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This is an Incredibly fun RP session I did with KittyKat19hundred that lasted forever but came to a close around a cliff hanger (got late), I helped out in cleaning some material so its a straight forward processed story line and in her liking on how she sets it up ^^ the chat room is an awesome place to get a fast pace story going! I recommend the other characters of to join into these chat rooms and do it themselves!!

So below is the story! Enjoy the show!!

Characters enrolled:
by yours truely
by KittyKat19hundred

Taking Down Water- Part 1

Sasha trudged down the tunnel, the full waterskins slowing her down to a snail's pace. She was so focused on trying to keep her balance, she almost didnt hear the rumbling coming from farther down the tunnel. Her ears perked up, and she stopped. The rumbling was as loud as a machine now, and a roaring could be heard. Suddenly a large creature burst out of the wall, it turned, saw sasha, and bounded towards her. Sasha screamed, threw off her pack and ran.

Meanwhile:.... Trus's ear perked up to hear a scream echo near the lake, his eyes tenses as it was the familiar sound of that shop ownder from Tradtion city. He focused on the sound as he pressed forward...then froze as he heard the Voice of Topaz, "oh no..." he readied his sword and sprinted forward, "Sasha get away from that!" he yelled knowing she didn't hear him but know that their aren't many cats, possibly not any that could defeat it.

Sasha ran as fast as she could, but the monster was bigger and faster. It shook the ground as it ran and rock rained down from the cceiling. A stalactite fell infront of sasha and she leaped out of the way, barely avoiding getting crushed.

Truss started to pant, ignoring the pain from his chest as he kept on sprinting towards the lake entrance, hearing the roar was loud er than before and witnessing a HUGE glow of blue over a Blur of orange, it was Sasha running away from it. "Shit!" he looked around for a possible chance to get it as he rushed in and held up the sword, "Hey you blue beast!" he yelled as he threw the blade at him, impaled it across its shoulder, stuck against it tough pelt. It ignored it and looked over to see Guard readying his bow

Sasha looked up to see truss standing bravely in full view of the beast. She had to find someplace to hide while it was distracted, but there was no where to go, she had been backed into a corner of the tunnel. Sasha crouched down, hoping to seem smaller.

Truss rushed up with a bomb, hoping to use the same method on it twice, but it was smart and aimed for his neck as he ducked and crawled up on top of it, pulling the sword off and holding onto the crystals that were planted around its back., "time that I ended you once and for all!" he lashed down at the soft skin of its pelt, trying to dig down to its deep skin core to plant the explosive as it struggle to shake him off.

The creature twisted around, trying to reach back and throw off the pesky feline on it's back. Sasha dodged around its feet in a desperate attempt to not get crushed by the monster's claws. It's tail swung around and hit her in the face, knocking her back several feet, but thankfully, out of the way of it's continued ruckus.

Truss Kept on digging into the skin until he felt a pulsating stream running out of its skin, it glowed in a blue like blood as he laughed, "haha hey I found a soft spot..." he struggled as he reached over for the bomb and jammed it into its skin. BUt before he was able to light it the Beast railed back and slammed into a wall, breaking Truss's footing and fell off.

The beast turned back to sasha, recognizing her as the easier prey. Sasha stood up from where she fell. Dizzy and disoriented, she tried to decide whether to run or hide.

Truss got up with a ring over his ear as he struggled to get up, but he noticed it was going back to Sasha as his eye constrict with anger, "I said I was your Bait!" he yelled and rushed up to push her out of the way with a dagger. In deep slow motion he saw the jaws grip down against his torso, his breath knocked out as it swung him around and threw him into the lake river behind him as it roared without looking at Sasha

Sasha watched truss fall into the lake with a large splash. The creature was turned away from her, its open flesh in full view. She was scared, but she was even more scared for truss's life. whether her it was dizziness or bravery, she made up her mind, and leaped onto the creature's back. sahsa held on, diging her claws deep into its flesh and curling them like hooks. She pulled her shears out of her coat and jammed them through the beast's back, tearing its inner fleash and muscle, and severing nerves and blood veins. It roared in pain. Sasha loosened grip and slid off. She landed on her feet and hid behind a boulder, praying she had bought enough time for truss to recover.

Truss was deep underwater as he look down on his armor seeing a single tooth has penetrated his lower abdominal, He held onto it as he swam up to the surface, giving off a gasp of air, "gnn man this is not working, he mewed weakly as he struggled up seeing red from his lower waist. It was minor damage and he could easily stand, but he needed to rethink his approach, Come on...something....he looks over to find a torn parchment of what looks like clothing and his pack only held a single arrow....Okay I think I got it!

Sasha moved behind the rocks. The creature had lost sight of her, but it now it was furious. It began bashing rocks apart with it's claws and head. She ducked behind a stalactite just as the boulder she had taken cover under was smashed to bits. She could see her shears stuck in its back, reflecting the light from the creature's crystals. along with truss's spear and arrow. With every move the beast made, blood spouted from it's back. Sasha's fur was damp and sticky from the blood of the monster and her nose bled from the blow to her face.

