Search for Atlantis

[Midnightmoon]

Pyrhos gave the orange dragon hard look while he mulled over the new information. "They seam sinseer." "And yet they are holding." "As he said, it would be better if we didn't know everything." "For what reason?" "That reason is their own. We have secrets too, we don't have to disclose them do we?" Saratheen took a little while to respond. "Ok then, I see your point." "I'll take first watch." Pyhros turned his attention back to the dragon pair. "Fair enough about the information sharing. We should talk about what your plans are for the near future, though, in the morning."

Dinara sat down across from the bonds. The ice armor was gone now and only stray drips of water from the river remained. "That went well." Dinara smiled over to Fireheart

[Nohiki]

"That was my intention. I'm ok with telling them more about Dragon essence if they ask, but they can't get to know how we traveled here. That portal gate we've used... Well if i said me and Sol'Lux created it then let me repair myself. We fixed it. But it was there already. It's a mean of transport left probably by the Elemental dragons themselves, or somebody close in power to them. My guess is that there's one on every planet including Earth. And because Earth is the home planet and the others are colonies, there might be a... manual, which can tell us how to get there. About that submerged city part, i'm not so sure, but if it is, i'm useless. You may have taught me swimm but i can't hold my breath for more than few seconds not to mention stand the pressure. But i don't want to put you at risk. If it is snunk on the bottom of the ocean, it's your call if we proceed." he thought to her. His imagination let itself loose and he thought about Dinara being crushed, eaten or something else. He shook his head and never wanted to imagine something like that ever again.

[Midnightmoon]

"I thought I proved I was stronger then I looked last time. Do I have to do it again? If we had to go underwater then I'll just collect up oxygen in the water and make a bubble around your head. Though your right about the air pressure, there is only so deep I could take you and only so deep i could go. In any case we'll just have to ask around for anything about it." Dinara looked back at Pyrhos, "So it would seem in all this action it slipped our minds to give our names. My name is Dinara."

[Nohiki]

"And I'm Fireheart." he said and went to check out the perimeter. "What the?" he said when an ostrich ran from the forest right in front of him. "Was... Was that some kind of bird? I've never seen anything closely similar to this. It looks.... Good tasting." he asked.

[Midnightmoon]

"My name is Pyhros Infer Ferona. This is Saratheen. And those ostriches mostly run around the open prairies of the wind clan. We are currently in their territory and considering that there are some of those running around we must be close to open ground." "They have some meat on them, just not enough for dragons." Pyhros then went a little ways into the forest and came back with a armful of dried branches. He assembled half of them in a pit Saratheen made, then the dragon blew a whisp over to start the fire going.

[Nohiki]

Fireheart had a sudden urge to show the Earthers the elemental power of the dragons from fifth colony. He could have sustain a fireplace like that for weeks without noticing and without the use of any wood, but he stuck to the nondisclosure agreement, and the scale of their element control was sure a matter of this. "I think i'll pass." he said and opened his bag. He pulled out some herbs and offered some to Dinara. "Don't worry, these taste far better than Ivy's."

[Midnightmoon]

Dinara gave him a suspicious look and was still giving him a suspicious look when she popped them all in her mouth. Giving him a watered down glare she said, "They still don't taste like sugar, either."

"What's with the leaves?" Saratheen asked as Pyrhos took some food out of the saddle.

"Leaves from our own planet. We have dragons, usually earth dragons, who have studied them and can use them to boost energy, heal wounds, create antidotes, and sorts. I wouldn't be suprised if you guys had the stuff around."

[Nohiki]

"Though they might have entirely different effect on you. Wanna try?" he said and swung the leaves in front of the dragoness. "If you like sugar you're gonna love this." he said and passed a ball shaped fruit of a size of human fist to all of them. "It's a continental fruit. As i said before, mostly humans live there, some even enemy of the dragons but the isolation of our island prevents any conflict. The water and air dragon's usually don't allow ships with such humans to get much close. However try to stop a dragon from getting to your land. I've traveled all across our world, but this is surely the best thing i've ever eaten." he said and put the ball in his mouth. The fruit dissolved like it was made from layers, each tasting differently and never the same.

[Midnightmoon]

Saratheen gave it all back with a weird look at the fruit and a more weary one at the leaves. "No thank you. I'll stick with the meal I'll catch in the morning." Dinara on the other hand took it and took a tentative bite, seeing as the last thing Fireheart gave her wasn't a thing like sugar. After the first bite the last was swallowed down a few seconds later. Pyhros took the fruit but slipped a little vial out and held it readily concealed in his free hand as he took a bite. After a few slow chews and a pause he put the vial back and continued to eat the fruit.

