Abandi

Ryogen ignored the taunt: He'd heard it many a time before, and almost took a perverse enjoyment to it. He was about to chuckle when she suddenly lunged at him. Ready for it, Ryogen quickly leapt to the side, the scimitar lightly brushing against his shirt. Mid-leap he turned and harnessed the power in his arm to launch the spade down onto his foe.
 
She wasn't ready for his quick reaction or how strong his one arm was. She blocked his attack and came after him again. Slamming one scimitar after another in a flow so fast she was amazed he could keep up. Gemini wasn't prepared to fight someone with skill but when she saw he had quite a bit of skill, even though he was wielding a spade, she got excited.

"Finally, a real fight.' She thought to herself while they were dancing the dance of the dead.
 
Abandi watched as her brother faught the tough woman. Tears started collecting around her eyes, like they did everytime she witnessed her brother fighting. It brought up meloncholy memories of her childhood-or at least what fragments she could remember.

"ryo..." She said quietly to herself.
 
Ryogen was caught by surprise at how quickly she blocked and attacked: stunned by her block, he only just managed to block the first scimitar and barely scraped the second. Soon he was falling behind and, as a scimitar came his way that would have cut his arm, he leaped back and started pacing away.
"How about..." He said in between breaths. "You drop the swords and we have a little talk. I could call the town guards if you wish." He hoped she would take the bluff. He glanced at his spade whilst still pacing, and saw that the cheap iron was slightly damaged. Even if he could keep up, his weapon probably wouldn't be able to. He had to end this quickly. He wouldn't wait for a reply. As soon as she started talking, he would leap forward and lunge for the weapon, hoping to force the weapon out of her hands.
 
Abandi put her hands on her hips and sighed deeply. That mean woman was fighting her brother for no reason! Pocket sand was nothing to fight over; she had plenty! She eyed the entrance of the shack with intrigue, tiptoeing inside while they battled.

"Don't come near me!" The man shouted at her, obviously upset about being beaten; Abandi would be too. She covered her mouth with her index finger, shushing him into silence.

"wounded people shouldn't complain so much..." She searched the room for something sharp, holding up a piece of broken glass between her thin fingers.

"Yay!" she skipped back over to the man and cut his bindings. He shot out of his seated position, pushing Abandi's frail frame to the ground; the peice of glass puncturing her forearm. Abandi cried, tears instantly sogging her cheeks and hair.

The man escaped out of the shack and ran around the front while the two warriors were distracted, Abandi's voice breaking the tense silence.

"Ryo!!"
 
"No." She said, not giving him the chance she knew he wanted to get at her. She swiped her scimitars as fast as she could, breaking down his measly weapon faster. Trying to break it so he had no weapon to defend himself with. She spun in a circle hitting the spade with her weapons one at a time as she spun. Hoping to knock it right out of his hand. How was he so strong? How was he keeping up with her? She was elated. This fight was going very well and she was finally fighting someone worthy of a fight with her. She ceased her spin and attacked his armless side, hoping to make him hop or jump to the side.

She heard a shout behind her. 'No. Please no.' She thought. 'No guards, I don't want to fight more guards.' She sidestepped the one armed man and started circling around so she could see how many were coming for her. Instead of guards she saw her thief running away.

"NO!" She screamed as he limped away, attempting to run. She tried to run after him but knew if the left herself defenseless the man would try to overtake her. She was enraged, they had let her prisoner go! She smashed both of her scimitars into the mans flimsy weapon as hard as she could. Screaming with rage. Tears started sliding down her cheeks and she slid to the ground on her knees. Succumbing to the misery of losing the prisoner. Now she wouldn't know where the man who took her husband was. She felt she could die. She kneeled on the ground, crying. Both her scimitars on either side of her on the ground. She put her hands up to her face and whispered one word over and over.

"Why."
 
