Stubbornly, Sky searched for a way across and noticed a row of larger, though wholly unstable and very slippery stones crossing the river. She frowned lightly as she neared it with caution, and took a few swigs of the flask before pulling out her monkey origami. With it's activation, the already quick and nimble sky pirate would become even more so allowing her to more readily make her way across the stones.'
A few close calls, and a sudden slip would soak her boots and pants slightly but not completely send her toppling into the water. She quickly made her way the rest of the way across, groaning and muttering in the Ionian tongue something about rivers, and annoying random monsters.
Quickly Sky darted in the direction she had seen the others go. She'd try to follow after, looking for clear signs of freshly broken branches, steps in the mud and other pretty basic things that would give away someone had been through there. She came upon the caverns, noticing the faintest glow deep within its dark recesses, causing her to hesitate slightly.
"Maaan.." She muttered, squinting her eyes as she cautiously made her way in.
Post by The Animal Spirit on Jul 6, 2013 12:19:27 GMT -5
Udyr cricked his fingers and growled, "Then take care of him. He is trying to navigate using our fire. The moment we extinguish it, he will be temporarily blinded and displaced by the darkness. In five steps after we speak, turn and strike him down. We will confront the voidling."
The moment he finished his sentence, the beast man's phoenix aura disappeared without warning. He would easily navigate through the caverns using his sense of smell and his indepth knowledge of Ionia's environment.
Udyr would quickly catch up to the now trapped voidling, screeching to a halt when he was five feet away from it. With a grunt, he straightened his posture, his nose twitched, then he stared at the general direction the voidling was in.
Then, the unexpected happened. No attack came.
Instead, in his growling voice, he asked, "What is your purpose?"
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole. But he who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Post by The Blind Monk on Jul 6, 2013 19:01:57 GMT -5
Lee Sin nodded, and as precisely as Udyr instructed him, he turned once the fire was extinguished and kicked the air, sending out a sonic wave aimed at Warwick pinpointed in the dark through the vibrations of the walls. Lee Sin prepared to follow-up with a swift resonating strike, moving into his stance. Once he got Warwick's attention, then he would truly confront Warwick with a question that has been haunting his mind ever since the day of the Noxian invasion. He would find his answer.
Vha'Xath was expecting surely to be killed....yet he was being talked to instead. He hesitated a second before speaking, still expecting to die. "I do not know my purpose yet, I am still figuring that out. I see others of my kind are here....my purpose is not theirs."
Post by The Blood Hunter on Jul 7, 2013 1:11:18 GMT -5
Warwick's lupine eyes were temporaily blinded by the sudden lack of light, but his keen ears heard the distinct sound of Lee's strike coming towards him. He dodged the monks sonic pulse, but was unable to stop the follow up.
Warwick was staggered by the monks kick, sending him reeling back a few feet. Lee's kick hurt like a hell. The kick had definetly bruised his chest, but his body was already healing the damage. and would not hinder him.
The hunter glared at the monk infront of him, a low snarl eminating from him.
"Back off monk. I have no quarrel with you. I'm after the bug."
Sky stumbled slightly as the dim glow faded off in the deep caverns, causing her to pause a moment at the sudden darkness. She glanced behind her at the length of the cave back towards the entrance, then forward to the unbreakable black ahead of her.
"Damnit.." She muttered, patting herself down for something she might be able to use. She didn't smoke, so she didn't have any kind of lighter. Her origami would set a huge fire, which would be too much. What to do... Sky squinted her eyes, letting them adjust slightly using what little light she had. She'd slowly made her way deeper, suddenly bursting into a run when she heard commotion.
Clumsily, Sky hit an edge and was sent flying forward, skidding rather painfully across the ground behind Warwick. Her hand reaches out, patting around until she felt the hunch of the towering beast, causing her eyebrows to rise.. She really, really hoped this wasn't some kind of cave dwelling beast.
Post by The Blind Monk on Jul 7, 2013 10:10:22 GMT -5
Lee Sin stood in the way of Warwick's hunt, blocking the one way to the void creature and Udyr.
He spoke clearly, "Warwick, you assisted in the Noxian invasion of Ionia...My homeland. We pushed you back to the Southern Provinces, but it was not until a great amount of protest that a League match finally allowed us to take back what was rightfully Ionian land. Many died, through this entire process, many families torn apart...Many were disabled." Lee Sin hesitated at the last remark, but he wasn't here for a personal vendetta.
"...Warwick, do you have no regrets on what you have done? Is there not an ounce of a man seeking redemption in you?"
Post by The Blood Hunter on Jul 7, 2013 18:23:20 GMT -5
Of course the monk wanted to argue philosophy and redemption while there were void monsters on the loose. Warwick let out another growl, annoyed by the monks questioning.
"No, I do not seek redemption, nor do I feel regret. Now are you going to try to make me feel or are you going to let me have my prey?"
He heard Sky fall behind him, but paid her little mind, until she grabbed him. He reached down and picked her up by her neck, his hand big enough to envelope her entire neck. He brought her face in front of his, letting her know his anger.
He would have killed her on the spot had he not smelled the stench of the Master of Shadows on her. He let out another growl of annoyance and dropped her to his feet.