Truss Picked up his last bomb from his soldier pack and reach back over to the battle field, he saw the beast was right at her face as she dodge away from it seeing it chasing her down. Its eyes were staring at the glow it made. Noticing that this whole time it was after our tails. He looked over and saw his bow, jumping over the rock to tie the bomb onto a spare arrow wedge from a rock and picked up the bow from it. With the arrow he used the clothing parchment to tie around the bomb and crawled up towards high ground, "Sasha keep running from it!" He yelled hoping that she could hear him

Sasha's ears rang from the roar of the monster and the crashes of the rocks. She leaped behind rocks and weaved between stalagmites. She ran along the edge of the lake. Eventually she realized she was back at the mouth of the tunnel and had run a full circle. She could feel her legs about to give out under her. "Hurry, truss!" she shouted.

He Climbed up, his body already exhausted from the battle as he made it to the top and pulled out the bomb, giving the end a light as the wick showed me it only had 13 seconds to blow, he only had one clean shot for this and he aimed for the right moment as it was reaching close for Sasha, "Hey! I said I was your Target" he yelled as the beast looked over at the bomb, in a fling from the bow it reach down towards its back and mixed in with the second bomb shoved into its skin as a bright light emerged

sasha leaped into the tunnel, taking cover from the blast. Her heart sank into her stomach as the blast wave flew by her. Black spots covered her vision as she stood up, and everything sounded as if it were far away.

Truss was thrown back from the blast using his claws to grab onto the rock as he saw his blow fall and break between two rocks. He flinched as the wave respired into thick smoke and climbed over to Sasha to see if she was Okay.... but to be sure he looked over at the area of the impact and pulled out his knife as he sneaks closer to it

Sasha waited until her vision cleared and she could hear properly again. She tiptoed behind truss. "Is it dead?" she whispered.
Truss Was angered and tensed at the moment as he looks back at her, "Stay......back!" he hissed, concern more on her own safety as he approached from it. limping a bit as he looks down at his cracked sword. His eyes was scared as he picked it u and entered the smoke.

Sasha moved back a ways, but stayed standing. She watched truss dispersal into the thick smoke. Her throat itched from the dust, but she refrained from coughing. Staying as silent as possible she turned her ears this way and that, searching for any confirmation that the monster was alive or dead.

Truss breath were shallow, feeling as if he was growing a fever as every bone started aching, He couldn't see a glow nor a sign of life till he reached for a low yowl. He looked over to see it laying flat on the ground, its crystals structure completely gone. And the area of the implosion ripped a huge hole deep into its skin with fragments of the crystal itself. He Looked into the beast eyes as he aimed the sword, "you have killed my brothers in arms and attacked innocence" he hissed as it looked up in anger, "and I know your not alone or stupid...why are you doing this" he stared for a moment as it roars a breath and with an impaled twist with the sword, he yelled as the sword snapped in half, hearing the silence and he coughed from the smoke.

"Truss! are you okay!? What happened?" Sasha yelled from the edge of the smoke cloud. She paced back and forth, trying to peer in.

Truss walks back with his broken sword, blood welded from his head as his hands were covered in the beast's blood, his eyes sinister like a blood hungry animal as he approaches her. This was actually the very first thing he ever killed, never has he killed his own or others but this...this felt different. Like blood was surging for more, but he didnt want this feeling to last, he tries to calm down by pulling a leaf from his pack and chewing on it, looking down as Sasha with sigh, "Sasha, are you alright..." he knelled with exhaustion, "man what a battle" he cried, "I thought I was a goner"

Sasha laid down on the ground. too relieved to care about the dirt or the hard floor. She took multiple deep breaths as the adrenaline rushed away from her. Her legs felt numb, and she blinked dust out of her eyes. "It's.... dead. We did it...." She sighed.

Truss laid on his back giving off heavy breath as he removed the clips from his armor and unfolded it to reveal a large bite mark from his stomach, "gnn well this is a pain, that armor is crap!" he flinched as he reached for his soldier bag for the med kit.

"A bite that deep needs stitches," sasha observed.

Truss opened up the bag and pulled out a pill to eat and poured a disinfectant over the wound, then applied a patch over it to hold, "Ill be fine till I reach the healers" he huffed and laid still, "right now im just gonna rest" he sighed looking over at the beast, still not moving, "how am I going to explain this one?" he asked

"How does 'We just did both cities a public service' sound?" Sasha replies, putting her slowly recovering energy into sounding as sarcastic as possible.

Truss laughed, "yeah i guess we did-" he paused and looked around holding up the broken sword as the beast was dragged under, a yellow and red glow pulled it away towards the lake as he started shaking, "We need to go" he hissed under his breath ,cursing to himself as he should have known their was more than one....but they seemed to have retreated and it would be smart if he did the same, He left his armor behind and picked up Sasha, "lets go"

"ah-hey! put me down!" sasha whispered indignantly.

