Kingdom of the weilders

[The Past]

Geoffrey stared at the steak in awe. To a vagabond like him, it was like being presented a king's feast. "That's... That's great. Thank you!"
His eyes shifted between the steak and tablet. Now he couldn't keep focus on translating; his mind kept rolling to the thought of tearing into the juicy meat...

He shook his head and continued reading the words, pressing his finger under them as he tried to translate each part.
"Seven... one.. when... wi--When seven... become one, one... will be seven."
He smiled a little.

"'When seven become one, one will be seven'."

[Tina]

Gidget came back with rustler medal rods that slightly glowed at the tips.
"Got some old healing wands, they are a little rusty and make take a couple waks but should work... does anyone else feel that?" The trembling increased as barbuda eyes started to dim.
"Barbuda! Wake up! Wake up!" Gidget flew in barbuda's face and smacked his bark skin with a wand of healing, dropping the others by Geoffery.  Slowly Barbuda eyes glowed brightly again but he looked tired, as tired as a tree can look anyway.
"What's the matter Barbuda, you never fall asleep on the job. In fact you never sleep at all."

[Celestial_Dragon]

" So is this thing such a stereotype" Drago moans as he magically teleported to where everyone was, " i am not a brute, i don't kill anyone anymore, i killed that monster, but i doubt it was sentient".


" But i must ask Lucifer and Geoff, what are your stories" Drago asked polity, but his eyes were staring at Maxwell and the others, the ones he hated the most and didn't trust at all, " we have time to kill".


Drago fished through his cargo pants and bought out one of the cigarettes he had bought in town, he had five left. He used Lucifers lighter to light one of the cigarettes he had withdrawn from the pack. Drago then placed the cigarette in his mouth and began drawing in the poisonous smoke.

[The Past]

Geoffrey was zoning out while eyeing the steak, and it took a few moments to register what Drago asked.
"Oh. I'm just a wanderer," he replied, "Stayed with a mage for a while. Began learning the ropes... Then... things happened..."
He looked down at the floor and sighed. "Don't really want to get into it..."

The bear carefully plucked up the healing wands and examined them. "Hmm... might as well try these first, then I'll try to heal anything they miss."

[Tina]

"They work fine but are kind of old. I wish they would help Barbuda though, he is old and I fear he may be dying." Gidget rubbed Barbuda's bark and a vine came to rest on her shoulder.

[Angder]

Angder really had no idea what was going on. So he went over to Geoffrey. "is that steak?" Angder asks. "Finally. Something happening today I understand." He slumps down next to him. At this stage he just wanted to eat something, then sleep.

[kalan]

The sun began to set below the horizon painting the sky with beautiful hues. The sky betrayed the war that was ragining acrossed the lands. A cold breeze wafted across the area as a wolf howled to the south. Soon the the night would allow for brief rest before the campaign to the west continued onward.

[Zane the Fox]

"Well. Let start up a good camp fire and talk. If I understanding that weird stone right. We all in this together at the moment. And I learn from past fight and war that It help if you know your group good enough to fight. I can bring out more food if needed as I alway carrying food and I think I might have a tent or two in my bag." * Zane held his small bag.* "And boy come here and give me a gas." *The wolf walk over to Zane as he just got done stacking pile of dead wood in circle. The wolf chest grew until he belch. Zane had a match ready and lit as the gas hit and the effect of flame thrower was made.*

[Grovygrunge]

Maxwell sighed. "So it's story time now, is it? Fine, I guess I'll take part. We need to be able to trust each other and having secrets is no way to promote trust." He tapped his chin in thought as he wondered where to start. "First of all, I'm not really from here. I'm from a very small nearby kingdom, if you can really call it that. Over there pretty much everyone has some kind of magical capabilities and they are encourage to choose a type of magic they want to pursue from a young age. I was slightly different, I suppose. I didn't choose to pursue my particular brand of magic, I just could always do this. I did however choose to learn more about it. I was actively dissuaded from doing such but I chose to ignore what people told me and wanted to see what I could do. My powers slowly grew as I did and I gained a passion for obtaining knowledge. I guess one could say I had a rather cold approach to the pursuit of it too. I didn't care who stood in my way or how I had to manipulate them, as long as I learned what I wanted then it was all that mattered." There was a long pause, as if Maxwell didn't feel like continuing with the tale.


