Under the Ice

<span style='color:orange'>Ahh compasion, It's a little useless when you have lived life like I have...</span> He turned and listened for the thuds of Xaviers footsteps, but found they had disappeared. <span style='color:orange'>I can't hear anything....</span> Talon commented and turned to the other two. <span style='color:orange'>I don't feel like splitting up, but if he's turned back, the things in these caves will surely eat him, He will be as weak as a baby...</span> He sat down and let the other two voice their thoughts...

 

<span style='color:orange'>Yes... I agree, but we have to move quickly, follow me!</span> He dashed off into the darkness directly ahead, but didn't wait this time for the others to follow...

 

Talon looked back and nodded as he sprinted ahead. He winced as his broken ribs protested, but He kept on, knowing that his brothers life was hanging in the balance.

 

<span style='color:orange'>And?</span> Talon replied and kept running. They suddenly emerged into a large cavern, and there were holes in the roof of ice. Light and snow was filtering down from above and Talon had to gasp at what was in the centre of the room. A huge temple, covered in icicles and snow, pillars reaching towards the roof, and Xavier, as a beast standing in front, his beastlike face split into a grin. "ICE TEMPLE!" it somehow said, and it''s giant voice boomed around the huge cavern. Talon just stared, and his arm clutching his ribs fell, limp, to his side.

 

The beast kept grinning, and turned and started to stomp towards the middle of the temple, where a small outraised piece of rock covered in strange symbols resided. It raised it's fist, and slammed it into the panel, crushing it. In reply, the temple shuddered, and ice fell in chunks from the ceiling above. <span style='color:orange'>HEAD FOR THE TEMPLE!</span> Talon shouted over the crashing of the breaking ice, and started to jog towards the temple. Suddenly, a beam of light shot up from the top of the pyramid like central temple, and it shot a hole clean through the roof. More ice started to fall, littering the flat expanse of ice covered rock with boulders and spikes of ice. The beam stretched into the sky, illuminating the land for miles around, untill it faded, and the temple stopped rumbling. But the ice continued to fall from the ceiling, and the ceiling itself was about to collapse. Xavier, in his beastal form, seemed to have dissapeared into the depths of the temple, leaving the three to find shelter outside...

 

Talon gave Thi a quizzical look, but kept huddled under her wing. A large piece of ice dislodged from the ceiling and fell right above the two. Talon stood up and aimed the tip of the blade on his partisan towards it. <span style='color:orange'>Move away!</span> He shouted to Thi over the roaring of the falling ice, and energy gathered from the surrounding air around the tip of the partisan. <span style='color:orange'>Elementary Science!</span> He screamed again to Thi, not knowing if she could hear him or not. <span style='color:orange'>Everything has heat! Even if It's ice cold!</span> He waited and watched the ice slowly get bigger and bigger as it fell towards them. When the blade of his partisan was totally wraithed in flames he thrust it upwards, and the fireball soared to meet the ice coming the opposite way, gathering more heat as it went from the surrounding air. It slammed into the piece of ice, melting it completely, and water flew everywhere, freezing in midair, and making a ring of ice around Talon and Thi. Talon lowered his partisan. <span style='color:orange'>Come on!</span> He yelled again, and grabbed her hand to lead her towards the temple before the ceiling came down on them completely...


The beast had almost completed what he was planning to do, if he could keep the owner of the body he resided in contained in the small patch of consciousness he had in his mind, then he could destroy almost the entire continent with the power that was locked away in this temple. He heard something behind him, and his ears pricked up, it wasn't the roaring of the ceiling coming down, it was something running through the temple. The beast found a hiding place behind a statue of a large creature that was almost an exact stone duplicate of himself, and he waited for the creature to come, so he could spring the ambush...

 

The beast jumped out from behind the statue, knocking it over to try to make it fall on top of Drsuj. He started to run down the corridor, satisfied that the statue would take care of the problem for him...



Talon sprinted through the temple, noticing that the roaring had deafened a bit since entering the temple. He took a look back, to see that Thi was indeed following him. <span style='color:orange'>He shall be heading to the Inner Sanctum!</span> he yelled back, because even though the roaring of the falling ice was deafened, it was still very loud. He stumbled and fell, his jaw slamming into the cobblestones. He swore, and got up, holding his jaw with one hand, and his ribs with the other, still clutching his partisan haphazardly. <span style='color:orange'>Lets keep going...</span> He said to Thi, and hobbled off down the corridor...

 

Talon stopped and looked around. He couldn't find anything to use as a lever, so he decided to do it the old fashioned way. He jammed the end of his partisan under the statue, and then, through the end of the partisan, created a puddle of water, which froze immediately. he kept pouring on the water, and slowly the statue was lifted up off of Drsuj untill he could squeeze out. Talon offered him a hand. <span style='color:orange'>Are you alright?</span>

 

<span style='color:orange'>Good, I think the beast has somehow gotten stronger than last time...</span> He leaned against the wall and coughed, a little blood flying out of his mouth and freezing in midair. He covered his mouth and started walking down the hallway, stumbling a bit.

 

Talon gave her a faint smile, and continued to move as fast as he could down the corridor. They travelled for a bit and a roar echoed down the corridor, making Talon jump...