The Cliffs of Tears

[Elias]

Chung Hei stared at the cliff, then to Daichi and the cliff again. "This can't be so hard right? After all, climbing is good for the body." However she, like Jade, dreaded physical workouts, but she could handle it. She hoped.

((Sorry, school has swamped me and I only just got caught up today since they started me late -.-"))

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

[[Lols, it's fine ^^ ]]


Daichi grinned chucking his ball up, "well, from the stories I've heard, the purpose is to let your heart guide you to her. If you really want to see the Sun Goddess, a door will open for you. It can open anywhere." Look down at the cliffs, he added, "Some people have found a path. Some just fall. Let's see...I think we should try and find a path first."

[Elias]

"Agreed." Chung Hei nodded, looking about the cliffs briefly for any part that looked even a little like a path. "Let's go find it I suppose." She thought bout how she'd go about this, part of her wishing she had asked Jade for cord, so she could at least have some type of harness.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

"You look that way I guess, and I'll look this way. I suppose it would be good to focus on why you would want to see the Shining One," he said, heading to right and pushing grass out of the way, looking for perhaps a concealed path.

[Elias]

Chung Hei nodded, and started off in the other direction. She looked for a path or anything close, she had time, but to go to where the ingredients were. It was quiet a way away, but she could get there, it wasn't as if the ceremony had to be preformed on a certain date.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

[[POsting something so I can find this tomorrow, sorry! Too tired for the night T.T]]

[Elias]

((Okay ^^))

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

Daichi concentrated on finding the path that would lead to Amaterasu. Since he had never been there before, he wasn't sure if he would find it, or if it would actually work, but he had to believe. He was an angel after all.

[ᑕᗢᗝᒪḰᓮᖙᖇᗢჯ123 ☆*･゜ﾟ･*\(^O^)/*･゜ﾟ･*☆]

(............why is it calle fthe cliff of tears? deos the cliff have a lot of teers? i mean...you can fix tares? tears? .....or is it a cliff made out of tears??? )

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

[[Lols, because it looks like it's crying, with all its waterfalls]]

[ᑕᗢᗝᒪḰᓮᖙᖇᗢჯ123 ☆*･゜ﾟ･*\(^O^)/*･゜ﾟ･*☆]

(....wow. why so negative?)

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

[[Lols, is it negative? Perhaps they're tears of joy lol]]

[ᑕᗢᗝᒪḰᓮᖙᖇᗢჯ123 ☆*･゜ﾟ･*\(^O^)/*･゜ﾟ･*☆]

(good)

[Elias]

Chung Heo looked for any way that could lead to the door. It may not be so urgent but she had to let someone know, if this was going to be the last ceremony... she didn't want it to be forgotten.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

And just when he was believing, Daichi tripped, and let out a small scream as he tumbled down, rolling down what appeared to be a very narrow slope. He lashed out with his arm, to conjure an earth wall to catch him, but nothing happened, indicating that their abilities would be useless hee. "Ahhhh!" he cried as he fumbled around for a hand hold to stop rolling.

[Elias]

"Shit!" Chung Hei grabbed a rock and ran to him the best she could. Catch'imcatch'imcatch'imcatch'imcatch'im! Once she managed to get ahead of him, she clung onto a rock and reached out, grabbing him around the wrist and hoping this would work.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

Daichhi found himself halted in his downward roll. He found himself held around the waist, looking up at the sky, and blinking. "Whoa, thanks," he said llooking around them as he realised what the narrow slope was. It was so narrow, he was surprised he hadn't tumbled off it completley, and said, "I think I found the path."

[Elias]

She nodded. "Looks like it." She carefully helped him up, keeping a hold of the rock in case one of them slipped. After a couple moments, and being sure they were not gonna fall off, she let go of the rock in exchange for another. She wasn't taking chances.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

Glad for her help in standing up, Daichi firmly held onto her arm, and looked down the cliff. The ledge they were standing on was very narrow, and so it wasn't difficult to look down. The drop from their position to the base of the cliff though...was extremely far down. "Well, the path is about thirty centimetres wide, and looking at it...there doesn't seem to be an end to the path, please tell me you're not afraid of heights," he said looking over at her.

[Elias]

"No, I'm not." Though the water made her a little uneasy, as did the possibility of not being able to use her powers. However, she could throw a punch if needed, but regular fighting wasn't her thing. "Let's get going I suppose?" This was going to be much harder than she thought it would be.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

"Well, that makes things slightly easier," he said, gritting his teeth. He wasn't afriad of heights, but well, he was just an ordinary guy, and he was a little uneasy. "Yeah, let's," he said inching along the ledge, wondering what the Shining One would through at them next.

[Elias]

Chung Hei nodded and carefully started to move along the path. "Well, some of the ingredients for the ceremony are in places like this, so it's not the first time." She wondered what would happen next. Would they get nearly washed away, struck by lightening, she guessed they would have to stay on their toes.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

He raised his brows, "no kidding. What kind of ingredients are these to be in these kinds of obscure places? I'd be less hesitant to be here if I could actually use my magic. But I suppose, it's part of the test I guess." He inched along the narrow path. He had to walk sideways, since he doubted that he would feel confident enough to walk forwards.

