For every action there is a reaction…
The soldier skeleton leaned over the, almost fainted, swordsman. Its 2 daggers held tightly in its hand as it stepped closer to finish him off. With trembling hands the swordsman reached into his pocket and pulled a bottle with a red liquid in it, a red potion, before he could uncork the bottle and drink some of its health replenishing liquid a familiar crashed into his arm causing him to dropboth his bottle and his shield.
If a soldier could grin Kyari was sure it would be doing so right now. It swiped with one dagger and, when it connected with Kyari's scimitar, it slashed with the other. Kyari was thrown backwards into the almost red colored wall and grimaced as the back of his head connected with a thump. The skeleton almost ran over to his fallen opponent and sliced with both daggers at once.
"Sacrifice!" The clear voice echoed inside Kyari's head as a golden bubble enveloped him, the skeletons daggers stopping there. A few feet away he could see a tallish man in heavy armor flinch. A tendril of gold connected the shield around Kyari to the man for a moment before disappearing.
"Heal!" A monk appeared just to Kyari's left, both of his hands raised and a green glow enveloping them as he saved the swordsman.
"Hey Kyari!" The voice drew Kyari out of his memories; he almost jumped but instead grinned as he saw his twin brother, Gray. They may have been twins but definitely not what people expected they didn't look alike in the slightest. Kyari had blue hair that covered the left half of his face, a weird pair of goggles; mounted on a brown leather headpiece, kept his hair in control. Whereas Gay had white hair with a slight blue tint. His hair was out of control and looked although if you were to ask Gray what a brush was he would stare at you dumb struck. His hair did have a small level of control though, the iron helm his father had given him before he left which he is rarely seen without. Kyari was the taller of the two although there wasn't much in it.
"What's up Gray..?" Kyari stood slowly, one hand on the hilt of his Flamberge and the other holding his shield. The Crusader outfit he wore was incredibly clean, just washed this morning, and even his armor looked shiny.
"We need to get to Morroc; I just heard some disturbing rumors about the undead in the sphinx…" Gray shoved his own Flamberge into its sheath and picked his shield up before turning to leave. "I had a word with one of the Kafra representatives around here, she said that she can warp us to Morroc but it will cost us."
"Well no time like the present, why should we wait when for all we know Morroc might be overrun by lunch!" Kyari grinned at his brother and placed his own sword in its sheath, one hand on the hilt still as they walked down the busy streets of Prontera.
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Nite stepped quietly through the maze like corridors of the Sphinx; his dark assassin's clothes would have helped him hide even if he didn't know skills such as hide and cloaking. His twin Katar of Blazing Rage, a fire property weapon, were glowing a slight red as he walked past a Zerom, its back bent over with a heavy brick on top.
Shaking his head the assassin stepped away from the wall quietly, his cloaking skill fading away as there was nothing to hide against, and right up behind the monster.
"Sonic blow." He whispered almost teasingly, pitched so the Zerom could hear him as he started the 8 attack sequence of hits. He had snuck in behind the monsters defense and as such it didn't even have time to turn before the blows struck it and killed.
"One down." Was all Nite said before disappearing beside a wall once again.
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"Thank you, please come again." The Kafra representative smiled and waved as Gray and Kyari jogged away from her, they were in Morroc. The desert town was filled with moderately sized buildings, most plain, and a few merchants sat about trying to sell items from weapons and armor to potions and herbs.
"Ok so… the Sphinx!" Gray nodded as Kyari spoke, an eager grin on his face. "Well then, let's get going!" Without waiting for a response from his brother Kyari started running off to the west of town where only a large metal gate and a short walk divided them from their target.
Gray chased after Kyari, raising his voice slightly so his brother may hear him. "Watch out for the…" Before he could finish his warning Kyari, who had been looking over his back at Gray, ran into a Hunter. A few moments later they were both trying to disentangle themselves from each other and their respective weapons.
Grinning sheepishly Kyari finally stands up and offers his hand to help her, for his efforts he relieved a glare that would blind even the strongest of warriors.
"Sorry there, wasn't looking where I was going I guess."
The hunter, a relatively tall woman with short dark hair, picked her bow back up and readjusted the quiver on her hip before nodding.
"You should be sorry, what are you, blind? If you've broken my Hunter Bow I'm going to kick your butt from here back to Prontera!"
Blinking slowly Kyari sighs, readjusts his sheath and makes sure his Flamberge is in easy reach before picking up his shield.
