Ame Damnee Yadressil’s Forest

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The ancient trees loomed over all who dared to step into the near dark shade of it. Passing between the first line of trees one found themselves in an endless maze of dark shrubbery. The eerie hooting of an owl breaks the silence for a moment before returning to the deathly quiet that encompassed the forest. Each tree was far too big for a single man to wrap his arms around, many so big it would take ten men to encircle it. A gentle breeze rustles through the branches almost demanding for you to run. Only the devil could know what lurked in this place of evil.

(Credit to RyunaSiege)
 
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Yadressil's Forest
Dante
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After traveling for a few hours, Dante and Artimeties finally found themselves in the area marked on Cazimir's map; right in the middle of Yadressil's Forest. When Cazimir had said he found the stone in a forest, Dante didn't think he meant something like this. The dark, towering trees, the quiet whistle of the breeze through their branches, and the pale morning light were all enough to send a chill down his spine. He sincerely hoped they didn't get lost in this maze. He would never be able to reach full power in here with the trees blocking most of the sunlight, though there was sufficient enough light for him to still make decent weapons.

Dante absently fingered the stone in his pocket, thinking about what they had told Minerva before they left. The Master of Coin simply told her that he had "business to attend to," although he didn't specify exactly what it was. No doubt she would have assumed it had something to do with his side business outside of the Underground. Dante was not eager to tell her why exactly he felt the need to travel to Oblitus. If they didn't manage to find the stones, he wouldn't want Minerva to think he was wasting his time on some fool's errand. If they did manage to find the stones then... Well, he'd decide what to do afterward. Perhaps he would tell her.

Dante glanced back at his traveling companion. As expected, Artimeties had been talking virtually non-stop for most of the journey - though Dante had blocked out most of the noise - but even he seemed to have quieted down some since they entered the forest. Perhaps the oppressive darkness was getting to him as well.

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Artimeties
Yadressil's Forest

Artimeties went quiet as soon as he saw that the map led into the Yadressil's Forest, the dark trees that looked like they were reaching out trying to grab unsuspecting souls, the omnipresent darkness that some area's had made it seem impossible for light to exist and the ghostly howl of the wind seeming to call anyone foolish enough to enter this cursed forest.

Looking over to Dante only to see that he looked back at him, no doubt thinking that the forest was getting to him. Not exactly true but close. Arty had to travel into this forest from time to time since it was a good hideout for many of his targets. Hell, he even took on a cult of jesters in this forest. But besides killing cultist clowns that tried to kill him with acid pies and magic horns that shot out fire, he knew that the wildlife was some of the most dangerous in Oblitus the creatures here where giants and very territorial so Arty had to keep the snark down a little.... But that didn't mean he would stop. "Spooky ain't it? To be honest the feeling of despair and hopelessness reminds me a lot of when I was in school."
 
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"Indeed," Dante murmured in response. He wasn't afraid of the forest - there weren't many things that scared him - but he could sense evil within the dark maze, and that was unsettling. As he walked, he tilted his head up to look at the branches, half expecting to see something lurking up there, just waiting to pounce. Eventually the trees began to thin out as the pair came across a stone clearing. It looked as if it had been cleared intentionally, but for what purpose it was unclear. Now what? Dante wondered. They had yet to see any sign of the stones, and if they ventured any further Dante was afraid they might not be able to find their way out again.

His thoughts were interrupted when a low, quiet howl echoed through the trees. Dante paused. "That... Didn't sound like the wind," he said.
 
Artimeties
Yadressil's Forest

The howl was audible to Artimeties, he also heard the rustling of leafs and the snapping of branches. "That's because it wasn't the wind!" Arty knew what was coming as his wrist blades extended out, the sounds were coming from all around them circling them. A loud snarl came from the left. "DODGE!!" Arty pushed Dante out of the way as a large furry mass shot out of the darkness like an arrow missing both of them only by a hair. The creature was a wolf, but a lot larger with two fangs poking out of its jaw the eyes seemed to glow a hellish red as growling at both of them. Soon 1 more came from behind the two managing to knock down Arty on the stone clearing and trying to bite his head off Arty using his right arm to keep its fangs from puncturing his skull. "Sit! Stay! Bad doggy!" Getting his left-hand free he a slashed at the wolf's throat trying to cut into the but only causing minor damage due to the tough fur. It was enough, however, to get the wolf off him both were circling the two men and if the sounds from the bushes and snapping of branches told them that these 2 were not alone. "Don't suppose you got a dog whistle do yeah?"
 
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Dante
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Dante stood tall in the center of the clearing, his cool demeanor undaunted. The elf's eyes became a solid gold color, the pupils and the whites of his eyes no longer showing. He put his left arm out as a shimmering, pale grey long bow materialized in his hand, and he drew his right arm back as an arrow appeared in his other hand. In a split second, he whipped around and fired at a wolf that had begun to stalk up behind them, the arrow embedding itself deep in the dire wolf's neck. The large wolf yelped as it fell to the ground, though it was swiftly cut short as another arrow appeared in its forehead. Within a few seconds, the two arrows dematerialized, leaving nothing but the deep, cauterized wounds behind.

