Somewhat Heroic Interventions?

“Hmm? ACHOOO!” A loud sneeze kicked up a small cloud of black dust that had covered the once sleeping dragon. Drowsy and annoyed, Asteris began awaken fully, shaking off the dust that had accumulated during the course of his rest. “Where did all this accursed black dust come from?” His voice boomed, echoing out and spreading over the empty quiet plain that he had chosen to be his residence. Now this once empty plain was covered in black dust in a way akin to a light dusting of powdered sugar over pastries. He did not like it. His wings unfurled with a snap and released a monstrous flap befitting of a dragon his size. The area around his body was blown clean of dust as he began to look around for the source of the black powder.

He looked to his left, to his right, around and behind. Finally he glanced upwards to the skies and saw a strange sight. Black dust, gently falling like light snowfall, from the moon. It was fantastical, eerie, it took a few seconds for him to remember that he was already awake so this could not possibly a dream. “Well,” He began, drawing up to his full fight and flapping once. His wings made him airborne just slightly above ground. “I guess this will be the night that a dragon fights the moon?” He murmured, wondering just how he would reach the moon in order to give it a piece of his mind for disturbing the rest of others, specifically him of course.

WIth a mighty flap of his feathery scaly wings he began to ascend. His aura protected him from from the effects of the dust and lit the way for him as he flew up as quickly as he could. Higher and higher he went, passing by birds, passing through clouds before he stopped and looked at the ground with his dragon’s eye view. It looked like that whatever was going on with this black dust and the moon, it wasn’t just local to his area nor aimed specifically at him. He could see villages covered in the same black dust. Even the forests and plains, the swamps and the mountains, nowhere outdoors was spared from this phenomenon. He decided to head down to a city to gather some more information before acting.

“That one should do nicely.” He set his eyes on a city just north of his clearing. “What do the human’s call that one again? Willow? Mahogany? Ah yes, Oak, Oak Town.” He began heading in the direction of Oaktown. This time he slowed down his flight, he didn’t want to cause a scare, especially when an incident was occuring. People getting the wrong idea was just going to hinder him from figuring out what was going on. Landing on a path a distance away from Oak Town, he walked the rest of the distance to Oak Town, pausing every once in a while to blow away the dust that had gathered on the path with a flap of his large wings. Soon enough, he entered Oak Town.

WC: 520/1000

Merrily walking out of the tavern with a bottle of wine in one hand and a flask of whisky in the other, Luna finished off the bottle of wine before throwing it back inside. Her cheeks were flustered red as she loosely waved back to inside the tavern that just kicked her out. "Cheesch, Whattaya mean I drank too much? Ya'll a petty bunch a cowards, none of yous can brawl, hows it I can smash all of ye, ye, aye fugget it, yous ain't worth ma time." Luna stumbled away from the tavern she left in shambles as she walked through the streets. When she arrived in town earlier, she was her normal self, however as soon as the black spores hit her, she then gone to three taverns, drinking, brawling, and trashing in all of them. However this time she was kicked out after shattering the bartender's daughter's nose, which Luna called out as fake.

However as she was looking for a fourth tavern, she saw something big in the distance land, it appeared to be a giant bird. Bored out of her drunken mind, she started to stumble in the distance towards the object. Eventually she had gotten close to the path of the dragon, and she was in awe of the majestic form of the dragon. Normally she was would be instantly curious to study, however now she was in a mood to be party. She reeked of blood and booze, her clothing scratched and torn as she raised her flask as she greeted the jade dragon. "Ey hey hey, how'z it goin' draggy! Ya in the mood to get down?" Luna then took a swig from the flask as she appeared to not care about the fact that the world was getting coated in black dust, herself included.

