Niles Sheer's Story

Niles Sheer

Sleeping up in a peculiar cave on the mountain range, there were piles of garbage and miscellaneous objects with a small corner with an old tattered bed and some blankets on the floor next to it, he was hanging off the side of the bed with some drool on his cheek. Snoring faintly in his bed that he had been in for a few days after being attacked by dark monsters when he wandered up on the mountain, not knowing of the dangers ahead, only leading to him in danger as usual which resulted in a large slash in his right arm to which he treated as best he could by wrapping it in some cloth he found. The cave seemed to have something special about it, he felt something about it that was different, especially with one of the three statues in it, a boy wearing a jacket, about his age it seemed. He felt like something about it was special along with the scythe it had by it's feet. Throughout his long sleep nothing had really affected him until something began crawling all over him, almost biting at him until it went to a sudden jolt of pain in his arm, causing him to fall off the bed for him to see a stone beetle that seemed like it wasn't even alive yet got half-way under his wrappings.

"What in the world?" He said puzzled as he removed it from his arm and walked up to the statue which he was so interested in, it made him feel stronger for some reason, just the look of the boy's face on the statue, courageous and determined. Immediately as his touched it's shoulder with a smile a quake began shaking the entire cave, some rocks falling from the ceiling as his vision went black, looking around hastily too find out what was happening as he saw multiple white forms down below, quite a distance away aswell. Pulling back his hand, his vision returned and he ran outside of the cave, haring a loud noise from the Valley along with raging fires in the forest near where the noise came from. Pulling out his notebook he did a quick bird outline and then shaded it in quickly, placing the book on the ground and his hands began glowing while the bird silhouette rose from the pages and grew much larger. Grabbing his book again and mounting the bird, he took off on it, flying down the mountain to the fires to see a group of strangers and a large beast attacking them.

"Look out below!" Flying at the boulder with his bird and jumping off at the last second, the bird being destroyed along with the boulder as he landed on his back in pain, his arms wound opening again and the wrappings ripping apart slightly.

"Ugh...this won't be good." Some of his blood beginning to seep from his arm again.

Niles Sheer

Groaning as he rolled onto his stomach and weakly pushed himself off the ground, getting back to his feet he was frozen at the beast attacked again and the fireball was hurling toward him, only three yards away. His early courage and bravery had gone away, fear now filling him and it could easily be seen in his eyes, he had no real strength or abilities which set him apart from others, he was weak and a coward. Even as he saw no way out of this he braced for the impact and began hoping for the best, but for once he was lucky and heard someone yell out to him, an unfamiliar voice that rang through his head saying "Keep going! Let it out!". He looking right at the flaming ball and lowered his arms as it was five feet from him and he yelled at it, a high pitched sonic wave putting the fireball out and tearing up the ground in it's way until he refrained.

" No more chaos, no more war!" His bottom jaw splitting and his throat having teeth sprout in it, his mouth was now just a large array of sharp teeth as he shouted once more, ripples in the air could be seen as he shouted at the beast, the ground being ripped up even more from the frequency of it.

Being left behind at camp, outed from battle, was boring at best, irritatingly infuriating at worst. So upon hearing the echoes of a struggle emanating loudly from further within the forest, Blaine sprung into action, excitement and adrenaline already pumping through his veins, though it hardly showed on his fair face. Grabbing his sword in his strong grip, he raced off into the trees in search of the darkness and monsters to slay. Andrea's reaction was slower than her friends', but nonetheless impressive. Scooping the handmade arrows into their respective quiver, she slung the pouch across her back, making a desperate grab for her bow, chasing heartily after Blaine.

Approaching the scene, Blaine was relieved to have allies already dealing with the formidable 'problem', and counted himself lucky to have such a diverse range of creatures, though anger and disappointment rang across his bones when he realized the creator of the dark beast had slipped away from their grasps.

