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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:35:18 GMT -5
((This story is the one I wrote about Dimii while I was a amember of TRC and before she was renamed to Dimii by the way so don't mind the name be a little shorter then usual))
((WARNING: this thing is LONG!))
Episode 1
Dimi Ward was born in a Manor outside Darkshire which is now known as Manor Mistmantle,
Dimi has always been a fun loving young girl, though her childhood wasn't fun at all, she lived in happiness with her mother(Diara Ward) and father(Dextren Ward) in the house known as the Ward manor until she was about 6 years old. Then a man came to visit Dimi's father, the man wore a robe with a headpiece that covered up most of his face, Dimi instantly thought the man was a bad man, and she asked her mother about it, she didn’t seem too concerned though.
The man in the robe asked Dimi's father to go for a walk with him, Dimis father hesitated for a while, but suddenly he changed his mind somehow, he simply closed the door and left, very un normal for Dimi's father since he rarely went out in the garden without telling Dimi and Diara.(Dimi's mother)
He came back hours later, in the, middle of the night, Diara asked her husband where he had been, she got no answer, confused and a bit angry Diara asked her husband again, where have you been? the response was quick, he lashed out at Diara, striking her down with he’s right hand, in complete shock, she simply laid on the floor, unable to act move or think, Dimi had heard her mother ask her father the first time where he had been and was watching the whole episode from her bedroom door; as her mother was struck down Dimi gasped and let out a little scream, Her father immediately turned towards the door and walked towards it, not fast, Dimi walked towards her father, not quite sure what her father had done, she stopped in front of her father; Dad, what are you doing? again the response was quick, he took Dimi by the upper arm, and threw her in her room, completely surprised by the action of her father Dimi didn’t cry, for a minute, as she then understood the situation her father had made, she cried, the first time in many weeks, she cried, but this wasn't because she had stumbled on a stone and fallen to the ground.
The years that followed didn’t become any better, Dimi was always a happy girl outside her home, but when her hand reached for the door, she braced herself for what she might get too see and be witness too.
At the age of 12, she had witnessed about anything evil a man can do too a woman, everything from beating raping and cheating on her. As a result, Dimi's mother had begun to drink, drowning her sorrows in alcohol, Dimi had begun doing the rounds of buying and cleaning in the house, So no one from Darkshire expected something to be wrong with the family in Ward manor.
Dimi's father suddenly began disappearing at night, he went off with a shovel, and often came home dirty with mud and dirt on his clothes, sometimes he would stink like rot too. Too Dimi's mom this was too much, she finally went mad, locking herself in her own body, refusing to eat, move or sleep, the Local Priest visited her once a day, trying to get Diara out of her trance, but it was never successful. Now, to Dimi's father, all her mother was, was a object he could beat and rape,
To Dimi, this was hard, the only thing that kept her sane was her belief in the holy, the priest often spoke with her when he was visiting the manor. The priest taught Dimi about the holy, hope and not to loose faith in her mother.
When Dimi was 13 years of age, she got home from her last rainy school day for the weekend, she opened the door, only to find her father making out with one of the barmaids from the Scarlet raven inn in Darkshire. Dimi was caught completely by surprise, and then her father yelled; GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! Dimi immediately got outside and closed the door, knowing that waiting would end in her father beating her out of the house, Dimi had now reached a line, she ran towards Darkshire, as fast as her legs could run, she ran, she didn’t know to who or from what, she simply ran, and ran and ran, at last, she had exhausted herself, she fell to the muddy ground in the rain, lying there for what seemed hours, she then at last opened her eyes, to find out she had collapsed in front of the church. She got too her still very tired legs and stumbled towards the door, as she entered, she could see the priest that had tried to "get mom back" as he had said. He spotted Dimi as she closed the door behind herself, he walked towards her, fearing that she might have been hurt, after all her clothes were as wet and dirty as just possible. But Dimi immediately ran up the stairs, he suddenly heard the priest yell after her: NO, NOT UP THERE! WAIT DIMI!!
Dimi could tell the desperate fear in his voice, but she didn’t care, she wanted to end her life by jumping off the top of the church.
but as she got up too the top, by the huge bells, she stopped...there was a light in the sky...a light, not the sun, but a light, a very powerful light, Dimi glared at it while hearing the Priests voice from down below, urging her to get down from the roof, but Dimi couldn’t do so, she simply stared in the light, suddenly the light begun to move, first slowly, then faster and faster...towards Dimi, she didn’t run away from it, she felt no fear, no urge to go and hide, she simply stared in the light, witch then at last, struck the top of the church!
Dimi woke up a while later, not knowing what had happened, she tried to get too her feet, but she couldn’t, as her eyes regained focus, she noticed something heavy laying on her, it was a wooden pillar form the second floor, but how had it come here? She then took a look around herself, and noticed she was lying in the second floor. The second floor was completely smashed; it also seemed to have some really bad burning scars all over the place. Dimi pushed the scorched pillar away, she then noticed she was cold, much of her clothing was scorched as well; her scholarly robe was fried, and had many holes, obviously burned holes. Dimi was totally confused, what had happened? All she could remember was the Light that had struck her and the church, and her father with the Barwoman, and a glimpse of her mother sitting in a corner eyes fixed on the floor, she then got to feet, also finding her shoes and gloves to be useless as they were burned to almost nothing too, she then walked around, trying to find the stairs, she moved some of the rubble away and finally found it, she squeezed through it and got to the first floor, which was completely empty, she then tried to open the door, but something was blocking it, she gave the doors one last push, and the debris in front of the door moved.
As she got out, she found almost the whole population of Darkshire sitting with their eyes closed in prayer, she looked on the crowd, but she couldn’t see her father and mother in the crowd, The priest suddenly noticed something was behind him, and what he saw made him fall to his knees, The 13 year old Ward girl at perfect health and with no wounds at all.
The people of Darkshire finally got out of their prayer to find the priest on his knees, with Dimi Ward in scorched clothing’s in front of him, The Darkshire people got to their feet, many of them rushing towards the confused girl.
What are you so upset about? Dimi asked one of them, WHAT WE ARE UPSET ABOUT? Yelled the priest, you survived a fireball of magic which destroyed half the church from the roof to the second floor, and the only parts of you which is damaged are your clothes? And you ask what we are upset about? IT'S A LIGHTS MIRACLE THAT YOU ARE ALIVE! Dimi was even more confused than before, the priest got her a spare robe from his closet, he then gave her something to eat, and he then asked Dimi what had happened on the roof.' Dimi told him what she had seen; the priest looked wearily on Dimi, finding that she suited the robe very well, the priest then decided it should be a survival gift to Dimi, for surviving something that seemed impossible.
Dimi was then led home by the priest; I will tell your dad that you are back, this might be the moment your mother comes back too, Dimi hesitated with sadness in her eyes, she wanted so badly to tell the priest about what had happened the last 6-7 years, but she couldn’t. The priest knocked on the door, as no one opened, he allowed himself to step in, he found Dimi's Mother laying on the floor, exhausted of starvation, The priest fed her, and let her rest, and then told Dimi to wait in the manor, her father would probably be back soon, he then left, Dimi quickly got her own clothes on and hid the robe, she then waited, as her father got back, he threw the door open, to find Dimi sitting in the sofa with her mom, he glared wearily at her, then simply walked away, Dimi knew now there was no escape for him from the evil that had possessed him.
after Dimi had had her fourteenth birthday, her dad gave her a new kind of looks, not anger, well anger too, but there was something new about it, Dimi suddenly realized what it was, it was desire, he Wanted her, Dimi was terrified, she couldn't sleep at night anymore, she lay awake glaring at the door, one night as she was making supper, her dad walked behind her, and placed something in her drink, Dimi didn't notice.
After a while Dimi felt funny, exhausted and tired on the same time, she went to bed, she laid there, making no attempt to move, simply thinking of her life as it was now, she then tried to move over to lay on her stomach, but she couldn’t move. Dimi was more scared then she had been ever before, she was completely defenceless, not that she could have done something against the incredible strength of her father anyways, but now she couldn't resist, she couldn’t scream for help, she couldn’t do anything, as she laid there, the door too her room, was suddenly smashed open, her dad standing in the opening, Dimi could just watch as her father made his toward her bed, he then was about to placed himself on top of Dimi, but then something made its way out of Dimis Throat, a scream, a terrible scream which filled Dimi's father with fear, he ran out of the house screaming, Dimi could suddenly move again, not much, but she was able to sit up in her bed, confused about what had happened, then suddenly she heard a sound from outside.
Her father was leading the mob, Dimi saw them through the Kitchen window, she could hear their shouts: Kill the demon that has possessed the Ward women! Dimi didn’t quite understand this, they suddenly stopped, an arrows range away from the house, then Dimi heard her father scream, BURN THE DEVIL, CLEANSE THE HOUSE, and as that word was spoken an fiery arrow flied from one of the mob, it hit the roof and set it on fire.
Dimi was about to run out the front door when she heard the thump of an arrow on the outside, she resisted the will to scream out to them to stop, knowing they would probably run after her, in fear and panic, she jumped out of her bedroom window, landing in a thick bush, the effort had taken its toll on Dimi, after all, the poison was still coursing in her veins, still working to paralyze her body, though something was preventing it from doing it completely.
Still it had been too much of an effort for Dimi, she lost her Consciousness, as she awoke, she found the house in ruins, just a pillar of ash left, only with the exception of the chimney. Dimi got to her feet, realising that she was completely naked, she hadn’t thought about getting dressed while her father was away, getting the townsfolk and making them believe that a demon had possessed her and her mother. She cried, she thought of her mother who now was burned to ashes.
the poison was almost completely out of her body now, she didn’t have any problems standing, so she tried to walk, and she could, she then tried to run, a bit hard to stay on her feet, but i t worked, she then ran too the northwest
after a couple of hours, she found herself at the river bank, facing the Elwynn forest, she continued to run, trying to get help, she saw some of the Darkshire fishers on the riverbank, they spoke of what had happened, she hid behind a tree and waited for them to be gone, she then heard them speak of her family, she tried to hear what they were saying, she could hear them say that her mother had been burned to death and her corpse buried, Dimi suffocated her cries, she also heard about the local people searching for her in the woods to the south, since that would be the most likely place she would have runned, maybe trying getting help in the city.
As the fishers left for Darkshire, Dimi started swimming across the lake, she was very cold and tired, but yet, she pressed on, knowing that staying in Duskwood would be her end as she got over to the other side of the river she collapsed against a tree, she was both hungry and tired, some berries of some sort where on a bush on the tree opposite to her, yet she didn’t go for them, she knew all too well what kind of berries that grew on this time of the year, so she slept!
The next morning she awoke of a mans voice behind the tree, she quickly got to her feet, looking past the tree, she saw them, they were not from Darkshire, she thought they could be her rescuers, but she stopped and threw herself behind the tree again, after all she was naked, who knew what they could think about when they saw her, besides, she saw their masks, they were Defias style, she hid as good as she could but they walked past her tree, and as she tried to stay on the opposite side, they heard her falling over a tree root, and they spotted her.
Dimi ran, as fast as she could, but the Defias were gaining in on her, she hadnt eaten and only gotten a little to drink from the river the night before, she finally stepped on some kind of Briarthorn, the pain made her draw her foot up back from the ground, and she fell. The Defias quickly seized her, holding her to the ground, she then again tried to scream, and partially successful, but she knew she hadn’t gotten the full effect, The Defias leaped from her and away a few steps, but one of them resisted it almost immediately, he was confused, he obviously hadn’t experienced something like that before, as Dimi tried to get upp again, he tried to seize her again, but then the second phenomenon happened, she threw her hand at him, he immediately screamed in pain and fell to the ground, Confused and not quite sure what she had done, she tried yet again to run away, but the thorns from the Briarthorn are always venomous, she couldn't stand on her right leg, it hurt to much.
