Fight and Freedom! ( Thorns of Steel TP)

This role play happen in the cells about the same time as this role play was going on elsewhere, both logs end where they finally find the captives and well...just read!

A dark, unpleasant, barren cell...

This room is almost completely empty.  A few chains are bolted to the walls to restrain prisoners.  There is no lighting other than the miniscule shred of gold that pours from under the sturdy wooden door.  Dust coats the somewhat rough stone floor.  There's no way out.  You can't tunnel through the stone blocks that make up the walls, the floor is solid rock, and you wouldn't get very far from here even if you managed to get out the door.  If you're unfortunate enough to be imprisoned here, it's the end of the line for you, bar a miracle.
Exits: [O]ut

Oz watches Leon for a short while and sighs, he looks at the door and shakes his head, he looks to Leon, "He took Kiara off somewhere, hard to say where."

"And you won't be seeing her again." Vladmir walks through the door, which he somehow opened silently.

Leon looks at the door and asks, "And why is that?"

Oz glares at Vladmir, he starts to ask the same question or something like it but let’s Leon be the one to mainly ask.

"Because where I sent her--And upon my oath, I did not slay her--she will never return from." Vladmir smirks before noting the fact that Leon is untied. "Ah...we can't have that."

Leon folds his arms over his chest “Can’t have what may I ask?"

Oz glares again, "Where is she?"

"That's for me to know, and you to only find out if you are very uncooperative," Vladmir replies smugly. To Leon, he says, "We can't have you walking around unbound."

Leon backs up slowly. "I been untied, most of the time been here and you didn’t seem to have a problem then"

Oz raises an eyebrow but waits to see what is happening, he can’t really do anything, he is still chained.

"But now it cannot be tolerated," Vladmir answers. "Now it may prove problematic." He opens the door and yells, "Runt! Bring me the chains, you little streak of slime!"

Leon starts to back up more, he is not much of a fighter really but still makes a couple fist, ready to fight if needed.

Blisa has been hidden in a dark corner, watching the little altercation going on before her. She would stay quiet a little longer, but her nose, that treacherous body part, decided that sneezing was the best idea in the world. And, sadly, she cannot stop it, and 3 hearty 'achoos' escape the little cat.

Vladmir turns immediately to face the source of the noise. "Ah...What are you doing /there?/" he asks, tone laden with menace. In the background, there's a small grunt and a clink of metal on stone as Terfil staggers in under the weight of an oversized length of chain.

Leon frowns as he looks over at Blisa, he watches Vladmir trying to judge what he is up to.

Oz keeps an eye on Vladmir as well.

Blisa sniffs and rises, standing lightly on her feet. "Nothing. Just looking at your stupid face." Wow...she must really be bored to risk getting Stormfeather mad.

Vladmir draws his sword slowly. "At least I have a face...which you won't if you continue being so difficult..."

Leon says, "Leave her be"

Oz glares at Vladmir again, it’s clear he doesn’t like how the day is starting so far.

Blisa smiles cheekily, if a little lopsidedly, her right cheek covered in a bruise from when Vladmir slapped her with his sword a few days ago. "Who, me? Difficult? Naw, it can't be. I'm just bored. And I wouldn't be quite so bored if you would listen to my information..."

"Fine. Speak," Vladmir growls. "And if you are in any way fooling with me, you will be forced to find out just how funny life is when you have none." Meanwhile, Terfil's tongue sticks out of the side of his mouth as he jumps around Leon again and again, trying in vain to put the chains on the mouse.

Leon shakes his head at the newt and sidesteps him fairly easily as it seems the newt has no clue how to do things right, "Ya missed..you keep missing."

Oz raises an eyebrow at what info the kitten may have.

Terfil hisses in frustration as he continues his attempts, before finally stopping, stamping his foot in frustration, and throwing down the heavy chain forcefully...inadvertently landing right on Leon's footpaw.