Slinking in behind him, Andrea blended into the shadows of the tall forest trees, firing arrows in rapid succession until one planted itself firmly into the eye of the hideous creature, the effort the best she could do in regards to stopping it and aiding the others, for she had left her swords and protective amour behind.

Niles Sheer

As the rows of teeth that were covering the inside of his mouth all the way down his throat hid again and his bottom jaw became one again he felt dizzy, he was losing lot of blood and fell to his knees, grasping his arm with a blank face once again as he fell back onto the ground with a thud.

"Ruin?" Saying quietly under his panting breath before he closed his eyes, his blood continuing to quickly seep out of his arm.

(Bleh sorry for the short post.)

Noticing another collapsing due to the fierce battle that had taken place, Andre tugged Blaine down into her place as she stood and moved carefully away from the body she had been tending to. "Look after her, yes?" She whispered quickly in his ear, an order that had him verging on protest, yet Blaine did not dare argue once her hard, wizened gaze settled on him. Blaine nodded curtly, focusing on the pained blonde within his arms.

Slinking across to the one who had defeated the monster at such a price, with all the grace commonly associated with elves, Andrea lowered herself to the ground once again, locating the wound with sharp eyes. Haphazardly ripping a piece of fabric from the dirtied dress she was wearing, Andre then folded and pressed the absorbent cotton against the slash in his arm, attempting to stem the gush of red. Her grip was firm, but soon the blood seeped into the rag. "Please, come, open your eyes, look at me," The red-haired elf murmured, fearing his fall into the subconscious.

Niles Sheer

"Ruin...Ruin Hailinx...who are you? What do you want with me?" Opening his eyes as he stood in front of two dark figures within a black space, both about his height while one had a more feminine body. Nothing else could be depicted from these two, no color, no hint of what their voices sound like. Stepping closing to them the floor cracked all around his foot so he quickly picked it up, the cracks growing larger and larger, the only thing to be seen in them was a raging black and red ocean.

"Whats going on here!?" Stepping back, his voice trembling as more cracks formed under his feet and the eyes of the two figures opened, the male with brown eyes and the female having blue eyes that repeatedly switched to purple. They reached out their arms but as Niles raced to them, he fell down into the ocean and was sucked down, his vision was black again while loud voices rang through his head "Stop Kamoku..." and then everything went silent once again.

His head started rolling left and right along the ground hearing someone near him his eyes slowly opened, closing them for a moment as his eyes re-adjusted to the light of the flaming forest. Sitting up he looked at the woman holding his arm and sighing, he must have pushed himself and went out again seeing as he had no energy since he was harmed by the creature and all he could do was delay the bleeding.

"Kamoku...who is that? Uhm who are you miss?" Asking hesitantly seeing as he hasn't found many friendly people recently.

Blaine scanned the area, eyeing the encroaching flames that licked hungrily at the trunks of trees, leaving trails of black smoke in its wake, smoke he could clearly smell from where he was crouched. He inwardly swore. Monsters and enemies they could fight: this? Well, this they could merely run from. It irked him that they would have to flee. Hearing more weak words, he glanced down again, dark gaze settling on the girl. "Blaine. My name is Blaine, but that hardly matters now," He dismissed. "Can you walk?" Blaine asked gruffly, before answering his own question, "No, of course you can't," He growled, bustling the youth into his capable arms after he'd attached the great sword to his hip. Standing, he turned to address his friend, who was continuing to tend to the boy who had vanquished the beast and sent its castor fleeing. "Andre, leaving, now." Blaine barked, already heading quickly for an opening not destroyed by the red fire.

"Kamoku? He is the man we fought, I believe. But he is long gone," Andrea explained softly, "And, as it seems, he has left us a lovely little fire to do deal with in the mean time. Can you stand? Walk? I can help, we simply need to move." Andrea tied another thick ribbon of material around his arm to hold the first in its place. She'd need to dress the wound properly once they were far from the dangers that herepresented. "And its Andrea," She added, with a reassuring smile, despite the circumstances.

