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Medusa seemed confused, she kept trying to get Veraly to look into her eyes, but every time she did nothing happened. "Why isn't this--" Seth looked up, for a brief moment and then caught her gaze...He at first wanted to fight back, but it was too late...He had been turned to stone.
Veraly felt the warmth of his hands diminish...She looked over, "Seth no!" Though Seth was stone, he could still feel what was going on around him, though couldn't do anything about it...It was like he was paralyzed. Well, it was worse. But if one thought about it hard enough it could be compared to being paralyzed. He hoped that the triplets could undo the spell...Because he didn't want to be stone forever.
Veraly turned over to Medusa, grabbing Seth's dagger he had been using and charged towards Medusa, she didn't need a shield or a sword to look through, she couldn't see Medusa, she charged fourth and made a jab towards her-- it made a cut on her arm.
For a brief moment Seth turned back, but then he turned back to stone.
"Foolish, mortal, how dare you!" shrieked Medusa. Veraly stabbed her again, it seemed as if the spell would break for a moment whenever she was injured...So when she died? Seth would be freed! Veraly charged toward Medusa hoping to kill her...
"How dare you!" shrieked Medusa. Veraly took a step forward and fatally stabbed Medusa and she collapsed to the ground at that moment Seth turned back from being stone, he sighed in relief...
KC | Queen of Cheese | wrote: "Amber looked over at Seth. "Are you okay?" she asked, knowing what it was like to be turned to stone.Umber and Ember looked around in surprise.
Then the youngest tapped the oldest's shoulder.
Ambe..."
Seth exhaled, "I'm fine, I'm fine, it was scary but I am fine..." Seth looked around at the others who were now coming alive and walked back to where Veraly was standing and hugged her tightly...
"Thank you for saving me." he whispered. Veraly hugged him back.
Seth sat next to Veraly, they both were shocked and very tired from the incident. Veraly hugged him and rested her head on his shoulder, it was very tiring fighting a gorgan. The new people were very confused, some people were wearing very old fashioned clothes and looked as if they had been there for years and years. And others clothes. looked newer...like they had been turned to stone recently.
Seth stood up with the help of Veraly, and he and Veraly walked over to the new people, and tried to help them. Veraly bandaged those who were bleeding, and Seth calmed people down.
"I...don't know." replied Seth, "perhaps...we could, uh..." He paused having no idea what else to say, "do you have magic to shrink people, because maybe we could do that?" He asked, in a rather dumbfounded way, he was not sure what to do at all..."And uh, we could, uh, carry them??"
Seth gasped, "that's amazing, where did you get a bag like that?" he admitted that he had not concealed his excitement very well, but it looked amazing...How did it even work? How did the magic work like that?
Seth nodded still amazed at it, "Let's go now..." he replied. "So, then maybe we can get out of this maze, and also get these people to safety."
KC | Queen of Cheese | wrote: "(They were now all in there, besides the triplets. Those that had been stone were in the bag already.)"(I'll edit that then, I don't know how I missed that...)
"That way" said Seth, pointing in the direction of a passageway that seemed much lighter in comparison to the others. Veraly nodded and grabbed Seth's hand, and they waked along the way, she kept wondering what the triplets thought of her and Seth. She didn't love him...romantically, she loved him as a friend, but she wondered if they mistook her interactions with him as a romantic one...She hoped they didn't...
"I...knew the guardian of Veraly and her brother, Phoenix, I didn't know Veraly herself until I came here." replied Seth, "...So we just...we're complete strangers." He was going to add "until someone decided to light me on fire" but he decided against it. Veraly nodded, "yes, we were just strangers really.."
"That's very interesting" replied Seth, pretending to be interested as he looked down the tunnel, trying to figure it whether the group should continue walking down it or not.
They continued down but as they walked something seemed off in the air, not from monsters but seemingly from magic...It seemed to want to make everyone in the group fall into a deep sleep.Seth began to feel tired, and so did Veraly...but she fought to stay awake...
Seth fell asleep on Veraly, but Veraly continued to move him even though he had become limb while trying to keep herself awake. "We have to find a wake to the others!" she exclaimed, "we can't let them fall asleep!"
"Yes, if there is enough room?" Replied Veraly, and then slapped Seth's face to try and wake him up, he opened his eyes for a moment and then closed them again...great...
Veraly continued along the way, feeling the wall as she walked. She wondered who was casting this spell, and if she could try and get them to stop. "Do spells like this exist in your realm?" she asked Amber hopefully, maybe she would know of a way to stop it.
"Then we need to find the magic user who is casting the spell, right?" asked Veraly, she missed the feeling of security she had before of someone holding her hand, now she needed to fend for herself...
