Sel threw his hands up. "Great. We're on this island for a little while longer." he said, plopping down on a rock. When the darkness fell over them, he didn't move. He just pulled out his sword and put it down beside him, letting its green light give him enough visibility.

" Ah yes, My dear Azura I always have time for you." said a sick twisted voice as Sheogorath materialized in front of Megil, carrying his walking stick, and wearing his usual green hair.

"I must say you are looking as dashing as usual." He commented, smiling.

Sheo, Sheo....Azura giggled, always flattering as usual.....sooo you got yourself a little pet-boy now have you?.....someone who follows your slightest demands.....running your little nasty errands huh? Azura´s green eyes glistened and her voice got hoarser a she spoke

The goddess swirled around, her ice-blue dress swayed...she almost shivered...

"If I'm not mistaken, he was your pet-boy not to long ago. I just simply nudged him the right way, besides Megil isn't my pet-boy, I'm just...how would you say it....his advisor. Yes that's the word." he said with a smirk.

My pet-boy? Azura rose one flaming eyebrow....I never keep pets.....I only rely on skills and intelligence......as in this woman here.....they should all respect her, because she is the most intelligent of them all here......yet, but some of them have potential....such as that poor boy YOU destroyed .......Sheogorath....do you remember the bet we made so long ago????

"tisk tisk" Sheogorath said with a giggle. "Always one to superfluously exaggerate a situation. This boy is not destroyed, I have simply freed him from the constraints of life so that he can reach his full potential."

Sheogorath scowled at the mention of a bet, "No, I am afraid I have to many bets to keep up with, do remind me." he said twirling his walking stick and then placing both hand on the top and leaning against it.

Ach Sheo! Remember the prophecy about Lord Nerevar Reborn?.....That he would actually come back to defeat DagothUr, the evil personified in Vvardenfell?.....Remember your words at the shrine at Holamayan? the day the young breton came to talk to Mehra Milo?

Yes..you must remember that.....we watched him as he came humble but yet soo strong and good looking....you didn´t believe in him remember?.You said he would never beat the devil....

Ohhh Sheo......how wrong you were....

Do you remember our bets?....

Azura laughed eerily.........

Shoegoraths scowl turning into a furious glare.

"I was expecting you'd forget that." he fumed,"but anyways what of it, you helped him along, that bet shouldn't count"

Oh yes! it counts......he did all the fighting by himself......do not try your normal cheats again....

Azura flung herself very near sheogorath....fuming with anger

" My my, what a short temper you've always had." Sheo. said with a small smile.

"Let's assume I choose to uphold my end of the bet, what is it that you would ask of me Azura? this man's life perhaps" he said pointing at megil with his cane.

"Well let me assure you, that I won't give him back. you can have any of your other followers that i pushed over the edge, but this one is mine." green lightning crackling across his eyes.

"Oh, as mad as ever, aren't you, Sheo?", Nocturnal said as she walked towards Azura and Sheogorath. "Azura.", Nocturnal said as she nodded and smiled. "Oh, it has been a while, don't you agree?", Nocturnal said and smiled her rather dark smile.

Why is it that a man never keeps his promises? Azura snirked at Sheogorath...Of course I want this pet of yours...that was the thing about it....

Nocturnal? Azura looked with surprise of the third deity approaching....what do you want?

"I keep my promises, but I also play a fair game, you are the decietful snake Azura, tipping the scales in your favor."

he turned to Nocturnal and smiled, as if the conversation wasn't heppening at all.

"As slinky as always, my dear nocturnal." he added with a sarcastic smirk.

"What's with the tone? I'm just visiting. Thought you might want to know that I won't be far away, if you get what I mean.", Nocturnal said and smirked and put her hands on her hips. Her crow was squawking, and it's red eyes were fixed on Sheogorath. "You know, I have no really evil intentions. I'm a nice woman, really.", Nocturnal said to Azura and smiled.

"Oh, my dear Sheogorath. How's your mind? I mean.. How's it going?"

Sheogorath....you were talking to me now.....Azura stood there head high and her nostrils wide open...I just guided the breton through his ordeals....all the fighting he did himself....YOU promised me a pet-boy if the Nerevarine succeded in defeating Dagoth Ur....

"So GIVE HIM TO ME!!!!!"

"Calm down Azura, no need to go ruffling your feathers. Besides whats this one to you, wouldn't you rather have one of the nerevarine failure's back instead, or do you not remember all the other fools that you persuaded into that you sentenced to failure in your thirst to destroy Dagoth Ur" he said

"Oh, those two really have a knack for eachother...", Nocturnal thought to herself, smirking.

Azura bowed her head.....the thought of the failed incarnates made her sad.....innocent ones whom she had led into disaster....

"Sheogorath, she said slowly, you know how that affects me..., but are you willing to trade? this skilled mage you get if i get the boy....

Mage

Arcyakt felt the power growing - power that only comes to the mortal realm on occasion. At least two gods were materialized, he guessed. He felt Azura's presence keenly, but couldn't name the others.

He looked to his companions and said. "I have a mark set somewhere, and I have to use it to get some better equipment."

