Jen looked at Draco looking at her. What was she supposed to do? She sighed and patted Drakkan's back. "He's right, you know. Cursing Sk-Skiara," she stumbled on the unfamiliar name, "won't help anything. I'm sure she's the kind, anymore, anyway, that would do that, but not us--not you."

"Sorry...It's just, I remember something from when Mom and Dad were killed, something you probably don't remember. You know that Skiara wasn't there when we were fighting? I saw her, and she was not fighting for us. She was attacking Mom and Dad. THAT is why I hate her so much." Drakaan let out a small roar. "Hey, look. Isn't that that tower you were telling us about? It looks really mean. Hey, wait a second...there's a purple light up top..." Drakaan stared at it for a while. "Maybe that's what's killing the forest! I bet if we find what's glowing and break it we can save the forest and maybe replenish what's died already."

Draco looked at the tower and the glowing light on top. Although he was no sorcerer, he could still sense the dark energy rippling from it.

Jen felt cold and clammy as she looked at the purple light on top of the tower. There was something evil going on here. "I don't think we should get too close to it." Suddenly, as Draco neared it ahead of Drakkan and Jen, it flashed violently and when the light had cleared, Draco had vanished.

"DRACO!!!!!" Drakaan yelled as her brother dissapeared. She flew straight at the light as fast as she could, despite Jen pounding on her back to stop and turn around. "Stop. That was my bro---" The light got very bright, then everything went black and silent.



Drakaan coughed. "Ick. Where am I? Hello...?" She breathed fire to see where she was. Suddenly, a whole bunch of candles lit up at Drakaan's breath.

Okay, this is weird... Drakaan thought to herself as she started trembling.

She took a few breaths and walked a short distance. "Calm down. Calm down...," She said to herself, "they're here somewhere. But that's it-where?" She looked around, trying to find a door. Instead, she found cobwebs, and old rug, a candleholder, and a chalice filled with something. "I wonder... What is that?" She dipped a claw into the liquid. When she pulled her claw out, what covered her claw was marbled icy blue, white, and red. At that second she turned around to find that Jen was not on her back anymore.

"DRACO!!! JEN!!! WHERE ARE YOU?!?"

Draco saw the attack coming but didn

Drakaan heard evil laughing coming from somewhere inside the tower, but she didn't know where.

Drakaan got a chill. What the...? Something's not right here... Drakaan thought. Just at that moment, she felt a bad pain on her back. She jumped, yelling, and rolled. The thing laid on the floor, growling and hissing with teeth bared. It had evilly purple glowing eyes... Where had she seen that before...? Just then the thing leaped at her, biting her just below the throat. She tore it off and slashed it before sinking her teeth into it. "Skraaaiiiishh.....kraaiiii!" The evil thing crumbled to dust at that shriek.

Okay, whoever's doing this is screwing with my mind...keep it together, Drakaan thought. She roared as loud as she could, trying to see if anything else was hiding and if she could scare it out.

Just as she reopened her eyes from the roar, she glanced over to see a small crystal ball on the table with Draco and Jen's pictures in it. "What the?! Can you hear me? If you can, don't worry. I'm fine." Drakaan stepped back and growled. "And if whoever's doing this is listening, I've got only one thing to say to you." She threw herself into the crystal. It smashed into hundreds of tiny shards, each just big enough to cut you if you tried to pick it up. They scattered about the floor.

Drakaan looked around for a door. On the far side of the room, there was a heavy wooden door with bars in the small window. She backed up, growled, and charged. The door didn't give way easily, though. She backed up and charged again.

SMASH! Crumble....

Drakaan found herself now in a hallway with an evil looking candle hanging from the ceiling. She winced and looked at her paws. They were bloody from the crystal shards on the floor, but didn't hurt much. What was really bothering her was the nasty bite on her neck. Alright now, Draco looked to be in either the very top or the very bottom. Maybe Jen's in the bottom, and I'm in the middle... Drakaan thought. She ran down the first flight of stairs, but to no avail. They stopped abruptly. She cursed and turned around to see what looked like a gargoyle facing her, growling. She overtook it and forced her way up the stairs. She broke down a door. Nothing. Again. Nothing. "How big is this thing?!"

She climbed up and up, still smashing almost every door along the way.

She roared again, as loud as she could. She wanted her friends to know that she was okay and coming.

Drakaan tried using the Soul Gem to communicate with Draco, but something kept interfering. I hope some of my message got through... Drakaan thought.

((I have no idea who this evil being is. I

((i'm waiting for Anade to make her appearance here, so Drakaan doesn't smash down her door and miss her))

edit: ((Anade! Yoohoo! You there?))

((Sorry, sorry--I've been REALLY busy...*sigh* Are you still there?))

