Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-7262318-20190406204911/@comment-19164168-20190406230514

Ayane went to look for Vordel to start training with him once more. She sighed over how she had suffered a nightmare in her early life that she would rather forget...

Ayane made her way towards her master's chambers where she was called for attendance. There, Hiroshi finally looked up when the former had arrived.

"Welcome, child." he greeted, "As your father had stated, you are to head for the outside world in a specific location to undergo the final test of the first phase of your training."

"I'm ready, master. What would you have me do?" Ayane asked.

"You are to be sent to a specific location in the land of Skyrim via portal, where you will eliminate every single individual found in a place called the Hall of the Vigilant. One of the members of said location murdered one of our previous guests, and continue to serve as an affront to us by constantly harassing our people and those that seek out our aid."

After hearing of her objective, Ayane wasn't sure on what to think. Repaying violence with further violence didn't seem like a wise idea to her, and felt that it would only further the cycle of vengeance.

"Um..."

"I understand your concerns, child. But your father has given his orders. Even as his child, you must follow it as per the law and customs of our people." Hiroshi sighed as two royal guards clad in traditional light armor arrived.

"Now go. Stay true to our ways, and you will return." Hiroshi concluded the meeting and dismissed Ayane and the two men, the three heading for the courtyard afterwards.

One of the two royal guardsmen focused a talisman and opened a portal for the three to go through, and so they did, bound for the land of Skyrim...

...

...The frigid cold of the Pale caused Ayane to shiver down to the bone, before she used her power to generate wamrth via life energies to keep herself from freezing to death, even in her winter attire. The two guardsmen were however nowhere to be seen.

Despite being left alone, Ayane understood the standard procedure of her trial and continued onward, heading for the location where she was to eliminate the individuals of...

...Her trip was cut short when she saw smoke rising from behind a few trees. Keeping one hand on her wakizashi, she began carefully approaching the source of the smoke.

"Mother's mercy..." Ayane muttered as she saw the Hall of the Vigilant in flames. She quickly hid behind a rock when she saw the main door kicked down before a Vigilant of Stendarr was thrown outside by a person wearing some sort of light armor.

"Ahh, refreshing." the vampire smiled in anticipation of what was to come, wiping his face of blood after he drank the Vigilant he threw dry of blood as another vampire came out with their Death Hound.

"Indeed. That ought to put the Vigil in their place. Vingalmo and Orthjolf will have to make way for us and Lokil after this." the second vampire snickered.

"Yes, but it'd be preferrable if-" the first vampire stopped mid-speech, before letting out a devious smile.

"We may yet feed again today... I smell something fresh..." he chuckled as he drew his sword, with the other vampire doing the same as her death hound started looking around as well.

Ayane hid as best she could from her hiding spot, fearing the worst. She wasn't sure if she could take on these vampires who easily burned down the Hall of the Vigilants, and hoped that the royal guardsmen would come to her aid.

She didn't even have time to think anymore as she felt something breathe coldly close to her neck.

The male vampire with a sick grin attempted to drink Ayane dry by biting down hard on her, but was repulsed by an energy blast by the child as she quickly ran for the open. She didn't get a moment's repreive as the death hound from before attempted to bite down on her arm and probably rip it away. Ayane quickly sidestepped to the left and sliced down on the hound's neck with a downwards horizontal swing, beheading the death hound as it's protective collar failed to stop the child's enhanced strike.

"You'll die for that!!" the second vampire shouted over the death of their pet hound as she lashed out with her left hand, casting vampire drain on Ayane which caused her intense pain as it drained the child of her vigor. Ayane countered by casting her own life drain on the vampire, the attack so powerful it actually started withering the vampire as they looked on in horror, attempting to keep themselves alive with their vampiric drain spell. It proved fruitless as the second vampire finally fell down from weakness.

The first vampire rushed for Ayane in temporary mist form before reappearing physically and slashing down on her with a downwards diagonal strike from the right. The attack would've probably been fatal if it weren't for Ayane brimming with healing life energies from her last attack against the second vampire. Turning to face behind her, she blasted at the vampire with an energy blast from her off-hand.

Despite being overwhelmed by exhaustion and severe pain, Ayane went to finish the fight by rushing for the staggered vampire and slicing their head clean off by leaping and performing a horizontal slash from the left, the blade easily slicing through the vampire's neck before her enchanced strength wore off.

Collapsing down on the snow, Ayane struggled to get back up and leave the scene. She knew the area wasn't safe and that others would likely investigate the scene of the attack.

The worst came to pass when a group of three Vigilants arrived at the scene, witnessing the young girl's back wound healing on it's own...

"What the..?" one of the Vigil spoke up.

"Is it a Daedra? A vampire? Or..?" another one said.

"Does it matter? Their wounds are healing on their own. That's not natural. By Stendarr's will we must kill it."

Despite the initial hesitation of the other two, all three resolved to killing the child. Before they could do so however, the two royal guardsmen finally intervened, one of them slashing at the Vigilant's back with their bladed stave and engaging the other two to hold them off while the other one grabbed Ayane and started focusing a talisman to open a portal back home.

Ayane could only watch on as the lone guardsman fighting the Vigilants was left behind. She shouted for him to come along, but the guardsman refused and instead voluntarily chose to be left behind to save the child from being killed...