Caldur - No Dead Shots

[Domina]

By Domina and Caldur(Skunk)

*Cear is cold tonight...the winds lash out with such frustration it was as if Ki herself had sent warning. As Caldur and Spider walk outside the gates of Cear...there is little to expect in the wind's fury...A single woman runs from the farm's direction screaming and falls infront of Caldur a few feet away. Caldur looked towards the woman who fell infront of him, without a second thought he ran towards her*

"Mam, are you ok?"

*She looks up frantically and then to the spider which she back shuffles away from slightly. Her brown hair lashes about in the wind and she looks again to Caldur*

"UNDEAD! Coming this way!"

*He looked a bit confused but gently nodded his head*
"The Undead are coming?"
*he looks towards Ocane and nods*

"How many of them?"

"T-t-there are several! Maybe a dozen! Someone is...is...is controlling them!" *she looks around frantically*

*He takes a look around then looks back at the woman, taking his bow out*

"We need to get you to safety."

*turns his body sideways and offers a hand. As he takes her hand, she looks to the sounds of moaning in the distance...slowly approaching. He smiles but then hears the sound of the undead getting closer, he gently pulls her behind him and gets his bow ready with a arrow in place*

"Stay behind me ok."

*the woman holds his back shirt and nods. THe undead become slowly visible...zombies slowly creeping in lines to Cear. Caldur draw his bow and aimed for one of the creatures infront of him, starting to slowly breath to steady his aim*

"If this gets too much i want you to run towards the Cear gates."

*saying in a gentle but quiet voice before nodding at Ocane. She shivers slightly and looks over his shoulder to the coming undead...some crawling with half bodies and some completely disfigured. The wind carries their moans and Shlunks. He focuses on the nearest target and fires the arrow from his bow, as it is flying through the air he readies another one, taking a quick aims of where the arrow hits.

The wind is against him as it sheers aside a bit, but digs into one of the others near by, causing it to drop and slowly stand again. He grins slightly as he tries again, drawing the bow and aiming it to the nearest one, firing again and gets ready to take a step back. As he adjusts to the wind speed, his aim grows in accuracy and pegs one of the undead off its feet.

Groans and moans grow as a single figure comes behind them in black robes and a half slashed face. Looks behind him and sees the figure, he puts his bow away and gets his blades out one in each hand*

"Stay close."

*He says in a quiet voice, moving his head around seeing which ones are close enough to damage them. There are 5 moving with a faster pace than the others...he readies himself to strike high asw ell as low, quickly looking around to see if they can escape to a better location. There is a hillside near by, but some goblins seem to be sitting quite contently on it. 4 goblins linger. He notices the hillside with the four goblins on it and nods to Ocane*

"Go and clear them out *looks back quickly at the woman* Stay with me."
*she nods frantically and bites her lip*

*Ocane quickly but stealthily creeps up to the goblins and pounces on one of them biting and moving with elegant speed, Caldur looks at the closest undead creature. He can hear the goblins scramble and throw some rocks to the spider as they retreat, but the undead have grown closer and the 5 speedy undead pick up pace*

*points to the hillside* "Run there"

*takes a step back looking at the undead before striking the closest one near him. The woman runs up the hill where the goblins are with some missteps on occasion. The necromancer stabs one of the undead and it grows bigger and buffer with a roar. The now six feet disfigured roaring undead slams one of its "comrades" into he ground in blind fury. He looks towards the Necromancer, then to the undead that has grow bigger, he puts his swords away and gets his bow out, he knows he doesn't have much time left, readies his bow and quickly points it at the Necromancer and fires. One of the undead step sideways once and take the arrow*

*the Necromancer shouts out in the wind*
"Try again BOY"

*He grins within anger and takes a few step backs but then smiles, clicking his fingers four times. Ocane attempts to stealthily approach the Necromancer from behind. As he aims the undead beast runs through the undead lines brutally and charges him*

"WATCH OUT!" *the woman screams*

*He looks towards the beast running at him and gets ready to dodge at the last second. Ocane is behind the Necromancer but needs to get closer. The beast grabs one of the zombies and throws it at Caldur in a shout. The necromancer laughs as if playing with toys.

*He rolls out of the way to his left, nearly getting hit by the body, he gets back to his feet and smiles. Ocane is now inches close to the Necromancer. The beast jumps an awkward distance and SLAMS the ground next to Caldur with explosive effect. The explosive effect blows Caldur off his feet and into a tree, now on his hands and Knees he looks up with one eye closed. Ocane is now ready to strike, and jumps up at him*

*the necromancer curses as it bites into him*
"WHAT IN THE HELLS? GUUUAGH! Get off me!"

