|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:33 pm
*Eve tumbled to the ground and got quicly to her feet, "Hikari the rest is up to you. Keria lets roll!" She started to take off toword the others leaving hikari to deal with the remains of cerbrus as they would now go to the third stage...
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:48 pm
Hikari nodded to them as they all disappeared after they had passed Cerberus. After they were gone, Cerberus stirred again, growling demonically as he did.
The third level. Greed. The group were placed before a large mountain, and they all would have felt their abilities stripped from them. No longer anyone had any extra strength or endurance or powers that could have proved useful in this place. Shiro stared at the top of the mountain with a strained expression. "I don't remember much about this level." She looked around then noticed different sized, although each were about as large as a 6 foot tall person, bags which all seemed to contain something lumpy inside. Shiro then remembered. "I think those are bags of money." She shut her eyes to remember more. "Those whose attitude toward material goods deviated from the appropriate mean are punished in the third circle. They include the avaricious or miserly, who hoarded possessions..." She opened her eyes again. "Okay, so the greediest person here has to push the biggest bag up the mountain. The next greediest the next biggest bag. And so on.." She looked back to the group. "Its our job to get the selection right. Otherwise we'll be pushed back down the mountain."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:53 pm
*Shortstraw nodded, "Thats a job on it's own sure, but Ameile was chosen to take care of this level. her creed isn't what it was, dose that still carry over however? If not..." he smerked and pointed back to keria, "i think she would be the greedest of us all." He chukkled and looked to keria, "feeling the love?" he smiled. meanwhile Eve shook her head, "this is a interesting challeng, like puzzle aswell but with physical strigth. We need to be able to catorize who's in what posstion of the bags so we only make one trip." she shrugged.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:04 pm
Kiera frowned to Eve. "I'm not greedy!" She folded her arms and scowled, looking to the intimidating bags of pure weight. Amelie blinked a few times before looking to the floor. "So I'm going to have to keep pushing up the mountain when you people have left." Shiro jumped onto her back. "It won't be so bad. Everyone's bags are accustomed to just over what they can handle. That's why the mountain will deny any person who hasn't got the right bag." Amelie nodded. "O-oh. All right." Shiro glanced to Kiera. "So you don't think you should take the largest bag?" Kiera shook her head. "No. I'm not the greediest here." Shiro smirked. "Then whom?" Kiera pointed back to Shiro. "You." Shiro giggled. "I'm high up on the scale but I'm not the highest. Besides, there are only five of us left. The scale is small. I'm quite happy to go second. I'm not afraid to admit that I am a greedy soul-leech. You all seem ashamed with the matter." Kiera scowled down at her. "Well I am not the greediest." Amelie whispered to Shiro. "Why does she keep saying that?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:22 pm
*Eve chukkled, "Well I know i am not as greedy as i used to be. Being that i give all i can to the people of the county and care manly i care only for the people most of the time. The only greedness i have is my obssession with finding true love." she shrugged. Meanwhile shortst gulped, "well i'm pretty greedy when it comes to keria... so that probably counts..." he had a sweatdrop, "and evelyn... i'm really greedy over her too i guess..."
((i fyour still on and you see this, fulse alarm i'm here still...))
