Perditions Tale, Chapter 5: "The Blood of Betrayal"
 

"I tire of these worthless maggots." Cid sighed, "Is it time, Skurai?"
Skurai just smiled evilly, "Yes, Lord Cid. Everything is in place."

"Fine then, cast it already." Cid snapped as he stepped back along one of the walls to watch the show. Skurai took his cue and started chanting quickly. The chants flowed together like a song... but not a victorious song, a song of death. The demonic symbol drawn on the floor soon started to glow eerily.

Slowly, one by one, each person started to feel weaker. It was like the fatigue that the tainted water had caused earlier, but this was far more intense. It felt as if their souls, their very being, was being drawn out of them.

Cesia's eyes drooped, but she refused to let them close, for she feared that if she closed her eyes, they would never open again. <It's my fault. If I wasn't so trusting of Cid. If I hadn't trusted him...> She felt tears burning at the back of her eyelids, but she refused to let them flow, <I tried so hard to stop my premonition... but I couldn't change it... Maybe my premotions aren't a gift after all...>


Meanwhile, Cid smiled haughtily as he watched the others grow weaker. Soon it would be over and the kingdom would be his for the taking. <All of their hopeless blather and bargoning was tiring, don't they realize there's nothing they can do?> He thought as he stifled a yawn.

(OOC: alright. ^^ hehe, sorry for making you all wait so long for me to make a new thread today. )

(EDIT OOC: Awww curses. I tried to fix the title, but it's not fixing... >_< perfect, and I was doing so well too.)

OOC: Hope were saved soon, because if we didn't have much to talk about chained to a wall, we won't have much more to say while having our life sucked out...

Vace sagged against his chains, no longer able to stay standing. The only thing that kept him from giving up and letting himself die was the deep burning hatred towards Cid. He fed his own flames, swearing that he would survive no matter what so he could have vengence, but it became harder and harder by the second.

OOC: Dear god, more of the same.

IC: Ark looked up, and phased. Everything ground to an abrupt stop, but Ark reappeared. Skurai glared at him and said, "You just delay the inevitable you know."

Ark looked at Cid and said, "Heh, I just realized something wrong with your plan. You got a nation, but people would rebel. Any way you roll the dice, you're going to lose. No ammount of power in the world can stop paper-work."

OOC: My guy has no supernatural powers...he's just a guy who can jump high...should I be affected?

OOC: It's not draining supernatural powers, it's draining your life...

Cid felt a wave of exhastion. Then a surge of Adrenaline

"NOOOOOOO!!!!!"

Ark wondered if he was that afraid of paper-work.

Vace wondered if along with their powers, he gained their personalities...

"What...the...hell...who yelled...this is getting really fu...yeah..." Jude muttered. Light was splashing around his head like...well it really can't be described in simple metaphor, just lots of light.

(OOC: BM, yes, he's draining your life force, not just your powers, (I guess IHMN already pointed this out) and SS: no this is not going to be the same thing, gimme some time, please, alright?)