"Asaki. So this is what they did to you. They warped your mind. Well, I may not be able to beat you, and I don't really want to anyway. I can at least hold you here till Soul arrives though."

Kalana powers up and continues walking toward Senshi.

"What the heck? Is it just me or are those stars heading in this direction? Oh S***...i think they are barrage shots. YIKES THEY ARE!!!.'

*When Jharm notices what the "stars" are he dodges out of the way and the shots pund into the ground. Jharm then gets back up and gazes in to the holes and then gazing up at the sky trying to figure out who fired the shots at him.*

Tamrissa draws her sword, her aura springing to life, a suffocating presence to those who get too close to her. A dagger as long as her forearm slips out of her wrist sheath and into her hand. Her usual vicious battle grin forms on her lips and she stalks towards a group of Chaos soldiers.

"Let's kick their chaos-loving asses all the way back to where they came from!" she snarls, slamming into two of the soldiers and slicing them apart before they so much as even scratch her.

A few more soldiers fall to her magick and blades before she runs into one of the Khorne Bezerkers. The bezerker meets all of her attacks with his own weapon, making her grit her teeth together in frustration.

"How do you get rid of these things!?" she calls in the direction of the others.

Shoving her elbow in the bezerker's gut with a slight grunt of pain as she runs into armor, she uses his doubled over moment to call a spell. Her olive eyes flash and her hand goes to the middle of his chest, pushing him backwards. Crackling energy forms around that hand and spreads across his body in a thick glowing wave.

"What's cooking, sweet thing?" she smiles at the surprised look on the bezerker's face as he begins to feel the warmth of her magic.

She slowly pushes him backwards, her aura keeping the other Chaos soldiers away from her. The energy finally envelops him and he begins shaking with the intensity and the excruciating pain of the pure energy she is sending into him.

"Feel good? Let's share with your friends," she lowers her aura and shoves him into a group of bezerkers that have noticed what she is doing. "That's right, let's make this into a dog pile, boys."

More of the Chaos soldiers move in, only to be knocked over by the others who occasioanlly fly back from the sudden shock of the spell. When she finally leaves go of the man, there is a huge pile of soldiers all pulsing with the green energy, which still spreads over them. She watches with a smug smirk on her face as smoke rises from inside their armor and their eyes bug out beneath their helmets. When one of the tritons comes stumbling towards the pile, she looks up in time to see it beginning to tumble. The smirk changes into a wide-eyed stare and she drops to the ground as she leaps out of the way. The triton comes down in a massive explosion and huge shower of sparks. She throws her arms over her head and presses her body to the ground. Two hands grab her and begin dragging her away.

"Get off!!" she struggles and finally pulls herself free, only to fall back to the ground and look up to find Ella standing over her. "What are you doing?? Get down, idiot!"

She reaches out a leg to the side and locks it behind Ella's, knocking her onto her behind. Bolts of gunfire cut through the air where the girl was and Tamma leaps up, firing magick back in the direction of the fire.

"Come on, we need to catch up with the others," she sends a few more volleys of energy and holds out her other hand to Ella. "And thank you."

She mumbles the last, glancing in the direction of where she had been laying before Ella found her. A large piece of the burning triton has taken her place.

"Come on!" she frowns and grabs Ella's hand dragging her along. "And help me out a bit, use that idiotic contraption you have in your hand!"

"I feel so good! This is great!"

*Jihon Jups the pile onto some unsuspecting Chaos Marines...*

"My muscles are great! My cardio vascular is even better! Wow!"

*Jihon sees Tammrissa and Ella hiding from oncomming bullets. He walks over to them slowly dragging his blade on the ground. Several bullets hit his back and the wounds simply heal instantly. Several hit his mask and shatter like glass apon impact. He walks over to them and smiles through his mask....*

"I see you are in a bit of trouble... Perhaps I can assist you in this quite miserable situation... If you need me simply walk behind me."

