[IC] Collision Point: Steam, Magic and Blood

[Totts]

Jarmin saw Voltus breathing shallowly, he looked like he was in massive pain, and he didn't have his leg brace on. Jarmin decided to drag him across the floor and on to his bed, he was quite heavy and it took a good few minitues to get him onto the bed. "W-W-What are we g-going to do about your leg b-b-bb-brace, sire?" She asked, knowing he was in a lot of pain. Jarmin walked to the first aid box on the wall, there was always one in every room, in case someone was hurt. She took out one of the medium sized bandages and carried it in her hand. She walked over to Voltus and started to unbutton his black suit, and took it off him, shortly followed by his blue shirt. She could see his chest in all its glory, it was crisscrossed with several scars, and was chiseled to perfection. She slowly wrapped the bandage around his chest and then lay down next to him. "We still need something for a makeshift leg brace" She whispered into his ear. She let him warm her, due to the fact it was cold outside and on the marble floor, so she was freezing, but Voltus was keeping her safe.

[Voltus_Ventus]

He continued to breathe shallowly and felt Jarmin wrap her small arms around him, putting him at ease.
"you don't have to call me sire." he replied pulling her close and smelling her hair "here, away from everyone, we are equal."
He lay there for a few minutes feeling her chest rise and fall by his side, he sat up and reached for the bedside table, which was just out of reach, moving his knee causing him to gasp in pain. He slumped back on the bed, defeated by his own knee.
He sighed "what do you see in a useless cripple like me?" he asked the delicate girl half curled on his chest and half on the bed.

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"Everything I'd ever wished for" She said with a small smile, feeling his heartbeat on her head. "When I was little I used to dream about being a princess, but as I got older I discarded that dream, but look at me now, lying in a bed with the heir to the throne" She said. She let his strong arms hold her, and in that moment, she knew she could trust him.She then let her long hair flow down and then asked "What do you see in a singer like me?", returning the question.

[Voltus_Ventus]

"I don't know what I see" he said "but what ever it is I'm in love with it..." he lowered himself so he could look into her eyes, he Pulled her even closer so their chest were touching and ge started to kiss her neck, planting gentle pecks on every inch of her white, soft skin. He enjoyed being with her, her smell, her feel... Her taste, they all overwhelmed him each sence alight with passion.

[Totts]

Jarmin felt his strong arms wrapped around her, she had started to feel scared, she knew now, that even if she wanted to go he would still hold on to her. Her breathing became shallow and panicked, she couldn't move any bone in her body, she couldn't say any word, she was just breathing quickly, looking at Voltus' eyes. The panic had spread all over her body, it made her suddenly feel scared of this man, she tried to move, but felt his strong arms holding her, she eventually gave up struggling and lay her head down on the pillow.

[Voltus_Ventus]

He could feel she was uncomfortable so he let her go,
"I'm sorry" he said turning away from her and shifting off the bed.
"you should get some sleep." he said feeling ashamed he limped to the bed side drawer and pulled out another leg brace and some steel pins, he slipped the pins into the holes in his leg and knee and the brace over them and with the butterfly screws he started to tighten them into his bones.
"I'm going to take a shower" he mumbled walking towards the bathroom to the left of the bed and taking something from the drawer to the left of the door.

[Totts]

"I-I-I'm sorry, I j-j-just get panicky s-s-sometimes, i-i-t's not your f-f-fault, it's m-m-ine." She stumbled her way through the sentence. She didn't know exactly what the cause of her panic was, was it his good looks? Was it her fear of him? She didn't know the answer, but what she did know is that she felt bad. "h-h-hey, I need to t-t-take a shower too, I got shot in the leg" She said, feeling slightly calmer now. She stumbled towards him and said "I don't think the leg brace made you a cripple, I think it made you a h-h-h-hero." She said, standing next to him.

[Voltus_Ventus]

"There are two showers in there" he said blankly "if you feel you need one feel free"
He walked through the door and into the large roomy front of him were two sinks and by each sink a large shower. Voltus took the one to the right, closest to the door he entered and Eliot out of his suit trousers, being careful not to get it caught on the brace, he tossed it over the top of the frosted glass panel which devised the shower from the rest of the toilet. He pushed a red button embedded on the wall and warm water came gushing out of the shower head. He stood there, naked, letting the water flow over him, washing the blood and grime off his sweaty body, He took the object that he got from the drawer back in the room off the soap rack. A sheathed dagger, he pulled the blade from it's sheath and watched it gleam in the light, he pushed it against his left arm and proceeded to drag it across his pale flesh, drawing blood. He did it again each time his hand terembling even more. When he was done there were for bloody cuts on his arms the same size and depth as the hundreds of others that crisscrossed his arms.

