The Forsaken IC

[Lost Goddess]

For the first time since she fought Zeus, Anahlie stepped into the groups camp and heard Mulans question "Zeus has taken the ones you love as hostages to prevent you from interfering in this quest.", her voice sounded like she had aged 80 years. She had her cloak around her again and her hood was pulled farther down than normally, hiding her face in complete shadows. She was leaning on a wooden stick shaped into a staff of sorts to walk on. Anahlie had indeed aged far beyond her youthful appearance. Her immortality had been stripped therefore causing her true age to rush back to her.

Anahlie was so embarassed that she made no attempt to show the group her face at all. She was scared of what they would think. Though she was an elf she could only live a hundred years and then she would die, which is why her mother had made her immortal, but then zeus had taken it from her and she was growing old again.

[andrinaandug]

Andrea was about to stand up when she had heard Mulan's statement. Her eyes widened knowing something like this was going to happen but did not expect it to happen so soon. She let a troubled sigh out hating the fact that he ahd to strike Mulans family. "She's right Mulan... My dear its probably Zeus's doing to scare you away and stop you rom interfering...." She said grimly and looked at Mulan. The girl looked startled and afraid for the lives of her loves ones, her family. It was a saddening sight to see and Andrea stood up immediately kicking Fredrick so he wakes up. "Come on we're going to go to the village and sort this out.. we cant leave it like this Zeus will be happy if we will." She set as Fredrick mumbled something under his breath probably cursing her for waking him up.

She looked over at Anahlie with a worried expression, yesterday the girl had gone through quiet a lot of damage and the stick and the cloak made it seem worse. Her immortality was definitely managed through the blow and that was the horrible part of it all. She slowly placed a hand on her shoulder. "Do not worry Anahlie.... I will personally see to that that Zeus himself will give you youre immortality back" She said softly. And while shes at it she gave away the secret she was hiding for the girl. "We are cousins after all" she smiled lightly, waiting for a reaction while the others started to wake up, and they'd head out.

[thehalfbreed443]

Ava stood when she heard what Mulan and Andrea "You mean my family is in danger? Zeus took my family?" Anger and fear filled her eyes. Suddenly an arrow shot past all their heads and hit a tree, Ava looked behind them trying to see where it came from and saw in a far tree an elf from her village. She went to the arrow and saw a note attached to it; She reaches up and took the arrow, unraped the note and read it.

~the note~
Ava, I think it is foolish to go against the gods but it is what you want to do i will support you. I will be your messanger if that will help, but I am here now on personal news. Your family was captured by Zeus, we could not stop him I am sorry.
~Ella
Ava looked at the figure in the tree then at the rest of the group "Does anyone have paper and pen? I need to send a mesage"

[Darman501]

Dante stirred from where he had been sleeping. His wings were folded over him in a protective cocoon. When he heard the yelling he peered from between his wings. He saw that Mulan had returned and was speaking to Andrea. He also saw Anahlie having to lean heavily on a staff. He was having difficulties sensing her, it was almost like...like, Dante could sense her immortality having been taking away.

Dante fluttered his wings a little bit and took off. He landed next to Anahlie, "Let me take a look at that wound. You have to be real careful now that your mortal," in a lower voice he asked, "What's going on?"

[andrinaandug]

Andrea had nodded at Eva's comment thinking her village broke into a cataclysm as well. She had to sigh two villages to save then but for now they needed to go to one village for though two at a time was impossible. She took out the paper and ink pen the girl was asking for and looked around at everyone interacting with each other in different situations.

Suddenly her vision blurred a bit realizing why that was, an uneasy feeling was going inside her and she looked around instantly from left to right looking into the bushes and trees. Someone was around and it was no animal, no human, no angel not even a Reaper, a God. She hissed at the thought, her Reaper senses sensing danger every time a God was around and she immediately spotted where the God was from slight movement in the bushes.

Without any other thoughts she attacked the God hiding in the push tackling him/her down and her hand already formed with fire around it in a shape of a knife ready to smite down the spy who was hiding and watching them. Looking down to see who it was it was a Goddess, very beautiful and gorgeous one. Her looks immediately gave away for who this person of beauty was; Aphrodite. "What is you're business with us?!" Andrea said harshly just waiting for one wrong move to kill the Goddess.

