Red blinks.
"...what"
Landon raise's a thin eyebrow at the crippled Orc.
"Is that truly important at the moment? The bug is getting away..."
Minato shakes his head violently to get it back into the game
"He's right! Come on!" The blue boy grunts, moving across the bridge to the door, as the floor underneath is quite the drop, to much to take without damage. Landon is quick to follow, arm shifting back into the false flesh it was before.
Leo follows after Minato quickly, as not to be left behind again.
Red looks at Leo and Tether, giving a confused grin, left eye twitching.
"I'm not sure I can handle much more of today..." He says, following after the party
The door leads to a set of stairs that take the party down to the floor where the ghost were seen. The goblin skeletons laying motionless as you pass into the door the flaming Chogao ran through screaming.
When the party makes it through, The aren't met by the sight of Chogao, but instead the actual presence of the prick with the slaves. His eyes are narrowed at his opponent, katana out and held confidently in his grip. His three slave's are all huddled a few feet away from him, dead to the world. The man's opponent turn's to face you all, two large black and beady eye's staring at you all. Its body is large, orange, and furred, standing on four claw tipped paws. it...looks like a giant hamster...the main difference being the long scaled tail erupting from where a tail should come from, itself topped by a living and glaring snake head.
"Oho? More enemies for Chomei? did you guys set Chogao on fire?" The hamster's voice is loud and squeaky, as expected from a rodent. The samurai growls at not only the Hamster, but you all as well.
"Stay out of my fight, this creature is mine to slay... He snarls, his face covered in a few bruises. His armor is severely battered as well. He then whirls on his three slaves, the woman flinching at his gaze. "What are you waiting for!? Heal me!!"
The Half-elves whimper before their hands glow, somehow healing the man from afar as his bruises disappear.
"Ok"
Dendar puts his paws up, "You got this dude..."
Red just blinks again.
The Hamsters eye's gleam as the samurai talks rudely his companions, he turns to face Dendar and Owlbearto and chitters.
"Good day my fellow bears, how is the outside? it's been year's since I've seen the sun!"
Whatever the response, Chomei's tail slam's into the fighters blade as he tries to attack when the Hamster was distracted. Backing away, Chomei glare's at his opponent, obviously tick off.
"HEY! I WAS TALKING TO SOMEBODY!" Chomei squeals angrily, the snake head on his tail hissing in agreement.
The silver haired man only smirks back at the magical beast.
"A rodent li-" In a flash, both the man's arm's slide off, cut at the wrists by an unseen attack. Chomei's face turn's stony as the easterner slowly looks down at his bloodied wrist's, shock and confusion on his face as his brain tries to catch up with what just happened.
"I'm not a rodent, I'm Chomei" The hamster says icily as the man slowly start's stumbling back, away from his hands still clenching his sword. Tear's of pain and anguish enter his eye's as he turns to his slaves. but the group witnesses his words die in his throat at the absolutely euphoric and vindictive looks on their normally sullen faces.
"I-I...I...." He stutter's, absolute fear in his eye's before he whirls on the group, pleading on his face, begging for assistance. Minato nervously clutches his cloak tightly to his body, uncomfortable at the man's stare.
Landon only smile's vindictively at the man, almost amused.
Leo bursts out laughing
"WHAT'S WRONG? YOU WERE TALKING ALL THAT GOOD SH IT A SECOND AGO. WHERE DID THAT ATTITUDE GO? OFF WITH YOUR HANDS I GUESS!"
Red states in disappointment and disgust at the man, then slowly looks at Chomei.
"But this means..."
"Yep" Chomei squeak's to Red, standing on his back leg's and letting his little front paw's hang down. He's very big, bigger then two Owlbearto's "I shall give you the time to prepare, if you want?"
The eastern man has fallen unconscious from the pain and is bleeding out. His three slave's stare at his body, before moving to surround it. Their feet all dully start kicking the body repeatedly.
Leo's laughter subsides and he refocuses onto the enemy at hand.
"Yea yea I'll take that chance-" Leo takes out some empty vials from his bag, "Anyone want some Reduce Person, Shield, or Enlarge Person extracts?"
"Ooh, oh yeah! I'll take an enlarge person!" Cheers Red, his face shifting into a smile. "...Kidding! I'll be okay, Leo. Let's just try to avoid... that." His smile fades, looking back at the unconscious man who is currently being as useful as a deflated soccer ball.
He chuckles at her concern
”That wont be a problem Tether, these are fresh vials for the day.” He sets up is portable lab and gets started on the two extraxts Tether requested along with a Reduce Person for himself.
After three minutes of work mixing various liquids and infusion magic into the concoctions in front of him, he hands two vials to Tether.
