Relic of Family-Quest Thread

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Kail seeing the massive thing got closer, the blond thought of what he could do. Seeing that this minotaur was attacking them, he took the chance on taking the blow. Since he would have its anger directed at him "HEY YOU BEEFCAKE! BEFORE I CAME HERE I ATE YOUR MOTHER. AND SHE WAS SOME GOOD EATEN" he yelled out to the charging bull. The look in the minotaur's eyes was now enraged and directed them at the blond. Kail raised his shield and braced for impact as the bullman slammed into the blond flying him back. He was then slammed into a wall and it stunned him from the impact, and it would take a bit before he would get back up. The minotaur letting out a bellowing cry of victory and showing his dominance. "Can....someone turn off.....there....twitter account" Kail said as if there were comical birds flying around his head cherping loudly or something.


"Well perhaps we can talk about that later lass. We got ta tan some leather fer now, maybe ye can make some nice boots out of this thing" Arthur said with a laugh and entered the fray himself and saw an opening and went for it. Hefting his war hammer, the old dwarf swung hard aiming for the knee of the creature. "Well this is oldie like me self, the bigger they are the harder they fall" the blow was heavy and it was enough to make the bull man fall to one knee. The beast snorting very much annoyed looks down and goes for his trusty axe to chop the dwarf in half. For Arthur he was having a good old time with this. As in the back of his mind it brought him back to his younger days when adventuring with others. But due to the actions of both Kail and Arthur the minotaur would be wide open for attacks by others since he was being distracted by the two males.

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Lilith smiled at Tres, before the minotaur appeared before them, it’s cry causing a ringing in her ears. She gripped the handle on her scythe tightly, the the thorned vine wrapped around it twitched and unraveled in preparation. Her eyes darted to the ground when she felt something hit her leg, realizing that it had been a handful of seeds, curtesy with Aria. She nodded her thanks and faced forward again.

Aria’s right, there’s not much room to move! We just have to work with what we have— She was cut off as Kail let out a battle cry, and moved to attack the beast on his own. She shook her head. I’ve studied these creatures. That kind of attack won’t work. It’s too strong for just one person, and brute force won’t do anything. We need to attack it with both magical and physical force— and we need to do it together. She looked around her, nodding to make sure everyone had heard her.

While she was speaking, she began to do as Aria had silently suggested and forced the vines to grow around her feet. Need be she could use them to protect others, while the one on her weapon would protect her automatically. To begin with, she cast out her Evergreen eyes, forcing the Minotaur into a blind state. Attack now! We have 5 minutes until he can see again! As of now he only see’s trees and forestry, so be careful! The rest of his senses are unaffected! Lilith motioned for someone to move forward, and prepared to block any blows with a vine wall, as by this point they were fully grown and wrapping together to form a small barrier.

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Aria raised an eyebrow as Kail shouted at the minotaur, a snort escaping her. She may not be quite fond of blondie but even she had to admit that was slightly amusing. Not as amusing though as watching Kail go flying into a wall. It made quite a satisfying thunk; though by impact standards and the nonsense he was speaking he’d more than likely suffered some head injuries, along with any bruises and possible broken arm from the impact on the shield.

Aria took note of each person in the group; Tres was guarding Lilith, Nyx was gathering a water ball…she wondered how much control she had of it. Kail was out; Lilith would need to tend to him…else was Aria was going to have fun getting him high off his rocker…. Lilith was also building up their defense….she would need to teach the girl a trick she learned from her dear heart with vines. But she would note that for later. Arthur had dived in and was now the prime target for the large bull man. Luckily Lilith cast an illusion spell. Allowing the old dwarf to probably get out of the way.

Aria herself still had her bow drawn; however had made no moves to attack the beast. It was a pity they had to kill the beast. But she did not think that her companions would be open to another alternative. Aria refrained from contacting the beast mentally for that reason. Aria listened as Lilith explained that she had studied this beast before, and she gave the instruction that brute force wouldn’t work, they would need to attack both physically and magically.

”Tres, back up Arthur, Nyx are you able to keep that water over the bulls nose and mouth? You can suffocate it. Five minutes tops it will be unconscious.”

Once it was unconscious the group could either kill it or come up with another solution. She would not interfere with the decision. During the whole time this was happening Aria stayed in the back of the group, listening behind them for any chance of a surprise attack from behind. After all the noise of the battle was sure to attract attention….With that in mind. Aria pulled out some more seeds, growing more plants that spread out behind them, forming snares and other traps such as a very large nasty looking Venus fly trap that could probably swallow a human. She placed these in case something did indeed decide to fallow them. After all with the way things were going the minotaur would be quick work.

