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"Positive. No one's felt any heat coming from the mountain in a long time."
"Yay." :)
"So let me see if I'm clear on everything here."
He pauses before starting.
"We find a way into the mountain.
In the mountain we look for a snake made of ice and fire."*shudder*
"We look for a box made of wood and a big emerald heart.
We get the box and destroy the emerald.
Do we have to kill the monster? Can't we just take the stuff and run? No dying?" He asks sceptically near the end.
When it starts to seem a bit odd that Miss Jones was taking so long, Repp gets an idea. He places a hand on the wall and asks it to direct him to Treisdan.
"We're not sure the box will have the book, but you don't have to fight the guardian. We've got enough here to handle it."
"So no food poisoning?" Michael asks, pulling a shirt the rest of the way on as he opens the door. "That's good. Now if I could just keep the mini-lab from blowing up."
"I can fight if we need to. I'd just prefer that we not kill an animal that is in all likelyhood one of a kind. Did you say it killed people that got near here?
Oh! Speaking of one of a kind. Jeran. Can you tell me if you sniff out any rabbits? It'll smell like this." He reaches in his pocket and pulls out a ball of white fur. "It's very important and I think this is my best chance."
"So no food poisoning?" Michael asks, pulling a shirt the rest of the way on as he opens the door. "That's good. Now if I could just keep the mini-lab from blowing up."
"No, I'm fine...although I am immune to many poisons," she teased.
"Mi-chan and I are going with a few other people to go and find our families that are near here and find out what all the stupid fighting is about and see if we can stop it. Do you want to come too? Because if you do we're leaving in ten minutes."
"Everything Oneiro has told us would indicate that the creature, whatever it may be, will be extremely hostile towards us Tybalt." Tyrrin says, trying not to appear as though she was struggling with the snow. This wasn't something she was used to. Her place was in a library, not tromping up a mountain. Still, she had her pride to keep her up. "The sad fact is that, we may need to kill it."
Another fire sprang up in a different section of the town, they could see it from here. "Do either of you have any magic that will help us fight those fires?" Vai asks, swiveling her draconic muzzle around so that she could see those she was speaking too. It was strange, seeing them there. Almost strangers, yet she was comfortable with them on her back. Her deadly teeth flash as she speaks.
The one fire, seemed to be blazing quickly! Eating away at the tailor's shop near one part of town, unrelenting in it's mad urge to consume cloth, wood and whatever else in it's radius.
"And miss a chance to meet shinobi in action before our trip to your home? Not a chance."He grabs a satchel as Cethru, his glass beetle construct, hops on his arm. "Ready to go."
"It's true. The last one.. it released the nature spirit bound in Professor Reading. They're intelligent, and dangerous, and will be trying to kill us."
"If it needs to be gone I guess." He finally admits.
"Can we try and make it quick? Its just doing its job." He says a bit sadly.
Lang's route takes him closer to the curved surface of the artificial sun. What appears smooth from a distance is covered with carvings and holes when viewed up close. Finding the right vent is a tricky task with so many to choose from.Grim turns his head and sees ignance's mom also in Bird form "so can you guys talk like in bird form, or do you like speak bird,I don't know much abou you guys, and I don't speak bird, I think my sister can speak bird, she knows a lot of stuff"::We use our minds to speak in this form. We don't speak bird,:::: Oh drat I better watch what i am thinking::
lang tries not to think about being scared or about certain other things that may embarrass him.
Lang continues to fly as close as he dares to avoid as much heat as possible. scanning the surface and checking the vents as close as he can to the location he found on the map. trying to gauge the amount of heat coming out.
I think if we can find the vent with the least amount of heat emitting from it that will most likely be our vent. Lang tries to yell to everyone.
Lang tries to Hover by manipulating the air currents around him in a holding pattern
"You're doing great. Now start building a wall around your own thoughts, leaving that little bit of open space for other thoughts to run through."
wait you mean I'm invited? thanks
Mel gets serious on the rest of what Ginni tells her.
she closes her eyes and tries to concentrte. gathering her thoughts. her music, Renkai, her date last night, Dom and her, their childhood, that fishing trip...All seems to be going well Mel is smiling at the happy memories she is recalling all her own thoughts.
Melody appears to be doing well when suddenly what looks like tear begins to fall. then more. soon she is sweating and rocking back and forth.
Dom please, stop, please stop, please stop..... she cries out.
Zilla considers the question for a second. "He looks so cool and strong. But I bet he could be gentle to." She tells her with a dreamy looks in her eyes.
