Search for vengeance part II

[Enzair]

OOC: this won’t be the real cloaked man, he is a minion dressed up like the real cloaked man Enzair calls shade. He won’t be as powerful but he will still be very powerful. He is infected with a parasite that calls itself darkness. He will be a formidable foe but he is not Shade, the man Enzair is looking for.

Enzair sat on a stump it was stained with faded blood mostly washed away, this blood was his when he was blown away by general Onox. Curse his wings, he could have stayed in the fight without them. He was waiting for Jin Reno, and Kylie, this was the area he showed him on the map, the cavern entrance was about a mile from here.

While he waited, Enzair passed time by warming up with his weapons starting with his Ninjato’s. he swung and spun them with elegancy regardless of his wings, the blades were blurs of motion, he style agile and elegant yet deadly when used. The reason he warmed up is because he got the feeling Via his sword that this was going to be rough.

Once he was done warming up with his swords, he went to his Kusarigama, and only warmed up with that for a minute, and finally to continue to pass the time target practiced with his Kuni throwing knives and throwing stars.


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Little did Enzair know someone in the woods was watching. He wore black cloak and a demonic mask, his eyes were red, golden shoulder guards and chest armor, and However, in the shade obscured by brush and all, he was hardly visible. He watched Enzair throw his knives at the tree for practice.

‘Perhaps today I will get it’ he thought to himself.
‘with the power of the Enzair family my goal will be complete’

‘be Carful now, he is stronger than you think, they may have strayed from the dark powers of magic but their power is still enough to harm us’ whispered a voice into the cloaked man’s mind.

‘yes Darkness, yet he is only 18, a mere teen’ thought the cloaked man.

‘just lure him to the temple and let the beast do the rest’ said darkness to the man.

‘fine but he is bringing allies,’ thought the cloaked man. Where suddenly he vanished into thin air only leaving a set of footprints where he stood.
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Enzair heard a noise in the woods and looked in the direction but seen nothing, figuring it as an animal he went back to target practice, by now the tree was covered with stab marks, once he spent his ammunition he retrieved all the knives from the tree and started over. His target was between two branch’s top one to the bottom one was the size of a human, Hylian torso, he only targeted what would be lethal spots on a human or Hylian.

After a bit Enzair stopped target practice and gathered his Kuni and throwing stars, he never missed his target. He then walked over to a grassy spot and laid down to relax and pass time till the others got here. He put his wings over his face for the sun was bright and hurt his eyes even if they were closed as would any one ells that had the sun in their eyes. The wings also muffled out the sound so it was harder to hear if anyone arrived. Strangely, the area was rather cold, so covering himself with his wings trapped in the heat and made it comfortable. As for it being cold that was strange, it is summer, it should be warm.

While he laid there, he closed his eyes and halfway dozed off.

[Jin Reno]

Jin stood above Enzair, and tapped the semi-sleeping man on the forehead with his pointer finger. "And boom, you're dead and that sword you fancy falls into the hands of that evil dude who wants it." Jin said, grinning at the other as he took a few steps back, his arms covered in Lisa's armor form and his bucklers and shield all attached to their right places. His face was even covered up as he looked around, taking things in before looking at Enzair again.

"So aside from being a stupid place to sleep, is there any reason we are meeting here instead of the cave itself?" Jin asked, looking at the tree that Enzair was very mean too for no real reason. "I am ready to go when you are, so lets not waste time."

[Enzair]

Just as Enzair was getting comfortable someone came buy taped him on the forehead.

“Boom, and your dead and that sword you fancy falls into the hands of that evil dude who wants it,” said Jin.

Enzair parted his wings and looked up at Jin; he was right if Jin were the cloaked man, Enzair would be dead and his sword in Shade’s hand.

Enzair then slowly got up and brushed the grass off his clothing and folded his wings, of which still extended passed his shoulders like a large broad shield.

“well your right, I shouldn’t have dozed off, but the reason we meet here is because I know this place better than the cave entrance, and besides it’s hard to show a cave in the woods when it’s not on the map. Here is because of that,” said Enzair as he pointed at the stump faintly stained with blood.

“That’s my blood when I failed against General Onox out here; I was blown away by a tornado. However the cave is a mile that way,” said Enzair as he pointed southwest into the woods.

Once the cold was getting to Enzair again, he rather wrapped his wings around him trapping in his body heat. It was the strangest thing ever, considering its summer, the sun is high yet it is cold like autumn dawn, just as the sun breaks the horizon.

“Well we best be headed off Kylie should of arrived before you considering she can fly, the way she was when she left the castle I think she headed to Zora river. Just a theory but most likely her destination,” said Enzair as he began heading off southwest, he carried and larger bag with him today, mainly medical supplies and plenty of MRE’s (meals ready to eat).

