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Post by dain on Jan 4, 2007 20:33:22 GMT -5
((Sorry ^^". Still out of school and have been traveling, England, Ireland, France. I'm home now. ^^))
Dain heard Ithilwen's comment. Well, she stole my idea. All women are the same. Dain sighed.
"Well, then let's head over there! Angelus has had enough of a hang over today." Dain commented humorously. He picked up the pace and trotted himself over to the fissure, where he crouched nd looked down. The area seemed clear, no forein trails, no biological traces, no sound. Just the wind blowing itself down the fissure and creating an upward rise of force. Dain stood and looked back.
"There seems to be no life down there, just the air. Should we go in? The way down could be treacherous." Dain inquired, looking back down the fissure. There was something still strange about the fault, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it, or mind nontheless. Perhaps it was somethin valuble, or something cursed. Whatever IT was, IT was going to be uncovered.
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Post by Angelus on Jan 4, 2007 20:39:01 GMT -5
Angelus' haze soon began to dissipate. Angelus saw Ithilwen and Dain stand in front of him. In the middle of the open plain where they had just been was a large fissure that went through the ground. Angelus wondered if anyone would be up to go deep inside of it to explore. His question was soon answered. Dain ran over to the fissure, squinting and looking deep within in. As soon as Angelus heard that Dain wanted to go inside, he said, "I'm game."
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Jan 5, 2007 21:09:22 GMT -5
((Psssssstttt....Angelus. It's "Ithilwen", not "Vampyra". xDDDD))
Ithilwen crouched down next to Dain by the edge of the fissure, peering down curiously into the eerie depths of the great chasm.
Nothing. It was completely empty save the howling wind that made its way through the trench violently and whipped about her shin-length hair in a large, tangling torrent of silver. She gathered her tresses in a gloved hand to get it out of her face as she stood up and said, "I do find myself a bit curious as to what secrets lie waiting in here, so I must agree with Angelus."
She outstretched her wings to full wingspan, testing the strength of the gust critically. Well, the wind is definitely strong enough to negate any flight...but then again, I don't need to /fly/, per say. Just glide. And my body might be just heavy enough to operate as a weight to prevent me from blowing back up again.
She folded her wings firmly against her back and turned her large, blue eyes upon her two companions attentively as she said, "I doubt I'll have much of a problem descending, but it is not myself for which I worry. Will you two be alright?"
((Oh, and by the way, Dain ^^...you don't /really/ believe the statement that ALL women are the same, do you? O.o;))
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Post by dain on Jan 6, 2007 20:16:50 GMT -5
((Have you been dating girls? You would have no idea...))
Blades shot out from Dain's elbows and as he stood up. He turned around and saluted them.
"Well, I won't have a problem, in fact, see you down there." Dain stated smiling. He backflipped and dug his blades into the rocks as he started descending, the blades running through the rock like thick cheese.
Darkness swelled around his eyes, so he switched to infrared for safety reasons. Surprisingly, a lot of heat was rising from the bottom...something hot was down there...something molten. Dain looked up.
"Ithilwen, descending down with your wings would not be smart. The hot air rising from the bottom would only lift you up!" Dain hollered. "I'm coming back up, you can hitch a ride on my back!" Dain hollered again.
He detached himself from the rock quickly as he lept to the other side of the fissure, luckily it wasn't that far away. He then jumped off that side and then continued the action in a rapid succession until his hands reached the top. He pulled himself up and laid flat on the ground, looking up at both of them.
"It's hot down there, like an Austrailian summer times two." He commented. He then uprighted himself and looked over at Ithilwen.
"Well, wanna free ride or do you want to see what Angelus has in his deck? Maybe an ace, maybe a deuce." He stated metaphorically.
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Jan 6, 2007 22:47:23 GMT -5
(( xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD *laughs her butt off* Excuse me? Does it SEEM like I'd date girls?!?! xDDDDDDD And besides, I /AM/ a girl, if you haven't noticed. -___-; I HANG OUT with ALL girls, and believe me when I say that we're not all the same. You just probably date a certain type of girl. That's what makes you think that way. *shrugs* Although, you really shouldn't think like that because that's..well...kinda shallow. T^T; And although experience is telling me to say otherwise, I don't believe ALL guys are exactly the same. O.o; So why would you say that about us? V___V; ))
Ithilwen look at Dain as if he had suddenly grown three extra heads, and she then threw back her head and laughed...although, it was a bitter and tinged with muse.
