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Legacies of light Arc 10.63: Scáthach part 1
The woman who Setanta calls master is dressed in a black dress that covers her from halfway through her face to the ground. The black dress is also filled with frills that move horizontally across the dress all through it, they remind me of waves on a beach.Her head is covered in a veil that conceals her face entirely with one thing of note being the silver circlet that holds the veil over her face. Her hair is a beautiful light shade of purple and mimics that of a shark's tail."Wait did you just say Scáthach! As in the woman who trained the beastkin during our earliest years so we could strike back and reclaim Tir na n-iontas, the queen of shadows herself!""Yep, she is mine and Ferdiad's master."Jumping off all of the bodies he sits on top of, Setanta says, "And if my wife number zero. Now give your husband to be a kiss."Φ All my senses heighten as I feel a murderous aura emanating from my right, so I turn my face and say, "Ferdiad, did you arrive with master?""Yes, she brought
Legacies of light Arc 10.64: A signal of destruction part 1
-Break-Location: Lugh roomΦ In a room with a single candle light, lies Lugh who is reading a book to himself. As he stares into this book he breaks off one of his nails and then flings it directly at one of the shadows in the end of the room.Shadows from the room move to intercept the nail, and as they do this Scáthach appears from one of the shadows and looks at Lugh saying, "Attack a woman I thought I had thought you better.""You taught me to strike down anyone who tries to use their power for evil, did you not you peeper."Pulling out a chair from her shadows, Scáthach sits opposite to Lugh and says, "Don't make it out to seem that I looked upon you for some perverse sexual gratifications. I just thought that seeing a scared smile on your face would be fun.""Play such pranks on your current students." "The only student of mine who still gets spooked is Ferdiad, Setanta just smiles whenever he sees me. How unfun.""You should cease your foolish games, you're not youthful enoug
Legacies of light Arc 10.65: A signal of destruction part 2
On the third of the fourth month of the 132nd year of athbhreith beithíoch calendar, the battle of the shadow serpent began.At 900 hours, Ronald Fuinseog's advance team left to head through the forest guarding the human settlement. They made sure to stealthy past through their surveillance, and made an effort to not spring any traps.No more than three hundred men could have been brought by Ronald as any larger would have been suspicious and ruined the impression that they were on a scouting mission.At 1100 hours, they reached the other side and proceeded to move forward.At 1200 hours, they are spotted by choice and proceed to start running away.By 1330 hours, they are forced into their first confrontation. Ronald's advance force consists of around three hundred men, versus around three thousand humans.Location: Eastern BattlefrontΦ To the east of Ronald's positions is a slightly mountainous area that guards a river further east river, which is where they are pretending to flee.
Legacies of light Arc 10.66: A signal of destruction part 3
Three hours earlier Φ At 700 hours a team of beastkin moves into the forest and stealthily assassinates many of the humans who lie there, and as they do the Lúcogadh army moves through the forest on a predetermined path.By 1100 hours, they have all escaped the forest, and with one hundred calvary twenty chariots, and around five thousand infantry. This group quickly moves from where they are and makes haste towards the humans' castle at the most northwestern point of the land.By 1120 hours, they have alerted the humans of their presence and they are some small human forces come and try to block them. But due to them all being composed of infantry, the Chariots are sent to deal with them.The general of the army, Ruán Ó Lúcogadh, shouts, "Now dispatch ten chariots to quickly deal with them."Ten chariots are dispatched, which include two heavy chariots one ridden by Setanta and his allies.Φ Feeling nervous, I hear Setanta say, "Since we are one of the heaviest with the most mass, w
Legacies of light Arc 10.67: A signal of destruction part 4
Location: Eastern battlefieldΦ Held down by shadows the humans struggle to break free of Scáthach powers. They want to escape as quickly as possible and return to the battlefield to aid their loved ones, yet they can't move an inch.This causes many to fall into despair, freak out in anger, or cry while screaming for their freedom. But Scáthach is nowhere to be found until she appears from the mountain range with numerous plates carrying food.Many of the humans look at her with confusion, but she just says, "Dinner is ready," in a cheery voice.Using her shadows she releases all of their body parts with the exception of their legs, then places all of the massive amount of food she has on one shadow table.The humans are very confused by this, and some try to use their newfound freedom to run away, but they don't move an inch from where they are."My shadows will only allow you to walk towards me or around this table, they won't allow you to run away like you are planning."A human s
Legacies of light Arc 10.68: A signal of destruction part 5
The Slab bull breaks through all of the infantry in his path, allies or enemies it doesn't care and just bursts through to the horror of all those around it.Many run away and try to escape but they are trampled under the size of this 11-meter beast that simply moves through it.Ferdiad looking at me, says, "We need to run now!"But I say, "We can't do that, we need to take it down. Ibar, Laeg move in the area around it."They follow my instructions, but Laeg says, "We have no knowledge on that wonderbeast, I don't think this is safe Setanta.""I agree, the Lúcogadh have beast-catching nets which we can use to make a better strategy to overcome this wonderbeast.""No, if we do that this achievement will be given to them, and the rights to the wonderbeast would be given to the Lúcogadh. But if we manage to take it down earlier not only will we gain all of the achievements for ourselves but be the heroes of this battle."Looking into the eyes of Ferdiad, I say, "This will be our biggest
