Everflame: The Shard

[kivabunny]

"well who are they?" aeron asked anxiously.

[Cifero Windtail]

"Wait!"
Viola looked over at Feuilly, grinning impishly.
"Did you say that they were called the Army of... the ABASED?"
Feuilly sighed. "Yes. Yes they are..."
She grinned. "They're THEM, aren't they?"

[KittKat chunky~]

The figure strode towards the pair, encircled by the snarling pack of beasts. Early morning light shimmered over the figure's chestnut fur. Her thick hips and tail swayed as she neared them, a smile playing across her lips. Imshi's eyes widened in recognition "Ellin? What are you doing?" Yenchi looked from Imshi to the otter girl, one hand gripping his knife, the other at Imshi's wrist.

"Hah! You did put up quite a fight didn't you?" Ellin walked into the center of the circle, hunting beasts parting in her wake. She drew a long blade from at her hip, unhooking the carved-bone weapon from the woven Teresa clan clothing she wore. "That tricksome girl who helped you made it all the more difficult. As such I am sorry for the wound i caused you, believe me when I say the arrow was aimed for that filthy feline who pretends to be your protector."

Yenchi watched the blade with narrowed eyes. He glanced the girl up and down as she stopped in front of Imshi, a quick glance to the side comparing the two. They were surprisingly similar in stature, though the otter girl was by far the thinner of the two. Her hair short and her woven clothing simple and plain.



"The Clan will be pleased that you have returned to them. And without that boy from the plains tribe." Ellin shot a glance to Yenchi as she moved closer to Imshi. With a sly grin she leaned close and pinched the fox just above her hip, finger and thumb sinking into soft flesh. "You always were the mothers favorite weren't you Imshi. Its not hard to see why a common tribes-boy would delude himself that a woman of your figure might feel anything for him."

Yenchi blanched and stepped towards the otter girl "How dare you-" He stopped as her blade swung up to meet him at the throat, pushing his chin up until the edge pressed to his jaw.

The otter's grin widened as she pushed him back on his toes, forcing him to shuffle away from the two of them as she gripped Imshi's unresistant arm. The pack of beasts encircled him, breaking and re-forming between him and the two girls. They slathered and snapped at his legs, eyes mad with hunger. With one last push of her blade the otter girl's smile wavered into a sad scowl "You are the reason she tried to flee the clan. You are the reason they wanted her dead... If they had sent anyone else she would have been. Can't you see that its better this way? Poor boy."

[tangletail]

“It's called technology form several sentries ago...” the feline sighed as he raised it up to clip it onto his shoulder and free his hands so he could work with them. He began to quickly move over the room, picking up each paper, and reading it. If he felt it bore some kind of lore, or important information he would keep it, or rip the page from the book and move on to the next selection. “I think I just may give up on humanity if you seriously believe that thing is a god, he was scared of a Lizard that...” and with that single notation, the feline paused in place and glanced to the door as an epiphany of emotions washed over him. “We... need to go.”

[kivabunny]

"Woa! Woa! wait!
who's them?"
aeron adopted a confused look cocking one ear back and folding one down.
"i'm confused"

[Cifero Windtail]

Feuilly looked over at Viola and sighed, pressing his hand to his face. He looked up at Aeron.
"The Army of the Abased was a group of students with extraordinary fighting abilities who were some of the greatest heroes of the past. They take their name from the Friends of The ABC, a... *SIGH*... revolutionary group from the book..."
"Les Miserables!" Viola said, grinning triumphantly.
Feuilly glared at her. "Yes. THAT book. I know."
"Which is also the book which contains your namesa..."
"CAN I PLEASE CONTINUE!?" Feuilly sighed. "I'm sorry, Viola, it's just... you were getting a bit repeatative."
Viola shrugged. "It's cool, man. I'm sorry too."
Feuilly smiled. "Thanks. Anyway, about 30 years ago, the Army was sent away on an exploration mission to find a lost artifact."

[x]

"Stop!" Akela said, crouched to the floor, staring at the girl. "Stay still Roxy. We have a little problem." She shuffled further, making sure not to touch. "That poison in you, that black stuff. It's unnatural, it's against Seeker and it's poisoned your skin. I can't hold your hand." She looked around, trying to figure things out.

 
Listy stifled a slight sob and turned back and forth as if trying to look around her. A chill colder than the usual one burrowed into her fur. Suddenly she was not confidently determined, but scared. "What do you mean? I'm...I'm scared!" the girl backpedaled, honestly thinking that in the next moment something would harm her.

[kivabunny]

"so i was beat up by a group of kids playing make-believe!"
aeron's scruffon his neck raised and helaid his ears back and growled, a low deep rumble deep in his throat.

[Cifero Windtail]

Feuilly raised one eyebrow. "Um... what?"

[Entaru]

Nero awoke hours later in a pool of black ooze.  The carpet had become corrupted at his touch and the extended contact had metamorphosized it.  Standing up slowly, the ooze slowly drips off of his body and disappears under his feet, leaving only a rotted floor behind as he walked out of the temple.  Almost nothing lived in the city now...nothing that could be considered living anyways.  The streets were paved with flesh and blood as his angels scavenged the city for anything and everything that could be used.  He could see Aman slinking around in front of a regiment of his angels, inspecting them.  He thought of a regiment because of how the twisted horrors were lined up in a formation that vaguely resembled something military.  These angels were his best, armed to the teeth with natural and material weapons and armor and standing at attention upon seeing him striding up.

[kivabunny]

"I WAS ALMOST KILLED BY SOME KIDS!!!!!!"
aerons eyes began to gleam in a dull red.
"it was this "army" you speak of that tried to kill me?"

[Cifero Windtail]

"Wha... No, not at all!" Feuilly shrugged. "We have no idea who killed you... but I know it's not them. They went into the Badlands in their search and have been missing for the past 30 years. Only one guy came back, a packhorse worker. He seemed mentally unstable, and kept mutering about how the entire army had been 'sucked in by the Golden Eye'." The crat shrugged. "So... they probably aren't the ones who injured you."

[kivabunny]

"oh ok then." aeron smoothed down the fur in the scruff of his neck as his eyes slowly faded back to a golden color.
by the way i have two questions?

[Cifero Windtail]

Feuilly nodded. "Ask away."

[kivabunny]

what were they looking for ? and also what do they have to do with us?