This side story will be the next few updates till completed, in the mean time I have been working on some artwork for future posts and am awaiting some information before posting information on ZED. So I present to you... Whispers and Nightmares - Part 4 (the next 4 pages).
The conclusion post will be quite long, so I hope you are all ready!
Please keep in mind that each paragraph was made by someone in the group so the writing styles are a bit different. To make it slightly easier to distinguish different writers they have been color coded.
Whispers and Nightmares
Part 4
Fare's head snaps over to the sound of the voice, the burn damage on her face pretty marked, but her arm a shoulder area was in quite rough shape. Shakily she grabs for her dagger, shadow stepping to pick up the other one. She watches on silently.
The norn does not move for a bit, breathing heavily. She yanks the dagger out of the Gaalla-clone and spins around in a terrifyingly fast pace. She hurls the knife straight for the non-metal shoulder of the asura. She had no intent to kill them, oh no. They were going to be brought back alive. No one ever said the asura needed to be in good condition, however.
A female asura was a few feet behind him she was pale, white with a slight eye patch of a darker color. Her hair up in a pair of buns, a tinted light brown shade "They did quite well."
The asura doesn't even move. A magnetic field suddenly generates around him sending the dagger right back at Sanyja as he kept his smirk "What? You think I'm easy like all of our failed experiments? Come come now. Show some pride and estimation."
There was a quaint laugh from the female "Now now husband, they did just witness the deaths of their friends." she quickly raised a hand and lowered it as a blood fiend appeared behind her.
Farellynn pulled herself to her full height looking on, fury rampant in her violet pools, "So you're the little shits they sent me in here for..." She said coldly, still trembling, she gripped her daggers so tightly the leather of what was left of her gloves gave off a sound as the rubbed between her hands and the hilts.
Well, Sanyja was not expecting that. The dagger slammed into her shoulder, but the norn did not flinch, move, or show any sign of pain. She rips out the dagger, violet eyes narrowed upon the two asura. " 'Member leaf, we needs 'em alive. Dat dun means we ain' allowed t' smack 'em up. S'long as dey can speaks. Break e'ry udder bone fer all I care." Said the norn, hissing out the words.
"Who is they? Hmn, surely you can't actually have business with us - though you did do better than the rest."
Fare could stand simply to hear no more, she moved toward the two asura, daggers gripped tightly, they could bleed a little without dying right? She narrowed her eyes on the woman, something about the pair really unnerved her.
"Im sorry norn. I can't understand a damn word you say. Please speak clearly. Oh wait. You cant. You suffered brain damage. Try drunking yourself and you may speak clearly." A zap of lightning hits the asura as he teleports right in front of Fare. He opens his mouth as a breathe of fire emits directly at her.
Sanyja rolled her eyes at the asura. Hey, if they can't understand her this could actually work out well.
The female asura stood in the back as she summoned a dark pool around the ground grasping at the sylvari and norn to hold them still.
Sanyja sighed. The norn disappeared in a snap of thunder, sliding backwards across the floor. Lightning reflexes, both literal and skill wise. She snatches up her pouch of explosive goodies, yanking out a flash bang grenade. The norn springs forward, hurling one at the asura woman while turning around to pull out her last pistol. Magnum, six rounds. She aims for the little asuran woman, shielding her eyes and waiting for a clear shot.
The fleshbeast fetched the the flash bang in it's apparent mouth - almost like a dog after a ball as the asuran woman jerked her hand to the left summoning another beast for protection.
Fare doesn't take notice of this until just a touch to late, fire making a brushing contact with her skin as she made the step behind the asura, little whimpers of pain mixed in with labored breaths, the step itself was sloppy and not terribly impressive just from on side of the asura too the other where she was netted by the dark pool. Her single minded fury once more her downfall until she could plot escape.
Turns quickly to Farellynn raising his right hand as a jet of cold ice escapes his palm at her attempting to freeze her over. He then places both hands straight out to her with a smirk increasing the cold build up as if trying to freeze her completely now.
In a last ditch attempt to do something anything the ashen sylvari pulls one of the pistols off her belt firing blindly behind her hopefully to hit him at point blank or at least startle him. The freezing was just as painful as the immense amount of burns she had obtained during this adventure.
The grenade goes off in the annoying flesh-thing's mouth. Not much happens, seeing as the flash bang was mostly stuck inside the mouth. Smoke did escape though, and t he grenade did make quite the high pitched shriek-noise. Sanyja sighed, aiming the pistol now for the flesh beast. She unloads all six rounds, and decides this shit is annoying. She dips down low, trying to weave around all the clutter and chaos. The norn pulls out a dart gun, visibly loaded with six darts. Tranquilizer darts. She fires two at the asuran woman.
The flesh beast explodes in a lovely array of guts, blood, ooze and smoke from the flash bomb it had just inhaled. The tendrils land on San as they twitch and die off...
The new beast the asuran woman summoned moved in the way of the darts falling on it's face quickly as she frowned at it "Hmph, resorting to passive tatics now?" she pointed at San making a fist as she would start to life drain.
