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Post by Eric on Nov 12, 2008 8:11:04 GMT 9.5
Luke held up a hand to call for silence and waited for the kids to finish yelling. Then he pointed to Will. "While you two were yelling your friend here has been using his brain." Luke followed the younger boy's gaze to the large pipes on the ceiling. "Good thinking William."
However his attention was distracted briefly by a movement in the shadows near the rim of the reservoir. He thought he saw a figure in black armour, but he wasn't sure cause when he looked at the spot more thoroughly he saw nothing. The great monster began to calm and its wild thrashing became more controlled. Luke muttered a quick prayer as it began to gaze around the room. The warrior wondered if it could actually see despite the appearence of its eyes.
"So we need to think of a way to get those pipes down here. Any ideas?" Luke asked, looking to the boys.
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Post by Treijim on Nov 19, 2008 10:36:35 GMT 9.5
"They're fixed in too tightly and too far away," William said with annoyance.
None of the boys noticed Luke's distraction and were not really paying attention to the monster, though its presence was indeed weighing their minds a lot.
"We could crawl in them and wriggle them loose," Conir suggested, "but we'd probably die... And it would take years to find where they lead."
After more deliberation, the boys had come up with nothing, and everything they thought of only appeared to waste time, though, admittedly, the monster did seem to be calmer now.
"What's it looking at?" William asked. "It just popped up and now it's sitting there being all stupid." He looked at Luke for answers, and for feedback on their unsuccessful brainstorming.
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Post by Eric on Feb 14, 2009 15:27:38 GMT 9.5
"Well now it's gotten used to the place I imagine it's taking a good look around," Luke commented, gazing down at the creature. "I believe it's called a kraken. I'm remembering a story my nurse read to me when I was little and it talked about a big beast called a kraken, but I thought it was just a scary story."
He gazed at the tentacled creature gazing around the new world it found itself. It let out a low growl that echoed around the room and suddenly it's tentacles flew directly towards the hidden boys. Luke pushed them all back and the slimey protrusions missed them by a hair. "I just don't remember if it was beaten at the end of the story." He hacked off the tip of a reaching tentacle with his sword. The creature growled in anger and withdrew its tentacles. Then it waited.
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Post by Treijim on Feb 16, 2009 12:53:33 GMT 9.5
They were now quite frightened. Deeming that it could see then without physically looking at them, they began to retreat back to where they had come from, but they didn't leave the room. William whispered the creature's name under his breath as he carefully peered down below. It seemed invulnerable to anything they could throw at it. They had nothing heavy to throw at it, nothing sharp to pierce its hide, and no way to actually reach it without heading back and finding their way down the network of corridors.
The kraken thrust a tentacle at William peering over the edge and he jumped back. The appendage slammed into the railing, tearing off the metal and stonework.
William smirked. "Perfect."
He ran back across the walkway to the far end, checking once or twice to see if the kraken was paying attention. Then he climbed to the other side of the railing and hung there for a second.
"William!" Jared and Conir cried in unison.
The boy fearlessly jumped out and caught hold of a piece of metal protruding from pipes running up the wall. With impressive dexterity, he began to scale the wall using the warm pipes. Once he reached the ceiling where the large pipes were, he swung round on top and crawled across to the middle. Then he began to yell and wriggle anything loose to toss at the kraken directly beneath him. The monster had to lift itself out of the water slightly to reach William, as there was at least four or five stories between them. It grabbed hold of the pipes and the fortress began to groan in pain as the kraken began to buckle and bend them.
Finally, with a deadly snap, one end of the pipes broke and the other end came free from the wall. The mass of metal and stone tumbled downwards. The kraken saw danger and immediately sunk under the surface, but it was only a split second until the rubble and pipes slammed into the pond, filling the room with steam and spray and noise.
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Post by Eric on Mar 4, 2009 16:44:02 GMT 9.5
"Good job Will!" Luke cried as he crawled out of the damaged pipe. He climbed down a little to get a closer look at what remained of the reservoir. He dared not get too close for he knew to be cautious with such things. If you didn't know your enemy, then don't underestimate them. He kept his sword ready too just in case he'd need it.
Then suddenly in a burst of twisted iron and gallons of water the kraken emerged through a hole it created in the rubble. With a terrifying roar it flailed its tentacles around and grabbed for William with one and attacked Luke with another. The young warrior raised his sword and stabbed it into the tentacle as it came towards him.
