Shadow Realms

[Lord Ashram]

Eyes followed the shot she fired upon him and he even slowed and stopped in place. "Isn't this a surprise.." He said unamused. The barrier around him becoming visible in reaction to the energy heading at him. The barried started to look much like a clear gel, thick and slow moving. Within the 'gel walls', black spirals of dark chaos energy orbited around his form. He would make it known this time by her that anything she would try would fail.

Upon contact with one of the many spirals, the Holy would look as if it were absorbed. The spiral also vanished. Moments later off in the distance the reaction the dark chaos energy had with Holy lit up the area followed with loud roar that tore through the area along with a shock wave. "Foolish..." He again started his approach and the barried slipped back into its unseen form.

Having escaped his prison he appeared right behind his wife, a hand coming to rest on her shoulder. "Ready another arrow. Make sure to make this one count." He didn't have time to say more as his translucent form moved to stand near the dragon's side. It was time to rid himself of the demon. It was now that the odds were against the demon, what was coming to him would be nothing short of unexpected.

The dragon would feel the presence of the one who summonded him and felt the power that was supplied to him. A red aura surrounded the large creatures body and started to rise into the air in the form of thin smoke. Wings stretched out before folding out of Destiny's way, he also knew that she was going to be the one to finish the game.

Narse drew in a large amout of air through sharp teeth of a partially closed mouth. Just as the demon was too close for comfort he released a powerful wave of dark fyre that shook the area they all stood in. It was much more than the demon should be able to handle, after all, Ash was also in the game now.

He couldn't see Ash or feel his presence. He still believed he was trapped in the inner workings of the realms. It wasn't until the wave of dark fyre came at him that he knew Ash was near. The attack decimated the barrier and if it wasn't for the protection the sword offered him he would have been incinerated. With the repercussions of the attack and rapid powerful explosions all around him the was left with nothing to defend himself with. The sword had flown from his hand and his body badly burned.

He knew he didn't need to tell her but now was the time for his wife to play her role. Just as a precaution he also did the favor of making a like to the realms in which she could freely draw power from. That too he knew she would feel but hopefully before it was too late.

He knew that the demon was about to change forms and collaspe the realms trapping them all and would eventually destroy each one of them seperately. For now Ash watched and was ready to offer his power within the realms to defend them. He wanted more than anything to destroy the demon himself but it wasn't possible.

[xxdestinyfearxx]

At the end of the demon's protection Destiny smirked, her tossing the bow down. "You want to play? Then lets and see who is the true winner of this little game of yours." She peeked back at Ashram's flickering image before she turned her face toward the demon.

The bow was gone, it tossed to the ground and vanished, her placing her right hand forth, her muttering words in elven. THis was the same spell she used, but this time the filmilar white glow did not come, but a deep jade did. The color flared down her body, the magic forcing her skirts and hair to be pushed back as if wind exsisted in this world of dark imaginations.

Around her neck the collar that rested there for years pulsed in the jade, making the images of tribal cross over her flesh. She didn't know where she drew the magic from, but she felt the presences of her family...Tharen, Talmar, Kayla, and of course Ashram. They were all behind her in this.

As the markings slithered to cover her she flipped her palm to the sky and to her surprise the eye did not come, but instead the image of a hawk rested in her palm. She was a bit confused, but she tossed the thought of it from her mind, going back into her concentration.

The hawk on her palm's wings seemed to flap and a screech was heard before her body became covered in not the paladin's armor but a jade armor with the Fear and Vercengetorix crest combined and the hawk and dragon resting on her breast plate.

Thinking nothing of it, she glanced back to Ashram once more at the exact moment that a new quiver of arrows and a bow came to her. Pulling the floating bow from the air she smirked, her left hand reaching back for the arrow. She knew she could not be defeated at the moment.

