Good ol' Treasure Hunt

<span style='color:olive'>Slowly she nodded saying nothing, her eyes never left her sister.

Hishema fell onto her bottom and sat there, quivering, breathing raticly, and crying rivers.

She almost fainted, then didn't, this happened every few seconds. Her mind was so unstable that her powers started activating eraticly. She had entered her instinctual self-preservation mode

Wind started turning around her and pushed Nudek away from Tucoju. The water in the fog was flying in random directions and incredible speeds. Trees all around burst into flame and the ground started shaking.

The wind picked up speed to the point the trees were being unearthed and were flying away. Nudek was just inside the "eye of the storm". The fog had been completely eradicated by this point. Rocks were launching in every direction.

Hishema flew into the air as the chaos ensued below. After ten minutes of absolute chaos, a 2 kilometre clearing was present. There were no trees, only smoldering pieces of grass, holes everywhere, and no fog. Hishema sighed and fell from the sky, hitting the ground with a thud.</span>

 

<span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju woke up and say Nudek pressed up to her. She blushed feeling Nudek's breasts against her's. She was aroused by the feeling, and noticed she had no shirt on, only bandages, increasing her arousal, she was surprised at how good it felt, but was snaped back into reality when looked around,</span> <span style='color:blue'>"Oh, god...." </span><span style='color:darkblue'>She breathed, and started crying, not realizing her physical pain yet, </span><span style='color:blue'>"No,"</span> <span style='color:darkblue'>She started crying more,</span> <span style='color:blue'>"Not again!!!"</span> <span style='color:darkblue'>She screamed,</span> <span style='color:blue'>"NOT AGAIN!!!!"</span> <span style='color:darkblue'> She turned to Hishema, then whinced and fell to her knees, the pain had reached her brain.

She managed to get over to Hishema's still body. She turned her body over and checked her pulse. There was none. She placed her hands on Hishema's upper chest and pressed as hard as she could five times, hurting her arms tremendiously, but her sister was more important. she quickly gave Hishema 2 breaths and resumed her CPR, After ten minutes of CPR she fell apart and lay over Hishema's body, soaking Hishema's shirt with tears</span>

Thump.........thump.........thump..thump. thump, thump........thump, thump.

<span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju sat up smiling, "Thank, goodness." She suddenly gasped, clenched her stomach and breast, and fell over. The pain was intense, her arms and breast fell like they were on fire, her stomach pain was excruciating.</span>

<span style='color:olive'>Hishema barely managed to open her eyes, and just lay there, unable to move her body</span>

 

<span style='color:darkblue'>The foul liquid was revolting but Tucoju swallowed it. Tucoju had just managed to dragged herself over to her backpack, when she felt it, she was sure Hishema felt it as well,</span> <span style='color:blue'>"Pumeal." </span><span style='color:darkblue'>She grabbed her scanner and panned around until she saw an unfamiliar body approaching.

If it was her brother he had changed a lot from when she last saw him.</span>

<span style='color:darkred'>The figure was 5'4" with large black wings, a trait umong males in the Uej clan. He had a large rifle strapped to his back that was almost as tall as he was. He was running at full speed towards them but suddenly stop, looked around, and dropped his rifle. He propped it up, and aimed slightly left of their current position.

The rifle discharged sending a huge blast into the forest. He picked the rifle back up and resumed his running. It took him few minutes to run the 2Km.</span>

<span style='color:red'>"Hishema!!! Please be okay!"</span> <span style='color:darkred'>He dropped down beside her and when there eyes connected he hugged his sister tight, for a long moment. He then turned to Tucoju, and blushed slightly, he had not seen his sisters in years, and certainly like that. </span>

<span style='color:red'>"And you must be..."</span> <span style='color:darkred'>He stopped and looked around. He quickly stood, walk a foot away, set up his rifle and scanned the opening. Creatures were swarming it. There were dead animal bodies everywhere, so he hoped they were going after them.</span>

<span style='color:blue'>"Pumeal! You've changed,"</span> <span style='color:darkblue'>She was slightly intimidated by the size of the rifle Pumeal carried.</span>

<span style='color:olive'>Hishema smiled when he had hugged her, but could not move.</span>

 

<span style='color:blue'>"No. We've come this far, I really want to continue,"</span>

