Pandora's Story

A strange, black box sat in a temple, on top of the highest mountains in Serakin. The box was floating in a pool of black water, which seemed to have countless amounts of protective spells over it. Hundreds of thousands of Wizards, Witches, Shifters and Scythes were all gathered infront of this box. They were all chanting something quietly, and a strange Angel, clad in black with wings as dark as the night stepped forward. His voice boomed over the others.

"Gray cloud Monochrome bustle, Sunlight shadows, In your presence dusk changes it's colour. My child, rise. And the world shall ooze." He boomed, and the box rose from the waters, through the spells, and landed with a thump infront of him. It opened, and a light filled the room. More of this strange black water fired out of the box, and eventually, a cloaked female figure was created from it. The colours became more human, and the girl lowered her head, to stare at the floor. The angel spoke again.

"Our mistress, Pandora. Rise! Mou, Yukiba Ga Nai Ii, Wa. Kono Ko Ii No, Yetsu Ryuo." He chanted, the last part was in an ancient tongue, that the Queen of Spiders originally spoke in.

Pandora smiled underneath her hood, and raised her head quickly, and it rocketed back, so she was facing the roof. She leaned back, and spread her arms. An extremely loud scream left her lips, and all in the room were liquefied from the frequency and air pressure. The roof exploded, and the rain and hail covered her face. She stood up normally, and looked at the angel, who was on his knees, and was bleeding out. "M-Master.. I don't.. Agh-" He was cut off by Pandora ramming her foot through his chest. She pulled it out, and watched the male fall. Behind her, a Spider with a Human torso and head - Which was giant, i may add - walked out behind her from the black waters. "Your Majesty, Aurania, the Spider Queen, Shall we leave, and lay waste to this wretched population?"

The spider smiled with glee, and nodded. "We shall, Pandora. And take that accursed box with you. The Algonzech Cube - That little Lexicon - Is inside that box. Gray would not permit you to lose it." She hissed. Pandora looked at the Spider Queen. "Ofcourse, Your Majesty. The master would not be pleased with that." Pandora muttered. The two then disappeared in a quick blast of air, leaving not a trace. The box went with them, also.

Crow

Crow's eyebrow raised up in confusion. So to love something meant the same as to like something, only...greater.

Jinny's voice interrupted his thoughts and the Angel looked up at the girl. "Oh, Mah name i' Crow, evn dough I dink i' Chike oh somepin." He repeats from the first time he met Kara. "I li' Crow's. Dat's why I go' dis name." He says with a smile before flying up and grabbing hold of Jinny's outstretched hand. After a second or two, he only held her hand not knowing what else to do since she offered it to him so he shook it slightly in a bit of confusion before flying into the ship and out of the cold weather.

Gray

Gray somberly walked through the temple before the pattering of footsteps could be heard behind him. Gray looked behind him and saw his trusted messenger, a dark Angel by the name of Xerxes. He to had a cloak like robe on him but it concealed his entire face to anyone making him look similar to the Grim Reaper. The angel with huge white wings stopped in front of the large man and bowed his head a bit before speaking.

"Gray master, there has been a tremendous amount of power coming from Mount Cheyenne." Gray raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Is that so...?" The dark Angel nodded, his black cape blowing a bit win the wind making his appearance even more frightening. This didn't phase Gray though. "Hmm...What sort of power?" Gray said with a hint of interest. "Dark power, I sense it is from the powerful Dervish. Angel of-" "death. I know..." Gray interrupts in annoyance. Xerxes steps back a bit before continuing. "I think it may be from the Dervish Pandora..." Grays eyes widen and his head darts up at Xerxes. "Fool! Why didn't you tell me this sooner!" He snarls before putting a hand up to his head. "Ugh...When is she getting here?" He asks with interest of his former follower. "Any moment master..." Gray's eyes bolt up at the ceiling before he smiles. "Great...Then I shall prepare a feast for the Angel of Death herself."