Blisa secretly gets ready to run as she smiles on the inside. Her plan is working beautifully. "You're dumber'n a bag o' walnuts." She lightly bounds away from the corner, making sure to stay out of the fox's reach.

Vladmir flicks the long, questing sword blade around at the fleeing Dibbun. "Blast you," he mutters.

Oz frowns, he watches Blisa carefully, then if something did happen he couldn’t get over to her being chained to the wall still.

Leon makes a fist and looks ready to attempt to attack Vladmir or distract at least, "You..need to leave the dibbun alone fox"

Leon does tense up some as the chain in dropped on his already sore footpaw, but he remains standing.

Blisa easily ducks the sword blade, letting an almost wicked smile slip onto her face. "And you smell like a pile of rotting garbage." she laughs, then zips to another part of the cell, almost as swift as a Taggerung or a Long Patrol boxing hare, despite her broken rib and face.

Vladmir slashes again, infuriated at both Blisa and himself for allowing the Dibbun to bait him. "You will smell of death when I am finished," he snarls.

Oz pulls on his cuffs but he doesn’t get too far, he has lost some of his stealth since he has been here and the two beasts are on the other side of the room.

Leon watches the fight, he speaks.. "Be careful" He says to Blisa. He gets the dropped chains off his foot paw and frowns, it’s starting to swell up as he mutters to himself “Great"

Blisa laughs again, very clearly enjoying herself. "All talk and no action, that's you." she darts around, looking for all the world like a small white and blue blur. She is careful to stay out of the enraged fox's reach.

Terfil scrambles up Leon's leg and onto the mouse's head, jumping up and down vigorously in frustration. Meanwhile, Vladmir whirls his sword in an arcing figure-8 pattern through the room, roaring.

Oz frowns, only able to watch and hope the kitten is not hurt.

Leon goes to try and get the newt off himself not knowing if the newt is trying to injure him or simply avoid the blade Vladmir has.

Terfil screeches in fury and continues his hopping, his feet drumming on the mouse's head wildly.

Blisa leads the fox on a merry dance, from 1 end of the room to the other. She makes a daring, dangerous, and kind of crazy move : she dashes behind Vladmir, grabs a pawful of his tailfur and, hopefully for her, rips out a nice chunk. If he doesn't, like, kill her first.

Leon watches the newt and frowns, but he is also quickly getting tried of the newt and goes to back into the wall to knock it out before it knocks him out.

Vladmir clenches his teeth and snarls, whirling about and bringing his sword down at this insult/injury. Terfil keeps jumping up and down on the mouse's head until...Yikes! ABANDON MOOOOOOOUUUUUSE! Just before impact with the stone wall, Terfil yelps and leaps down from Leon's head, landing awkwardly on his tail and wincing.

Oz frowns, he goes to try and pull on his cuffs again and growls low, no use.

Leon sees the dibbun get off too late and its him that is knocked out, he groans and lays on the cell floor, he is alive but will have a bad headache when he wakes up, which may be a few moments or few hours.

Oz frowns, this is not going well so far, he sighs and looks quickly to see where Blisa is.

Terfil utters an undulating, shrill call of triumph and clambers up onto Leon's inert form, jumping up and down victoriously.

Blisa ducks the sword, just barely missing getting an ear lopped off. But this near-death experience is worth it when she comes away with a pawful of Vladmir's stormy gray fur. Dashing out of reach, she triumphantly waves it around in the air, crowing, "I have harmed the great Stormfeather! All bow before me! Hahahaha!!"

"You scummy little whelp," Vladmir hisses, whirling around again, slashing ruthlessly at the kitten. "DIE!"

Oz frowns as he watches this, he starts to yell at Blisa but doesn’t want to distract her as she could get hurt just as easy if suddenly distracted, he frowns and closes his eyes as if praying she is not hurt.

Blisa backs up a little, keeping a wicked grin on her face. "Good idea. Then I can come and haunt you." She stays out of reach, though.

Vladmir blinks a bit. How does she know about...No matter. Slash. Stab. Slash. Hack. Slice.

