V-A. Tacos and Tortilla Chips, The Mexico Mission (Seth, Roviden)

It was dank, humid, hot and incredibly dark. He couldn't see past the light the geek was caring. The only thing he could decipher was a desecrated doorway, it absent of any light.

"Great...another "unknown" passage way. ...huuurrrah" He breathed sarcastically, all the while rolling his eyes in annoyance.

He turned to Seth, but then notice the geek was paying attention to somethine else all together.

The runes.

"Amulet?...." Roviden thought. Sounded about right. He didn't comment....he hardly understood was was written.

He looked at the runes, squinting to get a better vision. It was still quite dark.
None of the characters, besides the ones Seth already read out, seemed familiar.

There really wasn't anything else he coudl do there, instead he moved closer to the door.

An cautiously push on the surface.

((Gm-sama or Seth....will it open?))

Another set. He needed another set to decipher everything. It looked familiar though, but he just couldn't pin it down on something. He placed the pen in his mouth and started flipping through the pages of his notebook, hoping that he probably deciphered the same thing in the past.

The sound of movement made him glance up from his notebook and frowned.

Roviden was, once again, poking around the place. This, didn't sit well with him, considering the last time the demon touched something in the temple Seth ended up being tossed around the place.

" Ngi ngu nguff..." He paused and pulled the pen from his mouth. " Will you stop that?" He said. " I'd rather not knock you back to sense again."

Or lack there off...

(( Roviden? Gm-sama?))

The huge stone door, partly open, slides easily with Roviden's push...for a few inches. Its wide enough to be entered easily without feeling the squeeze,and it offered a you better view of what lies inside.

It was a huge room...a huge, almost empty room. At the center appears to be a standing...monument? Statue? Something you can't make out yet, and its surrounded by what appeared to be spears, a lot of those impaling the thing.

But what caught your eye was the corpses of what you judged to be, from their clothes and gear, Johnny's co-workers. And they look like all the life force and fluids from their bodies are sucked away, leaving only a husk of bone and blackened skin...

(( Anyone? ^^ ))

He flinched when the doors slid open, and the sounds of the door scraping on the rocky floor wasn't easy on his nerves either. Seth, sat there with his hand griping his pen tightly until it stopped moving.

Through the darkness, he could make out the silhouette of what looked like a statue. It was a good thing nothing came barreling out of the room and started attacking them. That was good, maybe their luck was starting to get better--

As some of the light from their torches illuminated some parts of the room, he noticed what looked like the the remnants of what they saw outside of the temple. The only difference was the fact that their clothing was more recent... more...

Seth took a shaky breath and stomped down whatever emotion that was trying to fight his way to him. He didn't need to be emotional right now, it just wouldn't help.

" Johnny, your team... are-- were they, your team?" He asked calmly as he pocketed his pen and notebook.

While he was asking, he was already trying to sense anything from inside the room, anything that would shed light into their current situation and what happened to the unfortunate archeology team that Johnny was with.

(( Roviden? Gm-sama? ))

Roviden knew his stuborness would get the better of him one day...he just knew it.
But that didn't mean it had to be today.

Seth had mumbled a warning to him, to which he ignored. He knew he had to listen to the geek one day. He just knew it....but again...it didn't mean it had to be today.

"Damn...I miss that blue haired fey..." He whispered. And quickly corrected himself "Imeanthefemaleversionofthebluehairedfey!!!"

The half-demon nearly flinched at the sight. The place was gruesome...and painfully familiar. Scenes similar or exactly like this was often present in his world. IT was something he utterly loathed. IT was utterly piontless.

Another reason he left..

He turned back to see that the geek had also taken a good look at the inside of the room.

"Damn...that's one gross interior"

He moved forward towards the room, stopping midway.

"Well?" He asked, offering his hand to the geek" Ya coming?"

((Anyone))

This post has been edited by hiddenpsyche on March 23, 2009 12:14 am

Seth in turn, rolled his eyes to the high heavens.

" Well, I AM sorry for being your partner for this mission, but I HAD to make sure you do your reading or we might as well just get ourselves killed NOW to save the principal from killing us because YOU didn't study." He replied coldly.

He tried once again to sense for anything inside the room, hopefully catching anything else other than the feedback that was making his headache worse. It would be best for all of them to know anything that can potentially kill them, before the demon barges and ticking off whatever it was that killed the archeologists.

The spells he cast on himself was still taking effect, he made sure of it before finally nodding to Roviden. He didn't take the demon's hand though.

" DO try to be careful, Roviden." He said. " We're not on a field trip."

(( Anyone? ))

Roviden stared down at his untouched hand. The geek flew passed him. An incredible feat seeing as how small the passageway was to the other room.

