Closing Daimon Portals

[Vita`]

Roleplay from Scab
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DOMINA! INCANTATRIX! HEAR ME!

Scab ran to the top of every stone, every hill, every knoll, and shouted, again and again.

GREAT RULERS OF THE NETHERWORLD, HEAR ME! I AM BUT A PEASANT, A COMMONER BY THE NAME OF SCAB! I BESEECH THEE TO HEAR MY MESSAGE!

He watched Lila finish the ritual, and stand. He shouted again.

HEAR ME, OH SCARY DARK ONES! I OFFER MYSELF TO THEE! TAKE MY LIFE, AND DRAG ME FROM THIS PLACE!

He pissed himself, standing there yelling at the sky, beckoning Daimons to him... What was he thinking...

DOMINA! INCANTATRIX! HEAR ME!

Roleplay from Lila
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Lila was tired. Two stints in the Nethworld prison, many days of travel, and she still wasn't nearer her goal. This time though... this time would be different. She was a commoner, but she had noble blood runing through her veins. Just because her mother cast her to the peasants after she was born, so she could still eat from her silver spoon, Lila held no ill will.

After waiting and resting, she was close. Tindle was only a five hours walk... then off to Xinjin for the third time. The previous two trips were lucky. The first she found an unique item that she was returning, so she was released. The second time the Incantrix was going to let her go again, but she slipped out of the cell in the night and never looked back. She didn't think the Incantrix would take kindly to seeing her now for a third time.

So it was now or never. Once she arrived in Xinjin, she looked for the portal. She stayed to the shadows of the night, making her way towards the eerie glow she could see in the night sky. The closer... the better. Lila could feel the magic radiating from the portal. Rumor was that a portal could be used to close the portal from the Netherworld. There had been talks about ones trying, but they were opening portals in other regions.

The sky was darker above the temple, the magic radiating from it almost threw Lila back. She knew Scab was somewhere, trying to distract them.... She grit her teeth and kept pushing forward. So many deaths, so many livevs destroyed. The last time she was imprisoned, she had heard there was a family member in there as well. She had never met Ravyn, but she knew the name. This was for everyone, family included.

Skirting around the outside, Lila continued to sneak in... Finally she could go no further. The power was too strong. Putting down her pack, she pulled the stones from it one by one. She pulled eight stones from her pack, with two extras for just in case. She had talked to many sages and wizards, and she was sure her chances were good. Placing the stones in a circle, she stepped inside, sitting cross legged on the floor, all the different gems and crystals she had collected in her lap. Moonstones, jade, tomes, she was going to try anything and everything.

Sitting in the circle, chanting the words the wizards and sages gave her, she hoped beyound hope this wouldn't be her final stand, but she hoped that if it was.... it would be for the greater good, and the Daimons could go back to the Netherworld where they belonged.....

Roleplay from Lila
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Strange Lights   (just in)
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A column of light shoots up into the sky from somewhere in Xinjin, and there is a strange humming sound. Nothing else seems to happen...for now.


The stones began to glow and shimmer in the circle, the power radiating from them was closing in on Lila. She stood fast to her ground, the words a constant litinay from her lips, her eys closed, she let the power wash over her in waves. When she tried to open her eyes, the light was so bright, she had to squeeze them shut again or risk being blinded. A loud humming in her ears turned into a dull roar, and still she stood her ground.

There was no time to run or hide, this was her stand. She could only hope that Scab would make it out safely, she should have known better than to let him tag along. He wanted to help, and she hoped beyound hope that she didn't lead him to his death. Lila didn't want to die, but she knew if she must, she would only want to sacrifice herself. The decision to come her was her own, based on rumors, but her own just the same. The prevoius two visits were scouting missions, and she found her target.

Perhaps if she lived to tell the tale, she could take her rightful place in noble society. If she didn't live to tell the tale, perhaps that alone would give her a noble burial. Her biggest hope was that this chance was not in vain. As the humming increased.... so did the speed of Lila's tongue, the gems in her lap trembling at the power that was being released, and intertwining with the dark power already present. All Lila could do was hold on to her thoughts... and herself.

Roleplay from Scab
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Scab watched Lila, watched the portal lights shoot into the sky. The ground shook, and Scab pissed himself again, barely even registering that it was happening.

