the beasts in the forest (open)

[Derek Corrigan]

"Shadowy mass...hm, and here I thought understood well that these things couldn't survive here. I guess I was wrong." He said, giving off a dragon growl at the end of the sentence. "Sorry, My body is still changing." He said.

"So...according to you. It was just a mass of Shadow's. Much like what surrounds me...." He held up his hand and a small ball of Shadow's swirled, then disappeared. "What ever you do...." He said trailing off getting up and heading over to his pouch. Picking it up he slipped the empty vial back inside and shouldered it, after taking out two vials with red liquid. He walked over and sat them down in the middle of the group before walking away, slowly.

He stopped and looked over his shoulder. "What ever you do, drink those." He said turning back towards the sun, he began walking slowly. Waiting for them to stop him.

[WolfEnchantress]

Damien slowly and very painfully stood. "You don't think you can just leave, do you?" He called to Derek, picking up a vial of liquid. "Get back here. You know more than you're letting on about the shadow, don't you? What will this stuff do?" He took a step after him, irritated that he would just . . . just get up and leave. "Don't make me come after you." Seriously, He added in his head. Walking anywhere, especally chasing down a human who could spontaneously turn dragon, didn't seem like the best idea for any of them.

He looked over to the other vial, then at Samuel and the fuzzball. "Can Fuzzy have any of this?" He added, hesitantly opening it and holding it out to the red rodent-ish animal.

[thedookienut]

Samuel watched as Derek began walking away, wondering what the man was thinking. As Damien spoke, he listened, paranoid as he talked about the shadowy mass that had just attacked them all. "What the hell is going on?" He shouted, desperatly wanting answers. "I agree with Damien. You do know more than your telling us. And why do we have to drink that?" He added, looking down at the vials behind him.

He was curious and wanted to know more, but he feared knowing more would lead to something strange and deadly.

[Omio]

Ki began to chatter, almost like a chuckle, really. "Ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki-ki" His red fur brightened slightly, as things were actually clear for him. However, he couldn't talk about it, which was sad in its own way, but he could see the way this was probably going to go. He was just waiting for someone to grab a vial so he could jump and knock it out of their hand.

(( Easily seen, easily avoided. This could turn into a chance for Ki to get a lot of things straight, though. ))

[WolfEnchantress]

Damien knelt next to the fuzzball as it chittered, almost sounding like a laugh. He swore it's fur turned a shade brighter than it had been a moment ago.

He offered the red animal some of the liquid in the vial. If it was meant for protection, he wanted fuzzy to have some too.
"Derek," he called again. "Get yourself back here. You have to explain some of what just went on to us. Now." He glanced after the retreating figure angirly. He really, really didn't want to go after him, but if he didn't come back he would follow, try to reason with him.

((I'm leaving in a few, and won't be able to post until sunday night. Sorry, everyone ))

[Derek Corrigan]

Derek kept walking. He heard Damien shout after him, but he kept walking. Clinching his teeth tightly he thought deeply to himself.

The shouts seemed far to distant for him. He stopped dead in his tracks, and listened to the sounds of the forest, nothing, nothing but people shouting. Shortly after stopping he dropped his pouch and pulled out a jeweled dagger. He stood at the ready, weapon drawn. Waiting.

Moments after he drew his weapon, everything began slowing down, then it all stopped. He could hear his breath quicken as he turned towards a bright light.

That...that's not the sun.... He thought to himself. As he watched a dark figure started to appear out of the light. The figure seemed to be a short old man, holding a short staff in his left hand, and a book in his right.

"Derek Corrigan, or Shall I say, Talon Darlath. The Wyrm Shadow Dragon.." The old man said, as he continued forwards. Finally the light behind the figure disappeared and only the old man remained.

"Who...who are you!" Derek shouted, his voice echoing, which was strange, it seemed only his voice echoed.

"I am what you see. A blind old man carrying a book and a staff." The old man said. "My name is Mayward, and I'm the wizard that froze you, twice..that is." Mayward said as he approached Derek. Once in front of him the short figure held out the book. Which was rather old and worn, or so Derek thought.

Taking the book, Derek looked at it then at the old man who had a smile on. "You always wanted to learn magic." Mayward carried on, "This book, will teach you. Now there are powerful magic's in this book. Once you mastered a few spell's, you'll know where to find me." Mayward finished and he lifted up his staff and tapped it on the ground.

As if getting hit by a blast, Derek stumbled backwards and fell over. the Jeweled dagger landed somewhere to his left, and a rather heavy book laid on top of him. Gasping he pushed the book off to the side and rolled over to grab the dagger.

He looked up and saw the three he met standing and looking in his direction. Sighing he slipped the dagger back where he had it and picked up the book, heading back towards the group.

"Okay, look, those vials are suppose to speed up the healing process by two times the normal rate. That thing you faced, I have no idea what is it. Alls I know is that, it attacked you, and not me. While I was frozen, easy target. Now, this furball, thing...yeah it can take the vial and drink some also, I have no idea what will happen to it. But I can assure you that, you have a , Dragon, whatever you want to call me, whose currently over reacting. That wants to get to the nearest town and eat. I doubt you want to deal with a Dragon." He said holding the book with one hand. Hoping they don't ask where he found it.

