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Chapter 9 City deep within the sands

  As they stepped off the last step, the party was at first

  mesmerized by the overwhelming beauty of the city.

  There where two streams on each side of the city flowing

  down towards the well. An assortment of flowerbed on

  each windowsill of every house. The colors of the flowers

  were deep, and made your very soul feel calm. The sent of

  cinnamon filled the air, and the dirt roads that lead to the

  entry way of each house had peppermint growing on each

  side. You could tell from the barely visible wood panels

  on each side, that their roots were boxed in as to not

  spread everywhere. There were birds of many colors

  flying from tree top to tree top. Their song gave your

  mind peace. Music could be heard coming from the

  center of the city. The melody was that of a piano, and

  the voice of to young woman sang to that melody.

  The party was silent as they listened to the music.

  It took them a little while before they even realized they

  had now become accustomed to the sensation of being

  upside down, and no longer felt the pressure of the

  blood flowing to their heads.

  Temple was the first to speak any words. “This is amazing!

  it reminds me of when I was twelve, and my family took

  my brother and I on a vacation, in a small town which was

  having a music festival.” Willow was the next to say what

  was on her mind. “It reminds me of the time a tried to learn

  how to play the harp, though a gave up before I could even

  play a single song.” Wave looked over at Shadow who

  seemed to be almost dancing to the uplifting melodies.

  “Aw, how cute!” Violet’s words left her mouth before

  she could even think about what she said. Violet’s face

  turned red from how embarrassed she felt, after saying

  that so loudly. No one could seem to understand why

  Violet seemed so embarrassed.

  Sky passes his hand through one of the streams, before

  pointing out what should have been obvious. “Hey guys

  how are neither of these streams falling to the ground?”

  It took the party about five minutes before they could

  comprehend what it was that Sky was getting at. “The

  water is likely magnetic as well.” Aurora trying to

  come up with the best answer, replied. Wave looks

  at everyone before speaking with a shocked tone.

  “Magnetic water, whoever heard of such a thing.”

  Violet took out one of her canteens and motions to

  Wave. “Why not test that theory with some iron.”

  Wave pulls out some iron from his backpack.

  Violet pours out some of the water, as Wave brings

  the iron under it. Sure enough they iron is pulled

  upwards through magnetism, and prevents anymore

  water from falling out of the canteen.

  Willow, Sky, Aurora, and Temple are in aw at the

  event that just took place. “So it really is magnetic!”

  Willow excitedly throws these words from her mouth

  with a huge grin on her face afterwards. Willow pulls

  the iron off of the canteen and starts to drink some

  of the magnetic water. Everyone else in the party

  has the very same thought, aside from Temple who

  has just meet the party. (That is Willow for you.)

  A man arrives behind their party. “I see, you are enjoying

  our water.” The man chuckles to them. The party is looking

  down at his feet, there is nothing on them. “How is he not

  falling to the ground right now?” Wave whispers to everyone.

  No one has an answer or at least they do not have one at this

  moment. “It has been about nine years since we last had

  any visitors. Come along I will introduce you to our city

  workers.” The man gestures for them to follow him. The

  party does not see any harm in doing so, and with that

  they head deeper into the city.

  “This here is our cow farm, we use it to make milk as

  well as some meat.” The man leads them around the cow

  farm. “Do you think we will be able to buy some meat

  from them Violet?” Willow’s words leave Violet thinking.

  (I beat I could cook these cows with a nice bonfire.) Violet

  politely nods to Willow. “Yeah I think we should be able to

  once we are able to explore on our own.” Wave notice just

  Before Violet answering Willow’s question she was fiddling

  with an empty match box. ( I have some idea about what

  Was on Violets mind at the time.) Wave goes over all the

  possible scenarios in his head.

  “This here is the tailors, the owner is a woman in her

  twenty's, and she makes some of the best clothing

  using the silk from sheep duck feathers. I must let

  you all know though that her supplies have been

  running low as of late.” The man shows them one

  of the articles of clothing he had mentioned, and

  Motions them all to touch it. The piece of clothing

  feels soft like petting a dog, and looks like it will

  dry quickly if it becomes wet.

