The Warped (2nd Party)

[serpington]

max watched the wolves calmly, not even noticing the gnome till the explosion. he was instantly effected and almost knocked to the ground by one of the wolves that was knocked away. his hearing dulled by the explosion due to the structure oh his head. he shock his head slightly and blinked hard a few times truing to get his balance properly and he slightly swayed feeling dizzy. licking the air he could smell the wolves getting closer while he stumbled back a bit, knowing that like this he would be ripped to shreds everytime he tried to attack, he stumbled on something and fell against the tree mortis was in, looking down and seeing her book, his vision just clear enough to make out a half drawn komodo before looking back up at the still advancing wolves. <i hope this wears off soon or i'm sunk>

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The bulldog refused to go to Max as it didn't want to leave its summoner open to attack, and jumped into the fray of attacking wolves, getting bitten a few times itself, but able to repel the wolves, not enough to really hurt them. While Mortis had been busy climbing, she didn't notice that the pages had been blinking red very fast until after it hit the floor. After Max opened his eyes, the red flash slowed down and turned into a white glow as the book turned the pages itself and revealed a new page. The page opened just as the band of larger wolves came charging at Max. When the page opened, the book grew to an enormous size, with enough room for a person to crawl on it. From the page, a giant dragon's head came out. It looked like Moon's head when she was still a baby dragon, but it was bulkier, had green scales, and was a 10-foot high head. There was a large, chained collar on its neck that prevented more than the head coming out. With that, the dragon let out a large ball of fire from its mouth, which engulfed the large wolves and turned them to dust, while the alpha that had stayed back, narrowly dodged it. The fireball had shot out like a bullet, and almost just as fast. The fireball hit a patch of plain not too far away and exploded just before the dragon head roared and disappeared back into the book. After disappearing, the book turned back into normal size, the page with the dragon's picture now an indent in the page instead of ink as it needed recharging. The bulldog and normal wolves had stopped their fighting at the sound of the explosion, and the roar of the dragon caused them to run away. The bulldog headed back over to Constance, but it wasn't about to relax since the alpha was now starting to slowly walk over to the group, an angry and very hungry look in its eyes. Moon had come back for another roundabout, but when she tackled the large wolf, she barely nudged him and was knocked back, since he towered well over all of them. Angry, Moon flew up again to dodge its charge at her and turned her head around and shot a stream of her poison breath and hit him directly, but it barely hindered him. Despite being poisoned, the alpha was merely enraged and ran straight for Moon, who had just landed a little ways from the group. She was tired now since she still hadn't recovered her magic from using her poison breath earlier.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

The chameleon had stopped exactly where she was, just touching down on the ground beneath the tree when her book began to do something on its own. She watched, her eyes large with fear until the dragon's head came out of the book and destroyed a good majority of the wolves, scaring off the rest. Her pair of pants came floating back down from where she threw them, covering her vision until she batted it away, still stiff as a statue in shock. She didn't move until the alpha began to walk towards them again. She quickly threw on the pair of pants and grabbed her book, thanking it several times as she came back into view, her scales now taking on their usual colors. She looked down to Max and grabbed him by his shoulder to help him up. It's all that she could do until Moon took on the Alpha herself. Despite her hitting the creature directly with her poison, it didn't slow the thing down, only redirected its anger. As it ran toward Moon, Mortis ran forward, still gripping Max on the shoulder and yelled. "Hey you big oaf! FORGETTING SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS OVER HERE?" She knew it was a stupid move that probably wouldn't work, but she wasn't going to allow Moon to be a sitting duck.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance agreed to the move to the tree from Macid. She also saw that her dog didn't want to go and remained to protect her and Macid. About half way to the tree she watched as Mortis' book grew and a dragon head popped out and shot a fireball that turned the wolves into dust. "Woah...I should have been an artist." she said in disbelief. She saw the alpha coming towards them and Moon engage it and shoot poison at it making it angry with her. She saw Moon was now in a tight spot and Mortis start yelling at the alpha. "Attack that thing! Go!" she commanded the dog. "I don't need protection right now!"

[Ares the Ram]

Macid nearly dropped Constance from surprise when the dragon head came out of Mortis' book. He was even more surprised to see a pair of pants land on something in thin air. He figured it must have been Mortis being invisible and watched as the dragon head spat a giant fireball at the pack of wolves, hitting many and scaring more, except the alpha who walked slowly towards them. He hugged Constance tight to try and protect her when Moon tried to tackle the alpha, but instead reeled back from the blow. He felt powerless as he watched the alpha fight with Moon, her attacks not seeming to do anything to it. "This thing is worse than the behemoth."

[serpington]

max looked stunned as the dragon head appeared in front of him and either destroyed or scared away all of the wolves other than the alpha before disappearing back into mortis' book. he thought he heard blurred talking nearby but couldn't make out who or what it was till a pair of pants walked out in front of him, mortis soon appearing in them hugging her book. he tryed to get up, soon feeling her helping him up then running with him in tow. when she stopped he ended up right next to her, his good ear right next to her mouth as she yelled loudly, worsening the hearing in his good ear. he dropped Ramsey and fell to his knees clasped his hands over his ears in momentary pain.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The alpha wolf opened up its maw as it closed in on Moon, but it was distracted as Mortis yelled at it. It roared and turned towards them, rushing forward and lowered its head, opening up its mouth, revealing its jagged teeth. It shot out some more acid balls, but due to the poison finally eating its way into its system, the aim was off, and landed in areas around the fleeing Mortis and Max.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis turned and ran when the thing charged, again grabbing Max up off the ground, but having a hard time with carrying his weight. She was getting a tad frustrated with not being able to do anything but run away. When she sneaked a glance over her shoulder, she saw the acid balls splashing on the ground around her, and just the sight of the all the life on the ground dissolving was enough to scare her. She hoped desperately that the alpha was getting weak from the poison, but she didn't want to turn around to make sure. Instead, she continued to drag Max along until she got to the others.

