06-22-2014, 04:35 PM
Three days and still no sign of Sato. Three days of searching, and lurking in the shadows and still no sign of any of her clan. Akantha had wandered the tunnels, but so far, all her efforts were fruitless. If nothing turned up here, she knew she’d have go deeper in the tunnels. She had a sinking feeling that if she found any trace of her people, it would be of little help. Unfortunately, while dead bodies told some stories, they didn’t tell all the living liked to know.
She was nearing the end of a passageway when the noises ahead caught her attention. By the time the Naga reached a point where sight caught up with hearing, what she found was disconcerting. Two humans were fighting one of the many monsters that lurked in the shadows of the underground. Well, only one of them was actively engaged with the creature. The older fellow appeared to handle himself well enough, and thus, Akantha did not interfere.
That, however, did not mean she was willing to simply walk right past them. She slipped her pack off her shoulders and sat it on the ground at her feet. Fixing the scarf about her head and face, the Naga ensured that her features were securely covered. It was about that time that the situation in front of her became rather peculiar.
It honestly looked as if the old man was simply going to let the beast have its fill of his young companion. Humans… That single thought was heavily loaded with disdain. She doubted that she would ever understand their kind. Few seemed to have any loyalty, and by the way things ahead of her escalated, she figured she could chuck this particular incident to such a trait as well.
The thing spoke, the voice almost too faint for her to hear at that distance. The words, however, made her muscles tense beneath her scales. Without thinking more about it, she moved forward. The dark material of her clothes made her near invisible without any light. The speed with which she moved turned her into a blur that leapt at the dreyken’s back just before the thing went for the younger man again.
Akantha’s grip was strong. Grasping the dreyken by the shoulders, she used her momentum to roll them both between the men and flung the beast as far as she could. Quickly coming back on her feet, she crouched and kept a careful reptilian eye on the beast as it screamed furiously and regained its footing.
While she couldn’t quite turn her full attention to the two men, Akantha tried to keep track of them as the dreyken crouched low and forced both her and it to circle each other in the cramped space, hands gripping two venom tainted knives she'd drawn out from within her clothes. “You won’t feed tonight, beasssst.”
She was nearing the end of a passageway when the noises ahead caught her attention. By the time the Naga reached a point where sight caught up with hearing, what she found was disconcerting. Two humans were fighting one of the many monsters that lurked in the shadows of the underground. Well, only one of them was actively engaged with the creature. The older fellow appeared to handle himself well enough, and thus, Akantha did not interfere.
That, however, did not mean she was willing to simply walk right past them. She slipped her pack off her shoulders and sat it on the ground at her feet. Fixing the scarf about her head and face, the Naga ensured that her features were securely covered. It was about that time that the situation in front of her became rather peculiar.
It honestly looked as if the old man was simply going to let the beast have its fill of his young companion. Humans… That single thought was heavily loaded with disdain. She doubted that she would ever understand their kind. Few seemed to have any loyalty, and by the way things ahead of her escalated, she figured she could chuck this particular incident to such a trait as well.
The thing spoke, the voice almost too faint for her to hear at that distance. The words, however, made her muscles tense beneath her scales. Without thinking more about it, she moved forward. The dark material of her clothes made her near invisible without any light. The speed with which she moved turned her into a blur that leapt at the dreyken’s back just before the thing went for the younger man again.
Akantha’s grip was strong. Grasping the dreyken by the shoulders, she used her momentum to roll them both between the men and flung the beast as far as she could. Quickly coming back on her feet, she crouched and kept a careful reptilian eye on the beast as it screamed furiously and regained its footing.
While she couldn’t quite turn her full attention to the two men, Akantha tried to keep track of them as the dreyken crouched low and forced both her and it to circle each other in the cramped space, hands gripping two venom tainted knives she'd drawn out from within her clothes. “You won’t feed tonight, beasssst.”