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Re: Ghosts Within Ground | Rylen and Lucifer
Topic Started: Jun 12 2016, 04:13 AM (2,024 Views)
Rylen Cotterill
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Location: Dormitory
NPC In-Charge: Dianne Stella
Side Quest: Ghost Within Grounds
Time: After the events of Antar Public Bathhouse - A Steamy Gathering

Blackness.

That was the only thing Rylen could see beyond the window in his designated room.

Upon checking the time, he found that it was already 23:00. 'No wonder it's so dark...it's an hour to midnight...' Rylen mused as he kept staring into the darkness. He knew he should be heading off to sleep now because they had to be early for tomorrow's training, and yet he was wide awake.

It wasn't like his bed was uncomfortable or that his room was unwelcoming, it was quite the opposite in fact. This was the best room he's ever been lucky enough to sleep in. Back in his home, he had to share a room with his older brothers with beds fluffed up with straws in an attempt to soften them up even just a bit. Needless to say, this room was definitely a huge step up to the room he was used to. The bed was soft and the room was sufficiently furnished with other useful furniture like a desk, a couple of chairs and a wardrobe. It never ceases to amaze him just how the Training Order takes care of their people.

But then again, with their enemies as dangerous as they are, the nobles just might be overcompensating them. They could end up dead as soon as they step out into the battlefield after all...

Rylen sighed, tore his gaze away from the window, blew off his candle and then slumped back into his bed. He really should stop thinking such gloomy things or else he runs the risks of tempting fate to actually make his thoughts come true. He honestly doesn't want to die young. He just wanted to help Ileana in any way he could, as well as provide his family with some means of protection. Being nothing more than peasants, it was quite hard for them to get reliable news in Gadik. They might never know that a demon is already upon them and it will be too late. But if he was a soldier, he could get information right at the source and be able to act quickly.

He was about to drift off to sleep when a muffled bang startled him into alertness. He sat up quickly and looked around. The sound seemed to have come from the first floor...

'What was that? An animal?' Rylen thought, but then it was far too loud to be caused by a rat. "A thief?" He whispered in alarm. He remembered that the thief he had chased earlier this evening had escaped[1]. 'He might have come here to look for something else to steal!'

With that thought, Rylen grabbed the matches and lit his candle again. He took the brass candle-holder and walked towards the door. He slowly opened it and cringed when it squeaked loudly into the darkness of the hallway outside his room. He held out his candle to illuminate the area. 'Damn, I never realized how creepy this place looks when all the lights are out...' He thought while looking out of his door into the hallway left and right. He suddenly remembered all the scary stories his father told him and his siblings to discourage them from wandering off in the night. 'Argh! Why did I have to remember them right now?' He thought in frustration, although the hairs on his arms had started to stand up in response.

'I wonder if anyone else heard that...?' He remembered that they actually weren't allowed to wander past this hour. But he was worried that there was a thief about. 'Hm....what to do...'

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[1] The thief scene from Antar Public Bathhouse - A Steamy Gathering
Edited by Rylen Cotterill, Jun 12 2016, 04:20 AM.
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Dianne look at the two trainees skeptically while they are trying to whisper to the other. “Okay! Run along now.” Dianne pushed them back with a clap and turned around to lock the door behind them.

Remembering that Lucifer almost did a little lock picking a while ago, she eyed at the red-haired guy. “And stop bypassing our keys. Now, go back to your rooms and take a good night sleep.” She said as she waved a hand towards the two heads.

Without waiting for any more delays, she decided to head to her small station. There, she should be able to write a report and contact the generals the next day regarding the weird noise that she had heard a while ago. Ignoring the bumps that forms in her arms, she walked discretely, just like how she was able to do when she was still in the military.

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Seeing Dianne going back to her room. Lucifer waited a top of the stairs with Rylen. Waiting until he heard the click of her room door closed and the click of the lock in place.

He went down and check the lobby, making sure the cost is clear. Lucifer gave a signal to Rylen with his hand to come. He went for the front door and took out his lock picking tools from his pants pocket again.

"Just give a little light here Rye." He said. "So I can easily pick this lock without breaking it."

