Sorcerer's Destruction

[darkdragon]

"I'm not going blind, idiot." snapped Shyla, but softened up as her sister cast a flame orb into the pit of fire, making a cheery blaze which glowed off of the icy walls. After confirming Nive's words about the dragon tracks, Shyla rifled through the documents carefully. The dragons were sorted into element types, and since Shiran was a dark dragon, he would be at the very end. Water dragons, earth dragons, air dragons.... Finally, the dark dragon section. Shyla's eyes ran down it, and she gasped. "I've found him! It says 'S-" At that moment, a huge breeze rushed in, bringing with it a huge draft. The papers were wrenched out of Shyla's hands and landed in the fire, where they began burning. Shyla stretched her hand into the flame and grasped the paper, but too late. The bottom of it was already blackened and burning, and that had been where his name had been. Miserable, Shyla tossed the papers back into the fire. "We'll have to search each city that starts with an 's', Nive." she said, simply, sitting down with her legs crossed.

[Morty]

"You... You idiot! After all that trouble!" groaned Nive, throwing herself on the ground. She watched in dismay as the hunter's records burned and crumbled into dust. "We were so close!" She let out a strained sigh of exhasperation, a flicker of fire dancing over her skin. Her breath came out as puffs of smoke.
"Ok, ok, we have a map, don't we? Please tell me you still have the map." begged Nive, rolling over in the dust, hands clutching her head.

[darkdragon]

"Don't call me an idiot. I can't control the wind, can I?" said Shyla, but she drew out the map, which was unharmed. "Yes, I still have the map." sighed Shyla, looking a bit more relaxed, although one could tell she was gripping the map tightly. There would be no more pieces of valuable paper burning that night.

[Morty]

"You don't need magic to hold a piece of paper." sniped Nive irritably, picking herself up. She peeked at the map from behind Shyla's arm. "It started with an S, right? All I see is Shivering Copse. Could there really be a forest that far north?" she wondered, her mismatched eyes scanning the map.

[Nohiki]

"Sorry, bad joke." said Phoenicia, but was greatly amused. "Well, we should probably get going then. Thanks for help." she said, prepping to fly.

[Kauria]

Haleth landed at the base of the cliff, white drifts already rising past his feathers. Nearby, the shadowy dashes of fast-disappearing footprints marked a frantic trail towards the mountain.
Impossible . . . Haleth thought, craning his neck to see the ledge above. For a human, at least. He spread his wings with a metallic scrape and rejoined the wind, spiraling higher.
The maw-like outline of the cave came into focus, and Haleth made another wide pass. So that's where our little arsonists are hiding.
He hovered over the mouth of the cave for a moment, concentrating.
The spell encasing him dissolved, and a human dropped onto the snowy lip of the entrance.

[Morty]

Nive's eyes widened in surprise as the human male appeared in the mouth of the cave. "Watch out, Shy!" she warned, taking a protective stance between her sister and the newcomer. Her hands balled into fists automatically. "Who are you?" she asked boldly, eyes narrowing.

[Kauria]

"Right now, just someone curious as to how and why two . . . children set fire to a barn and scaled a cliff just to take shelter in a cave." Haleth took a step over the clawed prints at the threshold, the stone walls suddenly silencing the wind.

[Morty]

Nive's glare wavered. She cast a sidelong glance at Shyla for assurance.
"What's it to you?" she asked the stranger, holding her ground.

[Kauria]

Haleth spread his hands. "As I said, simple curiosity. That's not exactly normal behavior, you know."

[Nohiki]

OOC: Doublepost, yay! You guys are lazy fags!

Phoenicia landed at the tree camp. She didn't bother to check for how many of the dragons remained there - The place was almost deserted. She went around hoping to find Shya and others.

[Kauria]

Shya broke off from her discussion with a pair of other fire warriors, heading over to Phoenicia. "You're back." She gave a sigh of relief, then cracked a grin. "Although I guess you didn't need me to tell you that."

[darkdragon]

It was very surprising to see a human appear in the entrance to the cave, and, moreover, the human just HAD to be male. Sheesh. Shyla stood up, carefully stowing the map back into her pouch, and stood up carefully. "Right now, just someone curious as to how and why two . . . children set fire to a barn and scaled a cliff just to take shelter in a cave." the human took a step over the threshold, and Shyla's eyes narrowed. After the man's next statement about 'simple curiousity' Shyla took a step forward, passing her sister's outstretched hand. "Really, now?" she said, hatred and loathing dripping into her voice, "You, a filthy human, coming up a impossible mountain in the middle of a blizzard just to investigate two arsonists like us? Well, I think that's strange. We are just paying the humans back in turn for what they did to Shiran, so I think it's fair." Shyla finished up.

[Awesomoman]

"Have fun flying." Gorn said as Pho left. "Alright Isk, that light stuff is powerful, but we're gonna need a lot more if we're gonna trash that camp, and i think i can make something to enhance the blast it's going to make. lets get to work."

[Morty]

Iskander nodded curtly. "Ivy has some equipment we can borrow. This way." he said, leading the way toward the back of the cave. He borrowed around in the mound of dusty paraphernelia until he emerged with the necessary pieces, pulling out bowls, alembics and stone flasks of varying sizes. "Now.. How does this go again?" he laughed nervously, digging around some more, presumably for a recipe.