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"Well, I'm pretty sure only one person died on a quest with me. But it wasn't even my fault, and besides, no one liked him anyways." Karia glanced over at her and shrugged. "He really doesn't count as a causality." He looked back at the road, reading the signs and muttering some directions to himself. "I guess, but thanks for thinking about it." He flashed a bright smile at her.
She let her shoulders relax a bit as she slumped down farther into the seat.
Was she going to be someone like that too? Was she just going to die and be someone nobody liked that much? No. She was liked. He invited her to go on this adventure with him after all.
“How long do you think this’ll take? Its not that far out is it?” She asks turning to him with a small smile on her lips as she pushed her hair out of her face and tucked it behind her ear
"It shouldn't be more than a few hours to the town nearest to the temple, but then we have to hike the rest of the way, an that'll probably take a while." Karia answered. "And it will take even longer if there's traffic, as you probably already know." He looked ahead at the road. "I think we'll be fine, though. No one wants to go into the mountains at this time of year."
She looked ahead at the road, empty and smooth. She guessed it had just been re-done a few weeks ago. Something she vaguely remembered from the past month.
A single car passed by and her mismatched eyes followed along the window. A little girl peering out of it with a smile and big, wide blue eyes. She turned around, saying something to whoever was beside her and then looking back with a grin. She smiled back and turned back to Karia.
“They probably don’t want to go in the mountains for a reason. I wonder what’s up there anyway” she sighed
(Wanna skip to when they arrive?)
(Sure! Shall I take care of it?)
(Sure)
Karia navigated the car around another right curve and into a small parking lot. There were only two other cars there, and it appeared as if the owners of one car had just gotten back. He parked the car and turned it off, turning to Crystal as he shifted back into his normal self. "Ready for a hike? If we do this right, we'll get to the rest area before darkness falls." Karia twisted in his seat and reached for his backpack, which was sitting in the back seat.
(Just keeping this from disappearing.)
(no it's fine. I thought I replied to this last night though..)
She listened and thought about what he said. Now thinking of all if the ways it could possibly… VERY POSSIBLY GO VERY TERRIBLY WRONG!
she simply nodded, grabbed her own bag and stepped out of the car. Her freckled fingers running along the smooth exterior of the car as she waited for him to get all of his belongings and supplies together.
"well then let's get going" she says heading in the direction she assumed they were going. Hoping to not be wrong and lose the last bit of pride she had at the beginning of this trip
(Really? That's weird…)
Karia grabbed his things– basically only a backpack and something that looked suspiciously like a sword wrapped in cloth– and got out of the car. He locked it before hurrying after Crystal and falling into step beside her. "Just a heads up, the path splits pretty soon. We're going to want to take the fork that looks like it's been purposely covered up, okay?" As he walked, Karia worked on strapping the cloth-covered object onto the side of his backpack. When he'd successfully done that, he adjusted the backpack on his back and started searching his pockets for a hair tie.
(I’m guessing i had it all written out but i forgot to post and i refreshed the page and it deleted. Because i tend to do that quite a bit XD)
She looked to her side to give him a little smile, that disappeared into confusion and suspicion when she saw the sword. She listened to him talk as she was pretty good at doing without interruption as everyone usually always did with her, thus never letting her talk so shes just gotten used to it and accepted her role in life.
She nodded “alright. Though its probably covered up for a good reason” she laughed a little.
She kept her eye on the sword while he looked for a hair tie.
“Here” she says slingshotting a hair tie from her wrist at his cheek. “What’s in the cloth huh?” She asks
(Oh, yikes. I always copy what I've written before doing literally anything because I just know I'll refresh the page and lose it if I don't. And it's terrible when you do that because what you've written before was the best and you can never write anything as good when you lose it. ;)
"Yeah, that's cause they don't want anyone getting the treasure. But we know better, don't we?" He looked over at her right as she shot the hair tie at him. It hit him in the cheek and fell towards the ground. "Ouch. But thank you. I usually carry them around, but I guess they're all in my bag. I'll give it back to you, I promise." He stooped and grabbed the hair tie from the ground, using it to pull his hair back in a ponytail. "Oh, it's a sword. I don't know what's going to be there, and having it is better than not having it. Who knows, we might need to duel an undead king to get the treasure!" Karia laughed, his eyes sparkling in the sunlight falling through the leaves of the trees above them. "Do you know how to use one?"
She rolled her eyes at his first comment. Know better? She was sure they were going to die on this trip.
Laughing when the hair tie hit him, seeing his reaction. He was cute. There was no denying that.
“Nah, keep it. I have plenty. With this much hair, i couldn’t live without them.” She let out a small giggle.
She always hid knives, daggers, anything that could be a weapon and she used was hidden in her clothes. Everywhere, all the time. She was always ready for someone to try to mug her. She had a nice body and looks, and she was rather confident. She attracted more guys than she wanted to.
So she wouldn't be surprised if anyone ever did try to hurt her. Its happened about 7 times before. She always beat the crap out of them. Almost.
She shook herself out of her own thoughts and turned back to Karia, hoping he wouldn't realize how distracted she was. She never cared what other people thought, but That was a touchy subject.
She felt almost insulted when he asked her how to use it. She gasped and put her hand on her chest.
“Why of course i know how to use a sword!! Ive Slaughtered a demon deity before with a sword! Actually, no I haven’t. But my friend did. Well whatever! I know how to use one! I just don’t do it a lot” she crossed her arms and rolling her mismatched eyes.