[Nyx]

Nyx watched as Kail when flying into the wall like a pancake, she had to focus herself from laughing at his pain and the small suffering. Hopefully, he was going to be okay but not wasn't the time for her to worry about him it was to worry about they new friend that wanted to hurt them.


Taking a deep breath she continued to channel and bend the mana and water in the air into her water bubble. While listening to what Lilith was saying about needing a combination attack of both magical and physical. Which would be easily enough for her to provide the magic which left the physical which Arthur was more than happen to provide.


She had to admit that she was impressed with Lilith that she could cast an illusion spell since it is a something complicated spell to weave in her own world. With a nod of her head ready to attack until Aria asked if she could keep it over the bull's nose and mouth. Got her thinking since normally she would just aim and fire but since the zombie event where she had to bend the water under to her cushion her fall she might be able to do it.


"I never use it in that way before but I can do it as long as nothing breaks my concentration."She said tighten her grip on her staff, closing her eyes for a moment before opening them and narrowing her eyes at the minotaur. Holding her staff she slowly moved it pushing the basketball size water bubble up and over the vines towards the bull. Keeping her hands steady on the staff as she moved the bubble over the bull's head, biting her lips cause this is where the hard part would come up keeping it placed over its head as it moved around trying to find them through the illusion.


Counting in her head the seconds that go by, having personally not wanting kill the beast in the first place.

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    Tres shook her head at the foolish Kail. If they hadn't been in the situation they were in, she would have laughed. However, foolish moves like the one he pulled could have gotten him killed, or worse, given him a concussion. If he had hurt himself as much as Tres predicted he did, just based on that loud thud he made when his back hit the wall, he would slow the group down and would need some time to rest. Time they didn't really have, especially now.

    Having been next to Lilith, Tres heard her instructions loud and clear. Tres nodded to her, showing that she understood. She kept guard of Lilith until she received instructions from Aria, and quickly pounced in front of the Dwarf before the Minotaur could make any moves on Arthur. As she ran over, she used her sword and applied a direct hit to the Minotaur's horns, hopefully knocking it's head sideways so that Tres could grab one of the horns of the bull and push them downwards, and hit the bull in the back of the head with the hilt of her sword. After this quick blow, she stiffened her stance and braced herself with her arm, a defensive move that she hoped would work in order to protect herself from the bull if it decided to charge again.

    Tres was thankful for Lilith when she cascaded an illusion over the creature, that gave Tres just enough time to grab the arm of the Dwarf and pull Arthur out of the way.

    Focused on the bull, she pulled Arthur back over with the rest of the group so that they weren't separated, and almost threw him behind her. Tres tried to remain as silent as possible so not to attract the bull over to them, as one of it's senses was removed, others were heightened. But if she were to speak, she would have told the dwarf to knock it off, and stay safe, because he's the only one who knows the area, and having to navigate based on maps would only slow the group down.

    Back with the group, Tres moved to the side to let the orb of water move to the Minotaur. She did her best not to move while Nyx concentrated on putting it over the creature's mouth and nose, as Tres was right in front of her. While she waited, she kept her eyes peeled, and kept an eye out in her peripheral.

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A large warm puff of air was pushed through his nostrils in anger; the satisfying thunk of the first one short lived as a sharp pain in his knee brought him down. His eyes opened wide as his pupils dilated in rage; an angry bellow bursting forth. He gripped for his axe as he pushed himself back to his feet; he would cut the hairy small one down! As he raised his axe his vision was suddenly assaulted; vines, bushes, thick brush. It was everywhere! He swung his axe at the assaulting greenery; expecting to hit resistance he swung with all his strength. Only to stubble off balance. The minotaur made a frustrated noise, he saw greenery and even smelt it; for he could smell the scent the vines and the other plants that Aria had grown. But when he swung his axe he had not hit a thing! Suddenly there was a hard thwack on his horns which caused him to stumble forward; only to have his head pulled towards the ground. It was followed by a sharp pain in the back of its thick skull. He swung out in any random direction hoping to make contact; whether it be with his axe or his fist.

The minotaur roared, only to be silenced by Nyx's water bubble. The beast once rose to its feet, stumbling around, scratching at its face and clearly getting more pissed off. The beast flailed around in a desperate attempt to get the water that was blocking its air way, knocking into the surrounding building. Small rubble falling onto the group from the impact; a large chunk heading directly onto the already knocked silly blonde. If he was not moved both of his heads would soon be suffering.

The illusion began to wear; slightly at first. The beast was only able to see shadows. It charged towards the closest blob which was Tres. It was desperate, he couldn’t breath, and he couldn’t understand what was causing the water to slowly choke of its oxygen. He charged at full speed towards Tres, swinging his axe at her mid-section. His attention for the moment on her.