[Elias]

"One that react with our bodies. They are first used at birth to stop our bodies from producing electricity, so young ones can't cause massive damage, then again during the ceremony to re activate this ability." She explained. "If a younger child could generate their own electricity, cause electrical storms, it would be madness. So our leaders decided that a ceremony would be held when the demon is ready, at fifteen thousand. It seems old, but really, what age would a persons emotions be more stable?"

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

"Ah I see, that makes sense," he said inching his way down the path. From the looks of it, it was sloping downwards and if this kept going on, without his abilities, going the slope was going to be impossible. If anything, it would be a completely downward roll, leaving his and Chung Hei's life up to fate. He might be an angel, but even so, he thought this was crazy. Yet the whole point was to believe and have faith. If a downward roll was it, then so let it be. He looked at her, and said, "I suppose as an earth user, our abilities are less unstable. Though when I was young I was taught how to stabilise my power so that I wouldn't accidentally cause an earthquake, landslide, ecetera."

[Elias]

Chung Hei nodded, that was true. "Yeah, that makes sense." She looked down, seeing how high up they were then looking along the path. "Cool." Please don't look down because I did, there were so many trainees who did that. "We'll find the door, I know we will."

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

Daichi looked over at Chung Hei and raised a brow, wondering if anything was wrong. His feet inched along the ledge while his hands were feeling along the cliff wall, not just for handholds, but for some sign of a doorway. "Yeah, have faith, that's what they say, the question is, exactly what kind of door will it be?" He said sighing.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

[[To remind myself ^^ https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ]]

[Elias]

"Yeah." Maybe we'll find it if we dive off, perhaps it will get her attention. "Hey..." Chung Hei looked at him, then down and back to him. "You think we can find it by falling off?" Maybe that would work, she just had to find the door, she needed to.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

Daichi blinked, and daring to lean his head to look down at the death drop below them, he wondered how falling down that could get her attention. It was crazy, nuts, and yet, he looked over at her, and said, "I think, perhaps that could work. I guess believing in the fact that the shining one would guide us, would help too." Swallowing he held a hand out to her and said, "Wanna try?"

[Elias]

Chung Hei looked down and nodded. "Sure, it's not like I haven't done something crazy sounding before." She took his hand and got ready, standing at a ledge. "On the count of three... right?" Okay, so maybe she was a little nervous.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

"Right," said Daichi, though he had no idea what kind of crazy stuff she might have done before. All he knew was, this was super crazy to him. Squeezing her hand a little tighter than he had expected, he nodded, and said, "One...Two..."

[Elias]

Chung Hei gripped his hand tightly and hoped beyond hope that this would work. Please catch us. "Three!" She held onto him tightly and jumped from the cliff without any further thought.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

Daichi jumped at the same time she said three and felt his hear leap from his chest. THe hell was he doing? He thought to himself over and over, and then somehow shifted to believing, like truly, truly, believing that the Shining Lady of the Sky would save him and Chung Hei.

[Elias]

Chung Hei had always been determined but she had never tried something as stupid as this. She hoped that someone would catch her, she believed someone would catch her. If not for her than for Jade, she couldn't leave the poor thing like that.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

Daichi could only see the water down below them crashing against the cliffs rushing towards them. Feeling his heart racing out of his chest, Daichi felt sick, and doing what anyone who was crazy to jump of a cliff would do, he closed his eyes and squeezed Chung Hei's hand tightly expecting to hit the sea below...but instead...there was just nothing....for the longest moment, he almost expected to smack into something, but nothing. Opening his eyes, he found himself surrounded in darkness, and just when he was about to say something, something green and busy rushed up to them, and he was bracing himself, ready to end up as a pancake, when nothing. It was just softness, soft thick --really thick-- springy moss underneath him and Chung Hei, and after several bounces, he was rolling off, laying splat, flat on his face, face down on the ground.

[Elias]

Chung Hei could help but close her eyes, it was horrifying to watch the rocks get closer. This had to be a bad idea, it had to be. Oddly, the ground didn't come and she peaked to seen the green approaching. "What the-?" She gasped when they hit, it was very soft and springy. Moss? She opened her eyes again to find herself in the air before coming down on the moss again and again, over and over until they stopped. She was laying on her stomach and peaked around before slowly getting up to her knees and fixing her skirt. She carefully climbed down to Daichi and gently grabbed one of his arms to help him up. "Are you okay?"

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

Lifting his head to look at Chung Hei, he gratefully took her hand and stood up brushing himself down. He blinked. They were in a cave of some sort. Or rather, it was more like a really deep hole. He looked around, squinting in the dark, and said, "I don't suppose you could...create light?" He asked her dusting his clothes down as well and rubbing the dirt off his face, technically, he smudged it a bit more than necessary, and made it worse, but it was dark, and it wasn't like he could see. Plus it was nice, having the earth so slosely contacting him.

