Remembering how nice Luna has been to me during our time as a team, I grab my staff and teleport back to the last town we were together in, and ride the horse out of town in the direction we were heading before we all split up.

(OoC: Sorry for the failure to update. I got caught up watching lilwildwolf's stream. On a side note, check it out sometime. http://www.twitch.tv/djinn8345 He lists the stream times on that page. Anyway, I will update tomorrow at 2. Thanks for your patience)

"We must hurry, she breaths heavily and her pulse is weak!" says Quhark.
"A dragon's blood has strong regenerative abilities, maybe I can keep her alive a bit longer." said Quhark, cutting a small wound on his arm to give her the blood.

(OoC: again, hectic schedules and other difficulties have arisen. I will update when able. So sorry, everyone.)

Eirinn : (ooc: I'll be out all day tomorrow, so I'm fine with no updates.)

The man walked them towards the waterfall.

"We're here," he said. He waved his hand open, and the waterfall slightly opened, revealing a town. "This is Walsko. I am the town manager. I rule over this town, preventing outsiders who threaten the peace of this town from entering. No one but me and one other person can open the gate, aka the waterfall, to the town."

He points to a building that says Medic.

"Over there is where your friend can be healed. As long as she doesn't die, her wounds can be healed. Our medic is the best on the planet."

The man began to walk away. "Don't cause any trouble, or I'll have to kill you all...the name's Alex, by the way."

Alex disappeared, closing the waterfall as he exited the town.

Riding the horse as hard and fast as I can I make it to a forest like area I can hear a river in the distance but no sign of anyone else. Getting discouraged from my search, I head into the forest, kicking the horse to have it go a bit faster, the horse rides up onto two legs bucking me off. Not having patience to deal with a horse with an attitude I attack the horse to make it learn whose the boss here. "Icle !" I cast a chilling breeze at the horse, accidentally killing it. "No ! You stupid horse !! Get up. Now !" Kicking the horse to get it up, the horse remains lying on the ground. I walk away from the horse angrier than before when I went in search of everyone, I set fire to a few trees in order to get the teams attention hoping that they are in the area and would come to put out the fires. Searching the forest for any sign of life.

As they get Sael to the medic. Quhark thinks for himself: "I think I should explore this place, this might be a trap."
Quhark silently leaves the group and crawls up to the rooftops with his hood on, where he starts looking for something of interest while avoiding detection.

"Hey, here's the medic, ohyeahI'llkillyouall BYE NOW!...What a lovely little guy." Emmy mocked the manager as they rushed Luna to the E.R.

Alex closed the waterfall, and began to walk away from Walsko.

"Those fools," Alex thought to himself. "They just don't get it. They don't understand what will happen if they mess with my town."

He turned his head around at the closed waterfall. "They really think that my town is a trap huh? How pathetic...then again, they seem like the type of people to think something like that.

Alex turned away from the waterfall and looked down at the ground.

"But that doesn't matter. As long as they don't do anything to disrupt the peace of Walsko, there shouldn't be a problem...

"That guy though...Quhark...what is he looking for? There's no possible way that he could know about it's existence...only I and the other guy does..."

Alex was tempted to return to the town and see what they were doing. But he continued to walk away from the waterfall. "It shoudln't be a problem. They can't find it, and I'll be watching their every move, so I'll be able to come after them should anything go wrong. In the meanwhile, it's time to meet her..."

Alex dashed through the forest to the place where he first met the strange group. "They disrupted me. I wonder if I should've helped them in the first place. I hope I don't get there too late..."

"Hmmm... there are no people on the streets. Where is eveybody?" thought Quhark to himself.
"I better get back to the others. I hope they are fine, this world is dangerous." thought Quhark when suddenly he seen something interesting in a house's window...

Jamie

After trying to attract his friend's attention, but having no luck, Jamie has another idea. He teleports himself to Pior, and heads for the woman that told them of Sael's whereabouts, in hopes that she can direct him to his friends.

As he walked into the building she was in, he finds her seated with her back to him, looking at something on the table in front of her.

"Hello, Jamie" She says, without so much as looking his way.

"How did you..." Jamie begins, confused "oh yeah. Ms. Diela...I lost my friends, but you probably knew that, huh? Well anyway, I need you to help me find them, if you could."

"I did not know that." Diela says "I only know things when I am near the ones that those things affect. My powers are limited after all. But I can tell you now where your friends are. They are in the hidden town of Walsko. This town is located...well, that isn't important. You cannot access this town on your own. However..." Lady Diela trails off.

"Yes?" says a curious, and anxious Jamie.