Xerxes was a bit confused and by the way he talked you could tell he had his eyebrow raised. "A feast Master?" Gray looks over at the giant winged Angel before sighing. "Yes, a feast. She must be hungry after all those years in that cursed box..." He says with amusement. "Oh, alright then master." Xerxes says before walking back down the hallways while Gray looks down the corridor that holds the kitchen. "Yes, now I must prepare the feast..." He says to himself with a smirk before walking down the corridor to prepare for Pandora's entrance.

A large spider - person lowered itself down towards Gray. "Greetings, Master." It stepped back, and a black figure materialised out of nowhere.


"Master Gray. What a pleasant surprise. Although, I knew you would be here." She laughed, her hood falling backwards, revealing a beautiful face, with shining eyes, and a smile that could light up a planet.


Kara's eyes fluttered open, and she stared at Damien. Kara leaned up and cuddled into him, hoping it was all a dream.



(( I apologise for the short post. ))

Damien clasped his chest piece to his back piece, but left his helmet off, then walked around the inside of the Helicopter, searching for anymore gear he could salvage while Kara was unconscious, stopping to check on her now and again.
He sat down next to her, but felt her stir and then pull herself closer to him, cuddling up against his torso. Damien slipped an armored arm around her, keeping his cybernetic arm clasped on his Spit-Fire. Noise at the door startled him, causing him to lift the Sub-machinegun as a figure came through, but he relaxed when he saw it was Jinny bringing medkits.
I brought a ton of medkits, as well as food. Help yourself.", Jinny said before leaving the helicopter to nap under a tree.
Kara slowly got up and walked just outside the helicopter, about 10 feet away and still in Damien's view.
Hey, Damien.. Do you think that me and you..-", Kara begin to say, but trailed off.
Damien looked down at his hands and smiled, but the smile faded when he heard a click of a weapon being readied, and began to get up. Damien was startled by a nearby earsplitting scream of pain, his stomach dropping when he realized it was Kara. He leaped out of the helicopter and aimed his Sub-machinegun at the hooded figure's back who had just dropped Kara on the ground. He saw the gaping hole from Kara's back to her chest, and let out an inhuman scream of rage he didn't know he was capable of, breaking the wall of discipline he had worked his whole life to build, and unleashed a torrent of shredder rounds from the Spit-Fire towards Kara's assailant.

Pandora stared at the bullets, and frowned. "Mortals irritate me." She muttered, appearing behind him with only one bullet hole in her shoulder. She kicked at his back, and then went for an axe kick to break his shoulder. "Just lay down and die. Your presence isn't needed."

After the brief assault, she walked over to Kara's limp, dying body, and lifted her up by the throat. She healed her existing wound, and shoved her into the floor. "It's better to watch them suffer." She laughed, smiling at Damien. "Although you prefer to end it quickly.."

"Mortals irritate me.", the figure said.
Damien blinked when the Hooded figure dissappeared. He felt a presence behind him, but before he could spin around, he was struck in the back with enough force to knock him on his face. He instinctively let go of the Spit-fire and caught himself on his hands, pushing himself back up, only to get struck again on top of his shoulder. The impact was jarring and knocked him onto his knees, thankfully his impact plating absorbed the most harmful part of the strike, but it still caused searing pain in the injury he had received from the Spider.
"Just lay down and die. Your presence isn't needed.", she continued.
Damien dodge-rolled forward and spun around as he finished the roll, facing his attacker. He pulled out his survival knife, flipping it in his cybernetic hand and slid his P28 out of it's leg holster, but paused when he saw the hooded woman healing Kara.
"It's better to watch them suffer. Although you prefer to end it quickly.." , she smiled at a Damien, a cold smile as it was.
Damien realized he was over-matched, but he couldn't leave Kara, the best he could do was distract the powerful Serakin until Jinny and Crow arrived.
The soldier lifted the pistol up and fired several rounds at the Hooded woman, and lifted his survival knife up in a defensive position.

