Welcome to Gaia! ::

Lumie would be waiting for him by the door later on, after she had gotten ready. She had a travelpack with her, containing some things she thought they may need for the trip, like food and water and a collapsable rod that turns into a wondrous adamantine staff brimming with holy energy. Not that she was expecting any trouble along the way. Better to have one around and not need it, than to not have one around and need it.

*Enki nods to her, showing his readiness. Enki already having everything he needs, minus food, inside his coat*

Whenever you are ready, I am. You do know this place much more then myself so I'll follow whever you go.

A small creak had finally came from the front door of the building that the rest of the party members were eating there breakfast, soon it was followed by a rather snowcovered rabbit. She didn't say much to the others in the room but merely waddled into the room and looked on the table, there seemed to be a variety of items but she didn't seem to find what she was looking for. Till she finally found something that seemed to catch her eye.

With much grace, she managed to reach over Ryugi and Rydo, getting them both covered in snow slightly to dig in what seemed to be a breadbasket of a variety of types of pastry. As she pulled away a small baguette, big enough to feed one person was in her hand. She merely then smiled and waddled back outside without another word.

Back outside she quickly made it back to her snowman and shoved the hard bread into the middle of the smallest snowball. There, her art was complete. She quickly began to giggle at her creation for she had created a rather fabulous snowman. It was beautiful, well atleast in the eyes of a snow artists.

After finishing she soon turned to walk back into the house, as she did so she managed to step on a patch of ice. Madison's boots, though they were durable, were definately not meant for traction. Thus the girl slid and had nothing to hold onto, before long she managed to slid and fall. As she finally made contact with the ground, her head made a good smack against the icey layer that had been created. Thus, she laid there not moving, simply staring at the sky and watching the gentle snowflakes land softly to the ground.

"Either way, I don't want anything bad to happen cuz you two are trying to kill eachother. Now, as soon as we're all ready, we're heading out."

Silver nodded, finishing his oatmeal. Going to his private room, he spoke as he left the room.

"I'll be ready in twenty minutes..."

Chaging into his normal attire, a fairly decorated and complex crimson kimono, he took a look at the damage done to his hair. It wasn't TOO horrible, so it wouldn't take that long to fix. It was just a pain in the a**. Silver didn't have dandruff or anything, but everyone had dead skin. "Threading" the cut hair between his hands, he converted the dead skin cells into luxurious hair. Since hair isn't truly alive, it didn't really count as regeneration and healing. Just skipping the growth process.

It wasn't hard at all, but rather long and tidious. Heading downstairs after twenty minutes, he continued to play with his hair, working out all the unevenous only he could spot.

Madison quickly sat up from the ice patch and looked at him. Her head did hurt slightly, but she knew she was going to be fine. Lightly she smiled up at him cheerfully, it was a joyous times.

"Okay, Okay." Smiled Madison lightly as she began to sit up from the ground. As she did so, she had a slight surprize in her hand. It wasn't something great, but it would be rather amusing. She soon turned to face Ryugi, and looked at him.

Quickly, she tossed the object that was in her hand and tossed it at Ryugi. Grinning widely. A Snowball was heading his way.

Madison sighed softly, she didn't want to leave yet. She just wanted to stay outside, but they had to get going and she couldn't hold up the group. With much of a struggle she dragged herself back inside.

Lightly, she kept looking back outside knowing how beautiful the weather was there. But she knew that they would get going soon enough, and be back in her world of snow and ice.

The shrine would extend for quite a ways over the top of the mountain. It was surrounded by a thick stone wall and decorated with carvings of dragons in many places. Oddly enough, the shrine looked very similar to one might percieve as a Japanese shrine of sorts, of course, that was impossible since Japan did not exist on Gaia. Perhaps a coincidence, but either way, the shrine was still a beautiful sight to behold, even with the snow lightly falling.

The smaller buildings of the monks and monks in training were set up along the sides of the walls leaving a very large open area as a common ground for the people that lived in this place to practice their abilities and socialize with the other residents. In the middle of this common ground was a single well with buckets and areas for washing clothes and gathering water for personal use.

Farther down the way was the main shrine building. It was the largest structure in the area, and within its walls it contained a massive statue of five magnificent dragons, each one carved from a different color stone. There was a firery red stone carving of a fierce dragon symbolizing the Adamant Dragon of Fire. Another carving was made of a sky blue substance and was curled into a calm and peaceful position among the others. This represented the Adamant Dragon of Water. The next was a polished brown stone carving that represented the Adamant Dragon of Earth, placed near the feet of the other carvings. Next was a carving of the most brilliant and translucent green jade any of the travelers would have ever seen, and this dragon seemed to float calmly around the others. This represented the Adamant Dragon of Wind. And lastly, a carving made completely out of mirror smooth and polished platinum was a dragon above all others, wings spread wide, as if protecting all the others. This represented none other than Bahamut, the most revered Adamant Dragon of them all.

And finally, beyond the main shire building was a wide open raised area of rock cut into a massive square. This served as the training area for the dragon worshipers to practice the full potential of their arts, and also served for meditation. The massive piece of rock was almost 500x500 feet, and in the middle was a massive magical symbol, supposedly a connection to the Admanat Dragons themselves.

This was Altin Shrine, the Holiest of Angara's Landmarks.