The Next Night

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"Mum, before she died, but after that, no one," Alex replies. She follows his gaze to the bow and arrows and grins. "I just keep that up here for the occassional wild animal that might consider me a good snack."

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"Ah, I see," he says as he continues to look around. "Well, do you think we should start training soon?"

[adris]

(OOC: Because I had to roll, this this is APP 10... its a looker amongst its kind)

There was a quick rumbling underneath the bedrock as a beast suddenly made its way to the surface and glared as much as it could at its prey. It rose up as high as it could, making itself look larger then it already was, it has a many segmented body and what seems to be a hundred sharp, pointed legs. Most deadly were the mandables though, that seemed to seemlessly integrate into the beasts opal colored plating. It regarded its prey hungerly for a moment before diving towards the female of the two companions.

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Screaming in terror, Oliver scrambles toward the cave exit. Not wanting to betray Alex, he turns around and tries to shoot a lightning bolt at the creature's head, in a weak attempt to stop it. He then dashes out of the opening, not waiting to see if the monster noticed him.

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Alex, though nearly frozen with fear, manages to force herself to act. Throwing herself to the ground, she rolls out of the way, then snatches up her bow, sets an arrow to it and fires off a poorly aimed shot.

[adris]

The Centipede missed in its dive, smashing his head into the ground. The lightning bolt also made contact, making the monster none too happy with the source. Alex's arrow grazed the exoskeleton, but that was hardly felt by the beast. Switching its target, it crawled after Oliver It moves swiftly for a beast its size, mandibles open and ready to stop its target short.

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Oliver's plan to run like hell doesn't work, as he reaches the cliff and finds that he can't run in that direction anymore. He spins around to look for a hiding place, and is horrified to see the centipede coming at him now. He fires another shot of lightning, this one aimed between the creature's mandibles, and then runs as fast as he can to his left.

[adris]

The centipede in its limited intelligence reared up at the pain, actually taking a moment to think whether or not the pursuit was worth this. The boy continued to run though, it hurt him and then ran, this didn't make sense for pray to act this way. Perhaps it knew it was too weak, he would keep chasing. Finally making a decision it rushed behind Oliver, seeking to make up the ground it lost with its pondering.

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Oliver doubts that he'll be able to run from the monster for long, and he's sure he doesn't stand a chance against it in a fight. Not sure of how far behind him it is, he dives toward a small space between two large rocks, and just manages to quickly crawl into the opening. Now he can only pray that the centipede can't reach him.

[adris]

The centipede ran headfirst into the rocks surrounding the hole, letting out a screech in the momentary pain. It tries a couple more times to push itself in, its mandibles snapping at Oliver again and again in hopes of getting a lucky break. Giving up on this the beast began literally pacing, walking in front of the hole trying to find an alternate route in. It didn't know if the pray was worth it, but it was hungry, the kid wouldn't leave the hole though if it stayed outside and would die in there... it decided in the end it was perhaps best to find someplace new.

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Alex, using her wind abilities, sneaks up silently behind the beast. Touching her storm sign, the young girl begins a swift chant then fires the strongest lightning bolt she can manage at the centipede. "Oliver! Help me! We can beat this together!"

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Reassured by her confidence, Oliver squirms to the edge of the hole, careful not to get too far out. He begins to chant as well, and fires another bolt, this one aimed for the centipede's front legs.

[adris]

The centipede reared up at the first attack and fell hard after the second. It was mostly thrashing out of the fact that it was confused and didn't know what to do. The pain was searing, from all the running that happened before it didn't think they prey could hurt him. He tried a fumbled attempt to rush forward and hopefully trample Alex, who was the one most in the open.