Tiger Dragon:
Life was normal. Then, they woke up.
It was sunrise, they could see it through the collapsed top of the ceiling. The building was all rubble and in disrepair. However, they were not alone. In the building laid a total of 6 creatures and people.
Epitaph was the amoung the first to wake. He was up, his two little hearts pattering hard in his chest. He had never been away from the caves and this was not the cave and these people were not other dragons. The little dragon had backed himself up against a corner on some of the rubble so he had the higher ground.
Nour was on her way to consciousness. She mostly noticed she wasn't in a fine bed mead of feathers and cotton. in fact, it felt like she was on the floor. She sat up slowly, noticing her dagger and glasses were sitting on the floor next to her, "Where..." She started to question, putting her glasses on as she examined the other people around her.
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Annie fluttered her eyes open and slowly sat herself up. "Hello?" She spoke out softly and innocently. "Where am i?" she spoke looking at the other people rising up around her.
Markus sprung open his eyes and scanned the room quickly before swinging his head to both side's of his body. He wrapped his hands around his spear and stood himself up bracing himself on his spear. He was not familiar with this area and was not sure what has brought him here.
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Lucifer a vampire groggily sat u holding his head disoriented. "Why was I asleep?" he muttered and looked around his first thought hunters... his second thought. I died? he brushed his long hair from his face and quietly looked around the room.
Shania on the other hand shot up to her feet. Last thing she remembered she was asleep in a cave around a fire. This was not her cave! She looked around her heart beating a bit fast too she had a hand on the hilt of her trusted sword Moonstone.
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Epitaph panted in fear in his corner as everyone seemed to rise and look around. A few people questioned and a few people seemed on guard.
Nour pushed her glasses up her face before standing up completely, "I would say you kidnapped me, but it is plain to see everyone here is kidnapped as well." Nour observed with all the panicked faces.
"It's time for some fun! It's time to play a game!" A child like voice said. A shadow loomed over the opening in the building. "My name is Ione, the self-proclaimed god of play! I brought you all here to play a game!"
"Fuck," Shania said "I hate gods... self proclaimed or not." She snarled a bit hand gripping the sword so tightly her knuckles were white.
Lucifer just stood up and crossed his arms he didn't believe in gods so he was rather annoyed looking too. "And if we do not want to play your stupid game?"
Annie looked around a little bit before hopping up onto her feet. "Game? What type of game are you talking about here?" Annie ask curiously.
"I don't have time to be used for amusement. This can't be for real, is this guy serious right now?" Markus said looking around the room at the other people surrounding him.
Nour sighed an looked up at the god, "So, if you're a god, then I assume we have very little say in the mater. I, only the other hand have much more important things to attend to. Please release me back where you got me from."
Ione giggled at the group, taking a form of a more solid human boy, his hair light the endless night sky of stars and energy. His eyes had an endless depth to them, "If you win, I will take you home! If you lose, you'll die here!"
"Every game need rule!" Ione went on.
"Rule 1: Don't wander too far from each other! You have 3 miles before majority rules and the odd one out dies! If it's split evenly, then a random group will die!
Rule 2: When you hear a bell, a challenge will start! The winner of the challenge will get a small boon!
Rule 3: Be a good player, good players get rewarded with a Star Piece! 1 Star Piece will call me to you and I'll take care of your problem. Careful though, it might not be exactly how you want it!
Rule 4: If you're a bad player, then bad players get Nova Piece! Nova Piece will give you bad luck and I'll mess up or make problems!
Rule 4: When you see the sparkles, follow them, because they will be there to lead you to challenges.
Rule 5: I can add rules whenever I want!
To win the game, complete all 50 of my challenges!"
Suddenly, the chime rang out to the group.
"Yay! Challange 1!" Ione cheered.
A magical T.V. screen appeared and everyone's pictures showed up in cute little chibi heads and the title of "CHALLENGE 1"
"Everyone must introduce themselves and then tell three true facts. One of their skills, one about their past and one about one of their deepest secrets!" Ione said.
"What if we lie?" Nour asked, looking up at him.
