Matoya the Witch Appears: A missing Crystal and PIRATES?!

[Olvelsper]

"What the heck is going on here?" Craig ran his hands along the side of his horse's face to calm it down as he annoyedly brought it back under control after a while. It seemed to be what he needed to do, he thought.

Stupid land travel, he never ran into this stuff while on his ship.

He tried to peer over to where the sound had come from.

[Zenthor]

Zack grabbed a hold of his horse's neck to prevent from falling off, and waited until his horse calmed before he let go.  

"What the hell is that?"  he turned towards the noise, arm extended in that direction.

[Dracos]

A few wolves passed the trail in front of them, running from something.

Nothing immediately appeared though.

Dracos

[Nephrite]

Quatre blinked, frowning a little at the possible outcome of this. "Well, guys, we have two options. We can either stay here and fight whatever it is that is coming, or we can try and outrun it. What do you guys think?" he asked, looking to the others for some advice on the subject.

[Olvelsper]

"Let's go. It doesn't help us to go fight everything that crosses our paths. Besides, we have a black mage with us. Just like...ignite the trail behind us or something when he run. Or freeze it. C'mon." Craig started off once again.

[Dracos]

As they started off, a little bit behind them they heard the thud of a giant foot...

As a giant stepped out onto the road, looking around.

Dracos

[Nephrite]

"Well, now what do we do? If it spots us running away, it's bound to just chase us... can we really risk leading it towards the city?" Quatre asked, following, but not looking happy about it.

[Zenthor]

Zack was about to cast a fire spell to ignite the trail as they continued their travels, but was interrupted by the giant's foot.  He gazed up at the giant, trying to keep his horse at the very least near the rest of the group.

"Oh, sh...." he mouthed to himself.

[Olvelsper]

"Well, let's go, first. If it follows Zack here wouldn't mind blasting the trail behind us with ice, right? Then we'll ride off into the woods for a bit just to shake him off and then resume our trip."

[Dracos]

Talking good.

Talking slow.

Talking gets people's attention.

Like Giants.

Giants are people too, you know?  Everyone forgets that.  No one ever sends them a census or asks their opinion on the local royal issues.  No, they mainly just scream in fear.

but they're people.  And they have ears.

Big ears one might say.  Like an elephant.

Except they're pretty forgetful.

And none too bright really.

But that's all a sidetracking.  A step in the wrong direction one might say.

This giant at least had pretty good hearing.

And could like, see them.

On the road.

Little guys.  He calls them squishes really.  But little guys is more politically correct these days.

And he turned towards them, his feet causing the ground to rumble as he shouldered his mighty club and faced them on the road, ready for combat.

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

And Craig took that as his cue to make a break for it, prodding the other two into action!

[Nephrite]

As his associate was already running, he decided he might as well follow suit. "Zack! Can you possibly freeze it's leg or anything in order to slow it down!?" it was mostly an afterthought though, as he was already trying to get away.

[Dracos]

The giant blinked, looming over the fighter and the black mage.

Dracos

[Zenthor]

Zack followed suite by fleeing from the Giant, lobbing ice spells behind him as he ran, looking back every once in a while to see if he actually hit anything, and to aim the spell he was casting at the time.

[Dracos]

It was notably, pretty hard to miss.

Though that also made the Giant angry.

Angry giants are pretty dangerous things.

The ground thundered as it's swift strides slowly gained on them traveling along the open road, it's club lifted high for smashing.

Dracos