Maddened fleeing

[Gumboots]

*A wet and slightly shivering Water Elf appears on the shoreline just outside the reaches of the Myrellia woodlands. She staggers up that beach, she can not walk in a straight line, and collapses into the sandy bank. Everyone was out there to kill her and other things kept appearing infront of her. She slept very little waking up but thinking that she had not been asleep with the dream continuing infront of her. It did not matter the sooner she ran the better.*

*After she wakes she runs croached in the treeline of the woods she runs only stopping to catche her breath or to fight bare handed invisible foes. They were every where and they kept coming, something was getting nearer to her each time she fought them. It was coming to kill her and to take her away she knew it. She ran and kept running, East was the direction she was going and she was going quickly. People there where people with power near by she could feel them. They were going to kill her and she was the only one that could defeat them. She kept to the tree line crouching and staggering, occasionally her lopsided stagger meant by accident that she ended going into the light. To her that was when the invisible foes had pushed her and so the fight would start again.*

*Nuuta was close not too close for her likeing she runs south to find the river that runs past the town and once found it swims downriver to the near the mountians. The day was drawing on now yet she used to know this land but it seemed like everything was old and changed to her now. She found somewhere with berries and ate a load that she knew somehow werent poisonuss. This place felt safe yet still the invisible foes kept coming. She was in slight pain now the fighting and the fatigue creaping into her. She slept once more with nightmareish dreams, convincing her that she had not slept at all for the foes were still there.*

[Gumboots]

*Kriska wakes from a very bad dream later that day and she is convinced that the people that she can hear footsteps coming closer. She hides down into the undergrowth once more and waits, a few minutes after her invisible foes start attacking her again. She leaps from the bush that she was hidding in scratching her face and runs. Tired of fighting she is now just running, she runs south east to the Erda Ridge. She falls a few times but she manages to get up and carry on running.*

*On particual fall lands her in a puddle and when she gets up the foes are gone, instead she sees all the people that she trusts being mean and taughting her. To her they are fully armed with firey weapons and coming towards her she tries to hit them with water spells but nothing happens they only laugh more at her. She runs again, she carries on running until the next morning has come, her followers always seem to be just behind her, knocking herself unconsious.*

*She reaches the ridge and somehow manages to loose her foe, she climbs up the ridge and finds somewhere to shelter. Hunger grips her stomach but she does not seem to want to eat anything, or want to leave this place until she has rested. She settled down and tried to sleep, she started singing only to get people talking back to her in her head. She stands having not rested and continues on her way.*

*What was getting nearer to her seemed to feel more and more hostile yet at the same time she also felt safe with it. She had a feeling that she was getting also close to somewhere that had her enemy within it walking on along the top of one of the clifts of the Ridge was the safest route. Her walking had still been a bit hap-hazard for a while and could not understand why her enemies were leaving her alone. She was starting to get afraid and jumpy any noise even if it came from her was making her jumpy. She carried on walking until she sliped and fell down the side of a steap hill, hitting her head sever times on the way down.*

[Gumboots]

*A couple of humans had seen Kriska fall and go to see if she is ok. After some time in which they bandage her head and take her to a near by village she regains consiouness. It is nearly night time and she wakes with a start, she tries to speak but the humans do not seem to understand her and she can not understand them. However they seem to trust her and as she goes to sit up she looks around at the gathered people, at this point they do not look like people but Dragon Kin red and brown. She leaps up from the bed that she had been lying in and moves to the back of the room. The people gather round trying to calm her down, this only makes the matter worse to her they seem to be making hissing noises and coming towards her with sharp claws. She makes a run for it barging past them.*

*Once she is out in the open she looks around and discovers that the ridge is still on her right and so she runs towards it and away from the humans. The people give chase making her panic but there are not only the people there, now there are also her invisible foes and her so called friends. She runs and does not stop the people seem to give up the chase yet the others still remain in persuite.*

*Night comes once again and she discovers that the dragon kin she had thought she had left behind had caught her up again. Only there is only the two of them now. Where they had come from is unknown but they were now following Kriska and fast. She could only just keep pace infront of them.*

[dainul]

Hidden from Kriska, behind hallucination and fear, a young canine slowly catches on her. Events in the swamps had kept him from travelling with her, and so he had set out since to find her and see what she had found.

He quickly picks up on the scent of two lizard-men also following Kriska, and increases his pace. Pushing himself for speed, he circles around the trio, and watches as he keeps pace from the side, ready to close in if the lizards seem to be about to harm her. Unfortunately, with no knowledge of the creatures, he fids them very hard to read, and so for the moment runs alongside, well out of range for magic from any of the other three, trying to figure out what is going on.

((Sense Power 2))

[Gumboots]

*Kriska looses 5 essence every now and then keeping her essence count down. Yes lots of power from the Kin, they are red and brown. Kriska only just manages to keep her distance but she is tireing quickly having ran for most of the evening and into the night only stopping when the foes seem to loose her for a bit. Her running seems haphazard still but it is improving. She staggers for a moment and the gap closes a little.*

[dainul]

Unsure of quite what to do, yet seeing quite clearly that Kriska was desparate to keep from the lizard-men behind her, Kester turns his attention to them. He watches them awhile, watching their movements, unsure how to deal with them if it came to it. He drops back a little, and calls out to them, trying to sound more confident than he felt. "Who are you? What do you want here?"