Dante turned back to his companion as the bow in his hand flickered and transformed into a sword of the same shimmering color. "Artimeties," he said, his voice as calm as it always was, "why on earth would I carry a dog whistle?"
 
Artimeties
Yadressil's Forest

"To keep yo bitches in line!" Arty said laughing. instantly crouching down as a Dire wolf launched itself at him, Mr'stabbo shooting out of his wrist Arty plunged his fist into the wolf's chest the blade going in deep and cutting through the muscles and possibly some organs. The wolf fell limp on the ground with a hard thud blood gushing out from the split open belly Arty luckily wasn't covered in blood. "What else would you use one for?" saying that as if the wolfs were not trying to eat their faces.

A small portal opened up and Arty pulled out a long purple and pink katana with a pair of fuzzy blue balls tied to the butt of the strangely colored sword. "Phallic symbol! Whenever I need to unload."
 
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Dante simply rolled his eyes at Artemeties' crass humor; not that anyone could tell with his eyes the way they were.

As another wolf paced toward him with a growl, Dante brandished his sword. The wolf snapped at him, but kept its distance from the blade. As the wolf began to circle him, Dante waited patiently for it to lunge again. He was not disappointed. The dire wolf's teeth flashed as it leapt toward him with a snarl, its red eyes burning, but the elf simply side-stepped the attack. As the wolf lunged past him, Dante sliced its side with his sword. The wolf stumbled with a yelp of pain, though there was no blood from the wound; only the hiss of steam and the scent of burning hair rose from its matted pelt. Angered, the wolf hurled itself at Dante, its jaws wide. Too late it realized that its foe no longer held a sword in his hand, but a bow, and it did not again feel the sting of his blade, but the sharp, sudden pain of an arrow sunk deep into its open mouth. Unfortunately for Dante, a simple arrow, while enough to kill the wolf, was not enough to stop its massive body from landing on top of him.

Dante fell to the ground heavily and gasped as the air was knocked out of him. He mentally cursed himself for his mistake. While he had been wise enough to keep his skills sharp through constant training, it had been far too long since he had fought against a living, breathing target.

Dante grunted as he strained to push the dead wolf off of himself.
 
Artimeties
Yadressil's Forest

1 more wolf aproched the downed Dante its teeth bared and slobber foamed out of it's maws, taking its time reaching until it got within 6 feet it begain it's stride towards him ready to sink it's fangs into the downed pray. A knife was suddenly imbeded into the Wolfs sides, it let out a loud yelp as it turned to see who was the agressor. Artimeties holding out his sword towards the wolf "Stay." his voice was serious but had the hint of humor in it.

A slight sound could be heard behind Arty as two glowing red eyes stared with murdurius intent. Artimeties only held his sword at the wolf infront of him trying to get it's attention away from Dante, the glare of the wolf with the knife in it's sides it letting out a small bark of anger it's back fuzzing up to make it seem bigger. "Hey Dante don't get up I'll-" cut off by the wolf that was stalking in the bushes lunge out teeth bared and paws ready to pin down Arty. With swift almost blure like speed, Arty not even looking at the wolf stabbed his sword stright into it's skull the wolf let out a loud Yelp before going limpwith a large gash in it's forhead. "You know."
 
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Dante
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Having caught his breath, with a surge of strength Dante managed to push the wolf off. A knife began to materialize in his hand as he got to his feet and quickly plunged the blade into the base of the other wolf's neck while it was distracted by Artemeties. Dante stepped back from his kill and looked around, seeing that the other wolves had been taken care of. The golden light in his eyes faded, as did the knife that he had embedded in the wolf, and Dante looked down at the wolf that had fallen on him with a hint of dismay.

"I apologize," he said as he turned away and began to brush himself off. "It's been quite some time since I've seen actual combat."
 
Artimeties
Yadressil's Forest

Wiping the blood off his sword he approached Dante his mask making it hard to see his expression though his body language seemed to relax after the fight was over "No worries here. Still pretty impressive to take down Dire wolfs like that. Buuut we might want to scram since these guys might have alerted Predators that are much larger." Dire wolfs might be big but they were not the most dangerous things. other beasts that roam these forests are more vicious and harder to take down, there were even some dragons if Arty could recall. "However." Taking his knife out of the downed wolf near Dante and then cutting deep into the wolf's leg skinning it and removing some teeth and a paw. "O sorry. Force of habit taking trophies."
 
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Dante
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"I am hardly one to criticize you for your souvenirs," Dante replied cooly as he briefly watched Artimeties skin the wolf.

Quickly losing interest, however, he took a few steps away, finally having the opportunity to take in their surroundings. The stone clearing was certainly unusual, and Dante couldn't help but feel that it was significant in some way. As he slowly paced the clearing, weaving his way through the bodies of the dead wolves, he lowered his gaze to the ground. Suddenly he stopped. Dante crouched next to a small pile of rubble at the edge of the clearing and brushed away some dirt, only to reveal a faintly glowing stone. Its blue light pulsed ever-so-slightly.