[Totts]

Jarmin was about to get changed when she saw red flowing from the shower that Voltus was using, but it wasn't a dark red, like the gunshot wound blood would be, it was a bright, vermillion red. She tried to open the shower door but it was locked "Voltus! Voltus are you okay?! I'm sorry!" she said, her voice muffled through the glass. The steam cleared a little bit and allowed her to see in, she could see his entire body, but most importantly she could see his arm and the dagger, she suddenly felt like this was all her fault. She searched around for a button to open the shower door and she pushed it, opening the door, she sprinted in letting the water run on her dress and hair and without any words embraced Voltus. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." She cried, into his chest, the shower masking her tears.

[Voltus_Ventus]

"For what he" replied "you did nothing" he took the dagger again and dragged it across his arm again to form the 4th cut among the hundreds of others.
"I've been doing this for a very long time" he placed the knife on the soap rack And picked up a bandage role "long before I met you. He started to wrap it around the cuts hiding some of the old scar, "everyone of these scars represents someone, people I've killed, people I've hurt...people I love." he looked into her eyes and saw the gentle tears role down her cheeks.
"I need to change" he said "and so do you, if you need something to wear check the changing room there should be a box with my sisters old flight suit."
With that he wrapped a towel around his waist and stepped pasted her.

[Totts]

Jarmin stumbled into the changing rooms and put on a flight suit, it was a little big too big, but it was dry. She stumbled back upstairs as Voltus was getting changed. Slowly, she walked into the room as Voltus was putting his shirt on. "Y-y-y-you scare m-me." She stammered before sitting down next to him. She saw all of the cuts on his arm. "You've k-k-k-killed that many people?" She stammered, observing every last one of the cuts, they were all uniformly shaped. She lent down onto his side and finally said "A-a-am I on y-your arm?"

[Voltus_Ventus]

"not my arm" he replied slipping his whit undershirts off, among all the battle scars one stood out the small scar over his heart identical to the others. "2 years ago when you preformed at Seafront" he said watching her peer at the scar. He put the undershirts back on and then the navy blue turtleneck. He got up off the long sofa. He walked over to a painting of his mother on the wall and took it down revealing a safe, he typed in a combination and it opened with a hydraulic hiss, and pulled a few things out: his back pack, a duffle bag, his chainmail, his sword and the black trenchcoat. He placed them on the bed and unzipped the duffle bag and started to pull out a bunch of guns. Gun after gun after gun.
He turned around and smiled "take your pick".

[Totts]

Jarmin picked out a small pistol. She placed it into her bag. She saw something glinting in the corner of her eye. "Hey, Voltus I-" Her sentence was cut short. BANG. She had a hole in her middle, she clutched at it before falling into Voltus' arms "V-voltus, h-help" she cried.

Rhodri pulled the trigger with a smile, the rebellion was going to plan, he quickly rolled into a dark corner so he couldn't be spotted. He heard her cries for help, he knew he hadn't killed her on the impact, but she might die from infection or blood loss. The orders were to kill Voltus and anyone close to him, Rhodri had shot at the girl before, but it only hit her thigh, and his friend had managed to shoot Voltus' chest, but it wasn't enough to kill either of them. Rhodri ran a hand through his ginger hair and started climbing down the building, satisfied with his work.

[Voltus_Ventus]

"Damnit!" Voltus hoisted her up and placed her on the bed he ran to the first aid box and practically ripped it off the wall, he placed it by her side and started to rummage through.
"it'll be ok" he comforted her putting one hand on the wound to stop it bleeding and another hand in the box. He pulled out a small device with a red button on it and held it above the wound. "this is going to hurt a bit.", he pushed the button which activated a magnit that pulled the bolt out of the wound, he then proceeded to stitch it up each stitch making sure he didn't hurt her too much.
She was pale from blood lose but was still alive barely, she was unconscious, passed out from pain.
He put on all his stuff and packed his things. He pushed a button under his bedside table and a secret door opened up by the drawer, he hoisted her up and walked through, looking one last time into his room before he shut the door.
He went down the stairs into a a long dimly lit tunnel, the sound of explosives and and gunshots audible from 15 feet under ground. They made it to a large dome shaped room where a zeppelin was parked. He opened it's door and went to the back, laying her on one of the beds gently.
He turned to the controls and ignited the duel Wild Horse 1000cc engines, he started to play with the controls and a hatch opened in the roof of the structure, he eased the throttle and the nibble vehicle rose up quickly. The moment he reached 20,000 feet he throttled forward, away from Ventium and to the Syinide Empire.

