Azure- Episode 2! This time it's a dungeon run.
Madamerame (Mada Merame) – Yama Raja (56)
NightCrashX – Infinity Sword (60)
CobaltBlade– Blade Master (62)
AzureTsubame– Grand Archer (43)
Dungeon Run: Barren Sanders
Dungeon Layout: barren field, houses in the back. Monsters show up (a lot of them). Treasure chest booby trapped. More monsters. - little dinos that hold on. Magicians. Wind platform that overlooks monsters in a quick sand. Treasure chest. Two platforms- bottom has bombs (Fogta Trock). Top has dinos (Caskey). Blowing sand. Miniboss- Caskey Breeder Toggy. - Wind blows you back. Get inside house- full of monsters. Roll down a long slide of wind and sand. - Waldo.
"Sander's neighbouring impoverished town. Trocks emerge from the darkness." Karis appears.
As the dusty sands scraped across the crumbling structures, four shadows approached the impoverished town outside of Sanders. The light cloaksflapped in the wind, revealing the faces underneath.
"Woooow this wind is terrible…!" A boy with red hair blocked out the wind from his eyes as the sand kicked up into his mouth with each word. The boy began spatting and coughing as soon as he finished talking.
"…Don't talk." A tall figure hiding under his cape leered down at the boy, his body crouched over against the winds and the large yellow cockatigle he was riding squawked in agreement. It huffed and nodded as the team slowly continued forward through the deserted town.
Risking another mouthful of sand, the red haired teen angrily shot his finger at the hooded man and opened his mouth wide. "YOU DON'T GET TO TALK, COBALT! YOU DON'T HAVE TO WALK ON THI-" He was interrupted as a sudden wind kicked up even more grainy sand into his blathering mouth. The dry and bitter taste of weathered rocks and earth caught in his throat, causing the boy to violently fall onto his knees, grabbing onto his throat and hacking his lungs, attempting to rid them of the grains.
Another figure dropped down beside the boy, soothingly patting his back. "Are you okay, Night?" a gentle female's voice emerged from the hood.
Another female's voice was heard as a sigh as the last tall figure walked on ahead, beside the man on the cockatigle, Cobalt. The two continued on, both staring forward.
Suddenly, Cobalt felt a painful knock on the back of his head as 1 HP was deducted from his once full HP bar. A black Conwell sheath had bounced off Cobalt's head just as his hood fell down, revealing an irritated Blade Master. He grit his teeth and eyes remained closed, almost trying to ignore the childish act the other boy had done.
"Night, don't do that…!" Night, whose hood had fallen from his flaming red hair, stood up and glared at Cobalt. He drew two swords and raised them at the other man. A playful, yet almost serious smile spread themselves across Night's lips. The girl who was with Night stood up, standing between him and Cobalt, calming the Infinity Sword before more HP will be uselessly wasted.
The girl who stood beside Cobalt let out another sigh before shaking her head. A quick wind kicked up, blowing across the group as the silence that once surrounded the party save the loud wind, was slowly being disrupted. "… We have company…" she merely stated dryly, throwing off her cloak and turning around within a flash, stabbing into the ground with her spear. A dark circle emerged from the ground in front of her and spears of darkness pierced onto the circle.
A loud shriek was heard as bodies from the shadows fell over. Monsters…. Or as the villagers of Sanders called them, "Trocks"… monsters of the shadows.
The others threw off their cloaks and readied their weapons.
Night, decorated with swords around his body, two in his hands, two large swords wrapped in white cloth on his back, three smaller swords decorating his waist and a katana hanging off who knows what from his back, jumped up into the air and crashed into the ground, stabbing the dry sand. Red swords emerged from around him, rising and piercing the surrounding enemies that had emerged from the shadows, outnumbering them.
Cobalt reacted just as quickly, giving his Cockatigle a quick pet on the back before it charged forward, jumping and swiping at the enemies in the command of his master. Surrounding Trocks jumped onto the two, trying to hold the pair down. With a sudden loud swipe, the monsters flew apart, dead corpses rained around the Blade Master as he calmly stroked his Cockatigle's feathers. "Good job, Ceaser…"
Holding a large, green bow, the final member of the party let out a powerful arrow shot, releasing a ball of green energy, trapping the enemies in its bind and dealing numerous amounts of piercing damage. With a satisfied grin, the Grand Archer stood up and tossed her hair. "Hmph, easy!"
As the dust clouds blew by, the green energy subsided and there, standing in front of her, were the Trocks; their HP almost untouched.
"….Aw, Da-"
CLEAR….
The party of three continued to journey forward as a ghost of an archer floated beside the others, crying silent tears of shame.
