The Warped (2nd Party)

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance looked down at Septara as she reached for her ankle. When the lights started coming out there was a pain in her ankle which made her clench her teeth and grab Macid's paw tightly. She listened to Filadius as he explained how her gauntlet work, trying to not focus on the pain. She also gripped the head of her cane tighter and twisted it into the ground. "Stings a little..." she said, trying to hide the pain.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid nodded and held Constance so she wouldn't fall over while Septar tried to heal her. He payed attention to Filadius on how her gauntlet worked, so he would be aware of her limitations for later. When Mortis came over, he looked over to her and gave a smile to her as well. He wanted to give her a hug, to show her that even though Max was gone, everyone else was still here, but would wait until Constance was done first. He gripped her paw back when she gripped his paw, looking down and watching as the gauntlet glowed around her ankle. He could tell she was in pain, but knew it would end shortly and she would feel much better afterwards.

[[Sov]]

Septar watched the light beam out of the gauntlet, through her hand, and into Constance's ankle. Looking at the rubies and sapphires, she watched one of the sapphires fade out until it was dark. She looked up at Macid, and Constance, who was in pain from the sprain being healed, and after the gauntlet finished glowing she removed her palm from Constance's ankle. Looking at her own hand again, this time palm facing her, and then turning it back around to look at the jewels, flexing her fingers. "So I can only use this method of healing four more times? If I don't hit anything more than 5 times with this arm? I mean, minor injuries can range from anything from a sprain like this to a-" she stopped herself short before she got into all of the medical mumbo-jumbo she didn't need to get into, accompanied by nervous rambling. She looked over and questioned Filadius, in reference to the 12 hour recharge on the rubies for power hits. It seemed to her that if the rubies could recharge, so could the sapphires. She finally noticed that Mortis had moved over to the group, and had been watching. Septar stood up, and tucked her wings in a little bit tighter again, because she could feel that Mortis wasn't in the best of moods. Though, why would she be? Everything was changing, but somehow Septar cared only about healing Constance at that moment, and following all of these strangers in an unknown world, with a feral dragon, and a wizard, until it was over. The reality of the situation finally hitting Septar, she felt a little dizzy, and knelt down on the ground to recompose herself. "I could use some water," she managed to get out.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Volgus nodded and went down into the passage, coming back in 5 minutes with a pitcher of water and a large, wooden mug. "Here." Filadius was watching all the others, a very sad and worried look on his face. Knowing everything that was to transpire, and what he had to do and being unable to tell them hurt him very much so, especially like Max's prophesied death. He had searched throughout the centuries in search of them, and did his best to raise them, they were like his children.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis merely watched as the others interacted, then looked to Filadius, noticing his visible worry. As quickly as she had looked at him, she looked away, then squatted down attempting to focus on something else. "Well, at least your ankle is better, right?" She said looking it over before standing up. She looked to the dragon. "Thanks."

[Srgntcuddles]

When everything looked over with Constance rotated her foot around freely. There was no pain from her ankle anymore, which brought a smirk to her face. "Alright, now we're talkin'. Thanks. Uh...Septar was it?" she said, looking down at her ankle. When she mentioned Septar she looked up at her to hear her response. She let go of Macid's paw, oblivious to how hard she had a grip on it. "So where are we going next?" she asked, looking towards Filadius.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid was relieved to see that Constance's ankle was better, but even more relieved that she let go of his hand. Making sure she wouldn't see, he shook his hand and massaged it to bring back the feeling in it. She's got an iron grip, good god. He then walked over to Mortis as Septar rambled about her healing and sat down next to her as Constance asked Filadius about their next location. As much as he liked it here, he knew they had to leave eventually. He just hoped they weren't led into another behemoth's nest and to another town.

[[Sov]]

Septar took the wooden mug from Volgus, and drank sort of hastily, drips of water dribbling down her chin as she gasped for air once she had finished gulping some of it down. She sat down fully before responding to Mortis and Constance while wiping her chin off with the top of her left wrist, "You're welcome, yes, Septar. Hopefully my knowledge will come in handy too. I, uh, am a pharmacist...err, was..I guess." She said to them rubbing the back of her neck, and then looked over at Macid who sat down next to her, waiting for Filadius to reply to Constance's question. She watched his facial expressions for a moment to try and grasp a bit of his personality, but looked away before it became obvious that she was studying him. She brought the mug back up to her mouth, and drank a bit more of the water, but this time much slower. Sitting the cup down beside her she pulled her legs in and wrapped her tail around herself to touch the hardened tip of it with her fingers, a nervous habit of hers. Her wings were starting to cramp from being clenched up so tightly so she at least let them relax, and lay normally on her back relieving some of the pressure.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Filadius rubbed the back of his head and forced a smile, "I want you all to take another two day's rest. Also, use this time to get to know Septar. She's a pleasant child when she was growing up, and she's quite a serious one, too. However, the most important thing is to increase the bond between all of you. If you all can do that, then your battles will be a little easier for you, being able to know what each person will do and understand each other. If you'd like, I'm sure Volgus would have no problem helping some of you in tactics. Septar, if you'd like, he can teach you how to guard yourself, since you can't use the super strength often."

