Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-10197675-20131128185142/@comment-3293219-20131129001156

(Yeah, I'm using music, I've been saving these for the epic fight scenes.)

Nish awoke in a place very different to the one that he had fainted in.

He knew that this must be a dream or some sort of illusion as this place had no resemblance to the Imperial city.

He lay inside a large temple, a simple, square building held up by round collums. The floor, walls and collums all apeared to be made from marble or some rich building material.

The breton looked up at the sky and saw that it was purple, an odd colour for the sky of Nirn as he could feel sunlight on his face leaking through the cracks in the roof.

"Son..."

Nish's spine stood up straight, he knew that voice, there was only one man in his life who owned a voice like that.

"Dad..." A tear rolled down Nish's face as he turned around to see his father stood there, exactly as he remembered him.

His father looked somewhat similar to him but his hair was grey, due to his age and he had a beard that was well trimmed.

"After all these years, you've come back to me."

"Dad, I..."

"Nish! Wake up!" Eilowyn's voice echoed.

"Eilo!"

"I'm sorry son but there's no going back from here..."

Nish turned around to see that his father was stood with outstretched arms, he war a great big smile that was frustrating to see.

"She needs me... she's about to do something stupid and I need to stop he-"

"Hush now, you can't do anything here. You're dead... well dying and there's no turning back."

"You seem awfully glad about that." Nish replied, bitterly.

"Of course! I've been waiting for you for so long!"

"It doesn't bother you, you of all people that I was killed by a vampire?"

Nish's father lowered his arms, giving up on the embrace and teary reunion.

"Of course it bothers me... but you're here now. Right? We've all got to go sometime Nish..."

Nish looked up, through the cracks in the ceiling.

"Sometime... but I'm still alive, that means there's a way back."

Nish's father sighed, "trust me when I say that there's no turning back now, the doors have sealed behind you, you'll see Eilonwyn again."

"Alright..." Nish sighed, giving in. "I'll trust you... if you can tell me your name."

The figure before him just glared at him, darting around the room as if the answer was written on the wall.

"Shit!"

It's answer gave it away, this was clearly some sort of apparition.

"Tell me how to get out of here, you lying piece of shit!" Nish snapped, drawing his dagger.

"On the contrary, I haven't lied about everything..."

"Wha-"

"You'll see Eilonwyn again... very soon."

[]Nish screamed and lunged forward, trying to strick his fake father with the dagger. The figure exploded and turned into a flock of bats, they squeeked, frantically as they flew away.

Nish stood, eagerly waiting the vampire's next move.

To his surprise, the marble came to life, shining a bright light into his eyes and causing him to pull back to protect his face.

When the intensity of the light died down, Nish realised that the building had been destroyed around him, the pillars stood as a monument to the destructive force that had just wiped the temple out.

"Give it up Breton!" The vampire taunted, materialising before him.

The vampire had given up the disguises and the trickery.

He revealed himself to be a vampire lord, a truly beastly creature that sent fear to the core of Nish's very soul.

"After all of the promises you've made, do you think that I'll stand down?" Nish replied, tightning his grip around the dagger.

"To be honest, I was hoping for resistance!" The vampire blasted a powerful fire spell, that Nish barely dodged, he was so close that it burnt through some of the leather armour on his leg.

Nish hit the floor with a thud but he he had to keep moving, if one of those fireballs hit him, he would be done for.

He used the stone pillar to protect himself, the vampire lord destroyed it in one strike.

"Shit! There's only 5 left!" Nish muttered to himself, loading a crossbow bolt.

He fired the bolt at the vampire lord, hitting it in the chest and causing it to growl in both pain and anger.

"That puny weapon will not stop me!" The vampire snapped, casting a drain life spell.

Nish was quick enough to hide behind one of the pillars and the effect ended at the stone structure.

"Hiding won't save you forever, coward!" The vampire exploded a second time and turned into a cloud of bats, rematerialising infront of his enemy.

"DIE!" He blasted a powerful, purple void at the breton. Nish jumped again, hitting his elbow against the rock, which was incredibly painful. As Nish pulled himself up, he could feel himself being pulled back as if he was hit by gust of wind. But it wasn't the wind pushing him forward, something else was pulling him back.

"Dammit!" He cursed, falling to the floor and being dragged towards the aura.

As if the divines themselves had interveined, the void closed, just as Nish was about to reach it.

"C'mon! Breton, give in already! It's what your father would have done!"

"You don't know shit!" Nish spat, firing another bolt into the creature's thigh.

This time the vampire lord screamed out in pain, it wasn't as strong as it wanted Nish to believe.

"Enough, this has gone on long enough!"

Nish dragged himself to his feet, grabbing hold of his elbow.

"I couldn't agree more..."

As Nish lined his next shot, he noticed that the vampire had cast a self healing spell, healing all of his wounds.

"Oh piss off!" Nish snapped.

"HA! You think that this is any normal battle? In this realm, I can control anything I wish..." He raised his hand with a pink aura to prove his point, causing the ground to shake and crack.

"I control the earth, the sky, who lives and who dies! I am this realm's creator, it's master, it's God!"

Uppon hearing this monologue a thought occured to Nish, at a time when he should lose hope his mind was rattling away, proving that our powers of imagination work better in darkness than in light.

"That's not right..." Nish muttered.

"Humph... you could at least go out with some dignity, Breton!"

"No... you didn't create this world." Nish replied, in a monotone bought on by realisation, "I did!"

The vampire lord looked momentarily surprised but then went back to 'unimpressed.'

"This world only exists when I pass out, you're nothing more than a disease and you just take the form of what I'm afraid of!"

"Enough, the wagging of your tongue is begining to irritate me! Time for me to put you in your pla-" The vampire was interrupted, when he was hit by a crossbow bolt, that knocked him out of the sky.

The vampire landed with a thud in the center of the ruin, clutching the large spearlike bolt that was sticking out of his chest.

"Argh! You think that this has beaten me? I'm just getting star-"

"You know... you'd win more fights if you weren't so bothered about trying to bravado me to death." Nish informed him, raising his crossbow.

"Hmm... I'd be careful about giving your enemies advice, Breton."

"Don't worry, you aren't going to use it."

"What makes you so sure?"

Nish lowered his crossbow, "I know why you're a vampire... it's not the virus, is it? It's, because the virus believes that I'm more afraid of you than anything else that this world has to throw at me. But... it was wrong, you were wrong. Because no matter how big, powerful and ugly you are, there will always be something that I fear more..."

The vampire looked around as it heard the hark of a crow, "She's coming for you..."

The vampire pulled the arrow out of his chest and lunged forward, Nish had already begun to walk away. As his attention was focussed on the breton, he didn't notice the murder of crows above him, until he heard their cries. He glanced up and saw that the crows had materialised into a robed figure, who's hands and feet were protected by armour and it's face was hidden inside the deep hood that it wore, that acted as a shrowd. All that he could see, was the glowing, red eyes.

The vampire lunged forward but the figure, quickly countered and sent a shock wave through the vampire's body, that bought it to it's knees.

The figure then placed it's fingers in the creature's mouth and began to pry it's jaw open. The vampire began to scream as the top and the bottom half of it's skull were being pulled further and further apart until finally a sickening crunch was heard and it fell to the floor.

Nish didn't even turn around, he was done with these nightmares and a certain dunmer needed him...

(beddy time! Sorry for errors but I no longer care at this hour! :P)