Checkered Promethius

[jayjaycaps]

Jason noticed Fayn's look at him, and while still chewing, turned to her with an expression of What? What's wrong?, clearly not seeing what she is disgusted by.

Jason swallowed his meal, and tried to catch Civen. When he failed, he gently shook her, trying to wake her.

[wolf_demon]

Galvi looks at the two females and continues to chew on the orb, before taking another orb and placing it near his mouth, before looking at Fayn and snoring "Stop acting like everything is a fairy tales. This is fucking real life shit goes bad sometime. Do you really thing that none of those heroes in the story never had bad luck." He told shouts at Fayn and Civ, before taking the orb in his hand and attempting to shove it into Fyan mouth "Stop acting like an idiot, we are doing this till we can reverse the process and our cleric say they aren't souls."

[Icaelus]

"C-Civen.."
Fayn offered a weak smile as Civen walked over and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. The touch was cold even through her armor, but it was still comforting nonetheless. At least Civen was still holding on to her ideals..
Then she tipped forward and crashed facefirst into the dirt, seeming unconscious.
Fayn's crimson eyes widened, reaching out to try wake Civen.
"Civen. Civen? Wake up. Please.
She looked up as Galvi and Jason approached them, Jason still chewing on the remnants of his meal. What did the orb taste like..? It must have tasted good..and this hunger was increasing by the minutes..
Fayn shook her head once, trying to regain her senses as Galvi starting shouting at them. He was right to some extent. Life wasn't a damn fairy tale.
He went too far when he tried to forcefeed her that orb, though..
The golden orb was pushed in Fayn's face. The temptation to take just one bite was overwhelming..
"No!"
Fayn growled, pushing the orb away from her.
She was almost the exact opposite of what she had wanted to be, a knight.
Now? She was just another of those Nebulos and she was damn well not going to take the final step in becoming one.
"They may not be souls, but we murdered them! Human guards! Are we even still human?!"
Fayn yelled, her crimson eyes seeming to flare bright with anger. A shadowy hand gripped her sword, ready to draw on Galvi.

[Taria]

Ameilee places a hand on Fayn's shoulder as she gets in the way of Galvi's attempts at forcefeeding. "You are only human so long as you retain who you are. You must accept these deaths here, or risk causing many more later." She holds out an orb offeringly as she calmy consumes one herself with a meek suckling.

[Icaelus]

Fayn's grip tightened on the sword, nearly drawing it as a cold hand rested on her shoulder. Ameilee.
The priestess tried to reason with her..but the logic seemed warped for some reason. They just murdered a bunch of human guards and harvested..whatever those orbs were from them. And she was expected to eat that thing?
"You too, then?"
Fayn stepped out of Ameilee's reach, shaking her head.
"Those guards there died for no good reason. Human, like we used to be. We need to eat those orbs and they only can be harvested from dead humans. And then we get hungry again. THEN WHAT?!"
She screamed the last two words in frustration, her crimson eyes burning in the dark.

[wolf_demon]

Galvi tilts his head to the side, before looking at Fayn "Okay, how about this my dear. If you don't do you could go crazy and attack people indiscriminately. Woman, children, and man like these guards." Galvi told her, before cracking his neck lightly "Unless you want to end it right here," He pulls out his bow and arrow aiming it at her "Or you could endure for now, you never know if there a cure out there if you don't look for it. What purpose would your death, or going insane serve." His eyes looking coldly at Fayn coming from a town were survive of the fitness was ruled "Look me in the eye and tell me you can't see the logic here. Survive for now, try to find away back to normal and if we do think of all those that turn that souls could be saved.

[Reaver]

Reaver moves in the way of the bow while pointing his axe at Galvi. he stares him down while softly talking "Cut the shit. RIGHT now. But the damn bow down and leave them alone. It is their chose weither they eat the orbs or not and if you can't respect that then respect my axes going through your damn thick skull." he starts talking even slower to make sure his point gets across because he will not be repeating. "That is THEIR CHOICE and you do NOT control them, also cant you see how scared they are? We were just turned into the monsters we are sworn to fight and now we have to feed like them, killing humans." He holds up the orb in one hand eyeing it before swallowing it. Then he crouches next to the girls whispering lightly "I knowyou don't want to do this but we all need you guys to be strong and sane, and i know this seems wrong but the sky is always darkest before the light and we will find a cure so hang in there." He then gets up glaring at Jason and Galvi "IF you threaten anyone on this team again, I will give you no warning and i will strike you down where you stand."