The Defias who she had thrown her hand at didn’t dare go close, he simply waited for the two others to show up, and they did, they even had another member with them, they decided they would go for her one at a time, thinking she wouldn’t be able to scream more then once every few minutes, and they were right, Dimi was too exhausted to resist any more.
As the Defias gang approached her a fiery ball suddenly hit one of the Defias, on the side, sending him flying several feet backwards. The Defias Turned to the left, and there was a mage, already casting a second spell, the 3 remaining Defias made a run for him, he cast his second spell, and another Defias was sent flying, the 2 remaining got within reach of him before he could fire another spell off however, but then a wave of frost erupted from the man, it stopped the Defias dead in their tracks, the third fireball hit the third Defias with full power, igniting him, burning him to death, the fourth Defias got free from the Ice and leaped at the man, he then swung his staff a couple of times, and the last Defias fell to the ground, the man came towards Dimi, she was not any less scared now, after all this man was powerful, yet now there was a curiosity there too! This man could throw fireballs with his bare hands, was he human? Dimi couldnt think too long of it, the Man approached, yet he didn’t do anything to her, he got a spare robe out of his backpack, and then helped Dimi in it.
Dimi tried to get to her feet, though she couldn’t because of her poisoned foot, The young man then lifted Dimi up, Dimi was surprised, the man was both strong and handsome. Dimi finally succumbed to the exhaustion and fell to sleep in the mans arms
She then woke up in Northshire valley, finding a priest tending to her and her foot, after a talk, the priest agreed to train her in controlling her shadowy powers, and also teaching her healing. As for the mage, he had continued his training elsewhere.
Dimi is now 16 years old, she loves to travel, is very kind, and likes to discuss different things, she is now in the Royal confederacy (which has so to say become her new family), and preparing herself until the days she will spend training with Rissandrea Vhor!
Chapter 2.
In a couple of weeks, Dimi's right foot had healed totaly, she could now stand walk and run without any problems at all, she had gotten training in controling her shadowy powers and could now heal wounds.
But still Dimi didn't feel secure, she knew the Rumors would eventualy reach The Northshire valley, Afraid of the possible reactions the People here might have, she didnt tell anyone, not her trainer, not her new friends, NO ONE where she really was from, not what had happened at her earlier home, but nonetheless, sooner or later the rumors from the Ward manor and Darkshire would reach her new hiding spot, she knew it was about time to move again.
Dimi discussed with her trainer, explaining she simply wanted to travel and see the world, Her trainer seemed a bit suspective towards her explanation, but nonetheless instructed her to go to Goldshire. Dimi Must have missed the town as she escaped from the Defias the first time, then she was instructed to follow the road south, and she ended up closer to Duskwood then before, but she had one advantage this time: She came from the north, The townsfolk had heard of a girl escaping and might come by from the south.
As she entered Goldshire, the first things she needed to do was to get to the local priest and ask for further training, and deliver a message about the Kobolds invading the local mines in the Valley, The local priest told her to go to the Crystal mirror lake, just east of the town, a guard had been spotted injured at the beach of the lake.
Dimi went to look for the guard, after a while, she found him, in a fierce fight with some of the murlocs, Dimi rushed to help, but suddenly the guard fell, Dimi cast a smite at one of the murlocs, the guard was able to get to his feet while Dimi lured them away, the guard took his gun and shot one of the murlocs in the back. The 2 other murlocs seemed to understand that they had been lured into a very hard position to fight, so they ran off at an incredible speed towards the lake again, Dimi approached the guard; Thank you priest, Though i fear you may come to late to save me... Dimi Casted a minor healing spell on him, followed by a Blessing of fortitude, increasing his endurance by a little, The guard rose to his feet, he looked almost as if he wanted to Kiss her, he was so happy he could walk again that he tok his sword and shield and attacked a whole camp alone, Dimi followed him from behind, casting a heal when he needed it. in the end Dimi had to leave, the guard had done his duty and the murlocs numbers had been reduced...for now.
Dimi returned to the Inn in Goldshire, telling the priest what had happened, as a reward, Dimi was given a robe, a priests robe. it looked just as the one she had been given by the priest of Darkshire when she had survived the light and the fireball...
As Dimi progressed in her training, she suddenly found herself being greeted by the local citizens as she passed by them on the road, Dimi didn't know if she liked it, she was still very close to Darkshire, and she didn’t yet know if the situation there had eased down. Dimi decided it was time to travel even father away, might be that it was paranoia, maybe she was a bit crazy, but she didn’t want to take the chance of being taken to her father and then burned like her mother had been. NO, it was time to travel farther away, but where?
One night, after spending the evening with a man she liked very much, Dimi found herself going down the stairs of the inn to get something to eat, and there she saw one for the first time, a Night elf.
Dimi had only read about them in books, and maybe seen one or two pictures, but she hadn’t yet seen one standing in front of her... Dimi walked a bit closer, knowing from the books that Night elves don't like invaders into their forests...though this wasn't her forest... she noticed that the Night elf was drinking alcohol, Dimi was surprised, She didn’t know Night elves could drink alcoholic drinks too. As Dimi came closer she noticed the elf was arguing with the barkeeper about having too much to drink. Dimi turned suspicious, since when do elves argue with barkeepers about having too much to drink?
Dimi went a bit closer, saying hey, with a very low voice though, the Night elf turned around looking Dimi straight into the eyes, Greetingsh young girl, the Elf managed to say, obviously a bit drunk, Dimi managed to get a nervous hello out of her mouth again, The elf, turned to her glass of beer and emptied it in one single gulp; Hey there shweetie, how are you doing? Dimi, Not knowing if she was dreaming or not, simply played along; Oh I’m fine thank you, and you? Ah, im nishe too... after a while, Dimi found herself comfortable with the elf, They talked a long while together, first about The night elves task about patrolling the areas here for horde, to why they Both were dressed with very..."revealing" and "challenging" clothes, The night elf, who turned out to be named Salia, said that’s how Night elves dresses generally, as for Dimi, she just liked it.
After a while they went outside, sitting down at the mirror lake in the moonshine, there they’re talk continued, from everything about Sexual interests to gnomes being so small you wouldn't notice if they tried... Dimi suddenly noticed it had become late, She thanked Salia for the talk and went to bed.
Dimi Woke up early the next morning, after eating breakfast she went outside; today is the day then. She thought. Dimi packed her stuff and left Goldshire, for how long, or where to go, she told no one, she went without saying goodbye to anyone.
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:36:31 GMT -5
Chapter 3.
During her travel she visited Ironforge. She had to laugh a bit about its design, why did so small people have such an extremely high roof? Though she didn’t get to see any of the houses in witch they live, but they looked substantially smaller.
As Dimi had visited a Flight master and received a token witch allowed her to fly there from about anywhere on the Eastern Kingdoms, she noticed a couple of Elves talking about going back to their homeland. Dimi asked the elves about where their homeland is, the elves didn’t speak to her at once, simply looking suspicious at her, Dimi felt a bit uncomfortable as they glared at her, but suddenly one smiled and told her about the forests of Teldrassil.
Dimi listened to the elves tale, the more he spoke the more she wanted to see it with her own eyes, Dimi asked the Elves if she could come with them, but the Elves had only considered going back to visit their homeland and had decided to stay a while longer, Dimi didn’t want to stay in Ironforge, at night it was so cold you had to sleep on top of the great forge to not freeze to death, but in the morning, it got so hot she almost had to sleep at the entrance to not get a heat shock.
Dimi decided to go for the journey alone, She travelled through the Cold snow marked lands of Dun Morogh and went through the more summer tempered lands of Loch Modan, as she got to the tunnels that should lead through the mountains, Dimi was uncertain. To travel through a mountain seemed both weird and not possible, but as she started to walk, she found herself completely safe, The tunnels were both big and seemed to be armoured with Iron and/or Thorium.
As she made it out of the tunnel Dimi found herself facing a land where powerful crocolisks and eight-legged spiders roamed free, Dimi didn’t dare go out of the tunnel, she shouldn’t have left for the Night elven lands after all, But as she was about to turn around, a man approached. Dimi noticed the looks she got from him, but she also noticed the kindness in the man’s face: Hello Young woman, are you planning on taking the journey through the Wetlands? Dimi found herself smiling: Yes indeed I am. Would you care to let me escort you? Hehe, I thank you for the offer and I accept!
The Man guided her through the Wetlands, Fighting off the Animals seeing her as a potential meal, witch means he was fighting almost constantly. But suddenly as the man was fighting one of the Raptors who had made a run for Dimi, A crocolisks had suddenly noticed her, and it immediately made a charge for her.
Dimi was too focused on the man fighting the raptor to notice the Crocolisk running towards her, Suddenly as the raptor gave up, realizing this wouldn’t be worth it, the man turned, and saw the croc just a couple of meters away, without hesitation he charged the Crocolisk just in time, he pushed Dimi out of the way, managing to break the Crocolisk off from her, but the tremendous speed off the croc wasn’t possible to stop, it hit the warrior with full power, sending him flying 6 yards backwards, The croc then Ignored the man and went straight for Dimi, The man was quickly at his feet and again charged the croc and sent his sword down in his tail, The Crocolisk let out a eardefening roar, and turned in almost an instant, the man was able to get his sword out just before the Croc rotated around in 180 degrees in just a second, The tail hit Dimi’s side hard, sending her straight to the ground and knocking her unconscious.
Chapter 4.
Dimi once again woke up with a priest tending to her, but this time she was in the Menethil harbor, she immediately tried to sit up and ask for the man who had been so nice and helped her, but the pain in her side made her fall to the bed again. It turned out that the man had been severely hurt in the battle with the huge croc, and was now lying in coma, the local priest had obviously been unable to learn holy magic, then Dimi’s foot was bandaged, and she had several herbal medicines lying on her desk to her left. Dimi asked the priest to help her stand up so she could heal herself, As Dimi cast her spell on herself her wounds closed and scars disappeared in the matter of seconds, Dimi then turned to the man who had helped her, casting a spell, his wounds closed and he suddenly woke up.
Dimi learned that the man was a warrior helping the locals with the Crocs and Raptors, So Dimi had been some sort of bait, but he said she would have been, one way or another if she was to cross the wetlands, a bit sad, Dimi left the Inn. Although she knew that she had been killed if it hadn’t been for the man, she was still feeling awful by the thought of being used.
Dimi was told that there was a boat sailing towards the night elven lands of Darkshore some time very soon, she just had to look for a boat at the northernmost dock in the few upcoming days.
Dimi woke up the second day, only to find a boat at the northernmost dock making ready to leave, no one had told her that it would come at night and make ready to sail in the morning, With a tremendous speed she packed her stuff, threw some silver at the innkeeper for the room she had rented and ran as fast as she could towards the boat, it had already prepared its sails. Dimi made it just in time, in a sleeping robe and slippers, she came aboard, the workers glared at her, she didn’t wear a bra and her chest was pretty much exposed to the eye, she immediately blushed and tried to close her robe tighter around her chest. The captain offered her his own luggage to change into her normal clothes.
Dimi came out on deck again after a while, she asked the captain how long the trip would take, about 2 weeks he said, the sails are blessed with magic, normally the trip would take 6 months.
Dimi found herself in trouble; she didn’t even buy food for the journey, as she asked the captain what she should do, he laughed, grab a pole and do like the others he said, Dimi then noticed some sailors sitting on the front fishing. Oh well, she thought, some time has to be the first… As she tried to fish for the first time she was told by the sailors it was better to sit on the railing then to stand, then if she stood and the boat suddenly should take a “sidekick” as they called it, she might be thrown over board. After all, the boat traveled at a tremendous speed, and if the captain saw a reason to make a turn, then the rest would get a nice view of you flying overboard. Dimi sat down on the railing, and sure enough the captain suddenly turned after seeing something that might have been a reef or something. And as Dimi bent backwards, she found herself falling down on the deck, she hadn’t thought about the fact that the captain would try to get the ship up on its feet again. And of course; her Robe slipped upwards past her ties, as Dimi looked up after rubbing her back head, she blushed, stood upright very quickly, and then punched the sailor who had said she should bend backwards in the face knocking him unconscious.
