Protectors of the Earth

[Alice The Necrofox]

"Like always" he said, grinning, as he stepped out of the cave on the path down to the village.
The trek was uneventful, and he had to slip on his doctor's mask (the old plague doctor ones) in order to blend more with the populace. He didn't think that they wanted to see his rotting head or body at all. He made his way to the library and sat down with some books, delving into them for information on the Protectors of the Earth.

[Xavier Akafur]

Xavier stood up and wiped a paw across his face. Man that sun was hot already, and it was making his already tedious job more annoying. He had stopped to help a farmer fix a broken wheel on his cart... and before long there were quite a few people lined up to take advantage of his generosity. Everyone wanted something fixed, and the mage was only a mediocre handyman. His eyes caught something strange in the crowd. Unnatural. He tried to blink it away but there it was again. It seemed to be focused around a fellow walking by, keeping to himself. The hybrid excused himself from the crowd, which he had been about to do anyways, and walked off after the man.

Typically things that showed up in his secondary vision were magical in nature, but he had seen other things before. Ghosts, undead., or large disturbances on nearby planes of reality. It was hard to distinguish between them from just a glance, but they normally meant trouble.... especially when innocent people were around.

The hybrid managed to tail him to the library, waiting just long enough to see what books he looked into before stepping into plain sight from around a doorway. His left paw released the bangles from his right wrist, allowing them to chime together again from where he had been keeping them quiet. Now that he had a clear look at him, he was some sort of dead thing. What kind he could not decipher. "Walking dead normally spell bad news." He spoke up, loud enough to be heard, brows furrowing slightly.

[Grace.E]

Emrelda was irritated that the runes gave her no more messages. she looked out the hole of of her cave, she was going to get bored waiting for Shiro...she didn't wait. with a flash of green light her once small dragon self became a beautiful Tall red haired women, she was recognizable as an Amazon warrior women from the Ancient times. she smoothed the skirt of her dress before she flashed into the town. she held her breath as the horrid smell of human and sewage swarmed around her. she strode towards the library, occasionally receiving awed looks from fellow villagers. entering the library she could smells Shiro's smell of death. quietly she walked past old shelfs of different sized books, for a moment, she was surprised that this place was dirtier than her cave.
"Shiro?" she called out

[Alice The Necrofox]

"Over here... i haven't been able to find anything yet..." he said perched on a stack of books that he was looking through. His mask hid his rotting flesh, but he did notice the aura of power that was unfamiliar to him pass by in a crowd, and had been tracking him. He looked around the bookshelves, brushing his tail when a spider fell apon it.


(Hey, Xavier. Post on the OOC and get accepted first, mate.)

[Xavier Akafur]

[Nah, I won't bother with it, then.]

[Grace.E]

Emrelda smiled and sat down...she began to drum her fingernails in an open book. "Try looking in the ones that looks like they will turn into dust if you touch it" she picked up a book and began to flip through it..." what book are you looking for?"  she gazed outside, through the dust she could make out the villagers doing their daily duties, her hands reached up to touch the small river stone that strung around her neck
Isoble...

[why?]

[Alice The Necrofox]

"i don't know what i am looking for... just that I will know when I see it..." he said, hefting another big volume off of the shelf and checking the index.
"No... no... nothing..."

[Grace.E]

Emrelda watched in amusement, a book caught her eye on the way top shelf "Shiro..try the big black book up there on the top shelf to the right"

[Alice The Necrofox]

"Well, it's worth a shot..." the book flew to his hand, and he flipped through the pages. 10 minutes later he looked up.
"Well, looks like you have an intuition for this stuff... it seems that they are some sort of war machine... or warrior, or something. The details in this book are pretty vague, but it says that they sleep until the goddess... i am guessing Gaea... needs them. Something about snakes too." shiro said, moving his pawfinger down the lines.
"Okay, i can barely make head or tail of this... you got anything?"

[Grace.E]

Emrelda held out her hand "let me look at the book, it must be written in some ancient language you must not understand quite yet" she sat up in her seat as she braced herself for the heavy looking book.

