Topic: A Field Trip to Mt. Yasuo

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2016-05-16 18:42 EST
Field Trip to Mt. Yasuo Day 1 - Part 1 - Goddess Fall

((Ambience:When It All Falls Down - Audiomachine))

8 A.M.

Day light punctured the purple morning gloom as the chug of piston and fire filled the air. A glint of sun on metal rivets and gray paint marked an unnatural creature called an aeroplane defying the natural laws of order. Far below the soaring metal wings of the old bi-plane flitted seas of emerald forests. They flowed rapidly as the chug of the engine was snatched by the wind in glee by playful elemental spirits in the wind. The Yasuo Mountain Range was full of mythic wonder and primal nature that could still be felt by all gifted or not. Ensconced in the pilot seat, a border collie anthro named Amar turned to look over her leather clad shoulder, slight frost gathering on the jacket's wool collar keeping the Sumese pilot warm at high altitude, her aviator goggles glinting in the early morning sun. She raised her voice to shout at her passenger.

?OY! Ammy Lass! Drop zone is coming in hot. The Yasuo Mountain Range is dead ahead and your scanner on mah dash board is puttin? dat? dead zone within fifteen minutes and closin?. Ya? sure about this?? She asked as the wind whipped her platinum hair like stinging bees against her nose.

Ammy looked over the passenger side railing and saw the forests carpeting the earth like an ocean. Glancing ahead she saw them flowing up to crash upon the distant mountains like waves on the rocky surf of an exotic land. Her heart thudded and raced with glee. She grinned and unbuckled her flight harness, and adjusted the flight suit she?d had made for herself when she was off duty from the space station.

?Hell yes Amar! I am sure about this. Keep it steady and get within five minutes of that dead zone then pull hard and get out. I?ll go from there. Thank Marilla again for letting me borrow one of her planes for a short bit.? Ammy shouted up to Amar then she stooped and got into a rear cargo hatch behind her seat.

She began tugging out a large pack and began cinching it onto her torso tightly and pulled out her goggles and a helmet. She strapped both on and pulled out her white EYE Com and strapped it on over her right eye. She set the EYE Com to begin recording as one of her test instrumentations for this field trip. She watched as the drop zone got closer, the wind tearing at her crimson and gold locks like a stream of jeweler?s blood. Her golden eyes squinted against the brightness thinking she caught sight of something in the distance a bit, maybe black and moving but the skies were blue and clear as she stared a moment or two more. Thunder clouds were starting to close in on the mountains along the horizon.

?This is Professor Ammy Spiritor. Today I am making an excursion into the Mt. Yasuo range to study and understand better some of the history of the range and the odd effects the 9 Towers have on magic and technology. I will be dropping in by hang glider and will be using a mix of mundane, magical, manual and technological instrumentation once I am past the barrier to avoid, hopefully any EMP like effects. My EYE Com will be a test to see if something designed to resist and withstand mages and their heavy magic use will survive the barrier. As you can see, we are closing in on the Mt. Yasuo Range today, my pilot today Amar Su who is piloting a kerosene fueled bi-plane today borrowed from a friend of ours. She will be leaving before we reach the barrier to allow me to get closer with the hang - . . . RRRIIIPPP ?.. CRRAAACKKK ?? SKREEEECCCHHHHHH ??. AMMMMMYYYYY ?.. ?

One moment she was doing the documentary and the next she was flung out of the plane and plummeting through the air hands grabbing nothing as her stomach lurched and jammed into her throat. She heard the sound of talons on aluminum and the roar of a large Wyvern hunting. She heard Amar scream her name then saw the bi-plane roll and begin to dog fight with the beast, the rattle of 60 caliber machine guns echoing in the morning air. Three seconds that all happened and now she was plummeting. Worse things have happened and she was conscience and so far unhurt for the second of assessment she allowed herself. She tugged on a red pull cord and from the pack, a large green hang glider erupted that snapped into place. Its support members of carbon fiber and aluminum groaned from the sudden G-Force break it gave to Ammy?s body and she gave a short, jarring gasp as her head snapped back, her helmet hitting the main strut.

She must of have blacked out a moment as she heard Amar?s voice squawking over her EYE Com. ?Ammy! Ammy! Ye alive lass? I can?t swing around to get you. Grimy lizard frakked up mah ailerons and rudder. My engine?s leaking oil like a sieve too. I?m getting back to Marilla?s airfield. I?ll get you help right away.?

Ammy shook her head a little and saw her hang glider soaring for the mountain ranges rapidly and losing some altitude. She quickly wiggled her body, kicking legs out to get her furred feet into the stirrups and grabbed the hand bar as she arched her back, trying to get her glider to rise. She spoke back to Amar over the EYE Com. ?Amar, just head back. Tell Marilla I?ll pay for all of the damages. I?m? I?m fine. Just a bit jarred. If this place does what I think it does, a search party looking for me won?t do much good as my tracking bead will be off line. I?ll be fine. I?ll be heading for a town called Jenli if you really want to be that worried. Just get back to Marilla and be safe. I?m a big girl. End Call. New Call. Mirius Spiritor. Place Voice Mail. Hi love. Hope the spa day I sent you on is going well. Just calling to let you know I?m on that field trip I mentioned for school up at Mt. Yasuo and it?s kind of going rough. Don?t be alarmed, I?m fine, just some issues with my transport? whoa fuck?..?

She slammed her body to one side rolling out of the way missing the Wyvern that had attacked the plane. Obviously it was not interested in eating metal and a Lupinossai daring to fly in the beast?s natural domain was a tasty treat.

?I?m just playing with large lizards as part of my research for Professor Tolmay. I shouldn?t be gone for more than five days. If I am, come get me?. Hey back the fuck off, I?m not dinner you flying bahstrii!?

She sent her glider into another roll but the Wyvern was wary and ready. Talons on a massively scaled foot reached out and tore through the gliders material and Ammy was suddenly holding on for dear life as the glider spiraled for the base of the mountain range and the silver scars of roads and trails woven among the scrub and trees. The Wyvern followed its prey, intent on delivering a death blow with its jaws and take it home to eat. Ammy raised her hand chanting under her breath.

?Anyways, love, if I am longer than five days?. ~From Sun to Shore, From Sand To Heat~ ?. Come find me at the town of Jenli in Mt. Yasuo, every road leads to it ?.. ~Your Shimmering Waves That Break Upon Sand And Stone I Take And Cast!~ ?. Just be careful love, Mt. Yasuo tends to shut off tech, machines and magic?.. ~Tetsuna-Rasun!~ ?. Call lost? Call lost? Call lost? Magic Net Service Not Found?.

A brilliant ray of sunlight formed in her hand then shattered into a rain of arrows made of pure sunlight that swarmed the Wyvern. The beast cried in agony as the light projecting pierced scale and hide and into its brain and heart killing it instantly when they were cooked. Ammy gave a second for a victory smile that turned to horror as the beasts body plummeted like a rock catching her glider and dragging her down into the trees and brush of Mt. Yasuo and into blackness.

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2016-05-17 16:14 EST
Field Trip to Mt. Yasuo: Day 1 ? Part 2 - Goddess Fall

(Ambience: Hero Memories ? Collaboration of Really Slow Motion and Epic Soul Factory)

10:30 A.M. ? 12:00 Noon

Something wet and cold drizzled over Ammy?s muzzle waking her from a vivid dream of floating among a sea of Twibbles trying to eat her hair thinking it was some life giving form of Twizzler. Thunder clapped above her head somewhere as lightning illuminated her eyelids with vibrant reds and purples. She opened golden eyes and saw the faint light of day filtered through a soggy forest canopy as rain poured down upon her and soaking into the rips and tears found in her flight suit. She could just see the tattered remnants of her green glider from her prone position on her bruised belly. Among the green material and snapped carbon fiber struts lay bent aluminum rods and the massive, lifeless paw of a Wyvern in front of her. She began to stir and move as she remembered with a sickening clarity that the Wyvern was a giant weight bearing down on top of her before the ground and blackness had met her. Relief came to her mind when no massive weight was found pinning her to the ground and that her body sang in full high definition pain.

With a small grunt of effort, she pushed out of the makings of mud, spitting out bits or grass and dirt caught in her teeth, a tooth was lost somewhere in the expulsion. Something felt like it bit through her right leg and she let out a small scream of pain as she rolled onto her back ready to kick in self defense. She found no attacker as she fell back to ground, her safety buckles snapped apart properly to release her from the wreckage of the pack and glider as she fell back to rest in the mud for the span of five breaths. She needed to assess what was wrong with her leg and she dug into her fortitude to sit up with effort. Her golden eyes stared down at one broken leg, the jagged creamy white shards of her tibia and fibula jutted out of her right pant leg looking surreal against the dark gray flight suit.

She tried to get a better look at her broken leg and felt something hard smack into her bruised chest. A glance told her that she was still wearing her white EYE Com and she quickly placed it over her right ear again hoping to call for help. Her hopes were high seeing the device boot up and still functional but her heart sunk as she saw there was no service where she was. That sent a chill deep into her that made her bruised body ache worse. No access to the Magic Net meant she had no access to magical energy waves at all. All other functions of the device were offline as well except for the record feature. She hit record on the EYE com to capture anything she could, making her field trip one of possibly being a rescue and survival mission. She began unbuckling the remnants of the packs harness from her torso and assessed any further injuries as being a collection of bruises and scrapes, painful but far from life threatening.

Each movement she made jarred her leg sending waves of pain and nausea up into her belly threatening to drive out her last meal and take her back into a deep darkness. Darkness didn?t sound all that bad except that she knew bleeding out was no fun and help was not going to come for a while if any. She was roughly 100 miles north from Rhy?Din City putting her about 50 miles from the nearest main trade road and about 120 or so miles from Den City or Fang Wood City. Worse the tracking bead for a GPS unit implanted in her shoulder would be offline now due to the effects of the Barrier Zone Mt. Yasuo had. She looked up at the rain and couldn?t tell how long it?d last. Her flight suit was water resistant, though slashed up some. She?d be soaked in a few more hours giving her another danger to deal with, hypothermia.