Because of Enzair’s sword, he knew there was going to be trouble, but what was the question. The cold made him think some kind of winter beast, for he knew of nothing ells that could make the area so cold on a sunny day like this in the summer. If it was true then what was it doing way down here?

[Jin Reno]

Jin crossed his arms and watched Enzair, wondering why he acted so lax in such a dire situation. Hell, it seemed like he was asking for someone to come and try to kill him, which was a shame, really. "Well, I guess its good that you know this place, even though I don't really know this area." Jin said, shrugging a bit.

He looked at the bloody stump and just wondered why anyone would think it was a good idea to use blood, which could have easily been washed away in rain, as a focal point to locate something. Jin just turned and looked in the direction Enzair pointed and hoped he knew what he was doing.

"Right, lead the way then Enzair." Jin said, walking behind the Hylian with wings, wondering why this man seemed to prepared yet so relaxed, the two attitudes seemed to conflict with each other. What really bothered Jin was the cold that he felt.

[Enzair]

“Well I suppose on this is no better of time to explain my history a little more, it’s going to be some time before we arrive, I could fly there and get there in no time but you can’t fly so it will be a 20 to 30 minute walk…” said Enzair before he paused looking down at a set of prints on the ground, fresh ones. Enzair then uncovered his Ninjato’s to be cautious just in case the person was still around, who knows could of just ben who came around, and a good hunter too sense no prints lead away.

“Anyway, after killing my father as I told I sort of went mad with hate and sorrow and the desire for revenge, around that time I suppose is when it all started, eventually my wings went dark originally they were white, my hair use to be completely white, now there not. At the same time, my emotions went blank, disappeared from my mind and I soon forgot the meaning of joy, love, anger, fear, and every other emotion. Normally I should have gone completely insane, a life of darkness and evil, yet something held it on the brink of collapse and making me who I am now, emotionless, but through case I still want revenge, in hopes I could become who I once was and start again, and let go of the burden to avenge my father, so that he may rest in peace.” Enzair thought for a moment and figured that covered just about everything, there is more but he was sure Jin would eventually just turn around and leave because of Enzair’s endless talking which might get annoying.

/color=red]“Do you have a story? A goal? A cause? Or are you just an average adventurer?”[/color] asked Enzair looking back briefly, his wings still snug around himself.

‘Jin Reno,’ echoed a whispered voice into the minds of Enzair and Jin, the tone was one of amusement.

Enzair turned he head slightly he knew his sword woke, it seemed to always sleep or remain hidden in a supernatural way.

“It finally noticed you,” said Enzair rather quietly. Enzair did not stop if he was asked what was that Enzair will Explain if the shadow bade does not first.

“Surprise” it said again, then tentacles ran down Enzair’s back and began to cross the ground towards Jin.

The moment they left Enzair, he spun around wielding his normal Ninjato and sliced the Tentacles. Re-sheathing his Ninjato, he turned back and continued walking, shortly after receiving a shock from the shadow blade frustrated Enzair took away its joy to mess with Jin for fun.

[Jin Reno]

Jin walked along, looking at the man and listening to the entire story he had decided to tell. He just had to figure out why this person was so insistent on spilling out his entire story. Jin walked with Enzair and looked at the ground, trying to figure out the entire situation.

However, Jin looked around when the strange voice came up from no where, and he looked over at Enzair. "Wait... what is going on right now?" Jin said, looking at the sword and seeing the dark tendrils coming toward him.

However, Enzair stopped them with his blade and then just kept going, so Jin shrugged and continued along with him as well. "Your sword is annoying."

[Enzair]

After a long walk they had finally arrived at the cave, really it was a giant hole that headed straight into the ground and disappeared into the black maw of the cave. Enzair then walked over to a tree, reached up, and pulled down a large bag. He had left this hear before heading to the opening to meet Jin it was heavy he did not want to carry it around.

Setting the bag on the ground, he pulled out a huge roll of rope and pulled out a metal stake with a ring on the end along with a heavy hammer. Enzair walked over to the edge leaning over just slightly to look of the edge then he kneeled down and began hammering the steak into the solid rock, and 4 ft. behind him was a piece of the cliff edge protruding out of the ground no more than 4ft in diameter and 3ft out of the ground. At one point Enzair smashed his left thumb with the hammer.

“****!” Cursed Enzair, surprising himself with his reaction. He checked out his thumb to make sure he did not just pulverize the bone, it hurt immensely, but gladly he did not and returned to work on getting that cursed stake in the ground and pretending he did not just show emotion. Some people when injured get mad, seems like Enzair was that kind but he is emotionless now but that hate that fuelled anger in him slowly faded away back to the depths of his heart or mind, wherever one considers emotion to come from.