He teleported himself right in between Azura and Sheogorath. He quickly dispelled the darkness. "Hello." he said cheerily.

Sel

Sel raised an eyebrow. Why was MEgil more important than Serene? Why would Azura trade like that?

He raised the other eyebrow when Arcyakt showed up.

Shakur started breathing deeply, almost hyperventalating. He fell to the ground and his robe covered his body and started fluttering around him. With a deep purple light that stretched from the clouds to Shakur, the robe unraveled and under it emerdged Hircine, sporting his usual skull helm and bear pelt grieves and boots. "Azura, Sheogorath and Nocturnal, what a reunion, I just had to come and see you all. So what is all of this yelling about? Megil? He seems like a worthy animal for the hunt. Sheogorath, I'll give you three wolves for this Megil" Hircine looked to all the other Daedra princesses and princes, what a glorious day to be a Daedra.

"Ah if it isn't our favorite little mortal mage," he said sarcastically as arcaykt appeared.

He turned to Hircine who ahd just appeared.

"Ah always a pleasure to see you Hircine, decided to join our little get together have you." he said cheerily to Hircine.

"Azura look I'm really sorry for bringing up the failures, but I can't accept the trade. I see nothing in this mage that I would want, she is of more use to you."

"Hircine my friend, you know i'm not a dog person,"

Anthanes appeared in a swirl of magicka next to the daedra prince get-together.
He blinked realizing who they were.

"...fascinating..." he muttered as he began taking notes, watching their exchange.

"Why Hircine! Pleasure. Been quite a while, now. And welcome to our little get-together.", Nocturnal said and opened her arms as if wanting to hug Hircine.

OOC: I skipped because it didn't matter where I posted this.

Mage

Arcyakt chuckled at Sheogorath's statment about him, but said nothing of it.

"You disgust me." he said, spitting at Azura's feet, but addressing all of the daedra. "You all stand here, claiming yourselves as gods when you are nothing more than squabbling children, fighting over a little toy."

His staff materialized into his hand, and he spoke again. "You will all be nothing more than bad memories when I meet you all again in Oblivion. I learned a lot about you all during my thousand-year vacation."

Azura sensed the evil of Arcyakt and went inside Serene´s mind again.......she did not want to stand in front of this utterly evil mage....alone .....so she decided to bide her time with sheogorath...make him a bit unsure of her actions

Hircine was mad that Sheogorath refered to wolves as dogs, but didn't voice it. "Thank you for the warm welcomes, and hello Arcyact, he who disturbes our natural orders". Hircine watched as Azura went back into what he thought as hiding. "Oh? Leaving so soon already Azura? Afraid of the mage? Look mage, I've got plans for the Red One, so try not to scrath him while he cuts your arms off" Hircine seemed confident the group would live, but he had questionable reasons about why he wanted them to win. With another purple light, he dissapeared and Shakur emerged from under the robe.

Mage

Arcyakt snickered as Hircine accused Azura of being afraid just as he himself ran away. Did they really fear him?

"May a real god damn you both." he said to Azura and Hircine, who had both left.

"And what do you want with this one, Sheogorath?" he asked, pointing to Megil. "You make him mad for your own pleasures, pig."

He had nothing to say to Nocturnal at the moment, so he ignored her.

"Oh well, it's so dull here. So off I go. Ta ta.", Nocturnal said and waved her hand. She vanished and went back into Rycarin's mind with a little "poof" and small cloud of smoke.

"Hmm as always, curt and polite you are." Sheogorath said to the mage

"Perhaps you would like him then, to take to your lair and torture him till his mind is blank, and then he will be mad once again and be under my domain. Look at you mage, you are as Mad as I am,"

"I will not be compared to you!" Arcyakt shouted. "I have captured members of this group only because they have been manipulated by various gods who plan to stop me. I captured Megil because he had a link with Azura, and I needed to speak with her - that has proven a difficult task, seeing as she runs away from me every time."

"You capture minds for your own pleasure, while I see the greater good."

"Greater Good." Sheogorath said with a laugh, "What greater good. And my intentions are not selfish. Megil's powers can become more powerful through madness. for It is only after all the boundaries are destroyed that trully unique power can show its strength."His power is far stronger than your's Arcaykt, he does not need silly mirrors or an army of dwemer constructs to do the work for him."

Sheogorath played around with his walking stick.

Shakur looked at Acyact madly. "A real god? You insult the great hunter? He left to give way for the fight, not because he is afraid. The great hunter would crush you and as you die slowly and painfully, I'll drag you to the hunting grounds and watch as Hircine tears you to shreads over and over and over again".

Shakur looked to the sky, and then to his enchanted glass left gauntlet, which other than his heavy ebony helmet was the only armour he had. He summoned a Shehai in his left and best hand, and it felt light in his gauntlet. Shakur thought about life, death and everything he has done between those to points, and wondered about what would happen if he died. He started feeling strong and agile, the adrenilene was kicking in. Only skill could help him now.

Hmm...Interesting.

Stashing away his notes the battlemage went over to where the majority of the group was.

"Hmm...What'd I miss, and more importantly, what's for lunch?"

