With storm As I am cleaning up the place as fast as possible, a group of people are coming over!!!! I stop looking at the gong, the gateway to my citadel.
"Oh fuck off corn."
Hes acting as a spy. A god damn spy
"Oh i really should have known you'd be aware of me"
I groan now very much annoyed
"So. How long are you planning on harassing me?"
He stays silent for a moment
"Well.... if you want me to leave... then get me a citadel in the hollow mountains"
I tap my foot now very impatient at his games
"Which one?"
He goes silent for a long time
"That is a joke, but now I am certainly curious"
I throw my arms up annoyed
"I can move them you fool. Now you'll have to find the citadel you want moved, and it can't have a city in it"
He laughs
"Well, I'm sure the queen will be okay with that instead"
Then he finally actually leaves. Goodness, took the idiot long enough. I start cleaning up again, this is one of the times I'm thankful to be able to make extra arms. It makes sense the puppeteer would be happy at a foothold in the hollow mountains, hopefully that will get them both off my back.
With beast I study the tall one with the four arms, im not coming back for a while so, as one does i am studying the guy's odd echos. Hm. This one acts a little like cetus, but some how more prideful.
"L-let me go, abomination! If you want to kill me, Just do it quick! W-why are you tormenting me?!"
I walk over to the voice of someone who's likely pretty young
"S-stay back, demon!"
He ends up crashing into neph while trying to get away from the stone saint. Understandable it is quite the scary echo
"Uh... S... s... Saint Nephis?"
I walk over lean down and i grab the kid by the head
"Is there any more sleepers?"
He gets incredibly scared
"S... SAINT HEAT SEEKER?!"
I lean back up
"Quiet down sleeper, are there more of you?"
I'm known to not be aggressive, a thief and a criminal yes, but not likely to attack. The thing is almost nobody has seen me in about... four yeas so seeing me much have been a shock, neph may be a hero, but shes a known one, seeing her is like that of a celebrity. Me however, a famous thief and those are known for staying out of sight.
I zip on the roof of the bones. I create ice on it, turn myself to ice and fly through it. Easy. And I go fast as well. The thing is, I just don't want to watch those fools talk. Painfully cringe, I can't believe neph has found someone who's just as bad as she is. He and what is it that they say now 'he matches her freak' yeah. Seems about right. They both are clear master combatants, their skill in killing is unrivaled. The thing is both say things in a way that does not help anyone. Even then their skill is quite useful, neph doesn't fully know how my Ascended Ability works. Thus even by accident will feed anvil information even more wrong by telling him something just so slightly off. Also I don't want to fight anything down here, it would slow us down from saving those sleepers.
I arrive on the ground just as they finish off a large golem. Soon another appears, this one with a different weapon, i loudly scoff. I move forward almost being hit, i grab into its arm using that to get onto its back. I grab its head, and I freeze the water in its neck and i start twisting it. The lord of shadows and neph take out another that comes to attack while I finally get a good hook in with a extra set of arms... and I pull its head clean off. And I spike it at another.
Follow along as we finally find the three sleepers. Two girls and a boy.
"You're… y-you're… Changing Star?"
I reach down grabbing the two unhurt ones letting neph get that last
"No time sleepers we have to go."
I let go of the two. Maybe... maybe get storm to put one of the citadels in the creators gift, put it down here then put it back in and have them resummon it back at its original place? That works in theory, I myself have abused it a few times but I'm the owner of those citadels. As well as the creators gift. Wait the lord of shadows is gone and so are the sleepers.... was that boy resting his head on my arm... he was going through symptoms of heat stroke do its fine.
"No neph you didn't gain weight. Taking someone into a movement ability takes a lot of essence even more for someone with as much essence as you."
I can not believe I have to say that.
I glide forward as neph takes her transcendent form. I slide under one hit creating a tail to flip myself on top of its shoulders. I grab its head and I start freezing, its made of stone and when stone gets water in the cracks and that water expands, the stone breaks. All over it massive cracks appear that I promptly make another arm to stab into it. I hear the death message so I throw it into the next one. Even still a harsh wind whips into me that makes my head spin. I grab it, curse this damn puppet body. Having a head that can spin all the way around makes snapping my neck harder but by god, is it not nice.
I finally slide back as the lord of shadows gets here. I grab neph as I do
"We need to go."
He, or I'm pretty sure its a he, glances at me
"Cursed?"
I nod
"Tyrant"
I want to throw up. He nods
"How fast can you go"
I shake my head
"Not fast enough"
This... this isn't good. Soon the ground shakes... as the creator and master of this ruin starts waking. Changing star starts heating up so I let go and stay in between her and the lord of shadows. She's about to explode. I shake my head with a sigh, it has to hurt her so much...
We arrive back at the temple. I sit down with my hands in my pockets of my new supreme armor gotten from one of those... already forgot the name. A shame. Death made us all practice remembering names. As well as... flexibility, apparently it came to them in the tomb. Why i don't know. None of us do. A figure walks over. The sleeper boy is looking at me messing with his fingers.
"I... i... hello saint heat seeker...?"
I nod to him
"Need something?"
He tries to say something multiple times and fails each time. Then he takes a deep breath
"Yes! Can I go to your citadel instead?"
He then covers his mouth embarrassed. I lean forward slowly
"Really. Use of aspect?"
He straightens up taking a tone like that of someone in a military movie. Is it because I'm ex-government?
"Scouting!"
I nod useful enough
"Rank?"
"Transcendent"
I nod thats pretty good actually
"Weak to cold?"
He shakes his head
"Only heat"
I nod he will fit although
"Okay boy you know of the horrors of this place. With me it won't be much better, so maybe think more carefully then that about it"
He shakes his head
"No... no I want to come with you!"
I tilt my head slowly
"Really?"
He nods looking down
"You don't need to explain why. Your far too sure and frankly if I leave you alone I'm sure you'll go get into trouble... so fine then"
Over at the sword domain. I lift a large rock, like a really big rock. And I waddle to go put it somewhere else. I really should not have chosen a strength aspect to fake! Sun made the right choice, a scouting aspect mostly with some weird body control too. This is the worst! Getting put to stupid manual labor. I am a saint! I should be... actually I would rather be doing manual labor. I toss the rock into place. I do understand what the rock is useful for... but
"Oh god damn it boss beth! Why am I doing the manual labor?!"
Over in the song domain. I move through the trees following a path. When I finally find the problem, a awakened beast. So I move forward summoning the dagger. I duck under one swipe just fast enough to not be odd. And my arm rotates back getting into a small gap in the scales and I start dragging the dagger along its stomach cutting it open. I then stand up looking at the melting dagger. I desummon it and I whistle. Cain appears i lift my hand. With my other I point to the ground where its blood is spilled
"This one's blood is acid I'll have to deal with it."