Of Anegls and Demons [FANTASY/CLOSED/SEE OOC]

[Orinon]

Falling. The last thing an Angel feels. That what they say. The Old Ones. Those who were here before the Humans came. Before the Demons rose. Before the Cities were built. When Angels did fall. That was over 10000 years ago. No Angel has fallen in 10000 years....

"Wonder if they would like what they found,"said Joshua Cloudao, crouched on top of his small house, his clothes flapping in the wind. His wings, black as night, stretched out behind him, feathers catching the wind. Joshua felt an urge to snap out his wings, let the wing lift him, carry him to the stars. His eyes looked to the rising sun, watching the sun rise up over the brown and yellow Wasteland, its light shining across the empty land. He looked to his left, watched the sun's light reflect off the low buildings of the Human City, built along a river. Sighing, he stood up and jumped forward, landing lightly on the extended bedroom deck. Flapping his wings to straighten his feathers, he walked in and started to ready for the day...

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Demon. What defines that word? Claws? Poison? Wings of a bat? No. What defines a Demon is the way they live, not the way they be. If only we knew that this day......

"What we need is to stop infighting!" shouted Inferi, his blood red pupils wide in anger.
"We are killing our own kin, our brothers! All because of petty things!"
This cry drew a loud screech from the crowd gathered in the meeting room, the room hazy with smoke.
"After Oyrter's murder, I am the only one left who truly remembers what it means to be a Demon! And as the eldest Demon, I hereby take control of the Demon Family!"
This cry draw protests and crys from the crowd, which was silenced a moment later by an inhuman roar from Inferi, his bat wings now extended out to his sides and his claws extended and dripping poison.
"Who here dares to challenge me?! You know the Unwritten Laws! I am the only one who can head us!"
This again drew crys of protest from the crowd. And thus the meeting of Demons continued as such, as the sun rose in the sky...

OOC: OOC Thread Post in the OOC first before posting!!

[Great Imperium Romanum]

Abaddon sat in the back corner of the meeting room alongside a number of his aquaintences, his red eyes narrowed into slits, his wings with their purplish hue folded behind him as he leant against a small table whilst on his stool; he stole a glance at his companions also sitting at the table, Khaos, Malick and Lilith; they too returned his glace, Malick rolled his eyes.

Fighting, squalor and suffering, that apparently was the demon way, a way of life that had been emulated and maintained by their self ordained leaders; and it seemed that Inferi would be no different. Using moreviolence and aggressiveness to bring the others aggressive streaks down, he would fail like all the others, probably murdered like Oyrter. The old demons, they thought they knew all, Abaddon and his companions were "new age" demons, ones that had been easily swayed when the "ancients" had revolted against heaven and been cast down; they regretted their situation, but not their original motives. But the elders like Inferi didn't understand that... they were so wrapped up in their bitterness and hate they could never see what little light shined upon them. Oyrter's death had been yet more proof that their current way of living was not working; they needed to change.

[Ledarre]

" No one understands me." Lysannder Belephron mused to himself, whilst breaking open another chicken egg and sucking out the yoke. Usually the half-demon would have avioded civilization but he had come across a chicken coup over night and the temptation of proper food rather than some rotting carcass seemed to have blinded him to danger. " No one understands what it's like to spend year without talking to another person.... years sleeping in a muddy pit and scratching your meals from the forest floor" Lysannder continued. By now the sun had risen and the noise from the chickens had alerted some of the peasantry, hearing the cries from outside Lysannder finally realised he had to get out, now but it was too late the peasants had him surrounded, soon enough he was being dragged into the village center and tied to a stake. All the while the peasants were screaming "Burn the demon!".

One woman shouted "Thats him thats the one that ate my son!" Just my luck thought Lysannder someones child goes missing and I get blamed for it, he had never tasted human flesh in his life but he was getting blamed all the same. an inquisitor waited and watched as Lysannder stuggled, a burning torch in the inquisitor's hand, " I condem thee to burn in hell, demon" cried the inquisitor as he began to step towards the pile of logs surrounding the bottom of the stake.

[Liberty Coalition]

Allister Kaine was flying over the wastelands searching for any humans or demons.
"why am i doing this, no ones gonna be out here" he said to himself.
he began heading back to the city .

[Orinon]

"Gods damnit, Have they got another one?" said Joshua, sitting onto of the western gate into the City. He pointed at the rising column of smoke from one of the various small villages the dotted the Wasteland.
"Looks like it. I did the last one,"said Marcus, one of the few people Joshua would talk to.
"Yeah yeah, I'm on it,"said Joshua, standing, unfolding his wings to their full span of 14 feet, then leapt from the guardtower and fell towards the ground, before snapping out his wings and beginning to move them in powerful strokes, pushing him through the air towards the village....