He stared at the johnny group and gave them an annoyed glare.

"well, pick it up people!"

His voice sounded a little more intense than necessary. He admitted quietly that he did feel a bit hurt that the geek ignored his...offer.

Brushing the said hand across his hair, then resting it unto the side pocket of his pants, he reluctantly followed the geek.

((Anyone))

The Johnnys rappelled downwards the pit, one by one. They also became eerily silent as they made their way towards you. Then they stopped, just outside the doorway, mumbling something about "It doesn't feel right to go in," and how something is stopping them from taking another step. The group just stood outside, looking uncertain and upset, seemingly without reason.

Inside the room, youn investigate further. The fires of your torches cast an eerie glow around the yellowish stone walls. A glint by the base of the statue catches your eye - a small tool, it seems, but that is not what made you stop in your tracks.

Clutching the tool is the corpse of a young man with the same drained and husky appearance as the other corpses. Judging from his equipment and uniform, he was a part of the team of archaeologists. Pinned on him is an I.D. with Johnny's picture and the name - Johnny Muertos.

You have found the corpse of the original Johnny.

Also, it looks like the "statue" has found new prey as it slowly tilts its head towards you two...

You only have a second to react before the statue lunges at either of you with its wicked-looking dagger.

He could hear the Johnnys head down the tunnel as well, quite reluctantly too, and Roviden getting mad for something or other. All of which he ignored as he looked around the room to see if he could find anything that would shed light into whatever happened here.

As he was about to pass the dehydrated corpses of the archeology team he lifted his torch to get a better look of the statue that was behind the bodies.

Seth paused when he noticed something catch the light of his torch. Looking down, he realized he just located another unfortunate casualty from the team. This one seemed to be holding something in his hand.

Hoping that it might be a clue, he knelt down and tried to pull the tool off the poor man's hand as carefully as he could.

Whilst doing so, he lit most of the man's body and something else caught his eye. Something that he figured it was probably the trick of light or he was just too upset with their current state that he didn't read it properly.

He reached for the man's ID.

He could feel his blood turn to ice and he reread the name again.

" ... Johnny...?" He said out loud, confirming the picture in the ID as the people they have been with since the start of the mission.

How...?

Before he could say anything else, he felt something infront of him shift it's weight slightly.

Knowing that everyone ELSE was behind him, if not still entering the room, he was certain that it wasn't someone from their group...

His sword erupted from his hand in a flash of light just as he raised himself up to position to block the attack.

" Everyone move back...!" He called out. " There's something in here!"

He hoped the rest of the group were still out of the place, atleast there'd be less people to worry about.

((Roviden? Gm-sama?))

This post has been edited by Seth on May 07, 2009 09:36 am

Roviden stop dead. Was the geek reading the car right?

He moved forwards towards Seth. His surrounding forgotten for a breif moment.

"Woah...What the Fu..." His senses were buzzing strongly, and his instincts auomatically gave way.

He rushed towards the geek and grabbed his arm. Shoving the smaller form towards him and away from the powerful energy aimed to wards the human.

Roviden's skin suddenly felt the sensitive divine flow that radiated from Seth as his "holy" sword appeared before him.

He hissed, but did not let go of the human.

He stared at his surrounding, one hand grasping the geek's forearm and forcing him towards the exit.

"Lets get out of here now!!"

((Seth?GM-Sama?))

He braced himself to catch the weapon with his sword, his brain already plotting his next move and he positioned himself to push his opponent away from him (and therefore the group behind him) giving him ample time to see WHAT attacked him and at the same time give time for the Johnnys (and probably Roviden, he wasn't really keen on working with the demon still) to get away while he handled the attacker.

Seth already said get back so, hopefully they'd follow what he said and run away, or atleast move away from him until he defused the situation.

What he DIDN'T expect was a hand shooting out of nowhere, clamping on his arm and pulling him back just as he charged forward after deflecting the attack. That same person threw a few energy blasts at the attacker, after which, he felt himself get roughly pulled back even more and was unceremoniously dragged away from the battle.

What in the...

Well that explained the dragging, normally running away would be a good option but they were on a mission, and it normally meant fighting things like these, especially to save other people from falling into a trap like this.

" Roviden...! Just bring the Johhnys out of here, I'll take care of it!" He tried to wriggle free but the demon had his whole arm around his arm like bloody vice.

((Roviden? Gm-sama?))

The silent moment that followed lasted a life-time for the demon.

He remained poker-faced, yet his eyes wandered solely at the human's face.

"Yeah..." Roviden let go, throwing both hands in the air in defeat. " Whatever you say....PRINCESSS"

The Johnny's were looking as anxious as he was.

"Come here and help us already!!!"

((Gm-sama? Seth))