Zuri, Abby, Strips ~ Private

[zash]

Zuri could only really see the sky at first. He turned his head and saw that Abby had gotten Strips. After Seeing Abby slap Strips Zuri yelled out, "Haha, thats what you get! Hahahaha. Hooo man. Haaaa, haaaaa, haaaaaa." Zuri began to breath faster. His body was far to weak to do much now. Looking around he still saw the Darigan on the ground. "Ok." Zuri then closed his eyes and waited. His right arm and hand held his sword while his left rested on his chest. His legs were straight and his body fairly limp now. So he laid back and rested for a minute. "Hey, are all these guys dead now or atleast passed out or something?" Zuri asked the other two.

[petdr89]

Strips was finally able to catch his breath and sit up. He looked around, not entirely sure what all had just happened. He saw one of the Darigan's floating in the water just off the shore, growled, and stood to his full height. He ignored Zuri's question, eyes quickly turned pure red, and marched through the water to the barely conscious body. He grabbed the Darigan's foot and flung him onto shore like a rag doll. The adrenaline coursing through his body greatly enhanced his strength, but also caused his mind to focus on one thing alone; he wanted revenge.

"You f***ing honor-less b******!" Strips growled as his pounded his fist into the Darigan's skull over and over again. He now had the Darigan pinned under his weight, and was beating the life out of him. He clutched the Darigan's shirt in his fists, picked up his upper-half, and then pounded it into the ground so that his skull repeatably bashed into the rocks. Blood and brains splattered onto the rocks, but Strips didn't let up even after his skull had become a bloody pulp. After Strips was good and done with that, he pounded his fists into the chest of the lifeless corps until the ribs cracked; the heart exploded internally and blood poured everywhere.

Eventually Strips stopped, stood over the body, and just stared at it.

Abby couldn't watch; she had buried her head in her knees when Strips had first started, and didn't look up even after the disgusting crunching and oozing noises had ceased. She never attempted to stop him, however; she knew this was his fight now.

[zash]

Zuri heard the noises and saw Strips. "D***, remind me never to get on his bad side." He thought to himself. He figured he shouldn't do anything else but he figured he'd say one thing. "Strips, there may be another one around here." Zuri figured he might as well say it. If Strips wanted something else to pound on then he could pound on the other guy that may still be alive. The one Zuri just happened to hit with a fire blast. But it was small and weak and would only knock someone out or over. Zuri really couldn't do much more and figured it would be a bad idea to, so he stayed where he was. "Man that was sick. I just hope I ain't lieing in it." Zuri thought.

[petdr89]

Strips looked up, hearing Zuri's words. "I don't think I have time for that." His eyes were locked onto a small boy who was standing off in the distance. When Strips had looked at him, the boy ran off. "I think we better get outta here." Of course no one could have been watching while he was being drowned, and of course there had to be someone watching as soon as he started murdering someone. Now if the boy told someone else what he saw happen, they, especially him, would be screwed. He looked at Zuri to see if he agreed, eyes still pure red.

[zash]

"Alright, lets go then. Abby, you know the way. And Strips if your alright with being in water for a little while longer we can get going." Zuri sat up and then tried to stand up. He got about 3/4 the way up and froze for a minute. The stood up the rest of the way. His sight was a bit blurry but he was alright. "Ok, lets do this." Zuri then went over to the water and just walked in till he was floating. He then sheathed his sword and waited for the other two. Being in water was a bit easier than standing. He could relax while floating there and waiting. He was still breathing heavily. Both to catch his breath and to oxyginate his lungs, it helps to hold your breath longer.

[petdr89]

Strips was already soaked, in both blood and water, plus he was p***ed. As long as he stayed p***ed for a good long while, water was going to bother him too much; he needed to bath now anyway. He and Abby both ran after Zuri, into the water, and walked out until they were floating as well. Well, Abby was floating, Strips was still able to stand.

"Let's get out to the middle of the lake, then we'll go under" Abby suggested.

[zash]

"Alright then. Lead the way madam. All I have to say is as long as this ain't to deep then I'll be alright." Zuri could hold his breath pretty long but he couldn't hold it an extremely long time. Abby didn't need to breath so it didn't matter to her and Strips, well Zuri has no clue about Strips. But as flyers then Stips and Zuri should be alright, they'd be used to the low oxygen levels of the sky, so they could probably be alright with holding their breath for awhile. So Zuri just followed suit to the middle of the lake and waited for Abby to say to start diving.

[petdr89]

"Well, I honestly have no idea how far down we'll have to go, but I'd be prepared to hold your breath for a while just in case." She followed Zuri; Strips did as well. He even had to swim now because it was so deep his feet couldn't touch the bottom; good thing he knows how to swim. He can't swim very well, though.

"Take a deep breath, boys" Abby instructed once they were in the middle of the lake; she than swam straight down into the water.

