|
|
Post by Jukebox on May 26, 2007 17:36:48 GMT -5
Phyn jumped, turning to look as Daani spoke. "Daani, don't fall asleep, we need help. Daani!" Phyn grabbed the aisha's shoulder, a tight grip as she was tense with fear. She took a deep breath. Daani needed someone to make her better, but if they didn't make it out of the castle, they couldn't do anything. Phyn looked up, earnestly wishing she had some kind of healing powers. She thought of anyone nearby, and her thoughts only strayed to the red aisha and Nadira...
Phyn's eyes widened with an idea. She ahd no idea what good it would do, but she needed to do something. "Wait here, I'll be right back." She scamped back away from them, running up a step or two before jumping in the air. The buzzing of her wings echoed and bounced around the stairwell as she ascending quickly, landing quickly once she reached the top. She ran to her bag, and began sifting through it. She eventually found the bottle of glittering dust, grabbing it firmly as she turned back toward the ruins.
She leaped off the edge, wings beating the air and an oomf escaping as she landing too hard on the stone floor. After taking a moment to regain her balance and breath she scampered over to Daani, slipping the bottle into he rhand and wrapping her own around them.
"Daani, do you think your mom could help us, or anyone you know?" She glanced at Lue and Checkr, not sure what they would think of her quickly trhought out plan.
|
|
|
|
Post by STARLING on May 27, 2007 20:05:55 GMT -5
"It's worth a try!" said Checkr loudly. She was nervous and a bit frightened but desperate not to show it. "Hey!" she suddenly said to Daani, "Hey, Daani.. Don't!" she clapped her hands in front of the aisha's face, loud, in an attempt to keep her from nodding off.
"Maybe between you and Lue you could fly her up and I could climb up from behind and help push her up or something." she suggested, her eyes looking skeptically at the stairs, for any sign of jutting stones or bricks.. or even planks that she could hold onto...
|
|
|
|
Post by Lilium on May 28, 2007 0:58:57 GMT -5
"My mother... is dead," Daani said, her voice just barely a whisper, and her lips hardly moving. "There is... a back staircase... the bookshelf is a door... in that room." She moved her head a little towards the room they'd just come from. "Climb up it... the room won't... hold... much longer...."
She felt so weak, so helpless. If her friends could just get out alive, that would be enough to let her move on peacefully when she died. She looked at them through eyes she fiercely fought to keep open.
She was dying, she was on her very last thread, and she knew it.
|
|
|
|
Post by Jukebox on May 28, 2007 9:44:43 GMT -5
Phyn quickly darted out of the room, the bottle still in hand. Now she was wishing she had never wasted the time to get it. By the light from the fires she could the bookshelf, and she quickly did her best to find the way to open or move it, shouting to the others.
"I think she may be right, there's a bookshelf in here, anyway."
she finally pulled the door open, and looked up to the dark staircase ahead.
|
|
|
|
Post by STARLING on May 28, 2007 20:31:43 GMT -5
Checkr looked up the staircase for only an instant, judging it's age and stability was not in their favor, before turning to the others quickly, "We better hurry. I'll go first, test it out.. It should hold for me.. If not.. well.." she smiled beseechingly, then shrugged. "You've got Daani okay, right Lue?"
She shook her head as if to clear it, then the kyrii began walking up the stairs, careful at first but hurrying more with each step. She paused some ten stairs up and stared at them with a small smile and a thumbs up. "Okay so far." She brought her foot down onto the stair, hard, to illustrate this point, but clearly did not expect her shoe to punch a hole thru the wood. Checkr fell backwards, then hurridly stood up, looking paler than usual.
((which is ... impossible.. cos she's white.. but ohwells XDD))
|
|
|
|
Post by Kiweh on May 29, 2007 8:57:11 GMT -5
((sorry bout the delay...))
Lue shook his head, bringing himself back into reality, "Huh? Yeah I got her..." He said and looked down at the pale Aisha. "Come on, Daani, stay with us..." He said with a worried look on his face. He had never experienced death before, yeah he had killed other things ((To eat, he's no a murderer...)) but he had never actually known someone that had died, or that was about to die.... It was scaring him slightly. He followed the others to the hidden staircase and watched anxiously as the Kyrri made her way up. He jumped when he heard the stare crack under her weight and give out but was relived to see her there. "Uh, shouldn't Phyn go up?" He asked looking over at the Ruki, "She can fly if the stairs break..." He suggested not wanting to have to carry Checkr too if she rips her leg open.... His heart felt like it was beating a hundred miles a second and he started pacing back and forth with anticipation. He looked down at Daani again, her state hadn't changed much. "Daaaaaani......" He said and shook her a little, "Come on...." he said and continued walking back and forth.
|
|
|
|
Post by Lilium on May 29, 2007 9:09:56 GMT -5
((teehee, if he'd experienced death before, he would have died and come back XDDDDD sorry funny wording)) Daani looked at Lue wearily. "Save.. your strength, Lue," she whispered. "Leave me... here. If I can't... walk, you... shouldn't have to ... carry me." She was tired. She didn't want Lue to be carrying a corpse around. She was fading away. ((ack, stupid short postie, got to go to stupid school  )) |
|
|
|
Post by Kiweh on May 29, 2007 12:53:39 GMT -5
(( *eats you* I said that right? How else would you have said it?))