"When I'll give you a Nova Piece!" Ione said, "I don't think you want to get one on this easy challenge! Lets see who goes first!!"
The little heads started to rotate around the bored and then they were in an order, "These will be your numbers from now on, so don't you forget them!"
The T.V. showed each person numbers next to their little heads: 1 Lucifer, 2 Nour, 3 Markus, 4 Shania, 5 Epitaph, 6 Annie.
"Alright, ready? Start!" Ione told the group, looking to Lucifer expectantly.
Lucifer was unamused as he listened. "Complying gets me home faster," he said out loud. Max must be worried sick. This antic and over the top showmanship was annoying. "One skill, I'm a vampire so my allure, a magical energy I can emit to change the moods of those around me if they are susceptible enough," he said " My past? Is long, I took on an ex-hunter as my childe against his will to save him from certain death. "One of my deepest darkest secrets. Di spite my bias hatred for human forms of stress relief I will from time to time smoke, Thre is your criteria met now?"
"That's a deep secret?" Ione said, frowning. "Oh well.. it's supposed to be easy." He said and a tiny ding happened and a check appeared by Lucifer's head.
Nour sighed and pressed a hand to her chin in thought, "My name is Nour. My skills lies in being one of the most intelligent women in the world. My past is that I travel the world looking for worthy lords to advance their kingdom by giving them my knowledge and expertise. As for my secret.." Her head bowed a bit with a small flush, "I suppose I have a few hidden kinks like shamming from people I deem worthy to do so." She would rather tell this secret rather than her true secret. Her mother would kill her.
Ione kind of gave a confused look, "Oh.. that's not as fun either." He said, but a check appeared by Nours name as well. He then looked to Markus for his response.
Markus stayed silent for a minute before sighing. "Fine ill play this game i guess." He said groaning a little. "I am Markus i come from a world torn by a century long war against Five different factions. My skill lies between me and my spear, which has protected me through many battles." Markus paused for a second before sighing. "My only darkest secret is me taking my own brother's life on the battlefield." He said stepping back and straightening out his body. "I hope that satisfys your challenge." He finished
Annie rolled her eyes slightly before turning her eyes towards the next person in line.
Shania huffed "I've played god games before then never end well... Fuck you, I'm Shania, I'm gonna drag your soul into hell when this is done... I have a demonically possessed sword on my back who works wel with me if thats not a skill I can play with fire and never get burned .... I... the first time I ever had blood on my hands was the day my mother was murdered to save me, and as for a dark secret, all my secrets are plastered on my back, but what i want more then anything is to be normal and left alone!" She was angry and upset and sparking, literally black lightning bolts were coming out of her body.
Annie's eyes widened for a second before she sighed. "My name is annie and im just a little girl that got dragged into this mess and im not sure why." She said crossing her arms and pouting a little. "If you want history i just live with my family nothing really special about to. For skills, i don't know i guess i got some good hands when it comes to fire i guess." Annie paused a little bit. "I don't really have any deep dark secret i guess my only secret it that I .... slit my brothers throat and called it a accident." She said smiling and laughing a little bit. "But there isnt much else i can tell or give you." She said placing her palm on her cheek.
Markus turned his head and just stared at the little girl after she finished, choosing to remain silent.
"Those two are more what I'm talking about!" Ione said, clapping happily and amused at both Shania and Markus's responses. A checkmark appeared on both of their heads on the board. Ione then excitedly look at the poor little black dragon who was in the back corner still trying to make himself look invisible.
Epitaph was still panting from anxiety, though everyone introducing themselves only had him more terrified. "M..my name is Epitaph. I... I am good at catching rodents and bats and I see in the dark really well." Epitaph passed and tried to steady his fast pace breathing, "I, uh, am not like any other dragons, so not a lot of people will talk to me except my mother..." Epitaph paused again to breathe, "S-secret. Uh, I can see the future in my.. my dreams sometimes."
"Oooh.." Ione said softly before Epitaph had a checkmark appear on next to his face.
"Last but not least!" Ione said, swinging his arms to Annie's direction.