"Don't you have a some of your old cloths in your room? Were could stop by your room so you can change." She flutters over to Hew. "Don't you have a message for Midori? "
Hew snaps out of his trance and replies. "Oh yah thanks for the reminder. Lang was wanting to tell you Ignace, Grim and himself was leaving, but they ran Out of time. So he asked me to let you know."
Midori listens to Zilla-chan explain why she thinks Tryko'Sam is cute, but apparently still doesn't understand. She almost seems to take a moment to size up Hew-kun as they near the front of the line, looking him up and down.
"Ano.. my old clothes got ruined by.. the acid, that squidy thing rained on us. They are all full of holes." She says, sounding a bit sad about that.
When Hew says what he does about Lang and Grim and Ignace. "Oh... Grim-kun is going too? I thought it was just Ignace-chan and Lang-kun?" she says, trying to keep her face blank, but a weird kind-of uncertain expression is there.
Ehos tries to stand momentarily, but is still quite injured in the aftermath of his return to the living. There seems to at least have been some sense knocked into him in death, and he shuffles on the ground, hiding behind the warrior, who is already bleeding profusely. Not his most heroic moment, shuffling along the floor to use another as a shield.
"I do not believe anyone here would revel in the pain of another sentient being. If we must fight, I'm sure we will not be intentionally drawing it out." Tyrrin replies, focusing on her footwork in the snow.
"On the other hand we came here knowing that such was iminant... Tybs.. If you're having second thoughts..."
Another fire sprang up in a different section of the town, they could see it from here. "Do either of you have any magic that will help us fight those fires?" Vai asks, swiveling her draconic muzzle around so that she could see those she was speaking too. It was strange, seeing them there. Almost strangers, yet she was comfortable with them on her back. Her deadly teeth flash as she speaks.
"Dom, do you think you can use your water bending to help stop the fires?"
"On the other hand we came here knowing that such was iminant... Tybs.. If you're having second thoughts..."
"I believe what Mr. De'Foul is trying to say is: if you do not feel up to killing another living creature, you may become a burden. I could teleport you home, if you wish." Tyrrin says, taking a small break in their trek to stand and look at the floating Tybalt. "I do not mean to sound unkind, but when life and death are on the line, we need to know we can trust you to do what is necessary."
"And miss a chance to meet shinobi in action before our trip to your home? Not a chance."He grabs a satchel as Cethru, his glass beetle construct, hops on his arm. "Ready to go."
"Great! We can stop by my room real quick and then stop by the cafeteria really quick since we'll likely be gone until dinnertime at least so we should take lunches with us," she said, her pace quick as she heads for her room where she grabs several straps carrying sharpened shrunken rather than the dull ones she usually uses, quickly fastening them on in place of the practice ones. She then grabs a bag that she can use to carry a couple of bento boxes and heads for the cafeteria.
"We're bringing along one of Mi-chan's classmates so it won't look like we've kidnapped her. And a new friend we just met today is coming to. His name is Sam. Well, that's part of his name. It's actually Tryko'Sam...he gets really weirded out by honorifics like san or senpai."
"Well, I can't really keep them straight myself, to be honest."
Melody appears to be doing well when suddenly what looks like tear begins to fall. then more. soon she is sweating and rocking back and forth.Dom please, stop, please stop, please stop..... she cries out.
"Melody? Melody, please snap out of it....I'm sorry, I shouldn't have tried to teach you myself...."
If she gets no response from Melody, she will let down her defenses enough to hear Melody's thoughts, but not try to make contact with Melody's mind.
Another fire sprang up in a different section of the town, they could see it from here. "Do either of you have any magic that will help us fight those fires?" Vai asks, swiveling her draconic muzzle around so that she could see those she was speaking too. It was strange, seeing them there. Almost strangers, yet she was comfortable with them on her back. Her deadly teeth flash as she speaks.
It wasn't enough that there was a demon rampaging in the warehouse areas, nor that there were now two billowing juts of black smoke from fires breaking out of mixed proportions, no... apparently, while many of the people near the demon had been knocked unconscious due to mental screams of anguish, and the few that retained their sanity flee in mortal terror could be spared additionally horrors.
Yet, with Vai's arrival with people atop her back, standing out so boldly in the air, a quiet 'hush' fell upon the few ignorant of the demon (though that wouldn't last long) and not only one, but as a unified hive mind of terror induced panic, various pointed up at Vai and shouted!
"DRAGON!!! OH GODS, we're under attack!!! FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES!!!"
And flee they did... at their pathetic plebian speeds, as Vai's majestic Wyrm body flapped her powerful wings, keeping aloft in the air, curling up the wind with each massive stroke, teeth flashing as she spoke to the others on her back.