"LILA!" he shouted, but she didn't seem to hear him. He wanted her to run, to do SOMETHING... but she just stood there, fighting some unknown force, like an unseen wind was trying to blow her over.

He wanted to run, wanted to hide, but he had decided to tag along. He didn't know what madness had overtaken him, a madness which had driven him to hike for 16 straight hours into the heart of Xinjin after Lila. But why?

Because something drove him, something he could not understand, not describe... he simply felt it. He saw Lila, he heard her story, and he knew that he had to help. Something told him this might cost him his life, but so be it. If this portal closed, it would be worth his life, and the lives of countless other men, women, and children.

And so he shouted.

"DOMINA! INCANTATRIX! HEAR ME! I AM HERE WITH A MESSAGE. A MESSAGE FROM THE SCUM OF THE WORLD, AND THE GUTTER RATS AND VILLAGE SWINE! I COME WITH A MESSAGE FROM KINGS AS WELL, AND NOBLE KNIGHTS AND DAMES AND LORDS. I COME WITH A MESSAGE FROM EVERY SINGLE LIVING BEING ON THIS GOOD ISLAND!"

In truth, he wasn't lying. Every single person, from lord to gutter rat, had the same look in their eye. They were tired. Beat down, broken, and tired. And what Scab saw in those eyes said to him what their words never could - the Daimons must be stopped. This portal MUST be closed.

And so he shouted.

"DOMINA! INCANTATRIX! MY MESSAGE IS SIMPLE, AND MY MESSAGE IS SHORT! I COME TO TELL YOU THIS: TAKE MY LIFE, TAKE MY BONES AND MY BLOOD AND MY FLESH. TAKE IT ALL! BUT YOU'LL NEVER TAKE OUR SOULS!"

He ran to and fro, shouting, ranting... he vomited once or twice. And then he shouted some more. He hoped they heard him, over the roar of the portal and the magic and the connection to the other side of the portal. The other side.. of the portal!!

Scab knew what he had to do. He wasn't very smart, he knew, but he also knew that this might work. Or it might not. It might just shred him to pieces, or land him in a magic prison... he didn't really know at all. But he went for it nonetheless.

He ran.  Straight at the portal.

As he sprinted at it, he angled left a few degrees so that he could run up a sharp embankment of rocks that hung slightly over the portal's edge.

He ran up the slope, bent his legs, and jumped out into the open air over the portal.

...everything went black.

Xinjin Portal Closed
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Lila had successfully sneaked into the Portal temple in Xinjin and placed a ring of portal stones, sitting within it with all manner of magical artifact and chant. The column of light had seared through the temple ceiling, knocking the bell and a daimon guard to the ground. Domina and Incantatrix had been amused by Scab's silly idiocy when the column of light arose their dissatisfaction. Scab had then jumped into Xinjin's Portal, only to resume consciousness outside Rueffilo's Portal. Lila now sat engulfed by the beam of light and humming, doing her best to remain focused upon her chant and not the roaring migraine in her head. Xinjin's Portal quivered.

As Lila chanted, the column of light fell back to the ground, and then found itself twisted and sucked into the Netherworld Portal like an arc of electricity. The temple ceiling, punctured by the light column, was now completely destroyed, providing an open-air experience for the temple. Lila was locked into a trance beyond her own will. Soon thereafter, the humming faded away. But by the time the humming had faded, Xinjin had turned into a whirlpool of magical energies surrounding the temple, both invisible and visible.

Daimons and undead were sent flying against their will, heard hooting and shrieking as they were staked by flying branches. Other daimons smashed against walls in Creasur as the magical hurricane grew to the regions surrounding Xinjin; they left an orangeish residue where they had splatted. Other daimons found themselves pulled back into the portal. Streams of colored air, blue, black, purple, and red, visible magic energy, were also pulled into the portal alongside invisible magical energy. Along their way, these colored magics attacked the daimons, wounding them, but seemed to ignore undead and human. In all the chaos, no one noticed Domina and Incantatrix wounded until well after the magic storm, which raged for several hours. In Creasur, Cacabula survived without wound, but raged at being caught distracted away from Xinjin.

Eventually the storm dissipated as the last tendrils of magic were sucked into the Netherworld Portal from Xinjin and surrounding regions. The column of light extinguished, releasing Lila from its trance. Her time sitting inside the portal ring within a column of light and humming had blinded her sight, whitened her hair to the shade of the purest snow, youthened her face 20 years to the visage of a young girl, and given her the recurring feeling she was missing some vital limb of her body - a pair of tusks.