Ammy didn?t give up complete hope on trying her magic. She would work on using a healing spell for her leg. Maybe her EYE com just took a hard hit and cracked the Ethereal Net crystal inside cutting off the magical energy encoding matrices. ?Setum Regem Malak.? she chanted, her hands placed on either side of the jutting bones. Her hands glowed faintly of yellow sunlight for a moment as the spell began take hold, soaking into the bones. The spell then failed utterly and reversed as something ancient and powerful took hold of the spell and twisted it, making her leg ache and throb harder. Ammy screamed more as a Magic Reversal Barrier made the broken bones shatter more giving her first hand proof that an Anti-Magical Field in Mt. Yasuo did have reversal properties for spells actively cast. She fell back into the thickening mud, panting harder then heard something that made her blood turn cold. Howls were echoing through the woods; dire wolf howls followed by the far off roars of a few more Wyverns and the snaps and hisses of something unknown echoed in the rain filled forests. She was not alone out here and to remain vulnerable and weak would be her death.

Ammy looked up at the rain clouds through the large gash the Wyvern?s body tore through the forest?s canopy. She gauged the light coming through was about midday. Her Eye com showed nothing for time, that function just static and gibberish. Had she not been in the Barrier Zone she could feel the sun and know exactly its position in relation to Rhy?Din?s orbit, but that was the issue. She needed to move. With a grunt of more effort, she sat up again and took several breaths against the pain. Ammy twisted at her waist and pulled the large pack over with a grunt of effort as the remnants of the glider dug into the mud. She dug out her modest first aid kit and a bottle of water then found some pain killers and antibiotics and took them. She then pulled out a well made survival knife. It wasn?t very large and didn?t seem much if she was going to have to fight with a broken leg and no magic. She was fucked. She checked further in the pack and found the small .38 caliber 5-shot revolver she packed still in good working order in its holster with a small box of ammo. She quickly loaded the revolver and strapped it to her left thigh.

Ammy then dug around for a small tool kit she kept for the glider and took out the simple crescent wrench and some pliers. She took apart two of the aluminum rods not bent from the glider. Using her knife she quickly went to work making strips out of the nearest hanging swath of green fabric of the glider. The materials for her splint prepared she steadied herself, recalling her nursing training from the space station. This next part was going to hurt like hell. Firmly she held onto her ankle with one hand, and then she pushed out with a quick motion using her other hand to guide the broken fragments into proper place. She screamed and sobbed more as she set her broken leg to the best of her ability. Pain fired through every cut and severed nerve and she woke a few minutes later with mud caked into her muzzle from where she?d landed face down from passing out.

Pushing herself out of the mud and panting hard, Ammy reminded herself that she was on the menu out here. She made quick work splitting the material of her right pant leg and got the open wound cleaned and dressed as best as she could before the splint was applied and firmly secured. Shoving the crescent wrench and pliers into a pocket she looked to the Wyvern?s still, massive form and worked with some effort to pull herself towards it. Once she reached the body of the beast she hauled herself up to stand using its scales as handholds placing weight on her good left leg. Once upright, Ammy slid along the beast?s massive side to the wrecked struts of the glider. She spied one of the carbon fiber support struts was still in reasonable shape and began to unbolt it from the glider. In a few seconds she had a serviceable carbon fiber haft to make a spear with.

She had to tip her spear somehow and she was reluctant to give up her knife to commit to something with more reach and left open at close quarters. Ammy moved over to the Wyvern remembering well that they had a perfect arsenal in their muzzles and removing teeth from the jaws would damage her knife less than going for talons encased in tough hide and scale. She found the Wyvern?s jaws closed shut from its impact with the ground and she groaned. This was going to take some work and her leg throbbed more at the thought. Gritting her teeth, she took her make shift haft and jammed it hard between the lip folds of the Wyvern?s mouth. She pulled down as hard as her Lupinossai strength and scant 150 pound frame could bear on the beast?s jaws. A wet cracking pop was heard and her haft went slack spilling her to the ground as the lower jaw broke, the scaly flesh tore from within and splashed her with Wyvern blood.

She wrinkled her nose as the smell of the blood washed over her, trying to gag her and drag her down into the vast boulevards of war she?d been through; phantoms of those she?d slain in her many lives clawing at her mind to drag her off into the red mists wild madness. Her eyes went a shade of white as she focused with effort to shut out that call to bloodlust, the natural humming and thirst in a Lupinossai?s body to attack and kill when the smell of blood is thick in the air. A red rage won?t help her with an unknown number of enemies coming for her. She felt she was in a bit more vibrant world coming so close to losing control. A shake of her head, her golden eyes returned slightly leaving white rings around her irises. Ammy returned to her grisly task to extract fangs from the Wyvern and worked on exploiting the broken jaw, wriggling inside of the maw as far as her leg allowed. The maw of the Wyvern stunk like two week old dead fish and a few bloated cadavers forcing her to pull out of the grizzly cave a moment for some air. She really needed those fangs though. Her ears flicked back and forth catching the sounds of the howls. They weren?t closing in yet so her presence must not have been a priority to whatever was hunting at the moment.

A silent snarl of disgust and Ammy dove slowly back into the bloody maw and began digging out and cutting away as many fangs as she could from the beast. She?d managed to hack out three of the canine fangs and about ten of the smaller biting/impaling teeth before her leg sent her into a pained retreat. She took her bloody treasures stuffed into her flight suit pockets back to where the large pack was, limping and leaning heavy on that makeshift haft.

She eased back down to sit in the mud, her splint kept out of the mud as best as possible and she began removing parts of the large pack to reveal the smaller hiking pack that she?d packed with all of her instruments and survival gear for camping out. A spool of high tensile wire was pulled out and set about fastening the three large canine fangs from the Wyvern to make a crude Halberd like spear. As she worked, her mind tried to dig deep into the basics of her alchemy training. She had a Wyvern here for crude reagents but not much else to work with without a laboratory to break it down and refine; however the blood would be useful and some of the smaller scales. All she needed was some crushed flint or powdered granite and she would have the bio-equivalent of liquid gunpowder charge using those reagents. She finished her spear and was contemplating fashioning a bow out of a slightly bent aluminum support rod when she heard a tree crack and break in the distance.

Ammy placed her preparations on hold, stuffed the remaining fangs into her pack and slid the pack onto her back then took up her makeshift halberd. She limped back over to the Wyvern?s body and stayed behind the head of the dead beast as she looked out into the rain cloaked forest. Something large shuffled in the rain, the shadowy mass was like an ogre though the weak sunlight gave glints of putrid gray scales on the body. Her white ringed golden eyes narrowed a bit wondering if her crash had attracted an ogre of some sort. A deer screamed from the brush, spooked by the beast and she caught sight of vibrant orange eyes glare at their target and she swallowed hard fearing she was doomed. A Basilgren was here. Yet, she didn?t feel her body turn to stone nor did the deer petrify, instead it was caught by a swiping hand of the beast and sent into a tree with a sickening wet crunch. Ammy pulled back to hide a bit as the Basilgren lumbered to its prey, a cobra like head the last thing she saw darting forward to tear into the deer.

She clung to her spear as she listened to the beast feed. She dredged up all that she could remember from nights spent haunting the Bristle Crios libraries. She gave a small, pained grunt. The books there kept her company way to often than most living beings. Perhaps it was because books didn?t judge a person like most of the world did with her. She snapped out of her rabbit trail of thought to her current dilemma of big, living nasty out there. A Basilgren was once thought a mythical beast wrought by an evil ancient goddess that hated anything more beautiful than her. The goddesses? name was struck out and erased, a way to punish her forever from being adored and idolized by the other gods in the varied pantheons. In response to this punishment she?d made various creatures to forever freeze her hated enemies in their ugliness forever. The Basilisk being one said creature another was the Basilgren. Unlike the serpent Basilisk, Basilgren?s only possessed the head and neck of the serpent like beast and those same damn petrifying eyes. The rest of the body was ogre in nature and covered in petrified Basilisk scale making Basilgrens hard to penetrate and they regenerated rapidly making the beasts downright nasty to fight. Yet this one, being in the Barrier Zone couldn?t petrify prey, leaving it open to normal attacks and not having to avert ones gaze. Not to mention, the Basilgren, if she combined several parts of it with the Wyvern blood and scales, would give her a few much needed alchemical field kit items.

?So, Ammy girl, how are you going to the kill the beasty then? Not exactly one hundred percent yourself and you have no spells or powers. Should be fun right?? She said to no one in particular. ?I don?t know. I think you can take it. Just find a weak spot and hit it for massive damage.? She felt like she heard someone reply to her. A glimpse of something from the corner of her eyes caught the faded view of something, a younger her maybe, in the days long ago wash away in the pouring rain. Ammy smirked a bit. ?Indeed, younger me.?

She heard the heavy footsteps of the Basilgren approaching the Wyvern and she froze in place for a few heart beats as the cobra like head crested over the scaled rib cage of the Wyvern. She was not spotted yet and the height of the creature put the delicate eyes out of reach of her Halberd. She chewed on the thought of testing Wyvern fang against petrified Basilisk scale but if her Halberd broke then she was screwed. The Basilgren began to tear into the softer scaled chest of the Wyvern seeking out the seared smell of the cooked heart, the wickedly sharp and yellow claws on its hands shredding scale and hide with ease. Ammy noticed as the beast dug into its meal that the armpits of the Basilgren were lacking of scale and just tough hide. Hide that she was sure a Wyvern fang could puncture.

With her scent masked by the awful stench of the Wyvern?s maw and its blood, Ammy slid along the neck to get at a better angle at the exposed underarm and slowly took up her Halberd. She had one shot at this and even then, it was no guarantee to be a quick kill. Lifting the Halberd up to rest on the scaled neck as a guided and brace she took a steady breath and began to chant very softly words from a life long ago.