"Alright. Thanks again." Karia have her a warm smile, then laughed at her insulted look. "Calm down, I was just asking. No need to get so defensive." He shook his head slightly and looked ahead of them. They were nearby the fork in the road, though one could hardly tell it was a fork. The other path, the one they wanted to take, was overgrown from a lack of use, and had a few well-placed tree saplings partially blocking the way.
She stopped in front of the covered up back and looked down it with her hands on her hips.
She took one step, then another. “Well lets go then!” She says confidently.
(Sorry its short, I’m in a hurry)
( You're good! :)
"Oh, right, make me lead the way into the super sketchy area." Karia sighed heavily and walked forward, pushing aside branches and stepping over a log that looked like it had been moved there. The path beyond the trees was fading back into the forest, and it took Karia a few seconds to find where it was leading. "Oh, this is going to be so much fun!"
She rolled her eyes and chuckled. Her breath smelled of watermelon bubble gum and minty mouthwash just like it always does. She always carried watermelon gum in her pockets and her bags.
“Oh, I’m sure it will” she says with a smile, playfully pushing him and walked ahead of his, picking up a stick and twirling it in her fingers and humming “somewhere over the rainbow”
Karia sighed and let her lead the way. He'd tell her if they had to make any sudden moves, but that probably wouldn't be for several hours. The forest around them was quite dark– darker than it had been before they got into the unused path. Interesting. Karia glanced back at Crystal, smiling when he heard a few notes of the song she was humming. "This place looks pretty spooky, doesn't it?" He asked, wishing the path would get a bit wider so he could walk next to her.
(Cutie)
She looked around and took in her surroundings, stopping in her own footsteps and turning.
She looked at how the the leaves barely even moved by the wind in the thick forest. No chirping of birds or crickets, but a soft hum of a cicada. The old bark of the tall, thick trees cracked and splintered with a few ants crawling up them and into holes burrowed inside.
Her finger ran down the rough bark as she looked at it, then turning back to him with a smile.
“What, you scared?” She says flicking his nose with a teasing smirk.
"What? No. I just think it's interesting how much the forest changed." Karia gave her a playfully annoyed look and glanced around them. "I mean, look how close together the trees are! This place is really exceeding all of my expectations. It's a perfect setting for us. Two adventurous people looking to find some treasure and best up some monsters." He sighed, his expression one of pure joy. "I love this. I'm so glad you came, too. This wouldn't have been nearly as fun on my own." Karia looked over at her, a huge smile on his face.
He heart clenched right there when he turned to her with that big smile and said those words. She wasn't very needed in almost anything ever but somehow always ends up getting dragged along. Nobody even really talks to her on the trips. She just goes along with it.
She thought… Would it be the same with anyone else taking my place just because you didn't want to do this alone?
But she didn't voice it at all. Instead she forced a smile, pushing back her thoughts that were clouding those mismatched eyes of hers.
"you said this place changed. Have you gone here before? " she asks as she tucked a price of hair behind her ear. Her freckled cheeks relaxed and soft as she bit the inside of her lip. The path got just a bit wider so they could walk side by side.
Karia noticed the weird look in Crystal's eyes, but it disappeared quite soon and he didn't want to bring it up again. "Well, I haven't gone this way before, but I took the other path one time. You should see the forest over there. The trees are so far apart I'm not sure you can really call it a forest." He laughed, having fallen in step beside her. "Maybe it's the temple doing this," he waved around them, "or something else. I don't know." Karia shrugged and peeked over at Crystal from the corner of his eye. He knew there was something weird about how she'd reacted to his words before. But he didn't feel like bringing it up again. She might say that she only came for the treasure, or for some other reason. He didn't want to hear that. It would really ruin his mood. "But, uh, you should go the other way sometime. It's really pretty."
She found herself wanting to go the other way. The odds dangerous way. Just them two taking a trip in the forest and laughing with him as they talked about eachother.
She caught his eyes a little when he paused, though quickly looking back away and tucking a curly peice of blonde hair behind her ear.
"we should go there sometime together! That would be fun wouldn't it!? " she smiled back at him
"Oh, yeah! We could go after we finish this. It'll be the other part of the trip. The relaxing, beautiful, looking-at-nature part. We could bring food and have a picnic or something– there's a really pretty place I found where we could eat, next to a lake and a baby waterfall!" Karia grinned back at her, already looking forward to it. Then again, they could only do it if they didn't die at the temple thing they were going to. But he wasn't planning on dying, anyways. "What do you think?" Had he gone a little overboard with the picnic part? He didn't really know. Hopefully not.
She was thinking about all of the ways that a picnic after fighting to the death in some crazy forest temple could go wrong.
Wouldn't they be a bit tired? Where would they get their food? Or do they have food packed? Crystal didn't pack anything to eat. Only water and tools. She didn't even think about that. Though she was specially talented in the hunting division. A bow and arrow were her favorite. But the stealth she had, well she could easily sneak up on a deer and slit it's throat.
But instead, she laughed at the thought. "that really sounds nice. I would love that" she smiled. Just then as she took her eyes off of the path, she tripped and fell over a thick log. She tried to catch herself with her hands, but they just got scraped and she fell right to the ground. Though she didn't get too hurt.
"curse my clumsiness" she chuckled