"I can teleport you there. But first, I must tell you...Sael...is dying" Diela says heavily.

"WHAT?!? What happened??? I never should have left!" Jamie says, going from shock, to confusion, to frustration with himself, all in a matter of a few seconds.

"What happened is not important for now." Diela begins "What matters is that the doctors that are working on her, cannot help her. Her wounds were self inflicted, and by a powerful ancient magic at that. You, however, have recently recieved a great and powerful light magic, and you can use that magic to heal her."

"I can?? How? Tell me, please!" Jamie pleads, beside himself, and filled with so many emotions that he can't even begin to determine what exactly he's feeling.

"There are a few things you need to know first" Lady Diela explains, in her usual serene voice "The magic resides in you, but it cannot remain there, nor be fully utilized as you currently are. It is a light magic that you have been endowed with of late, but you were already a user of dark magic. Both have their merits, and can work together to complete the forces of magic, but they cannot dwell together within the same person. You must have one or the other."

"What...what does that all mean?" Jamie asks, as he tries to soak all of this new information in.

"It means," Diela explains "that you can use this newly acquired magic to save Sael, but to do so, you must renounce any and all of your dark magic. Do you still want to do it? This is a big decision, as you will have to learn magic all over again, and all you have learned, will be of no use to you any longer."


What does Jamie do?
- Renounce the dark magic, and save Sael

- Difficult as it is, he must let Sael die. It is too dangerous to abandon his dark magic and learn all over again while on this quest.


Jabbin, Juilen, Sael, Luna, and Quhark

Quhark returns to find the others sitting around the outside of the hospital, looking downcast.

"They can't save her." Juilen says, as though in a daze.

"What? And why not?" Quhark asks, as frustration builds inside of him.

"The bleeding won't stop. They've tried everything. And now, we wait for her to die." Luna answers. Deep inside, she blames herself for this, though Sael chose to do it.

"And there is nothing we can do?" Quhark asks.

"Not a thing." Juilen says.

As the group sits in silence and mourns, they hear a sound coming from the distance.

Guards. They come with weapons in hand.

"Outsiders are not welcome in our town. Get out!" The head guard shouts.

"But sir, we're" Juilen begins to explain.

"I care not to hear another word from ya. Get out now, or taste our blades." The guard orders, as they continue advancing.

"We will go nowhere." Jabbin growls "I suggest you leave my mates and I alone, lest a terrible fate befall you".

The guards hesitate just long enough for everyone to ready their weapons, but soon find their nerve again.

"We'll destroy the lot of you, starting with you, ya filthy goblin! Your kind is a blemish on the Earth!" The guard shouts, as he and his men charge.

(Jabbin -3 Health (below half. Begins strength multiplier), Juilen -2 Health, Luna and Quhark take no damage. Tell us how the battle unfolded)


Toot

There before his eyes, it's Jamie, but Jamie doesn't even acknowledge him. Toot is furious.

"Ya stole my horse, and now that I've tracked you down, you won't even apologize or look at me?" Toot says, outraged.

Jamie looks at him indignantly.

"I have never seen you in my life, man! How dare you accuse me of such a crime!" Jamie says, looking at Toot as though he is beneath him.

"Say what?!? And to think, I came to help you find Scott!" Toot exclaims, practically shouting.

Suddenly, a look of revelation comes over Jamie's face.

"Scott? I...I am Scott. And I take it, you know my brother..." Scott says, curiously.

"Scott?? Well then, where is Jamie?" Toot asks, confused as to how he missed him.

"How should I know? I haven't seen him since he left as a young child." Scott answers, sounding cold. "Is he looking for me?"

"Aye. He's been searching all over for you." Toot says, expecting that he's bringing good news.

"Well...this should be interesting." Scott says, as he signals to a few men that have gathered behind him. The men walk up to Toot, and capturing him, drag him to the prison. Upon locking him in, the men leave, with a final word from Scott.

"You should do as bait just fine. Jamie will certainly come looking for you, and his senses will lead him here. Perfect." Scott says with a wicked smile, and walks out.

When he is sure that no one is near, Toot works on trying to escape, but with no weapons or tools near him, it proves a difficult challenge. Still, Toot is not deterred.


Alex

As he travels into the setting sunlight, Alex can't help but wonder if he has done the right thing, exposing his town to people. He eases his mind, telling himself that if they cause any trouble, the guards will stop them.

As he journeys on, he admires the scenery, and looks at the strange shadows that the setting sun makes, shining against the trees. As he looks longer, he sees that one of the shadows is indeed a man, and he seems to come with ill intent for Alex.

"Not again...alright, let's get this over with" Alex says, as he readies his blade.

