Onward: Purple

[voidtreckermods]

The second night of their trek is interrupted by the shaking of the ground. It only lasts a few moments and all the tunnels hold, but it is enough to be a frightening experience.

And it seems to have agitated the monsters. A wave of crabs attack not long after the shaking has stopped, emerging from the rocks around them.

They are close to one of the sandbanks and as they emerge, for a moment out of the caves they will find darkened skies and choppy seas. There is a feeling of a storm approaching. It is cooler then it has been.

But that is the least of their problems. As they cross the sandbank, wading in the water a giant squid attacks. Tentacles reaching out of the sea, to wrap around limbs and pull the voidtreckers and those they are escorting off the sandbank and into the ocean depths.

The tentacles at least seem to withdraw if damaged enough, hopefully they can be fought off before anyone drowns.

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[myblueskies]

It wasn't working, he was all tangled up and maybe giant squids ate people? That was a scary thought and he fought harder, glad when the man said he had a Plan B.

Plan B was trying to rip the tentacle off him and it worked! But then they were falling, Romeo tried to slow himself but he wasn't going to let the other man fall and the weight of him was too much for Romeo so they both plummeted.

"Sorry sir..." Romeo rolled to the side, to free the man below him, feeling bad that he had gotten hurt because of him. He opened his eyes, to check the man was alright.

[theturksway]

"You're welcome," the Turk wheezed, barely audible. He lay in the sand for a moment.

But there wasn't time for that. Reno rolled over to his side and slowly clambered to his feet. He was just standing when another tentacle lashed around and Reno just barely leaned back out of the way, almost falling backwards onto his bottom again. He flailed precariously for a second and then righted himself.

"Damn," he muttered and then glanced at Romeo. "This is hardly working. Let's get out of here. Most of the people should be past by now."

He hoped. Short of jumping into the water and fighting the thing down below, or maybe cutting off all its tentacles, they probably weren't going to win this fight. Better to simply run past it and continue onward.

[myblueskies]

Romeo was a bit worried about him but he stood up just in time for them to have to dodge another tentacle! This squid was really bad news. He nodded with wide eyes at the suggestion. Everyone seemed to have gotten to the cave at the other side again.

"Let's run really fast!"

[theturksway]

"Have at it, kiddo!"

Reno waited for the kid to make a run for it, holding back until Romeo had a good head start. Then he turned to look at the tentacles one last time and gauge their movements. He didn't want them to go after the fleeing prey.

When it looked like one might be ready to grab Romeo or maybe slam onto him, Reno jumped high into the air. When he slammed back down into the ground he let out a large area of effect strike of lightning. Romeo should have been too far to be hit by it by then, but the tentacles weren't so lucky. Reno doubted it did much damage but the limbs jerked back in reaction and the Turk used the movement to dash away.

[myblueskies]

Romeo was good at running, he had once beaten Iskander in a footrace! So now he ran as fast as he could, hoping that Reno was right behind him!

His eyes glanced back at the flash of lightning and he grinned to see Reno running his way. "Quick sir!"

[theturksway]

He was running quickly. Reno was pretty quick on his feet, one of the faster Turks to ever operate. He grabbed Romeo on his way past and ducked them into the caves, not stopping until they were well in and could see the line of other people traveling in front of them. Then he let Romeo go.

"Uh, good job, kid." That was how you talked to kids, right. Sure, let's go with that.

[myblueskies]

He wasn't quite expecting to be scooped up but he didn't fight as he was carried into the cave. He grinned at the man when he was set down.

"Thank you sir! You did good too! You got that monster good!"