The rest of the days Dimi got some of the fish from the other sailors, and sure enough, after two weeks, they reached Darkshore, Dimi said goodbye, blinked at the one she had punched and set her feet upon the dock. Dimi’s first thought was; get the next transport to the Teldrassil Forrest, As she walked towards the middle of the dock there was a sign saying: Boat to Ruth’eran village and one saying: Boat to Wetlands
Dimi didn’t know if Ruth’eran village was the right way, but she then noticed a dwarf standing on the dock to the Ruth’eran village, Dimi walked over to him and asked where he was heading; Ach, I’m on me way to Darnasuss young human, I’m going to speak to the Arch druid of the Night elves there, Dimi was confused, where had she ended up? The dwarf noticed Dimi’s confused look and asked where she was heading, after a little more chatting, Dimi learned that the Teldrassil forest was beyond the Night elven capital of Darnasuss.
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:38:02 GMT -5
Chapter 5.
The boat trip took less than 4 hours, a nice little trip from the dark aura of the Darkshore to the sunny beautiful lands of Teldrassil, Dimi waved goodbye to the neat dwarf and walked straight towards the forests edge.
As Dimi walked out of the capital and in to the forest, she felt some sensations she never thought she would have; Freedom, peace, calmness, the sensations rushed through Dimi from head to toe, she simply let herself fall backwards on the ground. Next morning she woke up, feeling better then ever before, she took her bag and left her sleeping spot, as she came to a cross-road she saw a sign saying: Dolanaar Dimi thought this may be the next place to visit.
After a couple of hours walk Dimi found herself in a town where nothing seemed to be human, not like that was a problem, not at all. She visited the inn witch consisted of 4 support columns and a roof, and a single wall, Dimi liked it…partially, didn’t the night elves have shyness as the humans did? Obviously not, then in the first floor the beds where all standing besides each other in one large room. Dimi signed in and went to look around, most night elves around seemed very busy around here; they were either running or walking very fast with a stiff look ahead of them, almost as if they didn’t notice her…or didn’t want to notice her. Dimi looked at the buildings, almost every single building seemed to be worked out of a living tree, Dimi watched in astonishment as she discovered what she thought had to be the Town hall or something, the building wasn’t particularly wide, but it seemed to be a kilometre high. Dimi looked towards the top and thought about climbing up Dimi looked for a spot to start, but she suddenly realized her robe, it would probably get torn apart by the branches as she climbed…damn herself for walking around in a robe in a forest, not to speak about the boat trip…
Dimi walked around the huge tree, only to find an entrance on the other side of it, Dimi felt stupid and blushed, A night elven female approached and asked if something was wrong, seeing that she had blushed. Dimi decided not to tell the Night elf about her stupidity, she instead asked her about if it was ok for her to walk inside the tree. The night elf said it was ok but she should be careful not to fall down.
Dimi went for the entrance, only to find a Night elf in some very impressing armour glaring at her, Dimi avoided the mans look and tried to walk past him, But Dimi suddenly found herself being stopped by the Night elven man. Dimi looked nervously at him, the man suddenly asked; are you interested in some work? Surprised by the man’s casual look and almost soothing voice, Dimi found herself replying; uh... yes I am!
After some months Dimi had made herself friends with most of the night elves present at Dolanaar, only the authorities didnt want to do with her, (wich also was an improvement since they first didnt want her there at all) But Dimi was haunted by something that strikes most people if they stay too far away from their homes for too long: Homesickness, However the people of Darkshire had behaved, whatever they had done, she still longed for home! Some of her closest Night elven friends sensed her feelings, and told her it was about to return home!
Dimi thought long about it, she had been gone for a bit less then half a year, so the town would certainly not have forgotten, even if they tried not to think of it. But nonetheless, Dimi needed to see her home again, maybe meet her old friends, just not showing herself to the grown-ups might be enough, but How would her childhood friends react when a dead friend who was burned to death suddenly comes up to you and says hello? No! It wouldnt work, it made no sense to return home now, but since when does feelings follow common sense? But there where alternatives: Stormwind city, northwest of Duskwood, it wasnt her home, it wasnt close to home at all actually...yet it was human lands, maybe it would be enough?
Dimi went for home, and after the 2 weeks with boat trip and now that she had been in both Menethil and Ironforge and stormwind she could fly directly there. The flight master who cared for the gryphons asked her where she was heading, and as Dimi replied Stormwind she was encouraged to take a short visit to Ironforge and the great forge within, it was cold up in the air where the gryphons were flying, and travelers had told her about a storm comming to her flight path.
Dimi took a gryphon and flied to Ironforge, As her Gryphon was about to make a turn into Ironforge Dimi could see the snowstorm over Dun Morogh, had she insisted to fly on she could have been thrown off the gryphon and died! Dimi didnt stay long in Ironforge, she almost imediately made a run for the tram in the gnome-part of the city, she caught the tram with a good margin of time, As the tram started she was kicked back from the front of the tram to her back on the backpart of her wagon. Dimi was almost knocked unconscious, and once again her robe had slipped past her thigh's, Though thankfully this time she was alone!
The tram made an almost as sudden start as a sudden stop, this time she was thrown to the front of the tram from behind, but she was prepared, and she was actually standing after the stop, She was met by a gnome who came to ask her if she had enjoyed the ride, Dimi simply stared him in the eyes and didnt complain, Gnomes never take critisism of their technology lightly.
Dimi was once again in the great city of Stormwind!
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:38:58 GMT -5
Chapter 6.
(( I will continue Dimi's tale IC since i find it more and more restraining to try and keep up with the third person wiew, I hope that no one minds))
It has Indeed been a long Time since I last wrote here...How I first came to Darnasuss and Dolanaar...it all seems so far back I dont even remember...good to have a book like this then! As it is for now, the Undead scourge has assaulted us, their enormous Flying fortresses at our doorstep, sending troops down daily into our very homes, Revenant has left us in favour of another organisation as well has Sasy And Khazgot who disapeared some time ago...It seems Darkness does it's best to hamper my life...they can try and they WILL fail, I am sick of unluck following me...from anything as major as forcing me to kill my own father... to something as simple as changing my eyes into pure darkness...!
I have thus far done little in the attempt to stop the Scourge, seeing myself as too weak to test my powers against them at all...yet yesterday I could finally do something, Dara, one of the other confederates asked me if i wanted to come with her and slay the undead in the Eastern plaguelands, the plan was simple: I kept her alive and she would be killing, being a mage, Dara knew exactly what would be best to handle such amounts of Undead, she used something she called arcane explosion and a mix of frost nova and cone of cold (dont ask me what all of this means I am no mage) With our efforts we noticed the numbers of the undead were finally diminishing, they spawned less and less and the Shard, the centre of the attack, was vulnerable, but there was one thing we hadnt thought about, the shard was sentient, and it made a part of itself to an undead, forming a creature of pure evil and darkness, I didnt have time to think, but enough time to react, it was nothing else to do but run, the creature was so powerfull even the extreme powers Of dara's spells didnt have much effect.
After several tries to defeat the Shadow and take a go at the shard, we found ourself in a minor hope if we could make the shadow come out alone, even if it was powerful and Dara's spell did little damage, we could still try to outlast it, it didn't look good for us in the beginning, but after a fight lasting about 6-7 minutes, one major mana potion and her using her evocation, we finally managed to down the shade, yet it was close, I was close to death as well as Dara was exhausted, had we been attacked by anything more now we would have been killed, yet it didnt happen, we simply sat with our back to each other and laughed, laughed in pleasure, of joy, and most of all, in happyness, I had never before felt such a feeling...not love...and not hate...something inbetween...pleasure of managing an extremely hard task? maybe...but it was more then just that as well..something I cant describe...yet..I liked it
After recovering a little of our strength We looked into the shade, just to find a robe, a robe with powers enchanting damage done against undead, magical damage that is, Dara got it, I had become alot more friendly with the Argent dawn as well as getting alot of silver from the corpses of the undead, after this I and Dara found out it was time to split, we traveled back to stormwind, through a portal Dara made, and as we got through the portal, I felt exhausted, I could barely stand on my own two feet, Dara told me that staying in the plaguelands for a long time at a time Assaults your very body, and I had no troubles believing her.
As We got outside, the necropolis outside Stormwind had sendt yet another wave of undead inside our great city, there wasnt many of the undeads left however, maybe a handful, nothing more, and one of them was just out side the mage tower, an undead in skeletal shape wich seemed to be set on fire, Dara imediately charged in, I found myself being filled with anger, I wanted it to end, and i unleashed my anger at the skeletal creature in the shape of Holy light, the skeletal creature quickly succumbed to the holy fire tearing its very existence apart, and after a very short battle, it melted, after the battle was over I found myself even more exhausted than before, I fell to the ground, almost in coma. Dara helped me sit up and poured some water into my mouth, I regained a little strenth but not much, Dara then helped me inside The Blue recluse, as she helped me into a chair I fell asleep almost imediately!
In the past time much has happened...not only the undead but also when it comes to love, I have left Revenant in favour of Salia, she threatened with going to northrend for a very long time if she didn't get me back, it might seem like if she forced me to choose her, but I got into this mess by my own words and actions so I guess that I deserve this unbelievable feeling of pain and sorrow wich comes when you have to choose between two persons, I love Dreamslayer...and I still do untill this day...but Salia is my anchor of life for the time being, living without her wont be possible at this time...and I love her more then Revenant now that she has told me that she loves me.
I thought she just helped me up on my feet again...I thought she just wanted to show me how to be happy untill I find a man to be with...and after I did just that, The person who saved my life by giving me attention and showing me things I couldnt have dreamed of, assaults me verbally and calls me a whore...she loved me...and I didn't see it...and now I was forced to choose between him and Salia! I used maybe two weeks deciding, But not unexpectedly, Revenant didnt like my desicion at all. he took his own life...twice...first being ressurected by one of our druids who happened to come by, second time he did it before my eyes, I almost succumbed to the shadows both times...almost killing mysekf by doing so...yet Salia was there...and as she is, she helped me away from it...Twice more do I owe Salia my life, and even more reasons to stay with her should come...things I dont wish to write down in paper should someone else then me open this book and read!
At this morning I am alone in the confederacy chambers, the sleeping chambers are filled with people...I sit here and enjoy a glas of wine, thinking...trying to get a meaning out of my life...many people say it has led to their ruins by wondering...yet to me it keeps saying "You are ok, you have a nice life now, you have a past so evil and full of danger and sorrow and despair...and you have overcome all that just to wonder why you live?" I listen to myself thinking these words As i take another sip of wine, its good words, its TRUE words...yet if they are true and everything is ok...where is Salia then? I havent seen her in a week now...and I start to fear...where has she gone, and whenever she is around, she seems dismissive...I start to fear again...if Salia now turns away from me I will either need a new anchor of life or I will need all the support I can get...to live on my own...If I will be ready for it when the time comes..I dont know...And now I understand why people say it has led to their ruins to wonder about their life...Had I continued to think like that I would have ended up as one of them...yet another trap evaded...and still I wonder...
I am a sworn shield...a sworn shield...definition? One who has pledged her life to defend the triumvirate...the triumvirate? the three ladies who control our organisation known as the Royal Confederacy, defend them even if it should cost the shields life...Maybe that is why Salia isnt around anymore? is she afriad she will look at me die one day we are in the Zul'gurub defending Khalan or something? i can only wonder...and once again I see I wonder too much...This isn't proofed...
Still i get down to the basics: I miss Salia..and I want to see my love again...but where is she?
