Veronica and Bryant were hidden back in hell. They shook thier guns they had take with them, all empty.
"So much for that..." Bryant said dissapointed. Veronica nodded just as sad. Bryant stood and walked over to the table on whitch they read the books. He leaned on it and looked hardly at the table, inspecting it. He sighed and looked back at Veronica who was going to a wall and pressed a button. While they were in hell they made this place a base of thier own. The wall turned and showed an inventory of ammo. Bryant sighed as he walked to it and reloaded himself and his guns.
"This won't end will it, even after death?" Bryant asked the open air.
"I guess not." Veronica responded. Bryant sighed again in annoyance as he pressed the button again, closeing the wall. He held the button down, the doors and windows shut as well.

"Looks like nobody's here now..." Matt walked over to a tent and peeked inside.

"What're you doing?" Hugo asked.

"I'm investigating, Hugo," Matt replied. "People do that when they want to learn more about a situation."

"Fine." Hugo waddled over. "I'm gonna see if there's anything we can take."

R.D. wandered around the campsite slowly, letting his fingers trail along the crates. This whole place looked familiar. Had he been here before?

R.D. eventually opened up one of the crates. Inside he found survival gear. He pulled something out of it; it turned out to be a holster for a stun-baton. He loosened it up and tied it around his waist, pocketing his now-deactivated Phase Blade into it.

"Find anything?" he asked Matt and Hugo.

"AGH!!! I won't die like this not AGAIN" then suddending he let out a loud roar "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"his nails grew in to claws his hair grow out to where to looked like it was fur and his eyes tansformored in to what looked like wolf eyes and his tatoos started glowing red his teeth grew into fangs and he grew 5 times taller(He is now in his wolf from and the poison is now gone)."Do you like my wolf form big bother HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" Kagai said in a vary diffirent beast like voice

Edited by doc.mad on October 6, 2006 at 2:10:51.

Edited by doc.mad on October 6, 2006 at 2:16:34.

Matt ripped off a few of the boards covering a crate that was previously covered by a tarp. He looked carefully inside.

"Hello!" he exclaimed. "What's this?"

He reached his jacketed arm further into the crate, and, with some effort, extracted the prize-a well-sized, detailed sculpture of a dragon, curled defensively around a gleaming jewel, roaring a silent challenge to those about it.

Matt's eyes widened. "Cool!"

Edited by The Helldragon on October 5, 2006 at 21:17:56.

R.D. blinked and started looking through the rest of the crates, and the others followed suit. In nearly all of the crates, there were pieces of treasure. "Looks like they were raiding that old ruin we saw," Alasea surmised.

"Yeah," R.D. replied, "Anyways, let's get going. Maybe we'll learn more at the ruin."

They trudged deeper into the forest.

Of course, Matt had taken the statue with him.

"Are you going to haul that around all the time we're here?" Hugo asked.

"Hell yeah!" Matt held up the statue, admiring it. "It's full of ridiculous awesomeness."

"Knowing our luck it's probably cursed," Hsien-Ko muttered, folding her arms.

"And we'll probably need it to unlock something or other," R.D. continued, further bringing down Matt's mood.

Alasea grinned at Matt's wistful look. "Oh, I'm sure you can snag something when we leave."

"Well, if I can make it possible, I'm totally taking this," Matt said, placing the statue back into his pack.

"I think we're almost at the ruins," Mei-ling said, pointing ahead at what awaited them past the brush.

After about ten more minutes of travel, the forest let up and they arrived at a large stone wall. A large, wooden, double-sided gate barred their path to the inside. R.D. went up to it and began pulling on one of the large handles. It started moving, but slowly. Years of disuse had rusted the hinges, and they groaned in protest.

"A little help here, please?" he grunted as he pulled at the gate.

"I'll take care of this!" Crouching low, Matt drew back his right arm.

"Golem Arm!" In a flash of light, metal, futuristic armor overtook Matt's arm, doubling its size. On the back of his armored shoulder, a small metal dome parted, and rocket propulsion burst from it.

"YAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Matt shouted, flying at the gate at high speed with heavy metal fist foward.

"Humph. Showoff," Hugo muttered as Matt's attack tore through the gate, shattering it into hundreds of wooden shards.

Edited by The Helldragon on October 5, 2006 at 23:15:16.

R.D. frowned at the level of destruction.

"Thank you, Matt," he said, "for the unwarrented damage. Now anything that might not want us here will KNOW we're here."

He rolled his eyes and walked over the wooden shrapnel into a large ruined courtyard. Several small, doorless and empty buildings littered it. A massive stairwell was in the center, leading further up into the ruins. R.D. blinked. This place was also familiar.

Mei-ling surveyed the area. "Maybe this place could have been a small village."

"Yeah, it sure seems like it," Matt remarked, dismissing the Golem Arm in another, milder flash. "Or maybe more smugglers."

Alasea looked around in wonder. Never in her life had she seen anything quite like this. While they looked around, R.D. walked over to the steps and looked up them. He couldn't see past the mist, and he didn't care for that.

R.D. motioned to his companions and together they went up the stairs. When they reached the top, R.D. decided this place must've been a small city built around a temple. There were more of the small buildings, and in the middle of them were a long, deep pool of water that lead past the giant stone wall and into the ruin. They looked around, and found that to get deeper in, they'd have to take a swim.

The amnesiac teen sighed and turned to his friends. "Pool's too deep to wade through. Do you all know how to swim?" he asked.

"I could drain the water," Matt suggested.

"Or make it explode," Hugo muttered.

Matt held up his hands. "Hey, if y'all have a better idea, lay it down."

"There's something here," R.D. stated, "And I'd rather not piss it off. Or alert it to the fact that we're here. So let's try not to make any MORE changes to the place."

