Dismissed?

[Guest]

Tasha went into the Inn, yes. She even went to her room. But did she stay in there like a child who was on punishment? Was she that easily dismissed? Most definitely not. She yanked her robe off and threw it into a chair. With one hand she grabbed the gown and pulled it off over her head. That was cast aside as well. she grabbed up a pair of sweat pants and pulled them on, adding a big baggy t-shirt. No shoes, and she would have to remember to get her slippers from the lobby later.

She was pulling her hair up into a pony tail as she left her room again. She headed to the Battle Gym. Once she burst through the doors she walked over to the first dummy she saw and, lifting her leg up in front of her with her knee bent, she kicked it square on. The force of her kick sent the dummy flying into the wall with a thud. She spun around on the toes of one foot and the heel of her other foot came in contact with another dummy. The head of the dummy turned causing the whole dummy to fall over. It was a good thing that some of these dummies were on piece.

She walked over to the supply room and found a Kendo stick. She rotated it around for a bit before she turned and used the stick to assault yet another dummy. She had no particular form. She was even surprisingly ungraceful for a cat. She was beating that dummy like a mob with baseball bat's attacking a weaker thing. She even began to grunt and growl as she just kept beating it.

[Altonas Arken'neld]

He was walking along taking a look around the place. Yes, granted the woman named Tasha showed him around. Back when she talked about the battle gym and showed him around the gym he was intrigued by it. So what does he do? He goes back to the battle gym. He opens up the door and soon as he does he hears grunts and growl coming from somewhere in the gym he was entering. He kind of shrugged it off guessing someone was in there training so he walks in and closes the door behind him. He walks around the gym looking for the person who was training and when he saw who it was he chuckled a little. He stopped walking and crosses his arms.

[Guest]

Not even the Drow could sneak up on the lycan. No matter how angry she was. But, knowing someone was there and knowing who it was happened to be two different things in her state of mind. She spun around and flung the weapon in her hand at the wall. She wasn't aiming at anyone. She was just a bit short tempered at the moment and someone had walked in on her.

It was only after she threw the weapon at the wall did she see who it was. "Oh, hello Altonas. Sorry about that." And she walked over to retrieve the weapon. She hoped he didn't mind her speaking common. In her state of mind she could very well screw up Drow, and with Venis having been teaching her learnable magic over the years, screwing up Drow was a very bad idea. "Can I help you with something?" She now had the weapon in hand again, so she tossed it over to where she had been beating on the dummy.

[Dice Roll]

The member 'Tasha Masterson' has done the following action : And the dice says....

'Attack' :

Result : 6, 6

[Altonas Arken'neld]

He saw the weapon coming towards him and he does not move. He just kind of smirks as he uncrosses his arms. "Well my lady it seems to me that you are in distress. Is there something I could help with?" He tilts his head from one side to another cracking it before he starts to move his fingers into a fist cracking them as well.

[Guest]

She turned her back to him and wiped her brow with the bottom of her overly large t-shirt. Then she turned back around and forced a smile. Her breathing was a little labored as she spoke. "I don't think you want to listen to me rant Altonas." She bent over to grab her ankles for a moment wanting to keep her muscles from tightening up. When she stood back up she crossed one arm over her chest and pushed it with the other hand and then she did the same with the other arm.

[Altonas Arken'neld]

He leans a little to one side then to the other. From the looks of it he might be in for a fight. It has been a while. "And why not? I always listen to a lady."

[Guest]

She walked over to a small tear drop shaped bunching bag that hung from a platform the protruded from the wall. She adjusted it so that she could use it. She was only five foot three. She began punching it as she spoke. "It's a long story Altonas, very long. Besides, I can sleep when I'm dead, right?" She was really laying into that bag.

[Altonas Arken'neld]

"Very very true my lady. So would you like a sparing partner." He just kind of smirked at her.

[Guest]

She stopped punching the bag for a moment. "Sparring partner? No, I'm sorry, I'm in here to yell, scream, cuss, and beat the crap out of inanimate objects. I can run off at the mouth if someone cares to listen, but sparring is not an option today." She punched the bag one more time before she wiped the sweat from her brow again.

