Diety's Gift : a one x one

[Mystic White Raven]

*That is correct, as long as you take care of whatever it is you take, there are no strings, no tricks, no hooks.* Not waiting for his answer, she turned and started walking away. *If you choose that path, set up camp nearby and survive. On the fourth day, you may return and claim your reward. If that is not what you wish, you have two options, try to take what you would and face Mina, or find a way back to your own land with nothing.*

[Jin Kiryu]

Taro nodded twice. He didn't expect the creature to be as generous as she was sounding, but he wasn't going to let his companion's lives be for nothing. Standing up, the young man does as he was instructed, he headed in the direction Seida told him too, arriving at a clearing by the water, free of any crocodiles. The young man set up camp, using the equipment he found off of the dead mercs. Within an hour, he had a fire roaring.

[Mystic White Raven]

Mina moved through her old campsite slowly. The invaders had changed much of it, trampled seemingly insignificant details and removed many of the old remains. Painstakingly, reverently, she began to put it all back. When she couldn't find the original, she made new until everything was more-or-less how it had been. Her own little shrine to her birth parents.

*Mina, the boy has agreed to stay away from the temple for three days and survive. I want you to look after him and protect him from anything larger then he can handle, like I did for you when you were small.* Seida said from the edge of the renewed ruins.

"But he is large, larger then I am!" Mina exclaimed.

*Larger in stature, perhaps, but only a baby in the ways of the jungle.*

Mina sighed but nodded, accepting the task.

[Jin Kiryu]

Seida watched Mina as she moved along the camp site, standing up she begins to walk towards the brushes *Mina, I see the same potential in the boy that I saw in you, if trained he could become a powerful ally.. Besides, there is much we do not know about the humans. Perhaps he shall prove useful in that asset."


The sun was beginning to set, and the temprature was dropping. Taro huddled over the fire, he could hear rustling from the brushes and gasp, reachinf for his spear. Suddenly, a black panther would leap towards him and pinned him down, quickly Taro raised his spear and used it to intercept the bite from the panther. The two struggled and rolled around, Taro fought to reclaim his weapon until he managed to hit the panther across the face with the back side of it.

The panther flung off of him, shaking his head, he snarls and runs back into the forest. Letting out a deep sigh, Taro turned to the trees "Better sleep above the ground tonight" He mutters. Climbing the tree, the young boy ties a hammock several feet above the ground. High enough to keep him safe from any poisonous insects or snakes, but low enough so that he wouldn't come into contact with anything in the trees. Climbing into the hammock, the boy quickly falls asleep/

[Mystic White Raven]

Mina collected her thoughts and then went back to where she left the boy. She picked up his trail easily and followed him to where he was located. She got there soon after the panther dashed back into the woods. She looked curiously at the path the panther left back through the woods. He had survived a panther attack? With a shrug, she turned her attention back to the boy. He climbed a tree and set up a hammock between two thick branches. In spite of herself, Mina found herself beginning to feel impressed.

[Jin Kiryu]

Taro had trouble sleeping, there was so much noise, coming through the jungle, it was hard not to be jumpy at the nearest sound. Morning couldn't come fast enough. When the sun rose, Taro knew what his first duties were: Gather food. Everyone that came on the expedition was trained, they knew what kind of different plants there were, what fruits and mushrooms were edible, and how to lay traps for prey. Within an hour, he had already caught himself a wild boar, ensnared in one of his traps, which already began to roast on an open spit.

[Mystic White Raven]

Mina growled in frustration. Surviving the jungle should not be this easy for this human. Surely there would be SOMETHING he would have issues with. As it was, he seemed to know all the right moves, all the right ways to do it. Wild boar's could slaughter several people with hardly any trouble, she had seen it happen once before, but this single boy... how did he do it?

((hey, if you godmode your character I'm not gonna have anything to do! biggrin ))

[Jin Kiryu]

One wild boar would be more then enough to keep the young man fed for three days, but there was no telling how long he was going to be in the jungle for. The young man broke the boar into pieces using a machete, and stored in his pouch. Food wasn't going to be an issue...survival on the other hand was.

The jungle was a lot more dangerous then he thought. Twice he lost his footing, nearly plumeting to his death. And more times then often, he had a few nasty r un ins with a crocodile, he nearly escaped the encounter but as a result, he lost his weapon and most of his rations. By the third day, Taro was beaten, end exhausted. Over head, he could hear thunder booming, and before he knew it, a torrential sheet of rain began o beet down violently.