"Some people took offense when I did not grow out of it and decided it was much safer for the people to ostracize me from the community. I decided to wander in pursuit for more knowledge and to gain more power. That's about it so far." It wasn't the whole story. There was another side to it and the pursuit of knowledge wasn't his only goal, but he'd keep that to himself for now. 

[Zane the Fox]

"Yay. Story time." *Zane said with a smile. The wolf flick his rider head * " Ow!...Ok. Best to start off...I little crazy. But that due to my clan and my friend on other side. They a assassin clan and love to kill. It because of our shadow style kill. We become one with shadow but there ......creature if you call that live in it. They are alway hungry so more we kill better power control we have. In end, my clan love to kill. I didn't."

*Little moment of reflecting in past.* "In end, something dumb happen and now I like to kill as it all I have left. So I travel and help people in my way such as war. I mainly help family and try to end the war fast for the lesser two evil side. And one of the war. I kinda save him when he was a pup" *point to the wolf.* "And now the war stopping program I making lead me here. So hi." *Zane wave with a smile.*

[Celestial_Dragon]

Drago just watched with slight interest, " you all are getting buddy buddy, yet we were all on the brink of conflict hours ago....." Drago Trailed of as he interjected into the conversation, " a young dissent nerd, a dreamer and a serial killer who never wanted to kill....." Drago chuckle as he thinks of his statement.

[Tina]

"So we're telling about each other are we. Well I don't think I have much to tell, mostly because I have forgotten so much." Gidget thought for a moment to tried to recall a great deal of things.
"Well let's start from the beginning...at least with what I remember. I summoned to this temple a long time ago, like more than a million years ago...maybe even longer. You see I am something called a nimbat, a guardian that meant to protect things of great importance. My species can live forever you see, well as long as no one kills us or destroys what we are summoned to protect. I don't remember what I was summoned to protect...it could have been this temple or something else. There also used to be a city around this temple but the forest and time has claimed all of that. The race that built it hs disappeared without a trace leaving just me and Barbuda as the only surviving beings. They were strange creatures, without fur except for a little on their head and pink looking skin but they are gone now so it doesn't matter. They gave me Barbuda to plant and he has been a great companion and my only real friend. Barbuda is the only reason I live now, I protect him which gives me purpose to live...but that my time is coming. Barbuda is ancient, he has survived a million years with me but now I don't think he can survive another couple of days. When he falls so will this temple, and in turn so will I."

As she finished her story Gidget looked depressed.
"I haven't seen much beyond this forest and the temple...helping you guys escape was the furthest I have ever ventured. I can't explain it but there something about that tablet that seems very familiar...like something I haven't seen in...I don't even know how long."

[The Past]

Geoffrey tapped a healing wand against Drago a few times, and continued with the rest of the lot that needed healing. It wasn't perfect, but should do well enough for now, so he used the rest of his energy to chow down on some of the steak. Once he was better rested, he would go back to heal the rest of the wounds with his own spell.

[Zane the Fox]

"Hmm. Hey nimbat. Would you happen to know anything about weird voices? We seem all to be hearing it. I usually only hear my friend from other side but since that lady voice I think. They shut up. It kinda nice right now." *Zane look in his bag as he pull out few bottle of spices to cook the meat.* "And how you all like your meat?"

[Tina]

"I'm a vegetarian...and actually I have been hearing weird voices recently...I think they told me to go find you guys. I just assumed it was the trees talking again, but now that I think about it they didn't quite sound the same as they did before."