?Spirits of the wild guide my hand in your courts . . .? With fluid motion and grace she stood and began to extend her Halberd with a straight thrust for the exposed underarm of the Basilgren. ?. . . for my hand knows not what it does . . .? The Wyvern fang struck true, piercing the hide of the Basilgren like parchment severing nerve clusters, arteries, striking into lung and then heart. The beast let out a ghastly hiss twisted away, swiping down at where it had been bitten from. Ammy clung to her Halberd, body slamming into the Wyvern, pulling the Halberd free of the Basilgren and she slid to the mud just in time to watch five cruel yellow nails shave through the scales and hide she?d been up against. ?. . . and what it does is often the death of your wild temples.? She watched the Basilgren hiss and thrash about more as it?s body went into a pain fueled rage, its black blood pumping out into the rain slick mud and grass causing a crude cement to form where ever the ebony droplets fell.

It saw Ammy and she noticed her danger, she frantically pulled herself along the Wyvern?s neck for the gaping slit in its jaw and neck she?d made earlier. She was willing to take the stinking hell over being smashed to death by the dying creature. Her only saving grace was the mortal wound she inflicted on the Basilgren slowed its pursuit, allowing her to squirm and move into the maw of the Wyvern. She wiggled and wedged herself painfully into the throat putting as much skull and scale between her and the beast she could. She felt the head rock and the heard the skull crack and creak as the Basilgren tried to batter its way into the hiding hole of the little thing that dared injure it so. Ammy refused to budge or move, to leave was death to her. She only had her knife and revolver now, the Halberd was left in the mud outside. She would retrieve it once the beast was dead. It could only last so long she hoped for she was betting that if she couldn?t regenerate, neither could it. Soon the battering of the head ceased and so did the hissing. A heavy wet thump was felt against the dead Wyvern and all was silent and still again.

She waited for what seemed like an eternity in a rotting cocoon before worming her way out of the dead Wyverns jaw. She took in a few deep breaths of rain scrubbed air, the cold shower beating upon her back and head as the storm continued. Lighting lit the sky once more and she heard the howling echoing again. With two large beasts now dead in the crash site and the noise, something deep in her told her that now was a good time to circle in and hunt for anything injured. She moved as quickly as she could and retrieved her Halberd and fetched a few of the aluminum rods that were salvageable from the glider, placing them in her pack. She?d pulled out several glass vials and had bled the Wyvern and Basilgren where she could. Scales from each of them took effort and a beating from a now bent and mangled crescent wrench to dislodge. She packed those away into her pack. The fangs on the Basilgren she avoided. The things were too poisonous to deal with in this situation to risk harming herself by one small mistake. The eyes though, Ammy carefully removed the Basilgren eyes with her knife, wrapped them in gauze and placed them in two sealed bags full of saline. They were useless now, but if she ever got home, they may be worth something.

She?d have to wait to make a bow or any other provisions. She needed a fire, shelter and rest. Her leg throbbed more; the dressing would need changing, the leg elevated and more pain meds and antibiotics taken. Using her Halberd as a staff, Ammy left the crash site of the glider, calling to mind that every path heading up the mountains lead to the village of Jenli and that is where she?d wanted to go. She?d find help and care there. Perhaps her magic would return there too. Who knew? For now, she limped through the soggy, muddy wilderness searching for the nearest trail to follow. The howling drawing closer and closer the more she walked. She was being tracked by a hunting pack.

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2016-06-15 20:45 EST
Field Trip to Mt. Yasuo: Day 1 ? Goddess Fall (part 3)

(Ambience: Human ? Of Monsters and Men)

1:00 PM ? 4:00 PM

The rain continued its steady fall and beat upon mud, then grass and finally hard packed clay slicked to slime and dotted with gravel as Ammy worked every painful step from the crash site to a goat trail higher up in the thinning tree line. What would have been a brisk fifteen minute walk drug out to a half hour limp and stumble with her leg and makeshift Halberd. Once she?d gotten upon the goat trail she was able to take a small reprieve and survey the sloping bowl her glider and the Wyvern had crashed into. The howling she?d heard had indeed been the sound of hunting packs and the first to emerge from the trees were packs of timber wolves the fell upon Wyvern and Basilgren with abandon.

Ammy breathed in a small sigh of relief as the packs went for the larger buffet spread before them instead of following the fresh blood trail she?d left behind her though the rain worked in her favor. That relief vanished as she saw larger forms loping up the slippery clay hill side following her scents. These forms were not timber wolves unless Mt. Yasuo grew its natural beasties to dire wolf size. She moved up the goat trail, limping as fast as she could, keeping her eyes open for shelter or safe haven to take refuge. As she walked she began looking for any broken or fallen limbs to serve as a temporary bow she could make. Her woodland skills were very rusty and she doubted she?d launch an arrow more than once from a homemade bow much less have the thing snap and hit her in the face. This meant she was down to the five rounds loaded into her .38 revolver, the Halberd and her small survival knife if those dire wolves closed on her. She doubted they?d be civil enough to let her dig in her pack for another five bullets to reload the revolver.

No shelter in sight, Ammy hobbled up and over a small hill the goat trail crested and spied a shelf of rock and some trees off to the side of the trail. She made her way off the trail, working hard to not slide down the rain slick clay and scraggly vines. Once she?d made it upon the rocky perch, she noticed the rock was flint. She grinned and took out the battered, bent and bloody crescent wrench and hammered at the rock. Wet chips flaked away and soon sparked as she exposed the dryer flint layers, the metal crescent wrench sparking with each strike. She took out two stoppered vials of her preciously scarce Wyvern blood and dropped in slivers of the flint rock into the blood. Stopping up both vials with their corks, she gently shook them and hoped the barrier effects didn?t mess with basic chemical reactions. The alchemical slurry turned from dark red to a foamy orange and Ammy smiled. Chemical reaction seemed to work still so normal laws of physics worked on the mountain.

She moved into the trees for a bit of cover and leaned against a weather evergreen trunk to rest her leg knowing the dire wolves would be cresting the small hill soon. She?d have a surprise waiting for them, though why stop at one surprise? She set the two foamy orange vials in a breast pocket and pulled out another vial of Wyvern blood and carefully tapped out three drops of it into a vial of Basilgren blood. Trying to do field alchemy in the rain sucked as she was getting rain water into all of her mixtures and in this case, the reaction she wanted happened quicker than she wanted. She saw the mix of red and black blossom into gaseous green instantaneously and she moved to stop up the vial quickly forcing her to drop the vial of Wyvern blood to shatter on the rocks at her feet. She bit back a torrent of curses as she was down to just one vial of Wyvern blood now and she was not going back for more. Maybe she should?ve grabbed a bucket of Wyvern blood instead but she didn?t feel like sloshing a wake of red up the mountainside.

The sight of a large, black furred head cresting the small hill of the goat trail had Ammy snapping out of her rueful thoughts. She took one of the frothy orange vials to hand and waited for the black dire wolf to fully crest the hill and then another, light gray dire wolf to follow before throwing the vial at their massive, mud slicked paws. The sudden impact and exposure to the air and moisture made the mix of Wyvern blood and flint stone ignite into a fast moving gas distortion resulting in an explosion of air distribution and equalization, in this case a very loud booming sound resulted. The lead dire wolf yipped and was sent tumbling off the trail and down the side of the hills in a tangle of limbs and vanishing black fur. The trailing dire wolf of light gray fur seemed to turn tail and flee for the moment back over the ridge of the small hill. Ammy grinned seeing her Noise Maker work but she knew they?d regroup and charge at her again.

Sure enough the same light gray fur dire wolf that had fled was now in the lead and it had brought friends to the charge. No longer facing two dire wolves, Ammy watched five mount the hill and cursed. She threw the other Noise Maker vial followed closely with the gaseous green one at their paws. The trailing two dire wolves scattered and fled from the noise, younglings from the slimmer size and fur quality. The three still approaching her must have been full adults, probably more seasoned in the hunt. The noise didn?t faze the light grey dire wolf this time and its buddies took courage from their leader. The swirling gas of green putrescence though had them balking, sneezing, snorting and retching as the hillside smelled of rotten eggs and dead Wyvern the result of the Basilgren?s blood rapidly decomposing and decaying the proteins of the Wyven blood.

Ammy took this time to move from her vantage point on the rock ledge and she fled up the goat trail again, limping and leaning on her spear like a hobbling hobbit with a case of thorn foot. The gas should buy her more time and mess up their sense of smell while she hunted for some form of shelter. The trail even in the steady rain showed continued use so the shepherds must have a shack or something along the way to rest at and a pen for their animals during the night. Her leg was throbbing like it was caught in a vice and she was feeling a slight heat of fever seep into her. She?d gotten no more than an hour?s reprieve up that old goat trail before she heard the wuffle and pants of the large dire wolves on her trail again. The rain continued its onslaught as she moved faster up the trail, slipping and sliding all over the clay and gravel, her broken leg being abused in its splint.

The sound of large, wet paws thumping on the soggy clay alerted her to the lead dire wolves threat of biting into her back or legs. Ammy spun on her good left leg, hefting her Halberd in both hands using the spinning motion to swing the weapon like a club unseen at the attacking dire wolf. Her foot slid in the wet clay and her body fell altering her Halberds swing catching a very large brown dire wolf full in the side of the head with a Wyvern fang that made up the cross guard. The beast howled once in pain and crashed down into the wet clay and gravel, momentum dragging its body up the trail a few feet pulling her hands and body along with it. The following two dire wolves, the light gray and a white one were hard on the brown?s heels ready to snap up Ammy.

Letting go of her Halberd, Ammy dug her revolver out from its holster on her left hip and fired two rounds rapidly into the chest of the light grey dire wolf that bore down upon her. It snarled and snapped at her face, blood pouring from the two chest wounds. She took two bites to her left forearm while bracing the snapping head from her face and neck. She dug the barrel of her revolver into the dire wolfs jaw and fired once more. It collapsed on her as she felt blood, bone and brain spatter her cheeks and the trail around her among the rain drops. She screamed as the dead weight falling on top of her cruelly reminder her of the injuries she?d already taken. She pummeled and struck at the dead body of the dire wolf, its blood washing upon her making her senses sharpen more and she felt the red mists of a blood berserk fall on her once more. She had no focus or time to break that sea of memory or quell that ancestral call to fight. She was pinned and still had another threat waiting to kill her. Panting hard with pain and fear, she let the howl of memories and the phantoms of her past drag her under the red tide as she heard the howl of the white dire wolf calling for more brothers and sisters to come and hunt.

