The Warped (2nd Party)

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Over the night sky, the sound of wild animals could be heard all throughout the air. It didn't bother Moon, who yawned from time to time and rolled into different positions. However, something did catch her attention. She got up and looked off into the skies. Out in the distance, there was a stream of light that seemed to be getting closer. That stream of light soon showed itself to be a majestically beautiful, glowing white dragon, shaped like ones you would find in Chinese folklore. It flew overhead, not even paying attention to the group or anything else, for that matter. Further out in the distance, atop one of the tallest mountains, one could see fire being shot in several directions, probably dragons fighting each other or just frying an unfortunate trespasser and/or treasure hunter. Moon whimpered to herself as she watched the beautiful displays, feeling inferior as a small dragon.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis rolled over on her back looking up at the sky. She honestly didn't mind the sounds of the woods. It made her think of when she lived with her parents out in the middle of the woods, though a little more untamed. She felt like drifting off, but her mind wouldn't allow it. After a few moments she sat up, watching Max until she noticed Moon watching something. She looked up to catch a glimpse of another dragon. Following it, she saw the flames shooting in different directions. Mortis vaguely wondered if maybe the dragon was another that Moon may have known. She put a hand on Moon's head again, petting her, unsure of what she was being reassuring of, but she was going to be reassuring nonetheless.

[Srgntcuddles]

"Help Max..." Constance said tiredly. She honestly didn't expect anyone to listen, or go out of the way to get something to do from her. "...He's injured...Get some fire wood...Please..." she continued. "I'd rather have a back rub...But a fire will be good." she thought, drifting off into a light sleep. She was later stirred from her sleep by Moon. She opened her eyes to see her looking at something, looking in the same direction with only her eyes she saw another dragon flying through the sky. "Lovely..." she thought drifting back to sleep.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid yawned and stretched, drained from the entire day of running and nodded in response to Constance. He slowly got up and walked towards Max, who had by this time a small assortment of twigs for kindling. "Well Max, everyone knows I can't make fire to save our lives. What do you want me to do to help? He swayed back and forth as he spoke, trying to keep his balance and not fall flat on his face. His mind drifted to the carriage ride and Constance. It felt nice for the time she was sleeping on him. If she knew my darker side, she wouldn't want to be near me anymore I bet." Macid was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't hear anything Max said to him, or notice the other dragons in the sky and mountain top.

[serpington]

"you can help me gather some wood if you want." max said before turning to macid, he looked over him quietly, <he looks like he's going to pass out...> he thought to himself while walking over to macid. he stopped a few feet away from the obviously tired macid and smiled softly. "on second thought i should be fine on my own, you can go relax if you want." max looked at him and noticed the glazed over look in his eyes. he snapped his fingers a few times between the two of them to snap macid out of his day dream. "i said you could go relax if you want, i can handle this." as soon as he finished talking he saw the flames up on the mountain. he watched it for a few moments before calmly going back to colecting wood for the fire.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

After the fire was started, Moon got up from her spot and walked over to it, keeping herself warm. She felt a little better, having been pet by Mortis. Moon yawned, but stared at the fire. She took another deep breath and tried her best shot and let go, blowing only smoke like last time. At least it didn't blow out the fire. She whimpered a little before circling to lay down.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis rolled back over lazily to her stomach, watching as Max built the fire. When it was built, she didn't really move. She enjoyed it being cool outside, but after a while the cool began to chill her, so she crawled over to the fire and plopped back down on her belly. She watched Moon as she tried to breathe fire again, only to let out a bunch of smoke. She sat up and leaned brought her palm to her chin, leaning on it. "Moon, if it makes you feel better, I'm no good with my book either. I'm no hero. I mean, look at this rag tag group." Mortis looked down, half realizing what she said could be taken wrong. To lighten the mood, she took in a deep breath and puffed out into the dirt causing a cloud of dust to kick up. "I can't breathe fire either. Hell, yesterday we couldn't even start a fire" she coughed between laughs, waving the dust with her free hand. She adjusted her bag to where it was on its side again reaching out to pet Moon. She didn't know why she felt compelled to comfort the dragon, she supposed it was because Moon didn't really hold anything against her at the moment.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid was snapped out of his day dreaming when Max snapped his fingers in front of him. "Ugh, what?" "i said you could go relax if you want, i can handle this." "Oh, allright." Macid turned and shuffled towards the others like a zombie, and plopped down next to Constance. He didn't move at all while Max built the fire and when Mortis spoke he didn't respond in any way. He was drained of most energy from the day, both physically and mentally.  His thoughts turned once again to Constance, and noticed her sleeping next to him. "I wish I could find out for sure what she thought of me, so I wouldn't keep thinking about it. Even if she didn't like me, it'd be better than not knowing." He went to scratch his shoulder when he felt the bag handle, remembering Anon sitting in it. He thought about it for a moment, remembering how it seemed to work when it wanted to. He decided to try and pulled it out, opening to the first page. "I need their full name I think. If I ask her what it is, the others will see. I'm enough of a dead weight without them thinking I'm some sort of sicko. If it doesn't work with her first name, I'll wait till everyone's asleep and try it." He wrote in the first page Constance, expecting nothing to appear as it did with Lincoln.

