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((OOC: CLOSED Thread at the moment. Please read and enjoy. For those unfamiliar, it takes place in the world of White Wolf's Games Exalted RPG. If you're interested in the thread or the game, please feel free to PM))
Bandit camps were places of noise and carousal after a successful raid. Cheers, bawdy songs, the clinking of jade and looted trinkets, the clash of mugs and ale casks, the sobbing and cries of those carried off as prizes as the bandits took their joy. Yet this one was not. There was not noise but music. Flutes and a drum and even a fiddle, playing together and well a tune of ethereal quality and beauty. A song that tried, but failed, to recapture the beauty and horror of things not of Creation.
The bandits looked like most of their kind; dirty and unkempt, with ragged arms and only a few with tattered armor. Until one saw their faces. Then they saw the eyes that were inhumanly hungering and needful, glassy, and unfocused as if straining to see into another world. Bands like these were feared far more than any mere bandits, for these were humans whose hearts and minds had been claimed by the Fair Folk and had been sent back into Creation to bring the rakshas more victims. The Ravagers knew no fear or lust, save for that of the Fair Ones, loved and desired and feared over all else.
Tents were erected here and there; the camp laid out with little reason or sense. The bandits themselves, save for those out in the woods on watch, were gathered about a large fire, eating and playing, and whispering among one another about if this would be enough for their masters to give them some joy. A group of captives, girls and boys in the blossoming of adulthood, were tied together between several large trees in the otherwise clear area of the camp. They had been cared for and harmed less than others taken by more normal bandits but their fear was greater. Bandits would ravish their bodies and sell them into slavery. The Ravagers were going to give them to the Fair Folk who would eat away their dreams, hearts, their wills, until they were broken shells of people, only them to be sold into slavery. They wept.
The song rose in tempo and pitch into a wildly hopeful whirl, begging for celebration, and then cut off in flighty sighs of flutes and a trailed off screech of the fiddle. The musicians stared past their fellows with their glassy eyes; the rest of the bandits turning to do the same.
At the edge of the clearing, walking purposefully towards them was a lone man. Well, more like a boy. Not into his twentieth year yet but likely not far from his features. He was dressed in the simple clothes of a farming youth; slightly baggy breeches, stained brown leather shoes, a thigh length tunic of undyed gray bound with rope for a belt, a few pouches hanging from it. There was a small grain flail tucked into the rope belt next to the sheath for a crude handled knife. In his hands the youth carried an old but well maintained scythe; the blade of the harvesting tool gleaming dully in the light of the fire.
He stopped perhaps seven feet from the ring of raiders. The youth was tall and strong; not yet filled into his build through lack of proper food more than anything else. His skin was light complected but weathered by time in the sun. He was handsome, though he would likely be more so clean and in garb that was not old and threadbare, with clear carved, strong features. His eyes were a shocking green like light shining through a polished emerald and his hair was a wild shoulder length mane of dark brown. Lips that would be full with a steady diet were set in a determined expression. "Once chance, Ravagers. Let them," the head of the scythe indicating the startled captives, "come with me and leave us and the town alone. Or die and I'll take them home anyway."
The raiders started to stand up, drawing weapons. A lean, rawboned woman shook her head, "Silly boy, we can't do that. The pretty masters won't like that at all."
Another, a scar face man, smiled. "You'll just join us on our way. You got past our watchers, but they've heard you now so no way back out. They-"
"They're dead." The raiders paused in their advance, glassy eyes oddly curious. The young man pulled a long string of leather with a wide bowl in the middle from his belt and let if fall; a sling. "It doesn't make noise and neither will they now."
The lean woman raised her eyebrows, "Oh, they'll like you, silly boy. Very much. Would be heroes taste good, they say." And she waved her thick bladed sword vaguely at him. Taking it for a signal, the remaining bandits began to charge but before they had even moved, he struck.