[Icaelus]

Fayn glared at Galvi, her crimson eyes widening in surprise as he drew an arrow, aiming right at her.
The glowing red eyes narrowed in anger and her hand moved to draw her blade.
"Is this how it ends, then? You better pray you damn well kill me on the first shot."
She growled, her blade gleaming red in the glow of her eyes as she started forward Galvi.
The chance to get shot never came as a black muscled form known only as Reaver stepped in between them to break it up.
Fayn stepped back as the fight ended about as quickly as it had started. All talk, no walk..
She watched Reaver palm an orb before swallowing it whole. Galvi did make sense, still. Survive, find a cure. The entire war could be turned by saving other Nebulos that had turned..
What was one girl's honor had to do with it?
Fayn sighed, sheathing her blade.
"Thank you, Reaver. I was out of line too.."
She cast a glance at the golden orbs in Ameilee's arms, shaking her head.
"I'm not eating the orb. Call me stubborn, but let's..just go along with me as an experiment..Will the hunger fade? Would I eventually go insane? These are unanswered questions that I'm bloody not going to trust the words of a lunatic on. We'll find out soon enough."
Fayn grinned wickedly at Reaver before walking on. No time to waste.
"Oh, uh. Can someone pick up Civen and let's get a move along before they come back?"

[Reaver]

Reaver nods at Fayn "I got her, all this shit is probably too much for her, and almost too much for me too." He bends down sheathing one of his axes before hoisting Civen over one of his shoulders easily carrying her with one hand on her butt keep her steady just in-case she thrashes when she wakes up. Reaver picks up Civen's weapons hooking them on his belt so that she can use them later and he barely notices the weight. He starts to follow Fayn out of the area "Come on guys we need to go before the guards come with more people."

[jayjaycaps]

Jason noticed Reaver's hand on Civen ass, and shook his head. Any chance he can get, I guess. Even if she is passed out.

[Taria]

Fayn and Civen have almost no vitality. Civen had lost the ability to walk a while ago and remains on Reaver's shoulder, looking very much like a dehydrated fruit. Fayn, while still able to move properly, finds herself constantly in a nervous state, her eyes dart left and right as every tiny movement seem to exagerate itself in her peripheavision. An eerie black mist seeps from her disguise, making her hardly unnoticeable. Ameilee seems to be losing strength as well, nodding off here and there as they approach the city on the horizon. She clutches the last orb securely to her person.

[wolf_demon]

Galvi smile looking at Fayn "I've done what I came to do and that was to get your fighting spirit back." He lows his bow, before looking at Reaver "Shut up idiot, I did nothing of the sort. Someone who has lost the will to fight and continue only goes looking for death." He snorts at him, before smiling slyly at him "Oh, by the way like those guards I'm not impressed by the title you have there. All you royal and upper class folks are the same dirty to the core. Headstrong and reckless like jumping into a fight just to kill the thing you where talking to. We could have asked him how he sense us, so we can find the other easy, but no you had to kill him out of anger and spit. Really, I don't know what crawl up your ass and die bud. You really need to cool off." He tilts his head to the side, before putting away his bow away "Oh excuse me prince, I am guess you are not used to people talking to you this way. Stop acting like a knight in shining armor because you are not." He turns to Fayn keeping one eye on the so called 'Prince' "You are stronger then you let on. My dear, you need to stop mopping around like the rest of us. We been dealt a shitty hand and we will have to live with it and move on. We can't be stuck not moving forward, or we will die. There more then one way to die, if you lose you purpose what you want to do or be in this live isn't that like saying you are live, but dead?"

[napsii]

Civen's head rolled about groggily. She awoke with a splitting headache a while after they had begun moving, and found herself bobbing up and down with each of...Reaver's footsteps? She looked around and found that she was indeed hanging off his shoulder, and she flew to attention near immediately despite finding that her lower body simply wouldn't respond to her commands. While there was no response there, she was quite aware of a certain hand being placed on her ass and she pounded feebly on Reaver's back once to get his attention, finding her current position uncomfortable.

"Oh, uh...please don't carry me like that..." she said weakly, just about starving. Her ears tuned into the sounds of some weird argument taking place. Galvi was yelling at Reaver or something...she didn't really care.

[jayjaycaps]

Knowing what argument would come next, Jason quickly walked up to Reaver, ready to pass off Civen. Reaver would undoubtedly start yelling at Glavi, and Jason didn't want innocents in the way. Jason outstretched his arms, motioning for Reaver to pass Civen to him.

