UUU: "The Unconscious Conjurer"

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Cast: Mars (Midas) and Kiera (TC)

TLDR:

Support Points Earned: 2

!= Evo Champ:

It was late. The sun had set hours ago, those that weren't forced into staying on guard duty were fast asleep. Mars had fallen asleep in a tree far away from camp, he decided he liked the cool air of the outdoors more than the safety of his tent. This random decision was quite lucky, for reasons that would soon become clear to people nearby. "No..." Mars muttered in his sleep, his eyes twitching. "It can't... Why?" Mars' right hand fell off his stomach, and it clenched into a fist. "I won't... You won't..." Mars' right hand opened up again, as bright blue jolts of electricity arced across the gaps between his fingers. "It must be a fake... You..." The jolts became larger, more frequent, as a bright blue ball began to form in Mars' hand. "I... am going... to kill you-" The ball became larger, too big to hold, and seemingly floated next to Mars' hand as his voice grew louder. "I will rip out your spine and use it as a goddamn TOOTHPICK!" Mars roared as opened his eyes and pointed his arm and hand up and forwards, towards the sky above, bracing it with his other arm, and unleashing the energy. The beam created was bright blue, and though it didn't even last a full second, it was loud with the sound of crackling electricity. Mind you, it wasn't 'wake up the whole domain' loud but it certainly was 'wake up anyone nearby, including at least some of the people in camp' loud. There Mars sat, staring up at his arms, and the newly created hole in the leaves of the tree he'd slept in, with little flames on some of them. His breath was shaky, and he was speechless, unable to even comprehend the power he'd just unleashed, much less the damage it could've done had it been aimed at a person, or a house, or a whole town. "Oh." Mars plainly said between shaky breaths when he realised what he'd actually done. "Oh shit."

TastyChicken12:

Kiera runs up to the tree where Mars had been trying to sleep. Eh?! The heck happened here? "Mars! Are you okay?" she asks while jumping up and cupping her hands around her mouth.

!= Evo Champ:

When Kiera hoisted herself up to a point where she could clearly see Mars, the only movement visible was the rising and falling of his body with his breaths, the occasional gasp throwing off the already inconsistent rhythm. Even now, after about 15 seconds, little bits of blue lighting would jump across Mars' arms with a quiet zap. "Heh, th... that was... something..." Mars laughed a little at the situation. "Oh... there I go." Mars put on a sly smile before his arms dropped to his side and he closed his eyes.

TastyChicken12:

Kiera was wary of climbing up to the branch that Mars was sitting it, fearing it'd snap due to their combined mass. So she waves down her hands and says, "Come down from there! You still okay?"

!= Evo Champ:

Mars was silent, and still, the only movement visible was his chest rising and falling with his breath.

TastyChicken12:

"MARS!" Kiera yells.

!= Evo Champ:

Still, nothing. Dead silence. It was clear Mars was breathing, at least, but his eyes didn't even twitch when Kiera yelled.

TastyChicken12:

The Hero climbs up the three and hugs around the trunk for stabilization. "MARS! It's Kiera! What happened here?!"

!= Evo Champ:

The shout did nothing except rustle some leaves. The fire on the edge of the hole created by the shock was starting to spread, slowly beginning to creep closer to the trunk.

TastyChicken12:

Aw crap. Kiera wasn't sure what to do, so she took her hatchet that was holstered and slammed Mars on the side with the back of it, knocking him down from the tree. "YAH!" she grunted when she did so and, afterwards, jumps down to the ground.

!= Evo Champ:

Mars hit the ground on his side, his right arm taking the brunt of the force. The sound created was almost comical, a surprisingly quiet FWUMP, mostly created by his cape. Still, however, no movement, in fact, even less now, as his chest ceased its cycle of rising and falling.

TastyChicken12:

"Heck," she mutters to herself as she picks up Mars and carries him away from the slowly burning tree. She checks his pulse. I hope to Kyria I didn't kill him... ... looks like I ain't going to Hell, Kiera imagines as his pulse responds.

!= Evo Champ:

Mars had a beating heart, and he was still breathing, as faint as it was, but the real issue was his right arm, it took most of the impact of his fall, and even the fairly soft ground couldn't stop all of Mars' 165 lbs. of weight from making quite the large bruise. The sheer size of it made it look like Mars had a second elbow on his arm, positioned just below the real one.

TastyChicken12:

Carryin' people is awful hard when it ain't baby-people, she thinks to try to ignore the stress she was putting on her arms. Eventually, Kiera found a clearing, free of tall, sharp grass and far away from any trees, and let Mars down on the ground.

!= Evo Champ:

Mars' breathing had slowly started to become deeper, as if regaining some semblance of strength. He was still however, utterly unresponsive.