WC 304

"Ey hey hey, how'z it goin' draggy! Ya in the mood to get down?" The voice of a woman standing in the path. Asteris felt himself annoyed at being referred to as ‘draggy’. One does not address a dragon like that, you either refer to a dragon as ‘Dragon’, their name, their title, or their name followed by their title. “Do not.” Asteris warned, slamming his right claw on the ground in annoyance. “Refer to me as a dragon, human.” He pulled back his claw and shook off the dirt and dust that clung to it. He took a better look at her, noting that her attire was damaged in places, and that she was holding a flask. A quick sniff was all it took for him to discern the scent of blood and alcohol. ‘This woman is drunk and punchy.’ The dragon thought to himself.

This was the first time that Asteris had been greeted so casually, though it was more because he couldn’t hang out with humans most of the time. He calmed down, annoyance slipping away as he decided to let this human’s foolishness slide for now. “Human, have you come from the town that is named Oak?” He asked. “I am the Aurageyser Dragon, Asteris. This evening’s events have interrupted my slumber and I seek whoever caused...one moment.” His wings flapped once, generating a gust that blew the surrounding area and the pink haired woman clean of the moon borne black dust. “Much better. Now, I seek to discover the source of this black dust that disturbed my rest and make them cease, through words or force.”

Immediately as he finished his spiel about ending the night’s madness, a strange type of creature flew out of the trees. Asteris gazed at the strange pumpkin like creature with teeth and flesh-like tendrils dangling from the bottom of its body. It made a weird noise and suddenly there were now four of the strange and disgusting creature. “What luck, looks like I don’t have to look far if they just come to me.” He moved to grab one but the Squashed Nightmare dodged with its superior speed. “Fast!” One of the Squashed Nightmares flew around and hit his leg. The attack itself didn’t hurt due to his Seven Colored Aura absorbing the hit but the fact that such a lowly creature had dared to lay its hands, well, tendrils, on him irked Asteris to no end. “You abominations!” He roared.

HIs aura leaked out and began to seep in the area around him.causing the area to become incredibly toxic to anything that wasn’t him. The Squashed NIghtmares were all caught in this area of raw toxic dragon magic. The effect was visible to the monsters as parts if them rapidly corroded away. Bits of teeth, pumpkin flesh, and tendril parts fell to the ground as the spell ate away at their flesh. Asteris’s tail whacked the one that had managed to hit him. “Human, I know not who you are but it seems that we’ve gotten ourselves into a scuffle.”

WC: 1033/1000
Stats:
300/300 HP
345 /375 MP
36/60 SHD

SN1: 199
SN2: 169
SN3: 199
SN4: 199

Luna rolled her eyes as she thought the dragon was over dramatic and frantically being a buzz kill. She hated to be lectured right now. At the moment she didn't care for the lecture on dragon, she stood there drinking from her flask until it was empty and threw it aside. However as the dragon mentioned something about the black dust. Luna clutched her head as deep down her intellectual personality was trying to surface as facts swarmed her mind. "me- mental, alter, properties... Ugh!" Luna pulled out a flask from within her Qipao dress at the back and took a swig as she suppressed the internal conflict with alcohol. "What's it matter? Just live for the moment, ya know? I came to this town with some boring reason and look at me now!"

However as the dragon blew the dust away with it's massive wings, Luna didn't want to deal with the dust as it hit her so she activated her own spell as she blocked her face with her arms. "Imperfect Integration!" Her arms then slowly turned black started from the finger tips up to her shoulders, her nails however turned white. “Much better. Now, I seek to discover the source of this black dust that disturbed my rest and make them cease, through words or force.”

Luna groggily came into focus after hearing the dragons words, letting down her arms she let out a groan as the last few hours were catching up with her. "Ugh, where am I? Why is my head pounding? Oh god, I'm remembering now-" However as she was recalling her memories of the dust, the dragon was hard at work fighting what Luna could only presume were minions of the source of the dust. Clenching her fist, she noted she was carrying a dark energy at this point as she mustered a few balls of energy before throwing four balls of black energy, each towards a monster. "Dark (Aura) scattershot!"