Strips didn't want to, obviously by the look on his face, but he did it anyway; he took a deep breath, filling all three of his lungs, and then dove down after Abby.

[zash]

((Forgot he had three lungs. Very odd, but useful.))

Zuri did it as well. He sucked in enough air so that it didn't hurt but was plenty to last a good while. He then went up a little and then he dove in and sunk straight down. Lucky for him he was a decent underwater swimmer and his eyes were good for water. This way he could keep his eyes open and they not burn. Lucky for him he was pretty heavy so it was easy for him so sink. He also used his large tail as a propeller sort of thing. He kept waving it back and forth propelling him downwards. He would also use his arms to stroke his way down. But how long he could hold his breath was the question. He had speed but wasn't lucky like Strips and Abby were to be able to hold more oxygen or in Abby's case, just not breath. He on the other hand only had two lungs and had to breath probably more than the other two. "I hope this won't take to long." Zuri thought. "I'll be screwed if this is to deep. I don't know about Strips but this will be the hard part for me."

[petdr89]

((Genetic abnormality he got from his father.))

Abby was taking the lead, since she seemed to know where she was going. She actually had no clue, but she certainly looked like she did. She was having fun playing fish, blowing out bubbles from her mouth every once in a while. Her long hair flowed beautifully behind her. Strips would have admired it if he could see. Strips's eyes stunk; he couldn't even see three feet in front of him. He could see Zuri's tail out of the corner of his eyes, but that was about it; everything else was murky. He also hoped they would get there shortly, but he didn't even know what they were looking for.

[zash]

The further they got down the harder it was to see. So luckily for Zuri, he could see in the dark, the question was how well in murky water. Zuri's eyes turned a bright red and he scowered the water for something odd. Like a big whole in the wall or a treasure, like something shiny. He just kept on swimming, hoping someone would see something. He looked back at Strips. His eyes squinted. "Haha." Zuri thought to himself. Then over to Abby. She was messing around. Blowing bubbles and such. But she was beautiful. She looked like a mermaid. Zuri couldn't help but to stare. Eventually he started to weave back and forth. NOt really paying attention, till he got hit by a peace of trash. Freaked him out for a sec till he saw what it was. "Oh good grief." He then got back on track and started to search once again.

[petdr89]

Unfortunately, Strips didn't have the pleasure of seeing Zuri freak out because of a piece of trash. But if he had, he would have been laughing his a** off. Zuri was getting too far away from him; he needed Zuri's tail to be able to tell where he was going, but Zuri kept swimming further ahead. The farther down they swim, the more pressure he felt on his chest, and his ears felt like they were going to explode. He moved his jaw up and down until his ear popped, which caused pain to shoot to his eye. "Ow, dang" he thought as he blinked a few times.

As Abby continued to swim downward, something caught her eye. The way the rock walls were shaped; something didn't look right about them. She swam toward them to get a closer look and realized they actually formed the mouth of a cave. She waved Zuri and Strips toward her before she swam up the tunnel-like opening. Sure enough, it opened up into an underwater cave; Zuri had been right.

[zash]

Zuri saw Abby waving. He then grabbed Strips and pointed towards where they were going. He then swam towards the cave, trying to lead Strips over to where it was. Eventually he reached it and crawled along the rocks to go up the cave. He found it quicker than trying to swim. He eventually climbed along it till he found an opening. His head breached the water and he took a deep breath, after exhauling after he got his head out of the water. He caught his breath and said, "Dang, where in the heck are we? Hmm, I wonder if any one has found this before? Ah well." He then continued to catch his breath.

[petdr89]

Strips hadn't seen Abby wave, so it was a good thing Zuri had pointed it out to him. He swam after Zuri, through the tunnel, until he finally reached the water's surface. Glad to have his head out of the water, he inhaled deeply.

Abby was already making her way dry land. The way the cave was shaped, the entrance was partially covered in water, but there was a plague of dry land. From the dry land, there was another tunnel, but it was so dark that you couldn't tell how deep it went; everything thing was dark. Strips couldn't see a bloody thing; all he knew was that his head was above water now. As for Abby, she had entered vamp mode just so she would be able to see heat, but that's all she could see. She noticed Strips and Zuri still in the water, and took their lands to lead them to where she was. "Hey Zuri, how about lighten this place up a little?"

[zash]

"Alright. I'll see what I can do. Just let me get up to dry land." Zuri grabbed aholed of Strips and pulled him up to dry land. "Sorry Strips but this way is faster." They got up to dry land and Zuri let Strips get to the land and then he got out of the water over to the land. "Alright." Zuri shook off and then summoned some more magic and blew a flame over to the side of the cave, hoping it would lite something. It managed to just stay in a ball of flame towards the side. Zuri then took off his sheath and looked around in his little compartment for something to lite. "You guys have any idea of something to lite as to use as a torch? Far as I know I'm the only one who can see in the dark."