[serpington]

max chuckled softly looking up and watching macid shuffle over to constances side while he collected wood. he saw mortis watching him out of the corner of his eye but passed it off as her more than likely either looking at something on the other side of him or her being to bored to do anything else. once he had a rough fire pit built he pulled out the flint and sat down next to the pile of wood with the kindling "right.....now to figure this out...."

after a good five minutes of trying, and a small bit of cursing after he somehow managed to hurt his thumb, max got the kindling alight and used it to light the fire. he sat next to the fire holding his now slightly bleeding thumb in a small wrap of the cloth from around his waist watching the others as mortis moved closer. he watched moon and smiled softly at moon as she circled and listened to mortis, nodding in agreement as the small cloud of dust settled. "your right, none of us are heroes, were quite possibly the least functional team that will ever walk the earth. but if it wasn't for you moon, we might not have even made it to the second town let alone out here." he said calmly, his top half laying back while his lags stayed folded where they were. "and mortis, you shouldn't sell yourself short. your obviously going to be a key part of how this turns out. why do you think the first group wants you." he sighed deeply, for some reason feeling way to relaxed as he looked at the stars. "by the way i seem to be in an abnormally good mood so if you want me to try and say something inspirational you better hurry." he joked lifting his head so he could see mortis.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon cooed from Mortis' comforting, and laid happily next to the fire. She stirred from time to time throughout the night, unknowingly having some spikes coming out of the back of her head. They didn't know it, but how they were treating and raising Moon had been contributing to her growth, like her larger wings and now her growing horns. The yellow on her scales were also getting paler as her body was getting ready to shed them.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis rolled back over on her back and sighed. She was glad that Moon felt better and it allowed her to relax a little bit more aside from how relaxed she already was with the environment. "Man, I just want all of this to be over with so that we can go home." Mortis muttered, not really speaking to anyone in particular. She held the back of her head, her elbows now pointing upward. "So.. How do you guys feel about the old man?" she blurted out. She was curious.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance continued to sleep, unaware of Macid sitting down next to her as she did so. She curled up into a ball feeling a little cold in the night. She was dreaming again of being a lioness. Once again she was stalking a gazelle through some thick brush. The gazelle was silently sipping some water at the edge of a pond. She burst from the brush and took the animal down in moments. She circled her kill slowly licking her lips, savoring the adrenaline rush of another successful kill. She crept up to the gazelle slowly, looming over it's neck before biting into it.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid closed the book and set it back inside his bag. He knew it wouldn't work with just her first name but he felt he had to try. He rubbed his eyes and yawned as he felt his fatigue catching up with him. He was about to lay down, when he looked over at Constance. When he noticed her curled up in a ball, he figured she must have been cold, depsite having a fire this time. His fur was thicker than hers, so he took off his robe and lay it over her, leaving him in his pants from the inn. "So.. How do you guys feel about the old man?" Macid yawned before replying to Mortis. "I owe him a lot, but to be thrown into this so suddenly, I don't know. It would have been nice to have a little warning you know?" His eyes slowly shut closed as he nodded off to sleep sitting up, finally giving in to his lack of energy. You wouldn't have known he fell asleep so quickly if you weren't watching him.

[serpington]

max rested his head back down on his arms while listening to macid. once macid fell asleep max waited a few seconds before speaking himself. "the old man is all i have left. he's the closest thin I've had to a father for a long time. he's the only person who didn't give up on me. yea he and i don't always get along perfectly but he's one of the only people to ever earn my respect. as for lately, he may have just cost me my job and thrown us all back in time, and i can't say that i entirely trust either him or any of you guys.....but i still respect him, and I'm starting to warm up to you." he sighed closing his eyes, unsure if anyone had been listening while he started drifting off to sleep.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The next morning was quiet, but so was Moon, who was already up, but had grown a little larger, and had a total of 2 smooth and curved horns protruding from within her head plate. She was very alert as she watched a lone behemoth venturing by itself around them. It hadn't noticed them, yet, so she did her best to stay quiet and out of sight, but she still wanted to protect her new friends.