Xelloss, messenger boy
Nov. 14th, 2011 01:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonshadows I'm skimming along, following a road, feeling for an aura I'd rather not touch. THERE! I slow down and come to a halt some 30 feet up from where the ground would be if I weren't in the Astral Plane, and take a look what who I've found. He seems to be the same age as the others, but male this time. Blond hair, fairly short, and an air of being a Learned Man - lots of knowledge and more than a touch of arrogance. Great. Not only is he unsealed, but he knows what he is, and he'll probably know what I am. I wrap my aura tighter around myself. The things I do for my Lord.
I solidify into the Physical Plane about 25 feet up in a slight sitting position. Standard form, eyes closed, resigned smile. My aura is wrapped as tight as it will go, trying to evade his aura and failing. I drift down and settle onto the street about 12 feet in front of where he's sitting at an open-air cafe; the people around me are staring. They don't know what I am, but with his aura lapping against mine, it's impossible for him not to.
"Mazoku!"
Anger hardens his aura; great, he's had run-ins with my kind. This is going to make my job ~so~ much easier.
"What do you want, mazoku?"
I try my best to look harmless...not that it's going to help. "Please, honored sir, allow me to introduce myself." I keep my voice steady and non-threatening, and he nods warily. "I am Xelloss, sometimes called the Trickster Priest. I am Priest and General to one of the Mazoku Lords, the Beastmaster Xellas Metallium. I am here at my Lord's order and at the order of Ceiphied's Knight."
He's glaring at me, wary. "Unbind your aura, mazoku. I'll have no tricks from you!"
I stifle a wince and completely unbind my aura, letting him prod me with his searing aura. The street clears out, and I hold perfectly still in the face of maddening pain. Finally he withdraws, satisfied that I'm not hiding anything and slightly impressed that I held still.
"Why are you here, mazoku?" There's suspicious accusation in his voice. Well, considering who and what I am, I guess it's well-deserved.
"I am here to deliver you a letter, honored sir." I slowly reach into my bag and pull out the sealed parchment, handing it over. He notes the aura, breaks the seal, and reads. I've been told the gist of it; it's a letter from Ceiphied's Knight to whichever fragment of Ceiphied I'd found, briefly describing what was going on, and pointing out that if Ceiphied's Knight and the mazoku were working ~together~ on something that L~~~~~ had directed them to do, then the situation was dire indeed. Finally he looks up and nods at me.
"Very well, messenger-boy." I wince at that as he stands up. "You show me where I'm going, and I'll follow you. No tricks!"
I nod wearily and revert to the Astral plane, aura still unbound. He appears beside me like the sun itself, and I begin moving slowly, gaining speed as he follows until we're shooting across the Astral Plane at full speed, terrifying everything within sensing distance...that is to say, within the equivalent of a few miles. I slow down as we approach the other two, and step out into the Physical Plane as they turn to look. He appears behind me, and Ceiphied's Knight nods.
"Thank you, Xelloss. You may go now."
I bow and pop back into the Astral Plane, wrapping my aura as tight as I can make it, and shoot off to a nice, dark corner somewhere to recover.
I solidify into the Physical Plane about 25 feet up in a slight sitting position. Standard form, eyes closed, resigned smile. My aura is wrapped as tight as it will go, trying to evade his aura and failing. I drift down and settle onto the street about 12 feet in front of where he's sitting at an open-air cafe; the people around me are staring. They don't know what I am, but with his aura lapping against mine, it's impossible for him not to.
"Mazoku!"
Anger hardens his aura; great, he's had run-ins with my kind. This is going to make my job ~so~ much easier.
"What do you want, mazoku?"
I try my best to look harmless...not that it's going to help. "Please, honored sir, allow me to introduce myself." I keep my voice steady and non-threatening, and he nods warily. "I am Xelloss, sometimes called the Trickster Priest. I am Priest and General to one of the Mazoku Lords, the Beastmaster Xellas Metallium. I am here at my Lord's order and at the order of Ceiphied's Knight."
He's glaring at me, wary. "Unbind your aura, mazoku. I'll have no tricks from you!"
I stifle a wince and completely unbind my aura, letting him prod me with his searing aura. The street clears out, and I hold perfectly still in the face of maddening pain. Finally he withdraws, satisfied that I'm not hiding anything and slightly impressed that I held still.
"Why are you here, mazoku?" There's suspicious accusation in his voice. Well, considering who and what I am, I guess it's well-deserved.
"I am here to deliver you a letter, honored sir." I slowly reach into my bag and pull out the sealed parchment, handing it over. He notes the aura, breaks the seal, and reads. I've been told the gist of it; it's a letter from Ceiphied's Knight to whichever fragment of Ceiphied I'd found, briefly describing what was going on, and pointing out that if Ceiphied's Knight and the mazoku were working ~together~ on something that L~~~~~ had directed them to do, then the situation was dire indeed. Finally he looks up and nods at me.
"Very well, messenger-boy." I wince at that as he stands up. "You show me where I'm going, and I'll follow you. No tricks!"
I nod wearily and revert to the Astral plane, aura still unbound. He appears beside me like the sun itself, and I begin moving slowly, gaining speed as he follows until we're shooting across the Astral Plane at full speed, terrifying everything within sensing distance...that is to say, within the equivalent of a few miles. I slow down as we approach the other two, and step out into the Physical Plane as they turn to look. He appears behind me, and Ceiphied's Knight nods.
"Thank you, Xelloss. You may go now."
I bow and pop back into the Astral Plane, wrapping my aura as tight as I can make it, and shoot off to a nice, dark corner somewhere to recover.