<span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju knew Pumeal couldn't follow them the whole way so she grabbed all of her turrets and activated them, in flying mode. Within a minute there was 2 dozen small electrical turrets orbiting around the group</span>

<span style='color:darkred'>Some of the creatures were getting too close. Pumeal recharged the chamber, by pulling hard on the large handle, and fired. The laser-sniper rifle obliterated the creature. He quickly reloaded.</span>

<span style='color:red'>"Let's go!" </span><span style='color:darkred'>He don't like being mean to his sisters, but his military training, and experiance for these situtations told him, it was time to leave. </span>

<span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju grabbed a stimulant from her pack, stabbed Hishema with it in her arm, and took to the sky.</span>

<span style='color:olive'>After a minutes Hishema got up, and after hugging her brother, she too started flying.</span>

<span style='color:blue'>"Well it's easy to see which way to go, the fog hasn't returned yet, let's go."</span>

<span style='color:darkred'>Pumeal continued to shoot every creature getting too close. Recharge, shoot, recharge, shoot, he never stopped, all you could hear was the recharging of the gun, then the sound of it's discharging.</span>

 

<span style='color:blue'>"Pumeal! get out of there!"</span> <span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju yelled back as he was getting swarmed.</span>

<span style='color:darkred'>At the last second as the creatures about to jump on him, he grabbed the rifle tight and jumped, shooting downward. The force of the shot launched him and the gun into the air, he quickly started flaping his wings up, and shot again, his wings stopped him from flying up.

Pumeal realized he had distracted them enough, and after strapping it to his back again he took after his sisters and their wingless friend. He grabbed his pistol, and took potshots at the swarm of monsters that had tried to swarm him.</span>

<span style='color:blue'>"Pumeal, Hishema is too unstable right now to carry Nudek, and you lift her up the mountain?"</span> <span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju said into Pumeal's mind.</span>

<span style='color:darkred'>Pumeal responded by swooping down, gaining speed as he fell, and, turning sideways, he grabbed Nudek on her back and knees. The three Uejs flew as fast as they could up the mountain.</span>

<span style='color:red'>"Tucoju! You need to change your bandages!" Pumeal yelled at her, he could see blood dripping through them.</span>

 

<span style='color:darkred'>Pumeal set Nudek down and set up his rifle once again,</span> <span style='color:red'>"Hishema! I want you to close your eyes, and think of home, got it, remember all those fun times with mother and father!"</span>

<span style='color:olive'>Hishema closed her eyes, and tried to remember back.</span>

<span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju landed and sat down. She couldn't remove her bandages without help.</span>

<span style='color:darkred'>Pumeal had charged his rifle, and begun picking off any animals trying to climb the mountain.</span>

<span style='color:red'>"Remember how father used to take you on trips and taught you how to take pictures?"</span> <span style='color:darkred'>Pumeal said, and shot at a wall-climbing snake.</span>

<span style='color:green'>"Y-yes.....I do remember,"</span> <span style='color:olive'>Hishema was picturing those happy times, those precious memories that meant so much to her, and brought her joy. She laughed and started crying. She had almost forgotten that which had made her the happiest.</span>

<span style='color:red'>"I want you to hold onto those memories, picture them, and let them give you strength. You need to calm down, and control your emotions. Think about those wonderful cookies mother used to make us."</span>

 

<span style='color:darkblue'>Tuocju let out her breathe, as Nudek neared finishing.</span>

<span style='color:blue'>"I'm okay..."</span> <span style='color:darkblue'>She did not sound very convincing,</span> <span style='color:blue'>"Hold on, where's my pack?"</span>

<span style='color:green'>"I grabbed it,"</span> <span style='color:olive'>Hishema opened her eyes and turned to Tucoju, just as Nudek was finishing the bandaging.</span>

<span style='color:darkred'>Pumeal saw this and before Hishema could do anything else, he jumped on her,</span> <span style='color:red'>"Hishema, CALM DOWN! GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!"</span>

<span style='color:olive'>Hishema whimpered as she hit the ground,</span> <span style='color:green'>"but they're attacking my sister! THEY'RE GOING TO KILL HER!"</span>

<span style='color:red'>"There is no 'they' remember your friend Nudek?"</span>

<span style='color:green'>"...yes."</span>

<span style='color:red'>"That IS nudek. You aren't 6 years old! you are 16! there are no thieves only friends!"</span>