"Soon you will be frozen and taken as subject." He replied as he continued to just freeze her. As she pulled out her pistol and aims firing blindly he makes himself explode using arcane energy. A sickening splatter is heard soon after he does so as the bullet passes right through his head and falls straight to the ground on his back laying motionless. The bullet missed his plating.
The asuran woman shouted out "ORIN!" as she lost concentration quickly moving to his motionless body.
Thank god that life-drain bullshit got interrupted. The norn attempts to fire the four remaining tranq darts into the back of the asuran female. Fuck that shit. Sanyja had every intention of drugging the woman for an entire year. She looked to Fare, motioning with her head to snatch up the woman asura. Whether or not the darts hit, Fare could definitely club the bitch upside the head.
The asuran woman was holding onto her dead husband now, crying, there would be a rather sick familiarity about her that Fare might not be able to ping. She looked up at San and Fare her blue eyes with a piercing hatred as she was hit with the darts soon passing out holding Orin...
Farellynn just remained on her hands and knees shaking violently, breaths heavy and ragged as she stared at the floor a moment before giving a nod pushing herself to her feet, moving with marked speed toward the asuran woman, she leaned down pulling the woman up from the dead body, swaying a bit as she looked over to Sanyja.
Orin continues to lay motionless. The red hair bristled slightly from the mess of the landing as the pool of blood spills out slowly on the ground. His skin was just slightly darker from the other asura as well.
Sanyja moves over to Fare, snatching up her burnt up coat as well as the explosive bag. She motions for the leaf to hand over the drugged midget, and hands Fare a bag of explosives. "Thar be charges inside. Set t' time fer seven minutes. Put a chargey on each 'o dem walls 'ere. Den toss one done e'ry new section 'o lab we pass through until we gets outside. I wan' dis whore house 'o life creations buried beneath da rubble."
Fare shrugs, "We need to take some of this out with us... they expressly asked for me to bring back things for continued research..." her voice is very very empty as she speaks, not really having anything left to give for the day. She just wanted to go home, even if everyone was going to yell at her and tell her she was stupid and inconsiderate. Maybe they were right, maybe not. She looked down to the corpse, "The said two asura..." She leaned down to pull the other over her shoulder, having handed of the woman to San. She slowly moved over to the walls leaning to support the weight of the slender asura as she began to set the charges, she really didn't feel like arguing with Sanyja right this instant.
The female asura remained limp as the other fiend made a violent twitch from the tranq darts and then resumed to being motionless.
Sanyja spun around, violet eyes narrowing on the fiend. She sighs, taking out an explosive grenade. She tied a string to the pin, and stuffed said grenade underneath the sleeping beasty. "Oi, lemme know when ye done so I can melt dis sack 'o rottin' sheit."
Farellynn just moved about the room, setting the charges, not saying much, not doing much extra. Eventually she nodded to Sanyja and began to head out of the room "Seven minutes... Let's get outta here."
The norn nodded, walking away with string in hand. Eventually the distance pulled the pin of the grenade. Four seconds later it would go off. Sanyja began to job a bit, beckoning Fare to move fast. "If ye see anyt'in wurf snatchin' ups, do ets. I dunno wots dey wants frum dis wack farm. Dey only tolds me t' bring back dem chief nutters." She mutters, now moving through the long, long hallway.
Fare did her best to move fast, shuffling along with greater speed now. When the adrenaline of battle wore off she would pay dearly for the entire thing. Until then it was time to get the hell out of dodge. The ashen sylvari couldn't wait to be out of this place... She hated tunnels and caves, and canyons...
Upon exiting the cave and tunnels it was still dark outside, though it was apparent that it had rained since they entered and the ground was damp with fresh rain though it had stopped raining... The time was late - very late - dawn would be upon them in an hour or so.
"So...Where we be s'posed t' drop off Doctah Wack and Nurse Nutter?" She huffed, quite tempted to stab the female asura with more tranq darts. In fact, the norn thought this a WONDERFUL idea. She reached into the gun bag, pulling out two more tranq darts. She yanked off the tip casing with her teeth, spitting it out to the side, and then stabbed the asura in the back with the darts. Yep, drugged for a whole year.
Fare wished to put as much distance as possible between her and that hell hole, the male still draped dead over her shoulder, "I was assuming they'd have someone to take them off our hands..."
The female asura was out... definately out for a while - considering the tranqs were probably made for someone up to the size of a norn...
"Next best guess? The chantry."
"Tch...Figures...Aight. Better haul ass. Dunno wot else might creeps out. Plus, we ain' got mooch mur den...'Boot a gud two mins till da place be up in smokes." The norn nodded, trotting off...Somewhere? Fuck, probably in the direction of the Chantry.
Fare followed along, they had better be happy with her now. She was not going out on anything Inquest related for a long long time. In fact she hoped the inquest would just go die in a hole somewhere. She'd had more than enough of them. To the Chantry they headed...
Behind them the explosions went off, they could hear the caves falling in behind them...
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