[Black Dragon]

(OOC: Excellenté Teal!! Glad you could join our happy little...uh...RPG [I'm great on words today, yay] Like Dan, I'll try to follow your lead on your characters. I'm kinda stuck on my plot, so I'll build on yours and weave into mine a bit, K?)

The Mudokon and the Slig continued down the dusty path to the town the sign had called "Pyke". They continued to argue about what they had seen.

"I still say it was a Glukkon."

"What are yer talkin' about?! There ain't any Glukks in the middle of the forest!! Get yer head on straight!"

"It is on straight, I'm just saying-!"

The Mudokon stopped short of what he was saying. The leaves in the tree above them was shaking violently as if caught in a wind that only encircled that particular tree. With a loud cry, a strange cloaked figure leapt down in front of them and landed gracefully on two long, clawed legs. The Mudokon screamed and Aura hid behind him.

"Greatest and most humble apologees, travellers. I did not mean to frighten thee." the hooded figure said, bowing.

Aura and the Mudokon glanced at each other uneasily.

"Yer sure did a great job of it," Aura muttered.

"Uh...hi. We're looking for a town called Pyke...you don't happen to know how much farther down the road it is, do you?" the Mudokon asked rather timidly.

"Aye, I do. 'Tis but a few minutes walk from here, you shan't miss it." the creature replied, poking a scaley, clawed finger out from under it's cloak and pointing down the road.

"Oh, well, thank you. I guess we'll...uh, be on our way then," replied the Mudokon, carefully passing the hooded creature but not taking his eyes off of it. Aura sneaked behind him, also not taking her dark eyes off of the stranger. Suddenly, just as they were about to continue down the road, the figure said in a tone full of warning, "I would not go to that town if I were thee."

"And why the heck not? Look, mister, I dunno who you are, but who are you to tell us what ter do?!" Aura shouted, putting her small hands on her hip area.

"I warn thee, a great danger looms over the town of Pyke like bees around a hive. Thee shall be in great peril if thee continue down the road."

Aura snorted and continued down the road despite the warning, montioning for her now terrified friend to follow.

"Suit thyself, but don't say I didn't warn thee," came the voice from the creature and within a blink of an eye it had vanished.

"What was that??" the Mudokon asked, blinking as he stared at the spot where the creature had been.

"Who cares? Let's get goin'!" Aura said, and continued down the road.

(OOC: Howzat? Lemme know if I screwed anything up with your chars)

[ September 29, 2001: Message edited by: Black Dragon ]