He stepped over her, intent on getting past the monk. He would keep moving past him, unless the monk would force him to stop.
As she felt the massive, furry hand wrap around her neck and her much smaller body lifted off the ground to look at the wolf-beast face to face, Sky's eyes went wide. She knew he was here with the Noxians, so she knew better then to pick a fight.
"Oi." She snipped, grabbing at his wrist as her legs hung loosely beneath her, "What's the big fucking idea, eh? Put me down!"
And then down she went, right onto her butt. Sky glared up at Warwick as he walked over her, tempted to bite his leg but deciding better. "Don't bother." She said to Lee, "Not really his problem.. Not really your's.." Standing, Sky pat herself down and followed, "Best just not getting involved."
Post by The Blind Monk on Jul 7, 2013 21:05:56 GMT -5
Lee Sin stood his ground, ignoring Sky's statement.
"How do you not feel regret?" Lee Sin pressed on. Months before he would think this idea beyond foolish, it was borderline insane for the Blind Monk. But Warwick had much more blood on his hands; much more stained on his body and throughout his soul, and yet Lee Sin knew, through the deadpan beats of his heart, that he was no liar when he said he felt no regret.
He needed to know how. To stop feeling regret. To never feel it again. The pain of the past slowly crept up on him like a ghost, over and over through the past few months, and he needed to end this suffering now.
"Warwick, I won't let you past until I get the answer I need..." Lee Sin said, an uncharacteristic selfishness growing in his voice.
Post by The Blood Hunter on Jul 7, 2013 22:09:33 GMT -5
The monk was eager to annoy him...or die. A fight Warwick would gladly take. But the Animal Spirit lingered nearby. He would want to be at full strength if he had to confront the other man beast.
He might of had regrets in his life, maybe when he was young and naive and weak. But those regrets disappeared when he started listening to the beast. When he became a predator.
"I don't have regrets because predators don't have regrets. They don't weep when the kill an animal, they rejoice that they have food. They don't cry when they fight off others, they reveal in their continued existence. And that's it. I don't have regrets because I simply don't care."
"Now let me pass, or I will show you just how little I care about life."
Sky narrowed her eyes when she got ignored, "DON'T IGNORE ME." Glaring between the two, "Lee, just leave. You got no business here." She had become considerably colder since last they saw each other. She had lost a lot of who she was after appearing at the monastery distraught and ready to break down.
She had detached herself, and become cynical, "Whole worlds gonna die someday. No point trying to understand why." She remarked, "Just go... before someone gets hurt.." Or maybe she was trying to on some level protect the monk? It was impossible to tell with her as a deep shell had been placed around her to keep herself hidden away. She had more or less given up on just about everything.
Post by The Blind Monk on Jul 8, 2013 1:50:14 GMT -5
((Sorry I get really philosophical when I don't get sleep and it's already late lol.))
Predators have no regrets...Is that all there is to it? To stop this pain...I need to revel in it...in the blood of my past...
His mind seriously considered it. To let go and live free of doubt, without anymore pain in his heart. What then, how much stronger could Lee Sin grow without these constraints?
The Blind Monk looked through the scars of his history, and saw each interwoven regret that led to the day he would become a Shojin Monk.
And in his mind, what once was the face of a boy who's village was obliterated, stared back at him. How could he revel in that?
The past remains, no act can undo it...
This realization that has been burned into his head from the cleansing fires of the protests blanketed his heart in even more grief.
But pain does not heal the heart; it focuses the mind.
The Blind Monk still had much to do. This revelation was all Lee Sin needed.
"...Forgive my selfishness then." Lee Sin raised his head, "But Sky, this is my business. I don't know what has happened to you...You may be satisfied with the evil in the world that persists, but I will never overlook the things that matter the most. Perseverance is power. Is a droplet of water defeated when it flows from the bank to the ocean? Is it complete when it rises to join the skies? Has it failed when it falls towards the earth once more?"
I will never stand by and watch an ally of Noxus take what he pleases from Ionian soil. Never again. I don't know what intentions you have with the voidling, Warwick; but I know they aren't right. For anyone."
Lee Sin raised his fists, standing guard to not allow the Blood Hunter through. "Udyr will handle the voidling, in his judgement I trust. As for you, Blood Hunter...You shall not pass."
She listened quietly for a moment, but frowned when Warwick talked of her 'Master'. With a scowl, Sky turned to Warwick and gave him a dirty look, "NOBODY is my fucking Master." A spree of Ionian curses would spring from her lips before straightening, "Don't ever call that loser piece of shit my Master.. Nobody controls me. Not him, not you."
With that, she'd stand her ground a bit challenging Warwick's command for her to follow him. She did not like authority that was for certain. When he'd grab her, however, she'd growl and fight him a bit, "Put me down, rug!" She protested, "I'm not some toy to be carried by an over-sized mutt!"
Should their eyes meet, he would see something within her that was not human. Something primal, and dangerous. A small scowl touched the small woman's features as she would be carried off back out of the cavern. She would eventually calm down, figuring this was better then having to deal with the rapids by herself.. if he's willing to carry her back across, she was totally fine with that.
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