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:39:46 GMT -5
Chapter 7.
Salia has a new lover...she complains about me wishing to marry Revenant and now she starts sleping with a Night elf who considers Salia as her own? She starts seing this new person, doesnt tell me anything, and as i come to a surprise visit in Ironforge she imediately takes me outside and tells me that this has been going on for a couple of weeks...I would probably have crumbled together in the shadows hadn't i already known... As my powers expand I find myself getting new and strange powers...one of them is reading another persons mind...but its not exactly reading...its more like watching pictures in a book with its pages flapping in a wind...sometimes I see a picture for a long time..sometimes I just see a brief flap, regardless, that night I was with Salia last time i saw almost everything...her plans to get integrated into the Night elven society once again...and it seems this night elf might be the key to just that.
I can understand Salia's wish to be with her own kin, how lonesome she must have been...how much she must have missed her family...yet...I feel ANGER, I can almost understand Khalans wish to keep an eye on her...Salia cant have much respect for other people's feelings if she is ready to simply start sleeping with someone like that almost straight over night...Or maybe her sorrow and despair and wish to be with her own kin is too strong to ignore...I suppose i will never know. I fear she will always be a riddle for me...I love her of all my heart....she has been my mother and lover in the time shortly before I became a part of the confederacy and was until now, the despair and fear of loosing her completely is there...i can feel it biting at my sanity, Salia has saved my life far too many times to ignore her...she was and still is my anchor of life...the only line wich keeps the shadows from consuming my body and mind...the only prescence who keeps me from going over the line...and now that line os faultering..it has trouble completing its purpose...Yet I am not afraid of it...should the line break, wich means Salia might turn her back on me completely, I will probably die...but without Salia...is that so bad?
I find myself thinking more and more over my life...now that I have found Salia loving another person i find myself being drawn to the shadows...yet this time there is more keeping me back...Dara...wich I had alot of fun with...Khalan...Rissy (even though she isn't much around) Dinendal...everyomne...they form a new barrier...not as strong as Salia's but its still more then good enough for me to keep living.
And in the middle of all this...I come to Dreamslayer...I left him in favour of Salia...I made him take his own life... and he came back...he broke away from me as he should have done...and I...oh god do i dare write this...I HATE Salia for it...I sacrificed my wedding...a wonderfull man..probably an even better future for her...and THIS is how she thanks me? i stopped her from going to Northrend...the list seems endless as I sit by myself in a quiet area of Alterac valley after the battle we lost...I sacrificed EVERYTHING for her...absolutely eveything and she finds herself a lover and doesn't tell me before two weeks have passed?
I was tempted to go and seek Salia out and throw it all in her face... it would have been fun to hear what she might have said in her defence...Realization...this all i have realized...I felt so bad after leaving Dreamslayer and going with Salia...and now she is with another one...all this finally made her loose her status as lifesaver for me...I loose feelings for her as each seconds passes...I cant go back to Dreamslayer...he left the guild for a reason...and i wont try to get him back...he has been through far too much for me to throw this at him...
I have made up my mind...I will speak to salia about this...and if she reacts as I think I will need a new anchor of life...then I can at this moment feel the shadows breaking down the barrier where Salia's picture had once been...
Chapter 8.
I have failed to get contact with Salia, it seems she doesn't wish to speak with me at all, I dont have much more time, The barrier Salia represents is failing the very moment I write this...I have already begun feeling the shadows eating at me, It wont be long before I will die...But the barrier the Confederacy represents got alot tougher as Khalan gave me a kiss on my cheek, I felt the feelings of another persons wish to aid me, I might have won another few days on it...but that is also everything...I feel bad about this, It is as if I try to buy another persons feelings to keep myself alive...the reason why I do so might be important, but its not worth it if I crush a person's feelings, I know that now!
Naysar's role in the confederacy barrier also increased by an good amount earlier today as I gave him a hug, he smiled and let me do it, again I could feel another persons wish to aid me, strenghtening the barrier a little.
I spoke to Revenant yesterday, he actually seemed concerned, but I wont try to get him back, I have already now inflicted to much pain and damage on the poor man's soul, I wont risk to do so again. Khalan is a great friend, and I might find alot of support from her, but I will ultimately need someones true love, I do believe that Salia loved me, or else the barrier she gave me would have failed and I would already be dead...but why...why did she leave me for someone else just like that...I wonder if there is more too it... more then just getting into the Ranks of the Night elves again...something I didn't see...between Salia and her new lover! But this is all unproven, I can't know for sure if there actually is something more sinister with her new lover...But I wont be able to help Salia if she doesn't wish to be helped herself, she has to come to me...on the other side, I can't proove any of this, I guess I will simply have to look for another source of light, a new anchor...Before its too late!
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:41:07 GMT -5
Chapter 9.
I have failed to get contact with Salia, it seems she doesn't wish to speak with me at all, I dont have much more time, The barrier Salia represents is failing the very moment I write this...I have already begun feeling the shadows eating at me, It wont be long before I will die...But the barrier the Confederacy represents got alot tougher as Khalan gave me a kiss on my cheek, I felt the feelings of another persons wish to aid me, I might have won another few days on it...but that is also everything...I feel bad about this, It is as if I try to buy another persons feelings to keep myself alive...the reason why I do so might be important, but its not worth it if I crush a person's feelings, I know that now!
Naysar's role in the confederacy barrier also increased by an good amount earlier today as I gave him a hug, he smiled and let me do it, again I could feel another persons wish to aid me, strenghtening the barrier a little.
I spoke to Revenant yesterday, he actually seemed concerned, but I wont try to get him back, I have already now inflicted to much pain and damage on the poor man's soul, I wont risk to do so again. Khalan is a great friend, and I might find alot of support from her, but I will ultimately need someones true love, I do believe that Salia loved me, or else the barrier she gave me would have failed and I would already be dead...but why...why did she leave me for someone else just like that...I wonder if there is more too it... more then just getting into the Ranks of the Night elves again...something I didn't see...between Salia and her new lover! But this is all unproven, I can't know for sure if there actually is something more sinister with her new lover...But I wont be able to help Salia if she doesn't wish to be helped herself, she has to come to me...on the other side, I can't proove any of this, I guess I will simply have to look for another source of light, a new anchor...Before its too late!
Chapter 10.
Oh god... he took me back...he...he actually took me back...after all i have done to him....Reve...Gotta learn myself to call him Dreamy again...But nevertheless...he took me back...He still loves me after all that he had to live through because of me.
We mett at the waterfall in Elwynn forest, and he actually kissed me...I could feel the love stream through us both...especially in me...I barely felt the shadows pressing for release, wanting to destroy my body from within...almost gone...hes feelings are true, or else this wouldnt have happened...we almost even took eachother, almost...We both agreed on that it was a bit too early to go that far. But still, my soul is flying, I dont even feel bad about doing this to Salia, but she has no might above me anymore, and if she starts to complain I will fight, she can say whatever she wishes, I wont turn back to her now, not even if she payd me with a removal of the shadows within me, why should I need that now? Revenants feelings is too much for the shadows to stand against anyways! Ofcourse we dont have any plans to get married again soon, if it wasn't to be rushing as we decided from before, then it would surely be so now, I have to thank Khalan afterwards, she helped me until I found a new anchor...Revenant as my anchor to life...A bit weird to think about...but I like it...I like it VERy much even!
And yet I have to wonder...will I ever be free of the shadows wich consume me from the inside? probably not...does it matter? probably not, should I worry? probably yes, do I? No. My life seems perfect right now, Dreamy is back, the shadows are to no concern for the closest future...Yes..it seems perfect, and for now I will let myself believe so!
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:44:59 GMT -5
Chapter 11.
Shadows of the past, gone, shadows inside me, still there, but they are no threat anymore, shadows from the people surrounding me, none... It feels as if I have come to heaven, just my own body still intact, Dreamy did not have any time for me today, sadly, but I knew the crusade and the Argent dawn would take much of his time.
I use the time seperate from him meditating, trying to find a solution to the shadows inside me, I think I finally might have found a way to get rid of them for good, Yet it will cost...both an enormous amount of mana energies from myself...and alot of attention and aid of Dreamy...but It CAN be done, Lady Rissandrea did it, and so can I, but...its not a 100% chance of success, Lady Rissandrea's case was a shadow she had made herself, it wasnt as terrible or stuck into her as it is with me, It might fail, and if it does I will need Dreamslayer close to me...very close...then this wont only remove the shadows, it will remove every single escape and shield I thus far have used to stop it, as far as I have understood It WILL remove the shields...but its a 40% chance that It wont remove the shadows...the odds are on my side, if only barely, they are still on my side...It's risky...it's VERY risky, and I will need to speak about it with Dreamy before I start preparing it.
The...Ritual as you might call it will include several priests from the Cathedral of light in stormwind as well as support from the people I love...I wont have Salia there...I thought about it but I dont know if she will have a negative or a possitive effect, Maybe I should ask Khalan...
Chapter 12.
I havent heard from Salia in weeks, not that it really matters though, I am finaly free of the creature inside me, yes I call it a creature, It was to some degree sentient, almost alive, it was pure, but it was pure evil, it shrieked for help as I started the ritual to remove it with Dreamslayer by my side, but as the walls of love and attention were removed, it assaulted me with all its powers, trying to kill me, obviously understanding that this is the end if it doesnt do something...It almost succeded, my heart took damage but was quickly healed by the high priestess herself, I was close to dying that time, my heart almot stopped beating, but the creature was imediately after smited by the other priests in the building, it died almost instantly, it tried to say me something, I heard its voice in my thoughts, but whatever it wished to tell me was drowned by the cheering and congratulations from my fellow priest...and Dreamy's next action, he hold around me and bent over so I layed with my back almost to the floor and kissed me, I was almost in shock, I had never experienced this kind of treatment before, but just after a couple of seconds I found myself quite comfortable...and then I fainted, of exhaustion as well as a hole in my inner, it was if...Well...I dont know how to describe it...there was a huge hole where the creature had once been, but Dreamy quickly filled it with love, light, happyness mostly, And I felt new powers come to me...improving to the holy and producing new holy powers!
As I woke up I found Dreamy sitting by my side, obviously in a little distress, he too had perfomed this kind of ritual, though not because of the same reasons, he had focused his powers away from the fire and over to the arcane a day ago or so. And he had trouble controlling hes new powers, I couldn't feel bad for him, there wa a couple of times where I couldnt stop glowing yellow and white because of some new spell that blasts a very large area with a spell that heals my fellow friends but also damages nearby enemies.
After we left the cathedral in stormwind Dreamy took me out to a picnic, Of all places he chosed it had to be Duskwood, Regardless I didnt mind, the people from darkshire could believe what they want, they had besides probably forgot about me now, Anyways, after a little wine laugh and enjoying the companionship of each other we went each our way, I went almost straight to Blackrock depths, to find out exactly how powerful my holy powers had become, I was in for a VERY positive surprise, But I wont go into tat now. I had to leave in the middle of the blackrock depths, I was still exhausted after the removal of the creature within me.
Chapter 13.
I have spendt a long time away from the confederacy, but then im not counting the small visits I have been able to get into my schedule...even Dreamy have I set aside for this...why did I do that again? He would have been an immense help had it not been for the fact that...I don't remember, I dont remember why I didn't bring my love along, all I remember is that it was VITAL that I did not do so.
What made me think so? I have no idea, light and purity fills me where the shadows once were, I like the feeling but I have also lost powers, alot of powers, I can barely stand my own against the scourge anymore.
Is a voice whispering to me? Maybe im getting mad, Isolation can do that to the mind it stood in the books I read while studying in the cathedral of light, maybe I have studied the scourge for a little too long...Maybe I should go back to my comrades in the confederacy? Should...should not...it all comes down to what I wish! So what do I wish? Seems I have to think a bit more before I answer that, I truely miss the others but...Can I leave this place just like that? most other persons I would have asked would probably have said something like "too late, im already out" What is concerning me? its like im trying to explore my own mind searching for answers...Oh well...A puzzled mind can easily be fooled, I have to think about that phrase!
