You rolled out your sleeping bag and laid on it, falling asleep to the slight twinkle of the stars. You woke up in surprize at the sound of a cracking twig. You sat up and perked your ears. s scaly hand reached out infront of you and towards your bag. You grabbed one of the daggers you hid under your pillow and unsheathed it silently. You hoisted it over your head and brought it donw in great speed. It nicked the hand as it recoiled back in the bush. You grabbed your bag close to you and hooked your sword and daggers to your side. You were just getting ready to put your sleeping bag way when a large half woman half snake demon appeared infront of you. Her obsidian scales glittered through the strained sunlight. She didn't say anything but showed her fangs with a his and hurtled at you. You froze for a moment then dodged the attack using flexibility to curve your back in an almost extreme way. The she-serpant coiled faster than lightning around you and was squeezing around your ribs. You groan as your bones are pressed and ground. You try to break free but you can't. You reach for a dagger and pulle it out when the serpant moved it's coil to move above your head. You stabbed the flank of the snake, harshly or else it wouldn't go through. You heard a shirll of pain and the snake uncoiled around you in a flash. It lunged back at you with amzing speed, its fangs leaking the poison that could kill you in a second. You ducked under the demon's human like torso and gabbed your sword up through it's stomach and bakc.
You ran along the bottom off the snake, dragging your sword down the middle. He snake twisted and swung it's self about but you grabbed the other end of the blad protruding from the serpant's back and held on. You ran the rest of the way and sliced it in two from belly button to tail. The snake writhed in pain as it lay bleeding. There was something about the way it squirmed that gave you excitement or made your blood rush in a strange way. You wanted to make it squirm more. You walk slowly over to the head of the creature, jumping over it's thrashing tail. The face of the serpant wasn't really much, two huge red-slitted eyes and a huge mouth full of dager sized teeth. You let the blade fall onto the place where you started cutting and pressed down slightly, stopping when the tip was inside the meat of the moster. You continued walking forward, dragging the sword sunk in the flesh. You added more pressure to your stride when you hit the rib cage. The shrieking of the monster continued even as you looked at it's face. "Tell me where three humans and a demon went."
The snaked hissed and lashed out at you. You stopped the arm and pinned it down with your dagger. "Tell me." You said in a dangerous tone, you didn't recognize yourself. "I don't know! I wouldn't tell you a..." You drove your sword home through the skull silencing the demon. You spent the morning eating the fresh meat and making armor out of the scales of the snake. You buried the bones in the dirt and said a little prayer to it. It was now noon and you were looking down at a chateaux of lime stone. You saw guards standing at a draw bridge, at the top of the outer wall, at the windows, and probably more inside. You looked around in search for a way in. That's when you heard a grinding noise and some metal hitting dirt and stone. Off to your right about a hundred yards off. It had clay pots, hay, whicker baskets, and crates.
You dashed silently over to the wagon and jumped on the back. You had to hurry, the wagon was almost at the targeted location. You took the lid of a clay pot and lifted the pot itself. You put it low to the ground and emptied it's contents onto the road. It was full of seaweed. When you poured it was close enough to the ground so the splash wasn't heard. You set the bottle upright again and hid yourself in it, placing the lid back on the top. You rode around, trying not to tip over as the cart made it's way downhill. The cart came to a stop some time later and you heard voices. "Sir, we're going to check your cargo." It was a gruff voice. "Yes, sire." The old driver said. You heard foot steps coming toward the back. There was the sound of clay lids beind lifted then closed. Your lid was just about open.
"Yo! Grandpa! Go on through! It's okay guys he won't be trouble." There was a moment of silence then the light exited out of the vase. You sighed in relief and relaxed once you felt the cart move once more. The car stopped again but there was no voices, just fet everywhere. You held your breath and sat still. You felt your vase getting lifted and swung from side to side. You were set down and you heard the feet leave. You didn't hear any other feet so you dared to take a look outside the vase. You were inside a cellar, the bricks were made of lime stone and it made up the walls, cieling, floor, and steps. You saw a step down behind you but after that step was a step imerged in water. as was the step after that. After that third step there wasn't any steps. It looked like, from what you could see in the darkness, that there was a whole floor that was flooded. You looked down the corridor left and right but it was dark save the torches at either side of the stairs that led to this floor. You crawl out of the vase silently and stepped onto the stair and crouched so that you were hidden behind the vases. You pressed the earing, "Koenma, I am inside the fort. the ground level was swarmed with guards but the level below is empty. That's where I am now. The next level down is submerged in water. I can't hold my breath long enough to get a good look around." You waited a second and then heard Koenma's voice. "Okay. While drawing in your breath clap your hands together then press them against your sternum and then say 'arceo' with loosing as little breath as you can." You heard a blip sound and you quickly set to the task. You started drawing in your breath then clapped your hands and pressed them against you and you said arceo in a fast and slight breath. There was a glow and you relaxed but you couldn't breath. You just decided to trust Koenma in this one and dipped your head into the water. You didn't see anything but it was eery.
It was like walking around in a dark room lit only by the opening and in the distance from a door along the right wall at the other end of the room. Anything between you couldn't see. You lowered yourself deeper and completely submerged yourself in the dark waters. You kicked off the bottom stair and swam forward. Once you got more into the darkness you could see pillars making a makeshift walkway down the center of the room. You could see paintings on the wall of people and water and some other creatures. It looked like an Egyptian tomb. You swam forward between the pillars. Apparently the spell you chanted made you able to hold your breath for a long time or else you wouldn't have gotten near as far as you were. You stopped when you saw a long black figure dart infront of you.
You saw another blur to your left the right. You felt water swish beneath you. There was a black figure swimming under you. Feeling a pang of panic you swam forward quickly but the three figures stopped you. The things had a eel like bottom that was approxamately as long as you were tall and their upper torso were men with their fists clenched around harpoons. They started toward you at amzing speed. You started to swim down but they blocked you, you tried to swim backwards, up, left, right, forward again, but you were blocked time and time again. You pulled out your sword and held it infront of you, though it was hard to keep your position while in water.
You weren't a great swordsman, not even a good one but you were going to try anyways.
The first one with a grey tail swam forward with his harpoon pointed at you. You swam little to the side, getting nicked by the tip. You slashed at the side of the man. You got him but it was hard swinging your sward in the water. Another with a green-grey tail came at you the same way, nicking you in the same spot and making it deeper. You slashed at it but you missed. The third came from behind and barely getting you on the thigh. You swung the sword at him and got him on the back. You sheath your sword, knowing it isn't going to do any good. You pull out a dagger and swim forward, kickig your legs hard. You charged the one that attacked you from behind and it moved and was about to attack but you went behid a pillar. You kicked off it and went around the pillar infront of you then kicked off of that and shot around the lighted corner. You felt a vibration in the water and you turn and there is a metal gate in the door.
Great, now I can't get out, you thought to yourself. You just swam forward, not bothering to hide, others probably know you're there. This room was a store room it looked like. It had some chests and couches of some sort, coral in different shapes and sizes. You kept swimming, heading toward a door at the other side of the room. You went room to room, not finding the boys or any sign of them. You were at the last room in this corridor and it looked to be a bedroom. You swam to a bookcase that was there. You pulled a book and would have gasped if you could. It pivoted like a spinning door and you were on the other side of the wall. That is when you came in face with...