A 'Taur's Tail (3/4)


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Posted by Rois on September 27, 2000 at 17:22:04:

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In Reply to: A 'Taur's Tail (2/4) posted by Rois on September 27, 2000 at 17:20:18:

Metamor Keep: A 'Taur's Tail
by Umano Rois
Part 3: 'Taurget of the Wizard's Traps

Kishu rode towards an imposing mountain range, the tops of them like daggers, piercing the sky, causing it to bleed clouds. As they approached the mountains, an opening into a canyon, like the one the man from the villiage had described, came into view.
Kishu slowly rode into it, "Keep on your guard, Rakurai. We don't know everything that this wizard is capable of."
::Right::
Rakurai slowed down slightly as they entered the canyon, and Kishu pulled out his bow and nocked an arrow in it, looking around him warily.

Before them the imposing shape of the wizard's keep rose up, jutting out of the mountain, and seeming to have been carved out of the living rock. "Can you hear it, Rakurai? The mountain is crying..."
::Yes, I hear it...::
"We must end the mountain's suffering as well now, yet another reason he must die..."
Rakurai tossed his head in agreement and they continued onward towards the castle.

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"So...they think they're going to kill me, hmm?" said the wizard, "I doubt it...but that doesn't mean I can't have a little fun with them first, before I destroy them," he then cackled.

The wizard turned his attention back to the little boy on the floor, unable to move, staring at the wizard with fear in his eyes. "Well...I think I'll wait to start on you until my new toy gets here..." he then laughed darkly, which just made the boy even more scared.

The wizard smirked and turned back to his scrying glass, "Let's see how good he really is..."

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"Careful Rakurai, I have a feeling we're about to meet up with someone who wants to have us for dinner, as the main course."
::Yeah...I have the same f-:: Rakurai's response was cut short by a feral howling, as a pack of wolves appeared high up on the rocks in front of them.

Kishu' eyes go wide, "eep..." and he fired the arrow he'd had nocked since they entered the canyon at the first wolf that leapt off the rocks at them, catching it in the throat. The wolf gurgled and fell to the ground in a heap, as the other wolves started attacking.

Kishu leaped off of Rakurai's back, put away his bow, and pulled out his katana out, in one fluid motion, while Lightninng, now that Kishu was off of his back, reared up and brought his forehooves down hard on the skull of one wolf, then kicked another wolf quite a distance with his hind legs.

Meanwhile, Kishu was holding a couple of the wolves at bay with his sword, but was losing ground as they were forcing him into the canyon wall. Suddenly, he leapd up and over the wolves, slashing at their backs, and landing behind them, earning a few slashes in his arm for that. Before the wolves coule react, his leg shot out and swept them off of their paws, knocking them to the ground. Kishu then quickly and cleanly hacked off the head of each one.

Kishu looked over at Rakurai, who had sustained a few claw marks to his flank, but nothing too serious. "Well...that was...um...interesting."
::Yes, take a closer look at them, Kishu::
Kishu peered at the wolf closest to him, "This is no ordinary wolf...it...it...has human breasts..."
::Exactly! Those wolves were not normal...they must have been more of that sick maniac's victims, under his control::
Kishu nodded and leaped back up onto Rakurai's back, careful not to touch where the 'corn was scratched.

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"Bah...those wolves were a waste..." the wizard grumbled, then grinned, "we'll see how well he handles the next challenge though..."

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A voice echoed through the canyon as they approached the gates, "You must win my favorite game to gain entry to my domain..." the voice laughed as it faded away, and two pedestals rose out of the ground. One of them had four diffrent colored crystals, the other was divided into four squares on the top, one each for each of the crystals, with corresponding colors.

"What the heck is this?"
::I do not know...I have never seen anything like this before::

The voice came again, "You must repeat the pattern that the crystals flash, using the colors on the lower pedestal, it will start out easy, but get harder and harder, as the sequence gets longer, and the crystals will flash their pattern faster and faster the longer the sequence gets," the voice laughed again, "If you can make it through to the end, you will be allowed to enter...if not...." and again the voice laughed, fading away this time.

Kishu sighed, "Well...I guess I'd better get started," and jumped off of Rakurai's back.
::Good luck...::
"Thanks, I'll need it..."

He walked over to the lower pedestal, and stood behind it, looking at the crystals...and the game began. One crystal flashed, accompanied by an audible tone, Kishu pushed the corresponding square on his pedestal. Then two, then three, and so on....the pattern getting more complex and the crystals playing it faster as it got longer, just like the voice had said.

Kishu was sweating, straining his brain to try and remember the whole sequence as it kept lengthening by one each time, but he hung on, and kept going, finally reaching the end of the sequence at 30.

After Kishu sucessfully repeated back the 30-part sequence, the pedestals retracted, and the doors of the keep slowly opened outward, "You have beaten my game...and now you may enter...if you dare," the voice laughed again and faded away once more.

Kishu walked back over to Rakurai, "Let's go..."
::Right::
The headed into the castle through the doors, which creaked errily as they shut behind the samurai and his mount.

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