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Ivory rose to her feet. The fuck?

2016-01-19 01:59:07

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A slender, serpentine creature with spindly arms and fingers had thrust itself into the open air. "WHO DARESSS DISSTURB MY LAKE??" I sat up and twisted my head off, dumping out the water that had gotten stuck in my throat. You've got to be /kidding/ me. This lake has a guardian?!

2016-01-19 02:00:45

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Ah shit. Ivory kicked off her heels, loosened her corset, and ran into the water. Well, onto it. As she stepped into it, a path immediately froze behind her. Fuck. This isn't good.

2016-01-19 02:05:12

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I put my head back on. Where's my axe--?! ...back on the shore. My crossbow. I fumbled it out of its strap. I feel so /heavy/. I knocked a bolt and aimed for the creature's eye, just barely able to hold my arm up. "DID THE WIZARD SSSEND YOU? HOW DARE SSSHE!"

2016-01-19 02:06:53

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Ivory moved to Madison and pulled him out of the water. Probably wasn't a good idea for either of them to be in that. After making sure Madison wasn't in the lake, she used her ice to ascend. All she need was to be high enough to jump onto him.

2016-01-19 02:11:03

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What's she /doing/?! "IVORY! WAIT!" I'm the one with /weapons/, for Chrissakes! I shot for its eye before she got high enough to get in the way, but it missed and hit it in the muzzle instead. It screeched and covered its face with its skinny, sharp hands, momentarily distracted from her.

2016-01-19 02:13:19

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Perfect. That's just what she needed. Ivory jumped onto the monster, nails digging into its scales. Ice began to form at her finger tips, and spread onto the creature.

2016-01-19 02:15:55

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It bucked and reared, trying to throw her off. When this didn't work, it shot up higher out of the water, one ear snapping and breaking off as it shrieked.

2016-01-19 02:18:12

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Yes was working- Ah! The ear snapped off, and the razor sharp ice sliced her arm open, the wound exposed to the cold . She managed to hang on, but blood trickled down and onto the sea monster.

2016-01-19 02:20:57

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I grabbed another arrow and shot at its now exposed stomach. It screamed again and fell over into the water, causing another small tidal wave. One arm got caught under it and was crushed. It squirmed and whimpered. I'd feel bad for it, but......none of this is real. It isn't a real creature. Just a threat. It stopped moving when the ice spread further, but it was still breathing. I picked up my axe and walked the remains of the ice path Ivory had made, stopping near its head and raising my axe. I brought it down just about where its spinal cord should be. It bled purple, a color disturbingly similar to my eyes, and I shuddered. Then I noticed the red blood mingling with that and the water. Ivory's hurt!

2016-01-19 02:25:43

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Ivory fell into the water with the creature, but managed to get her head above the water. She quickly swam over to the ice forming onto of the water. She grabbed the thickest piece, and hoisted herself onto it. She held her arm. It didn't exactly /hurt/ but, it was pretty long.

2016-01-19 02:32:00

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I ran over and helped pull her up. "Are you okay? Is there poison or anything in it?"

2016-01-19 02:33:26

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"I'm fine. I just need to bandage it." She started to tear the ripped sleeve of the dress.

2016-01-19 02:35:01

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"Wait, that'll make it worse. You'll get stuff in it." I pulled her hand away from her sleeve, carefully taking her wrist with my other. When the wood touched her flesh, violet sparks broke out again, turned red around the wound, and sewed it up with a white glow. In a second, it was completely gone. I stared.

2016-01-19 02:37:22

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She watched it happen, then rubbed her arm. Good as new. "Thanks." She almost forgot he could do that.

2016-01-19 02:39:34

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"...I can heal /wounds/ too??"

2016-01-19 02:40:39

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"It does make sense."

2016-01-19 02:41:25

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"How, exactly?"

2016-01-19 02:42:12

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"These are our /souls./"

2016-01-19 02:42:44

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"....okay, true. It just seems...more direct here. I forget they're not sometimes."

2016-01-19 02:43:19

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"Speaking of souls. Should we collect the frogs now before something worse comes?"

2016-01-19 02:45:59

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"Probably, yeah. Apparently I'm like a sponge, though, so we have another problem now."

2016-01-19 02:47:23

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"I can get them."

2016-01-19 02:47:46

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"No, your skirt would get soaked. We need a net or something."

2016-01-19 02:49:00

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"Is that the only problem?" She stood up, and slipped off her dress. Her white corset and silk bloomers now exposed.

2016-01-19 02:50:50