As everyone stepped forth to assess the damage, it became clear that the peasants were no longer held in a brainwashed state by Netherworld magic. There was no Netherworld magic left in the vicinity, crippling their strength. Those in Xinjin gathered around Lila wishing to know where such a brave girl hailed from. As she answered Old Grehk still reeling from shock of her blindness, they declared their loyalty to Old Grehk, wishing to serve the realm that bore this brave white-haired girl. In regions surrounding Xinjin, panicked peasants declared the first realm they could remember as their lords.

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Awaking to darkness, Lila felt around her. Opening her eyes, she saw nothing but darkness, though the rising sun felt warm on her cheek. Lifting her hand in front of her face, her fears were realized. Her sight was gone. Vaguely she remembered the white column of light, and closing her eyes against the brightness. Blinking her eyes thinking it was a dream, she realized it was in truth.

Pushing herself to her feet, she promplty tripped and went spralling on the floor of the temple. Feeling around rocks and pieces littered the floor, essentially trapping her amongst the rubble. Her ears strained for any sound, but it was eerily quiet. "Did it work?" she asked herself softly. She ran her hands over her own body looking for injury, but finding none.

Footsteps approached, and Lila shrunk back into herself, bracing for an attack. The vibrations heightened by her lack of sight, she waited and held her breath. Bracing for a blow from the Incantrix herself, she was surprised at the gentle hands that found her shoulders.

"My child, who are you?" a kind voice asked. "Lila.... " she shakily answered, finding her voice smaller than she remembered. "Where are you from? What family do you hail from?" the questions were quick, but asked kindly. "I'm from Old Grehk," Lila told the woman, allowing herself to be helped to her feet. "I am but a commoner," she truthfully answered, waiting for another blow. Commoners were not shown much affection, and it wasn't unusual for one to be beaten for fun.

"Today you are not a commoner Lila of Old Grehk, you have closed the portal here in Xinjin." The woman regarded the young one, her snow white hair and her sightless eyes. So unnatural, but so unique this girl would never be forgotten. "Come child let us get you cleaned up," she said, taking Lila's arm and carefully guiding her out of the ruined temple.

"I have to find my friend.... " Lila said, turning this way and that, still reeling against the loss of her sight. So many new things to learn....

"Calm yourself Lila... I'm sure they will find you...."

[Logar]

Good stuff, thanks for sharing 

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Letter from Amber   (1 hour ago)
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Amber wanted to prove she was more than just a commoner in the eyes of her father, Cymore.  He had always been the hero and never bowing down from a fight.  She wanted to make her family proud like they were of him.  Every day she fought against the monsters and got a little closer to her goal.

A rumor came to her that another was looking for Portal Stones.  Naturally, she was curious.  Was this the one moron who demanded everything for his own glory or...  Talking around with others, they told story about Lila, the closer of the Xinjin portal.  Surely, this would be the quest that could help her family be proud of her.  One that would make people never forget she was a Maxwell.  It became a priority to help this one.  All she had to do was find her.

Searching through the rumors and tales, she came upon one who met the description.  She introduced herself and told her she was willing to go on this quest to end the Daimon's portal.

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Roleplaying Event   (4 hours, 17 minutes ago)
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Incantatrix appears in a quiet flash of light within the temple in Rueffilo. She steps outside and grimaces when she sees the pillar of light that has illuminated the sky over Rueffilo for some time now.

Turning, she snaps some commands to the portal behind her, then strides forth from the temple. No more than half a minute later, a column of Daimons follows her toward the pillar.

When she reaches it, she reaches out and tries to simply dismantle the ring of portal stones, but as soon as her clawed hand touches the light surrounding them, she hisses and pulls it back, holding it in obvious pain. Snarling, she begins to chant, walking in circles around the portal stones and making mystic gestures in the air. When she has made three counterclockwise circuits of the stone ring, she stops and incants some more, hands held out toward the pillar of light.

Where she has passed, a ring of violet-glowing tracery surrounds the pillar of light, and as she incants, it begins to constrict toward it. When the violet ring touches the pillar of light, it begins to bleed its colour out into it. This seems to please Incantatrix, who continues chanting with a faint smile on her face. The violet light continues to spread both up and down the pillar as the ring of symbols continues to contract toward the center of the light.