With the red mist upon her, golden eyes now fully white, Ammy?s body tapped into the primal power reserves the Lupinossai had from being engineered to kill and win. Adrenaline surged through her body doubling her already lethal strength by human standards. Her red haze filled mind felt her body weighed down by something heavy and knew only of the urgent needs all creatures felt when in danger. Fight or flight and she couldn?t flee yet so she was going to fight. Her right fist closed and she made a solid blow into the side of the light grey dire wolf body, shifting its bulk with ease and made it roll off of her. Able to breathe easier and not feeling pinned, she stood as if in a dream. Her mind knew her right leg was broken but her body had flooded her system with so much adrenaline and endorphins that she barely felt any pain, just stiffness as the splint provided feeble support as she put weight on it.

Her ears heard the approaching white dire wolf and she could smell on the shifting wind the scent of cold, cleansing rain, mud and clay churned up by running paws, and the heavy wet pelts of dire wolves on the run growing stronger. How many she didn?t know or care. All she knew is a creature stood before her and she could not flee with it at her back. The creature had to be removed. She?d lost the revolver somewhere in the struggle with the light grey dire wolf, its familiar weight absent in her right hand. Her hazed mind discarded the notion of fire arms, to many steps to perform, to many ways to miss and be killed. Instead her right hand moved on instinct to the hilt of her survival knife and drew it. Every inch of her DNA knew the weight and feel of a bladed weapon even in berserk rage and knew how to use it well. The white dire wolf snarled and lowered its head as it stalked forward at Ammy. Ammy?s white hazed eyes narrowed at the dire wolf and she let out her own bestial snarl of challenge as she crouched slightly, coiled her muscles and then she pounced upon the dire wolf first.

She couldn?t recall much of her dance of death she did. Her EYE Com recorded what it could until it?s lens was smeared in blood and gore. In her mind?s eye saw a sea of swirling red mist, the berserking rage, and should she look close enough, images of the world her body interacted would surface and break through as if something hard plunged through water. A snarling dire wolf snapping for her throat erupted from a wave of vermillion to crash into a hard shoal of her fist among the red misty waves. Something sharp and silvery like a knife her mind remembered flashed in the rainy daylight, spilling blood, parting fur and flesh, making dim howls and yelps of pain and death surround her like a siren of death to echo that red sea in her mind.

All she remembered was hearing her own ragged breath as she stood in the cold soaking rain, water and blood dripping from her crimson hair, her golden and white highlights stained dark with blood. Her white fur was stained pink from the life essence of the dire wolves splashed into it and washed away like a fading watercolor of violence. All around her was dead dire wolves; her left arm was maimed more than she remembered. The left sleeve of her flight suit gone, chunks of fur torn out and deep bites welling with her blood; her leg throbbed with menace and hate as the splint creaked, threatening to come apart at the next sign of combat abuse. Her survival knife dripped with blood and gore, her mouth tasted of hot blood and she spat out coarse, thick fur as the feel of it was vile to her. Her gold eyes white ringed again fell upon the white dire wolf with its throat ripped out and she stared hard and long at the savagery she had bestowed.

Ammy wiped her muzzle of the blood and wiped the bloody blade on the dead white dire wolf and sheathed it for the moment. She felt on her body and found her pack was still there as her mind slowly came back to focus, the pain promised to follow soon as her adrenaline laced system could only hold so long. She had time, she knew hazily. Time to get moving and find cover before the pain really sunk in and she was down. She?d need shelter and food. A lot of blood was spent in this fight and her body needed nutrients and protein to heal. She could try to fumble with the emergency rations in her pack but they were good for a healthy body. She needed raw nutrients available when she made camp. She couldn?t hunt in her injured state.

Ammy looked around her at the freshly killed dire wolves and a thought came to her mind in a sickening fashion. Lessons on civility and taboo beliefs from her younger days came to mind. The Lupinossai did not eat their own kind or the flesh of their distant cousins in any form from base to sentient beings yet she needed to live. She needed the raw nutrients to rapidly replace what she?d lost. Wrestling with her pack, she removed a few sealable bags, a few towels and fought back the urge to retch as she went about butchering what was needed from the dire wolf carcasses to help her body survive. As she cut, excised, packed and removed strips of flesh, muscle and various bones to fish out marrow for later, she wondered if a liver tasted like liver no matter the species, or the heart for that matter? Her grizzly task was done in a few minutes. She stood with a pack filled full of fresh dire wolf meat and vital organs that were edible and two whole haunches skinned and wrapped up in small towels that poked from the top of her pack. She slowly chewed on handfuls of raw liver she had stuffed into her flight suits pockets, the warm, coppery tang slid down her throat making the white rise a bit more in her eyes but it seemed to keep her in a heightened alert state instead of a full blown fight reflex. There was no fight now, it was only flight now.

Ammy limped through the slurry of blood, gravel and clay and found her Halberd again, dislodging it from the head of the brown dire wolf. She spent a few moments looking over the small battle field but had lost sight of her revolver. She considered it lost and didn?t dare risk more time to search under the bodies. Time spent searching meant she was further at risk for more hunting packs and she was again at the center of a buffet for predators and scavengers. She continued her trek further up the goat trail, her leg a flaming bon fire now of pain and heat. Her left arm was numb and cold from the rain and blood loss. The light was getting dimmer as the sun set behind the black storm clouds and she shivered, soaked to the bone as she continued her pilgrim march of pain, fire and ice to survive. The trail went up another agonizing incline and she heard the howls of smaller wolves ranging, most likely scenting the kills she?d made. She could lie down and just give up and be eaten. Would the world mourn her loss?

?Yes silly. The sun going out would be quite mourned. Having tea without a pretty sunrise or sunset would be very drab. Your children would miss you dearly. So would all the people that love you and any new faces you hope to teach. Gonna let a little hike beat you??

Ammy heard that young voice again and took her eyes from the muddy goat trail to stare up at the faded vision of her as a youth. She was leaning against a sign post at a crossroad the goat trail had met up with. Among the signs it showed Jenli, north, 2 days travel and it seemed she was at Evergreen Goat Shed. Bellow that a sign that pointed to Rhy?Din City 110 miles away. She was about 60 miles from the nearest road leading to the barrier. The young her smiled as she saw the dawning hope come to Ammy that she?d made it out of the wilderness alive. The youth giggled and then ran down a flag stone trail to vanish from sight in the rain before a small, sturdy goat pen framing a cozy, walled, well made shack for two or three people to use for shelter in any weather.

Ammy smiled at the sight and moved with a renewed vigor hobbling for the goat pen and then through it, shutting it tight and into the shack. She found it dry within, fitted with two beds, a fire pit, wood to be used, kindling and some cooking ware. Bolting the door shut, Ammy moved to the fire pit and forced her numb hands and arms to stack the wood just right and set the tinder to be ignited easy. She took off her pack and search in it for her survival kit and removed her magnesium stick and dry steel blade. She soon had a fire going and was stripping out of the destroyed flight suit and under garments. She hung them up and pulled out a folded up, heavy blanket filled with down feathers she found in a chest by the wall and sat on a three legged stool by the fire.

Her broken leg was stretched out and she could see it was swollen once she had the splint removed. She took the bandaging off and she grimaced at how dirty the wound had gotten. She pulled her pack close to her and began to use some of her bottled water to clean and lavage the wound clean before dressing it again. She cleaned her arm and the various cuts and bites she had all over her body that she could reach. As she worked, she continued to eat and swallow bits of liver and strips of raw dire wolf muscle. Her first aid kit was spent and she had enough antibiotics and pain meds for tonight and tomorrow. Her injuries tended and meds consumed, she set her mind to cooking parts of questionable meal. She spent the night cooking dire wolf meat, eating hungrily, consuming raw essences and marrow, holding her Halberd close and shivering between the cold of hypothermia and the rise of fever. She would doze sparingly to toss more wood on the fire to keep it good hot and bright as she lay on a bed wrapped for warmth. Dawn would come, she hoped and perhaps someone with goats that could help her get to Jenli. Her world slipped from her sight as she succumbed to exhaustion and the rest needed for her injuries. As she slept, all along the goat trail and the main northern road the wood smoke from the shack would roll and amble, an easy sign to those looking for company or those looking for the lost.

Amaia

Date: 2016-07-01 08:08 EST
Day 1

At home, during the initial day of Ammy's trip, the troublesome call was received to the phone, but the phone was left at the house with no one to answer it, except for a snooping young woman that was too curious for her own good. Amaia would've walked into the kitchen noticing her mother's phone left on the counter was ringing. By the time she reached the phone to pick it up it stopped ringing and said it had one message.

Amaia would decide to open up the message on the phone and listen. She heard what seemed like something normal going on and soon turning into what sounded like trouble, but sounded like maybe things were okay. So, once the message was done she'd walk into the living room, set it on an end-table beside the couch and plopped down onto the cushions. She'd grab the remote and turned on the TV to watch for a little while. She didn't know who Ammy Spiritor really was, just that it was her mom's mate, but it sounded like things would've been fine. She heard the lady was a god after all, so what could go wrong?


It wasn't until an hour or two later the phone was ringing again with another name on it saying "Marilla Takitia." AMaia didn't know who the hell that was either, but it seemed her mom was quite famous today, so she decided to pick up the phone and answer it. "Yo, this is Amaia. Bunny-maid's daughter. Who's calling?" she said in a rather carefree tone.

"Who? What? Nevermind, where is Mirius? I need to talk to her. This is a big emergency."

Amaia would pause a moment and then turned down the volume on the TV and sat up some. "Mom's out shopping with the kids, getting them clothes and other stuff. Just me around the house, really. Something going on?" she asked.

Marilla sighed, "Okay, uhm... Ammy's in trouble right now. Big trouble. Really need some help in making sure she's safe. I was hoping to pick Mirius up feeling she'd need to know."

Amaia thought about the situation a moment. Someone was in trouble, and they were family, and could've really used someone's help. it could be another opportunity for her to show she was wanting to help those around her in this new world. "Tell you what. Let my mom do her weird, sissy mommy crap and I'll come help. It's not goddess crap is it, though? I know Ammy is supposed to be a goddess or something."

