OOC- Forgive me, Wolfsong, if I overstepped my bounds when using your characters. I certainly didn't want to do anything that was uncharacteristic of your characters. In the future, I will not do this again without your permission and approval. Same goes with everyone who participates in my mis-adventures.
Sage Blaze, Saint Reave, Kiari, & Hawke
(Saint runs to Sage’s side, concerned for his brother)
Saint: Brother, are you alright?
Sage: I’m fine, Reave. I’m just need to get my balance, is all.
Kiari: So, any ideas? (She stands firm as she doesn’t take her eyes off of the Gila Beast)
Sage: Yeah, I have one. (Sage approaches Kiari with a sinister intent)
Saint: Brother, what are you doing? (As Sage reaches Kiari from behind, he puts his right hand on Kiari’s left shoulder)
Sage: Would you mind standing here? I wouldn’t want you getting in my way. (Kiari is surprised that Sage would touch her unexpectedly)
Sage: Freeze! (Kiari remains paralyzed)
Hawke: KIARI!!!
Kiari: Wha...what did you do to me? (Hawke comes to Kiari’s aid)
Sage: Freeze!!! (With just a touch Hawke is frozen in place)
Kiari: How are you doing this? (Kiari’s anger swells)
Sage: The Ring of Paralization. It’s a little gift I obtained back in the Lair of the Twin Medusas. (He flaunts the ring in his right hand)
Saint protests: Brother, stop this. They only want to help.
Kiari: N...not anymore we don’t. (Struggles to move, but can’t)
Sage: We didn’t ask for their help. This monster is ours.
Saint: But how are we supposed to stop it. We don’t even know its weaknesses. (Sage lifts up his left hand, intending to use the Ring of Phoenix)
Sage: Then we’ll bash it until we find one. (Sage walks towards the Gila Beast) PHOENIX BLAZE (He hits the Gila Beast on it’s side, but the monster is unfazed and whips his spiked tail at Sage, sending him flying and crashing to the ground)
SAINT: BROTHER!!! (Sage limps back up to his feet)
Sage: Gah...that attack did nothing. (The Gila Beast charges at Sage. Sage readies himself to stop the monster’s charge. He puts his hands in front of him with palms wide open) PILLAR OF DIVINE FLAMES
LINK(A Pillar of Flames shoots forth from the ground and the Gila Beast rams into the pillar, yet the flames do not engulf the monster, but instead the monster breaks through the pillar with brute force)
Sage: What? This is bad. (The Gila beast keeps charging and rams into Sage as he attempts to block the monster’s attack using his flaming hands as a shield)
LINKSaint: Brother, I’m coming. (Saint takes a step forward, but is stopped by Sage’s protest)
Sage: NO!!! Stay where you are and protect those two popsicles.
Kiari: HEY, WE’RE NOT POPSICLES. AND I HOPE THAT MONSTER EATS YOU ALIVE. (Sage smiles at Kiari’s outburst)
Sage: You know, that’s a great idea.
Saint: What? Are you mad? (As Sage holds off the beast with his flaming hands he shouts an incantation)
Sage: Dragons of the eternal flames, lend me your burning sight unquenched. (Sage’s eyes turn bright yellow and his iris transforms into the iris of a dragon) DRAGON FLARE (A blinding light shoots forth from his transformed eyes, blinding the beast and giving Sage the chance to escape the beast’s rampage. He appears from behind the beast a few distance away)
Sage: I didn’t want to do this. But there’s no way I can crack through the Beast’s scaled armor from the outside. (Sage takes off his black coat and upper clothing and speaks another incantation) Martyrs of Courage and Bravery give me the strength to endure the sufferings of Hell Fire (He takes his last stand as the Gila Beast turns around and stampedes towards Sage)
Sage: SACRIFICIAL FLAMES
LINK(Sage addresses his brother Saint Reave)
Sage: REAVE, SHIELD KIARI AND HAWKE NOW.
Saint: Right, brother. (Saint moves in front of Kiari and calls forth a sword of protection) SWORD OF HECTOR, COME TO ME NOW AND SHIELD THOSE IN NEED. (A glowing sphere of protection bursts forth from the sword and engulfs Saint, Kiari and Hawke)
(The heat emitting from Sage’s body engulfed in flames stops the Gila Beast’s stampede, but instead the monster opens up his mouth and prepares to chomp on Sage)
Sage: THAT’S IT COME TO DADDY!!! (Sage laughs a maniacal laugh, enjoying every moment of this horrific scene. The Gila Beast then eats Sage alive)
SAINT: BROTHER!!! (The monster soon afterwards turns its sight on Saint and the others and begins to stampede towards their direction) Here he comes.