Sure enough, the man is out for Alex' blood.


(Alex -3 Health (below half. Begin ability.) Tell us all about it. )


Cross

Cross (formerly called him Callus. Sorry about that.) manages to sneak into the town, while Alex' back is turned. The waterfall closes back behind him, and Cross momentarily wonders about his predicament. The action ahead of him (the adventurers fighting with the guards) gets his attention quickly however, and he soon gets closer to the action, trying to get a better view.

Alas, a pirate cannot help but enjoy the action when he sees a fight, and Cross quickly jumps in, and begins attacking whoever is nearest, caring not which side they are on.


(Cross -2 health. Tell us how the battle went.)


(OoC: Since the paths of the various characters have split so much, I will only be updating once a day (10 p.m.ish) until the paths merge more, as it takes a long time to write each storyline. Also, I apologize if I forgot anybody in this update.)

*OoC - Understandable update schedule change. Thanks for letting us know.*

"All of it ?"
"All of it," She says.
"Why am I the only one that has to sacrifice everything in order to help people ?!" Rage flaring in Jamie's eyes, he remembers when he had to give up looking for Scott in order to help his team and now he has to give up his powers for them.. "Do it," Jamie says. "Are you sure ?" She replies. "Just do it before I change my mind !" "You know you're this angry because the darkness inside of you is being threatened." "I said Just Do It !!!"

Ms. Diela creates a spherical motion with her hands creating a big orb of yellow. Gently, she pushes the orb into my chest. As soon as the orb touches my chest, the nerves in my entire body flare and I crouch over in pain. Ms. Diela quickly pushes the rest of the orb into my chest. My nerves flare even more, feeling like my skin is being torn and ripped from my body. The darkness looks like waves of black with red on the edges of that wave. Ms. Diela grabs a black orb from under her table and puts it onto the table. The darkness, as it was instinctive to it, nearly immediately getting vacuumed into the orb and trapped. Ms. Diela, picks up my staff, that I had laying on the ground, and she taps orb on top of it to the orb on the table, draining it of the Dark Creature it had previously absorbed. "The light is rewriting your 'corrupt' biological DNA, give it time you need to rest," she says. As Jamie reaches forward to touch the orb of darkness as if it was calling to me, she slaps my hand away. "Do not touch that. You can't touch dark magic yet or you will die. You will absorb from the orb and that will fight the light in your body.
"I need to keep going. Teleport me to the town of... whatever you called it. Please." "You're not rested." "Please, do it now." With a stubborn look on her face she gives me just enough time to grab my staff before she teleports me to the town of Walsko. Where I see the team fighting some guards, not yet healthy enough and having no knowledge of my new magic I crouch down behind a mini hut near the entrance of the town and sit onto the ground, resting for a bit.

*OoC - I'm waiting until the fight is over and then I'll show myself to everyone.*

< OoC >Whay does -3 Health Below Half mean anyway?

As for abilities, how many am I allowed to have and are there restrictions?< / end OoC >

Alex sees the man approaching him.

"It was foolish of you to follow me with the obvious intent to kill. And now you're going to die. Let's see..." Alex firmly gripped his sword. "If you're lucky...you'll see a second strike!"

Alex began to charge toward the enemy, who stood in a defensive stance.

"A defensive stance won't help you. PREPARE TO DIE!"

Back at the medic: Quhark's hearth starts pumping, his eyes turn dark purple and scales change to eerie black as his personality took the evil, raging form of Quhark.

Quhark's voice turns from a cheerful kid's, to an evil lord's. Then he says with a tone that freezes Luna in place:  "How cute, humans came to play with their toothpicks."

Quhark grabs nearby furniture and with the incredible speed of his evil form he smashes the furniture with the heads of the nearby guard knocking him unconscious. 
Also this distracts Jabbin getting himself a serious wound.

After the fight Quhark turns back to normal and says: "What just happened to me? This power is impredictible and evil, I could hurt anybody. The beast inside was unleashed!"

[OoC] I've missed a few updates, so being captured is pretty new news to me. Lol. No matter. [OoC] 

Toot is absolutely confused. 

"This is sincerely the last time I will EVER help someone, besides myself. I do not care how selfish that sounds, but I am unable to help someone without bad things happening." 

Toot attempts to bend the bars, but to no avail. He then takes off his belt, and keeps it hidden. A guard passes by, checking on the other prisoners who were there for who knows how long; many of them were asleep, or possibly dead. As the guard passes by Toot's cell, Toot whips his belt around the guard's throat, suffocating him. Toot viciously grabs the guard's keys out of his hands and opens the cell door. Toot then stuffs the guard into the cell with a gag, and ties his hands and feet together. 

