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[Miss Soupy]

Twill kept her bow ready as they inched their way along in the darkness, the only light source being the small stone she held in front of them. Eventually, she saw a faint glow up ahead, and she headed towards it, thinking perhaps someone might be up ahead. What she met was a door that was engraved, and the strange design somehow managed to glow faintly. Holding her stone to it, she found it was open a crack.

“Let me go in first,” she said, looking up at Zerva, who was still struggling. “If there are zombies, or a trap of some sort, I have a better chance of getting away in time.”

Nudging the large door open a crack, she slipped through to enter the room. She crept silently, not wanting to disturb whatever might lurk in the shadows. This room, like the door, was full of engravings that emitted a bluish light. Looking up, she found the ceiling held an intricate design. Studying it with her light stone, she saw it held depictions of gigantic ships, all of them looking different, engaged in some huge battle.

She was about to call to Zerva when a glint caught the corner of her eye, and she moved towards it to investigate. A little arch was carved into the stone set in the wall and there sat a metal owl figure, its blue eyes open and staring. She turned and found each corner held the same owl figure. The eyes were obviously some sort of precious jewel, and her fingers twitched.

Everyone else has been taking whatever gold and jewels they find, she thought. She needed to get something to send to her family as soon as possible.

Using her knife, she cut out the eyes and pocketed them. She went around to each corner in this way, taking out the jewels, until she met the last owl. Its eyes, she found, were closed.

“That’s strange,” she said to no one, and tapped the forehead of the owl. “Wake up, you!”

She had said it as a joke, and hadn’t been prepared when the eyes actually opened to stare at her. But this owl didn’t just stare. Its eyes, reddish-orange like the owls she sometimes glimpsed in the forest, blinked at her a few times, its head cocking to the side. Twill backed away, holding out the light stone before her as if it could ward the creature off. The owl couldn’t be more than a foot tall, from the tip of its ear-like feather tufts on top of its head to its talons, but it looked metallic like the others had, though its silver feathers shifted over one another like real feathers would.

Twill stumbled back, her foot catching on a broken piece of the floor, and as she righted herself, the owl moved. She cried out in pain as it dug its claws into her arm, and for a moment she felt frozen in place. When she turned to stare at the thing, horrified, she saw its eyes turn from their reddish-orange to green. If she tried to move, it dug its talons in further, so she stayed still watching it as it watched her.

“You woke me.” A smooth male voice said into her head, and she felt suddenly cold with fear. “Why?”

“I-I,” she fumbled, unsure and afraid, “I didn’t mean to. It was an accident.”

The owl was silent a moment as if considering, and then, “You are not lying.” It released her arm then, fluttering to perch on a pedestal on the side. Its eyes returned to their original color as it left her.

Twill clutched at her arm but found it had not pierced her deeply. “I’m sorry,” she told it, not sure what its next move might be. “You could go back to sleep…”

Its head cocked, eyes gleaming. “If that is what you desire.”

(...long post is...long... Muffins, you have some competition! LOL)

Edited by Miss Soupy, 06 December 2011 - 10:48 PM.

[Fyuria'sLeo]

As Zerva waited outside the door for Twill to call him in he waited, watching behind him just in case something showed up. After a few seconds he heard a scream coming from inside the room.

Moving as quick as possible he tried pushing the door open so he could fit. Not noticing the growling coming from behind him he continued to wiggle his way into the room but in the process he tripped.

"kitten, bad timing to fall over." Zerva said to himself grabbing the door to bring himself up. As he looked back he noticed red eyes that pierced the darkness looking straight at him as he reached for his scythe he pulled the door closed making sure whatever was out there couldn't get in.

Just at that moment the creature jumped at Zerva knocking him to the ground, "kitten sh*t kitten sh*t." He yelled pushing the creature off of him. Flicking his fingers a tried to enchant his when but found he couldn't light the scythe on fire.

"Screw off and die!" Zerva yelled slicing the creature's face, it then proceeded to lunge at him with its fangs pointing straight at him and put Zerva in a corner. As Zerva sat there stuck he just thought of all the failures in his life and what he wanted to do in the near future, if he survive's this....