Chapter 14.
Something possessed me without me noticing, how the hell did that happen? Ive stayed in the plaguelands for far too long, I have to get out, but how? Just as I get my common sence back I get cornered by an huge number of ghouls, they were simply too many, and screaming doesn't help against them, mindless as they are. I am wounded, but as long as I dont try to get out of my hiding spot they leave me be, I fear they are waiting for someone, or something.
No means of escape has helped...If I even move my hands in a suspicious way they get ready to attack...does whoever controls these ghouls want me to bleed to death? I have a healthy amount of bandages left but I dont think it will be enough to heal me completely, if I dont get out of here and get treatment I will sooner or later get sick...or worse
The ghouls have moved a bit closer but make no sign to attack, they are definitively waiting for something, or someone, If I rise myself up they slam me to the ground, often puncturing my skin, making me bleed, and then they get back to where they were, if i start to cast a spell they attack my arms...but for what purpose? why would they want to keep me here? the only reason I can think of is that the ghouls master is making me wait for him...had they just been any guard they would have killed me on sight, but they dont...I need to get out of here but I cant contact the confederacy, ofcourse the heartstone was beaten out of my hand as soon as I tried to use it as well...*sigh* I miss Dreamy...I miss the others..and I could really need their help now....but how will I call for them?
I cant stay here anymore, I suddenly felt my temperature rising, my time is running out, I have to get out of here in some way, but the only one i can think of right now is keep casting untill its succesfull...Either I will write more after I have tried...or I wont write anything at all anymore...*the handwriting gets more rough and might indicate Dimi's hands are shaking, as well as some spots on the pages, she might have been crying* Please dear Dreamy...Im sorry...forgive me if this goes wrong...but I dont see any other way...
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:45:40 GMT -5
Chapter 15.
It worked, it actually worked...the ghouls were all lying around on the ground in the area...no one even twitched...Yet...they almost tore me to pieces...I can't stand and I can barely manage to write this...Seems...that in the end it was all to no good anyways...I will probably die here...if only...I could see...the others again...Dreamy...my dear............
Sometime later: Dimi awoke inside a room of some kind, finding her wounds to be almost completely healed, she opened her eyes, regaining focus after a few seconds, she finds herself tied to a table wearing nothing but a robe she did not put on herself! Dimi looked around herself, the room was empty, only her and the table and a door to her left pluss a chair in front of the table was in it! Dimi resisted to call out for anyone and tried to get loose, but the iron chains she had around her wrists and ankles were way to strong for her to crack open by herself, she suddenly discovered that she couldn't focus her mana either, once again she searched the room with her eyes, trying to find a cause to the spellbarrier, and then she noticed the roof, there was some sort of seal on it, Dimi looked at it in a long time and concluded that it was a circle of some kind of spellblock, the table Dimi was lying on and a little area around it was where the seal had power, it would block any mana concentration and prevent spellcasting totaly, but the area around the circle would no doubt spared.
Dimi had no idea what time it was, nor did she know how long she had been there, but what she certainly knew was that she wouldn't get out of this by herself, Dimi decided it was better to call for someone and try to get an explanation instead of laying there cold and hungry.
"Hello? Is there anyone here?" Dimi yelled out, she heard footsteps outside the door, but they were fading, as if someone was walking away, The person was probably going to get someone!
And sure enough, a short time later she heard the footsteps of two persons comming back towards her cell. Dimi let out a little scream as the table suddenly started to move. it suddenly stood almost completely upright, bending a little backwards, Dimi was now facing the door directly, still within the spellblock circle ofcourse. Dimi was worried but also a little intruiged, who had gotten her here?
The door was opened and in came a man with a robe and a hood covering most of his face, Dimi's eyes were opened wide, and the blood started to boil in her veins, this just could not be the man from that evening....it just could not be... "Before you start yelling accusations and curses and god knows what not at me, please let me talk." But Dimi found it impossible to resist. "YOU?! YOUR THE BASTARD WHO MADE MY FATHER THE MONSTER HE WAS!" "no no for the sake of all that is holy please let me talk..." But Dimi was NOT in a mood to listen, she continued to yell out curses and eternal damnation on the man. suddenly she felt pain, a stream of electricity coursed through her body, not so much that it made any significant damage but it neutralized Dimi's nerve system, she was not able to move or speak or anything. "Please, I dont wish to do that to you again, so dont force me if you can let it be, I will only give you an explanation to why your childhood became as it did" "Wh...what? you expect me to listen to you after all you have done against me and my family? my mother went MAD because of you! You destroyed my life as I was six years old, SIX!" "No I did not, but a man in my family did" Dimi's eyes went wide "What?" It is as I said, and now if you can shut up for just a little while I will tell you what has happened, how is insignificant now, its the WHY that matters" Dimi found herself in a hopeless situation, either she listened willingly or she would be forced to, might just as well do it easy on herself. "All right...I will listen" "Good, I suppose you want to know what happened with your father that night first don't you?" Dimi nodded slowly "I thought so...Well, it all started the night your father got a visit from a man wearing these clothes im wearing now right?" Dimi felt the anger inside of her diminishing, this was quite interresting indeed. "Well, that my dear girl..." "I am not your dear girl and I have a name, and that is..." "Dimi right?" "...Yes" "Then I know I have the right person, you see, it was not me who visited your father that night, it was one of my fatherside of my family, he wanted power, who doesn't? But he wanted it in such an enormous scale...he wanted to be the ruler of the world, the typical madmans thought" The man picked up a pipe from his pocket and some sort of weed, but suddenly hesitated. "Do you mind?" "Do I have a choice?" Dimi found herself answering a bit more sharp then intended "Yes in the matter of the fact you have, if you don't want me to smoke this in here I will go outside and do it." Dimi sighed. "Go ahead" "Thank you, now...He had found a new ritual of some sort to make people partially mad and take control of their minds, how you ask? Well, as I told you, that doesn't matter now...But why then? why did he do so? I asked that question to myself alot of times, I was after him because he had been using so-called illegal spells from our familys spellbook, this man was desperate for power, and he was willing to do anything to get it, sadly the consequences was something you and your family had to deal with...Ah im sorry, are you cold? or maybe hungry or thirsty? Its the first time I have visitors here so please excuse my bad hospitality, but I couldnt risk you starting to throw holy spells in here, that would wake too much attention to the guys above us, and yes I mean undead, we are a few hundred feet below the ground miss, we are below undercity" Dimi was in total shock, if this man was speaking the truth then...
"I asked you if you want some extra clothings or somethin to eat and drink?" "are we really below undercity at this moment?" "yes...not the best place to hold a vacation, I will tell you that" "But then..." "Im sorry my lady but I am getting tired of asking..." "Uh...well...yes I am cold...and hungry, and I wouldnt mind some water" The hooded man turned around facing the guard who Dimi noticed first now. "Get our guest some of my personal food and drinkable water, and some carpets if you dont mind?" The guard quickly walked away "He will be back in a couple of minutes, shall I continue?" "Can you remove the chains from my wrists and ankles?" The man looked suspiciously at Dimi "How do I know you wont try to escape?" "You have all the answers to the questions I have used years to find out without luck, I wouldn't run away now unless it depended on my life...does it?" The man chuckled "No it doesn't, and I believe you, but I will have to insist on the chains sadly, I dont like to take risks, but I can attach them to the ground so you can sit with me at the table" instead of being strapped to it" "I can live with that I suppose...and let me guess, I wont be able to move outside of the seal up there?"
The man smiled "No you won't, you can move freely within it but not outside it, that gives me a little to go on should you assault me." Dimi looked wearily at the man, he was obviously one of the VERY careful types The guard that had been sendt to get some extra carpets and drink and food came back. "Ah, very good, porridge and purified water" "Purified?" "Yes, purified, I would not recommend you drink the water you can find in the plaguelands my lady, Oh and get me an extra chair, I suspect our guest wishes to sit and eat" The man looked intensively at the table for a few moments and it suddenly started to move, Dimi was dropped down on the ground and the chains were lengthened by a couple of meters, the table then layed down to a normal position and the guard layd the food and water on the table and gave Dimi the extra carpets "Thank you" Dimi replied and put a couple of the carpets on the ground so she didnt have her feet resting on the cold stony ground, the rest she layd over her shoulders and waist.
"Shall I continue while you eat or shall I wait?" "Please go on" Dimi answered "Well, where was I...Ah yes, the man had been using illegal spells from my family's spellbook, and he used one of them on your father, he was a wonderful man, I know, I was there observing my targets every move, and I could not avoid to notice what kind man your father was...until that night as you maybe dont remember..." "I remember..." A tear was making its way down Dimi's cheek. The man gave Dimi a little piece of cloth to wipe it away and continued "Well...it was a mind control spell, but it was not completed yet, some of the spells in that book were never completed since its creators found it either too hard to complete the spell all around, or they didnt have the power to continue developing it"
The man looked at Dimi a little second, Dimi caught his look and it was no doubt where those eyes were resting, if only even for just a moment, this man might not be as controlled and cold as he wants people to believe! "The spell he used on your father was such a spell...it was not completed...and the extra effects it had was nothing that has ever been desired...*sigh* but the spell completed its purpose...take control of a humans mind and make the target do as you wish over a longer period of time." Dimi looked up and asked" But why my father? why not someone else? "Because of you my lady" "M...me??" "Yes...you, you must surely know of what lives inside you don't you?" "Lives inside m...The shadow creature..." "Correct...He was planning to consume and enslave it inside himself, that monster has incredible powers you must know, it enhances shadow powers to an unbelievable extent..." "But how did it get inside me? I..." "My cousin as you might call him made your father give it to you...through something you ate, I dont know what you ate but it contained the seed that would eventually grow into what now resides inside you" Dimi decided not to tell him about the removal of the shadow creature for now "But you made his plan a bit harder then he first thought, by joining the confederacy for instance" Dimi sat upright "The confederacy?" The man looked Dimi directly in the eyes "Yes the confederacy, the ROYAL confederacy actually, they have been hunting this guy too you know, he has done more then just poisoning a mans mind you must know" Dimi sat completely still listening to every single word the man said. "He had done every single thing possible to get away from them and now you were in the middle of it, you even told them about the creature, wich made them even more suspicious, My cousin had to abandon you, he couldnt risk getting taken by the confederacy, so he moved on to a new victim" Dimi imediately asked "Who?" "I dont know, nor do I bother anymore, then he is dead..." "D...dead? How? Why?" "You killed him..."
"W...wait a moment...I killed him? when? and where?" "Oh it was quite some time ago...do you remember the necromancer in Duskwood? who ressurected the fallen people of duskwood and made them into mindless skeletons? the same man who made your mother one of them? That was him..." Dimi was in shock, she had killed him already... "I...dont know what to say..." "Dont you say anything then, you did something I was waiting for the right oppurtunity to do, and for that, I thank you!" The man bowed before Dimi before continuing! "You see, he had violated too many rules, used way too many forbidden spells...I could not let him live..." "I see..." "But there is one thing that remains..."