Aphrodite was taken back byt he sudden attack having ot go silent, a Reaper was just about ot kill her and she had to look away sighing. "Calm down Reaper I am here with no harm" She said softly looking back at the Reaper with calm eyes that seemed to convince the Reaper for thought he grip loosened slightly. "My dearest friend that is like a sister to me was Artemis and Zeus has locked her in those horrible chambers, for that I will not forgive him.. and after what he did to my dear friends daughter who is like a niece to me I will never let that person stay in charge and keep making lives miserable" She said while pausing for a moment to look at Anahlie. Seeing how horrible the girl looked her eyes we're filled with sorrow. "My dear Anahlie what has that horrible man caused you... such distress and sorrow..." She said her voice Grim. She looked over at Mulan. "Do not worry young lady... we will save you're family.. you're village youre home and same goes for you too" She said while looking over Eva. "And I wil help you through the journey"

[SmileyCassandra]

"I've wasted enough time talking about saving. You can say it, but does it look like your rushing to do it?" Mulan asked her words harsh as she looked at the Goddess before her. "No one is helping anyone by just sitting, and waiting. I can do it myself. My family is involved in this, and I will kill anyone to get in my way of saving them" she stated and began running for the road she was once on.

She kept running; nothing stopping her. She didn't want to be mean or nasty, but what were the gods even doing not even looking out for her family? So much for religion. She then came to a stop, and her ears picked up on noise around her. She did a backflip out of the way of a sword, and growled as she saw a man wielding it. Her eyes full of hate for the man before her, it was the man she once loved.

"I can allow you to go Mulan" he said his voice low and cunning. He grinned, and swiftly stabbed Mulan in her stomach before she could do anything about it. She let out a cry of pain, but her hand instantly grabbed his throat and snapped his neck in one movement. She was strong when she wanted, and her family was a stake right now. She then began to run; ignoring the pain in her stomach.

She was unaware of the trail of blood she left behind her, and continued to run to save her family. She needed to save them, and that meant she had to ignore any serious wounds no matter how much it hurt. Since she was half human the damage couldn't be healed by her hands. She yelped in pain, but continued running. I'm coming, I promise I'll save you!

[thehalfbreed443]

Eva took the paper and pen with a nod and began writing. She looked up when she finished the note, seeing a goddess she payed full attention. She listened to the goddess carefully and looked her in the eyes when she mintioned her family and village. She nodded at the goddess and took out her bow and wraped the note around an arrow. She turned to the figure she had considered a friend and shot the arrow. She turned back to the others "That is n old friend from my village. She wants to help but not in the same way I am."

[Lost Goddess]

Anahlie looked at everyone around her and said softly " I am of no use to you as a mortal. I am now a reliability. You guys go on ahead of me and i will follow behind you.", her voice still sounded rough but she turned to her aunt Aphrodite and said " Thank you Aphrodite, and i appreciate your help in the current situation, however i ask that you caution yourself on what you are about to do, because Zeus is strong and he imprisoned my mother, your sister, and he will not hesitate to do the same to you.

Anahlie turned to Dante and said in his ear only for him to hear " Go with them and fight the first of Hades' foul pets, and i shall never be too far behind, but i am old and must rest now. Angels do not lose their immortality, but it is possible for me to regain it, I just need to think on it." She placed her hand on Dante's shoulder and she summoned what little power she had and transferred it to the angel warrior saying softly " Go now with what strength i can give you and be safe my friend", she ended the sentence with a smile on her face and her eyes bright. Strange feelings were stirring inside of her for this angel, and she had never felt them before, so she couldnt name them.

[Darman501]

Dante watched silently as the events unfolded before his eyes. The reappearance of Mulan and the appearance of Aphrodite marked the beginning of what was most likely going to be a long day. Dante bent his head closer to Anahlie and listened carefully to her words. He was deeply sad that their paths had crossed only to be ripped apart, but she was right. He need to be on the front lines to help save all those he loved. He knew what he needed to do.

He whistled to Spirit who had been watching the Goddess carefully, the bird equally shared Dante's distrust of the gods. Spirit came when called and rested on Dante's shoulder. He whistled softly to the bird asking him to watch over Anahlie while they continued, and to find them if she got into trouble. The bird looked at Anahlie and screeched his acknowledgement before taking off and landing gently on her walking stick.

Dante turned to Andrea when Mulan ran off, "I'll follow her and lend a hand where I can. Send a message with Spirit with news when possible." With that Dante took off and followed the path Mulan had taken. It wasn't long before he found a disturbing sight, the body of a dead man. Dante took a moment to examine the body to discover that the neck had been snapped. He saw a trail of blood heading way from there, and Dante knew something was wrong. He took off again and flew as fast as he could until he caught up to her. She was bleeding profusely from an arm wound.

"Can I take a look at that?" He asked.