Oz frowns at this answer and shakes his head.

Blisa ducks and dodges each and every swing of the blade...except 1. Her back to the wall, she does duck, yes, but not enough, and a small cry escapes from her as a trickle of blood flows from the cut on her shoulder. She ducks and zips between the fox's legs, trying to whack him in a, *ahem*, very tender spot on the way. She'll probably miss, but it's the thought that counts, right?

Leon groans weakly, maybe he is starting to wake up, but very slowly.

Vladmir looks startled for once and quickly steps aside, whirling the blade back to strike Blisa with the flat of the sword. Meanwhile, Terfil is thrown from his perch by Leon's movement, and screeches loudly as he goes flying.

Blisa cries as the blade whaps her back. Stumbling, she falls awkwardly onto her broken arm, which brings forth another anguished cry. Rolling onto her back, she scoots backward, trying to get to her feet.

Oz opens his eyes to watch again and frowns, if only he could get out of the cuffs. He does try again and makes his wrists bleed some as healed over scabs come off some.

Leon blinks in time to see a blurred image of Vladmir and the kitten and shakes his head to clear it as he sits up slowly.

Terfil jumps onto Leon's head again, leaping up and down insistently, chanting, "DIE-DIE-DIE-DIE!" Meanwhile, the fox throws back his head and laughs long and mad.

Leon makes a fist as he tenses up in pain and goes to punch Terfil out cold, if he gets lucky that is.

Blisa takes this advantage to try and kick Vladmir in the left kneecap, then coots back, stands, and bolts to the other side of the room, ignoring the pain.

Oz watches Blisa if she is close to him he may be able to do something to help but he is unsure what.

Vladmir winces as the kick strikes home. "I've had enough of this," he grunts, stepping forward once...twice...Terfil meanwhile dodges Leon's blow with ease, sticking a slim, forked black tongue out defiantly.

Blisa is trembling slightly, but her voice, raised to a yell of defiance, shows no fear. "I hate you! I hope you rot while you're still alive! I hope worms eat your insides! I hope your punishment when you die is torture by all the creatures you've killed!" She spits, then runs over to Oz, ready to fight...or die, if necessary.

Leon stands slowly and looks over at Vladmir and the kitten, he looks for something to throw at Vladmir

Terfil clambers up on Leon again, hanging from the mouse's tail and swinging back and forth like a pendulum as Vladmir advances, the gleaming, extended blade and the grim fury in his eyes suggesting that it would be very unwise to intervene.

Oz keeps a close eye on Vladmir, he looks at Blisa and back to Vladmir, yeah he is still chained but maybe he can still hurt Vladmir somehow if need be.

Blisa starts to look afraid now, but shouts out, "You're such a jerk! I hate you! I bet Daddy and DoraRose and Flicktail are on their way right now! I hope I can see you die!"

"You will join your own kin in the grave before I fall to such fools as them," Vladmir says mockingly.

Leon exclaim, "Leave the kitten alone fox!"

The newt continues using Leon's tail as a swing as Vladmir turns, his eyes burning coldly, and says scathingly, "Shut up, weak fool of a mouse."

Blisa leaps on Vladmir...probably a very stupid move, but she's doing it anyway. Scrambling around, she clings to his back like a leech, growling and hissing like a mad thing.

Oz speaks to Blisa" Calm down, I am sure..." He gasps as the kitten leaps at Vladmir, "Blisa!"

Vladmir screams and swats with gauntleted paws behind him, striking madly and finally charging backwards at the wall in an attempt to dislodge the madbeast.

Leon steps backwards as Vladmir comes slightly close, he blinks as he sees Vladmir clawing madly at his back and frowns when he sees why.

Blisa slips down and grabs the foxs' tail, just managing to not get squished. Digging her claws through fur, she aims for hooking them in skin. Ouch.

Oz frowns, looking very worried now.

Leon looks for a chance to kick Vladmir or distract him somehow from Blisa.

