(( Yup, being me, I've decided to go a completely different route for the short story. I'm not quite sure if I fulfill all the requirements for the short story, but since I've basically no point to regain, I figured I could be a little lazy and make my own path for this one. Basically, instead of a short story, this is kind of a longer entry narrating a story, in a first person view. Probably not as exciting to read as other things, but... (Shrug) ...no one here but Kris can really complain about a lack of effort and constancy on this RP so far, and he's not here to do so, so whatever. Here it goes, enjoy-ish! ))
Hello everyone!
Here I was, being absolutely bored, wondering what you guys could be doing, being so silent this month. I probably wouldn't be as bored if I had made some progress on finding a way to unite all the ferals. In fact, that is why I'm writing this right now. Since I couldn't find a clue on the Internet, I figured maybe I would find a clue in the past! We have written so much about our adventures, especially you Chris, so I thought that maybe I would find some divine inspiration re-reading those entries. That didn't really happen, but I did find that entry written by Amelia and I thought 'Hey, I never really told them what happened down there!'. So, here I am, doing just that! Since I'm not being productive, I may as well be entertaining. It's the thought that counts, right?
To refresh your memories a bit, it all happened three months ago. The sky was blue, the sun was shining, the bird were birding and Amelia and I were stuck hundreds of feet under the ground with Austin and that crazy werewolf, I mean... Darrel. As we thought things couldn't get worse, Amelia couldn't help herself and she headed into some dark corner, triggering a trap of sort. I don't remember that part, since I just rushed at her to prevent her from being crushed by falling rocks, then I was knocked out by said rocks. Yeaaah... epic fail there. When I woke up, it was a few hours later (according to my phone. Reading Amelia's letter, you would believe it was days. Girls.) and my right leg was bleeding and bruised, but fortunately, not broken. That would have sucked big time. Speaking of things sucking, you know what sucks the most about being caved in a cave you've never went in before? I mean, other than that? It was just having two bottles of water on us. It's really crazy how quickly water can vanish when you're stressed and stuck somewhere and panicked. Not that I was. I'm not a coward, we all know that. But Amelia, that was another story. I won't go into the details there, it's not really the point of this story.
To summarize we were trapped in a cave, with one bottle of water and nowhere to go, but down. We figured that if we were going to die, we may as well do so seeing something awesome, so we followed the path downward, using the light of my phone to lit the way. Like awesome heroes. At first, it looked like any other cave. Cold, wet, dark, boring... did I say cold? It's certainly one of the things I will never forget about that place. The air so... frigid, it was like, you know, walking inside a freezer, except there was no reason for it to be so cold and the deeper we went, the more that feeling increased, to the point we had to hold each other close to continue. I normally wouldn't have minded, but it surprisingly didn't help as much as it should have. I probably sound crazy here, but it was as if this cold wasn't natural at all, like some... spiritual, ghostly presence creeping into the depths of our souls. Basically, if that cave hadn't already won first prize in the creepiness category, now it had.
As I started to consider telling Amelia that maybe we should turn back, the air became warmer and we saw a tiny bit of light ahead. I was all "Holy crap Amy, that's the light at the end of the tunnel, we are soooo dead! Like, litterally dead. You know, like..." until she gave me /that/ glare. I guess she didn't like my humor or something. I'm gonna blame the ghosts and Lizzy, their holy mistress. Amen. Then she kind of dragged me into the light and then...
...well, you know that feeling when you go out in the sun after having been a long while inside? It was kind of like that, except that instead of a sunny bright day, we were greeted by another perfectly rectangular room, lit by wells of light coming from the floor. That was no doubt a place made by man, a very dedicated man who somehow mastered the power of making a temple that went unscratched for hundreds of years, if not more. I suspected some crazy Mage magic was at work there, and as you will see later, I wasn't too far off. If you remember that letter my dear foxy wrote, you probably know that she saw some symbols. That was only the peak of the proverbial iceberg. With my phone, I took dozens of pictures of this temple, let me just find them here...
...wow, I really took so many pics of our cat? I must be more bored than I thought. Someone please remind me to delete those later. -.- Either way, there they are, the pictures I took back in the cave.
[Show 3 pictures of a large, rectangular room, with arcane writing all over the walls.]
As you can see, there was four light wells, one in each corner, with a picture next to them, each representing one of the elements. Air, Ground, Water and Fire. There were also a door in each wall, but only the way ahead was open, so the choice was rather easy. Of course, being so brave, I wanted to explore the other paths, but for Amelia's sake, we took the open path. Poor thing wanted to go home. I couldn't blame her, home would have been really nice just then, but when destiny calls you, you don't just sit down and cry for your mommy! With much excitement, we braved into the unknown and walked into opening leading to... well... another room! Picture time!
