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Over the Misty Mountains [LOTR] [Hobbit]

The cloak did a good job of keeping the elements off of Eodras. All he needed now was a fire set up, which would prove slightly difficult with all this rain. He went about the forest not going too far away from the camp snapping branches off of the lower parts of the trees. Any bits of wood that was on the floor would be too wet and would only cause smoke, so he had to settle for the branches.

It took a little while longer to get the fire going, which he made around a foot away from his tent so he didn't start to inhale all of the smoke. A few minutes later, he'd set up a make shift grill. There was two sticks either side of the fire with a branch hooking on to them with a skinned and gutted squirrel impaled on it. Not really a meal for kings but Eodras was content. A fire and the smell of meat cooking always warmed the soul.

As Eodras sat flipping over the meat, he noticed the Haradrim again. He spat on the floor as she walked past. Eodras had no idea what she was like, but he despised her. Everyone in Gondor hated the Haradrim, even though most of them had never met one before. His Father used to tell him stories about ambushing Haradrim armies, who tired to invade their lands. After a while, he stopped thinking of her and went back to his food holding on to either side of the sticks and taking a bite out of the squirrel. When he was eating the meat, the dwarfs started to sing, Eodras started tapping his foot on the floor going with the beat with a smile on his face.

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Ethan Blackledge

The day went pretty quickly for Ethan, when he found out that everyone was going on supply runs, he decided to stay behind on his own. Well there was other people wondering around the school, but Ethan hadn't really talked to anyone who was still there. Kyle was wondering about in his own bubble and Jacklyn was there as well but staying to herself like usual. Ethan didn't really care though, he enjoyed the silence sometimes.

The first thing that Ethan wanted to check up on was the windows, making sure he boarded up any that had broke for whatever reason. The school was fairly still in a good condition, which confused Ethan a little. He knew that a building without being maintained would start to fall apart quite quickly. As Ethan was busy breaking up one of desks to cover up a broken window, he started to think to himself whether people came here after the apocalypse. It would explain why everything was still good and all the water supplies still worked. The more worrying question though if Ethan was right, was what forced the people to leave. Maybe just a horde of Walkers or maybe another group? Ethan hoped he was wrong.

Ethan was too busy making minor repairs to the school that he hadn't noticed people arriving back at the school. He was in his own little world going about making repairs, as he was wandering about the basement though, he found something that made him laugh. The janitors room had a bottle of vodka stashed in there. The first thing Ethan did was take a big gulp of it. It was the first strong drink he'd had in more than a month and he thought it was well deserved. Immediately as the vodka hit the back of his throat he started to wince. "Ohhh that's good." Ethan said to himself as he started to cough and laugh at the same time. Ethan kept the rest, thinking Ingrid would want to get drunk. Every Irish and British person he knew loved to drink.

Later on as Ethan got in bed with Ingrid, he hadn't realized that he'd not stopped moving all day and was too tired for the vodka. As they both got into the bed, Ingrid had told Ethan what happened to Violet. Ethan didn’t really know what to say, he just hoped she was okay. They'd become good friends over the past month, well that's what Ethan thought, he had no clue what Violet thought of him and the way he left things with her about sharing a room made it all the more awkward. In the morning he'd check up on her to see how she was feeling. Soon enough though, they were both asleep. Ethan didn't really sleep much but when he did manage to fall asleep, not much could wake him.

The sounds of crying started to slowly bring Ethan back to the real world. As he opened his eyes, Ethan noticed that Ingrid was gone and had stopped. "Ingrid?" Ethan tiredly said as he slowly rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, sitting on the side of his bed. When she didn't answer Ethan he decided to go and make sure everything was okay. He'd slept naked, so he started to rummage around in the dark room grabbing whatever pants and top he got his hands on. Ethan had a good body, but he was pretty sure no one wanted to see him wandering around naked.

Within a few seconds, Ethan had left the room and started to hear a familiar Irish accent coming from the down the hall way. A few seconds later, Ethan saw Sasha rushing into a room. "What is going on?" Ethan said to himself confused as he started to move a little faster. As he walked into the room, straight away he noticed Violet lying on the floor with Matt cutting bits of her skin off. "What the fuck?" Ethan shouted interrupting Sasha. "Fuck, fuck, fuck." Ethan said panicking, he'd seen plenty of the dead bodies, but never a live surgery. The panicking started to set in slightly, mainly for the fact he had zero knowledge on medicine. "Anything I can do?" Ethan started to speak quickly. "But just remember, I've not been to school since I was sixteen and my knowledge is quite limited." Ethan stood there with us mouth open looking confused.