[Srgntcuddles]

The bulldog ran at the alpha to try it's best in this grim situation. It latched onto it's leg in hopes to distract it even a little to help the others. "Hopefully that poison will do something more...I don't know what else to do. Especially in my condition...I can't do anything!" she thought to herself. "There's nothing I can do...Damn it! I wish I could find a better rune or something. Summon my own (removed) dragon. Everyone else gets something powerful...I'm becoming useless." she fell a little limp in self pity and doubt, just barely holding back tears.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid watched as Mortis and Max ran away form the giant wolf towards them. It's acid spit narrowly missing them was enough to cause great worry in him. Moon could barely do anything to it and even Mortis' dragon head didn't hit it. He was beginning to become less hopeful that they would make it out of this one alive. He looked at Constance to check up on her and could tell she was as distraught as he was, maybe even more. He brought her in close for a side hug, still allowing her to see everything as he whispered to her. "It's going to be ok Constance. Don't worry. We'll make it through this." He was having trouble keeping his voice from cracking with fear.

[serpington]

max deafly followed mortis, all the sounds around him nothing much more than a dull humming. he looked over his shoulder and saw Ramsey still back where he had dropped him, and ducked down slightly while stopping to shake mortis off, still more than a little off balance, before turning back and heading back towards Ramsey. he made it back to Ramsey and scooped him up to stand his ground with moon and the bulldog. obviously not thinking straight he started moving closer to it, being more lucky than smart thus far in not getting his or stepping in the acid he was barely aware of as he walked with Ramsey over his shoulder and an out of it look on his face as heat from Ramsey washed over him and his body functions started to speed up like back in the first town.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The alpha shook off the bulldog since it was barely even the size of its leg bone, and leaped right at Max. Moon squealed as it jumped in the way and got in front of Max. In midair, the alpha opened its maw, but it was then crushed almost instantly under a large, purple foot. There, in front of Max and Moon, stood a Quetzalcoatl. It stared down at Max, whom Moon was protecting and surveyed the others. Moon's fatigue was apparent, as was her determination to guard her party. The Quetzalcoatl exchanged words with Moon, though no one could interpret the roars between them. After a while, the Quetzalcoatl lit up bright blue as lightning surrounded and covered its body from its mouth and it flew away. Its figure was exactly like that night that Moon had been just a baby still, and was looking into the sky at other dragons, and a Quetzalcoatl had been what flew overhead. Moon collapsed onto the floor, but remained conscious for the most part, and just laid there. It was a whole hour before the Quetzalcoatl came back, and dropped down a small treasure chest before giving a gruff roar and flying away. Inside the chest laid very few and small items, despite the size of the chest: An unknown stone which seems like it was once part of a pillar of some kind with a lot of sediments and other minerals covering its surface, a single bar of gold worth around 300,000 Zeny, a silver bracer worth about 20,000 Zeny, and a couple apples.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Rigor turned when Max took off, reaching out to grab at him but missing him. She stopped when the Alpha charged, and flinched when the large creature came down, crushing it. For a few moments, it seemed like everything was playing out like a movie at the bottom of the ocean; untouchable by any action she could take. She just watched in awe at the Quetzalcoatl until it sped off and Moon collapsed. As if on cue, when Moon hit the ground, Mortis rushed over, the sound of Moon's body was enough to jar the chameleon out of her state of wonder. "Moon, are you alright, girl?" Her words seemed to come out in a panic until  she put her hand on the dragon's head, petting her and also realizing that she was still conscious. Mortis crouched down to get on Moon's level. "Thank you Moon..." She didn't know what else to say other than to thank her... "We'd probably be dead if you hadn't..." She looked over her shoulder as if expecting something else to come out and attack them, also drifting off on her sentence. She was so busy with Moon, she hardly noticed the Quetzalcoatl's return until it roared again making her jump.

[Srgntcuddles]

When the alpha shook off her bulldog she lost hope. Though Macid's words kept her from losing it. Everything seemed to go in slow motion when the alpha lunged at Max. Then the Quetzalcoatl stomped on the alpha everything returned to normal. The whole situation left her in shock and awe, unable to move. A few minutes passed and the Quetzalcoatl left and she saw Moon tired. "Come on, Macid...Help me over to Moon." she said softly. When she got to her she pet her along with Mortis, when she saw she was okay she just leaned up against her tired. When the Quetzalcoatl finally came back she was a little startled, thinking it was coming back to eat them or something. Though when it dropped a chest of some sort she thought otherwise. Curiosity got the better of the feline and she stumbled over to open the chest. She watched the Quetzalcoatl fly away before examining it. "Wonder what's in it..."

[Ares the Ram]

Macid closed his eyes when the alpha charged, not wanting to see what would happen. When he heard a loud thud, he was confused. He opened his eyes to see a giant creature towering over them. His mouth dropped open and eyes went wide in shock at the size of it. He was like this until Constance asked him to help her walk to Moon. He shook himself out of his stupor and helped her over towards Moon. He helped set Constance down and looked at Max. "What the hell was that?" As if on cue, it returned with a chest and a roar, leaving the group once again. "Wonder what's in it..." Macid walked over to the chest and slowly tried to open it. It opened easily and Macid, again, stood there gawking at the items.