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Post by Black Knight Durante on Jan 29, 2014 20:33:48 GMT
And thus, the three of them made a long trek from Greece to England. To prevent the travel from being completely monotonous, Durante and Berach sing varies songs along the way, much to Elysium's annoyance and dismay.
In the end, they finally reached the fabled monument, Stonehenge. The giant ring of stone slabs tower the three of them, and the mysterious construct seems to be emanating strange energies.
Elyisum starts to separate from the group as she starts trying to get a read on this energy. However, Durante turns to Berach.
"So do you know anything about Stonehenge, besides being the resting place of Ambrosius Aurelianus?"
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Post by Berach Liathain on Feb 6, 2014 18:32:40 GMT
"About Stonehenge itself? There's plenty of stories, but very little correlation between all of them, so not a whole lot we can use as grounds for investigating." He pauses for a minute, then chuckles, waving his hand. "Well, unless you'd like to investigate the possibility of creatures from another planet out of the sky coming and laying down the rocks one by one as a message that they visited Earth. Or that they were healing stones arranged by an ancient wizard in honor of a massacre."
He shrugs. "Still, if you want some of the more interesting tales, I can give you a short rundown, though there might not be a lot we can go off."
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Feb 23, 2014 21:18:21 GMT
Durante shrugs. "Unless it's going to help us, then I don't think there is much of a point telling me."
Elysium starts looking over each individual stone slab. The energy radiating from these stone is rather strange, but among this energy, she feels another source of energy that feels familiar, yet faint.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Mar 17, 2014 0:01:28 GMT
After losing Pyrrha, Tira had decided to go for the other malfested child, Pyrrha’s little brother, Patroklos.
But as she came in Athens, spying on Sophitia, as the Greek woman was preparing for her trip and telling her family, the crazy girl discovered that someone of much more importance had been there : Soul Calibur! So learning that the sword, in human form, had left to England with some knight and druid, she decided to follow them. Patroklos could sleep well for some more times and his family as well…
Beside she had enough of taking care of children right now. She already spent too much time with Pyrrha, she’ll come back for both of them later. She had to play with the grown-ups now… What were they up to? She had to see for Soul Edge…
As she arrived in England, she followed their trace with the help of her birds, to some old site, reputedly magical : Stonehenge. What did Soul Calibur wanted from that? Once on Stonehenge site, Tira was still quite far, she could only see the giant rocks looking very small, some small people moving around and not much details, even less hear what they were saying.
The malfested woman then decided to send one of her raven to see from much closer. She kissed her bird, wishing it good luck since she also feared that the incarnate sword could feel it. She hoped she was herself far enough since she feared the Holy sword but Soul Edge had to know what was going on… Beside it was exciting to play hide and seek with someone so scary…
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Post by Berach Liathain on Apr 13, 2014 17:23:13 GMT
"Aahh, all right. Goddess knows not every story is going to be relevant, though it'd still be nice to see evidence of wizards versus aliens or something."
After that, though, Berach tilted his head as he looked around--the trees in this place were...odd. Some of them were typical trees, ancient and full of life, but others were...well...not. He couldn't quite pinpoint what the "not" specifically was, but he had a feeling that there was definitely something to the rumors. He went on over to Elysium, putting a hand on her shoulder as he continues looking about. "Hey, what do you feel about this place? I'm getting some...odd readings."
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Post by Admin Knight Durante on Apr 20, 2014 23:43:39 GMT
Elysium casually shrugs off Berach's hand as she replied.
"These rocks are giving off some kind of healing energy or magic. That's the purpose of these rocks."
Elysium then starts to hover around from stone to stone, sensing the other energy source intensifying as she moves closer to it.
"However, more importantly, I'm sensing other energy source from..."
As the raven moves in towards the trio, Elysium narrows her eyes as she senses the evil energies within the malfested bird.
"A watcher... We're being spied on."
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Post by Amy Sorel on Apr 25, 2014 20:19:04 GMT
The malfested bird was coming toward the trio, gazing at them, when suddenly one of the men came toward Elysium and put his hand on her shoulder, saying something.
Since the watcher was still too far to fully understand, it kept flying toward them when suddenly it noticed that the incarnate sword was looking in its direction. The bird suddenly felt the aggressive energy directed toward it by Elysium’s piercing gaze and felt threatened. It quickly went into another direction, trying to see if it really was discovered as Tira told it to do since she didn’t want her beloved bird to be killed. She had thought maybe the strong energy of the place would have confused the senses of Elysium and her friends but maybe not…
Meanwhile a little bit farther, Tira wondered if she should back away or not. Maybe she would have to run quite fast soon… Yet now she was still standing there, staring at them from afar and hoping her bird was out of reach. She somehow feared more for her bird than for her own safety but she had to know what they were doing here. She had to tell Soul Edge.