In an instant Astrad's rage was broken by an intense sound. What was that? He thought. It sounded it like screaming? Someone is in trouble! Astrad concluded as he ran towards the sound of fighting. Astrad had no idea why he would move towards the sounds of danger. Towards the sounds of others. That was the one thing he wished to avoid, but something in his mind is telling him that he must fight. Astrad knew not what it was, but it was a different feeling than earlier when he tried to jump. Astrad run closer as shots were fired again and again. They have guns? They must be from Nexis...maybe they can tell me where I am? Or Maybe they were the ones that dropped me off. Astrad thought hopefully giving him more reason to enter the fray. Once he came close he saw two figures fighting, a man clad in standard issue battle armor and a hooded woman. The man was definitely from Nexis but he was under attack from the hooded woman. Then he saw a black winged fellow appear from the shadows and fired something at the Hooded woman. Then he kicked a weapon over to the man.

Astrad watched the confrontation out of sight and hopefully out of mind. Yet he was weary as he watched the opponents, and the battlefield very carefully as he prepared to attack once the need arises.

Pandora watched as the bullets struck her. She groaned slightly when the last one hit her existing wounds. "Ah, so you want to play?" She laughed, and then suddenly went cold and dark. She opened her eyes wide, and pulled one of her eyelids down slightly. It cast an illusion of what they feared most, and would force them to suffer. When the dart hit her, she turned her attention to the angel.


The robe on her back split, and her hood fell off. Large, Black angel wings sprouted out of the holes in her back, and she stared angrily at the younger angel. "Chike Alandor... Sih Ahzkara Tal Neruso." She spoke in an Angelic language known as "Halien."

Pandora started to hover in the air, and two HUGE fireballs appeared in her hands. "It's time to play.." She whispered, smiling evily.

She quickly shot herself down at Crow, and aimed both fireballs at him. "...Here I come!"

Fear collided with the sudden urge to run in the angels chest causing him to breath a little strange. When he saw the huge fireballs coming at him, he froze only for a second. One second he will never forget. He felt as if everything had repeated itself. All of his memories, advetures, then he imagined all of that gone. All of it just for nothing. His life all for nothing. Somehow, this little notion didn't fit well with the young angel. In fact, it made him a bit angry and frustrated though he knew death was relentless, even if he hadn't been born around others, the whole cycle of earth had taught him this.

Once that one second was over, he could already feel the heat of the fire, choking, dry, dense air rushed into his nostrils before reacting. He spread his wings and dashed away from the evil girl only for him to run into another man. He was very tall one could give you that, well to Crow, everyone seemed tall. Without thinking he yelped on impact and quickly dove behind the man.

Jinny

Jinny woke up right when Crow was creeping into the shadows.

All throughout the battle, Jinny swung through the trees and tried to get a charged shot of plasma at Pandora, but to no avail. After one of Damien's bullets hit her, Jinny saw tornadoes. Many tornadoes. She breathed hard, and she felt her muscles start to get tense. She felt like she was about to fall out of the tree she was in. Jinny had post-traumatic stress disorder, and out of anyone, Jinny suffered most from her fear. She was just about to faint, when Crow's dart hit her, and the tornadoes were gone.

Jinny regained her composure, and kept aiming. Suddenly, the monster made two fireballs in her hands. "It's time to play..", she said, looking directly at Crow. Jinny gasped. She didn't think Crow would be able to dodge those fireballs. However, Jinny knew that when the monster striked at Crow, she would have her chance.

When Pandora's fireballs almost hit Crow, Jinny swung down from the tree, got behind Pandora, and shot her plasma beam directly at Pandora. Being fully charged, the beam should have killed or at least paralyzed her. To be safe, Jinny quickly switched her pistol to whip mode, and wrapped her coil around Pandora's neck. (almost like a lasso)

Pipa and Piper

Pipa had just made it to Hyoushi when the sea monster passed the elves and dragons and shot a blue beam of light at the jungle in front of the elves, setting fire to some trees. This didn't scare Pipa, but for Piper it was terrifying.