[Gumboots]

*One dragon Kin turns away from the other and Kriska sees this as she looks back over her shoulder and she can hear it say something but she does not understand it. The other dragon Kin continues his chase of Kriska. All other foes have now dissappeared and she is left on her own with just this one.*

*The one that had turned away from the chase now stands and faces Kester.*

"Begone pup, this is none of your buissness. Go away."

*It stands and stares at Kester.*

*Meanwhile the dragon Kin that is still persuing Kriska turns with Kriska around a corner of the ridge hidding them from Kester and the other kin. He sees its chance as Kriska stumbles slightly. It speaks*

"Kriska no use running we can keep up with you and catch you."

*Kriska hears something but she does not understand it. To her all it sounds like is angry words. A flash of a image passes before her eyes as she runs and she stumbles a second time. She turns to the Kin and speaks to it*

"T emdp pzkn xdhv etmf kvi atei aiksi yi kadmi kmf ain yi qd!"

*The Kin looks suprised at Kriska and slows down a little. He decides that the best thing to do is to get her and take her somewhere where he could deal with her there. A fire dart heads in Kriska's direction the first does not seem to do much only make her stumble a little the second lands home and she falls flat on her face. When he catches up to her fallen body he picks her up and carries her off further into the mountians where it is hard for anyone to track.*

[dainul]

Seeing the others disappear around the corner, Kester darts off after them, praying feverently to Mamozumo to grant him the strength to see this through, not bothering to answer the other lizard. Drawing on his Essence for the speed he needs to outpace the kin behind him, he rounds the corner himself just intime to see the other kin crouching down over Kriska's fallen form. Drawing further on his reserves, he hurls hiomself bodily at the kin with a snarl, grabbing at the creature with his claws as his momentum carries the three bodies rolling into a pile on the floor.

((Leap hitting the kin midway through. Desparate clawing ensues.))

[Gumboots]

*Kriska's body just rolls over as the kin behind Kester comes running around the corner. He grabs hold of Kesters fur and with strength he lifts him off the other kin. The other Kin kicks Kester in the chest after he is freed and stands up. He grabs hold of Kriska's arm and drags her off in the direction of the mountians. Kester is left in the second Kin's hands while she is being dragged away, there is no way that he could get out of the grips. After the first Kin vanishes from sight once more with Kriska's body the second throws Kester at a wall and watches for his next move speaking once again.*

"I said go!"

[dainul]

Kester rolls back up, painfully, and remains crouched for a while as he channels his Essence to heal the bruises and fractured ribs. He snarls at the lizard infront of him, a wordless snarl of desparate anger, before darting off again with all the speed he could muster, first to lose the kin, then slowing to a more sustainable pace as he runs off to find his alpha.

[Gumboots]

*The kin watches as Kester runs away but doe not follow only makes sure that he does not head back in the direction that the second kin had walked in. He runs to catch up knowing that the second would not run far. As they meet he calls and the the one dragging Kriska stops, he kneels down beside her looking at her with great intent. The second bends down also. Kriska is unconsious still and just lies still her clothes torn and her head and one arm bandaged. The kin look at each other. The first speaks to the second.*

"Joval, we must get her away from here. That pup will most likely be back and those heros at the village will soon be coming after her as well if they have any fondness to her. We shall head east that way its away from the humans and it means that we can keep to the mountians."

*Joval nods and helps to lift her.*

"Wont she awake Rihners?"

*Rihners picks up her arms and lifts her that way.*

"When she does we will be able to deal with her then. She did not make much sence when she tried to speak to me, we need to see what Neptune is dealing with before we can decide what to do with her."

*They lift her and carry on along the ridge, these two seem capable of walking along much better than what Kriska could. They get close to Fikiawe before they find a place to stop and rest. The pup had done some damage to Rihners but he was healing quickly and Kriska was starting to come round. The found a sheltered cave where they rested for most of the day and next night. The tore away at Kriska's clothes and made ropes out of it tying her hands and feet together and blind folding her.*

*When she came to she thought it was night time but the foes were back she could see them through her blinded eyes and she starts to struggle. The kin look at her with confusion as she speaks.*

"Qd kpkx! Qd kpkx! Aiksi yi kadmi! OD KQKX!"

[UzBan]

A white hooded figure steps out ont the path a little way up the path.

Good evening My Kin friends.

With this the figure lets its hands drop to its sides palms showing and no weapons in hand.

I tust that you have this Elves permsion to abduct her?
No i think you dont do you?

[Gumboots]

*Kriska hearing a strange voice that still does not make any sence. The two kin look at each other and drop Kriska, they step infront of her so that they are between the man and Kriska. Joval speaks.*

"This is none of your buisness, leave!"

[UzBan]

I am sorry I can not do that my friend, i protect all inocents from all foes!

Many have tried to sway me from this path,all have failed.
She protcets one who will not let me step aside.

I ask only that if you have issue with this lady then make it another time.

[Gumboots]

*The two kin laugh and this time Rihners steps forward one more pace.*

"So you know of her bond to Neptune then? Shall we talk this over for we are in no hurry."