"Yes, that is worrying" replied Veraly, who was used to the monsters being easily defeated by the triplets. But now she was worrying, and also realizing that she liked the triplets...They were nice once she got to know them, even if they had a rough start.
Veraly continued to walk squeezing Umber's hand gently, until they came to the end of the corridor. She thought she heard someone muttering something under their breathe...A spell perhaps...
Standing there was what looked like an old man, he was holding a staff that was glowing a pinkish color, and was muttering something which could only be assumed to be a spell. "What is it?" whispered Veraly.
"What do we do?" whispered Veraly, thinking that if she used her magic on the wizard it would backfire, he would probably attack them. The man looked up, when he heard their voices and looked around "who goes there?" he shouted into the hall.
Veraly also stayed quiet, she didn't want to man to notice them she held Umber's hand tightly as she heard the foot-steps of the old man coming closer and closer to them...
The wizard finally made his way to where they were standing... "Interesting, very interesting" he muttered.
"Who are you?" demanded Veraly.
"I think I should be asking the same thing-- what are two little girls, doing in my labyrinth?" he asked.
Veraly groaned, "I am not little!"
"Well, I could make you little if you liked" he smirked and then tapped his staff which started to glow red.
"Did you make it?" demanded Veraly. "I didn't make it myself..." said the wizard, "that gives me too much credit, all I did was take creatures from different realms and put them here in this never ending maze..."
"Why though?" asked Veraly.
"...Boredom," replied the wizard, "boredom, can make you do insane things can't it?"
"....No??" replied Veraly.
"Insane does not describe me" replied the wizard, "I don't do the same thing over and over again in hopes to get a different result, in fact I do the opposite...I do different things over and over again to get a different result." "That's besides the point" replied Veraly, clenching her teeth, "why do you want to kill us?"
"Kill you, no, I don't want to kill you" he smirked, "I'd rather see you suffer over and over again...." He tapped his staff, "after all no one else has made it this far."
"...Uhh, may I ask, do you own this castle?" asked Veraly.
"No, once again too much credit. I was put down here because I had too much power by a tyrant of a king" he scoffed. "Little did he know what I could do...while down here..."
"Fredrick, King Fredrick. Why do you ask though, don't you live here?" he asked, glancing over at Veraly and Umber. "Don't you know who your king is..." "I am not from your realm, so no we don't know" replied Veraly.
"get you back to your realm?" he laughed, "surely you're joking, I don't bring people back" suddenly his staff glowed bright red and the room seemed a lot tenser. He waved his staff over Veraly before she could do anything, she felt herself frozen in place, she could not move a muscle...She wanted to scream but couldn't. "Now what to do about you two..."
The cursed was lifted from Veraly, she ran over to Umber and was very relived, she did not like to be the one who had to be saved, but she was very very grateful. The wizard was too shocked to even respond, he did not think it would be that easily thwarted by a little girl. At the same time, the curse that had been put over the others, the sleeping curse, had been lifted. And Seth was very confused as to where he even was...
Veraly quickly opened the bag, and Seth climbed out and stared at the wizard on the floor and then at Umber-- had Umber attacked an old man? No, he wouldn't ask about it...He assumed that she would give an answer when it was time. And what was that red staff she was holding? Veraly then reached into the bag hoping she could pull the other two girls out.
Seth looked around, rubbed his eyes and then looked at the old man who was on the ground. Once again still very confused. "What happened?" he asked, echoing Ember. "We defeated a wizard" said Veraly. "Well, Umber did, she gets most of the credit for it."
"No I cannot, do you think I would have stayed here if I could send myself and others back to different realms? No, I cannot do that!" he shouted, Seth watched and he could tell the man was telling the truth. "And besides taking my staff won't be of any use to you, it can only work when I hold it!" Seth walked over to the triplets and gently moved them away from the wizard telling them, "he is telling the truth-- also don't let your own desire to get out cloud your judgement." He whispered. "We'll find another way, but if he can't help, he can't help..."
"You're welcome" he sighed, and looked over at the wizard who had stood up and was now running away down a corridor, Seth thought at first to follow, but it was too late, and besides he couldn't do anything to help them. "Well..." he said, admittedly slightly annoyed, he had thought the wizard would stay not runaway. "...Perhaps we should continue on?" "Yes" agreed Veraly.
"Perhaps we'll get out of this maze" smiled Seth.
"And then maybe we can talk to that 'tyrant of a king', he was told us about" replied Veraly.
"I suggest just putting it down where you found it." replied Seth. "Or rather...took it? But anyway, it's not of use to you..So it feels odd to keep it. Anyway let's get going" he gestured to them to follow him down a different corridor.
They made it to the end of the corridor which seemed to be the end of the maze, for it led to a simple door which Seth easily pushed open... There was a sound of voices on the other end, and Seth found himself face to face with a castle guard.