Luna turned to the dragon, acknowledging that they were in the same boat. "Indeed, this dust seems to have mental altering properties. Not sure if you're affected but it made me go on a drunken bar spree. My name is Luna, of Crystal Swan. Now before I feel the headache or realize my bar tabs, let's finish these guys off."

Luna punched one that came flying at her right in the jaw, sending it flying back. "I hate violence but these creatures probably don't understand reason and are born out of darkness."

WC 420
HP 300/300
MP 266/300

SN1: 131
SN2: 136
SN3: 166
SN4: 166

“Good to see that you’re at least coherent now” Asteris said to the colorfully haired human who launched began her own attack against the eerie plant monsters. "Indeed, this dust seems to have mental altering properties. Not sure if you're affected but it made me go on a drunken bar spree. My name is Luna, of Crystal Swan. Now before I feel the headache or realize my bar tabs, let's finish these guys off." What he gathered from her proper introduction was that she was a guild mage from a guild named Crystal Swan. It wasn’t a guild that he had of before, but then again, he never was one to pay attention guilds and their affairs, mostly preferring to do his own thing. Asteris did not know what a bar tab was. “Admittedly, I was not aware that this dust had any property to it at all, I only found it annoying for having woken me up and literally getting everywhere.” Asteris paused. “Speaking of getting everywhere...you might want to get out of the immediate area right now. My spell is very...toxic to anyone that isn’t me.” He motions to the now overly saturated area around him.

“They don’t understand reason? Being able to understand reason isn’t a valid point for blasting someone, but they are pests and if we didn’t deal with them right now it would make for a noisy evening.” More bits of monster flesh melted off of the Squashed Nightmares. The acrid stench of acid and corroding monster filled the air as Asteris’ spell worked it’s magic. More of the creatures began to whack away at him, trying to bite at his ankles but to no avail as this time he was prepared while the other two went to bite at Luna's legs. “Aurageyser Dragon’s Bulwark!” For that instant as they tried to sink their teeth into his scaly flesh, another rainbow colored aura flared to life, surrounding his entire body. Their teeth met the magically hardened surface of his Aura. The monsters flinched as they felt pain in trying to literally bite off more than they could chew, and that momentary distraction was enough for Asteris.

“You are in my domain!” With a flare of his glorious rainbow glow, he fired a beam of magic into the sky. It disappeared into the clouds before sky was suddenly lit with a blue green light and beams like fell from the heavens like the spears of an angry god, or in this case an annoyed dragon. The beams fell upon each of creatures, blasting them downwards and causing them great pain. He took the chance as well to pick up two of the most hurt creatures and repeatedly bashed them together until he was sure that they were down. “There. I leave the rest to you. I’ll fly up to see if there’s a direction we should be heading towards.” With his plans conveyed to Luna, he took flight, launching himself up towards the skies once more like a rocket gone mad. After a quick look around her nodded to himself and began to descend back to Luna.

WC: 1539/1000
WC: 1033/1000
Stats:
300/300 HP
325 /375 MP
36/60 SHD

SN3: 112
SN4: 112

While she made her way through the minions, the dragon seemed to have her back but that seemed to be counter productive as well at some point, specifically the beams of light. Covering her eyes she cold feel the pulsing headache from the light. "Sweet mother of Shirain that hurts!" Luna heard the dragon call out that the rest was her responsibility, she nodded as she barely opened her eyes. "Leave it to me..." Luna clenched her fists as the two creatures approached her. She had to end things quickly, she knew the dragon could handle things. Taking a deep breath, she calculated every single move. Throwing a ball gathered in her right hand, the black ball of energy spiraled into a ring around her quickly gathering speed and expanding into a wave. " You creatures, I want to show mercy but you won't accept it. When you pass on, remember I tried. Dark (Aura) wave: Splash zone!