Edited by Fyuria'sLeo, 06 December 2011 - 11:16 PM.

[TheBerserkMoogle]

Ragnarok lunged at the creature attacking Zerva. He stabbed it with Muspel in his right, and followed through with Nifl in his left hand. He kicked it away from him, but the creature was still alive despite his attempt to kill it. Ragnarok cursed, then thought, "Please tell me it doesn't have magic...." As soon as he thought magic, the creature raised its head and a ball of energy formed in front of its mouth. It looked at Ragnarok and the ball launched at him. Ragnarok barely managed to dodge the blast, but where he was once standing there was a large crater.

"Uh Zerva... A little help please?"

[Miss Soupy]

“M-me?” she asked, not understanding. “Don’t you want to?”

The owl fluffed itself out. “I am a servant. I must serve whoever wakes me until they have no use for me.”

“Servant…” Twill repeated, her face moving in a frown. “So you are spelled?”

The owl gave a soft hoot. “Yes.”

Twill considered this a moment. “I’m lost,” she admitted, “I’m trying to find some other people, and a ship too, if that’s possible.”

“Yes,” the owl agreed, “You are striving to find something. I felt it. It is not for yourself, but for others that you act.”

Twill found she couldn’t answer. Somehow it already knew what her heart wanted; there was no reason to respond.

“I will serve you,” the little owl continued.

“Please,” she found herself whispering, surprising herself. The owls words had reminded her of what she wanted, of her family waiting for her to come through for them. The little owl bowed solemnly to her and then took flight to land on her shoulder. This time it was gentle as it perched. It surprised her how light it actually was.

“What’s your name?” she asked, looking at it.

Green flickered in its eyes. Her green. But then it disappeared into the red-orange.

“I am called Noctua.”

[Fyuria'sLeo]

Amazed Ragnarok saved him he got into a stance. "Sorry if I'm not much help I sorta have a concussion and I can barely run." Zerva said jogging towards the beast, it lunged at him agian getting a bite on his arm, Zerva grabbed the beast by the neck and threw it to the ground, then swung his scythe making a clean cut on the beast's stomach.

As it laid on the ground thriving in pain Zerva brought his scythe down on top of it killing it instantly.

Breathing heavily he turned to the door...."Twill! He yelled.

Jogging towards the door he pushed it open as fast as he could. He stood there looking at the new friend Twill made. "Ah, we sorta had some trouble out there....who's your new friend?" He asked blood still trickling down his arm.

Edited by Fyuria'sLeo, 06 December 2011 - 11:42 PM.

[Muffins?]

Murs jumped when the thundering of a wall collapsing as first an object was thrown through before being pummeled by a golem. He took a step back in awe of how bad his luck could be, perhaps he should take off his badluck charm. As Balian stood up and spoke he was a little surprised, perhaps it was the heavy armor but he was sure a hit like that would take him out.

"I thought this was a heist job not a damn quest for the holy grail" He pulled his dagger out and coiled like snake ready to strike, in his case it was run away but same thing really. The golem then advanced with an incredible burst of speed and swung its large arm down. Murs could tell he couldn't hop back without getting hit so he did the next best thing, jumped towards it. When he got up he was face to face with the large stone body. He quickly slid in between its legs as its stone fist impacted against were he was standing moments ago. He latched onto one of the arms as it swung backwards and began to shimmy up it. He finally made it to the shoulder of the beast as the other hand started swinging down on the shoulder. As fast as he could blink he let go and fell to the ground with a loud thud as the golem injured itself.

[shadow_Uzumaki]

As soon as he felt he was far enough, he slid to a stop and began running again towards the golem and his two companions. He unsheathed his lance and held it to a throwing position, the blade's tip gathering and swirling with wind. "Haven't tried this without an accompanying Jump, but I suppose running'll have to do." He kept running, gathering momentum for his attack.

