"This one wishes to know the rules," She nodded, "I am Zafara's oracle, the rules are simple, defeat me in battle, and you will move on to the final trial. Here is where it gets complicated." "Hey... I don't care who you are, but you better explain me what in the damned charon are we doing on this stinky place. I don't know in what sort of stupid quest did the faker get into, but unless it grab my interest I'm outta here. So spit the beans now" "What are you talking about? We are here to find out where the God speaker is, you knew it would be dangerous, we warned you, as for leaving you can try, but you can't. The door to the exist is sealed, remember?" Jakem snapped. "Shall I wait for you to settle your diffrences?" she asked.
"What are you talking about? We are here to find out where the God speaker is, you knew it would be dangerous, we warned you, as for leaving you can try, but you can't. The door to the exist is sealed, remember?" Jakem snapped. "A God Speaker? What is that supposed to be, some sort of new food or the new attraction in the zoo?" Asked Kyra each time more irritated.
I looked at the girl. "Ignore them and continue talking, if they don't remember or don't listen, I'll tell them, might as well be good for something." I said, mumbling the last part, I crossed my arms and looked at the girl expectantly.
“What… what do you mean by complicated?” Shae mumbled, as she slumped to the ground in the corner. Her eyes were hazy. I could have sworn there was only one girl standing there? Her head began to drop, staring at pouch of crimson building around her stomach. “You… you guys take this one.”
Life: 20 - 2 = 18 "I am Zafara's oracle, the rules are simple, defeat me in battle, and you will move on to the final trial. Here is where it gets complicated." "Oh please tell me more about the complicated. This game is booooooooorrrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnngg." Szmierc was in a bad mood. There was so much food before, but he hardly ate anything and all of it was now spoiled and far behind. "A God Speaker? What is that supposed to be, some sort of new food or the new attraction in the zoo?" "Ohoho I hope so. I'mmmmm sooooo HUNNNNNNGGGGRRYYY! You there! Oracle girl!" Szmierc aimed his arm at the rune-laden creature. "Is there food in the final stage?"
She continued "you will find killing me very difficult as I am now,to increase your odds, you must solve, my riddles there will be three, each time you solve a riddle correctly my power will weaken by 30%. However, if you answer my riddle incorrectly , my power will grow by 30% you must choose whether to risk solving my riddles. As you try to solve them I will be attempting to kill you if you solve them you will find killing me much easier, beware you do not get them wrong. Do you understand the rules?" "A God Speaker? What is that supposed to be, some sort of new food or the new attraction in the zoo?" Asked Kyra each time more irritated. "What are you talking about? That's why we are on this mission fool, that's why you are here!"
I nodded after listening to the explanation. "...Yes, I understand, so just keep my mouth shut, besides when I cast a spell, and everyone will be perfectly fine." I said quietly. "Don't answer a riddle moron, you'll just make her stronger and get everyone killed." I thought, berating myself again.
"What are you talking about? That's why we are on this mission fool, that's why you are here!" Kyra was losing its patience by this point. "I'm not here because I want to got it? yet I can't just go back, this place is filled with frikin' traps everywhere. I don't even know what the charon is going on. Do I won something finding this lost puppy huh?.." asked angrily. She continued "you will find killing me very difficult as I am now,to increase your odds, you must solve, my riddles there will be three, each time you solve a riddle correctly my power will weaken by 30%. However, if you answer my riddle incorrectly , my power will grow by 30% you must choose whether to risk solving my riddles. As you try to solve them I will be attempting to kill you if you solve them you will find killing me much easier, beware you do not get them wrong. Do you understand the rules?" "Shut your mouth!!! I'm busy here!!!. Why don't you just kill yourself and die?... or disappear, you don't seem alive to me!!!" screamed the young
"This one understands the rules," Tsubael said and took out her book. "But this one will refrain from combat. Instead, this one will record the events," and look for weaknesses in your defenses, she thought. She had a lot of catching up to do, so she began to write, filling the pages with everything that had happened since entering the pyramid. Divine text, traps, ghouls, and homicidal adolescents. Just another day in the hunt for the God speaker.
