Turt quickly hurries over to Minato, who is curled up on the ground, holding his waist and gritting his teeth, holding in some blood that drips down his lips and head.
Leo heads down the steps
"That wasn't so bad. Red, Tether, how are you two holding up now?"
"I'm uh... I'm alright. Thanks for the save back there. He nearly took my head!" He looks toward the large Tether, scratching the back of his neck. "I had hoped that would help a little more than it did but, good job on the quick work everyone!" he says enthusiastically, dispelling the spell on Tether, who he now notices is having some sort of breakdown.
Leo kneels down and comfortingly places his hand on Tether's shoulder after she shrinks back to normal size
"Tether? Are you doing alright? Seems like you could use some bandaging up, would you like me to help?"
The ground shakes as Necro starts making his way over. He reclines on his undead monstrosity as it walks him closer to the group.
"Yo yo yo! You people alive inside?" The cleric asks, eye's shining with satisfaction and mischief. "Need a....HAND??"
....he holds up a severed hand and uses it to wave at the group.
"As long as you say you are alright, then sure, let's do that instead." Leo offers a hand to help her up before attending to Minato.
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Regular-sized Tether now just idly holds her knees to her chest. But at least she's not a big girl anymore. She manages to snap out of it a bit when Leo touches her shoulder.
"Huh? S-Sorry, what'd you say?" She says, giving him a little stress-smile. "...Ah jeez, Minato seems hurt, huh, w-we should go help..."
Necro blinks owlishly as Tether and Leo both move past him without acknowleging him or his joke....
Then he pouts.
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Turt is already picking up Minato in a bridal carry when they arrive. He gives them a tired smile.
"hey...crazy first day huh...?"
Before the group leaves, Red looks at Tether, then at Necro.
"Well, you sure? Minato's hurt, but so are you! You didn't even get any healing after yesterday's skirmish..." He turns to the cleric. "Uh... Naruto was it? Real charming joke but.. can you actually help our friend here before she-" He notices that Tether and Leo already started moving along, and pouts the same way Necro did.
For Minato
For Tether
"Yeah, you're hurt Tether, at least give the cleric a moment to take a look at you, then you can go over to check out Minato, okay?"
"Yeah...the kid will be fine once Necro gets his ass over here..." Turt mutters, Minato coughing up blood and cradling his ribs.
"I'm....not a....kid..." Minato growls, glaring up at Turt who sheepishly smiles back.
Minato has at least a few broken ribs from the reflected force of his strike. His arm's are wrapped around his chest. Some blood is rolling down his chin and eye which is shut close.
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"It was a great joke yeah..." Necro says before hopping off his undead and swaggering up to the group. "You look like s~+& Minato" he say's, pulling out some lotion and rubbing it into his hands.
Leo takes out some bandages for Tether's cuts and one of his cure light extracts
"I have some clean bandages and something to make the pain go away if you so wish Tether."
Minato's glare switches over to Necro, who then yawns and lazily throws his hands into the air a couple times, shooting out waves of positive energy to the group. Turt's burns regrow the flesh, and Tether feels completely fine now physically as her wounds heal over.
He then grabs Minato roughly and throws him over his shoulder, illiciting a gag of pain from the young lad.
"minnitoes will need some restorations, anone need anything else before i f#@% off?"
Leo puts his stuff away
"Nevermind"
Red sits down in a nearby chair and rests his tattooed face in his hands, letting out a quiet hum.
"Mmmhmmm..."
Necro starts making his way to a table and tosses Minato onto it, before digging into his pockets and pulling out a...concerning amount of medical equipment out.
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"Minato likes fried tomato's" Fox cuts in as she makes her way to the group. Behind her they can see Naruto, The red head luchadour, and the Tengu working together to put a fire out. "...food isn't important at the moment however"
Red sits up, taken aback by what Leo said, his face turning as Red as the tattoos on his face.
"W-WHAT?! MY BUTT- I'M FINE, THANKS!"
”Alright good, with how you were acting i thought you might have been badly hurt.
"..." Fox frowns at the current conversation.
"My library just got attacked and my workers hurt, should I really be that concerned about food right now??" Fox asks Tether incredulously, motioning to the destruction to the main floor of the library. As well as Minato, who's groaning on the table as Necro mercilessly starts snapping his ribs back into place with some magic they don't know.
"I heard the leader all the way over where I was fighting, who was he? I need all the info you can give me, what did he want??"