The dark energy then spread outwards in all directions, wiping out trees, shrubbery, and the creatures coming for Luna got knocked back by the wave. The squashed nightmares got sent flying back and hit a tree before hitting the ground. Gritting her teeth as she stepped one foot ahead and bent her knees, she reached her right hand back before in a swift motion pitching the four small balls of black energy in her hand, two each hitting the Squashed nightmares. "Dark (aura) scattershot" Running after one that started to fly, Luna jumped and in mid air kicked the pumpkin creature in the head, squashing it against the tree. Luna grabbed a branch mid air and her other foot connected with the tree, catching herself on the tree.

Luna turned her focus to her other enemy, and what she saw was his backside as he was trying to flee. Luna wanted to spare it but that would be dangerous as it could hurt a defenseless traveler or warn other creatures and come back with a horde or a pack of stronger creatures. She let go of the tree with one hand as she pointed her middle and index fingers at the creature, and a sliver of dark energy gathered before she stretched her two fingers "Lesser dark bolt!" as a bolt of energy got shot out and hit the demonic pumpkin in the back of the head, exploding the creature. Taking a deep breath, Luna jumped off the tree as she knew what was about to happen. Starting from her finger tips, the black skin turned back to normal all the way up to her shoulders.

Luna bit down her the sleeve of her qipao as she screamed in intense pain. Afterwards, she made a fist in her hand several times to make sure she was alright. She looked up as the dragon descended down, hoping for some answers for once. "Alright, I am just gonna say I may be out of my league for what comes next. What did you see? I predict that we may just be downwind from the actual source, but don't quote me on that." She didn't know what to expect, but she was glad that integrating the spores once seemed to shield her from it's effects. However she suspected many people weren't as lucky, meaning she didn't know how many able bodied mages could handle the source of all this darkness. Feeling up to the task, she deemed herself mandated to solve this matter. "Look, you've done well, no one would blame you if you left. But..." Luna tensed up as she felt ashamed asking a dragon for help, she knew that humans and dragons often didn't have the best relationship which can often depict humans as the villain for dubbing them beasts.

"If you could lend your strength to the cause, I'd be greatly in your debt. I'm sorry if I offended you prior to clearing through the haze I was in, I am greatly ashamed on many levels." It was at this point Luna tried to remember anything before integrating the spores and after some flashes of the various bars. It was at this point Luna realized, she had screwed up all over town royally.

WC 702
HP: 255/300
MP: 161/300

“Come now, there’s no need to speak that way.” Spoke Asteris after Luna had asked for his aid. “Even if you didn’t join in the fight, even if you didn’t ask, I was still on my way on dealing with this entire thing.” Asteris tapped a claw against the ground in thought. “It might’ve taken a lot longer for me to find and fight through the fodder but I was still going to deal with all this. Having company of a competent mage just means that this can be done in a faster rate than what was being expected. Why, originally I thought that the moon was the cause of all this and I wanted to go punch it!” Asteris jokingly shared and let out a loud laugh, tail impacting hard against the ground as he did so. “Apologies aren’t needed for what your...magically differently behaviored self said.” He slowed in the middle of the sentence and carefully said the last few words as the string of words to describe the woman moments ago took some thinking to come up with. “Know that not all dragons are as gracious as me, and we have struck down others for slights of the same level or less.”

“As for what I saw,” Asteris turned to face the direction of Oak Town. “I reached the peak of my flight and saw a towering monstrosity rise in the town of Oak.”A plant creature, with many heads seems to have made itself home there.” A toothy grin formed itself on Asteris’ face. “I intend to uproot that weed and tear it asunder.” With those words said, his large feathered wings began to move. “Human, just for tonight, you are welcome to ride upon the back of the mighty Aurageyser Dragon, you may climb on.” He offered Luna. “Feel free to accept or decline at your leisure, but do be quick about it” Regardless of whether or not she accepts his offer of transportation, Asteris would take to the air and speed towards the town.

The closer he got the more detail he could see about the creature. It towered over the dragon by a sheer amount. It’s main mass was made of thick brown and twisting vines. Nested in the gaps between the vines were nine heads made of pumpkin, with faces twisted into the shapes of grim smiles, anguished screams, and anger. One head sat at the top of this towering plant monster, Asteris couldn’t quite put a finger on it but it looked a little different from the rest of the heads.