Ryogen yelped as the woman suddenly attacked with power that completely snapped his improvised weapon in two. Stepping away, expecting to have to flee, he stopped in surprise when the woman collapsed. He turned around and spotted a man fleeing into the undergrowth. It must've been the one she attacked -wasn't he in binds? His thought train was interrupted when he heard Abandi crying. Bad things always happened when Abandi cried. For what seemed like the fifth time today, he disregarded the crying woman and instead rushed straight into the shack. It was rather dark in there and all he could see was her outline, but he could definitely hear her wailing. Perhaps she thought he had died?
"Calm down Abandi, I'm here and okay" He offered, though he doubt it would do much good.
"Perhaps we should go home?" He asked. It pained him to know he was losing more money, but at least it would mean they wouldn't get run out of town.
 
Abandi had her eyes closed, crying terribly and holding her forearm up. Her body was shivering and blood was dripping down her arm from the glass that was deeply imbeded in her flesh.

"Ryo..." she called in a dry whisper.

Bad things always happened when Abandi cried, not by any power of her own but by the gem that their mother had paid a wizard to infuse within her with. When Abandi's emotions went wild, so did her power, and never in a positive way.

She tilted her head up to look at her brother, still crying uncontrollably- her eyes turning black.
 
Ryogen noticed the lighting slowly decrease in the room. He cursed.
"No, Abandi, don't do this. Everything's fine, just fine! We're going to go home, and have some lovely venison that I'm going to catch. Then we'll have a laugh at the fireside, and we'll have a lovely sleep, and then it'll be a brand new day for fun!" He pleaded, knowing the desperate futility of it all. It really should've been him who was given the darkness. He sighed.

I'm going to need a map. Where else can we go after this?
 
Gemini wiped the tears from her face and picked up her scimitars. She sheathed them as she stood, looking for the two who had caused her all this trouble. She walked over to the shack she had interrogated the man in hoping to find them in there. When she walked up to the broken doorway she stopped studdenly. Awe taking over in place of her anger. It was nearly pitch dark in there and the girls hair was floating as if on a breeze, but there was no wind inside.

'What did I just walk into?' She wondered. She looked at the man. He looked frightened and defeated, like he knew something bad was coming.

"What's happening?" She asked him. Now concerned for her saftey. Something she could not fight with the weapons she held was darkness, or magic.
 
Abandi didn't hear her brothers words, instead she was inside her head-with the shadow.
The shadow was enormous and mean; she didn't like him.
Outside, Abandi's body curled up in her brothers arms, a slight luminescent scrolling appearing on her arms and legs. The quiddity wrapped around her wrists and ankles.

destroy everything... the shadow said.
"But I don't want to... it's so pretty..." She whispered into the vast darkness in her head. The void was deep and dangerous, but the Shadow lived there, it was his home.

Your brother can't control you...the monster inside will kill him...The shadow hissed at her
 
Ryogen tried to spread his embrace around Abandi. The darkness tugged at him, too, but his light kept him relatively focused. Somewhere in the madness he heard the deep echo of a question. He turned and saw the outline of the woman he bested in combat. He wondered why everyone had to get involved. It was like moths to a flame. A very deadly one.
"Run." He said, but it emerged as a whisper and reverberated around the room. He hoped she'd heard it: perhaps one day he could enlist her help to retake the kingdom. He allowed himself a small laugh in this situation almost devoid of hope: the very notion of partying with someone he'd only fought was so.. storybook like. Maybe he would have a legend told to the younger generations.

He kept thinking of nice thoughts even as the darkness engulfed him.
 
Gemini heard a whispered "run" but she wasnt sure where it came from. It didn't matter. She couldn't move. She was entranced by the girl. Her skin was lighting up like it was on fire but in the shapes of runes all over her arms. The girl suddenly looked up at Gemini. Her eyes black as night, her hair floating on nothing, and she stood up. The look in the girls eyes was horrific, like nothing she had ever seen.

Gemini ran.
 
