Rashid (Brain Washer)'s Story

In a cave far off the coast of the Vulcan Mountains, the clanking of chains rattles through the opening. Inside, thousands of wolves of different packs gather in front of a large stone cliff inside the cave. All of them were beaten and starving, some near death, but they paid close attention to the high cliff until another wolf could be seen making his way slowly to the edge. He had large metal claws and the markings around his body and wings pulsated eerily. Once he was at the edge he grinned menacingly. A large scar on his left eye shone in the light. "Greetings..." He starts. His voice was a bit raspy but strong and strict. It also had a tint of contentment, as if he enjoyed the suffering of others. "Welcome to my humble abode..." he says while bowing a bit. The lifeless guards around him tilted their heads down as well. Once he stood upright again he examined the hushed crowd and his grin widened. "I see we have good strong members of the Dimitrios...Tenneth... Oh and Alva..." he begins to chuckle and the crowd mumbles but is soon hushed once more by the sound of his voice. "My name as you all know from local legends is Rashid..." he says eerily. He smiles. The crowd begins to get nervous and some wines could be heard here and there. "Now, now, my brethren. You shouldn't worry. I will use you well... but if you regain your self for a second, a moment, I will kill you... But all I want now from you... is to sleep..." The crowd didn't have time to look away before Rashids eyes began to glow white and soon all of the other wolves eyes emitted the same color before all of them passed out onto the floor, all the while Rashid laughing.

Rashid walked down the steps and was soon greeted by two guards. A Tenneth and Alva. "Now, now..." Rashid said disruptively. "That small group isn't enough to build up an entire army... We need fighters. Ones that would actually survive one battle..." Rashid said. His eyes gleaming a bit. He turns to the other two. "You two are my best fighters. I want you two to search the woods for any other wolves to join my army. If they refuse use as much force as needed... Injure them, weaken them do any means possible just have as many wolves here by tomorrow... now go..." The two guards lifelessly bowed their heads simultaneously before running out of the large cave opening and into the woods.

The armored brutes ran through the forest with one objective in their heads. Capture more victims...

Cerise watched as Rakunam had left the cave and ran towards a howl in another direction. She turns her head to face Nova. "I wonder who that could be..." she says quietly before turning her head back to the mouth of the cave. The howl was deep and loud so it had to have been a Tenneth. Either that or a Dimitrios.

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Rashid chuckled as screams of agony and pain filled his ears, but this was all completely interrupted when a sudden yell, not a scream, penetrated the cries. Rashid growled and got up from his pillow and made his way towards the yell. On the way he called to some of the guards and they quickly followed. The loud clanking of his armor could be heard all through out the cave and, as if on cue, everyone went silent. He looked over a small cliff inside the cave and saw none other than a Kamarian alpha. Rashid grins menacingly before he quickly flies down in front of the alpha creating a gust of wind around them as his paws set down on the ground. He folds his wings up slowly. "Oh... And what proposition do you have in mind oh great Kaveh...?" He says darkly.

Kaveh stepped inside the Rashid's Prison area officially and stood before Rashid without moving an inch chuckling.

"Well, I've just gone and abandoned most of my pack in the Sharikere Mountains. I've let them be holed up in a cave I've been occupying since my pack is very broken up and won't listen to my orders and follow through. I want to give you all the unfortunate souls in there to add into your mind slave army if you'll let me become your battle tactician in the coming war. I know you want a war, frankly, with the number of wolves disappearing or moving about in these lands I don't know why no one has come looking for someone like you. You, who seem to have the most organized of groups thus far. I'm willing to offer my services to you wholeheartedly, but without your signature brain washing." he explained fully.

(Hey, Storm if Rashid was last in Rashid's Prison wouldn't the place you should have put your post been in the place called Rashid's Prison? I'm just wondering. I put my last post only in the Vulcan Mountains considering that Rashid's Prison was in that area I now officially have moved him within the prison. This is what I meant by that one OOC comment I made. If you make areas but don't use them they are going to look empty to role players. If a character is in one area that is defined as one of the places you created then they really should try to put their posts there.)

Kaveh chuckles. "A pack of your own kind to be in my control. My, My. Your mind is about as horrible as mine." He chuckles some more. "Bravo, bravo!.." He suddenly stops laughing and looks at Kaveh in the eyes. At first you might think he would deceive the alpha but instead he speaks darkly and intensely. "Now tell me where these Kamarians are and you will be the Tactician of my army..." He says.