Dimi looked at the man with concern in her eyes. "The shadowy creature as you called it...it has to be removed you know...And I want to study the thing..." Dimi glared the man into his eyes. "Study...you want to use it to improve your own powers" "Heh...smart girl, so young and still the brain of an elder...You are right...I want to use it for my own good...And you do surely wish to get rid of it don't you? I can't imagine you are happy about having to live with that monster inside of you..." The mans eyes changed, suddenly they were gleaming with desire. "What do you say? I remove it and you can live on!" Dimi hesitated. "Just one thing..." "Yes?" "What will you do to me after you are done? "Hm...I had not thought about that yet...but I will let you go, I have no more use for you here after I have gotten what I want" A feint smile found its way on Dimi's lips "Liar..." "Hm? What do you mean with liar? "You wouldnt let me go even if you were paid for it" "Hrmph...I suppose I cannot convince you otherwise...Yes I do desire to have you here...I desire you..." The chains around Dimi's wrists and ankles suddenly pulled her hands behind her chair and tied her legs to the chair's feet. "You are a real beauty my lady...That so called Revenant the dreamslayer is truely a lucky man...As was this night elven Salia...Just too bad for her that she was so short minded..." The man closed in on Dimi, sitting down on the left side of her chair. "I can make you more powerful then Rissandrea ever was, I can make Khalan have to think twice before she messes with you, would not that be nice?" "May I ask you for your name?" Dimi suddenly asked. The man laughed, hard and long! "You are indeed smart...A bit too smart...No you may not...Then you are actually smart enough to somehow escape this place...unless I keep you on a short leash..." The man touched Dimi's right thie and ran his hand all over her upper body untill he reached her face, Dimi turned away. "Hrm... a little rebel huh? Well...Whatever you want or not I NEED that creature...the ritual to remove it will be in just a few.." "I dont have it anymore..." "What?!" "I removed it myself!"
The man was surprised, he removed his hand and walked out of the circle. "I will tell you something about this seal, it negates mana inside of it, but a spell casted from the outside works as normal, I will cast a spell to check if what you say is true...and if not...I will remove it imediately! And...this spell hurts...So bear with me just a little moment, it will just take a second." Dimi closed her eyes and prepare herself, and true enough, the man used the spell he talked about, the pain was extreme, even if it just lasted a second, Dimi was shivering after he was done. "Hm...I see...You either didn't know or you denied the truth, its not gone!"
Dimi found herself unable to speak, unable to move very much at all actually, the body was in some sort of shock, her mind worked but...the body would not listen! "It's not gone...its just dead, and now that it can't defend itself against the light anymore the light has taken over...very, very interresting actually...I have no idea what this might have done with the creature... if I revive it..." Dimi wanted to scream at him to not to do it, but her body was still incapacitated, she could not do anything, the only thing that kept her upright was the magical chains on her wrists and ankles. "But dont worry, I won't do so inside YOUR body...A ghoul is a body too, maybe a bit decayed, but its still a body...and that is what counts" the mann held his hand in front of Dimi's face, and suddenly everything went black!
Dimi awoke with the mann sitting beside her bed, with the magical chains still attached to her wrists and ankles. "Ah, I see you are awake, did you have a nice night?" Dimi tried to speak but could not controll her body yet. "Ah, yes....uhm...I use a specific poison so you sleep and dont feel pain as I removed the shadowy creature, and you were right...its dead...now and forever...I must say I am a bit disapointed...you know I was looking forward to this...VERY much, and now you have killed it...Im annoyed but...Nothing to do about it..." Dimi noticed that the middle part of the robe had been cut of with a knife, almost up to her breasts. "Ah, dont worrie about that, I dont live alone down here you know, I had the wimen fill you in the robe you are now wearing, sorry that I had to cut it of in the middle but the creature was larger then I first suspected...almost materialized...it was able to inflict physical damage to you was it not? ah sorry, you cannot speak yet, true, it will come in a couple of hours, but im very sure it could...it must have defended itself manicaly as you tried to kill it, did it go for your heart? Probably, but someone healed it, the priests who assisted you no doubt...Oh well..." The mann sat down on the bed beside Dimi. "Such a beaty indeed..." As the man was about to remove the lower part of Dimi's robe, Dimi screamed, the same kind of scream she had let out the day her father had tried exactly the same, the scream filled the mans mind with fear, and he as Dimi's father, ran screaming out. Dimi was confused, was not that seal up there supposed to prevent her from casting spells at all? She did not wonder too much about it, she had aquired a little control of her body back, just like last time. She tried desperately to get the chains off, but magical and of iron as they were, Dimi had no chance of removing them. The man came back, very early actually, he was probably used to dark magics and tricks so he was probably very resistant to it. The mann came back, "I...would not have thought you were able to do that.." Dimi pretended she was still paralyzed and said nothing "You can stop acting, one who can use that scream also gets resistant to poison and paralyzing effects...Nevertheless...it demands alot of energy does it not?" He walked slowly back to the bed, he raised his hand and made some kind of gesture that made the chains draw Dimi's leggs and arms out to each corner. "You cant prevent it so give up!" Dimi closed her eyes and turned away as he placed his hands on her, but suddenly one of his assistants it seemed came in shouting something in a language Dimi could not understand. The man quickly got off Dimi and ran off with his assistant. Dimi didnt know what had happened but she was not gong to wait for him to return so she could ask, she once again tried desperately to get the chains off, once again to none avail. She looked around herself for something that culd help her, but nothing was in sight, She gave up. "No use...I can't get free whatsoever I do...I need a miracle or someones aid to get out of...Hm?" A girl, a bit younger than Dimi herself appeared in the opening the girl had a knife in her right hand and two of the most dead eyes Dimi had ever seen on a living person, she could actually compete with her father before he burned the Ward manor to the ground! The girl approached Dimi, and raised the dagger. Dimi got scared and partially hysterical "Hey! Dont do that! STOP!" But the girl kept comming closer, and suddenly as she was standing right left to Dimi's head, she stopped, dagger raised, it was as if she was waiting for something, Dimi glared at her, but she suddenly found the girl was not aiming for her, she was looking at the chain attached to her right wrist, Dimi looked at The girl back to the chain, suddenly the chain glowed, just for a couple of seconds, but that was obviously what she had been waiting for, then the girl slammed the dagger in the chain the moment it was at its brightest, the chain glowed more and more, and sudenly it snapped, it fell apart as if something had ripped it apart in seconds, The same happened to the ankles and the other wrist chains as well within a few seconds more, then the girl whispered into Dimi's ear "Run!" Dimi gave the girl a hug and a kiss on her cheek and didnt wait for her to say it again!
Dimi found herself running left, then the man had went for right, Dimi ran around maybe for an hour, untill she finaly found a door...well...maybe not a door but some kind of gate, Dimi pushed at it, not mudging, Dimi slammed into it with her shoulder first, it was futile, she didnt have the strength of a warrior she was a priest! Then suddenly she heard the man yell "WHERE IS SHE YOU LITTLE BITCH!?!" The poor girl had probably been found. Suddenly something came up form the ground, something dark, could have been a shadow had not Dimi recognized the voice she heard the day she killed the dark creature inside her. Dimi stepped back, terrified of the thing in front of her, moving closer and closer, Dimi got cornered, she had no ways to escape, The creature could do whatever it wanted with her now! But then Dimi remembered that she was out of the circle now! she stood upright starting to cast a smite, the creature almost imediately silenced her, she could not cast spells, Dimi felt a tear drippling down her cheek, and then as the creature was floating in the air right before her face, it turned around towards the gate and smashed the gate open with a single swing of its...fist? hard to tell. Dimi loooked at the shade in confusion, and then got the most wicked grin she had ever seen, a mouth consisting of razor sharp white theeth, Dimi found herself being lifted up by the shadow and carried outside, she was indeed just outside the walls of Undercity!
The shadow spoke to Dimi through her mind, hard to understand but she heard as much as "you" and "wait here" The shadow turned around, and floated inside again. Dimi waited maybe 10 minutes and was just about to leave the place before the Shade came back again, this time with her heartstone, her old clothes and her bags. Dimi didnt know what to say or do she simply said thank you, picked up the bags and used her heartstone, but just before she managed to port back to Ironforge the man with the hood came out of the entrance, he raised his hand and prevented the heartstone from completing the trip. Dimi was furious, This man was either going to give up or die, Never before had she felt so willing to murder someone as now, but the man was quicker then her, and as soon as she raised her hands, getting ready to cast spells the man had thrown new chains at her, they hit her arms as easy as nothing, binding her wrists once again, Dimi screamed out in rage and fury but also in fear "NO!! LEAVE ME BE!!!" she didn't want to go in there again, but before she could do anything more, the man had caged her ankles as well, now the chains were dragging her across the ground towards the man, smiling in victory, But then, Dimi saw something she will never forget.
The shade appeared behind the man, It reshaped its arm into some kind of sword and sliced it through the mans back, it apeared out of the mans chest on the other side, the creature dragged the sword out of the mans body and he fell to the ground, the chains were still attached to Dimi so she thought he was still alive. Dimi approached the man, he was laying on the ground, chest downwards, Dimi sat down beside him, the shade joined her, it shaped itself into a small black bird and sat down on Dimi's shoulder. "nngg, I would not...have thought that this of...argh...all things would happen..." "Is this..." "Yes it quite sure is...thats the monster that was inside you untill just a couple of hours ago....seemed it was only in some kind of sleeping trance...affected by the holy inside you...garrgh" "But....It tried to kill me...Or did it?" "No...it...gnnhh...Ah it doenst matter...What matters is how...and i...dont know how...it seems I will die here then...I wish you luck Dimi...gngh...I was hoping you would live along with me in there but...it seems it wont get that far...Good luck...and take good care of your shade friend...graahhh"
With those words the nameless man died, and the chains disintegrated into dust, Dimi looked at the shade, and it looked at her, then after a while it nudged Dimi's ear and flied off, Dimi looked after it for a long time. She dresed herself up in her normal clothes and ported away with her Heartstone, once again Dimi was in Ironforge, She looked at the barkeeper, he was busy cleaning the desk where he served his drinks, Then Dimi went outside, and posted a report to the confederacy, maybe they had some extra answers!
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:46:28 GMT -5
Chapter 16.
I think im being followed, I see the robe the man from the prison was wearing all over the place, I usually just catch a glimpse, and then they are gone, They stalk me, no doubt, but why? do they wish revenge or is there someother explanation? I will suppose I will find out soon!
Sure enough, earlier today I saw the face of the girl that had helped me escape, she wore a robe similar to the one the man had been wearing, just this one with a bit brighter colours, why was she wearing that? She helped me escape, why would she wear one of those robes? Regardless, I walked into a back alley in stormwind, not too far away from the confederacy halls.
And suddenly she stood by my side, she apeared out from nowhere and I had been watching the entrance closely, and now she stood by my side, I turned in an instance almost jumping away from her.
She simply stood there glaring at me, she did not have a hood like the robe normaly had, her whole face was exposed, and those dreadfull eyes, I almost wanted to look away. "You killed one of our high commanders!" Dimi looked at the girl, trying to figure out what she wanted, it was no doubt she ment the man that the shade had killed, but why then go for her? "I did not kill him, the shade did" The girl kept glaring at Dimi with her cold dead eyes, untill she finaly spoke "The shade cannot lead us, but you can!"
Dimi was speechless, for a long while she simply glared at the girl. "Lead you? ME? Lead YOU?" "Yes Mistress, we want you to lead us." "No way!" Dimi almost yelled out. "I have seen how you guys operate, and that is WAY below me!" The girl kept glaring at Dimi with the same cold emotionless face. "If you do not come freely I will have to take you with me by forcel, you have seen far too much, and now that info almost got to the Royal confederacy, I made sure it did not." Dimi's curiosity awakened. "What?"
The girl kept glaring at Dimi, she had not winked once, was her eyes made of stone? You intercepted my letter to the confederacy? The girl answered with a simple but cold tone. "Yes." "How did you do that? I thought you cannot pull up mail intended to other persons..." "How does not matter, the point is we have voted for you to come and lead us!" Dimi felt annoyed, would she not take no for a no? "I will NOT come and lead you, not even if you paid me!" The girl moved extremely fast, and suddenly she had grabbed a hold of Dimi's wrist. Dimi was completely surprised by the movmenet and the sheer speed of the little girl. she tried furiously to pull her wrist back and pull away from the girl, but then the girl started to cast a spell, Dimi recognized it, she was using a heartstone!