Abandi stood, pulling the glass from her arm. Her eyes were still black and her hair still moved on it's own.
She walked slowly toward the door as if sleep walking.

kill them...they're suffering... the shadow whispered sweet lies into the young girls ear.

Abandi walked out the door and toward the field where her brother had worked earlier that day. The daylight sun was warm against her body as she walked, a strange humm of energy around her small body.

"I will not harm my family..." She said absently as she made her way up the small hill and into the field.

A bright white glow cast over the field as Abandi dropped to her knees, tears flowing freely down her face.

The field exploded.

(( no godmode-but she has to exert the energy somehow lmao)
 
Gemini ran away from the shack and the field. Getting away from the look in the girls eyes. Her facial features had no changed but she looked asleep, except for those eyes. She turned around to see what, if anything, was going to happen. The girl was walking slowly, but it looked like she could have been floating over the ground her steps were so light and smooth.

Out of nowhere the whole field went white ... then it exploded. Gemini rocked backward, not from the force of the blast, she was luckily far enough away to avoid that, but from the amount of power that had come from the girl.

'What is she? How did she go from a giggling child to a powerful sorceress? What have I found?"
 
Ryogen stood fast as the darkness engulfed him. Luckily, it did not affect him. He tried looking around but could not see more than a foot in front of his vision. Grappling around he found the woman he sparred.
"Come with us" He whispered. Then he broke into a blurring run, found Abandi, grabbed her hand tightly, and started moving very quickly. Gradually the darkness receded but he kept forcing her to run.

After a long time and he thought Abandi might be exhausted they rested by a lagoon. Ryogen collapsed, his life force sapped somewhat.
 
"My..name...is.... Gemini." She said with big gasps inbetween words. They had been running for a long time and she wasn't completely sure why she had even gone with them, but she thought she might as well introduce herself. She had just bested the man in combat and then broken down in front of him, while the girl had a .... whatever you would call that explosion. She figured those things deemed necessary that they know each others names at the very least.

"Are they all dead?" She dared ask. She wasn't for the killing of innocents, but she also didn't see this girl as a predator, or a bad person by nature. She seemed sweet and serene as she slept next to the man at the lagoon.
 
Ryogen, surprised that the woman had actually followed him, simply nodded solemnly as he lay exhausted on the ground. He watched the lagoon's still waters slowly lap against the shore, and, shaken with the desire to drink, moved to the shore and lapped up the water. His throat soothed, he turned to Gemini.
"It's Ryogen. That's Abandi." His arm pointed to the sleeping girl. He decided that a simple explanation would be all he could muster for now.
"She.. has something bad inside of her. Occasionally, it controls her. We have to leave when that happens. Me, I try and get money to support ourselves in any way I can.." He waved his hand as if it was not that much of a deal. In reality, his muscles ached from the labour of the day. He wanted to rest, but didn't quite trust Gemini to keep her scimitars sheathed, so sat upright, retrieved a couple of dried seeds from his pocket, and started munching them. They were bland and tasteless, but the chewing gave him something to do. He offered one to Gemini, hand outstretched.
 
Abandi rested, her hair flayed out over the grass. A butterfly landed on her cheek, gently shifting it's wings and lingering. The girls eyes twitched, but she didn't wake. Her hands cupped her face angelically. Abandi was peacefull but inside her mind was a terrifying world that only she could comprehend. The world was melted and warped. Jagged, angry faces laughed and prodded her. The Shadow wanted to spread his evil but her spirit was too great. Only in moments of pure emotion could the Shadow break free and do as he wished.
 
She looked at Ryogen quizically. How can he be offering her food after the fight they just had? She shrugged it off. She was too hungry to care.

"Thank you Ryogen." Gemini said to him, taking what he offered and slowly eating it. She looked over to Abandi, who looked so calm and cute, just like any other young girl her age. A bright blue and red butterfly landed on her cheek, making her even more adorable. She realized she was admiring the girl who had just let her prisoner go.

"You guys owe me."