But she also told herself that if she didn't learn anything now, she would later, she knew she was persistant while stalking her victims if she wished to be… but she also was impatient and wanted to know it now. Maybe it really was important to know it now before they do something.
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Post by Berach Liathain on May 11, 2014 3:16:41 GMT
Berach chuckles as he slides her hand off, seemed surprisingly unconcerned about the idea that someone else was watching. "...There are millions of dark forces constantly keeping an eye on us, every day. If we stop going forward for fear of the walls having eyes, we'd never make any progress. At the moment, they're not threatening us, so I think that's all right."
He stepped forward, looking back and forth between the stones as well. "Interesting...healing magic? This would be a wonderful type of power to be able to control or tap into at will. No wonder it's such a popular spot for myths and legends..."
Hmmm. Well, now was the time to see what kind of power they had. He cracked his knuckles, bracing himself for any sort of potential holy backlash, then reached out and grabbed one of the smaller carvings, gritting his teeth and starting to raise one of the massive monuments by a few inches.
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Post by Black Knight Durante on May 11, 2014 16:34:12 GMT
Durante shook his head. "Are you crazy? If the enemy is spying on us, then we should stop to prevent them from knowing what we're up to. The less they know what we're up to, the more advantageous the situation we will have."
Elysium turned back to the others as she watched the Watcher flee the area. "I don't think it really matters now, because it seems to have flown away. If it dares come back, then I'll deal with it."
As Berach lifted one of the stones, there wasn't any violent backlash as predicted. The stone is still giving off healing energies, but because the circle was disrupted, the intensity of the healing energy flow has decreased.
Elysium used this time to quickly pinpoint the other energy source and darted toward it. Once she figured out the source and points downwards at the spot and two shovels appeared. "It's here. We need to dig here."
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Post by Berach Liathain on Jun 5, 2014 21:59:48 GMT
Berach grinned wide as she summoned two shovels, putting the monument down and heading on over. He picked up both of them in his hand and stretched wide. "Leave this to me, friends. I've got this, no problem!" And with that, his arms started working in a frenzy--as if lifting the massive gigantic monument wasn't enough, it was clear at this point that his muscles weren't just for show. He did the work of two men with half the trouble of one, shoving the spades down in and starting to rip the ground out from underneath him. Dirt flew up in arcs, the very earth itself giving him absolutely no trouble as he worked in a cycle, shoving one spade into the ground and yanking it up to swing the dirt away before shoving the other spade down in afterwards. With a pace like this, it would be a good-enough depth in absolutely no time at all.
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Jun 8, 2014 20:23:14 GMT
Durante just tilts his head, wondering how he's even making so much progress with digging with shovels in both hands. Normally, it seems more hindering than helpful.. but whatever. Sometimes, it's best not to over think it.
Eventually, Berach hits something really solid in the dirt. It seems to be a coffin of sorts.
Elyisum then peers into hole. "That must be it. That's what we are looking for."
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Post by Amy Sorel on Jun 10, 2014 20:12:33 GMT
Still looking for Ivy to get some advice or get killed by her, depending on what she would decide to do, Siegfried went to England once more. Ivy was the same as him, they both committed unforgivable sins and both were now trying to destroy Soul Edge so the blond fighter still thought they should ally themselves. Yet Ivy seemed reluctant to do it and mostly eager to destroy all of Soul Edge remains, that meaning also him and her. And Siegfried understood. He even wondered in the case that she wanted to kill him, if he should let her do it. He deserved it.
Yet Soul Edge had to be destroyed first… they should really ally themselves together to achieve this… She was one of the few who knew about Soul Edge and could help him and give him advice on what to do… There were also some others but he didn’t know them much… those who beat him as Nightmare the first time, yet he didn’t know who they were or where they were aside from the fact that they were coming from Asia. There may be others as well but he didn’t really know who knew enough and would help…
Another one he knew was Princess Hildegard Von Krone… She was so wise… kind, courageous… and beautiful… Siegfried remembered her with much admiration, she was the one who saved him, who forgave him… Probably he would love even more to get advice from her than from Ivy. He would trust her without any questions. But she was not very …accessible… She was a princess with a kingdom and all… How could he come and say to the guards: "Hi I’m Siegfried. You know, that guy who was Nightmare and killed much of your people? I would like to meet with your princess…"
It was impossible to meet her now, she had offered him to follow her when she forgave him but he deemed himself not worthy enough and refused. And now he didn’t know how to meet with her.