Niles Sheer

"I think I can...I'm just going to head back up there. That cave was safe and I can't be sitting like prey any longer." Rubbing the back of his head as he stood up unsteadily, he could walk it's just not for long. "If any of you want to come with me feel free, I'll just be sleeping again probably." Chuckling a little before he started walking past the flaming brush of the forest, disappearing behind it as he grabbed his book once again and flipped to a page where he had a large mantis image open, placing it on the ground and drawing a small symbol on it's side. once again his hands glowed a dull light as the mantis came off the page, resizeing for him to ride on it's back, it stood now at least seven feet tall. Niles carefully climbed up on top of it after grabbing his book again and then nudged the mantis and it began walking up the mountain, Niles resting his head on it's back.

"I feel I'll be seeing Kamoku again soon." Closing his eyes and just waiting until he reached the top of the mountain seeing as not much else was to be done.

Niles Sheer

"Well I suppose they will go their own ways, at least there won't be as much noise so I can sleep again." Sitting up on the mantis again as he reached the top, the mantis flaking away quickly as he began dismounting from it. Pulling his hood farther over his face to see the lightly singed edge from the fight with the creature from earlier, brushing off a little bit of ash as he continued into the cave cheerily, just glad he managed to do something today seeing as he was just lounging around for a few days. As he entered the mouth of the cave one thing caught his eye, the scythe at the feet of one of the three statues had changed shade, a more violet shade on the blade which seemed to glow a little more and more as he approached until he was standing right above it and picked it up, the color and glow leaving suddenly. "Odd, I wonder if there's more to these weapons that one could see by the naked eye..." Keeping the weapon with him as he proceeded over to the dirty mattress near the end of the cave, next to the pile of junk and rubble, falling down on it with a thud and letting the scythe clang on the ground as he fell, dropping it once he was situated on the floor whilst watching as his eyes slowly closed and back to sleep he went.

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Niles Sheer

Still he could get no sleep it appeared, he could feel some disturbance, a nightmare about to come to him? No it wasn't that but it did feel like someone was there with him. Beginning to roll around a little so he could shake off the feeling he had fallen off of the matress and slowly opened his eyes which flashed open at the sight of Kamoku and an eerie light with a violet tint resting three feet away from him.

"Kamoku..why...what are you doing?" His voice revealing the fear and confusion he had, all he wondered was why must this world be so chaotic, so rowdy, so wrong? Standing up he just stared at the unknown entity, the shadows from the cave being pulled into it and leaving light instead behind for a few seconds before shadows returned to the walls while the entity took shape of a person lying on the ground and the shadows around it dispersed. Without a moments hesitation he lunged at Kamoku with his right fist back, he knew it was a bad idea but he just couldn't stand being tormented by this man and wanted to release his anger, letting out a yell as he drew closer.

Raven Farcri

For years she had sat there staring at a black void, unable to feel or hear anything. Every now and then she had done much thinking, was her previous life before she was brought down to this real? Just like a dream she could only remember small parts of it after waking up, was this what everything really was? Just a continous sight of a void with nothing else? Even if it was a false reality created by her strange mind she longed to return, have her body back, see her friends...imaginated beings...whatever they were she didn't care. Hope began slipping out of her over that time until two figures were standing near her, on holding what ppeared to be a scythe and the other lunging at said one with scythe. Right there she could feel cold, hard, and gritty while her vision changed more until all she saw were two hands on a rock floor and black hair hanging around her. Joy overcame her and a few tears ran off her face then hitting the ground, she was back, actually back where she could live her life whether it was fake or not.

Niles Sheer

Forcing his fist foward as he grew closer to Kamoku with great anger he felt contact and gave a small smile as he then tripped when landing and fell on the side of his face, groaning quietly as he was then picked up and tossed out, landing on his face this time and a trickle of blood came from his nose.

"D-damn...why am I so weak?" Clenching his teeth while a multiple teth sprouted from his mouth until there were rows of jagged teeth lined all down his throat, his normal eeth sharpening and splitting to match the others.