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"What the heck are ye doing lass, I'm tougher then I look" said Arthur as he might have been old but was not feeble at all. But had heard what the elven woman had said about the illiusion that was casted on the minotaur. Seeing that he had did his damage. Arthur had pulled back to where Kail was and started to use healing magic. "Well lad that was rather brazen of ya. Next time pick on something yer own size" he said with a low chuckle and his hands glowed in a soft warm light and went to mend the blond's shield arm. Since the young lad had done his job of being the point and taking brunt of a frontal attack. But saw that the big beast man had went berserk when he had a water bubble now on its head. So for right now he would focus on getting the young man healed. Since he did not know what other things would have been alerted to this fight. As there brawl was getting rather noisy. Arthur then moved from Kail's arm to his head as that would be the next place where he might have been injured. "Lets try and finish this thing quickly before something else comes" he said.

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Kail's head and arm was aching rather badly and the blond could feel it, and then it got worse as a few pieces rubble. One hit his right leg rather hard, and the other was on his other shoulder. He nearly went out, from the pain of it but struggled to hold on as something like this was not going to take him down. While trying to keep focus he heard several commands given out by several people within his group. It seemed that he did his job of splintering the incoming frontal attack. It seemed that he did not have the strength to back up his claims in this case. While sitting there he could feel something warm on his arm and go up through it and heard Arthur speak to him "Well....looks like I have to work out then. You should be the one to talk though" said the blond as his eyes were refocusing on what was happening around him. He then sees everyone at least going all out on this thing. But it seemed that in the creature's fury on trying to get air it was going to make a bum rush charge on Tres. Kail drew his sword and then points it at the minotaur as he had a clear view of the beast. He casted the Ice Blade spell on his long sword and then pointed it at the creature's knees.

The blade got a large coating of ice over the sword and there was a small amount of cold vapor coming off it. "ICE" he called out struggleing to keep the sword steady. The ice that formed on the blade shot forward going for the knee of the charging beast. At least he was still contributing to the group from where he was. And lowered his arm so that Arthur could continue healing him. Since he had been a tad reckless with the taunt on the Minotaur.

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Lilith kept her distance. It seemed most everyone understood what she had said, and were working together to take down the beast. She didn’t intend on killing the creature, so Aria’s plan seemed to be going in the right direction, hopefully they could just knock it out and move on. Nix did as Aria requested, but spoke of concentration, so Lilith used the vines to make sure nothing came near the white haired female. May as well make it a bit easier on her.

Lilith then watched as Tres moved away from her, manipulating some vines to follow her just in case, though it looked like she could handle herself. Don’t stay there too long! the illusion is wearing off, and I can’t cast it again right away! She called, after Arthur complained. Frankly, she didn’t care if he fought or not, but complaining about help was a tad annoying. However, she ignored him and sainted watched as Nyx’s water seemed to only make it angrier, as he stormed around and bumped into buildings. She watched as some rubble feel towards Kail, and swung out a vine to knock it out of the way so it wouldn’t hit him.

After this, she moved to heal Kail, only to find that Arthur was doing that as well… Okay, less for her to take care of… She focused back on the vines and people around her. So far Tres was the only one in immediate danger… or she was, until Kail jumped back in with his sword. Or, at least… a little bit. He shot ice at the creature, hitting it’s knees. Lilith hoped that didn’t harm it too much.

Aria, do you have any seeds of plants with sleeping properties? Maybe we can just knock it out all together?

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Aria watched as Tres quickly acted pulling the dwarf out of harms way; though the dwarf was being difficult. When he scolded Tres for moving him out of the fight Aria frowned; looking down at the dwarf with a stern expression. Fortunately he chose to go do something that wouldn’t get him knocked silly like their so called leader. She was glad when he went over to help Blondie….even if it crossed into an area Lilith had asked the entire group last night to stay out of. Nyx’s water bubble seemed to be working; if she kept it there it should knock the beast out. Aria cast a glance towards Lilith when she asked if she had any plants that would knock the beast out.

”No I didn’t bring anything with me like that; all my plants are either restrictors or oversized carnivorous plants like the ones I just grew to cover our path. I do own some ever drought, however I felt I would be to tempted to use it in other matters if I brought it along.”

However the wall had done a lovely job of what she would have used it for…

”If Nyx is able to keep up the water bubble, and we stay outta mighty bulls way here, he should lose consciousness soon; sooner rather than later with how much he’s flailing about. What you do with him afterwards….well….if we leave it unconscious it will wake up in a few minutes and we’ll have this issue all over again. We can trap it; but that also leaves the issue of how will it get out. If it doesn’t we’d be condemning the beast to a slow death of starvation or as easy prey to whatever fallows us. So we either take the risk, knock it out and run and hope to lose it. Or we keep it from being able to breathe until it is finished off.”

It was unfortunate but those were their options. If she had brought the ever drought potion then they could have knocked out the beast for much longer. But she didn’t.

