The Dead Player
Chapter Three, M'arrillian Turf
"This place smalls like Uncle Mark's gym bag." Michael complained while holding his nose. They were walking in dark, toxic, water that went up to Michael's chest and Abby's hips. They were using their scanners as flash lights to see in the dark and dank location they were in.
"This is actually one of the better smelling places here." stated Abby, smirking at her brother's slight discomfort. Good thing she has gotten use to the fishy smells in M'arrillian territory. Michael had already gotten the location scan now they only needed to get three other scans, one creature, one battle gear and one mugic then they would go back to Chaotic to check out their new scans.
An explosion just went off in the distance, the water began to shake, and small petals fell from the cave ceiling. The shaking made Michael fall down into the water, then the shaking stopped. Abby helped him get back up, patting him on the back to help him cough up the disgusting water.
"What was that?" he asked still coughing from the nasty water. Abby turned her head from her brother to the direction the blast came from.
"Let's find out." she said with confidence clearly heard in her voice; her brother thought one day her fearlessness was going to kill her. They began to run as fast as they could in the water. Abby could have run faster, but she wanted to make sure she did not get separated from Michael, that would be the worst thing to happen on this scan quest. Knowing him, he would continue on looking for some awesome new creature instead of porting back to Chaotic like he promised her if that did happen. The water got more and more shallow until they were running on some-what dry ground. Abby came to a complete stop, Michael not fast another to stop, ran into her. He fell down on his butt, Abby turned around to see him on the ground. She gave him a hand and he gladly took it.
"Why did you stop, Sis?" Michael asked while rubbing his back.
"Shh, be quiet, I stopped because there are M'arrillians just up ahead." she whispered to him when pointing ahead of them, Michael looked to where she was pointing and saw three M'arrillians he did not recognize. They both slowly walked, their heads down low, to get closer to the slimy creatures. "I already have scans of them, so if you want one of them go ahead, but we would need to port out of here before they see us." she said. Michael thought about it, the three creatures did look strong, but he still did not have a battle gear or mugic scan.
"No, I still want to get mugic and battle gear scans." he whispered to her.
"Alright then, I know where you could get a scan of Decelerating Requiem mugic, but we have to hurry." She quickly began to fast walk in the tunnel next to them, Michael followed her lead.
"What does a Decelerating Requiem mugic do, Sis?" Michael asked,
"I will explain it to you later, but now we have to stay focused on our goal."she answered. Michael still wanted to know more about the mugic they were going to scan, but he knew they needed to stay quiet or a M'arrillian could hear them.
Little did they know that the three creatures did hear them when Michael fell down. Using their mind powers, they alerted Corel fighters to capture them or possibly kill them on sight if they ran away. The only reason they themselves did not go after them was because they had more important things to do than go after some chaotic players.
After they had run for what seemed like a mile, Abby told Michael to stop. Michael did as he was told.
"We need to be very quiet here, Michael. This is the most dangerous place that I know of in Perim." she whispered. Michael could tell from the look in her eyes that she was not exaggerating. For the first time since they got into M'arrilian turf, fear began forming in the pit of Michael's stomach.
"Where are we and why is it so dangerous?" he asked not sure that he wanted to know.
"We are just outside the City of M'arr." she said. Michael felt like he just got hit in the head with a metal baseball bat. The City of M'arr is the capital of the, it's where Aa'une the most powerful M'arrillian. Suddenly the thought of getting new M'arrillian scans didn't sound so great right now.
Author's Note
Chapter four: A Run in with Aa'une ( It's going to be a pain to write it, so it will take a while for an update).
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