The Invasion of Arias Chapter 4: Massacre

[MNMinion]

Vex was trying his best to coax the horses and they moved slowly and with unsure steps. He was about to give up when they stoped for a second and took off past him. Ha! They do like me. But as the horses ran past him he got dragged behind, grinding into the ground he thought maybe they were trying to kill him. Vex spread his wings, still holding the ropes and was lifted into the air by the horses running. Looking behind him he saw a tornado and now understood the reason they ran.

[pendejochy]

OOC: in case you aren't familier with F1 tonados, I've got some info from wikipedia, so you can react accordingly to the tonado in the RP>

Category F1 Wind speed 73–112 mi/h 116–180 km/h Relative frequency 40%
Potential damage Moderate damage. Peels surface off roofs; mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned; moving autos blown off roads.

IC:
*before tornado*
{Looks like clouds are coming, is it going to be raining?}
At first, I thought it was mearly going to lightly rain, but when more cloud came it seemed to be a rainstorm, I never was a weather expert. I backed up slightly, wondering what Bossy Bird is doing as he chants. [Perhaps lighting should be expected...wait it looks like a wind storm! I'd better get out of here!}

*during tornado*
I attempted to run away, but found that I was running in midair, my feet sprinting uselessly below me. I tried to retain a hold of my things but I lost my scythe. {Crud, but I never used that thing much anyway. at least i didn't lose my staff.} Just as I said that, I saw a broken scythe coming right at me. More out of instinct than sence, I raised my left hand up to ddefend myself against the twiling blade. This was useless, of course, as the blade cleanly sliced off my hand and head. I was screaming, but after the decapitaion, a mere gurgling noise emited from my neck.

*after tornado*
[Damn that turkey! It would have been nice to consult the group! And now I have to waste my time putting myself back together. {Good thing I can still walk and have an arm to cast the spell with.} I looked amongst the destruction of rubble for my head and hand. I could still fell them, that helped me find them, but without a head, I was a bit discoornated. I found my head, and used my good arm to keep it steady on my neck. i saw I was near the edge of the village and didn't see anyone who could help. Having eyes really helped find the hand. I put my head down, put my hand in a pocket and returned to keeping my head proped up. I was going to turn to find the others, but I saw a vampire-half. It could walk, but was obviously in no condition to fight. I kept my head lined up with the voice tubes in my neck, to tell him a message. "I see you're still alive *gurgle* There is an army here *gurgle* I'll let you escape, and I'll hold them off *gurgle* if you don't run away, I'll fry you with fire magic*gurgle*" I put my head down in a good seeing position and used my free hand to aim my staff at him to tell him I'm serious.

OOC: You all can still post on what you did before, during, and after the tornado.

[wilysword]

When he saw the tornado forming, Juras instantly knew what was happening. Tornados weren't common on the sea, but they had them inland in some places, and besides, anyone who knew wind magic could feel the abnormal twist to the air.

Though he didn't know why Aquila was doing this, he didn't feel like running from a tornado at the moment. He thought about trying to stop Aquila, but he was no mage, and didn't have the power to stop something that big. Instead, he began spinning his staff opposite the wind, to use as a focus, and managed to negate the wind for a few feet around himself.

Juras yelled to Aiera and Shirin, "You might want to stay near me until this is over. I can keep the wind away, and tornados travel a lot faster than you do."

[pendejochy]

To not get chaught off guard, I charged up my staff to enflame the vampire should he decide to rush at me. {I don't really want to kill the V.H., but if that is what is required, that is what I will do.}

[Ryu Kurai]

As the tornado ripped through the longhouse, killing all the vampire halves inside, except for one, Vargus simply shook his head.

"We cannot defeat the invaders because they... Agh..." He grabbed his head for a moment. "They allready have what they needed from the two cities, so conquering the rest of the continent will be pup's play..." He finished, shaking his head violently afterwards. He looked simpathetically at the longhouse.

Karvan had run out of the way, and made note of Aquilla's movements before the tornado. He noted the strength of the tornado, and cracked a grin. Better to eliminate a threat before they eliminate you? Maybe so. He thought he saw Pende in the high-velocity winds, but he doubted it.

* * *

"Thank you my friend. Trust me, I shall tell all the undead of this great misfortune. May you rest at peace." The pale man limped away from the wreckage, everyone distracted from spotting him by Shirin's shouting.

"YOU NEARLY KILLED THE HORSES BEFORE AND NOW YOU TRY TO SUCK THEM UP WITH A TORNADO! A DAMN TORNADO! YOU DUMBASSES ARE TRYING TO FORCE US TO WALK THERE, AREN'T YOU? I DON'T NEED TO TONE MY THIGHS, SO I AM NOT PLANNING ON IT! YOU GOT THAT?" He shouted, his face turning red as the blood on the floor of the infirmary hut.