  “This is one of the best places in town, our bakery

  offers one piece of each baked good, free every

  day, meaning if you want to have more of the

  Same item you will have to pay for it.” This

  prospect of getting a bunch of free food everyday

  made the party understand why the man had said

  It was the best place in the city.

  Willow stomach growled. A family of a young

  woman, her husband and their two girls came out

  from behind the counter. “Here miss, this is our stores

  lemon, apple caramel, cake.” One of the girls offering

  Willow a piece. Willow took a bite. The sour of the lemon,

  mixed with the smooth taste of the apple, was farther

  complemented by the sweetness of the caramel, and then there

  was the soft rich texture of the cake itself, which all just melted

  in her mouth. “So how is it Willow.” Wave laughing to himself

  while watching her face being stuffed with

  the cake.

  “More please!” Willow’s words could

  almost not be made out by anyone. “Sorry, one of

  each item per customer is free, then you half to

  pay if you want the same thing.” The girl to the

  opposite side of the one who passed her the cake said.

  Willow was disappointed, but then asked. “What else

  may I have for free today?” The mother smirks. “I got

  just the treat for you.” The woman goes to the bake

  of the store and brings back a cookie, which is topped

  with ice cream. “This is our banana oatmeal delight.”

  Willow takes a small bite before shoving the whole

  cookie into her mouth. The taste of the banana ice cream

  blends well with the dark chocolate chips, and the oatmeal

  that has a small hint of ginger and cinnamon.

  The rest of the party soon tries some of the free food.

  Wave gets a piece of chocolate that is filled with raspberries

  and has a light orange cream. Sky tries a piece of their cheese

  cake, which on the end has a crust that is made from carrot

  Cake. Violet tries some french vanilla, cheery pie. The crust

  itself is made with vanilla, while the rest is a normal cherry

  pie.

  Temple gets so cinnamon buns, which are topped with

  a sweet blueberry ice cream. Willow is now spending

  almost all her quartz to buy a large amount of each

  baked good.

  “This is the location of our blacksmith’s, it has not

  been in use for the past two years, well at least not

  to make weapons anyways.” The party could not

  help but wonder the reason it was no longer in being

  used for weapon creation, after the man ended his

  sentence.

  “You see that there, we use alchemy at that shop, although

  right now we only sell the items, since the only person who

  could produce results with alchemy has died last year ” The

  man’s voice seemed to indicate his feelings of melancholy.

  The party’s next words were sympathetic. “We are sorry

  for your loss.” The man looks at them before saying. “I

  have had plenty of time to grieve, though a lot of the

  people in the city have still not got over her death.”

  Everyone is silent for a short while, they want to

  pay respect to the one who has died.

  “Here we come to the herbal garden, that there is

  Our green house to keep a wide variety of herbs

  available, to all our city people.” Wave could

  hardly hold back his excitement upon seeing

  all the herbs in the green house in front of them.

  “Follow me inside, because you see I have

  brought you to my home.” The man turns

  the key to his house and leads them inside.

  The party is brought to a single room, an

  the man shuts the door behind himself. “This is my office,

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  for you see I am the mayor of this city, my name is Northern

  by the way.” The introduction is cut short, when a woman enters

  the room with a pitcher of lemonade, and enough glasses for

  everyone. “I hope you enjoy the lemonade my wife has made

  for us, Southern seems to know just the right ratio for sugar

  and lemon.” The man’s words seem to be an implied

  thank you to his wife. Southern leaves the office.

  “You may have noticed that a lot of places in the city

  are either close down, or are running low on supplies.”

  The man waits for the party to indicate that they understood

  before continuing. “Well I have a request for you, the bridge

  that leads to the hunting grounds has collapsed three years ago,

  and no one seems to remember how to build one that does

  not just get pulled into the river below. Do you think you

  could help us with this task?” The party talks it over

  before agreeing to build the bridge.