[Ih8uwannakillu]

One woman shouted "Thats him thats the one that ate my son!" Just my luck thought Lysannder someones child goes missing and I get blamed for it, he had never tasted human flesh in his life but he was getting blamed all the same. an inquisitor waited and watched as Lysannder stuggled, a burning torch in the inquisitor's hand, " I condem thee to burn in hell, demon" cried the inquisitor as he began to step towards the pile of logs surrounding the bottom of the stake.

"Do you now?" A voice said from the shadows between two buildings "Thats not very nice," the voice continued, the speaker steping forward with the clop-clop of loafers on cobbles. His face was half cast in shadow, his snout half protruding into the shadow, revealing several gleaming white teeth. The only part of his face that was clearly vissable were his eyes. Pure, electric green ovals with two slits of darkness, as a cats would be.

"And who is it that give you the right to condem us, Human? God? The Angels? HA!" His voice was softer than black velvet, yet it raddiated malice and venom "Small matter. I will kill you all the same." The man leapt forward from the shadows, flaping his wings once to propell him forward, and bodyslamming the inquisiter, arching his neck and biting down hard with his finged jaws onto the mans throght before loosing a beastial roar.

[Ledarre]

The crowd of peasnts began to scatter in all directions after seeing their holy inquisitors death. Many ran screming into there homes and locked the doors. As Lysannder looked into the eyes of the demon in front of him, he began to get a teribble head ache. It was as if a thousand voices were screaming in pain, Lysannder looked away in an attempt to make the pain stop.

There were now only a few people left in the village square, members of the inquisitors entrouge no less. They were of many occupations preist, apothecary and so on, boring civilian jobs such as these. However there was one man who was differnt from the others, he wore a white unifom and plate armour with a horned helm covering his face. He advanced on the newly arrived demon and chuckled to himself " Who's this then" he said to Lysannder whilst keeping his eyes on the demon "One of your friends, does not matter how many demons come to help you... I will kill them all" the paladin approched the demon and rised his sword, which seemed to glow with some sort of holy light and nodded to show that he was ready for combat. It is a paladins job to destory the unholy, he knew how to deal with demons.

[Gracefall]

((OOC: Typo in the title. I'll delete this post when it's fixed.))

[Ih8uwannakillu]

There were now only a few people left in the village square, members of the inquisitors entrouge no less. They were of many occupations preist, apothecary and so on, boring civilian jobs such as these. However there was one man who was differnt from the others, he wore a white unifom and plate armour with a horned helm covering his face. He advanced on the newly arrived demon and chuckled to himself " Who's this then" he said to Lysannder whilst keeping his eyes on the demon "One of your friends, does not matter how many demons come to help you... I will kill them all" the paladin approched the demon and rised his sword, which seemed to glow with some sort of holy light and nodded to show that he was ready for combat. It is a paladins job to destory the unholy, he knew how to deal with demons.

Laughing the laugh of a man who long ago sacrificed his sanity for some terrable ritual, Ajjaran turned to face the paladinm his form altering from his more dragonic form to a human one. Long white hair flowed from his scalp, he grew an extra 5 inches, a scar unziped its self over his eye and a black trench coat formed around his body from scraps of his shadow. The only things that remained of his origional form were his wings, huge bat like things, blacker than night and his terrable, green eyes, which staired intently at the paladin, burrowing down into his very core.

"Brave of you god-boy, but foolish. Test yourself if you wish, but I shall give no quater. As for him..." he gestured at Lysannder "I doubt he's best pleased with your treatment of him." He clicked his fingers as he finished and a pair of large axes apeared in his hands, flames flickering around the edges.
"Bring it" he spat, entering a combat stance.

OOC: the axes: http://www.heavenlyswords.com/images/P/ ... le-axe.jpg

[Ledarre]

At first the paladin was shocked, this demon did not shirk away nor cower in the presence of this holy blade. "Oh well, at least you are going to give me some entertainment before you die! Unlike this one." he said pointing to Lysannder. The paladin reached beneath his white cloth tabard and brought out a necklace with a small pendant engraved with the symbol of the Knights Angelos, a pair of Angels wings. The holy order of the Knights Angelos was set up with the sole perpose of aiding the angels in there destruction of all demon kind. With a prayer on his lips the paladin lunged at Ajjaran.

[Orinon]

"Oh gods, what the hell happened here?" said Josh, circling above the village. Swearing to himself, he folded his wings and dived into the village square, aiming at the demon with the big axes. Just before he hit him, in what would of been a bone crunching impact, Joshua flipped in mid air. Now with his feet towards the ground, he preformed what the guard calls a Raven's Landing. He landed on the demon. Hard. The impact sent them both to the ground, Joshua rolling and jumping away from the demon.

[Ledarre]

The Angelos knight backed away from the conflict, confident that an angel would be able to handle this scum. Lysannder mean while had managed to free himself, however the rope used to tie him to the stake had cut into his wrists and the flames from the fire had badly burnt his right leg. As he began to leave the paladin charged Lysannder, his sword cutting deep into the half- demons gut. As Lysannder stared up at the paladin the pain in his head began to stop and to Lysannder's amazement the paladin was flung through the air and landed heavily on a large rock, the paladin’s spine cracking as he hit it. Lysannder stood in amazement for a moment before the pain of his burnt leg and gut wound overwhelmed him and he collapsed into unconsciousness.

