A Long Day's Knight

Oc: One slightly drunk, extremely terrified, lawyer's son playing at being a noble, at yer service lady.
 
Arista

Giving up on finding the second knight in the party and figuring that Arky had either frightened him, killed him or caused him to run back to the war where it was safe, Arista moved back to the camp.

When she got there, her jaw hit the ground and a groan escaped from her. Standing there and counting to ten, twenty...all the way to a hundred, she tried to calm down. It didnt work.

Giving up on the counting, she instead bellowed at the top of her lungs.

IF THIS CAMP DOESNT SETTLE DOWN AND BED FOR THE NIGHT I SWEAR I WILL MAKE ARKY COOK FOR THE WHOLE JOURNEY!

Amid the scrambling of people to get out of the way and into tents, she approached the fire elemental.

"YOU!," She said pointing a finger,"Back where you came from or I bring out the water."

As the elemental tipped his hat hastily, and poofed to nothing, she rounded on Arky.

"Bed. Now. I dont care what you do with it. I dont care where you put it. I dont care if you blow it to the abyss and back...just make sure its yours and unoccupied when you do so!

Stalking away from the whole mess, she went to the perimeter and begin her watch, her eyes glaring at anything caught moving. Daring anything to get in her way at that moment.
 
McBubba

Looking warily over the edge of his hiding place McBubba watched as Arista settled Arky hash but good. When everything had somewhat settled down, he crept out afraid Arky might blow something up in his sleep. Seeing everything quiet, he grabbed his sleeping gear and running like a mad man, placed it behind the rocks he had been hiding behind earlier and went to sleep...
 
Ariana curled into a ball in her sleeping bag. Her eyes closed and soon she drifted off to sleep.

OOC: I wasn't sure what else to write, sorry about how short it is.
 
Arky

Arky reclined on his bedroll, his mind awhirl with the possibilities inherent in his having been given permission to do whatever he wished to it... and promptly fell asleep. His magery had taken quite a lot out of the aging wizard, after all.
 
McBubba

Ic: McBubba slept like a rock, one which had been thourghly doused in alcohol, but still a rock.

Oc: Gotta leave tomorrow, so sorry gang, but no posts till monday. Love ya!
-Darklord
 
Rocky looked at Arista, he wasn't sure whether he should talk to her or not. His mind told him not too, but he didn't want to do anything else stupid.
She scared him.
"Arista," he waved, looking at her. He smiled, trying to bring some light back in her face.
"I was just going to say that..." he was trying to remember what he had come here to talk to her about, "The ... ummm earthquake, it unleashed something in the ground. Ariana and I saw monsters near the place where we stopped."
He swallowed, this wasn't going good at all.
"Anyway, I was just wanting you to know that..." he gave up, "That ariana is safe in bed. Goodnight."
He quickly made his way back to his own place to sleep right next to Ariana.
 
Biggrin

Biggrin was a giant. A real beanstalk-climbing, bone-grinding, fifty-feet tall giant. And he had a problem. None of his family would take him seriously after some kid had chopped down his beanstalk. For the last century, he had roamed the area, hoping to find some way to impress his folks.

Now, Biggrin had grown up on tales of how his relatives had done all sorts of amazing things. However, the most highly-respected deeds of his ancestors always involved kidnapping human princesses. Unfortunately, this area had always had a definite shortage in the royalty department. This kinda suited Biggrin, anyway, as he had left home without ever quite figuring out why giants and dragons kidnapped princesses in the first place.

One thing giants do have, which few people realize, is a very, very good nose. He had bedded down for the night on a stand of soft trees. Some time later, he was awakened by a familiar fragance... Virginal Princess! Almost sleep-walking, he followed the scent all the way to Princess Ariana

OOC: I was sooo sleeeeepy when I first wrote that. Sorry about the confusion. Princess Mel is in a very, very different thread ;)
 
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Ariana's eyes fluttered but she stayed asleep when Rocky entered the room. Her dreams were strange ones.. and very upsetting.

Arian's Dream

She stood at a wedding alter and the strangest thing was Rocky was the groom. He had that goofy grin on his face that in the dream she felt attracted to. She didn't understand what was going on. Rocky was speaking to her when suddenly he disapeared and was replaced by a facless figure whom she guessed to her future husband the prince. Shaking her head she began backing away but he was behind her. "no" she murmered unaware that she was actually speaking out loud in her sleep. "I want Rocky"

Ariana tossed and turned saying over and over again that she wanted Rocky. However in her dream the prince had grabbed her and was about to kiss her when she sat up her eyes wide and trembling. She saw the Rocky was in the tent with a strange expression on his face. She blushed unsure of what to say of do now.
 
Biggrin

OOC: LadySiren, I apologize in advance for interfering in your plan...


Biggrin moved in a daze, amazingly quietly for a creature his size. The scent he was following led him to a campsite, strangely still. Rocky had been on guard, but he managed to pick exactly the wrong time to step into Princess Ariana's tent.