[Alice The Necrofox]

Shiro looked for another book.
"Hey, ur the dragon. You deal with the ancient languages." he said grinning

[Grace.E]

Emrelda snatched the book from Shiro's hand. she began to read it, a deep sense of dread flowed through her
"Shiro it says here that the Protectors of the Earth are giant snakes of each natural element...Fire, Water, Earth, Air and Spirit... if they are awaken and taken over as machines for war...Gaea intentionally locked them away in their element, never to be found...she will use them to help her when her life in threatened... but if they are used for war...the world will come to a tragic and brutal end...no life will survive"

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chrono stood in a forest, not having any recollection of where he traveled to arrive there, or even knowing where 'there' is. He slid his spear out as he heard and felt a giant 'rumble' resonate around him, and it never ended until there were four serpents around him. One of them cleared the trees as the other three just seemed to give him a once-over. They started speaking to eachother in a language that was unlike any he had heard in Europe, and they looked back down at him after conversing. Suddenly, two of them lashed out at him by spewing flame and throwing boulders; Chrono dodged the rocks and parted the flame with a swing of his spear.

Wake up...

Chrono stabbed the spear into the ground and pole-vaulted onto the nearest snake, and tried to inflict at least some form of injury. Thats when a gust of wind knocked him off his feet, and a sphere of water held his entire body suspended in the air.

Chrono... wake up...

The spear lodged in snake, flew out and landed back in Chrono's grasp and its power dispersd the water and he landed in a tree to buffet his downward velocity and then stop. He got out of the tree just in time to get surrounded by the same four serpents, but they were much more around his size and had limbs that one used to seize him by the neck. Before he could even use his spear, a 'map' was seared into his mind, with four marked points all in random location. He hoped the pain would make his pass out, but the only thing that seemed to go through his head was the thought that did not belong to Chrono.

Chrono, wake up, we're here...

He suddenly 'pulled' from the forest and sat upright from where he was sleeping, his spear wrapped within a leather-like cloth and bound together by flax cord. He got up and took the spear in hand as he got off the ship and walked into town...

[Alice The Necrofox]

"Deep. So... we are talking about huge snakes here? Ooookay." he said, rubbing his temples for any recollection of something like this in his travels.
There had been myths of huge serpents, or people on quests for war machines that were extremely powerful, but the information didn't link up. He needed time to collect his thoughts.

"I'll be down in the basement... i don't want to be disturbed. I'll contact you if i find something." he said, hefting his bag downstairs and putting up a protection seal on the door to make sure he wouldn't be interrupted. He moved to the center of the bare underbelly of the library, pulling out chalk as he went. For the next ten minutes he drew a complex circle into which he sat in the middle of. Arcane symbols danced and flickered around the undead fox merrily, but the necromancer kept a stern, concentrating look to his face. As well as the symbols, the books and journals from his backpack jumped out and flew about him so that he could see their contents and link together past myths, legends, and stories.
"This.... is going to take a while..." shiro muttered to himself, his voice crackling with power.

[Grace.E]

Emrelda decided to go through some more books to see if there was any information besides that one page on that book. secretly she tore the page from the book and put it in her dress pocket. she slowly moved further to the back of the library, slowly running her fingers along the dusty books. she could sense nothing would help in these books so she didn't touch them. she clenched her jaw in irritation, this god forsaken library wasn't going to help at all. A jolt of pure energy shot through her body, she froze in place. she looked down at the sword at her hip, she never mentioned to anyone that this sword was valuable. the sword began to vibrate and the smell of electricity filled the air around her.
"This is new" she said to herself. she touched the hilt, the humming subsided. but she felt the power flood up her arm and flow through her body. this power was hers...
Focus, the last thing you need is to recognize sacred power  she thought to herself, her eyes traveled outside again. her gut lurched, something was telling her to go outside. quickly she left the dusty library and stepped outside in the sunshine, her gut tightened even more...