((Oh my...I wasn't expecting it to be THAT long.))

[wompy]

Wompy strode confidently in the gloom, he looked around him and saw that everywhere around him monsters stood quaking. He was a monster among monsters, even the ones bigger than he shrank back. He walked up to the old crone who was the satble master, "take me to your most vicious beast."

[thedookienut]

Samuel watched, waiting for Derek to turn around. He expected him to, but as the man kept walking, he feared he wouldn't. "What if he doesn't come back...?" He thought out loud, his eyes staring the direction Derek had gone. "What if he never does...?" It seemed he and Damien had Wompy and now they were losing another companion.

He waited, though slowly limped over to a tree for balance. His eyebrows remained furrowed, as if in thought, and gazed into the forest ahead.

Only when Derek came back did he look up. Samuel listened to him and eyed the vial curiously. The vial Derek had drunk seemed to work, or whatever it did. At this moment in time, he didn't exactly care what the vial might have been, poison, magic, blood, he just wanted to be out of the forest. He pulled the cork out the top and placed it slowly to his lips, taking a quick glup. It warmed his throat and burned it slightly, something he didn't expect, and eventually the burning died down, leaving nothing more than an odd after taste.

He shuddered and shoved the cork back into the vial neck, glancing to the others. "I for one don't want to deal with a dragon." He commented, smirking lightly as he spoke. His eyes drifted down to the book Derek clutched, his mind beginning to wonder.

[WolfEnchantress]

At fst Derek didn't seem to be coming back. He was giving serious thought to going after him. Then, when he looked back up, he was coming back, and he held a book. Damien was sure it wasn't there before. Maybe he'd found it?

As Derek explained about the vial, he drank half of it and left the rest for Fuzzy. It seemed smart, so he figured it could figure out enough to drink it.

"Okay...." Damien started. "So you need to eat. That's fine, i'm starving. We can all go back to..Well, the other town was blown up, but i'm sure we can find somewhere to eat."
He still wanted explanations from derek, and was still wondering where the book had come from.

"Samuel, if I help you, you can walk, right? Or we can make a crutch of some sort from a tree branch, it'd only take a minute. Fuzzy can folllow if he'd like." He had the strange feeling that the the fuzzball could understand everything they said, and he was growing fond of it. He wanted it to come along, and woulldt mind learning more aout it.

((Woot! back early.))

[Derek Corrigan]

Derek looked at them both and smirked "You honestly think I was going to leave? Look at both of you. Unable to fight, crippled, and...." He looked at the Fuzzball thing. "Small." He finished his sentence, shaking his head he looked back at Samuel then Damien.

"Your going to ask me where this book came from. That is going to be hard to explain." He said, looking at the book in his hand then back at the others. "Honestly, you would think I'm crazy. If you don't already think a...giant dragon in human form is crazy. Then you'll really think I'm crazy."

He noticed that they both drank the vial's and he nodded. At least they finally trust me...

"Right, Samuel should be able to walk without a crutch, it'll be painful but after a few steps it'll go away."

[Omio]

Ki squeaked a few times at the drama going on, and with the insult coming from Derek, he skipped over and swatted him with his tail before leaping over to Damien and grabbing the vial from his with his top paws it first, then jumping to the ground - landing with his tail - then he coiled his tail around the bottom of the bottle, and rolled back, downing the vial rather easily.

A few mouth-smacking sounds can be made from having consumed enough of the vial. After hearing the request to rejoin, he squeaked loudly with joy, and while holding onto the vial with only his top paws, he vaulted back into Damien's arms with his tail.

(( Playing as Ki always seems to ease me quite a bit. x3 ))

[thedookienut]

"I think I'll be able to manage." Samuel replied to both Damien and Derek. He took a few steps forwards, trying to keep his foot from touching the ground and using the tree for balance. He stopped for a few moments, his leg muscles seizing up in pain. He clentched his teeth and tried to ignore it, beginning to walk again.


((Sorry, writers block.))

[WolfEnchantress]

Damien smiled as Fuzzy leapt onto his arm-the first time he's smiled in days.
"I guess that's a yes," He said, patting it's soft head. Now he knew it could undrstand them..it knew to drink the vial, nd reacted when he asked him to join them again.

He watched as Samuel tested his leg out, hoping the stuff would be enough to heal his leg, or at east make it okay to walk on. Already after driking it he was feeling better. He gingerly touched the area where the gash in his side was.

"Will it heal this, too?" He asked Derek, though even as he said it he could tell the wound was better than it had been for a while.

[Derek Corrigan]

Derek bit his lip and looked at Damien's wound. "It'll stop the bleeding. But it won't heal all the way. I'll need to get some herbs from the next town for it to heal fully." He said clutching the book in one hand and rubbing his cheek with the other.

I didn't even have time to react, that little bugger is fast. Going to have to deal with him being small.

After thinking those thoughts, he began laughing. Laughing hardly that he dropped the book and fell to his knee's.

[Omio]

Ki made a small murr-like "Kiiii..." as he used his tail to pet Damien's hand lightly, as if to pay him back. He enjoyed the head massage, and relaxed a bit more, finally finding someone almost like an owner of sorts.

(( Sorry, just making an activity chip-in. ))