"There you go, one Enlarge Person and one Shield. Fresh off the...workbench."
Dendar waves his hands in a circle formation above his head, "I'm as ready as I can be,"
"Good idea, Dendar!" Chimes Red from the side, mimicking his hand movements.
Seeing that the fighting is about to start, Chomei widens his stance and narrows his beady eyes. However Landon is much quicker, quickly doing the motions for a summon monster spell, just like Red. Landon's skill in the conjuring art's is shown as a Enormous hooded cobra about the size of the enlarge Tether answers the androids call. Landon show's no heed to his quick summoning and walks past the still conjuring Red to slide his hand down Owlbearto's back.
As the fight ensues Dendar points his finger as it and yells "Swarm him boys!" And speaks incantations in Drudic as Owlbearto and the crocidile goto attack Chrom,
The crocidile rushes the hamster and goes to gnash at the beast.
Owlbearto runs up and gnashes his maw at the enemy,
And after that Dendar's hand glow full force and he rushes to touch Chomei with his glistening hand,
"Yes! We fight! This Chomei wishes you luck!" the Hamster squeals as he's charged by the trio. His eye's gleam, and the snake tipped tail flashes out in a wide arc as the group charges him, fangs glistening.
The snake tail slams into the summoned crocodile, fangs gouging deep cuts that bypass the reptiles scales. It continues on, slamming directly into the magical shield that protects Owlbearto and deflecting off in a shower of sparks. This leave's Chomei unbalanced and causes him to miss Dendar with another thrust. This leaves the hamster open, which Dendar takes complete advantage of as he slams his curse onto the soft furred rodent.
Chomei's eye's go white when he realizes he can't breath.
Leo moves his tiny body up to be 20 feet away from the rat and then throws a bomb towards it, not too concerned about the cobra's safety.
Red raises his arms in the air and chants out a spell, granting everyone a sudden burst of adrenaline.
"C'mon buddy, let's get 'em!" he says to the Ox-Sized Bat.
The dire bat flies up over to chomei and attempts to sink its fangs into the large rodent.
"H-Hot!" The Hamster squeals, viciously slapping his singed back with the snake head, who looks wholey unamused at what Chomei is doing to it. Satisfied at the now black fur, Chomei turns to the bat that just tried to sink its teeth into his hide, but fails to find purchase in the surprisingly rough skin. "hm hm! I see! You all are way cooler then that mean guy!"
With his complement, the hamsters eye's go white again when he realized he was wasting air that he couldn't take back in. Shutting his trap, his cheeks bulge as he swings a tiny fist at the bat, while the Snake tail soars at Dendar.
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Both of Chomei's fists stab into one of the bat's wings, jostling Red. The hamsters eyes burn with a excited flame as the bat is rended into oblivion and disappears back to wence it came. Red now finds himself in the air with nothing to stand on. Gravity then reminds Red that it's something most people have to contend with, and he falls onto his stomach, prone.
The snake tail meanwhile slips right pasted Dendar's guard and quickly wraps the man up in a constricting bind where only his head remains uncovered in muscled scales. The snake balefully stares at the panda with a promise of pain before biting his shoulder
Dendar's bear body is able to fight off the injection of vile poison however.
Chomei's eyes water from Tether's fist embedding into his puffed out cheek and snapping his head to the side.
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With a shout, Minato thrusts his palm towards the Hamster. Thanatos answers the call, roaring as it exits the much smaller childs body and soars in-front of Tether where he tries to bring his fist down on the rodent.
Minato's veins shine green as he calls on his mystical powers. Thanatos bulges and bulks up as he swings his arm.
The fist slams up into Chomei's jaw, uppercutting the hamster hard eneough to send him stumbling back a step. Tether felt the wind slap against her face from Thanatos' awesome blow.
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Landon let's out a whistles as the fight quickly falls into a special kind of chaos. A black leather bound book appear's in his hand as he continues to hang back. Casually reciting a incantation as the giant cobra tries to bite the hamster.
...sadly, it can't find purchase like the now dispelled bat. But Landon's casual look morphs into one of satisfaction as he reveals the wind Tether felt wasn't Thanatos' massive hit, it was the beginning of a spell in motion.
A large geyser of air blasts Chomei into the air violently, slamming the Hamster into the rooms low ceiling and cracking the stone before he falls down, eye's swirling and unconscious. The snake tail falls limp and releases the injured Dendar from his grip.