@Caits@Wick

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A lot has happened since I've been away. :p

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Sorry I've not posted in a few days, been busy, will get a post up tonight. :)

Over the Misty Mountains [LOTR] [Hobbit]

@LadyRunic I'll be getting one up today, been away for the past few days. :)

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Ethan and Ingrid

(Collab with @Wick)

Ethan was still going about his footwork and punching thin air doing combinations. At first he hadn't noticed Ingrid walking in until she started punching one of the bags which brought Ethan back to reality.

After a while she walked into the ring and offered Ethan an explanation of her reasons behind killing Erin. "Fair enough." Ethan calmly replied with. "I kind of started getting the hint that she wasn't the best of people when everyone didn't really care that she died." Within a few seconds Ingrid seemed like she wanted a fight, Ethan was a little knocked back by the request. He'd never hit a woman before even if she'd asked him. "How about... We work on your combinations." Ethan moved to the side and grabbed a pair of boxing gloves chucking them her way. "Put them on, let's see what you've got." Ethan chuckled to himself as he chucked on some punch pads on. Ethan quickly went into a boxing stance with his left hand on level with head and the right on level with his hip. "My left hands one, right hands two. Ready? One, one, two." Ethan shouted to Ingrid in an intense voice.

"English? Your name is Ethan aye? Tha's got ta be tha most english of all the english names I've ever heard of." Ingrid noticed that he seemed to not really be taking her seriously. Ingrid feigned ignorance and she mocked him one, one, two, got it. She hit him with an uppercut to the jaw that knocked him across the ring on his butt. She chuckled.

"I told ya. I'll not baby ya b'cause yer afraid to hit me. Landed ye on yer arse is what it did."

The hit certainly shocked Ethan, it was the first time since the apocalypse that he'd been punched. He looked up at Ingrid who was laughing at him as he rubbed his jaw. "So that's how its gunna be ey?" Ethan jokingly replied to her, He chucked off the pads and grabbed some gloves. As soon as the gloves were on, Ethan jumped up quick and got into a boxing stance. "Come on then." Ethan smiled as he moved about the ring. Within a second Ethan had jabbed Ingrid in the face with two lightning fast punches.

Ingrid grinned and she decided to get in as much practice as she could while she had a sparring partner. She laid into him hard with several combinations to the side and a couple of jabs to the face. "I'm gonna take it easy on yer face. I figure it's pretty enough I shouldn't make you lose it the first time I fight ya!" She chuckled as she hit him in the gut and she dodged backwards as one of his hits scraped her tummy.

Ethan laughed at her remark as he bounced around the ring. He'd forgotten how much of a thrill it was being in the boxing ring. Even if his current boxing partner looked half the size of him and his old opponents usually consisted of overweight thirty year old's. She did have speed, also his old opponents got tired quite quickly. "Awww that's ever so kind of you." Ethan told her in an over the top romantic way. He bounced away from her and covered his heart with his hands. Within a second he went back in a boxing stance and threw a right handed hook aimed for her head.

Ingrid laughed at his taunting. "Thas nice!" She ducked the hook and threw in a move where she walked up onto his knee and around his waist and down the other knee. She laughed as she flipped over him without laying a glove on him. "You'll 'ave to do better than that to catch me english."

"Well... I wasn't expecting that." Ethan confusedly said as he looked at Ingrid. "If we was doing gymnastics right now, I'd give you a standing ovation." Straight away Ethan jabbed her in the jaw. "But we're not." Ethan laughed. "So Irish... let's see what else you've got." Ethan cheekily winked at her, knowing she wouldn't take the banter lightly.

Ingrid smiled as she rubbed her jaw. "Ya call that a hit? I thought I got smacked by a fly fer a minute. Yer na' man enough to see all I got." She stuck her tongue out at him and faked a left cross and went for the right cross instead. She ducked and dodged his punches and she chuckled right up until he got her in the eye good. "Son ova bitch that one 'urt!"

"We'll have to find a piece of steak for your eye then." Ethan replied to her with a smile and continued, "You know women your size aren't supposed to be able to hit like that you know?" He joked to her, taking his gloves off. He was only supposed to come into the gym for a shower, instead he'd ended up sparring for the past twenty minutes.

"I had seven brothers. How was I supposed to hit?" Ingrid laughed at the memory of fighting with them daily. "Mum called me a monkey cuz I would crawl around on them like they were trees or somethin'. They were all over 6 foot tall." Ingrid smiled and looked at Ethan. "An how would you have me hit? Like a little girl? I've blacked Matt's eye before."

Ingrid dropped her gloves and jumped down into the gym itself and headed towards the showers. As she went she stripped off clothing and let it fall where it landed. She was naked before she got to the showers with her clothes strewn across the gym. She stopped and turned. "Are ya comin'?"

Ethan was leaning on the ropes watching her walk towards the showers as she started to undress, when she gave him the invitation Ethan didn't answer. The mischievous smile said it all as he jumped out the ring and walked towards the showers, taking his top off as he followed her.