"I...I just want this entire thing to end." He said under his breath while a strange low ringing sound came from his body.


Raven Farcri

She gasped hearing that voice, it sounded strangely familiar but she couldn't remember and froze, her mind trying to remember and she just didn't do anything as she was grabbed and held, her body weakly shaking. Her eyes then looked at the face and slowly it came back to her, a face of shock and happiness as she spoke in a quivering and quiet voice "K-Kamoku..?" Then closing her eyes she removed him and then carefully tried standing, tripping up a little before stabilizing. Looking quietly outside the cave she just stared at the Blood moon that rose from behind the mountains, her eyes changing to a faded crimson color as she looked back to Kamoku, a few more tears going down her face as she ran back and hugged him.

"I can't believe it, I'm back!" Pulling her face away and looking at him and seeing the marks and his eyes. Taking a moment to look around she saw the three she fought alongside before something happened that brought her to where she previously was. Also a boy with a strange noise emitting from his body was on the ground next to them.

"What happened..? Ruin, Scorch, Rot...what happened to them and that kid over there? What happened to you?" It wasn't often you would see her with a scared facial expression since she didn't want to show weakness no matter who was there usually.

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Niles Sheer

The sounds coming off of him body became higher pitched, more frequent and soon it was at a point where it was like a siren, echoeing throughout the vicinity. Slowly he pushed himself up with his hands and got on his knees just staring at the wall with a blank face, slowly turning his head to the demon standing before him.

"I'm going to die...I'm going to die..." Staggering up to his feet with tears running down his face yet still barely anything emotion could be seen on his face, it really didn't seem like he was scared. Slowly he began walking towards the monster but suddenly heavy breathing came from two different places on him as if he had multiple mouths. Turning his palms up two mouths could be seen, one for each hand along with each one matched with rows and rows of jagged teeth going all the way up the arms just like his mouth. Stopping infront of it, about five feet away he raised one hand and held the right mouth in it's direction, a quiet noise sounding like something was building up and it just continued growing louder every second.

"I-I don't...I don't want to die!" An ear-piercing screech bellowed from the mouth, throwing dust in the air, cracking the stone in it's path, and throwing a forceful gust foward.

Raven Farcri

She was just taking in too much at the one moment, seeing her old friends in stone, a strange injured boy, the blood moon, Kamoku and his transformation, and the return to reality. Falling to her knees with a headache like no other all she could do was sit there and try to keep up with her surroundings as she grasped her head in pain.

"Kamoku...Kamoku come back..."

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Niles Sheer

"I don't want to deal with you...I want Kamoku..." He said in a low and sullen voice as he let his arm fall back to his hand as he ran back to his notebook which he dropped on the bed and without looking he grabbed multiple pages and ripped them out. As the pages threw towards the soldiers he raised his right arm with his pointer and middle finger pointing together with a dark glow around them and pointed at the pages which quickly flashed, a black skinned humanoid with blades for hands, a large beetle, and a black cutlass appeared as the light went away.

"Two out of three, good enough." A slight sound of disapointment in his tone as he dropped the book and continued towards the cutlass, taking it swiftly from the ground and running outside the cave he looked around hastily before charging towards the edge of the mountain and into the forest looking for Kamoku and the strange girl.

Raven Farcri

The pain throbbing in her head distracted her from what Kamoku was doing and she just sat there as it slowly went away. Slowly standing up a dark mist came off of her and her eyes turned to a glowing maroon, her power was released but she didn't have even close to enough to be at a full release.

"Kamoku after you return to normal I need you to tell me everything that I've missed. Aside from that are you okay? Also who is that kid, one of the Dark Ones? I don't remember ever seeing him last time I was...nevermind." Picking up her scythe and walking over to a tree she just slid down the trunk back into a sitting position. She let out a final sigh before Planting the bottom of the scythe on the ground and it grew larger, two glowing red ribbons extending from it and white etchings covering the entire blade of it. The atmospheric energies of the forest seemed to begin thinning as most of it was being drawn into the ribbon of her scythe which started glowing brighter every second from the power being brought inside of them.