Dendar falls to the ground as the devilish coil around him drops to the floor along with the hamster, he is helped up by Tether and transforms back into his thin half-elf form meeting eyes with her as he begins, "Wow guys you saved my buns there, I've seen Owlbearto step on a doughnut before and I did NOT WANT TO SEE HOW I'D LOOK LIKE THAT! Hmmm... considering his body now dictates how he's breathing I'd give him another 20 seconds before his lungs fully retract and don't fill back up." He shudders at the thought of a fish being out of water, "I do what I must to protect my friends... I mean hey we could've ended up like the handless guy..." He scratches his leg furiously over top his robe, unknowing that there is a huge gash from the tail whizzing past him during the attack, "WOW my leg really burns what the heck why is it so itchy?"
Blood begins to drip down his leg unknowing to Dendar he got hurt so bad it drew blood.
Owlbearto sniffs the fallen foe and begins probing the body with his claws.
Red rubs his head as Tether helps him up.
"Ooohh...Thanks Tether." He slowly gets back up on his feet, turning his head left and right as his hair falls back into place and he pulls his hood back over his head. "That... could have gone worse?" He looks around at the choking Rat and the other members of the team. "Oh Dendar! You're hurt!" He whines. "Leo, can you make anything with that bench of yours to help?"
Dendar looks at Red annoyed while still vigorously scratching his leg, "No Red I'm a half-elf, I've never even heard of a Hert?" And mumbles some stuff in Drudic,
"I swear to Pine humans are always so biased to anyone that's not a human,"
Dendar then looks down haphazardly and his Circlet of Speaking falls off. His eyes widen when he sees it fall into a puddle of viscous blood, "Oh mannnnn, where did this come fr... Oh that's my blood."
Owlbearto meanders over to the circlet and has Dendar don it upon his head.
Leo takes out his portable lab
”you are going to have to be a bit more specific about what you need”
Red points to Dendar.
"Yknow, for that."
Dendar pulls his robe up to show a large gash on his left leg, "A Cure Light Wounds spell would suffice, would you be able to recreate that?" His eye starts to twitch,
Leo works for a minute and hands Dendar a potion of cure moderate wounds
”Anyone else need anything while I’m working?”
He grasps the potion and takes a hefty gulp,
It tastes like sugary goodness and Dendar's leg closes up as if nothing happened. "Thanks Leo!"
Owlbearto coughs and glares at Dendar, "What have I told you about scratching your wounds, do you want to catch filth fever again?"
Dendar droops his head and says sadly, "nooo... but I can't help itttt"
Owlbearto huffs a breath that mimics a parents dissapointment in a child, "Do you know what your mom would do to me if she found out I let you get sick again?"
Dendar smirks and looks up slightly, "Shave you again..."
Owlbearto gasps, "You wouldn't dare put that thought into her head,"
Dendar chuckles but dosen't respond.
"Sure sure, no problem." Leo packs up his lab again and walks over to the dying eastern man and his three slaves. He kneels down near the handless body "Fight is over now, are you three alright?"
Dendar walks over to the fading crocodile and pats its head as it sits there bloody and motionless with it's mouth slightly ajar, "Thank you for your help lil guy go home and heal up." And with that the time expires and the crocodile disappears.
Red walks over behind Leo and poke the eastern man's limp body.
"...huh."
Red doesnt look at the three slave girls, but speaks to them as he pokes the body. "Dont worry, we're not here to hurt you, we're just looking for something.."
Leo joins in on checking out the slave owner
After the crocodile dissipates Dendar starts to look around the room behind the hamster to see whats around. Owlbearto follows suit, sniffing around to catch any scents he might know.
The three only stare at Red as he speaks, their kicking only stopping for a moment before they continue laying into the downed man's body for a few more kicks.
"Mmmhg... The green haired elf slave-girl gurgles in response after a moment. Her voice is hoarse and dry as she turns to Red and stares at him warily. The elves dim eye's seemed to have gained a good bit of life back after the sight of their master brutally bleeding out.
The door closest to Dendar, the one he noticed, opens to reveal a robed skeleton. It's eye's glowing a eldritch green and it's robe's a opulent and shimmering gold. The skeleton's skull is carved with glowing runes and inlaid with gems. It takes one look at everyone in the room, before huffing and closing the door with a sigh of 'Stupid Adventurers man...'
After a moment, the door opens again and the Skeleton places a bear-trap onto the floor in front of the entrance. It takes another long look at everyone before digging into it's robe and placing a single silver coin onto the trap before closing the door again.
"This place is just wierd" Minato deadpans
The silver coin sparkles like a old lover trying to drag you inside and keep you forever.
Minato blanches, turning white when Tether ignores the fact that it was an obvious trap.
"W-Wait!"
Minato's eye's narrow incredulously at the stupid orc lady.
"I-It's on a BEARTRAP??"