Legacies of light Arc 10.69: A signal of destruction part 6
Φ After Setanta finishes screaming he passes out and falls off the bull so I lunge forward and catch him in my arms. He is body is quite battered to the point where I don't think he should be able to move.Ibar coming towards me asks, "Is Setanta ok?""I don't know, I have never seen him this injured before we need to get him bandaged up right now."Ibar looks confused for a moment, so I ask, "What's wrong?""Setanta was far more beaten up when I saw him after falling off the chariot, did his wounds heal.""Nonsense, beastkin need food to heal, and no beastkin could even heal that fast if they had all the food in the world."Laeg coming closer to us, says, "I brought some druids to help Setanta.""Thank you Laeg, now it is time to go and make sure this battlefield ends in our victory.""No your not!" Laeg says with an angered voice. "Your wounds aren't light either you need to sit down and go get treated as well."With blood dripping down my forehead, I say, "It isn't that big of a de
Legacies of light Arc 10.70: A signal of destruction part 7
-Break-Φ At 1940 hours, Ferdiad's scout team comes across something.Φ As Ibar comes to an end, he says, "Why did you tell me to stop?"Hopping off the horse, I say, "Look here?" Picking up a piece of wood, I hold it to my nose and sniff it."This smells of food."A soldier of the Faoláin house Liam says, "That little piece of wood."Another Faoláin soldier named Cian says, "Was it part of a box.""You're right. It was probably part of the fleeing humans' supplies, I want everyone to search the area for more, if we can find something with a strong scent we might be able to actually find the humans."Turing my head to Téad, I say, "I need the Lúcogadh to go ahead and see if Ronald has made contact with the humans."One of them says, "We don't take orders from you."But Téad puts his hand up and says, "We will be back in no time."As they leave, I sigh and then say, "Now let's get to work."The beastkin spread out and eventually, one of them says, "Ferdiad over here!"As I arrive besid
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Arc 10.138: The final celebration part 10
Standing up Scáthach looks to everyone around them, and bows her head saying, "Sorry for the disturbance it won't happen again."Using her shadows Scáthach places Minabród back on her chair and says, "Minabród your human blood is not to blame you are. You failed Ferdiad."Minabród lowers her head and barely holds back tears from coming out of her eyes."But so did I as his master, Setanta as his friend, Minagrain as his sister, and Lugh as his king. We have all failed that child in certain ways, and we will never be able to take back the hurt that has caused him, but you must simply find peace in that.""Why! Why should I find peace in that? I couldn't help him, I couldn't protect him, all I could do was hurt him like a disease, and if it wasn't due to my blood, and just due to me. Then I don't deserve to keep breathing.""Minabród kids are scary, raising a child is scary. You have to teach another person how to survive be alive and navigate the world.I have lived three times your li
Arc 10.137: The final celebration part 9
-Break-Φ In all of Gorias providence, there isn't a single native or visitor who isn't current in one place.Throughout the city, Druids have gathered together. Many of them wear the crest of the Faoláins, but far more are wearing the crests of each house of the Red branch, including the royal house itself.And under the instruction of Fráech and Findabair, they all say, "Beast blood battle arts; Fás."Which is quickly followed by, "Beast blood battle arts; Bog."Soon a series of giant plants set throughout Gorias grow and, the most important of them which are located near Gorias castle move into shape where they form three large platforms made of plants which are placed on top of each other from biggest to smallest.The bottom and biggest of these three platforms takes up a large portion of the castle of Gorias city, with the other two being smaller, but also extremely large as well.The druid using Bog continues to move and mould the platforms until a staircase is made leading from
Arc 10.136: The final celebration part 8
In his hands is a basket, but I soon skip over it as seeing Lugh all dressed up does many things to both my mind and my body,His beautiful face is both mature and effeminate, but the aura of his body and his wounds give the impression of a hardened warrior. His muscles which show in his clothes, enrapture my eyes and never let them go.The heavenly smell of his silver hair crushes my nose, and his heavy voice which ties it all together slays my ears. Right now, he is more seductive than any man of the night, and should be locked up for indecency.Covering my eyes, I scream, "THANK YOU!"Aimee then gets up to Lugh's face, and says, "My king, it isn't good for you to see her right now. You should wait until the ceremony so you can be surprized by her looks.""I wouldn't be surprised anyway. Péatra is a beautiful woman, it isn't like she could get prettier if she tried."I let out a gross laugh in response to this, and start to drool. The maids quickly catch my drool as it falls off my
Arc 10.135: The final celebration part 7