"PIPER!!PEEK TRIMPSINGAL!!!!"
("PIPER!! KEEP RUNNING!!!"), Pipa shouted. Piper obeyed. Pipa started to fly on Hyoushi. When Pipa started to fly, Piper made it on Rawzah. Rawzah started to fly as well. Pipa was about to shoot Nereus from above, when she felt that she had no arrows left.

"PIPER!!! YERT ARAVAIN!!!"
("PIPER!!! AIM AGAIN!!!")

While Hyoushi started to spout fire at the beast, Piper got out her bow again and aimed at the monster. With only 4 arrows left, Piper became worried. She calmed herself down, and thought to herself "aim for the eye, aim for the eye." With one clean sweep, Piper aimed for the eye. She didn't know where the arrow went because she covered her eyes after she shot the arrow.

Astrad was startled by the sudden appearance of the winged creature as it dove behind him. The Woman before them looked similar, most likely the same creature. Astrad turned his cold, steely gaze at Crow then turned back to the fighting. He kept ever so more defensive as he clenched his fists ready to strike if attacked. Seeing the magic performed however, reminded him of his training. They said be wary of magic for it is unlike anything here in Nexis. Astrad wasn't worried he would be prepared to go in and take out the assailant. In fact he was going to have too. These people may have answers to his questions and that is an opportunity he cannot let go off. Watching the woman carefully he was planning his next course of action. Should he attack? Or Should he stand by? The answer unknown to him. He felt that the first option should be the only one. After all he has reasons for placing himself in harm's way not to mention it felt like it was the right thing to do. Maybe he should use the Gun on his back? That could do the trick. Once again though more flashbacks occurred once he thought about the weapon. He doesn't even know much about it aside from it being very powerful. That might not be the best course. On the off chance that the Nex Mucro would end up harming both parties. Astrad would have to do something eventually, after all this woman may notice him sooner or later and by that time he would have to be the first one to strike.

Then Astrad noticed a new fighter has arrived as the new woman made her attack against the winged one. From her appearance and weaponry, she too was from Nexis. Astrad once again saw more projectiles fired at the assailant as the newcomer wrapped a whip around the flying woman's neck. Perhaps this is Astrad's opportunity. Maybe the woman's attack will succeed? Just to be safe he prepared to attack once this encounter has come to a conclusion.

Nereus

Nereus chattered deep within his throat, almost sounding like chuckling as the fire from the dragons seemed useless. He began to growl in annoyance and gaped his mouth exposing his two rows of teeth, he bit down in an attempt to nab one of the dragons but his actions were too slow. His whiskers which were oddly on the bottom of his mouth, felt around the air but even this didn't help.

After about 5 seconds, this was becoming very annoying to the serpent. His tail lurched out of the water and began swiping at the dragons, moments later, the worst thing happened to the snake like monster. Another arrow had lodged itself right in the middle of the serpents eye. Yet again on the same side its other eye had been hit. The serpent let out the most ear splitting roar anyone could hear before it shook its head violently. The arrow though remained in its eye.

It began to hum and whine in agony. the other arrow wasn't so deep, this one though was through his pupil. He roars once again in yet another attempt to take the arrow out by thrashing his head around. This though used up all of his energy and the serpents head collapsed onto the beach, its nostrils flaring up and down with each massive breath. Out of fatigue and frustration, Nereus let out a hissing moan of defeat.