A groan would be heard on the other side of the phone. "No, no goddess stuff. We're dealing with freaking wyverns and other nonsense. Look... if you're really going to help we're going to need to meet and talk. I'll be at my airfield. You know where that is?"

Amaia would hmm and answered, "Nope."

Another soft sigh came from Marilla, "Okay. Down the hall in that house there's a room with a teleporter I set up in there. It's simple, just stand on it hit a preset button that says 'Marilla's Airfield' and you'll be here. I'll be waiting. Got it?"

Amaia would move to stand up as she spoke. "Sounds easy enough." she said. "See ya there." she'd then hang up and set the phone on the table again and went down the hallway of the home. There must've been like 20 doors in that hallway all leading to some weird, random places, but she'd find one with the teleporter and opened the door, walked in, closed the door behind her and stood onto the teleporter. She'd spot the button and pressed it and in moments she'd disappear from the home and arrived at the airfield.

There she'd meet the distraught Marilla Takitia, the aunt of the family that also owned an airfield of various aircraft and lived with Amar there. Marilal herself looked really confused almost immediately though seeing Amaia looking like a purple bunny with wings. That moment didn't last long though. They gave each other their brief introductions and went straight to business.

From the information Amar had given them and information known about the mountain and it's effects, they would then begin devising ideas of how to get to Ammy fast and safely. It was going to be quite difficult due to the circumstances and after some time they would begin to list everything they would need and would have to do to find Ammy.

Once all the details were down and a lot of talking was done, they then began spending the rest of the first day preparing for the rescue. The first thing was to find transportation to that location. To do this they needed something that could fly into the barrier without issues. The method chosen was going to be a two-seat sailplane that was going to be a bit modified for the current mission. It was also going to be able to drop and parachute in needed supplies Amaia was going to be using. Given it was also a fly-by-wire system, it would've had no troubles with the barrier.

Second thing they needed was to get all the supplies together that they knew was going to be needed. Parachuting in was easy, but the proper gear was going to need to be more careful. Amaia was warned she wouldn't be able to bring anything advanced and she was likely going to have to carry light for the trip. Amaia decided to carry her semi-auto sniper with no fancy attachments besides a regular scope in case she needed to view things from afar and would bring her beloved sword. Aside from that, she was going to have some basic food rations and water bottles. There was also going to be some medical supplies in a backpack she'd be able to carry. She was also going to have some travel hiking apparel for this trip as well as some gear for climbing just in case. She was also going to bring a belt to hold some of her gear and possible extra magazines for her rifle.

Thirdly, they needed a location. When they were taking small breaks or others were busy getting ready, Marilla was using satellites in orbit to zero in on Ammy's location during the day. She would've located the site of where her glider crashed as well as any form of commotion going on down in that are. While it took some time that even lead towards much later into the day, there seemed to be some signs of struggle along a path with dead creatures on the ground and eventually smoke coming from an area, whether it was from a fire or building she couldn't tell at the time.

Once all was said and done, Marilla got pictures of the location, took some maps and drew paths that matched the photos of where to go. They'd spend the rest of the night planning routes and what to do in various scenarios. Eventually, it was late into the night and everyone needed their rest as going at night time would've made things harder.


Day 2

Early into the morning as the sun began to rise, it was time to initiate the rescue. They got everything all packed up and into a make-shift attachment onto the glider to be able to drop items with a parachute. It wasn't much to carry and was light on gear in the package, but it would have to do for the situation. Amaia had what she needed on her and would soon be in the plain with her own parachute. Sure, she had wings, but they likely weren't going to give her a soft landing from high up in the air. Once she was in the sailplane and buckled in, Marilla soon got in as well. The sailplane was to be towed by another plane, which Amar would've been piloting.

Once everyone was ready, had everything they need. They would've told Amar to lift off and pull them along. once they were in the air, Marilla and Amaia would wait until the sailplane was pulled close enough to the mountains. When they were close enough, the rope between both planes would be detached and soon the sailplane going on its own into the barrier. As it sailplane glided into the mountains in a serene manner, they would overlook the land watching where they were going and making sure they were on the right course.

Since this was all by flight, it took a lot less time to cover ground to find Ammy's location. They'd soon zoom over the location of the crashed glider, wyvern body and soon dead dire wolves were as well. It seemed there was still some creatures down below lingering about nibbling on the remains. Marilla wasn't feeling too happy, being very worried over Ammy's safety, but they continued.

They went along the path they followed and soon saw the area where the smoke had once been coming from on what they saw from the satellite. It was time for Amaia to get into action. Once they were relatively close to the shack, Marilla would detach the cargo attached to the sailplane and let it drop down with a parachute. Once Marilal gave Amaia the signal, Amaia would reach up to slide the cockpit glass back. She'd unbuckle herself, moved up and opened her wings. The wind picked her up with extreme ease and sent her flying up and above the sailplane.

Once out, Marilla would have the cockpit closed and had the sailplane pull away. It was all up to Amaia now. Amaia would pull herself into a controlled glide as she went down, making sure she was going to land near the supplies that was dropped and making sure she knew where the shack was, too. As she got her bearings and prepared, she'd pull her wings to herself to not get caught in any wires as she deployed her parachute. Once it was out, she'd gently float down to the ground in a graceful manner. Once landed, she'd take off her parachute and would run quickly over to the supplies that was dropped, which was almost a near minute walk. Once there, she'd grab her gun and loaded it, put on her belt and backpack full of supplies.

When all of her gear was checked, ready and still in good condition from the landing she'd open up a map to make sure this was the place and it certainly was. Amaia then headed up the trail to find the shack they had spotted. Things felt so fast in the air, but on foot it was taking her a while to find what she was looking for. It was getting close to an hour, but she'd spot the shack up the trail as she continued moving. Her pace was going into a slight job, her rifle ready in her hands and sword still in it's sheath at her side. If there was any creatures that were going to attack her thinking she was a snack, she would make them regret it. As she traveled, though, nothing came as she got closer.

The closer she got to the shack, she noticed no one was around this place at all and was thinking maybe it was abandoned, but she did have to see what was maybe inside the shack. She'd soon approach it and came up to a door on it and stood there a moment, wondering if she should kick it in or knock. While the first sounded way more fun, she didn't want to cause a ruckus if someone was maybe sleeping.

Then again, that didn't mean she still couldn't have fun. She'd knock on the door several times. "Open up! Yasuo 5-0 here! We received a call about a domestic disturbance in this area. Anyone home? Don't make me kick this door in!" she'd call out loudly to make sure she was heard. Her bunny ears would listen ever so carefully for any movement inside the shack or even a sound from someone. It was there she waited for a response to see if anyone was home. If not, she was tempted to enter anyways to see if there was clues of anyone having recently been there.

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2016-07-10 11:08 EST
Field Trip to Mt. Yasuo: Day 2 ? The Winged Bunny (part 1) 9 A.M.

She'd been lost in a deep, heavy blanket of darkness as fatigue and fever had taken her. Ammy hadn't realized as she slept deeply that the fire had grown weak in the morning and finally guttered out to cold, powdered ash leaving the cabin dim and cooling. The down filled blanket had been tossed to the floor in a fevered dream of gnashing teeth, Wyvern wings and a long plunge into a sea of blood that she swam through until she could swim no longer. She wondered if she was going to drown and finally see the end of her existence notated as ironic. As her body got more tired in and her head began to sink deep under the copper stink of blood, the sound of knocking echoed through the blood ocean. A sirens voice echoed out, seeking to catch her awareness in a snare, though why it sounded like a cheesy 1980's Human TV show puzzled her.

These thoughts had broken the nightmarish spell and she was no longer swimming in blood but shivering and shaking on a rustic bed in a dim cabin filled with smoke. Her mind swam, confused with where she was jarred between the dream and what had awaken her. White ringed eyes darted about the dimness making out the cold, dark fireplace and the remnants of dire wolf meat, the torn flight suit she'd worn drying on wires, and by the bedside propped up, her makeshift Halberd slicked with dried blood no longer identifiable. Ammy remembered that she'd found shelter in a goat shed after a crash and had survived a few wilderness adventures. Why was she so hot though? The cabin felt so cold to her feverish body. Her ears though twitched as her heightened senses from the lingering berserk blood mist detected a heart beat and breathing by the front door. It sounded young and strong. Perhaps that was the siren that had called her from the blood sea?

Ammy called out in the dimness, or she tried the first time. Fever parched throat croaked out a plea for help that was barely a whisper. She worked her muzzle a bit, trying to work moisture into her throat and managed a slighter better plea of weakness. "Please help." Her hand reached out, for fear of losing this only thread of hope and knocked over her Halberd. The spear made a loud clattering, clanking sound as it hit the floor of the cabin.

To whoever was to enter, they'd find a dim cabin smelling of old blood dire wolf blood, some fresh Lupe blood, drying wet clothes, wet fur, a Lupe woman upon a bed with a broken leg, swollen, infected and the Lupe woman burning with fever and just in her fur, shivering and shaking. The only weaponry would be upon the floor out of reach and a very muddy and blood covered back back lay on the floor, gutted of supplies with strewn medical supplies spent and discarded on the floor.

Amaia

Date: 2016-07-20 15:34 EST
She waited patiently for an answer before barging into the shack. Hearing a faint plea for help that those large bunny ears could so easily catch she then knew someone was inside and did indeed need help. A hand reached up to the doorknob and tried to open the door, but then realized it wasn't moving. She'd set her gone down a moment as well as her sword so they weren't in the way. She'd slam her shoulder into the door several times before giving it a few hard kicks until the old door broke swung open.

Amaia would quickly grab her gun and sword and looked inside the shack real quick only seeing the lupe there in the bed and no one else. She'd calm down and went to set her weapons on a table for the moment and pulled her backpack of supplies off and went over to the bed. "I'm going to assume you're Ammy, from the pictures I've seen. You also look like my aunt Amaretto, which is kinda weird." she said. As she'd go to set her supplies by the bed, she'd look to Ammy. "oh, by the way, I'm pretty sure mom would've wanted me to do this since she isn't here." she said right before she'd go to quickly give Ammy a slap across the face.

