Thread: The Myth & The Man {KayLove & RippledStatic}

His footfalls echoed dully in the mostly empty chamber, slowly his eyes began to adjust, enough to get outlines and dull blurry shapes, enough that his sharp wits would be able to see an attack who was close and who moved deliberately. His opponent was not normal nor did she move as a human did but he was banking on this unaware the events that would occur next and unaware he would not leave the island. The darkness did not scare him, nor even did the soft shuffling noises that eventually pierced it...slithering, a snake? a very very large snake... That was not as he had anticipated but still it was nothing he could not handle or so he told himself. His foot brushed a jug, threatening to shatter it and let out a sound that might mean his death but his reflexes held, his foot stopped short of pressing to much and he gingerly peeled away from it. He was in the living quarters now he assumed, people had lived here once...laughed and talked and worshiped their goddess. Acadeus of course had no way of knowing she had been among the goddess of wisdom's most faithful and she herself had laughed and ate and drank and lived here when she was human. Of course that wouldn't have changed his determination even if he had known, the beast that now presided over the temple and its surrounding island had killed so many and even if it was once human nor longer could it be called as such, a mockery of life he would remove plain and simple, free her trapped soul perhaps or at least end her lonely suffering. He was in her sight now, but something was a bit off about his shape, evidently none of the others had thought to bring a shield and the large metal and wood construct obscured much of his body to even her supernatural sight, appearing only as a much more slight orange-red blob just above where the shield blocked and just below. It was a strange sight and one that might confuse her or trip her up just enough for him to be alerted to her presence. Powerful though she may be even her abilities had limits and weaknesses and he unknowingly had discovered one small one, slight though it may be. After feeling around with his spear a bit he got the lay of the room he was now in, a large open area, a sort of common room for the people who lived and visited here now turned to a den of a monster... I know you are here..I can smell you his voice echoed, it was a taunt nothing more if the monster smelled he could not catch it from so far away, all he smelled was sour meat rotted grain and dust. He held his shield ready with spear overtop, his body on a pivot as he used the butt of his spear to follow the wall, guiding himself around the perimeter of the room and still unknowingly offering her quite a small target to try to hit and of course the moment she fired if she did not strike true he would not only know of her presence but also her rough location and putting her in danger of being attacked directly where her eyes were worthless due to the darkness. He was closer now, she could hear his breath, heavy but slow and steady. It was quite cold in the dimness of the temple but it was only a mild discomfort to him, to her scaly body it would prove significantly more dulling if she stayed too long, it was this and the other factors he unknowingly played to his favor that allowed him to even last as long as he would against the cursed woman known as Medusa.