NationStates Jolt Archive

Arioa shook her head at Nilrem's uncontrollableness and ignored him as he bounced.

It wasn't clear, but though his increased energy and bouncing, Nilrem was trying to signal something to Arioa. He kept redoubling his efforts and bouncing faster when it was clear he wasn't getting through to her.

"How is he doing," Loki said.

"He keeps bouncing and is repeatedly picking up the pace. I think he's trying to get a message across, but I'm not sure." Arioa replied

"Well what do you think he is saying?" Loki asked.

Though in reality, Loki had a pretty good idea that Nilrem was warning him that it was time to leave, that it was time to be somewhere, and most importantly that a new chapter was beginning...

"No idea." She replied

Loki paused to think for a moment before hopping out of the mech. He walked over to where Arioa sat in her mech and looked up towards its door. Out of reach of his hand, Loki used his staff to knock on the door a few times. "Hello," he said as he banged on the side.

Arioa opened the door. "Yes?" She asked

"You said you didn't know what Nilrem was trying to communicate... I thought I might be able to figure it out," Loki said.

He tried to look up at Arioa but he had to tilt his head to an incredible angle and could barely saw her. The foot of the door was higher than his head so he was unable to see inside when he said, "Is he still bouncing?"

Sure enouchg Nilrem was still bouncing around and landing on every surface of the mech.

"Yep, still bouncing like a superball." Arioa replied

"Lemme see..." Loki urged as he struggled to stand on his tippy toes and look into the mech.

After a few moments of failure he looked at Arioa, "Well either grab him for me or help me."

Arioa reached over and pulled Loki up into the vehicle.

Loki struggled to get into the mech even with Arioa's help. Finally though, he made it in and got to his feet slowly, bruhsing off his clothes as he did. "Nilrem!"

As Nilrem saw him he jumped onto his shoulder and then his hat where he continued to bounce. "What is it Nilrem? What are you trying to say?"

Nilrem just continued to bounce up and down. "Are you saying we need to go back to the home?"

Nilrem stopped bouncing momentarily before bouncing off the mech's wall and then back onto Loki's hat. "I see..." Loki said as he pondered the thought momentarily.

"Well then... unless there is something else to do here, I think it be best to return," Loki said.

Nilrem finally stopped jumping for the first time in a long time and settled on the brim of Loki's hat. He fell asleep quickly as his body grew and shrunk with every breathe.

"So you're going Loki?" Arioa asked

"I think I have too..." Loki said in response. "I am not sure if I will return here or not... I just have a feeling that I have to be somewhere."

"Though... I am not quite sure how to get home..."

"Use your mech." She replied as she gave him a big hug, including Nilrem in the hug.

"Easier said than done," Loki said as he hopped out of Arioa's mech. "I don't exactly know where it is in reference to this island... I sort of just appeared here... I guess you could say I am lost."

"Plus I have a terrible sense of direction."

"Ah, why not set out in one direction until you can find something you can get a reference on?" Arioa asked

Loki brushed the ground with his foot for a moment before whispering, "Truth be told... I had never left home before until I came here a few days ago."

"So... I don't exactly have any references..."

"You should ask dad then." Arioa said

"Um okay..." Loki said as he turned to find Nephil. "Bye..."

He walked over to Nephil's mech and knocked on the door with his staff. "I need your help getting home... I don't know how to get there."

"Well, what is your home like?" Nephil asked as he stepped out of the, to him, cramped cockpit.

"Umm... well, its cold... very cold some times in the winter - it snows often, even during the spring. It is in the mountains where three peaks make a triangle. I grew up in a little cave on the face of one of the mountains..."

"Do you know what your race is called?" Nephil asked

"Me?" Loki asked startled by the question that he had not expected. "Well as I said earlier... I am a mix. My father was a wizard/mage and my mother was part elf and part demon... so I am sort of all of those rolled into one."

He paused for a moment before continuing, "I never saw anybody else like me... though there were lots of humans and the ocassional elf."

"Did any of the travellers mention place names?" He asked

"There weren't many travelers who made it up to my home..." Loki remarked. "The most the humans ever said was that they were from King Alfred's court and the elves only said they were from the great forest under the domain of the Corvianna clan."

"I may have heard of that clan, but not sure." Nephil replied

"Well do you know where they live... I need to get home," Loki persisted.

"I'm not sure, but I think I can help you get back on your way to your home." Nephil replied

"That would be nice... I have a feeling..." Loki said. "I need to get back..."

"Then once we say good-bye, we'll see about getting you home." Lillel said as she'd been evesdropping.

"Alright... thank you ma'am," Loki said as he turned to Lillel.

"Don't mention it." She replied

As soon as the last mech was clear of the surface platform, Eragon herded everyone onto the underground ring platform and activated it. He blinked owlishly in the bright desert sun.

OCC: Last post for the night.

