The Invasion of Arias: Ninth S.O.

[Ryu Kurai]

Shirin gestured towards Pende in a matter-of-fact way. "See? These guys all know what's goin' on. That other guy can fend for himself easily, and we can make some good time while he's gone. I'm pretty sure he'll be able to catch up." With that said he turned back to the horses, yawning as he did so. "So the rest of you get some sleep, we should be good."

Karvan nodded a bit at Tantalum's statement and Shirin's. "Hale strong. He stay alive." He said in what he hoped was a re-assuring tone. He couldn't stand the thought of having someone irritable in his group. When people acted that way in Yujiro's restaurants, the people usually spat in their food or served them a drink full of salt. Well, that was mostly just the places he had worked at, but regardless...

Jo shook himself quickly, and mewed softly. Whoa! That guy was even bigger than master! I wanna get picked up again! He conveyed as he began pawing at Vex and mewing.

* * *

Hale finds himself in a burning landscape, the flames reaching over twenty feet high in all directions around him. Shadows of buildings can be seen in between the rising flames, and eventually he hears a pair of screams, both of remarkable agony, from somewhere within the fire. The screams continue for a while, lowering to soft whimpers as Hale finally discovers that he is floating several feet off the ground and feels none of the heat from the flames.

[TheBlindMime]

Hale was floating but the rationality of that escaped him, "What is this?" He begins floating around the landscape, "Where am I?" the cities flame rise higher, "Is there anyone out there?" He continues searching for someone, for something, anything. All he knows is he has never felt so alone.

[pendejochy]

"Well, alright. I can see now that my concern for the safety of my allies is unfounded. If Hale doesn't get back here in time to take over his turn of the night shifts with Aiera, I'll take his turn for him. I'm going to sleep, wake me and Aiera up when it is our turn."
{I wish there was a weresheep coming along with us, I could have used it as a pillow.}
I settled on the edge of the caravan's inside and used Girito as a pillow, with him facing down, so the light would not get in it's eyes.

[Mintaro]

Aquila rubbed his foot, getting more iritated by the second. He made a sort of growling noise in his throat, though it sounded quite odd from his transformed body. "You can all trust in that if you want. It dosn't make me any less worried." Aquila looks up at the moon. "Its about time to change to the late night watch anyways, You can go ahead and sleep now Karvan if you want. I don't think you have to go looking for him Tanta, even if I knew where he was I'd worry. However it may be beneficial of you to fly above the Caravan, I'll sit in the front." Aquila Folded stretched out his wings and folded them up again. "It dosn't appear I'll be sleeping tonight anyways."

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

"Will do. I am getting restless anyway," Tantalum replied and changed into her werebeast form. She leapt into the night sky, revelling in the darkness around her. This was her element.

She began a slow spiral, one that caught the remnants of the warm currents of air. Her sharp eyes picked out minute details, and she spotted the dying bonfire in where Hale had gone. No sound except for the natural stirring of the forest entered her senses, yet she kept herself alert for danger.

[OmniShadow]

'I think I will just sleep for a while, hopefully we wont need to fight before we reach our destination' Rei thought and removed his armour, placing it carefully so that it would not make any noise and then put his sword just aside from where he sat down and fell asleep.

[wilysword]

"That's good to know about the animals in the area," Juras commented. He wondered what was taking Hale so long. The caravan was moving quite fast, and the glow of the bonfire he had gone to investigate had already faded behind them. He'd have a tough time finding them if he was gone much longer.

[Ryu Kurai]

Karvan let loose a loud grunt, getting up and walking back into the caravan's canvas covering. He laid down his weapons and then proceeded to sit down, propping one arm on his knee and stretching out his other leg. His other arm laid down limply by his side, and his wings were relaxed, as was his tail. He drifted off to sleep, the melody that Aquila had been humming stuck in his head.

* * *

As he neared the edge of one of the flames, Hale spotted two gnolls with roughly hewn short spears by their sides. Upon a closer look, he could see that one was on both knees, clutching his right eye, which was smoking profusely, and the other appeared to be crawling towards the flame using their arms. They appeared to be crawling away from something small, furry and fairly oblong in shape. Hale's vision zoomed in by itself. If he had been concious, what he saw would have made his stomach turn.

It was the lower part of a canine leg, covered in white fur. The upper part closest to where the joint would have been was burnt shut. Looking back at the crawling gnoll, he would have noticed that his fur was the same shade.

[TheBlindMime]

"I'm here to help you, come with me." Hale drifted closer to the white fur gnoll with his hand outstrecthed to help him.

[Gineko]

OOC:Yay! it's working again!

Aiera made a mewing sound, as if giggling. Wait for me! She trotted over to vex and started to rub against his other leg, her playfullness taking over.