Let's just hope that what is making that noise outside is not something out of this world.
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Upon hearing Lucifer's request, Rylen hurriedly went nearer to the taller man. He really wasn't sure if what they were doing was right but he couldn't relax until he was certain that the thief he encountered earlier did not come to get revenge on him and possibly endanger the rest of his fellow trainees.

He held up his candle closer to the knob as he waited for Lucifer to start doing his thing.

"Will that take long?" He whispered uncertainly, looking around from time to time and straining his ears for any sound that might indicate that Dianne has come back. He really didn't want to deal with an angry dorm head.

"And do you even have a plan? Aside from just wandering around in the darkness that is...?" Rylen added, looking at the older man hopefully.
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"A plan?" He echoed and thought of something. "We'll just have to sneak out and see what is going out there. If it's something we can handle then we will handle it. But if it's not, let just take the risk and call for dianne. Since she is a former soldier, she can handle it if we can handle what is 'it'."

After he explaination to Rylen, Lucifer successfully picked the locked door of the entrance. He carefully open the door wide, not to make it do some sqeaky noises that will alert Dianne.

"Do you remember which direction that loud bang came from." He asked his companion.
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“Oh?” a voice got out of Eclair's mouth as soon as she saw Lucifer open the door for the dormitory, mischievously. “Well, isn’t it nice to be welcomed by our dear trainees?” She added with a stern grin thinking that it is already past curfew. “I hope you guys are not up to something.”

Eclair tapped her short-sleeved dark yellow shirt after seeing its current state with the dim lights from the inside of the dormitory. Seeing herself covered with light scratches and dirt made her a little irritated that she couldn’t help but clean herself up. She also took notice of the boots that she wore for today which is already covered by mud at its base.

Thinking a while back, a small promise of a light spar ended up into something big. She didn’t even think that they could do well much with two rapiers at hand. But for her to end up beat up because of it is something her ego is not letting go even though they have naturally settled that it was, somehow, a tie. And it pissed her even more knowing that her opponent was her sickly big brother.

She turned her head around a little to get a small peek at the person behind her, expecting to also see almost the same damages as she got.

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Edward’s eyes lifted from the ground to the door when he heard the small squeaky sound. He blinked as he saw Lucifer’s face through the door. And just ahead of him, was Eclair’s figure silhouetted by the small light coming from the door.

There, he realized how much he had dealt onto his little sister with their small exchange of swings by how the look of her strands in her head coming into a small mush, tangling at each silver thread. And how she could see the small ripped piece of cloth at her left side, the one that exposed quite some fair skin. Although there had been a lot of times that Eclair has shown skin much inside their own household, she never fails to dress up neat and nice outside.

But I guess this is training… so it is to be expected to sometimes see her tattered, right? Especially sparring with me, right? He debated to himself. He could also recall how much Eclair did her best to match his fighting style whenever they go against each other, making most of their duels close to ties. Given, she’s using a normal weapon, of course. He’d be roasted without stepping a foot forward with her cursed weapon.

Then his eyes traveled to his own situation. The blow that Eclair gave him in his stomach and her boots’ prints are clearly visible now that a light has been shown on him. He also started feeling the tint pain on the scars that was touched by Eclair's rapier a few times during their small exchange. The humidity in Altrus is sometimes unexpected and the he could now feel liquid piercing through his cuts together with the sudden wind.

His attention was brought to the trainee again and with Eclair's face at the side. He guessed that she was also checking him now with the light’s help.

“What?” He asked his little sister, giving a playful yet questionable smile. “Now, don’t go giving me a pitiful look. You’ve also hurt your shoulder, right?” He followed immediately and gave the younger Equiste a light tap on her right shoulder, careful enough not to deal any more damage.
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Not having anything else to say, Rylen just let out a sigh of defeat as he waited for Lucifer to successfully pick the lock. He figured he could just think up a quick plan when they were out. So when the door clicked open, Rylen immediately turned to look out as the door opened wider.

However, he was unprepared for the vision that lay beyond the door. Instead of seeing darkness beyond, he was greeted with the sight of someone he least expected to be out in the middle of the night.