<span style='color:green'>"but..."</span>

<span style='color:red'>"NO! NO ONE IS TRYING TO HURT TUCOJU! Now you are going to calm yourself, appologize to Nudek for almost killing her before, and return to being the sister I love. Not the out-of-control elemental kinesis user I see now! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?"</span>

<span style='color:olive'>His words hurt, but she knew he was right,</span> <span style='color:green'>"I.....I'm....s-sorry...N-nudek...."</span>

<span style='color:darkred'>Pumeal sighed, stood up, and help Hishema stand. He looked over the edge,</span> <span style='color:red'>"Glad to have you back Hishema. Oh, and it's time to go people." </span><span style='color:darkred'>He strapped his rifle onto his back, picked Nudek up, the same way as before, and took off into the air.</span>

<span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju stood and followed,</span> <span style='color:olive'>as did Hishema.</span>

 

<span style='color:red'>"Don't worry about the creature's I'll hold them off, I have plenty of explosives, grenades, Tucoju's turrets. Take as much time as you need."</span>

<span style='color:blue'>"Plus by the time they get up here our smell will have disipated and they won't know where to find us."</span>

<span style='color:green'>"Pumeal?...." </span><span style='color:olive'>Hishema whinned,</span> <span style='color:green'>"Don't let them get you, please."</span>

<span style='color:red'>"I'll be fine, I've fought much worse and come out without a scratch." </span><span style='color:darkred'>He grinned, the trademark smile Hishema had learned to trust.</span>

<span style='color:green'>"...Okay..."</span> <span style='color:olive'>Hishema was concerned, but trusted her brother more than anything.</span>

<span style='color:blue'>"Hishema, hand me, my pack, please." </span><span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju reached into her pack and grabbed the book, and maps</span>. <span style='color:blue'>"Okay it's up here we have to go in from. Now as enthusiastic as you may be, you must not pass me. This map looks like it was a guide for the residents. It shows where all the traps are, in ancient ramathian."</span>

<span style='color:blue'>"Okay walk carefully, there is a floor switch close-by.....stop." </span><span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju knelt down and saw a bit of ancient on one of the tiles,</span> <span style='color:blue'>"don't step on that." </span><span style='color:darkblue'>She continued to warn and avoid the traps as they continued</span>

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<span style='color:darkred'>Pumeal looked over the edge, the creature had barely even started climbing. He grabbed some C4, dropped off the cliff, stopped a few metres down, and dug the C4 into the rockface. Wiring the explosive to a trigger on the plateu he armed his rifle, 100 metres from the cliff's edge. He prepared all of his grenades near his feet, and waited. A normal person wouldn't be able to stand there, alert and ready for hours, but being the tracker he was, he was used to it.

Sweat started collecting on his brow. He HAD fought worse and survived, but he was not sure he could get through this without a scratch. He was fully prepared to die for his sister and their friend.</span>

<span style='color:red'>"It won't come to that though, I've got more than enough C4 in that wall to blow up more than half of them." </span><span style='color:darkred'>He re-assured himself.</span>

 

<span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju turned around,</span> <span style='color:blue'>"what are you doing?"</span> <span style='color:darkblue'>she asked Nudek. Tucoju looked at the room map,</span> <span style='color:blue'>"Oh no. I'm so sorry Nudek, I didn't realize that that locked door back there leads to a room with the corpeses of many evil mages."</span>

<span style='color:darkblue'>She realized she had forgotten to give Nudek the tweaked shield,</span> <span style='color:blue'>"Here, I hope it works."</span>

 

<span style='color:darkblue'>Tucoju sighed,</span> <span style='color:blue'>"that's why I recommended you stay behind me. And to answer your question, we are about two thirds of the way there by my guess."</span>

<span style='color:darkblue'>She led on pointing out traps, and as they neared the treasure room, Tucoju checked on the shield, </span><span style='color:blue'>"Good, still fine."

"Okay, here we are."</span>

<span style='color:darkblue'>They entered the room and saw a lone treasure box. It was large and would not fit in any of there packs, </span><span style='color:blue'>"Nudek? Would you do the honours?" </span><span style='color:darkblue'>Motioning at the treasure box.</span>