School House Rumbles 3: Act 2, Survivors.

[KingofPie]

Then, finally, something happened.

Boss found himself not sensing, but seeing something as the spark left in Bardic turned out to be a memory.


Boss was no longer in Wolf, but instead inside a cavern of some sort, massive on an epic scale. All about him moved forms and shapes and creatures he'd never seen before, or even heard of before.

However, he does recognize a few of the shapes. Standing by a roaring pit of fire and lava, with a massive anvil the size of a car near by, was Khal'ud. He stood unusually tall in the memory, the Gan's red eyes seeming to spark and shimmer in teh intense heat.

Standing near by was Rana, the Bringer of Ill-Tidings. Further behind her were other shapes and forms, other Dreadnaughts, but all were fuzzy to the memory.

Boss watches as Khal'ud steps up to a large body laying on the ground (one Boss recognizes as Bardic's gigantic form, still uncomplete) and steps passed it to a metallic alter near the anvil. There, he cuts part of his hand and drips greyish blood onto the things, watching as it hisses as it touches the metal. Boss watcehs as Khal'ud begins chanting, swirls mists of leyline energy rippling out of him and into the alter. From the air, ether energy also began to form, swirling and mixing with the leyline power. More than that, fire, water, air, and earth also came at Khal'ud's summoning and blended into the power he had gathered.

When he was done, he walked over to the anvil, the pwoer wrapped tightly in one hand, and placed it there. Khal'ud took up a mightly hammer and struck the power, while his words, which Boss hadn't understood before, began to make sense to Boss's subconscious. Not words, but meanings. Truths.

Once Khal'ud had molded the power into a sphere, he weant and grabbed several pieces of ancient teach and touched them to the form, wherein they were absorbed. All the while, Khal'ud kept speaking the words and truths, older than time itself. They beat on Boss's ears liek drums, but also made him wonder and understand.

He watched as Khal'ud made a rough humanoid shape out of his pwoer, and then fed the sphere of power into it. Much to Boss's surprise, teh pwoer surged and wrapped around the humanoid form, filling out and birthing the naked form of Bardic. The ancient tech, perfectly implanted as he'd seen when they fought, shown in the lava light, deadly in form and intent.

And then Khal'ud made etheric and leylanic connections between the newly birthed Bardic and the giant form laying on the ground, fusing the two together so Bardic could control it from within.

The memory fades as Khal'ud lays Bardic upon the giant body and watcehs as he's absorbed into it, the massive form awakening and leaving a deafening roar as Boss wakes back up on Wolf.

"What the..." Boss muttered, shaking his head. "That was...interesting..." he sighed as he sat up. "And informative. Very informative...I'm gonna need an anvil it seems, if I wanna get this project underway."

[FarBeyondC]

"Well...I don't know, I don't know anything about dating, or Mars, or girls really."

"Then does it really matter? We can spend the time learning about both dating and Mars? As for learning about girls... I'm not sure if I'm the one you need to look to for that."

She laughs awkwardly at herself for a bit.

"After all, I'm not exactly normal."

[Cthulhu_of_R'yleh]

The temperature levels out at about 80 degerss farenheight or so for the four cadets. Finally, after half an hour, the staircase opens into a large cavern, two hundred feet tall, two hundred feet wide, and five hundred feet long. Below the ledge they had walked out onto lays a see of lava beneathe them, the heat almost unbearable. Across the five hundred feet, on the other side of teh cavren, was another cave entrances and the continuation of the staircase leading down and out of Olympus Mons.


However, to get across the massive gap, there were no clear ways. Instead, theer were pillars of rock emerging from the lava below, making almost toadstool like pillars to leap to. Each was only about ten by ten feet, and each was spaced irregularly about, forcing them to leap from one to the other to make it safely across.

"Hm... Figured." Casimir sighed. "Temperature increased because it's a volcano." He then notices the gaps and sighs heavily. "So we have to jump the stones to cross the gap. Great." After a minute to think things over he looks at the three girls. "Those things look like they're large enough to hold two people... how about one person jumps, then waits for the other person to jump in case they jump short?"

[Tami]

'Good. Now, just talk like you and I are now. It will take you a bit to get adjusted to talking to more than one person, mentally, but as you practice, you'll get better at it and your range and ability to talk to more than two peopel will increase.'

Sloane sat around, bored out of his mind.

"Jeez. This ride is taking forever."

"What the..." Boss muttered, shaking his head. "That was...interesting..." he sighed as he sat up. "And informative. Very informative...I'm gonna need an anvil it seems, if I wanna get this project underway."

Rivia spoke to both of them, " Sloane, Boss, can you hear me?"

[Cleric of Hell's Brigade]

OT: I just posted another Thread (Act 3). Let this one go (no more posts) due to reaching the 10,000 post limit.

[Sub-Zero MKA]

Ignore, please.