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Post by Oz on Feb 13, 2007 5:23:21 GMT 9.5
Trekking up into the freezing cold of the mountains, Weiss and his violent companion Srafel, were now standing before the snow encrusted, Temple Volass.
Weiss looked over it with disappointment, and realisation. He looked down to Srafel, and asked simply enough.
"May I go in with you?"
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Post by Treijim on Feb 13, 2007 5:30:40 GMT 9.5
Srafel turned and glared at Weiss, somewhat accidentally.
"What for? If they're coming here, they're not going to find the way in. We can ward them off from atop the wall easily." He walked to the wall and stared up along it. Though it was quite high, it was known that Srafel was proficient at leaping many times his own height.
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Post by Oz on Feb 13, 2007 5:37:52 GMT 9.5
Weiss looked up at Srafel's wall, then down at the soldier who was likely planning to leap up.
Chuckling as the soldier was going to do just that, Weiss circled his hand in the air, and with a whoosh noise, had propelled himself to the top of the wall using a blisteringly cold snowy pillar.
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Post by Treijim on Feb 13, 2007 7:13:48 GMT 9.5
Srafel jumped up behind and turned to face the calm snowy fields.
"Do you know when they're coming? I don't feel like waiting for too long. If they're going to take their time, I'll sense them before they reach my temple anyway..."
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Post by Oz on Feb 13, 2007 7:27:05 GMT 9.5
Srafel's question was answered for him, by an annoyingly rythmic, yet out of tune chanting. Close to two dozen chanters too.
Ambling along the wall, Weiss could see what looked like a bunch of brigands, but what was indeed a group of temple seperatists. Four of their number carried one of the rabid ape like animals in a sturdy cage.
"So Srafel... which one do you want first?"
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Post by Treijim on Feb 13, 2007 8:00:04 GMT 9.5
Srafel pointed an open palm to them and screwed up his face. A light wrapped around his arm and there was a deafening bang as a bolt of lighting struck the cage, arms of electricity grabbing at the people surrounding it and sending screams into the sky. None were killed, but many were greatly injured and others were utterly shocked. Some looked up at the wall and pointed and yelled something.
"Those ones," Srafel muttered to Weiss. He then turned his attention to the people below, "GET OFF OF MY ISLAND!"
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Post by Oz on Feb 13, 2007 8:02:14 GMT 9.5
Weiss crossed his arms, and bowed his head.
"I'll have the rest..."
With white eyes, the cracking of ice from the temple roof could be heard. Above Weiss, had risen about a dozen Javelins of ice! Poised to strike down, he waited for Srafel to finish negotiations.
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Post by Treijim on Feb 17, 2007 7:58:33 GMT 9.5
The people had began to scurry away in a frantic madness. Srafel let them.
"We need to let some get back to warn others of this place," he said quietly. "If people continue to come here, I will have no mercy on any wandering soul meaning harm." He turned to Weiss and then back around at the stone building there. "This place is dangerous enough as it is..."
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Post by Oz on Feb 17, 2007 23:01:23 GMT 9.5
Dropping his arms, the Javelins shot into the ground in a half intricate fence arrangement.
"Srafel. Do you still think these temples have any real importance in the new world?" Weiss said from atop the wall, his hand on the stone of the building.
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Post by Treijim on Feb 20, 2007 14:48:11 GMT 9.5
"The new world?" Srafel repeated, walking to the edge and leaning on the battlements. "The 'new world' contains only new people. I am not one of them, and I never will be. My duty in life is to protect my home." He looked towards Weiss. "New people are shallow and weak."
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Post by Oz on Feb 25, 2007 8:59:46 GMT 9.5
Weiss looked down at the man with a new admiration.
He was like a lost child. Srafel's knowledge of the heavens was likely near un-paralelled. Yet his mission was now nothing more than a soldier. Nobody wanted to visit the temples anymore, so Srafel was reduced to turning everyone away with cold steel.
"Srafel. Maybe the time of the temples is past?"
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Post by Treijim on Feb 25, 2007 9:04:52 GMT 9.5
Weiss received a cold glare from the young man. Srafel then turned around and walked along the battlements, not so far away that his voice did not reach Weiss. He whispered hoarsely and with a slight shake in his voice, "Never."
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Post by Oz on Mar 2, 2007 7:13:43 GMT 9.5
Close to ten feet apart, Weiss turned to face Srafel with his whole body.
"Srafel. If the temples are seen as nothing but treasure for the taking, then they should be removed. For their own sanctity." Slowly raising an un-wavering hand as the wind picked up, and pointing a solid finger at the Slayer's back. "Surely even you must realise this is the only true way."
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Post by Treijim on Mar 2, 2007 16:01:30 GMT 9.5
Srafel whipped out his thick blade and held it forth, the end hovering just above the temple's stone. He shook his head at Weiss slowly.
"I am not a nobody like you. I have purpose and duty. I have utmost drive. I have a job to do and I do it. I am free because this is my destiny, and as such, I do not oppose it. Insult these sacred grounds again and your blood will stain these stones." He paused and turned his head to his left, looking over the frosty sea beyond the land. "At least give me that much, for our friendship and... for my mother. Your faith is what is truly weakening."
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Post by Oz on Mar 8, 2007 1:45:12 GMT 9.5
Curling the point making finger inwards, making a tiny peak of ice form on Srafel's shoulder as he did so, Weiss turned to look accross the wastes.
"Faith is for those without hope." He muttered in his defense, raising his head to the heavens as a gust of wind lifted him into the freezing night, riding the airborne ice like a board down a river. "And your duty is a failing tradition!" He yelled back down to the Earth, before turning to face a mountainside, contemplating what he could do.
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