"I can already feel that kid coming back, if you can try not to kill him, he's the only one with the ability speak at the moment aside from myself of course." Pulling herself up with the scythe planted on the ground.

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Niles Sheer

"Kamoku! Where are you!?" He shouted out from the thick brush of the forest. Continueing his frantic run through the forest he saw a red glow in the distance and broke into a sprint with the cutlass held low. Around a tree he could see a feminine shadow standing motionless so he did a quick turn around the tree and pounced foward, the shadow having no body while holding onto his own shadow.

"What in the world..? Let me go!" Falling into a panic as he couldn't move all of the sudden, his shadow being held by whatever was on the ground wouldn't allow him to move. Looking around wondering what to do he noticed a pair of eyes watching him from the darkness that appeared to be moving closer.


Raven Farcri

iAs Kamoku was standing by her she just kind of ignored him for a moment as she felt something strange as if half of her was becoming heavier.

"He's here...maybe I can trap him and then have some fun slowly kill..." Her tone seeming more malicious as she spoke and stopping halfway on the word "Killing" she held her open hand over her mouth wondering where that came from, she wouldn't have been absolutely kind to this boy but she didn't think of going that far, what was with her she wondered. Walking away she saw a small opening in the brush where the blood moon shed light and she pointed to it as her shadow walked over the a tree and got into a casual standing position. A few seconds later her normally small crystal that sat in her necklace flashed red and she fell to the ground as the strange boy appeared. Standing up again she looked at him with an unusual grin, raising her right arm and swiping it to the side, her shadow grabbing the boy's shadow and holding him in place.

"Heh, perfect. I now get to speak to him." Speaking softly and in a quiet volume as she approached him, stepping into the light one of her maroon eyes seemed darker than the other along with some of the hair on the right side of her head was white. Spinning the scythe in her fingers a little she stopped it right against his cheek and sliding it a little making a small cut, the blood that dripped going being pulled onto the sharp side of the blade.

"So how shall I do this..?" Giggling a little as she lowered the scythe and put her hand on his cutlass, shadows running down it and then constricting it until it shattered and then continueing them until the rest of his body was wrapped in it. Pulling back her hand the shadows disconnected from her, strolling a few feet away before looking over her shoulder with a wicked smile.

"Kamoku, he's all yours"

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Raven Farcri

She giggled with happiness as she just listened to the bloodshed without moving from where she stood until it was over, turning back to Kamoku with a horrified look, switching gaze between him and the corpse.

"W-what did you do? Why..? How could you do something so...so beautiful." Her voice transitioning from a scared and innocent sound to a malicious and devious sound. The taint within her soul seemed to fade in and out every so often. Giggling a little louder her body was slowly covered in shadows that rose from the ground until it fully covered her making a kind of shadow suit.

"I think I'm going to try and find some of the others...I wonder where they are. Then again we could try and find a way to bring them to us, yes that does seem to be simpler. I think I left some of my old books in Ruin's cave, if you need me I'll be there." Her voice sounding slightly muffled from under the suit which had a tentacle come out that grabbed onto her scythe. Closing her eyes she sank down into the ground and through the shadows of the forest she scaled back up into the mountains and into the cave, rising from the ground again. Looking around the dark soldiers were gone but pieves of paper with strange drawings on them layed there while relatively near there was a notebook to which she picked up intrigued in what it may do. Opening up the tattered notebook there were multiple drawings filling it that she saw while skimming through until she reached the end finding the signature "Niles Sheer".

"Maybe that's who the kid was...either way it doesn't matter now that he's dead though I guess." Shrugging as on the last page there was also a kind of guide on how to utilize this book effectively, it was used for drawn summon magic probably so she strolled over to a rock and sat, studying the guide and pictures contently.