*Caldur struggles to get to his feet but looks at the woman and smiles, then back at the Necromancer. Ocane moving all around him biting as much as he can. The necromancer falls over and loses concentration as the undead soon fall over also. Caldur starts to slowly pant, that hit against the tree really hurt him, he looks up at the woman*

"Are you ok?"

*Ocane slowing down as from getting tired*
*she runs up to Caldur and pulls a bandage for his leg*

"A…are…are you okay?"

*He looks at her holding his arm and nods*
"I will be...."

*he stops as he can feel Ocane slowing down and looks at him* *Ocane now getting sluggish struggling to keep it up. She frowns and ties up what she can. Stopping any bleeding from the tree collision.*

"Something tells me that this isn't over."

*He points towards where Ocane is then going back to holding his arm, his face showing that pain. Ocane now stopped and stumbles off the Nerco. A black sort oddity rises out of the skin of the dead necromancer and looks with red eyes*

"BOY…!"

*Caldur looks at the figure, moving the woman back behind him, almost fulling to his knees but stays standing up, then sees Ocane. Ocane is in between him and the figure, tired by using most of his energy. The black figure shoots a fireball near ocane and launches him a few feet away*

"BLOODY THING!"

*Ocane's body lands right next to Caldur, still alive but badly injured. Due to the spell that happened to him Caldur lets out a painful raw and falls to his knees, wounds now showing up around his body. The woman gasps and covers her mouth*

"GIVE ME YOUR BODY TO DISECT, BOY!!!" The necro roars!

*Caldur now on his knees, panting heavily he looks up with one eye almost closed and holding his left arm, he badly struggles to his feet*

"I . . . wont . . . . let you!"

*He floats slowly but surely over to where Caldur is and the red of his eyes glow brighter. The wind whistles past Caldur...and his bow blows near by. He hears the bow arching along the floor but still quite far to reach, he looks up towards the creature and with the last of his strength he has left he tries to push the figure away from him. He laughs and reaches a hand to Caldur*

"Noooo!!!"
*the woman screams and plunges an arrow into the necromancer's back*

*He looks at the necromancers hand, panting even more heavily now, his own blood now dripping from him onto the floor. He slaps the woman aside and turns his back to caldur, the arrow sticking out. Caldur saw the arrow and give it everything to jump on his back, pushing the arrow as far in as he could, but then falling backwards onto his back, almost passing out. The necromancer screams as it pushes through and falls over with a cursing breath and finally fades into the ground....the woman comes up next to him with a slight of blood from her lips and looks on him*

*Caldur now laying on the ground struggles to his knees, still panting heavily, he looks up towards her and gives off a smile* "Your safe now."

*Saying after each breath*
"I never got your name…"

*A tear falls and she puts his arm around her head to get some way to lift him.*
"I…I--it's Amanda."

*He struggles to get to his feet and looks forwards* Amanda *he looks back at Ocane seeing him stubble towards them, following them* Names Caldur struggles to stay awake*

"Caldur…lets get you to cear! I know Roggins! He will let you rest and ill take care of you, okay? I'm a herbal specialist." Amanda takes him gently.

*He slightly nods before closing his eyes*

"Ok…"

*he struggles to say as the pain is getting worse, his vision also going blurry before passing out…


*He wakes up in a warm bed to see amanda treating him with a smile to the awakened archer, the spider near by. He turns his head to Ocane, still in a little pain*

"Will he be ok?" *looks at amanda before slowly struggling to sit up*

"Seems it woke up just before you did. I um...told it to stay in that corner...for now."

*sits up and places a hand on his head but then realizing that his armor is missing but says nothing and chuckles slightly*

"You are ok though?"

*moves hand away from his face and looks at amanda*

"Thanks to you, Caldur. Thank you so much. Truly!"

*smiles and then looks back at Ocane, he chuckles slightly but stops as it hurts, then looks back at amanda*
"Im glad i was there to save you."

*She finishes binding and watering his wounds then smiles gently to him*

"Let me know if you ever need anything and I will do what i can."
*He smiles towards her and nods, he then attempts to get out of the bed and stand up*

*She sits him up* "I must get my shipment to Mia soon. Will you be okay?"

"If i can walk then i will be *smiles at Amanda* I will be ok, wounds heal."

"Wonderful! They shall heal up in a day or so. I hope you keep well and I shall not forget you." *she leans over and kisses his cheek softly*
"Thank you"

*He smiles at her with a slight bit of red in his face*
"You take care too, i shouldn't be too far if your in danger again."

*she nods and leave some medical supplies on the stand and she looks back once more as she leaves the room*

*He looks towards the bandages on his wounds and smiles*