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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 279105" data-attributes="member: 2012">The Daughter of Violence“Well, this development could be most useful.”  Thera watched the battle on Harqual from the Pit of Violence on the 256th layer of the Abyss.  She had not come when her father had ordered her to.  He could burn in Hade’s Underworld for all she cared.Several dark creatures slithered past her feet as she looked for the prize she sought.  “Ah, there you are little one.  You are going to regret leaving the safety of the Outer Planes.”  Thera hated her more than any of them.  She represented everything that Thera was not and she swore that she’d make the Goddess of Peace suffer.  Thera drew her sword, Bloodhunter, and transferred her Avatar to the Prime Material Plane, arriving right behind the little goddess.They were both there of course, her and the bookworm.  The little Scholar God did even know what hit him.  He was dead, his essence gone, before Thera had time to pull her sword out of him.  She wouldn't consume such a weak, pathetic creature.“Truce!”  The Peace Goddess saw him evaporate but didn’t know what had killed him.  She turned and looked in horror as the Goddess of Violence sheathed her sword.“Hello Hela, do you want to come out and play?”Half-dead mortals scrambled to protect their beloved goddess but Thera swatted them away like flies.  She grabbed Hela by her hair and lifted her into the air with her.  Hela screamed as the two floated over the Sword Gulf.  “If you kill me my brother and Seraph will have your head.”“Actually, your kin are a little busy right now.  Tu should make short work of them.”  Hela’s fear grew and she began to struggle, trying to break free.  Thera tightened her grip and laughed as the Peace Goddess struggled.  “You see little Hela, you are all alone now and I am going to make you suffer!”The Goddess of Violence summoned the dark power passed down to her by Hiisi and began to draw out Hela's godsoul.  The Peace Goddess tried to scream but her voice came out as a whimper.  Her skin turned bone white and then her body faded from sight gone to oblivion.  Thera held up the dead goddess’s godsoul, as a ball of pure godfire, in her hand in triumph.“Here me, Mother of Kulan!  I have destroyed this goddess to prove that one day I will rule your world and bring darkness to this land.  I entomb her godsoul to the waters so that you may share her pain!”Thera held the godsoul in both hands her eyes glowing with evil darkness.  She willed the energy contained in the godfire to transfer from her hand to the waters of the Sword Gulf below.  The energy spread out along the surface merging with the water, trapping Hela’s essence there, not really alive, yet not dead either.The All-Mother watched helplessly as Thera tortured Cronn’s granddaughter.  As Hiisi’s influence and evil had spread throughout the land, her power over the dark, alien gods he spawned began to wane.  She needed all her energy just to contain the dark pantheon to Harqual.  But if Cronn’s pantheon fell, there would be no stopping them.  Mirella watched as Thera shifted back to the Outer Planes laughing the whole time.The waves began to thrash against the shores of Harqual, as Hela tired to escape her watery prison.  Thera had done her dark deed well; Mirella could feel the trapped goddesses' pain.Tu the Cat GodThe two pantheon gods knew that Tu was more then a match for them.  They had a choice - leave the Northlands to him or go down fighting.  “What do you think, Seraph?’“I’m not going anywhere.”The two gods rose into the air slowly, eyeing the cat god and keeping their distance from him.  They moved to flank the Feline God but he backed away, evading them.  “Ah, Cronn’s barbarian children.  Now, to find out just how strong you really are.”Tu raised his spear and two pantheon gods readied themselves to get out of the way.  Tu did not see them smile.“Look behind you.”  Hansa mocked the cat god's pride.“Oh please,” Tu started laughing at the two little barbarian gods’ supposed jest.  He should have looked, as he brought his arm forward to strike a hand reached out grabbing the spear.“Hello Tu, remember me.”Rel pulled on the spear with all his might, flinging it and Tu over the range of the Greystone Mountains.  Tu howled as he hit the hills on the other side.“Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark.”  Hansa was glad that Rel had arrived.  Now maybe they had a chance.  “I think the odds just got a little more even.”“Rel, where did you come from?  Not that I’m not glad to see you.”“Larea told me what was going on here.  Now, where are those two degenerates?”“Probably lost in oblivion somewhere.”“Well, you two have been busy.  Cronn would be proud.”“Well, Tu did help I guess.”The three gods looked to see if Tu had regained his dignity.  He was no where in sight.“I don’t like this.  Where is he?”The vicious cat god appeared out of nowhere and nailed Hansa from behind.  The blow sent the young god spiralling out of control to the ground.  The force of the impact left a huge crater and no sign of the God of Soldiers.“Hansa!” Seraph called out to the fallen god hoping to receive an answer.  He didn’t get one.“Damn it, how’d he get over here without being spotted.”  Things had gone from not too bad to horrible in mere seconds.Tu laughed at the duo’s plight.  “Not so cocky now are you Rel?”“Damn you to Baator Tu!”  They weren’t Rel’s words.  The rage had taken Seraph again and he attacked blindly without any sense or reasoning.  Such was the power of the Barbarian Rage of the Pantheon.“Seraph, no wait!”  But Rel’s words fell on deaf ears.  All he could do was back the Elf Barbarian God up and hope that they could hold out until Seraph’s rage ended.Rel attacked Tu just as Seraph struck his first blow, his sword in one hand and his favourite weapon in the other, a Rakasta war claw he called Cat’s Paw.  The three gods thundered through the sky.  Tu used his spear like a staff, blocking blow after blow.  Not even Rel’s sword could cut through it.  The three gods fought across the mountains, striking at each other, looking for an opening.  They passed over the Great Forest of Harqual, the Plains of the Long Divide, and the desert known as the Great Expanse.Rel could tell that Seraph was tiring, as the rage left him and Tu was gaining the advantage.  Rel moved in and blocked the other cat god’s obvious attempts to deliver the final deathblow to the Elf Barbarian.  His attempt was weak and Tu slammed his fist across Rel’s face sending him to the savannas below.  Rel’s Avatar exploded as it hit the ground and it took several moments for him to transfer another one to the mortal plane.That was all Tu needed.  He speared Seraph in the midsection, sending him to oblivion turning to face Rel’s new Avatar.“No!” Rel was shaken by what had happened, he had made an oath to protect Cronn’s kin.  It had meant so much to him now that all his own were gone.“Two down, one to go.”  Tu’s laughter could be heard as far away as the Cold Barrens in the Northlands.----------[KF - Break time... 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