AN- Heyas all again! I still have no idea why the asterisks won't show up on the posted copy, but I am pretty sure you know where they go… anywho, I played a mod I downloaded a while back… The Dark Ranger's Treasure… fun fun. Gotta love the dragon armor. Making my own mod right now, but can't figure out how the heck to make the journal entries update by themselves…need help here. Thank you two people for submitting your reviews, I really appreciate it! Yes, Tomia was a lot of fun thinking up… In Jachal's case, he was a human paladin I played with for a bit on the NWN original campaign, but for the story's sake, I changed the race. Hmm… I am currently stuck on Metroid Prime…no idea where to go next… I have the charge beam, charge beam combo, wave beam (and its combo), 3 balls (ball, spider ball, ball bombs), the Varia suit, 60 missiles, the infrared visor thing, and nothing else yet … I think… so yeah, I get to fart around on it for no reason while the scanner update thing informs me of things I already know about… (Abnormal temperatures detected…) so, as Mario says, HERE WE GO!
Tomia was tending to an injured basilisk when she noticed Jachal staring at her. "What?" she asked. Jacal shrugged and looked away, pretending to be interested in a mushroom on a log. Tomia shook her head and went back to mending the basilisk's leg. "Tomia?" Jachal asked.
"Yes?"
"Why are your eyes a deep blue instead of green?"
"Because."
"Because…"
"They just are."
Jachal sighed in frustration. He had asked her that question at least 5 times that morning, and all he got was that same answer. Jachal walked over and sat in the shade of a rather large elm tree. Tomia finished bandaging the basilisk's leg, and as she was putting the leftover bandages in her pack, she froze. Jachal looked in the direction her gaze was in. Something big was in the shadows, and it seemed to be looking directly at her. Then horror crept over Jachal's face as he saw the outline of an ancient Green dragon, eyeing Tomia with rage. "HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU FOOLISH DRUID TO STAY WAY FROM MY WOODS?" the dragon suddenly roared. It charged at Tomia, but she was seemingly uninjured after being trampled. Tomia got to her feet in time to avoid the dragon's powerful feet. Panting heavily, she scampered up a nearby tree, hoping to get out of range of the dragon. Jachal sensed that she had never encountered a dragon before, let alone fought one. Jachal drew his greatsword and charged at the beast, only to be swept aside by the dragon's long tail. He slammed into a giant boulder, going unconscious. "Jachal!" Tomia screamed. Then the dragon's attention returned to the druid. Sneering at her, he snarled," No one can help you now, druid. You are at my mercy!" He fired his breath weapon up the tree towards Tomia. Tomia jumped out of the tree, and for a second she seemed to be flying without the usage of wings. Even the dragon was startled as Tomia landed softly in the branches of the elm tree Jachal was sitting under moments earlier. The dragon was just about to charge the tree to knock Tomia down when Jachal came to his senses. Seeing what was about to happen, he picked up his greatsword and again charged the dragon, plunging the sword into the scaly back of the Green. The dragon screeched in pain and reeled back, away from Tomia's tree. Jachal had no other weapons on him: he would have to defeat the beast single-handedly. The dragon thrust forward his head in an attempt to devour Jachal, but missed horribly due to the pain of the sword and its acid-covered blade. Jachal then made a daring move: he leapt onto the back of the dragon and held on tightly to its neck as the dragon attempted to throw him off. The dragon succeeded, throwing Jachal towards another giant boulder (AN- poor Jachal…). As Jachal neared the giant rock, he suddenly felt intense heat around his waist as a Flame lash encircled him and pulled him down to the ground in front of the boulder. He looked over at Tomia in strange amazement: Flame Lash could not be manipulated like that. So if it wasn't a Flame Lash, then what exactly did she do? Tomia pointed to the ground a few yards off: there was Jachal's greatsword, dislodged from the dragon's back. Jachal took off running, but the dragon beat him to the weapon. Standing over it, blood trickling from his mouth, the dragon was weary from blood loss, but still had enough energy to fight. Then Jachal ran towards the dragon, and in a flash he was under its giant underside, grabbing his sword and thrusting it up into the dragon's belly. The dragon howled in pain and collapsed on top of Jachal, dead. Tomia stared at the place where Jachal once stood, not believing that Jachal was able to puncture the dragon's hide with his lacking strength. Even more amazing was the fact that Jachal's intelligence seemed to have risen to abnormal levels in a normal paladin. Perhaps there is something more to Jachal than meets the eye, she thought. Suddenly the carcass moved, and Tomia jumped back, sickle in hand. Out from under the body crawled poor Jachal, drenched in draconic blood and innards, not looking too happy. Tomia, holding her nose, said," Go wash up, you reek." Jachal glared at her, then took a piece of dragon liver and threw it at her. "Some help you were!" he shot back angrily.
"Well, I'm a druid, and the dragon was a beast of the wild."
"And your point is?"
"You're a paladin. You have the liberty to kill things as evil as a green dragon. I cannot."
Jachal's face turned to a point of blank frustration. Tomia smiled triumphantly and leapt up a tree. Jachal's gaze followed her as she leapt from tree to tree like a monkey of some sort. As soon as Tomia left his line of sight, Jachal kicked the ground angrily and muttered bad things to himself and proceeded to a nearby stream to "wash up."
WOO! Another short one… wow. Eck…I know what it's like to be covered in blood… stupid sister throwing rocks… and over there, where that squirrel is… there was NOTHING! Tee hee… Invader Zim… well, been a nice week-long break and all, but now I gotta do this again… woo. Im hungry… wait, im always hungry. Eh, well. I went skiing… everyone but me fell… I laughed. GO DURANGO COLORADO! WOOOT! Ah, the life of boredom… made a red dragon disciple/bard… fun fun… already rescued Halaster in one day when it used to take me 5 cuz of skool and shtuff. Anyways, new chappie coming soon, so STAY TUNED! (or else)