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A rather large mass was shown on the dark waters of the ocean. It inched closer, slowly but surely. When it would get closer to shore the voice of a man could be heard singing to himself softly, to keep sane from his village. His vessel, or what it seemed was a large whale type creature. He rode in a somewhat saddle he fashioned for the top of this beast. The singing abruptly stopped as he looked upward onto a great city made of crystal, just a small ways inland, a smile spread across his face from under the hay hat he wore while traveling.

"Another front to liberate I suppose..."

He returned his gaze to the back of his eyelids as singing once more escaped from his lips.

The man hopped off of his fish when they reached the shore, some items in his arm. He patted the head of his companion softly before heading to a drier part of the beach. He slowly began to equip his various weapons and combat clothing, he had a feeling he wouldn't be returning to the beach for quite a while. Some odd amount of minutes later he got a quick camp fire going to warm his bones.

"Colder then a witch's teet out on the water."

He slowly began to rub his hands near the fire, cracking his neck as he did so. He flopped onto the coarse sand, a little disappointed in the quality of the beach. He had no idea what land he was in or what was going on, but he wanted to make an impact, positive or negative.

Xavier cursed from inside the crystal like ice as it slowly began to melt, and in an instant he was between Twilight and Sionet in his true form. His glorious white scales were stained with blood as he snarled hatefully at the approaching Twilight, his eyes wild with fury. He was going to do everything in his power to protect her, even if it meant death for himself.

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As the floor gave way Netas plumeted down, down, down into the dark recesses of the whole Ted had worn away. Her tenticals tried to grab onto the ceiling but it simply broke away, and she landed with loud cracks of broken bones as more rubble fell on top of her. Dark blue blood leaked from her still body, her dead eyes staring up at him with not life from her smashed face. But slowly the light and bloodlust came back as the tenticles reached out from under the rubble, digging into the floor to pull her broken and bleeding carcass away. The black rubbery tenticles pushed and pulled, some holding pieces of her body together while others supported the dead thing as life returned and wounds meaned. Finally she was back on her feet, half broken and bleeding as she stared up hatefully at Ted, a low growl leaving her crushed face. Her body morphed into a birdlike creature that looked reptilian, flapping her wings to lift her off the ground and dissapear in the shadows of nearby wall, using sharp talons to scale up it and onto what was left of the floor, then she left at Ted with jaw gapping, talons bared, and six furious eyes that were as icey as the shriek that left her, feathers flaring up for intimidation.

During Karse's story, The ship had made a lot of progress. They were nearing Anara. But there were no signs of threats. Xecos thought that they'd have been detected by now. He was on edge. But kept listening to the dragon's story.

Osiris appeared above Xavier, a single thin cut below his right eye the only indication that he had come under attack.
"Now, now," he said and he slammed his foot straight down at Xavier's head, again almost faster than the eye could follow. His voice was now growling and sounded well on the way to insane. "Don't growl at Mistress Twilight like that."

Ted flinched at the screech, but at least he was warned. Using the pixie's natural agility, Ted dodged the attack, only to fly right into her jaws. Almost about to be eaten, Ted started growing spikes and enlarging. Slowly he started to dig into the soft fleshy part of the throat, and he figured that Netas' neck would soon burst from the pressure of having something growing in your throat.

Ako transformed back into human form. She stood before a cave. A small glow was inside, in the dark depths. Ako could feel both ends of the 'ribbon' here. Ako stepped forward into the dark cave.