She squirmed as I held onto her tight towards the entrance to get away from them and figure out that we are here, this place is no longer safe and needs to be closed off. As he rushed into the entrance he placed her down and gave in a short breath, "through this tunnel we will be safe, the rock walls are covered in Iron" he added, "lets get to Tradition city"

"That would be all fine with me, except that i dont have my pack" Sasha complained, "I dropped it to get away from that monster."
Truss sighs and walks forward, "those things are replaceable, your not Sasha" he mewed, "besides we just need to let things cool off for a bit right?" he told her with confidence, when under his break he was still chilled under his fur.

"Its not the pack i need! Its the water i was carrying. We're all out at the shop and if i don't replace it all soon, whatever time i should be spending on making blankes and warm clothes for winter, ill have to use for going back and forth getting the water." Sasha breathed out an agitated huff. but she stayed where she was, "but i do see your point." She said finally.

Truss looks back and sat down, "you sure their isnt another way" he asked, "what happened to the flow system we built that streamed down their?" he asked

He closed his eyes to try to think of the situation

"Its blocked. A few of the traditional cats have been working on trying to fix it. but for now its not looking too good."

Truss didnt want to go back, and he didnt want to put her in danger as well, "were is this bag of your,s is it important to have down their?" he asked her

"It was in one of the tunnels leading around the New Age city, I dont like walking through the city. " replied sasha, "And no, the bag isnt worth returning to. Infact, if we could somehow unblock the water tunnel, the water trips would become completely unnecessary."

(im sure the felines are smart enough to make an insulation system) Truss thought and growled a bit, "make I am not a mechanic" he mewed and looked into his bag, feeling a bit empty from supplies, "and I am defiantly not fit for another battle either" Alright lets head down to the stream see what we can do to bring the water back down

Sasha followed him to the stream. the water rushed past them as the current flowed down in the direction towards the traditional city. She looked down the tunnel, leaning out as far as she could over the water. "Look!" sasha shouted, gesturing towards a large pile of rocks that blocked the lower portion of the tunnel, "that creature must have caused a cave in." she stopped. "But if its blocked off, wheres the water going?" Sasha leaned a little farther out, "That thing must have created its own tunnel, and now the water's flowing through it instead of down to the city!"

Truss crossed his arms and looked around , "well lets make our own tunnel" he mewed and pulled out his bag with the broken sword, "this may be dangerous" he called out and walked into the tunnel, with the sword he started picking at the ceiling, carefully trying note to break open the rock
"Cant you just use one of your bombs to destroy the cave in?" Sasha yelled
.
Truss looked into his bag and pulled out one that was Broken up a bit, "I dont have much on it and need to carefully place it" he said as he felt around the rocks and saw a match through the holes, Then with the bomb he jammed it in. The other cave in from the other side was too tick and in order to lead it down he would need to redirect it to the drainage below, "alright moment of truth,", he used a flint from it and gave it a light, he ran back and Grabbed Sasha, "we might want to get out of the way!" he yelled as the fuse started to reach down. He ran quickly down the tunnel tilll the wick shortened.

Sasha kept herself from complaining about the nonstop carrying, instead she braced herself for the second explosion that day. She flattened her ears against her head and squeezed her eyes shut.

Everythen then went silent as he kept on running, "Im sorry I have to carry you like this" he mewed as he looked back and started to run faster as the water began to flood the tunnel.

Sasha said nothing, but just groaned in annoyance.

He began to feel water on his feet and things started to get heavy, When he saw a turning point he threw her over to that side and get dragged from the water
Sasha hit the water with a loud yelp. she clawed at a rock, fighting against the current. She turned and saw truss getting swept away down stream.

Truss used the broken sword and jabbed it against the side of the wall to stop his motion, "Grrr" he reached into his bag, feeling nothing in their to help him, "Fu-" he coughed as water welded in his mouth

Sasha pulled the wound up cord she had out of her pocket and wrapped one end around the rock she was holding on to. slowly she let out more and more cord until the end reached truss. "grab on!" sasha yelled.

"Perfect!"he grabbed on and pulled himself up, reaching over to the edge of the detour tunnel, "Oh man what a day!" he yelled over the river, shacking the we fur off, "alright so were does this tunnel lead too? " He asked hoping it wasnt anything important

Sasha looked around, shivering from the cold water. "Im not sure, but we had better hope it's somewhere dry" she said. "Im not the best swimmer."

Truss was begging for a nice soft bed right now as he held onto his stomach from the bite mark, he held through and walked into the detour tunnel hoping it would provide leads to get back into Tradition city, He looked accross his shoulder and noticed she was cold and shivering from the freezing cold water. Truss decided to rip apart the Tail cover from his soldier bag which was design to make him stealthy in the tunnels and prevent light from forming through his tail, "here you need to keep warm" he told her and placed it over her back.