Lakes and the others followed Eragon onto the ring platform then reappeared in the desert sun. They all headed under Chaos’ mech. “What now?” asked Havoc to Eragon.

"Indeed... what now?" Loki asked anxiously - though his mind still was on trying to get home.

"Indeed... what now?" Loki asked anxiously - though his mind still was on trying to get home.

Eragon thought for a moment, "Well, there isn't anything we really need to do. Unless you want to explore the island, that is."

OOC: Last post for the night.

Eragon thought for a moment, "Well, there isn't anything we really need to do. Unless you want to explore the island, that is."

OOC: Last post for the night.

"Well actually," Loki began to say, "I think I need to be going home soon... whereever that may be," he said as his voice quieted.

Turning to Nephil, he bent his head back so that he could see his face, "Umm... do you know when you three will be leaving? Just curious so that I may know when I might get home."

ooc1: Good RP Dragonlord, though it seems to becoming to an end. Unless you have anything else planned you may want to formally end it.
ooc2: Theao, maybe you have figured it out, but the sooner Loki leaves here for home, the sooner he arrives in the Medieval thread.

"When you're ready and our hosts give us leave." Nephil replied

"I am ready now," Loki said as he looked for their hosts.

"I am ready now," Loki said as he looked for their hosts.

Eragon sat down on a fallen pillar and said, "Feel free to go. I'm not keeping you," he yawned, "tough, don't forget to stop by for a visit now and then."

OOC: Last post for the night.

"Ok," Loki replied. "I don't know if I will ever, return... but I will try," Loki said before quickly adding, "If I can ever find a way back here... or home for that matter."

He turned to Nephil and looked to see if he was ready.

"If your ready, come on over." Nephil replied, "Do you want to take your mech as well?"

Loki walked towards Nephil in response. Turning to look back at his mech he pondered the thought for a moment.

Doesn't really fit in where I live.
Probably won't manuever well in the mountains.
No place to store it.
Not much use for it.

After a moments though Loki responded, "No... I think I will leave it." Turning to Eragon for a moment he said, "Though I appreciate it as a gift... I don't have much use for it. Thanks anyway."

"Ok... I am ready," he said turning back to Nephil. "How shall we travel then?"

"Do you have any objections to a brief sojurn in hell?" Nephil asked as he took a small disk and afixed it to the sides of Arioa's, his and Lillel's mechs.

"Not at all..." Loki replied, "Just another place to see on my travels..."

"Then take Arioa's hand and pass Nilrem to Lillel and we'll be off." Nephil replied

"Um... okay," Loki said as he picked Nilrem up off his hand. Walking over to Lillel, Loki handed her Nilrem and whispered to him, "Be nice Nilrem."

He then walked over to Arioa and took her hand with his own. Turning to face Eragon and Lleld, Loki waved and bid his good bye. "It was nice meeting all of you. If I ever find out how I got here, I may return to visit."

"Perhaps our roads will cross sometime in the futue," Loki said with a knowing voice as he winked to the two.

Arioa took Loki's hand, while Lillel took Nilrem. Nephil took his daughter's hand, "Ready?"

Loki nodded. Though he wasn't sure what was about to happen.

"See ya later." Nephil replied as they faded out. When they appeared it was in a rather warm and spacious house.

Loki felt an odd feeling as his eyes blackened. The surroundings changed suddenly and they were located in a warm house.

"So... is this your house? Is this hell?" Loki asked to the three.

"Yes this is what you'd call hell, but we call home." Arioa replied

Meanwhile Nephil and Lillel disappeared into a different room.

"Do you think I could see the place before I try to get home," Loki said as he was interested about the demon part of himself and where it came from.

"Sure, where do you want to go?" Arioa asked

"I don't know this place... you tell me where I want to go," Loki replied.

"So no idea where you want to go?" Arioa asked, "So you just want to explore?"

"How could I know?" Loki asked, "I have never been here let alone heard of this place."

"Yeh, just want to see the sights. Learn about the places."

"Do you know what type of demon you want to meet?" Arioa asked, "'Cubi, imps, demons or all types?"

"Oh I don't have any preference," Loki said. "It would be hard to considering I don't know anything about anything."

"Alright, let's go." Arioa said taking him with her. As they walked they saw those who looked like walking wet-dreams, both male and female, those who ran the line from Arioa normalness to the sterotypical images of demons, shrunken shrivelled creatures as well as wispy things toiling away at eternal tasks. As they walked, a young, but drop-dead(in many cases literally) girl walked over and gave Loki a massive, toe-curling kiss, "Who's your cute friend Arioa?" She asked

"Huh?" Loki said as he was startled by the abruptness and fowardness of the girl. "Who- who are you?" he as he was caught quite off guard and unsure of how to react.

"She's Vivian, and a SIT." Arioa said, "Viv, this is Loki, Loki, this is my friend Vivian." She introduce the two, "Oh and Viv, lay off Loki."
"Oh pooh, he's cute thought." She protested by contented herself with giving Loki smouldering looks.

