Fortress' Fall

"To save a life sometimes one must Destroy."

- Aemon

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The orders has been given to him and to say the least they absolutely disgusted him. Aemon marches through the various fortress halls that belonged to the Basilisk Fang guild looking for the Ahote, the child of the Famine and the current head of the snake that was his guild, "Just when I think the orders given by this guild couldn’t be more appalling I am once again proven wrong." Aemon took pride with in himself of the fact there was very few jobs he would never willingly take. Assassinations he had no complaints about especially when they lined up with his own perspectives. Causing chaos by the way of sabotage if it were within his skills to pull through with the task he has no problem doing that either but the latest order literally turned his stomach into knots. “Are you sure you want to approach him like this? Your emotions are flared up, don’t you think it would be wiser to confront the kid when your more level headed?” Ddraig asked and the points he made were valid ones, points that normally would have swayed Aemon from such a rash decision but not this time. "It wouldn’t make a difference." he stated mentally at the dragon that inhabited his soul with a sharpness in his tone. "It could be another hour, day week month or year. I’d still have this reaction and wouldn’t approach it any differently." His mind wandered back to the night that he had met these snakes and how they struck when he least expected it, the job he was tricked into still lingered in the back of his mind. Lifting one of his hands to look at as if he were analyzing something new. "My hands are still saturated with the blood of those students I ruthlessly slaughtered. All this job will do is add new tally marks to the total number of bodies that I put in the ground." Ddraig could have continued with his attempts at calming Aemon down but he knew that his attempts would be fruitless.

After traversing the halls for several minutes, covering a majority of the available space in the fortress until he came to a stop at the door that would lead into the quarters of Ahote. Not so much as a knock would occur, he turned the handle and pushed the door open with enough force for them to create a sound when hitting the walls. "Ahote I have to have a word with you." he wasn’t asking he was telling. "Why was I given an order to go and abduct children and bring them here?" the sharpness he has earlier when speaking to Ddraig still lingered in his actual voice. He knew whatever the answer was going to be he would severely dislike it.

"To save a life sometimes one must Destroy."

- Aemon

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It had seemed that Aemon unintentionally drew in a crowd just by his march into Ahote’s quarters. It wasn’t his intention to do so but intentions never seem to match results in the end. If they had perhaps he wouldn’t have found himself in the guild to begin with but that was a horse well beaten after death. His assertive and abrupt opening of Ahote’s door echoes through the halls behind him the decibels his voice carried was what lured several more people to spectate what was occurring. His eye scanned the door and would lock onto the only person that was present, that he had any dealings with was Katherine but that was because he had met her prior to both of their incarceration thanks to the snake and her brat, the latter who was now in charge of this cold jailhouse and had a connection with her. There was a young girl who was newer than the rest, her hair, clothes and everything else filthy. Next was the young woman with jet black hair but her most distinguishing physical trait was her heterochromic eyes one of red and black. He had seen her around but that was about it. Accompanying her was a young man not too far off from Aemon’s age his unique purple hair was only matched by his choice of outfit, Is he wearing a skirt? he couldn’t help but allow that thought to pop into his mind. “Indeed he is and by the looks of it he likes what he sees.” Ddraig said mockinly to Aemon, he ignored him and brought his focus back to the person of interest, the son of the snake. Ahote finally spoke first making a jest of which Aemon didn’t know the context of but then he admitted that he didn’t take Aemon for the curious type or the hesitant type. "Everyone has their limitations?" he said through clenched teeth but he knew that this child had more to say on the matter so he would hold his tongue until he heard what Ahote had to say.

And what he had to say didn’t quell the fire it actually added fuel to the fire. The reason why Ahote issued the order to abduct children in order for a very specific reason, after reminding Aemon of the chemical and biological based weapons. Of course the way he snickered reminded him of a child who set up a sophomoric practical joke on their school teacher. It was unsettling but the gut churning piece of information was what was revealed next. Aemon was actually rendered speechless by the next few lines that came out of his mouth. He didn’t say the words but Aemon could do the math, "So you want these kids to subject them to experiments just to see what your chemicals do?!" he couldn’t hide the anger that had been building up. "Why kid’s though?" he questioned immediately "There are plenty of people out there. Rapists, murderers and whatever actual scum there are out in the world." Aemon suspected that this would fall onto deaf ears but there could be hope that Ahote was different from his mother. Perhaps the cold and calculating snake that was his mother didn’t pass on all of her ruthlessness. Aemon looked over at Katherine who had asked what was going on but he just gave her a look. He didn’t have words for anyone but Ahote and soon enough he would reveal what the situation actually is. “Aemon control your anger. Emotions are the fast track to triggering me and no one knows I exist here except your red haired friend.” Aemon didn’t know this but there was a good chance that he could accidentally summon Ddraigs power and if he did while under the influence of his emotion it wouldn’t end well.