Sasha mumbles a quiet thankyou, too tired to even remark that the cloth was just as wet as the rest of them. She paddled along behind him, keeping her chin just barely above the water level, that would have been fine for any two legger but was a little too deep for four-legged creatures.

Truss noticed that the water was rising, made him feel a bit uneasy as he looked around him, Truss scratched his head as he saw her struggling under, "you know...you can always climb on my back to keep up from the water, your not that heavy you know"
"No thankyou. Im not in any hurry to be carried again" Sasha said betwen gasps of air. "Lets just get to the next tunnel, or something of that sort"

Truss shrugged and kept an eye on her from reaching from the water, he looked to his left to find higher ground, "come on lets get out of this water' he replied and jumped up to the ledge and sniff the air, "its very dry and hot, me must be getting close to your home"
Sasha climbed up onto the ledge and flicked her wet hair out of her eyes. She sniffed the air. "yes, it smells like we are nearing lava." Sasha replied, "we had better be careful where we put our paws"

Truss remembers when he looked down at his paws, "Yeah I think I brought my pads with me" he looked through his bag and pulled out two pads an stuck the to his feet, "way ahead of ya" he mewed as he felt a wave of hot air, "is it me or did things become a bit humid..." he coughed seeing the steam on the cieling.

Sasha looked up. "Hm... we had better hurry. The steam can get stifling. And we dont want to get boiled to death." she said worriedly.

A few moments have passed as he wiped the sweat forming from his paws against his black shirt, "yeah....man its getting even hotter" he mewed as he peered over to see a red glow from the end of the tunnel, "hey look an opening!" he said excitingly

Sasha took a step forward, hair raised. "careful," she said, gesturing to the cracks in the floor that had been releasing the steam. "These can really burn, and they seem to cover the entire tunnel floor."

Truss stopped and looked at the floor seeing the cracks around.... then it popped and gave off a loud hiss were the heat reach his face, "you'd think you would block these" he said under his breath as he neared the exit

"That would be a fatal mistake." Sasha chided softly, "all of the steam would have to build up somewhere, then what would happen when that's all filled up?" She pulled her hood over her head to protect her face.

Truss neared the exit and looked back, "well I usually thought these thing wre rerouted to the electricical factory" he laughed as he looked forward and jumped back with a gas, freezing in place and fear brewing up as he stared down in a pit of lava, "ha I..." his fear was running through his spine as the exit drew down to the pit.

Sasha, who was walking a little bit behind truss, looked up, confused at his abrupt stop. She reached the edge and looked down. "Well, i suppose we will have to go another way around," she said, un-phased by the lava.

"let paused for a minute, "he mewed Curing down and holding his ears down, "my nerves are a bit shot" he looked down and reach for his bag...noticing all his leaves are gone to calm him down

Sasha looked at the increasing amount of steam, "very well, but we shouldnt stay too long."

Truss tried to get his senses together as he stared at the fire that reminded him of his childhood, controlling his breathing and giving off a deep breath, "okay..." he sighed, "sorry about that, now is their another way around this?" he asked looking at the bright heat forming from the outside, at a distance he could see the town placed above the ground, maybe several hundred feet above magma level. They went too far under...

Sasha tried to assess their situation. In front of them, lava, and behind them, a swirling current. But they couldnt stay in the passage way for very long, or they would be suffocated by the steam. She sighed. "Well, lets atleast go back to the river where its cooler, maybe we could think better with some fresh air in our lungs."

Truss nodded and headed back, moments had passes as they neared the ledge, looking around from the exit to see nothing but the same path we took "Ahh great were trapped" Trussed crossed his arms thinking what he did was a bad idea in the first place
Sasha sat down. she still had the cord, but that wasnt any good for going uphill. They couldnt use the cord as a grappling hook either, as the city was too far away, and if they missed it would get burned by the lava. Sasha continued to pout for a few moments. "Well there has to be some way to get out of this!" she exclaimed.

Truss Closed his eyes and pulled out the last tool he had in his bag which was the iron claws he had Sasha make for him, "Well their are two options" he mewed, I can climb up the side of the rocks with these or" he points at the water which has already risen to the top, "we can take a chance and try to make our way through praying we dont drown on the way" he said picking up the torn tail cover from before
(well so to speak a blacksmith made it but sasha was a provider XD)

Sasha thought about it for a moment, "Lets take the climbing route. We would atleast be getting somewhere that way." she pulled the rolled up cord out of her pack, "take this, then you can pull me up after you."

Truss blushed for a moment, "exepct on thing...I would need to be blind folded" he mewed looking away, "im a bit scared of large pools of fire"
"What! No!" Sasha exclaimed, "You arent going to be climbing anything blindfolded!"