Bringing the arrow down she aimed, knocked and fired it, the arrow coming to pulse between jade, black and white...earth, darkness, and light. The elements were set in the small flying weapon as it seared through the air towards the body of the demon. "Feel the pain in which you bring to others, feel the pain you have caused myself and Ashram and all of those in this world of darkness you both have created. Feel it and suffer!" The arrow was not aimed for heart nor head, but the right side of his chest inside. Let him feel pain before he mets his doom from hers and her husband's hands...let him feel it.

[Lord Ashram]

With the arrow digging deep within the chest of the demon, the power of the Light, Darkness and Earth struck him down to the ground. Absolute silence set in the area, even the dragon’s low growl reached no ears. The demon would lay still for a few seconds before the pain settled in and started climbing to levels even the darkest imagination couldn’t think of. The demon trashed about with hands tightly grasping the arrow in his chest. There was no pulling it out and that is when he started clawing at his chest to dig it out.

It was moments later that Ash dropped to his knees holding his chest. His already barely visible form starting to fade completely from sight. The demon went motionless, its wings vanishing along with its existence within Ash. The dragon jumped into the air flying off leaving her and the unicorn with the body.

A cool wind blew in from the north and the scenery of ruins turned into green fields under a full moon. Stars shimmered brightly in the night sky. All was peaceful but it wouldn’t feel right to her, Ash was no were to be found and his presence nonexistent. All she was left with was a body, the body of her husband. Could it really have happened? Did she kill her husband in the process of removing the demon from Ash’s life? So many questions and no answers.

The image of the fields didn’t last long before they started slowly fading away, everything on its way to becoming a black void. It was possible that if she stayed around too long she would be trapped, but one of the things Ash did before the final attack was open a way to the other realms so that she could draw power needed to defeat the demon. It would be this very opening she would have to use to leave the collapsing Shadow Realms.

[xxdestinyfearxx]

The battle ended quickly, but once she saw the end, a chill fell over her body. Looking behind Ashram was gone, and so as the dragon. Coming to panic she watched the world fall apart around her, but she didn't make for the exit like the unicorn nudged her to. Gauntlet hands pushed the unicorn away her going to the demon's body, or was it Ashram's?

It didn't matter anymore. Coming to her knees she stayed beside the body that rested on the grown lifeless. The bow that was in her hand fell away, it clamoring to the fading ground around her. "No. Wake up Ashram." The armor chipped away in flakes, only to wait to be called to her for help again, but soon she grabbed the body's shoulders her shaking it. "Wake up! I don't want you to take Ashram to your death. Give him back!" People in Goldenmyst would probably find her insane at the moment, her trying to shake the dead back to life. "I didn't want..." Her voice choked in her throat, her fighting the burning water from falling down her face.

"I didn't.." She couldn't even muster the words to speak. Was it all over? Had she lost her life by her own hands? She knew by picking up a bow she went against the ways of a paladin, her possibly having lost it for good, and Ashram seemed dead now. What did she have left?

The unicorn nudged her back, her turning to face to magnificent creature, before she gave a nod and slowly stood. She felt like she just ended her own existence...

Following the creature from Ashram's world of Darkness she returned to Goldenmyst. There she stood alone, and once her feet touched ground she came to her knees in a weaken sate of sanity.

So many years, and she was responsible for Ashram's death, Her own husband, the love of her life was gone, leaving her forever tainted and tormented in the mortal realms. She couldn't handle this... Hands touched the ground in a yell towards the heaven, damning them for making her so naive to things. Making her destroy the one thing that made her happy.

Slowly she rose, her eyes lifting to the world of Tara, her feeling so numb inside. Lifting her hands, she noticed they shook, her bringing them to touch the hide of the unicorn. It did not flinch from her touch, inside seemed to lead her back toward the castle, maybe there she would find someone to cure her of the insanity that threatened to came her body and soul.

The walk brought them to the gates, her staring up at the guard at the gate till he gasped and ran off. Te foot soldier ran into the keep, him racing to find Desari. "M'lady! M'lady! There is some girl at the gate, she looked odd, something is wrong!"