Dimi blasted the sourroundings with a holy nova, sending the little girl flying away from her, after wards she walked over to the girl, she wanted to see if she was ok, and she was, again Dimi was caught completely by surprise and the girl had taken a new hold of her wrist, and this time she knocked Dimi down, the girl was strong, and obviously well trained, and once again she activated her heartstone, and once again Dimi tried to blast her away, but this time the girl was quicker then her. Dimi landed on the ground, backhead frist, and she fainted.
The girl stood upright, took yet again hold of Dimi's left wrist, and started using her heartstone, Dimi awakened just before it was finnished and yet again casted a holy nova, Again the girl was sendt flying, but she landed on her legs and was back in front of Dimi again within a second. "Why do you absolutely want me of all persons?" The girl did not say anything but grabbed after Dimi's wrist again, and once again Dimi casted a holy nova. a specially powerful one as well, the girl somehow saw what was comming and jumped by all of her might it seemed, then with the aid from the nova, she landed on the roof, and from there she jumped back down in front of the exit.
"We voted for a new leader since you killed the old one and..." "LISTEN TO ME DAMNIT! I did NOT kill your leader, I had been chained and placed back into the cell had it not been for the shade..." "Your minion!" "My...Minion? That was no minion that was a monster, who then of some reason I cant explain decided to aid me! I had no control of it whatsoever! so let me go!" The girl rised an eyebrow. "You did not control it?" Dimi thought she would finally listen to reason. "No I did not! I.." "Then we have no use for you, and I...must bring you back anyways, you know too much!" Dimi was about to object but again the girl came at her at a raging speed, and before Dimi could react to anything, it all went black.
Dimi opened her eyes, she found herself lying in one of the confederacy bedchambers, she tried to get out of the bed but she was held back by the Oh so famous chains the clan of the little girl used, Dimi's clothes was laying on the night table beside her, she had recieved a VERY good looking sleeping robe.
Oh by the light, not again! Dimi muttered. "HEY? is there someone out there? Khalan? Rissandrea? Launa? Anyone?" "Dimi? Is that you?" "Khalan?" "Yes?" "Can you...uh...help me out up here a little?" "Sure, too tired to get out of...what the..." Khalan got inside the room and found Dimi chained to the bed in a VERY revealing and good looking sleeping robe "What have you been up to?" "I will tell you if you get these chains off me!" "Have you let Revenant in here or what?" Khalan approached the bed and took a look at the chains, grinning wickedly. "Ha...ha...very funny Khalan, had it just been that well..." Khalan picked the lock on her left ankle, and all the chains evaporated into dust. "Thank you..." "Your welcome sweetie, would you now mind telling me what has happened here?" Dimi did not really want too talk about it but when the leader of the confederacy asks you answer!
Dimi hang up her dressing room around her bed and changed into her normal clothes while telling Khalan of what had happened the last days. After a VERY long talk Khalan took the sleeping robe Dimi had been wearing and sendt it to get examined by several people, thereby enchanters, alchemists and tailorers. After Dimi had gotten into her normal clothes she walked in front of Khalan who imediately gave Dimi a hug. "I will try to find out who that little girl is, but we do know the organisation you are talking about, we dont know their true intentions but we do know they have been involved in powermongering before. I suggest you stay in here for a while, they know we are after them and I shall be honest: I have a hard time to believe that they sneaked you into the sleeping chamber by themselves, whoever did left traces, and I will find him or her!" "Ok Khalan, thank you..." "Dont be afraid sweetie, you are safe now, and absolutely while confederacy members are here!"
" I know Khalan I know...Im just getting tired of this...Always is there something happening....Im just tired..." "Then rest Dimi, you can rest in one of the chairs or the couches downstairs, rest and think about something else!" "I will Khalan...Thank you...I will" Dimi stumbles down the stairs, she greeted the other members with a faint smile and hello and layed down on one of the couches and slept, for a very long time!"
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:48:33 GMT -5
Chapter 17.
"N...No...NO!!!!"
Dimi woke up with beads of sweat running down her face neck and chest. "A nightmare...just a silly nightmare" Dimi thought, trying to ease her own nerves and calm herself down, slowly the body found its ordinary heartrate and her breath went back to normal as well, Dimi sat up in the couch she had layed down in the night before.
Lady Rissandrea came down the stairs from the womens sleeping chamber with a candle in her hand and found Dimi shivering in a couch alone, she walked over to Dimi, sat down beside her looked into her eyes for a couple of seconds before she hugged her for a little while, she then pulled Dimi over to a couple of chairs with a chess table in the middle of them. Dimi was about to object, if she was going to do anything now at all she would either be going to bed or go for a walk, but Lady Rissandrea stopped her and pushed her down into the chair before she got the chesspieces and set them up, after they had played for a while (and rissandrea was picking Dimi's chess pieces one by one) She finally started to speak.
"You know, I had expected a little more resistance from you." "Please My lady, I dont feel like playing right now..." "sometimes we have to play along even if we dont wish to." "I have had a little too much of that in the latest days my lady..." "Then get free of it by talking about it, I heard the story from Khalan but something tells me there is more too it" Dimi let out a defeated sigh. "Well...this ,Something, as you call it is right, im afraid My lady, I got to feel just how vulnerable I really am. If I am alone im almost completely defenseless...I think the only thing that has saved me from death countless times now is my looks and the desire of the people who catches me...and I got the final confirmation as I met the little girl for the second time...she knocked me out as easy as nothing...I had nothing to stand up with against her..." Rissandrea sat for a long time looking at the chess table, she made a final move with a tower and said "checkmate" She then sat back in her chair crossing her legs and arms, looking at Dimi. "Well Dimi...you are right, it is not easy to stand against your enemy when you remove the devastating shadowy powers and infuse yourself with the holy, you become more support then anything else, But there are ways to fight like this, you will just have to accept that it wont be as easy as before." Dimi looked down at the table, searching for a way she might fight back but to non avail.
"You can compare yourself with this round of chess you know, you quickly lost pieces wich could have been a great help later, That could be you loosing your shadows. But there is one thing you can do about it, you have pawns, if you play it right you can get something back for them, and that is the esence of what i tell you now DImi, use what you have in a new way! You look at your new powers like pawns, and you dont see the potential within them!" Dimi glared at the chess table, she thought about it, and it seemed right...but...still.
"You will have to learn to fight in a new way, you cannot silence your foes with shadows anymore, nor can you assault their minds with magic reducing their walking speed, What you have to think about, is your HEALING, you will have to learn to use your healing when fighting enemies, be it horde or other creatures." Dimi sat in her chair thinking about it, it sounded smart...but still... "And who will teach me?" "You will have to learn it yourself Dimi, we all have each our fighting style, be it rogues or warriors or hunters or priests." Dimi listened intently to what Rissandrea said, she would have to experiment with her new powers to find out just how she would be fighting in the future, but she could still feel the despair and helplessness she had felt when the man from the den below undercity had tried to take her against her will. Rissandrea seemed to read her mind as she arised from her chair and pulled Dimi upp and gave her a hug soothing her. "It's all right Dimi, he is gone, and he won't come back" "I know my lady I know...But I can not forget how I felt as he touched me...all over my body...I was defenseless..." "sshh, dont think about it Dimi, let it go, it was the past and it won't happen again." "It will happen again...unless I am able to defend myself from it..." "And you will be, you just have to practice, maybe long, maybe for a short time, who knows, just learn to know yourself Dimi, you may know your enemy, but if you dont know yourself, what good will come of knowing them?"
The words struck Dimi as if she was hit by lightning, she had heard those words before...but where? Dimi struggled to remember, there was something VERY familiar with those words, but she could not quite place it. Dimi let it go, there was no time to try and remember words, it was time to learn how to fight!
"I will remember your words My lady.." Rissandrea smiled softly while looking deeply into Dimi's eyes "When will you learn that even if you are a sworn shield and a subordinate of mine, you are still free to call me rissy like everybody else?" Dimi smiled back weakly. "I am sorry my lady, but unless you say you feel old or anything when I say that too you I won't stop it, I have too much respect for you to say anything else." Rissandrea smiled. "Then I think you will be calling me that for a long time ahead, do you wish to go to bed?" "Ah...I...think I will go for a walk my lady..." "Ok then, I will see you tomorrow." Rissandrea hugged Dimi one last time and kissed her cheek before she went up the stairs where she had first come.
Dimi stood back in the dark empty livingroom of the confederacy, she touched the place where Rissandrea had kissed her and looked towards the door, she had forgotten to dress herself in her sleeping robe here as she layed down yesterday, so she simply walked outside.
It was raining, quite heavily as well, it did not take long for her clothes to get soaked wet with water, as they did Dimi thought about returning to the sleeping chambers in the confederacy halls, and as she turned around the girl stood before her again, barely 10 meters away the girl stood there with a dagger in her right hand and a club club of some sort in her left. Dimi looked at the girl in horror, she stood in a position Dimi recognized very well, she was ready to attack. Dimi backed off a couple off steps, she felt the fear and helplesness return to her, panic was about to get a foothold in Dimi's mind.
The girl seemed to notice Dimi's fear and made a quick twostep forward to se how she reacted, Dimi almost fell to the wet ground behind her. The girl stood upright, and sighed, and then turned around, but as she did, Dimi got up again, stood up in casting position, and prepared a holy fire, but just as she was about to fire it off, the girl disappeared. Dimi looked around herself, frantically trying to spot her before she could attack, Dimi focused her senses, heightening them by a good amount, if the girl was there Dimi would spot her.
And sure enough, out of nowhere the Girl came from behind. Dimi screamed, the girl ran out of stealth away form Dimi, Dimi afflicted the girl with Shadow word Pain and casted renew on herself, after a while The girl was badly wounded, but so was Dimi, they both stopped and struggled to keep themselves up from the ground, Dimi smiled and started once again to cast mind blast on the young girls mind, but she was faster, she ran at Dimi in a tremendous speed once again and threw some kind of powder into her eyes, it hurted like hell, Dimi screamed and held her hands in front of her eyes, the girl continued towards Dimi and banged her mace into Dimi's side,, sending her to the ground.
The girl stood over her, took a hold of her wrist once again. "This time....there won't...be any...interference!" Dimi screamed again, and yet again the girls mind was filled with fear, she resisted it quickly, but not quick enough, Dimi started to cast a smite, but yet again she was knocked over, Dimi sttod upright fast, and called for her last line of defense, she used her desperate prayer, She was back up in a second.
The girl was astonished, how did she do that? Dimi casted one last smite and the girl went to the ground. Dimi walked over to the girl, she wanted to bring her to the confederacy, but as Dimi was about to pick her up the girl jumped to her feet and ran off at an enormous speed away, Dimi was thunderstruck, how could she possibly stand up after that?
Dimi stood and looked the way the girl had escaped in for a long time untill she finally decided it was time to return to the confederacy.
As she came back, Rissandrea Greeted her in the door, she had obviously been waiting for her.
"Hey Dimi, had a nice walk?" "Well...that depends..." And as she had uttered those words the girl she had just fought appeared behind Risandrea. "RISSY WATCH OUT!" But Rissandrea held Dimi back. "WHAT ARE YOU...doing..." Dimi was speechless as the girl held Rissandreas hands, her dead eyes also seemed to be gone. "Wh...what..." "I am sorry that I attacked you, but lady Rissandrea here asked me to test you." "wh..." "It was all a test, you had to get familiar with your holy powers and how to use them. Once again im sorry for what I did." The girl bowed before Dimi and then gave Rissandrea a hug before she ran off with that incredible speed of hers. Dimi watched the girl run and when she was out of sight she instantly turned to Rissandrea. "You....you..." Rissandrea smiled at Dimi. "Go on, let your anger out, I won't stop you or reprimand you, you probably think I deserve to get what you wan't comming at me." "I...was THIS close to slapping you right there..." Rissandrea laughed out hard and loud for maybe 20 seconds before she stopped. "Im sorry Dimi, but it was necessary, you complained you had lost powers, I hope you now see that you have gained an equeal amount." "Yes...but was it necessary to do THIS against me?" "Yes! you refused to acknowledge your new holy powers Dimi, and I could not let you despari in a fear that was completely unecesary!" "I dont know wether to laugh cry or simply give you a hug..." "Haha, give me a hug and laugh then! its the best option in my oppinion!"