[Great Imperium Romanum]

Abaddon and his fellow demon aquaintences had departed the dingy room where Inferi had gathered an impromputu meeting to essentially declare himself their new leader, they sloshed their way through an ancient alleyway, littered with rubble and debris; a cascade of water flowed down one of the adjacent buildigns walls, Abaddon suspected a broken aqueduct, the city must have been magnificent in it's past.

"So we're back to square one then." Khaos said dryly, his green eyes glowing in the darkness of the alleyway as they walked on, pausing only momentarily to kick aside any rubble in their way.
"If by square one you mean we've got another self proclaimed Lord Of The Asshats then yes that's where we are." Malick grunted in reply.
"Shame," Lilith muttered, her purple eyes burning with an inner fire, her violet tinged black hair flowing behind her as she wept forwards with an air of grace and beauty surprising for a demon, "I was hoping that with Oyrter gone we'd be able to goven ourselves without hassle, maybe even hide from those angels."
"Fallen angels." Abaddon said flatly.
"Well yeah as we've said before, but they're still angels, a dam sight more favourable than we are." Lilith replied.
"Either way," Malick said coming to stop in front of an iron wrought gate leading to a graveyard, "I'm not listenign to any of those "oldies" any more. We're all as corrupt as the other so no point in listening to any of us, i'm surprised we can even trust each other."
"Well... it takes a leap of faith." Khaos said grinning malevolently before shoving Malick into the gateway, he toppled through it landing hard on the flagstones.
"Git." He said rubbing his elbows.
"Come on you whiners, we've got work to do remember." Lilith said kicking them along a gravel pathway.

Together they wandered through the graveyard along a meandering path, heading towards the gutted ruined remains of an old abandoned Cathedral.

[Orinon]

Inferi walked through the alleys of the City, his face a picture of satisfaction. By taking control of the Demon Family, he was a step closer to his ultimate goal: A world without Angels. The thought of it brought a grin to his scarred face.

[Ih8uwannakillu]

"Oh gods, what the hell happened here?" said Josh, circling above the village. Swearing to himself, he folded his wings and dived into the village square, aiming at the demon with the big axes. Just before he hit him, in what would of been a bone crunching impact, Joshua flipped in mid air. Now with his feet towards the ground, he preformed what the guard calls a Raven's Landing. He landed on the demon. Hard. The impact sent them both to the ground, Joshua rolling and jumping away from the demon.

Ajjaran rolled away in the oposite direction to Joshua, leaping up after preforming a fancy but ultimately pointless twist of his body in mid air, landing in an eagle stance with his axes held out diagonaly from his torso
"Ah, the hero of the people comes to their rescue eh? If only they knew why your kind was really here... You've been a bad boy angel and bad boys get punished!" he spat at Joshuas feet and opened his mouth to speak again when the paladin shot between them. Blinking he loooked first at Lysannder, then the paladin and back at Joshua "Well that was unexepcted." he said to no one in particular before charging as Joshua with his axes twirling infront of him in a whirlewind of blades.

[Orinon]

'Oh crap," said Joshua, jumping back to avoid the spinning blades. He had most definitely had not expected the demon to get back up, but now he had Josh was at a disadvantage. Looking down at the ground, Josh saw the paladins sword. Grabbing it with one hand and drawing his own sword, Josh dropped down to a ready position, crouched down like a sprinter with his wings resting gently on the ground.
"Not gonna win this..."he muttered to himself

[Takaram]

Silas grumbled as one of the junior members of the city guard tried to wake him.
"What time is it?" asked Silas. When the guard told him, he rolled back over. He had a long night. "I'm not on duty for another six hours. Wake me then!"
"But sir, we've just heard of several demons attacking a village nearby. One of our own is there already, but he might need help."
Silas growled. "Those demons are going to regret this." He muttered as he climbed out of bed,strapped on his sword, and led two more city guard toward the village.

[Ih8uwannakillu]

A flicker of a smile apeared on Ajjarans lips as Joshua entered his stance, at last a challange after years of killing weakling mortals!

Moving closer to Joshua again he swung downwards with the axe in his right hand, swinging the other axe up so that, if they wern't blocked, the axes would trap Joshua's head in position atleast.

[Ih8uwannakillu]

BUMP

[Orinon]

OOC: Damnit, sorry. busy busy busy for me and the mothers birthdays!

Josh quickly jumped back from the incoming axes, before licking his wrist and throwing the paladins sword straight at the demons chest.

[Takaram]

bump

[Orinon]

OOC: Again, sorry. I just got a 360 last week and have been playing the crap out of Team Fortress 2 on it.

[Takaram]

ooc: bump... again

[Orinon]

OOC: Ok, not my fault this time. go get Ih8t to post.

[Orinon]

OOC: ka-EPIC BUMP!!