As he approached the doorway, he saw the golem injure itself due to Murs' quick thinking. "EVERYBODY GET OUT OF THE WAY!" He yelled as the wind around his lance spun like a drill. "LANCING....WIND... PIERCER!" He threw the lance as it pierced through its other arm that was grasping its shoulder and pierced its chest. However, it didn't pierce all the way through, as its thick arm slowed it down enough.

"Argh." Balian muttered incoherent curses as he saw the now enraged beast roar.

"Tough son of a...."

Edited by shadow_Uzumaki, 07 December 2011 - 12:09 AM.

[Miss Soupy]

She had been startled by the yell of her name, and all at once she remembered where she was. Zerva jogged over to her, and she looked up at him feeling something was wrong. He seemed out of breath, and she thought she saw him wince slightly.

“Zerva…” she said, confused, realizing he was asking her something. “This is…” She began, and then she caught it, the red staining his arm. “You’re bleeding!”

[Fyuria'sLeo]

"Oh....um." Zerva paused before continuing. "Long story short when you came into this room here, I was sorta how do I put this attacked by some kind of animal and it sank its teeth into my arm, but thanks to Ragnarok I'm standing here still alive." Zerva said giving her one of his smiles before a slight pain went up his arm.

Noticing talon marks on her he looked back up at her face. "What happened? He asked slightly angry at himself for not coming in sooner.

Edited by Fyuria'sLeo, 07 December 2011 - 12:41 AM.

[Yoko]

"You've got to be shitting me!" Skadi watched the other thief and the barkeep attempt to fight the damn thing, but this was a GOLEM. She really didn't have much time to think about it, barely dodging a stone fist from pulverizing her, running around to its back.


"Shitshitshit, Why is it so fast?!" Moving on instinct, not thinking about it concerned with survival and nothing else, she runs towards the beast of magic and stone and not much else. With one gloved hand she grips the edge of one the torso-stones, hauling herself up to perch on one of its shoulders. "Everyone might want to MOVE!"

With the other, she pulled out a grenade, hoping it won't cause the entire place to collapse. It was the only logical conclusion, really. So stabbing one knife to hold it in place, she pulled the pin, planted it, and jumped off the golem, and runs in the other direction.

Only for the blast to slam her against the opposite wall. She lands awkwardly, her arm hurting like nothing on earth. With a cough, she decides to lay there for a while, wondering if the other two had survived.

[Miss Soupy]

"Oh....um." Zerva paused before continuing. "Long story sort when you came into this room here, I was sorta how do I put this attacked by some kind of animal and it sank its teeth into my arm, but thanks to Ragnarok I'm standing here still alive." Zerva said giving her one of his smiles before a slight pain went up his arm.

Noticing talon marks on her he looked back up at her face. "What happened? He asked slightly angry at himself for not coming in sooner.

She felt a pang of guilt at his story. Leaving him alone had caused him to get hurt.

Looking in the direction of his gaze, she saw red marks standing out in the white light. "I'm ok," she told him, rubbing at her arm. It really looked worse than it was. Reaching in her pack under her cloak, she found some bandages. "I'm not sure exactly what happened, but he seems to be some sort of guardian...or something." She looked at the owl and he looked back, blinking his large eyes at her. "His name is Noctua. I think he might be able to guide us."

Carefully maneuvering Zerva's arm, she wrapped up his wound the best she could, tying the bandage tight so it would stay on. He'd need better treatment later, but for now, she supposed, it would have to do.

[Muffins?]

Murs watched as first a lance slammed into the rock giving him enough time and space to get out of there. As he was running to collect himself before returning to the assault he saw Skadi book it straight towards the golem.

"Seems like the smart thing to do" he murmured sarcastically spinning to see what was happening. Surprisingly Skadi was already running away by the time he had gathered himself and turned around. He opened his mouth to say something before an explosion knocked him onto his back. He staggered back to his feet as quickly as he could and saw the golem with its head and the right side of its torso and arm gone, unfortunately the rest of the golem was still swinging wildy.

"Errrmmm, is it still..alive?" he asked the other two with him as it spun around almost as if it was a hyper child who had one too many to drink.

Edited by Muffins?, 07 December 2011 - 12:51 AM.