[Show two pictures of a much larger room, with the same light wells, but more numerous. The ceilling is spherical, similar to a cathedral or a similar religious temple. The room itself is a dead end, and at its center stands a pyramid of stairs leading to an altar.]
Tada! Awesomeness in picture form. Even more awesome to see for yourself and unlike the Underworld and whatever places Darrel always go, no scary monster trying to kill you, trick you or both! There was, however, a lot to see in this room. I'm not gonna bother showing you all the pictures I took, it would take too long to trying to explain them all. What I do want you guys to know is that this pyramid in the middle was a pain to climb, and it wasn't all worth it at the top, it was only some picture of things. Specifically, this picture:
[The picture shows a large pictogram craved in the stone, about 8x8 feet in size. It pictures a human, with light emanating from its body. Some of the light rays are arrows pointing to smaller drawings of pictograms, 8 of them.]
...wait a minute... now that I think about it, I've seen this little symbol up there, somewhere. I will come back to this in a few minutes...
...Oh My God. I can't believe this. The proof I was looking for was in my phone all that time! That symbol is the emblem of the most anciant vampire family! And this one over there? I've seen it before, when Lizzy told me about her ghost-a-thingies! This one here represents Werewolves, this one here is definitely the Mysterium. This claw here probably represents us, the ferals. If I had to guess, the remaining three are probably the changelings, promethians and fae! This picture must mean that was are all humans, or at least, we all descend from the same origin. Our powers may be different, some may be more powerful than others, some may be creepier, or wilder, but no matter our background, we are all brother and sisters, we are all breathing the same air, eating the same food, living in the same world. A world some creepy monsters from a higher dimension are trying to take away from us. That's sure not going to happen. With this picture, I'm going to remind all of us, supernal creatures or not, that our differences are nothing compared to what unites us. That gotta show them, if it doesn't, nothing else will! /totally going on baseless assumptions here
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Oh, look, in my excitement in going to post my picture, I left this open, unsent. In fact, I probably would have forgotten it if Amelia hadn't snooped into my things and read it, then got mad at me for sliiiightly exasperating the truth. Now she's sitting right next to me as I finish this. So, first thing first, she wants me to tell you that my aforementioned bravery was kind of a lie and that she had to cope with my constant whining and being scared, wanting to go home and wasting our time taking pictures of everything to annoy her because we weren't going home... there we go. Happy Amy? Darn it, I can't even look like the hero for once... meh... sigh... at least, I can be comforted with the fact that my little discovery, two days ago, had the effect of a bomb on the Interwebs. That, and the emotional speech I wrote along with the pictures I posted on my blog. I've received so many emails, of people all over the world, wanting to join our cause. I had to be careful though, I don't want to reveal the actual location of our hiding place, but I've been able to use the few contacts I've gotten over the last month and the Union to start gathering a sort of Union of my own... with actual members of the Union coming here soon to provide us with actual training material and experience, because fighting isn't much my thing. Yeah...
But more on that next month, when I have more to tell. For now, I will finish my tale of adventure. So... let see... we climbed up stairs... blablabla... we saw the picture... oh, yes, so after taking pictures and all that, we bid farewell to that temple and exited it, back into the cold cave... except not. I don't know what kind of magic powered this place, but when we left the temple, we didn't even get to walk twenty feet to suddenly find ourselves outside again, right into one of the side exits of Austin's underground base. When we looked behind us to make sure we weren't dreaming, the light of the temple was gone, and all we saw was a guard in the distance, guarding a gate to the base, in a cave tunnel that was well lit. Can I say "reaaaaaally creeeepy"? There's no other word to describe what happened that day. After that, we went to my old home, rested for a bit, napped. and... you know the rest, I don't need to say it all over again. Overall, that was a pretty sweet little adventure, albeit a bit short, not that I'm going to complain about that. More importantly, it just provided the mean to advance our cause, I call that being very lucky! Wait till I tell all you guys about... oh... wait... I just did. Silly me.
That's all for now. Still haven't gotten any news from any of you. I hope you see this and, wherever you guys are and whatever you are doing, you stay strong. For me, for all of us, for our world. God knows we all need it. Oh, and by the way, is it me or Chris's sister haven't given news in a looong time. Does anyone knows if she's ok? It would be nice to know. Bye!
-Rick (and Amelia closely watching)
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