Crow

Crow was shaking to death. He clasped his hands on the mans pants legs not even daring to peak at the battle scene. What if Kara dies? Heck, what if we all die? Crow didn't want to die like this. He was hoping he would die in a more peaceful way, like in his sleep in a small clearing on a soft bed of moss...That was how an old deer died one time. Crow was gathering berries when he saw the graceful beast. It's antlers towered high and proud and it's fur was stained white. It's eyes even looked tired and worn. Crow watched as the deer fearlessly approached Crow and licked some of the berries out of his hands. After that day, Crow had found a new friend but after that, when he returned he saw that the deer was resting in the middle of the clearing breathing soft sleep like breaths.

Crow didn't disturb the deer and watched in shock as its last breaths were drawn. Yes, Crow was saddened. Very saddened, but he continued on his day even burying the bucks corpse in that very clearing. Now, once dyeing now thriving papaya tree grows fruit that's larger than Crows skull hat.

Anyways, back to the battle.

Realization hit Crow when he looked up at the man he didn't know at all. Instead of asking who he was though, Crow kept his yap shut and covered his head with his wings from the mockery, fire, and blood.

Pandora cried out in pain, and flipped over. She felt the shot of plasma in her back, The bullets spraying her and then choking on her neck. She shakily moved one hand up to pull it off, and then the click of a gun was heard. Pandora turned her head slowly towards the noise.

In the time she was given to recover, Kara had forced herself to her feet, picked up her pistol, and crept over to Pandora. She pushed the gun against Pandora's forehead, and quickly turned off the safety. She smiled to herself, some of the dried blood cracking and falling off. She put her finger over the trigger, and it back.

"Dodge this, Bitch."


The Angel's head exploded with the force, and Kara smiled at Jinny. "I don't think we got acquainted. Thanks, by the way." She said, kicking the body over.

Jinny
"no prob." Jinny said with a half smile to Kara. She was certain that Kara was dead, but Kara had recovered, and shot the evil angel in the head.

Jinny looked over at the angel's body when Kara had kicked it. "I'm scared that girl is gonna get back up. Go check on Damien. make sure he's okay. It looks like he passed out or something during the battle. As for me, I'm gonna go look for Crow. If you need a medkit, it's in my backpack. I think Damien had it last."

Jinny sprinted into the bushes without hesitation, but fell over. She bumped into something, or someone. She looked up from the ground to see the big, tall man that looked like a zombie.

Pipa and Piper

Piper couldn't believe her luck. She had hit the monster's eye, making the monster use up all its energy until it collapsed on the sand. The two dragons flew as fast as they could away from the defeated sea serpent.

Pipa and Piper completely forgot about hunting. They were concerned with the mass murder of the mermaids in the Serakin sea. Did the sea serpent work on it's own, or did it belong to someone else. Questions raced through the twins' heads as they flew farther and farther down the coast.

When they felt they had gotten as far away as they could from the incident. The twins landed their dragons and made a campfire. Hyoushi had small cuts from when Nereus was swiping at the dragon. However, Piper was able to fix this with herbs she always carried in her pouch. Pipa started to make a campfire. There was still light left in her lamp, so Pipa used the fire to light the wood. The two stared into the fire, recollecting the events they had just witnessed in their minds.

3 arrows left. The twins were nervous about this. They didn't know if they had the raw materials to make good arrows in the wild. Also, there weren't any shops around for miles, so they couldn't buy any arrows. Despite this, Pipa and Piper decided that instead of hunting for seafood, they would try to find more about the killing of the mermaids in the morning.