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2016-08-14 11:52 EST
Field Trip to Mt. Yasuo: Day 2 - The Winged Bunny (part 2)

The sounds of assault on the old wood door drew Ammy more from her fevered miasma. Threads of the berserk mist rose in her mind more as her weakened body edged into reading the situation as danger once she heard and saw the door break open from the kicks of Amaia. The fever though had robbed her body of most of its concerted and desired coordination to flee and run. She was left with the option to just curl up on the bed for the moment to protect her vitals from someone entering the cabin she didn't know.

Her ears twitched though hearing her name mentioned and that of her mirror twin, Amaretto. It was almost a soothing balm pulling her mind from the mists of panic and wildness. That balm turned to burning salt in open nerves of her mind and senses when Amaia slapped her across the face. Her thin grasp on reality and civility in the fog of the beserker slipped from blood soaked mental fingers. The physical blow did more to galvanize her body and sense to act on its own accord apart from reality and common sense. It now reacted in a pure state of self preservation and making sure that the creature standing before her would be on the floor dead and unable to further harm her weakened body.

Amaia would find herself facing a loudly snarling Ammy on the bed that had now gone from curled up and cowering to lunging for her. She swiped out a hand, clawed fingers reaching out fast and hard intent on slashing at the throat of Amaia, hoping to slit jugular for a quick kill. Her free, deceptively strong Suultrii hand that wasn't swiping, tried to grab for Amaia as well. That hand looked thin, delicate and apt for spells yet it held steel, vice like power under that berserk mist. Her muzzle was snapping at the air, sharp Lupinossai teeth, apt and well made for rending flesh and meat wanted to sink into Amaia's flesh.

Amaia was now facing an Ammy that had slipped into feralness for the moment and she wanted the bunny/lupes blood.

Amaia

Date: 2016-09-24 19:51 EST
While Amaia wasn't necessarily expecting Ammy to lunge at her and try to kill her, she was always on alert and almost naturally she immediately went to jump away to avoid the grabbing and the lethal claws of the enraged lupe. Amai even used the strength in her legs to jump up high and latch onto one of the support beams on the ceiling of the shack, claws dug into the wood to make sure she didn't fall. It was almost comical in how fast she reacted to avoid danger.

She'd stare down at the lupe, knowing that injured looking body there was no way she'd be gotten up here. "What the fuzzball is wrong with you?" she'd yell down at Ammy, "I always hear mom and you being physical with each other, but wht the freak not like this." she said, wondering how crazy her mom was now. She thought her father Yaji'is was weird and had problems, but she was starting to think her mother Mirius had a tendency to be in love with psycho people that liked to try to kill people.

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2016-09-29 12:44 EST
Field Trip to Mt. Yasuo: Day 2 - The Winged Bunny (part 3)

Amaia's quick reflexes and removal of her body from Ammy's rapid, feral lunge presented Ammy's body with a dilemma. So determined was she to kill the bunny/lupe before her that instincts had over rode the mind and failed to consider consequences. One of them being that with no body to collide with, Ammy went right off the bet to crash into a heap of fur and thrashing limbs upon the floor for a moment or two.

The hard impact of hitting the floor and her broken leg being jarred so carelessly by its dimwitted owner proved enough clarity to snap Ammy's mind out of the rage she was in. She was very confused about why she was on the floor, staring up at a young woman hanging by the rafters that looked like a winged bunny. She'd been in bed, trying to sleep, rest her leg that was now angrily throbbing and screaming at her mind for being jarred to the floor. It took her a few moments to collect enough thought and energy to speak.

"Who.... are... you?" She croaked. With effort she spoke more. "I'm.... not.... safe.... Lupe.... Blood.... Rage...." She forced out in warning.

Ammy laid her head back on the floor panting hard in the pain as her leg made her dizzy from the throbbing. "Try.... not.... to.... hit.... me.... Have.... any meds? Water?"

Amaia

Date: 2016-09-29 17:07 EST
Her sharp claws stayed deep in the wood so that she would never fall and be attacked by the enraged lupe. When things finally calmed down and she heard Ammy speaking, she'd sigh some in relief knowing she wasn't going to have to deal with a crazy person all trip. When things seemed safe enough, she'd let go and land on the floor on her feet and watched Ammy a long moment just to make sure she didn't go crazy again, but would speak first as she began taking off her backpack full of supplies, "Name's Amaia. I just use my first name, but I guess it'd be Amaia Nyta'al if you include my dad's name, or Spiritor if it's my mother. They refuse to use each other's last name, it's weird." she said and looked down at Ammy more to the questions of medical supplies and water. That was probably a hint to the insanity gone... maybe.

"Well, someone had to slap you. Mom said you probably did something you weren't supposed to do again and generally whenever me and my brothers and sisters do something stupid she slaps us. She slaps dad, too." She'd kneel down and began opening it and pulling out a few small medical kits with various supplies and pulled out food rations and a few bottles of water. She'd open the cap of a water bottle and slide it over to Ammy, "Here, drink. So, what's all wrong with you and what's messed up?" she asked. "And I'm not a doctor like Lene by the way, don't expect me to be gentle if I got to fix something."

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2016-10-23 13:55 EST
Ammy's hands greedily took the uncapped bottle of water that Amaia gave to her and quaffed it down with startling speed. Her thirst slightly satiated she felt her mind a little more agreeable to cooperate with the bunny thing to accept the aid being offered.

"Huh... so she had fun with that... deranged bird dog of a killer after all?" Ammy wuffled a bit as she moved her arms and leg under her to get into a more comfortable position. "Not in the best... mind to offer medical advice... but I can try. Mostly banged up. Scrapes, cuts, bruises... small stuff... It's my right leg..." she wave a weak hand at the swollen lower right leg.

She leaned back look hot still. "I need more water... bit of a fever... aspirin if you have any to lower it... broad spectrum antibiotics... and no matter what you do... I know it's not going to be gentle... but my leg needs cleaned and splinted so... I can walk on it... and get out of here... Get out of these mountains... my natural healing spells will come back." She panted a bit more.

She would watch Amaia a bit. She did find the daughter of Mirius, her mate, quite a independent looking youth. Only her or her mates could raise one like that in the family. Ammy gave a small, tired chuckle. "For the record... I'm slapping your mother when I get back... I wasn't doing something stupid... I was doing homework as a student... neither me or Amar expected a Wyvern to mistake the Bi-Plane as prey."

Amaia

Date: 2016-10-23 17:48 EST
"Mom figured you'd have broken something." she said with a smirk She'd take another bottle of water to open it and slid it over to Ammy. "Careful, I didn't bring that much water." Listening to Ammy further she'd begin to take out medical supplies. She was packed with a good variety of things. It was all mostly just enough to cover a broad range of injuries, but not fix things entirely. She'd look at Ammy's leg a moment before pulling out pieces for a leg splint and set it next to Ammy. Medicine was then pulled out in a small container to set next to her. Then she began pulling out a couple medical kits to clean wounds and close up any if needed for a quick fix.

"Did your homework consist of studying the local region, it's inhabitants, dangers, climate, ecosystem and all that fun stuff? Also, why didn't you just bring a gun or something to shoot it? Aren't you also a goddess or something? How the heck do you let a wyvern beat you?" she said to Ammy questioning how someone as strong as she was get taken down so easily. Well, she was going off information she had heard before of Ammy since this was her first ever true encounter and conversation with Ammy.

Then she would quickly add, "By the way if we're getting out of these mountains I hope you like walking on tat leg for a good while. I had brought here by plane and parachute. I'm not carrying someone of your size either." she grinned.

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2016-10-23 22:09 EST
"Yeah... you're mother would know... what shape I'd be in. She's saved my butt too many times... Check my blood covered pack over there... may be some more bottles of water. I brought a good chunk I think... hard to be clear... hit my head good in the crash landing..." she snatched one of the containers of medicine and cracked it open downing antibiotics and some aspirin in a muzzle full of water.

"I did do a survey of the area... the night before our flight out. Any commerce out this way... reported little to no Wyvern activity. You all ran into any... in the air when you came? I was planning on... gliding in from the edge... of barrier zone to the village of Jenli... do research for my paper... and hire a guide and transportation to get back down the trails. The flying gecko wrecked... that nicely made plan. I had a gun on me... lost it in one of the... gang ups I had... with dire wolves on the trails. The revolver... somewhere under... a body. Couldn't really use it much... in close fights with a bad leg... and only six shots before a reload from my pack." She said with a grimace.

"And I didn't have much... time to mess with the... dingbat when he hit... the plane. I was in free fall... then in my glider with a headache. Unless you haven't noticed... I don't have wings... I fall like a rock. But he didn't beat... me... I killed him using a spell... but well... one reason I came to this mountain range... was to research a peculiar trait... the locals had imbued them with... a barrier that makes technology... and magic fail... worse it makes magic go in reverse... like an arcane EMP field. So... for all that it's worth... I've been surviving on my rusty military skills... you're looking at your... Aunt in all her mundane stupidity.

My powers and magic... they don't work here... at least not in their... current energy configuration. I think the nine towers the locals... and mages... made cause only one type of... magical wave pattern to happen. Hell I tried... healing my leg and my... spell rebounded... shattered my bone more. Was hoping to gain a lot of data... but I just want off this mountain for now... regroup and plan a better trip much later with the family."

Hearing her mention walking make Ammy's muzzle and face pull into a 'bleh' face. "Sign posts by the road near here... say its 60 miles to the nearest... road that takes us back to Rhy'din City. So we have at least... a 60 mile hike down... the mountains. Once past the barrier... I can heal myself and teleport us home. Unless..." She said very slowly and painfully.

"We try a series of small calibration spells... attempts to teleport small things... so I can get a feel for the right energy... pattern to use my magic for a one... way emergency teleport home."

Amaia

Date: 2016-10-29 15:32 EST
Amaia would move over to the pack Ammy spoke of and searched for the extra bottles of water while she listened to Ammy. Whatever she'd find would be cmobined with the others to take on their trip back. She did grin a little hearing Ammy about survey of the area and little chance. "Well with that reasoning it's like saying you won't have a fire extinguisher in your house in the small chance something catches on fire. As for if we ran into anything, no not really. Even if we did I'd shoot them down. We came in quiet glider though, so probably didn't attract much attention."

