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[lilmis]

Michelle holds on tightly to Hollow, his actions moments ago where just as swift as his running it had seemed that Viper had made off on his own as she catches faint blurs of his movement in the distance. She looks up at Hollows face and blushes a little it didn't seem as if he had notice to focus on catching up to viper. Michelle took her mind to Hollows sword as it laid on her body she could feel it's edges as it rubs ever so slightly against her. The blade it's self didn't seem to have any special properties to it part from begin it's begin just as tall as her when stood up and the wavy edge made it much useless blade for normal slash attacks.

Michelle had looked up to see where viper had gone but she could no longer see him she hopes he makes it to his entry point before they burst in "Hollow stop, let me down they come to a stop and she dismounts his arms gracefully. "you must be much stronger then you look hollow carrying this heavy thing, oh and my wagon repairs will be coming out of your shares. In less you have some other way to repay me." Michelle giggles and throws him his sword she creeps down in the bushes pulling hollow down with her "Time to get your head right, we have roughly 20 minutes before viper makes his move then we wait another thirty to make our move. Should give him enough time to cause a them some trouble."

She sit back tilting her head back-wards to see Hollow upside down and smiles "take your hood down hollow i want to see your face again. you know you look quite handsome even with when you show your true self." Michelle hums quietly to herself a melody her mother once sung to her to get her to sleep.

[leoin666]

After about ten minutes, Viper had reached his destination. It was unclear how far he had come, and it was also unclear how long they were going to be. "They had better be on time... They are probably doing the dirty right now... Well, as long as they're quick!" said Viper cheerfuly. He approached the fortress. It's walls writhed with ghastly images and faces that groaned at random. He figured that they must bee the souls that the demons had captured and brought back to feed the fortress.

He checked the map as to where the west wall was. He made his way through cover, darting from one piece to another, unseen. He sat and waited for the guard to change. When it came time for the guards to chage posts, he sprang over to the wall and pressed his back against it. When the guards changed position, he flipped around and started climbing. He took out to larger throwing knives and embedded them in the walls and used them to climb the length of the wall. When he got to the top, he hung just over the edge. As the guard passed, he grabbed the collar-bone of one of the demons and dragged it over the wall and let it fall. It hit the ground with a sickening thud and died almost instantly.

Viper hoisted himself up over the wall and the other guard turned to face him. He soon realised that what he was looking at wasn't his friend, he stabbed at him with the glaive he was wielding. Viper stepped effortlessly to the side. "Too slow, big man!" he said eerily and he darted forward, slamming his outsretched hand into it's throat, crushing its windpipe and shattering the bones in it's neck and collarbone. "God damn, these guys are easy! I wish those two would hurry up though. There has to be at least ten thousand of these basards in here..." he looked down at the glaive that rested on the floor, gleaming with the poison he had seen the previous night, "And all of them have poisoned blades..."

[hollowstar]

lady Michelle's action where confusing to hollow but he did as asked, she hummed a melody of that sung to a child to help it sleep. Hollow interrupters her as he stood up and walked though the bushes dragging his sword along the ground, he eye's up five guards the quickly spot him and take up defensive stances. One guard lunges forward with a spear trying to impale, Hollow simply steps to one side the attack bearly misses. The other guards surround hollow as he kicks his sword bringing it up to his shoulder and uses it's weight and his own to launch a horizontal attack.

Hollow takes Michelle's hand and the pair run into the fortress but as they did found them selfs in the middle of thousands of monsters and demons. "I think viper need to hurry up." as he clashes his sword with other varies weapons a stay arrow pieces his leg. He struggle defending himself and watching Michelle's back, he pull the arrow from his leg and stabs a demon in the eye.

"OK Ive had enough." Hollow begins to yank the chain trying to break it the demons and monster stop there attacks and laugh at hollow. One demons specks up by saying you really think you can break a chain forged with magic with just strength. Hollow pulls hard on the thing his frustration beginning to show, The chain snaps a link but as he did the words of the enchanted spell that was cast on it swirls around him. Hollow didn't understand the language each symbol began to burn with black flames but two words didn't burn away. They infused into hollow, he drops his sword the crowd in silence the demons that spoke earlier now eating his own words.

[lilmis]

Michelle follows Hollow as he quickly eliminates the front guards, she blushes as he grabs her hand but was shortly life as they walk into what seems to be an ambush. she calls fourth a scythe she favored this to mush she can conjure up to the reach and deadly blade. She and Hollow fought back to back watching each others back till Hollow was struck by and arrow this seemed to have angered him as he pulls the chain and listens to the demon. "Hollow don't you can't break it." but as she said that the back link snapped, the words of the spell bounded to his chain where visible. The word read bound the wearer to human form, keep the darkness locked in side, never unseal the flames of destruction, seal with in this black chain.

