Allura wakes and stretches. Looking around, she smiles. "Good morning everyone," she says.
[Blink, Blink]
LJ walks back to the pool when she hears the noise. She is surprised by the chaos that greets her.
Don't move, I swear I'm not attacking you, she says the the wounded eagle-man, drawing her bow and firing an arrow of positive energy into him, healing his burns.
Plantjack! You're alive!
Her eyes fall on the other two. I remember you. You wanted to tell us something, but then you got scared and left. oh! Who is this? She kneels beside the boy.
She listens to something for a moment.
You brought him from the dark carnival? The one where my sister is? What can you tell us about that place?
[blub] :P
[blub] :P
[blub] :P
"I'm a healer," Allura says as she walks out from the bushes, Taking a look at the boy as the Shadow setts him down, she frowns, "there is nothing wrong with this child."
Several minutes later, Devlyn emerges from the treeline, shaking water out of his hair.
"What's going on now? Did somebody find Alaina? And what is he doing here?" he says as he points to Oroth.
JH races to the commotion. The stranger doesn't seem a threat but he feels uneasy towards him. The child is a vortex of reactions, cycling thru power, threat, and friend. He doesn't know how to react.
JH races to the commotion. The stranger doesn't seem a threat but he feels uneasy towards him. The child is a vortex of reactions, cycling thru power, threat, and friend. He doesn't know how to react.
*Sending to all*
The Fire Flower battles the evil ones in their own lair.
The child's soul is trapped in a Carnival of Pain. He is torn.
Choose your path heroes.
JH races to the commotion. The stranger doesn't seem a threat but he feels uneasy towards him. The child is a vortex of reactions, cycling thru power, threat, and friend. He doesn't know how to react.
[Elvis]Thank you. Thank you very much.[/Elvis]
*Sending to all*
The Fire Flower battles the evil ones in their own lair.
The child's soul is trapped in a Carnival of Pain. He is torn.
Choose your path heroes.
"WHAT!?!? Okay - I assume between all present we now know how to get to both of these places? If so, what are we dealing with, foe-wise, in each location?"
"And do we think we have the stuff to hit both at once...?"
*Sending to all*
The Fire Flower battles the evil ones in their own lair.
The child's soul is trapped in a Carnival of Pain. He is torn.
Choose your path heroes.
LJ looks up at the mysterious visitor who brought the child here. I will try to help him as best I can, but right now Alaina can't wait. She is in danger and I must help her. After I will try to help this one. My sister is part of this dark carnival, and that tells me that they are dangerous enemies, to be approached with care and caution. Wait here.
She stands up and looks over at JH.
I am going to help Alaina now. We need to hurry so I am going to use the speed of the wind. I fear the ground there may be tainted. Will you allow me to convey you there through the air?
*Sending to all*
The Fire Flower battles the evil ones in their own lair.
The child's soul is trapped in a Carnival of Pain. He is torn.
Choose your path heroes.
"WHAT!?!? Okay - I assume between all present we now know how to get to both of these places? If so, what are we dealing with, foe-wise, in each location?"
"And do we think we have the stuff to hit both at once...?"
*Sending replies*
Both locations are filled with foes, some old some new. The evil I feel, the paths are blocked to my senses.
*Sending to all*
The Fire Flower battles the evil ones in their own lair.
The child's soul is trapped in a Carnival of Pain. He is torn.
Choose your path heroes.
"WHAT!?!? Okay - I assume between all present we now know how to get to both of these places? If so, what are we dealing with, foe-wise, in each location?"
"And do we think we have the stuff to hit both at once...?"
Yes, the winds gave me a report on each. No, there isn't time for a full explanation now. No, we don't have enough to hit both locations at once. Beware the dark carnival. There's a lot I still don't understand going on there.
*Sending replies*
Both locations are filled with foes, some old some new. The evil I feel, the paths are blocked to my senses.
"Got it. Alright LJ - since I knew you were going to go after Alaina, we probably need to concentrate our effort to make sure a strike there succeeds."
She stands up and looks over at JH.
I am going to help Alaina now. We need to hurry so I am going to use the speed of the wind. I fear the ground there may be tainted. Will you allow me to convey you there through the air?
Certainly.
Alright, Devlyn and anyone else who is coming stand near to JH. We are leaving now.
Once everyone who is coming has assembled she will use the winds to quickly transport everyone to the Palace of Skulls.
Devlyn stands next to JH and then fades from view
"Sirone - time to bring those wards up for the Oasis. We'll be back as soon as we can!"
*Oroth chooses to stay and protect the child. Letting his illusion when none but the goblins and Sky remain. He trusts the shapeshifter for some reason. Sky returns to his tree.*
:: The Fire Flower is badly hurt and is at the Ancient Place.
