by LOCW_Bluestarwarrior » Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:15 am
Name: Ensis (means 'blade' in Latin)
Story: Ensis was bathed in shadow. He crept along the darkening forest path, a claw-sliver of moon above him. A fortress loomed before him, and he gazed up at it, frowing and blinking. Suddenly, he twitched his tail, and a comrad in the brush shot a crossbow bolt into the side, and Ensis climbed up onto it. A rapid succession followed, and Ensis found hinself at the top. He drew his small knife, and silenced the two tower guard dragons. Fluidly, he flowed over the passageway until he came to a small antechamber. There, in the middle on a faded velvet cushion, sat a pulsating red crystal. With one sweep of his tail, he had it, but then he heard a maniacal roar. The King had awoken...
Ensis's heart beat loudly as he leaped into the courtyard, putting yet more guards out of commission. Suddenly, the ground shook, and another roar was heard. A pitch black gargoyle-like creature stepped heavily outof the shadows. A grisly crown was perched between his pointed ears. "It has been too long, Ensis," he snarled, baring jet fangs, dripping with yellow venom. Ensis dipped his head. "Far too long, Kondor." Kondor hissed. "I am King Kondor now, and I will destroy you!" With that, and a fearsome roar, he lept at Ensis, who, in a split second, dodged and summoned his comrads for help. One, with a nija headband, and as much skill, jumped up and kicked Kondor between the eyes. Ensis himself stabbed the King in the foot. Kondor howled, and swatted one of Ensis's warriors into the wall. "No!" Ensis cried...
He ran over to his friend, and stooped to check his pulse. None was found...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" he yelled as he ran at Kondor from behind, latching onto the evil King's head. "Get off me, you little mosquito!" Kondor bellowed. Ensis held his knife high, glimpsing his own anguished expression in the silvery blade before plunging it down between Kondor's eyes. As the mighty dark one fell, Ensis lightly leaped down, and turned to his dead comrad, putting a paw over his own heart and shoving the paw back out toward the wall. It as their signal. He turned back to the now dead Gargoyle King. "That is what become of those who kill my family..."
Some years before...
Ensis was curled up against his mother's belly, warm and secure, like every other night. "Hmmm, hmmm hmm hm," his mother hummed to send him to sleep, along with his little brother Blyre. Ensis felt his eyes growing droopy...
A flash. Ensis's eyes shot open, and he mewled for his mother, who had left him when the flash had appeared. A dreadful bellowing roar was heard, and he yelped in terror as the King crashed through into the clearing they called home. He heard a snarl, and in a few seconds, his father, who had tried to fight, was unceremoniously flung, dead, up next to Ensis, who pawed at his face, crying softly. His mother ran over, made the paw over the heart signal at his dead father, then hurried the two little dragons into the cave. Ensis had no time to puzzle over what she had done with her paw. "Shhh...." she said softly, but her voice was shaking.
Suddenly, a huge paw reached into the cave, dragging out a screaming Blyre. "Brother!" Ensis called, his first word, come a little too late. "NO!" came the anguished sob from his mother as she charged from the cave, just in time to see Blyre swallowed whole by the King. Crying, she rammed him right in the stomach, and he fell backwards with a thud. She was destroyed for her efforts.
The King had left some time ago, and finnally Ensis was brave enough to leave the cave. He said nothing, but went over to one of the King's footprints. He made the paw signal to the darkened woods, and to all the lost lives that night. "I will avenge you," he whispered to the wind.
WIP, will add more later!!! DONE!
(Hey, can I give him a nija headband, PLEASE?)

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