[Beastie]

(from another thread. Just figure place here so it was easier for her old mun and her even older computer. Though not much gets older then the mun,)

Dre stood there and nodded. "You know where to find me my friend. Glad to see you are back to your senses, if you ever had any."

He stepped away and walked towards the inn. He sent Tasha a mental link ashe strode on with a determined look on his face. ~Tasha, a moment.~He waited for a second, then the steel entered into the mental link. ~I was serious when I said there is enough going on that we do not need to be lashing out at family. That includes whatever was going on between you and my daughter. If it was about her meeting Venis, then that is her choice. We do have to respect it.~ He continued on, not letting her get a word in ~Never said we have to like it. But believe it or not, there are some that have never heard of or do not like mother.

~I fully believe that given some time, Kyra might come around and want to meet her. But going off on her like you would me will not help. I will protect my own. So I am saying this. Leave off. No more talk about it. If it happens it happens. But I want her shown the same courtesy as any other member of this vithed up family would get. If there is a problem with that, then I am sorry.~

With that he headed back inside. Gods he needed a drink. What a day this had been, he wondered if it could get any worse.

[Guest]

((Old am I? I'll show you old, child. LOL Old ... Old ... You are so wrong.))

Tasha turned around and picked up the stick she had been previously using to assault the dummy. But as she was bent over picking it up she got the mental link from Dre. The look of anger she had upon her face became more so as she was definitely loosing her temper now. In fact, there were even a few bones cracking as he spoke.

She dropped the stick and turned her back to Altonas as she flexed her fingers a few times trying to hold back the beast that was crying to get out. As soon as he was done, like she was the continuance of his sentence she spoke. ~Dre, number one, it was not about her meeting your mother. It was about her blatant disrespect of your mother by speaking of her like her name was poison. She disrespected your mother, even though your mothers blood flows through your veins and in turn hers.~

She cracked her neck with a tilt and turn of her head. If she didn't get herself under control, Altonas would be in for a shock. ~So yes, I spoke rather sternly to her, she disrespected a noble bloodline as it flowed through her very own veins. So if you have a problem with that than I am the one who is sorry.~ She even found herself curling her toes to try and calm down. She was taking deep calming breaths. They weren't helping.

There was another crack of a few bones and she dropped to the floor. ~I fully intend to show her the same courtesy that I show the rest of your family. Vith.~ That last shouted as another small bone cracked and tried to reform. ~Then your mother gets onto me and sends me to my room like I am still a child? Only so that I can hear you yelling at me too? Yes, I think leave off is a good idea. Maybe I should leave. Just as soon as I ...~ Nothing else was said, just a mental crying out as she sat there trying to fight against shifting. She hoped that Altonas didn't freak out if she couldn't stop it.

[Beastie]

He stood there and listened to it all. Then shook his head and sent her one more. ~Do not worry Tasha. She left. I failed as a father again.. I did not know about the disrespecting part. can you not see I am just trying to be a good father and protect my daughter? And protect my friend as well? Guess i failed at the friend thing to.~

He shook his head and went on. ~Forget I said anything, not important I suppose.~

[Altonas Arken'neld]

He as stretching as he heard her say about someone to listen to her. He shrug he had nothing else better to do and she was a lady and where he came from you listen to as if your life depended on it. "That is fine. It has been a while since I have heard from another even if it is problems." He was looking at her when she got this look of anger on her face. He tilted his head again with trying to figure out why she was so upset at the moment. He knew he had not said anything wrong or so he thinks. But then he started to hear bones crack. He just stared at her seeing what was happening to her. His eyes got wide as he saw her changing. It was actually intriguing he has heard about some people from above could do such a thing but he has never seen it happen. So he just took a step back from her watching intently as she changed. He would have to ask at another time what it was all about. But right now was not that time.

[Guest]

She had been trying to not change, and it was a problem. Gawain had taught her to not change when she was emotional. He said that she had to have a clear mind when she shifted. Her mind wasn't clear. She was extremely emotional.

She had a bad habit of getting stuck when she was too emotional to shift. And she had swore that she was not going to shift again for a long time, unless it was the full moon and she had no choice. But when it was the moon, she knew it was coming and had time to clear her mind. There was no chance this time.