"To save a life sometimes one must Destroy."

- Aemon

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Was there any actual point to this? Was one of the prime questions that rang through Aemon’s Head. Perhaps deep down he had a sliver of hope that this child would actually come to reason, that Aemon’s protest could sway him. He should have known better as it was made evident by not only the expression made my Ahote but the words that escaped his mouth aimed at the group of snakes that has all slithered into the business at hand. He couldn’t tell if he was being mocked by Ahote referring to Aemon as a good fellow and asked them if they felt the same as he did, if this task was too much for them as well. With the exception of Katherine everyone there spoke up stating that they would have no problem doing this task. He had expected these answers and thus wasn’t surprised by any of the answers that were given. His comment regarding the scum of the world earned replies from some of the onlookers. The man cross dressed as well as the girl known as Aelu spoke to one another, he wasn’t sure if they were whispering or not but he could hear their words. Their points were made solid but he ignored the whispers for now but when he was called foolish a response formed in his mind but he was swayed from commenting on anything she had to say due to Ahote speaking his turn. At first he started with a compliment regarding him as exceptional but trailed off from whatever thought he was going to say and decided to laugh instead. First he attacks Aemon’s character and his perspective of their moral high ground. Ddraig spoke to Aemon telepathically, “They all seem
Small to me. What’s a snake to Dragon.” Aemon choked back a chuckle and he knew if Katherine could have heard what the dragon she would have too. "Moral high ground?" he questioned incredulously. "I’m literally the personification or Morally grey. I’ve taken jobs requests from dark guilds long before I had ever stepped foot in this fortress. More Dark guild contracts than ones from legal guilds. I’ve killed many times. More than care to recall for a job. Whether they deserved it or not was never put into question." he took a breath to calm his voice realizing his anger was still prominent in his tone.

It was clear Ahote wasn’t gonna budge an inch with this and that was fine but he wasn’t going to be the one to do this and walking away was going to be his choice of action but the brat had to open his mouth about how he had the guts to question Ahote on morales. "And it astounds me that someone such as yourself could be so ignorant. Assuming that comment was regarding how I ended up joining your ranks then try not to forget it was a path I put on by you and that scheming mother of yours." and with that he left as Ahote began to ask Aeluri as well as Iris if they would do it for him. What was he to do? While he wasn’t going to actually commit this heinous act could he actually let them do it? He good at killing but he was out numbered here and his fake magic wouldn’t do well for him however he did have a bit of an ace up his sleeve. He made sure to only use his weapons factory to give the illusion that he was a Requip magic user not letting it slip once what his true magic was, the Destruction that the dragon inside of him allowed him to create. However with them not knowing his true power it meant that the element of surprise was in his side. Ddraig, do you think if I go full power off the bat we can catch them off guard as well as destroy the fortress? Aemon asked Ddraig through the shared telepathy again “I could if I were in my original body. However you could destroy a fair amount of should be possible.” Aemon didn’t say another word as his arm reaches around the waist of Katherine who had been by his side and pulled her close to him. ”I who shall awaken." he whispered and that’s when he released it, a burst of red aura cloaked around him releasing a flash of bright light and once it dimmer The white hair, dark skin and the green eyes were replaced with his red dragon armor with gleaming red eyes ]"Red Dragon reclamation!” Ddraig could be heard shouting out as he blasted through the ceiling of the fortress with a pure red beam of pure destruction and with a Katherine in hand flew through the hole until he was flying above the guildhall and then looked down. “Red dragon roar!” A larger blast shot through the hole he had made and once it hit the floor it would explode on impact causing anything in its way to be destroyed. “We had better get out of here while they are distracted by our performance.” Not a word was uttered by Aemon, with Katherine in hand he flew in a random direction away from the fortress.