Blisa screams, a loud, piercing sound that sounds even louder in this small room. Letting go of the fluffy tail, she whips around and reaches for Vladmirs' face, trying to get her claws in his nose.

Oz watches, worry on his face, he frowns not knowing or maybe wanting to even know how this day may end.

Blood spurts in dark gouts from Vladmir's face. He retains his grip on Blisa's tail, however, and prises her from his head.

Blisa bites at the gauntleted paw...another brilliant idea from the dibbun. Failing at that, she bends and claws at Vladmir's upper arm, trying to get at his...armpit. Yikes. If she succeeds, that fox is goanna be in a world of hurt.

Leon goes to take the chain and use it to maybe trip Vladmir, he tries to wrap it around his leg in the confusion.

Oz watches as Blisa claws the fox face and catches site of what Leon is trying to do.

Fail, and...Fail. Vladmir bares his teeth and swings Blisa by her tail, slamming her into the wall, releases her, then seizes the chain and yanks it, most likely pulling Leon down with it.

Leon eeeps as he wasnt looking for the chain to be pulled and falls forwards and at Vladmirs footpaws.

Vladmir plants one metal-soled boot on Leon's head. "What, exactly, was /that/ supposed to be?"

Blisa screams and crumples to the floor, sobbing. She drags herself over to Oz's lap, searching for something, anything to throw at the fox. Her left arm has re-broken, and she has 4 more broken ribs and a fractured tail.

Leon groans, this is not good for him, he stays quiet.

Vladmir laughs. "And so it goes."

Oz doesn’t have anything, he tries to figure out a way to better protect the dibbun, then he could kick the fox still.

Blisa can't find anything...wait. Ripping off her ruined sandals, she throws them at Vladmir's head, then makes 1 last, brave, stupid stand, leaping on the fox once more, this time aiming for his head.

 One sandal goes wild, but one bonks off Vladmir's face, not doing much damage, but rather humiliating.  It sticks for a moment, then slowly peels off with a sound similar to that of unraveling duct tape from the roll, and drifts weightlessly to the floor.  Vladmir's eyes burn cold, and he may be about to do something extremely violent.

Oz frowns, worry on his face and the fact he can’t do much cuffed and chained to the wall.

Leon still has a foot paw on his head, he stays still not sure what will happen next either.

Blisa gulps and leaps over Oz's lap, jarring her broken bones, but kinda not caring just then. She slowly backs up, keeping her gaze fixed on the fox. What has she gotten herself into now?

Vladmir's eyes twinkle just a bit, then more, and a bit more...Soon they're practically glowing as he scoops up the sandal and holds it for a moment, contemplating.

Vladmir smirks evilly, but before he can exact some horrible vengeance, the cell door flies open and a panicked monitor lizard hurtles in. "Ztormfeather, zzzomebeast comez!" Vladmir drops the sandal, dreamlike, and nods after a moment. "Very well. You know what to do." The monitor lizard straightens and salutes. "Zir!" It dashes off, hissing.

Leon sighs still maybe trying to find some hidden...something...to harm the fox some, even if it’s just his foot.

Oz looks at Blisa, and hums softly to try and calm her, yeah maybe not the best plan but it’s something as panicking is not a good thing either.

Blisa gulps again as the lizard enters the cell, then sighs in relief as nothing happens to her. She stands there and watches the fox, Oz's humming calming her slightly.

Leon stays still and listens to the monitor, curious

Several monitors swarm into the room, encircling the captives and hissing menacingly, drawing crude, angular swords.

Leon frowns, that can’t be a good sign seeing monitors

Blisa is trembling. She hates monitors. Laying her ears back, she backs up against Oz, trying very hard to be brave.

Oz watches the monitors, he has seen one before but not a group of them.

The monitors hiss louder as Vladmir speaks. "You will obey my orders to the letter, at the moment I give them, or my /friends/ here will eat your hearts one by one."

Blisa trembles. Monitors are 1 of the things she now fears. She nods and keeps quiet.

