Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Mad Maiden Ch6: Featherlily

Valery hated mountains. The party had now been traversing this mountain for the last few hours, and they were only half way up. Everyone else was in full clothing and armor, while she was still in her combat skirt and breastplate.

Cerin said the scouts found the Kaiju’s nest near the cliff face. Comino was driving the cart as usual with Val in the middle, and Clark is next to her. Mickey was ahead scouting and looking for danger with Kyle. Jin-Shi was walking next to the cart drinking while Eris sat in the cart drinking some tea.

“Ow!” Clark suddenly winces in pain attracting most of the people’s attention. “You okay der Clark? Not sitting on stick are you?” Clark smiled and waved Jin-Shi off. “No no not at all, I checked. It might be pains from sitting too much.” Val scowls at him “I have a feeling there might be something else wrong with him.” 

Comino nods “I’ll keep an eye on him.” A few minutes go by, and suddenly the wind starts to pick up. A screech is heard from the far distance. Clark is now clutching his hip in pain. Comino calls him out about it,

“Clark are you sure you are okay? You seem like you need assistance with whatever is going on.”

Clark shakes his head yet again when Mickey screams “WATCH OUT!” She dives backwards to the cart as a strong wind brushes by knocking Val to the ground. As she falls she also sees the path explode as a beak came down, striking the road just feet away from Kyle.

Standing up and unfolding her Scythe, she got her first look at the creature, and oh boy it was big. The Kaiju was perched on the cliff looking down at the party . It was green,  as tall as a castle and is wings were larger that her home town spread out. It's two giant heads had beaks that looked to be ten times larger than a typical lance, and just as sharp.

The rest of the party joins her standing side by side facing what could be their deaths. Comino states “There is no way we can fight this thing! It’s too big!” 

“That’s what she said.”

Mickey commands “Lets see if we can pot shot this thing until we can devise a plan.” Everyone (besides Val) then proceeds to pull out their range weapons and start firing.

For a while nothing was working. Arrows didn’t work, and they couldn’t get close enough to hit it directly without taking a severe amount of damage while trying. Val was at a loss for a plan too when she heard Eris say “Comino! Clark’s hip is glowing!”

To Val’s surprise it was. Comino, Val and Mickey rushed over while Kyle, Jin-Shi, Eris, and the clockwork soldiers continued to fight the Kaiju. “Clark! What is going on!?” yelled Comino.

“I’m not quite sure! My tattoo is glowing now instead of stinging, it’s just warm!” 

“Wait his tattoo is on his ass!? Why didn’t he say it was there!” 

Mickey slit the part of the garment where the tattoo was, and lo and behold there was a tattoo of some arcane symbol that Val didn’t quite understand. Comino looks at Val “Go get Kyle! Take his place and distract the Kaiju while he looks at this.”

Val nods and does as she is told. Running up to Kyle she shoves him back pointing at Clark and holds up her scythe. Luckily Kyle understood her and rushes over in time to dodge a blow from the Kaiju. Just a few seconds later Val saw an opening and got a really nice hit in, but regretted it immediately when the Kaiju swept it’s wing sending Val flying.

She crashed through the cart’s top and landed face down in rubble and wood. Hurt Val looked up to see the progress of the fight and how Kyle was doing with Clark. She was able to see Kyle trying multiple spells to no avail. However when Mickey came up and straight up smacked Clark’s tattoo as hard as she could, what she saw would amaze anyone.

There was a blinding flash of light and when it died down there stood a man looking around unsure of what just happened. the man stood around Comino's height with a long white beard that fell to 2/3's of his height. He looked to be bald and wrinkled with a flowing white robe with grey and black arcane symbols on it. Mickey, Kyle and Val were wide eyed at this event, while Clark was just surprised.

“Zelron!?” The man turns around and gives Clark the biggest smile ever. “Clark! Well done! I see you managed to figure out the spell I put on you!”

“Uh okay? Who the hell is that?”

Comino nods “Val makes a point. Who is this Clark?”

"He's my mentor, Zelron, Wizard of the Ages. He sent me to find the Featherlily, he also put that mark on my... place."

The old man chuckled, "Indeed it was designed to activate once you found Feathe-"

"SCRAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!"

Zelron turns around holding his hands up, “Featherlily my darling! How long has it been! Please relax these people mean no harm!” To everyone's surprise the Kaiju did indeed stop its attacks. It leaned down far enough to rest its head on the road as Zelron walks up and hugs the beast’s right snout.

Dumbfounded Kyle says, “Wait so all this time ‘Featherlily’ wasn’t a plant?” A clang was herd when Val dropped her Scythe. “FEATHERLILY WAS THE KAIJU THIS WHOLE TIME!?”


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