And Dimi did, although it was not too much laugh, but she was still thankfull, thankfull about what Rissandrea had done, thankfull about making her aware of the powers she now had, and whoever that little girl was, but Dimi did not care now, nothing mattered, she just wanted to sleep, it had been a long night!
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:49:30 GMT -5
Chapter 18.
Dimi yawned loudly as she rubbed her eyes and sat upright in her bed, Sunlight was streaming in the room as more and more confederates woke up. "Morning everyo*yawn*one" The room giggled and laughed, thypical Khalan to start the day like that.
Dimi set up her dressing room around her bed and changed into her civilian clothes, consisting of a blue shirt and a blue skirt reaching her to her ancles.
As Dimi removed her dressing room she almost imediately fell to her knees, kneeling for Lady Rissandrea as she stood up from her bed. Rissandrea smiled. "Oh give me a break Dimi, if you are going to behave like that at the tavern tonight I will get you thrown out!" The others laughed, Dimi blushed and stood upright again, "Dont be so strict on her Rissy, she does what she thinks is appropriate, you should rather be encouraging her!" Khalan stood in the window, ready to jump down. "About ,appropriate behaviour, you could have something to learn from Dimi, you dont even stay long enough with us to eat breakfast!" Khalan grinned and jumped.
Dimi sat on her bed for a long time afterwards, She thought, and Rissy seemed to notice, then she remained after the others had gone down to eat. So what is it now then? Dimi looked at rissandrea for some seconds before answering. "I am a bit worried about Dreamy.." "Revenant? how so?" "Well...a couple of days ago I devided we should make up for the last weeks, you get the idea, but he said that he needed to aid the armies in stopping the horde...I know its a bit...i dont know...maybe stupid to worrie about this just after one such reply but..." "Don't worry Dimi, he will be back with you, at the latest to wednesday." "Why wednesday?" "That is when your acomplishments get updated into the effort registry, he might gain a rank or two. That is when he will be returning!" "If you say so..." Dimi was not completely convinced, maybe she had experienced this too often to not worrie but there was no need to take the sorrows on beforehand, she walked down with Rissy, ate some breakfast and went to the stormwind park.
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:50:03 GMT -5
Chapter 19.
It was a nice evening at the broken blade last night, although the next happenings where NOTHING i will ever call pleasant, we got orders from Khalan and Rissy to journey to the blasted lands to kill a dragon, I do not remember its name then the next happenings were slightly more of a trouble We came to a portal, a portal made by Nerzhul and the burning crusade, a huge portal of magic, a gateway to another world.
As we approached it more and more of us seemed to started to follow orders from something else then Rissy and Khalan. It did not take long before people simply started to walk towards the gate as if it was the most normal thing to do in the world, especially Spen, one of our night elven priests, got especially far, so far that the demons charged her, she would have had no chance of survival, had the demons attacked her at all, she yelled at them and they let her past, we others were almost killed as we tried to get her back, we were pushed back multipple times by the demons guarding the gate, and as we finally managed to kill the last demons, we found our priest, and some more of the Night elves, and a couple of the other races we had there in distress, as I had already found out, the spell trying to force people with a mind of their own, had taken control of them, it seemed the night elves were particulary vulnerable against it, especially poor Spen who yelled out that she heard the voice of elune guiding her, it was trying to force her to stay on the other side of the portal, after we had managed to get the others out of the missery, Spen was still holding back, almost killing herself, then "Elune wants blood" I almost wanted to puke as I heard her, I had personally spent years among the Kaldorei in Kalimdor, and i knew how much theylove their Godess! I tried to convince her for 30 minutes before she finally started to believe in my voice. I tried to make her remember what she had learned as she was still a child, I tried to make her remember her youth, the years she had learned about Elune, and finally, after alot of yelling, screaming, and the death of Quichia, one of our night elven rogue's, she finally pulled herself together.
She raised her hands and struggled to keep the spell going, this was her final fight against the will of a spell in her mind, she ressurected Quichia, and although she was finally free and Quichia was now alive, she was still ashamed, she thought it should not have happened to her. The other elves thought the same it seems, then even though everything was good, she had still caused the death of a fellow elf, she was ordered to stormwind, for hwat purpose I dont know, I just hope they dont do anything to her...
I pray for Spen, and I pray we will never have anything with that cursed portal to do again, I pray this wont happen again, to anyone!
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:52:12 GMT -5
Chapter 20.
I returned to my position as a Sworn shield of the triumvirate yesterday, I was happy to see everyone fine and sound and going onwards, even though there was a couple of faces I had not seen and another couple I did not see.
I had not been back to active duty for more then an hour before I recieved orders to venture into the core and help keeping the troops alive, It seems whoever is controlling the forces down i the core has some extreme powers and resources, each time we are back the forces are either back to normal or even more of them have arrived, I can only guess what kind of man or creature it is who has the control down there, he is either an extremely powerfull magician or an extremely wealthy man, or both. I suppose we will find out when we get that far. All in all it seems we will have to take out the whole place in one strike if we ever wish to rid ourselves of the threat of the molten core.
After we were done, I walked to the common's place in Ironforge, I thought I maybe could find Spen there, and sure enough, after a little waiting I spotted her, I talked a little too her and took her with me to the inn, I gave her something to eat and drink, it was pretty obvious she had not eaten in a very long time, she was pale (more then usual) and obviously exhausted, probably because she had not eaten in the latest day, I wonder how she managed to stay on her feet in the core. I let her eat and drink, It did not take long before she shared her feelings with me, I tried to talk her into believing that its a part of the past, I told her she should not worrie about it anymore, after all, the portal tricked many of us, though it seems the night elves were perticular exposed to the magic, after a while she once again listened to my words. After that i started to massage her shoulders and face, I think she will be fine now, She seemed much more like herself after I left her. I hope she did as I asked her, go to bed while she still felt well, She hopefully had a calm night this time!
After I left Spen at the inn I went to bed myself, Ah its GREAT to be back!
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:55:34 GMT -5
Chapter 21.
I have taken a small vacation from the confederacy, I did not understand how tired I was untill I laid myself down under the sun on the beach of Tanaris, the few days I was there did wonders to me, I feel almost reborn, no problems whatsoever, except a turtle who kept comming back wanting a piece of my salad I made myself as a lunch the days I was on the beach, As I finally thought I had gotten him to swim out on the sea, he came back and stomped my salad, I did not notice until It was time for lunch, my salad was a footprint, I laughed at the turtle glaring at me, he then went off, and he did not come back.
The day I was to return to Stormwind and Ironforge was a bit more troublesome, on my way back to Gadgetzan I was trailed by a couple of undead, they seemed persistant in their task to ruin the end of my vacation, somehow I managed to get to Gadgetzan before they could get within weapon or spell range. The flight to theramore was nothing but beautiful, a sunset of the rare kind, the clouds coloured in orange red and yellow with the sun halfways above the water in the horizon. I was really sad about that I was unable to save the picture, it was truely a sight to behold.
As I arrived at Theramore I saw a couple of the confederacy, making themselves ready to strike against Onyxia the dragon, luckily for me, I was not done with my vacation untill I once again entered the confederacy halls in stormwind or Ironforge, so even though Khalan wanted me along I said no.
After ariving in Ironforge I imediately changed from the thick packed flight clothes to my ordinary freetime robe, consisting of a blue skirt and shirt, I met Gazriel while being there as well, we talked a little, Even though she of some reason is not longer a part of The confederacy, I still see her and Talima as friends. After I had said goodbye to a curiously "friendly Gazriel I took the tram home to stormwind.
It had become dark before I was back, I walked into the chambers and recieved quite a nice welcome back from Helgrim, Lady Rissandrea and Dara, we spoke a little about how my vacation had been, where I had been and how it was to come back. After the pleasantries, we spoke about our latest concerns, Onyxia, what are we to do about her, what we were doing thus far and such, Lady Rissandrea told me that we were currently mass producing a neclace wich seemed to work quite well against Onyxia's magical defenses, many of the rogues in the confederacy had already been able to walk in and out in her fortress while having their neclaces either around their neck or in their backpack and leave with all limbs intact, wich had been considered VERY hard to do before.
After lady Rissandrea had filled me in with the details I recieved some written notes about what I should do to make one of these neclaces myself, it involved visiting the blue dragonflight in Winterspring, after I did so I found out that they wanted their cave in peace but to get to their "emissary" I had to walk through the whole thing...weird way of showing us support in my oppinion...anyways, I got pretty beaten upp walking through the cave, the dragons even used their jaws against me, I simply kept running, trying to avoid them as much as just possible, I finally entered the last part of the tunnel, I was bleeding a little, and my clothes were ripped apart from place to place, but I had managed to come this far so I would not stop! I knew there should be some kind of seal on the ground, so I ran as fast as I could to what looked like a blue glow on the ground, the dragons noticed me the moment I left my hiding spot, they roared and breathed with their icy breaths against me, I made it just before what seemed like an lavine hit me. The world changed its shape, and I noticed that I was on a mountain on top of winterspring.
The blood elf appeared out of nowhere, she stood in blue clothes and it seemed she had been waiting for me. "Ah, Dimi I presume? you bear the tabard of the confederacy wich we have promised to help against the black dragonflight, I had expected you a bit later...but now I won't waste time." Dimi was not quite sure how to answer that, she did as she always did, a deep bow and greeted the strange elf. "Greetings blood elf, I had not expected to meet one of you at this time." "I am no ordinary Blood elf little Dimi, I am one of the blue dragonflight, in a different shape." Dimi took a closer look at the elf, she could not see anything proving her to be a dragon.
My talk with the dragon was not as long as I had expected it to be, I had gotten my orders and was sendt away, I joined the confederacy forces and together we took down the highest ranked black dragonkin in Upper blackrock spire, We all took each our amount of blood and returned to the blue dragon, once she had made our neclaces done she wished us luck, and the gods should know that we were to need it.
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Post by dimii on Mar 27, 2007 2:57:00 GMT -5
Chapter 22.
Our attack against onyxia lasted long, WAY too long, we were beaten back multiple times and when we finally down her, we counted the losses, alot of soldiers from the alliance had been killed beyond ressurection, their bodies scared and burned so badly that not even the ressurective magic of the priests could do anything about it. It was with sadness in our hearts we leaved Onyxia's lair and ventured home, we had nullified the threat off the black dragonflight...but to what cost?
I walked odwn the hallway in Ironforge, I had just gotten back from Alterac Valley, not before I had set my foot outside the entrance to the battlemasters before a young Night elven girl stood before me, Ofcourse i could not assume her age but she seemed very familiar... And although I never remembered her properly, she told me about a case I found very familiar, a young Night elven girl, sick of some kind of disease the undead had infected her with, and I had helped her father gather different medicines wich should work against her illness, and after a lot of fear, excitement, and tears, she was finally free of the illness that had assaulted her. I sadly had to go before the girl could thank me in person, but she did now, and she gave me a robe the druids usually get once they start their study of the wild and nature, I looked down at it, and as soon as I looked up again, the girl was gone, I looked around myself but no young Night elven girl anywhere.
I tested the robe, it was if it had been made for me, I fitted perfectly in it and ofcourse, it was night elven design, the breasts pretty much exposed and it made me think more of a sleeping robe then something I would wear in full daylight.
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