The Cliffs.

[kyono]

Nothing seemed to matter anymore. No one was listening. Riley attacked, and looked at what happened to her. And Angel. No more of this! Catching his father's gaze, he released Lina suddenly, and moved towards his father, seeing that hint of the blood red gaze. His own eyes of the same hue glistening.

Stepping behind his father, he whispered near to him, to let him know that his son was here. "..Father... Don't shut me out. Let me fight with you. Don't turn me away. You and I could do this... As my last action within GoldenMyst before I depart on my own journey and path... Please. Let me help."

[Gelina Grey]

"Oooff!" Knocked to the ground, her sword clattering to the stone floor as Riley shoves her to the side to take on Mala herself. She still couldn't feel anything in her left arm, and when she went into the wall she hit her head. Not hard enough to knock her out, but hard enough to split it open a bit and bleed.

The next thing she knew, through her dizziness, was that Kyono was pulling her out of harms way. Then voices. Lots of voices. Kyono's, Syn's, Amras', Riley's, Xia's, Mala's. Knocking her head had caused the block to drop and suddenly she could sense, hear and feel everything and everyone.

She felt Nym's fear but also felt her opening that connection, along with Eirik. She felt Syn and his fear and confusion along with hearing his warnings. She felt Angel's anger, Riley's rage and love that drove her to do what she did to protect her.

She lifts her right hand to her head then looks at it, seeing the blood then looks up at Kyono when she hears him ask if she's ok. All she could do at the moment was nod to him, then look back at the scene of Riley and Angel attacking Mala. Then she heard Mala's words ring out loud and clear.

She blinks trying to get to her feet when she sees Mala flick Angel, knocking her out, hears his threat to Nym and Xia, then sees him stab Riley. It was then that she completely lost control.

A loud rumbling growl echoes in the hallway, her eyes change from green to solid black with a piercing gaze. Her hair growing long, also changing, turning black as coal. Claw like nails slowly stretching from her fingertips, her entire body taking on a different look. Taller, more muscular. And then, the wings. Large black feathered wings emerge from her back, spanning larger than the width of the hallway, causing her to fold them to her back quickly once they were out. It was in this form that she was most powerful. Everything was at her command. Baring her long fangs, she lets out a hiss that even drowned out Xia's crying for her father.

Quicker than Mala could see, she had scooped up Angel, and moved Riley back behind Kyono and Syn, then turns back to the son of bitch with another deep growl.

"You've come to the wrong place to make trouble for your son, Malakyia." Her voice was deep and husky, each 's' coming out in a hiss as she moves towards Mala, knocking that sword from his hand.

"You'll hurt no one else in my kingdom." Then she reaches up and grabs him by the throat, literally picking him up off the floor.

"Now leave!" And with that she threw him down the stone stairs with a force like no other. It was this form that she held in secret for years from everyone. Except Riley. She'd only exhibited it one time before. But no one that was here had been there at the time.

After she threw Mala, she stands at the top of the stairs, those feathered wings now spreading to their full span.

"You would be wise to leave now, Malakiya. If you don't, and you persist, I will be forced to kill you."

Now even though in this form, she had not lost her mind. She was completely aware of what she was doing and saying. And yes, if she had to, she would kill Syn's father. If he hated her for it in the end, so be it, but she would not have this sorry excuse for a man, demon or whatever he claimed to be, come in and terrorize her people.

It would be now that Mala would realize that she was more than he bargined for. If he was smart.

[Baroness Angel DelaSangre]

Angel was flicked to the side. In such a little form a hard blow could knock her out. Her body was scooped up by Lina. She whined just a bit. Her mind seeming to be in a daze.. then she remembered her little.. situation. Was this a warning not to fight for her companion?

No.. she was his dragon.. nothing would keep her from protecting him. It took her a few moments to gain her mind back.. looking up for a moment as she was intime to see Lina shift and toss that man out. She couldn't help but grin.. 'take that!' her look seemed to say.

She sighed now, trying to get her barings straight, moving her head down as she nuzzled her stomach lightly as it seemed a bit.. bruised. Then she looked back to the scene unfolding.

[kyono]

Right, well... Damn. At least Kyono knew that he didn't need to shift to some form of his own. He was focusing on his father. And Malakiya was family. Unfortunately. God dammit, this was personal! And if no one could understand that, then Kyono felt sorry for them. Still... He didn't have to be surprised at the change of the others. No time, right? Wrong. At least for one.

He suddenly jerked his head towards Lina. The two had a connection. That change was immediately felt and seen. Oh shit...She's pissed...

Eventually prying his eyes away, he focused once more upon his father. Gelina could handle this.

His hand raised, as he placed it upon his father's shoulder from behind. Voice still quiet, as he continued to whisper. "...Father. Let's do this together. As family. We'll succeed."

And there was no need for Kyono to say that he didn't want anyone to get hurt because of his family. That in itself was obvious. Kyono never wanted anyone to get hurt because of him or anything that his family did. Hopefully everyone knew that.