The young man's feet slid apart and planted firmly, his shoulders set, the scythe raised with deceptive slowness. The edge glinted gold in the moment before it fell and the screams began. He swung the curved bladed tool in a wide arc and three fell; cut open at the stomach. Those remaining nearest him lashed out with clumsy swings but the peasant knocked them aside with the haft of the scythe. He stepped forward and a glint of brilliant gold seemed to appear on his forehead; growing sharper and more defined as he attacked again. He blurred into motion, faster than any mortal could, the crude blade of the scythe arcing down and around and through four times in the space of moments it took a man to breathe and each blow felled a man, two of them cut into pieces that tumbled to the dirt.
Though half their number had fallen, ravagers were without fear; their ability to feel it had been stripped away. Those left rushed in and brought their weapons down. But the boy was like unto a mighty oak and though his tunic and trousers were torn by the strikes of foes, all they did was raise thin red lines on his flesh, not even enough to bruise.
The raw boned woman stared in shock as more of her band were cut down; screaming and cursing and praying to the Fair Ones to save them. Golden light mingled with red and white now shone around the boy and on his forehead burned a gold symbol; an eight rayed sunburst. She stepped back, "Im...impossible. An..Anathema! Forsaken!" Then the blade of the scythe buried itself between her breasts and her glassy eyes stared into the boy's emerald gaze.
He wrenched the blade free and she toppled over without a sound. "You've got nerve calling me that, with what you were going to do." The light coming off of him cast flickering shadows off of the bodies of the bandits as they lay strewn around the camp site. The farm boy looked at them and sighed, his eyes sad. A little more of his innocence lost.
The captives stared as he drew near, a few of them starting to cry. All had heard stories of the Anathema. The monsters in human form that had ruled Creation long ago; gold and silver but the gold was worst! Abominations and horrors, greater killers than any raksha or demon! One of the older ones, a pretty girl in her eighteenth year stood up as his light washed over them, "Y-you killed them...and now...now us too?"
He looked at her and then drew his knife from his belt. The blade wasn't even steel but simple iron. The girl turned her head as he grabbed her hands and then blinked as she felt the ropes around them fall away. "Don't be an idiot. You're Ilya, right?" She nodded dumbly. "Your dad'll be glad to have you back. The rest of you too, I bet." She, and the other prisoners, continued to stare at him as he went down the line and cut them loose.
"B-but...you're Ana-"
"The hell I am!" She flinched at his raised voice and he sighed again, closing his eyes. "Sorry. Just don't call me that. I'm not that. My name's Torasin." He shrugged, "They called me "Tor" at home." He walked away from the group of teenagers. "Now, if saving you all isn't enough for you to trust me, you can stay here until sunrise and hope they," he nudged one of the corpses with a foot, "didn't have any friends coming to meet them. Otherwise, I'm going back to your village. You're welcome to come with me."
Ilya took a few faltering steps after the stranger, "But in the dark..."
Torasin's lips turned up in an almost smile. They were all pretty scared. "Don't worry." He spent a sliver of his power and the light around him increased; a brilliant golden aura around him, bright enough to see clearly a spear's cast away. "I'll keep the darkness back."
Breaths and moans mingled together in the rich room; the large bed draped in silks, its fine covers tossed and scattered by the movements of the entwining bodies on it. The man was large but not in height. He had the glossy skin and hair of one who ate often and well; his black hair shiny, s pointy beard on his pudgy face. His bare chest and bulging belly were sweaty and heaved with effort as his hips bucked up and down, driving his hard cock into the heavenly form above him. Such a form that he didn't notice how much more effort it was taking than normal.
The woman was gorgeous. She was a northerner; her skin pale and smooth and her hair was a flaming mass of copper curls that fell down past her shoulders in a glorious mane. Her lips were pink as were the erect nipples on her large, high, pert breasts. They jiggled and bounced as the man under her pumped himself up into her, filling her pink, wet cunt with his dick again and again. Her face was beautiful and her eyes were the stormy blue of the northern seas. She moaned out, her luscious lips in a smile as he fucked her, doing his best to please her, giving her that delicious fullness over and over.
