Breath of Fire Arc

[Dracos]

Murmurs of discontent started flowing through the crowd that was beginning to surround the group.

"And...what of that!" The old crone pointed to Zitwan beeping behind them.  "That...thing...it's one of those Machines!"

Fearless Leader

[RangerShade]

Ami become even more nervous. This wasn't going well.

"Um... We are strangers to this land, if for some reason we have given offense we do apologize."

She racked her brains to try and come up with some way of defusing the increasingly tense situation.

"In our world we are heroes (and there's this other guy tagging along with us), now we are lost
and merely trying to find a way home. Perhaps we could both help each other?"

Mizuno did her best to look as cute and harmless as possible.

[Dracos]

"Heroes?"  The old woman appeared to ponder.   "Well..."

"Perhaps your story could be true...  but how would you prove this..."

A little kid spoke up, "What about the Great Dragon God?"

"Eh...The Dragon God?" the old woman turned, obviously displeased at something the boy had said.

"Wouldn't the Great Dragon God recognize heroes?"  The small boy's eyes shone starstruck with the naivety of youth.

Murmurs again went through the crowd as the crone appeared to stall...

Fearless Leader

[RangerShade]

Sensing an opening in her opponent's verbal armor, Ami took the opportunity and ran with it.

"That sounds like a fair test. Where can we find this Dragon God?"

She gave a thankful smile to the little boy that had spoken out.

It seemed that  disaster had been averted...for now at least.

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder began to sweat at the notion of him meeting a Dragon God to determine the validity of thier hero claim...

'The girls, they're alright... but me?  I'll be dead once he looks upon me...' Ryder nervously thinks while scenes of Ryder's destruction back home play through his mind...

'I'm so screwed.' He mentally added...

[Dracos]

The murmuring grew louder, most the town now watching the events going on.

"You wish to pray to the Great Dragon God and ask his blessing?" The crone asked incredulously.  Surprise was evident on her face for a moment...

Fearless Leader

[RangerShade]

"Yes, it can't hurt to do so after all. We have nothing to hide."

Of course she could only speak for herself and Saturn, the other guy was sorta weird.

"Is there anything else?"

[Asrana]

Hotaru fidgeted slightly, Ami was being un-cautious...

She glanced to Ryder, then Ami. She trusted her old friend implicitly, so she didn't raise her voice. She simply waited, hoping for the best.

She looked towards the heavens, 'Please let this work...'

[Dracos]

"Well then..Follow me..." The old crone turned and started off.  The crowd parted to the sides as she walked by towards the old temple in the back of the city.  It was a huge stone structure that towered above the other buildings and looked as if it had long withstood the test off time.  No doors were visible at the bottom level but two large hewn stone stairways lead to  something a few stories up.

Ami with keener eyesight could make out.... not a door there but apparently an increadibly smooth portion of wall framed by a sculpture of a serpent.  Nothing else was up at the top.

The crone started up the stairs.

Fearless leader

[RangerShade]

Ami followed first (since Hotaru was her responsibility and Ryder had shown that it was *unwise* to let him lead), taking care to step only where the old woman stepped, (she'd read a lot of novels about this sorta thing) and took the time to take a more studied observation of the serpent.  Were they supposed to pray toward that thing?


She wondered, but at least this beat being chased out of town by angry people waving torches and pitchforks!

[Asrana]

Hotaru's eyes shifted around for a moment, her hand unconsciously reaching for the compressed form of her new scythe, reassured by its presence.

She cautiously followed Ami, not being so paranoid as to walk exactly where their guide did, but still only barely keeping pace, leaving herself room to move.

Her eyes rested on her friends back, hoping she at least had a plan. She always did.

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder nervously trailed the trio, shivering slightly as he unconsiously attempted to make a plasma saber.

'I'm getting a weird creepy vibe from this place...' Ryder thought as he looked up towards the shrine...

[Dracos]

Climbing to the top of the temple, the old woman stopped in front  of the smoothest stone wall they had ever seen.   Appearing almost like calm water, it was about a meter vertically and .8 meters horizontally.  A stone serpent wrapped around it as a frame, giving it almost a mirror like feel despite it being entirely stone.

The old woman bowed reverently before the stone structure.

Fearless Leader

[RangerShade]

Ami bowed formally in the japanese style (hands at side, bending 60 degrees at the waist to indicate high respect).

Judging from the old woman's behavior, it seemed that this was what they needed to talk to and convince that
they were the good guys.

"Greetings Great Dragon,  we are honored to be in your presence. I am Mizuno Ami. These are  my companions, Tomoe Hotaru and...er...Rydoh. We seek your blessings as true heroes in this land."

[Asrana]

Hotaru followed suit, bowing only a bare moment after Ami, hoping it wasn't noticed. Her eyes studied her surroundings, taking in the plain construction of most of the temple and mirror-like quality of the wall in front of them.

She held a sigh, this was nothing like what they were used to...