[Elias]

Chung Hei nodded and focused, electricity traveling down her arms and forming a ball of light between her hands. She couldn't do anything about the loud chirping coming from it though, like a broken fuse or something like that. "There, I can't do anything about the noise, sorry." It was a bright light too, like the sun but this light had a bluish tint to it. She looked around it was very earthy, very natural in here. As if men had never touched this place, it was beautiful.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

Daichi tried not to wince at the sound of the noise, but it didn't help. He sighed, and did his best to ignore it, glancing once over at the bright light, before turning away from its brightness and looking around them. In front of them, at the end of the earthy tunnel that they were in was an upright stone circle. Walking slightly jerkily, as though he expected the walls around him to collapse, he made it to the end of the tunnel where there was a short flight of stairs, "watch your step," he said to her before walking down, drawn to the stone circle. As he reached it though, a miko stepped out, seemingly from thin air, in front of him, and said, "welcome." It was a blonde neko miko, her long hair flowing behind her, as she held her hands folded in front of her, over her miko uniform.

[Elias]

As soon as they got to the end of the tunnel, Chung Hei dispersed the light and looked around. She carefully walked down the steps but stopped half way. Oh hell, what am I gonna say? How do I explain why this is important, I can't tell the creator what happened to my people. Not in front of anyone that is, as far as she was concerned, it was her burden to bear and her's alone. She was going to be the one to make the humans pay, she would avenge them, but she didn't know the truth. It wasn't humans at all but something else, something much much stronger.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

Daichi bowed slightly, out of reflex more than anything, and said jerkily, well, he started to say so, but the Miko in front of him held up a hand. "I do not need to know. Welcome, the portal will open soon, at sunset, until then, shall I serve some tea?" Her blue eyes, wide and bright, flitted between Daichi and Chung Hei. She was just an imprint of a dead previous Miko and thus all her actions were those of the previous miko. She was still as naive as before.

Blinking, Daichi looked over at Chung Hei, and said slowly, "um...sure..."

[Elias]

Chung Hei bowed a little and smiled. "That would be lovely." She never spoke like this anymore, funny, she used to be very kind and shy but now. Now she was blunt, reckless, and so very angry. She didn't take finding her people dead upon return too well. Obviously, who would? It was hard to deal with and now she had finally found another electric demon, there was no way she'd allow anything to harm that girl. It didn't matter if she didn't know her. Jade was under Chung Hei's protection now.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

The miko nodded and turning with precision, she walked to the left and disappeared through what seemed and felt like an empty, hidden gateway. Daichi turned to Chung Hei and after a moment of head scratching, he said, "let's sit." He gestured to the very out of place (yet also fitting) tea matse off to the side of he upright stone circle. Walking over first he took a seat, while the Miko returned, setting up the tea set.

[Elias]

Chung Hei nodded and followed him to the table, siting down carefully. How interesting... This was all very new to her, meeting an angel especially, she had met some before but never really talked to them. So this whole day had been odd but it had also been a rather pleasant day. Very surprising and unexpected, but pleasant.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

The miko began performing a tea ceremony, and Daichi watched her calmly do it. He hadn't seen one of those performed for a long time, mostly because none of his siblings could be bothered. He himself knew how to do it, but he rarely took the chance to practice. When she was done, he accepted his cup as the Miko handed Chung Hei her cup. "Thank you," he said politely.

[Elias]

"Thank you." Chung Hei carefully accepted her cup; she hadn't seen that kind of thing in two thousand years. She relaxed and smiled, this was much better than what she was doing now a days. She was always causing trouble or getting in fights, mainly with humans, and searching for others like her. She didn't have to look anymore, she could preform the ceremony and train Jade. That way she wasn't alone.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

The miko smiled lightly, pleased to be thanked. It was almost as though she was rarely thanked. For a few silent moments, Daichi sipped his tea in peace wondering again how he had ended up here. Though he had had faith, he had also been happy to give up faith and stick with he cold hard facts that he had been hurtling towards the sea and a whole lot of rocks that would more than readily smash him to a ragdoll And yet, here he was in one piece. "Um, excuse me, but how long til we can pass through?" He asked the miko. And the miko replied, "not log now. Sunset is not long at all."

[Elias]

Chung Hei nodded, it was good that she didn't have to wait any longer, she was nervous though. She had only heard of the creator, this would be her first time meeting them. What if they decided letting Jade become realized wasn't to be and forbid her, I mean, she'd still do it for Jade but what if it was forbidden? What if her breed was supposed to be wiped out and she would be killed, what if she got Jade killed? She was such a worry wart.

[Nina {ᴡᴏʀᴅs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ}, ~ Queen of Hell ~]

Daichi turned to look at Chung Hei. Then back at the miko who was simply sipping her tea seemingly with no burdens on her shoulders to worry about. Not like him, and not like Chung Hei. Glancing over at Chung Hei, Daichi wasn't sure if he should reassure her or if he should leave her to her thoughts. As for himself, it had been a long time since he had been in a situation where he must face a great power. He had never thought he would be in such a situation. It had all been just stories to believe in before.