Truss shrugged as he look back at the hot fire, he clenched his fist and gritted his teeth, "I guess we dont have a choice then, "he growled and walks towards the opening, placing the iron claw gloves on

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Description
This is an Incredibly fun RP session I did with KittyKat19hundred that lasted forever but came to a close around a cliff hanger (got late), I helped out in cleaning some material so its a straight forward processed story line and in her liking on how she sets it up ^^ the chat room is an awesome place to get a fast pace story going! I recommend the other characters of to join into these chat rooms and do it themselves!!

So below is the story! Enjoy the show!!

Characters enrolled:
by yours truely
by KittyKat19hundred

Taking Down Water- Part 1

Sasha trudged down the tunnel, the full waterskins slowing her down to a snail's pace. She was so focused on trying to keep her balance, she almost didnt hear the rumbling coming from farther down the tunnel. Her ears perked up, and she stopped. The rumbling was as loud as a machine now, and a roaring could be heard. Suddenly a large creature burst out of the wall, it turned, saw sasha, and bounded towards her. Sasha screamed, threw off her pack and ran.

Meanwhile:.... Trus's ear perked up to hear a scream echo near the lake, his eyes tenses as it was the familiar sound of that shop ownder from Tradtion city. He focused on the sound as he pressed forward...then froze as he heard the Voice of Topaz, "oh no..." he readied his sword and sprinted forward, "Sasha get away from that!" he yelled knowing she didn't hear him but know that their aren't many cats, possibly not any that could defeat it.

Sasha ran as fast as she could, but the monster was bigger and faster. It shook the ground as it ran and rock rained down from the cceiling. A stalactite fell infront of sasha and she leaped out of the way, barely avoiding getting crushed.

Truss started to pant, ignoring the pain from his chest as he kept on sprinting towards the lake entrance, hearing the roar was loud er than before and witnessing a HUGE glow of blue over a Blur of orange, it was Sasha running away from it. "Shit!" he looked around for a possible chance to get it as he rushed in and held up the sword, "Hey you blue beast!" he yelled as he threw the blade at him, impaled it across its shoulder, stuck against it tough pelt. It ignored it and looked over to see Guard readying his bow

Sasha looked up to see truss standing bravely in full view of the beast. She had to find someplace to hide while it was distracted, but there was no where to go, she had been backed into a corner of the tunnel. Sasha crouched down, hoping to seem smaller.

Truss rushed up with a bomb, hoping to use the same method on it twice, but it was smart and aimed for his neck as he ducked and crawled up on top of it, pulling the sword off and holding onto the crystals that were planted around its back., "time that I ended you once and for all!" he lashed down at the soft skin of its pelt, trying to dig down to its deep skin core to plant the explosive as it struggle to shake him off.

The creature twisted around, trying to reach back and throw off the pesky feline on it's back. Sasha dodged around its feet in a desperate attempt to not get crushed by the monster's claws. It's tail swung around and hit her in the face, knocking her back several feet, but thankfully, out of the way of it's continued ruckus.

Truss Kept on digging into the skin until he felt a pulsating stream running out of its skin, it glowed in a blue like blood as he laughed, "haha hey I found a soft spot..." he struggled as he reached over for the bomb and jammed it into its skin. BUt before he was able to light it the Beast railed back and slammed into a wall, breaking Truss's footing and fell off.

The beast turned back to sasha, recognizing her as the easier prey. Sasha stood up from where she fell. Dizzy and disoriented, she tried to decide whether to run or hide.

Truss got up with a ring over his ear as he struggled to get up, but he noticed it was going back to Sasha as his eye constrict with anger, "I said I was your Bait!" he yelled and rushed up to push her out of the way with a dagger. In deep slow motion he saw the jaws grip down against his torso, his breath knocked out as it swung him around and threw him into the lake river behind him as it roared without looking at Sasha

Sasha watched truss fall into the lake with a large splash. The creature was turned away from her, its open flesh in full view. She was scared, but she was even more scared for truss's life. whether her it was dizziness or bravery, she made up her mind, and leaped onto the creature's back. sahsa held on, diging her claws deep into its flesh and curling them like hooks. She pulled her shears out of her coat and jammed them through the beast's back, tearing its inner fleash and muscle, and severing nerves and blood veins. It roared in pain. Sasha loosened grip and slid off. She landed on her feet and hid behind a boulder, praying she had bought enough time for truss to recover.

Truss was deep underwater as he look down on his armor seeing a single tooth has penetrated his lower abdominal, He held onto it as he swam up to the surface, giving off a gasp of air, "gnn man this is not working, he mewed weakly as he struggled up seeing red from his lower waist. It was minor damage and he could easily stand, but he needed to rethink his approach, Come on...something....he looks over to find a torn parchment of what looks like clothing and his pack only held a single arrow....Okay I think I got it!

Sasha moved behind the rocks. The creature had lost sight of her, but it now it was furious. It began bashing rocks apart with it's claws and head. She ducked behind a stalactite just as the boulder she had taken cover under was smashed to bits. She could see her shears stuck in its back, reflecting the light from the creature's crystals. along with truss's spear and arrow. With every move the beast made, blood spouted from it's back. Sasha's fur was damp and sticky from the blood of the monster and her nose bled from the blow to her face.

