The Beast Within
Part 1: Bargain with a god
Coming back to conciousness... covered in something wet... sweat and....blood. Something inside me stabs as if trying to escape, i jerk foward. My hand lands in something, i pull it out and look... a body, i look at it's clothes seems to be a pesant/traveller. Instantly i know whats happened, in my mind i hear a laugh...not human more like how an animal would say "I've won hehehe fool". Angrily i shouted "NO! What did he do?!", i knew my curse it knew me. Frost and black mist slowly crept from the earth just in front of me, then the Voice Of Grenth appeared and said "Grenth has given you your punishment, do as he says and you will be free from it". At that moment the scar over my heart burnt "Burns does it?" I could feel it smile "Capture the Isle Of Meditation as Grenth asks and he will show you it's shrine of purification, you may use any method and any mercenary". The Voice of Grenth faded away the ground returned to normal. The scar i had that was being referred to was a circle with a crude star shaped thing in the middle, it had been "awarded" to me for refusing to masacre an entire village that's shrine to Grenth had collapsed in a particularly bad storm the scar had a name "The mark of shame". It was burnt into the victim with a wooden staff that had the design carved into it then set alfame, well back to the main story. I had a choice... stay as i was: normal by day then be strange beast that took over my body giving me unatural strength and speed whilst my body remained in a normal state (apart from my pupils which went red) OR capture an Island with a few people on (doing my best to spare them). Back to the scar for a second, the scar is permanent but the beasts mind could be removed at any time by Grenth. The next day i took a boat to Elona and hiked my way to a Corsair encampment, i was greeted by two burly guards "Who are you and where are you going?" I replied "My name is unimportant and i wish to hire this Corsair army to fight for me. "How much payment?" said one of the guards "100 gold coins each" "I shall ask my leader" he said, the guard walked off towards the encampment. I waited for a few minutes then a red flare came up from one of the larger tents the other guard said "That means you can go in, remember do anything stupid and your dead theres 100+ of us" I trudged in towards the tent. As i walked in i was almost knocked out from the smell of the pungent herbs, at the end of a long table sat a man wearing gold rings, earings and other jewlery. "Where are you planning to attack?" said a loud voice "the Isle of Meditation" i said. "An easy target, we accept" "I'll pay you after the battle" i said and walked out.
A WEEK LATER!
"...Spare those who surrender I want to keep these people alive...whoever they
are" there my speech infront of the gates to the Isle of Meditation was finished,
the Corsair leader took over "CHAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE". I stood back as
the small Corsair army ran through the gates and across the sand, i presumed from what
the Voice of Grenth said Grenth wanted me to stay alive. A few hours past and a badly
wounded Corsair limped to me "Sir we cannot break through and we are slowly losing
men" he said, i replied "be defensive but pretend your attack... a.k.a just
badly damage the gates". The Corsair saluted me and limped off, and i decided to
see how the battle was going i passed through a group of Corsairs up a hill and down a
slope, an easy way for one man to get around the gate unoticed but with an army? I
carried on and found a single Corsair on the floor daggerhole in back and hands covered
in blood. In the distance i saw some figures they seemed familiar, i ran to them as i
got closer I saw it was the members of DAD2! Since my punishment i had stayed as a
member of the guild but had gone far away for their safety... hopefully they thought i
was away on buisness. The regulars were here, Jule, Griffin, Dagger, Thorn and his PPIC
Mystery, Dagger must of seen me first because next thing i knew i saw a dagger flying
through the air straight for me! I shot it directly out of the air with an arrow i
picked up the dagger and threw it back to sender and said chuckling "Dagger next
time hit me" this was a joke between us, Dagger caught the dagger's handle
mid-air and smiled back. The others had noticed me now, Jule waved Griffin did the same,
Thorn pulled a strange and funny face (kinda freaky) and Mystery ran to me hugged me
and said to me happily "I could have used a bodyguard earlier" The group
filled me in on what had happened when they talked about a Mysterious stranger ordering
a corsair attack i cringed (nobody noticed luckily). Suddenly i felt a cold bright
light shine on my neck.... the moon i then felt sick and threw up and screamed-the
beast was active- Jule somehow knew he ripped the middle of my armour off revealing the
scar, he aimed an arrow warningly at the middle of my forehead. My vision went a
yellowy-green the beast took control of my body and shouted
"FLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH!" half roaring and animalike. Were my friends
going to kill me or stop the beast from hurting them and let me live?
To be continued...
