The Warped (2nd Party)

[serpington]

max could hear voices, everything around him was black and cold before fading into a bright room with him standing in the center. "my, look how my boy has grown. i never did get to see you with my own eyes."  "m...mom?" "yes my dear, we have watched over you for as long as we have been gone from you" "we?" "yea, bro. you think we'd just leave you on your own?" max spun around, looking for the sources of the voices, but finding nothing more than an empty room. "mom! jake! dad! where are you?!" he awoke in the field where he passed out, weakly looking up at constance, his eyes glazed over more stareing through her as he layed there in to much pain to try to move

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon acknowledged Mortis before finishing off her meal, wolfing down one last arm before belching and roaring. She then turned and walked over to where Max was. When she saw that he wasn't able to walk, Moon lowered her head and nonchalantly hefted him onto her back and snorted, moving her head for the others to move. Out in the distance where the village was, there was a small glow that progressively got larger. It was being burned down.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis followed behind Moon, stopping momentarily when something caught her eye. She glanced over her shoulder, seeing the glow, but not quite realizing what it was until after she had looked at it for a minute. He stomach sunk when she realized it was fire, but she turned her head and kept walking behind Moon, as if to push the thought away. Not like we could do anything even if we wanted to... she reassured herself, looking down.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance got up after Moon picked up Max. She followed after Moon silently, noticing something out of the corner of her eye. It was a faint glow in the distance which grew. "They...Burned the village? Why...? To get us? Damn those people...Dirty bastards......We can barely stand on our own without trouble finding us." she thought angrily.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid saw the town start to glow with flame and said nothing as he turned away to follow Moon. He wondered weather or not it was the wizard that could hear everything in the town, or the first heros that came looking for them; perhaps they were one and the same. In any case, Macid did not care who did it, they were going away fro the town either way towards who knows where. "So does anyone know where we're going? Or are we just going to wander aimlessly until something else happens?" His voice was obviously sour and very obvious signal that he was in a bad mood.

[serpington]

max watched the glowing, mainly because he didn't want to waist the energy on looking away. he called out to macid weakly, making sure he heard him before continuing "macid.....macid.....find Ramsey....." he turned away slowly, relaxing on moons back quietly, his whole body aching as he stared blankly, mortise soon walking into view causing him to smile slightly.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon sighed and stopped, turning around as Filadius' image popped up. "Whew! It's about time! Bad Moon! Bad girl!" She sputtered with indifference and just laid down, letting him speak. "How are you doing now, children? I don't have any time concept where I am, since I'm stuck in the middle. Is there any way you can update me on how you have all been doing? Max doesn't look so well, either."

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis glanced up to see Max smiling at her, which caused her to look directly back down. She wasn't very happy at the moment, especially given their situation. When Filadius's image came up again, she looked at him blankly. "Well, the village we just left from is being burned to the ground as we speak and we're currently just wandering aimlessly like we have been for.. Oh... I dunno. Since we got here?" She crossed her arms and looked away from him, "And there's no telling if who or whatever that's burning down the village knows which direction we went or if they're following us."

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance looked at the image of Filadius when he popped up. "Long time no see..." she said somewhat flatly. "We've had a really bad string of luck these passed couple days...I sprained my ankle, Max was captured and almost killed, every village we go to suffers...It's been crazy to say the least." she continued on.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid chimed in after Constance. "To put it simply Filadius, it's been hell for us since we got here and it's not going to get any better." Macid turned around to go back and look for Ramsey for Max. He found it lying just outside one of the tents and came back to the group, holding it for Max while he was on Moon's back. "Every time we rest, we wake up to some kind of trouble that endangers our lives, be it guards or monsters. We've been here less than a week and we have 2 years to go. We're not soldiers Filadius. We can't keep this up for that long." Macid's tone was low and serious. He was tired of all this running and near death experiences for the group and wondered how they could possibly change the land again.

[serpington]

Max calmly looked around when the old man showed up again, staring at him while the others spoke. "So old man, whats your next bright idea that will end with at least one of us in mortal danger?" He spoke almpst sarcasticly, partualy because his  blood loss was starting to effect his thinking. He looked over andd saw macid with ramsey, smiling again before  turning back and waiting for answers.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Even Moon scoffed at Max's statement, grumbling in her own tongue. "Well, I may have been late, but Moon is complaining about Max not staying with the group. So I'm guessing you got yourself in this predicament. I did warn you to stay hidden. In any case, you had better head out quickly. If it has been as long as I think it has been, you won't have much time left. There is shelter in the next village. You'll be able to rest there for a few days. The Inn-keepers there will provide you well with food and lodgings. Unlike other cities, Pinerton is an almost lawless city. It's filled with mercenaries, but there's a secret entrance at the largest  oak tree on the east side."

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis half wondered what it was that Moon was saying, but found it odd that Max would blame his own stupid actions on the old man. She was just irate with still feeling like she was being lead blindly into a situation she had no real grasp on. Mortis sighed, taking in a deep breath and exhaling as if trying to keep her composure. A lawless city, eh? We'll have to be extra guarded there, even if there is actually a safe area. So much bad shit has happened, I don't even want to risk relaxing, even if we're allowed to. She rubbed her forehead, already feeling a headache creeping up on her as scenarios played out in her head.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid sighed as he listened to Filadius explain their next destination. Ignored. Typical. I knew he didn't have an answer. He didn't know what to think about going into a lawless city for a few days. The aspect of having bounty hunters everywhere and a huge price on their heads seemed like as good an idea as walking up to the police and saying I killed a person arrest me. Even though he didn't like any part of this journey, he thought it was a better idea than staying where they currently were and just nodded along with the old man. "Oak tree on the east side. Anything else we should know?"

[serpington]

Max laughed again, his attention span dropping the longer he stayed awake. By the time fladious aswered him he was already not listening "mind carrying that for me macid...i don't think i can for a while." He gave a goofy smile and another less than sane laugh which faded away with his cociousness, again passing out from bloodloss.