[Totts]

Rhodri saw the ship heading in the direction of the Synidnide empire, he got into his small flight plane and followed them, he managed to get to the cockpit and saw Voltus there, Rhodri passed him a wink before dissapearing back into the night below.

Jarmin felt a soft bed under her, she felt a soft pillow on the back of her head and something wrapped around her waist. She could hear mechanic whirring, and feeling like she was rising up. Jarmin realised that she had either been kidnapped, or taken by Voltus, either way they were leaving Ventium, in her hand was a bullet, it must've been the one that shot her, she picked it up weakly and read the inscription on it, it read 'Rhodri', she had remembered this name from a couple of places, he had shot her before, it was an assasinaiton attempt, it was all over the newspapers, nobody knew who did it, and she didn't tell anyone about the bullet or what it said, but she knows he's now back after her, and she's wondering why.

[Voltus_Ventus]

Voltus looked out of the window and saw the assassin wink at him in his plane before pulling away. He was too tired to react, so he set a course and switched on auto-polit. He got off the seat to walk to the back of the plane, dragging his feet in exhaustion. He slumped onto the coach adjacent to jargons bunk and watched her sleep. Her chest rising and falling as the she purred lightly. He pulled a black book out of his bag and started to read, he sat there what must have been hours, for the night sky gave way to dawn and the fertile hills of Ventium gave way to the rolling sand dunes of the Syinide Empire.

[Totts]

Jarmin stirred herself awake, she picked up the bullet and moved it around in her hands, on the reverse side there was a letter 'P' written in purple ink, she put the bullet down and drank some water. She looked out the window and saw the sands, it was beautiful. Her breathing became harder for her, she could feel her heart pumping harder "V-v-voltus, I-ii-I think Ive been poisoned" She said struggling for breath, she felt pain shooting through her nerves and her temperature rise "V-v-volt-" She had passed out at that point and was making strange movments.

Rhodri sat in his seat, and looked at his watch, he realised that the toxin would be taking its full effect now, and that the girl would be dead in about an hour, if there was no magical assistance. He saw the dunes of the Synidide empire and marveled at them, how perfect they were.

[Voltus_Ventus]

Voltus was broken from his concentration with the sound of choking, he looked in chock as Jarmin was turning blue. He threw himself off the coach and by her side, pumping her chest, trying to get circulation of air flowing.
"don't die on me!" he yelled tears streaming down his face, he knew it was hopeless but he kept pumping till he couldnt feel a heart beat and started to cry out even louder as her cold limp form refused to move.
He fell to the floor, defeated. He felt broken inside every fiber of his body screaming in sadness as he clutched her pale lifeless hand.
"I will kill you" he vowed "who ever you are, I'll kill you."

[Totts]

Rhory sat on his throne and heard a beep from his throne, a note popped up, he picked it up and read it 'The jackal has drank the water, the viper is still thirsty, the viper headed to the bush" he placed the note down and felt a smile inch across his face. He decided to place a cloak on and immediantly got to his airship, he flew it to Syanide, he met up with his brother along the way, so he picked him up "Everything's going to plan." Rhodri said quietly, as they pulled in Rhory said "Our names are Harry and John Kner." They landed and started to walk towards the palace, they were going to alert the palace of the events occuring in Ventium.

[Voltus_Ventus]

3 days after Jarmin died, somewhere over The Syinide Empire.
Depression. That's all Voltus felt, the 3 days he spent adrift exhausted him, he whent through greif, anger, insanity and now, depression. He felt like he had lost everything. Through out the entire ordeal her corpse never stank, the only thing he could smell was her perfume, the only thing he could hear was her voice and the only thing he could see were here lifeless eyes.
Voltus woke up to the hiss of the doors and the sound of feet climbing on board.
"two people, a dead body and a severely dehydrated man" a mans voice called through the radio. Voltus felt himself being bodily dragged by a the man, and he dud nothing to stop him, he just starred blankly at her body, clutching the sapphire necklece a single tear running down his cheek.