*Of coarse this is odd of Jihon and something is very wrong with him. This cannot go unnoticed for long. *

{Mean while in the temple....}

Gisias: Oh my head... My chest aches! God... I had a bad nightmare... I dreamed I became Gisias Bed! How stupid of me. *cough cough.... Man I... I cant move... Wait a minute!

*He leans over to look into a pool of water. He cannot see anything untill a large explosion outside sheds some well needed light into his cell...*

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

Veraxmus continues to kill the marines when he sees the stars and jumps out of the way when he realizes they are not stars but, some sort of attack. Dom jumps out of the way also. He stands up and beckons his dragon.

"Veraxmus, enough. Return to your resting place."

The dragon roars then, turns to dust. Dom walks over to Jihon, Ella and Tam.

"Where in the three Umbras have you been?!" she narrows her eyes at him. "I don't need your help...but we do have to get to the others."

She gestures to Ella.

"Get behind him, you don't have a shield," she looks at Jihon. "Anything happens to her, you die! Let's go!"

She waits for him to start moving, standing beside him in hopes that they both can act as a shield for Ella.

~A sweet little woman...whose bark is getting worse than her bite.~

"Well, she's gone. Probably waiting for Master Reaver."

Kalana turns and regards Fei.

"Hello Fei. Nice to see you again. How did you guys get past the shield anyway?"

"I'm sure Fei will explain while we walk. We have to try and locate the shield emmitter before the others get here."

cLuTcHFieND stops walking and looks at Fei.

"You are coming with us, right? Or did you have something else in mind?"

((OOC: Sorri Asaki. I thought you were going for the instant death thing. I'll think a little more before I speak next time! ))

"Hey Cameron. I'm sensing something very strange. I'm picking up Jihon's presence four levels above us!"

cLuTcHFieND knows Kalana can feel something. He knows about her psycic powers, and she usually isn't wrong.

"We'll look for him, but we have to be careful. It might be another trap."

cLuTcHFieND turns back to Fei and waits for an answer.

Dom reaches the trio.

"Hi, need any help. The enemy are gone. Lets go talk to Soul. He will know what to do.:

Dom turns and heads toward Soul Reaver.

(ooc: Hey Soul, I'm playing "Soul Reaver," the game right now.

Soul Reaver sees Dom approaching from the smoking remains of the battlefield.

"Our next move is simple. We head for the temple, ambush a squad of Thousand Sons Marines, and take the sigils on their shoulder-pads. Then we enter the temple, and assassinate the Chaos Lords."

Soul Reaver runs off towards the temple, the other following behind.

Eventually, the warriors climb the last ridge, and see before them the Temple. Sheathed in a scintillating, bluish barrier, the black edifice lurks, waiting for its prey.

A squad of marines in ornate armour can be seen patrolling the perimeter. The warriors lie down on the ground, keeping close watch on the Thousand Sons. They get ready to spring out...

And then, the world is engulfed in whirling chaos. Thousand Sons marines leap out of hidden holes in the ground, Bolters blazing, weilding crackling Power Swords in their hands.

"AMBUSH! They were expecting us!"

Soul Reaver whirls around, but the quick flurry of battle seperates him from his companions... a calculated move on the part of the Thousand Sons. He notices a stately figure, dressed in flowing battle robe, directing the Thousand Sons. It is a Chaos Sorcerer.

Several Thousand Sons marines grab his arms with unearthly strenghth... only to be lifted off their feet and slammed into the ground. Blooddrinker is pulled from its scabbard with a metallic 'shwing'. The sword crashes down on the Thousand Sons, cracking their formidable armour with a single blow. The second strike smashes through it entirely.

Then, three loud gunshots ring out over the battlefield... and three massive shells punch into Soul Reaver's right leg. He collapses to his knee, but as the Thousand Sons close in, the continues to fight with a mad fury, sweeping them aside like rag dolls. Twin Darkbolt spells are fired off in the directon of the sniper positions... an explosion and agonized screams indicate Soul Reaver has hit his targets.