Much like plucking a strawberry, Biggrin reached down and snatched the entire tent up in one huge hand, spilling Rocky to the ground.

The rough canvas tent acted like a bag around Mel, and she was not so very uncomfortable. As the camp erupted into chaos in the giant's wake, he strode off to the hills, much faster than anyone could follow.

When he arrived, and dumped out the princess onto the ground, she was frightened, and really pissed. He looked down at her, and spoke in a basso rumble, "Hello pretty princess. My name is Biggrin. Who are you?"
 
He scrambled forward, nearly out of breath as he finally made it to Arista.
"Arista..... Big..... bad.... " his hand was on his knees as he held himself up. It felt like he would fall any minute. The world actually seemed to spin during each breath.
"Monster.... Ariana.... ouch.... help."
He fell to the ground, looking up at the night sky. His eyes went to Arista's, hoping she knew what he was talking about. People rarely did when he was talking normal. Why did he think this was any different?
He waited until his breathing had calmed down.
"Arista, Ariana was kidnapped by a big bad monster thing. He took her, we need to find her and bring her back. She wants me, she kept saying it over and over. I need to help her."
 
OOC: thats ok :)

IC: Ariana struggled in the Giants fists until he finall sat her down. Instead of cowering in fright she walked over and kicked in his big toe " you big oaf! Why did you have to do that, me and Rocky would have had a moment if it wasn't for you. Dammit! How could you!" she began pacing " you couldn't wait until I had my first kiss nooo you had to go and pull this shit" she began kicking him in earnest "damn you damn you damn you" then she sat down exhausted from her tirade and she looked up at him then back at the ground. "damn!" was all she said.
 
Biggrin

"OUCH!" the giant boomed. He had a corn right where she had kicked him, and it was exceedingly sore. Whatever he was supposed go be doing with a captive princess, he was reasonably certain it didn't involve getting injured! Still, he was determined to live up to the clan name, and earn their respect, if he ever figured out where they were. After all, he had his very own virgin princess, so what could possibly go wrong?

"That not nice, Princess. What you kick Biggrin for? You want first kiss? Biggrin give you one, if you want. Uh... What is kiss?"
 
Ariana glared " I don't want my first kiss with you, I want it to be with Rocky! the man you probably crushed while trying to save me!" then it hit her, what if he had crushed Rocky, what if he were hurt "damn you!" she yelled kicking him again. "if you've hurt Rocky I'll make your life a living hell!" then she walked over and began sulking in the corner muttering things about giants and their damn virgin princesses. "why did I stay a virgin!"
 
Biggrin

This little princess person seemed so unhappy. Maybe she just needed cheering up! Biggrin scratched his head, making Ariana wonder briefly if winter had come very early, then had a brilliant idea! She must be hungry! He knew just how to fix that. He'd caught a bear a couple of weeks ago, and had been letting the carcass age, getting all nice and juicy, not to mention really rotten. Surely she would be delighted to partake in such a treat?!

Biggrin ducked into his cave for a moment, then brought out the dead bear, its fur crawling with maggots and flies, reeking as only a week old corpse left out in the heat can. He dropped it in front of Ariana, and the foul thing burst open, splashing her with disgusting gore.
 
Ariana let out a scream standing up and backing away. It wasn't a scream of fear and it wasn't one of disgust it was one of outrage. "You disgusting over sized, rotting, peice of SHIT!" she glared up at him. "I want to go back now!" she stomped her foot doing her best impression of a hissy fit for not getting her way. She was after all a spoiled princess. "Take me back! or I'll kick in all your toes!"
 
Arista

OOC: Sorry everyone for letting this go. RL has really been dumping on me lately.

IC: Arista stood above Rocky, looking the way the giant had gone and wondering not where he had taken the princess but if Rocky hadnt gone over the edge completely with that statement about the princess wanting him.

She had, of course, seen the giant coming into camp and had drawn her sword. Not that she could have missed the hulk even if her vision wasnt 20/20 or that the sword she held was going to do her any more good than a toothpick would.

Someone came up behind her and she heard them say,"Well, arent we going after her?"

Arista bit her lip. "I'm thinking....I'm thinking."

Then with a sigh, she threw up her hands and said,"Yeah, I suppose we have to. Everyone break camp and saddle up. He shouldnt be hard to follow. Then again the broken trees and gigantic foot impressions would give it away some."

Soon the camp was broken down and they were on their way, following the path of destruction before them.
 
McBubba

McBubba wasn't much for thinking while drunk, so he said a lot of things which shouldn't be said while drunk, such as... "Well, aren't we going after her?" he still couldn't believe that he had said that, even though the whole group was now riding through the woods in a desperate attempt to save the overly spoiled princess.

"Damn, damn, damn, damn..." was the only, and continual thought in McBubba's mind as they rode.
 
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