"Ah-hh!" He gasped, his breath ragged, "Ah-am-amazing! Suh-so good, n-never had better-!"
"Ohh, I know," she cooed. "I'm the best you'll ever have." She whimpered as she felt his thrusting lose pace, "Oh, dragons! Fuck! You going to cum? Going to give me your jizz? Oh, give it me, lord! Rich man! Master, give it to me!"
He groaned and his hips bucked wildly. She purred as she felt his member spasm in her, jets of heat spraying into her, pumping his last load into her willing and waiting body. "Uhh...so...so incredible...so good...never felt one...like that..."
She smiled down at him; a self-satisfied and unfriendly expression. "I know. And you'll never know better."
He laughed weakly, struggling to regain his breath. "Ha...hh...hh...how do you...know that? I'll...huhh-hire you...on..." His eyes were unfocused but he was trying to orient them on her. "C-can't..."
"Finally figured out something's wrong, rich man?" She laughed and held up a hand. Around the base of her middle finger was a ring of bronze that had a thin, needle-like blade, maybe an inch long on it. "I know you'll never have better because I poisoned you when you put it in me and let you fuck yourself to death." Her eyes were hard. "You sold people to the Fair Folk to have their souls eaten so you could get perfect docile slaves to sell. And it made you rich and powerful and you were so sure no one could touch you." She stood up off of him and his cum spilled out of her onto his quivering form as it fought for breath. "But you were so willing to touch me."
She stepped off of the bed and leaned down to whisper in his ear, "There's always justice, rich man. Tell everyone you meet in hell that the Sun sees your sins again. And I will deliver his justice on every one of you filthy bastards."
His last breath was a sad, gurgling thing. Just before the light faded from his eyes, she blew him a kiss.
There was a sudden commotion in the house beyond his bedroom as she stood up from the dead merchant. Raised voices. Sounds of fighting? But no one could know what she'd done yet. So..."Did you have other enemies, you fat pig?"
Bandit camps were places of noise and carousal after a successful raid. Cheers, bawdy songs, the clinking of jade and looted trinkets, the clash of mugs and ale casks, the sobbing and cries of those carried off as prizes as the bandits took their joy. Yet this one was not. There was not noise but music. Flutes and a drum and even a fiddle, playing together and well a tune of ethereal quality and beauty. A song that tried, but failed, to recapture the beauty and horror of things not of Creation.
The bandits looked like most of their kind; dirty and unkempt, with ragged arms and only a few with tattered armor. Until one saw their faces. Then they saw the eyes that were inhumanly hungering and needful, glassy, and unfocused as if straining to see into another world. Bands like these were feared far more than any mere bandits, for these were humans whose hearts and minds had been claimed by the Fair Folk and had been sent back into Creation to bring the rakshas more victims. The Ravagers knew no fear or lust, save for that of the Fair Ones, loved and desired and feared over all else.
Tents were erected here and there; the camp laid out with little reason or sense. The bandits themselves, save for those out in the woods on watch, were gathered about a large fire, eating and playing, and whispering among one another about if this would be enough for their masters to give them some joy. A group of captives, girls and boys in the blossoming of adulthood, were tied together between several large trees in the otherwise clear area of the camp. They had been cared for and harmed less than others taken by more normal bandits but their fear was greater. Bandits would ravish their bodies and sell them into slavery. The Ravagers were going to give them to the Fair Folk who would eat away their dreams, hearts, their wills, until they were broken shells of people, only them to be sold into slavery. They wept.
The song rose in tempo and pitch into a wildly hopeful whirl, begging for celebration, and then cut off in flighty sighs of flutes and a trailed off screech of the fiddle. The musicians stared past their fellows with their glassy eyes; the rest of the bandits turning to do the same.