Lucifer raised a brow. He wasn't stupid something about her testimony seemed a bit fishy. Though he was avoiding the swords woman who was counting backwards from ten to try and calm down pretty well ignoring everyone else.
Lucifer went to Epitaph. "Do not be so afraid, I want to go home too." he said the poor Dragon was so timid he could hear the rapid pitter patters of the hearts.
"Oh, wow." Ione said before the T.V. buzzed and an X appeared by Annie's name, "Buzz! Annie is a bad liar!" Ione said clapping his hands, "Yay everyone did really great!" He said happily. "Everyone gets a boon!"
With that, everyone got leather cuffs around their dominate wrists. Each cuff had a color and a number in the middle then two empty slots for coins. Then, a small golden 1 bead appeared on everyone's cuff but Annie's.
Nour's cuff appeared on her left wrist with a Yellow 2 on it, while Epitaph's cuff had a Black 5 and ended up on his right claw.
"A Nova Piece for Annie!" Ione said and on the left holder on Annie's cuff, a coin materialized. On it had a fiery meteorite. "We also need a winner for today's challenge!" Ione turned to the T.V. with his hands out and the little heads got highlighted between the numbers 2 and 5. Annie and Lucifer were both being excluded from the reward.
It landed on Markus, and the man saw on the right side of his number, another coin materialized. This one looked like a bright shining star. "Star Piece for you!" He cheered happily. "That's all today! It's bright and early morning now! I hope you have fun in this brand new world!"
With that, Ione disappeared in thin air and it was suddenly quieter. There was the sound of birds and wind in trees.
Epitaph looked at Lucifer, he was sure him and Nour had the least terrifying explanation during the introduction, but he didn't get closer to the bigger vampire.
Nour sighed, "So all 6 of us are stuck together and we are literally running on majority rules right now." She pointed out, "So the question is, what do we do?"
Annie pouted a little before sighing to herself. She knew what she lied about but she wasn't to worried about it. "I guess we could all just explore the closest town." She said placing her hands into her pockets of her jacket.
Markus examined the cuff around his wrist before looking up and examining the people around him. He shrugged a little before his spear collapsed in on its self a little and folded around itself. He placed the now small tube onto his hip. "Who is going to take lead in this situation that we are in?" He asked looking around at everyone again.
"We need to form a structure," Shania said though she was still sparking in her annoyance. "A leader, a form of agreement between the group, I don't want it... and I don't tend to follow well but I'll give it a solid effort if it means we get the hell out of here,"
Lucifer looked to her and around the room. He was unsure of the bunch himself. "I agree in some regard to the... young lady who seems to be short circuiting," he said.
Nour looked at Epitaph when Lucifer pointed out the only one still panicking in the group, "I am no leader. Only an adviser. I don't think.. Epitaph is quite the leader type. Although Annie lied, because her secret was just as shocking as the other two here, I believe she actually made a sacrifice, didn't you? You purposely pushed a boundary instead of complying just to see what would happen. Lucifer, is it? He also did the same. Shania, said she won't lead. I won't lead either and I believe the little one her won't have that ability either. Which leaves three. Markus, the man who won with a random chance of luck. Annie, the girl who possibly pushed her luck for the sake of knowledge or Lucifer... The man, er, vampire whom seems old enough to have acquired a large pool of wisdom that may serve us as a good leader. Fact is, none of us know each other besides what we were forced to share in challenge one."
Nour seemed to stop her long-winded breakdown and explanation of the people around them, "So, who will lead? Lucifer, Markus or Annie?"
Annie just shook her head side to side. "No way am i going to be taking that risk, I don't know how any of you guys are." She said looking towards Markus and Lucifer. "It gotta be one of you two, cause there is no way with me." She spoke quite innocently
Markus just sighed and look at Lucifer. "What shall it be vampire." He said turning towards Lucifer
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Lucifer looked at him "you have a rude demenour child." Lucifer said "I have years on everyone here my goal is simply to get home, I honestly likely will do wherever I need to do in order to get there."
It wasn't a yes or a no but is sounded a lot like I'll throw each and every one of you to the wolves if I have to. To Shania.