Beside she may have forgiven him but he still felt too dirtied by his sins to be in her gracious presence. That was not nice for Ivy but Siegfried felt she was not that much above him and he felt more at ease to see her. Except for the maybe killing him thing. But whatever.
Last time Ivy was gone from England and now Siegfried learned she was in England and was looking for magical artefacts. It wasn’t a big help… What magical artefact? Where? He wasn’t even certain that what he heard was true… But as he was thinking about this and inquiring about the magical artefacts here in England, he learned of Stonehenge. Maybe he could go check it out…
As he came to the Holy site, he noticed three people. One of them was digging (quite eagerly)and making a hole in the earth where one of the big stones should have been. A woman was there watching it but it didn’t seem to be Ivy. Were they some kind of grave robbers or something? The woman had long blond hair and as he approached, Siegfried recognized her: Soul Calibur, known as Elysium in her human form.
Still confused about Soul Calibur’s purity with all that happened, Siegfried had wished to think about it far from Elysium and had refused to follow her last time. He even got rid of her when he got ‘destroyed’ Soul Edge. So he felt a little guilty toward her if she really was the Holy sword he first thought she was. Yet she had forgiven him for that last time and offered him to join her again…
She was Holy, and even if maybe not that kind and pure, she was not as evil as Soul Edge, that he knew… And since he was here, maybe he should meet her again… maybe it was destiny… He also realized that the two others were the two men she was with last time. He barely saw them… He didn’t remember their names… Maybe he should go meet everybody… Beside he was getting nowhere alone… Probably by observing Elysium from near, he could better judge of her intentions anyway… So he walked toward them still wondering what they were doing.
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Jun 21, 2014 22:14:55 GMT
Berach looked at the solid spot. "Oh yea? Then let's have a look!"
After he fervently scoops out the dirt covering the casket, he brushes his hand over it while looking over this ancient coffin. "Sorry to disturb you, but it seems like you have something we need."
He then uses his strength to gently lift the coffin out of its hole while Durante grabs the other end to pull it to the surface. Once the coffin was excavated, Berach then easily climbs out of the hole with his bare hands with the shovels in tow on his back.
As the three of them crowded over the coffin, Elysium then swings the coffin's door open. Inside was indeed the skeletal remains of Aurelius Ambrosius, but also on his person was what appears to be a special kind of armor. It looked as if the maille armor he wore was covered in a layer of thick blue crystal.
Elyisum spoke, "His armor is what we need."
But as Siegfried approach, Elysium quickly turned his attention to him and uttered in an unwelcoming tone, "Siegfried..."
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Post by Amy Sorel on Jun 22, 2014 14:22:11 GMT
Still looking at what was happening while walking toward them, Siegfried suddenly noticed that the men were getting something out of the hole. A coffin… People were buried here? He knew the place was supposedly magical but didn’t know about the people buried here…
But the trio apparently knew and were digging for a grave and now they were opening it. Siegfried was surprised: They really were opening a grave? It was a sacrilegious profanation… He was a little surprised that Soul Calibur would do such a thing… Yet they probably had a reason, Soul Calibur was not the kind to plunder graves… Whose grave was it?
Siegfried stopped and stared at the trio. As Elysium turned toward him Siegfried was still staring in surprise, glancing at both Elysium and the opened coffin. He wondered if he should ask what they were doing, if he should salute them but all that first came from his mouth was:
"I… didn’t expect to see you here…"
Somehow he still felt intimidated by Elysium, he still wasn’t sure of her intentions, he was himself confused at what he should do but he should be polite anyway. Even after all that happened. So he tried to show her some respect by then walking a little closer and slightly bowed to her.
"My Lady…"
Should he call a sword like that? Whatever. He then looked at them all to see what they would say. Maybe he should salute the others as well…
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Jun 23, 2014 4:49:03 GMT
Durante raised his eyebrow. Siegfried is here? How strange considering that he left he group back in Greece, but they still managed to find them again. Still, he decided to go along with it. "Hello, Siegfried. It's been a while hasn't it?"
Berach decided to offer a more casual introduction. He walked up to Siegfried and gives him a friendly jab at his arm. "Hey, Siggy. Decided to help us save the world?"
However, Elyisum hovers up to Siegfried and spoke in a cold demeanor. "Or have you decided to put an end to my plans?"
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