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Post by dain on Jan 15, 2007 15:41:36 GMT -5
Dain's eyes scoured around.
"Well...I do believe that orb just melded with me..." Dain said listlissly. THen something came to mind.
"Wait...if one was here...there could be more. THe ground is somewhat soft down here." Dain inquired to himself as he crouched and knocked ont he ground, a clay sound coming up. One of his elbow blades shot out and he stabbed the ground, going straight through and into an open pocket of air.
"We are standing on clay...everyone keep still. With our weight on this, it might not hold. We need to act quickly. Angelus, Crow, your staves will help. Get to either side of me and try emitting a shockwave if you can. Ithilwen, you can float above to catch us if we happen to start hurtling down to pure lava." Dain planned as his other elbow blade shot out.
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Post by Angelus on Jan 15, 2007 17:16:11 GMT -5
Angelus glanced over to Crow and gave him a nod, ready to help Dain. Angelus walked slowly across the clay to Dain, who was standing as still as a rock. He wanted to make sure that he was not disturbing the ground as he made his way over to Dain. He held his staff in his left hand. Angelus stood on Dain's right hand side. He was ready, all he had to do was wait for Crow.
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Jan 16, 2007 15:29:57 GMT -5
The avariel's eyebrows knit, and she frowned slightly at the thought. She didn't know if she could catch all three of them at once, let alone support their weight AND her own, but someone had to do it. With a nod, she readied herself, preparing for all possibilities with wings extended.
((Gawd, this was /such/ an elaborate post! =O I am so proud of myself...))
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Post by Whiteshadow on Jan 19, 2007 14:53:19 GMT -5
Crow slowly walked over to the opposite side of Angelus. He placed his staff on the ground and said with a sigh "I'm ready, you tell us when... uh Don? Is it?" he said looking at the new student he didn't seem to recognize.
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Post by dain on Jan 19, 2007 15:11:18 GMT -5
"Dain." He said, annoyed.
He rose his right elbow blade above him as his eyes marked their hit point.
"NOW!" He yelled as his blade rushed down to hit the clay floor, the clay floor shaking violently as he had hit it.
"Crow, Angelus, now!" Dain said frantically.
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Post by Angelus on Jan 19, 2007 19:21:49 GMT -5
Angelus thrusted his staff into the clay earth that was below them. Vibrations violently moved their way up the staff, making Angelus' hands lose there grip of the staff. He was able to reposition his hands to limit the vibrations. He peered over to Crow who seemed to be having just as much trouble.
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Post by Whiteshadow on Jan 21, 2007 13:53:56 GMT -5
(( Hmm call me illiterate, but Dan's last sentence didn't seem to make sense. ))
Crow swung his staff around his head once, and also thrust it into the clay beneath them. The ground shook at the clay began to give-way. "Everybody hold on!" Crow shouted giving a tighter grasp on his staff.
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Jan 21, 2007 14:24:46 GMT -5
(( lol It's probably because he didn't have a space between "be" and "having"....so it just looks like "behaving". xDD))
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Post by dain on Jan 21, 2007 14:28:50 GMT -5
THe clay beneath all three broke from the vibrations as they all fell down, save Ithilwen, to a solid rock floor made of obsidian.
Dain hti the glassy rock hard as his back arched from the pain, he breathed in immediately and let it go so he wouldn't get the wind knocked out of him. He got up slowly as he pulled a shard of obsidian from his back, luckily it had missed his kidney and lungs. The atmosphere in here was below freezing, and Dain ahd activated his thermal radiation so he woulnd't get hypothermia. Though, what a grande sight laid in front of him. Before his eyes laid a giant waterfall, frozen tot he core. Inside they waterfall was something brilliant. Weapons, shields, armor, it was as though a war had happened down here. Skeletal hands still grasped the items stuck in the waterfall, and from the looks of everything inside it, it looked as through behind that waterfall was a cave. THere might have been a village down here, something not human. THose bones inside the waterfall did not look human more like a lizard bone, salamanders, crossed with some sort of bird or maybe a dragon. Nonetheless, the bones were strange. Darius called up to Ithilwen.
"It's alright, get down here!" He exclaimed upwards. His elbow blades drew back as he studied the waterfall, though, he wish he could get closer. Between where the three hd landed and the water fall was what seemed to be a very deep pit. The frozen waterfall traveled all the way down it however, so it had to have a bottom.
I wonder if anyone has found this place... Dain thought in his mind.
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Post by Angelus on Jan 21, 2007 19:26:55 GMT -5
Angelus fell down with Crow and Dain, following the shattered clay ground that they had just been standing on. Angelus aligned straight and went into free fall position. He hoped that there was nothing in his way when he landed. He passed Dain in mid air and soon after-wards, made contact with the ground. His knees took much of the impact and with his agility, he barely felt anything. He stood up and peered up and he saw two more bodies falling from above. Dain hit the rock that was right next to Angelus, got up, and moved his way over to the frozen waterfall. "Dain," Angelus said, "do you think you can climb this?" He pointed to the top of the waterfall. The ceiling on the area that they were in was a few feet above the top of the waterfall. They could have been something on the ground above it.