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Ethan Blackledge

Ethan had no idea why people didn't really act too bothered about Erin dying as he looked down at her lifeless body. "Who the fucks Raven?" Ethan quietly asked himself. A few of the other people came over to him to look at the dead girl. Within a few minutes they'd picked the corpse of Erin and took her to a patch of grass to bury her. Ethan started to help them out by beginning to dig a grave but they only lasted a few minutes when someone started to scream, Ethan started to walk round the corner to see what was happening. A few seconds later the sound of guns shots made Ethan start to run grabbing his hatchet that was dangling from hip. When Ethan turned round the corner he saw Sasha firing at Walkers who were closing in on Kyle.

Without really thinking what to do, Ethan sprinted at the Walkers being followed by two other people. He launched his hatchet sending it spinning through the air. It smashed a walker straight in the chest, the impact made the Walker crash to the ground. Ethan grabbed the knuckle dusters from his pocket and speared the walker that was starting to bend down, trying to grab Kyle. He laid on top of the Walker and pinned it down by the throat with his left hand and with the knuckle dusters on his right, he hammered down three massive punches to the Walkers head. The head splattered underneath the massive blows.

Ethan slowly stood up heavily breathing as everyone else got there, the rest of the Walkers were already finished off by the group. He wondered over to the other Walker that had his hatchet stuck in the middle of his chest. Ethan curb stomped the Walker and yanked the hatchet out.

They all stood over Kyle making sure he was okay. It turned out that he had amnesia. Ethan let out a slight laugh, more in disbelief. Listening to Kyle talk, he just couldn't see him being a stoner. They both hadn't really talked to each other much over the past month and Kyle always seemed to be very straight laced. At least he hadn't been bit, that was the main thing. Hopefully his memory would start coming back to him, but it could take a while.

Later on after he'd helped bury the two bodies, Ethan found out that there was a gym with showers, which he desperately needed. When he walked into the gym, the first thing that Ethan saw was the boxing ring. All around the side of the ring was littered with boxing equipment. Ethan slowly walked into the ring and started to bounce left to right when all his footwork lessons came back to him. He closed his eyes remembering his old life.

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A lot of posts have happened since I've been asleep. :p

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Ethan Blackledge

Ethan was in one of the last cars that pulled up to the school. He decided to stay back a while and help load up the cars, so the work was finished quicker. When the car stopped, Ethan slowly got out, stretched and made an over the top yawn sound. Within a few minutes they were unloading the cars and taking them inside.

After a while of unloading all the equipment, Ethan started to look noticeably sweaty, the heat was a bit too much for him but he continued to work. Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun, Ethan thought to himself with a smile.

When Ethan was walking through the halls carrying a massive box, he bumped into Violet who was stood outside of one of the rooms. It looked like everyone had started clearing the classrooms and were turning them into bedrooms. Violet asked him whether or not he'd be staying with her. In truth Ethan hadn't really thought about it. He wasn't the type of person to look that far into the future. Before he could actually think of an answer she walked into the room, leaving Ethan a little bit lost for words.

For a few seconds Ethan stood there, debating. He followed her into the room. "Yeah… I'll do whatever. I'm not too fussed. If you want me to stay, I'll stay." He waited a few seconds thinking of what to say, but he didn't know really what to say. "Well… I have to get back to business. The cars aren't going to unload themselves..." He tapped the box and smiled at Violet as he walked back outside of the room. He walked round the corner and leaned against the wall lightly smacking his head on the box, he hadn't felt that awkward in a while. Ethan was never really good expressing his feelings so he always seemed to make the conversations awkward. Sighing, Ethan pushed himself off the wall and went back to his work

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Later on as Ethan walked back downstairs and went to grab some more boxes from the car, he heard a scream and as he span around he witnessed Ingrid slashing a girls throat. Ingrid shrieked at the girl, but she was already dead. Ethan sprinted towards the girl who was lying on the ground, he had no idea what to do. As he looked up Ingrid was walking into school. "What the fuck have you done Ingrid?" He shouted at her in sheer disbelief.

@Wick

POKEMON: Johto Diaries

Elliot Forrester

A few other people walked into the Pokemon Lab shortly after Elliot did, one of them was talking about herself like she was a celebrity but Elliot had no idea who she was. He never really watched TV, he spent most of his time outside.

Everyone started to talk but Elliot stayed quiet, not wanting to interrupt and ask for his Pokemon, luckily the Professor interrupted the two girls. She told one of her many assistants to come over with all the Pokeballs, everyone went and grabbed one before Elliot, who was too nervous to try and grab one before someone else. So he waited until the other three grabbed one.

There was a few Pokeballs left on the tray, but Elliot knew straight away which one he wanted and it was still there. "Thanks." Elliot quietly said as he quickly grabbed the Pokeball off the tray, still not believing someone was giving away free Pokemon. Elliot then rushed out the place grabbing the Pokedex on his way out.