At the edge of the clearing, walking purposefully towards them was a lone man. Well, more like a boy. Not into his twentieth year yet but likely not far from his features. He was dressed in the simple clothes of a farming youth; slightly baggy breeches, stained brown leather shoes, a thigh length tunic of undyed gray bound with rope for a belt, a few pouches hanging from it. There was a small grain flail tucked into the rope belt next to the sheath for a crude handled knife. In his hands the youth carried an old but well maintained scythe; the blade of the harvesting tool gleaming dully in the light of the fire.
He stopped perhaps seven feet from the ring of raiders. The youth was tall and strong; not yet filled into his build through lack of proper food more than anything else. His skin was light complected but weathered by time in the sun. He was handsome, though he would likely be more so clean and in garb that was not old and threadbare, with clear carved, strong features. His eyes were a shocking green like light shining through a polished emerald and his hair was a wild shoulder length mane of dark brown. Lips that would be full with a steady diet were set in a determined expression. "Once chance, Ravagers. Let them," the head of the scythe indicating the startled captives, "come with me and leave us and the town alone. Or die and I'll take them home anyway."
The raiders started to stand up, drawing weapons. A lean, rawboned woman shook her head, "Silly boy, we can't do that. The pretty masters won't like that at all."
Another, a scar face man, smiled. "You'll just join us on our way. You got past our watchers, but they've heard you now so no way back out. They-"
"They're dead." The raiders paused in their advance, glassy eyes oddly curious. The young man pulled a long string of leather with a wide bowl in the middle from his belt and let if fall; a sling. "It doesn't make noise and neither will they now."
The lean woman raised her eyebrows, "Oh, they'll like you, silly boy. Very much. Would be heroes taste good, they say." And she waved her thick bladed sword vaguely at him. Taking it for a signal, the remaining bandits began to charge but before they had even moved, he struck.
The young man's feet slid apart and planted firmly, his shoulders set, the scythe raised with deceptive slowness. The edge glinted gold in the moment before it fell and the screams began. He swung the curved bladed tool in a wide arc and three fell; cut open at the stomach. Those remaining nearest him lashed out with clumsy swings but the peasant knocked them aside with the haft of the scythe. He stepped forward and a glint of brilliant gold seemed to appear on his forehead; growing sharper and more defined as he attacked again. He blurred into motion, faster than any mortal could, the crude blade of the scythe arcing down and around and through four times in the space of moments it took a man to breathe and each blow felled a man, two of them cut into pieces that tumbled to the dirt.
Though half their number had fallen, ravagers were without fear; their ability to feel it had been stripped away. Those left rushed in and brought their weapons down. But the boy was like unto a mighty oak and though his tunic and trousers were torn by the strikes of foes, all they did was raise thin red lines on his flesh, not even enough to bruise.
The raw boned woman stared in shock as more of her band were cut down; screaming and cursing and praying to the Fair Ones to save them. Golden light mingled with red and white now shone around the boy and on his forehead burned a gold symbol; an eight rayed sunburst. She stepped back, "Im...impossible. An..Anathema! Forsaken!" Then the blade of the scythe buried itself between her breasts and her glassy eyes stared into the boy's emerald gaze.
He wrenched the blade free and she toppled over without a sound. "You've got nerve calling me that, with what you were going to do." The light coming off of him cast flickering shadows off of the bodies of the bandits as they lay strewn around the camp site. The farm boy looked at them and sighed, his eyes sad. A little more of his innocence lost.
The captives stared as he drew near, a few of them starting to cry. All had heard stories of the Anathema. The monsters in human form that had ruled Creation long ago; gold and silver but the gold was worst! Abominations and horrors, greater killers than any raksha or demon! One of the older ones, a pretty girl in her eighteenth year stood up as his light washed over them, "Y-you killed them...and now...now us too?"
