Deservire

[Kazumaru]

Somewhere north of the group, Kazumaru trekked through the sand. His lab coat had been tied around his neck, like a cloak, and he was dragging his shirt across the sand behind him.

He stopped, staring up at the sky. He could hear the faint sound of something coming towards him at high speed, but before he could reach, the length of the chain hit him in the skull, knocking him out before continuing on its merry way.

The spirit's body slumped over into the sand, and an unbleeding gash formed along his temple.

((Just figured that it's been too long since Kaz has been knocked out. Feel free to ignore him. ))

[Swix]

Once Zila reached the summit of the hill, her skin now bathed in the scorching hot sun due to lack of shade she was immediately relieved she had cooled herself down before. It would have been a lot less pleasant if she had. The reptilian looked around after hearing what sounded like the chains she had taken off earlier hit something solid, but shrugged it off almost immediately afterwards as it being some desert animal that had gotten in the way of the brainless things. Plus she didn't want either of her two companions to think of her being more of a hero, or even at all.

The Morphffer glanced at the terrain she was going to have to go down once the land had settled after Gurt had disturbed it, taking a breath. 'This could either go very well' she thought 'or very, very wrong'. Human form didn't seem ideal for this kind of thing, her Komodo Dragon form was even less well suited for this.

One leap soon after these thoughts put an end to all speculation as she now had to concentrate on not having her two feet on the ground for too long, as it did as it had with Gurt and broke up whilst her tail whipped erratically behind her. At least she could count on having better balance than any human.

[alakin1]

Lilith watched Gurt and Zila ascend the hill and then descend haphazardly with amusement. Luckily, she wasn't bound to walk, run, or jump off the mount down the dangerous path. She melted down, reforming into her butterfly form. Giving everyone an impossible-to-see grin, she flew up the hill, and back down, avoiding the gruelling task of climbing and then haphazardly falling back down.

The small magenta butterfly melted once again, morphing back into Lilith's Human form. She waited patiently for the others, looking around the arid landscape. There. She could see a shape, plainly cut-out in the golden glare of the desert. She melted once more, flew over, and reformed. It was another man, a scientist or strange superhero it seemed, if the lab-coat tied around his neck like a cape was any indication.

He seemed to have been knocked out by something.

~Attacked by slavers perhaps?~ her thoughts turned briefly to the amazing flying chains, ~Attacked by chains?~ Slavers or chains, it was another person to save.

~And I do love saving people...better call my dear friends the ex-slave and the 'I'm-not-a-hero-overgrown Lizard'.~ She cupped her hands around her mouth, turning back to the hill, forcing her magic to amplify her voice, she shouted,

"I've found another poor man, he's unconscious."

[Kazumaru]

"Unconcious what where?" Kazumaru spluttered as he came back to the world of the living. "What happened? Where am I? What are cows?"

[Swix]

After having reached the bottom and creating quite a large hole in the sand, Zila got up only to hear the other woman calling over about some other poor man.

"Weakling" she muttered under her breath, before walking over to the two "does no-one here know how to survive a desert?" the overgrown lizard smiled at the downed Kazumaru, revealing slightly pointed and yellowed predatorial teeth "If you'd done this on my world someone would have eaten you by now"

[Chronos]

((WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I'm back! Let's get this place thriving again!))

Gurt craned his neck over to the fallen Kazumaru. He had to get moving before is captors sent an investigation squad, but...

But Gurt had been helped by these people. Maybe a year ago, Gurt would not have helped the unconscious man, but now it just seemed like the right thing to do. He strode swiftly- albeit weakly- over to the new arrival.

"Are you ok, sir? You don't look too badly hurt. Trust me- I know injury when I see it."

[Swix]

((Do you think we should prod Alakin and Kaz?

EDIT to save posts . They have been prodded))

[Chronos]

((That might be a good idea.))

[Kazumaru]

Kazumaru blinked, before shaking some sand out of his hair. "I'm... fine, I guess." he said, rubbing his head.

"Something hit me over the head. Something shiny. I'm fine, though." He ran his fingers across the gash and indentation in his head. "Feels like a chain."

The indentation puffed back out, making his head look reasonably human again.

"Oh, er... where are my manners? I'm Kazumaru. Spirit of Electricity."

((Hello~))

[alakin1]

((I'm baack ))

Lilith smiled slightly as she heard Kazumaru's story,

~Seems those chains continued to wreak their havoc even after we got rid of them...~

She ran her hand through sleek brown hair,

"Spirit of Electricity eh?" she smiled kindly, "I'm Lilith, the butterfly lady." She pointed over to Gurt,
"That's Gurt, an escaped slave, at least I think he is. And the grouchy lizard is Zila."

[Swix]

Zila glared at the butterfly lady with slightly more dislike than she had had before, making the reptilians brown eyes look somehow darker even with the overbright sun deepening the shadows they created already. 'Grouchy? she thought 'I'm not grouchy' or maybe she was. After all it was far too hot and the sun was too bright and for some reason she'd decided hanging around with these... people was a good idea.

"I'm a Reptilian Morphffer" she explained patiently "not a lizard. And see how 'grouchy' you become when you're stuck somewhere that's far too hot when you have cold blood that you don't even know the name of!" Her voice went rapidly from patient to angry, and somehow managed to get worse the more she said. She eyed the 'Spirit of Electricity' suspiciously as his head resumed a more human looking shape, conveniently forgetting her earlier comments.

"What's a Spirit?" Zila asked "some sort of plant?" On her world there was no such thing as magic, demons, spirits or gods. It was all ruled by science and survival, so it was little wonder she was confused. The plant was added out of a lack of other things she could think of that could do something like the trick he'd done with his skull.

((Hurrah, everyone's back ))

[Kazumaru]

Kazumaru got up off the ground.

"Well, er... I guess it's a pleasure to meet you all?" he said, He turned to Zila. "No, I'm..." he paused, attempting to figure out how he'd explain the exactly what he was. "... Sure, I'm a plant."

The spirit was still somewhat disoriented, having recently been walloped over the head with a chain and then finding himself amongst a grouchy lizard, a 'butterfly lady' and another fellow who had yet to speak.

Suddenly, something occurred to him. "What in Alabama are you all doing out here, anyway...?"

[alakin1]

[Swix]

Zila shrugged her large shoulders, making muscles underneath her thick skin ripple. "I'm only in this for the guards" she reminded them "I'm not a hero and I've no intention of being seen as one"

"So... where exactly is here then?" Zila asked of the Spirit once more, seeing as he seemed to know where they were "because I thought it might be one the Primus planets, but it can't be. There aren't any creatures like you people there" 'And everything smells different, anyway'

[Kazumaru]

((Ugh... sorry about that. I'm an idiot. >.>))

Kazumaru shrugged. "You heard the butterdemon. We're in the desert."

His brain finally figured out exactly what Zila meant by "where."

Not wanting to explain exactly where and what Blackstar is, he opted for the "Screw with the newbie" approach.

"We're on Degobah. It's a swamp world. This is just the desert area." He nodded. "Yeah, that's the ticket."

Prolly should've thought that last bit. He thought, Oops.