"…Stop crying, already, Tsubame…" Night closed his eyes, resting his arms behind his head. The many swords miraculously did not weight him down as he walked on… Heck, they didn't even poke out of his cloak when he had it on…
Tsubame, the archer, floated beside Night, tears streaming down her face. "B-But…! I used up all my revives on that one mob!" She waved her arms wildly. "Why am I here anyways…!? I'm way too weak to be here….!"
"Can't be helped." Night replied, strolling by the now empty village. The wind was still blowing harshly, but they decided to walk in the shade of the broken down houses to block the wind. "They chose you."
"Who…!?" Tsubame yelled, floating in front of Night.
Night points straight at the reader and giggled.
"Will you guys stop breaking the fourth wall? We have to finish this mission before it gets dark and all the Trocks come out of the shadows." Cobalt sighed, still riding on his trusty Ceaser.
"…I agree…" The Yama Raja nodded, walking beside Cobalt and staring at the ground.
"THEN REVIVE MEEEEE!" Tsubame yelled, waving her arms wildly once again. She flew in front of Cobalt and began flying around Cobalt and the Yama Raja, her transparent body passing through the two. "Please, Mada!?" Tsubame stopped in front of the Yama Raja, her eyes gleaming with tears.
"…Please stop that, it's very uncomfortable for me." Mada Merama, the Yama Raja stated plainly before reaching into her pocket and pulling out a white egg with matching silver wings. She cracked the egg on top of Tsubame and glittering droplets fell on what was initially a transparent body. As her body took shape, Tsubame's legs reached the ground once again and the transparency slowly regained color.
"I'm BACK!" Tsubame jumped, her arms reaching up in happiness. "Thanks, Mada!~ You're the best!" As she was about to reach her arms around Mada, the girl walked right by Tsubame, her confident air once again emitting with her pride-
Suddenly, Mada's feet caught on an upturned rock and her body came tumbling forward. A loud shriek was heard as her body fell flat onto the sand.
"…."
Mada slowly got up, her face twisted into pain. But suddenly realizing, what had happened, she quickly turned her head, beet red, to see the others.
Knowing this as a common occurrence, the rest of the party quickly diverted their gaze before Mada made eye contact, pretending they did not just witness the girl's clumsy, yet arguably cute, side.
"WHY. ARE. THERE. SO. MANY. MONSTERS…!?" Tsubame screamed, shooting arrows in a curved trajectory at the mob that appeared under some ruined houses.
Cobalt dodged the incoming magic balls and Tsubame's weakly shot arrows and strikes the enemy in front of him down, the blood that sprayed from his enemies gathered into red light and made their way back to his body. "This is Sanders, after all."
"You know what will solve this…?!" Night yelled, jumping back from the mob. "MORE SWORDS…!" As he yelled, large red swords came raining down from the sky, piercing through the enemies.
As the mob subsided, Tsubame fell to her knees, her HP nearing 0 once again. "Ahhh… This sucks… how do they expect a level 43 to survive this place…!?"
A warm light suddenly engulfed her as she felt her energy slowly but surely, regain. Cobalt opens up his coat and places the rest of the light orbs back into his jacket and sighs. "Just a bit more…"
Mada had walked past the group of three and noticed a treasure chest sitting in front of them. The light green and yellow box stood out from the gloomy, orange sand that surrounded them and stretched out to the far reaches. She slowly hunched over and leaned in, inspecting the box carefully.
The box stayed perfectly still, but small beads of sweat started accumulating on its back, unknown to Mada.
"Hey, Mada!" Night yelled, signaling to the girl. "We're going this way, come on!"
Just as Mada was going to make her way around and regroup, she suddenly tripped on her own legs and fell… straight into the treasure chest.
Another loud squeak after, the group turned around and ran towards Mada, afraid there might be some boss ambush they had never experienced before… to find Mada's lower half struggling to push off a large treasure chest that had attached itself on Mada's head, clamping down hard on her, refusing to let go.
"…This journey just keeps getting weirder…" Night watched, not entirely sure if he should help Mada or if he should just walk away.
The surroundings were so bright, no one was sure where the monsters were anymore. Lights shimmered and reflected as light orb after light orb was thrown at Tsubame's side. The tiny bomb-like monsters had ambushed and encircled themselves around the archer. In an attempt to save her life, Cobalt began throwing light orbs en masse at the girl before she knew if the heat was coming from the light orbs, the horrid sun or the bombs standing around her.
"I'm… so sorry…" Tsubame repeated once again, falling to her knees, not being able to see and let alone run. Tears of shame ran down her face as she faced the fact: She really shouldn't be here.