"Who are you?" asked the guard pointing his sword towards Seth and then noticing the others, Veraly and the triplets he ordered for other guards to come.
"Seth" replied Seth simply, staring into the guard's eyes. Now would be a good time to light someone on fire he thought to himself, thinking that Ember's power could actually be of use here.
"What are you doing here? None of you look like you're from around here?" he demanded, before Seth could even answer the other guards spoke up.
"They're spies trying to overthrow the king!" they shouted coming to a conclusion, the guard had found Seth's dagger, which was unfortunately covered in monster blood, "See look!" the guard pointed still keeping his gaze on Seth.
The guards looked down at their cloaks, which they quickly stamped out and glared at Seth. One took Seth still with his sword pointed at him and demanded, "what is going on? Why if you 'come in peace' do you attack us...?" "...I--" began Seth, "you attacked me before I could tell you--" but was interrupted by the other guards who hand-cuffed the triplets and Veraly, Veraly kicked her guard but that did nothing of course he was stronger than her, though, she did manage to make a cloud appear above his head which soaked him. "What we were doing" he was slightly annoyed that he did not have a weapon with him to fight back.
"Liar!" shouted the guard and hand-cuffed Seth as well. Seth groaned, well now, would be a good time to shapeshift.
He closed his eyes and decided to turn into an animal that would be too hard for them to hand-cuff, a fox. Fur began to grow on Seth and finally he turned into a fox and escaped the hand-cuffs, though unfortunately this did nothing to convince them that they were not planning to overthrow the king.
"MAGIC! HE'S A WIZARD!" shouted the guards pointing at the fox that was Seth. "ARREST HIM BEFORE HE KILLS THE KING!"
Seth in fox form was chased by a guard about the area, until eventually Seth grew too tired and the guard caught up with him and grabbed him and placed him in a cage.
The captain of the guards then said, "we'll be taking you five to the king, to see, what he has to say about you spies."
The guards seemed very annoyed but not much happened, "tell that to the king!" the captain, as they lead them down the hall to a bright red throne room where a king was sitting on a throne.
"Your majesty they want to kill you" they told the king. "This man" they pointed to the fox that was Seth, "is a wizard" I'm a shapeshifter Seth thought, stop getting me confused with a wizard "and he wants to use his magic to kill you, also these girls attacked us" they pointed to the triplets.
The king looked at them, "well let me talk to them...What do you have to say for yourselves?"
"We were lost in your castle, your majesty" said Veraly, "that's the reason why we're here, we don't intend to kill you."
"I know him, he tried to overthrow me" replied The King. "I banished him to the maze" he paused and then added, "though, I do not think suffered much because of that" He looked over at the guards who were holding Seth, "Let the wizard out, not the one who tried to overthrow me, but you know which one--" Seth was let out of the cage and transformed back into his human form, he looked at the king. "So you have magic?" the king asked Seth.
"Yes your majesty" replied Seth.
"And you use it to turn into animals?" asked the wizard.
"Only animals, I can really only turn into animals" stuttered Seth.
"You're a useless wizard." replied the king. "if that is what you can only do."
"I'm not a wizard!" protested Seth, everyone looked at him confused, they were not sure how he was able to do that if he was not a wizard.
The king then looked over at Veraly, whose guard was soaked from head to toe and had a rain cloud over his head.
"And who might you be?" asked the king.
"Veraly" replied Veraly. "As I said we were lost in your castle, we had to defeat monsters-- and they turned several of us to stone at different points and--" As she was going on a guard whispered to the king and he turned his attention to Ember forgetting what Veraly was saying.
"You lit my guards on fire? If you are simply lost in my land, why did you do that?" he demanded staring at Ember with anger.
The king raised his eyebrow, "Uh?" "And your guards threatened us just as we got out of the labyrinth" replied Seth.
"SHUT UP USELESS WIZARD!" shouted the captain of the guards. Seth groaned, he wished they would stop calling him a 'wizard.'
"They were intruding in your castle, and they somehow came out of the labyrinth alive. Meaning that they probably knew how to get through obstacles of yours, they are very suspicious to say the least."
The king nodded, and then turned back to Ember, "just tell me simply why you set my guards on fire instead of talking it out..."
"We were being threatened it's hard to reason with people like that!" interrupted Seth, "especially since it seemed like they would kill us!"
(And out of character, I just posted Seth's character sheet, since I didn't post it before).
Seth facepalmed, great, just great, they had to bring them up. The guard at that time hand-cuffed him. "Your...sister is an arsonist?" asked the king, now growing more shocked. "Even if you're not trying to kill me--- the fact that you, you are running around in my castle! Is horrifying!"