He looked at her and then drew his knife from his belt. The blade wasn't even steel but simple iron. The girl turned her head as he grabbed her hands and then blinked as she felt the ropes around them fall away. "Don't be an idiot. You're Ilya, right?" She nodded dumbly. "Your dad'll be glad to have you back. The rest of you too, I bet." She, and the other prisoners, continued to stare at him as he went down the line and cut them loose.
"B-but...you're Ana-"
"The hell I am!" She flinched at his raised voice and he sighed again, closing his eyes. "Sorry. Just don't call me that. I'm not that. My name's Torasin." He shrugged, "They called me "Tor" at home." He walked away from the group of teenagers. "Now, if saving you all isn't enough for you to trust me, you can stay here until sunrise and hope they," he nudged one of the corpses with a foot, "didn't have any friends coming to meet them. Otherwise, I'm going back to your village. You're welcome to come with me."
Ilya took a few faltering steps after the stranger, "But in the dark..."
Torasin's lips turned up in an almost smile. They were all pretty scared. "Don't worry." He spent a sliver of his power and the light around him increased; a brilliant golden aura around him, bright enough to see clearly a spear's cast away. "I'll keep the darkness back."
~~~~~~~~~
Breaths and moans mingled together in the rich room; the large bed draped in silks, its fine covers tossed and scattered by the movements of the entwining bodies on it. The man was large but not in height. He had the glossy skin and hair of one who ate often and well; his black hair shiny, s pointy beard on his pudgy face. His bare chest and bulging belly were sweaty and heaved with effort as his hips bucked up and down, driving his hard cock into the heavenly form above him. Such a form that he didn't notice how much more effort it was taking than normal.
The woman was gorgeous. She was a northerner; her skin pale and smooth and her hair was a flaming mass of copper curls that fell down past her shoulders in a glorious mane. Her lips were pink as were the erect nipples on her large, high, pert breasts. They jiggled and bounced as the man under her pumped himself up into her, filling her pink, wet cunt with his dick again and again. Her face was beautiful and her eyes were the stormy blue of the northern seas. She moaned out, her luscious lips in a smile as he fucked her, doing his best to please her, giving her that delicious fullness over and over.
"Ah-hh!" He gasped, his breath ragged, "Ah-am-amazing! Suh-so good, n-never had better-!"
"Ohh, I know," she cooed. "I'm the best you'll ever have." She whimpered as she felt his thrusting lose pace, "Oh, dragons! Fuck! You going to cum? Going to give me your jizz? Oh, give it me, lord! Rich man! Master, give it to me!"
He groaned and his hips bucked wildly. She purred as she felt his member spasm in her, jets of heat spraying into her, pumping his last load into her willing and waiting body. "Uhh...so...so incredible...so good...never felt one...like that..."
She smiled down at him; a self-satisfied and unfriendly expression. "I know. And you'll never know better."
He laughed weakly, struggling to regain his breath. "Ha...hh...hh...how do you...know that? I'll...huhh-hire you...on..." His eyes were unfocused but he was trying to orient them on her. "C-can't..."
"Finally figured out something's wrong, rich man?" She laughed and held up a hand. Around the base of her middle finger was a ring of bronze that had a thin, needle-like blade, maybe an inch long on it. "I know you'll never have better because I poisoned you when you put it in me and let you fuck yourself to death." Her eyes were hard. "You sold people to the Fair Folk to have their souls eaten so you could get perfect docile slaves to sell. And it made you rich and powerful and you were so sure no one could touch you." She stood up off of him and his cum spilled out of her onto his quivering form as it fought for breath. "But you were so willing to touch me."
She stepped off of the bed and leaned down to whisper in his ear, "There's always justice, rich man. Tell everyone you meet in hell that the Sun sees your sins again. And I will deliver his justice on every one of you filthy bastards."
His last breath was a sad, gurgling thing. Just before the light faded from his eyes, she blew him a kiss.
There was a sudden commotion in the house beyond his bedroom as she stood up from the dead merchant. Raised voices. Sounds of fighting? But no one could know what she'd done yet. So..."Did you have other enemies, you fat pig?"