The Warped (2nd Party)

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

After an hour or so, they finally made it past the nest, and were in the clear. Moon was so relieved, she almost fell backwards, which would have landed her on top of a baby behemoth. However, her swaying kept her from falling thus and fell straight forward. The sun bore down now, and the unexpected happened. The yawning of almost 20 behemoths could be heard, as well as the rumble of their feet as they started getting up.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

"Ah shit, c'mon!" Mortis whispered loudly. She had been able to hold herself together calmly until she heard the behemoths moving. That alone made her skittish, and she began walking faster until walking faster broke out into a full sprint. She looked behind her trying to get the others to hurry because she didn't even want to risk seeing one of those things up close. "Lincoln said to run, so I'm running." she added over her shoulder.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance crept along with the others for what seemed to be forever. When she heard the movement of the behemoths she froze, hair standing on end. "Eep!" she let out. When Mortis started hurrying she did, too. Eventually they were running. "I thought these things were AFTER the checkpoint! I swear, we have all the bad luck! Someone is totally conspiring against us! Like...Like this is all some sick story and the creator hates us!" he thought, rather upset.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid crept along the back of the group until the sun started to set. At the sound of the behemoths waking, he did not hesitate and sprinted forward like his life depended on it. He quickly surpassed the others and kept going, not bothering to look where he was going. "I am not going to let these things kill me because they want an evening snack." He slowed down a bit to catch his breath and look behind, making sure he hadn't gone too far ahead and to let the others catch up.

[serpington]

max followed mortis, moon and constance silently, he looked from behemoth to behemoth as the group walked through the field. he sighed a breath of relief as they reached the edge of the field. he was about to say something along the lines of 'thank god that's over' quietly when he noticed the others running. "hay whats the hurry?" that's when he noticed the behemoths getting up and gulped looking behind him. he started running as fast as physically possible at the sight of the waking behemoths silently cursing his luck.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon spread her wings and took off at the first sound of stirring and flew right up. One of the behemoths roared even louder after Moon took flight. She ended up catching the attention of the nearby checkpoint and the soldiers came investigating, tripping over baby behemoths, and upsetting the other ones that were still sleeping. Some of the larger ones were even stood up on their hind legs, doubling in height.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

The chameleon continued running faster until she saw the soldiers. She attempted to cloak herself, but her nerves were so shot at this point, her scales just jittered between random colors instead of conforming to their stealthy state. Mortis just sprinted on without looking back to see if the others were following. Between the soldiers and the behemoths, she didn't want to take her chances staying put. When she stopped, she doubled over putting her hands on her knees, gasping for air. She had never run that much in her entire life.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance continued running taking note of the behemoths stirring now which freaked her out. "I am so glad I got rid of most of the meat! I can run now!" she thought to herself thankfully. She was also glad the soldiers seemed distracted enough they could slip by without incident. On the other side of the checkpoint she collapsed next to Mortis to catch her breath. "Oh man...My legs are killing me!" she said tiredly laying sprawled out on the ground.

[Ares the Ram]

When Macid looked behind to check on the others, the sight of a behemoth standing up and roaring sent chills up his spine. He turned around and sprinted as fast as he could away from the creature as fast as he could, praying his stamina would last just a little longer. When he ran past the checkpoint, he tripped on a rock and tumbled over himself until coming to a stop lying face up on his back. He panted heavily as his lungs felt like they were on fire, as did the rest of his body. He hoped he ran fast enough to escape from the behemoths, but also hoped everyone else did too. Despite his sour mood, he didn't want anything bad to happen to them. They we're the closest things to friends he had ever had besides the old man and the Librarian. Mortis and Constance soon came to rest near him and he sighed, thankful that they made it. Max was still behind them though, so he asked between breaths if anyone had seen him. "Has any *puff* anyone seen *wheeze* Max?"

[serpington]

Max ran as far as he could, the added weight from both Ramsey and the cloak causing him to tire faster than normal. he stopped for breath not far from the cheakpoint, bent over holding his chest he looked over at the behemoths in time to see some of them rising to their hind legs. <i'd hate to be whatever's got them upset.> he thought to himself, his throat burning to much to talk. he looked around as the burning throughout his body started to sooth. he looked around and noticed that he wat alone. "Mortis?...Constance?...Macid?...moon?...guys?! man, i got outrun by all of them? man i really need to get back into shape."

He walked over to the checkpoint slowly and looked around. "looks like nobodys here. maybe my luck is turning around." he searched around the checkpoint for a few seconds before deciding he should try to find the others first. he left everything as he found it and walked out off the checkpoint and noticed the others not to far away. "hay guys, over here!" he called walking over towards them waving one of his aching arms to get their attention.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon landed next to Mortis and stuck to her for a while as she panted, trying to catch her breath since it's the second time she's used her wings. Meanwhile, the screams of the guards could be heard in the distance alongside the roars of the behemoth herd that had woken up. Moon then pulled on Mortis' leg, then Constance's, trying to get them to move. It was a quiet journey for the rest of the afternoon. When it came to sunset, Moon yawned, not wanting to walk anymore and just find a place to sleep.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis hesitated for a moment, still catching her breath, waving tiredly back at Max to acknowledge him. She wasn't about to move until she felt better, she had decided, until Moon tugged on her pants. She sighed, sucking in a deep breath after and tried her best to follow Moon without a second thought. The damned dragon has a better clue than we do, she thought tiredly. By the time sunset rolled around, Mortis didn't really mind where they were necessarily. She laid on the ground, belly down and sighed, taking in how peaceful it was at the moment. She was glad to stop.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance was too tired to comprehend anyone speaking as she laid there. She somewhat snapped back to reality when Moon tugged on her robes. She got up and blindly followed the others. Around sunset she saw Mortis fall down, she thought it seemed like a great idea. "I agree." she said tiredly falling beside her. "I vote this be camp tonight. Max start a fire. Moon don't get into trouble. Macid..." she spoke, trailing off to silence at the end of her speaking. "Give me a back rub..." he continued, though in her head.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid was relieved to see Max waving through the grass, though the screams and roars behind him quickly erased any good feelings left and replaced them with fear once again. As Moon tugged on the others to get them going, Macid stood up and started jogging with them, glad to be getting away from the behemoths as soon as possible. As the sun set, his legs were on fire and his lungs felt like they were 3 sizes too small for his body. He collapsed with the others, falling on his hands and knees, wheezing heavily. Without time to rest, Constance started telling everyone what to do except him. Part of him wanted to scream in her face for barking orders so soon, another wanted to do whatever he could to help the group and liked that she was taking this seriously. He was too tired to think about what to do, let alone argue with anyone, and turned and asked Constance what she wanted him to do. "Yes? What should I do?"

[serpington]

max noticed some of the others acknowledging him as he walked over, he was blocking out the sounds of the soldiers and the behemoths as he got closer to the others in time to see them start heading off to hopefully-one-of-them-knows-where, he quickly jogged over to them and started walking not far from macid for the rest of the trip. when they stopped, two of the three girls on the ground before he could even think about sitting down. he made it halfway to the ground before constance gave him the job of starting a fire. "will do" he yawned getting back up and quietly collecting things he could burn for the fire.