“Return from whence you came foul construction of nature and darkness!” WIth a yell he fired a high speed ball of aura magic at one of the heads on the body. The ball impacted a head and its face turned into a mocking smile. “Why you!” Another sphere formed and fired at the same head. This time the head morphed into a frown. “Ha! That’ll teach you to mock a dragon!”

WC: 2040/1000
300/300 HP
275 /375 MP
36/60 SHD

9 Heads Total HP: 2565/2700

To hear the dragon not blaming her for anything was something that eased the situation for the young mage. Luna nodded after taking in all the details from the dragon's report, figuring it made some deal of sense given that the Squashed Nightmares were demon like plants that the source of the problem would follow a similar theme. Having the same objective made things easier, Luna was grateful to find an ally considering she nearly spent half her magic already. She quickly climbed the dragon and held onto a spike at the back of his collar. As the dragon took flight, the powerful wind in her eyes was nearly too much at first as she was squinting, but her eyes soon adjusted as the dragon took flight.

The sight of the towering demonic plant given Luna mixed feelings as she wanted to know more about it, however at the same time she knew it had to go. She watched as Asteris handed one of the heads, however she then tried to gaze at the base to see if it could be used as a weak spot, however the roots seemed too strong and rooted to be worth it. She counted the ten heads, and started to hypothesize the weakpoints. Before she could discuss anything with the dragon, she noticed the reaction of two heads. It was at this point the reaction started to set off some ideas for Luna, who started to run up the neck of the jade dragon and jumped off it's head as two heads started to spit flaming seeds in attempt to flank the dragon. Luna swiped her arms as she collected as many seeds as possible mid air with her hands before quickly throwing them back. "Reverse Counter! In this whole motion as she was throwing back the seed, her skin quickly turned red. However her shoulders, elbows, hair, and knees seemed to ignite on fire as her eyes turned from jade to blazing orange. 'Full Integration'.

Hitting the higher of the two targets with her foot, she springed herself higher. Opening the capsule strapped to her side, she pulled out the Stone of the world out of the storage unit before springing herself up and doing a roll as she clenched the stone. Kicking one leg down as she rolled, a massive flame started to catch and form as she shot herself straight down. "Advanced integration art! Flame Uproar!" Luna's strike connected and cut through both the stems connecting the two pumpkin heads to the vine, and cauterized them. Catching herself by grabbing the vines, she called out to her dragonic ally. "It appears these beings have a tight weak spot being their heads, they're connected by stems at the back." Feeling her magic in tight reserve, she knew she had to end things as quickly as possible. Since it would be a pain for her to get higher, and possibly annoying for the dragon to go lower, Luna decided to take a slight deal of leadership but she presumed the dragon was potentially on the same page. "Dragon! I think it's safe to say we need to end this quickly, divide and conquer. I'll go lower, you go high!

Luna put the stone of the world away in her capsule before she focused on the bottom three heads, preparing a calculated move to end them in a single strike. She knew she had to end them in less then two, otherwise she couldn't afford to keep up with the Asteris in finishing off the nightmare.

WC 592
TWC 2018

HP: 255
MP:46/300

7 heads remaining

Asteris nodded at Luna, both to acknowledge her competence in being able to deal with the situation they were currently in and to acknowledge that he heard her. “Got it, I’ll take the high ones!” He agreed to her plan, seeing nothing wrong with it. Without a passenger, Asteris could perform aerial maneuvers without worry. He circled around the tower once, looking for heads higher up on the tower and began formulating a plan of attack. “Let’s see, weak point, weak point, weak point…” He muttered to himself as he eyed the many pumpkin heads on the body of the monster. “The stems are the weak point...the stems…it’ll take too long...HA!” Two ideas popped into his head.