Chaos-- ensued. Raw terror overwhelmed the poor citizens, and more screams added into the cacophony of demon and fire.
At least one old man, clutched at his chest, made a clawed hand out at nothing-- as the color drained from his face and buckling at the knee, crumpled like the wet sack of motionless meat he was, into a devastating heart attack. His over active imagination and response to her form, breaking his natural heart beat, causing it to stop.
"Well, I can't really keep them straight myself, to be honest."
She shrugged. "If you're not sure go with san. You can't really go wrong with that one. Sama is for someone very respected. Senpai is someone who is senior to you...an upperclassman. Kouhai is a junior. Kun is usually used towards a male of the same age or younger or who is a family member, but it can also be used towards a colleague of either gender who does not outrank you. Chan is used for female friends of the same age or younger or female family members......and I'll probably have to go through all of that again the next time. just remember san and you'll get by just fine."
"We need some bento please for later. Arigatou," she said, bowing as she got the lunch boxes from the cafeteria worker. "Er, I mean, thank you."
"Being around Mi-chan seems to bring back old habits I guess."
Melody appears to be doing well when suddenly what looks like tear begins to fall. then more. soon she is sweating and rocking back and forth.Dom please, stop, please stop, please stop..... she cries out.
"Melody? Melody, please snap out of it....I'm sorry, I shouldn't have tried to teach you myself...."
If she gets no response from Melody, she will let down her defenses enough to hear Melody's thoughts, but not try to make contact with Melody's mind.
There is no response initially
the only thought in melody's mind at the moment. is an image of melody as a young girl maybe 10 years old she is by a lake and her head is bleeding, like she was hit by something hard. she is kneeling on the ground crying, pleading for Dom to stop.
Dom is there as well doing something but the image is to blurry to tell what. there is also someone else, unidentifiable, covered in blood apparently the blood is coming out of his eyes and nose and mouth it almost looks like he sweating blood.
shortly after the image (only a few seconds) Melody snaps out of it. and wakes up.
She starts crying I'm sorry, Dom I tried
As he flies along the surface he notices a cooler air current running towards one of the vents in the right area.The carvings around this vent look familiar to him, similar to carvings he's seen in the air temple.
Lang looks at that vent the calls to everyone else
Here. This vent I'm sure of it! he sound excited.
"I came here to help Onei not kill things. If it is a threat to people around here I will do what I must. I am not here to kill a 'monster' simply because it there. I do not enjoy killing things without a purpose. I hunt for food and I will put it down if it is a danger and that is what needs to be done. And if we must put it down, I want it done as swiftly and humanely as possible. I simply wish that there was a way to do this without exterminating a species in its entirety." He becomes, possibly, the most serious anyone here has seen him. This is a very serious subject to him. As he speaks with such emotion the bubble begins to shrink as his focus is drawn away. It snaps back out to normal size when he is finished.
There is no response initiallythe only thought in melody's mind at the moment. is an image of melody as a young girl maybe 10 years old she is by a lake and her head is bleeding, like she was hit by something hard. she is kneeling on the ground crying, pleading for Dom to stop.
Dom is there as well doing something but the image is to blurry to tell what. there is also someone else, unidentifiable, covered in blood apparently the blood is coming out of his eyes and nose and mouth it almost looks like he sweating blood.
shortly after the image (only a few seconds) Melody snaps out of it. and wakes up.
She starts crying I'm sorry, Dom I tried
Ginni takes a shuddering breath. "That's why your parents wanted Dom to give up water bending isn't it? You made him forget somehow? That's ....impressive."
"I'm sorry. I stayed out of your mind, but I took down my defenses so your thoughts would come through to me. I was worried when you started screaming and crying."
"Well... I suppose we could try to take a sample back, see if we can resurect it, something like that. Its a long shot though, and not exactly a priority....we really should have had this discussion back at the school... Unless i am mistaken, this is not exactly a place where we have the luxery to discuss moral quandaries ad-nausieum"
There is no response initiallythe only thought in melody's mind at the moment. is an image of melody as a young girl maybe 10 years old she is by a lake and her head is bleeding, like she was hit by something hard. she is kneeling on the ground crying, pleading for Dom to stop.
Dom is there as well doing something but the image is to blurry to tell what. there is also someone else, unidentifiable, covered in blood apparently the blood is coming out of his eyes and nose and mouth it almost looks like he sweating blood.
shortly after the image (only a few seconds) Melody snaps out of it. and wakes up.