Jakem turned to face the girl in front of them, before we begin, may I ask a question? who are you? you are human yes?" "I am known as the oracle of Zafara, yes, that is my genetic background." she answered flatly. "No I mean your name, do you have a name?" "I am known as the Oracle of Zafara." she responded again, mono toned and cold. "Shut your mouth!!! I'm busy here!!!. Why don't you just kill yourself and die?... or disappear, you don't seem alive to me!!!" screamed the young "I take it that this one wishes the fight be right now? Shall I attempt to kill you now?" She asked the boy Jakem was losing his patients. Are you daft?! Or did you just forget everything I told you before?" "This one understands the rules," Tsubael said and took out her book. "But this one will refrain from combat. Instead, this one will record the events," "negative, all in this chamber at the moment of combat are my enemies, you can not avoid combat, I will bring it to you."
"negative, all in this chamber at the moment of combat are my enemies, you can not avoid combat, I will bring it to you." The child said. “Well… could you maybe… leave me out of it?” Shae wheezed. “Why do we have to be enemies, lets… lets be friends… yes… friends…” With that she collapsed in a pool of her own blood, her eyes flickering with vivid nightmares.
The ghouls were everywhere seeming to alienate and attack the members of the group before Ketka could react. In her true form Ketka manoeuvred around one without effort only to find another blocking her way. "Look for a clue somewhere!" the priest shouted. Ketka could not see past the ghouls, her inky body pummelled and slammed. Someone caught onto the riddle and Ketka twisted her head trying to find the man. "Right the hint those two gave us, look out for a mirror!" Ketka could not see. Her hand gripped a sand ghoul’s head twisting it so she could see past the creature, more heads filled the space. Someone claimed they’d found a mirror and above the hissing of sand Ketka could hear voices working to solve the riddle. "JUSTICE!" Someone shouted. Ketka jammed her kriss into the neck of a ghoul and drew it across the monster. Sand belted into her back gritty hands grabbing at her arms. “Fire…it’s fire!” She shouted. Screams rose up in the rose deafening Ketka she forced herself forward the ghoul in front of her ignited burning the hair on her arms. Everywhere she looked flames culled the ghouls. Ketka moved around the flames and found her group using a slide. With her feline form, and long spindly legs Ketka flatted herself out on her belly to use the slide. At the bottom of the slide there were more bodies, these cleaved it two, or cut clean of body parts in different ways. Ketka decided she liked the dry creatures better. Blue light shone in the room. “Ah shit,” Ketka gurgled. A young woman approached the group her hair flowing white, Ketka could only describe her as light. “Welcome to the second trial. Would you like to hear the rules?” she asked. "Hey... I don't care who you are, but you better explain me what in the damned charon are we doing on this stinky place. I don't know in what sort of stupid quest did the faker get into, but unless it grab my interest I'm outta here. So spit the beans now" said with a menacing tone Ketka gave a lopsided grin. Fox Face then asked for the rules, probably a good idea if you wanted to do things the boring way, but then the boring way didn’t usually end in death. She nodded, "I am Zafara's oracle, the rules are simple, defeat me in battle, and you will move on to the final trial. Here is where it gets complicated." “Child? Hard to defeat?” Ketka gurgled that was interesting. Cowl face put it in more agreeable terms. “What’s with all the chatter? She wants us to beat her, so let’s get on with it?”
"Negative, all in this chamber at the moment of combat are my enemies," the Oracle of Zafara said. "You can not avoid combat, I will bring it to you." "This one understands," Tsubael said. She finished the last piece of writing, shut her book, and pulled back her hood, so it would not hinder her view. She'd never actually been a fight, but she'd seen many, read about many, and processed a large amount of data on the subject. She could do this... maybe. If not, there were always the riddles. “What’s with all the chatter? She wants us to beat her, so let’s get on with it?” "No one is stopping you," Tsubael said simply. Watching the Oracle in action would provide data. If Ketka were to die, it would be a worthy sacrifice.
The Oracle nodded, "Indeed, the battle starts when one of you attack, I can wait, I have a thousand years to wait."
"May we have the three riddles before we attack you, or do we have to attack you first in order to receive them?" I asked crossing my arms, if I could get any sort of advantage for everyone then I might as well try. After all, who knows how strong this girl could be?
"So the complexities WERE fun! EXCELLENT! Riddle me something, Oracrow!" Szmierc jumped around like a giddy child, hardly matching the shadowy cloak which covered his features. "Make it something old, something new; something fun, but something true!"
Ketka let out a frustrated hiss and left forward at the girl veering off the left she jabbed at the woman with her short sword hoping to dance away. She was not a smart woman, and riddles were not something she knew much about, but she knew how to wield her blade, and she knew how to create true nightmares with her spells. Let the rest do the thinking.