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The Tenneth controled by Rashid, Erebus, followed the scent. He had left Icarus with the other wolf trusting that he would finish her off. About half an hour of walking he finally come across a small cave with an Ausi licking at the streams of water that fell at the mouth of the cave. Erebus growls and starts to approach the wolf or wolves silently in hopes he could get this quick and over with.

(your right. Sorry.)

"They are in a cave are in a cave north of here not too deep in the Sharikere Mountains. I used my dark energy blasts to knock them around a bit and then close off the cave." Kaveh answered Rashid.

He turned away from the black wolf and said, "Come on, I'll lead you through this lava bed and up into the mountains." Within a few seconds he stepped out of the cave and back the territory that was the Vulcan Mountains. He made sure to walk slowly, yet quickly side stepped a tiny steam geyser when it erupted at his feet. He looked back and hoped that Rashid would follow.

(Um, I think we can have the next post in the Vulcan Mountains. If you want to we can play out the part about them traveling into the Sharikere Mountains or do what I like to sometimes do which is wait a few posts to indicate that one wolf traveled x number of minutes or hours to get from one place to the next. I apologize if my posts have been short with a lot of my characters, but I never tend to write long ones unless I'm one hundred percent sure where actions, or dialogue in a story are going or unless I have more confidence with a character.)

Erebus was unmoved by their remarks. "Hmm... This is going to be harder than I thought..." Erebus said blandly before he turned to the mouth of the cave and let out a deafening howl. His grey eyes glowed some what and other howls could be heard through out the woods. He then slowly turned back to the others and growled. He wasn't in the mood to fight and with out Icarus this could be harder but he knew help would come soon. By then though, it might already be too late. Erebus breathed in a little before he opened his mouth and fire gushing out and going towards them. He didn't want to kill them since he needed them in Rashid's army, but if they started getting to close then he would have to.

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Cerise growled and got into a battle position but gasped when fire started to head towards them all. She gulps and uses her wings to send a gust of wind at the flames to direct them away, but even this did not stop it from getting burns on her wings, legs, and face. Cerise staggered back a bit and leaned on the wall. Smoke was starting to fill up the cave and she needed a second to catch her breath.

Rashid laughed before he followed closely on the ground. "I do hope we get there soon... I have some guards who are supposedly bringing in a fresh new batch of wolves for my army..." He cackles after hearing a howl and seeing some guards run towards it.

(Yeah. Lets wait a couple of posts. I don't think Rakunams in the cave anymore.)

Traveling into the foothills of the Sharikere Mountains Kaveh led Rashid until they reached a large cave surrounded in ice and a large mound of fallen rocks. Inside the sounds of whimpering and howling could be heard. "This is the place, do what you need to open the front door and wipe their brains clean." Kaveh stated. He stood in the snow and watched and waited to see what Rashid would do.

Rashid nods and cackles before using his powers to lift the boulders up and at his sides creating a path to the entrance. Rashid walks in and sees that it was a fairly large group of Kamarians, but all of them were weak and starving, yet that's what most wolves were at his prison so he didn't pay much mind to it. Once he entered the cave, all eyes were set on him. Most of the wolves started to growl and some, who recognized him or have heard of him, whimpered. Rashid laughs as he examines the group."Your lives are mine. I will use all of you well, so dont fear. But if you regain your true self for a second, a moment, then I will end your life." He whispers darkly and raspy like before he spreads his massive wings and flies up in the air. All wolves look up and wish they hadn't for Rashid's eyes start to glow white and soon all of the others to before all of them collapse on the ground. Rashid lands on the ground and walks out to where Kaveh is. "We will wait here for the night. When they wake, they will be completely under my control." He says.

Kaveh watched in awe and silence as his entire pack of Kamarian wolves was put under Rashid's control. He was impressed and barked at Rashid in a friendly manner. This wolf would certainly be helpful.

"I have great power too and greatly admire yours." he stated to Rashid. If we were outside I might show it to you since my power has a wide enough ranged to have taken out this cave earlier.

Cerise just watched as the Kamarain wolf took down the Tenneth so quickly. She shivered slightly and turned to her burned wing. "Great..." She mutters as some of the dead feathers start to already fall off.

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"Why, thank you." Rashid cackles. "I admire Kamarians too. In fact, it just gives me shivers the way you wolves can control the darkness around you and how you could just disappear just like that!" He cackles some more before heading up and onto the rocks and looking over the group of unconscious wolves. "We are almost done here." Rashid states before flying onto the ground and walking through the group.