TastyChicken12:

"Oh, Mars..." Kiera says as she splashes some water in his face. I kinda figured this waterskin would save someone's hide at some point.
September 11, 2018

!= Evo Champ:

The water would certainly help Mars regain consciousness, but not in the way intended. Mars woke up quickly, gasping for air, as he sat up and stared downwards, towards his legs. In between breaths he managed to say "W-What... happened?"

TastyChicken12:

"Beats me! All I know is that I saw this... like, fire...pillar of light, somethin' like that, and then, you were in the tree, and then, I was there, and I smacked you OFF the tree because it was on fire, and then I carried ya like a baby to this field!"

!= Evo Champ:

Mars continued half-gasping for air as he took note of the incredible pain in his arm. He lifted it up towards his face to see the large bruise, but seemingly shook it off easily. "I... I was... she..." Mars was stuttering, trying to get any words out that he could. Eventually he managed to form a coherent sentence. "Wh-Where are we?"

TastyChicken12:

"A field not too far from the town we're at," she responds. "It ain't too uncomfortable here for ya or... I could help ya back to town. Also sorry for clobberin' you with my axe."

!= Evo Champ:

"Wh-What town?" Mars said, still gasping, as he stared up at the sky, trying to make out some constellations and figure it out himself.

TastyChicken12:

"... the one on the island," she explains. Did he just ignore that I attacked him?

!= Evo Champ:

"Which island dammit!?" Mars yelled, clearly very distressed at the whole situation. His eyes weren't in focus enough to make out any patterns in the stars.

TastyChicken12:

"... I dunno! I dunno! Just... I'm tryin' to help ya, here!" Kiera defends while crossing her arms.

!= Evo Champ:

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW!?" Mars was angry now, clearly. "Are we in Mytia or aren't we!?" Mars yelled as he slammed his left hand on the ground. This added yet another thing to the list of 'unlucky things that happened to Mars in the last 2 hours.', as his hand hit a pointy rock. He yelped, and almost jumped in the other direction, the small rock now stuck to Mars' hand.

TastyChicken12:

"It's like, the Dragon's Domain, OKAY?! I'm just tryin' to... I hauled you across a... really long way and why ya gotta yell at me for? I get it. You're hurt. But..."

!= Evo Champ:

Mars was silent for a while, just gathering his breath as he shook his hand and got the rock out, surprisingly, it drew some blood. "We... are in... the Dragon's Domain." Mars was quiet for a while after saying that. "I... I'm sorry. I um... I had a nightmare." Mars said, embarrassed "The light beam you saw was me trying to lash out at the beast I saw, and uh, it drained me... enough to make me lose consciousness." Mars' face was bright red "So... I'm sorry..."

TastyChicken12:

Kiera exhales and smiles, looking at Mars. "Aww... I can't be mad atcha. Thanks for apologizin'. Um... looks like... well, can ya walk?..." If he can't, that's my fault...

!= Evo Champ:

"Yeah..." Mars said, averting his eyes "I can walk... but I'll be a little slow."

TastyChicken12:

Kiera sits down close to him. "Here. Ya probably don't want to stay out 'ere all night or nothin'. So just throw your arm 'round my shoulder, and I'll walk ya back, a'ight?"

!= Evo Champ:

"..." Mars was silent for a while, before answering "...alright." He said plainly, before tossing his left arm over Kiera's shoulders.

TastyChicken12:

Kiera then takes his hand and helps him on the way. "See? No problem."
September 12, 2018

!= Evo Champ:

As Mars slowly stood up, his face still a little red, his breath began to return to its ragged state. Regardless, he seemed to walk fine, if still rather slowly. "...yeah...T-Thanks..." Mars said, as the 2 continued making their way back towards camp. Before long however, Mars gasped, and just turned around. "Wait a second..." Mars said, breath still a little uneven "Th-The tree! I-If I shot a beam of lighting then..." Mars' eyes focused to see just what he thought, the tree was now fully engulfed, and it had begun to spread to some of the grass around the tree. "I-I have to-!" Mars swiftly jerks his arm away from Kiera, and begins running back towards the tree. It isn't long before he loses balance though, and trips, landing face and all in the grass and dirt.

TastyChicken12:

"Wait! M-Mars!" she runs towards him and holds his shoulders. "You're hurtin' yourself an awful lot... come on, let's just explain it to the townsfolk once we get back!"

!= Evo Champ:

Mars slammed his left fist against the ground as he slowly lifted his chest. "Dammit... I need... to fix it..." Mars coughed up some blood, clearly saw it hit his right arm, and continued to try and stand up. "I... I..." Mars' breaths were incredibly inconsistent at this point, he looked and sounded like he was ready to pass out again. As he lay there, Mars slammed his fist onto the ground again. "D-Dammit all..." Mars said, quietly, with some remorse creeping into his voice.