Leon frowns, he just nods, yeah he will do what Vladmir says, sounds better than being monitor chow!

Oz nods slowly and listens.

"We are going to untie you--mostly--and you are going to follow us," Vladmir hisses. "Understand? Offer resistance and you will be devoured immediately, starting with the cat."

Leon nods as he listens, he is not tied up but is still listening and will go where ever

Oz nods again

"Good. Get up, then." Vladmir nods to the largest of the monitors, who picks up Blisa and holds her under his muscular, scaley arm like a football and walks out. A pair of slightly smaller lizards unchains Oz and each of them holds an end of the chains, while a final pair of reptiles prods the back of Leon's neck with a flint-tipped spear and gestures for him to get moving as Vladmir opens the door.

Leon stands slowly now, he follows.

Oz groans as he about falls forwards, his wrists swollen and fur gone on them, he stands painfully as the one knee doesn’t really want to work too well but he still follows best he can limping badly.

Blisa whimpers as she is picked up, but other than that stays quiet.

Vladmir walks out without a backwards glance.

Leon follows quietly he doesn’t even look around

Oz follows but he is not enjoying the pain in his knee, he limps and follows

Blisa is silently crying, looking around fearfully. Her ears prick, catching sounds that adult ears might not.....is that fighting?

A panicked magpie suddenly flutters in and chitters incoherently. Vladmir slaps him with one of his gauntlets and barks, "What is it, fool? Speak up!" The magpie jabbers, "M-m-master, the battle at Wallred Nabbey is lost, we have been defeated!" Vladmir stands motionless, then suddenly roars and cleaves the magpie in two with his jagged katana. He prods Oz with his sword and points to a spot in the center of the floor. "See that?"

Oz looks at the stone slab and back to Vladmir "I see it, what about it?"

Blisa screams and buries her face in the monitors's side...yeah, he doesn't love her, but she doesn't care. She just doesn't want to see the bird.

"Lift it!" Vladmir snaps. The reptile bearing the kitten recoils slightly, regarding Blisa askance, the other lizards laughing their hissing, raspy laughs at his predicament.

Oz goes to move the stone, he achally has some problems and grunts, he tries again and barely gets it moved, never has he been this weak and the fact his wrists hurt badly he gets it moved and frowns.

Leon frowns as he watches

Blisa is weeping. She's terrified. A cawing echoes from outside, then Lenore comes rushing in, Edgar hard on her heels. She feigns fear as she shreeks, "Master! We're under attack! What do you wish me to do?"

"Forget it," Vladmir sighs, looking tired for a moment. Several monitor lizards retreat into the room panicked and Vladmir sets them to work lifting the slab, which they do with ease. Vladmir turns slowly. "You're a little late, aren't you, bird," he says, slow and menacing, bringing his sword up.

Oz listens as they talk and shivers some, moving the stone was not that good, for him, and has drained any energy he had left.

Leon glances over at Oz taking mental note he is not looking well and frowns deeply, but he is unable to help him right now.

Lenore looks bewildered, and Edgar gulps visibly. "Master...what are you talking about? Why are you raising your blade upon me?"

Blisa is shivering and crying, not giving 1 iota what the stupid monitor thinks.

Oz glances at Blisa and tries to hum but coughs violently instead and stops, yeah no humming right now.

"I don't trust you," Vladmir says. "I know what you're doing...You helped the captives...You betrayed me. And you will pay..." WHUNK. Something hits the door, HARD, and he finished, "...soon." There's a pitch-black opening where the slab was, and the group quickly clambers down into it, replacing the slab behind them.

Leon follows wordlessly but is frowning, worried now.

Vladmir steps sure pawedly along the tunnel, hardly giving a glance to the growing beauty around him.

Leon follows quietly and looks back to Oz and the kitten.

Oz is following, barely anyways, he almost falls once, then twice onto his face but follows.

Blisa has stopped crying and is looking around, awestruck at the stones around her.