Once he finished getting the stake firmly into the ground he tested it by pushing down on it to make sure it will not break free if someone were repelling from it, by now his thumb was bruised purple it felt like he had a plum for a thumb yet it was not swollen… yet. Enzair then took an end of the high tensile strength rope and strung it through the ring of the stake and pulled it through tight a stop knot on the rope so it won’t slip through the stake ring and the took the remainder and tied it around the rock with a very strong military style tie or not, whatever. Enzair firmly pulled on the rope tied to the rock the stop knot no more than 11 inches from the stake this is to allow slack while repelling when he did the tied rope only got tighter and firmer assuring no one is going to fall to their doom.

“There, that should hold a Goron,” said Enzair as he massaged his sore thumb before looking at it again, he got himself good there.

Turning to Jin Enzair asked, “Do you know how to repel down on a rope?”

Before waiting for a reply Enzair reached into a bag and pulled out a repel seat more common known as a repelling harness and he set it on the rock along with a pair of gloves to protect the hands of the person repelling, there was only one, the bag was now empty. Jin would repel jumping down is suicidal, Enzair can just glide down.

[Jin Reno]

"When you said cave, I thought you meant a hole in the wall of a mountain or cliff, but instead, its just a hole in the ground. My question is though... how deep is this." Jin said, looking down into it and kicking a small stone into the hole. It was deep, quiet deep, and as he looked down into it, he wondered why he had insisted that they climb down into the hole.

"So this dark hooded bad guy of yours, he have wings too or do you think he just jumped down into here and breaking his legs?" Jin asked, his hands in his pockets. He looked at the rope connected to the stake that Enzair hammered into the ground, and he tapped it with his sandal a few times. "I usually just jump, tuck, and roll. It's never done me wrong, but if you think that this is important, I'll just use the rope. Its faster." Jin said, picking up the rope and holding it in his hand, looking at it.

"Lisa, Armor." Jin said, and two light came from his bag and hit his arms, covering them fully in the living armor. "So, before someone cuts the rope, lets get moving and get back." Jin said, holding the rope and jumping off from the cliff edge, sliding down the rope slowly. "Hurry up unless this revenge talk is nothing more then you acting tough!" He called out, sliding down more.

[Enzair]

“I’d have to say about 700 feet deep, jump from up here and the only thing that would be left of you would be cleaned up with a mop,” Said Enzair in his attempt to throw some humor in there.

When he asked how the cloaked an got down Enzair paused for a moment and thought for a moment, “Great question, he might have wings I don’t know I never saw him without his cloak and mask, and my last encounter none of my attacks seemed to hurt him, so he could of flow, jumped… or climbed, I don’t know for all I know he could be a wall crawling cave monster under that cloak and mask of his” Said Enzair not entirely sure, how, it did make him think that when they got down there they would find the splatted remains of the man and journey over, but it is never that simple.

Enzair had almost forgot about Jin’s Pet Lisa of whom can turn into things like that, oh well, if he had emotions he would have been like ‘duh’ but he doesn’t feel that way, he can’t feel that at all, but he hoped his attempts to put emotional context into his words would help with relationships and many other things.

Once Jin challenged Enzair’s cause he stepped back from the cave and moments later he came out over the edge in a dive down the cave, about 100 feet down Enzair opened his wings wide and began to glide down. Before jumping, he had put away the unneeded items

“I’ll wait for you at the bottom!” yelled out Enzair in a second attempt to put emotion into his words, as he glided down in circles. His decent was fast but with wing’s he can slow down to a safe landing almost instantly.

He was a quick study; he will eventually learn how to properly use fake emotion in words to make it sound like he actually has emotion.

[Jin Reno]

"You really need to get better information, because so far, all of this is seeming to be like we are searching just based on Maybe rumors." Jin said, sliding down the rope bit by bit. "Not that I mind, I am an adventurer at heart and rumors are what we generally go on, but still." Jin said, looking up at the winged Hylian.

It was when Enzair began his to float down that Jin allowed himself to slide down the rope faster, his armor protecting him from rope burn, and his instinct keeping him alive. "See ya!" He called out, clutching the rope near the bottom and slowing down into a nice, soft landing, seeing darkness, but not feeling any squishy cloak guy. "You better have brought light with you, because I can't see a thing down here." Jin called out, hoping that they wouldn't have to wonder aimlessly.

[Enzair]

Once close to the ground Enzair slowed down to land, the beating of his wings echoing off the walls cylinder shape of the cave as he slowed and landed gently. Folding his wings to his back, Enzair pulled out a few items out of his pouch along with six vials, four small, two the size of a fist. Enzair poured one Vial of each kind into each clear of the fist-sized vial. Once they were mixed, Enzair shook them up and they began to glow brightly in the color of the sun.