Lue shook his head and situated her better in his arms, "Trust me, the last thing I want to do is leave you...." He said, looking down at her, "You are the least of my burdens." He smiled only to give her some reassurance. "Here if it'll make you feel better I'll stop pacing." He stopped and check on Phyn's and Checkr's progress and looked back down at Daani, "How are we doing?" He asked figuring if he kept her talking he'll know that she's still alive.
|
|
|
|
Post by Jukebox on May 29, 2007 13:11:55 GMT -5
Phyn nodded at Lue's comment about her switching places with Checkr. She swiftly made her way after the kyrii, almost missing the broken stair at first but she caught herself and setpped over it. She kept gowing, occasionally putting more waight down to see if it would hold.
When Lue asked how the stairs were, she called back.
"If I had a choise, I wouldn't be using them, but it's better than the other stairs, and I think that if I went with you guys I could probably grab you and hold you longenough to get you to a different stair if one broke." She said this wtiha bit more boldness than earlier, knowing completely that they had to get out of her. The bottle of dust was still gripped in her hand, and she looked to Checkr.
"Could you maybe put this in a pocket or something? If I have to grab someone I'd need both hands."
|
|
|
|
Post by STARLING on May 29, 2007 19:44:37 GMT -5
"Yeah." said Checkr, taking the bottle carefully and jamming it into her pocket. She was suddenly reminded of the pistol she had in there, and suddenly, on impulse, yanked it out and threw it on the ground, kicking it farther down the stairs.
She stared after it for a moment, but then her eyes refocused as she looked to Daani and Lue. "Hang in there Daani!" she called, then feeling there was really nothing else she could help with, began climbing again.
|
|
|
|
Post by Lilium on May 29, 2007 19:52:42 GMT -5
"No, Lue!" she protested fiercely, making an effort to hit his upper arm, but it was very pathetic. "I'll be better... off dying on... the ground, and here... where I belong than.... dying with you ... touching me. Just drop me... for all I care. Drop me and... go. All of you. Quickly..."
And then her eyes closed, and she hung limp in Lue's arms, the slow rise and fall of her chest fading away until it didn't move at all.
|
|
|
|
Post by Kiweh on May 29, 2007 21:15:50 GMT -5
Lue shook his head, not understanding, was she giving up? She went limp and Lue started to panic, He shook her, "DAANI!" He said shaking her harder. His wide eyes looked up at Phyn and Checkr as he searched for some kind of way to wake her up. She's just asleep, I mean she can't be dead, she so strong... Yeah, she just asleep, she must be tired after this huge adventure thing.... She need to wake up though... he thought, trying to calm himself down...
|
|
|
|
Post by STARLING on May 31, 2007 16:18:12 GMT -5
Checkr froze, ears sticking straight up at Lue's scream. A second later she was running down the stairs at an impossible speed, the boards cracking ominously from beneath her. She stumbled, regained her balance by a hair, then tripped and fell when her foot crunched through the stair again.
The kyrii hardly paused though, and yanked her foot out, ripping her the leg of her jeans to shreds and probably scratching herself horribly, but she didn't register any concern over that, and merely ran to Lue and Daani. "Is she... is she?" She watched her carefully, and when she didn't breathe, Checkr's eyes widened. "We gotta get her out of here... or give her.. what is it called.. Cpr! Yeah!"
|
|
|
|
Post by Kiweh on May 31, 2007 20:33:30 GMT -5
Lue gave Checkr a blank look, "I don't know CRP?!?!?!" He finally said when he realized what that was. He set her down to look her over, "All I know is that calls for mouth to mouth and I ain't doin' that!" He said but he probably would if it came down to those conclusions. He didn't like the idea of CPR because knowing him he would do something wrong but he would do it if that was what needed to be done...
|
|
|
|
Post by Jukebox on May 31, 2007 22:22:19 GMT -5
((I hate how I keep forgetting about objects my pets happen to have. I think the only think I can properly remember is Omega's armor --'))
Phyn had jumped startled as Lue called out Daani's name, and she tensed, eyes screwed tight to fight back the tears as she slowly made her way back down. She was terrified of what she would find, but she decended, stopping a few steps above Checkr, just in sight of Lue and Daani.
"Would it work, even if we did know how to do it? We really just need help, and for that we need to get out of this cave."
And Phyn gasped. She grabbed for her neck, tearing the forgotten amulet from around her neck. It had become such a ordinary object in the past, she had completely forgotten its purpose. She hung back in the shadows, cupping it in her hands and trying to remember how to work it.
Mom, Dad, I really need help right now. We need help, and I don't know what to do. She was still crying, but she didn't want the others to see the charm, to remember she had it and yell at her for forgetting it. But whatever she had been doing apparently worked, because the small gem gave a small ring and turned to a startling blue instead of it's normal green.
She held back a sigh of relief, afraid it didn't work, and turned back to face her friends.
"Maybe we should just keep climbing. We're wasting time, we're better off finding someone on the ground, cause we can't help her." She felt heasrtless saying that, looking at her two friends who were trying to think of a plan.
|
|