Truss Picked up his last bomb from his soldier pack and reach back over to the battle field, he saw the beast was right at her face as she dodge away from it seeing it chasing her down. Its eyes were staring at the glow it made. Noticing that this whole time it was after our tails. He looked over and saw his bow, jumping over the rock to tie the bomb onto a spare arrow wedge from a rock and picked up the bow from it. With the arrow he used the clothing parchment to tie around the bomb and crawled up towards high ground, "Sasha keep running from it!" He yelled hoping that she could hear him

Sasha's ears rang from the roar of the monster and the crashes of the rocks. She leaped behind rocks and weaved between stalagmites. She ran along the edge of the lake. Eventually she realized she was back at the mouth of the tunnel and had run a full circle. She could feel her legs about to give out under her. "Hurry, truss!" she shouted.

He Climbed up, his body already exhausted from the battle as he made it to the top and pulled out the bomb, giving the end a light as the wick showed me it only had 13 seconds to blow, he only had one clean shot for this and he aimed for the right moment as it was reaching close for Sasha, "Hey! I said I was your Target" he yelled as the beast looked over at the bomb, in a fling from the bow it reach down towards its back and mixed in with the second bomb shoved into its skin as a bright light emerged

sasha leaped into the tunnel, taking cover from the blast. Her heart sank into her stomach as the blast wave flew by her. Black spots covered her vision as she stood up, and everything sounded as if it were far away.

Truss was thrown back from the blast using his claws to grab onto the rock as he saw his blow fall and break between two rocks. He flinched as the wave respired into thick smoke and climbed over to Sasha to see if she was Okay.... but to be sure he looked over at the area of the impact and pulled out his knife as he sneaks closer to it

Sasha waited until her vision cleared and she could hear properly again. She tiptoed behind truss. "Is it dead?" she whispered.
Truss Was angered and tensed at the moment as he looks back at her, "Stay......back!" he hissed, concern more on her own safety as he approached from it. limping a bit as he looks down at his cracked sword. His eyes was scared as he picked it u and entered the smoke.

Sasha moved back a ways, but stayed standing. She watched truss dispersal into the thick smoke. Her throat itched from the dust, but she refrained from coughing. Staying as silent as possible she turned her ears this way and that, searching for any confirmation that the monster was alive or dead.

Truss breath were shallow, feeling as if he was growing a fever as every bone started aching, He couldn't see a glow nor a sign of life till he reached for a low yowl. He looked over to see it laying flat on the ground, its crystals structure completely gone. And the area of the implosion ripped a huge hole deep into its skin with fragments of the crystal itself. He Looked into the beast eyes as he aimed the sword, "you have killed my brothers in arms and attacked innocence" he hissed as it looked up in anger, "and I know your not alone or stupid...why are you doing this" he stared for a moment as it roars a breath and with an impaled twist with the sword, he yelled as the sword snapped in half, hearing the silence and he coughed from the smoke.

"Truss! are you okay!? What happened?" Sasha yelled from the edge of the smoke cloud. She paced back and forth, trying to peer in.

Truss walks back with his broken sword, blood welded from his head as his hands were covered in the beast's blood, his eyes sinister like a blood hungry animal as he approaches her. This was actually the very first thing he ever killed, never has he killed his own or others but this...this felt different. Like blood was surging for more, but he didnt want this feeling to last, he tries to calm down by pulling a leaf from his pack and chewing on it, looking down as Sasha with sigh, "Sasha, are you alright..." he knelled with exhaustion, "man what a battle" he cried, "I thought I was a goner"

Sasha laid down on the ground. too relieved to care about the dirt or the hard floor. She took multiple deep breaths as the adrenaline rushed away from her. Her legs felt numb, and she blinked dust out of her eyes. "It's.... dead. We did it...." She sighed.

Truss laid on his back giving off heavy breath as he removed the clips from his armor and unfolded it to reveal a large bite mark from his stomach, "gnn well this is a pain, that armor is crap!" he flinched as he reached for his soldier bag for the med kit.

"A bite that deep needs stitches," sasha observed.

Truss opened up the bag and pulled out a pill to eat and poured a disinfectant over the wound, then applied a patch over it to hold, "Ill be fine till I reach the healers" he huffed and laid still, "right now im just gonna rest" he sighed looking over at the beast, still not moving, "how am I going to explain this one?" he asked

"How does 'We just did both cities a public service' sound?" Sasha replies, putting her slowly recovering energy into sounding as sarcastic as possible.

Truss laughed, "yeah i guess we did-" he paused and looked around holding up the broken sword as the beast was dragged under, a yellow and red glow pulled it away towards the lake as he started shaking, "We need to go" he hissed under his breath ,cursing to himself as he should have known their was more than one....but they seemed to have retreated and it would be smart if he did the same, He left his armor behind and picked up Sasha, "lets go"

"ah-hey! put me down!" sasha whispered indignantly.