With a rapid hissing, the Thousand Sons begin to fire underarm-mounted flechette guns. The sharp darts fly through the air and towards Soul Reaver. Most bounce harmlessly off his armour, but several strike him in the arm and neck. A paralyzing poison spreads through him... yet still he rages! A helm shatters to the left, and another to the right, even as the venom pulses hotly in Soul Reaver's veins.

Blooddrinker! There are too many of them! You know what to do!

Of course...

Before Soul Reaver can continue, the butt of a rifle strikes him in the back of the head, and agonizing stars whirl in his vision. He cleaves the leg off his attacker, but other Thousand Sons marines now join in, surrounding the warrior, clubbing downwards again and again.

Soul Reaver finally succumbs to the rain of blows, and darkness consumes his vision... the last thing he sees is the Chaos Sorcerer reaching out to him with a clawed hand... closing over his wrist... and then... nothing.

--To fight is to live... and my battle is eternal--

Soul Reaver's eyes slowly open again. Cold steel rasps against his wrists. His head throbs with pain.

He looks around. He seems to be in some sort of torture chamber - he has been brought into the Temple by his captors. Steel manacles around his wrists and feet are bolted to an upright hardwood frame.

He sees that he is inside a flickering sphere of power... and the empty feeling inside him reveals that this is in a Null Field, an antimagical barrier that cancels his own magic.

Soul Reaver sees his Black Steel armour in the corner, lying on a table. He himself has been stripped down almost naked, his flesh bruised from the battle against the Thousand Sons.

He realises that he cannot feel Blooddrinker's presence. The blade had been taken away from him.

A misshapen follower of chaos stands near a group of cruel-looking tools in the corner... clearly, he is a torturer. The Chaos Sorcerer from the battle stands by the doorway at the other end of the room.

"Awake so soon? Well, you will not have to wait long. Ferdan here will have to wait with entertaining you until after your visitor arrives. There is someone who would like to speak with you. Perhaps I shall see you later... once you've seen foolishness of your cause..."

With that, he walks through the door, and closes it behind him.

Soul Reaver is left in the darkend room with Ferdan the torturer, with only a flaming brazier to offer a foreboding light...

*Sabre Soldier slides around a corner into the darkness, past the red glowing door. After going around a rounded corrodor, he see’s several Thousand Son Guards. He creeps up on them in Tenebrous form. They turn around, feeling an eerie presence, but cannot make it out, until they see several large black darts made from the shadows on the wall. They let out a roar in pain, as the spikes pierce their armor, into their bodies. The spikes then remove themselves, leaving the marines turn to nothing. Sabre Soldier then finds a red Charm on the ground with a matching symbol as the one on the door. Sabre Soldier picks up the charm, and changes quickly back into a shadow, where he goes back to the door, and places the charm into a socket on the door. The door releases, and opens vertically. Sabre Soldier steps in, and the door closes behind him. Inside, there is a bright green pulsing light from the center. It’s a very large round room, the size of a small arena. Sabre Soldier walks down the steps towards the middle to find a man lying within the green light. Sabre Soldier smirks at the man, who lies sleeping.*

Fei: So you must be the ventrue that is deceiving the Chaos. Heh. Well, wake up now…To meet your end.

Dragon: Umm..I don’t know Fei. This guy is radiating a lot of power. A variation of what you let off.

*The antediluvian picks himself up, and stands still infront of Sabre Soldier. He has blonde spikey hair. He has a pair of shades, and is dressed in a black suit. He is also very handsome. He’s tall and thin, and isn’t all that large. About 6’1” and 165 LB’s. He smiles at Sabre Soldier, slightly, the same smirk that Sabre Soldier uses. He then approaches slowly, a faint blue glow forms around him. Sabre Soldier, as well, glows a faint blue, and stands waiting.*

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