Oh what a sight she had to be at the moment. Only a few small bones had been trying to shift. It was always more painful that way, when she tried to hold it back and so it went one or two bones at a time. Yes, that was when it hurt. Her fur had yet to break through her flesh. But her hands were reforming, and so were her feet. Why was is always her feet?

She tried to let go, let the shift happen. But she had been trying so hard to hold it back that now her body was confused. Tears were streaming down her face. She looked over her shoulder at Altonas. "I'm sorry, you might want to cover your ears." She waited a moment for him to do so before she opened her mouth and took a deep breath.

The scream that came from those lungs was enough to shatter glass. And as she screamed out in a long, loud scream she opened a mental link to anyone she could reach. She knew there were some around who could help, they were busy, but she had to try. So to Dre, Gawain, Venis, JonLouis, even Seleen. She screamed out one word to their minds.

~HELP!~

[Emilia]

Emilia heard the broadcast scream for help. She was still sitting with the body, but Tasha was a living person.

"JonLouis please excuse me, I am going to try to help Tasha."

She kissed him gently and ran down to the gym.

"Tasha whats wrong?"

[Madeline Cauthon]

Maddie and Venis had been walking back to the inn after the whole deal with Ben and Jono. Thankfully they had talked her father from going after that bastard Benjamin. As they were about to reach the front steps of the inn, Maddie stopped dead in her tracks, as she heard a horrible mental scream. It was Tasha!! Madeline turned to Venis.

"Did you hear that?"

Madeline used her ability to sense where Tasha was.

"It's Tasha, she's in the battle gym. "

[Guest]

Oh yes, Venis had heard it. In fact, she had dropped to a knee as she grabbed her stomach with one hand and her head with the other. Tasha's mental link with her had been severed for a while now. Once they had escaped Earth, they closed it. They had only spoken to each other in a mental link once since. That was when Elessar was hurt. When you spent twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week in someone's head and them in yours for several years, you kinda wanted privacy from them for a while.

She nodded to Madeline and reached up to hold onto her while she got back to her feet. For Tasha to scream for help like that had to be one hell of an emergency. No time to try and run to what was almost the other end of the Inn. Not when Venis could barely see straight. That was one hell of a scream into the silence. So she opened a portal for her and Madeline to step through. In one end, out in the Battle Gym.

[Madeline Cauthon]

Madeline helped Venis up, and watched her as she opened the portal. Maddie closed her eyes and concentrated as the she could feel her energy increase.

She looked at the portal, and looked at Venis. "Are you ready Goddess?"

[Guest]

Tasha was writhing in pain. She looked over to Altonas with tear filled emerald orbs. He didn't know her, and he was Drow. She wasn't expecting him to help her. But with a few more snapping bones she was just a little more shifted. So she tried to force the panther form to the surface. But that just hurt worse. In fact, the pain was so bad at this point, that she just wanted to die.

[Guest]

"Yes." They were in the room in no time. Venis saw the man standing there. A chill ran down her spine. Had be been a few inches shorter and maybe a few years younger, he would look rather close in appearance to her ex-husband. Save for the attire that is. Zane never dressed so nobly. She understood why the Drow had not been helping her, and she held no ill will against him for acting within his nature.

She looked over at Tasha curled up on the floor crying and she rushed to her side. Tasha was her main concern now. She lifted her head and placed it in her lap. "Tasha, you need to get what ever it is off of your mind. I can fix the bones but you need to vent first so this will stop long enough for me to fix it." She looked at Madeline, and she could feel Emilia getting closer.

[Madeline Cauthon]

Madeline took a dep breath she knew what she had to do. She advanced one of the practice dummies in front of her so she could at least brace for some of the impact Tasha would unleash. She looked Tasha dead in her eyes.

"I know you haven't gotten over Unle Garreth's death yet, and you in some way blame my dad for it. After all he did kill him. Let it go. Garreth wouldn't want you to hold it in, even if he was crazy."
Maddie braed herself for Tasha's reaction.

[Guest]

Tasha looked up. "Emilia, it hurts." She held up her arm to show that her hand had shifted into a paw. "I can't stay in one form or get to the other. My body wanted to shift and I tried to stop it. But when this started, I tried to let it. But it was too late and now I'm stuck." Her eyes were filled with a pleading pain. She hadn't been in this much pain even when she was stuck in hybrid form. That was when Venis and Madeline arrived.