Szmierc cackled gleefully as the shapeshifter lunged forward. "Let the games BEGIN!" Dancing forward himself, he ripped the head off of a dead soldier and threw it at the Oracle. "It would be no fun if we died here! We've only just begun!"
Hidan vanished, then a second later appeared behind the oracle thrusting his blade into her back, the battle had begun. His blade hit it’s mark! Spilling blood, the Oracle didn’t however even seem to flinch. She twirled around and swung at him with her staff, hidan ducked and struck again, before vanishing for the second time. “This is too easy, you can’t even keep up with my movements!” He laughed, as he zipped around the battle field. suddenly a dazzling light exploded from her, it blasted everyone back, and sent Hiddan despite his speed sailing. He crashed into the wall and hit the ground with a abrupt thud. Unable to evade an attack that hit everything. ” She rose into the air, you will all die.” Keta attacked first, her sword met the oracles pike, a quick twirl of her weapon knocked Ketas sword down ward, and a sudden blast of eather sent her tumbling across the ground. .” Before the machine could react a pike plunged into her right arm, her speed though not as fast as Hiddans was uncanny. Jakem stood up casting holy arrows, shining beams of light shot forward, and bounced off a sudden energy shield harmlessly. Swinging her pike she blasted him with a searing beam of light before diving for the feral evading his feeble attack! “I am the king of water, I rule it from my Lofty perch, sending it where I please to the lands of venshara, what am I” “we lead men a stray appealing to the darkness in their hearts, and though we may woo them, they are just as guilty as we, what are we?” “And I rule over the last two answered, for I am truly an all-powerful being, what am I?” The riddles shimmered and dances around her, teasing there brain, her power was immense
"Fast Throwing Spear Attack THING!!!!" Ishmael shouted the white lance flying from his finger tips. Adra boosting it as it sailed at Zafara with lighting speed. Transparent black wings flickered on either side of it and nox particles cutting through the air. The wings made it easy for such an attack glide into the direction of the chest of the oracle at enough velocity to shatter through most defenses. "My host. You should attempt to solve its riddles." "Still with the fucking riddles. We get attacked by ghouls and locked in here. But still its riddles riddles." Ishmael was beginning to find this entire game annoying. To many people talking and talking about this and that. Not to mention the joys of puzzle solving, His anger boiled over into his attack as he made sure to pull no punches in his throw.
Ketka rolled to her side and spat blood from her mouth. She was certain that she’d broken a rib. “I am the king of water, I rule it from my Lofty perch, sending it where I please to the lands of venshara, what am I” “The moon damn you, you’re the moon.” Ketka cringed pain emanating through her left side. She forced herself upright onto all fours spindly legs shaking.
Alavina sprinted to where Shae was quickly bleeding out on the floor. The woman looked like she was already on death's door. "I'm not much of a healer...but I'll do what I can." She whispered to Shae not sure if the woman could hear her. She took out some elf-root (which worked wonders to clot blood) and some bandages. She worked quickly trying to avoid the battle as much as possible. By the time she had bandaged all of Shae's wounds, she'd used up half of her herbal supplies. "You owe me, human." Aly said before jumping into the fight. She weaved a whip of adra and snapped it at the Oracle while desperately trying to solve the riddles.
"The moon, incorrect." The oracles grew in power grew by one stage She charged Ishmeal now faster stronger she evaded his strike and crashed into him. Knocking him to the ground. The fair was next, weaving a spell she cast a chain around the fairies neck and ragged her back, then charged in for a lethal stab! *CLANG!* no blood spilled. Hessa jumped in between the fairy and certain death blocking with a weaved shield. "I'll, I'll be damned if I lie and do nothing!" her shield cracked, the oracle reached out, picked Hessa up and threw her aside like a rag doll. She slid and crashed into the Ferral. The sight of him, it triggered something, a flash of inspiration hit. "Zafara! The last one is Zafara!"The oracle screamed as her power fell, allowing the fairy just enough time to evade a lethal stab! but she was still strong, she dashed for Keta looking to finish her off.
"Zafara! The last one is Zafara!" Szmierc frowned as the priests' daughter plowed into him. "Zafara this, Zafara that, I don't care! GET OFF OF ME!" In one mighty heave, he threw her at the Oracle and dropped to all fours, charging behind the human-shaped beach ball. With no concern for the limp warrior who so kindly acted as his flying shield, he bared his fangs and slashed at the Oracle's throat.