[Fyuria'sLeo]

She felt a pang of guilt at his story. Leaving him alone had caused him to get hurt.

Looking in the direction of his gaze, she saw red marks standing out in the white light. "I'm ok," she told him, rubbing at her arm. It really looked worse than it was. Reaching in her pack under her cloak, she found some bandages. "I'm not sure exactly what happened, but he seems to be some sort of guardian...or something." She looked at the owl and he looked back, blinking his large eyes at her. "His name is Noctua. I think he might be able to guide us."

Carefully maneuvering Zerva's arm, she wrapped up his wound the best she could, tying the bandage tight so it would stay on. He'd need better treatment later, but for now, she supposed, it would have to do.

Zerva watched her finish bandaging his arm before he spoke. "Thanks." He said in a quiet voice.

Looking at the bird he didn't really know how to feel about it, it hurt Twill yet its willing to help us find what we need. Turning his gray eyes back towards Twill's green ones he began, "Hmm I guess he could be helpful after all."

Looking back at the marks on her arm he was still angry at himself, "Promise to be more careful next time, I know I'm not in the greatest condition at the moment but I don't want anything to happen to you again..." Zerva said looking up at her.

Edited by Fyuria'sLeo, 07 December 2011 - 12:55 AM.

[shadow_Uzumaki]

"ARGH!" He jumped to the side of the doorway, using the wall as a shield by the girl's grenade, his pack's contents all over the floor. Wiping dust and debris away from his face, he got up slowly, woozy by the shockwave from the explosion. He shook his head and surveyed some of his broken potions. "Aww...." He picked up what he could and put it inside his pack and walked inside the room. Only to duck back outside as a large piece of the golem flew towards him.

"Well...at least it's falling apart." He looked around for his lance, amazed filled his features when he saw that the explosion stuck it next to the doorway. He removed it from the wall and raised it up in the air, spinning it around, gathering wind for his next attack. 'Gotta finish it with one strike, running a lil' low,' He thought to himself.
He watched the golem swing wildly, as if it was blinded. He began to create a gust around him, like a tornado. 'C'mon... I'm still young enough to pull this off.' He closed his eyes in concentration, trying to contain the raging wind he was building. Finally, he stopped speeding up his spin and opened his eyes. "Take THIS!" He spun his whole body and launched a tornado towards the golem, picking it up and smashing it at the room's walls, grinding and obliterating it into oblivion.

"Finally..." He fell to the ground, weary. He turned to Skadi and crawled towards where she was lying down.

"Good job. Packin' a bit heavy for some kind of thief, are ya?" He smirked at Skadi. He then looked up to Murs, "Good job with the shoulder."

[Yoko]

"Finally..." He fell to the ground, weary. He turned to Skadi and crawled towards where she was lying down.

"Good job. Packin' a bit heavy for some kind of thief, are ya?" He smirked at Skadi. He then looked up to Murs, "Good job with the shoulder."

With much difficulty, Skadi moves herself into a somewhat-sitting position. She gives a pained laugh, wiping blood flowing from a cut on herforehead with her good hand. "Have to be," She hissed, flinching. "Prepared, y'know?" She looked past Balian, to the ceiling. "I'm surprised it didn't..."

Skadi paused, staring at the cracks forming on the ceiling above where the Golem had been. "... Oh shit."

The resulting cave-in was small, and she could've sworn she heard someone yell, but it was a CAVE-IN. All things considered, it could have gone worse...

[Miss Soupy]

Zerva watched her finish bandaging his arm before he spoke. "Thanks." He said in a quiet voice.

Looking at the bird he didn't really know how to feel about it, it hurt Twill yet its willing to help us find what we need. Turning his gray eyes back towards Twill's green ones he began, "Hmm I guess he could be helpful after all."

Looking back at the marks on her arm he was still angry at himself, "Promise to be more careful next time, I know I'm not in the greatest condition at the moment but I don't want anything to happen to you again..." Zerva said looking up at her.

