Characters: Cara (
feathered_earth), Renae (
artistic_spaz), and Helios (
firacrux)
Date/Time: June 15th, morning
Location: Crystala, mainly
Rating: PG (maybe 13 depending on a CERTAIN SOMEONE'S foul mouth)
Summary: Cara enlists some help in searching for Tatsu.
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Three heads are better than one )
The real one, though, looked like it was much the worse for wear. Cara rushed in, jumping up on its head and stabbing her spear down through where she figured its brain ought to be--that seemed to do the trick, as it flailed around in its death throes. "Watch out!" she shouted, clinging to the spear as her feet slipped out from under her.
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She sighed when the spider stopped twitching, then immediately glanced around for others. "...do they travel in groups?" Hopefully not. Constant ambushes on their search would be annoying.
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"Let's just keep an eye out, Cara you've been here before right?" So she might know a little more about the monsters than he did. Helios retook his position at the front, not about to let the two of them get smacked around again. "Let's keep movin', before the body draws attention." In his experience monsters would just keep coming if you stood around too long.
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"Yeah," said Cara. "It's not swarming with monsters, but there are enough around to be a problem. I have a skill that can let us escape quickly if we run into another one though." She would prefer doing that to fighting and tiring themselves out, or being injured.
Under other circumstances she might have wanted to take the lead herself, but with no specific destination in mind it didn't matter very much. She just followed, looking for any sign that Tatsu was anywhere nearby.
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She nodded at Helios' idea, being of the same mindset. No point in staying around to get mobbed. Naturally, she took rear guard, glancing behind them every so often. Tatsu was kept in mind also, but she didn't see any sign of him, so far. If they circled the entire island and didn't find anything...what then?
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He picked a direction and began walking, searching the sky and area around as he did so not only for monster-like activity, but any signs of Tatsu as well.
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But there was still not a trace of Tatsu as they continued walking. Cara looked up into the trees, in hollows on the ground, as thoroughly as she could... not a trace. Not even a dragony footprint or a bit of blue hair. "Come on, Tatsu..." she said quietly.
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"...I don't remember him being really stealthy...." She frowned, trying to think of an innocuous reason as to why he'd be here and why he would have stayed away for so long. Little came to mind that was plausible, but they hadn't covered the entire island, so she wasn't going to suggest they stop. Besides, that was up to Cara, not herself.
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"Careful..." No signs of Tatsu. Still they hadn't scoured the entire island. "Well, was just a guess that he might be here anyway, he could be somewhere else y'know." He murmured more to Cara's look and tone of voice than anything, poor kid was pretty beat up over this.
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Helios' warning made her look up. She gripped her spear slightly tighter at the sight of the spider some distance away, but as long as it hadn't noticed them there was no need to do anything more than be particularly cautious.
"Yeah... I know," said Cara. If Tatsu had been here for some reason and hurt, she felt sure that he would have written for help, like he had the other times. "But it doesn't hurt to look, just in case." She knew that if it turned out he had been here, it would be hard to forgive herself. She continued on, trying to move quietly as possible.
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She perked up and turned around, having thought she heard something behind them, but...nothing. It was probably just her paranoia getting to her. This place was awfully quiet.
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He continued to move with the girls, keeping himself between them and the spider. The place really was too damn quiet and a little creepy. "How big's Crystala, anyway?"
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