[Sanguine Claws]

Riley felt the sword thrusted into her side, thank gods it didn't kill her or poor Mak might be fucked either way. She still gritted her teeth to snarl as she felt the pain but ears flatten against her skull. If anything the sword was meant to numb human form or human parts, which made her a big bad wolf right now. The human side silenced and only the beast remained as she was kicked but claws scraped the floor.

The monster lifted herself up from the spot she'd been moved to eyes of red looked around the room recognizing no one but Lina, pain went unnoticed as eyes settled on the figure that struck fear in the beast and the wolf crawled over to sit at the temptress' feet. Beast only knew it would do this person's bidding, eyes glared upon everyone who it saw as prey but the creature simply waited for its mistress' command.

[malakiyathornheart]

With his sword knocked out of his hand. A cough leaving his throat as his body hit the bottom of the steps. He would slowly rise up, dusting himself off. His hand thrusting out to the side. His eyes turning a dark red, well..mix of red and silver. His hair would start to slowly change into a black color. He growled. "You, really need for me do to this the hard way..don't you." He would slowly move into a stance, the sword in his left hand, while his right hand would touch the blade on the flat side. "Chaos..awake!"

Once more that sword would flux out its energy. Yet, only the swords form would change. Flashing in a mix of black and red, he would turn his smile into a grin. His hand was now wrapped around in the hilt, almost in a knuckle shape. The blade itself was thick and about 5ft long. Holding it while his hand was in a fist.

His movement didn't move much. His eyes would be locked onto Gelina, and nobody else, although, he did send out this message to everybody around her. "You get in my way..and I will shed blood."

[Nym Zeal]

Nym heard her name from where she hid in the doorway, tensing a moment and then, shortly, feeling her dragon get tossed to the side. Her focus went there then, devoting all the energy from her anger to help her dragon rather than fuel the rider's own adreniline.

Instead, she moved to nestle her child in a wardrobe within the room, ensuring that both girl and dragon were safely inside. Nym could never control her daughter's magic, not what she inherited from her father, but as her mother she had her own tricks. So long as Nym's sensitivity to dragons was completely opened, Xia would obey her mother. Galiada's blood still ran in her magical little girl's veins.

Now, as soon as Nym drew inward, that would be a different story.

She seethed though, and it was difficult not to broadcast outrage when she knew that could do little to help. This seemed too much like the night the theater caught on fire with her and Keena inside. The last time she'd never died because people were trying to get at the man she'd been connected to. It was before they'd married, but after they'd split up for a short period of time. She'd said it then and she'd likely be saying it until her last breath, she wasn't anything to Syn save for his exwife! Ex!

She looked to the diamond on her left hand and then stood in the doorway, keeping her peculiar connection to dragonkind wide open, devoting as much of herself as she could safely do so to both Angel and Gelina. She wouldn't leave the room where Xia was hidden, though, even if she could feel Lapis and know that her child was safe. Was clinging to him though she occasionally heard her cry out for her. It was so rare in that young life that a screech for Mommy went unanswered.

But, if Nym was in even remote danger, she would NOT risk that child. Everything was for that little one. Everything.

[neodgenesis]

Well I guess for now now I'll try and recover.
:: turning around to look at the castle he is right eye would crack revealing more red line's.::
This is just great. All I need now is to run into someone and have an epic battle. YEH RIGHT! But then I wonder whats every body doing now. Not to mention Kyono went in and all the while I'm still here thinking outloud.
:: pausing for the moment as the feeling of power growing out of the castle.::
Great. All this and I'm waiting out here.

[Gelina Grey]

Another growl erupts from her throat followed by that deep husky voice once again as those onyx eyes fix upon Mala.

"Don't say I didn't warn you."

With wings still at full span, she leaps from the top of the stairs going airborne down towards Mala. With full force, she crashes into him, her claws now buried in his chest as she pushes him back from the bottom of the stairs, backwards through the foyer, crashes him through the front door, wood splintering from the impact, over the front steps of the castle and into the courtyard, where she finally withdraws her claws and drops him, landing on his chest.

Knowing that he would try to use that bloody sword, she stomps on his left wrist, holding his arm in place so he couldn't swing it, her other foot on his chest holding him down on the ground. Reaching down, she once again takes hold of his throat.

"I will snap your neck if you don't let go of that sword." Black eyes now blazing with a red center. "You continue to underestimate me. It will be your undoing. Now drop it."

[Sanguine Claws]

Eyes of red nothing else existed she simply watched herself fully opened and willing to Lina as those claws scratched the ground though the beast would not move from her spot until Lina told her. Yet she looked at no one else simply watched the battle emotionless. A creature of darkness, the beast that had slain demons in the war smelling another as well as the other demons made the nose twitch. As long as none moved towards her all the horse sized wolf would do, is sit where Lina had been watching and waiting for a que. Blood shed. Bring it you fool.