((Also i noticed you came back on and noticed my message, however i'm on brb dinner and dishes. XD stay tuned my liseners for more lol))
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:49 pm
Shiro put her finger to her lips. "This is exactly what I mean." Amelie looked to herm "What?" Shiro put her hands on her little hips. "You know Pride is one of the seven sins." Kiera huffed. "What's that got to do with it." Shiro smirked. "Everything." She looked to the bags. "The seven sins are: Pride, Envy, Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Vanity and Sloth." She grinned to them all. "All of which are presented in the seven layers. Often grouped together as there are different factors which god wanted to punish in the afterlife and some were closely related anyway." Kiera's eyes thinned. "So could have Sloth been with Gluttony?" Shiro shrugged. "Its possible. But insignificant. Anyway. The point of the levels were to exploit any of these sins. Which is what these challenges are doing right now." Kiera smirked to Eve. "Pride. One of the sins, sister." Shiro narrowed at Kiera. "And Vanity." Amelie couldn't help but giggle at the face Kiera pulled after that.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:04 pm
*Shortstraw chukkled, "that must make me Envy..." he chukkled and shrugged, "are we going to pull this together and get this done or not. the longer we play around the more Donte suffers. So lets pull together and get this done." He replied now serious. And he knew he was right. Fun time was over, they were waisting too much time. Eve however agreed, "we need to pull together which are which and get up the mountain quickly. I susspect we are indeed taking for to long..." she put a hand on keria shoulder, "now come on, your the smartest one here, figure out the puzzle." She smiled.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:20 pm
Kiera screwed her face up and looked to Shiro. "You go first. I'll go second." Shiro raised an eyebrow. "Really? You think I'm the greediest?" Kiera nodded then glanced to Eve. "Then you." She pointed to Amelie. "You." She finally pointed to Shortstraw. "And you last." Amelie blinked a few times. "You think I'm greedier than him?" Kiera folded her arms over her chest again. "You may be innocent now but you still hold the desires of any normal person. Shortstraw here is abnormal in the way." She grinned to him. Shiro then yawned and walked over to the biggest bag. It looked ridiculous. The bag was almost twice her size. "Are you sure? I don't want to get pushed down the hill." Kiera thought about it for a few minutes then nodded. "Might as well get on with it, I'm not sure how much time we have left." "Twelve hours." Kiera's eyes widened. "What?! We haven't been here 36 hours already!" Shiro smirked as her as she slowly shuffled past her with her bag. "Time flies when your having fun." Kiera scowled before she started to shove her bag up from the base of the mountain. It was a long journey. But even in the first few minutes of it, Kiera and Shiro were pushed from their position back to the base of the mountain. "What?!" Shiro grinned at her smugly. "Looks like your the greediest." Kiera frowned. "I don't even do anything greedy." Shiro shrugged herself off and patted her head mockingly. "These challenges are supposed to make you show your true colours."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:29 pm
*Shortstraw looked down from his spot, "you okay!" He couldn't turn around and go back... then again he couldn't leave her behind either. Eve however ahead of him motioned him to keep going, "They are the first two, they will cetch up. Come on, think of this as training fo ryou body and mind." Seemed eve just saw all this as a training stile workout. He did say keria was the greedest... for a reasion. And it wasn't like him to even wanna say somthing like that to her wife to be, but she did always keep to herslef on things. and she always took things and horded them, items and such... so he could see her at the greedest... maybe there was even more then that on a entire diffrent levle. he didn't know but he pressed on.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:40 pm
Kiera watched as Shiro was already halfway up to the others while she was still at the bottom staring at the bag. "I'm the greediest? Oh the irony." She rolled she eyes as she began pushed after them up the hill. She caught up quickly to Amelie who was lagging behind. "Why did we even bring you on this trip." Amelie frowned, breaking a sweat. "I'm a lady. Ladies aren't supposed to do these kinds of things." Kiera almost snorted in her laughter. "Right. And I suppose you still think all women are supposed to stay inside and cook." Amelie stared at Kiera intensely making it known that Amelie did actually still think that way. "Its hard to understand this new culture." Kiera stared up the hill as she pushed. She swore the weight was getting heavier. "Well this place isn't anywhere new. This is as old as old gets. Seven sins. Seven virtues. Seven layers of hell." Amelie smiled although wheezed a little. "They had a real fascination with the number seven." Kiera snickered. "Clearly." Shiro shouted from about twenty metres higher. "COMON YOU SLOWPOKES. WE'LL TAKE ALL DAY AT THIS PACE. DANTE'LL DIE."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:45 pm
*Eve was pushing on quickly, ahead of the others, shortstraw behind her. BUt it was true ameile could be left behind, it was her who was suppost to, keria and shiro need to get up to eve and shortstraw, already almost at the top. Infact once eve got to the top she sat the bag down and laughed pointing to shortstraw, "Come on i fyou can marry my sister you can pring a bag up here like nothing! What are you a man or chicken!" Shortstraw chukkled at her tunting, he was almost there... it was almsot time to go on to the fourth place...*
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:01 pm
Kiera easily passed Amelie and caught up to Shiro. Shiro smirked to her. "You just be glad this isn't the real thing. In the proper seven layers of hell these challenges are never ending. In the first one you'd be wondering around forever with scratches and wind blowing you everywhere. With the second one you'd be killed and ressuructed many many times by Cerberus. in this one the mountain is never ending." Kiera grunted is disapproval. "Sounds delightful." Kiera sped past Shiro and made it to the top at the same time as Shortstraw. Now by the time they were all up except Amelie, Kiera couldn't help but feel a little compassion for her kid mother who was still only halfway. But the hill would be never ending for her. Just until they found Dante, anyway.