She squirmed as I held onto her tight towards the entrance to get away from them and figure out that we are here, this place is no longer safe and needs to be closed off. As he rushed into the entrance he placed her down and gave in a short breath, "through this tunnel we will be safe, the rock walls are covered in Iron" he added, "lets get to Tradition city"

"That would be all fine with me, except that i dont have my pack" Sasha complained, "I dropped it to get away from that monster."
Truss sighs and walks forward, "those things are replaceable, your not Sasha" he mewed, "besides we just need to let things cool off for a bit right?" he told her with confidence, when under his break he was still chilled under his fur.

"Its not the pack i need! Its the water i was carrying. We're all out at the shop and if i don't replace it all soon, whatever time i should be spending on making blankes and warm clothes for winter, ill have to use for going back and forth getting the water." Sasha breathed out an agitated huff. but she stayed where she was, "but i do see your point." She said finally.

Truss looks back and sat down, "you sure their isnt another way" he asked, "what happened to the flow system we built that streamed down their?" he asked

He closed his eyes to try to think of the situation

"Its blocked. A few of the traditional cats have been working on trying to fix it. but for now its not looking too good."

Truss didnt want to go back, and he didnt want to put her in danger as well, "were is this bag of your,s is it important to have down their?" he asked her

"It was in one of the tunnels leading around the New Age city, I dont like walking through the city. " replied sasha, "And no, the bag isnt worth returning to. Infact, if we could somehow unblock the water tunnel, the water trips would become completely unnecessary."

(im sure the felines are smart enough to make an insulation system) Truss thought and growled a bit, "make I am not a mechanic" he mewed and looked into his bag, feeling a bit empty from supplies, "and I am defiantly not fit for another battle either" Alright lets head down to the stream see what we can do to bring the water back down

Sasha followed him to the stream. the water rushed past them as the current flowed down in the direction towards the traditional city. She looked down the tunnel, leaning out as far as she could over the water. "Look!" sasha shouted, gesturing towards a large pile of rocks that blocked the lower portion of the tunnel, "that creature must have caused a cave in." she stopped. "But if its blocked off, wheres the water going?" Sasha leaned a little farther out, "That thing must have created its own tunnel, and now the water's flowing through it instead of down to the city!"

Truss crossed his arms and looked around , "well lets make our own tunnel" he mewed and pulled out his bag with the broken sword, "this may be dangerous" he called out and walked into the tunnel, with the sword he started picking at the ceiling, carefully trying note to break open the rock
"Cant you just use one of your bombs to destroy the cave in?" Sasha yelled
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Truss looked into his bag and pulled out one that was Broken up a bit, "I dont have much on it and need to carefully place it" he said as he felt around the rocks and saw a match through the holes, Then with the bomb he jammed it in. The other cave in from the other side was too tick and in order to lead it down he would need to redirect it to the drainage below, "alright moment of truth,", he used a flint from it and gave it a light, he ran back and Grabbed Sasha, "we might want to get out of the way!" he yelled as the fuse started to reach down. He ran quickly down the tunnel tilll the wick shortened.

Sasha kept herself from complaining about the nonstop carrying, instead she braced herself for the second explosion that day. She flattened her ears against her head and squeezed her eyes shut.

Everythen then went silent as he kept on running, "Im sorry I have to carry you like this" he mewed as he looked back and started to run faster as the water began to flood the tunnel.

Sasha said nothing, but just groaned in annoyance.

He began to feel water on his feet and things started to get heavy, When he saw a turning point he threw her over to that side and get dragged from the water
Sasha hit the water with a loud yelp. she clawed at a rock, fighting against the current. She turned and saw truss getting swept away down stream.

Truss used the broken sword and jabbed it against the side of the wall to stop his motion, "Grrr" he reached into his bag, feeling nothing in their to help him, "Fu-" he coughed as water welded in his mouth

Sasha pulled the wound up cord she had out of her pocket and wrapped one end around the rock she was holding on to. slowly she let out more and more cord until the end reached truss. "grab on!" sasha yelled.

"Perfect!"he grabbed on and pulled himself up, reaching over to the edge of the detour tunnel, "Oh man what a day!" he yelled over the river, shacking the we fur off, "alright so were does this tunnel lead too? " He asked hoping it wasnt anything important

Sasha looked around, shivering from the cold water. "Im not sure, but we had better hope it's somewhere dry" she said. "Im not the best swimmer."

Truss was begging for a nice soft bed right now as he held onto his stomach from the bite mark, he held through and walked into the detour tunnel hoping it would provide leads to get back into Tradition city, He looked accross his shoulder and noticed she was cold and shivering from the freezing cold water. Truss decided to rip apart the Tail cover from his soldier bag which was design to make him stealthy in the tunnels and prevent light from forming through his tail, "here you need to keep warm" he told her and placed it over her back.