Venis had ran over and scooped up her head. She saw her look at Altonas and she spoke again. "Altonas had nothing to do with this, he is innocent." She looked back at Emilia and over at Madeline. She saw Venis out of the corner of her eye and saw that she looked at Emilia and smiled. Then Venis told her to vent. She had been in Venis' head and vice versa for so many years. She just wasn't sure she could. But them Madeline had something to say ...

"AAAAHHHHHHHGGGGRRRRROOOOWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLLL"

Madeline hit a nerve. That was putting it mildly. And as Tasha hit her fist upon the floor beside her and left it where it made contact. She let out that primal scream that had evolved into a cat's growl. But one other thing happened. Her arm, if one was watching closely, it was like a shock wave traveling up her arm.

It stared at her hand. From a fist to a paw. Then up her arm, the flesh rippled as the bones shifted, breaking and reforming until it was no longer an arm, but the front leg of a hairless panther. Normally, when the bones reformed like that, her fur came through her skin and she became covered in the flesh of a cat. But this was still her human flesh and her animal muscle and bone structure. The pain was massive.

She looked at Madeline then. Her voice held that undertone of a growl, her beast was trying to take over, but her humanity was trying to remain. "Please, stop. Yes, I miss my beloved. Yes, I have not recovered fully from his death. But I assure you, I do not hold any ill will towards Gawain for his actions. I trust Gawain to have done what he had to do for the safety of us all." She shook her head. Would Venis' body temperature allow her to notice that Tasha's own temperature had risen?

The shifting of her arm had stopped at her shoulder and the pain was causing her to speak through clenched teeth. "My fiancé, my mate, was taken from me before Gawain killed him. He had embraced darkness and was no longer the Gareth that I loved and was to marry. Gawain did what he had to do. I mourn the loss of my beloved, yes. But there is more to it than that. The nightmares. The nightmares are killing me." She took a painful breath as a tear fell from her eyes.

She closed her eyes and turned her head. She was trying to ignore the pain. "I hear him, I hear him sitting at the piano playing. Playing The Rose. That's how it starts, that's why it was playing in your head all those years Venis." Another painful breath. "As he's sitting there playing, the keys start to turn red. I ask him to stop, but he keeps playing. Then the blood starts to pour from the key's." She was calming as she spoke. It felt good to finally vocalize all this. If Venis wanted to do something it should be now.

She closed here eyes again, this time leaving them closed. "I keep begging him to stop, but he keeps playing. So I get up and go to him, he's never even turned to look at me. But I reach for his shoulder, and he poofs. He's gone. His clothes become a pile on the bench and he's gone. The music stops, but the blood doesn't. And that's when I wake up." Finally, it was off her chest. And what ever Venis was doing it was helping. Her pain was getting less and less.

She opened her eyes, and her tears were streaming down her face. She had more things that were upsetting her, but she had said enough for right now. The rest of what was on her mind and weighing so heavily on her heart was not for Venis' ears. She could breathe a little easier now. But she was still crying. "I just don't understand the dream. And piano's, well, I have been trying so hard to avoid the one's here." As long as she stayed on this subject, she could avoid moving on to what she didn't want to discuss in front of Venis.

[Madeline Cauthon]

Maddie let go of the practice dummie and covered her ears when Tasha let out that very loud growl. very cautiously she walked around from the practice dummie to where Tasha was and very lighlty hugged her. "I love you Aunt Tasha, as well as do alot of people at this inn, you have to let this out."

Madeline looked up at Venis, she had heard of evil spirits messing with a person's head in the after life. She looked up at Venis.

"Venis is it possible Garreth good be causing this from another plane? Trying to make her feel quilty for his death, or just simply drive her to insane, like he was?"

Madeline wouldn't put passed him. She remembered her visions of Garreth's insanity, and it wasn't pretty.

[Emilia]

Emilia walked over to Tasha and knelt beside her. Her hair began to move around as is the wind was blowing but nothing was felt. She was still in the long white robes she had been wearing when she sang to Jono's body to help him find peace.

She touched Tasha letting a calmness flow from her body and into Tasha's.

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