Night and Mada watched at the higher platform at the mess that Cobalt and Tsubame had gotten themselves into.
"…You want to help them..?" Mada asked, staring down slightly horrified at the glittering mess.
"…" Night didn't respond, his eyes followed themselves at the glittering blade Cobalt was holding. "…maybe in a bit…"
First there were mobs, then there was the little dino-like monsters that grabbed onto Mada's behind and refused to let go until she releashed her Eun powers. Bombs followed, chasing the weak Tsubame around the field. Then severe winds blew sand and dirt into Night's mouth. When they thought they finally found shelter inside a large, empty house, monsters ambushed them in the shadows, and another glittering mess found themselves surrounding the four. "Don't you EVER run out of light orbs!?" Night yelled into the blinding light.
Quick sand followed, as Tsubame failed to ride the wind across the vast field, she nearly drowned in the monster mob that lived in the center of the quick sand. Her arm reached out from the monsters and her screams were muffled in what looks like the most painful way to die ever.
"… Ya, I'm not going down there." Night stated, crossing his arms.
Cobalt threw a light orb into the drowning Tsubame.
"…That was unnecessary."
"I know."
Mada sighed and took out another winged egg.
Finally, after a very loud and screaming ride down a hill of sand (courtesy of Mada tripping and falling onto Tsubame, who grabbed onto Night, who instinctively reached out and pulled Cobalt by the jacket…), they were finally greeted by a giant, magenta and purple bomb monster, growling angrily at them.
"Finally… Waldo." Cobalt got up and dusted his clothes off.
Night also jumped up onto his feet, his swords clanged loudly against each other. Mada stood up, a light blush on her cheeks as she readied her spear. Sighing sadly, Tsubame followed, pulling back her bow.
First, Cobalt charged forward, his sword aiming for the boss's large, rocky stomach. Night followed, thrusting both swords forward, aiming for the boss's right half. Mada followed suit, aiming her spear for the boss's left side. Not entirely sure what to do, Tsubame continued to rain arrows down at the boss in an attempt to stay as far away as possible.
As the battle raged on, the boss's HP slowly decreased as his strength slowly depleted. However, his body began to slowly grow, charging up for a large attack. Not entirely sure how, but Tsubame had found herself trapped between the wall and Waldo as it grew into unbelievable size. As it growled down at the girl, the rest of the party charged at it from its back. With a small snicker, the boss stood straight up and growled, unleashing a large, powerful burst of power.
Tsubame, seconds before her umpteenth time of death, sighed and stared at the rising light. "I hate this."
The other three were thrown back by the burst, and as their bodies landed onto the hard ground, their HP depleted almost fully. Night slowly pushed himself up, cuts and scrapes littered his body. As he grit his teeth and stepped forward for another round, he heard a clang under his food. He looked down and slowly lifted it, revealing Cobalt's blade hidden beneath. The blast must have thrown Cobalt's blade out of his hands.
"…."
As the boss, now many sizes smaller than previously, turned around roared at the team, the blade was swept up from the ground as Cobalt stood back up. "RAAAAGH" As he charged forward at the boss and swung, what he felt was not contact but a light swing against the air. "W-What!?" The blade that was in his hands had suddenly disappeared.
"TAKE THIS, WALDO!" Cobalt quickly turned around as he heard Night's voice echo. "SWORD… FALL…!"
Cobalt watched, almost in slow motion as his precious, blue +7 Grendized Mechanized MKII blade soared through the sky… and bounce off Waldo's heavy armor.
All he could do was gape at the boss as it scratched his head and the looming shadow approached him, covering any glimmer of light from the Blade Master.
"…This is the last time I party with you people."
After that terribly long and chaotic dungeon run, Cobalt has sworn to never let Night near his swords ever again.
OMAKE- His name is Ceaser
"So that Cockatigle…" Asked Mada one day, pointing at Cobalt's pet mount.
"Ceaser? What's wrong with him?" Cobalt asked, turning around to face Mada.
"…It's powerful…"
"It is really skilled at fighting. I trained him myself." Cobalt patted his mount, grinning.
"Oh… is that all it does?"
"It also helps me suck HP!"
Cobalt took out his blade and lifted it, producing a red aura around him before it quickly faded. He then quickly hopped onto his Cockatigle and gave it a quick pat before lifting the reins. The Cockatigle raised his mouth and roared, a giant beam blasted out of its mouth and blew the zombie enemies apart. The wind from the shot blew Mada's hair back.
Red orbs escaped their dead corpses and flew into Cobalt as his HP slowly recharged.
He gave a quick sigh and turned to Mada, satisfied.
Mada kept silent but screamed 'That's CHEATING!' in her head.