Sasha mumbles a quiet thankyou, too tired to even remark that the cloth was just as wet as the rest of them. She paddled along behind him, keeping her chin just barely above the water level, that would have been fine for any two legger but was a little too deep for four-legged creatures.

Truss noticed that the water was rising, made him feel a bit uneasy as he looked around him, Truss scratched his head as he saw her struggling under, "you know...you can always climb on my back to keep up from the water, your not that heavy you know"
"No thankyou. Im not in any hurry to be carried again" Sasha said betwen gasps of air. "Lets just get to the next tunnel, or something of that sort"

Truss shrugged and kept an eye on her from reaching from the water, he looked to his left to find higher ground, "come on lets get out of this water' he replied and jumped up to the ledge and sniff the air, "its very dry and hot, me must be getting close to your home"
Sasha climbed up onto the ledge and flicked her wet hair out of her eyes. She sniffed the air. "yes, it smells like we are nearing lava." Sasha replied, "we had better be careful where we put our paws"

Truss remembers when he looked down at his paws, "Yeah I think I brought my pads with me" he looked through his bag and pulled out two pads an stuck the to his feet, "way ahead of ya" he mewed as he felt a wave of hot air, "is it me or did things become a bit humid..." he coughed seeing the steam on the cieling.

Sasha looked up. "Hm... we had better hurry. The steam can get stifling. And we dont want to get boiled to death." she said worriedly.

A few moments have passed as he wiped the sweat forming from his paws against his black shirt, "yeah....man its getting even hotter" he mewed as he peered over to see a red glow from the end of the tunnel, "hey look an opening!" he said excitingly

Sasha took a step forward, hair raised. "careful," she said, gesturing to the cracks in the floor that had been releasing the steam. "These can really burn, and they seem to cover the entire tunnel floor."

Truss stopped and looked at the floor seeing the cracks around.... then it popped and gave off a loud hiss were the heat reach his face, "you'd think you would block these" he said under his breath as he neared the exit

"That would be a fatal mistake." Sasha chided softly, "all of the steam would have to build up somewhere, then what would happen when that's all filled up?" She pulled her hood over her head to protect her face.

Truss neared the exit and looked back, "well I usually thought these thing wre rerouted to the electricical factory" he laughed as he looked forward and jumped back with a gas, freezing in place and fear brewing up as he stared down in a pit of lava, "ha I..." his fear was running through his spine as the exit drew down to the pit.

Sasha, who was walking a little bit behind truss, looked up, confused at his abrupt stop. She reached the edge and looked down. "Well, i suppose we will have to go another way around," she said, un-phased by the lava.

"let paused for a minute, "he mewed Curing down and holding his ears down, "my nerves are a bit shot" he looked down and reach for his bag...noticing all his leaves are gone to calm him down

Sasha looked at the increasing amount of steam, "very well, but we shouldnt stay too long."

Truss tried to get his senses together as he stared at the fire that reminded him of his childhood, controlling his breathing and giving off a deep breath, "okay..." he sighed, "sorry about that, now is their another way around this?" he asked looking at the bright heat forming from the outside, at a distance he could see the town placed above the ground, maybe several hundred feet above magma level. They went too far under...

Sasha tried to assess their situation. In front of them, lava, and behind them, a swirling current. But they couldnt stay in the passage way for very long, or they would be suffocated by the steam. She sighed. "Well, lets atleast go back to the river where its cooler, maybe we could think better with some fresh air in our lungs."

Truss nodded and headed back, moments had passes as they neared the ledge, looking around from the exit to see nothing but the same path we took "Ahh great were trapped" Trussed crossed his arms thinking what he did was a bad idea in the first place
Sasha sat down. she still had the cord, but that wasnt any good for going uphill. They couldnt use the cord as a grappling hook either, as the city was too far away, and if they missed it would get burned by the lava. Sasha continued to pout for a few moments. "Well there has to be some way to get out of this!" she exclaimed.

Truss Closed his eyes and pulled out the last tool he had in his bag which was the iron claws he had Sasha make for him, "Well their are two options" he mewed, I can climb up the side of the rocks with these or" he points at the water which has already risen to the top, "we can take a chance and try to make our way through praying we dont drown on the way" he said picking up the torn tail cover from before
(well so to speak a blacksmith made it but sasha was a provider XD)

Sasha thought about it for a moment, "Lets take the climbing route. We would atleast be getting somewhere that way." she pulled the rolled up cord out of her pack, "take this, then you can pull me up after you."

Truss blushed for a moment, "exepct on thing...I would need to be blind folded" he mewed looking away, "im a bit scared of large pools of fire"
"What! No!" Sasha exclaimed, "You arent going to be climbing anything blindfolded!"

Truss shrugged as he look back at the hot fire, he clenched his fist and gritted his teeth, "I guess we dont have a choice then, "he growled and walks towards the opening, placing the iron claw gloves on

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