TastyChicken12:

"Oh... stay with me, okay?" she asks as she takes off her headband and wipes off the blood. "Come on, we've got to get back to town, NOW!"
September 13, 2018

!= Evo Champ:

"NO!" Mars jerked his arm away from Kiera once again, after the yell, he coughed up blood again, and once again, clearly didn't care. "I... am going... to fix this..." Mars was wheezing between words, and slowly moved his arm up to aim at the burning tree. He made a fist and... "HYAAAAAH!" Mars channeled all of his energy into a single blast to try and put out the fire with a large wave of water. After the loud yell however, nothing... Mars fell silent, no blast, no water gun, nothing. If Kiera could see inside Mars' fist, she'd see a little stream of water flowing out of the center, down his palm, and onto the ground. "...Seed...I'm..." Mars couldn't finish his thought before his arm, and the rest of his body for that matter, dropped onto the ground with a quiet thump. His eyes shut, and he was dead silent.

TastyChicken12:

"... why... just why."

TastyChicken12:

Kiera looks about quickly and... well, he won't be awake, so she just grabs him and picks him up once more. This time, she managed to carry him all the way back to the Dragon's Domain. After resting him up against a wall, she runs to the local church. "HELP! HELP! MY FRIEND'S UNCONSCIOUS!" The healer got up and followed Kiera to where Mars is. She herself rested against the same wall and held her head. Her arms ached, her eyes dropped from fatigue, and she just wanted her tiredness to melt away.

TastyChicken12:

The sort of sleepiness and fatigue she felt was not unlike her time she spent caring for her son. Her time spent with little sleep and aching from work. And she did it because she cared...

!= Evo Champ:

"Ma'am?" Kiera heard the voice of the healer call out to her "Are you 2 quite alright? What happened?" The healer was a kindly young woman with a sweet smile, she looked just barely older than Kiera, not to say Kiera looked like the average 18 year old girl, but all the same.

TastyChicken12:

"We... had an accident... and he's, he's unconscious..."

!= Evo Champ:

"What kind for accident? The man is a little more than unconscious, what happened, why did he fall unconscious?" The healer was trying hard to seem caring with her words, it was clear from Kiera's tone that she was tired, and at least a little scared.

TastyChicken12:

"He... cast a magic spell that hurt him I guess, and we argued a bit, then I dragged hom back to town.

!= Evo Champ:

"...That explains a lot. Thank you ma'am, your words will help us help your friend." The nonsensical ordering of Kiera's recollection of events seemed normal, at least to this woman, who continued on. "You see, your friend here has done something actually quite impressive in a way. Every living being gives off some natural magical energy, this also includes some inanimate objects. Your friend here seems to have drained all of his natural well of magic. Given his robes and your words, he seems to be a mage too... so the amount of energy that it would take to do that would be... staggering, honestly." The woman realised her words didn't help reassure Kiera "O-Oh, but he... should be fine..." The woman said, somewhat averting her eyes when she said that. "I think..."

TastyChicken12:

"Huh?" She says sleepily.

!= Evo Champ:

...Well at least she was awake enough to carry the poor man here, still, even as a mage, we only see these kinds of cases with sorcerors or druids sucking the life force out of people... I'll have to investigate more later... The woman thought for a while before speaking again "Well, if you remember anything from tonight, remember this, that man should wake up in a couple of days with no permanent damage... I cannot say of the short term effects, these cases are so rare that even here in the domain we have little information." The woman smiled "Well, you should return to your residence, we will direct your friend to wherever you are staying. Is there anything else important that we should know about before you get to sleep?"

TastyChicken12:

"Not really. Though I reckon he's been badly bruised on this... er... right hip. Probably f-from getting hit with something blunt."

TastyChicken12:

Her eyes widen and she says shakingly, "Um... so, there's also a tree fire that way," she points.

!= Evo Champ:

"A fire!?" The woman said, a little frightened and ignoring her point about Mars' bruise "W-What happened?" The woman looked over towards where Kiera was pointing, even in the dark sky, she could see smoke "Oh Kyria above..."

TastyChicken12:

"I think he cast some really big magic spell. Heck if I know how it worked," she says with one eye closed.

!= Evo Champ:

This is going nowhere. The woman thought, panicked. "A-A-A-Alright" The woman managed to get out between her stutters "I-I'll send for A-A-Ayzer to h-help!" The woman ran off without another word, leaving Kiera alone.
September 14, 2018

TastyChicken12:

"S-sorry..."

TastyChicken12:

Kiera falls asleep against the wall.

!= Evo Champ:

== End RP ==

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