General Eclair Equiste.

Rylen felt his skin grow cold and he could almost swear that his eyes were popping out in his shock. The only time he breaks rules, he immediately encounters trouble. This is the reason why he should just stick to the rules. 'Why!!!' He yelled in his mind.

He gulped thickly and shot Lucifer a dark look, deciding then and there that he'd never let this guy pick locks in his presence ever again. EVER. For the sake of his continued breathing and his frazzled nerves. First they encountered the dorm head, now they get a general. What's next? Demons? Never again!

The general looked back behind her and Rylen was almost floored when he heard another voice he vaguely recognized. He edged a bit to the side and saw the dim form of a tall man. There was no doubt about it. This was the general's order brother, Sir Edward Equiste.

Rylen wanted to pinch himself to see if he was just in a convoluted nightmare. Maybe he actually fell asleep when he laid down in his bed earlier. Maybe.

But he doubts he would be that lucky.

He wanted to open his mouth and say something but his jaws were locked tight. It was up to Lucifer now to charm them out of this trouble they found themselves in.
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Merda! This is bad! I'm dead! He looked at Rylen who gave him a dark look. Sorry kid, but don't worry. I will take the fall for this. He sighed and stood up straight and bowed to the lady in front of him.

"Good Evening, General Equiste and Lord Equiste." He greeted politely, years of always being told to be polite and greet at the right decorum to the nobles became second nature to him. His mother was really strict on them even though she pushed him and his older twin with the same vices that their father had in his youth.

"About us still awake past curfew." He started. "We heard a noise outside and wanted to investigate it. We might thought it was a thief since Rylen here encountered one earlier today but he escaped."

He hope the Equiste siblings bought his excuse even though it holds some truth in it. He prayed to the gods to be merciful now that he is in front of the heirs of the combat house of Altrus. Especially he now caught the eye of the War Goddess herself under in not so good circumstances.
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“The noise?” Eclair questioned Lucifer. She turned around to her companion behind her with the same curious look. “Was there a noise?” She asked Edward this time.

They were both busy exchanging blows with each other that it didn’t occur to them that there were noises at all. Unless it was loud enough to cut them short of what they were doing.

They have also roamed around Antar to check on any intruders and there were no traces that they could find. So far. For humans to barge in or for any other creatures that might scare the hell out of their trainees.
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“Noise?” Edward echoed the moment his little sister came to ask him when she surely knows that they were both on the same situation not a little while ago.

But to make two trainees be this curious for such a noise, it couldn’t be something normal that could happen in the middle of the night, could it?

He took a deep thought and dug his memory for any weird noises he had heard. He laughed to himself when the only thing that was on his mind was how Eclair bumped into the wall and made a loud bang she he had kicked her from the side and how he stumbled to one of the statue figures displayed right ahead of him when he came flying over them to trample on the objects, creating clattering noises.

“Well, we did create noises by beating each other out.” Edward shrugged his shoulders at Eclair. “You did fall three times.” He teased the war goddess as if inviting her for another duel.

Well, it has been a while since they took baits on each other. And it was only for a short moment.
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Rylen deadpanned as he listened to the two nobles. 'Fighting? At this time of night? In this very area where the trainees are known to sleep?' He thought with a small bit of derision. He really couldn't understand how nobles think sometimes.

Actually, make that all the time.

But he wisely kept his mouth shut. He still remembered being grilled by the Lady Equiste when he first arrived in Antar for 'helping Ileana escape'. Not like he meant for that to happen. How was he supposed to know that Ileana's habit of escaping from certain responsibilities has followed into the Training Order?

Besides, he couldn't have stopped her. He tried. Sort of.

He sighed slowly and softly as to not draw attention from the nobles before them. The last thing he needed to do was offend them by breathing the same air as them.

[1] Thread when Rylen first arrived in Antar
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Them fighting? at this ungodly hour? He thought in shock. Even him and Loki never spar this late. He thought for a minute and asses the situation. Since the noble Equiste siblings said they had a sparring session somewhere near the dorms.