The words begin to burn with black flames but two of the word where absorbed into Hollow, Darkness and destruction. The cling of Hollows sword as it fell to the ground, everything fell silent someone shouts we're doomed and the look of fear crossed there faces, what is so fearful that the demons them self's have sealed Hollow with such a powerful spell and he broke so easy. She places her hand on hollows shoulder to try and wake him from his state she gets more then what she bargained. As something caused her to fall to the floor her head pounding hard with flashes of images the last of a huge figure glowing green eyes and a city laid to waste.

"Hollow what was that? what's happening to you? and these images what are you trying to tell me?" her face showed that of shock of been showed these images a once again the demons spoke up to say black dragon chanting it over and over again and then the word of attack from another.

[leoin666]

Viper watched from the walls, helplessly. It all happened so fast. Hollow had broken his chains. There was no going back now, and he knew it. He had to get Michelle away, as much as she wasn't going to enjoy leaving Hollow to lay waste. The only other option would be to drop him with a good dose of Viper's own venom, accumulated over the years from almost every source imaginable, but even that would only slow him down in his current state.

"Damn!!!" Viper screamed. He had only one option left. He had to eliminate the demons. Leaving them to Hollow would only fuel his hate and rage. The only way to do it quick enough... Fangs of a Tyrant... the technique would almost kill him if he used it on this may enemies at once. It had to be done. There was no other way. "Michelle! Get back or die with the rest of them!" shouted Viper. The demons looked up at him and had stopped chanting. Viper pressed two fingers to his forehead and chanted. The demons watched, fearful of the ever-growing and changing Hollow, and dumbstruck by the other figure. About ten seconds had passed when Viper unleased his attack. "Strike down the stars and Crack the Sky! Fangs of a Tyrant!!"

A thin red line shon for but a moment from Viper's left snake eye and jolted out like a lighntning bolt towards the demon hoard. A split second passed and a large explosion dissintegrated the few demons that stood in the direct line of the blast and sent a large number of others flying, killing them with the mere impact of the blast. Viper staggered and almost fell. He possibly had the strength to do it again, but he would have to wait. While he recovered, he would be unable to fight to his full extent. Most of the combat would have to be left to Michelle now. Viper had to think of a way to get Hollow back under control, and fast...

[lilmis]

Michelle couldn't leave Hollow she but she had to she run out of viper range as he unleashed his attack she looked back to see Hollow. He stood still as he was before she run to him to be blocked by the demons she swings franticly at them taking them down one by one getting closer to him.

Viper get yourself away from here now save yourself, I'll mange Hollow please go." her heart in her throat she continued to to fight them off protecting Hollow her weapon shatters, Michelle was forced to summon up a new weapon she shouts out for a katana a weapon of much harder contraction. But she had no choice if it fail at lest she would take half of what was left with her in the blast. she had manged to get the basics of the blade started but there wasn't enough metals around causing an almighty explosion.

[leoin666]

Viper ducked as a great explosion came from Michelle's vicinity. His stomach sank and he fekt dizzy and . Probably the first person that he had become even more than mere aquaintances with was, most likely, dead. Demon corpses littered the battleground. He jumped from the wall and rolled to soften the impact of his fall. He staggered over to the fallen lady. He dragged her from the crater and placed her head on his lap.

Viper noticed many gashes and lacerations across her body and she was losing blood fast. He had to do something... But what could he do? He still had some medicinal herbs left! He took these out from his pouch and chewed up a meduim sized wad. He removed small bits of it and placed them in the wounds. He would have to do something to replace the lost blood. He would have to transfer a small portion of his own blood to her. He let his eye materialise into it's snake form. It slid down the lenth of his arm and slotted it's tail seemlessly under his own skin just below the elbow. The snake then latched it's fangs onto the same place on Michelle's arm. She should be okay for now as long as he was not interupted. This was an extremely delicate procedure... He saw a slight amount of movement in Michelle as she started to stir.