Her eyes and voice were still tainted with the remnants of mirth when she said, "*chuckles* Thanks, but no thanks. Pardon me if I sound a tad bit, well...conceited, but I am royalty after all, and personally, it sounds quite undignified. Degrading, actually. Although, I appreciate your offer. Besides, avariel women are different than those of our human counterparts. I do believe I can manage, neth'min (young one)."
She stretched out her arms over her head as she turned back to the fissure and stared downward. There definitely was a bit of heat in that gust, but it didn't seem to be something that would threaten her flight. However, she assumed it would only worsen as they went further in, and after all, it certainly is better to be safe than sorry.....especially when you might be flying straight into a large, fiery hot pit of molten substance.
However, she had gone through very extensive training back in Celebarda with a close friend of the family when she had learned how to handle a weapon, and he wasn't exactly the most lenient of men. Running up mountain sides...flying against hurricane winds...tying weights to her feet while climbing up the edge of treacherous cliffs. She was well prepared.
Ithilwen unsheathed both of her sais from their place on either side of her hip and thrust one of them into the side of the fissure, then the other. She dropped the rest of herself down the ledge gently and continued making her way down by repeatedly stabbing her sais into the side, one beneath the other- cautiously, but quickly. In fact, she almost made it seem as though avariels were meant to tackle cliff sides instead of taking to the skies. She called up above her when she was nearly half way down, "Be careful!"
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Post by Angelus on Jan 7, 2007 8:11:37 GMT -5
Angelus watched as Ithilwen began to descend. He waited for the rest to go down just in case there was some evil monster that would eat whomever came down the fissure. Angelus clung to a small hope that there still was nothing down there. Angelus leaped from the top and immediately went into a free fall. As soon as he entered the crevasse, the heat was so immense that he lost his breath. He descended past Ithilwen, but only for a second. He pulled out his staff and help it parallel to th ground above. The staff caught both sides of the crevasse's wall. Holding himself there took a lot of effort. He could no longer see Ithilwen because of the darkness.
He swung himself around the staff and crouched on it. He waited to see or hear Ithilwen and Dain come closer.
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Post by Whiteshadow on Jan 7, 2007 19:54:09 GMT -5
A screech was heard from above Angelus. A sight was seen that nobody would have expected. Yes, it was Fwayglin. Free falling in a great dive, passing Ithilwen and Dain on the way down. The majestic red-tail swooped down above Angelus, and flew back upward, only to meet another figure.
It was Crow, also free falling down the crevasse, staff in hand. He imitated Angelus's stunt, holding his staff horizontal above him. It caught the edge of the crevasse and pulled Crow to a halt, where he swung up and perched himself on it. Fwayglin flew back down, and rested herself next to Crow.
"Angelus! Thank goodness you ok, I had another vision with my telepathy of you guys. I thought I saw dragons, you were in great danger. I was near the mountain when I heard the screech. I trailed. I followed. I jumped .... them, I passed them, they're coming!" Crow managed to saw between breaths. He was exhausted. He had passed Ithilwen and Dain on his way down, they were on their way. He had a bit to rest, but not long. He tired himself out trailing his friend after his vision, but he had reached his destination.
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Post by dain on Jan 13, 2007 20:38:29 GMT -5
Dain tilted his head and laughed a bit as he looked down. He pushed off, his blades coming out of the rock as he flipped in the air, going down the fissure like a needle.
"WOOHOO!" He yelled as he bolted past Angelus, a wave of heat following his trail.
THe heat was getting immense and Dain had then begun to think about what he had done...he was literally diving into a fissure that might have lava at the bottom. He saw a red glow at the bottom and became intrigued...so he flipped himself to become vertical and his elbow blades shot out to dig into the rock wall...which had turned out to be quite soft. He stopped a little ways from what he declared to be bottom.
HIs body hanging in the middle and his arms out, he yelled up to both of them.
"Ithilwen, Angelus, I see something! And the other guy too! I'm gonna go down a bit lower to check it out!" Dain yelled up as he drew back hid elbow blades then threw them back out, making Dain go down inch by inch. The rock was closing in now, not by much, but it would be a tight fit.
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Post by Angelus on Jan 13, 2007 21:04:59 GMT -5
"Okay," Angelus yelled down the Dain. Angelus had a hard time getting the words out of his mouth because the hot air had made his throat very dry. He looked up above him in the crevasse and saw Ithilwen and Crow. Crow's bird was hovering right next to him, struggling to stay in the air where there was hardly room in the crevasse. Angelus also thought to himself that the hot air drafts in there crevasse must he forcing the bird higher and higher. Angelus also hoped that Ithilwen would not extend her wings, for the drafts would easily force her out of the crevasse.