The fourth level. Anger. In the swamp-like water of the river Styx, they were all slapped into the middle of a great arena. Marsh land and pure water was never good to walk around in, let alone be active. Shiro bobbed on the surface as she tried to find some rock to stand on. "The wrathful fight each other on the surface, and the sullen lie gurgling beneath the water, withdrawn 'into a black sulkiness which can find no joy in God or man or the universe'." She coughed out some water. "This is supposed to be the place of nightmares." She glanced around, seeing not much to work with. "Let me just remember what we're supposed to do..." Kiera gasped and felt her power degenerate in this place. "We're in an arena..."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:09 pm
*Eve nodded, "Anger... this is my stop." She cracked her neck then her knuckls, "i was ready for a fight. and i figured anger would have it. Bring it on already, let the others go on, i'll take whatever you have!" He yelled all roaring and ready to go. meanwhile shortstraw was looking around, "reminds me of veria... she would love this place..." He looked to Shiro, "whats the cetch on this one, each of us have to fight eachother?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:22 pm
Shiro looked around herself then shook her head slowly. "No... At least I don't think so. That's not what I remember. There's something I'm missing, I think." Shiro concentrated again as Kiera exclaimed in disgust. "Do you smell that?!" Shiro sniffed, shook her head, then sniffed again. "No- Oh wait. Yeah." Shiro put her hand over her nose. "Smells horrible." Suddenly her eyes widened. "GET OUT OF THE WATER." As soon as she said it, a weird smoke lifted from the surface and there were a couple of ripples on the opposite side of the arena. "What is it?" Kiera stared at Shiro. Shiro pointed nervously behind Kiera. Kiera turned slowly, to reveal that right behind her stood a twenty foot tall five headed snake beast. Kiera blinked a couple of times. "This remind you even more of Veira yet Shortstraw?" She said almost bitterly. Suddenly the creature striked out at Kiera, she only narrowly dodged it as she retreated over to the others. "What is it?!" Shiro frowned. "Hydra. Its a Hydra. From Greek mythology just like Cerberus. Hydra is another creature that guards the gateway to hell." Kiera rolled her eyes. "WELL CLEARLY." "Don't breathe in. Its poison you're smelling. This is old god kind of stuff. So anything Veira has done to you against poison won't work here. Hydra is the originator of poison."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:26 pm
*Shortstraw nodded, "what veria wouldn't give for this chance..." Eve stepped forword and slammed a fist into her free hand, "good since im the only one who can beat verias kind, this will be my fight. The rest of you can move on." She chukkled and her blade appeared in her hand, "I sure hope you like lava..." her body started to biol and shift as if her skin was boiling, "becuse i'm going to to cook your a**!" Shortstraw tugged kerias sleeve and pointed, "we could probably get over there while it's distracted..."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
