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"So... If we stay away from them and don't go around robbing graves we should be good... right?" Azrael asked slowly, tail slowly moving back and forth. Several long moments passed by, seeming more like hours than about ten seconds but either way, it revealed that the statues weren't leaving their pedestals and had no intent on doing so.

"Well, if they come after us we can make a break for it. Maybe they can only go so far before the magic on them wears off?" Azrael pondered aloud, waving to one of the statues and was rather stunned when it tilted its head almost curiously. Making a mental note to return later, his orange eyes returned to the gate in front of them.

"Alright. Now for what we've come here for... The back gate."

"Teleportation spells? Those would definitely be helpful if that happens," Azrael commented, slowly opening the gate and peering around. "Well, I would suspect the usual creatures like rabbits and squirrels but rumor has it that there are also ghosts back there." Not to mention other fiendish things but the pumpkin demon didn't really think some of things mentioned were all that bad.

Demons, angels, zombies, he had met them all. Some even a combination of the two and they weren't all that bad. Not to mention he, himself, was a demon. "Nothing yet. C'mon." And with those three words, the purple-skinned boy was through the gate and moving slowly down the old and worn path to who knew where.

"Ah, well, then perhaps we should just hope we can run faster than them," Azrael replied, gazing around in awe at the forest. It was all gnarled and twisted with trees looming high into the sky and blocking out a good chunk of the light. Farther down the path, however, were several oil lamps that slowly seemed to light themselves and glow in the dim twilight.

"That's creepy... Did you hear that?" he asked, whispering and moving a little closer to Eve. Two were more formidable than one to any enemy generally.

Azrael nodded, orange eyes glowing softly as he looked around. It had to be the perfect place to go on Halloween on a dare or to hide out in. But as the mention of something big being nearby, he instantly became alert. Searching, he didn’t see anything hiding in the shadows but then again, who did in those horror movies he sometimes was able to watch late at night?

“Keep on the look-out. I have a knife I snitched from my brother who snitched it from Ary so it should be good. Unless he realizes I took it,” he muttered, making no move to remove it from his pocket. Why reveal where a weapon was hidden when anyone could use it? Besides, it could just be a rabbit making more noise than it should in the silent forest... Right?

“Where did you learn all those spells?” Azrael asked, looking curiously at Eve for a few moments. Sure granting luck had its uses when bribing someone, but in times like these it had absolutely no use whatsoever. Not to mention it sounded cool when someone knew more than one trick or charm. Before he could continue his thoughts any farther, the demon felt what Eve had sensed hiding among the darkness. A soft tremor was sent through the earth as a heavy foot collided with the ground, and it didn’t sound close either.

“What the-?! Crap,” the pumpkin demon muttered, stumbling a little as the earth shook again but at a higher magnitude and thus far more violently. Another footfall and the sound of breaking trees echoed through the once silent forest. “It’s… It’s a golem!” Azrael shouted, picking himself up after the last tremor sent the poor boy sprawling on the ground. It was like an earthquake that violently started and stopped whenever it felt like and grew in power as it went. It was only a matter of time till the earth itself split in two. With very few places to go and little they could do to attack a giant made out of stone or earth, there was just one thing they could do; “RUN!”

Azrael looked doubtfully at Eve, having heard a bit otherwise. Mostly pertaining to how large one was and, judging by the damage already, he was pretty sure if the thing got close they were screwed. Stupid or not, that thing was uprooting several trees with a single step and remaining still wouldn't exactly be easy.

"That tree over there looks good, and it's close to the gate in case we have to run to avoid being squished," he pointed out, already heading for it. It seemed out of the way of the golem and was sturdier with closer branches than the rest of them, giving the two a better chance at remaining in the air and possibly out of sight. Within moments the pumpkin demon had scrambled up to one of the larger branches that seemed to be swarmed with other, much smaller ones. It wasn't like he blended in, having shockingly orange hair and eyes so he had to chose a far better concealed area in the end.

Azrael froze as the golem came into view, eyes wide as he watched the big hulking figure. Never in his life would he have expected such a figure to be waiting at the back of a graveyard. Never would he actually encounter a rumor that was TRUE. As they waited, silent and unmoving in the tree, the golem slowly turned and headed off farther into the forest in hopes of finding them there.

Once the earthquake-like footsteps faded to near nothing did the pumpkin demon dare a soft sigh of relief. "That was close. Did you see how big that thing was?" he asked Eve quietly, orange eyes flashing in the dim light. Despite being well out of earshot of the hulking figure, he didn't want to risk being overheard by something else that might be waiting close by. "I wonder if it's guarding something..."