But his ascent was not unobstructed however. As he began his climb the head began to fire seeds at both him and Luna. His bulwark flared to life once more, soaking up the the damage from the seeds. He stopped his descent and looked in concern at his human ally for the fight, worried that she might get hurt from this barrage. Then he looked back to the sky and continued his ascent towards the night sky.

His large body was obscured by the constant rain of black dust and clouds but he wasn’t looking for height. Once he deemed that he was high enough he began to dive in the direction of the monster. He accelerated as he dove towards it. There was no wind to be felt as he dove, his Aura shielded him from the wind as he zeroed in on a the mass of vines that made up its body. Each passing second he spent in this dive brought him closer, made him faster. If he could not pull this off correctly then he would impact against the creature headfirst, something that he had not done since he was a hatchling.

Before he could enter the range of it’s thrashing vines, Asteris disappeared using his Aura Phase. Now intangible and invisible he passed through the whipping vines and the exterior of the mass of vines. Still with his momentum, he cast two spells from inside the tower, cancelling his Aura Phase. “Aura Dragon’s…” The volume of his voice made his yell echo out of the Pumpkin Tower. He braced for impact as he cast the two spells he needed for the plan. “Landing!” His Aura flared. “Entrance!” He could feel his shield break and a flood of pain to fill his senses as the combined force of his spells and his momentum smashed into the Pumpkin Tower like a vengeful dragon shaped meteor.

From outside, a burst of light exploded out of the seams between Pumpkin Tower’s vine body as it shook uncontrollably. There was a pause as it’s faces morphed into one of horror as the tower began to toppled over onto an empty street, it’s own body crushing several of its own heads. Asteris crawled out of the mass of vines, hurt and tired. “Take that you...you...thing!” He declared, proud of his achievement.

WC: 2547/1000
100/300 HP
225 /375 MP
0/60 SHD

1 Head + 10th Head remaining.

Luna couldn't believe the power that the dragon was in possession of as he took out the dragon from within the demon itself. Luna counted the heads gone, and noticed that the two left where the one on top and the one at the bottom. Looking at the one on top, she started to notice that without the other pumpkin heads distracting her that the top one appeared to have a thicker attachment with a thick base as opposed to a stem like the other heads. She speculated that that head was most vital. She had no time to think about that for now, sliding down the vines as the dragon knocked over the tree, sh jamming her flaming elbow into the vine as her once jade now blazing amber eyes remained focused on the goal as she slid down, leaving a burnt divide in the vine as she used it to stop herself from crippling speed, hoping to use the severing of the last stem to break her speed. However after her feet severed the vine, her calculations were off as her speed was not stopped significantly enough before landing on the roots. She felt a massive shock from her feet to her shoulders as she hit the ground. "Son of a death wyvern! That hurt!"

However she knew she could've focus on herself as the final head started to scream loudly an almost ear bleeding screech. Luna could tell the dragon might need a little assitance, however Luna knew she was running out of mana. Luna pulled out a black handle with a red crystal, pressing the crystal extended a whip of fire. Hoping she trained enough with it, she whipped up and pierced the vine with the tip. Running up to the vine, she jumped on top of the vine, and kept running on top, while holding her whip just in case the creature had more tricks up it's sleeve, until she managed to climb up to the nape of the neck.

Pulling out the stone of the world, she tossed it up into the air and whipped it, attaching it to the tip of the flaming whip, engulfing it in a ball of flame that expanded and formed spikes. Luna then pulled down quickly and repeated, breaking into the vine stump connecting the lead head to the vine. However the stress of the day started to catch up to her as her magic was starting to wear off, her skin ceased flaming and her natural colors started to return before she suddenly fell to her knees in intense pain before falling off the vine.  Luna manged to mumble as her flaming whip retracted, her the stone of world attached at the end of the rod. "Well, I knew Integration would be the death of me..."