  The party had no idea what the city passport was for, but

  they had a pretty good idea as to the use of the ring of magnetic

  flow. With that the party went to buy supplies for the bridge.

  Willow purchased some rope nets, to make use of her net

  skill in a more unique way. Violet bought a bunch of wooden

  fence pieces, and was also about to use her skill in a unique

  way. Temple purchased a bunch of screws. Wave was with

  her when she was making the purchase. The shop owner

  had the screws floating between his two hands, when he

  removed his bottom hand, the screws came flying towards

  Temple and himself, they just barley had time to duck.

  “Sorry I forgot visitors are not like us, and can not just

  put up their hands in response.” The shop owner gives his

  apologizes to the two of them, and even gives a slight discount.

  The party finds the location of the old bridge. It is located over

  a canyon like area, with water flowing deep at the bottom.

  “Why do you think their attempts to build a bridge keep failing?”

  Wave is directing her question at Willow. “No idea.” Willow

  sighs.

  Wave hammers in two pieces of wooden fence, to form a peg

  on each side. Willow ties a part of her rope net to each end.

  Violet starts to place pieces of wooden fence inside the net

  in a weaving fashion. Temple screws in the screws to the wood

  and rope, in order for it to hold longer. The final product is a

  very strong and sturdy rope bridge. Wave starts to levitate and

  grabs another two pieces of wooden fence to make pegs on the

  other side of the canyon. Wave hammers them into the ground

  as well. He heads back to the other side to grab on side of the

  rope bridge, while Aurora grabs the other. Sky picks up Temple

  and they all levitate to the other side. They tie the bridge rope

  to the pegs, while temple screws them in tightly.

  While letting go of the rope both Aurora and Wave feel

  a strong tug. Once their hands are no longer on the rope,

  the bridge is pulled deeply into the canyon and hits the

  water. “Of course every thing here is magnetic, no wonder

  they could never build another bridge!” Wave shouts angrily.

  “There should be some solution, other wise we would not

  Have been able to take on the quest in the first place.” Temple

  says to Wave trying to calm him down. “For now how about

  we go back to the city and restock on supplies for the bridge?”

  Sky suggest to the party. Everyone seems to agree, but then

  Willow makes an alarming statement. “Sorry but I have zero

  Quartz.” There is a long awkward silence, before they had

  into the city.

  The rest of the party buys the same supplies they had got

  before, and then came to a decision on what to do about

  Willow’s end of supplies. Violet to the group. “How about

  one of us spends some of our quarts for the nets, that Willow

  should be buying?” “No, the burden should not be on just

  one of us.” Sky answers her. “So we should all pool our

  Quartz together, then have Willow be in our debt?” Wave

  Infers to Sky’s meaning. Temple looks at them all. “Yeah

  I think that is what he means.” Sky nods to indicate that it

  is indeed what he had meant. With that the party pools

  together and buy the needed net. They inform Willow

  that she will have to pay them back at some point.

  They are now all back at the canyon. “How are we going

  to resolve the problem of the magnetic pull?” Willow has

  a puzzled expression while asking everyone this question.

  “Hey Temple did you buy any spare screws from the shop?”

  Wave waits for Temple to answer him. “Yeah I did, but is

  it that important?” “Maybe, give me two, I have a theory.”

  Temple passes two of the screws she bought to Wave so

  that he could test his theory. The party watches as one

  of Wave’s fingers suddenly has a small spark on it.

  Wave places this finger over one of the screws.

  The party finds this strange, but what they do not

  know, is that Wave is currently using spark and spark

  flow to change the magnetic polarity of this one screw.

  Wave has now changed the magnetic polarity. Wave

  Holds the changed screw, just against the other screw.

  The screw is hurled forwards towards the other party

  Members. Temple sees a familiar seen taking place

  and ducks immediately. It takes the rest of the party

  members to catch on, but they mange to dodge it, well

  most of them anyways. Aurora had almost dogged, but

  did not mange to get far enough. Blood dripped down

  from the scratch to her cheek. “Wave sit for a minute.”