He looked over at Seth now, "if you're not a wizard what are you?"
"Well good that you ask, you see, I am a shapeshifter, but what I really am is a monk in terms of occupation..." he paused and then added, "in training." The king stared at him confused, this did not seem to help.
"You don't look like one."
"Well, um, that is purposeful. I am wearing normal clothes" he gestured at what he was wearing, "in order to blend in to hopefully find a stolen religious--"
"You're a spy then!"
"No...?" said Seth. "I don't lie about who I am, I just, blend in to my surroundings."
The guards stared at one another, Veraly groaned, great, none of them were very good at convincing them that they were not trying to kill the king!
The king stared at each of them and then looked at Veraly, who was soaking the guard she was standing by who was soaked wet with rain coming from the cloud above him. "Are you a witch?" he asked Veraly.
"No, I am not" she said quickly, "I have powers like this" she made water appear in her hands to show the king threw it around and accidentally splashed the king in the face.
The king was far from happy about this, "so we have a useless wizard, a witch, and an arsonist, all around us?" he groaned, "well, let's see what we can do about that-- guards send them to the dungeon!"
(Our characters are very bad at trying to prove that they're not guilty 😂 )
"what happened?" asked Seth standing up and hurrying away, "you didn't cause that did you?" "If you did...why did you knock us down?" asked Veraly, to Umber as they were running away, however word of intruders had entered the castle and while the blinded guards could not do anything, there were guards down the hall.
"GET THE USELESS WIZARD AND THE WITCH" they shouted.
"I AM A SHAPESHIFTER FOR THE LAST TIME!" shouted Seth, turning the other corner with Veraly, and hopefully the triplets as well.
"Right" nodded Seth and turned the corridor with Veraly, they came to the end of the hall...It was strangely quiet. Seth continued to walk, the hall, and noticed that this part of the castle seemed different. He could not explain why.
"Are the guards gone?" whispered Veraly.
"I think so" whispered Seth.
'Well..." said Seth, looking around and continuing down the hall, "I think we didn't exactly solve that well--" "That's an understatement, we did an awful job." sighed Veraly, and continued to walk down the hall wondering what was inside the castle, and hopefully this hallway was safe...
Just then foot-steps were heard, they weren't from anyone they knew. Seth froze, he was not sure what to do...
But he could hear voices...And they were talking about...
"King Fredrick wants me to marry her, good luck trying to get me to do that!" came a shrill voice. "I'd rather marry a country girl than someone who is nobility..."
"Great..." muttered Seth. "Someone is here."
A figure walked in, he was wearing a crown and had curly blonde hair, he looked over at Veraly and then at Seth and then at the triplets. "Who are you?" he asked more surprised than fearful.
"Well who might you be?" asked Veraly first.
"Prince Reginald, son of dragons, protector of the innocent, the fair haired the--"
"I get the point, I'm Veraly" she said quickly shaking his hand. "So you're royalty?"
"I mean prince isn't my name it is a title" he said hastily.
"Then tell your father to stop trying to capture us, as we come in peace..." said Veraly.
"Uh what?" said the prince. "You're telling me you offended my father in some way?"
"No" said Veraly, "I mean, we didn't offend him there was just a misunderstanding..." "Right...Right" he said disbelievingly, and then at the others who were holding weapons, "woah, I am unarmed, just don't use those on me, alright" He turned back to Veraly, "a misunderstanding what kind of misunderstanding?"
"Well we magically got transported here, and we, well were lost and the king thought we were trying to kill him" said Veraly, "when we were not."
The prince narrowed his eyes again and stared at her even more confused, "well are you?"
"No, of course not" she said. The prince nodded and looked at her, realizing that she could not see him. Thinking rather foolishly that that could stop her from killing the king, or that she had no power because she couldn't see. "I believe you" he looked at the others, "I don't believe them though."
Seth glared at the prince, and then tried to act as if he hadn't done it.
(Sorry to bother you, but want to continue? :) )
(It's alright and don't worry about it). The prince looked over at them and he shook his head, "the only person I believe is the one I know couldn't harm me" he looked over at Veraly, Veraly blinked, what? He thought she could do nothing to him? Why?
"Excuse me?" she asked, very confused.
"I don't believe you could hurt me" he said.
"Why?" she asked, even more confused, but at the same time slightly angry.
"You can't see--"
"I defeated a hydra. How am I harmless?" she demanded, and then realized, that was probably not the best thing to say, "or, why do you think I'm weak?"
"I don't think you're weak.." stuttered the prince, "you're just, just..." he paused and then added, "less powerful than they are?"
Veraly wanted to punch him in the face.
"It doesn't seem to be working." came Medusa as she looked at Veraly, who was staring (unknowingly) into her eyes. "Why isn't...it working?"