WC 463
TWC 2481

HP 225
MP 76/300

“Still not dead yet?” The mage dragon muttered as he slowly brought himself airborne once again, dragging his body out of the mass of vines. “Foolish, you should have given up and waited for death to take you.” His shields burst to life in all its colorful glory to eat up the damage of the scream. Asteris was determined to finish the creature once and for all, just to get all of this over with. The reason for this was since his Aura had been taken out of commission with his last attack some of the black dust had managed to seep in between his scales, it had also been breathed in too. Asteris had seen the effect of this powder on Luna and he didn’t want to know what effect it might have on him. “Death comes for all.”

Suddenly the area became silent, at least it was to Asteris. His shadow convulsed and twisted madly under an unknown power before it rose up into a thin wall of black mass. Out of the pane came a simple scythe, it’s handle black and sleek and it’s blade wickedly sharp and shiny. What followed it out was it’s wielder, it’s figure like that of a wraith. A tattered cloak and hood covering the featureless black mist that made up the Shinigami’s body. “Old friend…” The reaper turn to look at Asteris and then the fallen Pumpkin Tower. “Sorry, I don’t call for your aid often, will you help me finish this thing?” It nodded, tendrils of black mist reaching out to grab the scythe before holding it as if ready to cleave everything it came across.

Together the duo of dangerous mythical creatures charged for the last head of the Pumpkin Tower, with the reaper quickly catching Luna before she fell and placing her on the ground gently. Through the screaming and without any other defense, the duo of Asteris and the reaper began to beat down the wailing head with a combination of spells from Asteris and swings of the scythe from the Shinigami until finally the dead was no more and silence reigned supreme again. The vines began to retract slowly into the ground until the only evidence it was ever there was the torn up ground that it stood on. “Thank you. You may go now.” The Shinigami had already disappeared.

Asteris curled up in the space that the monster used to occupy and began to feel sleepy.

WC: 2959/1000
WC: 2547/1000
100/300 HP
55 /375 MP
0/60 SHD

As the vines were retreating, Luna gathered her strength as she stood back up and focused her efforts towards the dragon that decided to relish in it's victory. Blood trickling down from her lips to her chin as she could feel her own insides as if they were burnt and healed back and repeat. How she was violently removed from the integrated state soon became clear, the flaming seeds didn't possess enough fire to sustain the full state for a significant amount of time.

Putting her items away, she walked through the wreckage and approached the dragon, she walked to Asteris's head before sitting against the massive dragons body. She too was very drained from the experience, taking a few deep breaths before talking to the dragon. "Ya, quite the night. I think I'm starting to remember... Everything. Oh goodness, sorry about how I initially addressed you Asteris."

Rubbing the side of the snout she was leaned against with the back of her hand, Luna started to appreciate the dragon. Checking reality, she wouldn't have been able to accomplish this without his help, and as far as personalities go, aside from her drunken babble she seemed to get along just fine. She heard tales that this is the way mages make friends, and she would enjoy knowing this dragon more.  Pulling out her ilac  she zoomed out, considerably as she stretched out her arm and inverted the camera, snapping a picture of her and the dragon before a thought had crossed her mind."Do you have an iLac number?"

She wanted this to be more then just a one off encounter as she put away her iLac. However the idea hit her since the dragon seemed to not belong to any guild from what she saw, and she had memories of another dragon in Crystal Swan, this might seem to work out well. "In my guild, we accept everyone. In fact we have a dragon in the guild as well. A black healing dragon, a little smaller then you. We're all inclusive and driven to seek out knowledge. You said at the beginning this spore stuff disturbed your slumber, sounds like you live a lonely existence, I can, relate."

Luna leaned back on the snout and turned her head slightly to gaze the dragon with a warm smile as she wanted to extend her hand figuratively to the dragon. "If you are looking for work to get jewels, or just want comrades, come join the guild." However, Luna figured that she should get to the point she want to make instead of beating around the bush, if there was any left after the disaster that happened. "Ultimately, I pray this is not the last time we meet.I know my drunken state earlier might have, been, well, enough said there. I hope we can meet again."

WC 474
TWC 2955/2000