When the violet glow touches the stones, they begin to tremble. It continues to expand, eventually surrounding the portal stones. Tendrils of darker violet extend down from the ring of traced symbols to entangle the stones—

—But then something goes horribly wrong.

The instant the first dark tendril touches one of the portal stones, there is a soundless detonation, and whorls of white and violet light spin off in all directions. Incantatrix and her new guard are knocked backward, and when she struggles to her feet, there is a look of stark horror on her face—but only for a moment. She controls her features, turns to her guard, and snaps out some quick instructions.

Then they all run off after the whorls of rogue magic.

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Roleplay from Lila   (27 minutes ago)
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They met up in Drinilla, and it was a relief not to be fawned over like the others. This girl was straigtforward, and looking for a quest. Amber handed her the portal stones, and as she set them in Lila's hand, they reverberated with an unseen power. Lila closed her hand around each stone, closing her eyes and letting the power fill her, before putting the stone with the others in her bag. Over the last couple weeks, Lila had tried various things to regain her sight, but in the end, she was getting used to being without it. Her other senses were starting to take over, her hearing, her sense of smell and her sense of touch.

While Amber wanted to prove something to her father, Lila hoped to prove something to her mother. Lila over the years had spied on her true family, watching her younger sister grow up with everything she was denied. She didn't hate Ravyn though, it just was the way things were. But hopefully one day.....


She had talked with many people around Drinilla while waiting for Amber, so she had a route in mind. The goal was to stay out of Netherworld regions as much as possible, and lower the risk of being in a Netherworld prison. Lila was worried if the Daimon's every caught her... she would be killed on the spot. From Drinilla they went to Wheling and Cjelorg, before resting for a time. Then through Yncaalo to Lopa... and make it to Kuugl another safe rogue region. Lila would rather be in a rogue region than the Netherworld. The next leg would be the trickiest, and the most telling.

They would need to be fully rested, before setting out for Mio Dupaki, then Glongin.... before making it to Rueffilo. If they could make it in time.....

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Roleplay from Lila   (8 minutes ago)
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Rueffilo was different than Xinjin. She had described to Amber what the light and the temple looked like, and what they were looking for. Just as they crested the ridge, a wave washed over them causing them to stumble. Lila knew what it was... she didn't know how... but she knew that the Incantrix was here. The raw power that was running rampant even this far from the temple Lila knew it wasn't good. There was magic flowing unchecked all around her. Be it from her first run in with the Incantrix or the last, Lila knew what magic felt like. Without her sight, every day her other senses grew.

She worried about what the rogue magic would do to the other regions... the humans of the land. Telling Amber they needed to move quickly, the traversed the land between them and the temple. More than once they had to duck for shelter, smaller daimons were running around, looking for something. Amber described seeing on consume one of the whorls of magic...and Lila all but shuddered. Perhaps it was the Incantrix's magic that escaped, and as another portal stone in the temple detonanated, the girls felt the land tremble beneath their feet.

The closer they got to the temple, the stronger the pull of power was. Every so often there would be a wave of power... or the earth beneath their feet would tremble, until there was nothing. They dodged and snuck their way to the temple. Lila could feel the Incantrix was near, but Amber said there was no one watching the door, they all were chasing the whorls. Knowing it was now or never, they made their way in.

The power almost came to the point of pain, and Lila pushed it away and pushed on. It affected Amber less than herself, and Lila put one foot in front of another. She knew what she had to do, and by Dashi she would complete it. Explaining how the last portal was closed to Amber, they stealthly went into the temple, and made their way towards the portal itself.

Now the power flowing around her was almost to the point of causing her pain, but she still pushed on. Faltering slightly, she sent Amber on ahead to set the stones in a circle, but the time she made it to the center Amber had placed the last stone. Going towards the middle, drawn to it like a moth to a flame, she looked towards Amber and gave her a serene smile.

"It's up to you if you want to stay or go. I won't ask more of you than you want to give. I cannot promise what will happen when I activate the stones, nor can I say we will both survive. I survived the last with only losing my sight, and I pray to Dashi I won't lose anything else. Make your choice Amber...."