"What's here?" Matt asked.

"I don't know," R.D. responded, "But I can feel it. There's something here, and I'd rather not piss it off. I don't want another Bernstein or a serpent on our hands. Or a Bernstein riding a serpent, for that matter."

R.D. walked over to the edge of the pool and jumped in. It wasn't that deep, but enough to prevent even a full grown adult, much less a teenager, from touching the floor. The water was surprisingly warm, and he swam further into ruins.

Alasea looked at the others, shrugged, and followed after the amnesiac teen, who was just pulling himself out on the other end.

"You first," Hsien-Ko said to Matt, gesturing.

"Screw that." Matt raised his hand and snapped his fingers together. Around the group, a large, thin bubble suddenly formed.

"What's this?" Mei-ling asked, her fingers dangerously close to the bubble.

"DON'T touch the bubble," Matt said, as the bubble moved foward on its own accord and began sinking into the water. "It'll get us where we need to go without any actual pesky swimming."

"Hi!" a voice suddenly said in a cheery tone, drawing surprise from Hsien-Ko and Mei-ling who almost jumped. In the thin wall itself, a large, cartoonish mouth had manifested. "We're all gonna have a super-duper time in the water today!"

"Real bubbly fellow, eh?" Matt deadpanned, folding his arms just as the bubble had completely submerged.

R.D. watched as Matt did another one of his tricks. He and Alasea were dripping wet. He leaned over to the girl and said, "And this is why Matt is lazy."

Alasea giggled.

R.D. waited until they reached the ground, seriously contemplating on popping the bubble before they could reach it.

"Lazy but DRY," Matt commented as the bubble cleanly landed on dry ground. "Therefore I win."

"I'm so glad we had a super-duper time!" the bubble said. "Bye bye now!" It popped before R.D. or Matt could pop it.

"Annoyed, maybe, lazy, yes, but DRY," Matt continued.

"Just be glad I didn't decide to pop you before you reached land," R.D. said, "Then you'd be annoyed, lazy, and wet. And with a pissed off Met on your hands, too."

"Besides, it's warm here," Alasea said, grinning, "We'll dry pretty quickly. Besides, it was great being back in the water."

"Oi! Let's go!"

R.D. had made his way over to another set of steps, leading up to the wall above. They made their way up them, finding even more of the small buildings. On the side they emerged on, there was yet another wall/platform with buildings, with a set of steps leading up to it. There was a large gap where the pool on the lower level was, connected only by a thin wooden beam.

The group went higher up, taking note of the expanse that lay before them. There were more buildings, but they looked more like temples. There was another wall set back, but the gap behind it suggested more ruins to explore.

"Huh," Alasea said, "I wonder what happened here... there's practically nothing to suggest that there were ever people living here..."

"Probably because of smugglers. You remember all that stuff we found at that camp," R.D. reminded her. He was looking around.

Something was off, and he didn't like it. He motioned for Matt to come over to him.

Matt approached R.D. "What is it?"

(OOC: It is Reckoning! And CORA?! WTF?)

"Oh?" Morph wondered. "You met Blazen and Jaden... and Juno?" He gritted his teeth a little at the last name. He still had no idea why Juno actually killed him.

"You know that something that I said was here?" R.D. said to Matt, who nodded, "It knows we're here. It's watching us now."

"Very astute of you, R.D!" a voice rose into the air, causing everyone to spin around into the direction of the voice. They saw nothing, but R.D. looked up and spotted the source.

Re-Tuul was perched like a vulture on the right-side wall that seperated the ruins. He held his trademark double-bladed greatsword in his right hand.

"It's so good to see you again!" the Khaglessi leered down at the group, "I see you've made some friends since we last met."

"Oh, hey, it's that little imp with nothing better to do than stalk you, R.D.," Matt remarked.

Mei-ling's eyes narrowed. "What do you want with us, demon?" she asked.

Re-Tuul leapt off the wall, landing in front of the group with enough force to cause the stone floor to buckle and shatter. He stood up and stepped out of the hole in the ground he had made, and grinned at the group.

He turned his eyeless gaze on Mei-ling. "Nothing, my dear. You women, the jokster, and the robot have nothing I could possibly want."

The monster turned to R.D. and grinned down at him. R.D. looked back emotionlessly. "It is this one that interests me," he continued.

"Do you feel it?" the Khaglessi asked R.D., "The old familiarity of this place?"

R.D. remained silent, but a flicker in his eye told the demon all he needed to know. "Yes... you do. You should, after all. This is where it all began."

Without warning, R.D. attacked. His Phase Blade was out and activated at blinding speed, and he began his rush to fight the demon.

Re-Tuul was ready. He reared his arm back and thrust it forward, his free hand outstretched. A wave of invisible force sent the entire group tumbling across the ground; R.D.'s sword skittered across the ground and came to rest against the wall of a nearby building.

"Oh no," Re-Tuul scolded, "It's much to early for us to battle. You don't even know exactly why!"

The demon's black wings unfurled from his back, and he took to the air. "But you'll know part of it soon," it cackled, "Don't you worry..."

With a laugh, the demon took to the air and disappeared in a flash of orange light.

Matt sat up. "...I am so crushing that bitch's skull next time we meet."

(OOC: Vwoot! The RPG spans 100 pages! Go us!)

Alasea got up and put Hugo, who had been upside down, spinning slow circles on his helmet, and screaming obscenities, back on his feet. R.D. got up and retrieved his sword, deactivating it and returning it to its makeshift scabbard.

"I'd like to know what exactly happened between him and me," he said.

"Who was that freak?" Alasea asked.

Edited by RisingDragon on October 5, 2006 at 23:58:33.