“This mixture is called a shining star, here,” said Enzair as he tossed over the vial.

Enzair held his out in front of him and looked around until he found a tunnel, really three tunnels. This was going to harder then he thought it would be, left, right or center? Left, right or center?

Enzair walked over to the three tunnels spaced ten feet apart from each other, and looked down into each one, how in the hell is anyone to know which way? Enzair crouched down and began to think and examine each tunnel. He had not expected this at all, it also made him think they might still need the rope, Enzair won’t be able to carry Jin while flying, the would just plummet like a rock.

One of these tunnels was the right one, the others could lead to a dead end dozens of miles in or to a trap, tunnels built like this are usually man made, one of them was natural the others man made, the natural one will lead to their destination the others, are only dead ends or traps.

For all he knew even the right tunnel could be webbed with man-made tunnels that look natural as well he just hoped it was not.


OOC: now we wait for Ein’s new character… I know more waiting but go ahead and post.

[Jin Reno]

Catching the glowing vial, Jin turned it in his hand a few times, shook it a bit, held it above him before smiling at it and holding it in front of him, looking around him a little bit. "This is pretty cool... how long do these things last?" Jin asked, looking over at Enzair before seeing the three tunnels as well.

"Looks like we might just have to play a little guessing game now, doesn't it." Jin said, walking over to the winged person. Picking up three stones, he rolled them in his right hand before tossing one down the left tunnel, the center tunnel, and the right tunnel.

"At least something isn't trying to attack us right away... so... on the descent, I noticed it was pretty cold... do you think our target would be going down on of the colder tunnels?" He asked, not looking at Enzair. Jin wondered around a bit before his light vial brushed past what looked like writing.

He quickly brought the vial back to it and stared at the wall. "Hey look at that, there is some writing here I don't recognize." He said aloud, moving to the side so Enzair could see the wall as well.

[Enzair]

“They last as long as you keep it warm, this cold will dim them but the heat of your hand should keep it shining.” Said Enzair as continued to inspect the tunnels until Jin tossed a stone into each of the tunnels. He was right sort of, but what would attack a rock they wouldn’t see? And once it hit the ground, it sounded nothing like footsteps, however in caves most animals are blind and attack what they hear so he was right on that part but any human, Hylian or intelligent monster would know better.

“Perhaps your right, I noticed it got cold too, but, cold does not change quickly unless you got a device to tell temperature changes I don’t think we can figure that out until we figure it’s the wrong tunnel or get killed by a trap.” Said Enzair before Jin found something. Enzair walked over to him and saw the Hieroglyphs too. Enzair held his light up to the hieroglyphs and looked over them as though reading a book. This is something. Enzair reached into his pouch and pulled out a piece of paper with a scribbled out note on it, and he then took out a sharpened piece of coal coated in thin leather to keep his hands clean. He unfolded the paper and began to wright down the hieroglyphs onto his paper.

“I have the slightest clue on what all of it means but it seems to be a mixture of several language’s one of which I recognize, the monks in the mountain my martial Arts Masters. It a slurred version of one of the first foreign languages that came to Hyrule centuries ago. Roughly what I can read are the words, Center, Right, trap, cavern, one way, and a word that has no translation in our language, but it is pronounced “Cal-New-ary” something like down, deep, hollow, or echo.” Said Enzair as he folded the paper and put it back in his pouch along with the carved coal.

“and this one,” he said as he pointed the Hieroglyph third to the last of the sentence’s.

“looks like the symbols on the cloaked man’s sword he called spore. I don’t know what it is, but if you know anything, it would help. but from what I can read I think it’s a hint or riddle or a set of riddles, I don’t do puzzles, never was any good at it, however so far I think the path would be deep, or something hollow and would echo. I don’t know I could be wrong don’t listen to me I’m bad at this puzzle thing” Said Enzair as he continued to look at the hieroglyphs regardless he can only read a few of this mixt language.

[Jin Reno]

Jin blinked and watched as Enzair seemed to go about doing things with the writing on the wall, even though Jin had no idea what any of it meant. Apparently the Hylian himself could only decipher a few words, and upon finishing, had told Jin the few things he had learned from the wall.

Rubbing his head, Jin tried to figure out what the words just might have possibly meant before shrugging and heading to each of the tunnels and yelling down them. "Which one has the better echo? The left one right? Doesn't that mean its the deeper tunnel? And your said yourself; center, right, trap."

Jin stood for a moment before looking at Enzair again. "Not sure what the cavern or one-way means though, so you should probably do a better job of translating, or lead the way and see if one of the traps get you."