Twill blinked up at him. It had felt like forever since another had card about what happened to her. She was so used to having to watch her own back, raise her siblings who needed her to be strong, try to rub two sticks together to make some semblance of life. But Zerva was proof that other people could care, that other people could have her back too, and that thought gave her strength.

Twill smiled. "I'll be careful." Her eyes cast up, looking at the glowing depiction on the ceiling. "We need to find the ship so we can get out of here. It's probably getting close to morning, and if we are found to be missing..." She let the implication hang as she looked back to Zerva. "And...we don't know what incentives the others might have to even look for us at this point." Twill thought back to the beginning of the battles underground. "If someone else found the ship, would they try to find us? When you got knocked out, Murs was ready to abandon us. What would happen if he found the ship first?"

[shadow_Uzumaki]

He groaned, seeing the cave-in. "I like your style, Skadi." With much difficulty, he got up and stretched a bit. He removed two green bottles from his pack. "Potions?" He asked Murs and Skadi

Edited by shadow_Uzumaki, 07 December 2011 - 01:17 AM.

[Fyuria'sLeo]

They met each other's gaze again. "Well i'm sure Balian wouldn't let them take the ship without looking for us." Zerva said trying to bring some hope to them both.

Zerva thought to himself for a second remembering how Murs told him to forget about Twill's when she fell down the trap hole. "He tried the same thing with you Twill, when you fell down into that trap he told me to forget about you and keep moving forward.....then he threw me down the chute cause I sorta tried fighting him.... I dont really trust him." Zerva finished with a smirk on his face, the smirk quickly fell as the wound on his arm began stinging a lot more making him wince a lot harder than he was.

Edited by Fyuria'sLeo, 07 December 2011 - 01:26 AM.

[ForgottenBushido]

With much difficulty, Skadi moves herself into a somewhat-sitting position. She gives a pained laugh, wiping blood flowing from a cut on herforehead with her good hand. "Have to be," She hissed, flinching. "Prepared, y'know?" She looked past Balian, to the ceiling. "I'm surprised it didn't..."

Skadi paused, staring at the cracks forming on the ceiling above where the Golem had been. "... Oh kitten."

The resulting cave-in was small, and she could've sworn she heard someone yell, but it was a CAVE-IN. All things considered, it could have gone worse...

Julien had found himself in an upper section of the catacombs beyond the kitchen where he found a large Library. Apparently before this place was a catacomb, it was home to various mages and summoners. While in the library he found himself musing over the various books on the shelves and old scrolls. He found a volume on Airships, and had just sat down to read it when he heard the explosion. It had come from below and the ground beneath him began to reverberate, soon cracks formed in the hard rock beneath his very seat. A leg of his chair snapped and he fell to the floor, and soon afterword the floor gave way and down he fell. He hit the ground with a thud and a CRACK! Julien yelled..."SKAAAAAADDIII GOOOOODAAAAAMMMMNIIIITT!!!!" Somehow he knew she caused this and slowly picked himself up from the rubble and hobbled up to his feet. He began grumbling meaningless threats and other nonsense while searching for the book. He held his shoulder with one hand and with the other he painfully pushed rocks aside until he located the book.

Edited by ForgottenBushido, 07 December 2011 - 01:32 AM.

[Miss Soupy]

They met each other's gaze again. "Well i'm sure Balian wouldn't let them take the ship without looking for us." Zerva said trying to bring some hope to them both.

Zerva thought to himself for a second remembering how Murs told him to forget about Twill's when she fell down the trap hole. "He tried the same thing with you Twill, when you fell down into that trap he told me to forget about you and keep moving forward.....then he threw me down the chute cause I sorta tried fighting him.... I dont really trust him. "Zerva finished with a smirk on his face, the smirk quickly fell as the wound on his arm began stinging a lot more making him wince a lot harder than he was.

"Yeah, I think we can trust Balian," she agreed, but then looked concerned when he winced. "Are you going to be alright? I'm sorry but, I don't know much about healing."

"There may be creatures in this area that carry various poisons," Noctua told them, causing her to jump. The owl had been so silent, she had nearly forgotten he was there.

"Zerva...you don't think you were poisoned, do you?" she asked, fearful.