"Umm... thanks," Loki replied, not knowing how to respond. If his face could be seen for anything more than blackness, it would be blushing.

"Umm... whats a SIT?" Loki asked curiously.

"It stands for Succubus in training, and I would love to train with you." Viv commented to Loki.

"Pardon my ignorance, but I don't know what a Succubus is," Loki replied as he finally gathered himself. "And I don't know how much help I would be with whatever training it requires," he said as he tugged on his hat.

Arioa leaned over an whispered into his ear, "A Succubus is a sex demon."

"Oh," Loki whispered as his yellow eyes widened in the blackness. "Well then I don't think I would be of much help, nor do I want to be."

"I am just visiting here temporarily until I can find away home... or until Nephil can," Loki said.

"I'm sure Uncle Nef and Aunt Lil will be able to help you." Viv said
"Do you want to continue the tour?" Arioa asked

"Certainly," Loki said as he tried to remain closer to Arioa than Viv. "Where to next?"

They continued the tour, Arioa and Viv pointing out various sites and locations.

"Hell isn't quite what I expected," Loki said as they passed numerous small structures. "Most people say it is firey pits and molten lava. A place of evilness and pain."

"Well parts of it is like that, but not here." Arioa replied

"You mean there are places where the dead live... and are torotured?" Loki asked.

"Where the evil dead do, yes." Arioa replied

"And who decides which are the evil ones?" Loki asked philosophically. "And how long must they suffer under the torture... who tortures them?" Loki was buzzing with questions now, that he found the truth about hell.

"The balance judges." Arioa said, "They suffer until they have paid their debts, and those who take the jobs do the torture. Isn't your mom a torture?" She asked Viv.
"Yes, she does." Viv replied

"And who will torture her for her hurting those that are dead?" Loki said as he was partially sickened by the thought of torture.

"It's not torture in the way you may be thinking." Arioa commented, "Viv's mom is in charge of a managing a bureaucracy that souls are forced to try and navigate."

"Torture is torture. Pain is Pain." Loki said. "Maybe it would be best if we check to see if Nephil and Lillel have found a way out of here."

"Alright, thought do you want to get something to eat first?" Viv asked

"Uh, no not really," Loki said as he shyed away from Viv. "Not really hungray. Just ate before we came here," he added quickly as he neared Arioa.

"Alright." Arioa said, "And Viv won't bite."
"Unless you ask me to of course." Viv added as they heade back toward the house.

Loki shuttered.

She might very well be the scariest person I have ever met

"Uh, yeh..." Loki said trying to brush off the comment as they made there way back to Arioa's house.

"Cya Viv." Arioa said as they headed down the street to her house.

"That girl is nuts," Loki said as they walked to Arioa's house. "Scares the hell - excuse my pun - out of me."

"She's not nuts, she's actually a bit of a prude as 'cubi go." Arioa replied as she opened the door for Loki.

"Well I still think she is crazy," Loki said as he entered the house.

He looked around to find Nephil and see if he had figured anything out.

"Mom, Dad." Arioa called out.
"We're in the map room." Was the echo'ed reply from Lillel.
"This way." She commented to Loki.

Loki followed close behind and entered the room to find Nephil and Lillel.

Maybe... maybe they found my home

Loki's heart lept in anticipation. "Well...?" he asked impatiently but with all the innocence of a true five year old.

"We think we've found it." Nephil replied, "If everythings right, you're off home Loki."

"Well okay...!" Loki said excitedly. "I am ready."

He was abuzz with anticipation and excitement. He couldn't wait till he got home and saw what was emanating this feeling of necessity that he and Nilrem shared.

"Bye Loki." Arioa said as she gave him a big hug as well as hugging Nilrem.
"Bye as well." Lillel said
Nephil picked Loki and placed him on his shoulder, putting Nilrem at the highest possible point. They then appeared on a mountain. "Does this look familiar?"

Nilrem began bouncing and was quite cheery, though it wasn't clear whether it was because he was home or because he was at the highest point he had been in weeks.

Loki looked around momentarily from mountain to mountain. He recognized the triangle the mountains formed and the coolness that was so different from that of hell.

He began to speak but caught himself - it was slightly emotional as he returned home. "Yes... yes this it," he replied slowly, "This is home."

ooc: Good bye Dragon - this is Loki's exit (don't know if it is Theao's also). If you make another RP, TG me sometime - this thread is pretty much over, though I enjoyed it immensely.

"Bye Loki, you too Nilrem." Nephil commented, "Oh and here, if you want to come visit, squish the disk." He then vanished, as well as the three tagged mechs disappeared. Nephil appeared in the dining room, while the mechs appeared in the garage. He was going to have dinner with the family, then hit the sack.

ooc: I'm out as well, but feel free to TG me if you start a new thread as well.