Jen woke up and looked around groggily. She was in a small, dark room with two glowing lights opposite her. What had happened? Suddenly, she remembered the tower and the purple light. Besides the two glowing globes, everything was pitch black. When she focused on the the lights, she realized that they were pictures of Drakkan and Draco. Jen stood up shakily and took a step towards the lights. They seemed to jump back from her. She went to lean her hand on the wall that she thought should be right behind her, but nothing was there. Jen quickly glanced around, but she couldn't discern anything. In fact, the two globes seemed to be retreating from her, but when she took a step after them, they completely vanished. Jen took a breath and closed her eyes, hoping the self-imposed darkness would be better than the pitch black of the room. Suddenly, a roar reverberated through the room--it sounded close.

((finally! Drakaan was falling asleep! lol, j/k)

Drakaan was growing tired. She finally smashed down one last door-the door to Anade's room. "I found you! Finally! Get on my back. I'll explain on the way."

((:D Sorry. ))

Suddenly, bright light poured into the room as a huge body smashed through the door. The room appeared normal-sized, but Jen figured that in the dark she had been disoriented. The huge body came to a stop right in front of Jen and she inhaled sharphly before she realized it was Drakkan. Hearing the urgency in Drakkan's voice, she jumped up on her back without saying anything.

As soon as Jen jumped onto her back, Drakaan flew out of the door, into the spiral hallway again. As she ran up the stairs, she explained what had been happening as far as she knew:

"I was in this room and this thing attacked me...I killed it, then there was a crystal ball with what looked to be Drako in it. I smashed it, just in case someone was watching. From what it looked like, Drako is being held at the top of the tower, where this evil thingy is waiting...I don't know! Thisss...dark....place...driving...me...INSANE!!! Aigh!"

((sry for misspelling Gardevoir's character. I'm used to the K. Anyway, Drakaan is claustrophobic.))

Drakkan seemed to be working herself into a fit, so Jen hung on and closed her eyes, afraid watching where they were going would make her more nervous. Jen suddenly remembered the animals. She sent her mind searching for anything, even mice to help them find Draco, but there were no living creatures in the building--none, that is except for Drakkan, Draco, and an evil presence that they were steadily nearing.

Shivering and pulling herself together, she slowed from a psychotic jog to a walk. Taking deep breaths to calm herself, she calmly went toward the top of the building.

Jen felt Drakkan slow down and she slowly opened her eyes. They were still moving quickly, but not like the dead run they had been moving at. Jen tried to position herself a little closer to Drakkan's head without letting go. "Drakkan, be careful. There's something--or someone--very evil up there. We don't know what it is or what it can do to us."

"Y'don't think I've noticed that yet? That's why Draco hasn't escaped yet."

((I'd think it'd be a good idea to let Gardevoir catch up to us before we keep going with the RP.))

((Sounds like a good idea...))

Luna stood & watched the whole thing from a small room in the tower, furious.
How could they have escaped? she thought.Amaterasu, the pixie, appeared.
(What's wrong?)
"One of those dragons & that human escaped.Come on.I think it's time for me to prove my strength!", with that, Luna caused a powerful earthquake to arise.She laughed as she watched from the tower.No one would be able to stand up to her!

((*sigh*Bad timing.I'll be gone tomorrow.Anade, is it okay if I ask you to godmode as me til I get back?Hopefully, it'll only be 1 day(doubtful it will, knowing my mom)))

((Sure, I'll do it, but you haven't posted enough for me to really know your character, so I probably won't do what you would have had her do. Oh, and you shouldn't be the "captor"? I mean, from what we've written before, the creature is evil--and you're not. Besides, the captor had contact with a dragon (Draco).))

((That's why I said it was bad timing.I should've waited until next week to get into another RP, but I couldn't wait.&-*sigh*I hate doing this, but oinly to make it interesting, I'll edit my post to make her more evil, but don't expect me to be good at it.It would've been easier for 2x4b to be evil.(after all, I've noticed half of his characters are evil!)))

((:P Alright, I will play for your character if need be. Have fun!))

((Slightly confused, I'll post...))

Drakaan felt something. Something not right. Her eyes widening and her crystals glowing, she jumped up and started flapping her wings just as the earthquake struck. Stupid tunnel. Just barely big enough for my wings. She waited until the earthquake died down a bit to land. "You okay? I think that whatever caught us did that. Just a hunch, though."

Jen nearly flew off of Drakkan's back when she suddenly reared off of the ground. She gripped onto Drakkan and breathed slowly. "Yeah...I'm okay." She closed her eyes and "looked" for life forms in the tower. The dark presence seemed closer to them. It also seemed to be darker than before. Jen opened her eyes and looked at Drakkan. "Be careful. The thing is closer than Draco is."

((Where is Gardevoir by the way?))

((he's visiting some relatives. He'll be back soon. (and if he doesn't reply here, I'll remind him ^_^ lol)))