She starts crying I'm sorry, Dom I tried
Ginni takes a shuddering breath. "That's why your parents wanted Dom to give up water bending isn't it? You made him forget somehow? That's ....impressive."
"I'm sorry. I stayed out of your mind, but I took down my defenses so your thoughts would come through to me. I was worried when you started screaming and crying."
Melody pleads with Ginni
Please never tell anyone, ever, you have to promise, please, Dom has no memory of that, He can't ever know.
Mel looks down ashamed of what happened. I need to forget it as well but now I don't think I can, not without forgetting everything you taught me.
i guess now you know why i can't bear to see Dom hurt when Tami has to leave, I can't carry that pain for him.
Mel tries to dry her eyes and stand up but her legs still feel weak and she falls to her knees again.
::Actually, I agree with Tybalt. When you stop thinking of killing as something to avoid if you can it's time to start worrying about yourself. It's something that sometimes must be done.::
::What must be done now is to find the book, so let's keep going.::
There is no response initiallythe only thought in melody's mind at the moment. is an image of melody as a young girl maybe 10 years old she is by a lake and her head is bleeding, like she was hit by something hard. she is kneeling on the ground crying, pleading for Dom to stop.
Dom is there as well doing something but the image is to blurry to tell what. there is also someone else, unidentifiable, covered in blood apparently the blood is coming out of his eyes and nose and mouth it almost looks like he sweating blood.
shortly after the image (only a few seconds) Melody snaps out of it. and wakes up.
She starts crying I'm sorry, Dom I tried
Ginni takes a shuddering breath. "That's why your parents wanted Dom to give up water bending isn't it? You made him forget somehow? That's ....impressive."
"I'm sorry. I stayed out of your mind, but I took down my defenses so your thoughts would come through to me. I was worried when you started screaming and crying."
Melody pleads with Ginni
Please never tell anyone, ever, you have to promise, please, Dom has no memory of that, He can't ever know.
Mel looks down ashamed of what happened. I need to forget it as well but now I don't think I can, not without forgetting everything you taught me.
"I can get Miss Jones to help me to help you forget it for good this time, I think. But....Melody, I think you made a mistake. It was good for Dom to be able to grow up without that memory. It let him be a better person. But...someday he may need that knowledge. Someday he may face the same situation again where someone he loves has been hurt. He may need to see those memories then to know what the consequences are without having to repeat the mistake. I can't promise to keep the secret in that situation....but I can promise that's the only time I would ever tell him."
"And whatever pain he has to face when Tami leaves, and what pain she has to face too....you can't take that pain, Melody. I know it's hard to see him hurt, but...he has to bear that one for himself. You're not doing him any favors by taking that away from him. Pain is part of life."
Ginni put an arm around Melody and helped her back into a chair.
Another fire sprang up in a different section of the town, they could see it from here. "Do either of you have any magic that will help us fight those fires?" Vai asks, swiveling her draconic muzzle around so that she could see those she was speaking too. It was strange, seeing them there. Almost strangers, yet she was comfortable with them on her back. Her deadly teeth flash as she speaks."Dom, do you think you can use your water bending to help stop the fires?"
Dom nods with a self assured smile. "As long as I have water can do something and I have plenty. If one of you want to just my decaner to help spray the fires. That will help me by spreading useable water around." He taps the crysal decanter on his this.
"Ya. Let's." He returns to twisting his staff that lays across his lap.
Ginni takes a shuddering breath. "That's why your parents wanted Dom to give up water bending isn't it? You made him forget somehow? That's ....impressive."
"I'm sorry. I stayed out of your mind, but I took down my defenses so your thoughts would come through to me. I was worried when you started screaming and crying."
Melody pleads with Ginni
Please never tell anyone, ever, you have to promise, please, Dom has no memory of that, He can't ever know.
Mel looks down ashamed of what happened. I need to forget it as well but now I don't think I can, not without forgetting everything you taught me.
"I can get Miss Jones to help me to help you forget it for good this time, I think. But....Melody, I think you made a mistake. It was good for Dom to be able to grow up without that memory. It let him be a better person. But...someday he may need that knowledge. Someday he may face the same situation again where someone he loves has been hurt. He may need to see those memories then to know what the consequences are without having to repeat the mistake. I can't promise to keep the secret in that situation....but I can promise that's the only time I would ever tell him."
"And whatever pain he has to face when Tami leaves, and...
I don't know, should I forget it forever? maybe I need that memory as well. lets get Miss Jones, I am confused right now, I don't know what to do
Melody looks at Ginni, Thank you, and I'm sorry, I wish you didn't have to see that. Guess I'm not so strong after all.