*Rio and Kaelar stumble into the Oasis after being transported there by LJ's winds. Rio lets his pokemon out so they can have a well deserved rest.*
"You dropped something a few days ago," Poetry says handing Rio the box with the Pokeballs. "I've been trying to find you to give them back."
"So who are we going after," Allura asks LJ. "Assuming of course that we don't split our forces and deal with both problems at the same time."
LJ fires a few arrows of positive energy into JH as soon as they arrive at the Oasis, healing his wounds from fighting the undead. She looks exhausted.
In answer to Allura'a question, "The Palace of Skulls has destroyed itself. The evil ones have taken themselves off someplace else. I don't know where. We lost Alaina again."
Listening to the wind that came to report from where it had been guarding Club Calistria.
"Alaina and Serafina got into a showdown at Club Calistria. The Club has been destroyed."
Finally registering the words of the treant. "Alaina is badly hurt and at the grove. I must go to her."
"Okay, I can do this," she says with a tired sigh, closing her eyes for just a moment. As she does, her body becomes translucent, glowing with sparkling points of light like stars in the night sky. When she opens her eyes they are once again filled with a galaxy of stars going on into infinity. Then she is once more her normal self only looking much less tired.
"I am going to fly to the grove. Alaina needs help."
"You dropped something a few days ago," Poetry says handing Rio the box with the Pokeballs. "I've been trying to find you to give them back."
*Rio grasps the box gently, and places it in his pack.*
"Thank you."
*Those nearby see something large fall from the sky, causing a large cloud of sand to fly into the air. It's followed by a much smaller object. A minute later, the man in red from the Club Calistria walks over a dune. He settles in the shade of a nearby tree after giving a nod of greeting to Rio.*
After the maelstron that was the battle at the Palace of Skulls, Devlyn was just able to get back to LJ in time and return to the Oasis with the others. The news of Alaina's battle at the Club, and its final destruction, is still difficult to fathom. Then news came of Alaina's reappearance at the Grove of the Ancients, with LJ and JH going to try to help her.
Not being able to help at all with Alaina' healing, and with his own injuries from the battle to tend to, Devlyn remained at the Oasis to heal, and in case anyone else returned here. He greeted the new arrivals (Rio, DBJ, and any others who came), then made his way to one of the clearings nearby the pool to gather his thoughts and process everything that happened. As his wounds started to heal, sleep claimed him for a few hours.
He wakes up, lying on the soft loam, and spends a moment taking in the sights and sounds (and scents) of morning at the Oasis...
A large pupilled eye greets Devlyn at hand's length as he awakes. Ethelbert, ever curious, has wandered over to see what's going on, and if there are any lobsters to mooch
A large pupilled eye greets Devlyn at hand's length as he awakes. Ethelbert, ever curious, has wandered over to see what's going on, and if there are any lobsters to mooch
Devlyn starts at the sight of the octopus on his chest looking at him. Not the worst way to wake up in the morning, but damn sure not the best either... :D
"Morning Ethelbert. Please tell me you can breathe air, and that I don't need to be panicking about you suffocating up here. The underwater portal's secure?"
Ethelbert blinks, then slides back down, heading for his post. (which he had forgotten in his hunger)
Nimora swims up with a crate full of lobster.
Bad Ethelbert! I is trust you to be watching gate while I is catch your food! I is thinking you no deserve delicious lobsters.
"Good morning," Allura says with a smile. "I trust you slept well?"
Nimora swims up with a crate full of lobster.
Bad Ethelbert! I is trust you to be watching gate while I is catch your food! I is thinking you no deserve delicious lobsters.
Ethelbert gives Nimora sad octopus eyes
Ethelbert gives Nimora sad octopus eyesNimora swims up with a crate full of lobster.
Bad Ethelbert! I is trust you to be watching gate while I is catch your food! I is thinking you no deserve delicious lobsters.
Oh, alright. But I is being very cross with you. You no guard gate, I no more give you lobsters.
She tosses him the crate.
"Good morning," Allura says with a smile. "I trust you slept well?"
Devlyn is half smiling and shaking his head as Ethelbert get reprimanded by Nimora. At the sound of Allura's voice he turns and smiles gently back at her.
"I think so, though I hadn't intended to sleep at all. I guess the body had other ideas," he says as he sits up, verifying that his wounds have healed. "Are you alright?"
"Yes, I'm fine. I tended to the wounds of the others as best I could, and when I went to find where you had gone, you were already asleep. You looked too peaceful to disturb. I hope you don't mind that I left you there."