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Pausing to catch her breath the whitesmith appeared next to her friends on level 6. This map proved to be a PURE ANNOYANCE. They silently walked down the torch-lit hallways avoiding pieces of rubble and killing the few monsters that crossed thier path.
The miniature map showed what should've been a small, short passageway that lead to a even bigger one which led straight to the next level, but when they saw the gap there they sighed in despair, they would have to jump.
Two loud shrieks errupted from somewhere behind the group they turned around to see two Deathwords floating twoards them at speeds that rivaled a Baphomets. They quickly jumped over the ledge, but as Isamu landed on thier temporary safe zone he cried out in pain.
The two Deathwords, had broken his armor and when he landed it lodged into his heart, the tiny tip of the armor scratched against the other side of the fist-sized organ, slowly piercing through. They chould do nothing but watch, niether of them having the guts or strength to put him out of his misery.
So as Isamu, a once great crusader took his last few breaths that sounded as if he was whistling, tears racing down his face, Aya took his sword, his newly aquired necklace, his helmet, and finally, his bracelet, passed down through his family, and promised to give it to his Wife, Ai. (I deem this the WORST paragraph in the whole chapter, my writing sucks)
When Isamu died they took rubble that they found scattered across the ground
and made a make-shift coffin for him. They layed his sword on top of the
stone casing and placed his helmet atop of that. each gave thier blessings,
in hopes that it would help his soul rest in peace, and set off.
Aya Pocketed the necklace that Isamu got that very day, oblivious to the fact that it was the cause of her friends untimely demise.
When they tried to enter the 7th level, they just walked ontop of the a platform, the walls shook from the intensity of the voice. "You have to gather 4 types of keys to enter the 7th floor. Give me the key of red, yellow, blue & green." It commanded, the deep voice echoing across what seemed like the whole level.
Yasu shuffled around in her cart for a while before emerging with 3 keys.
"I got them from the plasmas(1)" she answered thier un-said question as she
looked around, "We need to find a blue Plasma to get the blue key"
She commented and she darted off twoards the floating blue orb.
Before she could reach the blue lightning ball a purplish form apeared before her. It hoverd silently above the stone floor it two legs slowly formed into crude high heals tapped against the ground every few seconds making it seem like the monster was performing a odd dance.
With her left hand on her waist and the right holding her mask up you
could swear she was doing a demonic version of 'I'm a little teapot.
"Prepare to meet your doom" she said in a deep, whispery voice with a
slight 'transylvanian' accent. The orange lines that ran up her sides seemed
to glow brighter as the dark whisps made of pure dark energy seemed to
float up and out of her body at a faster pace.
She took the hand that was holding her mask up, and in a mere second she thrust it twoards Yasu at lightning speed, she baerely had time to dodge. The hand went back to holding that white mask up again. Then before the whitesmith could regain her composure the hand thrust twoards her again this time shoving her back a good 3 feet.
Growling Yasu raised her Tomahawk to the sky and yelled "Hammer Fall"
The Maero was stunned, good, "Mammomite!"she called as zeny litterally
started swirling around her axe, she then sliced her weapon across
the fire-colored lines that painted the monsters body. The Maero
evaporated into nothingness, the eagle mask dropping to the ground, the
fading away.
Yasu gaped at the amulet that she saw before her, she had no clue what it was, but it looked like the one Isamu had, only this one had a stone that was purple enough to make even the best merchant swear that a goddess plucked it out of one of those rare morning skies in the early day while the sun was just floating over the fields of Geffen.
"Maybe...this is a Amulet of Good luck?" she stupidly thought as she placed it around her neck. A retribution in the shadows smirked, a familiar Fireblend clutched in his fists. "The Fragment of Sorrow..." he whispered to the wind as he continued to silently stalk the group of people who were his friends when he still existed in the world of the living.
When they finally got through to the 7th floor it was CHAOS monsters were everywhere! They all quickly decided to Teleport to a 'safe place'. Also known as the stairs leading up to the tower, no monsters dared to go up there.
Yasu sat in a corner on level 7, they wouldn't make it out of here,
they might as well kill themselves right now it was hopeless! This was
only level SEVEN out of 12! and even then who says Thanatos is a nice guy?
Never in Yasu's life had she felt so terribly, and utterly alone. "YASU"
came the scream of Amaya, and thats the last thing she heard before she
was engulfed into the very blackness that had consumed her mind and soul.
Amaya took out her whip and screamed 'Vulcan Arrow!', mercilessly launching the skill twice a stream of arrows shot out at the Odium that had spread his arms and summoned the three, black, tar-like waves that engulfed her friend, leaving behind the necklace that she had worn only a few minuets ago.
The Odium's dark body swirrled then dissapated, as if it never eisted,
leaving behind two amulets, Yasu's and one practically identical only
this one had a blue gem that reminded Amaya of Yasu's eyes.
Sadness is a odd odd thing, so odd infact it was able to trick a very sane Gypsy into making the two necklaces into bracelets by winding the twine around her wrists, they gave her a sense of security, as if Yasu was still with her. She was like a sister to her, the mourning Gypsy took out a handfull of fly wings,and crushed one instantly teleporting to a random place.
Not too far from the scene, A Solance, with hair bluer then the sky itself spoke, in a language unknown to many humans, and ever so quietly, in a sad voice, she said "The Fragment of Hatred".
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Chapter 2 done and done Oo;
(1): This isn't the real answer to the door, there are really machines (Well,
kinda like machines, circly-machinbe like things), you talk to them and they
give you the keys, and sometimes they turn the keys into stones.