[Reaver]

Reaver almost dumps Civen body in Jason's hands, He stares at Galvi coldly "You know nothing of me, why I am not at Reach. You think I try to be a knight in shining fucking armor?" Reaver spits at the ground in contempt "MY WHOLE FAMILY WAS KILLED IN FRONT OF ME!! You think im some pompus high-class asshole? BITCH I've been running from the ruling family of the Reach for years, just because they couldn't accept me as their daughter, the Princess could. I don't even get to see my child, i don't even know if it's a he or a she." He walks up closer to Galvi with a sneer "I can just tell that you've had a similar experience, the only difference was I did all I could and i failed nobody, while you failed everybody. I am no knight in shining armor, I am the black knight bringing pain and vengence everywhere that deserves it and if you talk to me like that again i will split your face like a log right down the middle." He unsheaths both off his axes holding them at his sides, he whispers so only Galvi can hear him "Just say one more word and make my day."

[napsii]

Civen grunts and winces weakly as she's roughly handled by Reaver and Jason, her head lolling back out of exhaustion as she was deposited crudely into Jason's arms. Unsurprisingly, they had felt far more comforting than Reaver's almost immediately. Maybe it's because of all the anger...she turns her head away into Jason's chest to avoid looking at the nightmare of a battle to be.

"Shouldn't...fight among ourselves..." she mumbled, resting her head against Jason's chest, all of a sudden feeling very embarrassed at where she found herself. Fortunately her blush was mostly covered up by her tilting her head down.

[wolf_demon]

Galvi didn't even flick "Oh, so that it." He laughs, he probed deeper into his mind then he was planning to and now he could see the character of this man without even needing to do much at all "A few words set you off eh?" Galvi moves back away from him "So, destroying everything in your path how very Nebulos of you." He smiles at him with a cocky look on his face "So, go ahead show them all how much of a beast you are going off at anything that invades your space. Go ahead and show them all." "Thanks for all that info, to bad your a little off on what you think about me, but that's okay. All you know is fighting killing everything in your path that you can. You are like a wild fire that can't be controlled. Slaughtering all in your path. Guards and things that don't even bother you." He points to the old man he killed without a second thought of what he was doing "Yes, I've failed, so have you, we all failed at something in our lives, or is not seeing your child not a failure." He posed that to him, before walking to the side getting out his face "You are to easy to read your anger is your weakness and it will get you killed one of these days or was it a lie earlier to about your mistakes costing people there lives." Knowing he couldn't take him in a contest of strength, he would have to be much faster if he tried something "I've say what I've got to say and frankly I don't care about this topic anymore. Let us get moving."

[Reaver]

Reaver chuckles "I'm easy to read? You are so much easier. Let me guess you had a hard life, butttt you made a friend that eventually became your whole life until the super sad day when she was taken and there was nothing you could do about it, so you go to get her bad but wait.....You were too fucking late and she was dead. You hide behind your damn words and logic because you don't have enough strength to face the world. But you are done with that. because you will be facing me." Reaver shuts his helm hiding his face and starts walking towards Galvi while twirling his axes making the all familar hum. "Ready your weapon and don't use that damn bow because this armor is made for shit like that"

[Icaelus]

"Try to do it in a way where you wouldn't be at risk of getting stabbed or decapitated, would you?"
Fayn retorted, annoyed.
As time passed, the hunger intensified. She felt extremely nervous..every small movement seemed to enlarge it self. A rustle of a leaf seemed like the entire tree was shaking..a person swinging his arms as he walked seemed to be rearing back and punching forward as he moved.
"Wow. This is..new."
Fayn giggled, hysteria obvious in her nervous tones.
She waved a hand in front of her crimson eyes, watching the black mist seep from her skin. The human form had come back after a while, but it was barely doing her any good now.
Her vision swam before her as a slight gust blew, making all the trees shake slightly. In her case, it was a bloody earthquake.
"Ugh."
She stumbled, bumping into a tree for support. Closing her eyes seemed to help as she waited for the gust to subside.
Galvi's words were more or less wasted on the current Fayn, dizzy and delusional as she was, but it did seem to have a rather comforting tone to it. That helped a little..
Fayn glanced up as a weak female voice spoke. Civen. She had finally woke up..
"Hey.."
She managed a shaky wave, grinning weakly at Civen.
The brief exchange would escalate into a big outburst, her tired mind would vaguely notice as Jason hurried up and took Civen away. Collateral damage, you know?
Her world exploded around her as Reaver began shouting at Galvi. My god, her condition really wasn't helping with all that increased noise too.
Fayn winced, clamping hands over her ears.
"Stop. Please."
Her tone was pleading, a vast difference from the anger boiling within her just a while back.
She stumbled forward, putting herself between Reaver and Galvi to try stop the imminent conflict, placing trembling hands on Reaver's muscled chest and weakly trying to hold him back as he advanced towards Galvi with his axes raised.

[Reaver]

Reaver looks over at Fayn with a reallly really small hint of sadness in his voice "No this shit ends now." He turns back to Galvi while approching "You will learn today why the Reach provides the best soldiers."