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Upon concentrating Nyx blocked everything from her mind remembering her training from school only focusing on the simple task and that was to knock the beast out. Her hand tightening on her staff as she moved the water bubble with the beast. All the sounds became background noise her mind filtering whatever was needed for the situation and putting the rest on the back burner for after the task was accomplished.


All she saw was the beast knocking into the buildings, her mind is not fully registering that it was bring large chunks of it down onto their allies. She had known that this wasn't going to be easy for her to do, feeling the sweat starting to roll down her face since it's been the longest that she ever had to maintain and control the water bubble. Plus the minotaur wasn't making it any easier on her at all with all it's failing she just wished it would accept it faith and let them put it into a light sleep and be on their way.


Her mind registered the words that Aria said giving a small nod of her head barely noticeable. She just had to hold on for a little bit more, just hold out was her thoughts, not wanting to fail her team, not wanting to fail them like her sister who she failed on the day of coming to Nova. The simple thought brought more her focus even stronger now with that goal in mind to not fail her new friends, family, and allies in arms.


"I must protect us all." She mumbled to herself, knowing that she was draining herself early on in the job. The only hope she had was that someone had water on them, and Lilith had something to help her quickly recover from the magical drain, and then some food and she would be okay with being about five to ten minutes after the minotaur was finally knocked out to recover and not sure magic, if not then she would be useless magic wise in the next fight since she would need a longer recovery time.


"Please... just sleep... please." She pleaded with the beast as she kept the water over it's mouth and nose, the quickly it accepted its fate the quickly they could decided what to do with it and move on. Narrowing her eyes at him, not wanting to miss a beat on his movements.

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    Tres grew frustrated with the dwarf, who was ungrateful of her help. But her frustration was short lived as she noticed the bull preparing to charge full speed ahead at her. She noticed the axe heading straight for her mid-section. Tres quickly lifted her large blade to her mid-section, protecting herself from a heavy blow. As she did this, she moved aside as fast as she could, trying to take a lesser blow and avoid the beast's horns. If the axe strikes her blade, she would push the axe back and to the side, then move herself further out of it's way to give herself more room to defend herself.

    Tres ignored everything everyone was saying as she was a little preoccupied. The voices of the others were muffled through the vines.

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Although as the beast in its rage was coming at Tres it had lost more and more oxygen as it ran. With each gasping breath it was trying to take was only being filled with water. Even though it was now charging it was starting to slow greatly. As each of its steps was getting heavier and heavier. Its movements were getting sloppy as after it got hit by Kail's ice attack to its knees caused the minotaur to fall forward. And land with a very loud thump and slid forward a few feet until it stopped at Tre's feet. The beastman was trying to get up, as it tried to get back on to its feet. Struggling to get up again as the pain, the lack of oxygen, and the illuision that was up. It had taken a massive toll on the massive beast man. As it saw out of its left eye, tried to throw a wild punch at her. But the beast just fell back down as everything had come together to that point. Since it passed out from the lack of oxygen as well as the other things that were inflicted with at the same time.

In the far distance many scurrying of feet could be heard as it sounded like a lot of small creatures. They had heard a massive vibration of something massive falling down. It sounded as if something had died, there next meal to be had. The sound of the feet were also many and a lot were coming to the area.

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Arthur looked over at Lilith and some of the others and knew that he was beeing stubborn and a bit ungreatful. But he was a dwarf and everyone knew even the all father that they were worse then an mule. "I know that healing was going to be your priority lass. But at the moment, ye were currently holding up that spell on the creature. So I tried to take the burden and worry off yer shoulders" he said as he had heard the beast go tumbling down. Arthur had to give the minotaur some credit as it was a rather resilaint creature. To take that much punishment and still try and go down swinging, although it went down like any other creature. The old man went back to try and patch up Kail as he quickly got the bones fixed up and restored, but there would be the pain still left. It was for a quick fix to get him back up and moving though. He moved some debris off of the blond as some had fell on the young man. As he did though, Arthur had heard something and was not sure "Any of ye hear something.....or am I just going batty" he said and looked at the others.

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Kail was in a lot of pain when he got hit from that beast from ealier and was trying to put up a good front. Since he had never broke a bone in his body before. This though bad but not as much as being frayed by lightning from the sky though. Thankful that Arthur was healing him but saw that they were being rather disfunctional as it was. "Well......at least I did my job on taking point" he chuckled lightly and started to get back up. As the rubble was cleared away from the beast and it was now passed out. There was a lot of pain but it could be managed through some determination and will power as he could at least move around now. He hears Arthur say something but his head was still slightly ringing but was trying to reboot slightly. Since the battle was over now and hoped that nothing else would happen now and they could continue on there quest to get this Relic for the old man.