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Jan 14, 2007 11:49:37 GMT -5
Itilwen noticed she didn't have much left to go, so she pulled out her sai and dropped gracefully down the rest of the way, landing cat-like on both her feet. She stood up and sheathed her sais, staring around.
It was hot. Very hot. And what made it worse was the fact that her blood was a lot thicker than the average being. This is because she needed the extra warmth while flying at high altitudes, as temperatures dropped many degrees in the upper atmosphere. Tiny droplets of sweat formed at her temples and trickled down the side of her face, dripping off her pallid chin. The drops made a hissing sound as they came into contact with the ground and evaporated quickly. In her mind, Ithilwen knew she couldn't stay down here for too long, but in the meanwhile, she'd be ok.
"Don't go too far, "she called to Dain, "We don't know what's down here. Be careful!"
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Post by Whiteshadow on Jan 14, 2007 12:18:56 GMT -5
Crow sat still, waiting for the next major move. "Let me know when he should descend anymore!" he shouted down at Dain, who he did not know at the time.
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Post by dain on Jan 14, 2007 13:32:34 GMT -5
Dain looked down at the red glowing circle and decided to go all out. He drew back his elbow blades as he dropped ten feet and landed on solid ground,a loud thump resounding through the fissure.
"I hit the bottom!" He yelled upwards.
Then when he paid more attention to his surroundings...he noticed something. It wasn't hot anymore...but terribly cold. The thermal generators within his suit kicked on so he was content, but this was quite strange. He stomped his foot down to make sure he still wasn't falling...then remembered the little red object. It was still glowing off in the corner, so Dain approached. He squatted as he went down, picking up the object which was the complete antithesis of the current atmosphere. The little orb was magma-hot, and colored to match.
He clenched his fist with the orb in it and looked up, turning on thermal vision as he saw Angelus, Crow, and Ithilwen.
"It's cold down here!" He yelled up.
"Ithilwen, it's only a twenty foot drop from where you're at!" Dain informed her as he turned his attention back to the orb.
"And I found what I saw!" He yelled.
He tapped the orb and it started glowing brilliantly, enough to light the bottom to reveal Dain's figure.
That might help. He thought to himself.
Just then, a brilliant stream of red light started seeping through the orb and wisps of energy flooded out, swirling around Dain like a majestic cloud. The energy sparked here and there like electricity as it ran up his blades and into his suit. Then something miraculous happened. Flames started developing down Dain's blades, and the orb upon his forhead grew until it was a horn that was showered in flames. His boots grew upon fire as well, and now he looked as though the suit had melded with a fire element. Dain brought his hands up inamazement as flames cascaded down them like a waterfall, then he looked up.
In a quite confused voice, he inquired:
"What the hell just happened, and what was that little red ball?"
And just as quickly as the flames appeared, they were gone, like a dream. Dain shooked his head in amazement and still remained confused. That was the soul of a fire elemental... He contemplated.
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Post by Angelus on Jan 14, 2007 17:20:35 GMT -5
Angelus changed his grip on his staff and then forced the staff to become parallel to the vertical tunnel they were in. Angelus once began to free fall. He was able to slow his speed with a small air pocket that he created just below his feet. He still landed on he ground with a high velocity. With the impact, his knees came all the way up to his forehead. He stood up quickly and walked over to wards Dain, eying the small orb that he was holding.
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Jan 14, 2007 19:15:53 GMT -5
Right before Ithilwen jumped down to join the rest of the company, a bright orabge flash caught her eye instantly. She narrowed her eyes. It was coming from below.
She jumped off the edge and began to free fall, but when she was only about seven feet from the ground, she opened up her wings to prevent a so-called "collision course" and landed softly on the ground, tucking her wings back and pressing them against the small of her back.
Dain was corect. It was quite cold down here, but she minded it not. In fact, she actually preferred it this way. In an instant, she was right next to Dain and Angelus, peering down at a small, foreign orb.
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Post by Whiteshadow on Jan 15, 2007 9:25:32 GMT -5
"I'm coming!" Crow said tilting back off his staff and starting a free fall to the bottom. He grabbed his staff and jerked it free, and started to fall down, catching the sides to slow him down. When he hit the bottom, the heat was gone, it was extremely cold. He blew into his hands to warm them, "What now?"
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