  Wave followed Aurora’s request without even thinking

  about it. Wave got up after sixty seconds had passed.

  Temple did not understand at all what just happened.

  “You see I think I can do the same thing to the part

  of the bridge that will be over the water.” “Why not

  the whole bridge?” Aurora asks Wave after his clear

  Statement. “No it would just all fly upwards if I did

  that to the whole bridge.” After telling Aurora that, he

  first changed the polarity of all the fence pieces, then

  only the center of the net portion of the bridge. Like

  Before they levitated over to the other side and tied

  and screwed the rope to the fence pegs. Wave’s theory

  Worked really well. The party tested the bridge several

  Times. Only the party members that had levitate tested

  It just to be safe. Once they were satisfied, they head

  back to Northern and Southern’s home.

  The party was offered some more lemonade, while they

  waited for Northern to return. “So how did the bridge

  building go?” Northern waits patiently for them to answer

  him. Instead of answering him they motion for him to follow

  Them. They lead him to the newly built bridge. Northern

  Walks across the bridge. “You have done such a great

  Deed to this city, please take these as our thank you.”

  with the mayor’s words they had now completed the quest.

  The party knows that their new rings will be vital

  The next time they come here. They will more then

  likely be coming back her thanks to the city passport.

  Now that the bridge can be used the party starts to

  explore the other side. The first thing they find is

  A clear meadow, which is likely were the tailor

  use to get their supplies. Next they come to a cave

  which is clearly marked with a sign that clearly

  has the words mine written on it. “Do you think

  the blade can be in the mine?” Willow asks, with

  most of the question directed at Wave. “I doubt

  It.” Wave replies to her. “Then where might it

  be?” Temple’s tone seems to indicate that she is

  confused and deep in thought. None of the party

  Members can come up with an answer.

  The party continues to walk around until they

  come to a bunch of tall trees. “Are those woods?”

  Aurora wants to know. “They might be or they

  could be a jungle.” Violet coughs will trying to

  Answer her. “It must be in here then!” Sky shouts

  Surprising everyone. “Oh you mean the blade right?”

  “Lets go inside them then.” Wave word seem like

  they agree with what Sky and Temple just said.

  Entering the tree covered area, the party is surrounded

  by large pink moths, which are about three times their size.

  Temple hurls some boulders at them, which allows the rest

  of the party to dived into groups of three. Sky, Shadow, and

  Violet are in one group. Aurora, and Willow are in another.

  While Wave remains with Temple.

  Wave gets standard lightning ready as soon as he

  sees that Temples boulders are about to come down.

  Striking each moth in one wing with his lightning,

  they are set off balance. Temple pulls out a bow and

  places a quiver on to her back. The bow seems different

  to the ones he normally sees. The bow string is much

  thicker, and the wooden part if the bow has a much

  rounder tip at each end. Wave also notices at the center

  of the bow it seems to be engraved much like if you

  had put a ring around it. He then notice that the strings

  center seems like it is woven together, but in such a way

  that if it was pulled to the side and not the back it would

  come apart. Temple has shot the moths in front of them.

  “Look out behind you Temple.” With Wave’s warning

  Temple quickly turns around. Instead of drawing an

  arrow from her quiver, Temple grabs the bow at the

  center with each hand at the location of the ring like

  carving. Temple pulls up and the opposite direction

  with each hand. Pulling up the wooden part of the bow

  Splits it into two pieces. The pulling away undoes

  the woven string it it is now in two pieces as well.

  The site is kind of like unfastening a none lace shoe.

  What is now in Temple’s hands are two whips that

  She uses to finish off the moths behind her.

  Aurora and Willow create some shadow steam

  for both cover and damage to the moths they are

  Fighting. Willow takes out her knife and jumps

  Up to stab one of the moths in the stomach. Aurora

  Launches an ice spear at the moth just behind the

  one Willow is attacking. This ice spear is created

  from her new standard ice skill.

  Shadow and Sky are ducking for cover from all

  The fireballs being hurled at that moths from Violet’s

  sword. When ever they spot one on the ground they use

  their pet skill to finish the flaming moth off.

