Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-26510374-20171220021455/@comment-30921738-20180113165902

USE YO POWERS ON IT DUDE

OH CRAP I FURGOT ABOUT ECLIPSE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IM SORRY ECLIPSEY

(baaaaack back back to the smoke part)

Eclipse coughed and wheezed as the smoke spread through the room. The black and brown cougar had disappeared. Hopefully she had squished him hard enough and now he was a pile of dust.

Eclipse stretched her wings and tried to lift off. Her wings ached, and one hurt really bad. She flapped her wings and winced. She was in no condition for flying. Eclipse looked through the smoke, hoping to find Akurle or her sister with the weird name. A few minutes later, she saw a figure come through the smoke. Eclipse snarled, but once the figure showed itself, she smiled.

Akurle padded through the smoke. She looked unharmed, besides a few scratches. Akurle's eyes were red and puffy from the smoke, but that wasn't what bothered her. Akurles clothes had disappeared. They must have fallen off, or sis she have a power to make items disappear? Eclipse ran up to Akurle and gave her a quick hug. Akurle frowned, as if she didn't expect Eclipse to be excited to see her.

"Hey! Akurle, what happened to your, erm, items?" Eclipse said, trying to keep her voice low.

"That doesn't matter. I need to show you something really important." Akurle said. Her voice was hoarse from breathing in smoke, which was no surprise. But her instincts said something else: ''That's not her. Run''.

But what else could she be? She looked exactly like Akurle, just, without clothes. Akurle pointed somewhere in the smoke and ran in that direction. Eclipse struggled to keep up, her legs were sore and bruised and it was painful to move. Akurle ran up to a wall and stopped.

"I need you to hit this as hard as you can. Right... here." Akurle pointed to a spot on the wall and stepped back. Eclipse wondered why she would want her to hit a wall, but she did it anyway. Akurle was her only friend. All her life, Jammers ran away from her, never wanted to be around her, and if they were brave enough, they teased her. The only friend she ever had was her little brother Nightstar. And then when Terror got rid of him.... Akurle was kind and brave enough to become her best friend. Eclipse promised she would be forever loyal to Akurle, no matter what.

Using all her strength, Eclipse pounded her fists against the wall. Nothing happened, so she rammed her shoulder against the wall. Her shoulder stung with pain, but miraculously, the wall faded to reveal a hallway. Eclipse sat there gaping at it as Akurle walked in as if it ws no big deal.

"How..." She didn't need to finish her sentence before Akurle answered.

"Most of this place is created by powerful magic. The magic creates illusions to trick you and manipulate you. The thing is, these aren't just tricks on the eyes. Some of these illusions become real, so you can touch and smell them too. But if you hit it hard enough, the illusion shatters and reveals what it is hiding. In fact, this entire place is made from magic to keep it hidden from outsiders." Akurle explained, walking down the dark hallway.

"But how do you know all this?" Eclipse asked, following her. She wasn't what to think of how Akurle was acting. She was.. different somehow.

"I figured it out. I mean, its kinda like the original Hall of Heroes. I've been thinking about it." Akurle muttered, walking forward without hesitation.

Eclipse followed her into the darkness. She had a little bit of night vision that she got from her dad, who was a kind of night dragon. She could see a faint outline of the walls and Akurle, and it was a bit lighter. She may not have complete night vision like Dad, but the small amount of nocturnal vision she had was still very helpful.

Suddenly Akurle stopped and turned around. Her eyes were still red and puffy, but were they... glowing? No, they weren't red from smoke. They were pure red and glowing in the dark. Before Eclipse could say anything, Akurle started... changing. She didn't know how to explain it. Akurles limbs started growing shorter and her claws gew longer. Her tail lost its hair and grew long and thick like a dragons tail. Her back rippled and grew ridged and thick. Her head grew long and her nose disappeared along with her ears. Her hair faded into nothingness, revealing thick gray scales beneath.

Eclipse stared at what used to be Akurle. Akurle had just turned into a gray and white crocodile with bright red glowing eyes. Then it occured to her... he was a shapeshifter.

"Fools. They always fall for my tricks." The crocodile spoke in that hoarse voice. Now that he wasn't a fluffy wolf, his voice sent shivers down your spine and made you want to scream.

With surprising speed, the croc snapped his jaws shut on her back leg. Eclipse roared in pain and tried to punch him, but he was already bolting for the exit. Eclipse tried to get up and follow him, but her leg stung like crazy and she couldn't move it. She couldn't walk or fly, and that horrible shapeshifting crocodile was getting away. Eclipse managed to push herself forward, but the crocodile was already to the exit, ready to close her in.

The the exit closed. The last thing she saw before the exit closed was a huge explosion, the crocodile caught right inside it. The she was shrouded in darkness

...

It felt like hourse before Eclipse finally had the dtrength to brak through that wall. She stumbled over to it, trying not to let her back leg drag on the floor. Her leg had stopped bleeding, but there was still a large gash and it still stung like crazy. Eclipse  punched the wall with all her strength and it disappeared. She stumbled out and gasped at what she saw.

The smoke had cleared, and all her friends were sitting in a smoking crater. At first she thought they were dead, until she saw them moving and walking around. She limped over and saw then writing weird letters in the crater.

"Um, what are you writing? And where are the Fallen?" She muttered, wincing. Akurle looked up and gasped with delight. She ran up there ns hugged Eclipse.

"Your alive! Oh my goodness, I totally forgot about you when the runes started...." Akurle stopped herself and decided to start with the beginning of the story. She told Eclipse about what happened with the explosion and the runes and defeating the Fallen. The Eclipse told her about the hallway and the shapshifting crocodile.

Akurle nodded after hearing her story. "I was actually thinking about that. But the entire place made of magic... that must have been a powerful Jammer who created this place. Anyway, why don't you go find your rune?"

Eclipse nodded and looked at the runes. There was a cool one with a strange eye symbol, but nothing happened when she used her fire breath on it. She looked at all of them but one. She looked at the last one, which looked really boring. It was a capital E, but the middle line was switched around. Eclipse breathed a little plume of fire on it, and the symvol lit up bright purple.