Toot looks around for his weapons, but they are no where to be seen. 

"Are you looking for your weapons, young sir?" 

"Who was that?" Toot asks.

"'Tis me, young sir. I was captured...15 years ago. Just about when you were a young one, I suppose. Anyways, the guards smelt all weapons in the furnace. I am afraid your weapon is long gone. Was a fine piece of craftsmanship too." 

"Wow...15 years...what have you done to deserve such punishment..sir?" Toot asks.

"No no, I have done nothing wrong..at least in my eyes. I was captured by the government, and they joyfully tossed me around to a few different people. I have managed to find myself in the cells of what's-his-name..Scott. It was unfortunate. I was in a jail house with not too many others...a strong burly figure, a beautiful and fierce girl of your age presumably, a young man, maybe in his twenties, who is probably the happiest man I have ever seen who is in jail, and a young girl, with brown hair and green eyes. The gua-"

"My sister! That is my sist-"

"Keep it down, young sir! You will attract the guards."

"So-sorry sir. Wait, here, let me get you out of there." 

Toot tosses the keys around, trying to find the right key. After a while, he finds the right one, and helps the strange old man out. 

"Thank you, young sir. May I ask, what is your name?" the old man asks.

'I have a feeling I can trust this man. Should I tell him my real name? He seems to have been captured by the government, and only the government captures rebels. My real name might spark something in him, for he might be a rebel himself...no, I won't tell him my name yet. Only time will tell when I can trust him. I can trust no one.' 

"My name's Toot. Nice to meet you." 

"Toot eh? That certainly is...unique. We must be on our ways now. I sincerely thank you for your help - I am in your debt youn-"

"No no, none of that nonsense now. And...instead of 'our ways', how about 'our way'? Maybe we can join up as a team..you have a lot of knowledge, and I have the sword skills. We can help the rebels, and even rescue my sister." 

"...why not, eh? I'd love to get back on my feet and fight a few windbags...see what they have to say about an old man kicking their tiny little butts!" 

"Wait, you don't mean you can actually still fight -" 

"Of course I can, you little nit wit! Don't judge a book by its cover. Now let's go!" 

"Come on guys...If you would just listen for a momen-" A guard swung his sword at Juilen, nearly cutting him in half. "What is it with guards and not wanting to listen?" Juilen sighed as he hoisted up his hammer, and snapped another guard's spear, which should have stopped him, but instead just gave him a more dangerous piece of cracked wood to poke into Juilen's flesh as he raised his hammer up again. He yelped at the sudden strike, and lost control and accidentally hurled his hammer, hitting another guard in the head. As he went to pick it back up another guard tackled him. He pulled out the broken rod and ripped up the clothes of the guard, to where he was nearly defenseless (And pant-less). "A little help please?!" He yelled.

Luna stays back, doing everything she can to make sure that Sael cannot be harmed, swinging at any guard that comes close.

"Walsko!" Alex turned his head towards the waterfall. "Damn that kid. Messing with my town. I'm going to kill him...but I have to meet her first."

He turned back to the man who still stood in a defensive position. He said, "Normally, I'd kill you. But since I'm in a bit of a rush, you're lucky. But if I see you again, I cannot promise that you will leave alive."

Alex put his sword away. He began to walk past the man. The man swung his sword toward Alex, but Alex caught it with his hand.

"How unfortunate...you actually had a chance to live." He took out his sword and pushed the man away. He brought the sword to his left shoulder and said, "Sword Technique No. 1! DEATH BLADE!"

Alex swiped across the air, and the man he was fighting collapsed. It was obvious that he was dead.

"looks like luck wasn't on your side this time." Alex put his sword away and continued to his destination.

(OoC: MegaManManiac, I didn't mean to run that all together, sorry. -3 health just meant that you lost 3 health points. Below Half meant that you have less than half of your health remaining. As for abilities, each class gets a single ability, and you, being melee class, get a double strength boost when you drop below half of your health. Health regenerates after every in-game morning. Each day is equal to two updates, as is each night, as long as I remember. xD)

Juilen, Luna, Jamie, Quhark, and Jabbin

When the dust settles, guards are left scattered, and the heroes are left victorious-- wounded, but victorious.

"Well, I don't suppose we could have picked a better place to fight at, than just outside of the hospital, eh?" Jabbin says. "Now if only we hadn't just knocked their guards around a bit, they might 'ave helped us" he adds with a grin.

Seeing the battle ended, Jamie stumbles out of his place, and toward his friends.

