Magical Wonders are to Behold When You Enter

[21stcenturyguy]

Characters: Aoi Kurashiki, Akane Kurashiki, Kenshin, Aang
Where: Death Mountain, Desert of Evil side
When: After the time skip, March 5th
Summary: Wake up, Heroes! Wake up! We’re going to Death Mountain. It’ll be an adventure. We’re going on an adventuuuuuure, Heroes.

 

The sticky, sweltering air made sleep-blurred vision even fuzzier as eyes began to open. Oppressive heat bore down on the four sprawled out on the rocky mountain ledge. Aoi groaned.

“Shit, what happened?” he croaked. His throat felt parched. Aqures Ixen was never this hot or gross. Hadn’t he teleported there…?

He pushed himself up, reaching to scratch his head, and felt…way more there than there was supposed to be. WHAT. THE. HELL.

“Akane?” he jerked his head around, spotting the heroes lying nearby, one familiar and two others less so. "You guys, wake up!"

 

 

 (Potential Enemy encounters-

Everywhere: Spirits, Infected Natives, Calamity Elemental (red), Calamity mimic, Calamity geezard

 Death Mountains: Rogue Scorpions, Rogue Moogle Killer, Rogue Mech gunner, Rogue Mech guard, Calamity ettin snake, calamity dragon

 Region of Hera: Rogue magitek armor, infected imperial warrior, infected imperial magitek knight, infected imperial gunner, infected imperial dark knight, infected imperial chocobo knight, infected imperial black mage, calamity chocobo

Desert of Evil: Calamity Skeletons, calamity zombie dragon, calamity chimera, calamity cactuar)

 

Comments

[partofthecycle]

"Can we outrun the dragon? I vote we do that," Aang said. He didn't like fighting, and wanted answers rather than to pester the wildlife. He noticed what Kenshin was doing and kept his Aerokinesis ion to help keep the dust around the dragon's head.

[heartofthesword]

"That would be wise!" Kenshin shared Aang's sentiments, satisfied to simply have the dragon bewildered and annoyed. Giving any further battle would surely tire them, and they weren't even off the volcano yet. He imagined Aoi and Akane both felt the same - after a sleep that long, and having obviously been separated from the other Heroes, there were certainly much more important things to pursue.

Kenshin cast a quick look over his shoulder, reading the terrain as quickly as he could. The ridge on which they were standing was not smoothly paved, but a short run away, there was a slope winding downward. Though it was lined by jagged, sulfurous rock, it looked to provide a path by which they might descend the mountain, and it was far too narrow for a beast as broad and ponderous as the Calamity Dragon to give chase.

He looked back to Aang, Aoi, and Akane, and nodded tersely, sheathing his sakabatō. "Quickly, to the pass!" he said, having to shout the words over the blinded dragon's aggravated roar. "We must find the others if we can - before any creatures like this find them as well!"

[21stcenturyguy]

Ok, cool, they were all on the same page about the dragon thing. Aoi was pretty quick on his feet, but he had learned not to run ahead and assume Akane would keep up. He motioned for the others to go, and turned to direct a Lightning Storm at the dragon to keep it from following. He could use his Flash ability to catch back up if he fell too far behind.

"Go, I'll meet you at the bottom!" It wasn't the most bad-ass exit line ever, but it would have to do. Besides, he didn't want the others to stick around and see the wreck the static electricity was making of his now-long hair. No wonder overlords usually wore those dark hoods.

[partofthecycle]

"Are you sure?" Aang asked, using one more aerokinesis to try to knock the dragon back. But Aang was also moving off himself; he just wanted to make sure that all of them got out.