Lila took her place in the circle; again putting all her crystals and such in her lap. She began to chant as she did the first time, this time including Dashi in her mumblings. Her breathing became shallow, and while she was sure this time the Incantrix would come for her, it was the others she thought of the most. Not only did she try to cast spells to cast away the Daimons for good, but to help repair what was lost. Ramblings and mumblings fell from her lips. Her thoughts turned towards her main goal above all else, end the Daimon rule once and for all.

Her white hair spun around her head like a cloud and her sightless eyes were open staring at the portal as if it could receed into the depths of her soul. The chants continued to fall from her lips and she put her own hands out towards the portal, trembling at the raw power it held, and hoping that she, a nameless commoner could do the one thing to save all nobles.....

Her last thought before falling into a trancelike state was... "Perhaps now my mother might claim me......"

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Closing the Black Gate ~ A Costly Delay   (21 minutes ago)
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As Incantatrix and her guardian Daimons chase after rogue whorls of portal-magic across Rueffilo, she starts to feel a sense of unease. At first she ignores it, but it grows stronger minute by minute, until she cannot deny what she is sensing:

Someone is bringing portal stones close to the temple.

Directing the detachment of her guard that is still with her to continue without her, she turns toward the temple and begins to run.

She is not halfway there, however, when she encounters a magic-whorl heading in the same direction. Knowing that if she allows it to strike the portal, stopping the portal stones will mean nothing, she stops and exerts all her power on the whorl. It takes her several seconds and a great effort of will, but she drains off its energy, preventing another disaster before resuming her run to the temple.

When she arrives, she sees that those seconds of delay were costly. The portal stones are already set up, and she feels the shift in the magical field of the region as they activate. Cursing in twelve languages, she enters the temple and stops with the point of a sword inches from her throat, held by a young woman.

It takes her a second or two just to remember which language to use, such is her fury when she snarls, "Out of the way, foolish mortal. You have no idea what you're doing."

Her clawed hand streaks forward with the speed of a striking viper as it closes around Amber's wrist, forcing her to drop the sword. Then she releases the energy she drained from the magic-whorl on the way here, teleporting the adventurer somewhere else. Where, she didn't care: just not here.

She turns to face the next obstacle, and finds that there isn't one. There is nothing between her and the circle of portal stones but a half-dozen yards of empty temple corridor.

Beyond them, though, is the portal—and seated directly between the two is the human betrayer Lila.

Closing the Black Gate ~ Battle for the Stones   (21 minutes ago)
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Incantatrix stalks forward, her form beginning to ripple and shimmer as magic coruscates around it. "Lila of no known family or clan, for your base and vile acts against Domina and all Daimonkind, I claim your life," she snarls through clenched teeth.

The blind woman turns her face toward the sound of Incantatrix's voice, smiles slightly, and replies, "You may have it, for all of me, now that my task is complete."

Incantatrix's own mouth curves up in a twisted parody of Lila's peaceful smile. "Not yet, fool human. The stones have yet to complete their magic. This time, I shall—"

She is interrupted by the tromp of a half-dozen pairs of Daimon feet entering the temple behind her. The frontmost of them growls something to her in their own language. "What?!" she snaps, too agitated and distracted to switch languages.

Then she feels it.

The light emitted by the portal stones is not merely a beacon to human eyes, Incantatrix knows. It warps the magical field in its vicinity, drawing in certain kinds of energy to itself. Energy like the portal-magic whorls she and her Daimons have been chasing.

They are now all converging on the temple.

"That will not happen!" Incantatrix bellows. She leaps forward to grasp the closest portal stone, intending to tear it free of its formation, throwing the magical alignment off and sending the whorls toward a different target.

But instead of closing on hard stone, her claws sink into yielding flesh.

Lila stands between her and the portal stones now, holding to Incantatrix's outthrust arm with a grip like iron, even though the only way she could be certain of where that arm was was by letting it plunge deep into her own chest.

Incantatrix snarls in rage, takes Lila's arm in her other hand, and snaps it as if it were a dry twig. Then she flexes the hand still inside Lila's chest and slices open her heart. It takes Lila mere seconds to die, but it takes Incantatrix even less time to contemptuously toss her body from her.

It takes her somewhat more time—maybe half a minute—to realize what a terrible miscalculation she has made.