Owlbearto still digging into the body of the Cleric says muffled, "WHO NEEDS THE HEARTH WHEN SOMETHIN THIS GOOD IS IN FRONT OF YOU OMNOMNOMNOM"
Dendar looks at his friend and chuckles slightly, dismissing his spell before it activates. "I hope someones scrying that so they see what became of their holy little man" "He said he wanted a special book? And from the looks of it he got it"
Leo looks over towards Fox when he realizes theybare talking about the book he saw.
”He disappeared after grabbing a book that looked like it was made of different skins and had a face that appeared to be carved into it.
"Yeah... the necronomicon wasn't it? Starting to sound like something that gets misplaced a lot..." Red looks at Leo, remembering their encounter with it yesterday.
Leo grimaces at the thought of the necronomicon
"Yea...and I wasn't ready to even think about that book again..." he says, shiver running down his spine.
Dendar counts his fingers twice over and mumbles, "If my Dukie Decimal System is kicking in that would've been in theeeee... forbidden section. I wonder what they needed it for, definitly not the book I was going to give those guys downstairs... Way more sinister." he still wonders about the thought of what the Necronomicon was needed for. "Hey yea Tether has a point that guy didn't even looked phased by touching it!? One time I accidentaly grabbed it to test out my Doobie Decimal System and I couldn't stop tasting colors for like a week! Uhhh..." Dendar realizes only he and Owlbearto knew about that.
"They did it for that smelly old thing....?" She asks, calming down and now just surprised at this revelation. "...are you sure it wasn't just a...cover up or something? We got way more dangerous tomes here..."
At Dendars recollection, Fox frowns at him
"that's because your a druid Dendar, the book hates nature based magic remember?"
Leo just shrugs at her comment
"I told you what I saw, so unless someone else here knows anything different..."
Owlbearto picks his head up, "Now now Fox no need to brag about it, I'm sure the chaps outside and inside have had enough home defense for one night."
Dendar tries to pick up his words, "Bu-but Dewey... and the shelf sa-... now i remember"
Owlbearto finishes mutilating the corpse and looks around quickly trying to find a rag of the sorts to clean his maw with. "I say that was wonderful... now if only I could find a rag suitable for wiping my soiled areas." He looks around and uses the clerics robe as a napkin and says Dendars name to get his attention. Dendar flicks his hand and soaks the rag for Owlbearto who proceeds to wipe the gore off his face. From behind the muffled cloth Owlbearto says, "Thanks mate, Say Fox should an inventory count be an order to ensure we aren't missing anything more... detrimental to the well being of others?"
"Well then...I don't know if I'm supposed to be angry or insulted that that's all they wanted..." Fox admits, though her face is clearly growing angrier by the second. She offers the owlbear a glance at his suggestion, mulling it over in her head.
Slowly, she shakes her head.
"No, I'll have Naruto do that, what I want you guy's to do is to find out what you can about this cult, I'm f!&@ing livid they had the balls to attack my home...so I want you to rip those balls off."
"Are there any known cults around here that specifically use the necronomicon for worship? It would be smart to start with them."
"No, none that I know of, which means I'm going to instead send you to the guy Minato got the damn thing off of" She explains, lifting a of paper off the ground that must have gotten blown off from its stand during the attack. She straightens it a little before also pulling out a quill and starting to write. "once Minato is healed up, I want you to head with him to check this out. The good doctor should have some clue about what kind of unsavory people wanted the book."
”Alright. Hopefully we can get some leads” Leo looks towards Red and Tether ”Are you two at full stamina to go whenever ready, or do you need heaing still?”
Dendar crosses his legs trying to conceal a irregularly shaped bulge in his grey undies, he sheepishly says "Were not leaving like now are we? I'm not really outfitted to leave at this very moment." And he give a halfhearted chuckle.
Owlbearo see sweat start to drip from Dendars head. "Oh no the poor kids getting scared. He probably thinks everyones looking at him lemme go help him cool his jets..." And with that Owlbearto meanders over to Dendar and croutches on all fours in front of Dendar's no-no square facing the group.
Fox gives Dendar a wholly flat look, grimacing at his lanky and pale skin.
"...put some clothes on man..." she demands after a second, looking back down at her paper before looking back up at the group, specifically Tether. "you can eat now if you wish, but don't wait around, the longer you wait the harder this will be."
She hands Turt the paper, who looks down at it in some confusion. "Take this to Law" she orders, but in a gentler way then she does with anyone else. When Turt walks off, she crosses her arms and stares back at the gathered group.
"Any more questions?"