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Post by Ryu on Jul 16, 2007 16:52:30 GMT -5
Taku was asleep in his cave, having a death grip on Kitten. He was sleeping quite well, though, despite the sun shining into his cave some. The day was somewhat cloudy, and wind was picking up a bit. The clouds moving in on the area were storm clouds, due to how black they were. It was likely going to rain later in the day.
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Post by kitten on Jul 16, 2007 17:48:54 GMT -5
Kitten woke up to the Dim sunlight shinning in her face.she rubbed at her eyes looking over to see Taku still asleep.he must have been tired, she thought in the back of her head. when she tried to get up she found she couldn't. She tried pulling his arm off but no luck. " oh come onnnnn", she whinnied.
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Post by Ryu on Jul 16, 2007 19:29:25 GMT -5
Taku continued sleeping, snoozing very lightly. He didn't respond to her squirming until a few moments later. He rolled over on his other side, releasing her. There was a noise outside, and quiet voices. Someone was outside...?
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Post by kitten on Jul 16, 2007 19:38:42 GMT -5
kitten Jumped up afraid he was going to go all death grip on her again when she heard the voices. She moved to the entrance of the cave tripping over her feet a few times but catching herself before she could fall. She peeked out side to see who it was tilting her head a little. " hmm?"
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Post by Ryu on Jul 16, 2007 19:42:08 GMT -5
It sounded behind the tree line some, like a couple of people arguing. They couldn't be seen very much, just a limb occasionally seen through the forest. If Taku was awake, he would have already started killing them. But, that was Taku's way of handling strangers.
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Post by kitten on Jul 16, 2007 19:47:38 GMT -5
Kitten walked out of the cave squinting her eyes trying to see who it was. She began walking towards them now trying to be quiet about it though till she could see who they were. She got right up on the tree line ears twitching from the wind blowing in them. " They sound stupid arguing out in the woods", she said to herself.
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Post by Ryu on Jul 16, 2007 19:55:51 GMT -5
Kitten would only hear the crunching of blades of grass behind her, until it was too late. Two men dove at Kitten from behind, having flanked her while she walked towards the men talking. The men who tackled her tried to pin her down, one of them putting a hand over her mouth and holding her head down so she couldn't bite. The two men who were talking, stepped out quickly, armed with crossbows. The steel bolts aimed at Kitten, one of the crossbowmen said to the others. "So this is the demon whose been hunting humans around here for so long..? Figured the demon would be smart enough to move from cave to cave... " The crossbowmen shook his head. "Quit yapping and drug her." The man knelt down, not caring if Kitten was struggling or not, and cut her arm with a knife he had in his hand. The poison would seep in, numbing the limbs, and making the person very groggy and nauseus. It didn't knock them out, but trying to form sentences was out of the question.
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Post by kitten on Jul 16, 2007 20:14:53 GMT -5
Kitten hit the ground not even knowing what was going on she began to struggle but proved to be pointless. When she opened her mouth to try and bite them it was quickly covered but she still struggled to get free. She tried to speak through there hand when they had thought she had been hunting humans but it was all muffled out. Pretty soon she felt the cut on her arm as the poison began seeping in. Her head began to swim and her struggling soon stopped when she couldn't feel her arms and legs. She now had a dazed look in her eye wondering what was going on.
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Post by Ryu on Jul 16, 2007 20:26:55 GMT -5
One of the men began bounding her ankles and wrists, then tied a rope around her head, which covered her mouth, making it impossibled to chew through anything, mainly the ropes binding her. The man finished tying her limbs, then picked her up, carrying her over his shoulder. "What will happen to this one? Beheading?" One of the crossbowmen chuckled. "No, for all the people she's murdered? No, she'll get the slow death, a good burning I'm thinking." The men laughed to themselves.
This woke Taku. His eyes flashed open and he sat up. Where was Kitten? He was immediately disturbed, especially by the scent of a pack of humans. He grabbed a sword from a small collection off the cave wall. Running out into the open, he could see the human's in the distance some, they were walking away. That was good for their health.. Wait. Breaking off into a sprint, he tossed the sheath off of the sword, seeing Kitten. The crossbowmen had been happening to look back, and saw Taku coming. Soon half of the group was stopped and were unsheathed their swords. Except for the crossbowmen, who fired as Taku ran at them. Taku dodged to the side of the bolts, closing in quickly. The crossbowmen quickly reloaded. Three people continued with Kitten, one carrying her, and two swordsmen escorting.
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Post by kitten on Jul 16, 2007 20:33:29 GMT -5
Kitten's eyes widened at the thought of getting burned. she tried to move even a little but failed hardly able to even lift her head. she managed to see Taku running towards them but the one carrying her didn't stop. she whined a little since she couldn't really speak wanting so bad to be down instead of on a stupid humans shoulder getting carried off to be burned this day couldn't get any worse for her.