"Are they all under your control now? If they are I'd like to use my powers on them to demonstrate a little bit of what I can do." Kaveh stated as he followed behind Rashid through the ranks of his former wolf pack. Kaveh liked the feeling of not having to worry about his own group anymore. It wasn't something he liked to do, more like he'd put up with his job because he had to. He knew they'd be in better hands under Rashid's control because he could control them all with a simple thought.

Kaveh though had something on his mind, actually two thoughts and quickly brought them up as he stopped before one of his warriors laying on the ground in agony. "If I bite this warrior here in front of me he won't know that I'm hurting him right?" Kaveh voiced to Rashid with a turn of his head. "I'd like to know because I feel like using some of these wolves for target practice."

Kaveh's eyes glowed blue and he added, "I don't feel any evil in their hearts anymore, but I suppose that's because you took away their thinking abilities. Anyway, I'd like you to know that this is only a small contingent of my pack. We have a slightly larger group of females and pups nearer to the top of this mountain since we can't live in our deep valleys anymore. If you find it in your interest to take them under your, even though they're few in number and worthless, feel free to do so."

Cerise just stared in shock. Here eyes darting from where Nova was and Schemeko. She started to panic for her friends' sake and paced whilst whimpering. "W-well w-we c-could," she stuttered badly at first and tried to keep calm but nothing worked. She then thought about Rakunam and seeing if he would help. He was a more experienced wolf. Maybe he knew a little treatment for Hemlock blood toxins. "Uh, Stay here." She said quickly before darting off into the forest. Oh how Cerise wished she could fly again. With that in mind, she glanced at her wing and as a small breeze blew through the air, new, better, feathers began to form. She sighed and ran a little faster until she saw Rakunam in the cave. "Rakunam!" She shouts as she skids to a halt in front of him. "Nova has some how been infected by Schemeko's poison. Do you know of a way we can help?" She asked... no, pleaded.

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Rashid turns his head toward Kaveh. "Yes, they are completely under my control." he says just as the sun began to0 lurch out of the clouds way. His ears flicked slightly as Kaveh spoke once more. "Oh..." He begins to cackle menacingly. "They can feel pain, they just can't fight back, even if they wanted to. I could even make them be under your control as well..." He laughs but suddenly stops when Kaveh mentions more. "Hmm... Feel free to do what ever you please to the wolves. Ill take care of the others." Rashid didn't particularly like controlling females because they weren't as strong, and pups because they were useless so he just likes to make them his slaves.

Kaveh listened to Rashid and said, "All of that sounds good. But I'd like you to do one more thing, please demonstrate your powers on the weaklings I have told you about and kill all the pups in my clan. I'd like to start a new clan, a fresh one that is, and I can't have mothers becoming docile and caring towards pups. I need them to fear me. If you could have my former Kamarian pack destroy them I'll lead you much deeper into the Sharikere Mountains where they are."

He looked up at the ceiling and said, "First though we need to bring the old mountain down if you don't mind. I'd like to live in your nice little prison area because you've really outdone yourself with the "decorating" it'll be useful too since I'll always be on hand."

Rashid stopped flying and landed on the ground. "Hmm..." He thought a moment. "Now alright." Rashid chuckles. He calls a few wolves that looked the youngest, not the brightest, and weakest out of the group.Rashid howls and the strongest of the pack stand and immediately attack the wolves in front of him. In his mind he forces the wolves to not fight back and he laughs as he watches the wolves tear at them until they are nothing. Once the weakest wolves are dead, the strongest of the wolves come by his sides. "Lead the way fierce Kaveh..." Rashid smiles darkly.

Nero the Ausi listened patiently to the Dimitrios she-wolf that yakked away behind him. He couldn't quite remember her name, something like Sedi. What was that short for, her wondered. Sediment? Not the most graceful of names, but nonetheless Sedi had seemed to have taken a liking to him. She always insisted on following him wherever he went, ever since her pack had first arrived. He didn't really mind it, she reminded him of Nova in a way. Well at least their coloration was roughly the same.

Nero had been walking through the lonely peaks with her on a graceful nature walk. He had been given some time to himself, and he decided that he would finally relent to this earth wolf's desire to take a tour of the mountain. He had insisted there really wasn't that much to see, especially above the treeline, but she was persistent. So there he was, listening to Sedi complain of the cold, compliment the sights, and remark upon the weather. He told her that you would get used to it after all, and the arctic always seemed to have a beauty of its own. She retorted with how he needed to see her homeland before he could be a judge of beauty. Nero began to crack a smile, when he suddenly heard a disturbance farther down the mountain. He could hear one of the most imperceptible of sounds, the sound of a paw crunching down on snow. Multiple paws, from the sound of it.