  Having cleared away all the moths the party continues

  To walk deeper into the jungle/forest. They still have

  yet to figure out which it is. The party arrives at a

  Clearing. Just as they enter the clearing the trees

  behind them fall to the ground blocking their

  way back. In fact trees have fallen blocking all

  other possible paths.

  The party can hear rustling in the tree tops.

  With out warning, aside from the rustling, a

  Lizard the size of an elephant jumps down from

  The tree top, and lands in the very center of the

  Clearing. The lizard is a pale blue, with pink strips.

  It sticks out its tongue, which is a dark pink with

  a green strip. Oh make that two tongues, each the same

  color and thickness. The hissing sound coming from

  the tongues clearly showing its aggressiveness.

  The party lifts their weapons up to fight. The lizard

  suddenly has a glowing steam like fog around its

  body. The party is being dragged towards the lizard.

  Not sure as to why at first, but then Wave figures it

  Out and quickly puts his claws into his backpack.

  “Everyone put away your metallic weapons.” Wave’s

  warning is to late and Willow and Violets sword and

  Knife are hurled towards the lizard. The lizard catches

  Them with each of its tongues.

  There is not much the party can do about being sucked

  in, as taking of their boots would make them hit the ceiling.

  Once the party is close enough the lizard swings both weapons,

  using its tongues as hands. Violet gets hit with one of her own

  swords fireballs. Sky was in between both the knife and sword

  so he got slashed with both. Shadow only got hit with the knife

  since he was on the opposite side of Sky.

  Upon seeing what was happening, all of the party

  members who could use levitate are now floating

  In the air. “What should we do to help the rest?”

  Wave waits for someone to answer him. Aurora

  responds. “I do not know, but at least the lizard

  can not reach us from up here.” No one was sure if it

  heard what she said, but suddenly the lizard jumped

  up and tackled Willow to the ground. Everyone was

  in shock after that. Due to the body weight of the

  lizard, not only did Willow take massive damage but her

  breath started to drop. Willow unleashed a standard shadow

  flame so that the lizard would get off from on top of her.

  This only lowered her Aura farther and she only had about

  20 aura left. The lizard did get off of her though.

  Lucky for Willow it wen after Violet, but to her shock,

  The lizard suddenly turned around and swung Violet’s

  Sword which made a fireball head directly towards her.

  Temple jumped in the way but she was also low on health.

  With that Temple was now a corpse.

  They had to finish this off quickly, other wise Willow and

  Temple would be sent back to their re-spawn points. Temple

  had already used up a lot of her energy fighting the moths.

  None of the party members knew what would happen to a

  pet if it died. They have all become really dependent on Shadow.

  He only had about thirty percent of his life left.

  Not knowing what to do Wave launched himself at the

  Lizard and was being pulled in by the magnetic force of his

  Boots. Wave did not care anymore he would risk it all. Wave

  covered his entire body in standard lightning, then remembering

  what he had seen Sky do some many times before, attacked with

  a combination of kicks and punches. This was still not enough, he

  covered each of his fingers with a spark, after remembering how

  Aurora had made her frost punch. The attack was not finished

  With that either Wave filled his mouth with basic lightning, as he

  Bit down into the lizards skin. As he punched he released his

  Spark filled fingers and scratch just like he had seen Shadow

  rip apart enemies with his claws. Thinking back to the earlier

  Battle with the moths, Wave mixed spark, basic lightning, and

  standard lightning down has hands and arms, and started to

  use them like whips.

  The lizard was stunned from the electricity and could not

  get away from Wave’s retaliation. The attack continued

  Until the lizard was dead.

  Wave was stunned after getting the last message, but

  the next one finally popped up.

  The party continues forwards in the opposite direction from

  where they had entered. They continue to walk through more

  Trees until they come to another clearing. This one has a bed

  of blue and purple roses. Just in the middle after getting

  Past a few rose thorns the party finds what it is they are

  looking for.

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