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis nodded at Filadius and gave a fake smile, disappearing back into the passageway in which they had emerged. She let out a deep sigh as she went down the stairs and wandered back toward her bed where her things were. She felt more lost than anything now. She had always looked to Filadius for guidance when her parents couldn't give her anything, but now she just felt upset. She supposed it was that lingering feeling that maybe more of the group would die just as Max had, and no one would know or be able to prevent it. She plopped down on her bed and picked up her book, thumbing through the pages.

[Srgntcuddles]

"Combat practice sounds fun. Now that my ankle is all better I'm going to try to get better." Constance said when Filadius mentioned training. "Train at night...Clean the rock during travels...Perfect!" she thought. Thinking of the rock brought another question to mind since Filadius was still there. She quickly pulled the rock out and held it so Filadius could see. "Some dragon gave this to me. What is it?" she asked. She had a more positive outlook now that her ankle was healed.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid looked at Anon at the mention of practice, eyeing the ruby in particular. Since Filadius said to be here for a couple more days, I should use my fire wall to see what it's parameters are and how to use it effectively. I could also practice writing as well, I don't see why not. Macid had nothing left to do outside, nor anymore questions for Filadius at the moment and decided to get something to eat. He walked back down into the large room, trusting Constance to tell him if Filadius said anything important. He saw Mortis on her bed and decided now was the time to give her that hug. He went over to her and sat down beside her, wrapping his arm around her in a side hug. "Don't worry Mortis. It's gonna be allright."

[[Sov]]

After listening to Filadius speak about bonding, and how the others should get to know her a bit more her yellow eyes followed Mortis down and into the cavern, followed by Macid. Two more days sounded pretty good, because moving straight out on the same day that she arrived, or rather, appeared, seemed to be a little bit overwhelming to Septar. "I could definietly use some help in learning how to guard myself, and I'd also like to see how strong this arm of mine really is now." She looked over to Volgus giving a bit of a grin, hoping that she looked tough enough to train, but on the inside she knew she was going to be up for a hard time. "Volgus, can you show me a few basic things now?" She asked rising to her feet and stretching her arms and wings out completely for the first time since she arrived. For such a small dragon, only standing at 5'7" and weighing about 155lbs she had a little over a 9 and a half foot wingspan, and her wings had a redish-purple hue to them. A totally different color than the rest of her blueish-green body. She never knew why the leathery portion of her wings were a totally different color than the rest of her, but she never thought to question it either. They worked so why did it matter?

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Filadius examined the rock in Constance's hands, "Hmmm... interesting. It's one of the 19 runes for ancient summoning magic, the same as yours. Throughout time, every generation has only had 1 summoner, and despite their means of summoning had differed every time, they still relied on the presence of runes, and had the same basic three runes to start with: wolf, dog and monkey. The original summoner from around 12,000 years ago had crafted 19 runes that were able to summon very powerful creatures, but during the dragon wars back 8,200 years ago, when the world almost faced Armageddon, and even gave birth to non-feral dragons into society, the few very smart dragons who created their troves of treasures, each took one rune to their keep, which used to be part of the memorial arch at the original summoner's grave. I'll see if I can help you out a little. Moon, please bring the gem closer to the stone." Though Filadius' image didn't move, Moon did do as she was told and Filadius held up his hand, "I'm going to utilize the negative time magic from the gemstone. Just understand, I probably won't be able to talk to you anymore after this, so if you or the others have anymore questions, now is the time."

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis didn't even so much as look away from her book when Macid hugged her. She seemed very numb and detached. "I'm glad you think it will." Was all she said. Her tone was flat and unfeeling as she pushed her feelings aside in exchange for the void. Let's just hope Filadius doesn't have any more replacements lined up, her mind added, though she restrained herself from saying it aloud. She almost seemed to be staring a hole through her book.