"Artimeties, I think our search is almost over," he announced.
 
Artimeties
Yadressil's Forest

Just as Arty stripped the pelt of the wolf he heard Dante, announcing that their search might be almost over. "awwwww. Already? I was just starting to have fun." Putting the bloody pelt away in his portal. I'm going to have to clean that up later. Arty with his mask saw the stone in Dante's hand, the thing had the same aura as before and since this seems to be the only stone clearing.

Arty jumped into the largest tree he could find, he cleared 20 feet when jumping so it didn't take long to reach the top where he stood on the tip of the tree. "Now then. Come out. come out where ever you are.." Increasing his vision looking near the end of the path and areas around it. He looked to the left where trees that were thicker and longer than any other area, the auras that became visible were that of birds, 15-foot bears, some chimera's, and a giant snake but not rock aura. Arty then turned his attention to the right and he struck gold it was a tempest of rock aura around a cave like structure looked to be about 2.7 Kilometers away. Jumping using the branches as a way down, Artimeties landed in front of Dante. "Found a cave with a possible ass-load of rocks. About 2.7 Kilometers. go straight for 0.8 Kilometers and taking a right will lead us to the cave.... Dante, be prepared for anything. I didn't see any animals around or in the cave." He spoke with a rare seriousness.
 
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Dante
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Dante tucked the new stone in his bag so he could retrieve it later. "Is that not a good thing?" he asked Artimeties.

At the very least, it looked like their trip was about to pay off. While Dante was certain that the stones they found would open up a whole new potential for his magical abilities, it would take some time for him to develop something to condense the stones to make them more portable while still maintaining their magical potency. With these things on his mind, Dante followed Artimieties as he lead the way to the cave.
 
Artimeties
Yadressil's Forest

"Normally yes that would be a good thing, though this is Yadressil. And in Yadressil when there is a place devoid of any wildlife it means one of 2 things. One is that there is no real source of food or water or two there is an alpha predator in that cave."

Walking along the stone path as he was explaining some basic hunter knowledge. Going along the path the air seemed to get colder and colder chilling them both to the bone, it was as if Cazimir himself was causing this drop in temperature. Any signs of predators were void, which made the hairs on his back stand up straight. "Interesting knowing you Dante." He joked.
 
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Dante
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"Interesting? I suppose that's a word for it," Dante responded.

While Dante looked no different than he normally did, inside his heart was starting to beat a little faster. Either he was nervous about what they were about to face, or excited at the prospect of this new magic. Dante preferred to think it was the latter. Even so, this day had contained more excitement than the last ten years. He'd be lying if he said he didn't secretly enjoy it.
 
Artimeties
Yadressil's Forest

Pushing a branch out of his face Artimeties spotted the entrance to the cave. It looked as if the cave had a mouth filled with pointy teeth made of stone from the stalactites and Stalagmites, the aura around the cave was massive enough that Arty had to look up to see the tip of it. "I think we found the cave." saying rather amused and his hands on his hips as if impressed.
 
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Dante
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Dante pushed past Artimeties so he could get a closer look. He walked up to the mouth of the cave, examining the stalagtites. There was a faint scent of mildew and stagnant water coming from inside the cave, and upon peering inside, Dante was certain he could see the soft blue glow of more stones.

He stood up straight and turned back to Artimeties. "After you," he said, gesturing to the mouth of the cave.
 
Cenarius
Treehouse.

Relaxing on a Hammock made from animal skins and vines Cenarius sleeps the wind softly moving him back in forth as if he was being cradled. Though as the wind started to pick up Cenarius started to smell something that woke him up, it was blood. Not too strange in the Yadressil Forest but this was different somehow, the blood smelled like it had been burned by something and quite nicely too. Hmmm, I wonder what's going on. The urge to inspect grew bigger and bigger as the smell was still present. Finally getting up with a small smile. "Now I just have to know what's causing that smell." Walking through some neatly decorated vines that had a sweet smell to them, looking back at his tree house it might have seemed like a piece of junk to those who looked at it but it was built to last and had a charm to it Also being built 150 feet in the air just made it seem cooler to Cenarius. "All right! I'll try to come back, please look after my Treehouse!" talking to the tree that held up his home, the branches all moving and making a sound as if to tell him that it would. "Thanks!" He said jumping off the tree plummeting down, falling his back soon grew large brown wings with a light tint, his legs soon turned into those of a Lion's with golden fur and black paws, his face extending out and hardening into a silver beak his hair replaced with feathers and his arms turned into razor sharp talons. The transformation was complete. He started to fly towards the smell at an incredible speed.
 
Dante - Yadressil's Forest - Outside the Cave
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As Artimeties had requested, Dante lead the way out of the cave, collecting as many of the stones along the way as he could. While the satchel he put them in could hold an infinite number of them, the weight of the bag was still affected, so he could only carry so many. Still, he decided it was a sufficient amount to work with.

Just as he was exiting the cave, Dante almost ran into the boy who had just resolved to go inside. He blinked at the boy's sudden appearance before calmly advising: "You might not want to go in there. There's a dragon."

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