She'd move back over to Ammy's leg and began organizing the proper medical supplies. This type of situation isn't something she was used to, so she was just going to go with what seemed to be the steps to take. Amaia would take a bit of water and pour some of it over Ammy's leg to help clean out the blood and dirt in the fur. Once things were clean enough she'd take some disinfecting cleansing pads to start rubbing and trying to clean her wound. "By the way, first time I've done this." she added. "And yeah, I was informed on the whole barrier thing. It's why I brought some basic guns on me and my sword. Nothing fancy really. Although, I find it weird to try to develop such a power to defeat basic worldly physics. But, who am I to say that? I came from freaking Lurky land." she said laughing.

Once she was done, she'd begin to wrap Ammy's leg in bandages to help protect it and keep her from bleeding everywhere. Amaia then proceeded to start trying to get the splint onto her leg. "Also, I was told not to let you try any creative ideas because you have a bad habit about getting into more trouble by doing that. So, we're just gonna walk." she added with a smirk to Ammy. "Actually, that gives me an idea." she said and went to stand up after she finished fixing up Ammy's leg and began heading for the door. Although, she did look out and around at the door a moment just to make sure nothing was stalking them outside the shack or to perhaps see if anyone else was nearby.

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2016-11-01 12:30 EST
Ammy would listen to Amaia and gave half coherent directions to guide her on cleaning her leg, bandaging it and getting a good, proper fit on the splint. She leaned back panting as pain rolled through her body in waves from the much needed ministrations to broken bones. She sipped a bit more water and gave a exhausted chuckle.

"Well... I guess I can... be a working... example that adults... can make lots... of mistakes. Never thought of a glider... plane in. Would have been easier. As to the oddity of... this mountain and why they... did what they did. Self preservation in the face... of a massive army... coming up their mountain... long ago to dominate them. Their mage elders... got together and devised... this shielding effect and it worked... and they just keep it going... for generations. Sort of like how... you read those histories... where some wars... or traditions started for a reason... but they've been going so long... nobody remember why... or the reason is not needed... anymore, but it is tradition... so you keep doing it."

She gave Amaia a pat on the back for a job well done on the cleaning, bandaging and splinting of the leg. "Could always teach you... first aid and field medicine.... later... off of this mountain... And why do people... keep taking my fun away... creative ideas are so... creative. My makeshift spear there... I can add to it... make it a crutch. I have a survival knife... and if you something... that takes .38 caliber rounds... I may have lost the gun... but not the ammo. It's in my pack. I can arm myself... unless you want to take a walk... down the trails to pick among... four very dead... butchered dire wolves... look for one bloody revolver?"

Amaia

Date: 2016-11-16 20:50 EST
She listened to Ammy as she stood at the door being cautious in case of anything that could be lurking out there. It was likely a good minute before she had decided to move, but first wanted to reply to Ammy before she went out of the building, "Traditions...yeah. I plan on neither following my mother nor my father's traditions. Something I'm rather not interested in."

Before she continued she'd hold up a finger to Ammy signifying to hold onto those thoughts and she'd walk out of the shack. She would go to search for some vines and flowers from nearby plants she had seen. After she got enough she would come back inside and continued to speak with Ammy as she came over to her, "I can lend you my pistol. I got my rifle, too, so we'll both have guns in case. They're nothing fancy right now, but should still work. Had to leave off the lasers and such since Marilla said they wouldn't work."

She began taking the vines she had and began twisting them and creating a circle with them, though she'd put a few flowers into the vines circle. What she was really making was a little collar and as she'd be behind Ammy, she'd go to slip it around Ammy's head and onto her neck and go to make sure it was tight on her. "As to being creative. No. Bad." She said and flicked at one of Ammy's ears, "Like I said, we're gonna walk straight home, that's it. Even if you're bigger than me, if I see you even attempting to use goddess magic or do something that angers the power here I'm gonna spank you in the face, lady doggie. So, I'm gonna leash you just to make sure you don't run off and do something that will get us into more trouble."

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2016-12-11 20:13 EST
Ammy listened to Amaia with a bit of drowsiness as the pain medication and antibiotics set to work in her system. She remained quiet, resting on the floor by the fire place keeping warm. Amaia was rather an interesting person to deal with for Ammy, one being that she'd not dealt with many Lupe/Bunny hybrids, the other being that Amaia was a very competent young adult daughter of her mate Mirius.

It was the fact of her being the daughter of Mirius and of Yaji'is that made her a little apprehensive though quizzical. The girl seemed to have her mothers temper and her fathers shrewdness but she had a bit of self restraint her parents often lacked in trying situations. As she thought on these things, she'd not taken notice of the collar of twined vines and flowers Amaia was making, nor that it was attached to a leash of vines. She'd simply tuned back in on Amaia's voice, her mind still treading the murky waters of lingering berserk detachment and the muffled dulling of sense by the pain medications.

"I can handle ... a pistol decently while this ... way." She spoke to Amaia with a slow, drugged smile on her muzzle forming.

It vanished though as she felt that collar slide over her head and muzzle and then snug securely around her neck. The flick to her ear set her heart thumping like a war drum in her chest as the berserk rage wanted to rise again sensing danger and capture imposed upon her. She tried to swipe at Amaia with a clawed had but found her movement slowed, shaky and her energy failing her. If she did contact Amaia with the hit it would be a soft slap to the shoulder or face and nothing more available to inflict harm. The words Amaia spoke to her made her snarl softly, feeling as if she was being tamed and put into the position of a pup.

"You... really think putting me... in a collar and making... me heel is going ... to work? Little girl... your mother must... have never told you... about who you're really dealing with here." Ammy snarled more, feeling angry but then she lapsed a bit into silence. "Who... am I kidding? Seems you do... know who you are dealing with. I already... know this area does not like my magic. I will... though only take... so much degradation from a young woman. We can either... work together and get home alive... or you can try my temper... and see how well... I rip out throats. I can be very inventive."

She would touch the collar and feel how well twisted and twined it was and felt the flowers stuck in it. "Well at least you didn't... make it... an ugly collar."

Amaia

Date: 2016-12-22 15:31 EST
The bunny was about to leap away seeing Ammy was going to try to attack her again, but then noticed how slow she was moving and felt her hand barely touch her face. Then she heard the 'little girl' remark and how Ammy went on and just groaned, but things did turn into a grin not long after. Amaia would finish having the collar stay secure around Ammy's neck and make sure none of it would break. After that was taken care of she then proceeded to grab her pistol and a couple magazines for it and set it next to Ammy on the floor.

"Didn't bring much ammo, had to stay light for the trip. And, yeah, I know who and what I'm dealing with. I've been told by my father, uncle, mother and this pilot lady named Marilla what you sometimes end up doing. Clearly, no one has tried keeping you out of trouble. You just run around causing a mess of things. I'm even debating declawing you and putting a muzzle on you at this rate." she said smirking at Ammy, "I'm just playing it safe and I'm going to make sure you stay close by to me and don't run off trying to go kill somebody. I'll work together with you, but only if you do what I say, which is no creativeness, no lashing out, no trying to eat me, no going feral. We're just going to get straight out of here and get you back home. At that point I'm just going to let you be my mom's problem."

But, then she added with a giggle and more smirking, "Besides, how are you gonna learn to behave if no one's going to tame you? I will get a stick or something and whap your nose if I have to. Although, I could just leave you here if you don't place nice. Let you go feral and become part of some weird dire wolf pack or something weird." It was clear Amaia was feeling quite confident and full of herself, but given even Ammy's stubbornness it was almost as if trying to show she was going to be more stubborn than Ammy and try to show she had all the leverage in the situation and that she was going to control how Ammy went about the circumstances.

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2016-12-27 09:26 EST
Ammy accepted the pistol and the magazines for it. The weight feeling a little odd in her hands again. Her mind once more fleeing a bit from the oddity of complex weapons. The berserk mindset knew the blade, the crushing weight of maul and mace and the long and reaching demise of the spear. She eyed the pistol as if she'd never seen a gun before, forcing her senses to be familiar with them again. Fingers inspected every inch of the fire arm and the magazines. Snapping one magazine into the receiver, a very satisfied grin touched her muzzle as the click of a primed gun touched her ears.

"This... may sound weird... but given how... you don't trust... my judgement... you just... gave me a gun. I could just... shoot you... and have a snack." Ammy raised the pistol with a shaking hand to sight upon Amaia. The pistol lowered just as rapidly, the strength and will to follow through gone. "Yet it feels... disturbing... to try to even... bring it to bear on you. Man... I've changed..." She laughed and leaned against the hearth. "Wasn't a time... I wouldn't... kill if it suited... my best interests... now... I've gone so damn... soft. So you don't... want to be... a god killer... like your parents? Pity. Have one hell... of a chance... to bag the biggest one... right here... the one... you're mother never... could kill right."

She chuckled hard, and carefully put the pistol down by her side and the spare magazines. "So if you're not... gonna do what they do... then what? Be some... boring house wife? Farm? Desk work? Hunt? Lingerie model? What has you're... interest? Also... it's a long damn way... home by foot. May... I suggest... we walk to the... main trail... down the mountain... and hope a caravan... passes by us. Could hitch a ride on... a cart of theirs?"

Amaia

Date: 2017-02-04 16:47 EST
She stared at Ammy a long moment as Ammy talked and even pointed the gun at her briefly. While Ammy roughly spoke, Amaia went over to look out the door to see the time of day, thinking of a response as she did. "I'm not interested in killing gods because of some old crap my parents did. They're just stuck in old times is all. Time to leave the past behind and forge a new future." she said and turning her head to Ammy with a grin.

