Post by Noah on Oct 22, 2004 11:49:26 GMT -5
(Yes, as the thread says, Oct. 22nd is my birthday and all. I figured since I rarely post here, I'd....ya know...make a post. And to Theoren, I'd like to say thank you for the flattering comments you made towards the RPing tranny created by me and Lucca. I know this post wont live up to the quality of what you've seen from me before, but I do hope you enjoy it. That goes out to all of you.)
From blood.....to blades.
From flesh.....to steel.
From man......to spawn.
"Halloween" was the name given to a holiday celibrated so much throughout many other realms. Did they celibrate it here? Noah wasn't sure, but either way, he didn't care about that at the moment. It was technically morning, but still way up in the A.M. hours and therefore dark and quite cold. A dense fog shrouded the ground, making viewing things less than a foot off the ground impossible. It was this night/morning that Noah stood at a graveyard, over seeing the tombstones as if he were their care taker. Sensing a closing in presence and hearing a tapping noise, he turned around calmly to see the sight of an old man entering the graveyard.
Tapping a cane on the ground infront of him, it was obvious of one thing: he was blind. Although Noah was completely quiet, the man seemed aware of his presence. "This here makes twenty years. Yes, it's our twenty year aniversary.....and I've never missed a day." He said as he lay perhaps the most beautiful collection of flowers ever seen on one of the graves. The action did not escape Noah's gaze as he wondered if one day he would find himself frequenting Lucca's grave after she was long dead. "Touching.....old man." He said, his voice being both calm and deep, and intellectual to the point of being soothing and charming, and with his usual english accent. (Think Kain from The Legacy of Kain Series)
The old man did not jump or jerk in suprise, again indicating he was aware of Noah's presence, and it was perhaps his blindness that was the reason why he didn't flee in terror from Noah. "This date too is an aniversery to an event from my past too." The hellspawn began to wax nostalgic with the old man. He told of a time when he was the guardian of Zalion, not just protecting it from outside intruders but also internal problems as well. It was one day that while taking a routine journey through the land he came accross something most interesting. There were three men, two appearently peasants considering what rags they wore and the third appearing to be fairly wealthy.
At their feet lay the body of a dead woman, fairly beautiful, but also appearing to be a peasant. When questioned, each man told a different story, always pointing a finger at the other two. Finally, Noah gave one of them a weapon. He turned his back and said "May justice be served." and upon turning back around, he found that the man he'd given the sword to had killed the other two men. Noah then led the man away to dispatch his own brand of justice on the unlucky sword weilder. It was then that Noah told another story to the old man.
The date was also the anniversery of something else, the birth of Noah's strong sense of justice. When he was still human, Noah served as a colonel in the American Colonial Militia during the Revoluntionary War. He told one day of a hang man coming into a small encampment, in search of a "black hearted monsterious killer". It was then, he began to hang, on a daily basis, some of Noah's men. Noah did nothing to to stop the derranged sadist and so it was when Noah finally went up to him to question had he found the black hearted murderer he'd been looking for, the hang man replied "YOU, Colonel Noah, are the only monster here! Have you not set back while I took so many of the lives of the soldiers that were under your care?!"
Though unable to find a come back for the man's moral and overwhelmed with irony, that didn't keep Noah from taking revenge. Noah learned first hand an age old moral from the hang man: evil triumphs when good men do nothing. The hang man, however, died a most painful death. And it was then that Noah's tales ended. Turning his back to the old man, he walked back towards the forest, his cape draped over his body, masking his limbs and making it appear he hovered when he walked. "Enjoy your reunion with your wife....my friend." He whispered while leaving, fore during or after Noah reminised with the old man, he had passed away, laying so peacefully and quietly on his dead wife's grave.
P.S. -Happy Halloween-
From blood.....to blades.
From flesh.....to steel.
From man......to spawn.
"Halloween" was the name given to a holiday celibrated so much throughout many other realms. Did they celibrate it here? Noah wasn't sure, but either way, he didn't care about that at the moment. It was technically morning, but still way up in the A.M. hours and therefore dark and quite cold. A dense fog shrouded the ground, making viewing things less than a foot off the ground impossible. It was this night/morning that Noah stood at a graveyard, over seeing the tombstones as if he were their care taker. Sensing a closing in presence and hearing a tapping noise, he turned around calmly to see the sight of an old man entering the graveyard.
Tapping a cane on the ground infront of him, it was obvious of one thing: he was blind. Although Noah was completely quiet, the man seemed aware of his presence. "This here makes twenty years. Yes, it's our twenty year aniversary.....and I've never missed a day." He said as he lay perhaps the most beautiful collection of flowers ever seen on one of the graves. The action did not escape Noah's gaze as he wondered if one day he would find himself frequenting Lucca's grave after she was long dead. "Touching.....old man." He said, his voice being both calm and deep, and intellectual to the point of being soothing and charming, and with his usual english accent. (Think Kain from The Legacy of Kain Series)
The old man did not jump or jerk in suprise, again indicating he was aware of Noah's presence, and it was perhaps his blindness that was the reason why he didn't flee in terror from Noah. "This date too is an aniversery to an event from my past too." The hellspawn began to wax nostalgic with the old man. He told of a time when he was the guardian of Zalion, not just protecting it from outside intruders but also internal problems as well. It was one day that while taking a routine journey through the land he came accross something most interesting. There were three men, two appearently peasants considering what rags they wore and the third appearing to be fairly wealthy.
At their feet lay the body of a dead woman, fairly beautiful, but also appearing to be a peasant. When questioned, each man told a different story, always pointing a finger at the other two. Finally, Noah gave one of them a weapon. He turned his back and said "May justice be served." and upon turning back around, he found that the man he'd given the sword to had killed the other two men. Noah then led the man away to dispatch his own brand of justice on the unlucky sword weilder. It was then that Noah told another story to the old man.
The date was also the anniversery of something else, the birth of Noah's strong sense of justice. When he was still human, Noah served as a colonel in the American Colonial Militia during the Revoluntionary War. He told one day of a hang man coming into a small encampment, in search of a "black hearted monsterious killer". It was then, he began to hang, on a daily basis, some of Noah's men. Noah did nothing to to stop the derranged sadist and so it was when Noah finally went up to him to question had he found the black hearted murderer he'd been looking for, the hang man replied "YOU, Colonel Noah, are the only monster here! Have you not set back while I took so many of the lives of the soldiers that were under your care?!"
Though unable to find a come back for the man's moral and overwhelmed with irony, that didn't keep Noah from taking revenge. Noah learned first hand an age old moral from the hang man: evil triumphs when good men do nothing. The hang man, however, died a most painful death. And it was then that Noah's tales ended. Turning his back to the old man, he walked back towards the forest, his cape draped over his body, masking his limbs and making it appear he hovered when he walked. "Enjoy your reunion with your wife....my friend." He whispered while leaving, fore during or after Noah reminised with the old man, he had passed away, laying so peacefully and quietly on his dead wife's grave.
P.S. -Happy Halloween-