Motioning his follower to be quiet, he told her to stay low, especially considering her fur stuck out like a sore paw in this white wilderness. Crawling on their bellies, they came to a precipice, and looking down they were able to see a large gathering of wolves. In the middle of the group was a pile of furs, however it was hard to make out what creature they came from. Shocked at their discovery, the two wolves quickly retracted their heads over the edge to hide. Nero had always known their had been other wolves in this mountain, in recent months there were the occasional muted sound coming from within the mountain. But whenever an Ausi patrol was sent out, they could never find this illusive pack. Now they were here, vulnerable, and in the open.

"Sedi, run back to the fort and summon as many warriors that are ready. Tell them to only put on armor if they can do it quickly, we have an opportunity of a lifetime." Nero instructed quietly. At his nod, she reluctantly peeled herself away from the action, and Nero continued his cautious gaze down on these unknown Kamarians.

(Wrong Spot...)

Kaveh raised his nose in the air and sniffed around, "Ah, I love the smell of blood." The brainless Kamarians with him nodded in agreement as members of their own pack huddled together and whimpered, well those who were being oppressed that is.

"You'll have every right to know that Rashid, as I may have said, will be taking good care of you all." Kaveh announced, "If you're all out of the cave now. I'm going to bring it down."

Kaveh stepped in front of his brainwashed warriors and when he did his eyes glowed blue. "It's time to scream," he muttered as the fur on his back rose up like sharp spikes. "It's time to die," he opened his mouth to show the world elongated canines, "It's time to bring out evil minds."

Blue energy floated off Kaveh's body, "Darkness, despair, pain, suffering, terror, I only live to watch those things pass by." He dug his claws into the ground, slightly scratching the rock beneath it.

He opened his mouth wider and began to gather all the evil thoughts he had into an energy form, a blue sphere of energy formed at the front of his maw and slowly grew in size. First one foot across, then two feet across, three feet, an ever expanding sphere of energy. A bomb of hatred. In regards to the coming blast, the brainwashed Kamarians who'd helped him seemed to still have some understanding to stand back from Kaveh and did so. The blast that was to come would shake the earth, rattle the minds of the people, show Kaveh's extent of his hatred, and all that it required was a little blood shed here and there once in a while. He'd killed enough pups for what he intended.

Rashid flew out of the cave and watched as Kaveh had turned it to rubble. "Bravo!" He barks as the cave collapses. Suddenly his markings glow brighter and his eyes start to pulsate along with them. In his mind he was viewing a battle of some kind. Wolves in armor fighting the Kamarian pack he had just controlled. Once the battle was out of his mind he knew they had to get out of here. Rashid wasn't like Kaveh. At the first mention of battle charge immediately. He was smart enough to know they were weaker out here. Rashid would know, he used to be a battle strategist in his pack. So why turn evil? That was another story to be told another day.

Rashid sniffs the air and turns to Kaveh. "Now, follow the route back to my prison immediately. Make there as fast as you and all of these wolves can. No breaks." He didn't sound hasty in any way but Rashid made that up with strictness. He wouldn't be going with them. He had his own duties to take care of. Once he had finished with his order, he flew off and shouted out to Kaveh in the air. "If you ever need my help just howl!" He shouts before flapping his huge wings and taking off towards the woods.

Rashid looks around and finds some of his guards. He dives down and lands in front of them. The mindless wolves bow a little then return to their normal positioned. "Rashid. Wolves have been spotted in the deepest parts of the woods." Says an Avira. The Aven one finishes. "They mentioned they were working for... Mykeishah." The wolf pauses a moment for this name isn't common for wolves. "I believe that... Mykeishah is human." The Avira says. Rashids face perks up slightly. "A...Human..." The others nod. His mouth curls up into a menacing grin. "You two come with me and see if we can talk to this... human." Rashid chuckles darkly as he takes off into the sky the Avira follows and the Aven follows but from the ground.

Nero waited for up to a quarter of an hour, pacing, pondering, and peering down on the proceedings below him. He couldn't tell who the leader was, but they were all staring at something or someone that was out of his line of sight. Nero shared the seemingly universal distaste for Kamarians, their dark arts and untrustworthy demeanor were well founded, and seeing them so close to his homeland was all the worse. A mighty explosion shook the mountain, and a section of the ground he had been laying near seemed to simply melt away into the earth. He realized he had been laying on the roof of the cave, and only by some divine intervention he had not fallen into the merciless rubble. Shocked to the core, Nero pulled himself up and skittishly continued to watch the group below him, and watched a winged male peel off from the group.