[hollowstar]

A dragons cry came from Hollow a sound so loud that the walls of the fortress cracked his human form distorted to normal vision. The distortion caused the outline much large figure stood on all fours and almost the same size as smallest tower of the fortress. Thunder clapped and a down pour of rain begin making hollow new appearance more visible, his new from was more dragon like then his human form. Hollow let out another booming cry, this black dragon stood in front of viper and Michelle it's body covered in bones acting like an armor. It's head turn to viper and Michelle and move slowly toward them now visible to them his head cover by a skull it's green eye's peered at them and nudging viper trying to get them to move. A voice so faint came from the massive dragon "please climb....on."

[leoin666]

Viper watched in awe as the sky roiled and rain poured down and thunder struck ominous flashes and booms across the sky. He looked up as a huge dragon, bone plates covering its body, slowly made it's way over to him. It spoke to him in an extremely soft voice, urging him to climb on. "Hollow? Wow... You got big!" said Viper cautiously. "You take her somewhere safe. I have to finish up here. You are too big to fit inside the fortress building. And there is bound to be a Demon in there. If he lives, all of this would have been for nothing. Get Michelle somewhere safe before she dies, Hollow. Do it for her..." He unatatched the snake and had it slither back into his eye socket. He lifted Michelle up and onto Hollow's shoulders and continued on into the fortess bastion in search of the Demon .

[hollowstar]

Hollow nods his head and snorts warm air from his enlarged nostril his wings opens to prepare to fly off he stretched out far and wide knocking down the opposite walls like dominoes. The first few flaps of his bone like structured wing covered with thin skin cause so much draft that dead body's rolled in the gale. His massive weight pulled up by his thin wings to the top of one of the towers and made his way away from the fortress. But as his did a figurer lept from the tower and adopted it's own wings and gave chase to Hollow, it passed Hollow at tremendous speed and stopped dead in front of him. It seemed one of the three queens blocked Hollows path she brandishes her claws and swept passed him she clawed at the bone plates on his shoulders. She barely scratched the surface that plate even though she put enough effort into the attack would cut a man clean in half. She spoke to Hollow, shame you had to break your collar Hollow, we had so many plans for you she giggled but as she did a black fireball was sent her way. She dodges it as if she had all the time in the world letting it hurl it's way into the fortress north/east tower, the tower crumbles before the fireball hits and explodes as it made contact. That wasn't very nice have you forgotten your own little rule said the demon woman using one of his morals against him.

Hollow finding himself no choice but to flee diving downward to pick up speed to get way but to no avail as she kept on his tail havening no way to run he crashes back into the fortress. He stand up as the rubble falls off his hulking body Michelle slips from his shoulders, he nabs her clothing with his teeth and places her gentle on the ground. Her body lifeless almost he nudge her with his snout but no move moment her, he can still her her heart beat faintly. How silly, a behemoth of a dragon caring for a small insect of what's barely a human snapped the women's she glared at them.

Hollow hunches up to protect Michelle as the demon women unleashes a torrent of fireball upon them each one absorbed by his plated armor. She stops to examine what damaged she had cause to find a rather pissed off Hollow, in the end Hollow rules had no more effect or hold of him as his mind gave in to his primal instinct. He stands to charge up a fireball but as he opened his jaws to realize, a giant outline of star appeared then vanished as blast purged from Hollow into path of the demon women. The blast burnt everything in black flame even boulders where reduced to ashes Hollow falls to one side narrowly missed crushing Michelle. It seemed Hollow form had drained most of his normal and laid there resting watching Michelle a she drew breath.

[lilmis]

Michelle's eyes began to flicker as she slowly opens them her vision burled she calls out for Hollow and viper. she heard heavy breathing behind her she froze on the spot as her sight reacted it's self with the light. The rain bounced of her exposed skin each droplet soothing some of her burns, she turns to see a large green eye of what can be described at first sight a gigantic monster. Michelle foolishly let out a small yep like a small frightened cat would, here eyes locked on to beast but all it did was stare a moan.

Michelle studies the beast with her eye's nervously, it's skin was black with large scale armored with plates of carved bones. A skull covered best part of it's head but above the eye of beast the skull was chipped downwards and scaring around the eye. As she gazed over the monster she noticed similarity's to dragons, her face turned to shock and calls out Hollows name.

Michelle struggles to her feet with what strength she had left and stumbled towards the dragon asking if what she can see is him. before Michelle could lay on hand on the dragon an black cloaked figure grabs her hand and a woman's voice arouse "don't you think you have done enough." Michelle shouts back "what do you mean what i have done." she falls to one knee as the figure lets go of her.