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Post by Whiteshadow on Jan 22, 2007 18:43:05 GMT -5
Crow fell above Dain and Angelus, and landed on top of Angelus hard, breaking his fall. "O sorry about that!" he said pulling him to his feet. He turned and looked at the water fall. "I know I can climb it, want me to give it a shot?" he said to Angelus.
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Post by Angelus on Jan 22, 2007 18:57:00 GMT -5
"Go ahead!" Angelus said. He walked slowly over to the waterfall and examined it. He slowly placed his right hand on the frozen water. It was solid and hard. This waterfall obviously had been frozen for some time, but how long? He looked up the waterfall. It stretched about 100 feet up wards and then disappeared. "There must be frozen river or something up there." He pointed to the top of the waterfall. "There has to be a source of this waterfall. Hold on...," A thought suddenly came to Angelus, "towns in olden times were usually built near rivers. Maybe there is an ancient town up there."
((Note from Suzume: Lol, reread your posts next time, okay? I fixed your post though. This is just here as a message to remind you.))
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Jan 24, 2007 12:50:26 GMT -5
When the ground gave way beneath her feet, it caught the avariel off guard. She dropped a few feet down but eventually came to opening her wings, and she began to slow down enough to keep herself from falling the rest of the way. However, a large, heavy segment of the clay floor knocked into her right wing, and she gave out a cry of alarm as it involuntarily buckled, causing her to fall a good ten feet.
Ithilwen bit her lip firmly as she came into contact with the ground to stifle a cry. She was alright. Startled a bit, but alright nonetheless. Although her body was now racked with aches and a few minor cuts, she stood up slowly, sighing with relief as she saw that everyone seemed to be fine.
At last she was able to get a good look around at their surroundings. It was quite cold, and Ithilwen wrapped her wings about her to preserve body heat. However, it was not the temperatures that bothered her so. It was what she saw...
Corpses, armor, weapons, and the like were all encased in a grand, frozen waterfall, captured permanently in time in their tomb of ice. Behind the great frozen cascade of water lie a large-mouthed cave, daunting and looming like the maw of some large creature as it sat jaw open and welcoming its next meal. Ithilwen rubbed her arms wearily as her eyes skillfully scanned the area even more, never lingering on the same spot for more than two seconds.
What is this?.../Where/ is this? Is this the location of some long-forgotten battle?
The princess then turned her gaze sky wards as she searched in vain for an end to the waterfall. Her furrowed her eyebrows broodingly and said, "Even with the eyes of an avariel I see no end to this waterfall. It is almost as if the very darkness here is thick with some tingling mystery such that not even my own gaze may pierce through it." And in an added statement, Ithilwen muttered in her own language. "Nad no ennas.....(Something's out there)."
A single drop of melted ice water penetrated the never-ending darkness, and it fell upon Ithilwen's cheek, dripping down the side of her face and eventually sliding off her narrow jaw. After a brief pause of silence, she spoke, "Angelus is correct. Even my own home of Celebarda was built around the Mirima River...There is a chance that some sort of civilization, whether in ruins or in whole, may lie awaiting up there."
((Gee. *looks up at post* What a....purdyful post. =) *pets her post*))
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Post by Angelus on Jan 24, 2007 15:25:06 GMT -5
The waterfall cascaded down and formed a strong-looking stream that was frozen but still passed right past Angelus' feet. He slowly stepped onto the frozen stream, careful not to fall over because he was not as agile on ice. He looked at the mangled bodies that seemed to be frozen in time within the waterfall. "Ithilwen," he said as he slowly pressed his fingers on the ice, "how are these bodies frozen within the waterfall. The ice would have to freeze instantly if these bodies were trapped like this. It does not make sense."
He peered at the body that was suspended in the ice in front of him. It was so like like. The body of the human was not bruised or cut anywhere. There were weapons on the ground, but it looked like the warriors in the waterfall had not battled yet and were preparing to fight.
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Post by L.A.C.R.I.M.O.S.A on Jan 24, 2007 15:34:00 GMT -5
Ithilwen glided over the ice, scrutinizing every last detail with precision. Her wings still wrapped about her, she crouched down beside Angelus, running her long fingers across the ice's shimmering surface inquisitively as she examined more skeletal remains.
"That's precisely it, Angelus," she said as she stood up and looked around. "The ice did freeze over instantly, but it surely was not cause of a natural occurance...." The avariel's eyes halted on the well-preserved body of a fallen soldier encased in the waterfall.
"....It was magic."
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