Mage

Arcyakt saw Shakur out of the corner of his eye. With a snap of his fingers, Shakur's shehai disappeared. He continued to ignore Shakur, as his babbling was merely an annoyance.

He regarded Sheogorath. "If he is truly as powerful as you say he is, let him fight me. I seem to remember him cowering in fear last time we met." he said with a snicker. "Only a fool would even try to conquer a world by himself. He said answering Sheogorath's statement about mirrors and contructs. "I could do it, surely, but it would require too much time and effort - I could just use my constructs to take what I need. And the mirrors - I made them to make my life simpler. I wouldn't say I need them..."

He smiled. "And while you may be able to make Megil more powerful than me," he began. "I never heard him ask for you to make him mad and powerful."

Otik stood up and walked over to the group, then turned his head and saw another part of the group, and jogged over.

OOC: i'm skipping both of y'all

IC: Sheogorath smirked.

"Do you ask those you capture and torture if they are willing, what about those two fellows who follow you now, do you tell them the truth? Do not act like the righteous man, when you yourself do it for selfish reasons."

Sheogorath turned to Megil,

"So will you fight him"

"of course," Megil replied a grin on his face, "It would be my pleasure."

Mage

Arcyakt smiled. "Sheogorath, the death is on your hands." he said, standing calmly. "You care nothing for him if you would put him against me, no matter waht you say."

He pointed his staff at Sheogorath. "I could beat you here, your servant will be much easier, I'm sure."

Just to prove his point, Arcyakt forced his own mind into Megil's, pushing himself in and Sheogorath out. "See?" he said returning to his own body, and Megil free of Sheogorath - for the moment.

Sel

Sel actually approved of the fight. "I don't care who kills Megil for his crime as long as he dies." Sel muttered to himself so that everyone around him could hear.

"You don't get it do you Arcyact? You can't take over Nirn, even if you have the worlds biggest army. You will be slayed by the gods, because you do not hold trueflame or it's twin. Whether it is the powerful Sheogorath or the cunning hunter Hircine, you will die" Shakur sat down and just to annoy Arcyact, went into deep meditation.

"Hmmm, you are a fool, if I were you i'd listen to Shakur here." was all Sheogorath said before dissapearing into Megil's body.
Megil approached Arcaykt and awaited for the Mage to make the first move.

Mage

Arcyakt yawned and leaned on his staff. He laughed at Shakur and his reasoning behind why he couldn't conquer Nirn. A sword had nothing to do with it. Nerevar held Trueflame, and he died on Red Mountain. Almalexia held Hopesfire, and was killed by the Nerevarine. The Nerevarine held both blades, and never conquered anything but the Tribunal. Did the emperor hold trueflame or hopesfire? No, and he had conquered half of Nirn. And despite that, his staff was a far more formiddable weapon than Hopesfire, or even Trueflame. Shakur was being dumb, according to Arcyakt.

He thought no more of Shakur and turned his attention to Megil. He cast a reflect spell on himself, and moved a finger lazily to paralyze Megil - just to test the waters.

Shakur had gotten Arcyacts lack of confidence, which was a great thing to have. He looked to many of the other group members, shaking his head and making a rolling motion with his hand while Arcyact wasn't looking.

The spell simply ricocheted off Megil's ody in a random directions.

"that all you got, Megil said stifling a yawn.

OOC: I get what you were saying now...i misread it.
Mage

Arcyakt chuckled, but he really didn't want to play around with this toy of Sheogorath. It was a waste of time. He picked up his staff slowly, and used it's power. Arcyakt's smile got wider as he watched Megil's soul leave his body and go into his staff.

"I will take good care of this." he said to Megil's empty body as it crumpled to the ground. And he wasn't lying.

He put his hand over the glowing crystal in his staff and pulled out Megil's soul - a blue, cloud-like object. He muttered a short incantation over it, removing all traces of Sheogorath, as well as preventing the mad god from ever entering again. He forced the soul back into Megil's body.

"You're welcome." he said as he teleported himself back to his comrades.

OOC: don't want another 932235934298579 day battle, sorry.

OOC: He seems to not believe in Shakur's ability. I'll edit if you want.

Megil got up groggily,

what had happened

he looked around, everyone was just sitting around.

"The hell.. Arcyakt just forced Sheogorath to leave Megil's mind.", Nocturnal said inside Rycarin's mind. "Mhm. At least he's a tad more sane now.", Rycarin thought back. Rycarin decided to stay out of Arcyakt's way, for the time being, as he seemed to be much stronger than he appeared.

Serene was just watching the scene in front of her....Azura was not interferring with her anymore.....she saw Anthanes, he was back....that made her feel guilty in some way...she hoped he was not still having hard feelings towards her..

She wanted badly to get out of here.....to go somewhere where it was nice and friendly...

"Now can we leave?" Sel asked impatiently as he picked up his sword and put it in its sheath.

We can...Serene took her backpack and joined Sel....let´s go..

Sel made his way to the longboat and helped Serene in before sitting down beside his things.

OOC: two people in. EVERYONE HAD BETTER GET IN! Or else...