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Post by Ryu on Jul 16, 2007 20:49:22 GMT -5
The crossbowmen fired again, and due to Taku being much closer, it was harder for him to dodge. Being struck in the collarbone by one arrow, he stumbled to the side, another bolt thudding into his leg. Limping some, he growled and jumped at the crossbowmen, throwing his sword of one of them, and landing on the other, jamming his claws into the man's chest, before ripping out a couple of vital organs. Standing up from the body, the two swordsmen left backed up some. Taku lost sight of where the men carrying Kitten had gone now.. they were out of sight. Lifting his sword out of the other dead crossbowmen, he walked towards the swordsmen. They both swung at the same time, swinging down at Taku's head. Taku kneeled some, swinging his sword over his head and deflecting the blades, before bringing the sword around, cutting the swordsmens' guts, and walking past. The men stumbled onto their knees, trying to keep the blood and small intestine from falling out of the horrific lacerations. Taku limped after where he smelled them taking Kitten...
When Kitten arrived in the large village, she'd see a lot of armed guards, many wielding crossbows and thick armor. Kitten was taken to a fortified hut, and thrown in. There were a couple blood stains in the wooden floor and on the walls. Probably where demons had been murdered where they lay. The hut was locked, and Kitten was left bound in the dark. One of the villagers outside asked. "When is she to be put at the stake?" The guard chuckled. "At nightfall, fires always look better at night."
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Post by kitten on Jul 16, 2007 20:56:17 GMT -5
Kitten was thrown into the room hitting the floor hard. She could only manage a small yelp when her head hit the ground making it hurt even worse than it already did. She began hitting her head against the floor wondering how she was going to get out of this mess. She looked at the wall facing her seeing the old blood on the walls and just stared. once she heard what the villager and the gard had said she was pissed and afraid at the same time not a good combination.
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Post by Ryu on Jul 16, 2007 21:04:36 GMT -5
Taku ripped the bolt of his leg, before he grunted, having to kneel. He took the bolt out of his collarbone as well. He couldn't walk, he'd have to wait a bit for the wound to heal some, before he could go on...
The time moved on normally, but for Kitten it probably felt like eternity. Waiting for your death, that would have to be quite painful. The clouds were gathered around the area, and night came quickly. The sun was almost completely set, when the guards came. The poison in Kitten's veins were mostly weared off by now. They picked Kitten up off the floor, and began carrying her to the center of the village. She saw a fresh new log post, and kindling strewn at the base of it. The guards carried Kitten towards it. Taku had healed up enough to actually run, and after stumbling around the area some, he'd picked up the men's scents, and had been running, and he had just came from the tree line, seeing the village a quarter of a mile away. Why this those freaks take Kitten? What would they want with her?
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Post by kitten on Jul 16, 2007 21:10:17 GMT -5
It did feel like forever sitting in the dark thinking of what it was going to feel like. once the men came to get her she bit down on the rope trying to break through it with no luck but Seeing how she could move a little again she began to squirm anything to make it harder on them to take her. She growled and spat out every word she knew at them through the rope in her mouth. Though every time she spoke it felt like someone was ramming a nail in her skull. She seen the new log and growled as loud as she could through the rope. " how nice of you to get a new one just for me", she said sarcastically as she began to kick more trying to get free.
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Post by Ryu on Jul 16, 2007 21:20:53 GMT -5
"Oh, it was our pleasure- Stop squirming!" The man who was carrying her by the arms would turn his body and kick at her head. He kicked hard enough to daze her for a few moments, making her vision swim. The men picked her up, and held her up against the post, a third villager taking heavy metal chains and beginning to chain Kitten to the post. On the other side of the village, there would be some yelling.
Taku pounced on the crossbowman aiming at him, bashing his hands down on the man's head with a sick crack as some important bones were now oddly positioned. Seeing many other guards coming, all aiming to shoot him, he ducked behind a building, bolts thudding in the spot where he'd just been. He was hopelessly outnumbered, this village wasn't small. One of the guards yelled, "Start the fire! Before this one gets too close!" Taku blinked, wondering what the hell they were talking about, with fire. Peeking his head around the building, Taku watched a man with a torch running to the center of the town, and beginning to light some kindling on fire. The fire helped him see a person on a post, a demon, Kitten. Taku began to run, to release her, but looked at the crossbowmen following his movements with their bows. Sliding behind a cart, he heard the numerous thuds of bolts, but had to reach behind him, and dig a bolt from the back of his shoulder.
The flames below kitten were small at first, but they were building rapidly. She could smell that the upper half of the post had a flammable on it. Probably to make it easier for them to burn the whole body. The flames were building pretty fast, and it seemed like it'd be difficult for Taku to make it to Kitten. Seeing as there was nothing to hide behind from crossbow fire in the center of the town, and he was already wounded a few times.
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