As Lila's body falls onto the stones, the light fading from her eyes, blood gushes from her chest onto the stone ring...and sinks in, absorbed by the stones as if they were sponges. The column of light shrinks down to surround only the ring of portal stones, increasing in intensity as it reduces in height, and taking on a rainbow sheen.

The stones rise off the ground, and Lila's body flips into the center of the ring, floating in the middle of them as they begin to spin. They don't have far to go this time, and it isn't long before they have turned upright and begun to float gently toward the portal.

Incantatrix feverishly chants, rattling off a dozen spells in the space of seconds. All of them strike the glow surrounding the stones and Lila's body, and disappear in a rainbow shimmer, useless.

Closing the Black Gate ~ Sacrifice's Reward   (21 minutes ago)
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The stones float no more than an inch from the portal, and the rainbow light expands to envelop the entire thing. Incantatrix, in one last-ditch effort, brandishes her scintillating staff and jams it in the space between the portal and the stones.

The portal stones cease moving.

Lila's body hangs, suspended, in the center of what looks like a strange inverted eclipse, with brilliant light surrounded by a nimbus of inky blackness.

Out of the corner of her eye, Incantatrix notices something moving toward the portal—coming out of the wall!

"NO!" she shrieks, lunging futilely toward it. A moment too late.

The magic-whorl strikes the portal with a cataclysmic detonation.

Incantatrix's staff is blown free.

The portal stones move that last precious inch, and cover the portal completely just as a half-dozen more whorls come into view.

With an explosion so large it can be seen in Fronepu and Reeds, the portal in Rueffilo is closed, sealing off the Daimons' last access to the Netherworld.

When the dust has settled, there is no sign of Incantatrix and her guardian Daimons, unless perhaps those lumps of fused charcoal near the center of the crater could be their remains.

No one else in the region escapes unscathed, and when she regains consciousness Amber blesses her luck that Incantatrix chose to teleport her away, rather than leave her helpless on the floor of the temple.

In the exact center of the crater, unmarred save for one broken arm and the wound in her chest, lies the lifeless body of Lila, whose selfless sacrifice called the stones' magic into action.

Closing the Black Gate ~ Consequences   (13 minutes ago)
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In her new throne room in Fheuvenem, Domina suddenly sinks to her knees, clutching her head in her hands.

"It is lost," she whispers. "My people will suffer if I cannot..."

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Lila knew the Incantrix would come. She knew it within her soul. Her only thought before this was she hoped Amber would at least earn the same fate as Scab, being sent away; but alive. Lila knew when the Incantrix was getting closer, she could feel her power. That didn't stop Lila from the task at hand, even when she heard  "Out of the way, foolish mortal. You have no idea what you're doing." Her chants turned to quick prayers for her newfound friend, begging Dashi to spare her. She heard the sword clatter to the floor and then a wave of magic then nothing. Lila could only hope that Amber was stile alive.

At the same time the Daimons entered the temple, Lila felt the change. It was close... so close.... ran through her mind. She continued her chants, until the Incantatrix stalked  forward, her form beginning to ripple and shimmer as magic coruscates around it. "Lila of no known family or clan, for your base and vile acts against Domina and all Daimonkind, I claim your life," she snarls through clenched teeth.

Lila stood and  turned her face toward the sound of Incantatrix's voice, smiles slightly, and replies, "You may have it, for all of me, now that my task is complete." Lila's hands lay passively at her sides, her snow white hair rippling around her. She couldn't see the Incantrix, but again she could. Though her sight was gone, in its place now she saw magical auras, and the Incantrix was dark as dark could be.  Lila could feel the whorls getting closer, the rainbow light of magical auras spun around her. A bellow from the Incantrix and movement caused Lila to also move, putting herself between the Incantrix and the portal stone.....

There was no pain. Lila expected pain as the claws tore through her flesh, she felt her sternum crack as the Incantrix hand entered her chest. Her own hand was around the creatures wrist, holding it like she was holding on to her life.  A smile on her lips as she held on to the last thread of light. Perhaps it was the magic that consumed her pain, for she should feel it greatly. But all she could think of was delay. Lila knew she was not long for this world, she could feel the Incantrix moving her hand in her chest. With her last breath she whispered so softly... "You have lost...." as her body was cast aside, and both blood and energy flowed from her body.


ooc: Just as a note, permission was granted for the death of Lila, and I hope some people will still participate