Oz groans as he is roughly helped up, not really caring who is helping him, looks like he rather just pass out and stay in one spot.

Lenore caws, then attacks her (former) master, claws raking, beak stabbing angrily. "DIE, STORFEATHER!!" Edgar attacks the lizard holding Blisa.

DoraRose rushes forward, wielding the axe of her father. "FOR LILY!!" she slays a lizard with 1 axe swing.

Zork charges at the guards of the fox. "GIVE...ME...OOOOOOOOOZZZZZZIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!"

The monitors turn to defend, panicked, the large one dropping Blisa on the floor. Zarok jumps into the fray and tears one of them open with Biter, confused as the reptile falls. "Why he no move?"

Oz watches a bit surprised, but only a little, the one monitor holding him drops him as Oz oofs; the monitor gets a little uneasy with the sudden entrance of beasts.

Vladmir screams. He was suspicious of his spy, but this..."GAAAH!" He drops his sword and pulls out the bolas, flailing the steel globes desperately at his former compatriot. "DIE!"

Leon takes a chance and goes over to Oz to check on him, he frowns and looks up as all the beasts enter and then just mutters hopes he is not hurt in all this.

Oz looks at Leon and passes out.

Blisa screams as she is dropped and scrambles over to Darkwatcher, hoping he'll save her.

Emyuil takes a single massive step into the cavern and fells another lizard with a single slash. Then he sees..."Stormfeather. "His words echo through the cavern. “You cannot escape justice." He pushes through the melee towards his enemy...

Lenore gasps and falls, the bolas breaking her spine.

Leon frowns, he tries to block all the noise out best he can, healer mode here.

Darkwatcher rolls down under a spear thrust and scoops up Blisa in his arms, setting her on his back and saying, "Hang on!" as he mops up the fight.

Lenore gasps again, blood flecking her beak as she whispers, "Gokukura...help..."

Staggering, Vladmir hurls the bolas at Zork, before gurgling and clutching at his throat.

Blisa clings to the mercenaries back, closing her eyes.

The black fox slips between the ranks of fighters, stabbing with both blades as he goes, precise, artful.

Over it all, a loud, pained gurgle...And Vladmir folds limply and goes still, a hooked blade protruding from his throat...Lenore, with her last moments, had managed to pull it from his pouch and sink it into his neck. A mournful sigh, and the fox's reign of terror is ended forever.

Leon looks to see whom else is injured, he frowns and looks at Zork, "You need to carry him if we get out of here" He points to Oz and goes to look at the bird Lenore and frowns, there is not too much he can do and even if he had his healer stuff, still not much he can do, he sighs and looks around still.

Zork sheathes his sword and faces the bolas, catching it by the wire and grinning. "Oh was I supposed to die?looking for this?" he hurls the bolas and proceeds to throw it back at the fox with almost perfect aim. "Take that"

DoraRose has been sliced on her left cheek, and stabbed in multiple places, and she is losing blood fast. She collapses to her knees, leaning on her axe.

In the same instant--"TUSCANI!" Emyuil leaps over a headless lizard and sinks his sword into Vladmir's already lifeless corpse before he can stop himself.

Leon sees Dorarose and quickly goes over to her to help her.

Zork hugs Oz still, paying no attention to the events around him. "Good to see you little bro, I'll never let something like this happen to you again"

Zarok spots the mousemaid's peril before any others, and he trots quickly over to her, unwrapping the black mouse-skull bandanna from over the back of his head and tying it over the wound on her cheek to staunch the blood flow

Lenore lets out 1 last shuddering breath...then dies. Edgar screams his first word in this tongue -- "LENORE!!" -- Then is slain by the lizard he had been fighting. So dies Lenore Nightwing.

Blisa faints from terror, still clinging to Darkwatcher's back.

Zork picks up Oz carefully and begins walking away. "I don't think he can walk on his own...I'll take care of this"

DoraRose smiles up at Leon and places a paw on his cheek. "Leon..." then she faints, no, she is /so/ not dead, but she is in bad shape.