A paw on his shoulder made the Ausi whip around and off the ground, when realizing it had been a friend, not a foe, that had startled him. Sedi had returned with a well armored contingent of warriors, a roughly equal split of Dimitrios and Ausi. She explained her punctual return had been due to her happening upon a group out for a routine patrol, and she had warned them of this danger. Seeing that there was no officer among them, they all now looked to Nero to lead, seeing he had the most information of the group. Feeling the greatness that had been thrust upon him, he explained to the soldiers a plan he had been formulating for a good while. The Kamarians had a poorly picked spot for defending, it was in a natural valley, from where one could easily be surrounded. From the looks of it, the Kamarains were uncomfortable in this icy terrain and were poor in terms of morale. Probably cooped up in their cave too long. Granted diplomacy failed, which he assumed it would, he would give the signal, and a two pronged attack would commence, from air and earth. Icy shards would be rained down from the heavens like knives of silver by the Ausi, while at the same time the Dimitrios would open mighty fissures beneath the Kamarians, throwing them off balance and maybe even crushing them in rubble. Finally, after they were softened up, the warriors would charge in for the kill.

He ordered the contingent into a circle around the valley, laying low and out of sight until the opportune moment. "Those blasted pup killers!" Nero heard one Dimitrios lad shout angrily. Nero followed his eyes and was shocked at what he saw. What he had earlier mistaken as hides of small animals were actually the corpses of pups, brutally murdered by their own pack. Nero gritted his teeth. The scum were no longer worthy of diplomacy now. The attack had to happen - now.

Rashid flew through the air until stopping and landing in a field. He had another vision of the battle taking place right now. He growled and howls up in the air. A few minutes later, wolves of all kinds of the different packs, arrived in armor and weapons. One of them carried Rashids good armor and spear. He smiled and told them to follow before flying in the direction of the battle. When he spotted it, he commanded the wolves to charge, in which they did. Rashid followed the wolves as the clashing of armor could be heard. An Ausi charged Rashid only ending up with a spear through his head. He pulled it out and slashed at a Dimitrios's throat. A few ice shards flew towards him and Rashid stopped it using his powers of the Zalikas. He then did a twisting motion with his paw and the ice shards turned around and flew towards the enemy wolves.

Rashid flew up in the air and stopped all of the ice shards that pelted towards the wolves on the ground including the snow so that they all could see. He looked down and scanned the area and smiled when he saw the leader. He dove towards the ground and landed in front of the wolf. A few of his wolves came by his sides. "Aw, Nero, is it?" He said menacingly. He slowly approached the wolf and barred his teeth in a smile.

Nero was delighted, he could see all the aspects of his plan falling neatly into place. He never knew he was such an adept military commander, but he could already see an officer position opening up for him. The morale of the alliance forces was never higher, and these Kamarians were being ground into the dust. Sure, they started roughly equal in number, but the superior quality of the Ausi and Dimitrios regulars seemed to be taking the day. No sooner had Nero finished praising himself, however, did tides take a turn for the worse.

What did this Zalika want from him? He did not recognize this wolf, but obviously he knew Nero, or perhaps just met him. Had he read his mind or something? Nero cautiously looked out of his peripheral vision to see if there was any help near him, and all there was was a single Dimitrios, who promptly came running to his aid. A rather familiar Dimitrios, Nero may add. "Sedi, get out of here" Nero muttered under his breath, before turning to confront his new foe. He could see past the Zalika that his reinforcements were wrecking havoc on Nero's side, and he feared that things were taking a turn for the worse, right when things were going so well. "I am. And who might I be addressing? I hope you realize that your allies have just committed genocide of the cruelest kind. Against their own pups." Nero spat, facing this wolf with a facade of bravery.

Rashid cackled and for a moment everything seemed perfectly still. He cleared his throat and pointed at Sedi and immediately, three burly wolves bit her and pulled her down. Rashid turned to Nero. "Ah, yes they have..." he said as he looked around almost seeming as if he were in awe by Kavehs actions. The Zalika looked over. and laughed as Nero kept his bravery in check. "My, my. Excuse my manners. My name is Rashid." He begins to cackle once more. "What a brave wolf you are. I promise this is the last time you will ever have this problem again." He said calmly almost as if he were surrendering but his lips curled up into a sly smile. "But... You have injured some of my soldiers..." He said in grief. "And I think that deserves some sort of punishment... Don't you all think?" He turns to his guards and they all nod and cackle. He faces Nero and he laughs before turning around and looking over the battle.