Kiari: DO SOMETHING. DON’T JUST STAND THERE. (Kiari yells at Saint as she stuggles to move her paralyzed body)
(Suddenly the Gila Beast stops a few feet from Saints position. It’s starts groaning in pain as flames start to shoot forth from it’s belly. Then it explodes like a bomb, engulfing the whole area in flames with chunks of flesh splashing all around. In the middle of the explosion Sage’s figure appears)
Sage: That beast had a real bad case of indigestion (Sage says this with a smirk on his face)
Saint: Brother, you’re ok!! (The glowing sphere of protection dissipates)
Sage: Of course I am. I’m always ok. (Sage feels proud of himself. Saint then turns around to address Kiari)
Saint: Oh that’s right. Are you ok, Kiari? (He sees a smudge of the beast’s blood on Kiari’s face)
Saint: Uh...let me get that for ya. (He wipes away the stain with his thumb.) There, all better. (Saint gives a smile, yet realizes that Kiari’s face has turned red, but it disappears just as soon as it appeared. And unknown to Saint, the paralization effect has worn off on Kiari and he’s caught off guard with a kick to his
“DING DONG”
, falling to his knees in unbearable pain.)
Kiari: Don’t you dare think that just because you protected me, that I’ve forgotten what you did to me in the sky, with your stupid “lightning”. (As Sage is putting on his black coat, totally not caring what just happened to Saint, Kiari confronts and calls out to him)
Kiari: AND YOU!!!!.....YOU SICK EXCUSE OF A PERSON. JUST WHAT KIND OF A MONSTER ARE YOU TO FREEZE ME AND HAWKE LIKE THAT. (Sage responds in a calm, uncaring, & cold demeanor)
Sage: The kind of monster that kills human-slaughtering monsters. (Kiari can’t control her rage anymore)
Kiari: YOU!!! (Kiari punches Sage to the ground)
Kiari: Come on, Hawke! Let’s leave these two morons to rot here in the “Wilderness”. We got business to attend to.
Hawke: Understood, Kiari. (Kiari mounts on top of Hawke and they both leave, flying way up high into the sky)
(Sage still on the ground sits up and laughs the whole thing off. Saint limps towards his brother and lends him a hand, picking him up from the ground)
Saint: She’s a real firecracker.
Sage: She’s none of our concern.
Saint: But it was our fault she got into this mess. We should have apologized.
Sage: Like I said, she’s none of our concern.
Saint: But there is one thing that worries me.
Sage: And what is that?
Saint: You! I remember a philosopher once said “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you”. And what I saw today was two monsters fighting to the death. (Sage counters Saint’s warning)
Sage: Me, a monster you say? I remember that philosopher. The difference between me and him is that, the abyss had long gazed into his life. And it now imprisons him within its bowls. But I am not a prisoner of the abyss, for I have overcome it. You see a monster, but what I see is divine indignation.
Saint: Divine indignation? More like revelry in the chaos of destruction.
Sage: Enough of this. Let’s keep moving. (Saint realizes he forgot to mention something)
Saint: Oh, hey brother, one more thing. (He takes out a map from behind his belt)
Sage: What is it Reave?
Saint: I found this map lying on the ground nearby. It seems like it shows the general location of the dragon gems. And look here, the Dragon Ruby is nearby here, in a place called “the Lair of Slarg”.
Sage: Let me see that. (Sage studies the map carefully, memorizing it on to his mind) Good, now all that’s left is to do this. (He burns the map with flames from his hands)
Saint protests: BROTHER, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THAT MAP HAD VALUABLE INFORMATION ON THE DRAGON GEMS.
Sage: We don’t need a crumpled up piece of parchment anymore. I know where we need to go.
Saint: But, that map, it could have belonged to Kiari.
Sage: Really? Too bad for her, she should really be careful with her items. One never knows if someone might end up burning something important to them.
Saint: You really are cruel, you know that brother. (Saint is displeased with Sage’s mean behavior)
Sage: Tch! Grow Up.
Saint: I have. It seems you haven’t.
Sage: Is that a challenge?
Saint: Don’t test me, brother. Or I’ll show you what a true monster is like. (Sage doesn’t take his brother’s threat lightly)
Sage: Fine then, brother Reave. I’ll be more “considerate” of others.
Saint: There is more of you that needs to change.
Sage: Hahahaha, I see. (The brothers keep walking along their path straight to the “Lair of Slarg”) Then I’ll make a proper apology to Kiari. If that map truly was hers, then she’s heading in the same direction as us. (Sage grins a little) This should be fun. (Saint gives a concerned look towards his brother Sage)
To be continued.....