"I'm sorry miss, my comrade and I were on our way to the Sphinx to check a little problem out. I offer you my apologies and hope you can accept them."
The Hunter looked shocked for a few moments then just shook her head and glared all the more.
"What is that rubbish coming out of your mouth, are you trying to sweet talk me or something?"
Gray, as usual, come to save the day. Pushing his brother out of the way he turned to the Hunter.
"I'm incredibly sorry for my idiot brothers' moment of blindness but he is very dedicated to his work and, as he said, we both have to get down to the Sphinx." Fishing in his pocket he removed a bag with a few thousand Zeny in it and dropped it into the Hunters hand before pulling his brother towards the huge gate that separated the dessert city of Morroc from the Sphinx and its surrounding area.
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The hunter stared at the 2 for a few moments before shrugging and pocketing the money, finally she turned and headed towards the opposite end of the city.
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"Nice save bro." Kyari grinned and turned to his brother, now walking backwards through the sand covered field.
"Don't mention it." Gray was keeping an eye on their destination and another on his brother, half expecting him to trip over a tree.
"I thought you didn't have any Zeny left.." Kyari stopped then and turned to stare at his brother who had kept walking.
"I didn't, that was yours."
With an exaggerated sigh Kyari jogged to catch up with his brother then together they climbed the few steps up to the door at the Sphinx's base.
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Silently Nite pulled his Katar from the body of a Mummy, turning and slashing several times across the chest of another. He was finding it slightly harder to find places to hide from these creatures now but, as he had avoided fighting most of the Sphinx's residents, he had enough energy left in him to fight his way down another floor or two to complete his mission.
He had been payed a good deal to come down into this dungeon, not in money but in a supposed magical pendant that will help him in his more interesting quest; the retrieval of his memories. If he needed to open up a few portals and release Isis and, eventually with the help of a few magical items, Osiris then so be it.
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Stepping over the body of a Requiem Kyari sighed.
"Now I know why I stopped fighting the undead." He briefly considered turning it over onto the large, almost coffin-like object it carried, and making sure it was dead..again..or whatever the undead became once you killed them.
"Because there seems to be unkillable hordes of them?" Gray supplied, wiping the blood off of his sword with a cloth while pocketing an Old Blue Box. He planned on selling the item later instead of opening it.
"Yeah, that and the blood. For something so…dead..they do bleed a lot." Kyari gave a slight grin and walked off, further into the centre of the Sphinx. This wasn't the first time he had been here, in fact the area around Morroc had been a favorite place of his to train, so he knew his way.
He entered a portal, something that had always disturbed him. And why shouldn't it, just because whoever had made it intended for whoever to step into it to be warped to a specific spot, who could honestly say it wouldn't change and warp them somewhere completely different.
He started across what seemed to be a floating road of stones before stopping and staring at several dead Mummy's, he could see lots of deep stab wounds on one but on the other 2 all he could see were slashes. Gray looked over his shoulder and shrugged.
"A thief probably..or maybe an assassin, don't see why one of those would be down here though..They are supposed to preserve the balance between good and evil aren't they?" Kyari nodded at what Gray had said, not saying anything. He stared at the corpses for a few moments before walking past them and towards another portal.
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Nite finished reading the spell he had been giving and finished crushing a deep red object in his hand. Immediately all the undead creatures around him grew slightly larger, their eyes glowing a deep blood red. With a slight shake of his head Nite wondered if he had done the right thing but, before he could change his mind, the creatures were all enveloped in a white light and disappeared, they had been warped outside Morroc.
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Kyari ran deeper into the huge chamber, he had seen the white lights that had warped the creatures to..he didn't know where. Now, looking around quickly, he wondered how and why. A movement to his left caught his attention and he saw a dark clothed assassin walk away from a supporting stone pillar and towards a warp.
"Gray!" He shouted his brothers' name as he stepped out of the warp, pointing at the assassin. "We need to follow him!" They ran towards the portal and the Assassin, seemingly wrapped up in his own thoughts, didn't see them but stepped straight into it. Kyari was a few steps behind him but it was Gray who disappeared through the portal after the silent Assassin, leaving Kyari on his chest as he had tried to jump through after them.
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On the walls of Morroc a guard shouted as he saw the hundreds of warp portals open. He blew loudly on a horn and guards all around the wall shouted orders to each other and other people as they closed the gates.