[Mintaro]

Aquila looked calmly at Rei with his eagle face. His feathers were ruffling heavily in the wind. Aquila simply began walking away from the tornado and motioned for Rei to follow him. Aquila made sure he didn't loose control of the cyclone. When he got a safe enough distance away from it he began to slowly dissipate the tornado. Making sure to take his time with it. Weather spells had dangerous repercussions when done incorrectly. When he finished he spoke to Rei. "I was taking care of a future probl-" Aquila was cut off by Shirin shouting at him. When the man seemed to have shouted out himself for a moment Aquila calmly responded to him as well. "Firstly, I helped save your horses. If you remember I helped pull a giant wyrm off of them. Secondly, if Karvan and Pende had done as I told them no one would have been injured in the slightest. I told them to run and get the rest of you out of here. You all had plenty of time to escape. That spell takes me a minimum of ten minutes to cast." Aquila looks where the tornado had been. "Pende really should have listened to me. He got sucked in. I could feel him in there." Aquila looks at the two humans again. "I have a feeling he'll be back though."

Aquila looked at Rei, this time in a much more feral and dangerous way. "And you should never interrupt a mage when he is casting such a large spell. If I had lost control the effects would have continued on their own. It could have become a hurricane. Or an electric storm. It could have caused droughts and famines half way around the world because too much moisture was used up. That was a VERY dangerous spell." Aquila pulled a leaf out from midst his feathered head and let it float to the ground.

[Ryu Kurai]

"It was a tornado! Those horses do not like to move, and they really don't like any magic except for nature, for some weird reason, probably because I raised them." Shirin said, very huaghtily. "But, yeah, if you're done killin' shit here we should probably go." He stalked off into the woods with the horse's reins. The horses were visibly shook up, glancing around nervously as they entered the treeline.

[Mintaro]

Aquila rolled his shoulders and flexed his talons. Then inspects his body as if to say 'weeellll.....' Then says to no one inparticular. "Yes I think I have worked off the anger I was fealing for now. I had been going to destroy the entire villiage. However when I saw that people were not running I chose to confine it instead. I supose even I get a little crabby when I am unable to get a nights sleep."

[pendejochy]

{Well, at least one of my brother got away, I was worried what others would say if they knew I killed one of my own in thier sleep. Wait, that vampire-half. He might tell others, they'll come over and attack! The mission will be ruined. Mortis will be enfuriated! I don't want to be recycled and turned into spell componets! I ned to think of something!}
Thoughts rushed into my head as I thought of a posible solution. I decided on one, but I'll admit that it wasn't the most engenious plan. I used my free hand to hole my head up on my noise tube and shouted.
"Oh, what a MASSIVE army! If I were a vampire-half, would RUN away as FAST as my feet could CARRY ME! And I wouldn't bother rallying other VAMPIRE-HALVES to fight, as they are all armed with holy weapons and no amount of undead could hope to defeat the massive army! I'd warn all other V.H.s I might know to stay far, far away!! But, I will fight most valiently for the safety of my kind!," I shouted. i don't think the others could hear it over the dying tornado, but it was loud enough for the vampire-half to hear.*gargle* *gargle* *gargle*
All that shouting, built up alot of mucus in my neck, so I had to knell down to drain it, as I couldn't spit it out. But, that vampire-half should be detired from coming back. I ran over to the rest of the group, carrying my head in my hand. I looked at Bossy Bird and straited my head.
"Argh, you coudn't have gotten the consent of the group before you decided on casting that tornado!?," I shouted. I decide to calm myself a bit. "It wasn't as if those vampire-halves would have woken up at any moment. Now, if there are any more vampire-halves around here, they're bound to notice a tornado appering out of nowhere and disappering as fast as it came. They are sure to investigate. And they'll come back with a vengence." I sighed. "But, I suppose I might be able to have us avoid a mob of V.H.s. I can make a signal to tell them to stay away from us. Give me a moment." I put down my head, picked up something sharp, put it in my other pocket, picked up a piece of fence, used my legs to hold it steady as I used my free hand to drive it into the ground, and inscribed something on the wood with the sharp object. It was two x, next to each other, and a half circle truned downward below the two x. It didn't really mean anything, but I was depending on the living Vampire-half on detering the other half-vampires that he may know that may live around here. I straited my head and spoke to anyone who might be listening in the group. "This is a warning sign for undead. It is up to any vampire-half who reads it to decide if he or she would heed the warning"

[TheBlindMime]

Hale listened intently to Vargus before the sounds of the tornado began. "It is time for us to leave Vargus, my brother has decided to end this village." Hale spreads his wings in the strong winds and begins leaping away from the tornado, the upside to his brothers spell was the powerful winds, even though they flow in the other direction it provides for some great gliding weather in were-form.

Hale leaned against a tree's trunk high in its branches above the group as they continued their shooting matches, his eagle eyes studied the paranoia in the horses as they slowly marched under him. "Poor animals, from wyrm guts to a tornados fury.... I wonder what they will face next... and I wonder what the invaders learned that could lead to the fall of all the other cities..." Hale's contemplation caused him to stand stalk still as the storm continued to dissapate.