"They might have been the ones making the noise." He thought then realized he said it out loud. To which that everyone gathered here can hear. Merda. he gently slapped a his left palm to his face.
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Eclair glared at his older brother when he said something about how he had fell down three times. “Don’t tell me you have forgotten you fell three times and was thrown away two times.” She darted back.

“And who was it that wanted to continue until one loses a limb?” She added, now pissed at how easy to be for Edward to drag her into his own meddling business. Not only she was tired from work but she has to match him on a long-run spar.

But if she was honest, it has been a while since they exchange swords – or any weapons in the matter – so it was tempting as hell to get a few matches with him. Especially after she realized that she’s been sitting almost all day every day in her office and doing paper work as a result of the new training batch.

She sighed. “Anyway, this is already pretty late. We should call it a night.” She tugged her rapier which is already in its sheath and strode through the door. “You two should be back in your rooms as well. That is, if you do not want to be warned of breaking our rules.” She smiled. Tired, but still, a smile.

But she didn’t forget to give an eying glare at her older brother before she went off.

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Edward put a sly smile when Eclair suddenly asked who wanted to extend the whole spar into a lengthy two hours.

Well, it was about time we should have some practice! And knowing she’ll be back to working mode again, it would take another few months to get her beast side on. He mumbled inside his head as he plays scenarios on the days that he couldn’t see his little sister.

Edward watched as Eclair made her way through the door then his eyes shifted to the two boys that somehow got his full attention.

“Well?” He voiced out with his eyes getting grimmer at the thought that two trainees are loitering around in the middle of the night and to top it all off – they even try to pick on the lock. “Care to make a reflection letter for me?” He grinned at the two figures.
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Lucifer looked at the older man who is the same height as him and his brother. Edward is the only other person that he knows with the same tall height as his brother. 6'2 feet is pretty much the common average height for men in Altrus but him and his twin towered over them and now he has met someone like them.

He gulped at when Edward mentioned of a reflection paper. "Uhh... I could write it and send it to my brother." He said and sweat dropped. "Or better yet, I will surrender myself to him aaaannnndddd get my ass kicked by him during our sparring sessions."

He send an awkward grin at the older man's direction and turned to look at Rylen. "I think it is time to get back to our rooms. Since Loki told our training starts early." He told Rylen. "Come on so we can work on that reflection paper." Then walk back inside the dorms to go back to his room.

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Rylen's shoulders stiffened as General Eclair spoke to them, certain that she was going to punish them. But to his relief, she only gave a warning and then proceeded to leave.

His attention then went to the advisor, Lord Equiste. He was as tall as Lucifer and without General Eclair who was the shortest present, he was suddenly feeling quite dwarfed. He wondered if he was going to grow as tall as them when he was a bit older.

“Well? Care to make a reflection letter for me?” The older Equiste's voice reached his ears and he flinched slightly. Well, a reflection paper was quite a light punishment, compared to what he was expecting. He should count his blessings.

He heard Lucifer promise to send his to his brother and Rylen couldn't help but feel that it was unfair. Even though he just said he was going to 'get his ass kicked'...at least it was still his brother.

Rylen sighed as Lucifer beckoned him to return to their rooms. 'Lucky him.' Rylen thought enviously.

"We're sorry for breaking the rules, sir. It won't happen again. I will leave my paper in your desk early tomorrow. Good night." Rylen said hurriedly and bowed stiffly before hurrying after Lucifer.

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With only him remaining in the scene, a sudden cold wind brushed over his skin, allowing him to sense chiller with his beat-up clothing. He thought of a few things in his mind, while staring at the backs of the two young lads in front of him.

Such courage they have. If it weren’t for those intruders, we wouldn’t have to make extra effort covering up for the struggle. Edward grimly thought.

And of course, in this world where chaos has become the norm against demons, he wouldn’t even be surprised that there are people who take advantage of the events and deal much aggressive damage into their military system. Especially the Training Order of which everyone say the future of mankind in Altrus.

He sighed and shook his head, forcefully throwing the thoughts away.

“For now, third intruder eliminated.” He said grimly to himself, trying to shut away the thoughts of human blood in both of his hands a little while earlier.

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