The figure turns and places two pale white hand on the snout of the beast and rubs them gentle and talks to it of which Michelle could not understand. The figure stops and lowers her hooded cloak and throws it to one side to show long white hair and features much like hollows. The figure stands with one hand on her hip and says "believe me now?" Michelle slumps to the floor double taking on the event unfolding and not noticing what was about to happen next.

The figure draws a sword from a scabbard the hung loosely around her shoulder and points it to Michelle and says "You are as bad as the humans and tortured you and made you into what you are today. We are not tools for you amusement, using us for our power and killing us when we are no longer use-able." The figure scowls at Michelle as air grow cold "you harvest us like crops when you finish slaying, but for you...." she stopped and looked at the dragon.

Michelle spoke softly "I didn't mean to use him and he did volunteer to help me but is that really what a dragon looks like." Michelle only ever read about them in stories and odd reports. The figure slaps Michelle "Fool can you not see that his human form it mortal wounded and yet you carted him off to battle. Making him open that wound so much he loses his form and become what we wish to hide. I should cut you down now but Hollow wishes that i didn't, poor soul." she slide her sword back into it's scabbard and tends to Hollow and talks to him in that strange tongue again. Michelle sit with her knees covering her face reflecting all of what this stranger had said to her a tear trickles down her face, she hides it as the rain starts to fade away.

[hollowstar]

Hollow stunned as the girl touches his snout her hands cold to the touch. He finds himself unable to speak but more of grunts and moans to which she understood she spoke in the same way. She tries and tells him that she is just like him and ends up showing him she quickly turns to Michelle scolding her harshly. Hollow asked her to stop and had her attention once again as she hugs his giant snout. "Iam glad I have found you, but this situation displeases me greatly." Hollow interrupted her by asking her if she was really a half dragon like him.

The girl laughs "No we are not half dragons we would need to be half human brother." she smiles at how naive he was, Hollow pauses and thinks to himself on what she had told him too many questions where swirled around his head. "Brother we're related?" was first thing popped out. She sighs and rocks on her heel "Not really well we shared as nest once, but for now you need to rest up when your better come find me and we will talk more Hollow casable star." She walks to Michelle and kneels down "Tend his wound and heal his spirit keep him where he is rested and more harm and i will hunt you down cat." as quick as she had shown her self to them she vanished.

Hollow looks at Michelle and realizes he has nothing in common with her or the humans that he wanted to fit into. He had some insight into his past other then flash back of images, but pieces of his memory don't quite fit as what they did to what he knows. but the name she had used an new name casable.

[lilmis]

Michelle pulls herself together as the strange women left she was told to tend to his wounds but she could not see any injures or marks. Hollows body was covered in armor made of old bones she remembers the reports her father had kept have mentioned a dragon covered in such armor.

Michelle struggles to get up and makes her way over to Hollow she touches one of the plates, Rough to the touch he finches like an animal would when first touched. She had noticed his breathing was heavy and sounded hollow as the air passes through his large nostrils. She leave Hollow crossing the court yard of the fortress or what was left of it, she takes up arms with Hollow's heavy blade using it as a walking aid to the toward the tower.

Before Michelle could get to the tower it crumbles down she watches in horror as it falls. She calls out for viper unsure if he was in there she slumps down to the floor. "Why, how did they mass this arm in so little time." She turns to Hollow as he blankly stares at her, the sound of heavy armor clinked it's way to-wards them but stops just to the left of Michelle.

A voice crys out "My lady" as a figure runs to-wards her fling his cloth cloak around her, "What has happened my lady where are the two that came with you?" asked the armored man all Michelle could to was point to Hollow and say his name and then pointed to the tower and said vipers name. The man looked bemused at what she had said he calls out for a private as another man approach and orders him to take Michelle back home. He then stands an looks at Hollow wondering what he was and how to move such a giant monster.

Michelle woke up in terror and sweat in her own bed and in one of her night gowns. Did she dream all the event that happened she get out of bed but gets a nasty pain as she put weight on her left leg and stumbled to the floor. A maid rushes into and helps her back into bed and explains she been out cold for a good 3 weeks.

she draws open some curtains to let some light in but is greeted by a big green eye she leaps out of her skin in fright and squeals. "Will you stop frighting the life out of us. you big lump." shouted the maid "I wish you didn't bring back him as a pet why couldn't you find something smaller." Michelle begins to giggle but find her self in pain again and stops "he's not a pet that one of the young men that stand with us." she then falls silent as the maid made her feel more comfortable. "did they find viper? Claire." Michelle asked the maid all the maid did was shake her head and walked out the room. She stare out the window as a few of the maid where making fuss over hollow and feeding him large carcases.