Moving to her, I knock her on the head, and say, "A murder, really?"I turn my head to the boy in the ground and lift him up from the hole.I also see he is tied with rope, so I start to untie him whilst saying, "This is why you don't hang around crazy women like her.""I am not crazy; he is a cheater!"I turn my head to Uathach and say, "I know you're lonely but don't go making up lies about men being in a relationship with you, it is slander."She jumps on my back and starts to bite me, so I say, "Let go of me." While trying to break her grip.However, to my surprise, she is so strong that I can't get her to let go of me. "Spirit energy?""Of course! NOW TAKE MY FURY WOLFIE!"She continues to tighten her body around me choking me out, and as she does this the boy who I was untying gets up and stares at me.Looking at him, I say, "HELP!"But the boy turns and runs away from me, without even acknowledging my situation. So, I just lie there whilst getting choked.In all honesty, gettin
Arc 10.134: The final Celebration part 6
My father moves towards his chair, and standing against it, he says, "For clarity, explain to me again why I should care about those humans?""Because we Tuatha Dé Dannan are not barbarians. You know as well as I do that the growing love, and justification for violence without any benefit is happening everywhere.If everyone's first reaction to anything they don't like is to kill everyone in front of them, it will only negatively impact us as a society going forward. Death has a purpose, and boosting our egos isn't a purpose."My father sighs, then moves towards his chair and grabs a bottle of alcohol, then says, "Hey Setanta, do you know what this is?""Alcohol.""I hate this stuff. It is a substance that makes people stupider, and wilder than they were before. Order is necessary for survive, yet this is something that makes order harder to put in place, not to mention all of the health issues it causes.At one point it became a problem in the providence that couldn't be ignored anym
Arc 10.133: The final celebration part 5
-Break-Walking with the flour thief beside me in the hallway, I ignore her cries and hum to myself, but then she cries even louder while pushing the bump on her head into me.So, I start to hum much more cheerfully than before while keeping the same tone, but she continues to push into me, so I put her in a headlock and use my knuckle to aggravate her bump which causes her to say, "OWOWOWOW!"She then bites me in the arm, and I say, "You gluttony."I start to pull her hair, but she locks her legs with mine and continues to chow down on my arm, and our fight continues until we both lose energy, and I say, "You're a beast.""And you're delicious," she says licking her lips."I think I might bring forward that execution.""Try me, I will defeat you before you have the chance.""You think you can beat me?""I think I can eat you."We both get up and press our heads against each other, and I say, "You're both a glutton and a liar.""If everyone believes a lie it becomes the truth.""Nu-uh
Arc 10.132: The final celebration part 4
Φ As I play, I look down at the people below me and laugh to myself. Look at me and be entranced by my playing you fools. Your eyes, your mind, and even your eyes and hearts are forever transfixed onto my playing.Now you beasts, become enraptured by my every movement. You lot get your kicks by insulting me calling me brash and stupid, but is this brash and stupid? Is my playing not the equivalent of the euphoria of sex dripped into your ears!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!Soon, I finish and when I do I stand up to bow, then I say, "From the house of Faoláins, we all welcome you here to enjoy your time as members of the Red branch, and as the next king of Gorias I will be here to help you with any problems."I get off the stage and look around at all of the people who are tilting their way towards me. I told them to come talk to me if they had an issue, but it seems like they want to try and get me to talk to their kids or remember their names. What a bother.But soon my annoyance
Arc 10.131: The final celebration part 3
Φ As Dagda laughs in front of me, I say, "So if you would excuse me."With his same cherry smile as always, he says, "Haha, your jokes are as tasteful as your clothes. Now Medb where is my money?""Money? You mean the financial instrument we have assigned value to for the sake of switching things we have made into items we have collected from our environment and from others through labour, intelligence and ingenuity?"With his smile fading a bit, he says, "Hahaha, yes. Now where is it?""Dagda what really is value? Is it something kings assign value to-,""Yes."Putting my finger on his lips, I say, "OR! Is it the exchange of wills from one person to another, so isn't my mere smile payment enough?""Not a chance, now my money."I get thrown off my balance as he rejects me, and then I lean on him and say, "We have known each other for a long time, and you still don't trust me.""I trusted you decades ago when I invested in your research hoping for a return. But every time you make a re
Arc 10.130: The final celebration part 2
Location: City of GoriasΦ For six days a festival has been raging on within the city of Gorias, and the entire providence of Gorias.The beastkin during the festivals made it a point to dress in clothes far more ornate than usual; wearing flowers throughout their bodies, or dressing in clothes made entirely out of plants.Clothes made out of animals had the motif of using materials from animals their innate beast was hunted or were hunted by as a sign of greater connection.The druids made clothes out of plants that could be modified with their beast blood battle, allowing them to change their designs of the clothes, and throughout the city, designated druids were given instructions to change the clothes of those who passed by.Many wore jewellery such as brooches, pins, armlets, rings, and torcs against the animal parts of their bodies as a way to honour their heritage, while many others decorated their bodies with paint or tattoos which represent ancient stories or those who they c