath properly again and made a gesture with his hand to say. "Call me".
The other firefighters seemed to have things under control now as they sprayed the building with hoses. Never a boring day for Kit with the friends she keeps.
Upon returning to the NSA building she saw her coworkers including Atakai, Tristan and zarza all huddled around a TV on the wall.
Zarza waved some mony in the air. "I got a hundred dollers tha say the guy will cry when they start" Tristan chimed in. "Naw man, I got 200 that says he wont" Atakai being the only sensible person around crossed his arm and chastised everyone. "C'mon! You all are being dicks. Why would you be betting on a persons public execution. Pathetic! Show some respect"
Atakai noticed Kit and waved her over. "Can you believe this crap kit?" on the TV it showed a man in his early twentys tied to a pole with a imperial fireing squad on line with rifles.
"The city police caught someone with a wyvern and wearing guardian armor on the outskirts. Now there killing him" At the end of the sentence the fireing squad all shot killing the prisoner. Tristan let out a woop and started to take all the money. "Told you all he would cry. Dont y'all know know anything about guardians? Zarza grumbled to walk off. "I dont care what guardians are." Typical of him.
Tristan went back to his office with a smilee at winning a whole months worth of pay. Atakai was the only one that was still there and shaking his head. "The emperor is a good man, but his vendetta against the guardians really has to stop. it was decades ago for crying out loud"
Looking to kit he picked up on her confusion since he knew her better then anyone. "Dident they teach you about the guardians at the acadamy? Damn there slacking. Do reasearch on your PDA" he took his coffe of the table and went to the office he shared with Kit.
Upon activating the PDA and typing in guardian a holographic image came up showing a guardian knight with there golden wyvern chest emblem. The guardian was fighting a invisible foe with impressive swordsmanship.
"GAURDIAN KNIGHTHOOD NUMBERS" Uknown AVERAGE AGE: Early 20' to late 30's MENTALITY: OLD CHIVILRY, Refusal to use anything technological SWORD FIGHTING STYLES: Unknown
The narrative voice went over a brief history that was all to common knowledge taught in all schools but the voice said information that was news to kit.
"After Vinnie came into power as Emperor he disasembled the Guardians because of there currupt leadership and there refusale to abandon the old ways. With the coming of the gun. swords and shields were redered impractical. After the guardian leadership trials many refused to abandon there dutys and continued to operate out of Fort Valor to serve the people"
Emperor Vinnie has long hated the guardian order for his enslavement before the enactment of the Draca civil rights. Acting out of personal motives the Emperor ordered the capture and execution of all living guardians and there sons to eradicate any chance of hiers as the guardian order was passed down from father to son. A brief battle was faught at Fort Valor but the primitive knighthood fell to the technological might of the imperial army in a matter of forty minutes.
According to official history the Guardian order is extinct. But in fact several rogue hidden 'holds' of them exist today. Most likely sons who suvived the roundup and picked up there fathers sword. If found they are publically executed to make an example.
For more information on the Guardian holocaust please visit the Fort Valor musuem. TEL # 931-4815
If you are intrested in joing the Guardian Investigation and detention section contact your local director for transpher papers.
Turning around Kit would find Zarza standing there with a coffee in his hand. "Thinking of transphering? Where Do I sighn up? I'm tired of this stupid X-Files devision. You do know they put people they dont like here?"
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Post by Mai on Apr 28, 2009 17:44:32 GMT -5
If they didn't like us, they would turn their backs and let sector 6 kill us.
Kit pointed out, taking one last glance at what was coming up next on the television before walking past her partner. Time to, unfortunately, get back to work. At least until her lunch break. She wasn't quite sure what she'd do, but she didn't feel like sitting around in her office to eat like she normally did. She decided she'd think about it later.
And, no, I wasn't thinking about transferring. Unlike you, I'm enjoying it here. Never a boring moment....Except while doing paperwork, of course.
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Post by niko on Apr 29, 2009 1:08:14 GMT -5
Before Kit turned to look at the TV Zarza pointed out. "Need I remind you your the emperors niece. It is highly unlikely sector 6 would do anything rash. Taking your life would draw unessesary attention. Not to mention your uncle the emperor would probably search heaven and hell for who hurt you.
Going back to his office Zarza went to the work of typing out some reports.
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