As he flies along the surface he notices a cooler air current running towards one of the vents in the right area.The carvings around this vent look familiar to him, similar to carvings he's seen in the air temple.
Lang looks at that vent the calls to everyone else
Here. This vent I'm sure of it! he sound excited.
As Lang flies near and into the vent, the temperature drops to a more comfortable range. It was still warm, but not so hot as to be dangerous to a non-firebird.
About thirty feet up the vent, it lets out onto a large platform.
lang lands on the platform and waits for the others to arrive. surveying the area around.
Vai flags in her flight as the cries from the ground reach her sharp dragon ears. No!! I don't want anyone to be afraid of me! she thinks, emotion overwhelming her, as she watches people scatter away from even her shadow. "No!! I'm not going to hurt you!!" she roars, likely not having the desired effect.
Vai quickly tries to land nearby to the fire in the tailor shop, as it seemed to be the larger of the two. "Stop running!!" she shouts at the fleeing townsfolk, panicking somewhat herself.
"I've had to defend myself far too many times against life-threatening situations to hesitate when I am threatened. Lycans are not known for their mercy, and are powerful foes." she says simply, looking at Jeran with a degree of respect. "I am simply saying, in the heat of combat you will not having time to think about whether or not to take a life. You may simply be forced to."
Dave nods agreeing with tyrrin "right, you can quibble later, if l you want a resurection spell could be attempted on the creature, once our own lives are not threatened, and should the bein want to return, it would then be able, but really, I'm sorry but the lives of me and mine shall always come first to me, above those who would do them harm." He then starts his assent up the mountian.
Grim lands beside Lang "you know for a "sun" this really isn't very hot, though I suppose that's a good thing for us" he looks down the hole.
Midori listens to Zilla-chan explain why she thinks Tryko'Sam is cute, but apparently still doesn't understand. She almost seems to take a moment to size up Hew-kun as they near the front of the line, looking him up and down."Ano.. my old clothes got ruined by.. the acid, that squidy thing rained on us. They are all full of holes." She says, sounding a bit sad about that.
When Hew says what he does about Lang and Grim and Ignace. "Oh... Grim-kun is going too? I thought it was just Ignace-chan and Lang-kun?" she says, trying to keep her face blank, but a weird kind-of uncertain expression is there.
Hew notices Midori looking him over. "Do I have something on me?" Hew looks himself over trying to see what Midori was looking at.
"I didn't know he was till we sent them off, ether." Zilla chimes.
Midori blushes every so slightly as she realizes that Hew-kun had seen her look him up and down. "Ah... no, Hew-kun. Gomen ne." she says a bit awkwardly.
"I see Zilla-chan." Strangely, Midori doesn't seem upset about Grim-kun joining her friends on the sun.
"Arigatou ne." she says to the lunchlady as she takes a few of the lunch boxes prepared and some bottles of water.
Vai flags in her flight as the cries from the ground reach her sharp dragon ears. No!! I don't want anyone to be afraid of me! she thinks, emotion overwhelming her, as she watches people scatter away from even her shadow. "No!! I'm not going to hurt you!!" she roars, likely not having the desired effect.
Vai quickly tries to land nearby to the fire in the tailor shop, as it seemed to be the larger of the two. "Stop running!!" she shouts at the fleeing townsfolk, panicking somewhat herself.
Quickly Dom jumps to the ground. Seeing her worry about the townfolks fear he shouts to her. "Vai show them your here to help!" He tosses his decanter to her. "Aim shout moon's rage and hold on." Dom then bends the water out of a near about barrel at the fire. As it hits the water hisses and disappears.
Vai flags in her flight as the cries from the ground reach her sharp dragon ears. No!! I don't want anyone to be afraid of me! she thinks, emotion overwhelming her, as she watches people scatter away from even her shadow. "No!! I'm not going to hurt you!!" she roars, likely not having the desired effect.
Vai quickly tries to land nearby to the fire in the tailor shop, as it seemed to be the larger of the two. "Stop running!!" she shouts at the fleeing townsfolk, panicking somewhat herself.
For some of the people-- this doesn't help.
Panicked already, they flee (not really faster, but in another panicked direction).
For one or two, they pause and reconsider, then back up.
Mostly though, these are commoners that are scared. Big thing with wings and teeth, with people-- chaos around them, it's not that helpful, yet!
"I think you are all misunderstanding what I'm saying. I will help you euthanize this animal, but only because it seems to be the only way to get what Onei needs and help the other people here. The lives of many come before the life of one. Maybe there is a way we can preserve it while keeping it docile. I willing to try it once we are out of danger and have what we need."