"Jamie!" Juilen cries, startled. "How did you get here? What happened to you? Are you hurt?"

"I'm alright. Where is Sael?" Jamie asks, getting straight to the point, in hopes that he can help in time.

"She's in there" Luna gestures toward the hospital door. "She isn't doing well, Jamie..."

"I know, and I'm here to help her." Is his simple reply.

"But she can't be..." Juilen says.

"I can help her. Trust me. Now show me to her, please." Jamie says, sounding desperate.

Luna knows enough of magic to know that dark magic can't heal Sael's wounds, but seeing his determination, she can't deny Jamie the visit he desires. And so it is that she leads Jamie to Sael's bedside, but what follows, none of them saw coming.

Jamie grabs Sael's hand, closes his eyes, and begins to focus very hard, so hard that sweat begins to build on his face. Soon, he seems to be straining something inside of himself, and a faint glow begins to come from him, that grows brighter as he continues to strain. After a few moments more, the glow turns into several swirling beams of light that resemble the twisted bolts of lighting that fill the sky on a stormy night, they form a ball shape that envelops their hands. As they twirl faster, Sael begins to wake, and only moments later, the light fills the room, only it is more than just light, it's tangible. When the light dies down, and is completely gone, Sael's wounds are healed, as are the wounds that everyone sustained in their last battle. The only one not at their peak now, is Jamie, who is even more exhausted than before.

"Jamie! How did you do that?" Luna asks, her amazement showing.

"I'll explain later," Jamie answers "just...get me someplace where I can rest. I suspect we won't be welcome here once they see what happened with the guards."

"Huh? What...what happened to the guards? What guards? Where are we?" Sael asks as the odd situation begins to sink in.

"All very good questions, milady," Says Jabbin "and there will be plenty of time to answer them all...once we find ourselves a suitable hiding place. We'll soon be swamped with guards if we don't. Of that, I have no doubt."

And with that, the heroes set off for a place in the many catacombs of the town, where they might find a place to rest for the night, unnoticed. They only hope that such a place exists.


Alex

Alex journeys on, hoping that he makes it in time. As he continues on his way, the night falls, and he finds himself running to reach his destination before he is too late.

Soon enough, he sees his destination in sight, and his gladness to be there finally, allows for him to run with renewed vigor.

Finally, he sees her just ahead. He had made it!

(OoC: I apologize for the lackluster update for you. I'm not sure who or what she is, or where you're going. I'll be more useful as soon as I see more from your character)


Cross

"Well that was fun." Cross says with a bloody lipped smile, as he sheathes his blade.

Cross begins to take a look around the town, but finds nothing of any interest, until he sees a bright light coming from the hospital window, and filling the street. Curiousity getting the best of him, Cross heads back to the hospital. He walks up to the door just as the heroes exit.

"So what exactly is going on here?" Cross asks as he looks at the team, who has one member more than they did a few minutes ago.

"And how is it any of your business?" Jabbin says defensively.

"Easy there, old boy." Cross says "I'm just a chap out looking for some adventure. You folks seem like a rowdy crowd, and I thought maybe I could come along with ya, for a bit."

"We're not 'rowdy', and we don't plan to be spending our time with the likes of you." Luna says plainly.

"Alright, just as well." Cross says, as he heads toward the waterfall. "I need ta be gettin' back to my ship anyway."

Luna freezes.

"Did you just say you had a ship?" She asks.

"Aye. Why d'ya ask?" Cross says as he turns back to the group.

"We could use the transportation. He could give us a ride back to the other shores, and save us the perils of searching for a safe place to cross back over the river." Luna says to her friends.

"I can't exactly hear ya whisperin' all the way over there." Cross says.

After a few moments of talking, the group agrees with Luna that they need the transport.

"Can we come with you, as far as the next coastline to the East of here?" Luna asks.

"Well...I suppose ya could, if you don't mind being around the likes of me." Cross answers with a grin.

"I think we can manage" Luna says. "But first, we need to get some rest. Our friend here is exhausted.

The group then continues to search for a hidden place among the catacombs.


Toot

As Toot and his friend sneak out of the jail, Toot spies a couple of guards making their rounds. Toot and the man he feed, hide in the shadows. As the guards pass by them, they leap out, and grabbing them from behind,
snap their necks. As they drag their bodies off into the woods, they each grab one of their swords.

"This should come in handy." Toot says, as he looks at the blade in his hand.

As they scout the area from the woods, Toot sees a member of the Elite squadrons wandering around the streets, obviously something weighs heavily on his mind.

"I wonder if he was part of the group that had my sister..." Toot wonders aloud. "If so, he might know where she is now..."