[Nohiki]

Fireheart laid down finally. "Feels safe." he said and fell asleep in a second. in his dreams he always could think in other ways. Some day he solved the problem, but the other didn't remember a thing. Now he was dreaming about the sunken city. Suddenly, he saw a map and a cross on it. He woke up from this dream and realized it was morning. "What the?"

[Midnightmoon]

"'What the' indee-aah-d." Dinara yawn. "You were shivering in your sleep right before the sun came up." Dinara yawned again, and stretched. "Could if be because of our companions?" Dinara tilted her head at the implied companions, being the holograms who were still asleep on the ground. "You ok energy wise? Seeing as you are sustaining these holograms and teleported us across the galaxy."

Pyhros was already up, stoking the fire to get it burning brightly again. Saratheen wasn't anywhere to be seen.

[Nohiki]

"Those holograms are quite ok if they are static. And the portal gate did the teleportation. IT might be a good time to explain how it works. See, the longer the portal travel is not instant, although it might seem so while traveling on Dragon Essence, it's because it is a small distance by comparasm. While if we flown between the planets even if we could, it would take us years, and even if it seemed like few seconds through the portal, the world outside of the portal advanced two months. Take another two to return home and another four if we find the portal leading to and from Atlantis. Count it together and we can be away from home for an year or more." He started speaking because he wanted Pyrhos to hear this. "No, had a dream." he created a hologram of the map he saw. "Is this a map of any part of earth's land? And before you ask, a dream got us once from another dimension, so yeah, i trust them and i am not crazy."

[Midnightmoon]

Dinara didn't respond mentally but made a thoughtful look at the ground. They she turned her attention back to her surroundings.

The twigs were burning happily now and Pyhros added the last few sticks to the fire. Then he came over to look down at the hologram. He resisted the urge to wave his hand through it and concentrated on the image. "The territory looks familiar, quite a bit of mountain." Pyhros conversed with Saratheen, even though she was still a ways off. "From the little land i can see on this I would think somewhere in either the water clan territory or the human territory, up north." "Check the map." Saratheen replied, nearing but still out of sight. Going over to the bag that Saratheen had left behind before leaving Pyrhos came back to compare the two. "I can't be sure but I would say your best bet is in the north, there is a mountain ridge that runs all along the northern shore. I'd say you should look there first, but drop in on the capitals in the Water and Wind Clan territorys to get more accurate and in depth information from the library's and historians." He slid the map over for the two other dragons to take a look, circling the area with this finger. It was then Saratheen came back with a pair of horned grass grazers. Dropping the one in her claws beside the hologram map she gingerly put hers down beside the fire. "You can have that one." she said, waving a paw at the first one she put down. Pyhros had already got up and was set sawing off a piece of the thigh for himself. Cutting off the skin he placed it on the fresh wood he put on earlier.

[Nohiki]

Fireheart looked at the map. Who's sending me this? Who is he? What does he want? Why does he do it? he said, trying to remember the person he saw in the dark mirror. No success. At least now he remotely knew how the land around looks like and could use a portal if he aimed the exit high in the air to avoid trees and mountains. "Guess we'll go to the wind capital as planned then. I understand that we might have interrupted whatever you were doing, so if there is anything important we need to know to avoid trouble, please tell us and we'll go then on our own."

[Midnightmoon]

Pyhros looked thoughtfully down at the meat, then said after a moment, "I would suggest you avoid close contact with cities as much as you can. At a distance your little mirages will do, but up close any elf with at least a bit of magic knowledge will see right though them and start asking questions. Another thing is not to tell anyone else anything personal. Your lucky I'm not one to sell out. With your special and different magic some one might get ideas." "You should tell them about the dark clan." There was another pause as Pyhros thought about how much to say and how to phrase the information. "One last thing... you should know that your not the only one who uses mirages. That's another reason why you shouldn't overly trust everyone you meet... They could be hiding a darker nature." Saratheen gave the pair a look as she chewed a bite of her meal. She thought more information about the enemy they themselves ran from should have been given to the strangers and yet she stayed quiet.

Dinara gave the "bonded pair" a questioning look with a slight tilt of her head. She turned her gaze to Fireheart. "'Darker nature'?"