Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20140217201750/@comment-3293219-20140306222603

(Glad to see that the twist in Rev-Revelation wasn't as predictable as I thought. :)

And I've been avoiding people today, since I'm back to being pissy and I can be quite annoying when I get pissy.

Sorry. :(

I've mostly been watching being human, in the hopes of getting some inspiration for Lucian and his vampire/blood adiction scenes.)

When deities collide
Kaizen and the minotaur lord circled each other for some time. The atmosphere was electric as the two sides of the crowd cheered, growled, roared and snarled at the two combatants.

Ogdar was the first to strike, lifting his staff, over his head and running forwards. The minotaur king drove it down, hoping to kill the argonian in one strike. Kaizen knew better, swivelling out of the way, quite elegantly as the minotaur king struck the stone, beneath his feet, sending dust and rubble flying into the air.

The Black Argonian squinted as the dust flew into his eyes. He stepped away from the minotaur as his eyes adjusted, trying not to rub them as he blinked, furiously, to clear them of dust. Kaizen was fighting a beast, so the key objective is to seem as inhuman as possible. Only then could he match the minotaur king’s brutish nature.

Kaizen decided to study Ogdar, so that he could check for any openings in the beast’s attack. He already knew about the weak knee but his old age might be a bigger factor, than he thought.

Ogdar tried a horizontal attack; he swung his staff, slowly, with great force. The swing would have shattered every bone in Kaizen’s torso, if it had connected but unfortunately for the tyrant, his arm was a lot stronger than his brain. Kaizen decided to show off, throwing himself back as the staff swung over his head; he felt the breeze of the staff’s motion brush against his face as it missed it by inches. Kaizen waited for Ogdar to finish his pathetic attempt to kill him before he threw himself upright, straightening his spine. He shot up and threw his arms wide and smirked, as the crowd erupted into thunderous applause at the spectacle.

Kaizen loved this, duelling, the cheer of the crowd, elevating his status from ‘combatant’ to the mantle of a God. The Black Argonian stepped away and went back to circling Ogdar, watching as he struggled to get back into his stance. The Old King’s eyes met Kaizen’s as he spun around, showing the Argonian something that he didn’t expect to see…

Fear…

The Minotaur king had accidentally shown his weakness, his eyes were soft, showing an old king, who knew that his days of rule will be cut short, within the next ten minutes.

Pathetic…

Kaizen approached the minotaur king, taking a tight grip of his mace and axe, if this beast was too weak to face him, then he’d just have to slaughter it like the swine that he was.

Ogdar hobbled over, getting ready to swing again but, once again, Kaizen was ready. This time the beasts swung at his ankles, the staff skimmed over the floor as Kaizen jumped over it, like a child with a skipping rope.

The Black Argonian wasted no time, waiting for recovery, he ran forward and raised his hand axe, ready to drive it into the beast’s head and end his pathetic monarch charade. However, to Kaizen’s surprise and dismay, Ogdar threw his staff on the floor as it landed, with a thud as he roared in fury and began to charge. The bull inside him had emerged, causing him to charge, head first at his opponent. He leant his head forward, hoping to ram Kaizen with his stone like skull and shatter every bone in his body. The impact would likely be more devastating than the totem, if that was to strike him. Not even Kaizen expected this, to give into his animal instincts… such desperation.

Kaizen’s first instinct was to jump out of the way but he managed to stem that impulse, oppress it as he took a tighter grip of his weapons. The Assassin charged forward himself, hoping to meet him half way.

To the crowd, it looked like the two of them were going to collide heads. This, of course, would not be a good idea as the force of Ogdar’s boulder-like skull would just shatter his neck or snap it like a twig, on impact. The Argonian waited for the last second before sliding, on his knees, under Ogdar’s legs, holding his mace out and striking the king’s gimped knee. Ogdar’s cries could be heard in every corner of the arena, it elevated above the crowd.

Kaizen turned around, his gaze was pitiless as he felt as if death hadn’t come for the old king soon enough. The Black Argonian would make up for lost time, stepping forward, with his hand axe raised. Ogdar, pathetically, tried to crawl away as Kaizen approached. The minotaur king knew that the end was here as Kaizen knelt down beside him and placed his hand on his back.

The fallen tyrant turned back to him, a look of sadness, regret and a longing to be spared in his eyes. He was thankful that Kaizen had taken pity on him, leaving him with his life…

He should have known better, of course, as Kaizen had little to no capacity for pity, especially towards fools like Odgar. Before Ogdar could insult the Black Argonian with his words, Kaizen drove his axe through the back of Ogdar’s neck. The crowd cheered as Kaizen was about to give them the bloody finish that they lusted for.

After hacking deep enough into Ogdar’s neck, Kaizen stepped around his dying body and stopped at the horns on the beast’s head.

This will be one for the history books…

The Argonian grabbed hold of the tyrant’s horns and began to pull. As brutishly strong as Kaizen was, he struggled to pull this beast’s head off of his shoulders, like he originally intended to. He couldn’t back out now, however, the crowd expected it and it would be humiliating to back out and break his first promise to them.

After what felt like an age, the last of the king’s stubborn tendens gave way, allowing Kaizen to tear the beast’s head from his shoulders.

Kaizen had forgotten to check if Odgar was alive before he started. He hoped he was…

As the king’s head was removed, the crowd erupted into thunderous applause and cheered as a river of blood gushed out of the former king’s neck stump, making a large pool of blood on the floor, around Kaizen’s feet.

Kaizen doubled over, as his back, shoulders and arms were aching, throbbing even. He felt like he had received one of Ogdar’s head buts as everything was killing him. The Black Argonian eventually, with a great deal of effort, straightened his back and presented the fallen king’s head to his people, causing them to cheer even louder.

The atmosphere was exhilarating as the minotaurs cheered and began to sing for their new leader and it just built up, more and more as Kaizen threw the severed head on the floor. In a rare case of excitement, due to a rush of adrenaline, Kaizen found himself throwing his arms into the air and began to cheer, basking in the worship and his ascension to godhood.

The minotaurs all bent their knees in response, adding more fuel to the inferno, that was Kaizen’s ego. Though Kaizen wasn’t normally egotistical, few would be able to resist being held on a pedestal like this, to be idolized, worshipped…

To be the center of a universe.

Kaizen lowered his arms and took on the praise, basking in the energy and showing a dark grin.

The empire’s days were numbered…