Beginning of the End

[Dr. Strange]

Sensing a shift in the weather, and knowing it wasn't a far off mark, she surged forward and slipped Gaire onto her back, horse-style. "Hold on, we gotta run, now." She snapped, muscles bunching against her skin, bulking and seething as she leaped across the open areas, eyes darting from shadow to shadow in fear.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Keeping a hand on his side-arm, the wolf easily keeps pace with the other two. "Dang, are you that afraid of a little water?" the wolf joked, keeping his senses open for any 'surprise attacks'

[Dr. Strange]

"Partially. This isn't just a storm... There are worse things that bring the storms coming our way... We have to stay ahead of the storm to be sure we won't end up... like that." She shuddered, indicating a hollowed out human body, or what was left of it. The bones had been picked clean in places while skin and muscle still clung here and there. "That was no animal, it was a hybrid human-snake, called a Guerra. They are vile, undaunted things that will stop at nothing to feed... on anything.." She replied, smiling at his joke.

[Gáire]

She tucked her head in against Kahlua's mane, feeling the wind whip at her fur. She could smell her father close behind, and she would bet everything she owned that Asia wasn't too far behind them.

Was it coincidence that people met? Or was it fate? She looked back at her father's worn and ragged face. She hadn't seen him in about two years, and she thought he was long gone. Yet, somehow he ended back in her life. Was it simply a turn of the tables? Or was her father destined to come back to her?

She closed her eyes. Whatever it was, she was glad he was back.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

"Ah, Guerra, twice I almost lost an arm to them, but more than ten times I survived their attacks...not that I want to add another notch to that..." the wolf reflected, soon moving ahead of both of them, attempting to lead them on the fastest way out of the storm's path, while still heading towards the forests.

[Gáire]

The sky screamed, and a streak of red lightning flashed across the sky. The sky was a dark plum color, and lavender clouds were beginning to darken with the approaching storm.

"Taii-storm," she shivered. One of the worst kinds of storms was coming alive.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

"All the more reason to pick up the pace, Kahlua, give me Gaire, you need all the speed you can get..." The wolf advised, slowing down until he's next to Kahlua.

[Dr. Strange]

She shuddered violently and dug her claws deeper into the ground, pushing herself farther and faster, tail between her legs. Her fur bristled as she heard a familiar chink-click-slide noise ten feet behind them. "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!" She yelped, leaping ahead of Chrono and zipping closer to the trees. She prayed under her breath that the sound would dissipate and it was only in her head..

Kahlua handed Gaire over and disappeared with a blur of fire and black fur, leaving a rut two feet deep in the soft clay.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

"Okay Gaire, you're going to see what I do to get from shelter to shelter when nobody is looking." The wolf said, getting on all fours, and then at least tripling his sprinting pace, starts to catch up with Kahlua. "It took a whole year to get to this point, and hopefully its enough.."

[Gáire]

She grasped his neck fur when he dropped down on all fours. His speed was remarkable - almost terrifying. A lightning bolt struck the sand, crystalizing it. It could sell pretty well in the market, but now wasn't the time to get it...

[Dr. Strange]

Skidding to a stop, Kahlua yelped before she smacked headlong into a boulder twice as big as Chrono. Groaning in pain, she lay next to it with her belly up, dazed.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

"Damn, do I have to carry you both?" The wolf said, skidding just before hitting the boulder, sliding Kahlua onto himself, and continuing his insane 'sprint', hardly slower than his previous gait...

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

"Oh for goodness sake," Asia jumped down from one of the houses up the street, he slowed to a jog, waiting for the wolf to catch up, weighed down as he was. Once level with the rabbit, he called to them, "Give Gaire here. I may not be able to carry that great leopard, but I can handle your daughter," he said as he reached out a paw.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

(I think we're way out of the city, and currently trying to outrun the storm)

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

(whoopsy daisy)

"Hurry, hand her over, I told you I'm faster than you"