She walked back over to Ammy, "Let me know when you're done with everything. Can pack everything back into the pack and get going. We got a lot of daylight left to start the walk. Should hopefully be relatively safer in daytime to travel. " The hybrid would kneel down next to Ammy and looked at her a long moment before continuing her words, "I know you won't kill me on this trip because you need me and you know you'll die without me. In reality, Ammy, I'm here to help you because someone needed help and I didn't want to see my mom unhappy. My interests are helping solve some of the worlds problems. I'm not looking to save the world, but I'm looking to help just make some peoples world a better place to live in. Whether it's jailing some baddies, killing some murderers or helping a woman in the middle of a mountain that didn't know any better." A hand woudl reach over to scratch behind one of Ammy's ears gently, "I'm also here for another reason. Need to ask you about some Dragon's bane, but we can talk about that while we try to find the main trail so we don't waste time."

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2017-02-13 18:20 EST
Ammy listened to Amaia talk. She slowly rubbed her furred chin in amusement.

"So, you believe... in new futures? I've hear many... say this and fall... back into problems... cause the past... is still very... very alive. Though I like... hearing it from you... you have the right... weight and feel... to the goals you want. Sort of noble, sort of selfish, sort of neutral. Balanced blend... won't get your... rump handed to you... too often by... foolish ideals or blinding... ambitions." She looked about the shed a bit taking stock of things.

"I'm pretty much... ready for travel. Just need you're... help on two things. Cut the right... pant leg off of... my flight suit... over there. Be easier to put on... with the splint... without it. Then just need... to wire a cross bar... to my spear... as a makeshift... crutch. Then I can walk... without.. leaning on you... all the time. Can leave once... I'm dressed... and have a crutch. Not walking... down a mountain... like some nude... collared slave." She said softly.

Ammy was watching Amaia closely for a bit though. "Now why would... someone interested in... taking down criminals... want to know... about dragon's bane?"

Amaia

Date: 2017-03-17 17:52 EST
Amaia just laughed, "Not collaring you because I want a slave, but since you were going all feral or something there I just need to make sure you don't running off and chasing a cat up a tree. And you're a dog, so collar just seems fitting and says you're not a stray." With a smirk she'd go over to the flight suit and using her sharp claws she'd tear off the desired portion of the leg before picking it up and bringing it over to Ammy.

"Didn't think probably killing people was noble, but whatever works." She grinned, but then that grin faded when ammy asked about dragon's bane. The thought on why she needed it wasn't quite noble, instead something rather necessary and unpleasant at the same time.

She went out of the door a moment and went to find some more of the thick fines and a nice, sturdy, short stick which she would bring back inside. While Ammy would get herself dressed, Amaia would take the spear and start working on making a cross-section to help make the spear a crutch for her too. At the same time, she would reply to Ammy to explain her circumstance, "I have come to Rhy'Din a few days prior to this. Mom kept always talking about Rhy'Din as well as dad. Given I came from what everyone calls Lurky, I wanted to be in a place that wasn't so... controlled. Where people are just people, good and bad naturally. Makes things feel more alive, you know? Well, I came here with my gear and I was pointed at going to the DFLEA station. Talk with them, understand the rules here, see if I can work with people to maybe help make Den City and maybe later Rhy'Din a somewhat better place. Well, after some interesting meetings, I met my sister-in-law Myrlene. You know, your daughter. Well, she spoke of her former husband Moonshine, a dragon, was altered by chaos and is likely going rampant and may soon be hurting people. She mentioned she and her father have tried going to that area, except the power of chaos makes them not want to enter. So... we made an agreement I go take care of this issue with her and capture his soul with a given scroll and give it back to her. So.... that's why I need dragon's bane. Just for that single mission. If the dragon goes unchecked then he's going to start hurting and killing people. So, it sort of fits my agenda and seeing I got a caring sister... well, may as well work on the family reputation, too."

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2017-04-05 13:49 EST
Ammy listened to Amaia as she painfully struggled to get the dried flight suit back on. She was going to need a long soak in a hot tub when she got home. A month long soak sounded about right in her mind. Maybe sell her shop. Go hermit for a while, be a nun or something and just be lazy. Oh who was she kidding, she'd go nuts trying to be a hermit and she loved too many people. Zipping up the flight suit she made sure the splint on her leg was not snagged or impeded by the cut away leg material.

"Well going feral... is something good... to collar against... give you points... on that one. But you... are a dog... too... prissy rabbit..." Ammy smirked at Amaia.

"Takes... a male and female... to make a kid... well... naturally that is... and your father... is very much... a dog."

Ammy took some sips of water to help ease her throat more as Amaia worked on turning her spear into a crutch. "Look, bun-bun, if you think killing... people isn't noble... you don't know family history very well. No matter which way... you toss a stone in the family tree... you're born into a long line of killers. It's not the act of killing... that isn't noble... that's just a means to an end. It's the end that is ... either noble or vile. For example... could call you a vile... nasty woman... for going after my... former son-in-law Moonshine... and wanting to ask my help in killing him. But... it's noble... why? I know the end... I know why you do it... who asked you... and I am sorry... it landed on your shoulders."

She gave a few coughs and finished the bottle of water. She'd help Amaia finish up attaching the crossbar on the spear. "Myrlene is a caring woman... and it's why she and her... father failed the task. Myrlene was tasked to take care of Moonshine. It is her house... to set in order... and she never... could deal with that... dragon very well... it's why he could... abuse her so easy. He had her wrapped around... his fingers so easily. I was hoping... her ending him would help dissolve that... but she went to her father... and shi tried to help Myrlene. But Fleety is not... a strong warrior like many. Shi rarely stomachs moving... against family so well. Killing is even worse. So they both fail. I am not saying... that Myrlene lied to you... about the chaos affecting her and her father. That sort of energy and feel... just compounds the problems she has."

Ammy would take the spear from Amaia gently and lean on it. The crossbar held with her full weight on it and she grinned. "Suitable and decent... I would have taken... care of Moonshine... Amaia... but a mother... cannot do everything for... her daughter or... that daughter will grow up weak... fragile... and broken... I am sure... Mirius didn't coddle... and pamper you." She grinned showing all teeth.

"Shall we go... walking? Ready to leave this... damn mountain range. When we get back... to Rhy'Din, stop by my shop... I'll equip you with dragon's bane... some other... anti-dragon items... but only because you are family... and only with this warning... you go after my friends... that are dragons... I go after you." She said in a cold tone.

Amaia

Date: 2017-05-06 20:15 EST
"Even if my father was a dog, you still won't see me chasing cats up trees and wagging my tail frantically when someone I know was out of the room for five seconds." she stuck her tongue out at Ammy. Whenever she finished the crutch and handed it to Ammy, she'd start gathering her own gear again, holding her rifle in one hand now and the other hand kept free just so she could take hold of the end of the vine.

"You don't need to be sorry about me doing anything like this. Myrlene didn't force this on me. It was purely my choice. I'm also doing this to show I'm willing to help the family despite what I am deep down." She said firmly, although whenever Ammy was ready she'd tug on the end of the vine with a smirk, "Come on, pup." she said as she'd start to leave the shack and go outside, although she wouldn't be too mean and would go at a slow pace, knowing Ammy was injured.

"And if by coddling you mean smacking me in the back of the head and throwing me out a window, then yeah mom coddled me a lot." she added with a laugh. "Did it more to my older brother. I think I had enough of mom's coddling." Though she'd hear that little warning and looked back at Ammy, "Only if your friends don't become a problem and I'm sure there's many more ways to kill a dragon. Lene suggested this being the easiest way to deal with them, so I'm taking her advice. And if you go after me... well... do you really want to?" she gave a little grin back at Ammy. Amaia was showing she wasn't going to simply back down over threats, even if they were from her mother's mate. If there was one thing that was quite clear it was that Amaia was very sure of herself.

Ammy Spiritor

Date: 2017-05-07 15:30 EST
Ammy made sure the pistol Amaia provided her was tucked securely into her flight jackets belt. She'd then hobble along easily behind her step daughter with the aid of that crutch-spear.

"Genetics don't always... define behavior. I'm just making sure... you keep your head... on straight without... racial bias. You're part canine... just something to keep... in mind before being... a smart butt." She said.

Her eyes squinted some, adjusting to the light outside as they started their long trek down the mountain to get home. Ammy let her mind wander, taking in the sites of wild flora and fauna while she could with nothing ready to eat her on her trail. The natural beauty of the mountain trails kept her beserked mind sedate and restrained.

"I didn't think anyone... could take a lot of... Mirius coddling. Hell even as my... own wife I could... take only so much... You know... how many times... I had to fix my... ceilings at home? Her idea of settling... arguments was firing... three warning shots in the air. Plaster and dry wall... not cheap even in bulk. Sounds like your brother... got more tough love... than you. So you're the smarter... kid out of the litter." Ammy chuckled.

They passed a few bushes heavy with dull, purplish black berries and Ammy stopped her hobbling, a motion enough to give Amaia a small tug on the vine leash.

"Hand me some... empty pouches... from your pack... edible berries. Will help expand our... supplies. Take a minute... both of us... harvest enough for the trip." she said in a sedate tone.

She take a few berries and munched on them. "I know Myrlene wouldn't... force something like that... on you. She rarely talks... of her first husband. For you to know... of Moonshine and what she needs... means she trusted you. Hell, I'm putting trust in you... as well. The whole family... puts too much... bull into this divide of... god killers and gods. End of the day... love, cry, bleed, live, die... grow old, grow tired, have kids... have hopes, lose hopes. We all do... the same things. Everyone does the same... things. We just live... in a world of... labels."

She held out some of the berries to Amaia. "Most of the friends... I have left... that are dragons... rarely cause trouble. The warning... is standard for all... that I give... help to. You are trying... to show a willingness... to help the family... for what you feel... is their judgment on... on your parents. I warn people... so I have less... and less... repentance to make up for... as my entire existence... has caused much... turmoil, Amaia. I can help... I can hinder... I can bless... I can curse... Create... Destroy... Bring Life... Take Life... You may hate hearing... or dealing with things... involving gods... but you are... traveling with a Sun Goddess. The one constant... undeniable fact I have learned... is the Sun shines on all things.... good, bad and indifferent. It moves things forward in the day... so the night can come and the worlds tick on."

Ammy took a moment enjoy some birds chirping in the trees. "I'd rather... not have to go after anyone... killing is a means to an end... loss of potential... fast and easy solution... but the left over... equations become compound... issues that never... fully resolve."