The kraken sent in more tentacles as a form of back up, but just as they began to overwhelm their target they stopped. In fact the whole creature froze and stiffened and from its gaping maw it gurgled. Then its whole form darkened and flowed away into some source they hadn't noticed until now. Luke turned his head to see a man in dark armour holding a sword of dark iron in front of him. Luke watched as the last of the shadowy essence of the kraken vanished into the sword and heard the dark warrior let out a deep, rumbling laugh. Then like a ghost he was gone into the shadows.
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Post by Treijim on Mar 7, 2009 9:32:06 GMT 9.5
William climbed deeper into the pipe resting on the rubble and the tentacle did not manage to reach him. He couldn't see what was happening around him. The tentacle withdrew and he felt the rubble shift as the kraken moved and dissolved. Not wanting to sink, he quickly escaped the pipe and leaped across onto the walkway encircling the water. He peered up at Luke and the others descending towards him.
They gathered together.
"Can we get out of here now?" Conir asked, greatly disliking the recent events. They all looked to Luke.
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Post by Eric on Mar 30, 2009 6:18:05 GMT 9.5
"Yes of course Conir, let's get out of here," Luke said leading them towards an exit. As the boys followed him he grinned "I should get my dad to recommend you three for knighthood, especially you William." He led the group through twisting tunnels and passages and there were points where debris caused them to take detours, but Luke had correctly guessed that the reservoir was the center and lowest point of the complex, so all tunnels eventually would lead out.
After perhaps an hour of just plain walking the tunnels began to change back into the dungeons of the ruined castle. "There we are guys, almost out," Luke said assuringly.
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Post by Treijim on Apr 3, 2009 12:50:32 GMT 9.5
William perked up when he heard the mention of knights. While they walked, he pressed Luke with the same questions over and over: "Really?", "Are you serious?", "You're not joking?", and then it would loop. The other boys became irritated but they said nothing. They even commended William on his earlier stunt.
When Luke said they were almost out they all sighed in unison. They were actually glad to see crumbling stone and mossy bricks. At one point, there was even a shaft of daylight visible. Unable to determine how long they had been underground, William was overcome with anxiety.
"Were we underground for the whole night? My parents are gonna kill me! I have to get home!"
The other two boys echoed a similar issue. They turned to Luke.
"Are you going to take us home, Luke?" William asked.
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And so Luke did. It was a long walk out of the forest, as the sun was setting as they emerged and laid eyes on the extensive set of buildings and homes known as Vesht. They passed some farms and a palisade wall and Conir and Jared went off to their own homes.
"Do you wanna meet my family?" William asked Luke, grabbing his hand to lead him there anyway. "You can tell them that you can make me a knight, and that I'll be your squire, or something. Can you? They'll understand." He paused after he turned a corner. "Oh but I'm hungry."
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Post by Eric on Apr 14, 2009 22:34:41 GMT 9.5
"Doesn't seem like you're giving me a choice," Luke quipped with amusement to William's question. He let himself be lead down various streets and at the mention of hunger, Luke found he too was rather hungry. "Yes a meal sounds like a good idea and yes I think you could travel with me if you want, but we'll have to ask your parents."
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Post by Treijim on Apr 27, 2009 16:15:05 GMT 9.5
"Yeah," William grinned and nodded. "Yeah. This way! Come on!"
He continued to drag Luke around the streets, rushing past glowing windows and tall street lamps. They left the paved region and sped down dirt paths, through what seemed like peoples' yards. There was a cluster of houses on the other side of a wide road lined with crates and William pointed at them. One of the homes was tall, two-storied, with a chimney-clad shed attached to the side. At the front door, a tall woman with long, soft hair was smiling.
"William," she said sternly. "You've been gone a very long time..."
There came a thundering from behind her. "William? William's home!" A burly man exploded from the house and wrapped tree-trunks around William's dirty head. Then he released his captive and gripped the boy's shoulders with bunches of bananas. "Where were you? Where in Riiga where you? You can't just vanish! It's a stupid thing to do!"
William, to say the least, seemed shocked. It began to sink in just how long he had been gone, and how much his parents were hurt.
"And... who is this?" the woman asked, nodding at Luke.
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