Astrad looked down to his left to see the woman that held the winged one in place. He looked at her and before she could speak he said, "Whatever you're thinking, don't raise that gun at me." Astrad warned as his haunting voice echoed as his cold, grey eyes pierced the very darkness. Astrad moved back to reveal that Crow was hiding behind him. "I believe this is who you are searching for?" Astrad spoke as his deep voice rumbled. Astrad looked towards the others as he noticed the woman who blew off the Angel's head was covered in blood. "I don't think that was all from the winged woman's head, she must have a serious wound." Astrad thought to himself as he looked over towards the other woman. "Maybe you could answer me some questions..." "...you are from Nexis, right?" Astrad asked. Astrad awaited a response as he watched all around him. He never had a serious conversation with another person, he worried that she might shoot at him. He warned her against but if she did then he would have to defend himself and that could get messy. And if she did attack then most likely those other soldiers would too, he really didn't want to kill them after they survived such an encounter. Still he would have to forgo his desires in order to survive. So it all rested on how they react to him, sure it is hard to speak to someone like himself and be calm. Yet, he just hoped for once that Nexinian does not immediately attack him on sight. He already knows what it is like to kill another person, it was terrible, horrible, atrocious. The very though made him upset, disgusted. Astrad then immediately tried to bottle his emotions but that was about as hard as bottling an active volcano.

He knew if he exploded right now he would lose whatever sense of comfort or trust these people have. Then it would come down to what he feared, killing these good people. That was something he had to avoid but the memories started to flash in his head of older encounters. He clenched his fist in anger but he loosened his grip and relaxed himself once again. He then continued to watch these strangers as he hoped for the best.

Astrad didn't appreciate the fact Kara lifted her weapon against him. In fact it pained him to see such uncertainty from the woman, but before he could react she lowered the gun and seemed to have some sort of breakdown. When she left towards the Angel's body she found what she called an Sunzaik Orb. When she muttered some strange words Astrad was momentarily blinded. "GRAH!" Astrad shouted as he stumbled about. When he could see again the trees around them where on fire and Kara was missing. The other woman and the one called Crow were upset over the lost of their friend. Then Crow flew away as Jinny spoke to Astrad.

"Astrad, we have to run. There's a member of our team who's still unconcious. If we don't find him, he could be seriously hurt."


Then she motioned him to follow her and he did so. Although the fire is dangerous it was not the center of Astrad's worry. Once again the heat of the flames prove once again he isn't human. Although it may be silly to wish such things but he wish he could feel the same panic as she felt. He wish he could feel the temperature rising as the heat would make him sweat and he would feel threatened by the pain of burning. Alas he could not feel such things but it wouldn't be wise for him to stay in the fire. As Astrad followed Jinny he came across the body of the other fighter in the armor. He remembered seeing him cough and heard him choking. In an instant Astrad lifted him with ease and slung him over his left shoulder, as to avoid Nex Mucro's handle. Then he saw the weapon the man used earlier in the fight and decided to carry the "spit-fire" in his free hand. As Astrad looked around he saw no one else of consequence and followed Jinny through the bushes carrying their fallen teammate.

Astrad looked back as the fire continued to grow smaller and smaller the further they ran. The question is where are they running too?

Pandora paced back and forwards angrily, occaisonally slapping the Nexis woman. She eventually came to the conclusion she could just.. Let her go.

She put her hand on Kara's back, and she sort of... Disappeared.

Kara landed with a thump next to Morana. She was still slightly uneasy around the Serakin, and as such, yelped slightly and crawled up against the wall. She stared at the girl and her dogs before looking at everyone frantically. "I'm... Really.." She whispered, her eyes fluttering slightly. She crawled over to Damien, and shook him frantically. She placed her hands on his cheeks, and stared at him. "He... H-He.. Isn't dead.. Is he?" She whispered, looking at Jinny, Astrad, Morana and Crow. "Well? Is he?!" She shouted, worried for him.

Koiv coughed slightly, her eyes fluttering. "S-Sabirah...?" She wheezed. "S-Sabirah.. Listen to me... I'm not... G-Going to make it.. S-So... T-Take care of... M-Morana.. Please.. For me?" She quietly muttered, blood trickling out of her mouth, and her head lolling to the side. Not waiting for whether or not she replied, she spoke her final words. "T-Thank you.. S-Sabirah.."

(( Yo. I'm back, and I'm gonna leave Pandora for a bit. So now I can return to being Kara. ))